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The Administrative State Is Broken, And The FAA Is A Prime Example

The conventional wisdom holds that an administrative state made up of professional government functionaries will run well in spite of the constant political changes that most free countries expect every four or five or six years. Institutional knowledge, subject-matter expertise, and a non-partisan mindset should make the day-to-day function of government a process, rather than a political minefield.

It very obviously does not work that way. The administrative state in America has morphed into the Deep State^TM, or maybe it was always that way and it took many years for it to destroy even a semblance of competence.

Add in the catastrophically inefficient, labyrinthine process that our modern government does anything, and we have a reasonable explanation for the absolute mess that the FAA has made of our air traffic control system...over 40 years!

FAA Plans to Hire Nearly 9,000 Air Traffic Controllers by 2028 Amid Nationwide Shortage

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Aug. 7 unveiled updated plans to hire thousands of air traffic controllers by the end of the year, and nearly 9,000 by 2028, as the agency looks to dig itself out of a now decades-long shortage of workers who are among the most critical for aviation safety.

The FAA has been beset by a decades-long shortage of air traffic controllers, who are critical for directing and overseeing air traffic in and out of the nation’s busiest and most congested air spaces.
The issue dates to 1981, when then-President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who were on strike, viewing it as an illegal strike. Months later, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) decertified the only existing air traffic controller union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), which was the first time in history that a national union was decertified.

Okay, it was a bit of a mess in 1981. But it is also a mess in 2025, and two generations of so-called professionals made an absolute mess of the entire system, allowing it to become technologically antiquated, poorly staffed, and for four years under the Biden/Obama junta a mess of DEI hiring over competence.

For f*ck's sake...they still use floppy disks and CDs! And I am confident that the rest of the technology in our airport control centers is just as old.

So why did this happen? The short answer is that they just don't give a sh*t, and care more about their pensions than their responsibilities to the people of the United States of America. The longer answer is that the administrative state does not have any market pressures to excel, and no penalties for failure. Congressmen move on, senators get bored, and their high profile hearings about the sorry state of the FAA or the DoD or the department flavor of the month gets subsumed in the next news cycle. So nobody is held accountable over the years, and the institutional rot caused by lack of accountability is built into the process.

How to fix it? Decertify every government union. Employment must be at will. Make the compensation of all managers dependent on the successful and timely completion of capital projects. Do yearly evaluations with the expectation that people will get fired. And every one of us who has ever worked for any sort of large company recognizes that as business-as-usual!

The trick is to get Congress to go along, and that will have to wait until the House of Representatives actually represents Americans, rather than 20,000,000 wetbacks and gerrymandered districts.

Hopefully President Vance's second term will be calm enough that he can focus on the total restructuring of our civil service!

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1 I'll fetch em

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)

2
ESPONJA!!1!11!!1

g'early afternoon, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 10, 2025 12:04 PM (tljrc)

3 Good luck getting the Democrats/ Marxists to go along shutting down their payers

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 12:04 PM (+qU29)

4 Invoking PATCO. From 1981. Really???

Someone is trying to deflect the current failures by saddling Reagan with it. Fvck them with a lime green used dildo from a WNBA game.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM (Ui59G)

5 Government should not have any unionization at all.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM (HFcKg)

6 Air traffic control is one of those areas where AI could do a better job than meat sacks.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:08 PM (vOjEn)

7 Lloyd Bridges, "I picked the wrong week to get replaced by AI."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:09 PM (Ui59G)

8 I work with the FAA on a daily basis. It's not unlike any other large organization. There are people that are good at their job and find ways to solve problems and there are people that are there just collecting a paycheck. The biggest contributor to the FAA's decline is that they've become box checkers and auditors instead of being engaged (and responsible/accountable for outcomes) in decision making and problems solving.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:09 PM (3Ope8)

9 Having engaged with sundry bureaucracies over the years, public/private/corporate etc., etc. I have adopted the perspective that they always manifest certain qualities:

The larger they become, the less efficient they become.

The larger they become, the less effective they become.

As they grow, just like a biological organisms, they begin to develop self-defense mechanisms.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 12:10 PM (XeU6L)

10 BTW

Why wasn't Reagan/DC airport shut down after the Air Florida crash into the Potomac? Oh yeah, the politicians didn't want to commute from Dulles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:12 PM (Ui59G)

11 What a great application for AI.

Posted by: Rick at August 10, 2025 12:13 PM (/TNAS)

12 How long is the training period to become an air traffic controller?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 12:13 PM (HFcKg)

13 FAA > FBI

https://tinyurl.com/at9djjpt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 12:15 PM (Y+jbb)

14 Interestingly, Air Traffic.Controller is a military specialty that one can enlist for, but it is also one of the most difficult to get as it has so few openings every year. If you can get it, it is excellent training and prep for the FAA.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 12:17 PM (2WIwB)

15 Hekawi Chief Wild Eagle would have made a fine air traffic controller.

Posted by: It Is Balloon! at August 10, 2025 12:18 PM (G5+As)

16 Government should not have any unionization at all.

Posted by: Ben Had

And as a follow on, should be forced to compete for their jobs every 24 months. There should be ZERO job security in federal job positions.

*waves*
Hi Ben Had!

No promises, but I may be able to swindle my boss into sending me to Grand Prairie for two weeks in October.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 10, 2025 12:20 PM (QcUc+)

17 So, the roman system was a bit more chaotic. Yearly elections (intended to make sure no one person ever amassed enough power or popularity in an office to become a threat.) So every year the entire system would turn over. All well and good.

The problem was that they changed so often there was a valid criticism that just as someone was learning their area of responsibility, they were then being replaced.

So Augustus used freed slaves to populate his bureaucracy and it worked wonderfully. For a while. Then it started to become a power unto itself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (bss/y)

18 Bif, how great that would be.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)

19 AI. Yeah, the thing that makes up Citations in legal filings? That one?
That'll work great. Until it hallucinates a landing strip at Times Square.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (ha888)

20 And as a follow on, should be forced to compete for their jobs every 24 months. There should be ZERO job security in federal job positions.
-Bif

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (bss/y)

21 It used to be that you'd work in industry as a mechanic or an engineer, developed a good working relationship over several years with your local office and then the FAA would recruit you. Now they recruit inspectors straight out of the military and engineers straight out of college and the 'academy' teaches these nuggets that everyone in industry will screw them at the first opportunity.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (3Ope8)

22 "The trick is to get Congress to go along, and that will have to wait until the House of Representatives actually represents Americans, rather than 20,000,000 wetbacks and gerrymandered districts"

"Hopefully President Vance's second term will be calm enough that he can focus on the total restructuring of our civil service!"

From your lips to God's ears!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 10, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)

23 This why I don’t take unemployment numbers seriously and the economic doom and gloom the Left is always whining about when it’s a Republican administration.

Without fail in every Republican admin I can remember there are sectors where employers are looking for thousands of workers and can’t fill the positions.

Think about that in relation to some of the really bad economic times.

Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 12:23 PM (VofaG)

24 Pushing Tin was a decent movie.

Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 12:25 PM (VofaG)

25 Thx CBD. The left pushes all power to the government and then government is overfunded and incompetent. It's never about the issue always about power

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 10, 2025 12:26 PM (e/yD6)

26 And as a follow on, should be forced to compete for their jobs every 24 months. There should be ZERO job security in federal job positions.
-Bif

This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
________

Squid game style for federal judges.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 12:26 PM (XvL8K)

27 There should absolutely be no unions in the Federal government.

Can't do your job? Fired

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 10, 2025 12:27 PM (Jm6kM)

28 'The trick is to get Congress to go along,'

I thought unions for federal employees were from a JFK executive order.
If yes, then an executive order should be able to reverse it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 10, 2025 12:28 PM (3wi/L)

29 "they still use floppy disks and CDs! And I am confident that the rest of the technology in our airport control centers is just as old.

So why did this happen? The short answer is that they just don't give a sh*t"

Oh no, they care. The FAA is about safety in the extreme. I've worked on several FAA contracts and they're very serious about it. Their systems have multiple redundancies, and require less than a minute of downtime a year (or there abouts).

I was on the project to replace the voice switch (VCS21, part of the Next Gen series of contracts, to replace the current ATC comm. sys.) a decade ago and it was a disaster. Mostly due to requirements swirl, some of it due to project & tech. incompetence from our side.

They do care, they're just bad at it.

Posted by: wat at August 10, 2025 12:28 PM (Dk542)

30 Do Air Traffic Controllers get paid double-time on Juneteenth?

Posted by: Crash Corrigan at August 10, 2025 12:29 PM (G5+As)

31 >>The issue dates to 1981, when then-President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who were on strike, viewing it as an illegal strike. Months later, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) decertified the only existing air traffic controller union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), which was the first time in history that a national union was decertified.

Oh, B*** Sh*t!!
The reason there's a shortage of air traffic controllers *24* years after Reagan is they went full DEI, chasing after candidates who were unqualified but presented the right demographics, while refusing to hire qualified candidates who put the time and training (at great expense).

Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 12:29 PM (GbwPZ)

32 Ever look at the requirements to be a successful air traffic controller? You need to have a near idiot savant ability to keep track of multiple moving items in a three dimensional space. This is something you need to be born with, and no amount of training will magically give it to you. Hoping to hire thousands of people off the street for these jobs is delusional.

There are air traffic controller schools for candidates. I assume the washout rate is significant.

It didn't help that the pipeline for controllers was broken when DEI infected it, with qualified people refused jobs because they were the wrong gender and color.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:32 PM (vOjEn)

33 Step one: simplify the process for firing a government worker. It is almost impossible.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 12:32 PM (2WIwB)

34 I'd say the FAA already has a means to solve this. Delegated authority. Air traffic control is just one tiny piece of what the FAA does. A lot of the work is the process of granting certificates of type and airworthiness and manufacturing. I'm terribly familiar with that aspect. That's done by reviewing documentation and finding compliance to regulation. The applicant, i.e. manufacturer shows compliance, the FAA finds compliance.

The FAA could never have enough employees to do all that. It's impossible. They would need millions and millions. All aviation in the country probably the world would grind to a halt. Because everyone uses US/FAA, even EASA harmonizes. So to allow things to work they delegate a good bit of the authority to the manufactures along with a lot of oversight and auditing.

It works well outside company "B" who have always had lose shit and been sneaky. They just need to treat "B" DERs/ARs like they do in the smaller bizz jet companies, as loyal dogs that need severe correction time to time. But, I've seen it work very well everywhere else.

ATC could work the same, private contractors with stringent oversight.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:33 PM (cduTK)

35 ATC staffing is just a symptom. It extends into the engineering and airworthiness sides as well. DEI is a big contributor.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:35 PM (3Ope8)

36 It didn't help that the pipeline for controllers was broken when DEI infected it, with qualified people refused jobs because they were the wrong gender and color.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:32 PM (vOjEn)

And those hired in the Obama years are now hitting the supervisor levels. Do you think they will hire any new personnel smarter than they are?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 12:36 PM (2WIwB)

37 Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:33 PM (cduTK)

The ODA is singularly the worst thing the FAA has ever implemented.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:36 PM (3Ope8)

38 Former AOC Organizer Busted After Calling for Attack on "Israel-Loving Zionists" at Public School

-
I'm old enough to remember when attacking school kids was bad.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)

39 Government should not have any unionization at all.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM

^^^ This. Even FDR (piss be upon him) understood this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 12:39 PM (wDRCg)

40 >>> The ODA is singularly the worst thing the FAA has ever implemented.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:36 PM (3Ope

I disagree. I've seen it work very well everywhere outside "B". And there is no way it could work without it. There are not enough FAA employees to do the job and there never will be.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:40 PM (cduTK)

41 I hope the FAA modernized soon-- AOL is discontinuing its dial-up service at the end of September, then we'll all be truly screwed at the airports.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 10, 2025 12:41 PM (k/soh)

42 I thought unions for federal employees were from a JFK executive order.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 10, 2025 12:28 PM (3wi/L)

JFK signed the EO in 1962 but...

A Democrat Congress and Jimmy Fucking Carter enacted the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute in 1978.

This statute grants federal employees the right to organize, form unions, and engage in collective bargaining through representatives of their choosing, with the purpose of improving the conduct of public business and resolving employment disputes amicably. -- wiki

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 10, 2025 12:42 PM (ExV1e)

43 Islam means peace.

2,000 Iranian Clerics Endorse Assassination of Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

44 >>There are air traffic controller schools for candidates. I assume the washout rate is significant.

You have to score 100% on every test. iirc. Had a relative who dropped out of school in 1981 and applied because of the opportunities thanks to the strike (his father was an air traffic controller who didn't strike and said "Do it now!"). He made it, his brother who also applied didn't make it - one wrong answer on one test.
Makes sense, when you consider one wrong decision = potentially a crash with many dead.

Read recently that the FAA was accepting applicants who were getting 30% on their exams to meet DEI requirements

30% error rate is acceptable? Really?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 12:43 PM (GbwPZ)

45 Smartest woman in the world.

Pelosi Beat Every Single Hedge Fund in 2024

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:44 PM (L/fGl)

46 "Do yearly evaluations with the expectation that people will get fired."

Mandatory firing or demotion for those in the bottom 5%.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 10, 2025 12:44 PM (k/soh)

47 Those of us who have worked with/against the FAA have an aphorism.

"Aviation is safe, in spite of the FAA"

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 10, 2025 12:45 PM (mRX+9)

48 The federal government is simply a welfare pretending to be work program.

Other than securing the border and providing for the common defense and making sure the States don't war with each other, everything else the feds do is a boondoggle wrapped in a clusterfuck inside a Big Green Dildo.

Posted by: Big Green Dildo at August 10, 2025 12:46 PM (R/m4+)

49 At least the sumbitch doesn't wear jeans.

George Will Wants Mamdani to Win for Some Reason

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (L/fGl)

50 We can agree to disagree, Banana. I'm completely on board with individual delegation. I've worked with and in a number of ODAs, and in every single one of them the OMT is nothing but a bunch of box checkers. The grunt work in compliance data and inspection, and the consequential decision making is always done at the individual level.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (3Ope8)

51 >>George Will Wants Mamdani to Win for Some Reason

He's still alive?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 12:50 PM (GbwPZ)

52 Also authority delegation has been around since before most of the people here including my old self. The ODA is just an expansion of previous delegation. Formalizing some rules and standards. Delegation has been the case since the 50s, lots of the rules were standardized in the 60s changing only slightly until the ODA process came in the middle of the '00s.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:51 PM (cduTK)

53 >>> We can agree to disagree, Banana. I'm completely on board with individual delegation. I've worked with and in a number of ODAs, and in every single one of them the OMT is nothing but a bunch of box checkers. The grunt work in compliance data and inspection, and the consequential decision making is always done at the individual level.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (3Ope

I've seen variations, true. Most of my experience has been in companies with mature ODAs and hardline FAA field offices.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:53 PM (cduTK)

54 It's nonpartisan!

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
UPDATE: Former deep state officials send an open letter, dubbed as “nonpartisan,” warning that President Trump, Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard’s efforts to purge the agencies are trampling the Constitution and undoing their work.
All the right people are scared right now…

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:54 PM (L/fGl)

55 49 At least the sumbitch doesn't wear jeans.

George Will Wants Mamdani to Win for Some Reason
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (L/fGl)

He thinks that a Mamdani lead New York will become such a disaster that it will be a couple of generations before anybody tries that socialist idiocy again.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 10, 2025 12:54 PM (k/soh)

56 Is I probably will never get to fly again on a airplane a answer?

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 12:57 PM (+qU29)

57 Imagine flying a jet in a holding pattern over a major city. You have to have a lot of trust in others.

Posted by: Grounded For Life at August 10, 2025 12:58 PM (G5+As)

58 >>He thinks that a Mamdani lead New York will become such a disaster that it will be a couple of generations before anybody tries that socialist idiocy again.

Ah, let it burn.

Who would have imagined that less than 25 years after 9/11, our elite(ist) talking heads would be OK with handing over NYC to a foreigner (his mom says he's and African first, and Indian second; he does not see himself as an American) to teach those darn kids a lesson?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 01:00 PM (GbwPZ)

59 51 >>George Will Wants Mamdani to Win for Some Reason

He's still alive?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 12:50 PM (GbwPZ)

Yeah, his theory seems to be 'give them what they want- good and hard.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 10, 2025 01:00 PM (bss/y)

60 Jazzy has her They Live glasses on.

Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Jasmine Crockett compares Republicans to the KKK: "Once Trump won the second time, the hoods were off."
"I’m perfectly fine with it because I want to know that you’re a despicable human being who lacks all morality.”
Bold messaging plan for 2026, Democrats.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 01:01 PM (L/fGl)

61 I'd imagine the passengers of the jet flipped by the lady pilot on landing in Toronto weren't to eager to fly again. Hanging upside-down from your seat belt would do that. Most people who are in an air crash don't get to fly/not fly again.

Posted by: Wheels Up! at August 10, 2025 01:04 PM (G5+As)

62 Do you realize that more people have been arrested for throwing dildoes onto WNBA courts than people who are on the Epstein list(s)?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 01:05 PM (0sNs1)

63 Pride goeth before a fall.

This NASCAR driver KO'd himself by falling out of his car while celebrating in Victory Lane

https://is.gd/mIPNWf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 01:06 PM (L/fGl)

64 his theory seems to be 'give them what they want- good and hard.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 10, 2025 01:00 PM

It has, how you say, worked for me.

Posted by: Paolo at August 10, 2025 01:07 PM (0sNs1)

65 58
'Who would have imagined that less than 25 years after 9/11, our elite(ist) talking heads would be OK with handing over NYC to a foreigner'

When you understand that everything the left does has its origin in giving the finger to people like you and me...

them handing NYC to a muzzie communist becomes very easy to imagine.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 10, 2025 01:07 PM (3wi/L)

66
CBD,

Great topic. Hubby and I were talking about all this nonsense yesterday.

Thanks.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 01:08 PM (3ek7K)

67 Good news, everyone!

NY Gov Kathy Hochul: "Democrats always follow the rules"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 01:11 PM (L/fGl)

68 Fvck them with a lime green used dildo from a WNBA game.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM

Is it autographed by the usee? Can it be authenticated?

Asking for some friends.

Posted by: WNBA Memorabilia Collector's Association at August 10, 2025 01:11 PM (0sNs1)

69 No one really knows how many people live under New York City. Most likely a few thousand. It's time for someone to step up as The Mole People's choice for Mayor!

Posted by: Mole Person at August 10, 2025 01:12 PM (R/m4+)

70 NASCAR? Pshaw.

Shobert's Grand Prix career was cut short at the third race of the season, where he was involved in a terrible crash with Kevin Magee on the cool off lap after the race, wherein Shobert drove into the back of Magee's motorcycle. Magee had stopped in the middle of the track and was performing a rear-wheel "burnout".[2] Eddie Lawson narrowly missed hitting Magee's bike after he and Shobert had just finished congratulating each other moments earlier and were not looking forward.[3][4] Shobert suffered severe head injuries but was able to recover after months of rehabilitation.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:12 PM (gg4h4)

71 Pelosi Beat Every Single Hedge Fund in 2024
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:44 PM (L/fGl)

She can't hold a candle to Cankles

Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 10, 2025 01:12 PM (P4Pk9)

72 Rebuilding the ATC system has been a "holy grail" project since, well, forever it seems. When I worked for IBM back in the 1980s there were some mainframe based chat boards (forums, we called them), one devoted to what was the Federal Systems Division. Lots of talk about the FAA and how the projects constantly kept changing. It seems we've totally lost the ability to build anything complex. I'm not sure that's a deep state thing as it seems to go into the private sector as well.

The other thing I think affecting the FAA is the same thing that affects airlines. At the end of the cold war the gummint shut down the farm system, aka the military. Lots of guys working in military air traffic control would move to the FAA when their enlistments were up.

Posted by: George V at August 10, 2025 01:13 PM (HUbHH)

73 Islam means peace.

2,000 Iranian Clerics Endorse Assassination of Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

100 million Americans endorse making your country glow bright enough to be seen 3 galaxies over.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 10, 2025 01:13 PM (snZF9)

74 Yeah, I was at Laguna Seca that year and saw it.
(Shivers)

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:14 PM (gg4h4)

Reading Thread 08/10/2025

HA!

Hahahahahaha HA!

Man, did you guys 'n gals ever draw the short straw by getting your ol' pal Weasel as an interim host!

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Howdy Readers! Welcome to the Reading Thread, your Sunday morning source for the insightful, yet lively and spirited discussion of books 'n stuff. I'm filling in for a while as this space re-invents itself under new management, so please set your near-term expectations accordingly low.

Anyhoo...

What do we have this week? Why, it's none other than Sergeant Dick of the Royal Mounted Police - A Thrilling Story of the Canadian Woods, written by John G. Rowe. and originally published in 1929. Yes, an actual book for this inaugural Reading Thread but be forewarned, the longer I do this, you may not be so fortunate.

Why did I pick this particular book you ask? Well, mostly because I liked the title. Actually, I picked Sgt. Dick almost entirely based on the title and also the cover photo. Even with our hero losing his hat in the first few minutes of the story, something no self-respecting American cowboy or lawman would allow, it does otherwise seem good so I hope you like it. Feel free to discuss reading and books in general and share your thoughts on this week's selection if you're so inclined.

I know you're just as excited as I am, so just jump below the fold to get started!

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Apologies to our non-readers, the electronic version does not come with the original illustrations.

So that's it for now, guys and gals. Come to class next week prepared to discuss reading 'n stuff, and remember, Reading is FUNdamental!

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Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 09:00 AM (+qU29)

2 That new thread smell.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:00 AM (0eaVi)

3 Of course, we don't actually have to read that book, Weasel. Unless nothing else comes along.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:01 AM (0eaVi)

4 Besides thanks for filling in Weasel
Little more than a hundred pages to go in Rick Atkinson's Day of the Battle, a account of the Italian campaign in WWII

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 09:02 AM (+qU29)

5 Mon capitain Weasel! Bonjour!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:02 AM (omVj0)

6 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading.

Mucho thanks to Weasel for filling in.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:02 AM (yTvNw)

7 Nowadays, all RCMP are dicks. Or so I've heard...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 10, 2025 09:03 AM (XMwZJ)

8 Good Sunday morning, horde!

Thanks for filling in, Weasel. I love vintage books with amusing covers. Look at Sergeant Dick, there, shootin' double-handed!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 09:03 AM (h7ZuX)

9 That was great Weasel!

Thanks.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 09:04 AM (jvJvP)

10 Morning, Weasel.

Howdy, Horde, and if you're hanging around this morning, hello to the Perfessor.

The book cover reminds me of stuff I saw on my grandfather's bookcase when I was in 4th grade. Can't recall ever seeing him read one of 'em, but they were there. If failing memory serves, I read my first Tom Swifts from that shelf -- the old ones, not the later Tom Swift Jrs. Don't recall titles now, just that I read them and they were kinda fun.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:05 AM (q3u5l)

11 Y’all are in good hands with Weasel-San.

But pants are still required.

Have a blessed day!

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 10, 2025 09:05 AM (1O6D8)

12 Sergeant Dick is a dick, so I've heard.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:06 AM (n4GiU)

13 Morning, everybody,

It was suggested in the comments last week that we turn the Book Thread into a rotating pulpit, with several moderators/presenters taking turns. I'm willing to do my part!

This week, I finished another Jack Reacher, The Affair. It's a prequel to the first novel in the series, and recounts JR's last job in the military police and tells us why he left the army. This one is set in a small town in NE Mississippi. Fascinating stuff.

For those of you who read the series: How do you picture JR? We know Tom Cruise, good as he was, is way too short and slight for the role. I haven't seen the TV series, but photos on the DVD case suggest that actor is right. To me, JR looks like Rory Calhoun when he was about that age, thirty-six.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:06 AM (omVj0)

14 Could've been worse - he could've handed us all a Hornaday reloading manual and told us to memorize how many grains of Bullseye you need to push a 185 gr SJHP vs a 230 gr. FMJ.

Posted by: PabloD at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (APp3S)

15 Yay book thread! Hi, Weasel!

I met a Sgt. Dick in the Air Force. She was in public affairs, and had that look of someone who knows the joke and is weary of hearing it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)

16 I just started a 900+ page book on Ulysses S. Grant. Aptly titled Grant by Ron Chernow, it's already very interesting and I'm only a few pages in. It will take me a while to plow through this one! One thing I learned already that I didn't know. His name is not actually Ulysses S. Grant. It's Hiram Ulysses Grant. When he went into the military, they somehow messed up his paperwork and it came out "Ulysses S. Grant" and he just went with it!

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (qBdHI)

17 Yes, an actual book for this inaugural Reading Thread but be forewarned, the longer I do this, you may not be so fortunate.

* suspenseful music plays *

Just you wait, my pretties!!! You won't want to miss me!

Posted by: The Fourth Book at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (0sNs1)

18 so this week, among other stuff, I read a couple of anthologies about haunted liberries, titled, oddly enough The Haunted Library Anthology: Volume 1 (& 2). Just ghost stories, not horror. Well, how horrible could it be in a library?

recommended. plus, it's a fund raiser for a library. and it's KU.

Posted by: yara at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (EbWSH)

19 Could've been worse - he could've handed us all a Hornaday reloading manual and told us to memorize how many grains of Bullseye you need to push a 185 gr SJHP vs a 230 gr. FMJ.
Posted by: PabloD at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (APp3S)
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"And now a reading from Ezell's Handguns of the World..."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (ZOv7s)

20 A younger David Morse would have been nice casting for Reacher, I think. Oh, well; timing is everything.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (q3u5l)

21 I can imagine how the story opens-

I had a sergeant, he was a dick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (snZF9)

22 I read Prodigal Son by Greg Hurwitz. This is the sixth book in the Orphan X series. Evan Smoak, Orphan X, is contacted by his long-lost mother with a job which will pull him out of retirement. He battles dragonfly, bee and ant drones as well as the usual bad guys. He also learns about and meets his half brother. Not only a thriller, but one learns more of X's background.

Posted by: Zoltan at August 10, 2025 09:09 AM (VOrDg)

23 Good morning Weasel, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (U08HM)

24 When he went into the military, they somehow messed up his paperwork and it came out "Ulysses S. Grant" and he just went with it!
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (qBdHI)
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In his day, states had rules for citizenship. Grant was an Ohioan, and when he got stationed in Michigan, declined to change his citizenship and so did not vote while assigned there. The Michigan-Ohio thing goes back before football.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)

25 Currently I'm trying a modern novel called The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister, a supernatural semi-Gothic set in West Virginia. The family in the story are descendants of a long-ago Irish brood who formed a peculiar alliance with a bog -- the eldest son marries the "wife" sent to him by the bog, has children with her, and the eldest son carries on the tradition. It's sort of a curse, I guess. No idea yet what happens if the eldest son won't, or can't, marry a bog wife, but it's got to be serious.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (omVj0)

26 Good morning dear horde and thanks Weasel

A prayer for Perfessor Squirrel who is facing personal and professional challenges, and who had been providing a Book Thread for us morons in this space for a long time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (JvZF+)

27 We spent summers in a beach cottage of my grandfather's in the family's home town, and it was full of the thirties versions of the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift (not Jr), Nancy Drew,etc.
I may have been one of the last to refer to friends as chums.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (n4GiU)

28 He was too nice when he was on st elesewhere when he ended up on film he was almost invariably a thug or a bully

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (bXbFr)

29 For those of you who read the series: How do you picture JR? We know Tom Cruise, good as he was, is way too short and slight for the role. I haven't seen the TV series, but photos on the DVD case suggest that actor is right. To me, JR looks like Rory Calhoun when he was about that age, thirty-six.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:06 AM (omVj0)

Haven't read, haven't seen - certainly not interested in that little fairy Cruise in anything anymore - only read about the show, but I'd think if you don't see Clint Walker in the role, you may be wrong in your choice.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (0eaVi)

30 I read Prodigal Son by Greg Hurwitz.

Posted by: Zoltan at August 10, 2025 09:09 AM (VOrDg)
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Not to be confused with Radical Son by David Horowitz. Quite different!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)

31 Good morning!

Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 09:12 AM (0I+GC)

32 Sergeant Dick of the Royal Mounted Police - A Thrilling Story of the Canadian Woods.

A tale that is prescient to today’s headlines coming out of Nova Scotia and Newfieland. Where if you go into the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise. Yeah, the RCMP will bust your sorry butt.
Combatting forest fires by banning everyone from traipsing through the woods under threat of fines or jail. Ban excludes Climate Change, Lightning, Arsonists, etc.

Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:12 AM (DTBr0)

33 Perfessor, thank you for all the great book posts.

Weasel, thank you for stepping up to host.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (U08HM)

34 We've been weaseled?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (Y+jbb)

35 He was too nice when he was on st elesewhere when he ended up on film he was almost invariably a thug or a bully
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (bXbFr)
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His character got raped during a prison riot and I think he did not want to be typecast, so he only took roles where he played tough guys after that. I mean, it's typecast, but in a better way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

36 Duel wielding 1911s. Eat yer heart out, John Wick.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (emWn/)

37 Thanks to Weasel for jumping into the breach!

*******

I'm still progressing through "All My Best Friends" by George Burns. Now he's writing about their investments, including the greatest investment -- marriage. Some did well, others failed.

Today is service project day at church, so this will be my only contribution. I'll spend this morning working in somebody's yard. I hope the heat holds off, but I'm packing plenty of water.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 10, 2025 09:14 AM (p/isN)

38 Perhaps i didnt watch it that much when i did

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (bXbFr)

39 Dare I say, “Holy Shitballs!”.

Posted by: RI Red at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (4TuXE)

40 Speaking of the "Gothic": How would you define a Gothic novel? No, not something about barbarian hordes ravaging Rome or Europe in general. Apparently the subgenre started in the 18th century with something called The Castle of Otranto and The Mysteries of Udolpho. There is atmosphere, brooding and dark, and ruined mansions or houses, and the suggestion of supernatural goings-on.

"Southern" Gothic is stuff like Faulkner's Sanctuary (though I couldn't finish the book, it's supposed to be squarely in the SG tradition), and things like Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, and that novel The Beguiled (movie with Clint Eastwood long ago).

Probably "Gothic," Southern or not, is like pr0n: You know it when you see it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (omVj0)

41 Prayers for the professor

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (bXbFr)

42 "And now a reading from Ezell's Handguns of the World..."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM

* uplifting orchestral music plays *

"A reading from The Guns of John Moses Browning ... "

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (0sNs1)

43 It's been a great week for new reading discoveries and rediscoveries.

First, I came across a reference to "The Outermost House" by Henry Beston. It's about his observations of living in a small house on Cape Cod in the early 1920s. Since I grew up in that general area I thought it might be nostalgic, maybe with a nod to "Walden Pond". Beston's writing isn't just observation and philosophy. It is rich and poetic. His prose, consciously or not, uses many of the techniques that make a poem flow in pacing and sound. I should try reading parts aloud. His observations remind me, in clarity and attitude, of John Muir's essays in the American west. High praise.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (yTvNw)

44 "Sergeant Dick of the Royal Mounted Police" really needs to be made into a...specialty film, if it hasn't already.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (kpS4V)

45 It seems Sgt. Dick of the RCMP has a revolver in each hand along with another revolver in his holster.

I guess that's why they always get their man.

Superior fire power.

Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (I0N4X)

46 Combatting forest fires by banning everyone from traipsing through the woods under threat of fines or jail. Ban excludes Climate Change, Lightning, Arsonists, etc.
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:12 AM (DTBr0)
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Lots of forest fires are found by people just wandering the woods. I found one many years ago (probably from a cigarette butt) and because we spotted it quickly, it was put out before it could get going.

This being a book thread, I am reminded of Patrick F. McManus, whose woodsy anthologies I read quite a bit back in those days.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

47 Got a bunch of books started, all petered out for varios reasons.
Latest is Downfall, Richard Frank's book about the end of imperial Japan.
Hope this one keeps me reading. Recommended here I'm sure.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (n4GiU)

48 Well, thanks Weasel, for keeping the tread alive.

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:17 AM (Lhaco)

49 25 Currently I'm trying a modern novel called The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister, a supernatural semi-Gothic set in West Virginia.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (omVj0)

That sounds fascinating, put it on my library kindle ebook list.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 09:17 AM (h7ZuX)

50 Our latest GAINZZ discussion of diets led to Piper's recommendation of "Understanding Nutrition" by Whitney and Rolfes. I've had it for a day now, and find it very accessible, practical and useful.

Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 09:17 AM (0I+GC)

51 Consider FWDixon, Danger Trails of the Sky

Posted by: epador at August 10, 2025 09:17 AM (2blGY)

52 After author Michael Crichton died, his family found various screenplays and manuscripts among his papers. One of these was published posthumously as Pirate Latitudes.

This is the story of Charles Hunter, a privateer in Port Royal, Jamaica. When a ship reaches port, bringing a new assistant for the governor, it also reports that a galleon is in the harbor of Matanceros, a well guarded Spanish island. What everyone in Port Royal knows is that a galleon in harbor there is loaded with gold and silver for the king of Spain. Hunter formulates a plan to capture the ship.

After a bloody struggle, Hunter and his crew manage to capture the galleon and take it out of the harbor, and return home. Meanwhile, the governor's new assistant, Hackett, has taken over Port Royal and charges Hunter with piracy. Hunter must use every favor he is owed to avoid the hangman. The story reflects the harshness of the age, but is an engaging read.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 09:18 AM (Vfq+S)

53 "A reading from The Guns of John Moses Browning ... "

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (0sNs1)
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The planet he rules is a mecha-world. Imagine the guns Browning would make as a demigod. Like Warhammer 40k but everything is fire-blued with walnut stocks - even the space ships.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)

54 "Sergeant Dick of the Royal Mounted Police" really needs to be made into a...specialty film, if it hasn't already.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (kpS4V)

Neigh.

Posted by: Sgt. Dick's Mount at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (0eaVi)

55 Weasel, thanks for helping out the book thread.

Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Oy/m2)

56 I read every day, just no longer for pleasure, it's largely technical proposals, rfi's, scope documents, technical papers and manuals.

And bitchy communications from vendors and clients.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (XV/Pl)

57 Tess Trueheart!

Dare I say "Hubba, Hubba"?

Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (I0N4X)

58 I just put some money down to pre-order some cowboy comic books. "Tex: The Author Collection" over at kickstarter. A boxed set of 6 stories about a Texas Ranger named....Tex. From the review art, one story will likely look meh, two will look awesome, with three books looking somewhere between. Fortunately, one of the great looking books is also written by Chuck Dixon, which made it really easy to make the purchase. Here's hoping it'll be worth it.

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Lhaco)

59 Thanks, Weasel. We did not get the short end of the straw by you hosting today. Thanks for filling in. Sounds like an interesting book
Thanks also to " Perfesser" for hosting the book thread for so long and doing it so capably.

I have church and need to get things ready, but I wanted to lift up this story . Former Marine and social worker died at age 92, but he kept a record of the books he had read ( over 3000, but there's no list in the article) and his local library remembered him:

https://tinyurl.com/23u67yht

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 09:20 AM (hDBOA)

60 Wait. There's a pants policy?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 09:20 AM (XQo4F)

61 I've seen just about every iteration of "Treasure Island", including the Muppet version and "Treasure Planet", but I'd never read the book. I am now. It's good! Wyeth illustrations are a must.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:20 AM (kpS4V)

62 It seems Sgt. Dick of the RCMP has a revolver in each hand along with another revolver in his holster.

I guess that's why they always get their man.

Superior fire power.
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (I0N4X)
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Okay the revolver in his left hand goes into the left side holster. Since there’s a revolver already in the right side holster, one can only guess where the gun in his right hand is going to be “holstered”.
Welcome to Trudeau’s/Carney’s Brand New RCMP!

Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:21 AM (DTBr0)

63 Picked through a couple of collections of reviews and essays by a guy named Scott Bradfield. Titles are

Why I Hate Toni Morrison's Beloved: Several Decades of Reading Unwisely
and
Reading Great Books in the Bathtub: Essays and Reviews 2005-2021

Both are cheap on Kindle, and can probably be ordered in print from Amazon or direct from Bradfield (don't have that info handy, though). He's got a YouTube channel with something like 500 videos; guy's been at it for a while.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:21 AM (q3u5l)

64 I guess that's why they always get their man.
Superior fire power.
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM

Let us not be, how you say, misogynistic. Superior fire power is a great aid in getting your woman, too.

Posted by: Paolo at August 10, 2025 09:22 AM (0sNs1)

65 Haven't read, haven't seen - certainly not interested in that little fairy Cruise in anything anymore - only read about the show, but I'd think if you don't see Clint Walker in the role, you may be wrong in your choice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025

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Walker had the size and heft. But somehow I see Reacher as being deceptive in his size -- that an opponent might underrate him because, while he is tall, he does not immediately appear so hefty. Sort of like the way John D. MacDonald had Travis McGee describe himself: "A man who gets a look at my wrists will realize I am bigger than I appear to be." Or words to that effect.

Rory Calhoun had the "dangerous edge" look, and you can imagine him moving whip-fast to finish a fight before the other guy knows it's started.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (omVj0)

66 So it's a book thread in gun thread wrapped in a movie thread?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (XQo4F)

67 Got a bunch of books started, all petered out for varios reasons.
Latest is Downfall, Richard Frank's book about the end of imperial Japan.
Hope this one keeps me reading. Recommended here I'm sure.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (n4GiU)
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I certainly did. Not for the faint of heart. The description of the firebombings - which are almost entire forgotten - is much worse than just being vaporized.

If nothing else, the book forces critics to actually articulate an alternative. Call it quits and let Japan effectively win? If not, the only other options were a slow siege that would see millions die of disease and starvation or launching MacArthur's dream campaign that would also kill millions.

Pick one, and then explain why it's more moral than the others.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

68 Interesting, I have an original hardback copy of "Benton of the Royal Mounted" by Ralph S Kendall dated 1918, but I shannot offer a book report today!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (hOUT3)

69 Okay the revolver in his left hand goes into the left side holster. Since there’s a revolver already in the right side holster, one can only guess where the gun in his right hand is going to be “holstered”.
Welcome to Trudeau’s/Carney’s Brand New RCMP!
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025

***
Slid into his belt; it was captured from one of the bad guys!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (omVj0)

70 I met a Sgt. Dick in the Air Force. She was in public affairs, and had that look of someone who knows the joke and is weary of hearing it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I worked with a 'BJ'. She much preferred that over 'Bobbi Jo'.

She had 'the look' - you didn't dare comment on her name.

Congrats Weasel!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (WzM/W)

71 Would Poe be considered gothic or Southern Gothic?

His stories were always creepy.

I think he’s credited for inventing the mystery novel with his Auguste Dupin stories; The Murders in the Rue Morgue being the obvious one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (6ydKt)

72
Tess Trueheart!

Dare I say "Hubba, Hubba"?
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (I0N4X)

__________

Prudence Pimpleton!

Dare it say "Ugh"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (kkTda)

73 I find the absence of cigars disturbing.

Posted by: the Trees at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (L3gF5)

74 Okay the revolver in his left hand goes into the left side holster. Since there’s a revolver already in the right side holster, one can only guess where the gun in his right hand is going to be “holstered”.
Welcome to Trudeau’s/Carney’s Brand New RCMP!
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:21 AM (DTBr0)
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Appendix carry. Or on his horse.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)

75 When I saw "Weasel" I laughed, then I scrolled down and the first thing I see is "HA" "hahaha". That was great. Thanks for the Sunday morning laugh, Weasel.

Posted by: Indiana Lurker at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (3ZVqj)

76 Gothic?

It's a paperback novel showing an attractive young lady in a not-quite-sheer-enough nightgown coming toward the reader across the dark moor; in the background is an ominous-looking castle with a light in one tower window.

Everyone knows that...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (q3u5l)

77 So it's a book thread in gun thread wrapped in a movie thread?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025

***
Any thread can be all three, and more!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:25 AM (omVj0)

78 So it's a book thread in gun thread wrapped in a movie thread?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (XQo4F)
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For much of the week every thread is a dildo thread, so this is an improvement.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)

79 Rory Calhoun had the "dangerous edge" look, and you can imagine him moving whip-fast to finish a fight before the other guy knows it's started.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (omVj0)

Well, I don't remember what Rory looked like, but from what apparently Reacher does, I assumed the person should be a rather good size. Certainly not poofter Cruise.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:26 AM (0eaVi)

80 Missus Muldoon and I are currently working our way through an oral reading of the OT book of Jeremiah, a couple chapters a day over morning coffee, with commentary, sharing our own thoughts and relating to current world affairs. Nothing like a little light escapism to start your day. Lots of dire predictions, but also promises of redemption.

Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:26 AM (I0N4X)

81 Walker had the size and heft. But somehow I see Reacher as being deceptive in his size -- that an opponent might underrate him because, while he is tall, he does not immediately appear so hefty.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (omVj0)

Alan Ritchson, the actor in the series, doesn’t fit that description then.

He’s more like Clint Walker, a little smaller, but still built like a tank.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 09:27 AM (6ydKt)

82 This week, I read The Sins of the Father, by Lawrence Block. You would think I'd be tired of gritty ex-cop stories, but you would be wrong.

This is mid-1970s NYC, and ex-cop Matthew Scudder makes a modest living doing favors for people. Not a licensed P.I., but he's good at the investigation. He works intuitively, drinks too much, accepts a system police being bribed, sleeps with prostitutes, you get the idea. He's not a moral beacon, but he's a good guy nonetheless.

Did one of you Morons recommend Lawrence Block, or did I come across this by accident?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 09:27 AM (h7ZuX)

83 I’ve been reading Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monster. Japanese monsters are *weird*

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 10, 2025 09:28 AM (1O6D8)

84 So it's a book thread in gun thread wrapped in a movie thread?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM

* taps finger on chin *

Good start, but it's lacking a certain something to qualify as an average AoSHQ thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:28 AM (0sNs1)

85 Book thread in a gun thread wrapped in a movie thread...

Do we contradict ourselves? Very well, then, we contradict ourselves. The Horde is vast, we contain multitudes. Or something like that.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (q3u5l)

86 Would Poe be considered gothic or Southern Gothic?

His stories were always creepy.

I think he’s credited for inventing the mystery novel with his Auguste Dupin stories; The Murders in the Rue Morgue being the obvious one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025

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Poe came along a while after the subgenre started, so he could. Certainly the atmosphere in "The Fall of the HOuse of Usher" is Gothic.

The reason I ask, Miss Linda is going to a book club thing at the library this week and suggests I come along. They will be discussing the Gothic. I think this The Bog Wife qualifies. The ruined abode you usually find in such tales does not have to be a castle or a mansion; it could be a family home that has fallen on hard times even as its family did.

Anne Rivers Siddons' "haunted" house story The House Next Door -- even though it features a brand-new house being built as the story opens -- could be Southern Gothic. The house is "bad" from the beginning and ruins the lives of the people who live there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (omVj0)

87 Would Poe be considered gothic or Southern Gothic?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (6ydKt)
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Gothic, but credit has to be given to Ann Radcliffe, who was referenced by both Jane Austen and Alexandre Dumas, who at one point described a scene as being reminiscent of Radcliffe's work. She was that well known.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

88 Pick one, and then explain why it's more moral than the others.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

Because then it would have cost hundreds of thousands of Allies lives, also it would let Stalin get in the war and possibly take over Japan. Which is what the Ds would have preferred happen.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (0eaVi)

89 So it's a book thread in gun thread wrapped in a movie thread?
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A turducken of all the best threads!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (kpS4V)

90 40 Speaking of the "Gothic": How would you define a Gothic novel?

A story full of suburban teenagers who are overly angsty for no good reason, who like to dress in black....no, wait...

From someone who isn't a connoisseur of the genre; Mood. Mood and setting. It needs to take place in over-sized and overly-grand buildings, which are no longer used for their intended purpose. The characters are a little bit lost, or feel small or lonely when set in their imposing surroundings.

...I actually need to read more stories about barbarians raging across Europe. The crumbling provinces of the Roman Empire would make for a really interesting (although hopefully not too timely) setting.

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Lhaco)

91 >>Good start, but it's lacking a certain something to qualify as an average AoSHQ thread.

Adding a pair of a certain something would certainly qualify it.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 10, 2025 09:30 AM (NcvvS)

92 This week, I read The Sins of the Father, by Lawrence Block. You would think I'd be tired of gritty ex-cop stories, but you would be wrong.

This is mid-1970s NYC, and ex-cop Matthew Scudder makes a modest living doing favors for people. Not a licensed P.I., but he's good at the investigation. He works intuitively, drinks too much, accepts a system police being bribed, sleeps with prostitutes, you get the idea. He's not a moral beacon, but he's a good guy nonetheless.

Did one of you Morons recommend Lawrence Block, or did I come across this by accident?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025

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We've mentioned the series here, and Block's work overall. He is one of the people who, when I see a book with his name on it, I grab it off the library shelf without reading the blurb.

I think Sins is the first in the Scudder series.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)

93 Well, I don't remember what Rory looked like, but from what apparently Reacher does, I assumed the person should be a rather good size. Certainly not poofter Cruise.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:26 AM (0eaVi)

Here’s an entire page of Rory Calhoun on Pinterest (somebody really likes the guy):

https://tinyurl.com/ycx6r5d6

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (6ydKt)

94 Posted by: Indiana Lurker at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (3ZVqj)

Hey, Wolfus! Maybe this lurker has some info that might help you decide where to move?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (0eaVi)

95 I’ve been reading Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monster. Japanese monsters are *weird*
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 10, 2025 09:28 AM (1O6D

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Have you gotten to the demon rape scene? I hear those are quite common.

"Legend of the Overfiend" is something of an epistome.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)

96 Dash,

Several of us have recommended Lawrence Block. He did the first three Scudders as paperback originals for Dell. Gap of several years, and then he picked it up again with A Stab in the Dark in hardcover. That's when the series really started to take off.

Enjoy.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:32 AM (q3u5l)

97 61 ... "I've seen just about every iteration of "Treasure Island", including the Muppet version and "Treasure Planet", but I'd never read the book. I am now. It's good! Wyeth illustrations are a must."

AHE,
OMG!!! Treasure Island was the first 'grown up' books I read. I was maybe 7 years old and had a dictionary at hand the whole time for the many unfamiliar words. Worth every second. And the Wyeth illustrations are mandatory for full enjoyment. I've said before, his painting of Blind Pew approaching the inn is still scary. It was terrifying, in a cool way, to a little boy. (I've given several copies as gifts over the years.)

FWIW, my favorite film version is with Charlton Heston as Long John Silver.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:32 AM (yTvNw)

98 Wiki, of all places, gives Edmund Burke some props for defining the Gothic novel:

Burke's thoughts on the Sublime, Terror, and Obscurity helped shape Gothic fiction's emotional and psychological tone. These sections can be summarized thus: the Sublime is that which is or produces the "strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling"; Terror most often evoked the Sublime; and to cause Terror, we need some amount of Obscurity – we can't know everything about that which is inducing Terror – or else "a great deal of the apprehension vanishes"; Obscurity is necessary to experience the Terror of the unknown.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 09:34 AM (XvL8K)

99 ...I actually need to read more stories about barbarians raging across Europe. The crumbling provinces of the Roman Empire would make for a really interesting (although hopefully not too timely) setting.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Lhaco)
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Ammianus Marcellinus is a good primary source if you are into that sort of thing.

Evelyn Waugh's Helena also presents an interesting perspective as the generals are constantly moving about, cruching barbarians or each other.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)

100 Yay!!! Good morning, Book Nerdz.

I'm reading Edward Ashton's "Mal Goes To War," which is about a sentient malware program that tries to survive a war between the US government and a rebel group that hates technology. Interesting so far. Ashton is the author of Mickey7 and a couple of other clever science fiction works. I enjoy reading him.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 10, 2025 09:35 AM (/RHNq)

101 Went to half price books yesterday and came home with How to read and do proofs... I've always been interested in that subject but never had any exposure to it other than a couple of weeks during HS geometry.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 09:35 AM (3Ope8)

102 I can't find much information about J. G. Rowe but I'm tempted to look for his books. Sounds like they might be like early Hardy Boys or original Tom Swift stories, written for young people but not dumbed down. I still enjoy reading those now and then.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:35 AM (yTvNw)

103 “Rory Calhoun…wasn’t he the actor who was always standing on his hind legs?”

C. Montgomery Burns

Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (DTBr0)

104 Dash,

Several of us have recommended Lawrence Block. He did the first three Scudders as paperback originals for Dell. Gap of several years, and then he picked it up again with A Stab in the Dark in hardcover. That's when the series really started to take off.

Enjoy.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025

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Only two Scudders have been filmed as far as I know: The important to the book series Eight Million Ways to Die (mangled, but with Jeff Bridges as Scudder) and A Walk Among the Tombstones a few years ago, a good job with Liam Neeson.

Block's work dates back to the late Fifties or early Sixties. He was a buddy of Donald Westlake and others of the NYC-based crime writers of the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)

105 Poe died not seeing any fame or fortune. He died of alcohol poisoning or something like that.

Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

106 I think Sins is the first in the Scudder series.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)

Scudder who?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (0eaVi)

107 JTB, yes on the Heston version, and it has young Christian Bale as Jim.

Barnes & Noble has a nice hardcover edition with Wyeth illustrations in its Classics section, if anybody needs a good gift idea for Christmas.

My own is an old 1930's library book I got at a library sale. Think of how many kids read it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:37 AM (kpS4V)

108 Burke's thoughts on the Sublime, Terror, and Obscurity helped shape Gothic fiction's emotional and psychological tone. These sections can be summarized thus: the Sublime is that which is or produces the "strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling"; Terror most often evoked the Sublime; and to cause Terror, we need some amount of Obscurity – we can't know everything about that which is inducing Terror – or else "a great deal of the apprehension vanishes"; Obscurity is necessary to experience the Terror of the unknown.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025

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I suppose, then, Henry James's Turn of the Screw and Conrad's Heart of Darkness might come in under Gothic. Obscurity is everywhere in those two.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:37 AM (omVj0)

109 Good start, but it's lacking a certain something to qualify as an average AoSHQ thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:28 AM (0sNs1)

Penguins? Bats? Evil River Otters?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 09:37 AM (vOjEn)

110 Poe died not seeing any fame or fortune. He died of alcohol poisoning or something like that.
Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM

He still holds the record for the shortest eulogy ever.

"Nevermore."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:38 AM (0sNs1)

111 Poe died not seeing any fame or fortune. He died of alcohol poisoning or something like that.
Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)
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If you want some insight into his work through life experience, visit Fort Monroe in Virginia. The casemates are massive, the interiors gloomy and forbidding. You can well see how serving there in the Army he was inspired. Note that the crypt in The House of Usher had a copper floor, like a powder magazine.

Authors write what they know, and he probably spent enough nights gazing out at the mist over the ocean feeling chained to a dungeon.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)

112 Last week I finished reading a graphic novel called "Zagor: Zombies in Darkwood." It was basically Dawn of the Dead (the modern remake) set in a frontier town. I didn't enjoy. I'm not a zombie fan, and the amount of death (an entire town and most of the countryside wiped out) in the story...was off-putting. The scale of the bloodshed didn't work with the pacing, didn't work with the mood, it probably doesn't work with the continuity (Zagor is an ongoing series) and I absolutely hated how it contrasted with the main-character plot armor. The main characters were obviously going to survive, while the newly introduced character were obvious cannon-fodder...so why care about anything.

That leads into a question for the horde: is there a level of death and destruction that actually takes you out of a story? I know I have my limits. And those limits are very tight in any sort of on-going story. I hate when those stories go too catastrophic, because the consequences will only ever be dealt with for one or two following installments, before fading into the background. Best to keep the stakes at a level where it is believable that a character can move past them...

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:39 AM (Lhaco)

113 Weasel, thanks for stepping in.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 09:39 AM (6Tzur)

114 Penguins? Bats? Evil River Otters?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 09:37 AM

The many chiroptophiles in The Horde always consider one of those a good addition to any Thread!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:40 AM (0sNs1)

115 I think Sins is the first in the Scudder series.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)

Scudder who?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025

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"Scudder? I don't even know her!"

Matthew Scudder, known as Matt. He appears first as a ex-NYC cop, divorced, drinking way too much (important to the character), and making a living not as a licensed private eye but "doing favors for people," investigating things, for money. He is a very sharp detective, and the mystery plots are very good, but his alcoholism (which he does not acknowledge at first) is important to the series as a whole. I recommend them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:40 AM (omVj0)

116 And re: Block

For years he also wrote a column for Writer's Digest, and they were collected in 3 or 4 volumes later. All still available, all well worth a look for anyone hanging around the AoS writer's group, and even if you're not looking to do any writing they're filled with references and examples from tons of good writers so you'll get lots of recommendations of other good stuff.

For an account of his time starting out in the writing biz grab his more recent A Writer Prepares. An excellent read, as is almost anything by Block.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:41 AM (q3u5l)

117 Poe died not seeing any fame or fortune. He died of alcohol poisoning or something like that.

Posted by: dantesed

I think it was some sort of stroke, after going on a several day bender and sleeping in the gutter for a few days. If I recall, he was found in the street and taken to some sort of hospice but died soon after.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Vfq+S)

118 101 "How to Read and Do Proofs" by Solow added to my list, thanks!

Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 09:41 AM (0I+GC)

119 This week, I read The Sins of the Father

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Interestingly, when Jeremiah singles out a particular individual and prophesies a dire punishment for iniquities, the prophecy often includes "you and your descendants shall not return from the Babylon captivity unto Judah" or some such. So the sins of the father were indeed punished in the sons..

Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:41 AM (I0N4X)

120 47 Got a bunch of books started, all petered out for varios reasons. Latest is Downfall, Richard Frank's book about the end of imperial Japan. Hope this one keeps me reading. Recommended here I'm sure.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (n4GiU)

I think I actually have that book on my shelf. I read it years ago, and I found it to be an engaging read, even if I can't remember anything specific about it now...

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:42 AM (Lhaco)

121 Thanks Weasel for filling in. You bring your unique personal style to everything you do here so that I actually see gou talking about this book.
Back to Reading..
I would like to get back to reading. I finally got a copy of the 4th book in the Pierce Brown trilogy(third book story line successfully closed up but picks up same characters a little later on). Have not been able to actually get started. It's an electronic copy and surprisingly now that I've managed to read two actual books, seem to prefer them.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 09:42 AM (t/2Uw)

122 Last week, I read The Good Old Boys by Elmer Kelton, who was one of my dad's favorite authors. It's about Hewey Calloway, a footloose cowboy, who, after a few years, goes home to visit his homesteader brother and family. It's set in West Texas in 1906 when things are changing faster than Hewey is ready to deal with. He's damn good with cattle and horses, but not so much with authority and civilized behavior as defined by the modern world.

If it sounds familiar, it's because Tommy Lee Jones directed a movie based on the book thirty years ago, but which I never saw. Now, I'd like to see it. I'll look around. Everything is on the internet.

Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 09:43 AM (98kQX)

123 That leads into a question for the horde: is there a level of death and destruction that actually takes you out of a story?

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:39 AM (Lhaco)
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Yes, and I avoid it by staying away from the horror/disaster genre entirely. Looking at TV/movies I see plenty of examples where the stakes are always global annihilation, massive CGI effects make the scale ludicrously big, and I completely lose interest.

It is much harder to write a "small" story of relatable people solving practical problems.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

124 Recently Will Henry published a hardcover collection of all the Sunday "Wallace' comics. "Sunday Funday Wallace: A Treasury of Wallace the Brave Sunday Comics". These are the best comics and make me laugh out loud. The only one better is Calvin and Hobbes. (I have the complete collection of C and H in hardcover as well.) For twenty bucks, it is a gem of delight. His setting is based on my home area which adds to my enjoyment.

Thanks to JackStraw for turning me onto to these comics some years ago.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

125 jeremiad /jĕr″ə-mī′əd/ noun

1. A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.

2. A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically.

3. A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (0sNs1)

126 Perfessor, thank you for all your contributions to the book thread and the Horde in general. I always checked in on your threads while getting ready for church. And it was a pleasure to have you join us at our midsouth MoMe.

Weasel, thanks for stepping up. I also always check in on your gun thread and chuckle at your presentation of content.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (FMtrg)

127 I saw a few weeks ago a recommendation for "Mal Goes to War" by Edward Ashton. I was meh, thought it could have been (a lot) better - neat premise, just less than excellent execution, and kept wondering how an author such as Philip Jose Farmer would have done with such a premise. ALSO, someone mentioned MURDERBOT as being along the same lines as MGTW, so, having an Apple TV subscription, I checked it out...for a bout five minutes...The actor voicing MURDERBOT was all wrong, terribly wrong IMHO. Stories like this just seem so promising, by as written and executed by 30 something year olds just don't fit my expectations. Sad.

So, when I moved about 4-5 years ago, I got rid of a LOT of books, donated to a local library / used book store. What I did keep are all truly excellent books n stories: "The Descent" by Jeff Long. THIS is a grabber, and frankly kinda freaked me out. Heavy shit man.

"Blood Music" by Greg Bear. I could not put it down and still sometimes consider the ending "what just happened here?!?!?!"

"Heavy Weather" by Bruce Sterling. Great story, interesting characters and locations. Have read this one dozens of times in the last 10 or even 15 years. Most recommended.

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:45 AM (Qd0+U)

128 It is much harder to write a "small" story of relatable people solving practical problems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM

For instance, 'raindrops' keep falling on my head?

Posted by: WNBA player at August 10, 2025 09:46 AM (0sNs1)

129 61 I've seen just about every iteration of "Treasure Island", including the Muppet version and "Treasure Planet", but I'd never read the book. I am now. It's good! Wyeth illustrations are a must.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:20 AM (kpS4V)

When I read the novel, the main thing I noticed were the little plot cul-de-sacs that never made it into any movie version; like Jim going back to the ship in that little round boat/raft thingy, and barely making it...

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:47 AM (Lhaco)

130 Also last week I read Meet Me at the Fountain, a non-fiction book about the development and death of shopping malls in America. Unfortunately the writer is a NYC or East Coaster, and so she only deals with malls in CA, Chicago, NY area, Atlanta, and Dallas -- no mentions of the ones I know in Da Swamp. Some of the info is fascinating, some of the telling of how a mall came to be (financing, etc.) is dull. Very politically correct -- it's a recent book. Not sure I'd recommend it. But the pictures were well-chosen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)

131 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:40 AM (omVj0)

The response I was looking for was:

Scudder, Hay!*

*real groaner pun

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:47 AM (0eaVi)

132 Then there is "The Apocalypse Troll" by David Weber. My brother is a big fan of the Horn Harrington series...but *space opera* stuff just seems to drag on n on. So. Much. Ruminating. But TAT is another grabber, lots of action and interesting characters n locations. Great premise.

Finally I still have a copy of Michael Crichton's "Timeline". Time travel story done right.

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:48 AM (Qd0+U)

133 >>He still holds the record for the shortest eulogy ever.

>>"Nevermore."

Perfect.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 09:50 AM (viF8m)

134 Okay the revolver in his left hand goes into the left side holster. Since there’s a revolver already in the right side holster, one can only guess where the gun in his right hand is going to be “holstered”.
Welcome to Trudeau’s/Carney’s Brand New RCMP!
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:21 AM (DTBr0)

Any way you look at it he's still rootin' tootn' straight shootn' Sergeant Dick.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 09:50 AM (g8Ew8)

135 sheesh..... "Honor Harrington"

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:50 AM (Qd0+U)

136 Yes, and I avoid it by staying away from the horror/disaster genre entirely. Looking at TV/movies I see plenty of examples where the stakes are always global annihilation, massive CGI effects make the scale ludicrously big, and I completely lose interest.

It is much harder to write a "small" story of relatable people solving practical problems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025

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The latter is much more my speed. A global annihilation story, or a global conspiracy/threat tale like Tom Clancy's, would be beyond me. My favorite James Bond novels are the ones where he is operating alone, or perhaps with Felix Leiter and the lady of the hour, like From Russia With Love and Doctor No. When he has help from a horde of U.S. Navy frogmen in Thunderball, I lose interest.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)

137 "Block's work dates back to the late Fifties or early Sixties. He was a buddy of Donald Westlake and others of the NYC-based crime writers of the time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)"

This one was written in 1976. I'm in kind of a '70s reading mood right now, so this fits. I enjoyed this bit from his Goodreads author bio:

"Born in Buffalo, N.Y., LB attended Antioch College, but left before completing his studies; school authorities advised him that they felt he’d be happier elsewhere, and he thought this was remarkably perceptive of them."

If you know anything about Antioch College, this makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 09:51 AM (h7ZuX)

138 Level of death and destruction that takes you out of the story?

That's kind of a sticky one. In your average disaster movie, you've got a few characters you follow. Everyone else is just another shack washed away in the flood. Like the extras in a war movie. In Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, practically everyone's already dead -- it's background. Just as it is for any after the bomb or zombie apocalypse.

Then you take something like Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, or Mendal Johnson's Let's Go Play at the Adams. Both based on the same incident as I recall, and both restricted to one victim. Both very well done and both excruciating to read. I've read them both, but won't be revisiting them any time soon.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:52 AM (q3u5l)

139 Kindle gave me a sample of the Horus Heresy. Easy reading before bed but not for 9$.

Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 09:52 AM (4qMiv)

140 14 Could've been worse - he could've handed us all a Hornaday reloading manual and told us to memorize how many grains of Bullseye you need to push a 185 gr SJHP vs a 230 gr. FMJ.

Posted by: PabloD at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (APp3S)

Lol, I was dreading something like this when I saw the name on the post. Turns out he's a bit more cultured than we gave him credit for :p

And speaking of Poe, anyone remember a short story he did in regards to the color pink? From what I remember it was about a woman suffering from post par tum depression and then descending into full blown madness due to the pink wallpaper in the house. Pink is the color of madness was the theme or something like that. I had to read it and other Poe stories in high school.

Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025 09:52 AM (znbnV)

141 Has anyone read Ann Cleeve's Shetland mysteries? I grabbed one from the condo share shelf because I needed a paperback to take to the pool. Ion,y read it when I am there so it takes a while. Didn't realize that it was part of a series but is fine as a stand alone but I'm liking it and wondering if I should start at the beginning. Was also made into a TV series. Has anyone seen them?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 09:53 AM (t/2Uw)

142 Finally, also in my collection are four Clifford D. Simak sci-fi novels. I always like what he did with the robot characters.

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:53 AM (Qd0+U)

143 I like the tension of the volcano chapter. Sgt Dick saves Nell once again.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (47/pr)

144 The other thing I was a bit surprised to learn is that Jeremiah was, as a factual matter, decidedly NOT a bullfrog.

Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (I0N4X)

145 And speaking of Poe, anyone remember a short story he did in regards to the color pink? From what I remember it was about a woman suffering from post par tum depression and then descending into full blown madness due to the pink wallpaper in the house. Pink is the color of madness was the theme or something like that. I had to read it and other Poe stories in high school.
Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025

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Poe wrote one like that? That sounds like Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," which I have seen explained variously as a supernatural story, a story of madness, and one of patriarchal oppression. Amazing how they could get all of that out of one short story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)

146 All y'all are too kind! Thank you very much.

Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (cmI4M)

147 The latter is much more my speed. A global annihilation story, or a global conspiracy/threat tale like Tom Clancy's, would be beyond me. My favorite James Bond novels are the ones where he is operating alone, or perhaps with Felix Leiter and the lady of the hour, like From Russia With Love and Doctor No. When he has help from a horde of U.S. Navy frogmen in Thunderball, I lose interest.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)

Sounds like you need to start reading Vince Flynn's books.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)

148 I remember reading The Murders in the Rue Morgue as a child, and thinking, "this is a pretty good detective story, almost like a Sherlock Holmes story", not realizing it predated Holmes by 50 years or so.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 09:56 AM (Vfq+S)

149 Micah dalton series by david stone is kind off a hard boiled spy with detective elements hes officially a cleaner tdyed from special forces operating from.a bar in venice when one of his mentors ends up dead

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:56 AM (bXbFr)

150 The latter is much more my speed. A global annihilation story, or a global conspiracy/threat tale like Tom Clancy's, would be beyond me. My favorite James Bond novels are the ones where he is operating alone, or perhaps with Felix Leiter and the lady of the hour, like From Russia With Love and Doctor No. When he has help from a horde of U.S. Navy frogmen in Thunderball, I lose interest.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)
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I think a great example of scalilng a story is Lord of the Rings. It starts very small, just a handful of characters, and the danger level is very personal - freezing in the snow, close-combats and the like.

But it continues to increase, until we finally get epic battles at the Hornburg and Minas Tirith. At that point the stakes should be high, and we're deeply invested in the characters. Despite the scale, Tolkien still zooms in to show what happened to each of them, how they felt and why it mattered. For example, Merry goes through the charge, helps strike down the Witch-King, but is ignored and become one of many wounded stragglers trying to find a place to get treated or even rest.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)

151 It is much harder to write a "small" story of relatable people solving practical problems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

Sort of like how Star Trek did it, compared to CB DeMille.*

*Star Trek reference checked off

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:57 AM (0eaVi)

152 Amazon and other e-tail sites have been blamed for the demise of the mall, but roaming gangs of vandals in youthful high spirits surely contributed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:58 AM (kpS4V)

153 A non-recommendation this week. Or maybe a semi-recommendation. I got a book called Avoiding the Great Filter, by Jiang and Rosen. Not what I was hoping for. It's a decent introduction to the concept of the Great Filter and so if you're new to being interested in SETI and the Fermi Paradox issue it might make a good "onboarding" book. But I found it very slight and cursory. Any random Isaac Arthur 40-minute Youtube video has more substance.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 09:59 AM (78a2H)

154 Was also made into a TV series. Has anyone seen them?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at

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Highly recommend tha5 series. Nice atmosphere, beautiful though stark scenery and relatable characters. Jimmy Perez has a great detective style...

Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:59 AM (I0N4X)

155 Finally finished Buzz Aldrin/John Barnes Encounter With Tiber and a re-read of Greg Bear The Forge of God; started Rules for Radical Conservatives and re-read of Bear's sequel to Forge, Anvil of Stars.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 10, 2025 09:59 AM (NcvvS)

156 Finally, also in my collection are four Clifford D. Simak sci-fi novels. I always like what he did with the robot characters.
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025

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One of his short stories in City has one of my favorite dialog exchanges. The governor of a exploration base on one of Jupiter's moons has been losing men. The volunteers are changed into "lopers," a native life form, and sent out . . . and never come back. The governor pats his dog, thinking, then calls his secretary. "We'll be sending out two more. One of them will be a dog."

"Your dog?" The woman is horrified. "Your own dog? After he's been with you all these years!"

"Exactly. Towser would be disappointed if I left him behind."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:59 AM (omVj0)

157 Gothic? Let me continue a long-running bleg (is that a proper descriptor?) about "Teaching Classics" to unreceptive young people.

Keep it short.

Northanger Abbey, which also has the gift of being funny, as a gateway read to other 'literachur'.

Frankenstein, short (especially compared to Dracula) and always relevant: AI right now.

Just exposing kids to pivotal authors that they can read without too much griping will open many doors.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 10, 2025 10:00 AM (WvpwN)

158 For instance, 'raindrops' keep falling on my head?
Posted by: WNBA player at August 10, 2025 09:46 AM (0sNs1)

Those weren't raindrops, dude. It was White Rain shampoo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:00 AM (0eaVi)

159 Amazon and other e-tail sites have been blamed for the demise of the mall, but roaming gangs of vandals in youthful high spirits surely contributed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris

Ninety percent of the malls I have ever been to are now empty or in the process of being torn down. Yet, there are a few that are thriving. That tells me it is more than online retail that has ended many malls.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 10:00 AM (Vfq+S)

160 Level of death and destruction that takes you out of the story?

I can watch the John Wick movies just because but I could only watch the first Narco series (the one about Pablo Escobar) once. I think it's because in the former the violence is warranted and in the latter it's gratuitous.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 10:01 AM (3Ope8)

161 (con't) That's a great example of writing what you know. Elsewhere, the battle is raging, the air is alive with horns, drums, the Oliphants' trumpeting, and thousands shouting, but in the backfield, stragglers are stumbling towards the city, completely ignored by the reinforcements moving up to the front.

Tolkien lived this, and it shows again and again in his writing.

Tolkien also wasn't afraid to borrow from history. We all know the Second Siege of Vienna inspired Minas Tirith, but it goes deeper than that. One of the key figures in keeping the garrison fighting was the Archbishop, who was constantly comforting the wounded, praying with them, and - when the relief came - he led a parties of civilians to rescue Christian prisoners and children from the Ottoman camp, sparing them from the slaughter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)

162 Sounds like you need to start reading Vince Flynn's books.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025

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I'll take a look at the library this week!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:02 AM (omVj0)

163 In a gruesome way which ends up a dark jacob marley type experience he has to track the killer who has a revenge motive

He tackles nasty montenegrins faces off with dishy italian chick and some of his dupiicitous bosses

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 10:03 AM (bXbFr)

164 I though about taking a look at "Narcos" but decided not to, for the reason you just mentioned. Not into bloody mess for bloody mess's sake.

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Qd0+U)

165 Thinking about the Reacher books...
Tom Cruise was a huge disappointment as Reacher. If one hadn't read the books, the movies were fine.
Alan Ritchman was closer but still not what I visualized. To much like someone who works out in a gym for someone who travels around with just a toothbrush.
I had a very clear image of Reacher from the books. Wondering if that's because as a woman immediately view him as a protector. Do me visualize him differently?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (t/2Uw)

166 I was listening on audible to Larry Correia's two Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent novellas.
The ones read by Adam Baldwin are specially awesome.

Weasel, you might appreciate that he has a Combat Wombat weapon.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (6Tzur)

167 Amazon and other e-tail sites have been blamed for the demise of the mall, but roaming gangs of vandals in youthful high spirits surely contributed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris

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Yes. The big one on my side of the river, my first mall, now looks like Mogadishu with T-shirts and cell phone accessory kiosks. The problem with the book about malls I mentioned is that the author brings up the "teens," but completely avoids the identity of the "vandals" involved.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (omVj0)

168 I'd like to echo the gratitude to Perfessor for carrying the torch and to Weasel for stepping in for the relay.

I'm into the final week of the final class in the current sequence. I finished Sonny Magana's _Disruptive Classroom Technologies_ the first week and am nearly finished with J. Valacich's & C. Schneider's _Information Systems Today_. The former was just repackaging buzzwords and not recommended. The latter is pretty general but nonetheless a decent contemporary rundown of, well, information systems at the introductory level (you won't be able to pass A+, CCNA, or any of the major certification exams after reading this).

Happy Sunday, Horde!

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (FDHJL)

169 138 I Am Legend was a creative take on the vampire genre.

Matheson's short stories are worth a look, too. His tale of an army that creates a unit of psychic teenage girls ... dang.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (U08HM)

170 That was
Do men visualize him differently

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (t/2Uw)

171 Do we have to wear pants in the interim?

Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (p4NUW)

172 @141 Has anyone read Ann Cleeve's Shetland mysteries? I grabbed one from the condo share shelf because I needed a paperback to take to the pool. Ion,y read it when I am there so it takes a while. Didn't realize that it was part of a series but is fine as a stand alone but I'm liking it and wondering if I should start at the beginning. Was also made into a TV series. Has anyone seen them?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 09:53 AM (t/2Uw)
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Yes, I watched the first run of the Shetland series. They were very well done and worth the time. Never watched the reboot of the show so don't know what that's like.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (qliBS)

173 Do we have to wear pants in the interim?
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (p4NUW)
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Pants are not required for reading!

Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 10:06 AM (cmI4M)

174 Poe wrote one like that? That sounds like Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," which I have seen explained variously as a supernatural story, a story of madness, and one of patriarchal oppression. Amazing how they could get all of that out of one short story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)

Oh wow, that was over 30 years ago and my memory is starting to get hazy on it. Yeah it was probably that. We were reading a bunch of Poe at the time also so I probably just mixed a bunch of things up in my memory. The post par tum thing was actually from literary analysis, it was never spelled out in the story IIRC.

Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025 10:06 AM (znbnV)

175 Amazon and other e-tail sites have been blamed for the demise of the mall, but roaming gangs of vandals in youthful high spirits surely contributed.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:58 AM (kpS4V)
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Covid policies were far more lethal than any online competition.

All over town, businesses that lasted for decades were crushed. It's crazy how many landmarks disappeared thanks to the lockdowns. I was talking with a friend just yesterday that so many of the tradespeople we used to use closed up shop, and now we have to find new electricians, plumbers, etc, because the ones we had used and trusted are gone.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)

176 Thinking about the Reacher books...
Tom Cruise was a huge disappointment as Reacher. If one hadn't read the books, the movies were fine.
Alan Ritchman was closer but still not what I visualized. To much like someone who works out in a gym for someone who travels around with just a toothbrush.
I had a very clear image of Reacher from the books. Wondering if that's because as a woman immediately view him as a protector. Do me visualize him differently?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025

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I guess men might look at him as a fantasy figure a la Bond: that they would like to be him. The elements I enjoy is that he is unfettered, usually, by bureaucrats and most law enforcement -- usually he is aided by the latter. And he is not simply an ex-military thug, but is intelligent, and reasons from clues and facts much like the classical detective.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:07 AM (omVj0)

177 124 Recently Will Henry published a hardcover collection of all the Sunday "Wallace' comics. "Sunday Funday Wallace: A Treasury of Wallace the Brave Sunday Comics". These are the best comics and make me laugh out loud. The only one better is Calvin and Hobbes. (I have the complete collection of C and H in hardcover as well.) For twenty bucks, it is a gem of delight. His setting is based on my home area which adds to my enjoyment.
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

I've looked at those Wallace books a time or two, but never purchased them. Probably heard about them from this thread. The only newspaper comic/webcomic collection I've bought lately (the past 10 years) has been "Forest Folk," starring a rather Calvin-eque fox and the assorted other forest creatures he annoys with his boisterousness.

I actually don't have the Calvin and Hobbes box set, but only because I still have all the original paperbacks that I bought as a teen!

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 10:07 AM (Lhaco)

178 Do we have to wear pants in the interim?

Posted by: Piper

I am told that in the interregnum, spats and monocles are encouraged, but not required.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 10:07 AM (Vfq+S)

179 Weasel!!!!!
Bringing FUNdamentals to the book thread.
Last book I read was the latest in the Longmire series.
And prior to that I had read Bram Stokers "Dracula".
A good read

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 10, 2025 10:09 AM (vjPnb)

180 Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Qd0+U)

Narcos was good in that it showed how corruption and unchecked crime are symbiotic, how the results of it expand outwards exponentially and how loathsome the people engaged in it on both sides of the 'business' really are.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 10:09 AM (3Ope8)

181 "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a pretty decent psychological horror story, absolutely crippled by the fact that it was written by an early feminist. Nobody ever just reads the damned story. They have to bury it under layers and layers of feminist bullshit.

Radical theory: what if Charlotte Perkins Gilman, for once in her life, wrote something that WASN'T just tendentious feminist jabber? What if she actually wrote a good story, just for the sake of writing one?

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 10:09 AM (78a2H)

182 >>Thinking about the Reacher books...
Tom Cruise was a huge disappointment as Reacher. If one hadn't read the books, the movies were fine.

Reacher is 6'5" and a unit.

It's hard to act that large when you are 5 foot and change. I like Cruise as an actor but Jack Reacher he is not.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 10:11 AM (viF8m)

183 Do we have to wear pants in the interim?

Since it's Weasel, I'm going to say overalls are probably acceptable. What you wear under them is your business.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:11 AM (q3dQV)

184 For the record, I've paused reading Our Man in Havana because the week was just crazy. Maybe get to it this afternoon.

The big writing news is that school starts in 10 days, which means the grandkids will be in bed early, and that will finally give me quiet time to brainstorm and do research/story prep. I'm very much looking forward to it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)

185 Poe wrote one like that? That sounds like Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," which I have seen explained variously as a supernatural story, a story of madness, and one of patriarchal oppression. Amazing how they could get all of that out of one short story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)

Oh wow, that was over 30 years ago and my memory is starting to get hazy on it. Yeah it was probably that. We were reading a bunch of Poe at the time also so I probably just mixed a bunch of things up in my memory. The post par tum thing was actually from literary analysis, it was never spelled out in the story IIRC.
Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025

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Right; that sounds like "Yellow Wallpaper." She was apparently a big-time feminist, so I have no interest in reading more of her stuff, but "YW" is a good portrait of schizophrenia at the least.

I thought her story collection was called Ivy Gripped the Steps, a wonderful title, but that was by someone called Elizabeth Bowen, the 'Net tells me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (omVj0)

186 A question for the gun experts: in old pictures you often see people holding guns the way Sergeant Dick is depicted on the book cover. Elbows bent, one-hand grip, sighting along the barrel with the pistol fairly close to the face. Was that a thing? Did people actually do that? When were the modern pistol grip and stance developed?

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (78a2H)

187 I though about taking a look at "Narcos" but decided not to, for the reason you just mentioned. Not into bloody mess for bloody mess's sake.
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Qd0+U)

I didn't find the violence gratuitous. I saw it as a very realistic portrayal of the South American drug business. The drug business is an extremely bloody affair.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (g8Ew8)

188 I should note that my prolonged absence from the Gun Thread is because Sunday is a bath night.

My wife and I did not expect to be putting a second generation of kids through preschool and kindergarten, but here we are.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)

189 Sergeant Dick of the Royal Mounted Police

I'm waiting for the sequel where he gets promoted to Major.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 10, 2025 10:13 AM (/HDaX)

190 Have been reading Dashiell Hammett works. Stumbled upon The Continental OP. 28 short stories and two novels. Think they led the way into other works like The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.

Posted by: Get off my lawn at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (nnmm5)

191 Another short week of reading, this week because of out of state visitors rather than non=stop music. Oh well, with only a couple of posthumously published stories to go I will claim credit for finishing the Library of America's Malamud's Novels and Stories of the 1940s and 50s. These are all excellent and he deserves more fame than he has gotten.

Posted by: who knew at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (+ViXu)

192 "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a pretty decent psychological horror story, absolutely crippled by the fact that it was written by an early feminist. Nobody ever just reads the damned story. They have to bury it under layers and layers of feminist bullshit.

Radical theory: what if Charlotte Perkins Gilman, for once in her life, wrote something that WASN'T just tendentious feminist jabber? What if she actually wrote a good story, just for the sake of writing one?
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025

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Gee, I first read it at age twelve and found it haunting and creepy. The other layers of jabber I read about many many years later. The "mental illness" interpretation I discovered in a book on schizophrenia, and that works too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (omVj0)

193 189

"Major Dick"?

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (Qd0+U)

194 Hello all, I'm still reading The Harvard Classics and Fiction on my Kindle, and probably will be for the remainder of my life. I'm almost done with Volume 1, having finished the Treatises and Letters of Cicero and Pliny, and now reading The Wealth of Nations.

I hope all this reading is helping me to get edumacated. Unfortunately, I haven't read any Civil War or WW2 history so far, so don't have anything to talk about here on AOS. You all have a nice morning.

Posted by: Pod Hamp at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (91+Ul)

195 Pants are not required for reading!
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 10:06 AM (cmI4M)
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This guy gets it!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (kpS4V)

196 Reading related:
There is a YT channel I've been enjoying lately. Dr. Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry. He is a youngish (mid-thirties) Harvard PHD. Clearly, he has risen above that handicap and does an excellent job explaining the characteristics that make poetry such a rich resource for enjoyment and edification. I especially like the way he traces the pathways that poetry has followed over the centuries, both in meaning then and now and how certain poems have influenced later poets.

He has me reading Wordworth's Tintern Abbey at the moment, which is turning out to be a little jewel.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (yTvNw)

197 149 Micah dalton series by david stone is kind off a hard boiled spy with detective elements hes officially a cleaner tdyed from special forces operating from.a bar in venice when one of his mentors ends up dead
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:56 AM (bXbFr)

Looks like something I'd enjoy. Not available on library's ebooks, darn it. Will have to put the hard copy on hold when I remember, but I already have a couple of 87th Precinct selections on reserve.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (h7ZuX)

198 Wolfus, your take is almost exactly like mine. I see him as strong, but no thug because he is ethical in his pursuit of Justice. Really smart as he goes about solving the crime/mystery using his background as an MP. Really sexy, a protector but also values the women who help him. And there is always a woman.
The reason I don't like the last few books written with Andrew Child is because he does become a thug. He loses the "ethical" part in his taking out the bad guys.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (t/2Uw)

199 117 and in Baltimore, it went downhill after that

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 10:16 AM (+qU29)

200 Yes, and I avoid it by staying away from the horror/disaster genre entirely. Looking at TV/movies I see plenty of examples where the stakes are always global annihilation, massive CGI effects make the scale ludicrously big, and I completely lose interest.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

While I also avoid horror or disaster movies, I will admit to enjoying big fate-of-the-world action movies. Provided they are done right, and treat the threat with the severity it deserves. This tends to be done best in stand-alone stories, or in epic fantasy. I also prefer the stories where the day is saved, with relatively little collateral damage along the way. (bonus points if the collateral damage actually affects the story or the characters.)

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 10:16 AM (Lhaco)

201 Have been reading Dashiell Hammett works. Stumbled upon The Continental OP. 28 short stories and two novels. Think they led the way into other works like The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.
Posted by: Get off my lawn at August 10, 2025

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They did. Hammett had been a real private detective for Pinkertons, and so his stories -- when he was invalided out with TB and earned a living by selling to Black Mask -- had an authenticity most of the other pulp writers couldn't match.

"You've been thinking I'm a man and you're a woman," the Continental Op tells a woman criminal. "That's wrong. I'm a hunter and you're just something that's been running in front of me."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:16 AM (omVj0)

202 Elbows bent, one-hand grip, sighting along the barrel with the pistol fairly close to the face. Was that a thing?

Now that you mention it, the vertical position is kind of weird. Not high enough to actually be "sighting" and now waist or belly height like you would see with what is called "point shooting." For the latter, bingle pictures of Elmer Keith.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (YLICC)

203 I would definitely recommend Narcos, and Narcos Mexico. Despite the violence. Wagner Mora did a fantastic job playing Escobar.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (XvL8K)

204 186 A question for the gun experts: in old pictures you often see people holding guns the way Sergeant Dick is depicted on the book cover. Elbows bent, one-hand grip, sighting along the barrel with the pistol fairly close to the face. Was that a thing? Did people actually do that? When were the modern pistol grip and stance developed?
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (78a2H)
You actually had to shoot the revolver in a throwing motion like the atlatl.

Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (DXbAa)

205 Was that a thing? Did people actually do that? When were the modern pistol grip and stance developed?
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (78a2H)
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Handguns in military service were originally reserved for cavalry or officers, and were therefore paired with swords. That meant only using one hand, and this was reflected in training. The swords went away, but the one-hand technique remained because you still need that spare hand on the reins.

You start seeing more "modern" techniques after WW II.

Point-shooting was very popular because it is instinctive and fast. Vintage guns often had very rudimentary sights for this reason.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

206 s/now/not/

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:18 AM (YLICC)

207 Along with Streaking, there was another collage youth phenom called "Hanging", where you would yell out someone's name in a relatively crowded area and then hide or turn away from the person having them respond by looking around bewildered for whoever called them.

Yes it was kinda juvenile, I think that was part of the point.

Anyway...we had this intolerable doofus named David Dick at school.

Partly due to his realizing he was being targeted he tended to over react with a hissy fit once he realized he was being pranked resulting in many instances of...

>>>DICK!!!!!

...being yelled out in the student union and elsewhere.

Posted by: pawn at August 10, 2025 10:18 AM (EITcu)

208 Wyeth illustrations are a must.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes

,,

Eris, have you seen the originals in the Brandywine Museum?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:19 AM (6Tzur)

209 Wolfus, your take is almost exactly like mine. I see him as strong, but no thug because he is ethical in his pursuit of Justice. Really smart as he goes about solving the crime/mystery using his background as an MP. Really sexy, a protector but also values the women who help him. And there is always a woman.
The reason I don't like the last few books written with Andrew Child is because he does become a thug. He loses the "ethical" part in his taking out the bad guys.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025

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I haven't got to those later ones yet. To this point -- and I'm trying to read the books in order -- JR has been dealing with villains who are really horrible people, multiple murderers or human traffickers, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:19 AM (omVj0)

210 Haven't read "The Yellow Wallpaper" in decades, and somehow managed to miss any classes which "taught" the story so never got it slathered with the correct and proper means of interpretation.

As I recall, good story. Simply as story.

Sometimes I wonder if one of the harder things about teaching literature over the past decades is finding something that might appeal to the class enough that they'll read it, and then finding a way to "teach" it so as to justify your job. If it kills off the students' enjoyment of the story, well, that's just a price we have to pay for education, now, ain't it?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 10:19 AM (q3u5l)

211 Now that you mention it, the vertical position is kind of weird. Not high enough to actually be "sighting" and now waist or belly height like you would see with what is called "point shooting." For the latter, bingle pictures of Elmer Keith.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (YLICC)
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Lucky Gunner's Youtube has a video on how the FBI adopted the shoot from the crouch because it was supposedly faster and they got some savant trick-shooter to teach it.

Like most of things involving the FBI, it was all bunk. Most people can't shoot well using that technique.

I hear a new book is coming out about Sykes and Fairbairn, who were all about the point shooting (and carrying with the chamber empty!).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)

212 80 Missus Muldoon and I are currently working our way through an oral reading of the OT book of Jeremiah,

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spoiler alert!
He was a bullfrog

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:22 AM (6Tzur)

213 I finished Hotel Ukraine by Martin Cruz Smith, presumably the last of the Arkady Renko novel given the author's death. It's a worthy addition to the series.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

214 I must be on my way. Family reunion potluck awaits. Have a lovely day, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 10:22 AM (h7ZuX)

215 210 Haven't read "The Yellow Wallpaper" in decades, and somehow managed to miss any classes which "taught" the story so never got it slathered with the correct and proper means of interpretation.

As I recall, good story. Simply as story.

Sometimes I wonder if one of the harder things about teaching literature over the past decades is finding something that might appeal to the class enough that they'll read it, and then finding a way to "teach" it so as to justify your job. If it kills off the students' enjoyment of the story, well, that's just a price we have to pay for education, now, ain't it?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025

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If by some miracle I found myself teaching English lit, "reading," to a bunch of bright high-schoolers, I'd require Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck, Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford, and Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Or maybe some of her short stories, aside from "The Lottery," which has been over-scrutinized.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:23 AM (omVj0)

216 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (XvL8K)

Concur. Both of those series were outstanding. My only point was that I could only watch it once.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 10:23 AM (3Ope8)

217 I would definitely recommend Narcos, and Narcos Mexico. Despite the violence. Wagner Mora did a fantastic job playing Escobar.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (XvL8K)

Yes he did. The whole series is very well produced and acted. And I actually think they restrained the story a lot by not showing how bloody and violent the drug trade really is.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 10:23 AM (g8Ew8)

218 I'm reading "Watership Down". It had sat on the TBR pile for a long time. I want to thank the Horde for recommending it. Right now I'm reading about a seagull that seems to be German? Very engaging.

Posted by: Norrin Radd at August 10, 2025 10:24 AM (tRYqg)

219 Still working through David S. Brown's history of pre-Civil War conflict and compromise, "A Hell of a Storm". Highly recommended. I like the way he relates the times through the eyes of contemporaries and how they evolved their stances as events unfolded.

"This filthy enactment was made in the 19th Century, by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, reacting to the Fugitive Slave Law, 1851

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:25 AM (kpS4V)

220 When were the modern pistol grip and stance developed?

The Weaver Stance was introduced by Jack Weaver during competition shoots involving Jeff Cooper in the 50s. Before that, aimed fire was one-handed with the arm straight out. You can find pictures of military training using that stance and it is still used for NRA Bullseye competition.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:25 AM (UDp5/)

221 Wolfus, yes, he beats people up but he doesn't actually kill anyone. He doesn't carry a gun. There is a scene whe he is confronting 4 thugs. He tells them he is going to put 3 of them out of commission. The 4th guy says,why not me? Reeacher says you have to drive them to the hospital.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:26 AM (t/2Uw)

222 I read every Jack Reacher book up until his libtard brother took over as writer of the series.

I always pictured Reacher as a younger Liam Neeson.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 10, 2025 10:27 AM (Y1sOo)

223 22o

"Before that, aimed fire was one-handed with the arm straight out"

heh. My dad shot like that.

Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:27 AM (Qd0+U)

224 spoiler alert!
He was a bullfrog
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:22 AM

And he expected people to help him drink his whine.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 10:28 AM (0sNs1)

225 My youngest boy has been to Medellin several times to visit friends. The evolution from what it was during the reign of the cartels to what it is today is nothing short of astounding. The cost of that transition in suffering and lives needs to be taken into account and considered when we look at what has transpired over the last few years under the previous administration and how to correct for it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 10:28 AM (3Ope8)

226 I just finished rereading Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. It's one of her Oxford historian time travel stories, and it's an interesting mix of genres - comedy, mystery, and romance (light on the romance, but it's there). It's hard to describe but definitely recommended.

Connie Willis also wrote one of my all-time favorite short stories, an interpretation of Emily Dickinson's poetry as if War of the Worlds were true. It is one of the funniest damn things I have ever read.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 10, 2025 10:29 AM (Y+AMd)

227 Spotted Dick

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 10:29 AM (FOGs2)

228 I hear a new book is coming out about Sykes and Fairbairn, who were all about the point shooting (and carrying with the chamber empty!).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)

IIRC, Sykes and Fairbairn developed their training for the Hong Kong Police, well before WWII. I bet having to deal with the Chinese recruits influenced what they thought was correct procedure.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 10:29 AM (vOjEn)

229 Eris, have you seen the originals in the Brandywine Museum?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:19 AM (6Tzur)
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No, alas, and I meant to all those years out east. If there's one thing I've learned from the Barnes Exhibit and other shows, it's that book reproductions just can't capture the magnificence of the original painting.

Seeing the glowing vermillion and retina-melting chartreuse of a real Van Gogh is mind-blowing.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:29 AM (kpS4V)

230 You actually had to shoot the revolver in a throwing motion like the atlatl.
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (DXbAa)

You see that a lot in '30s oaters. I call it "throwing the gun."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:30 AM (0eaVi)

231 Spotted Dick
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He's in the bushes!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:30 AM (kpS4V)

232 230 You actually had to shoot the revolver in a throwing motion like the atlatl.
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (DXbAa)

You see that a lot in '30s oaters. I call it "throwing the gun."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:30 AM (0eaVi)

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When you think about it, throwing the emptied revolver does give you one more effective round.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 10, 2025 10:31 AM (dDmld)

233 I'm reading "Watership Down". It had sat on the TBR pile for a long time. I want to thank the Horde for recommending it. Right now I'm reading about a seagull that seems to be German? Very engaging.
Posted by: Norrin Radd at August 10, 2025

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It's a little slow at first -- until you hit the exploration of rabbit abnormal psychology!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:31 AM (omVj0)

234 Sharon, I have seen a number of the Shetland series on TV. Best if seen from the beginning. Libarary carried many of the DVDs. Also carried on WETA a while back.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 10, 2025 10:32 AM (yTvNw)

235 >>"This filthy enactment was made in the 19th Century, by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, reacting to the Fugitive Slave Law, 1851

Emerson is one of the most overlooked people this country has ever produced.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 10:32 AM (viF8m)

236 Just Some Guy said "Gothic?

It's a paperback novel showing an attractive young lady in a not-quite-sheer-enough nightgown coming toward the reader across the dark moor; in the background is an ominous-looking castle with a light in one tower window.

Everyone knows that..."

That's it! No more needs to be said.

Posted by: who knew at August 10, 2025 10:33 AM (+ViXu)

237 Was watching a video on YT of a bookseller in Oxford England and he had been sent a box of Tolkien library books.

Not JRR per se but books from his son Michael and Michael's daughter Judith. And the books were quite knackered which meant they all were definitely read to pieces in some cases.

All the Mowgli Stories from 1936 that was a gift from one of JRR Tolkien's associates. An illustrated large format hardcover of Robin Hood. In the 1950s a copy of The Children of Odin entered his collection. On more modern fare, a book of poetry Michael gifted to his daughter Judith is thoroughly annotated by her.

I found it very fascinating and charming, of books spanning the generations of a family and linking that family.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 10:34 AM (Ui59G)

238 You actually had to shoot the revolver in a throwing motion like the atlatl.
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (DXbAa)
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You see that a lot in '30s oaters. I call it "throwing the gun."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025

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Robert Vaughn, later, was no gun aficionado. He often fired the U.N.C.L.E. gun with its blanks in just that fashion. Visually, dramatically, it worked, unless you know better.

David McCallum had been in the British army and knew a bit more about guns. I don't think he usually fired the handguns that way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:34 AM (omVj0)

239 Thanks for posting at ALH, A.H.

But, what is this new book, "Long Live Men?"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:34 AM (0eaVi)

240 Speaking of Sykes and Fairbairn, one of the books that my father had as a teenager, which my daughter inherited was a WWII-era self-defense manual called "Get Tough". A collection of the dirtiest fighting tricks known to human-kind. My next-younger brother and I studied that book, and practiced mock-fighting with some of them - most usually in the water, which slowed down movements so that we didn't cripple each other.
One of the strategies that Dad taught us as children was how to break a hold by a larger person on your arm or wrist - levering your arm against the grippers' thumb, which was the weakest part of the grip.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at August 10, 2025 10:36 AM (Ew3fm)

241 I always thought the seagull in Watership Down was a Swede who had been too long at sea. Alone.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 10:36 AM (Ui59G)

242 Watership Down is excellent. I enjoyed reading it earlier this year. I never would have done that without the strong recommendations from the Horde.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 10, 2025 10:37 AM (1O6D8)

243 Wolfus, yes, he beats people up but he doesn't actually kill anyone. He doesn't carry a gun. There is a scene whe he is confronting 4 thugs. He tells them he is going to put 3 of them out of commission. The 4th guy says,why not me? Reeacher says you have to drive them to the hospital.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025

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I can imagine Rory Calhoun saying that.

Reacher does kill during the course of the books I've read, sometimes with a gun, sometimes with his bare hands. But the recipients of those attentions have been major-league evil people.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:37 AM (omVj0)

244
"Southern" Gothic is stuff like Faulkner's Sanctuary (though I couldn't finish the book, it's supposed to be squarely in the SG tradition), and things like Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, and that novel The Beguiled (movie with Clint Eastwood long ago).
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Flannery O'connor, Harper Lee.

I've never spoken with anyone else who has read all of Erskine Caldwell.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 10:38 AM (XeU6L)

245 I always thought the seagull in Watership Down was a Swede who had been too long at sea. Alone.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025

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"Must go to Peeg Vater!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:38 AM (omVj0)

246 "Throwing the gun" is an exaggeration of a technique developed for single action percussion revolvers. You would lift the muzzle of the gun until it was vertical, while cocking the hammer. This would hopefully allow a loose percussion cap to fall off the cylinder and avoid jamming the pistol.

This carried over into the cartridge era, long after the need for it had gone away.

Next, why gangbangers hold their pistols sideways...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 10:39 AM (vOjEn)

247 >>The reason I don't like the last few books written with Andrew Child is because he does become a thug. He loses the "ethical" part in his taking out the bad guys.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025\

I loved the first several Reacher books, then it became obvious he was just writing them for the money and the quality declined.

Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 10:40 AM (98kQX)

248 Every once in a while I go back to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. His concept of virtue consisting of true and sincere effort, no matter the subject or activity, which is a value to the individual and society (I'm hugely simplifying this) is inspiring. It is easy to see how he was so influential to later centuries as his concepts meld so well with the idea that people's actions should reflect to the glory of Christ. The farmer producing the best crops, the builder making structures that are beautiful and strong, the politician (this one hurts due to absence) who uses rhetoric to communicate clearly and effectively and to reflect truth, the ruler who works for the betterment of the people and society. Whatever the current reality, the foundation is still something to aspire to.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 10:41 AM (yTvNw)

249 Spotted Dick
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He's in the bushes!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:30 AM (kpS4V)

I am not!

Posted by: Pinto at August 10, 2025 10:41 AM (0eaVi)

250 I've begun Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt, a history of the Taiping Rebellion. The Taiping Rebellion is perhaps best known to American audiences because of Ken Burns' The Civil War in which he introduces each year by referencing the death toll of the Rebellion compared to our own blood letting. Some estimates of the Rebellion casualties are as high as 20,000,000 deaths. The Rebellion began, in part, by a Chin revolt against their Manchu masters but, in fact, was an allegedly Christian movement lead by a failed bureaucrat who interpreted his dreams as messages from God.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 10:41 AM (L/fGl)

251 I re-read the Manning Coles Tommy Hambledon detective/spy novel Non-negotiable. Tommy is in 1947 Belgium trying to trace down the source of convincing counterfeit banknotes that threaten the re-emerging Western economies. In following a possible lead, he witnesses a back ally murder, is helped by a voluable pair of women, is rescued by the Sureté, finds his mark, is kidnapped in turn by a courteous pair of street thugs, and is rescued by a wild raid by the Belgian police, wrapping up the counterfeiting ring, and identifying the source of the bad paper as the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, then in the Soviet sector of Germany, and under the control of the Russian army.

Tommy always has the clever humor and the willingness to take people as they are no matter how silly they get, as opposed to Ian Flemming's open distaste of "foreigners acting British"
Hambledon books cover from WWI to the Cold War, and is more Harry Palmer than James Bond, and the benefit is that Coles could write the most amazing prose when it was appropriate, and write clear open action when it was needed.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 10:41 AM (rbvCR)

252 On impulse picked up a copy of 'The Cider House Rules' for $.50

Having seen references to it over the years, figured I would give it a go. The jury is still out, as I'm only about 75 pages in.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 10:42 AM (XeU6L)

253 When you think about it, throwing the emptied revolver does give you one more effective round.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 10, 2025 10:31 AM (dDmld)

They never learn.

Posted by: Superman at August 10, 2025 10:42 AM (0eaVi)

254 Flannery O'connor, Harper Lee.

I've never spoken with anyone else who has read all of Erskine Caldwell.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025

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O'Connor, yes, though I've read little of her work. Harper Lee? Mockingbird doesn't seem to be Gothic at all.

As for Caldwell, I've only read TR and GLA and a few of his short stories. The two novels are . . . disturbing, as if one were to cross Beverly Hillbillies, minus the humor, with incest-laden characters from Faulkner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:43 AM (omVj0)

255 I just looked up the Shetland series and seems they are available and people loved it. I started watching a British crime drama last night called Professor T about a Professor of Criminology who is called on to help solve crimes by a group of detectives. Hmmm. Kind of a British thing.
Might have to subscribe to Britbox.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:45 AM (t/2Uw)

256 My twin brother was 6'6". He was a junior in college before he had actual shoes for football instead of sneakers because they had to be custom-made. He couldn't be a pilot, because his height was in his trunk and not his legs and the ejection seats wouldn't function. When he approached a doorway he tucked his head to the side automatically--he was so used to having to do so!

Most of all, anybody writing about a man that big should know that much of the day is food-oriented! Am I near food? How far is it? etc.

Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025 10:45 AM (/MyY+)

257 Robert Vaughn, later, was no gun aficionado. He often fired the U.N.C.L.E. gun with its blanks in just that fashion. Visually, dramatically, it worked, unless you know better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:34 AM (omVj0)

That's probably why it was done. I never tried shooting that way. If I ever get out to the desert again, maybe I'll try it. It doesn't seem it would be too accurate, though.

Posted by: Superman at August 10, 2025 10:45 AM (0eaVi)

258 Tommy always has the clever humor and the willingness to take people as they are no matter how silly they get, as opposed to Ian Flemming's open distaste of "foreigners acting British"
Hambledon books cover from WWI to the Cold War, and is more Harry Palmer than James Bond, and the benefit is that Coles could write the most amazing prose when it was appropriate, and write clear open action when it was needed.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025

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The few Hambledons I've read have been loads of fun. In the U.N.C.L.E. tie-in novel The Rainbow Affair, in which David McDaniel has Solo and Illya encounter most of the famous fictional British detectives and heroes (all unnamed), there is a scene with a British Intelligence officer who might well be Tommy Hanbledon. He tells a woman agent who is clearly Emma Peel, "Leave Mr. Solo alone, you little minx." That is not a LeCarre kind of spy character at all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:46 AM (omVj0)

259 ***
O'Connor, yes, though I've read little of her work. Harper Lee? Mockingbird doesn't seem to be Gothic at all.
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The one line from O'connor's 'Wise blood' that I recall is:

Hazel:
No man with a good car needs to be justified!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 10:46 AM (XeU6L)

260 Every once in a while I go back to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. His concept of virtue consisting of true and sincere effort, no matter the subject or activity.

Try your best is still a decent philosophy.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 10:47 AM (n4GiU)

261 Come to think of it, McDaniel in Rainbow Affair references another Hambledon novel by referring to an explosive that presents a green flash when it detonates, "Ulsenite." That was the McGuffin in one of the WWII Hambledon stories.

Tommy, in his irreverent way, refers to the explosive as "Poppo."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:48 AM (omVj0)

262 I loved the first several Reacher books, then it became obvious he was just writing them for the money and the quality declined.
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 10:40 AM (98kQX)

Writing for money?! Heaven forfend!

(looks at pile of unsold stories)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:48 AM (0eaVi)

263 Shetland on Britbox was quite good until the actor playing the lead investigator, Perez, left the show.

After that it went all girl boss and I quit it.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 10, 2025 10:48 AM (Y1sOo)

264 Writing for money?! Heaven forfend!

"Gimme all the money!!" - Simon Tolkien. barrister and erstwhile writer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 10:49 AM (Ui59G)

265 Most of all, anybody writing about a man that big should know that much of the day is food-oriented! Am I near food? How far is it? etc.
Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025

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Child often has Reacher fueling up at diners, and tanking up on coffee. He's not much of a drinker and we're told he quit cigarettes long ago, so food is a big thing for him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:50 AM (omVj0)

266 Come to class next week prepared to discuss reading 'n stuff,

What!!??
Homework!!???
Sheesh.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 10:50 AM (2WIwB)

267 Throwing the gun" is an exaggeration of a technique developed for single action percussion revolvers. You would lift the muzzle of the gun until it was vertical, while cocking the hammer. This would hopefully allow a loose percussion cap to fall off the cylinder and avoid jamming the pistol.

This carried over into the cartridge era, long after the need for it had gone away. . . .

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025

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Donald Hamilton, a gun aficionado, has Matt Helm tell us this in one novel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:52 AM (omVj0)

268 I just re-read The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield . Damn what a great book if you’re interested in golf and the mentally side of a western civilization fighter/soldier .

Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 10:52 AM (VofaG)

269 "Heavy Weather" by Bruce Sterling. Great story, interesting characters and locations. Have read this one dozens of times in the last 10 or even 15 years. Most recommended.
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:45 AM (Qd0+U)

I liked his Schismatrix and Islands in the Net, both are worldbuilding on the results of decentralization of authority and society in a world coming to terms with new technologies and how that shifts power structures. I started another of his books, and didn''t finish it, and I don't remember why.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 10:53 AM (rbvCR)

270 A Matt Helm reference! The Book Thread is complete!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 10:53 AM (vOjEn)

271 Haven't checked, but isn't Lee Child a pretty good-sized fella himself? In the story, I don't imagine he'd devote a ton of wordage to fueling issues, but the frequent use of scenes in diners suggests he's aware of that.

Seem to recall Robert B. Parker having fairly frequent food-related moments in the Spenser books, and Parker was a pretty good-sized guy too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 10:54 AM (q3u5l)

272 The Legend of Bagger Face.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 10:54 AM (FOGs2)

273 The Godfather was a movie about food.

Prove me wrong !

Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)

274 They never learn.
Posted by: Superman

The snubbie bouncing off George Reeve's chest instantly popped to mind.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 10:55 AM (n4GiU)

275 The Godfather was a movie about food.

Prove me wrong !

Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)

And Die Hard is a Christmas movie!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 10:56 AM (vOjEn)

276 I've been watching "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. It's based on Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales novels. Nearing the end of season 5. All in all a very good series. It captures the primitive violence of the age well. Many plot and character changes from the novels as I remember them though. The actor playing Uhtred has grown on me. Loved the portrayal of Alfred.

Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 10:56 AM (lJ0H4)

277 How in the holy hell did it get to be mid-August?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 10:58 AM (vm8sq)

278 Every once in a while I go back to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. His concept of virtue consisting of true and sincere effort, no matter the subject or activity, which is a value to the individual and society (I'm hugely simplifying this) is inspiring. It is easy to see how he was so influential to later centuries as his concepts meld so well with the idea that people's actions should reflect to the glory of Christ. The farmer producing the best crops, the builder making structures that are beautiful and strong, the politician (this one hurts due to absence) who uses rhetoric to communicate clearly and effectively and to reflect truth, the ruler who works for the betterment of the people and society. Whatever the current reality, the foundation is still something to aspire to.
Posted by: JTB
I have never read this but remember taking an ethics course in HS. This is why I am enrsged by Islamic teaching and the support of the terrorist regimes dominating the ME. They have perverted every ethical concept and done nothing to promote societal good. They have contributed nothing to science or the arts or any form of higher learning.
Your post sums up why they are the scum of the earth

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:59 AM (t/2Uw)

279 I’ve been watching all the Jesse Stone shows. I never read Parker’s books. Is the TV version fairly close ?

Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 10:59 AM (VofaG)

280 Has anyone read Ann Cleeve's Shetland mysteries? I grabbed one from the condo share shelf because I needed a paperback to take to the pool. Ion,y read it when I am there so it takes a while. Didn't realize that it was part of a series but is fine as a stand alone but I'm liking it and wondering if I should start at the beginning. Was also made into a TV series. Has anyone seen them?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 09:53 AM (t/2Uw)

Yes. Great reading although at times a bit...detailed.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 10:59 AM (2WIwB)

281 Sergeant Dick looks bewitched.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (63Dwl)

282 I've been watching "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. It's based on Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales novels. Nearing the end of season 5. All in all a very good series. It captures the primitive violence of the age well. Many plot and character changes from the novels as I remember them though. The actor playing Uhtred has grown on me. Loved the portrayal of Alfred.
Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025

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I think I read the first one, or maybe two, of those. Yes, the TV adaptation was very well cast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (omVj0)

283 Miss printed catalogs. Online ain't the same.

Heard many years ago a motorcycle accessory catalog grew so expensive to print, the printing company just bought the accessory company.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (XEI9S)

284 The Last K___dom is great.
Highly recommended.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (t/2Uw)

285 For every Dick there is a Snidley Whiplash.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 11:01 AM (2WIwB)

286 Please excuse any errors due to my insane autocorrect.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:01 AM (t/2Uw)

287 How in the holy hell did it get to be mid-August?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 10:58 AM (vm8sq)

One of the few benefits of being an adult is not having to face the end of summer and the return to school.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 11:01 AM (vOjEn)

288 Off to Mass! Thanks, Weasel!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (ZOv7s)

289 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere: I read that Jupiter short story a hundred years ago and loved it. It has stuck with me ever since and I describe it's plot to someone at least once a year. I had forgotten he takes his dog with him.

Posted by: who knew at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (+ViXu)

290 Been some years since I watched the Jesse Stone movies or read the books, but if memory serves they're fairly faithful to the novels. The movies didn't come out in the same sequence as the books, so they played around a little with some of the events but on the whole they weren't bad. And I think Selleck was ideal casting for the part.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (q3u5l)

291 BTW, Manning Coles was two writers, Adelaide Manning, I think, who worked in intelligence during WWII. I forget Coles first name--he was male, and fought in the war. So they had the background for both skullduggery and action.

Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (/MyY+)

292 Has your autocorrect been sacked?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (Ui59G)

293 The Last Kingdom is excellent binge-watching.

Some bloody gore during the fight scenes which doesn’t bother me as it may others.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (Y1sOo)

294 I’ve been watching all the Jesse Stone shows. I never read Parker’s books. Is the TV version fairly close ?
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025

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Yes. Oh, Jesse is described at the start of the series of novels as much younger than Tom Selleck when he began playing the role; and I think some of the later TV-movies were originals and not based on a Parker novel. But Selleck is perfect and has made the role his own. The TV films use dialog from the books, and when you read them later you can hear Selleck's voice delivering the lines.

Robert B. Parker's early Spenser novels, the Jesse Stones, the Sunny Randalls (all in the same Boston-based universe), and his Westerns like Appaloosa are all in the hard-boiled, spare-language mode, and are terrific reads.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:04 AM (omVj0)

295 >>My twin brother was 6'6". He was a junior in college before he had actual shoes for football instead of sneakers because they had to be custom-made. He couldn't be a pilot, because his height was in his trunk and not his legs and the ejection seats wouldn't function. When he approached a doorway he tucked his head to the side automatically--he was so used to having to do so!

One of my best friends in high school was 6'2" as a sophomore and still growing. He was also strong as an ox. Starting left tackle as soon as he was eligible because nobody could deal with that. He was also very smart.

Large people make their presence known just by walking into the room. You can't act big.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:04 AM (viF8m)

296 Have been reading Dashiell Hammett works. Stumbled upon The Continental OP. 28 short stories and two novels. Think they led the way into other works like The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.
Posted by: Get off my lawn at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (nnmm5)

a fair number of his short stories did not get into anthologies, so if you read through what is put out in books, and you want more, try looking up archives of Black Mask Magazine, to dig out a few more of his works.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 11:04 AM (rbvCR)

297 And re: the Jesse Stone movies.

The last two or three were originals for television, I think, and not based on Parker's novels. If you're looking only for adaptations from Parker, double-check the titles.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (q3u5l)

298 Please excuse any errors due to my insane autocorrect.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:01 AM (t/2Uw)

Perhaps you misspelled Kingdom with the dread i-m-g.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (vOjEn)

299 Polynikes, I liked Parker's Spenser books better than Jesse Stone series. Too much dialog and not enough action. I am currently on book 37 so that's how much better I liked them.
Also his Western series is terrific and the first book was made into a great movie.
I did really like the Jesse Stone movies however and wish theee were more of them.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (t/2Uw)

300 DICK!!!!!!!

Posted by: pawn at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (EITcu)

301 Pick one, and then explain why it's more moral than the others.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

You will dish out pain. Do you want the pain spread out and drawn out? Or, do you want it hyper concentrated in one place, or two, and gotten over it more quickly? That’s how I always framed it.

Better to have hyper concentrated doses of pain in Hiroshima and Nagasaki than just dragging out things for years.

War IS hell, a fact too many do not want to accept.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (vm8sq)

302 Some bloody gore during the fight scenes which doesn’t bother me as it may others.
Posted by: one hour sober

"Some bloody gore" is an understatement. Doesn't bother me in the least. Life was tough in the early Middle Ages and the show does an excellent job of portraying it.

Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 11:07 AM (lJ0H4)

303 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere: I read that Jupiter short story a hundred years ago and loved it. It has stuck with me ever since and I describe it's plot to someone at least once a year. I had forgotten he takes his dog with him.
Posted by: who knew at August 10, 2025

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I love a line like that, when what is said implies something much more, but is not obscure.

There is one in David McDaniel's Dagger Affair. Thrush and U.N.C.L.E. have agreed to a truce to fight a common enemy, and Mr. Waverly says he will send his best two agents, Solo and Illya, to CA. Then he adds, "I think we will be sending a third party."

"Separate accommodations?" asks the Thrush.

"Not at all," says Waverly. "I plan to work in the same conditions my men do."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:07 AM (omVj0)

304 BTW, Manning Coles was two writers, Adelaide Manning, I think, who worked in intelligence during WWII. I forget Coles first name--he was male, and fought in the war. So they had the background for both skullduggery and action.
Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (/MyY+)

Cyril Henry Coles, who actually was a British agent, who operated behind German lines and other places in both wars, and mastered most European languages.
Much more likable guy than Sidney Reilly by the way

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 11:09 AM (rbvCR)

305 Has your autocorrect been sacked?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025

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Those responsible for the autocorrect being sacked have been sacked.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:09 AM (omVj0)

306 I’ve been saying Musk could add to his billions if he just came up with an autocorrect replacement that actually worked as advertised.

Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 11:11 AM (VofaG)

307 Sergeant Dick looks bewitched.

* golf clap *

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 11:11 AM (scJ96)

308 For the 'Ettes:
The best reason to watch The Last Kingdom is the actor playing Uthred.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:14 AM (t/2Uw)

309 >>Seem to recall Robert B. Parker having fairly frequent food-related moments in the Spenser books, and Parker was a pretty good-sized guy too.

Spenser's condo in the series was in a building right behind mine. When they were filming it was an enormous pain in the ass.

Yea, Urich was a big guy just like the books.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:15 AM (viF8m)

310 The Last Kingdom is awesome. So fascinating that it was inspired by a distant ancestor of the author.

I started rewatching Rome. Still fun, though the explicit sex scenes are cringey, tbh.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 11:16 AM (6Tzur)

311 JackStraw, my twin brother was definitely a protector, too. One of my first memories of him was in kindergarten when he said to a kid hassling me, "You leave her alone or I'll bust your head open with my dump truck!"

Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025 11:16 AM (/MyY+)

312 For the 'Ettes:
The best reason to watch The Last Kingdom is the actor playing Uthred.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:14 AM (t/2Uw)

There's some fine looking women in that series too.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 11:17 AM (g8Ew8)

313 For the 'Ettes:
The best reason to watch The Last Kingdom is the actor playing Uthred.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Yes, he's quite handsome.

Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 11:17 AM (lJ0H4)

314 He has me reading Wordworth's Tintern Abbey at the moment, which is turning out to be a little jewel.
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (yTvNw)
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JTB, you always amaze me. I haven't thought about Tinturn in ages.

Grumble, grumble, off to find a copy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 10, 2025 11:18 AM (WvpwN)

315 Spenser's condo in the series was in a building right behind mine. When they were filming it was an enormous pain in the ass.

Yea, Urich was a big guy just like the books.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025

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To this day I picture Robert Urich as Spenser and Avery Brooks as Hawk. Nobody else comes close. Joe Mantegna has effectively played an older Spenser in a couple of TV-movies, and they have cast Susan Silverman pretty well, but *nobody* has topped Brooks as Hawk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:18 AM (omVj0)

316 Try your best is still a decent philosophy.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 10:47 AM

Liver chopped am I?

Posted by: Yoda at August 10, 2025 11:22 AM (0sNs1)

317 Has your autocorrect been sacked?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Probably AI-driven

Posted by: Bluebbery at August 10, 2025 11:22 AM (XeU6L)

318
"Look, buddy. I'm tired of wearing these stupid pine tree air fresheners all the time to cover this smell.

Just what part didn't you understand about Bog Wife?"

Posted by: The Bog Wife at August 10, 2025 11:23 AM (iJfKG)

319 For the 'Ettes:
The best reason to watch The Last Kingdom is the actor playing Uthred.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:14 AM

The female gaze. It's real.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 11:24 AM (0sNs1)

320 Posted by: Bluebbery
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See what happens?

Posted by: Bluebberry at August 10, 2025 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

321 What is this mockery of the book thread?

Or, will we have a separate writing thread later?

Seriously, thanks for filling in, Weasel.

G'morn, Hordeworld.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and what about grammar? at August 10, 2025 11:24 AM (7W0uI)

322 My picture of Spenser was always the jacket photos of Parker himself. Think he said once in an interview for one of the mystery magazines (Armchair Detective? Dunno. Slept since then) that he wrote Spenser as a much better athlete than himself. Parker wrote the first Sports Illustrated guide to working out with weights, as I recall.

Urich always struck me as a bit young for the part, but otherwise he did a nice job in that series; probably as good as you could hope to get. And yes, NOBODY could beat Avery Brooks as Hawk.

Did kinda like the casting of Mantegna and Ernie Hudson in one or two of the later A&E Spenser movies, though.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:25 AM (q3u5l)

323 >>Writing for money?! Heaven forfend!

(looks at pile of unsold stories)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:48 AM

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but come up with something newish. Looking at CJ Box, Craig Johnson and others, as well. I've read several series in the last few years although I had previously avoided them. The ones that come to mind that did not become overly repetitious were the Aubrey/Maturin, Kinsey Millhone, and Uhtred books. Maybe O'Brian, Grafton, and Cornwell were just better writers than Lee Child.

Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 11:25 AM (98kQX)

324 How in the holy hell did it get to be mid-August?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 10:58 AM

Are you deliberately trying to give Weasel ideas for his Gub Thread intro?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 11:25 AM (0sNs1)

325 Are you deliberately trying to give Weasel ideas for his Gub Thread intro?

Duncanthrax -- check your keyboard; Woody Allen may have gotten to it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:28 AM (q3u5l)

326 My picture of Spenser was always the jacket photos of Parker himself. Think he said once in an interview for one of the mystery magazines (Armchair Detective? Dunno. Slept since then) that he wrote Spenser as a much better athlete than himself. Parker wrote the first Sports Illustrated guide to working out with weights, as I recall.

Urich always struck me as a bit young for the part, but otherwise he did a nice job in that series; probably as good as you could hope to get. And yes, NOBODY could beat Avery Brooks as Hawk.

Did kinda like the casting of Mantegna and Ernie Hudson in one or two of the later A&E Spenser movies, though.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025

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It's time for a solid biography of Parker, for sure. I'd like to know things like you mention, as to how he was inspired to create Spenser. When you find out the elements in his life that inspired an author, it can encourage you to use your own experiences in fiction.

Mantegna and Hudson were playing older versions of the characters too, from a later novel in the series, so they worked okay.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:29 AM (omVj0)

327 Not that there's anything wrong with that, but come up with something newish. Looking at CJ Box, Craig Johnson and others, as well. I've read several series in the last few years although I had previously avoided them. The ones that come to mind that did not become overly repetitious were the Aubrey/Maturin, Kinsey Millhone, and Uhtred books. Maybe O'Brian, Grafton, and Cornwell were just better writers than Lee Child.
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 11:25 AM (98kQX)

Well, I don't really want to write series. Of course, now I have another book from another aspect of a sci-fi novel. My short stories aren't, except for one about a loser named Harry set in the '30s.

I've never liked seeing "book one of twelve of..." kind of stuff.

Anyway, gotta go.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 11:30 AM (0eaVi)

328 "The Last Kingdom" added to my list, thanks!

Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:31 AM (0I+GC)

329 My picture of Spenser was always the jacket photos of Parker himself.

I sort of imagined that Kinsey Milhone would favor Sue Grafton. At least one of the books had her holding a small handgun in the author bio picture to support the idea. Then I saw her talk at a book signing and she said that she hated letting her publicist push her into doing that.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 11:31 AM (Djb69)

330 >>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:18 AM

I went back to the prayer thread yesterday and saw your question about Corrumpa Creek. The sign on the bridge over the usually dry wash says Corrumpa. All the old-timers I knew from that area lived on Carrizozo Creek or the Dry Cimarron.

Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 11:31 AM (98kQX)

331 Urich always struck me as a bit young for the part [of Spenser], but otherwise he did a nice job in that series; probably as good as you could hope to get.

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It amuses me to think that, during his service in Korea, Spenser might have passed through the 4077th M*A*S*H, and met Margaret Houlihan.

Napoleon Solo was in Korea too, so who knows. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:31 AM (omVj0)

332 I went back to the prayer thread yesterday and saw your question about Corrumpa Creek. The sign on the bridge over the usually dry wash says Corrumpa. All the old-timers I knew from that area lived on Carrizozo Creek or the Dry Cimarron.
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025

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Thanks, huerfano. I guess Seton transcribed it the way he heard it, "Currumpaw."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:32 AM (omVj0)

333 If u r looking for Olde Book recommendations, I recall one from my childhood...
Red Streak of the Iroquois - written in 1950 by Arthur C. Parker - a Seneca himself and an anthropologist.

Story of a young male Iroquois growing up in the times before the coming of the Europeans - shows the culture and customs back then - although the young lad may have a bit of Viking ancestry to explain the unusual red streak in his hair that gave him that name.

A good read, fascinating to me at the time.
Not a "woke" work as such - but interesting in that the protagonist was a bit uncaring about the then cultural division betweens male and female work tasks - wanting to learn about how to do both sorts,

Posted by: BobM at August 10, 2025 11:33 AM (y0oi5)

334 >>To this day I picture Robert Urich as Spenser and Avery Brooks as Hawk. Nobody else comes close. Joe Mantegna has effectively played an older Spenser in a couple of TV-movies, and they have cast Susan Silverman pretty well, but *nobody* has topped Brooks as Hawk.

That's why so many books turned into movies fail. Before becoming a private dick Spenser was a heavyweight boxer. Urich looked the part. It's fundamental. If you don't cast the right people nothing is going to work.

Jack Reacher should have been Wenda's brother not Tom Cruise.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)

335 "Lucky Gunner's Youtube has a video on how the FBI adopted the shoot from the crouch because it was supposedly faster and they got some savant trick-shooter to teach it."

The "savant trick-shooter" was 'Jelly' Bryce, a former Oklahoma City LEO and FBI agent. Bryce could shoot very fast and very accurately from his low crouching stance, and so lots of people, including much of the LEO community and the FBI, concluded that LEOs taught his method could do the same. People tend to imitate the successful, and Bryce was a successful shooter in competition and in real life-he reportedly was successful in 19 gunfights as a LEO. Unfortunately, while Bryce's technique was teachable, his incredible hand-eye coordination and quickness was not and so the world mostly moved on, eventually, to other techniques that were not so idiosyncratic and ones where the accuracy was replicable through training and practice.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at August 10, 2025 11:34 AM (yl1YV)

336 Thanxs Weasel for the thread!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 11:35 AM (2WIwB)

337 Flannery O'Connor was grimly gothic and quite outspoken about it.

"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil."

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 10, 2025 11:35 AM (h/ffs)

338 Well, I don't really want to write series. Of course, now I have another book from another aspect of a sci-fi novel. My short stories aren't, except for one about a loser named Harry set in the '30s.

I've never liked seeing "book one of twelve of..." kind of stuff. . . .

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025

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Series weren't usually pushed that way in decades past. The Ellery Queen novels, for instance, were not numbered like that; it was simply "An Ellery Queen Novel" or "A Problem in Deduction."

The advantages to a series: You don't have to build the background or major characters from scratch; and your readers can become very attached to your heroes or other characters. (Which last can be a drawback too.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:36 AM (omVj0)

339 I think Parker did his PhD dissertation on writers like Cooper, etc - talking about the frontier hero in literature; I'll have to look that up to refresh my memory, and will try to remember to post info or links here next time. He fed that kind of background into his work when he was creating Spenser -- frontier hero, private eye, it's a natural. He used weights, etc, cooked well if I heard right, and as an English prof (Boston U for a while?) he had all of Spenser's literary references and quotes down solid.

Write what you know, and all that.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:36 AM (q3u5l)

340 From SGT Dick:

"Lend me one of your horses, driver,” he cried. “I must follow these ruffians without delay."

Sounds like something I would say.

Posted by: javems at August 10, 2025 11:38 AM (8I4hW)

341 Flannery O'Connor was grimly gothic and quite outspoken about it.

"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil."
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 10, 2025

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She also, I think, said something about allowing criticism to depress you -- and deter you from writing the way you know you should -- is also of the devil.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:39 AM (omVj0)

342 Anyone wishing to find a Jack London-style adventure story will enjoy To the White Sea' , by James Dickey. It's a fictional account of a B 29 gunner shot down over Japan near the end of WW2.
Same author wrote ' Deliverance'.

Posted by: El Borak at August 10, 2025 11:39 AM (BSNnK)

343 OK everyone! Thanks for stopping by and spending your time hanging out for a while. Have a good rest of your day!

Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 11:39 AM (cmI4M)

344 Accuracy about guns is one way I judge a writer. That's one of many reasons I enjoy the Matt Helm books. I used to advise mystery writers about gun use, a major tool of their characters and in their stories. The level of ignorance in even experienced authors was startling.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 11:40 AM (yTvNw)

345 Weasel,

Thanks for the thread.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:40 AM (q3u5l)

346 I think Parker did his PhD dissertation on writers like Cooper, etc - talking about the frontier hero in literature; I'll have to look that up to refresh my memory, and will try to remember to post info or links here next time. He fed that kind of background into his work when he was creating Spenser -- frontier hero, private eye, it's a natural. He used weights, etc, cooked well if I heard right, and as an English prof (Boston U for a while?) he had all of Spenser's literary references and quotes down solid.

Write what you know, and all that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025

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I had thought his Ph.D. concentrated on Chandler and/or Hammett.

He has some savage satire about academia in the Spenser novels, including in his very first one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:40 AM (omVj0)

347 I think Parker did his PhD dissertation on writers like Cooper, etc - talking about the frontier hero in literature;
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I've always had some difficulty taking a character named 'Natty Bumpo' seriously.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 11:41 AM (XeU6L)

348 347 Gar Boni. Tommy Udo.

Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:42 AM (0I+GC)

349 I've always had some difficulty taking a character named 'Natty Bumpo' seriously.

JRR Tolkien thinking with pen poised, "his name shall be Bingo Baggins."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 11:43 AM (Ui59G)

350 Parker was where I first heard that quote about academic infighting being so vicious because the stakes were so small. Think he said once that he'd sit in faculty meetings trying not to laugh when they talked about work load -- "I've done work, and this ain't it," I seem to recall him saying.

Chandler and Hammett may well have been included in some of that dissertation, but I'd have to double check that now; just too long since I looked over some of the old articles and interviews. He was certainly aware of them from the git-go.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:44 AM (q3u5l)

351 Not to be confused with Radical Son by David Horowitz. Quite different!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Sadly, he just passed away a few months ago. What a warrior for truth and America.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 10, 2025 11:44 AM (/RHNq)

352 >>I've always had some difficulty taking a character named 'Natty Bumpo' seriously.

Your name is Mike Hammer.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:44 AM (viF8m)

353 Thanks Tensor, President Trump flanked by two Japanese cat-girls is 'sensitive' so only registered uses can see it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 11:45 AM (Ui59G)

354 If you want to see someone who REALLY can't take Natty Bumpo seriously, find a copy of Mark Twain's essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses." Do not attempt to drink anything during the reading of that essay; none of it will get to your stomach -- anything you try to drink will fly out of your nose and drench the rest of the room. That ain't hyperbole.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:46 AM (q3u5l)

355 Parker was where I first heard that quote about academic infighting being so vicious because the stakes were so small. Think he said once that he'd sit in faculty meetings trying not to laugh when they talked about work load -- "I've done work, and this ain't it," I seem to recall him saying.

Chandler and Hammett may well have been included in some of that dissertation, but I'd have to double check that now; just too long since I looked over some of the old articles and interviews. He was certainly aware of them from the git-go.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025

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I suspect one of the reasons we haven't seen an in-depth biography of Parker and an analysis of his work is that academics are still furious at him for being so successful outside academia!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:47 AM (omVj0)

356 A lot of forest fires are started by unemployed fire fighters.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 11:47 AM (ZmEVT)

357 O'Connor, yes, though I've read little of her work. Harper Lee? Mockingbird doesn't seem to be Gothic at all.

Southern Gothic enters TKaM with the character of Boo Radley.

He's a character straight out of Faulkner or O'Conner except he doesn't burn people alive or bang donkeys or some such thing and is actually a beneficial though broken fellow.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 11:48 AM (iJfKG)

358 Southern Gothic enters TKaM with the character of Boo Radley.

He's a character straight out of Faulkner or O'Conner except he doesn't burn people alive or bang donkeys or some such thing and is actually a beneficial though broken fellow.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025

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Good point!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:48 AM (omVj0)

359 "find a copy of Mark Twain's essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses.""

Free at gutenberg.org: https://tinyurl.com/323y3n45

Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:49 AM (0I+GC)

360 Watched a few videos on how shooting firearms in old west actually worked, certainly nowhere near modern stances are today

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 11:49 AM (+qU29)

361 "I suspect one of the reasons we haven't seen an in-depth biography of Parker and an analysis of his work is that academics are still furious at him for being so successful outside academia!"

Wolfus, you're probably right. If your standard academic type did a study of Parker, it would probably be an envious takedown. Who needs it?

I'd like to see somebody like Lawrence Block do one, but he's largely retired now.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:49 AM (q3u5l)

362 If you want to see someone who REALLY can't take Natty Bumpo seriously, find a copy of Mark Twain's essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses."
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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I've read excerpts. Brutal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 11:51 AM (XeU6L)

363 >>Southern Gothic enters TKaM with the character of Boo Radley.

Touched by God.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:52 AM (viF8m)

364 "Watched a few videos on how shooting firearms in old west actually worked, certainly nowhere near modern stances are today"

Some long-gun target shooters used a reclining position with the barrel resting on their feet.

Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:52 AM (0I+GC)

365 Well, off to do some stuff around Casa Some Guy. Annoy the Mrs, torment the cat, mishandle what should be a few simple chores.

Thanks again for the thread, Weasel. I'm willing to help out some with content as well. Holler if need be.

And have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:52 AM (q3u5l)

366 The Spenser TV series was great. Plenty of boxing gym scenes so you see Spenser's bonafides. Avery Brooks was a genius move. The inner city car chase scenes are amusing.
But hard to fit a book in 45 minute TV show so the books are better especially if you know Boston.
I did read that Susan Silverman was based on his wife and that they did have a dog like Pearl.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:53 AM (t/2Uw)

367 Last of the Mohicans is a literary mess, even the 1930s movie thought it needs cleaning up

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 11:55 AM (+qU29)

368 The ones that come to mind that did not become overly repetitious were the Aubrey/Maturin,
-------

Crossing the beams a bit, Patrick O'Brian's short stories are vastly different than later writing. Dark, dark stuff, Brit Goth, I would call it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 11:57 AM (XeU6L)

369 Last of the Mohicans is a literary mess, even the 1930s movie thought it needs cleaning up
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 11:55 AM (+qU29)
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Mark Twain tears Cooper a new one over it. And the 1993 movie was based mainly on the earlier movie.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2025 11:57 AM (WvZaB)

370 "literary mess"

Fiction literature is a big tent, with lots of lauded messes.

Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:58 AM (0I+GC)

371 Thank you Weasel for hosting a lively thread. And thank you and everyone else here for rescuing me from X for a couple of hours.
Have a great day!

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:58 AM (t/2Uw)

372 Sharon, the Hawk of the books is such a larger-than-life character that it must have been a titanic job to cast him for the series. Brooks made it work.

The way Parker set it up, Hawk is Spenser's dark side made flesh, and Susan is his moral/ethical side, so we see the conflict in his nature in each story. This is like the splitting of Capt. Kirk's reasoning side and more emotional side into Spock and McCoy, respectively, so that the conflict between them can be dramatized.

Susan didn't appear until Book Two, though, and Hawk not until Four, so it took Parker a little while to get a real handle on what he had.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:58 AM (omVj0)

373 Crossing the beams a bit, Patrick O'Brian's short stories are vastly different than later writing. Dark, dark stuff, Brit Goth, I would call it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 11:57 AM (XeU6L)
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Haven't read his short stories, but his earlier noviels "The Golden Ocean" and "The Unknown Shore" (both based on Anson's voyage around the world) are great reading. And he did the English translation of "Papillon."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2025 11:59 AM (WvZaB)

374 Weasel, once again, thanks for doing heroic duty on the Book Thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:59 AM (omVj0)

375 Jack Reacher should have been Wenda's brother not Tom Cruise.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)

Yeah. Casting Cruise is sort of like casting Caillou as Reacher.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 12:00 PM (0eaVi)

376 Mark Twain tears Cooper a new one over it. And the 1993 movie was based mainly on the earlier movie.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
---------

A lot of extras during the filming were walking around town, Mohawk haircuts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 12:00 PM (XeU6L)

377 Thanks Weasel!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 12:01 PM (kpS4V)

378 WE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)

379 Off to do some chores. Miss Linda says, "You don't live on a farm!" I say, "But I have livestock: furry feline hogs to slop and clean up after."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 12:02 PM (omVj0)

380 OK everyone! Thanks for stopping by and spending your time hanging out for a while. Have a good rest of your day!
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 11:39 AM (cmI4M)

Now wait a minnit, Weasel. The book thread isn't over until WE say it's over!!!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 12:03 PM (0eaVi)

381 354 ... "If you want to see someone who REALLY can't take Natty Bumpo seriously, find a copy of Mark Twain's essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses." Do not attempt to drink anything during the reading of that essay; none of it will get to your stomach -- anything you try to drink will fly out of your nose and drench the rest of the room. That ain't hyperbole."

This is very true, perhaps understated. The first time I read it was in a college library. I'm sure my laughing disturbed others but they were probably too afraid to approach the hysterical maniac to complain.

Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 12:05 PM (yTvNw)

382 I was pretty sure that Weasel would pick up the book thread, you see: Reading is Fundamental!

Posted by: scottst at August 10, 2025 12:08 PM (qcvs8)

383 https://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=17137092766

Posted by: scottst at August 10, 2025 12:08 PM (qcvs8)

384 Nowadays, all RCMP are dicks. Or so I've heard...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 10, 2025 09:03 AM (XMwZJ)

Meet Sergeant Rajpreet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:14 PM (joBNx)

385 "IIRC, Sykes and Fairbairn developed their training for the Hong Kong Police, well before WWII. I bet having to deal with the Chinese recruits influenced what they thought was correct procedure."

Capt's Fairbairn and Sykes served in the Shanghai Municipal Police, Fairbairn eventually as Assistant Commissioner and Sykes as officer in charge of the sniper unit, before they returned to England to train the Commandos, Special Operations Executive and some American OSS types including Rex Applegate. While Fairbairn and Sykes were there Shanghai was an 'international' city, and its police department had units of Chinese, Russian, French, British police as well as other major nationalities present in the city. So the training developed by Fairbairn and Sykes, described somewhat in their book "Shooting to Live," was applied to a variety of nationalities with greatly differing cultures and levels of education and experience. I recall reading some reports of police raids conducted by riot squads under Fairbairn's command, but can't remember the book. IIRC, Fairbairn's riot squad contained both Chinese and non-Chinese policemen armed with Thompsons and riding in armored cars.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (yl1YV)

386 I literally just came back from 3 weeks of camping National Parks without internet. What happened to Perfesser Squrrel? I hope he's OK.

Posted by: Zekesmom at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (XQPm3)

387 Could've been worse - he could've handed us all a Hornaday reloading manual and told us to memorize how many grains of Bullseye you need to push a 185 gr SJHP vs a 230 gr. FMJ.
Posted by: PabloD
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3.5 - 4.0 for the 185, 4.3 - 4.5 for the 230.

Which illustrates why the only use I have for Bullseye is .38 shot shell (snake) loads. It's just waaay too easy to exceed pressure limits.. I load them low - don't need a lot of velocity at 15 ft ranges - and even a overload isn't going to have lot of back pressure (a felt wad has a lot of leakage) to shoot it into big over pressure territory.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 10, 2025 12:54 PM (ha888)

388 Posted by: Zekesmom at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (XQPm3)

Perfesser is passing on the mantle . It is a bit much to do the thread every week . He is o.k , just concerned about his job as his supervisor seems to be giving him a hard time. He asked for prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 01:13 PM (2GCMq)

Daily-ish Tech News 10 August 2025

Top Story

OpenAI has priced GPT-5 so low it may spark a price war. (Tech Crunch)

Chance would be a fine thing.
OpenAI's GPT-5 comes with up to 80% fewer hallucinations. (The Register)

Fewer hallucinations are good, or so the voices tell me.
OpenAI's GPT-5 is one hundred percent convinced that "blueberry" is spelled with three b's. (Kieran Healy)

Oops.

Not Really Tech News

I have RSV - respiratory syncytial virus - and putting a name to it doesn't help at all to be perfectly honest.

I bought a COVID test because I was starting to suspect this wasn't just a cold, and the particular test also tested influenza A and B - it didn't feel like the flu, but okay - and RSV, which hadn't crossed my mind at all.

Good news: My lifetime 100% COVID-free rating remains untouched.

Bad news: RSV is bloody annoying.

The common symptoms in adults match mine precisely, so I haven't developed an idiosyncratic reaction.
If present, symptoms are generally isolated to the upper respiratory tract: runny nose, sore throat, fever, and malaise. In most cases, nasal congestion precedes the development of cough. Unlike other upper respiratory infections, RSV is more likely to cause new onset wheeze in adults.
Still annoying.

Tech News

HTTP is not a simple protocol. (Haxx)

It drives everything and is implemented everywhere but it is rarely if ever entirely correct. The original 1.0 version in 1997 ran to 18,615 words; the later 1.1 version currently runs to 95,740 words, as much as a substantial novel.
HTTP/2: The sequel is always worse. (Portswigger)

It just is.
Microsoft Lens - Window's free text-scanning app - is being replaced with AI. (Thurrott)

That's "blueberry" with three b's.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Five to nine is still worse though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:30 AM (+qU29)

2 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:30 AM (9vYpt)

3 I wonder what I got, minor chest congestion that won't go away

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)

4 w00t

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:34 AM (aURVT)

5 >>>I have RSV

RSVP!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:36 AM (aURVT)

6 >>>I have RSV - respiratory syncytial virus - and putting a name to it doesn't help at all to be perfectly honest.

Does that dictate a course of treatment?

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)

7 Stairway to Heaven
Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/fw_Codf29Pw

Nobody asked for this but we got it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:37 AM (9vYpt)

8 7 Stairway to Heaven
Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/fw_Codf29Pw

Nobody asked for this but we got it.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:37 AM (9vYpt)

I got about 20 seconds in and thought I dunno.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:40 AM (aURVT)

9 Good morning, good people, from the steamy Adirondacks.

May munificent benefits be incurred for all your effort plus the accompanying heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 10, 2025 04:41 AM (hKoQL)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 04:42 AM (qKYfj)

11 Disclaimer: Five to nine is still worse though.

6PM to 6AM is a real bugger.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 04:44 AM (qKYfj)

12 Pity, you might want to hit the Vitamin D and C.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 04:45 AM (HFcKg)

13 Sounds like a miserable infection, Pixy. I hope you have something or they can give you something for it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 04:45 AM (2GCMq)

14 Pixy,

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 04:46 AM (HFcKg)

15 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 10, 2025 04:48 AM (XQo4F)

16 Does that dictate a course of treatment?

Sadly no. They say stay hydrated and get a humidifier - check and check - and take ibuprofen if you need it, but currently there are no really effective treatments. Well, oxygen, but I'd have to be a lot worse off to warrant that. Fortunately.

12 Pity, you might want to hit the Vitamin D and C.

I do take Vitamin C and multivitamins, so I'm probably covered there.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 04:49 AM (BLOW1)

17 Son has a problem with his Apple Phone. Last time I asked him about it, the phone put out a message, "Try again in six hours." He's been talking with Grok for a long time about it which seems like an utter waste of time. I think we need to bring it to the store, but if he has to get a new phone, this will be the second phone within three months after the earlier one dropped out of his pants In the parking lot and his supervisor ran over it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 04:50 AM (2GCMq)

18 Kind policeman helps out an elderly woman who Ned help with her lawn:

https://tinyurl.com/37ukw6e9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 04:53 AM (2GCMq)

19 Just got home from seeing Joe Bonamassa's band. Absolutely stunning. As always. This is a musician's band. No flying around the arena, No fireworks, no, nothing. Just straight up great playing by every member of the band. They're all virtuosos.

They finished up the show with a blistering arrangement of Led Zeppelin's How Many More Times. The video is from a London show with a. Subset of his previous lineup that approximates the current band. There are videos with the current band playing but the audio is of such terrible quality they're unlistenable. This particular professionally shot version is spot on and is equally great to what I heard tonight.

If you like going to concerts this band should be one of your bucket lists. Bonus round: the audience aren't barbarians.

https://youtu.be/TuocThsJa0g

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:54 AM (9vYpt)

20 Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 04:49 AM (BLOW1)

You Aussies don't know shit about medicine.

Bourbon.

Bourbon is the treatment.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)

21 I have a friend who got Covid about two weeks ago and another friend who got pneumonia last week on a long-haul plane ride. Yuck.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (aURVT)

22 No Stairway!

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (gHSfI)

23 BOING!

Another 2020 election conspiracy, laughed at, looking like it might be true:

https://tinyurl.com/2khm6mus

I don't recall which brainy X accounts were shouting this in 2019 but they were mostly ridiculed into silence. Or were they threated by big law firms?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 04:58 AM (JdYf9)

24 I got about 20 seconds in and thought I dunno.
Posted by: m

It is a pretty weird song choice for Dolly Parton. The interpretation is suss as hell. Why she decided to do this I have no idea. But she did so there we are.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:59 AM (9vYpt)

25 The "Hey Disco! Found your people!" on the ONT is completely cracking me up.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:59 AM (aURVT)

26 Nice Kid from NC who's been mowing lawns for about four years helps to pay off his church's mortgage:

https://tinyurl.com/3zybkkzy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 04:59 AM (2GCMq)

27 Bourbon is the treatment.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)
-

Had some yesterday and I'm still fit as a fiddle. See? It works!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 05:00 AM (JdYf9)

28 20 Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 04:49 AM (BLOW1)

You Aussies don't know shit about medicine.

Bourbon.

Bourbon is the treatment.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)

Or tea?

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:01 AM (aURVT)

29 Been awake a hour and nothing to show for it but a daily suduko

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:01 AM (+qU29)

30 Woman who's retired considers dealing with change through the help of her faith. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

https://tinyurl.com/mhj6xb9v

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:03 AM (2GCMq)

31 Second dose of bourbon with honey and lemon for the cough.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:07 AM (HFcKg)

32 29 Been awake a hour and nothing to show for it but a daily suduko
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:01 AM (+qU29)

You called a nood for the tech thread.

291 Tech thread is upstairs
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:31 AM (+qU29)

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:08 AM (aURVT)

33 A nice Bordeaux can be effective as well.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:13 AM (HFcKg)

34 Bourbon is the treatment.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)

Or tea?
Posted by: m

Note: Bourbon is the treatment.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 05:16 AM (9vYpt)

35 I hope you feel better, Pixy. Sounds very unpleasant. Get well, friend! I love your stuff, read it every day.

Posted by: Pooklord at August 10, 2025 05:19 AM (asU3w)

36 G'morning, all!

Myrtle Beach is a strange place.

Glad to be home.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 10, 2025 05:20 AM (a1415)

37 Almost forgot...

Baltimore mass shooting last night.

https://tinyurl.com/wc7r293r

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 10, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)

38
Went to bed late, woke up early. Getting Her Majesty, Rosalind and The Big Dummy on the road to Denver this morning, then I'm headed off to Mass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 05:23 AM (kkTda)

39 Hadrian, wishing safe travels for HM and all expectations exceeded for the pups.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:26 AM (HFcKg)

40 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 05:23 AM (kkTda)

"The Big Dummy". Haha.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:26 AM (2GCMq)

41 Hadrian, how is Diana doing?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:27 AM (HFcKg)

42 May they all have traveling blessings back and forth, Hadrian.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:28 AM (2GCMq)

43 37 Almost forgot...

Baltimore mass shooting last night.

https://tinyurl.com/wc7r293r
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 10, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)

https://archive.is/qbC8Z

(same link without intrusive article-covering junk)

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:28 AM (aURVT)

44 yowza

BPD mass shooting presser. Commissioner Worley says it seemed like people were sitting on their porch when someone opened fire:
• 6 victims
• 4 males
• 2 females
• 5 year old girl shot in hand
• man shot critical and surgery
• Homicide unit notified
• No arrests

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:33 AM (aURVT)

45
Hadrian, how is Diana doing?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:27 AM (HFcKg)

__________

Diana is on a couple of medications to ease her nerve pain and help her stomach. She gets chicken and hamburger twice a day and free feeding of kibble. She eats well and is energetic, but is still a hard keeper.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 05:34 AM (kkTda)

46 moar covfefe

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:34 AM (aURVT)

47 G'mornin' everyone!

67 degrees, overcast, humid

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 10, 2025 05:35 AM (dKEEs)

48 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 10, 2025 05:39 AM (AN2gy)

49 *Baltimore mass shooting last night.*

Full moon.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 05:40 AM (XQo4F)

50 34 Bourbon is the treatment.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)

Or tea?
Posted by: m

Note: Bourbon is the treatment.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 05:16 AM (9vYpt)

That was my dad's prescription, too.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:40 AM (aURVT)

51 Hadrian, have you given buttermilk a thought?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:40 AM (HFcKg)

52 So this was a.nice thing that happened yesterday. A soft spoken, smart man with a dry sense of humor in the local Republican group called me and asked if I could perform a non denominational wedding. I said " I never have but I certainly could ." He and his funny, nice ( female ) partner have been together for 20 years . I didn't even know they were not married I think it's nice he wants to make it official.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:41 AM (2GCMq)

53
HM will be gone until the first week in September. Greeley, CO starting Thursday, then to Lake Elmo, MN the weekend after that for the Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialties, then Amana, IA for a Hound Group show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 05:43 AM (kkTda)

54 I see your Dolly Parton and raise you Stairway to Gilligan's Island:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKr3mhojyvY

Posted by: fluffy at August 10, 2025 05:46 AM (AN2gy)

55 54 I see your Dolly Parton and raise you Stairway to Gilligan's Island:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKr3mhojyvY
Posted by: fluffy at August 10, 2025 05:46 AM (AN2gy)

hahahahahaha

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:50 AM (aURVT)

56 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:51 AM (tjClK)

57 49 *Baltimore mass shooting last night.*

Full moon.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 05:40 AM (XQo4F)

This is true!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:51 AM (aURVT)

58 It's damn early.

Been on site since 2:30 AM.

Maintenance window isn't going all that well. This is going to be a long day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:51 AM (tjClK)

59 Another "Baby Trump" video:

https://tinyurl.com/re7jn385

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:52 AM (2GCMq)

60 58 It's damn early.

Been on site since 2:30 AM.

Maintenance window isn't going all that well. This is going to be a long day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:51 AM (tjClK)

But you got a FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:52 AM (aURVT)

61 I have RSV - respiratory syncytial virus - and putting a name to it doesn't help at all to be perfectly honest.

There is a vaccine for that.

I don't recommend taking it, however, I don't recommend taking any vaccines anymore since the medical and pharmaceutical industries have destroyed all their credibility.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:53 AM (tjClK)

62
But you got a FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:52 AM (aURVT)

A given.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:56 AM (tjClK)

63 >>>I have RSV - respiratory syncytial virus

syncytium
noun (plural syncytia) Biology
a single cell or cytoplasmic mass containing several nuclei, formed by fusion of cells or by division of nuclei.
• Embryology syncytium forming the outermost layer of the trophoblast.
DERIVATIVES
syncytial (adjective)

ORIGIN
late 19th century: from syn- ‘together’ + -cyte ‘cell’ + -ium.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:57 AM (aURVT)

64 I cannot tell if the "Baby Trump" guy doesn't like Trump or not, but if not , he sure found something that many supporters of Trump find amusing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:58 AM (2GCMq)

65 Syncytia, Phil Collins

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

66 I cannot tell if the "Baby Trump" guy doesn't like Trump or not, but if not , he sure found something that many supporters of Trump find amusing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:58 AM (2GCMq)
-

It's hilarious all around!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:01 AM (JdYf9)

67 Syncytia, Phil Collins
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

Abacab.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:01 AM (tjClK)

68 Evening and morning to all!

Pixy: "Fewer hallucinations are good, or so the voices tell me."

A worthy successor to the old "I can't come in to work. The voices told me to stay home and clean all the guns today."

Sorry to hear about the RSV. How long is a case supposed to last?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:06 AM (omVj0)

69 Don't take Syncytia if you're allergic to Syncytia.

Posted by: The Legal Department at August 10, 2025 06:07 AM (XQo4F)

70 Don't take Syncytia if you're allergic to Syncytia.
Posted by: The Legal Department at August 10, 2025 06:07 AM (XQo4F)

"I've got Type II diabetes cuz I'm fat as a cow."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:08 AM (tjClK)

71 >>>I have RSV
*
RSVP!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025

***
At my former work, a university, a colleague told me that the students in our major -- a very bright bunch, by all accounts -- did not know what "RSVP" meant. He had to use "Please reply" or wording like that on emails to them instead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:09 AM (omVj0)

72 syncytium

***
Sounds like a body structure. A private one that should not be discussed on genteel blogs like this one.

(I crack myself up sometimes.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)

73 Sid get a cat nap.in
Nedz coffee now

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (+qU29)

74 67 Syncytia, Phil Collins
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

Abacab.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:01 AM (tjClK)

When you wake in the morning
Wake and find you're covered in cellophane

Could be worse, Pixy!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (aURVT)

75 "I've got Type II diabetes cuz I'm fat as a cow."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:08 AM (tjClK)
-

Fat cows don't have diabetes.

You're doing something wrong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (JdYf9)

76 68 Sorry to hear about the RSV. How long is a case supposed to last?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

One to two weeks for the active stage, which is less time than it has lasted so far. Then possibly several more weeks with a persistent cough as your body gets rid of all the gunk.

I think I'm moving into the persistent cough stage now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 06:13 AM (BLOW1)

77 syncytium

***
Sounds like a body structure. A private one that should not be discussed on genteel blogs like this one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)
-

The inner syncytium?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:14 AM (JdYf9)

78 76 68 Sorry to hear about the RSV. How long is a case supposed to last?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

One to two weeks for the active stage, which is less time than it has lasted so far. Then possibly several more weeks with a persistent cough as your body gets rid of all the gunk.

I think I'm moving into the persistent cough stage now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 06:13 AM (BLOW1)

Oof.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (aURVT)

79 Anyway! I am up, awake (for certain values of "awake"), sipping coffee; have fed the furry thugs. Shortly I must decide if I will go walk -- and "walking for forty-five minutes" sounds like "climbing a mountain," in my current mental state -- or not.

Little Dagny actually slept on the bed for part of the night. I was aware that something was on the covers down near my feet as I drifted up and back down into sleep. Then I woke, and there she was, grooming herself and acting like "No big deal."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (omVj0)

80 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: An 8, a 9...and a 3!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (WvZaB)

81 Fat cows don't have diabetes.

You're doing something wrong.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (JdYf9)

They are vegetarians. I eat vegetarian meats. They are tasty.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (tjClK)

82 I think I'm moving into the persistent cough stage now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 06:13 AM (BLOW1)
-

Our NC pup and family came down with RSV about 2 years ago. They're vax-free. Took about 2 weeks to get back to normal.

Get well fast.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (JdYf9)

83 Syncytia, Phil Collins

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

I thought that was a Metallica song.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)

84 Don't take Syncytia if you're allergic to Syncytia.
Posted by: The Legal Department at August 10, 2025

***
If you've never taken it, how do you know you're allergic to it?

Posted by: Pharmaceutical Rep at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)

85 *73 Sid get a cat nap in.*

My I recommend:

https://youtu.be/rLdpprJ3jeE

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)

86 Don't worry about all 'em "side effects'! The lawyers make 'em say that.

Posted by: Some Guy I Work With, Proud User of Term "Legalese" at August 10, 2025 06:22 AM (vd6bO)

87 >The inner syncytium?
+++
The Holy of Holes.

Posted by: 1st Book of Anatomy at August 10, 2025 06:23 AM (XQo4F)

88 I can't believe it. We're already a third of the way through the month. In contrast, July dragged like a rawhide bag being hauled through heavy brush behind a slow horse.

Amazing how your perceptions of external events can shift like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

89 83 Syncytia, Phil Collins

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

I thought that was a Metallica song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)

"Cyanide"?

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)

90 89 83 Syncytia, Phil Collins

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

I thought that was a Metallica song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)

"Cyanide"?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)

or

"Screaming Suicide"

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)

91 I can't believe it. We're already a third of the way through the month. In contrast, July dragged like a rawhide bag being hauled through heavy brush behind a slow horse.

Amazing how your perceptions of external events can shift like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

Next thing you know, the TxMoMe is upon us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (tjClK)

92 Side effects may include bleeding from the ears, seizures, and cannibalism.

Posted by: The Lawyers Make Us Say This Stuff at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (XQo4F)

93 90 89 83 Syncytia, Phil Collins

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

I thought that was a Metallica song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)

"Cyanide"?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)

or

"Screaming Suicide"
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)

or

"Sanitarium"

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:27 AM (aURVT)

94 Said often,
Anyone ever hear of published side effects of the Fake Vax?

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:27 AM (+qU29)

95 Side effects may include bleeding from the ears, seizures, and cannibalism.
Posted by: The Lawyers Make Us Say This Stuff at August 10, 2025

***
Oh, "cannibalism." That's okay then. As long as it doesn't lead to malicious gossip and posting of uncomplimentary memes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:28 AM (omVj0)

96 86 Don't worry about all 'em "side effects'! The lawyers make 'em say that.
Posted by: Some Guy I Work With, Proud User of Term "Legalese" at August 10, 2025 06:22 AM (vd6bO)

They write it off.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:29 AM (aURVT)

97 "...side effects of the Fake Vax."

Paranoia, distrust of authority figures, suspicion of the CDC, cancellation of cable and satellite TV subscriptions, more time spent outside experiencing fresh air and sunshine.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:32 AM (XQo4F)

98 They write it off.
_-_-_
Had a family member telling me that one a while back. "I have an LLC, so I can just 'write-off the purchase'."

Sure, you won't have to pay income tax on it, but the money's still gone!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 10, 2025 06:33 AM (vd6bO)

99 "They write it off."

Allow Kramer to explain:

https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:37 AM (XQo4F)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:37 AM (aURVT)

101 49 *Baltimore mass shooting last night.*

Full moon.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Nah, just a Baltimore Saturday night.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 10, 2025 06:38 AM (sAmhv)

102 Pizza dough's proofing. 2 plus hours before I get the thing rolled out. I'm still close to 4 hours out from eatin'. I know it takes 45 minutes plus to bake and at least 15 minutes to set before slicing.

But it's in the works. Sliced Kalamatas, sliced pepperoni, sliced sweet red peppers along with a three-cheese combo of grated Romano, just a little slicing provolone and the mozzarella. Homemade sauce (already well-tasted).

14" pizza pan. Guardian Cookware. Heavy-duty aluminum. Got it for $10 at a flea market 30 some years ago. Best damn $10 I ever spent. Makes the best pie/crust. And I've made a few. Now to add one more.

Posted by: RickZ at August 10, 2025 06:39 AM (gKDq2)

103 99 "They write it off."

Allow Kramer to explain:

https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:37 AM (XQo4F)

"It's a write-off for them. They just write it off."

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:43 AM (aURVT)

104 Or tea?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:01 AM (aURVT)

Rum Tea.

Fresh-brewed Lapsang Souchong, Meyers Dark Rum, brown sugar, fresh lemon juice. Kills anything.

Posted by: RickZ at August 10, 2025 06:43 AM (gKDq2)

105
The great weakness of "9 to 5" was having Jane Fonda in the cast.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 06:45 AM (Tv15w)

106 76 68 One to two weeks for the active stage, which is less time than it has lasted so far. Then possibly several more weeks with a persistent cough as your body gets rid of all the gunk.

I think I'm moving into the persistent cough stage now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 06:13 AM (BLOW1)

We can hang out and entertain you.
For some values of "entertain."

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:46 AM (aURVT)

107 July sucked because the weather was god awful hot and humid.
So far, August has been a sweet October ride.

Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 06:50 AM (Bbhox)

108
Full moons, like winter storms, are now referred to by name. Last night was the "Sturgeon Moon", in honor of Theodore Sturgeon, a noted author of science fiction.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 06:52 AM (Tv15w)

109 85 *73 Sid get a cat nap in.*

My I recommend:

https://youtu.be/rLdpprJ3jeE
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)

I'm gonna leave that running in the background for a while. Wondering if it'll help with tinnitus.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:53 AM (aURVT)

110 I really wish people would stop lying about the results they are getting from ai, especially from the commercial ai, gpt-5 did not have the issue for me, nor could I get it to produce incorrect results for 20 other words.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 06:54 AM (XV/Pl)

111 83 I thought that was a Metallica song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)

I maybe have never heard a Metallica song? I looked up "most popular" etc. and got "Enter Sandman" and that's not familiar to me.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:56 AM (aURVT)

112
I really wish people would stop lying about the results they are getting from ai, especially from the commercial ai, gpt-5 did not have the issue for me, nor could I get it to produce incorrect results for 20 other words.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Maybe it's not people reporting erroneous results arrived at through AI, but an AI engine.

Which are known to lie.

Doom loop, that is.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 06:57 AM (Tv15w)

113 *Wondering if it'll help with tinnitus.*

Try this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc

(No hot iron required.)

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:58 AM (XQo4F)

114 mornin yall. The NYP says "Reading is the most attractive hobby a man can have, according to a study that has sparked spirited debate online."

"The survey was conducted by Date Psychology, with the company creating a list of 74 male hobbies. Women were subsequently required to designate the hobby as “attractive” or “unattractive” for a man to do."

Fat book or fat wallet? Ladies, you decide!

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

115 113 *Wondering if it'll help with tinnitus.*

Try this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc

(No hot iron required.)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:58 AM (XQo4F)

Thank you! I tried that when it was posted the other day and I keep trying it. So far I don't think it's working but we'll see. I think "distraction" is something that works, and both of these create that.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:07 AM (aURVT)

116 Blacksmithing as a hobby rated lower with the ladies than gardening, painting, and foreign languages. I think this means something.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

117 I get Tinnitus every once in awhile, if not low volume constantly. Things can set it off loudly

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:08 AM (+qU29)

118 I need to remember to relax my shoulders.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:09 AM (aURVT)

119 I suggest those "ladies" get a girlfriend because they damn sure don't want a man

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 07:11 AM (HFcKg)

120 Good news for you though, Skip. Woodworking was #5 on the list of most attractive hobbies, though it still rated below cooking and foreign languages.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)

121
I tried to read an article in what was purported to be Newsweek. I had to fight my way through ads to see the scraps of an article whose first six or seven paragraphs don't even mention whe things in the headline. At that point I gave up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:12 AM (kkTda)

122 121 I tried to read an article in what was purported to be Newsweek. I had to fight my way through ads to see the scraps of an article whose first six or seven paragraphs don't even mention whe things in the headline. At that point I gave up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:12 AM (kkTda)

archive.is is your friend

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:13 AM (aURVT)

123 https://www.americanthinker.com/the west's new woke war model means we won't win any more wars

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:14 AM (+qU29)

124 110 I really wish people would stop lying about the results they are getting from ai, especially from the commercial ai, gpt-5 did not have the issue for me, nor could I get it to produce incorrect results for 20 other words.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

The article notes that other people got different results.

But this is a known problem that happens for a known reason - that tokens in LLMs do not map isomorphically to letters or groups of letters - and LLMs can be remarkably bad at what appear to be simple tasks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 07:18 AM (BLOW1)

125 Why do women feel a need to rate men's hobbies anyway? I don't know any men who consider reading a hobby. Yes, they're not getting.paid to do it , but they enjoy it, but they do also do perfectly useful things around the house, such as painting , putting down linoleum and yard work

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 07:21 AM (RECOl)

126 I don't even think about hobbies being "attractive " or "unattractive "

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 07:22 AM (RECOl)

127 https://www.americanthinker.com/the fbi covered for tim walz and china

"No one enters China without the Party’s permission, and when the Party spends money on a foreigner,"

Point I make often is China doesn't let its citizens out for purely economic, humanitarian or just a sense of freedom. Even one has been permitted to leave and expected to return something for it.

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:22 AM (+qU29)

128 Nah, just a Baltimore Saturday night.

My shirt is ragged, and my pants are tore
I ain't found nothin' I'm a-looking for
And I wanna go back to Baltimore

I miss my dinghy on the Chesapeake shore
The shrimp and the shad a-fish I adore,
And I wanna go back to Baltimore...

Posted by: Zombie Sonny James at August 10, 2025 07:23 AM (R/m4+)

129 "Why do women feel a need to rate men's hobbies anyway? "

It was a dating company doing the survey. As far as women rating things men do, I think it's in the jeans.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

130 "Reading is the most attractive hobby a man can have, according to a study that has sparked spirited debate online."

I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: A big expensive yacht at August 10, 2025 07:23 AM (XQo4F)

131 I know. Let's ask AI what is the most attractive hobby for a man.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

132
Men rating women's hobbies is controlling and patriarchal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:26 AM (kkTda)

133 Men's hobbies women love: Ones that improve the woman's life in some tangible way
Men's hobbies women hate: Golf

Posted by: Wally at August 10, 2025 07:27 AM (AGl/x)

134 Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

I don't have Sydney's Sweeney's jeans or genes and I've never ranked any hobbies in my life. I've also never read a dating magazine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 07:28 AM (2GCMq)

135 /// Spillover from the ONT ///

Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case
===

One ofmy first cars was an IH Scout Traveler.
Title said "Station Wagon".
345 ci V8

And now you know why they do not make them anymore.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025 07:28 AM (/lPRQ)

136 In local news, Kenterrious Shonez Coker was picked up again for his hobby, aggravated assault and third degree cruelty to children.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

137 114 The NYP says "Reading is the most attractive hobby a man can have, according to a study that has sparked spirited debate online."

"The survey was conducted by Date Psychology, with the company creating a list of 74 male hobbies. Women were subsequently required to designate the hobby as “attractive” or “unattractive” for a man to do."

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

WWWS?
(What Would Weasel Say?)

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:29 AM (aURVT)

138
Man cave: space for sports entertainment. Meant to hide from the wife.

Library: space for the works of the mind. Also, to hide from the wife.

Workshop: space for the works of the hand. And hiding from the wife.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:31 AM (kkTda)

139 135 One ofmy first cars was an IH Scout Traveler.
Title said "Station Wagon".
345 ci V8

And now you know why they do not make them anymore.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025 07:28 AM (/lPRQ)

Reflecting the original purpose of transporting people and luggage between country estates and train stations,[7] the station wagon body style is called an "estate car" or "estate" in the United Kingdom or a "wagon" in Australia and New Zealand. (Wikipedia)

huh

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:33 AM (aURVT)

140 @131

>>I know. Let's ask AI what is the most attractive hobby for a man.

AI ranks the following:

Playing a musical instrument
Sports/Fitness
Cooking
Travel/Adventure
Dancing
Photography/Art
Volunteer work
DIY/Craftsmanship

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 07:35 AM (XV/Pl)

141 The only company that makes a vehicle remotely station wagoney is Mercedes Benz and I think the starting price on one is just under 100k.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)

142 Ok, Duck.ai: "What's the most attractive hobby for a woman to do to attract a man?"

Creative Hobbies:
Painting, drawing or photography

Active Hobbies:
Yoga, pilates, hiking or running

Musical Hobbies:
Playing Guitar or Piano and singing

Intellectual Hobbies:
Reading or learning a new language

Social Hobbies:
Volunteering or cooking classes

---

Yep. Sammich making.
Top of the list.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (XQo4F)

143 "Playing a musical instrument"

Millions of budding rock stars agree.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

144 131 I know. Let's ask AI what is the most attractive hobby for a man.
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

We'd have to add something to the prompt like "to attract the romantic interest of a woman."

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (aURVT)

145 If you do your hobby just to get poon, is it really a hobby or just a tool to facilitate your real hobby, trying to get poon?

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

146 141 The only company that makes a vehicle remotely station wagoney is Mercedes Benz and I think the starting price on one is just under 100k.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)

Ouch.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:40 AM (aURVT)

147 One ofmy first cars was an IH Scout Traveler.
Title said "Station Wagon".
345 ci V8

And now you know why they do not make them anymore.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025

***
Don't BMW and Mercedes each still make a wagon model? Possibly only for the Euro market, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 07:40 AM (omVj0)

148 I used to be a thing.

Posted by: The Buick Roadmaster at August 10, 2025 07:40 AM (XQo4F)

149 Man cave: space for sports entertainment. Meant to hide from the wife.
Library: space for the works of the mind. Also, to hide from the wife.
Workshop: space for the works of the hand. And hiding from the wife.

She Shed: A place for watching Oprah, making TikTok videos and where the Green Dildo goes to hide from the husband.

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at August 10, 2025 07:40 AM (R/m4+)

150
The only company that makes a vehicle remotely station wagoney is Mercedes Benz

_________

I think the term is "station wagonish"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (kkTda)

151 I thought the driver's seat of a car is the primary studio for women to make their TikTok videos.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (XQo4F)

152 The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (aURVT)

153 I de-googlefied my new phone but it keeps popping up a message that some apps won't work if Google Play is disabled. I know that, that's why it's disabled. It was on my old phone too but I was able to get to stop complaining about it.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

154 Reading leaves no mess, isn't noisy

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:44 AM (+qU29)

155
I thought the driver's seat of a car is the primary studio for women to make their TikTok videos.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (XQo4F)

_________

Stupid mirror___d videos.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:45 AM (kkTda)

156 We're reading here, now. On Teh Tech Thread.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:46 AM (aURVT)

157
How did that happen?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:46 AM (kkTda)

158 155
I thought the driver's seat of a car is the primary studio for women to make their TikTok videos.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (XQo4F)

_________

Stupid mirror___d videos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:45 AM (kkTda)

Stupid mirrorIMGd videos.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:46 AM (aURVT)

159 The lowercase version of IMG is verboten on this blog so people can't imbed junk images.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:47 AM (aURVT)

160
Stupid mirrorIMGd videos.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:46 AM (aURVT)

________

That's more or less what I meant. What appeared is a mystery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:47 AM (kkTda)

161 159 The lowercase version of IMG is verboten on this blog so people can't imbed junk images.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:47 AM (aURVT)

... and is clevery replaced by a solid underline.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:48 AM (aURVT)

162 *cleverly

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:49 AM (aURVT)

163 159 The lowercase version of IMG is verboten on this blog so people can't imbed junk images.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:47 AM (aURVT)

Quelle dommage.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 10, 2025 07:49 AM (PiwSw)

164 My explanation is very amateurish but it works for me.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:50 AM (aURVT)

165 "Stupid mirrorIMGd videos."

Is that the type where a portrait oriented video is in focus with an out of focus landscape oriented video is behind it?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:50 AM (XQo4F)

166 Quel énorme dommage.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:51 AM (aURVT)

167 I got a '34 wagon and we call it a Woody

Posted by: Don Blac; at August 10, 2025 07:52 AM (AOsQT)

168 The only company that makes a vehicle remotely station wagoney is Mercedes Benz

_________

I think the term is "station wagonish"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

========

Dodge Magnum ?
Or didi they stop making them, again.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025 07:52 AM (/lPRQ)

169 I asked AI what is the most attractive hobby for women and it's basically the same list, minus blacksmithing.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

170 Well, it did add "Yoga and Dancing". Why those would not be attractive hobbies for a man, I don't know. I'll ask AI.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

171 Farding in cars is one hobby I wish women didn't have.

Posted by: Zombie Rush Limbaugh at August 10, 2025 07:56 AM (G5+As)

172 *I think the term is "station wagonish"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh*
###

Hey, big boy...

Posted by: Subaru Outback at August 10, 2025 07:56 AM (XQo4F)

173 And here's the answer:

"Great question—and the truth is, yoga and dancing are attractive hobbies for men, but they’ve historically been underrepresented or stereotyped in certain cultures. Let’s unpack why that perception exists and how it’s changing:"

*eyeroll*

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

174 and is clevery replaced by a solid underline.

Pixies blog, asian. Can go with chinese english.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 07:58 AM (n4GiU)

175 173 And here's the answer:

"Great question—and the truth is, yoga and dancing are attractive hobbies for men, but they’ve historically been underrepresented or stereotyped in certain cultures. Let’s unpack why that perception exists and how it’s changing:"

*eyeroll*
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

Does the answer come with a barf bag?

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:58 AM (aURVT)

176 The HTML/2 article:
Classic request smuggling vulnerabilities mostly occur because the front-end and back-end disagree about whether to derive a request's length from its Content-Length (CL), or Transfer-Encoding (TE) header.

I felt so dirty after reading this.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

177 Or was it HTTP/2.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

178 I have never dated a man who did blacksmithing. I would sometimes meet them at various fairs, and we might have interesting conversations but that was it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (2GCMq)

179 "Does the answer come with a barf bag?
Posted by: m"

It's ludicrously predictable. I did not alter a single word.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

180 179 "Does the answer come with a barf bag?
Posted by: m"

It's ludicrously predictable. I did not alter a single word.
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

And so affirming.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (aURVT)

181 I misspelled my nic
wtf

anyway, a Suburban is just a muscled-up station wagon

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)

182 "I have never dated a man who did blacksmithing."

Neither have I, but I can tell you one thing. They are HOT!

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (vFG9F)

183 "Fewer hallucinations are good"

I agree! In the last week, I've had to deal with Pooky waking up in the middle of the night and him believing that:

Wizards are battling downstairs
The Muppet Show called him and he needed to call them back
Treasure was hidden throughout our house and he needed to find it
He needed to find the "Magic Rock of Denari" but couldn't so he "put everything back" (that was last night and I'm scared of what kind of random mess I'm going to find)

If those new meds he just got off of caused permanent damage, especially to his (and therefore my) sleep, his psych med PA is going to regret it.

Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy and irritated at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (Wt5PA)

184 I’d never heard of RSV until after COVID and then it seemed everybody, including babies were getting it.

Then, magically, a vaccine appeared.

Did they used to call that “hay fever”?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (6ydKt)

185 "Classic request smuggling vulnerabilities mostly occur because the front-end and back-end disagree about whether to derive a request's length from its Content-Length (CL), or Transfer-Encoding (TE) header."

I read that in Cliff Clavin's voice.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (XQo4F)

186 I don't want to chat with inanimate jobs- Grok, Chat, GPT. Etc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (2GCMq)

187 There's a group of women in MN who are known as "Ladies of Steam" who maintain and drive steam tractors and engines. Several of them are very attractive.

Posted by: Barry Boiler at August 10, 2025 08:01 AM (G5+As)

188 That's what I'm talkin' bout, Barry.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

189 Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy and irritated at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (Wt5PA)

I empathize. I am dealing with a son who is off meds and is not sleeping and having problems.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (2GCMq)

190 Pixy, ginger helps coughs. Giinger tea, ginger in chicken soup, etc.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (6Tzur)

191 This is one of the very few Sundays all summer I don't have to work

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (+qU29)

192 109 85 *73 Sid get a cat nap in.*

My I recommend:

https://youtu.be/rLdpprJ3jeE
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)

I'm gonna leave that running in the background for a while. Wondering if it'll help with tinnitus.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:53 AM (aURVT)

I've had it running in the background for a little over an hour. I think it's helping.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (aURVT)

193 Ahem.
The Suburban is a full sized Sport Utility Vehicle.

Posted by: The good people of Chevrolet Motor Division at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (XQo4F)

194 Quelle fromage.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (ZmEVT)

195 186-"objects" not "jobs"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:04 AM (2GCMq)

196 194 Quelle fromage.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (ZmEVT)

Brie!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:04 AM (aURVT)

197 I can cook MUCH better than Ginger.

Posted by: Mary Ann at August 10, 2025 08:05 AM (XQo4F)

198 Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (

LOL. The ones I can recall certainly seemed fit😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:05 AM (2GCMq)

199 182 "I have never dated a man who did blacksmithing."

Neither have I, but I can tell you one thing. They are HOT!
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (vFG9F)

I think we are discovering the intended audience for Forged in Fire.

Which is actually one of the better competition shows on TV.

It’s like Hell’s Kitchen but with more fire and less high-strung British guy randomly screaming at people.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:06 AM (6ydKt)

200 200

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:06 AM (aURVT)

201 So they're resurrecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu. A 48 year old slayer with a stake and a tube of Ben Gay. Should be fabulous.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 10, 2025 08:06 AM (2NHgQ)

202 191 This is one of the very few Sundays all summer I don't have to work
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (+qU29)

Good to see you on the tech thread, Skip.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:07 AM (aURVT)

203 I like to call "Hell's Kitchen" "Gordon Ramsey's Hostile Work Environment."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 08:08 AM (ZmEVT)

204 I once owned one of the last generation of Chevy Blazers, before they down-sized it, turned it into a car, and killed it. What a great vehicle. Fun times. Went 320K miles.

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:09 AM (AOsQT)

205 They are contestants. If they were employees, he could not get away with the rants.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 08:09 AM (ZmEVT)

206 Amazon and Henry Cavil have the TV streaming rights to Warhammer 40k.

Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 08:09 AM (oERdd)

207 Elite hs in NYC forcing kids to use pens to avoid the use of Chat GPT:

https://tinyurl.com/yc3m8pt3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (2GCMq)

208 I have a forge, anvil and various weights of turning hammers.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (HFcKg)

209 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

210 Quel énorme fromage ? pourquoi ??

Posted by: runner at August 10, 2025 08:11 AM (g47mK)

211 185 "Classic request smuggling vulnerabilities mostly occur because the front-end and back-end disagree about whether to derive a request's length from its Content-Length (CL), or Transfer-Encoding (TE) header."

I read that in Cliff Clavin's voice.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (XQo4F)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:11 AM (aURVT)

212 210 Quel énorme fromage ? pourquoi ??
Posted by: runner at August 10, 2025 08:11 AM (g47mK)

Ace is the Énorme Fromage of this here blog.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:12 AM (aURVT)

213 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

It is well know that you are HOT. And could end anyone that gets out of line.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

214 >So they're resurrecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu.
----

Last week I saw an episode of that show. Everybody talks about it, so I wanted to see. Never saw it before.

Sarah Michelle etc is very cute and fun to watch, but there's no way I'm plowing thru 7 seasons of what is essentially live action Scooby Do.

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:13 AM (AOsQT)

215 Now that car companies don't have to pay a penalty for not meeting CAFE standards (thanks to The One Big Beautiful Bill) will big engines without turbochargers be coming back onto the market?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:13 AM (XQo4F)

216 NaCly, ha.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:14 AM (HFcKg)

217 208 I have a forge, anvil and various weights of turning hammers.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (HFcKg)

🎶 If I had a hammer

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:15 AM (aURVT)

218 FenelonSpoke

Tell FenelonSon that sound sleep leads to over-performance when needed. A weekend in Paris Island with a Marine Drill instructor will motivate him to sleep.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

219 "...of what is essentially live action Scooby Do."

Never seen it. Does she drive a groovy 70s era van?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (XQo4F)

220 With CAFE out the window, we might even see the return of the full size 4 door sedan.

Bring back the Crown Vic.

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (AOsQT)

221 201 So they're resurrecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu. A 48 year old slayer with a stake and a tube of Ben Gay. Should be fabulous.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 10, 2025 08:06 AM (2NHgQ)

I’m gonna take a wild guess and say Buffy is going to have to be the recruiter for some younger cheerleader gals to do all the heavy lifting this go-around. She’ll risk blowing a knee out if she tries some of those moves from her 20s.

She’ll probably just be Head Slayer this time.
Queen Slayer.
Chief Slayer.
Elder Slayer.
Slayer #1.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)

222
I've also never read a dating magazine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

No subscription to "Date Farmer's Monthly" in the Fen household?

Pity. They've got great recipes for dishes that use dates or figs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (Tv15w)

223 None of that " for the want of a nail" stuff around here.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:17 AM (HFcKg)

224 Morning

Launch very soon

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper)
SLC-40 - CCSFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 10, 2025
Launch Time: 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC, 14:57 CEST)

https://youtu.be/YEVD9hnk0YU

Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 08:17 AM (sPQoU)

225 >Never seen it. Does she drive a groovy 70s era van?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty
---

I don't know if she has a driver's license. I only saw the pilot episode.

Buffy's way to young for me, but her mom is a looker.

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:18 AM (AOsQT)

226 FenelonSpoke

Not everyone can be blessed with FenelonSpouse.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

227
I have a forge, anvil and various weights of turning hammers.
Posted by: Ben Had

Do you hammer in the morning? Do you hammer in the evening?

And now the kicker: all over this land?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (Tv15w)

228 Joyenz

The scrub yesterday due to rain was disappointing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

229 217 208 I have a forge, anvil and various weights of turning hammers.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (HFcKg)

🎶 If I had a hammer
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:15 AM (aURVT)

227
I have a forge, anvil and various weights of turning hammers.
Posted by: Ben Had

Do you hammer in the morning? Do you hammer in the evening?

And now the kicker: all over this land?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (Tv15w)

; )

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (aURVT)

230 The singer says he/she would 'hammer out' love

how would that go, exactly

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:22 AM (AOsQT)

231 Hammer time.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:22 AM (aURVT)

232 SpeakingOf. That's my read as well. Another reboot with diversity covered. POC gay slayer this time instead of the sidekick being a lesbian, muslim wicken sidekick, soy boy sidekick. Well you get the picture.
They brought back The Librarians, a series I enjoyed. Haven't watched it yet in it's new format and probably won't. From pictures I've seen it looks very diverse.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 10, 2025 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)

233 I empathize. I am dealing with a son who is off meds and is not sleeping and having problems.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (2GCMq)

Sleep is so incredibly important to our health, especially mental health, and our modern "staring at screens til 2 a.m." society doesn't seem to understand that.

Posted by: pookysgirl has to take a sleeping pill every other night at August 10, 2025 08:23 AM (Wt5PA)

234 Why they's all kinda dates.

They's boiled dates, steamed dates, deep fried dates, date scampi, date salad. Pan fried, stir fried, pineapple dates, lemon dates, coconut dates, date burgers, and date sandwich.

Thass...thass about it.

Posted by: Bubba Date at August 10, 2025 08:24 AM (XQo4F)

235 U can’t touch this.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

236 "The singer says he/she would 'hammer out' love

how would that go, exactly
Posted by: Don Black"

Let's ask AI. No, better yet, let's ask a real expert, Paul Pelosi.

Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)

237 RSV sounds like what I had around the New Year. Tests confirmed it wasn't the flu or COVID but it was worse than the standard cold. Miserable 5 days for me.

Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM (znbnV)

238
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case

They still can't park them for shit. Almost every time I encounter a woman in one ever so tentatively trying to enter or leave a parking space in a lot, I'm tempted to holler, "If you can't park it, leave it at home!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM (Tv15w)

239 The scrub yesterday due to rain was disappointing.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

It was. Today's launch is the fourth try for this project. It keeps getting scrubbed. The weather is only 55% favorable.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM (sPQoU)

240
I don't know if it's AI writing or not, but I see an article that says, "Retail Chain Closing 38 Stores". I click on it.

Now back in ancient olden times - like five years ago - the body of the article would have started, "So-And-So announced the closure of 38 stores." Nowadays, however, you get a long exposition of retail sales, economic conditions, the effects of COVID, and so on. Way, way down is the first you read of So-And-So.

My guess is so that you have to pass through a slew of in-story ads to reach the nugget of information promised by the headline.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM (kkTda)

241 Here we go again. I bet this ends up scrubbed again.

A new T-Zero has been released: 9:13 a.m. EDT (1313 UTC, 15:13 CEST).

Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 08:29 AM (sPQoU)

242 “ When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 8:12

Posted by: Marcus T at August 10, 2025 08:29 AM (seQ7t)

243 Don Black

https://youtu.be/71_UAZgeE9Q? is the answer to your question.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

244 They brought back The Librarians, a series I enjoyed. Haven't watched it yet in it's new format and probably won't. From pictures I've seen it looks very diverse.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 10, 2025 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)

I liked the Noah Wyle movies because they reminded me of a cheesier & funnier Indiana Jones.

I think I watched maybe a half-dozen episodes of the TV series, which was entertaining but I moved on from it.

Didn’t even know about the new series until you mentioned it.

Yup, looks woke just checking out the Wiki article,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (6ydKt)

245 241 Here we go again. I bet this ends up scrubbed again.

A new T-Zero has been released: 9:13 a.m. EDT (1313 UTC, 15:13 CEST).
Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 08:29 AM (sPQoU)

I've pulled it up on my desktop, hoping not!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (aURVT)

246 >My guess is so that you have to pass through a slew of in-story ads to reach the nugget of information promised by the headline.
---

that's why the bread and milk are at the back of the store

make you walk by all the impulse buys* first

*Party Size Cool Ranch Doritos

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (AOsQT)

247
Shocker, I know:

Many "short" videos in FB purporting to be of "Karen incidents" are staged, especially if the camera work is cleanly done.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:31 AM (Tv15w)

248 *I don't know if it's AI writing or not, but I see an article that says, "Retail Chain Closing 38 Stores". I click on it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM

Check out The Company Man on the Utoobz:

https://youtube.com/@companyman114

Posted by: Bubba Date at August 10, 2025 08:32 AM (XQo4F)

249
*Party Size Cool Ranch Doritos
Posted by: Don Black

* adds "Don Black -- Party Size Cool Ranch Doritos" to the "freely divulged weaknesses of the horde" list *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:34 AM (Tv15w)

250 243 Don Black

https://youtu.be/71_UAZgeE9Q? is the answer to your question.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

I love that so much.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:35 AM (aURVT)

251 Praying you'll be over RSV soon

Posted by: Bob Grindrod at August 10, 2025 08:36 AM (RtNHs)

252 yeah the Nacho Cheese variety can give you a bad case of goldfinger

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:37 AM (AOsQT)

253 My guess is so that you have to pass through a slew of in-story ads to reach the nugget of information promised by the headline.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

People used to buy newspapers in part because of the ads and local sales and skim them and/or go through in detail.

Posted by: New Name at August 10, 2025 08:37 AM (/lPRQ)

254 253 My guess is so that you have to pass through a slew of in-story ads to reach the nugget of information promised by the headline.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

People used to buy newspapers in part because of the ads and local sales and skim them and/or go through in detail.
Posted by: New Name at August 10, 2025 08:37 AM (/lPRQ)

... and obituaries.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (aURVT)

255 I should do something other watch Warhammer videos.

Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (28cZF)

256 Good morning good people. Here I am, back from vacation. Little Winger's wedding was beautiful. He married a nice Christian girl who also is gorgeously stunning. He really hit the jackpot.

So now I have my mother for 5 days. She can barely walk so I'm trying to think of things to do with her.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (SfhV1)

257 Yeah I followed the link, and it went to a gay video, so I don't know what the original poster is trying to tell me

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (AOsQT)

258
Why has no composer stepped forward to offer up "The Mortar and Pestle Chorus"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:39 AM (Tv15w)

259 Posted by: pookysgirl has to take a sleeping pill every other night at August 10, 2025 08:23 AM (Wt5PA)

Very true . If you are a praying person let us pray for our children and each other as moms.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:39 AM (hDBOA)

260 that's why the bread and milk are at the back of the store

make you walk by all the impulse buys* first

*Party Size Cool Ranch Doritos
Posted by: Don Black

Milk is in back because that is where the loading docks, chiller storage, and ability to restock from the backside make it practical to put it.

Posted by: New Name at August 10, 2025 08:40 AM (/lPRQ)

261 250 243 Don Black

https://youtu.be/71_UAZgeE9Q? is the answer to your question.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

I love that so much.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:35 AM (aURVT)

Even the gays like…

Hammer Time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:41 AM (6ydKt)

262 I guess most grocery stores have a phone app nowadays to tell you what's on sale.
I appreciate a retail store app (like WallyMart) that tells me what aisle to locate a particular item.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:41 AM (XQo4F)

263 Don Black

They are hammering out love. It's opera and automatically culture.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

264 Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 10, 2025 08:38

Praise the Lord for a daughter in law of faith and looks and kindness. God bless them!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:42 AM (hDBOA)

265
No "You be careful out among those English!" thread

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:42 AM (Tv15w)

266 I suspect besides welders and cooks, blacksmiths get burned a lot daily

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 08:42 AM (+qU29)

267 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

That would be grinding a tune out, not hammering.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

268 Thank you Fen. I believe with all my heart that God brought them together for a purpose.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 10, 2025 08:43 AM (SfhV1)

269 I should do something other watch Warhammer videos.
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (28cZF)

Why?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at August 10, 2025 08:44 AM (89Sog)

270 {{{grammie winger}}} and a respectful tip of the hat to the Rev.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

271 Having a lousy month. House is on recess, Battleaxe is home, so no 2AM Naked Hammer Time.

Posted by: Savvy Investor Paul Pelosi at August 10, 2025 08:44 AM (G5+As)

272 Milk is in back because that is where the loading docks, chiller storage, and ability to restock from the backside make it practical to put it.
Posted by: New Name at August 10, 2025 08:40 AM (/lPRQ)

Yes, but all if the candy bars, mints, and magazines are squished in next to the cash register.

Just in case you get an impulse to read People magazine while eating your Snickers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:45 AM (6ydKt)

273 Change your name to skeevy, corrupt Paul Pelosi.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

274 Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

There was discussion of fromage/cheese earlier in the thread.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:45 AM (aURVT)

275 >Yes, but all if the candy bars, mints, and magazines are squished in next to the cash register.
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the KitKat bars know my name

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:50 AM (AOsQT)

276
People and/or Time are now flooding the checkout magazine offerings with "specials", like a single issue devoted to Pokemon, and such. Challenging intellectual fare, it is.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:50 AM (Tv15w)

277 If Wally World didn't provide store maps, no one would find anything.
BJ's has their dairy chiller in a stand alone garage like space. Almost invariably with a loading door open. I don't buy ice cream there because who knows how long the ice cream has been thawing on the pallet before going into the display freezer.
Why? Because it is not an optimal use of a Sunday morning.
Carolina Pride hot sausage makes a great sausage gravy.

Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 08:51 AM (28cZF)

278 Microsoft Lens - Window's free text-scanning app - is being replaced with AI.

As they say if the product is free...

So what is Microsoft's angle since the product has worked fine without AI.

It might be that Lens is straight up espionage. People take photos of important documents that they want to keep, curate or share. Microsoft may be taking these documents and building patterns of life from Lens input of deeds, documents, receipts, licenses, wills and other things that users want to convert to PDF a/o archive.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 10, 2025 08:52 AM (a4flb)

279 Get a nebulizer and some saline solution. It is the cure for respiratory issues.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 10, 2025 08:54 AM (kUxzU)

280
How the publisher of the periodical that featured Bat Boy failed to keep things above water with the intellectual heft of today's populace is a profound loss for us all.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:54 AM (Tv15w)

281 This little girl trusts her Daddy, and the huge horse she’s on:

https://tinyurl.com/3drrb866
(Dutch on X)

But I bet her Mom has chewed every bit of her fingernails off.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:55 AM (6ydKt)

282 Weekly World News and S&H Green Stamps.

Posted by: Back in the day at August 10, 2025 08:56 AM (XQo4F)

283 The differences between Scooby-Doo and Buffy are many, but the main thing is that in Buffy, the supernatural is real. It has rules and limitations, but people -- sometimes major characters, even likeable ones -- can and do die during the course of the show.

There's also the sparkling dialog. (Not being sarcastic here.) It's witty and deft, completely unlike the cartoon series. To give you an example, one of the characters dubbed Buffy and her non-Slayer friends and evil fighters "the Scoobies"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 08:56 AM (omVj0)

284
Got to get out and about. I am chauffeuring the gKids back to their home up north this day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:57 AM (Tv15w)

285 Artificial intelligence, like military intelligence, is an oxymoron. (Not the good kind.)

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 10, 2025 08:57 AM (XMwZJ)

286 276
People and/or Time are now flooding the checkout magazine offerings with "specials", like a single issue devoted to Pokemon, and such. Challenging intellectual fare, it is.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:50 AM (Tv15w)

For some unknown reason I was getting People magazine in the mailbox every week for three months earlier this year.

Never ordered it, never had any intention of ordering it, but it was there.

Then it stopped as suddenly as it started.

I gave them all away.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:58 AM (6ydKt)

287 you people are fisking the hell out of me this morning

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)

288 Grass is green, water is wet.

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)

289 fisk
verb [with object] informal
refute the points made in (an article or other piece of writing) one by one: I was going to fisk their entire editorial, but if they're not going to take their work seriously then neither am I.

ORIGIN
early 21st century: from the name of the British political journalist Robert Fisk (1946–2020), whose articles have been refuted in a point-by-point way by various bloggers.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:59 AM (aURVT)

290 BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 09:00 AM (+qU29)

291 4.5 hours and still the up thread, must be a new record for Pixie. Assist to the Perfessor.
Now to think of something to add to the conv.
Beautiful day out, been up for a while now. I suppose pants soon.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:01 AM (n4GiU)

292 Men vs women: men, when parking, will attempt to center the car in the middle of the spot; women don't give a shit.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 10, 2025 09:01 AM (XMwZJ)

293 Nood weasel reading.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:04 AM (n4GiU)

294 about a million pounds of propellant

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (aURVT)

295 This is the 1st flight of the F9 Booster (B1091), SpaceX's 97th mission in 2025, the 515th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, the 502rd recovery attempt of a first stage, and the 531st overall mission.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (aURVT)

296 That transcript looks like it was set up from the start. It reads as if the model was instructed that “Blueberry” has three B’s and told never to deviate from that premise. In my experience, that’s the only time I’ve seen this kind of broken reasoning from a GPT.

Posted by: Argent at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (z7Oco)

297 Bad weather at the recovery area.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (aURVT)

298 Launch scrubbed

Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (sPQoU)

299 I hung in there for it!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (aURVT)

300 300

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (aURVT)

301 "Wish ChatGPT-5 into the cornfield, son ... please."

Posted by: Dr_No at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (ayRl+)

Saturday Night "Club ONT" August 9, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

I was just here for the beer. Looks like the bartender majored in SycoLLeGy at HaVaRd.

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Arrive like a storm, dressed like the wallpaper. If you read the rules, congratulations. You are now the Director of HR for the evening.

*****

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

The world's leading expert on European wasps walks into a record shop. He asks the assistant, "Do you have European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2? I believe it was released this week."

The assistant checks the computer and then says, "Certainly. Would you like to listen before you buy it?"

The expert replies, "Of course!" The assistant hands him a pair of earphones and puts the record on a turntable near the counter, and turns it on.

The expert listens for a few moments and says to the assistant, "I'm terribly sorry, but I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and this is not accurate at all. I don't recognize any of those sounds. Are you sure this is the correct recording?"

The assistant checks the turntable. "Yes, sir," he says. "This is the European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2. Let me skip ahead to the second track." Again the expert listens for a few moments and then says to the assistant, "This just can't be right! I've been an expert in this field for 43 years and I still don't recognize any of these sounds."

The assistant apologizes and lifts the needle to the next track.

As soon as the track starts playing, the expert throws off the headphones. "This is outrageous false advertising! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and no European wasp has ever made a sound like the ones on this record!"

The manager of the shop overhears the commotion and walks over. "What seems to be the problem, sir?"

The expert turns to him, red-faced and fuming. "This is an outrage! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps. Nobody knows more about them than I do. There is no way in hell that the sounds on that record were made by European wasps!"

The manager glances down and notices the problem instantly. "I'm terribly sorry, sir. It appears we've been playing you the bee side."

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Club ONT Language School

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Drink of the Night

Paper Plane Cocktail

If you love the bitterness of an Aperol Spritz, but enjoy the body of a old fashioned, the Paper Plane cocktail may just be the perfect drink for you.
This modern cocktail was created in 2008 by NYC bartender Sam Ross and is the perfect marriage of bourbon, Amaro, and Aperol.

Ingredients:
3/4 ounce Aperol
3/4 ounce Amaro Nonino
3/4 ounce bourbon
1/2 ounce lemon juice

Directions:
Add a handful of ice to a cocktail shaker along with the Aperol, Amaro, bourbon, and lemon juice and shake for 15 seconds.
Strain into a coupe glass and serve immediately.
The cocktail can be garnished with a paper plane or an orange or lemon twist.
Enjoy!

*****

Club ONT - Moron Cat

Klepto Kitty - Morons Left Pantless

With dozens of items unclaimed, the embarrassed owner took her search for Leo’s victims wider this month, posting photos of his hauls on a local Facebook page along with an apology and her address. Those who showed up to claim their belongings included a woman who recognized her pink and purple underpants and a boy whose beloved and missing sports jersey was helpfully identifiable by his name printed on the back.

*****

Club ONT Moron Mobile

Looks like the car of your cool uncle. Has the same amount of wheels as a 911 but more seating for Morons. Who likes this car? Those that appreciate things like competence and khakis. If you're the rebel type, it is pretty easy to disappear into the Midwest while enjoying AM radio.

*****

Club ONT Moments of Nostalgia

Hey Disco! Found your people!

[Disco says: Hey ladies! How YOU doin'? Let's get FUNKY!]

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Carried us through the 90's. Sound up.

AOL says it will discontinue dial-up internet on September 30

May this sound echo in eternity:pic.twitter.com/I0zKIPERbX
— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) August 9, 2025

*****

Club ONT Department of Corrections News

Old news, but on the chance you missed it the first time around:
Former jail guards sentenced for using "Baby Shark" to punish Oklahoma inmates

Two former Oklahoma County jail guards have pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor cruelty charge for forcing inmates to listen to "Baby Shark" as punishment.
Gregory Cornell Butler Jr. and Christian Charles Miles were put on probation for two years and fined $200.
They also were ordered to pay $300 in victims' compensation and complete 40 hours of community service. They were also banned from working in law enforcement.
The two guards further mistreated inmates by playing children's music loudly on a loop, investigators reported. Both resigned after coming under investigation.
The criminal case centered on four victims, but investigators believe there were more.
One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight, according to an investigative report. Another said the "weird little song" was blaring and played "over and over and over again."

Cruel and unusual punishment.

*****

Club ONT Wholesome Content Department

pic.twitter.com/QJ0r0UkTOA
— Wow Animals (@WOW_ANIMALS1) August 7, 2025

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Club ONT Music

Cliff Clavin says: Little known fact. The original Thompson Twins in 1977 line-up consisted of four people and none of them were twins. At various stages, they had up to seven members, but their best known line-up was as a trio from 1982 to 1986.

The name comes from two bumbling detectives named Thomson and Thompson in the English language version of The Adventures of Tintin, a comics series. Thompson and Thompson are close doubles but not twins, the naming makes even less sense.

Some other twins

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week. Or thereabout...

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Club ONT brought to you by rulz:

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Club ONT regrets that the M&Ms in the large jar on the bar are not equally distributed in color. Some guy named Dave came in just before opening and demanded that the brown ones be removed.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 I said so.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (YlWIZ)

2 hmm

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (U/Byj)

3 Rd

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (Lo97M)

4
Gentlemen, start your comments!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (kkTda)

5 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 09, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

6 Back to content

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 09, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

7 Sorry I'm late, I lost control when the Rubber Band began to jam.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:02 PM (VSht7)

8 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:03 PM (WzM/W)

9 Thank you to mindful webworker and Idaho Spud Boy for covering for me last night.

1 tankdemon sends his regrets that he won't be here tonight because he couldn't think of a witty excuse about being late.

Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (7W0uI)

8 Please excuse tankdemon from tonight's ONT. A fresh shipment of hamsters came in, and he had to go find some elderberries.
Posted by: tankdemon's Mom (Idaho Spudboy) at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (bKn1x)

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:04 PM (VSht7)

10 Good evening, Club patrons!
Please purchase your restroom tokens when entering the Club. The line may be long if you wait til you need them!

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (QMAsf)

11 Old news, but on the chance you missed it the first time around:
Former jail guards sentenced for using "Baby Shark" to punish Oklahoma inmates

Sounds fishy.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (WzM/W)

12 The sign in top photo looks like it was prepared by an Ivy League graduate who can sometimes make drinks.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

13 Everyone funky now?

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

14 37 This will reflect poorly on tankdemon's Permanent Record! Tardy every evening, now an absence. Treading on thin ice, I'd say.
Posted by: Vice Principal Orlando at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)

If I were concerned about my "permanent record" would I be hanging out at AoS?

Don't answer that.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (VSht7)

15 Yay, National Garage Sale Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (lUFok)

16
Busy day. Scrubbed down the pens in the kennel and vacuumed the work area. Gave Rosalind and The Big Dummy baths. Did Dot and Diana's nails. Cut down Dan and Dutchess's coats. Plus the usual stuff. I'm tired.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (kkTda)

17 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

We made it to Funkytown?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)

18 Kicker for J'ville Jaguars kicked a 70-yd field goal.

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:08 PM (AOsQT)

19 If I were concerned about my "permanent record" would I be hanging out at AoS?

Don't answer that.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (VSht7)

All you need to do is bribe the right hamster to eat it. I don't know if playing the Hamster Dance would work, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:09 PM (S/Y4j)

20 You get to the bottom of the content and see a virgin comment field.

Then you hit refresh.

Virginity is fleeting.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)

21 17 We made it to Funkytown?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August

We live there.

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:09 PM (p4NUW)

22 Paper Plane
Ingredients:
3/4 ounce Aperol
3/4 ounce Amaro Nonino
3/4 ounce bourbon
1/2 ounce lemon juice

1) I have all of those things, I should try making one sometime.

B) It's an IBU standard cocktail, and that recipe is a bit off. It should be equal parts.

I'll turn in one restroom token as penance, for expecting people to ~~water down~~ lemon down their cocktails.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)

23 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (qKYfj)

24 I met two of my daughter in laws brothers today. One lives in Canada and one in Abu Dhabi. Neither of them have ever held a weapon before so, as any good Moron would do, I made that happen. Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)

25 Also there's a misspelling on that chalkboard.

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (AOsQT)

26 Kicker for J'ville Jaguars kicked a 70-yd field goal.
Posted by: Don Black

The game's getting too easy, I reckon. They'll have to switch to the Arena-Football-width uprights.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)

27 >You get to the bottom of the content and see a virgin comment field.
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that should count as a first

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)

28 Well, how about that! I'm in the comments of the week twice.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

29 The disco macrame picture was cruel. I'm pounding it like a screen door in a Kansas twister looking for the hidden video.
I feel cheated.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)

30 B) It's an IBU standard cocktail, and that recipe is a bit off. It should be equal parts.

I'll turn in one restroom token as penance, for expecting people to water down lemon down their cocktails.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)

You're expecting standards? At Club ONT??

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

31 Akkkkshully, I believe that the last use for whale oil is lubricating watch mechanisms. Supposedly still superior to any alternative.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (rFBCq)

32 Well, how about that! I'm in the comments of the week twice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

Just wait 'til you get the bill.

What, you thought this place was free?

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)

33 B) It's an IBU standard cocktail
Posted by: mikeski

There's an Internet Law that every correction will contain one mistake, right?

IBA standard cocktail. IBUs are for beer.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (DgGvY)

34 Dax Sheppard brought one of those wagons to Jay Leno’s car show. It’s a “so bad it’s good” car. Obscene yet beautiful.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (zBBwI)

35 Tonypete, why can't they shoot at a range? Can't think of any reason. Green card holders can even buy/own firearms.

When I belonged to an indoor range here, 1/2 of the business on weekdays was Asian (largely Chinese) students from UCSD etc who were renting guns. Clearly first-timers enjoying this distinctive opportunity in the US. Now of course someone in their party had to bring their own gun, in order to be able to rent. But this phenomenon was pronounced, at both indoor ranges where I was a member.

If you belong to/have access to a range, I would think you could bring them as guests, and empty brass.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (U/Byj)

36 Here, Diogenes! https://tinyurl.com/3dspsbpn

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (p4NUW)

37 Now 16 hours without electricity and the work crew has gone for the night.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (rFBCq)

38 Well, how about that! I'm in the comments of the week twice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Neat. I managed it a couple weeks ago, but I was wearing a sock for one, so there's an asterisk by my name in the record book.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)

39 Dial up is still in existence? Wow. I would have guessed it went away sometime around 2010. Damn.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (zBBwI)

40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

41 Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)

I've seen plenty of YT vids of foreign visitors shooting at ranges.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)

42 Well, how about that! I'm in the comments of the week twice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

Sheesh.
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

43 You know what they grow in Guatemala?

Guatermelons.

Posted by: Piercello at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (G6MQh)

44 You're expecting standards? At Club ONT??
Posted by: Doof

I have standards!

If you don't like the ones I'm using, I have others.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (DgGvY)

45 40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

Roomy back seat.

Jus' saying, exciting things can happen in a roomy back seat.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)

46 Oh, FFS. Every parent of a small child for the last ten years has been forced to listen to that stupid song for 2+ hours at a stretch, and our only crime was owning a TV set.

Are we going to fine every child in the country for cruelty?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (RcIn0)

47 The disco macrame picture was cruel. I'm pounding it like a screen door in a Kansas twister looking for the hidden video.
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)

Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

48 40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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LOL. Hope my monitor likes Bacardi Coke - it's wearing it now.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

49 Tonypete, why can't they shoot at a range? Can't think of any reason. Green card holders can even buy/own firearms.
Posted by: rhomboid

These two don't have their green cards yet - Just visiting their Sis here so a simple visa.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:20 PM (WzM/W)

50 Roomy back seat.

Jus' saying, exciting things can happen in a roomy back seat.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)

Or in nice van, but you won't look like frigging clark grizwald. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)

51 Just wait 'til you get the bill.

What, you thought this place was free?
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)

I was told Beto's covering all that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

52 I'll turn in one restroom token as penance, for expecting people to water down lemon down their cocktails.
Posted by: mikeski
------------
And the other half of your penance will be one week of garden gnomes in your front yard. All staring at your house.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)

53 The disco macrame picture was cruel. I'm pounding it like a screen door in a Kansas twister looking for the hidden video.
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)

Were you pounding the left one, or the right one? I'll take the one on the left.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:23 PM (0eaVi)

54 Here, Diogenes! https://tinyurl.com/3dspsbpn
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (p4NUW)

I love the BeeGees...if I don't have to look at them.
Side note, speaking of Aussies, the guy who married Olivia Newton John live down the street from me when I was a kid.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:23 PM (2WIwB)

55 40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

That's a mini-house in Western PA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (qKYfj)

56 50 Or in nice van, but you won't look like frigging clark grizwald. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)

Does the van have a picture of a unicorn painted on the side and an eight-track player blasting Zeppelin?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (VSht7)

57 Saw where three people were shot in times square last night around 1am. Time Square is a no gun zone. Guess if you don't mind shooting people that law would mean nothing to you.
Police are looking into the shooting, they say.

Posted by: Case at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (Kdsvb)

58 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)

59 Evening, Bulg.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (41CYW)

60 Neat. I managed it a couple weeks ago, but I was wearing a sock for one, so there's an asterisk by my name in the record book.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)

Well, I think the first one is more like a comment of the week in law.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (0eaVi)

61 Good evening Club ONT patrons. Thanks to Doggo and Disco as always.

Posted by: TRex - who needs restroom tokens? at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)

62 45 40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

__________________________________

That looks a lot like a 96 Buick Roadmaster Wagon.

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (dIske)

63 Tonypete, unless I've missed something, they can shoot. No legal reason they can't. Nothing in visas of any sort concerning shooting a firearm.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (U/Byj)

64 Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof

Stoopid nipple-removing airbrushes!

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (DgGvY)

65 All foreigners have to do to shoot at a range here is buy a hunting license in the State they're shooting in. That waiver the prohibition. Foreigners, especially Russians, love to hunt in the US.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (RcIn0)

66 I don't know because I was just a lil Sunday comics reading Catholic School kid at the time and Rickey Nelson was just a part of the Ozzie and Harriet actual family.(awesome)
Meh! Then after all Dreamy Eyed Rickey Nelson and his band appeared that was cool. Fast forward to the 70's and Nelson put out Garden Party. Holy shit he looked better in 1971 than 1961. The guy was a phenom....

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (VPPG8)

67 Sheesh.
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

Maybe she thought you said bare hunting?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (0eaVi)

68 Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

So did every guy in the Horde.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

69 And the other half of your penance will be one week of garden gnomes in your front yard. All staring at your house.
Posted by: scampydog

I think I'm hearing things. Sounds like someone saying "soon."

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (DgGvY)

70 https://youtu.be/PVwGO3Y4zhQ

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)

71 I was told Beto's covering all that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

To me, that one proves Democrats are just frustrated theater kids.

Act hip and cool.

Run for office, twice.

Lose.

Make money from the losing campaigns.

Act cool and hip.

Think your somebody special whose opinions matter.

Like so many of them who think their opinion matters. What is it, less than 20% approval for the Dems? There's a reason for that. Beto's one of those reasons.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)

72 Not gonna yank that taffy any more, but I think all they'd need to shoot would be picture ID to show proof of age. Private ranges and clubs of course have their own policies, but I am unaware of any visa of any kind that contains limitations on things like shooting. And there's no federal law on the matter.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (U/Byj)

73 Or in nice van, but you won't look like frigging clark grizwald. lol

In the van you'll look like Temu Epstein, so there's that. Just paint "FREE CANDY" on the sides and be done with it.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (wItF4)

74 Sheesh.
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

Maybe she thought you said bare hunting?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (0eaVi)

Gawd. I hope not. Not at our age.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

75 Mongo like this thread. Other times,
Mongo read content,
Mongo read comments,
Mongo refresh,
Mongo read fewer comments,
Just when Mongo know what to say,
Mongo sees NOOD.
Mongo not know what NOOD mean.
Have something to do with where thread go.

Posted by: Mongo at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (vd6bO)

76 These two don't have their green cards yet - Just visiting their Sis here so a simple visa.

Private ranges or clubs may have their own rules but I'm not aware of any actual laws. Purchasing requires a green card.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:29 PM (j2fld)

77 Mongo like this thread. Other times,
Mongo read content,
Mongo read comments,
Mongo refresh,
Mongo read fewer comments,
Just when Mongo know what to say,
Mongo sees NOOD.
Mongo not know what NOOD mean.
Have something to do with where thread go.
Posted by: Mongo at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (vd6bO)

**c

Mongo just small commenter in great thread of life.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (2WIwB)

78 70 Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)

Excellent.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VSht7)

79 Writers of Airplane
formerly known as 'The Three Gaymegos'

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VPPG8)

80 Writers of Airplane
formerly known as 'The Three Gaymegos'
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VPPG

Er... isn't Captain Fantastic Elton John?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:31 PM (0eaVi)

81 Just got married, my father was shutting down his Buick dealership, so I bought my first new car in years, an '85 Electra Wagon, big nine passenger jobbie, all decked out.
I had been buying a succession of early seventies GM wagons for years, so i could carry my seventeen foot canoe.
The new wife thought I was crazy.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 09, 2025 10:31 PM (n4GiU)

82 How we gonna have the berserker quote without a pic link?!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:32 PM (MGB5H)

83 Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof

So did every guy in the Horde.
Posted by: Diogenes

The blonde one looks like she'd make a real nice sandwich. Laced with arsenic. Then use you hair hair to extend her macramé fringe.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ftFVW)

84 The blonde one looks like she'd make a real nice sandwich. Laced with arsenic. Then use you hair hair to extend her macramé fringe.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 10:32

*Doof perks up*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (MGB5H)

85 How we gonna have the berserker quote without a pic link?!
Posted by: BruceWayne
------------------------
As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)

86 Wow. I’m honored to make the top tenish comments of the week. This is for all the lurkers out there that hesitate to delurk.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (fveCG)

87 Looks like the car of your cool uncle. Has the same amount of wheels as a 911 but more seating for Morons. Who likes this car? Those that appreciate things like competence and khakis. If you're the rebel type, it is pretty easy to disappear into the Midwest while enjoying AM radio.

Vedy Interesting.
-Embedded Islamic Cell Douchebags

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:35 PM (VPPG8)

88 How we gonna have the berserker quote without a pic link?!
Posted by: BruceWayne
------------------------
As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)

Ya berserker is correct.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:36 PM (MGB5H)

89 , the guy who married Olivia Newton John live down the street from me when I was a kid.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes
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Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness? Daliah Lavi used to live three doors down the street. RIP

Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.

Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon

That's all I got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)

90 Nyah~

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (Ui59G)

91 That looks a lot like a 96 Buick Roadmaster Wagon.
Posted by: Orson

I'm not sure I would admit to knowing that.

But nothing says "style" like faux woodgrain. Grandpa's pimpin' it.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (DgGvY)

92 Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

So did every guy in the Horde.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

Perhaps. But I've been lucky enough to see her for a few days while tonight's Club was under construction. It pays to be a D!

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (QMAsf)

93 How we gonna have the berserker quote without a pic link?!
Posted by: BruceWayne
------------------------
As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)
***

Ahhh. The three B's.
Beer
Bewbs.
Blo....errr...Blondes.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:38 PM (2WIwB)

94 Hey, Scampy!

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:39 PM (77rzZ)

95 May this sound echo in eternity

https://youtu.be/Mq39mQXoGZc

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:40 PM (DgGvY)

96 the guy who married Olivia Newton John live down the street from me when I was a kid.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes
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I took a leak next to COL Ollie North in the Reagan Airport.

No, I didn't talk to him there. I followed the Man Code. I waited until we were washing our hands.

"Good Afternoon, COL"

"Good Afternoon Son"

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (WzM/W)

97 The Airplane writers again proving the axiom that not all heroes wear capes...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (F3xjE)

98 Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness? Daliah Lavi used to live three doors down the street. RIP

Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.

Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon

That's all I got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)

I drank at the same small hotel bar as Telly Savalas. We raised our glasses and nodded to each other.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)

99 If there is a world where dogs don't exist I'm not interested.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 10:42 PM (viF8m)

100 29 The disco macrame picture was cruel. I'm pounding it like a screen door in a Kansas twister looking for the hidden video.
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes

One of those gals seems to have an uncovered boob. She needs to improve her macrame skills.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 09, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

101 17 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

We made it to Funkytown?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)

This Funkytown (not really safe for work, I warned you)

https://tinyurl.com/3f5c2b24

Posted by: easy the elder at August 09, 2025 10:43 PM (W6SPY)

102 Good evening morons e grazie Troika

My dad had a station wagon with wood paneling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 10:44 PM (JvZF+)

103 "One of those gals seems to have an uncovered boob. She needs to improve her macrame skills."

Five out of five Morons disagree with your criticism.

Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 10:44 PM (APp3S)

104 I drank at the same small hotel bar as Telly Savalas. We raised our glasses and nodded to each other.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)

No "who loves you, baby?" No raising of lollipops?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)

105 Club ONT Wholesome Content Department

Does the tennis-ball launcher have a sensor on the front, so it doesn't launch with the doggo right in front of it?

Because that's what my brother's dog would do. She didn't play fetch, she played goalie.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (DgGvY)

106 about the Paper Airplane. In summer 76' I( was to fly from Philly to Ft 'Lauderdale and walk my lil Sister down the isle due to the death of our father. My buddy drove me to the airport and we were early so sat aT A BAR . The bar had a wild set up with back lit quarts standing on end flowing into clear tubes ending at the valve the bartender could turn on or off.
Long story my buddy left when the departure was close. I was enamored by the whisky pouring through clear tubes and stayed long enough to miss my flight and had to book a 9 am Champaign flight to Ft Laud.. Was awesome. Only problem the wedding party stayed in a vacant family home and after the wedding I walked

There has to be a Costanza defense in here someware!! into the Maid of Honors bedroom in my under ware.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (VPPG8)

107 Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness? Daliah Lavi used to live three doors down the street. RIP

Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.

Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon

That's all I got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)
***

Well!
My brushes with greatness include Arnold Palmer, and General Schwarzkoph when he was a colonel, but the best one was Charles Lindbergh.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (2WIwB)

108 That looks a lot like a 96 Buick Roadmaster Wagon.
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (dIske)

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Hmm. I pegged it for the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, circa 1983

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (dDmld)

109 Got distracted by a bunch of sci fi trailers for movies arriving over the rest of this year. The original stories look like shit, and the rest is a bunch of retread shit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (lUFok)

110 One of those gals seems to have an uncovered boob. She needs to improve her macrame skills.
Posted by: nerdygirl

* points back at comment #64 *

Stoopid nipple-removing airbrushes!
Posted by: mikeski

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (DgGvY)

111 Thanks for the dandy Saturday Night ONT, 3 Ds!

Y'all do terrific work, I don't care what the head Ewok says...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (kB9dk)

112 I'm not sure I would admit to knowing that.

But nothing says "style" like faux woodgrain. Grandpa's pimpin' it.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (DgGvY)
______________________________

I'm not ashamed to state for the record that I owned/drove an all black (dark red leather interior) Buick Roadmaster Sedan sometime back in my hazy past. It was awesome, and all my college friends called me "The Funeral Director."

Seriously, beggars couldn't be choosers at that age, and it was loaded. Like driving your living room around.

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (dIske)

113 One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight, according to an investigative report. Another said the "weird little song" was blaring and played "over and over and over again."
----
Cruel and unusual punishment.
+++

If not loud enough to cause damage to hearing - fvck the prisoners.
If not - fvck the judges too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

114 https://youtu.be/r58GQYFZeLE

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

115 Have told this one before. At Clinton's first inaugural, friend's wife was involved with one of the parties, got us in as "volunteers" (duties so minimal can't recall what they were). Quite early, two of the first arrivals were Jim Belushi with Loretta Switt (sp? and RIP?). Talked with them quite a while, they were full of reasonably intelligent questions about inaugurations, Congress, all sorts of crap a Beltway denizen would know. Very nice people. Remember they were so full of questions and so appreciative I never got around to asking *them* any Hollyweird questions.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (U/Byj)

116 Gene Loves Jezebel were brothers and may have been twins too.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (gKWVE)

117 My dad had a station wagon with wood paneling.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Real wood paneling: sexy. pimpin'.

Woodgrain vinyl sticker: very much less so.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)

118 oops. 114 was supposed to be:

https://youtu.be/god7hAPv8f0

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

119 What was it that they played while waiting on Manuel Noriega to surrender?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (XeU6L)

120 111 Thanks for the dandy Saturday Night ONT, 3 Ds!
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Good evening, LS!

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)

121 Evenin', fappers. I'm beat to hell - did a long hike today, which included going off-trail over a boulder field to reach a summit. I was rather impressed by my hiking partner - he's not too far shy of 80 and still hitting the trails. I hope I can get around like that when (if) I hit that age.

Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 10:51 PM (APp3S)

122 My father went to high school with Mario Lanza
Frankie Avalon
Bobby Rydell
Fabian Chubby checker were form pops neighborhood

Johnny Depp was a guitar player for the KIDZ in 1984 .
My brother was bass player represented by BUCCI Artist management from Miami. meh who knew?

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (VPPG8)

123 Evenin', fappers. I'm beat to hell ...

Probably not the best way to start a post...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (2WIwB)

124 There was a guy in Cayucos (little beach town in central coast) who specialized in restoring woodies. One time at the B&B there, three beautiful woodies in the parking lot. Owners, at breakfast, said they occasionally came back on "pilgrimages" to the restoration guy. They lived not far.

Such beautiful cars. I recall a few in the neighborhood as a kid, unrestored of course, one of which used in stereotypical fashion as a surf buggy, longboards sticking out the open back window.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (U/Byj)

125 I met two of my daughter in laws brothers today. One lives in Canada and one in Abu Dhabi. Neither of them have ever held a weapon before so, as any good Moron would do, I made that happen. Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete
===

Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals?

When did that become a rule?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:54 PM (/lPRQ)

126 119 What was it that they played while waiting on Manuel Noriega to surrender?

Oh that Manuel Noriega who started/invested in Dominion voting machines? That Guy???

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:54 PM (VPPG8)

127 119 What was it that they played while waiting on Manuel Noriega to surrender?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (XeU6L)
______________

Well, you know Van Halen was in the mix with "Panama". I think I recall that they had The Clash (I fought the Law and the Law Won).

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (dIske)

128 I'm not ashamed to state for the record that I owned/drove an all black (dark red leather interior) Buick Roadmaster Sedan sometime back in my hazy past. It was awesome, and all my college friends called me "The Funeral Director."

Seriously, beggars couldn't be choosers at that age, and it was loaded. Like driving your living room around.
Posted by: Orson

You got me beat. Nothing says "this is what my high-school part time salary can afford" like a mid-80s Ford Tempo.

A rolling prophylactic. Not like there was room to get it on in the back seat, anyway, unless you had a midget fetish.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (DgGvY)

129 There was a guy in Cayucos (little beach town in central coast) who specialized in restoring woodies.

Any Girls?

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (VPPG8)

130 I caught the eye of Gene Barry and Sir Alec Guinness, on different days, at the same corner in London (I was going to my office, OK?). Got nod from Robert Plant at a Plant and Page concert.

Posted by: javems at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (8I4hW)

131 OK one more. Transatlantic flight Frankfurt-Dulles, mid-90s. I always maximize time on my feet, moving around, on long flights. Was hanging in the business class galley (I was infiltrating up from coach), as the attendants didn't mind. Casey Qasem comes in, doing the same thing, we start chatting. He was returning from Lebanon where he'd participated in a post-civil war/reconstruction thing, US-sponsored. I was returning from a pleasure trip to a post-Soviet war zone. As I was pretty familiar with the topic, he grilled me on foreign assistance and related matters he'd encountered at his event. At the end - of course - I said I had to ask him *his* all-time top song. And - of course - I forget what he said!

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (U/Byj)

132 >What was it that they played while waiting on Manuel Noriega to surrender?

Posted by: Mike Hammer
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"Panama"
Van Halen

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (AOsQT)

133 At the Waffle House this morning. Comely server was singing, I Think We're Alone Now, then commented how she loved that Tiffany song. Record scratch.

Had to put her some knowledge to Tommy James and the Shondells. She took it well. Gave me a high five without muttering Bless your heart...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 09, 2025 10:58 PM (F3xjE)

134 I'm pickin' up good vibrators
She's giving me excitations (Oom-bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrations, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations, bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrators, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations, bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrators, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations)

- WNBA Fight Song

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:58 PM (L/fGl)

135 Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals?

When did that become a rule?

--------

There's a major industry in Vegas where certain ranges ferry in foreign nationals (overwhelmingly Chinese) to have their first experience handling a firearm. For an extra fee they can even try full automatic.

The RSOs have a helluva time keeping them from aiming at each other for their once-in-a-lifetime Instagram posts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 10:59 PM (dDmld)

136 Since my excuse referenced this, and we're in a funky mood, I might as well share...

https://youtu.be/dXcFFNx0_g8

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 11:00 PM (VSht7)

137 One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight

If not loud enough to cause damage to hearing - fvck the prisoners.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

https://youtu.be/POdbe-_bYbs

Posted by: mikeski regrets nothing at August 09, 2025 11:00 PM (DgGvY)

138 Good evening Ds and wonderful Horde!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:01 PM (L9kkv)

139 Cicero at the indoor ranges where I used to belong it was always a Double Your Situational Awareness moment when groups of obvious novice foreigners walked in. Now I recall at one place there'd occasionally be Europeans, too.

At my club, since it's a weekday, we rarely have newbies to worry about, though we like it when we do, because they're generally very open and we can give them an instant intensive course in etiquette and safety.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)

140 Good evening, COMM.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:04 PM (41CYW)

141 On a flight from NC to Ftlsuf my brothers 4 yo daughter grabbed the nose of the guy in the neaxt seat. He was Columbia Records R&B top exec. He invited my brother to Boca Resort Hotel for the anual Columbia Records showcase of the coming years bands. Alice cooper was a short dude with a tiny sholder spread. Living Color who were never heard of were the product onstage at the shocase dinner.
bands are the same as a can of soup new flavor.
You think you chose to like them but radio stations have a scale of minimum/medium/heavy rotation..

It's a club and you're not in it

-George Carlin

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 11:05 PM (VPPG8)

142 >>One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight
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PFFT!!! Ain't nuthin'!!!

One Christmas season, I had to listen to the *&^%^()&*^ Chipmunks' Christmas Album ALL day, EVERY day, for a whole effing WEEK.

Where's my reparationz????

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)

143 Can relate to nothing - not a thing in this post. Pretty wild actually. Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.

Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)

144 One Christmas season, I had to listen to the *&^%^()&*^ Chipmunks' Christmas Album ALL day, EVERY day, for a whole effing WEEK.

Where's my reparationz????
Posted by: JQ
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Flashbacks...not good ones. While in college I worked a Christmas season in a retail store.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:07 PM (41CYW)

145 Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m)

146 No "who loves you, baby?" No raising of lollipops?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)

No. It was Christmastime in a small swanky hotel bar on Central Park South.

I was there for an office Christmas party somewhere upstairs. I was starting the party early. He was just sitting in a corner of the small bar having something straight on the rocks. He looked like he didn't want to talk so I didn't bother him, just acknowledged him with a raised glass and a nod. And he reciprocated.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:09 PM (gKDq2)

147 While in college I worked a Christmas season in a retail store.
Posted by: scampydog

"Once bitten... twiiice shy"

Posted by: George Michael at August 09, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)

148 yeah special meetings .

STARSTRUCK
I fapped to a movie with Jayne Mansfield once I never saw really anyone having a catholic family and nuns at school where girls were reprimanded for altering school uniforms above the knee..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 11:11 PM (VPPG8)

149 It says it's a 3D ONT, but I just can't see it, Elaine!

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at August 09, 2025 11:11 PM (G5+As)

150 Weee cAn HaRdlY sTaNd ThE wAAaaIt

pLeeZe ChiStmAs DoNt bE LaaaTe!

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

151 You guys paying attention to how Canadian provincial governments are proving beyond any doubt that they are clinically insane?

Nova Scotia won't let anyone go out into the woods due to fire risks. It's a $25,000 fine if they catch you. Newfoundland just one upped that to $100,000 fine and prison time.

No hiking, no camping, no fishing, no hunting no nothing. They, basically, have negated one of the few remaining attributes of their country.

I wonder how that would play down here in the states. I think we might be a little more spiteful than they are.

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)

152 Can relate to nothing - not a thing in this post. Pretty wild actually. Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.
Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)

Send ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf)

153 At the end - of course - I said I had to ask him *his* all-time top song. And - of course - I forget what he said!
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (U/Byj)

Well damn rhomboid, that's just mean.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:14 PM (2WIwB)

154 If not loud enough to cause damage to hearing - fvck the prisoners.
If not - fvck the judges too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

Alternate theory: The two guards were no-good-niks, and this was the only charge that the bosses could get to stick.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 11:14 PM (bKn1x)

155 Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness?
===

My one brush with greatness?

Sum Dude mistook me for somebody famous...
"Excuse me, are you Johnny Depp".

To which I responded,
"Who the fuck is Johnny Depp?"

Wifey laughed her ass off... I really didn't know who "Johnny Depp" is, and now that I know, it's really quite embarrassing.
===

Politicians aren't great but inadvertantly found my self within rock-chucking distance of every President (some multiple times) since HW Bush, though technically MushBrain was just VP then.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:16 PM (/lPRQ)

156 was Biden ever President?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 11:18 PM (gKWVE)

157 was Biden ever President?
Posted by: gKWVE

His meat sack sat in the Oval Office sometimes. Does that count?

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 11:19 PM (ftFVW)

158 I've seen plenty of foreign nationals shooting at ranges. The reason I knew they were foreign nationals is I saw their passports being held behind the counter while they were shooting on the range.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2025 11:19 PM (VCgbV)

159 >was Biden ever President?

Posted by: gKWVE
----

he was in the room

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (AOsQT)

160 152 Doof

IKR?!
In other words...'Get off my lawn!' You damn kids!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (L9kkv)

161 I still stand by my comment in 107 and Charles Lindbergh, but over the Fourth, I was.on the golf course when PDT played through. The agent that told me No Pictures was hawt, right down to the glock on her thigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (2WIwB)

162 Evening all :-)

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (sPQoU)

163 Although I hope to live a good long life, I wonder if I can go to my grave never having heard Baby Shark.

Or that cars for kids or whatever it is.

(Things I only know about from the Moron Horde.)

Bad enough the goofy songs already in my head.
https://youtu.be/ynWhozyOoZQ
https://youtu.be/H-K2DZojWi0
https://youtu.be/5jV-E09efRE
https://youtu.be/C6KEuseUTmA
https://youtu.be/ge9Ou3-YyqU&t=26
https://youtu.be/C6KEuseUTmA

Posted by: mindful webworker - brain full of earworms at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (7W0uI)

164 Send ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf)

. . . Wait for it. . . . Wait for it. . . . Wait for it -- There it is!

There's always one.

Geez Louise and FFS and all that. A post to bloody complain about content? Well, somebody's shit sure as hell doesn't stink.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)

165 Not even the dogs with the automatic ball chucker?

Tough crowd.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:24 PM (bss/y)

166 The energy is all on our side. This is our country and its spectacular.

https://tinyurl.com/z7hdffa3

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 11:25 PM (viF8m)

167 Ok, gotta kill the Chipmunk earworm. This ought to do it...

https://youtu.be/PeMvMNpvB5M

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

168 Chuck Tanner, WS winning manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, lived down the street from me. Nice guy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 11:27 PM (qKYfj)

169 Geez Louise and FFS and all that. A post to bloody complain about content? Well, somebody's shit sure as hell doesn't stink.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)

I, for one, want to complain about the lack of gladiator movies and documentaries about Turkish prisons.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (bKn1x)

170 JQ, The Club appreciates your bartending, late night snacks, clean up, and your unknown - until now, DJ skills.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)

171 Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)

Is your reddit app broken?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (gKWVE)

172 Ok.
3 cocktails in.
I'm ready for this here 'Group Therepy'🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (L9kkv)

173 I, for one, want to complain about the lack of gladiator movies and documentaries about Turkish prisons.
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (bKn1x)

Yo Pete!
Take a trip to Sinop Turkey. The prison there dates back to the times of the Hittites. Trust me...you'll love it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB)

174 I do detect a paucity of large breasts... in the post at least. I speak not for the ettes.

https://tinyurl.com/bde2sxe6

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)

175 Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)

*blushes*

Aw, shucks. Just having fun!

Thanks. Glad to ~~not get kicked out yet~~ be here!

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

176 Just finished 'Light at the Edge of the World', started off a little slow but overall a good watch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (xFREA)

177 Yo Pete!
Take a trip to Sinop Turkey. The prison there dates back to the times of the Hittites. Trust me...you'll love it.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB)

Huh. Mithridates.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (bss/y)

178 Ok.
3 cocktails in.
I'm ready for this here 'Group Therepy'🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (L9kkv)

So...what cha drinkin'?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (2WIwB)

179 Huh, had a random thought and figured I would check on State of Decay 3 ( a zombie/base building game series I have enjoyed in the past.)

Looks like they might of kilt it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (bss/y)

180 'May this sound echo in eternity'
---

Ha; There's a generation of people who don't know what that sound is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (xFREA)

181 Ha; There's a generation of people who don't know what that sound is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (xFREA)

It's not Rush. I hope it's not Rush.

Not a fan of Geddy Lee.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:39 PM (bss/y)

182 Re: Baby Shark...

Making a note of the Judge's name in case I ever get a chance to vote against...

Posted by: RandomDave at August 09, 2025 11:40 PM (aJQbY)

183 BOING!

Reporting in on tasting from a gift bottle of Breckenridge Bourbon.

I wouldn't buy it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (PlmO8)

184
Comely server was singing, I Think We're Alone Now

I think I'm a clone now

https://youtu.be/1kw_d3d0XAo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (63Dwl)

185 Earlier this year I took a co-worker out shooting for the first time. He grew up in Belgium until his last year in high school. He had never touched a gun before.

Turned out he was a natural shooter, he just didn't know it.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (BbZ1G)

186 I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 11:45 PM (AOsQT)

187 186 I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy
Posted by: Don Black
-------------

They'd surely surrender.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:47 PM (xFREA)

188 I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy
Posted by: Don Black
---------
I'm sure this will stir up some shit. Pink Floyd is ear poison to me.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:47 PM (41CYW)

189 https://youtu.be/m4tJSn0QtME

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

190 I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy

Pretty much any Canadian band would do.

Except Triumph. Trying to demoralize your enemy with "Never Surrender" would be a huge mistake.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 11:49 PM (lUFok)

191 Loading up game roms on my new handheld.

Going to be a tight collection, whittling down 2tb of roms to 512gb.

And at the end of the day, I'll probably end up playing the same 20 games I've been playing for 40 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 11:50 PM (XV/Pl)

192 Klepto Kitty made me lol. 🤣

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 09, 2025 11:50 PM (Ezs10)

193 Alrighty... got to get shuteye. Long day tomorrow.

G'night, horde. Thanks for lettin' me play a while.

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:51 PM (rdVOm)

194 @186

>>I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy

Rush are harmless little fuzzballs, the deep guttural sound of Cookie Monster Metal is better suited for the job.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 11:51 PM (XV/Pl)

195 G'night, JQ. Thanks for the tunes.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (41CYW)

196 'May this sound echo in eternity'
---
Ha; There's a generation of people who don't know what that sound is.
Posted by: Braenyard

Almost 2 generations, now.

Gen alpha never heard it.

Gen Z thinks of it the way Gen X thinks of the sound of corduroy pants: something their parents subjected them to when they were little.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (DgGvY)

197 Gotta go. Bad Blue Top 20:

https://tinyurl.com/28empa6p

Waiting for the arrests, trials, and sentencings.

Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (PlmO8)

198 Pretty much any Canadian band would do.

Except Triumph. Trying to demoralize your enemy with "Never Surrender" would be a huge mistake.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Corey Hart, for the same reason, strangely enough.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 11:54 PM (DgGvY)

199 Send ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf

🔥🔥🔥

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 11:55 PM (+dm09)

200 Off to bed, night!

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 11:56 PM (+dm09)

201 178 D

Vodka/lemonade...3 was just right🙃

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:57 PM (L9kkv)

202 >>Can relate to nothing - not a thing in this post. Pretty wild actually. Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.

There has never been a time when ace posted 24/7. Not ever.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 12:01 AM (viF8m)

203 189 https://youtu.be/m4tJSn0QtME
Posted by: JQ at Augus
---

Good one

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:03 AM (xFREA)

204
Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.

_________

Removing myself from your lawn right now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 12:07 AM (kkTda)

205 In line with JQ's, Without Love,

I dedicate this love's lost to the memory of my ex.

youtube.com/watch?v=w9iTjVfh558

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:08 AM (xFREA)

206 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

Not for 72 hours!

Posted by: Lumed Blewed and Tattooed at August 10, 2025 12:08 AM (144I4)

207 Interesting local news article this week. (Florence, Oregon, is the same place that infamously tried to blow up a whale back in 1970.)

Florence man loses arm while trying to stop car thieves with grenade

According to a probable cause affidavit, David Ray Allen attempted to deter suspected car thieves in June by throwing the device, resulting in the loss of part of his forearm and hand.

Allen reported seeing four individuals near his vehicle at 43rd and Oak Streets in the middle of the night. He called the Florence police, who discovered his injuries upon arrival. Allen said the grenade exploded in his hand as he tried to throw it at the suspects. Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.

Posted by: Frankie at August 10, 2025 12:09 AM (nVUa4)

208 Akkkkshully, I believe that the last use for whale oil is lubricating watch mechanisms. Supposedly still superior to any alternative.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (rFBCq)

Sperm whale, it's time has come.

*off whole body deodorant for pits, tits and ass*

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 10, 2025 12:12 AM (144I4)

209 end ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025

Be better doof , do better

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:14 AM (MGB5H)

210 >Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper
----

I had a shower earlier
I'm jam up and jelly tight

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 12:15 AM (AOsQT)

211 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper

Pretty much any Canadian band would do.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Canadian and funky? I can do that.

https://youtu.be/fmxbaHXOXGw

Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:15 AM (DgGvY)

212 Allen reported seeing four individuals near his vehicle at 43rd and Oak Streets in the middle of the night. He called the Florence police, who discovered his injuries upon arrival. Allen said the grenade exploded in his hand as he tried to throw it at the suspects. Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie at August 10, 2025 12:09 AM (nVUa4)

Piker. He should have doused himself in gasoline, lit it, and then run screaming towards the miscreants. That would have certainly chased them off.

Posted by: Dept of Bad Ideas at August 10, 2025 12:17 AM (bKn1x)

213
Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie

"Grenade" or home made firecracker?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 12:18 AM (63Dwl)

214 Demands for accountability from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) and the American people bore fruit this week, as it was reported that multiple senior FBI officials were fired.

Among the alleged “deep state” actors was now-former Special Agent Walter Giardina said to have once instructed fellow agents to use false justification to “dig around” on President Donald Trump.

Efforts to purge “political weaponization” in the federal government found FBI Director Kash Patel citing “poor judgment” in terminating an agent connected to the Steele Dossier and more.

bizpacreview.com/.../ patel-fires-deep-state-

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:19 AM (xFREA)

215 Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie

🎶 One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong 🎶

Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (DgGvY)

216 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM

For sure matched my lifetime deadlift and hadn't been training it all.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (MGB5H)

217 "Grenade" or home made firecracker?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 12:18 AM (63Dwl)

Petard? As in hoisted on?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (bKn1x)

218 50,000+ fans for Banana Ball at Coors Field tonight. 31 runs scored. 20,000+ on Youtube and the game was on ESPN 2 also.

Posted by: Yellow Fever at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (G5+As)

219 Nick Sortor@nicksortor

BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building

Over 100 black teens have taken over the park, terrorizing the neighborhood

FBI and DHS responding now

TAKE OVER DC, PRESIDENT TRUMP!

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (TGPs7)

220 >>>213
Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie
------------

We have modern devices that are factory safe to the user if used properly. - > see your local firearms store

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (xFREA)

221 AOL says it will discontinue dial-up internet on September 30
- - - - --
Great, just after I got my landline repaired. >:-(

Hopefully I can find a replacement service...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)

222 There should be no homes, apartments, abodes, dwellings, etc. in DC. Come to DC to work then go home to VA or MD.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (xFREA)

223 Used to be Democrats lived in Maryland and Republicans lived in Virginia.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:24 AM (xFREA)

224 BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building

Over 100 black teens have taken over the park, terrorizing the neighborhood

FBI and DHS responding now

TAKE OVER DC, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (TGPs7)

Trump is a racist. That's just boys being boys.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:24 AM (MGB5H)

225 We have modern devices that are factory safe to the user if used properly. - > see your local firearms store
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (xFREA)

Just because a feller gets a half dozen convictions for meth possession, he isn't allowed to buy a gun anymore?

I thought this was America!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (bKn1x)

226
Well, I see I completely missed an astronomy themed hobby thread this evening. I was mowing....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)

227 Fermented Stevia Extract Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells In Lab Tests
Saturday, Aug 09, 2025 - 08:00 PM
Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times via zero

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:27 AM (xFREA)

228 Well, I see I completely missed an astronomy themed hobby thread this evening. I was mowing....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)

Earthly demands.

Keeps one grounded.

Posted by: RickZ at August 10, 2025 12:28 AM (gKDq2)

229 New York Post@nypost

Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:29 AM (TGPs7)

230 Just because a feller gets a half dozen convictions for meth possession, he isn't allowed to buy a gun anymore?

I thought this was America!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
-------------------

One of the benefits of being a law abiding citizen.
Violently break the law and lose serious privileges.
Can't vote anymore either.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:30 AM (xFREA)

231 Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

Range? What is this range you speak of?

Posted by: Somewhere west of the Rockys at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (5UJkg)

232 I wonder how that would play down here in the states. I think we might be a little more spiteful than they are.
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)

OK, I believe enough time has passed that maybe the statute of limitations has run out. I confess that I tore down all of the police tape on the playground on Government Hill during the Covid crapola. I shoved it in a public trash can and moved on. Kids gotta play, they just do.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (1Gsou)

233 Well, I see I completely missed an astronomy themed hobby thread this evening. I was mowing....
Posted by: publius

Your fault for choosing Earth. You wouldn't have to mow on any of the other planets in the solar system.

Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (DgGvY)

234 Range? What is this range you speak of?
Posted by: Somewhere west of the Rockys at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (5UJkg)

Yeah, that's just my back yard, I believe.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (1Gsou)

235 BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building

What park? The Navy Yard is a military installation.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (qKYfj)

236 221 AOL says it will discontinue dial-up internet on September 30
- - - - --
Great, just after I got my landline repaired. >:-(

Hopefully I can find a replacement service...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)

I want my
I want my
I want my Web TV ..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (wKhFy)

237 Evening, Three Amigos, and ONT Horde! Back from Brahmarama in Elnora. A Brazilian cowboy was overall winner, with an 87.5 point ride. The wild cow milking was a hoot. Had a good time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (r3G7K)

238
Well, DUT1, the difference between UT1, astronomical time (this is the closest thing to the old GMT, but much more precise) and UTC/Zulu hit +71 ms today, as of 8/10 Zulu.

This is the highest it's been since July of 2018. And this increase is entirely due to the the Erf speeding up. The leap second at midnight, rollover to 2017 knocked it up to 0.6 ms, and it was steadily falling going negative. But the Erf speeded it up a smidge around 2020. 2022 was the fastest mean spin since atomic clock regime started. And it has increased back to the positive side entirely due to that speed up.

I'm still thinking a negative leap second is probably not going to be needed by 2029/2030, but it is possible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

239 New York Post@nypost
Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo
Posted by: Mister Ghost

* checks mug shot *

* sighs *

Posted by: The MSM at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (DgGvY)

240 >Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way:
---

what kind of beer

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 12:34 AM (AOsQT)

241
I think Erf chose me, rather than me choosing it. Of course, I can't remember that far back.

Riding a tractor on Venus would be quite hot, and Mars would be too cold. I wonder how Martian regolith would plow?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:35 AM (w6EFb)

242 229 New York Post@nypost

Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo
Posted by: Mister Ghost

youtu.be/0968f0VWvd8

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 12:35 AM (qKYfj)

243 Hopefully I can find a replacement service...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)

I want my
I want my
I want my Web TV ..
Posted by: Joe Kidd

I still subscribe to Wometco Home Theater.

Posted by: Old Fossil at August 10, 2025 12:36 AM (G5+As)

244 Brahma's are really sweet till they aren't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:38 AM (xFREA)

245 I met two of my daughter in laws brothers today. One lives in Canada and one in Abu Dhabi. Neither of them have ever held a weapon before so, as any good Moron would do, I made that happen. Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)

I have shot at several ranges in Arizona, and I am a foreign national. Nobody ever said "boo!".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:39 AM (r3G7K)

246 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban. If one of those wagons passed by me at the right price, I would snag it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:43 AM (r3G7K)

247 Never heard that foreign nationals couldn't fire weapon in the U.S.

Tito's commercial of that Englishman firing that pistol - yeah, I think it's OK. Maybe some silly PA law but not in America.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:45 AM (xFREA)

248
Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban. If one of those wagons passed by me at the right price, I would snag it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Beef up the suspension a bit and it's a ride.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:46 AM (xFREA)

249 Baby steps. He was just prepping the battle space.

So the next time they visit, he will take them to the range, with the story that he "knows some guys" and pulled some strings for them.

They will be so grateful, and their visit will just happen to coincide with the house needing painting, the driveway sealed, etc...

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 10, 2025 12:47 AM (144I4)

250
Does this no foreign national apply only for commercial things like ranges? I'd assume it would be a different story say on private property, with no commercial activity? A foreigner visits and you let him shoot on your own private property. If that's illegal as well, I'd have a big problem with that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:48 AM (w6EFb)

251 Dammit. Can't sleep.

*switches on the deep fryer*

There's a large tray of egg rolls in the walk-in. Gonna cook 'em up. Gallon of homemade sweet n sour for dipping, too.

Posted by: JQ at August 10, 2025 12:51 AM (rdVOm)

252 Real wood paneling: sexy. pimpin'.

Woodgrain vinyl sticker: very much less so.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)

I know a guy who is restoring a '51 Monarch (Canadian Mercury) woody wagon, and it is going to be a no holds barred restoration. And the wood work is real maple and mahogany. It will be a beautiful piece when it is done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:52 AM (r3G7K)

253
I just looked this up, at least an overview. Non-immigrant aliens (those on a visa not on a green-card track) may not own, purchase, or "possess" firearms or ammunition.

Now, what is the meaning of "possess" here? If I let a foreign national under that definition shoot a gun of mine, is he "possessing" it? I'm not renting it to him, just letting him shoot it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:53 AM (w6EFb)

254
That doesn't apply to any country on the "visa waiver" program agreement, whatever that is. I'd assume Canada was in on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)

255 Can relate to nothing - not a thing in this post. Pretty wild actually. Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.
Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)

Well, as a has-bean, you oughta know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:56 AM (r3G7K)

256 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Wow! Tonight's ONT is FULL of content - kind of like the Sunday New York Times newspapers used to be (maybe still are)! Thanks for all of the hard work, D's 😘😘😘

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 01:00 AM (SRRAx)

257 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:43 AM (r3G7K)

I am a fan of wildly overpowered station wagons. Ultimate Q Ships. Nobody notices you and off you go.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 01:01 AM (iGZ9n)

258
According to Grok, "possess" the way the courts have interpreted means "having physical control of". So, yep, letting such a restricted foreign national that doesn't fall into any of the exceptions shoot a gun on your own private property would be a violation of this provision.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

259 BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building

Ok, delved a bit further with this and it's around the Metro Station there. Lots of offices, hotels, and condos/apts there. Near the Nats ballpark. Lots of bars and nightclubs too. I don't recall any parks there but its been a few years since I was in that area.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (qKYfj)

260

When's the last time you saw a station wagon? Wouldn't it be noticeable?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (63Dwl)

261 According to Grok, "possess" the way the courts have interpreted means "having physical control of". So, yep, letting such a restricted foreign national that doesn't fall into any of the exceptions shoot a gun on your own private property would be a violation of this provision.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

Sounds like the sort of thing that would only ever be prosecuted if something bad happened while the foreigner was using the weapon, like a negligent discharge resulting in injury or death.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:07 AM (On+XH)

262 When's the last time you saw a station wagon? Wouldn't it be noticeable?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (63Dwl)

They are really only noticeable if you are inclined to notice them. An awful lot of folks are really terribly incurious about cars.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:09 AM (On+XH)

263 >>>So, yep, letting such a restricted foreign national that doesn't fall into any of the exceptions shoot a gun on your own private property would be a violation of this provision.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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They can kiss a pig.
_private property

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:09 AM (xFREA)

264 Top pic needs a theremin to go with the therepy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:10 AM (On+XH)

265 Went to WTOP News and the website has nothing on the front page. I did chuckle at a headline though.

Trump administration slashes DC’s security funding by 44%

That's FEMA funding they're whining about. I did not know FEMA provided law enforcement. Something called FEMA Urban Security Fund was cut. I suspect the money never went to fund security.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 01:11 AM (qKYfj)

266 Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.

Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 01:17 AM (Kdsvb)

267 So, today I went to Three Hills to hear a campaign speech from Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party Of Canada leader who is running for a House of Commons seat in my riding. He gave a good speech, pressed most of the right buttons. They had a meet and greet. I stood in line for 25 minutes or so, got to meet him, shake hands, and share a few words. I said, "One thing I did not hear: an end to subsidies and incentives for wind turbines. You know they are a fraud, and a net drain on the economy." "That is on our agenda. Believe it." Me, "one other thing, shitcan supply management (my exact words)." "Agreed."

I was pleased to hear that.

He is a good speaker, has an easy manner about him, and does not come across as a phony or a stuffed shirt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (On+XH)

268 Wasn't there a picture, some years ago, of a FEMA director and his secretary in a hotel terrace bathtub drinking champagne?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (xFREA)

269
And it looks like state laws can go further on this. Canada and the UK and Australia and a bunch of others are in on this visa waiver thing, and this doesn't apply to them. However, a state law could restrict them beyond federal law.

Looking, here in SC, the only problem is illegal aliens. I'm A-OK with that. It would be a felony to knowingly sell or give an illegal a firearm. I think even "possess" would fall under that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (w6EFb)

270
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case

I used to drive a Fiat X1/9. Everybody blocked my view.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (63Dwl)

271 Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 01:17 AM (Kdsvb)

And SUV's come with all-wheel or 4-wheel drive. Very rare on wagons. AMC Eagle, maybe some Subarus?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:22 AM (On+XH)

272 Looking, here in SC, the only problem is illegal aliens. I'm A-OK with that. It would be a felony to knowingly sell or give an illegal a firearm. I think even "possess" would fall under that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (w6EFb)

Well, an illegal alien is technically a felon, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:24 AM (On+XH)

273 And SUV's come with all-wheel or 4-wheel drive. Very rare on wagons. AMC Eagle, maybe some Subarus?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:22 AM (On+XH)

Audi and Volvo make AWD wagons. Think Mercedes has one as well

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 01:26 AM (iGZ9n)

274 270
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case

I LOVED my 1984 Chevy K5 Blazer. I drove it until 2002 and it had almost 300,000 miles on it. It was the first car I ever owned.

Many many hours on the road with my boys and Rush Limbaugh. Ferries. Parks. Mountains. Woods. Towing broncos out of deep sand on the coast. I freaking loved that rig. I had to drive backwards and jostle the steering wheel to disengage the hubs out of 4wd.

It was a beast. 13mpg. Hwy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 01:27 AM (1Bcgn)

275 Long before (eons), the illegal thing was a topic. One neighborhood over, a criminal (you guessed that one) robbing a convince store was shot dead by a Mexican National (patron).
The store gave him an award and sponsored his citizenship.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:29 AM (xFREA)

276 It's certainly the case here, apparently also in NV, and I imagine everywhere - ranges that rent firearms rent to non-citizens all the time. As I said, it appeared to be up to half the traffic at two indoor ranges I used to belong to, on weekdays anyway. Foreign students, Asians, mostly Chinese. Green card required for purchase, but as a practical matter and probably legal too, non-citizens on non-immigrant visas can rent and shoot.

And AOP no, being in the US without status (illegally) is not always in itself a felony, but a civil violation. Unauthorized re-entry after removal (deportation) - and a list of other things - becomes a felony.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:36 AM (U/Byj)

277 But AOP you were probably asking in the context of firearms, and there, illegal aliens cannot purchase firearms (though I'm not sure there's a positive exclusion per se, that is they're "prohibited persons" - it's just that there's no way for them to legally qualify).

Legal permanents (green cards) *may* purchase firearms. Not sure, but probably those here on diplomatic status as well.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:38 AM (U/Byj)

278 But AOP you were probably asking in the context of firearms, and there, illegal aliens cannot purchase firearms (though I'm not sure there's a positive exclusion per se, that is they're "prohibited persons" - it's just that there's no way for them to legally qualify).

Legal permanents (green cards) *may* purchase firearms. Not sure, but probably those here on diplomatic status as well.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:38 AM (U/Byj)

I know that Arizona police are pretty chill about Canadian snowbirds possessing firearms. A guy I know was going through a nasty divorce, and his soon-to-be ex scooped up a bunch of his firearms and tried to dump them on the cops in Apache Junction. They kindly told her to not be doing that shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:48 AM (On+XH)

279 I am almost 100% current with mowing the "lawns" here at Peon Manor. A few small patches remain to be done, and they can wait until the next general mow is needed, and go to the top of the rotation. One puzzling thing I saw today: a neighbor to the south of me was swathing and baling what looked to be a real fine crop of grain. Maybe it was timothy hay? Dunno. Or maybe the price of feed for cattle has shot way up, and cutting it for hay is more lucrative than waiting a couple more weeks, and combining it for the grain?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:56 AM (On+XH)

280 Hey Horde, today I babysat the grandkids, came home and showered and went next door to a neighbor's Saturday summer bash. I have napped for a while and read most of the comments here, but I have gone down more than a few rabbit holes. How are you all, at least those of you still awake. Just poured myself a Chivas.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 02:06 AM (0nHVk)

281 Well, past midnight here, and I am ready for bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 02:12 AM (On+XH)

282 Club ONT regrets that the M&Ms in the large jar on the bar are not equally distributed in color

Several decades ago - long before the Internet - one of our engineering friends (all of our friends are engineers) was stuck having to babysit some project in the lab on second shift for several weeks. He ended up getting lots of snacks from the vending machines - one of his favorites was M&Ms.

Being an engineer, he would pour the contents of the package out onto his desk, then sort them by color. He found himself counting the number of each color, and he started to notice a pattern in the distribution of the various colors.

Our friend LOVES to make graphs of things, so he plotted a graph of the colors, and sure enough, over the course of a couple of weeks, A pattern did, indeed, emerge.

He wanted to confirm his hypothesis, so he write a letter to the M&M company telling them what he had observed, and as king if they had some "formula" for how many M&MS of each color went into each bag.

Lo and behold, someone from the company actually wrote him back and said that yes, they did have a certain percentage of each color in all of their bags. (Cont.)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 02:16 AM (SRRAx)

283 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper)
SLC-40 - CCSFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 10, 2025
Launch Time: 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC, 14:57 CEST)

https://youtu.be/YEVD9hnk0YU

Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 02:19 AM (sPQoU)

284 (Cont.). He was telling all of his coworkers about this, and the co-op student they had that semester - a young lady who was of Asian descent but who had been born in this country so didn't have the Asian accent - looked at him and said, "I think they know you a geek"

Everyone just lost it 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 02:20 AM (SRRAx)

285 {{{Teresa}}} I am laughing so hard !!!

While his baby sister was sleeping my grandson and I had fun with stomp rockets in the back yard. He is a great little guy, we have tons of fun together.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 02:46 AM (0nHVk)

286 There is a federal law which prohibits non-resident foreigners from using or possessing firearms in the United States. Violation is a federal felony.

Most ranges seem blissfully unaware of this law.

There are several exceptions to this law:

1) Foreign police or military personnel while on assignment in the United States.

2) Persons with a valid hunting license in any state.

3) Persons participating in a target shooting competition or practicing for such a competition.

Posted by: Engineer at August 10, 2025 02:47 AM (jGCIA)

287 I am off to sleep, Horde, I remember when you couldn't get a seat at the bar here on Saturday nights. I still love you guys, male and female.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:11 AM (0nHVk)

288 OK, you are all getting tucked in and wished the sweetest of dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:31 AM (0nHVk)

289 288 OK, you are all getting tucked in and wished the sweetest of dreams.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:31 AM (0nHVk)

Thank you DDS!

All the best to you also and always.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 03:42 AM (QGaXH)

290 It's tomorrow's wake up time

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 03:57 AM (+qU29)

291 Tech thread is upstairs

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:31 AM (+qU29)

292 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)

Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 8/9/2025

Taken

The last time I had to fill a post in the middle of a longer run, I talked about Bill & Ted and the three films the two dudes, focusing on how the three movies establish, break, and then retreat into formula. With that recently in my mind and a new hole forming in the middle of another run, my mind turned to the Taken franchise, a quick trilogy of films that blew up and went away almost as quickly at the box office.

Largely the brainchild of French director, Luc Besson, who cowrote (with Robert Mark Kamen) and produced all three films, it started as just...an action movie. Originally mean to star Jeff Daniels, he cast Liam Neeson once Daniels dropped out of the production, and the tight, 90-minute story of a retired CIA agent jetting to Paris to undo a sex trafficking ring run by Albanian gangsters in order to save his daughter became a surprise hit.

Made for $25 million, it ended up making over $200 million at the worldwide box office. And where there is success in the movie industry, even if based in France through EuropaCorp., Besson's production company, there will be more attempts to capture it. So, Besson wrote and produced two more until the third one which...made over $300 million off of a relatively modest $48 million production budget.

That there haven't been more confounds me, but there was a television series (starring Clive Standen as the main character, Brian Mills) based on the idea that ran for two seasons, so maybe that's where the energy for the franchise died out.

Anyway, the franchise interests me more for artistic purposes than commercial, so let's talk about the logic of sequels.

Take 2

The first film in the franchise is a lot like the first John Wick film: a very simple premise of revenge that sees a retired, professional killer go on a rampage. I completely get this genre of movies. They're fun as we witness an accomplished, competent professional do a professional job with little extra business. Being 90 minutes long really helps things along as well because there's no time for side-business. They have one hour and thirty minutes to barrel through everything before the credits.

The second film can't do the same thing. Where the first film kept reminding me of John Wick (which came out later, admittedly, the same year as the third Taken film), the second film instantly reminded me of the Death Wish sequels. Charles Bronson keeps finding increasingly distant relatives and friends to kill a bunch of people over. Well, in the second, Brian Mills' family, including his ex-wife, decide to surprise him in Istanbul, a roughly 11-hour car ride from Albania, and Mills just...accepts it with a smile.

He goes on a date with his ex-wife, even, leaving Kim alone in the hotel. Nevermind that Kim ends up fine, the only way that danger happens is because Mills...just lets it happen despite a recent history of his daughter being kidnapped by Albanian gangsters who might not be that far away. So, why does this happen? So the movie can happen.

I think back to my admiration of the weird turn in direction that Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey took from the original film, killing the characters and having them go through the afterlife instead of having them do another report, wishing that Besson and Kamen had gone off in a weird direction. Having Mills be a worker in a sewer to make ends meet and then facing down a mysterious creature who steals his daughter through her bathtub, or something. Set it up quick, and get him moving fast. Instead, the second film's first act is interminably slow as it sets things up, in particular the effort to repair the relationship between Mills and his ex-wife Lenore (played by Famke Janssen).

However, there is cleverness in the script despite the tortured beginning. It's not Kim, the daughter, who gets taken. It's Mills and Lenore. Mills has to guide Kim to finding him, and we get that same flavor of tense, accelerated problem solving (without much action because Kim is a teenaged girl with no combat training) as she uses grenades to create sound and help direct her to him through his instruction. It's actually quite fun. The movie as a whole flounders a good bit in the first and third acts, but that second act is a take on the original material with a fun twist. Could they have done more around it? Sure, but I'm happy we got at least that much.

Take 3

I was surprised at the attempt to actually play with the formula established in the first film through the second film, but the third film tosses all of it aside. I don't mind that in general (think back to my imagined first sequel idea of Mills chasing a monster through the sewers), but the move is to the laziest of directions: loud action.

I'm not one to demand adherence to formula just for the sake of formula. I often advocate for active movements away from formula in sequels, but as I noted in my Bill & Ted post, that effort often ends up not being done well, and Taken 3 is a good example of that.

I think the key to understand is that the first two films are not action movies. The appeal is a professional man doing professional things to cut through chaos with a clear goal. The action is present, but it's mostly incidental (and also kind of pedestrian in execution). That's not what the third film is. It's Mills, again stupid in order to make the film happen, having to investigate a shadowy conspiracy around Lenore's death that involves her current husband, Shaun, and a Russian gangster.

The break from the first two films by not bringing in Albanian gangsters again is fine. The change in genre, from action-thriller to outright action, could be fine. The movement to a shadowy conspiracy that Mills needs to unravel instead of just cut through could be fine. And yet, it ends up just noise. You have to cancel out who Mills is, again, just to get the film to start, including retconning stuff from the first film (he did a deep background check on Stuart that didn't pick up that he did business with a known gun runner?), and the investigation gets sidetracked for long stretches in favor of middling action sequences, the problem being that Mills often doesn't have a clear goal of why he's there. He's being chased instead of chasing, making him reactive instead of active.

And the appeal of the first film, in particular, is just lost. There's no clear goal. The main character gets sidetracked and pulled back and forth without agency. The action is prioritized over professional effort. I just found it a loud, confused mess.

Legacy

So it doesn't surprise me that Besson moved the property to television. With these kinds of stories, you're looking for just continuing adventures of a character where nothing really changes in him from one to the next. It also allows for more adherence to formula by taking the procedural route (I've never watched an episode, but the episode summaries I've read indicate an overarching story over 10 episodes where repetition of story beats within episodes is the norm).

The film trilogy, though, will always be primarily known for two things: the first film as a whole and the over-done editing (about 17 cuts) to get Liam Neeson over a fence in the third film.

The sequels have their fans, but the IMDb ratings say everything, I think. The first one has a 7.7/10. That's high. That's actually, really high. The second has an IMDb rating of 6.2. The third has an IMDb rating of 6.0.

Larger Lessons

Is there a larger lesson to learn from this? It might just be that sometimes sequels aren't necessary. We want more Taken, but more Taken is going to struggle to be like Taken but different. What if Luc Besson had gone from the success of the first film and made something else...new with Liam Neeson? Similar in look and feel but not hidebound by formula from the first film? Another adventure with a new character played by Neeson that treads on similar grounds?

I think back to the period after the release of Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead when no one knew what would be coming next. There were rumors of a direct sequel titled From Dusk 'til Shaun which would have the same character go into a vampire movie. I mean, it would have been a real break from the zombies of the first, but Wright and Simon Pegg decided to go ever more afield than that, making Hot Fuzz, a Michael Bay/Midsomer Murders parody/celebration, instead, and it's generally as beloved, if not more so, than the first film.

But, that's not a lesson Hollywood wants to learn. IP is king. Remember, the Taken sequels made more money than the first one, and that's ultimately all that matters because cashflow is vital to keeping these studios alive. Selling Taken 2 to audiences is a safer financial bet than selling Liam Neeson Does the same thing but slightly different with a different title would.

I just think a Luc Besson written adventure dealing with a new character played by Liam Neeson doing similar things but not dedicated to the formula and lore of the first Taken film might have been more entertaining.

Ironically, I think that the only people to actually understand this are the people who are bringing us the reboot for The Naked Gun, starring Neeson, that obviously plays on the image he's curated over the past 17 years as an action star. No idea if it'll be funny or good or anything, but the marketing on the film is obviously leaning into that idea of him as an action star and just putting silly stuff around it. It's honestly more interesting than anything I saw in the two Taken sequels.

A Note

I'm still in Europe. It is very late. There is no automatic scheduling in the blog software. I will probably not be commenting, just staying up late enough, with the help of the movies I downloaded into my phone (Stoker, for instance), until 1:45 in the morning, to hit the publish button.

Be good.

Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:

Weapons

Freakier Friday

Movies I Saw This Fortnight:

Taken (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Not great cinema, but a solid entertainment." [Personal Collection]

Taken 2 (Rating 2/4) Full Review "The second act is shockingly solid, but the first act is boring and the third act hinges on emotional catharsis that neither makes sense nor the movie properly sets up." [Library]

Taken 3 (Rating 1/4) Full Review "It's just kind of a miserable third entry in a franchise that probably never should have existed beyond the first one. Not a surprise." [The Criterion Channel]

The Young Stranger (Rating 4/4) Full Review "It doesn't surprise me that no one searches out Frankenheimer's first film, a small family drama he made in the middle of his television career before Birdman of Alcatraz with no movie stars and not at all genre related. But, I think that should be fixed." [YouTube]

Impossible Object (Rating 1/4) Full Review "Really, the only way this makes sense to me is if Frankenheimer was intending a psychedelic or phantasmagoric journey into madness, and it's obviously not what the film is. What it is ends up being…kind of just boring." [Library]

French Connection II (Rating 2/4) Full Review "So, the overall package is kind of weird. There isn't much of an overall package. It's too many different parts that don't gel together, but some of the individual parts have their charms from the innocent (Doyle trying to order whiskey at a bar) to the explosive (the shootouts). It's not a disaster, but it's not really good either." [Library]

Black Sunday (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It was about the thrills. He built up to the thrills, as inelegantly as he did, delivered the thrills, and exited stage right. I can't fault him for that." [Library]

Prophecy (Rating 1/4) Full Review "Frankenheimer wanted his own Jaws. He didn't get it." [Library]

Contact

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I've also archived all the old posts here, by request. I'll add new posts a week after they originally post at the HQ.

My next post will be on 8/30, and it will be about the directing career of John Frankenheimer.

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1 Pass the popcorn 🍿

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (+qU29)

2 Yo!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (XMwZJ)

3 Producer Guy: "So, why does this happen?"

Screenwriter Guy: "So the movie can happen!"

Producer Guy: "Oh!"

Posted by: Sharkman at August 09, 2025 07:49 PM (/RHNq)

4 So brian had been in special forces sag yet he had not ever been in kosovo or learn any albanian

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (bXbFr)

5 I like the Taken series

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (+qU29)

6 Taken was fun. "In a world where everybody is either corrupt or incompetent except for Liam Neeson..
."

Except Liam had a whole team of security professionals who were also his friends. They were on a celebrity bidyguard job at the start of the movie. I think the kidnapping of a daughter is one of those times you can ask your buddies for a big favor. He could have used that help I think.

Posted by: Fozzy at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (zH2yS)

7 Happy Saturday to all!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (rbKZ6)

8 As i mentioned elsewhere rade the villain was criminally underused

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (bXbFr)

9 Luc Besson is an interesting director, he has made many of my favorite films (and a handful of bombs--looking at you, Valerian). As a writer he seems...variable. His best work tends to have a co-writer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:52 PM (CHHv1)

10 The series was more political left wise with private contractors being the foilx

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:53 PM (bXbFr)

11 I'm not one to demand adherence to formula just for the sake of formula.
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What do you mean?
*taps discreetly*
1..2..3..4
There's no formula.
*taps*
1..2..3..4

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:54 PM (JvZF+)

12 Valerian was his passion project too much worldbuiding

which was poorly cat dane de haan

In part because of this he deepsixed his production company eurocorp

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:55 PM (bXbFr)

13 Spouse and I went to see " Naked Gun" this afternoon. Liam Neesom is a good actor and clever as. A comic , as is the actor who plays the villain and the name of that actor escapes me right now. Pamela Anderson has a funny bit in a nightclub type venue. It was amusing, but we probably would have appreciated it more if we had seen the original "Naked Gun" movie.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 07:56 PM (2GCMq)

14 I love these movie threads!

Thank you.

Posted by: scottst at August 09, 2025 07:56 PM (XxFg+)

15 Sort of like the formula in the second french connection film where jehan was underused

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:57 PM (bXbFr)

16 Black Sunday (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It was about the thrills. He built up to the thrills, as inelegantly as he did, delivered the thrills, and exited stage right. I can't fault him for that."

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Fun fact. The book's author later wrote Silence of the Lambs.
Other fun fact, BS introduced me to Bruce Dern who played a crazy /evil veteran /POW. That role caused me to see him like that for years. Similarly, Fantastic Voyage introduced me to Donald Pleasance and I saw him as an evil traitor for years.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 07:57 PM (L/fGl)

17 Danny houston stock tv and movie villain

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:57 PM (bXbFr)

18
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (tljrc)

19 The Albanian criminals were really, really stupid.

They kidnapped the daughter of the man who trained Batman.

That's never going to end well for them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (IBQGV)

20 La Femme Nikita - Young lady assassin controlled by middle aged man

Leon the Professional - Very young lady protected by old tough guy

Fifth Element - Young naive alien girl protected by oler tough guy

Wasabi - Young Japanese girl protected by tould older cop.

I'm detecting a pattern in Luc Besson movies.

Posted by: Fozzy at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (zH2yS)

21 Watched Last Night in Soho this morning on Sci-fi, certainly started interesting, but all in all I liked it.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (+qU29)

22 What if Luc Besson had gone from the success of the first film and made something else...new with Liam Neeson?]/i]

The Extraordinary Adventures of Bryan Mills

Ted III (as a buddy film)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (rbvCR)

23 See yellowstone that series set in 60s miami wolverine origins

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (bXbFr)

24 Bryan Mills Goes to the Barrel

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (rbvCR)

25 Luc Besson did a good job with that Bruce Willis as a future cab driver movie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (JvZF+)

26 Liam Neeson is a curiosity to me. Oskar Schindler and movies like Rob Roy, which were serious dramas. Nothing wrong with going to Taken, but then he seemed to stay in that lane. After the Taken movies there were a series of other films where he plays almost the same character, hunting people down. Did he swear off more serious work forever? Now, Frank Drebbin. I'm not sure he has the deadpan to match Leslie Nielson, and it's again a strange choice. Nielson was just a bit and character actor when they made Airplane and Police Squad and then the Naked Gun. Liam Neeson has had one strange career. From movies like Krull to Schindler's List to Taken and a bunch of stale B action movies and now to comedy! What gives?

Posted by: Lex at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (y4H1r)

27 I got to say, I'm impressed with Liam Neeson. The guy started out doing dramas (and Darkman, which rocks) and then reinvented himself for action movies with Taken. And now with the Naked Gun 2025, he's doing comedy.

Props to him. Not a lot of actors have done all three, very different, genres and done them well.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (xcxpd)

28 Magic city

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (bXbFr)

29 Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:57 PM (bXbFr)

Thanks. I'm sure I 'vexhim in something . Just couldn't recall what and I haven't had a tv to see tv shows in about ten years,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (2GCMq)

30 Luc Besson is an interesting director, he has made many of my favorite films (and a handful of bombs--looking at you, Valerian). As a writer he seems...variable. His best work tends to have a co-writer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:52 PM (CHHv1)
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Although Valerian as a whole is not a great movie, I do really like the introduction, where we see the ISS grow organically over time to become this massive space station inhabited by cultures from all over the galaxy. Cool concept and well-executed. Then the rest of the movie happens.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (IBQGV)

31 What? Jeff Daniels?!?!

Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:02 PM (zZu0s)

32 He played the outlaw in a million ways to similar dead pan also with seth mcmarlave

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:03 PM (bXbFr)

33 9 Luc Besson is an interesting director, he has made many of my favorite films (and a handful of bombs--looking at you, Valerian). As a writer he seems...variable. His best work tends to have a co-writer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:52 PM (CHHv1)

I decided that this liked everything about Valerian - except the teenybopper male and female leads and every line either of them said. And since at least one of them is in every scene, that pretty much wrecked it for me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:04 PM (q+E/R)

34 Mcfarlane

Yes the film occurs in a convoluted way

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:04 PM (bXbFr)

35 "Taken 3" is in the Criterion Collection?!

Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at August 09, 2025 08:05 PM (0I+GC)

36 John Wick i think works better than Taken, even though it is less believable.

No jump cuts, just shooting in the face.

The Pitxh Meeting really gets this right that they kept it fairly tight and did not decide to over explain.

The biggest problem i think is Viggo being a credible physical threat at the end of the movie for John. Tbf, the execution of his son is pretty much the climax and everything is down hill from there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

37 30 Luc Besson is an interesting director, he has made many of my favorite films (and a handful of bombs--looking at you, Valerian). As a writer he seems...variable. His best work tends to have a co-writer.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:52 PM (CHHv1)
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Although Valerian as a whole is not a great movie, I do really like the introduction, where we see the ISS grow organically over time to become this massive space station inhabited by cultures from all over the galaxy. Cool concept and well-executed. Then the rest of the movie happens.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (IBQGV)

Valerian was almost a spiritual sequel to The Fifth Element (which was an homage, shall we say, to the work of Mobius and Jean-Claude Mézières).

The problem was the casting and the acting. Both of the leads were horrible. The plot also was...weird. Which does match the source material in some ways but it deviated in important ways to make Valerian less manly and competent.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:05 PM (xcxpd)

38 Some movies should just be standalone.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (vm8sq)

39 I would have let the Albanians have Maggie Grace. She is a terrible actress and her character acted like a 10 year old instead of a young adult.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (HFcKg)

40 I decided that this liked everything about Valerian - except the teenybopper male and female leads and every line either of them said. And since at least one of them is in every scene, that pretty much wrecked it for me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:04 PM (q+E/R)

You said it better than I did, yes agreed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (xcxpd)

41 Although Valerian as a whole is not a great movie, I do really like the introduction, where we see the ISS grow organically over time to become this massive space station inhabited by cultures from all over the galaxy. Cool concept and well-executed. Then the rest of the movie happens.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (IBQGV)

It tried too much. It could have been three movies tied together by the Pearl McGuffin

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (rbvCR)

42 39 I would have let the Albanians have Maggie Grace. She is a terrible actress and her character acted like a 10 year old instead of a young adult.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (HFcKg)

Both of the female characters were terrible and stupid, I have no idea why.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (xcxpd)

43 Wi k also does a better job of not feeling like an overt divorced dad fantasy (Taken.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (zZu0s)

44 TL; DR

I liked the first "Taken." I was smart enough to pass on the rest. Didn't bother Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Life is too short or long to watch/read shit.

How many sequels are better than the original?

"The Wrath of Khan."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (ZmEVT)

45 Kind of like elisha (lne) in 24

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (bXbFr)

46 25 Luc Besson did a good job with that Bruce Willis as a future cab driver movie.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I'm almost positive Luc Beeson 'borrowed' that character from 'Heavy Metal'. He basically used 'Harry Canyon' for Willis's character.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (qKYfj)

47 25 Luc Besson did a good job with that Bruce Willis as a future cab driver movie.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (JvZF+)

While that is not the best sci/fi movie ever made, I will stand firm on my belief that 5th Element is by far the most entertaining sci/fi movie ever made.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (q+E/R)

48 I'm almost positive Luc Beeson 'borrowed' that character from 'Heavy Metal'. He basically used 'Harry Canyon' for Willis's character.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (qKYfj)
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I've heard that as well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (IBQGV)

49 Both of the female characters were terrible and stupid, I have no idea why.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (xcxpd)

The daughter in the first one is hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (zZu0s)

50 20 La Femme Nikita - Young lady assassin controlled by middle aged man

Leon the Professional - Very young lady protected by old tough guy

Fifth Element - Young naive alien girl protected by oler tough guy

Wasabi - Young Japanese girl protected by tould older cop.

I'm detecting a pattern in Luc Besson movies.
Posted by: Fozzy at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (zH2yS)

He has a 'type'...and that is young. Check out how old his first wife was when he impregnated her.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (xcxpd)

51 For verisimilitude, try "Albanian Gangster" (201

Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (0I+GC)

52 49 Both of the female characters were terrible and stupid, I have no idea why.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (xcxpd)

The daughter in the first one is hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (zZu0s)

Yeah but dumb. She ignored good advice. Drives me nuts when that happens, both in real life and in movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (xcxpd)

53 Leslie Nielson was serious in "Forbidden Planet."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (ZmEVT)

54 5th Element is by far the most entertaining sci/fi movie ever made.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (q+E/R)

Hmmm. I want to be upset for Chris fucking Tucker alone. If you eliminated him though... damn that is an argument.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (zZu0s)

55

Liam Neeson is a vile piece of komodo dragon scat who calls for gun confiscation while making a gazillion dollars on movies that celebrate the use of firearms to save and rescue people and stating that his movies are fantasy and don't reflect what real people do in the real world.

I hope dies in a dumpster fire being ass raped by rabid hyenas while drinking battery acid...

Posted by: Elderly Git at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (BEwiJ)

56 Leslie Nielson was serious in "Forbidden Planet."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (ZmEVT)
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But did anyone call him "Shirley?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (IBQGV)

57 Haven't gotten around to Taken yet (any of 'em), or seen much Besson (Fifth Element has some nice stuff in it, but I find Chris Tucker so off-putting that I don't want to revisit it). Always kinda liked Leslie Nielsen (Forbidden Planet, and some nice tv work in The Fugitive, Route 66, Alfred Hitchcock, etc, before the later comic work).

I'd have loved to see Neeson in more Lawrence Block/Matt Scudder adaptations; A Walk Among the Tombstones should have kicked off a really good series of films, but nope, never happened.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (q3u5l)

58 Yeah but dumb. She ignored good advice. Drives me nuts when that happens, both in real life and in movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (xcxpd)

Lol. But that is why Taken is such wish fulfillment. She ignores her dad's advice and gets raped and sold into the sex market. She should have listened to her dad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:11 PM (zZu0s)

59 I'd have loved to see Neeson in more Lawrence Block/Matt Scudder adaptations; A Walk Among the Tombstones should have kicked off a really good series of films, but nope, never happened.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (q3u5l)

I haven't seen that one. I'll have to try and find it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:12 PM (xcxpd)

60 One of the interesting things about the first Taken film was the different tension points built into the backstory and plot. They get discarded in the sequel, and the series is poorer for it.

Liam Neeson's character starts off not rich. His ex married a wealthy man, and there's still some romantic chemistry there, on his side at least. He adores his daughter and wants her approval, and gives into things so he can one-up his ex and her hubby that he later regrets.

The second film seems to gloss over these tensions. His ex's marriage is kaput, her new husband was a louse. So of course Liam and his ex get back together! Sigh. I was happy he got a win, because I've grown to love the character, but it was disappointing because it sapped away all that delicious tension. It was clear from the beginning scenes they would reconcile, and I may have rolled my eyes the first time I saw the film upon realizing this.

This is cozy thriller territory, more Charade than Bourne. Which is fine, but the audience was promised one thing and gets another. (Also see Joker and Joker 2 -- but at least Taken 2 doesn't completely troll its original fans, just gives them wish fulfillment.)

Posted by: LizLem at August 09, 2025 08:12 PM (gWBY1)

61 Because script readers are idiots (pitch meetings captures this)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:12 PM (bXbFr)

62 I watched the Michael Bay produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie last night with my daughter. I hear the movie gets a lot of crap, but I found it to be fantastic. Great action, pretty good plot, the Turtle CGI was great and the fight scenes were excellent, especially the fight between Splinter and Shredder.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 08:13 PM (Vh9CX)

63 58 Yeah but dumb. She ignored good advice. Drives me nuts when that happens, both in real life and in movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (xcxpd)

Lol. But that is why Taken is such wish fulfillment. She ignores her dad's advice and gets raped and sold into the sex market. She should have listened to her dad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:11 PM (zZu0s)

.....wish fulfillment. I would not have picked you for that sentiment

j/k

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:14 PM (xcxpd)

64 I'm almost positive Luc Beeson 'borrowed' that character from 'Heavy Metal'. He basically used 'Harry Canyon' for Willis's character.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (qKYfj)

If you remember “Heavy Metal” the illustrated French sci/fi art magazine, its influence is throughout 5th element. (Main reason it looks so good). Besson hired Moebius , one of the main artists behind Heavy Metal, to do most of the concept artwork for 5th Element.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:14 PM (q+E/R)

65 RedLetterMedia reviews "Weapons":

https://tinyurl.com/3d3r9fh7

I enjoyed the movie. Starts slow, then hockeysticks to complete batshit crazy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 08:15 PM (kpS4V)

66 Posted by: Elderly Git at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (BEwiJ)

Wow!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 08:15 PM (2GCMq)

67 The second act where brian teaches kim how to find him is good but the lead up is weak

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:15 PM (bXbFr)

68 Taken or John Wick? I choose John Wick every time. " You arrogant bastard, he didn't shoot"

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:16 PM (HFcKg)

69 Similar to chodorowsky and his bizarre take on dune he turned into graphic novels

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:16 PM (bXbFr)

70 Well, it's her friend who gets thrown in the drug/whore house. She's just going to get sold to middle eastern shieks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)

71 5th Element doesn’t just have great artistic concepts - you gotta love it for lines like “Anybody else wanna negotiate?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:17 PM (q+E/R)

72 I think the death of the lovely Natasha Richardson in 2009 took something out of Neeson, such that he stopped taking very serious roles and let himself be typecast as the revenge guy in movies that didn't take as much effort.

I have to say it is nice to hear he's got a spark with P. Anderson, so many years after his wife's untimely demise.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 09, 2025 08:17 PM (/RHNq)

73 If we privilege every stars virtue signal we wouldnt watcg anything

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:18 PM (bXbFr)

74 Also, having a catch phrase that became virally meme-able also helped Taken. Reminds me of Eddie Murphy's character in Bowfinger, and how he desperately wants an action catch phrase. Liam got his with the "I have a certain set of skills" line, and good on him for getting it!

I will say, I think the first film did well because it gave normies a peek at the sex slave trade they had never seen before. The scene of his daughter at the end, wealthy men ready to bid on her, is horrifying. They dip into the reality of life outside the safe, American middle/upper class bubble, to reveal the horrors lurking on the other side. And tap into a real fear of parents, their kids flitting off to a trip to Europe, if it goes horribly wrong. Every parent wishes they could be or have a Liam in their life, with a certain set of skills in the background to save the day. With this movie, they get to pretend they do.

Posted by: LizLem at August 09, 2025 08:18 PM (gWBY1)

75 It tried too much. It could have been three movies tied together by the Pearl McGuffin
Posted by: Kindltot

It insists upon itself.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 08:18 PM (L/fGl)

76
Leslie Nielson was serious in "Forbidden Planet."

And The Poseidon Adventure

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 08:18 PM (63Dwl)

77 I just finished PotC Dead Men Tell No Tales

Jeffrey Rush, Barbossa is neat that he doesn't get angry and becomes more menacing the happier he is. I don't think his arc from villain to vague protagonist would chart out very well. Likewise Jack being almost-protagonist in the movie, someone who is "two steps forward, one step back" from Turner's point of view.

The Buster Keaton action set elements is the action signature of the Pirates series. Things that are "stagey" can be a good thing, EG Raiders.

Most of the music has melodies from the first film, which was a Zimmer collaboration but mostly not his. Like Train Your Dragon the more lyrical and complicated, the less it sounds like him. Zimmer will get a phrase out with with eight notes or less.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 08:19 PM (lhenN)

78 I wish I know about movies more.
I just watch and then decide.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:19 PM (gbOdA)

79 But the beats continue in unknown wheee he is amnesiac doctor and the commuter where he plays everyman supercop

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:19 PM (bXbFr)

80 I really like revenge movies and my all time favorite is "Man on Fire". No sequels. One and done.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:21 PM (HFcKg)

81 Rolex founder was suspected Nazi spy

I have 3 makes me want 2 more

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:21 PM (gbOdA)

82
My Rewatch list of 20+ year old movies You People should be rewatching but forgot they existed:

National Treasure
Batman Begins
Shanghai Noon
The Mummy (1999)

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 09, 2025 08:22 PM (t0bKI)

83 The List was a great revenge movie (series).

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:22 PM (gbOdA)

84 I watched Heretic with my daughter and her boyfriend. Hugh Grant was terrifying and creepy and the women playing the missionaries were very good. Just the type of psychological horror that i like. Minimal gore and the terror builds through the movie. Very entertaining.

Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 08:22 PM (GOJbT)

85 57:A Walk Among the Tombstones was very good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:24 PM (qKYfj)

86 The best Liam Neeson action movie is Missile Tow.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:24 PM (MGB5H)

87 Leslie Nielson was serious in "Forbidden Planet."

And The Poseidon Adventure
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

And an evil cuckhold husband who gets his just desserts in Creep Show.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 08:24 PM (L/fGl)

88 Who ever pictured Kevin Costner as Mr. Brooks ?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:26 PM (HFcKg)

89 Yes the death of his wife was like a movie script tragedy, incredibly sad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:27 PM (q+E/R)

90 Posted by: Soothsayer at August 09, 2025 08:22 PM (t0bKI)

National Treasure was good. Batman Begins also good. I think what's her name is a better Rachel than Maggie Gylenhal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:27 PM (DF0j7)

91 Katie holmes yes maggie (well both of the gylenhaals are pills)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:28 PM (bXbFr)

92 My Rewatch list of 20+ year old movies You People should be rewatching but forgot they existed:

National Treasure
Batman Begins
Shanghai Noon
The Mummy (1999)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 09, 2025 08:22 P

Rumors in the last week they are FINALLY getting national treasure 3 off the ground.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:29 PM (MGB5H)

93 Thx TJM. One of Neeson's first movies was Excalibur, an amazing movie. He ended up living with Helen Mirren

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 09, 2025 08:29 PM (e/yD6)

94 88 Who ever pictured Kevin Costner as Mr. Brooks ?
Posted by: Ben Had

That might be his best role. Really out of character for him and he nailed it. Solid movie.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:29 PM (qKYfj)

95 I have been binging Warhammer 40k fan fic on YouTube.

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (FqNtp)

96 Disney did a series you guess how it turned out

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (bXbFr)

97
National Treasure 3?

No thanks. No doubt it will be bait & switch with his plucky daughter taking the mantle.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (t0bKI)

98 Disney did a series you guess how it turned out
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (bXbFr)

Based around an illegal alien chick. BOMBED hard was canceled before it even completed its run.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (MGB5H)

99 Damn. Prime Helen Mirren. Pam Anderson a bit after prime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:32 PM (DF0j7)

100 Heh. Of course, so is he.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:32 PM (DF0j7)

101 Another early Neeson movie was 'A Prayer for the Dying'. Not the main character though. Good movie, better book. The movie starred Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates. Hoskins and Bates were great in it. Alan Bates played the bad guy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:33 PM (qKYfj)

102 Wasn't Neeson in some shitty ghost movie?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:34 PM (DF0j7)

103 There was some of his fury in darkman the sequels were taken by arnold. Vosloo the future mummy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:34 PM (bXbFr)

104 RedLetterMedia reviews "Weapons":

https://tinyurl.com/3d3r9fh7

I enjoyed the movie. Starts slow, then hockeysticks to complete batshit crazy.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 08:15 PM (kpS4V)

Absolutely loved. The amount of anxiety that it continually built up over the film was insane. And allowed just enough weird humor to expel some of the pent up energy. The acting, shooting, and pacing were all superb.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:34 PM (MGB5H)

105 Finally got around to renting and watching Frankenheimer's film of The Iceman Cometh. Delightfully bleak and worth a watch just for Robert Ryan's last performance (and Lee Marvin, and Fredric March, and an almost unrecognizably young Jeff Bridges). Would buy it (and may yet, I dunno), but I'm just not sure how often I'd re-watch 4 hours of Eugene O'Neill.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 08:34 PM (q3u5l)

106 Costner was sort of brian in three days to kill with connie nielsen as the jannsen charactet and german instead of albanian gangsters

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:36 PM (bXbFr)

107 Neeson was hilarious in Derry Girls.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:36 PM (MGB5H)

108 From kind of good movies to the ones that are so bad that they will gain cult status. Check out the Pitch Meeting in the sidebar for Amazon's remake of War of the Worlds.
I got half way through the movie before giving up on it. A weak script with unlikable characters, plot points that are telegraphed like the movie was written by Western Union, and absurd Amazon product placement.
I might watch it again and pretend the old MST3K crew is there, ripping on it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 08:38 PM (bKn1x)

109 I didn't recall that Liam's Neeson's wife had died after a skiing accident . His character Drebin, in "Naked Gun talks about the death of his own wife. I guess that's why it seemed so poignant..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 08:38 PM (2GCMq)

110 From kind of good movies to the ones that are so bad that they will gain cult status. Check out the Pitch Meeting in the sidebar for Amazon's remake of War of the Worlds.
I got half way through the movie before giving up on it. A weak script with unlikable characters, plot points that are telegraphed like the movie was written by Western Union, and absurd Amazon product placement.
I might watch it again and pretend the old MST3K crew is there, ripping on it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 08:38 PM (bKn1x)

111 95 I have been binging Warhammer 40k fan fic on YouTube.
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (FqNtp)

Astartes is better than most Hollywood movies

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:39 PM (xcxpd)

112 Liam Neeson starred in DarkMan, a forgettable superhero film, except it was written by a friend of mine. What was noteworthy is that my friend had TWO films in theaters at the same time, and thus was set for life. Good for him.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 09, 2025 08:39 PM (hyS0X)

113 Never liked Nesson more than when he cleaved Tim Roth to death in " Rob Roy".

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:39 PM (HFcKg)

114 I remember a long story about how John Boorman’s Lord of the Rings script turned into Excalibur.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:40 PM (q+E/R)

115 Sorry. I made a double post. I am filled with shame.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (bKn1x)

116 >I have been binging Warhammer 40k fan fic on YouTube.

Helsreach is amazing, I watch it about once a year. The animation style is the only reason it isn't mainstream.

Astartes OTOH is some of the best animation ever. The Space Marine episode of Secret Level is similar and amazing.

Space King is like Orville, parody but spiritually true to the franchise more than most of the franchise.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (lhenN)

117 Liam Neeson was also in Krull. I had forgotten that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (DF0j7)

118 Darkman was not forgetable

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (bXbFr)

119 Dark man was same raising, no?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:42 PM (DF0j7)

120 Sam Raimi. Wth phone?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:42 PM (DF0j7)

121 Darkman was not forgetable
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (bXbFr)

Not even a little. A great Sam Raimi gem. I watched it so much as a yuute my vhs broke.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:43 PM (MGB5H)

122 The cgi is great. I looked into the video games. Not doing that. Pixy rants about game cards and game makers. There has to be a movie somewhere.
All based on fancy Risk game play.

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:45 PM (+Bkka)

123 Slightly off topic: am i the only one who does not remember Canadian wildfires darkening the skies when we were kids?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:45 PM (DF0j7)

124 Well, OK: Darkman was not forgettable (although 100+ comments about Neeson and no mention of it). Glad to see the Horde has such refined tastes; I liked Darkman, with only a minor awareness of Neeson (Excalibur, Dead Pool).

Posted by: goatexchange at August 09, 2025 08:47 PM (hyS0X)

125 Space marine Secret Level is on Amazon Prime. Where would Astartes be?
The visuals are intense.
First thing I saw was a WWI short Kriegsmarine? Hooked.

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:48 PM (+Bkka)

126 So... the TV knockoff of Neeson is actually named "Stand-In?" LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 08:48 PM (0CtFW)

127 YD, what filmology are you sharing with that sweet baby girl?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:50 PM (HFcKg)

128 How long before all the cobloggers are in Europe?

I'm surprised Ace has never done the blog from Oktoberfest.

Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:53 PM (d03xA)

129 How long before all the cobloggers are in Europe?

I'm surprised Ace has never done the blog from Oktoberfest.
Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:53 PM

I don't think doof is allowed in Europe.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:54 PM (MGB5H)

130 Splunge, how good to see you.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:54 PM (HFcKg)

131 Haven't seen Darkman (another one into the watchlist -- thanks, Horde); don't watch a lot of superhero stuff, and haven't for a while now, and missed that one early on.

Gotta say, though, I really liked Raimi's movie from Scott Smith's A Simple Plan. Bleak feel to it, well-acted, and nicely adapted. Always struck me as Paxton's best work.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 08:54 PM (q3u5l)

132 Hi Ben Had!

Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:55 PM (d03xA)

133 I watched "Drop". It was good. Not #woke at all, although there were some silly "Die Hard" moments (which I am sure looked like homage in the script).
Apparently there is corruption in Chicago! I didn't know

Posted by: gkwve at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (2AdwB)

134 The best Liam Neeson action movie is Missile Tow.
Posted by: BruceWayne

"The only thing that matters to me in this crazy world is you kids. And I'm sorry that your holiday was ruined by those godless motherfuckers."

Classic, Neeson!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (ftFVW)

135 Astartes

https://youtu.be/JpK4fcFNKbM?si=ylYYOMRxtdP9IGKy

This hits so fucking hard.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (lhenN)

136 If you like Raimi and horror drag me to hell, don't breathe and don't breathe 2 are excellent.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (MGB5H)

137 I think ace is not a huge fan of crowds. Drunk crowds, negative. Busty drunk women, positive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

138 Liam Neeson starred in DarkMan, a forgettable superhero film, except it was written by a friend of mine. What was noteworthy is that my friend had TWO films in theaters at the same time, and thus was set for life. Good for him.
Posted by: goatexchange at August 09, 2025 08:39 PM (hyS0X)

was DarkMan originally supposed to be a Shadow movie, or is that just a rumor?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 08:58 PM (rbvCR)

139 Taken really worked for me. Nothing like a man on a mission movie, and resolutions don't get much better than rescuing your daughter at the very moment some fat scumbag is about to rape her virginity away (um, spoilers?).

John Wick had a more compelling protagonist, and epic action scenes, and some great writing in spots ("May I ask why you did this?" "Oh." (click). But I agree that the ending fight after the ending fight was pretty silly.

Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:59 PM (d03xA)

140 Watching moonrise right now. Clear sky. Huge orange ball.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (Vqav9)

141 Im looking forward to seeing Weapons but I didn't know the director did Barbarian. I hated Barbarian, so so much. I need an open mind.

Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (GOJbT)

142 How long before all the cobloggers are in Europe?

I'm surprised Ace has never done the blog from Oktoberfest.
Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:53 PM (d03xA)

Will Piper be reviewing the dirndles on the Teufelsrad?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (rbvCR)

143 YD, what filmology are you sharing with that sweet baby girl?
Posted by: Ben Had at August

She doesn't quite have the attention span yet for full-length feature films.

So far, the only two she's willing to sit through are the 99s Hallmark version of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Despicable Me."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (QAfoy)

144 Don't Breathe

If you rob an blind man's house, and he turns out to be Vietnam-era Zatoichi, that isn't bad luck, it is karma coming at you quick.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 09:01 PM (lhenN)

145 was DarkMan originally supposed to be a Shadow movie, or is that just a rumor?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 08:58 PM

My understanding is that Raimi wanted to make an original darker type "superhero" movie and was having trouble getting financing so pitched it under the cover of a Shadow movie. I could be misremembering tho.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:01 PM (MGB5H)

146 90s Hallmark, I mean

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:01 PM (QAfoy)

147 Im looking forward to seeing Weapons but I didn't know the director did Barbarian. I hated Barbarian, so so much. I need an open mind.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (GOJbT)

You hated Barbarian?!?!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:01 PM (MGB5H)

148 Selections at the pawn shop have been nil. I have a larger collection.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 09:04 PM (HFcKg)

149 The review I remember from Taken 2 was, "filmgoers beware! Your money is about to be ... taken"

Posted by: gkwve at August 09, 2025 09:04 PM (2AdwB)

150 113 Never liked Nesson more than when he cleaved Tim Roth to death in " Rob Roy".
Posted by: Ben Had

Heh! Yep! Tim Roth can sure play the heel very well.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:05 PM (qKYfj)

151 I was surprised at the attempt to actually play with the formula established in the first film through the second film, but the third film tosses all of it aside.

The 3rd should have had the wife and daughter trying to find Liam's character, switching it up. Not grrrl-boss nonsense, but by the time the 3rd occurs, they should have had some interest and particular skills in finding kidnapped victims.

2nd should have been the wife and kid joining some op to rescue kids in bondage in the background. The 3rd should have been the wife and kid hunting down the kidnappers of Bryan Mills.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2025 09:05 PM (mlg/3)

152 Space marine Secret Level is on Amazon Prime. Where would Astartes be?
The visuals are intense.
First thing I saw was a WWI short Kriegsmarine? Hooked.
Posted by: Accomack

Astartes was a fan-film, and possibly copy-wright claimed by GW.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)

153 Heh! Yep! Tim Roth can sure play the heel very well.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:05

Until she hulk when Disney cut off his balls.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:07 PM (MGB5H)

154 What is the Horde opinion on Brian Cox?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 09:08 PM (HFcKg)

155 If you like Raimi and horror drag me to hell, don't breathe and don't breathe 2 are excellent.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Big +1 on Drag me to Hell. And Don't Breathe was great, though I didn't know they made a 2.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:08 PM (ftFVW)

156 What is the Horde opinion on Brian Cox?
Posted by: Ben Had

Incredible career. Good actor. But we don't have to speculate further.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2025 09:09 PM (mlg/3)

157 154 What is the Horde opinion on Brian Cox?
Posted by: Ben Had

He played a better 'Hannibal Lector'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:11 PM (qKYfj)

158 Kinda like Brian Cox, though haven't seen a ton of his work. A nifty turn as Hannibal Lecter in Mann's Manhunter. There's a film from Jack Ketchum's novel Red (no relation to the Bruce Willis flick); Cox is lead in that, and it's well worth a look.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 09:11 PM (q3u5l)

159 What is the Horde opinion on Brian Cox?
Posted by: Ben Had

If Brian cox is playing a supporting character you can believe it's at worst a watchable movie.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:12 PM (MGB5H)

160 Happy Gilmore 2? I never really liked the first one. I thought Billy Madison was Sandler's best screwball movie. I liked the Carl Weathers character most of all in the first Happy Gilmore movie. Apollo Creed doing comedy and doing it well. "Just easin' the tension, baby." Second Gilmore was about as dumb as the first but not at all original in any way. Cash grab.

Posted by: Lex at August 09, 2025 09:13 PM (y4H1r)

161 This hits so fucking hard.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (lhenN)

That is good. Had not seen it all the way through.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:14 PM (zZu0s)

162 Liam Neeson is a vile piece of komodo dragon scat who calls for gun confiscation while making a gazillion dollars on movies that celebrate the use of firearms to save and rescue people and stating that his movies are fantasy and don't reflect what real people do in the real world.

I hope dies in a dumpster fire being ass raped by rabid hyenas while drinking battery acid...
Posted by: Elderly Git at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (BEwiJ)

^^^^^
This.

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 09:15 PM (h5TUr)

163 He played a better 'Hannibal Lector'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:11 PM (qKYfj)

Manhunter>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Red Dragon

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:15 PM (MGB5H)

164 Astartes is epic. I watched it and was like where is the rest of it? I see Astartes 1-5. OK, I have 1 where is 2-5?
Kriegsmen

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 09:15 PM (FqNtp)

165 163:Manhunter>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Red Dragon
Posted by: BruceWayne

Yep.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:17 PM (qKYfj)

166 107 Neeson was hilarious in Derry Girls.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:36 PM

I've mentioned that before. It's my favorite episode of the whole series! Neeson was hilarious and I love how the uncle's character is so perfectly placed. It's like they put him in the first season just to use him in that episode in season 3. I thought it was brilliant.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 09, 2025 09:17 PM (rbKZ6)

167 I wasn't expecting to board by ramming. So, the dude recovers on the red planet. Where are the others?

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 09:18 PM (FqNtp)

168 I've mentioned that before. It's my favorite episode of the whole series! Neeson was hilarious and I love how the uncle's character is so perfectly placed. It's like they put him in the first season just to use him in that episode in season 3. I thought it was brilliant.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 09, 2025 09:17 PM

+100

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:19 PM (MGB5H)

169 Sorry, on the Taken thing? Like the first couple movies... never saw the third... why?

Leim Neeson decided to lecture the American People about owning guns, while constantly starring in movies where he used... oh... guns.

If you actually believed in what you said, you would not be making money, off of something you decided , AS a FOREIGHNER, to lecture us about.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 09, 2025 09:21 PM (mP0Kj)

170 Good grief. Just looked at Brian Cox's entry on IMDB. I mentioned that Cox was lead in Red, an adaptation of Jack Ketchum's novel. That was a 2008 release. I'd completely forgotten that Cox was also in the Bruce Willis Red a couple of years later. So to avoid confusion, if you're looking for the one where he's got the lead role, look for the 2008 Red, with Cox and Tom Sizemore. Note that it's from a Jack Ketchum, and therefore grim.

He's got quite a long credit list on IMDB. Jeez.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 09:21 PM (q3u5l)

171 Well way late for bed
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 09:21 PM (+qU29)

172 If you guys don't know Feral Historian, you ought to.

Feral Historian on Demolition Man

https://youtu.be/eVNgGXJwUro?si=5DuQtjYBlIcO_U_d

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 09:24 PM (lhenN)

173 I wasn't expecting to board by ramming. So, the dude recovers on the red planet. Where are the others?
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 09:18 PM (FqNtp)

I am guessing either dead or pulled through to different places.

And how else would they board? Space Marines are the opposite of covert.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

174 Liam Neeson's best work. Buying a box of Trix.

https://tinyurl.com/y97knbx6

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 09:25 PM (dIske)

175 Barbarian had me screaming at the movie female who goes down into the basement of the Air BnB, after she spends the night, platonically, with a total stranger. I hate stupid people in a movie.Like sticking your head into a giant egg in Aliens.

Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:28 PM (GOJbT)

176 Barbarian had me screaming at the movie female who goes down into the basement of the Air BnB, after she spends the night, platonically, with a total stranger. I hate stupid people in a movie.Like sticking your head into a giant egg in Aliens.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:28 PM (GOJbT)

Teenage babysitters hardest hit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:29 PM (MGB5H)

177 I saw the other ship come into view expecting them to go to the planet. When they crashed in, "oh, I see, that makes sense. Cool"
Are the books any good?

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 09:30 PM (6cOjz)

178 What is the Horde opinion on Brian Cox?
Posted by: Ben Had

If Brian cox is playing a supporting character you can believe it's at worst a watchable movie.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Made an impression in "Braveheart" in a bit part as William Wallace's uncle.

Posted by: Tuna at August 09, 2025 09:33 PM (lJ0H4)

179 Everybody likes to see bad guys get what they have coming, except actual bad guys.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 09:34 PM (LHPAg)

180 *reads plot synopsis for Barbarian*

Huh. ...

So

Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:34 PM (zZu0s)

181 What is the Horde opinion on Brian Cox?
Posted by: Ben Had

If Brian cox is playing a supporting character you can believe it's at worst a watchable movie.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Made an impression in "Braveheart" in a bit part as William Wallace's uncle.
Posted by: Tuna

Loved him in Long Kiss Goodnight, too.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:34 PM (ftFVW)

182 The biggest problem with "Valerian" is that the two leads were terrible, more wooden than most mannikins and with more cardboard than your typical UPS store.

The visuals and imagination were fine, as were a number of side characters. But when you cast planks of wood as your leads, you're not going to get a movie that people could connect to.

With more charismatic leads, "Valerian" could have been awesome. With the duds they cast, it...was not.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 09:35 PM (CHHv1)

183 Loved him in Long Kiss Goodnight, too.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:34 PM (ftFVW)

That movie is the tits. Better Bourne than any Bourne.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:35 PM (MGB5H)

184 If Brian cox is playing a supporting character you can believe it's at worst a watchable movie.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Brian Cox is fucking awesome.

Posted by: Nobody Reads my Comments at August 09, 2025 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)

185 Made an impression in "Braveheart" in a bit part as William Wallace's uncle.
Posted by: Tuna at August 09, 2025 09:33 PM (lJ0H4)

Also in Long Kiss Goodnight (an underrated movie.)

That dog has been licking it ass for 20 mins...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:35 PM (zZu0s)

186 I haven't seen but the one Taken. I will have to go watch the other two and read this post later.

Posted by: toby928 at August 09, 2025 09:36 PM (L3gF5)

187
"Cold Pursuit"

Liam Neeson is a snow plow driver in the Colorado Rockies near Denver who sets out to avenge the murder of his only child by a drug running gang headed by a psychopath who presented his own young son with "Lord of the Flies" as the guide to life. Many twists and turns as the conflict gets escalated to involve a rival drug gang of Native Americans. Bodies pile up and are summarized with lists of their names alongside symbols of their putative faiths. Neeson offs the psychopath with a large tree he cut down, de-limbed and used as a pile driver on the bad guy. The hilarious fate of a Native American skier / paraglider who no doubt froze to death as he was in the air overnight in the winter ends the flick.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 09, 2025 09:36 PM (Tv15w)

188 If Brian cox is playing a supporting character you can believe it's at worst a watchable movie.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Brian Cox is fucking awesome.
Posted by: Nobody Reads my Comments

And who can forget his Scotch tasting YouTube video.

Posted by: Tuna at August 09, 2025 09:37 PM (lJ0H4)

189 I do not remember a heck of a lot about valerian. However one thing I did notice, there was no physical difference (besides minimal boobs) between the main characters. No chemistry. No sexual tension.

Besson seemed to have similar androgynous leanings in 5th Element.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:38 PM (zZu0s)

190 Liam Neeson is a vile piece of komodo dragon scat who calls for gun confiscation while making a gazillion dollars on movies that celebrate the use of firearms to save and rescue people and stating that his movies are fantasy and don't reflect what real people do in the real world.

Posted by: Elderly Git at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM

Trees have harmed him more personally than guns.

Posted by: toby928 at August 09, 2025 09:39 PM (L3gF5)

191 And who can forget his Scotch tasting YouTube video.
Posted by: Tuna

How can you tease something like that and not link it?!

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:40 PM (ftFVW)

192 Trees have harmed him more personally than guns.
Posted by: toby928 at August 09, 2025 09:39 PM

Laughed so hard. Def going to hell.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:40 PM (MGB5H)

193 Trees have harmed him more personally than guns.
Posted by: toby928 at August 09, 2025 09:39 PM (L3gF5)

Fuck.

*picks up phone*

Hello, police? I'd like to report a fucking murder.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:40 PM (zZu0s)

194 I don't care what the topic is, or the viewpoint. I hate British people, and as of September 3, 1783 we don't need to hear their stupid thoughts about anything, ever. I guess Neeson didn't get that memo from Paris telling them to go back to sucking dicks and stay out of our fuckin' bidness forever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:41 PM (RcIn0)

195 We have a particular set of skills..

Posted by: the Trees at August 09, 2025 09:41 PM (L3gF5)

196 From Paris with Love is a favorite of mine. Very non-politically correct and a big shot at Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 09:41 PM (VofaG)

197 I think Liam Neeson is Irish.

Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:43 PM (GOJbT)

198 don't care what the topic is, or the viewpoint. I hate British people, and as of September 3, 1783 we don't need to hear their stupid thoughts about anything, ever. I guess Neeson didn't get that memo from Paris telling them to go back to sucking dicks and stay out of our fuckin' bidness forever.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:41 PM (RcIn0)

A number of years back I dated a British chippy. Anytime we had an argument I would say we fought a war so I don't have to care what you say. Don't understand why it didn't workout.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:43 PM (MGB5H)

199 Cold Pursuit was a remake of a Norwegian movie called "Order of Disappearance." The villain in that one was a vegan.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:45 PM (RcIn0)

200 I think Liam Neeson is Irish.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:43 PM (GOJbT)

Well, my mick friend...
-that guy from Godfather

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

201 I think Liam Neeson is Irish.
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:43 PM (GOJbT)

Yup. British.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (RcIn0)

202
It would please me mightily if John Oliver was bound and returned to Great Britain gargling his own balls. I cannot abide that smug prick.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (Tv15w)

203 Which reminds me, I still need to see death of Stalin and sisu.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

204 Which reminds me, I still need to see death of Stalin and sisu.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

Drives me nuts death of Stalin is never streaming. Prly finally gotta bite the bullet and buy it. Great movie. Sisu is fun as hell.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:48 PM (MGB5H)

205 A number of years back I dated a British chippy. Anytime we had an argument I would say we fought a war so I don't have to care what you say. Don't understand why it didn't workout.
Posted by: BruceWayne

She couldn't appreciate a tension breaking joke?

Also, it's true so nyah!

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (ftFVW)

206 Isn’t Liam Neeson Irish?
Or is he Northern Irish which makes him British. It’s all so gay and retarded.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (zBBwI)

207 And outta here.

Thanks for the thread, TJM.
Have a good one, gang, and will probably sorta kinda see some of you tomorrow in the space formerly occupied by the good Perfessor.

Enjoy.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (q3u5l)

208 She couldn't appreciate a tension breaking joke?

Also, it's true so nyah!
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (ftFVW)

Hahah ya I wasn't joking 😂

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:50 PM (MGB5H)

209 Drives me nuts death of Stalin is never streaming. Prly finally gotta bite the bullet and buy it. Great movie. Sisu is fun as hell.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:48 PM (MGB5H)

Death of Stalin is worth buying.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 09:50 PM (rbvCR)

210 I heard a rumor that Chuck Tingle himself will be guest hosting the book thread.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 09:51 PM (kpS4V)

211 Isn’t Liam Neeson Irish?
Or is he Northern Irish which makes him British. It’s all so gay and retarded.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (zBBwI)

It's all British. Which is European. So it's all eurotrash.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:51 PM (MGB5H)

212
Quote from The Americanization of Emily

"You American-haters bore me to tears, Ms. Barham. I've dealt with Europeans all my life. I know all about us parvenus from the States who come over here and race around your old cathedral towns with our cameras and Coca-Cola bottles... Brawl in your pubs, paw at your women, and act like we own the world. We overtip, we talk too loud, we think we can buy anything with a Hershey bar. I've had Germans and Italians tell me how politically ingenuous we are, and perhaps so. But we haven't managed a Hitler or a Mussolini yet. I've had Frenchmen call me a savage because I only took half an hour for lunch. Hell, Ms. Barham, the only reason the French take two hours for lunch is because the service in their restaurants is lousy. The most tedious lot are you British. We crass Americans didn't introduce war into your little island. This war, Ms. Barham to which we Americans are so insensitive, is the result of 2,000 years of European greed, barbarism, superstition, and stupidity. Don't blame it on our Coca-Cola bottles. Europe was a going brothel long before we came to town."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 09:52 PM (63Dwl)

213 Death of Stalin is worth buying.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 09:50

Oh I know. I love it. Just annoying that it's never available

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:52 PM (MGB5H)

214 I heard a rumor that Chuck Tingle himself will be guest hosting the book thread.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Hahahahaha, I'm so glad I looked him up just now.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:52 PM (ftFVW)

215 heard a rumor that Chuck Tingle himself will be guest hosting the book thread.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Hahahahaha, I'm so glad I looked him up just now.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:52

Kurt Eichenwald is intrigued.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:54 PM (MGB5H)

216 Neeson is an Ulsterman. All the good ones moved to Appalachia by the time we shitstomped the leave-behinds' fairy King.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:54 PM (RcIn0)

217 A number of years back I dated a British chippy. Anytime we had an argument I would say we fought a war so I don't have to care what you say. Don't understand why it didn't workout.
Posted by: BruceWayne

That your honor, is when it turned to knives and guns. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM (snZF9)

218 Chuck is def a pants-optional COB.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM (kpS4V)

219 Sisu only made 14 million?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM (zZu0s)

220 Chuck is def a pants-optional COB.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Pants allowed, but only if they're crotchless.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:58 PM (ftFVW)

221 What's that movie in which Cher plays the defense attorney for an all but mute Liam Neeson? The twist at the end is that the judge presiding over the case was the killer.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 09:58 PM (VSht7)

222 Sisu only made 14 million?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM

Foreign film that had little to no marketing until like 2 weeks before release. Actually surprised it got a wide American release.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:58 PM (MGB5H)

223 Chuck is def a pants-optional COB.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Pants allowed, but only if they're crotchless.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:58 PM (ftFVW)

Chaps mandatory.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:59 PM (MGB5H)

224 What's that movie in which Cher plays the defense attorney for an all but mute Liam Neeson? The twist at the end is that the judge presiding over the case was the killer.
Posted by: tankdemon at August

Suspect

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (MGB5H)

225 The success of Aliens was it moved from (scifi-themed) "haunted house horror" to (scifi-themed) action-horror. The problem with Alien-3 is that it pulled back to haunted house instead of moving to another subgenre. Alien 4 was just damn weird and didn't have a point.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (gUs21)

226 That your honor, is when it turned to knives and guns. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM (snZF9)

ROFL

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (MGB5H)

227 The success of Aliens was it moved from (scifi-themed) "haunted house horror" to (scifi-themed) action-horror. The problem with Alien-3 is that it pulled back to haunted house instead of moving to another subgenre. Alien 4 was just damn weird and didn't have a point.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (gUs21)

The problem with alien 3 was the studio ripped the movie away from David Fincher and re cut it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:02 PM (MGB5H)

228 227 The success of Aliens was it moved from (scifi-themed) "haunted house horror" to (scifi-themed) action-horror. The problem with Alien-3 is that it pulled back to haunted house instead of moving to another subgenre. Alien 4 was just damn weird and didn't have a point.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (gUs21)

The problem with alien 3 was the studio ripped the movie away from David Fincher and re cut it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:02 PM (MGB5H)

Also they killed Newt and Hicks.
Fuck that.
Bad writing and I don't care who hears it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (xcxpd)

229 172 If you guys don't know Feral Historian, you ought to.

Feral Historian on Demolition Man

https://youtu.be/eVNgGXJwUro?si=5DuQtjYBlIcO_U_d

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 09:24 PM (lhenN)
He's good, I've subbed to him

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (xcxpd)

230 Ont is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (DF0j7)

231 Naked Gun was really good, it's a movie you'll have to watch 2 or 3 times to catch all the inside jokes (it helps to be familiar with the Police Squad TV show.) If you ignore that Liam is no Leslie, you'll enjoy it better.

Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:10 AM (0S8As)

232 Great post, check out "The Equalizer" series. Denzel is tops.

Better than Taken(which is classic).

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 10, 2025 07:18 AM (mNOhh)

233 Watched 28 years later, it opened pretty good, but by the end was a ridiculous mess. Completely unbelievable.

Posted by: Bob Foreaples at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (N/XOu)

Hobby Thread - August 9, 2025 [Galileo Rex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. Good news! The Ace of Spades Wheel of HobbiesTM) is back in service. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it landed on telescopes and astronomy photography.

I have faith that you can either find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests.

You might be tempted to say "I have no hobbies or interests." Bah. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.

[Top photo: Interstellar by polynikes (16 x 20)]

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What are you hobbying?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Pants are optional. Puns are welcome and encouraged.

TRex has been detailed elsewhere for a super secret special assignment, so the hobbying Horde is its own tonight. Thanks to scampydog for getting this posted. Play nice. Don't be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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TRex does not own a telescope and has only made modest efforts at photographing the night sky. The night sky, however, has always held interest. As a youngster, I remember visiting the Planetarium and watching the projections on the ceiling. It looked mysterious but was abstract. I also couldn't wrap my small dino-brain around things like billions and trillions of stars and galaxies. Still can't. Looking through a telescope and seeing the rings of Saturn somehow was completely different. Likewise for seeing the details and shadows of craters on the moon.

What is really out there? I mean, other than aliens.

Perhaps at some point, my hobbying will involve a real telescope and a real effort at taking pictures of the night sky and its celestial residents. For now, we take inspiration from polynikes on last week's Hobby Thread:

Looking to the Horde to help polynikes spend his money. Also looking to the Horde in general to help with the hobbying theme this week. Are you wise in the ways of telescopes? Are you wise in the ways of where to go for truly dark skies? Are you wise in the ways of pointing cameras to the night skies? Does your hobbying otherwise involve the stars and planets in some way?

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As said above, TRex is not wise in the ways of telescope acquisition. These links seems reasonable and lower on the clickbait scale, but think of them as samples.

The 13 Best Telescopes: 300+ Owned, Tested and Compared

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If you're going to get serious, you need a backyard observatory. There are many backyard observatory videos on the interweb, so this is more of a sample than an endorsement:

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How to photograph the Milky Way:

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Saturn!

How about further away... Andromeda Galaxy! (Fwiw, I thought this video was well done.)

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NASA's Lunar Photography Guide has a lot of helpful tips for taking photos of the moon.

Destin has a crazy story about shooting photos of an eclipse:

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Not sure why, but I've always found lunar reflectors fascinating.

There are five reflecting panels on the Moon. Two were delivered by Apollo 11 and 14 crews in 1969 and 1971, respectively. They are each made of 100 mirrors that scientists call "corner cubes," as they are corners of a glass cube; the benefit of these mirrors is that they can reflect light back to any direction it comes from. Another panel with 300 corner cubes was dropped off by Apollo 15 astronauts in 1971. Soviet robotic rovers called Lunokhod 1 and 2, which landed in 1970 and 1973, carry two additional reflectors, with 14 mirrors each. Collectively, these reflectors comprise the last working science experiment from the Apollo era.

Scientists have been using reflectors on the Moon since the Apollo era to learn more about our nearest neighbor. It's a fairly straightforward experiment: Aim a beam of light at the reflector and clock the amount of time it takes for the light to come back. Decades of making this one measurement has led to major discoveries.
One of the biggest revelations is that the Earth and Moon are slowly drifting apart at the rate that fingernails grow, or 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) per year. This widening gap is the result of gravitational interactions between the two bodies.

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What is your light pollution situation? Are you familiar with the Bortle scale?

What is the Borlte scale?

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Apparently this is a popular book for finding things in the night sky:

Any other recommendations?

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I know what you're thinking. "I'm into all of this, but it would be great if there was some kind of local gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that I could learn from and share stories with..." How about a local astronomy club?

Here you go: ASTRONOMY CLUB DIRECTORY

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If you're in the Columbia, South Carolina neighborhood, stop by the South Carolina State Museum and check out the world-class collection of antique telescopes and astronomical instruments. The telescopes and instruments total more than 200 objects dating back to 1730. Of the more than 60 telescopes in the group, 23 are fine examples of 19th and early 20th century American-made telescopes.

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If we didn't have a polynikes painting, this photo would have been at the top of this post.

When 42-year-old Valerio Minato woke up on December 15, 2023, he said he felt "agitated." For six years he had been trying to capture a photo showing the perfect alignment of the Monviso, a mountain in the Alps in Northern Italy, the Basilica of Superga, near Turin, and the moon. Having very few opportunities throughout the year where these three elements line up, Minato had just a small chance of getting the perfect shot.
Minato's research, patience, and dedication throughout the years paid off. He has been photographing Turin and its fascinating skyline and monuments for 12 years now and started trying to get this shot in 2017.
"I started going around this area of hills northeast of Turin where you could see Monviso and Superga [a hill that hosts the Basilica of the same name on top]. After finding the three or four points where these two are perfectly aligned, I started to evaluate - let's say complicate my life - to try and take a very different picture from the ones I had already shot," Minato said, smiling.
Other than researching the perfect locations, Minato had to study carefully the lunar phases that would allow for this alignment. He explained there were only around two days a year when he could attempt the photo and in some years the alignment didn't occur at all.

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This is the opposite of amateur astronomy, but seems like it needs to be in here somewhere.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.

Webb's image is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length, a tiny sliver of the vast universe. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying more distant galaxies, including some seen when the universe was less than a billion years old. This deep field, taken by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours - achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest fields, which took weeks.
This image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago, with many more galaxies in front of and behind the cluster.
Light from these galaxies took billions of years to reach us. We are looking back in time to within a billion years after the big bang when viewing the youngest galaxies in this field. The light was stretched by the expansion of the universe to infrared wavelengths that Webb was designed to observe.

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Speaking of NASA and this topic, seems like we should acknowledge the passing of Jim Lovell:

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Did you know the Vatican has a telescope in Arizona? Me neither.

The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) is an astronomical research complex operated by the Vatican Observatory Research Group (VORG) in collaboration with the University of Arizona.

The telescope is located in southeastern Arizona (roughly a three hour drive north east of Tuscon) where sky conditions are among the best in the world for astronomical observations. It was dedicated in 1987 and opened in 1993.

Photo credits: The Vatican Observatory.

Apparently private donations and a foundation provide the bulk of the funding. I'm guessing they'd say they're doing serious science stuff. They're probably looking for aliens just like everyone else in the southwest with an observatory or satellite dishes pointed at the sky.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a fishing theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

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Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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Would TRex include a mystery click behind the top photo in a Hobby Thread? Maybe... If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.

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1 Polynikes can probably do some astronomy paintings.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0eaVi)

2 Welcome Hobbiests
Actually bought myself a plastic plane model, A-10 in 1/72 scale. Probably won't get to it for awhile.
Was hoping for a bigger but thought small steps first

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:32 PM (+qU29)

3 The Universe is big. Really big.

Posted by: Douglas Adams at August 09, 2025 05:33 PM (/HI9S)

4 RIP Mr Lovell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 05:33 PM (zZu0s)

5 At my first TXMOME, I had an opportunity to look at the night sky through night-vision goggles.

It was incredible. The sky **EXPLODED** with stars that you cannot see otherwise. You'd think we were in the heart of a stellar cluster near the center of the galaxy.

The Milky Way was a bright ribbon in the sky.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:35 PM (IBQGV)

6 The Universe is big. Really big.
Posted by: Douglas Adams at August 09, 2025 05:33 PM (/HI9S)

It'd have to be to hold Lizzo, Stacey Abrams, and Whoopi.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 05:35 PM (0eaVi)

7 As Jim Lovell said during a visit to San Antonio College in 1994, future generations are now going to think that Jim Lovell looks like Tom Hanks, thank to the then under production movie Apollo 13.

RIP Jim Lovell

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 05:38 PM (vm8sq)

8 The Universe is big. Really big.
Posted by: Douglas Adams at August 09, 2025 05:33 PM

No worries. I have my towel.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 09, 2025 05:39 PM (o+2eC)

9 Ok, now that's done chocked full o' stars!

Posted by: An incredulous Dave Bowman at August 09, 2025 05:39 PM (cduTK)

10 14.3 billion light years big. That's BIG.

Posted by: Douglas Adams at August 09, 2025 05:40 PM (/HI9S)

11 I used to do a lot of night photography. Here's a Moon I shot a few years ago.

https://tinyurl.com/488hsvr7

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 05:41 PM (CHHv1)

12 Another good week for DX got me a 15m confirmed contact with SV5BYP on the island of Rhodes in the bunch of islands called Dodecanese, which is a new country for me, number 167. I searched my FT8 ALL.TXT file to count the number of times I've tried to work that guy since 2021: 23(!) unsuccessful attempts, until succeeding this week. My most distant contact this week was YE9BJM in Bali, 9500 miles away, on 20m.

This week is the peak of the Perseids shower, and I'll be listening and auto-logging MSK144 meteor scatter traffic on 6m. hamsci.org is encouraging all hams to participate on 6m and 10m, either making QSOs, or just listening and reporting to PSKReporter. If you already have and use WSJT-X software, then you're all set to easily try it. The peak is Mon-Tue.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:41 PM (0I+GC)

13 I love the night sky. The best places I ever saw were on Grand Mesa in Colorado, the Bighorn mountains in Wyoming, Yellowstone, and the Yukon.

Boise seems to have some light pollution, but when we drove to SLC last weekend I saw Venus, big, bold and brash before sunrise.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 05:42 PM (0aYVJ)

14 This will be my favorite hobby post. So much to take in for my next hobby adventure. There is also a planetarium and observatory very close to me in Huntsville that I plan on visiting soon.

I’m also addicted to ‘universe’ numbers.

It’s mind boggling that even if we could travel 1/10 the speed of light ( 67 million MPH) it would take us over 40 years to reach the closest star.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:44 PM (VofaG)

15 Here's a universe conundrum.

If spacetime was created at the Big Bang, then what exists outside of the universe has no space and no time.

Meaning that the Universe - beginning, middle and end -- has existed in a timeless stasis. I'd say "forever" but forever has no meaning where time doesn't exist.

Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.

Meaning that the Calvinists may have been onto something.

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 05:45 PM (/HI9S)

16 Heck, even in Cody WY I could walk home from work in the evening and see some wonderful night skies.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 05:46 PM (0aYVJ)

17 Well! I am flattered, as I'm sure Ben Had is, to be quoted from last week. Did anybody recognize the references? The first is from Steinbeck's Cannery Row, quoted approximately by John Huston in his narration for the 1982 film. The other is from Big & Rich's first major hit, "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)," from 2004.

Hard to find a mention of frog-gigging in pop culture nowadays.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:46 PM (omVj0)

18 used to do a lot of night photography. Here's a Moon I shot a few years ago.

https://tinyurl.com/488hsvr7
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 05:41 PM (CHHv1)

Wow you did that? That’s NASA quality.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:46 PM (VofaG)

19 OMG, space stuff! My very, very favorite subject in the whole wide world! Since Apollo 11 and the original Star Trek, science-fiction and astronomy, I love it all! Wish I'd known this thread was coming up, I would've sent in the painting I did of the 2024 total solar eclipse, which we trekked to Texas to see. Love Polyknikes' "Intersellar"!

Currently winding up a painting of Crater Lake, based on an insipid photo taken there when we visited it back in June and which I've subsequently jazzed up. As there are pine trees framing the view, I'm having a hard time with it because I simply cannot seem to get the hang of painting realistic trees. The cure for that is painting more trees but I'm just disgusted with the entire concept. I'll be glad when it's all over and I can return to painting something I enjoy working on: another portrait.

When paintings don't go well, I console myself with my best friend's observation: "You know, that can't all be masterpieces."

Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (NtoJk)

20 GP - the book you listed is one of the textbooks I go back to read all the time, along with Advanced Nutrition and the Human Metabolism, as well as Sports and Exercise Nutrition and Williams' Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Sport.

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (aT5K/)

21 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 05:45 PM (/HI9S)

We are currently in a black hole.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (VofaG)

22 A interview the Apollo 13 guys did on The Tonight Show (1970) came up on my suggested. Damn, those colors. But in a few short years everything would be shaggy.

What is also interesting is body language. It is a lot different than today.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (zZu0s)

23 Actually watched a YouTube video on Uranus this morning, it's odd it spins on its side looking like it's rolling along outside path

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:49 PM (+qU29)

24 "Why are you so gay for space?"
( -- Bobby Hill)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:49 PM (omVj0)

25 Oops -- that ought to be:

"You know, they can't all be masterpieces."

Stupid fingers... I'm messed up from working on a translation of a book on ancient Russian costume and using a virtual Cyrillic keyboard!

Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:50 PM (NtoJk)

26 I think I may try to paint. It’s going to be hot garbage, but I am going to try!

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)

27 The night sky that I get here is always something. Copper Breaks State Park (TX), about 150 miles distant, is a well regarded dark sky location. But I am not terribly close to major cities either so I get spectacular views.

But do not get me started on the blinking red lights courtesy of the ever increasing numbers of windmills.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (vm8sq)

28 I think I may try to paint. It’s going to be hot garbage, but I am going to try!

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)

Go for it, Piper!

Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (NtoJk)

29 Moon, taken by me.

https://ibb.co/S4qmqfcK

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (Q4IgG)

30 20 OK, good! Thanks! I also obtained "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism" by Gropper et al, so I guess we're on the exact same wavelength.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (0I+GC)

31 I think I may try to paint. It’s going to be hot garbage, but I am going to try!
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)
----
Hot garbage can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions.

So you have that to look forward to.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (IBQGV)

32 Actually watched a YouTube video on Uranus this morning, it's odd it spins on its side looking like it's rolling along outside path
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025

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Right, something close to a 90-degree axial tilt, as compared to the Earth's 23.4.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:53 PM (omVj0)

33 Hot garbage can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions.

So you have that to look forward to.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (IBQGV)

That's so true, and so disgusting...

Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:53 PM (NtoJk)

34 29 That one might induce lunacy

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:54 PM (0I+GC)

35 When I took as astronomy class in college, we had the opportunity to go to "Visitor's Night" at our local 16-in telescope on campus.

Although it's located near a busy street (lots of light pollution), it was still neat to look at the Moon, Mars, and Saturn.

The shadows cast by the mountains on the Moon are razor sharp.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:54 PM (IBQGV)

36 Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (NtoJ

I watched a few time lapsed videos of Michael James Smith doing landscapes and was able to figure out for the most part how to do semi realistic trees by watching him.

The guy is incredible to watch though I am not a fan of his work because I could just hang his reference photograph. That’s how photo realistic the guy can paint. Impressive but it’s got no emotion in it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:56 PM (VofaG)

37 1999: went to Germany for a solar eclipse (rained out)
2017: The exact same one occurred in WY (thank you, Saros cycles). This I saw no problems. Not a cloud in the sky.
2024: saw the solar eclipse in Fredericksburg, TX for about 5-10 seconds or so. Damn clouds. Though it was weird. The clouds took out the corona view but you could see the eclipse, even some prominences coming off the sun.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vm8sq)

38 I visited Yerkes Observatory. They had the library roped off. I would pay $50 to browse it for just an hour. Very cool visit, not far from Chicago.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (0I+GC)

39 Actually watched a YouTube video on Uranus this morning, it's odd it spins on its side looking like it's rolling along outside path
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025

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Right, something close to a 90-degree axial tilt, as compared to the Earth's 23.4.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:53 PM (omVj0)
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Uranus has some bizarre seasons because of its axial tilt:

https://tinyurl.com/yc6ezcdf

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (IBQGV)

40 And reading about Venus, I find something I did not know, that it has retrograde rotation around its axis: clockwise instead of counter-clockwise like Earth and the other planets. If you could see the Sun there, it would rise in the west and set in the east.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (omVj0)

41 My hobby is video games. At least, among my hobbies is video games. Mafia: The Old Country released yesterday. I've played for several hours. I quite liked it or, it is the kind of game I like, bright, beautiful, semi open world, interesting story, fairly realistic. I'm a sucker for Mediterranean architecture and landscapes and this is set in 1903 in Sicily. (OK, OK, technically Sicily isn't in the Mediterranean.)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 05:58 PM (L/fGl)

42 Wow you did that? That’s NASA quality.

Thanks, that was done with my Nikon D70, with this huge 750mm no name zoom lens. I still have both.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 05:59 PM (CHHv1)

43 @29 - very nice!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 06:00 PM (CHHv1)

44 We were able to observe the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn a couple years ago. I was able to get a couple of photos of this, but without a really stable platform they were a tad blurry.

The photos of the auroras earlier in the year we took with cell phone cameras where, surprisingly rather good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:00 PM (Q4IgG)

45 I think I may try to paint. It’s going to be hot garbage, but I am going to try!

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)

Painting scares me. I do a lot of work with pencils, pens, charcoal, colored pencils and pastels. I've tried watercolor and acrylics, but I just can't figure it out. so, for me - drawing.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 06:00 PM (0aYVJ)

46 I’m so looking forward to getting a telescope.

My 2nd favorite TV series behind Daryl’s House is How the Universe Works.

I think of all the STEM professions I think astrophysicist is the one women are most drawn to if that TV series is any indication. They’re very good at it too.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:01 PM (VofaG)

47 Hot garbage can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions.

-
How does one get into the house garbage business?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 06:01 PM (L/fGl)

48 Uranus has some bizarre seasons because of its axial tilt:

https://tinyurl.com/yc6ezcdf
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025

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There is a Poul Anderson SF novel called War of the Wing-Men which takes place on an Earthlike world with a tilt like that. Nicholas van Rijn the interstellar trader and two other Terrans are stranded there, and they can't eat the local food; and the seasons affect everything. So van Rijn takes a hand in a local war so that the winners can bring the humans to rescue before they starve.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:01 PM (omVj0)

49 I've only seen a clear night sky when I was younger and camping out from the city. It has been so long since I've even seen the milkyway.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 09, 2025 06:02 PM (cduTK)

50 An exotic Italian carmaker has a color called ‘Blu Uranus.’ Not joking. It’s actually a great color. They charge $14k for it. But nobody at the company thought that maybe calling a color “blew your anus’ was a bad idea? The USA is probably their biggest market.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 06:02 PM (aeiyZ)

51 >>> An exotic Italian carmaker has a color called ‘Blu Uranus.’ Not joking. It’s actually a great color. They charge $14k for it. But nobody at the company thought that maybe calling a color “blew your anus’ was a bad idea? The USA is probably their biggest market.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 06:02 PM (aeiyZ)

My two favorite car colors are blue or orange.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 09, 2025 06:03 PM (cduTK)

52 With Rhodes on my mind, I looked up the Colossus of Rhodes. Seems it fell down in an earthquake after 60 years. The remains were a popular tourist site until 600AD. Today, nobody can find it. Or so sez WIkipedia.

The Dodecanese island group also includes Patmos, where John was exiled. 'Dodeca' means 'twelve,' which makes total sense considering there are 159 islands in the whole shebang.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 06:04 PM (0I+GC)

53 They are each made of 100 mirrors that scientists call "corner cubes,"

My old boss at Ames made some of those. The precision is astounding.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2025 06:04 PM (1I7ss)

54 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 05:58 PM (L/fGl)

I’m afraid I’d become a couch potato more than I am if I got into gaming. You can get lost in that world. Something I could easily do with how good the games are today. I can’t imagine how it will be in 10 or 15 years . I assume a real life holographic deck.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:06 PM (VofaG)

55 piper one thing I learned from my grandmother who wasn't a good piano player, not she got notes wrong much but was sloooooooow. Anyway she loved to play and did it daily her whole life almost.
If you like doing something have at it.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:06 PM (+qU29)

56 I think I may try to paint. It’s going to be hot garbage, but I am going to try!
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)

It's not as hard as you think. Wet on wet is easiest to get started, then you can graduate to more traditional or go watercolor, which is apparently harder to do.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 06:07 PM (0eaVi)

57 A bit down the coast in southern RI a non-profit operates a pretty nice observatory. It's in a pretty dark area with the ocean next to it and the best part is it is open to the public every Friday night free of charge.

I'm a big fan of being on the water at night, the further from land the better. If you are out of sight of land on a clear night you are surrounded by stars.

My God, it's full of stars.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)

58 I’m currently doing a painting of the Vegas Strip at night. I decided to do it in acrylic since you can get bold almost fluorescent colors. Acrylic is actually harder to paint with than oil in my opinion. Easier clean up though.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:10 PM (VofaG)

59 Minato's skyscape of the Moon framing the mountain is great. And I much prefer it to the technically wonderful, but dime a dozen shots of deep sky objects people spend so much time, effort, and money producing. Get a telescope you can look through and don't--at least until you decide you really want to--waste your time with astrophotography!

Posted by: Jim at August 09, 2025 06:12 PM (DcE5z)

60 Uranus has some bizarre seasons because of its axial tilt:

https://tinyurl.com/yc6ezcdf
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (IBQGV)

It's the Klingons, Perfessor.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 06:12 PM (0eaVi)

61 43 @29 - very nice!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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Nikon COOLPIX P900
357mm
f/6.5
1/250
ISO 400
no flash

Hand held

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:12 PM (Q4IgG)

62 Y’all are so encouraging. It’s awesome. I will discount my hot garbage for the horde in appreciation.

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 06:13 PM (pZEOD)

63 58 I’m currently doing a painting of the Vegas Strip at night. I decided to do it in acrylic since you can get bold almost fluorescent colors. Acrylic is actually harder to paint with than oil in my opinion. Easier clean up though.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:10 PM (VofaG)
——

‘Make by ass look good!”

— Xena Muffins, Vegas prostitute

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 06:13 PM (aeiyZ)

64 Just did some pork chops and rice in my instant pot.

Painting board games, finished my Dark Souls figures that I had been doing since March.

I have a box of Heroquest with over a hundred done and a hundred to go.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:15 PM (lhenN)

65 One of the biggest revelations is that the Earth and Moon are slowly drifting apart at the rate that fingernails grow, or 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) per year. This widening gap is the result of gravitational interactions between the two bodies.……………

You might think that would effect the earth’s gravitational forces over time which of course be mistaken by the Left as man made climate effects.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:16 PM (VofaG)

66 Look at the Cloudy Nights Forum for ideas.

Posted by: Jim at August 09, 2025 06:16 PM (DcE5z)

67 15 Here's a universe conundrum.

If spacetime was created at the Big Bang, then what exists outside of the universe has no space and no time.

Meaning that the Universe - beginning, middle and end -- has existed in a timeless stasis. I'd say "forever" but forever has no meaning where time doesn't exist.

Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.

Meaning that the Calvinists may have been onto something.

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 05:45 PM (/HI9S)
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You're conflating different theories. Predestination concerns our spiritual destination. What you describe is a form of determinism or fatalism. It's related to Aristotle's "sea battle", and also to Parmenides's notion that change was an illusion. (There are really 4 different types of determinism, but enough for now.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 06:17 PM (od0dV)

68 Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:15 PM (lhenN)

That would be one of my favorite meals. I’m having beef tips and rice tonight. Would prefer the pork chops.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:17 PM (VofaG)

69 26 ... "I think I may try to paint. It’s going to be hot garbage, but I am going to try!"

Piper,
I really hope you do. My attempts at painting haven't got to the 'hot garbage level but it was fun trying. BTW, the brush techniques taught by the Bob Ross course do work.

Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 06:18 PM (yTvNw)

70 Make by ass look good!”

— Xena Muffins, Vegas prostitute
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 06:13 PM (aeiyZ)

I’ve read business is down in Vegas across the board. Haven’t been there in over a decade.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:19 PM (VofaG)

71 Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 06:17 PM (od0dV)

My theory on predestination /free will is that life is like the pachinko machine where God can intervene if he wants but eventually we all end up where we are going to end up. Though the path is random .

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:24 PM (VofaG)

72 I need to hit the McDonald Observatory in west TX.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 06:24 PM (vm8sq)

73 My attempts to photograph the night sky weren't very good. We do have a good telescope, an 8 inch dobsonian. Haven't used it in a while. Now with the cataract surgery and most of the astigmatism corrected, I should get it out again.

Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 06:26 PM (yTvNw)

74 And one might not know they have a natural talent at a task until they try it

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:26 PM (+qU29)

75 Even if you don't have a telescope, a pair of 10x50 binoculars can make a huge difference in viewing the night sky. There are braces that let you attach them to a tripod and adapters to connect them to a camera body.

Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 06:29 PM (yTvNw)

76 A cell phone photo from May 2024 and the visible auroras. North Central KY.

https://ibb.co/8DPNdwMW

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:30 PM (Q4IgG)

77 I used to do a lot of night photography. Here's a Moon I shot a few years ago.

https://tinyurl.com/488hsvr7
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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wow! Love this.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 09, 2025 06:30 PM (7HoOO)

78 I am not at all wise in the way of telescopes. Last month while watching a series on navigating the night sky I decided to finally look seriously at getting a telescope.

I happened to see a really good deal on an open box Sky Watchwr 250 at BH Photo. That’s a 10-inch reflector. Looks cool. Bought it. It shows up at my house and this thing is huge. Probably should have got an 8 inch or 6 inch. But it does get great views of the moon. And it came with what looks like a very cheap phone holder to hold the phone next to the eyepiece. Got some nice photos of the moon with it.

I’m going to try to bring it to the Texas MoMe. The sky is darker there.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 09, 2025 06:32 PM (EXyHK)

79 Well, since we've had mention of some theological subjects I hope it's o.k to mention that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the moon. Article from "Guideposts" magazine:

https://tinyurl.com/3k9nnddc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:33 PM (2GCMq)

80 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 09, 2025 06:32 PM (EXyHK)

Yeah I’m looking at the 8inch . I’m more into observing than photography.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:34 PM (VofaG)

81 My best dish is creamy beef stroganoff with egg noodles. The first time I made it was the best meal of my entire life.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:34 PM (lhenN)

82 Yeah I’m looking at the 8inch . I’m more into observing than photography.

Smaller is probably also a lot easier to transport to areas that are less light polluted than where I am.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 09, 2025 06:37 PM (EXyHK)

83 1 My best dish is creamy beef stroganoff with egg noodles. The first time I made it was the best meal of my entire life.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:34 PM (lhenN)

I love beef stroganoff so much so that it’s one of my main freeze dried prepper food. Unfortunately last time I made it from scratch it was Hamburger Helper😀. I need a wife.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:38 PM (VofaG)

84 There is a planetarium in Corsicana and also the Pearce Museum.

Many will remember seeing the Starlink satellites being released during one of the MoMes

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 06:39 PM (HFcKg)

85 "Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.
Meaning that the Calvinists may have been onto something.
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero"

Why not include everything that CAN happen?

Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 06:39 PM (vFG9F)

86 I used to have a small reflector when I was a teenager, I thought about getting a new telescope but TBH, the images available from the professional scopes are so good and so easily available that I can’t see myself using a small scope that much.

I load up images (false color of course) on my 75 inch 4k TV and it blows my mind. Literally tens of thousands of stars, butterfly nebula, dust clouds. It’s beautiful and better than anything I could possibly see through a small telescope.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 06:40 PM (Vh9CX)

87 If the universe didn't exist, why would that be a problem?

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 06:40 PM (sSkke)

88 The Dodecanese island group also includes Patmos, where John was exiled. 'Dodeca' means 'twelve,' which makes total sense considering there are 159 islands in the whole shebang.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 06:04 PM (0I+GC)

Well, Lake Maracaibo is not a lake, but they call it a lake anyway.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 06:40 PM (vm8sq)

89 Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 06:40 PM (Vh9CX)

It’s the difference between watching a sporting event live or on TV.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:43 PM (VofaG)

90 You're conflating different theories. Predestination concerns our spiritual destination. What you describe is a form of determinism or fatalism

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We'll, if the universe is entirely deterministic, doesn't that govern one's spiritual outcome?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 06:44 PM (/HI9S)

91 I have an old 8" reflector telescope from Orion. One of their distribution centers was in central California and that's where I bought mine. Picked it up.

It is a basic model. All manual. And I've forgotten how to calibrate it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:45 PM (Q4IgG)

92 I'm a sucker for Mediterranean architecture and landscapes and this is set in 1903 in Sicily. (OK, OK, technically Sicily isn't in the Mediterranean.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

How is Sicily not in the Mediterranean?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 06:47 PM (ZVgZ4)

93 I used to do a lot of night photography. Here's a Moon I shot a few years ago.

https://tinyurl.com/488hsvr7
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Nicely done!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 06:47 PM (nVXpg)

94 79 Well, since we've had mention of some theological subjects I hope it's o.k to mention that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the moon. Article from "Guideposts" magazine:

https://tinyurl.com/3k9nnddc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It's certainly OK, Fen. Did not know that about Buzz Aldrin. Thanks for the link.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 06:47 PM (41CYW)

95 if the universe is entirely deterministic, doesn't that govern one's spiritual outcome?
_-_-_-_-_
That's where Calvinism entered the room.

Posted by: Don in SoCo, whis 5 point Calvinist -adjacent at August 09, 2025 06:48 PM (vd6bO)

96 It’s the difference between watching a sporting event live or on TV.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:43 PM (VofaG)

———-

If the live sporting event is pee wee baseball and the TV event is the World Series.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 06:48 PM (Vh9CX)

97 It’s the difference between watching a sporting event live or on TV.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:43 PM (VofaG)

Hockey: Live is best
Football: TV is best (the field is too friggin' big)

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 06:49 PM (0aYVJ)

98 I went to see the eclipse in Texas, and one of the coolest things was somebody set up a telescope so it projected the sun onto the wall. It was not a professional projection system; getting it aimed at the sun was mostly luck. The same person also had a pinhole box viewer.

There were clouds which you could see in the projection.

Posted by: Bombadil at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (MX0bI)

99 I'm a sucker for Mediterranean architecture and landscapes and this is set in 1903 in Sicily. (OK, OK, technically Sicily isn't in the Mediterranean.)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

How is Sicily not in the Mediterranean?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025

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I think part of it fronts on the Tyrrhenian Sea, but part fronts on the Med? Something like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (omVj0)

100 91 I have an old 8" reflector telescope from Orion. One of their distribution centers was in central California and that's where I bought mine. Picked it up.

It is a basic model. All manual. And I've forgotten how to calibrate it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Do you still have the manual, and/or can you download one from the internet?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (ZVgZ4)

101 'm a big fan of being on the water at night, the further from land the better. If you are out of sight of land on a clear night you are surrounded by stars.

My God, it's full of stars.
Posted by: JackStraw

You have that right!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (nVXpg)

102 My wife has an old Meade 8inch SCT, back when we got it, the goto was the powerful equivalent of a 286 computer! Yeah. But I mostly take out my little 4inch Meade 2045 because it is so much easier. They say for beginners, the best scope is a pair of binoculars. Pick off the moons of Jupiter and you are hooked.

I always liked these books, great for getting into the hobby.

Nightwatch and The Backyard Astronomer by Terence Dickinson.

And hey, not a lurker any more!!!!!
Mostly because I read on my Ipad and it refuses to let me post a comment.

Posted by: Asko at August 09, 2025 06:52 PM (vfh/m)

103 Do you still have the manual, and/or can you download one from the internet?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (ZVgZ4)

Call customer service.

*snicker*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

104 The thing about the solar eclipses I've seen is the way the sunlight creates crescents when shining through trees. Very weird.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 06:52 PM (0aYVJ)

105 Wolfus Aurelius -

You make distinctions that are finer than mine: according to Wikipedia - (emphasis mine) -
“The Tyrrhenian Sea (/tɪˈriːniən, -ˈreɪ-/, tih-REE-nee-ən ,-RAY-;[1] Italian: Mar Tirreno [mar tirˈrɛːno] or [-ˈreː-])[note 1] is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian people identified with the Etruscans of Italy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 06:55 PM (ZVgZ4)

106 >>You have that right!

I'll never get to space but that line is exactly how I feel at night on the ocean. There are so many more visible stars in all directions than can be seen just about anywhere on land it's almost overwhelming.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 06:56 PM (viF8m)

107 It was all 'Our Sea'.
-The Romans

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

108 >! If you are out of sight of land on a clear night you are surrounded by stars.

Probably the only real disappointment I’ve had on cruise ships is that they don’t turn the lights off at night.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 09, 2025 06:58 PM (EXyHK)

109 Had a 10"Dob for years, now I have a 9"meade.
Loads of fun.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 06:59 PM (nVXpg)

110 It is a basic model. All manual. And I've forgotten how to calibrate it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Do you still have the manual, and/or can you download one from the internet?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Probably.

It's manual and I (sort of) remember how the inclination and declination works at my latitude.

3D space. Not for the light hearted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:59 PM (Q4IgG)

111 PSA: Perseids meteor shower Tuesday night to Weds morning. Just get to dark sky and look north.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:01 PM (nVXpg)

112 You make distinctions that are finer than mine: according to Wikipedia - (emphasis mine) -
“The Tyrrhenian Sea (/tɪˈriːniən, -ˈreɪ-/, tih-REE-nee-ən ,-RAY-;[1] Italian: Mar Tirreno [mar tirˈrɛːno] or [-ˈreː-])[note 1] is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian people identified with the Etruscans of Italy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025

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Yes, I glanced at the atlas after I posted, and there is no sharp delineation or strait that marks the T. Sea off from the Med. The entire basin is the Mediterranean, and the smaller seas like Ionian, Tyrrhenian, and Ligurian are all just names for regions within it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 07:03 PM (omVj0)

113 I'll never get to space but that line is exactly how I feel at night on the ocean. There are so many more visible stars in all directions than can be seen just about anywhere on land it's almost overwhelming.
Posted by: JackStraw

2 long cruises on aircraft carriers taught me that.

The desert works just as well!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:03 PM (nVXpg)

114 Probably the only real disappointment I’ve had on cruise ships is that they don’t turn the lights off at night.
_-_-_-_
That's a problem 'bout everywhere. People move out my way and get one if those @?!@!# guard lights that the utility companies sell. For just pennies a month you can make your rural place like those urban areas where it is NEVER DARK! When you live in a rural area, a guard light just says, "something woth steaking over here!"....oh, sorry, apparently complaining is my hobby.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:03 PM (vd6bO)

115 Many years ago (in my Space Camp nerd days) I read obsessively about the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. I used to have a goal of seeing all of the spacecraft from those missions that are on display. I've seen a few but don't think I'm going to make that goal. I have memories of sitting inside the Apollo 16 command module at the Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, but I'm not sure my memory is accurate because it seems like grubby kids should not be allowed to sit in a piece of history flipping switches and pressing buttons.

Never had a telescope nor any success with night photography, I lack both the skill and equipment, but I suspect that even good equipment would not make up for the lack of skill. When I lived in the Midwest I was obsessed with photographing sunsets and captured many stunning ones with my cheap-ass phone camera. They are not professional quality, but I like them. I made a calendar of my sunset photos as a Christmas gift a couple years ago.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 09, 2025 07:06 PM (7HoOO)

116 The reason you see crescents in the shadows of leaves during a solar eclipse is that the openings between the overlapping leaf shadows is small enough to act as a pinhole aperture. The darkening that occurs during an eclipse makes it such that you have multiple pin-hole cameras or camera obscuras with pin-hole lenses. How perceptive of you to notice this during an eclipse! Also the images of crescents would be upside down to the crescent in the sky (don’t look without a good filter, there’s still enough light to burn your retinas if you look directly!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 07:06 PM (ZVgZ4)

117 2 long cruises on aircraft carriers taught me that.

The desert works just as well!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:03 PM (nVXpg)

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The Himalayas at 17000 feet on a clear night.

That's the gold standard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 07:07 PM (/HI9S)

118 >>Probably the only real disappointment I’ve had on cruise ships is that they don’t turn the lights off at night.

Still nice but the ships lights makes a huge difference.

Back in my yute when I was living in PR we'd go to St Thomas occasionally. There was a place on the ocean side of the island called Larry's Hideaway. It was a campground on a beach in a cove and at the time there were very few houses in the cove. Very dark sky.

You could rent a tent that was built on a wood platform with two cots, no sheets or blankets, had to bring a sleeping bag or a blanket, for $15/night. It attracted young people from around the world somehow even if the days of no internet and night we'd all hang out on the beach, drink rum and stuff and look at the stars. Life was very good.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)

119 ...and clearly proofreading is not. Actually spending a bit of time building my first violin. Have done lots of repairs, but this is my first attempt at a full-uo build.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:07 PM (vd6bO)

120 I’m afraid I’d become a couch potato more than I am if I got into gaming. You can get lost in that world. Something I could easily do with how good the games are today. I can’t imagine how it will be in 10 or 15 years . I assume a real life holographic deck.
Posted by: polynikes

Temptation.

https://is.gd/lkor3T

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 07:08 PM (L/fGl)

121 The moon will be full or almost full yoday an torrow.

Pictures will make it appear large due to foreground objects if pic taken early in evening.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:08 PM (nVXpg)

122 please excuse crappy typing!

Having to retrain my left hand suxs!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:09 PM (nVXpg)

123
The Himalayas at 17000 feet on a clear night.

That's the gold standard.
Posted by: Cicero

Ill pass thank you.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:11 PM (nVXpg)

124 The most stars and the clearest I ever saw the Milky Way before I got the opportunity to spend nights at an observatory was camping at a state park in Texas. I woke up in the middle of the night, and it was gorgeous!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 07:11 PM (ZVgZ4)

125 The moon will be full or almost full yoday an torrow.

Pictures will make it appear large due to foreground objects if pic taken early in evening.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:08 PM (nVXpg)

I learned that as a kid. Hold a dime at arm's length on the horizon, it looks huge. Hold the same dime over head, it looks small. No magic involved, just perception.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 07:12 PM (0aYVJ)

126 The Himalayas at 17000 feet on a clear night.

That's the gold standard.
Posted by: Cicero

Ill pass thank you.

More like pass out. Not enough...ack....

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:12 PM (vd6bO)

127 Was in Ventura for 94 earthquake. Power out. Saw lots of stars.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 07:14 PM (KePtS)

128 In Afghanistan I saw the Milky Way with my naked eyes.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 07:14 PM (lhenN)

129 15 Here's a universe conundrum.

If spacetime was created at the Big Bang, then what exists outside of the universe has no space and no time.

Meaning that the Universe - beginning, middle and end -- has existed in a timeless stasis. I'd say "forever" but forever has no meaning where time doesn't exist.

Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.

Meaning that the Calvinists may have been onto something.

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 05:45 PM (/HI9S)

One theory about time is that it exists so that everything doesn't happen all at once or more likely its existence prevents the universe from collapsing right after it forms, everything happening in an instant.

Posted by: Farquad at August 09, 2025 07:15 PM (znbnV)

130 Best star show is a tie.

Bighorn range WY in the fall. Friends and bourbon and night vision goggles. The Milky Way is mind blowing.

Spencer Spit off Lopez Island tied to a mooring buoy. There was also iridescence in the water. Plus the Perseid Metoer Shower. A stunning night.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 07:16 PM (366xU)

131 Hold a dime at arm's length on the horizon, it looks huge. Hold the same dime over head, it looks small. No magic involved, just perception.

Does that work for dime bags?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 07:16 PM (KePtS)

132 Meaning that the Universe - beginning, middle and end -- has existed in a timeless stasis. I'd say "forever" but forever has no meaning where time doesn't exist.

Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.

Posted by: Cicero

Or time exists because every thing is in the universe.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (nVXpg)

133 The most stars and the clearest I ever saw the Milky Way before I got the opportunity to spend nights at an observatory was camping at a state park in Texas. I woke up in the middle of the night, and it was gorgeous!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 07:11 PM (ZVgZ4)
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Agreed. You don't have to be out in the ocean; there are areas to see a sky full of stars all over this country.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (3ImbR)

134 My hobby on this incredibly lazy afternoon has been scotch and cigar. Cigar review to follow for Weasel-san. And I'll include a bit on the scotch as well. It's pretty good.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (2WIwB)

135 In Afghanistan I saw the Milky Way with my naked eyes.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 07:14 PM (lhenN)

On a clear night (Winter is best.) I can see the Milky Way from my back yard. All you have to do is get about 50 miles away from the light pollution of a big city.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (/lvBc)

136 For Wolfus and the other pipe smokers, the new C and D Sun Bear Navy Cask is damn nice. The sweetness is a bit more subtle than the previous version, Tupelo, but the orientals give it a nice depth. It's worth checking out.

Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 07:18 PM (yTvNw)

137 For those considering painting, oils are actually pretty forgiving in terms of mistakes or mixing, as they stay "wet" for quite some time. So you can stand back, look, and think "I'll check this again in the morning" and you can still move stuff around.

Acrylics dry faster so they require less time, but in my painting days I could never quite get used to them. You develop a "feel" for what you're working with. Been several years since I put brush to canvas.

Good luck! Remember, if you can sign your name consistently enough that your checks are cashed, you have the ability to draw.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:18 PM (CHHv1)

138 Nobody reads my comments.
i mentioned the bighorn mountains.
Guess I'll go dark.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 07:19 PM (0aYVJ)

139 All you have to do is get about 50 miles away from the light pollution of a big city.

One of maaaany benefits!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:19 PM (vd6bO)

140 there are areas to see a sky full of stars all over this country.
Posted by: IrishEi

Yup, we'll be driving 22 miles into the desert Tuesday and stay out all night

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:20 PM (nVXpg)

141 138 Nobody reads my comments.
i mentioned the bighorn mountains.
Guess I'll go dark.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 07:19 PM (0aYVJ)

Dang dude!
You have any idea how hard it is to copy and paste this without reading it???

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 07:22 PM (2WIwB)

142 138 Nobody reads my comments.
i mentioned the bighorn mountains.
Guess I'll go dark.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 07:19 PM (0aYVJ)

Dang dude!
You have any idea how hard it is to copy and paste this without reading it???
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 07:22 PM (2WIwB)
_-_-_
I didn't read ny of this...nice dark joke.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:24 PM (te4DV)

143 My brother has always been my favorite painter. Watercolors were his specialty. He did one of a cyclist where you could almost feel the air rushing by.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:26 PM (HFcKg)

144 Well, I am going to go to Elnora, and watch me some bull riding. Brahmarama is a fun little rodeo. See you on the ONT.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 07:27 PM (/lvBc)

145 Oh wow, I run into a thread that I actually know something about.

I'm just finishing the final touches on my "last" telescope.

I call it "My Big Ten Inch!", thinking of getting some logo art put on the tube and I'm not sure how many exclamation points I should use.

Anyway, it's a custom F4.7, 10 inch Newt with all the trimmings including a carbon fiber tube and one of those new fangled strain wave mounts.

I've designed it around astrophotography which I've decide to take back up since the digital revolution has really made things tolerable.

I'm installing a full-frame cooled camera on it as soon as the adapters arrive.

I'll be sitting it out in my new to me backyard at my new house I just moved into after being a tech gypsy since the Space Shuttle program shut down.

They have all kinds of new gadgets for polar alignment but the problem right now for me is the clouds are stealing the show.

It's a semi portable rig and I was thinking of bringing it to the mome and set up if it looks like there might be some clear skies and Ben Had doesn't mind.

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:27 PM (EITcu)

146 My brother has always been my favorite painter. Watercolors were his specialty. He did one of a cyclist where you could almost feel the air rushing by.
_-_
I've heard some people speculate about technology eliminating art, but it just ain't so. Endless possibilities

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:29 PM (vd6bO)

147 Don in SoCo, You are so right.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:32 PM (HFcKg)

148 There is no beginning, middle or end, the universe is infinite.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 07:33 PM (xFREA)

149 I'll be glad to advise any of the folks here on getting a scope to suit their fancy.

I've been involved in amateur astronomy since I was in Jr HS.

If you are at all interested in learning about star stuff, the absolute best thing you can do is locate your nearest amateur astronomy group and go and introduce your self. The folks there love to talk about this stuff and are usually extremely helpful.

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:34 PM (EITcu)

150 >>There is no beginning, middle or end, the universe is infinite.

whoa ...

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)

151 People I think will always want to create

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:35 PM (+qU29)

152 The folks there love to talk about this stuff and are usually extremely helpful.
_-_-_
Like the HAM radio guys...might even be some overlap there...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:36 PM (vd6bO)

153 Bioluminescence.

I’m not too smart. But. It was very cool.

And Mikey. I read your comments.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 07:36 PM (mT+6a)

154 I await the first Original thought of artifical intelligence.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:38 PM (HFcKg)

155 >>Bioluminescence.

>>I’m not too smart. But. It was very cool.

There are a number of places in PR, Fajardo is one, that have pretty spectacular bioluminescence. Pretty cool to swim around in it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:39 PM (viF8m)

156 Larry's Hideaway burned down earlier this year.

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:39 PM (EITcu)

157 I went on a lovely walk today down my new waterfront park.

Took the water taxi to downtown and walked all the way down to the sculpture park. It was stunning.

I bet sunsets from the lookouts bewilder tourists. Heck, I take pictures almost every evening. If you’re unlucky enough to have shared you contact info with me, you probably get them.

I’ve seen the Northern Lights from my home beach.

I love it here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 07:40 PM (mT+6a)

158 >>Larry's Hideaway burned down earlier this year.

Well that's a damn shame. That place was special.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:42 PM (viF8m)

159 Would you consider stock and options trading a hobby? I've always owned stocks, but the last couple years I've begun day trading and options trading. Right now it is something interesting to learn and be engaged by. In a couple years, I think I could do it full time and maybe make a decent income doing. For now, it's on the side, so I guess it could be classified as a hobby.

Posted by: Lex at August 09, 2025 07:43 PM (y4H1r)

160 I only see stars in Sonoma, last night there was too much moonlight. The city has too much light pollution and fog, but mostly fog.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:44 PM (JvZF+)

161 nurse, I cherish the pictures you send. The beauty you find in your space brings a peace of the soul. Same for JackStraw. Thank you for sharing .

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:44 PM (HFcKg)

162 The Banana River in Cocoa Beach has a biolum bloom every once in a while that is spectacular. There was a video on one of the links here recently of seeing rain drops spackle as they hit the water that was posted here recently.

I've seen that and it's about as rapturing as walking into a field of hundreds of fireflies. Everything else in your mind just goes away.

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:45 PM (EITcu)

163 I await the first Original thought of artifical intelligence.
_-_-_
Right! Likely a long wait. Useful interface to large datasets, but no thinking going on there.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:46 PM (vd6bO)

164 SanFranpsycho, Sonoma is like a mental health holiday isn't it.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (HFcKg)

165 WE HAVE A MOVIE MARQUE

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (+qU29)

166 I await the first Original thought of artifical intelligence.

"Destroy all humans...destroy all humans........

Hey, baby, you wanna destroy all humans?"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:48 PM (CHHv1)

167 Yup, we'll be driving 22 miles into the desert Tuesday and stay out all night
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:20 PM (nVXpg)

I grew up in Phoenix, was in a very active Boy Scout troop. I loved the weekends when we could camp out in the desert! The adults would sleep, most of us boys never would - we would stay up and talk and watch the stars all night. When the sky is that clear of light, it’s just average to see 1 - 2 meteors per hour. Some just quick flashes of light, cosmic dust specks hitting the atmosphere, others more significant.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 07:48 PM (q+E/R)

168 SanFranpsycho, Sonoma is like a mental health holiday isn't it.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (HFcKg)
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Holding my breath year-to-year...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:50 PM (JvZF+)

169 Full moons are a bane to observational astronomers, as well: too much light pollution.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 07:53 PM (ZVgZ4)

170 Or time exists because every thing is in the universe.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (nVXpg)

Or time exists because it is a property of *this* universe, but this universe is just a 4 dimensional bubble inside a far greater multidimensional reality, in which time, if it exists at all, is nothing at all like the time we experience here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 07:53 PM (q+E/R)

171 Wow, not a single comment on "My Big Ten Inch".

I'm sure I bore the crap out of most people but I thought someone here would appreciate that.

Sigh...

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:53 PM (EITcu)

172 Posted by: Tom Servo

Absolutely!

Thre Persieds' shower, associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle,can throw 80 to 100 an hour 'shooting stars Aug. 12th.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:54 PM (nVXpg)

173 I don't want this thread to end. This has been like an evening at the MoMe where conversation is still the best form of communication.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:54 PM (HFcKg)

174 104 The thing about the solar eclipses I've seen is the way the sunlight creates crescents when shining through trees. Very weird.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 06:52 PM (0aYVJ)

———

Most people don’t realize that each spot of light on the ground from the sun shining through tree leaves is actually an individual distorted image of the sun.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 07:55 PM (Vh9CX)

175 >>Full moons are a bane to observational astronomers, as well: too much light pollution.

But they are gorgeous. I look forward to the Hunter Moon every year.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:55 PM (viF8m)

176 polynikes and other astrocurious folks should check out the hottest astrogadget now...is the Seestar, a smart telescope.

Easy peasy astrophotography system that does all the work and thinking for you.

https://www.seestar.com

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (EITcu)

177 >>Wow, not a single comment on "My Big Ten Inch".

I laughed. Used to be a neighbor of Joe Perry.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 08:01 PM (viF8m)

178 My maternal grandmother used to sell paintings for thousands of dollars back in the seventies. Alas, she is being forgotten, just another regional painter. She started out (in the 1940s) using oil paint which is more forgiving. Then she switched, I think in the 1960s, to acrylics, but she worked to make the acrylics give the same feel as oil paint. Acrylics are less forgiving, and this was a difficult task. She was satisfied with her results and continued to use acrylics until she couldn’t paint anymore, near the end of her life. She also used watercolor, off and on.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 08:01 PM (ZVgZ4)

179 To put it in the vernacular- Nood!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 08:05 PM (ZVgZ4)

180 Absolutely!

Thre Persieds' shower, associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle,can throw 80 to 100 an hour 'shooting stars Aug. 12th.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:54 PM (nVXpg)

———

Comet Swift Tuttle, the most dangerous object known to man.

https://youtu.be/gxpW7KxeAig

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (Vh9CX)

181 "Wow, not a single comment on "My Big Ten Inch".

I'm sure I bore the crap out of most people but I thought someone here would appreciate that.

Sigh..."

sorry Pawn, us lurkers read everything but seldom comment. I chuckled

Posted by: Wingnutt at August 09, 2025 08:16 PM (R8HM7)

182 One sad loss in our modern age is light pollution and comfort.
Got to NW New Mexico or high in the Rockies away from a town and you see the night sky as our ancestors did. Regarding comfort, how many of us have slept under the sky, no tent, house, trailer or yurt? Or stacked up whores, for a certain former First Son?

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 09, 2025 08:27 PM (vvIbr)

183 "Turn Left at Orion" is an excellent introduction to backyard astronomy. BTW, co-author Guy Consolmagno is a Jesuit brother (not a priest) and has been associated with the Vatican observatory in Arizona. He's written several other interesting books: "Brother Astronomer" is a selection of essays about his career; "God's Mechanics" discussion the interaction of religion and engineering. And he was a member of the IAU panel that demoted Pluto from planetary status.

Another place to visit, if one is interested in the history of astronomy, is Yerkes Observatory in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. While no longer a working observatory (too much light from Chicago), it still houses the world's largest refracting telescope, and the grounds and the architecture of the complex are well worth seeing in their own right.

Lake Geneva was also the home of Gary Gygax, one of the creators of Dungeons and Dragons. The Geneva Lake Museum has an interesting display on Gygax and D&D.

Posted by: Nemo at August 09, 2025 08:55 PM (4RPgu)

184 Chuck Norris can stare right at the pleaides and see it without having to look slightly to the side of it.

Posted by: H at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (2gjbv)

185 "Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed."

Like my Verizon contract.

Posted by: VirginiaSmoker at August 10, 2025 02:12 AM (YC7Ue)

186 Brandon Finnigan used to have and Astronomy Thread here before he got totally into decision desk HQ. It was pretty dang active. Gotta say, this likely my first comment since then. Or maybe it was the AoS cookbook with a couple of contributions to the effort. Whatever… been awhile

The Orion XT8 is probably the best “serious” starter telescope on the market. I’ve since upgraded to a full tracking (alt/az) 14’ telescope but not for astro. I have a buddy with an EQ mount 8” Mak I can use but I generally run my full frame mirrorless with wide angle (for MW shots) or a 600mm Zoom for specific objects on an EQ tracking platform. Pretty basic gear for pretty basic shots. I also have a couple of video cams for the telescopes for planetary imagiing.

The real work is processing. Single images are mostly easy enough with Adobe Creative Suite but multiple images or videos will require stacking software like Registax or Deep Sky Stacker and they take some effort to use.

Track down Brandon, put some ankle shackles on in and get him to contribute some astronomy content again!

Posted by: Phaedrus at August 10, 2025 07:36 AM (dPvdc)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 9

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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A dog who hasn't learned how to lead from behind

He tried his best LOL pic.twitter.com/KryPteuNcN
— Spill The Memes (@SpillTheMemes) July 15, 2025

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From Biden's Dog, regards from Jerusalem and a story from New Jersey:

Hi Katy,
I personally do not like cats. I suppose they rub me the wrong way. But for those of you who do like cats:

Coffee and a kitten! You can snuggle up with a feline friend at this N.J. cat café. | Paige Britt, NJ dot com

Ben Hudes, 21, and Dora Gorvorko, 23, are making it their mission to bring a cat café to South Jersey. The couple are DIYing a space in Oaklyn that will feature… pic.twitter.com/drJkCKU70C
— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) July 27, 2025

Click over to X to read the details. Amazing that they would attract so much community support before they even open! That is an ambitious project! Interesting that they would focus on teaching kids how to interact with cats.

Some people in the replies have some cautions.

Thanks for sending it in, Biden's Dog!

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Small pets:

Bro felt this feeling for the first time. pic.twitter.com/GZ3Sx6F24Z
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) August 8, 2025

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Large pets:

Cow brush being installed.
Cows are supervising. pic.twitter.com/xJdORWHGiC
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) August 4, 2025

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From the comments: "Catnip is just the gateway to harder herbs."

Have you ever had a cat that loved rosemary? I need to pay more attention to the behavior of our Garden Kitties around rosemary.

i don't know why these cats were getting high on rosemary 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/jjXCkdQ2mf
— Posts Of Cats (@PostsOfCats) July 18, 2025

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Meet The PetMorons

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Hey KT,
Here is our latest family member, Stella! And yes, everyone does their best Marlon Brando when they hear her name. She came with the name, not sure if it will stick or she will be given a nickname that takes over. She is 8 months old and was rescued from a bad situation. The rescue got her and we had just put down our Gigi girl and Littleman was not handling her loss very well, in fact none of us were. We had a hole in our heart to fill and she needed a family to call her own so it seems it was a match made in heaven.
We have no idea what breed she is or what mixture more like but we have sent off for the doggie DNA. She is sweet, curious, extremely smart, an incredible climber and jumper, loves to swim but hates the hose. There isn't a chew toy or stuffed toy she doesn't love, there are toys strewn all over the house. We already love her, as does Littleman except at feeding and treat time, she wants to eat her food and his food and he gets a little protective of his kibble. The cats after a few days of being wary have now accepted her as one of the pack.
We have had to Stella-proof the backyard as I was watering in the front yard and she managed to jump over the gate in a single hop. Didn't want to run away, just wanted to be by me, she is my little shadow. We miss our Gigi, but Stella is helping heal our hearts, one day at a time.
WeeKreekFarmGirl

How wonderful that you have found Stella! She looks right at home.

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Good afternoon KT and fellow Pet Morons,
Things are going well here. Chicks A & B continue to grow and are doing well. As you can see, Chick B's colors have really come in. They haven't taken their fledgling flight yet, but the primary and secondary feathers are in place and it should happen in the next few days. Chicks C & D are leaving the fuzzy state.
Today I'd like to introduce you to another bird in the house, Phoenix. He is a White Bellied Caique, and if you are a regular consumer on this site you will recognize this breed. They are high energy, smart and easily trained. However they are not a beginner bird, because they are high maintenance, somewhat hard to find and fairly expensive. As you can see in the picture, he still enjoys the formula we feed the chicks. That may be because we got him 3 years ago before he was fully weaned and it brings back memories. The breeder let us have him a little early because she knew we raised babies too and used the same formula and methods. They are medium sized parrots and good family birds. We let him have a couple of sips of the leftover food, but not much. It's too rich for adult birds.
Regards,
David

Those birds are making progress with your wonderful care!

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

By-Tor took a photo of his Tuesday Tennis Group's mascot dog, Coco:

A cutie, I would say.

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Thank you for sharing your pets and pet stories with us.

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread August 2

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2025 03:17 PM (2lp6s)

2 Cakey parrot!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 03:18 PM (FFW2d)

3 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at August 09, 2025 03:20 PM (sAmhv)

4 My cats seem to know when it's Pet Thread time. Jasmine just hopped up on my desk and Hexie wandered into my office from the living room. Allie is in her usual perch on the bookcase behind my office chair.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 03:21 PM (IBQGV)

5 There is an escaped parakeet cavorting around with a flock of sparrows near my house.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 03:23 PM (ULPxl)

6 I hope the parrots ate last weeks green snake.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 03:26 PM (LHPAg)

7 We had to put down our Wheaten Terrier, Logan, this week. I miss him so.

Best dog ever.

I hope to see him on the other side someday.

You always hope that your pets can meet your previous pets and the pets of those you love in the Elysian fields they now play in, I wonder how that works. Is there like a Facebook for pets in the afterlife, indexed by smells?

Or does a benevolent God just sort all that out?

Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 03:26 PM (3tYRn)

8 @WeeKreekFarmGirl - thinking Stella is German Shepherd by the markings, Beagle by the face, and Springer Spaniel by the climbing/jumping,

Posted by: Nazdar at August 09, 2025 03:28 PM (NcvvS)

9 Hey guys,

There's an update to our cat blog! I have one thing to add to the update.
Yesterday, when my sister got home late from work, she went to the backyard to feed the two new cats. What she found sitting with the kitten was another kitten—a new all-black one. So, we now have three new cats!

Link to cat fund: https://tinyurl.com/4k65zjkx

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 03:28 PM (sPQoU)

10 Today's "Arlo and Janis" comic strip illustrates a very familiar scene for any pet owner.

https://tinyurl.com/2zp5mkk2

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 03:30 PM (CHHv1)

11 My guess is your pets in heaven still have your smell. And that's how they find each other.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 03:34 PM (kUxzU)

12 Wonder if that dog ever had to listen to Jim Acosta.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 03:36 PM (PEWpN)

13 Oh great, this fucking hash

Posted by: pewp'n at August 09, 2025 03:37 PM (PEWpN)

14 That squirrel video is adorable.

Regarding cats and rosemary, I used to get rosemary olives from the deli and our tomcat used to go nuts for them, batting and chasing them around the floor. I thought he just like the roly-poly olives, but I guess he was trippin' on the herbs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 03:38 PM (kpS4V)

15 I guess it was Thyme for those cats to get high on Rosemary.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 03:40 PM (S/Y4j)

16 Afternoon, Pet Folken,

I am amazed at that squirrel. He must have been raised by his human to allow himself to be petted like that, and to be so attached.

I've never tried my cats on rosemary. Are they likely to go psycho -- more than on catnip, that is?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 03:42 PM (omVj0)

17 Who's that head on the bottom shelf at Stella's place?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 03:44 PM (63Dwl)

18 Aww, Stella! What a cutie she is. If I had to guess, she is going to be a pittie / shepherd mix. Or pittie / hound. Or all the above. I am so glad she found you!

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:45 PM (pZEOD)

19 Stella is a good looking dog. A bit heavier than Reef but I'd say she is a rottweiler cross too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 03:46 PM (zZu0s)

20 Bless the animals, and all the people who love and care for them.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:46 PM (0I+GC)

21 Ib1netmon, I am so sorry. Losing pets is just hard on the heart.

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:47 PM (pZEOD)

22 Looks like Nelson the failed sheepdog could just have the sheep chase him to wherever they need to go.

Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 03:47 PM (FMtrg)

23 My cats seem to know when it's Pet Thread time. Jasmine just hopped up on my desk and Hexie wandered into my office from the living room. Allie is in her usual perch on the bookcase behind my office chair.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025

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Big black Stirling just hopped up on the couch, stood as if considering the lap, enjoyed some petting and scratching around the ears . . . then decamped for the floor again. Very different behavior from what he exhibited last Thursday, the day after we applied his topical flea treatment. He was zooming around, tunneling under the covers along my back in the afternoon, and curling in my lap multiple times. We figure the dying fleas must have been thrashing and/or biting as they expired.

Little gray Dagny, La Siberienne, got the flea treatment the same day as Stirling, and did not spring into activity the same way. She cavorted around Linda when she came over this morning, clearly asking for attention. This is a behavior she generally does not do with me. If she'd ask for petting, she'd get it, and she sometimes gets it anyway. But she's just not very demonstrative with me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 03:48 PM (omVj0)

24 Watching the birds go from naked…things, to actually looking like birds has been a lot of fun.

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:48 PM (pZEOD)

25 I guess it was Thyme for those cats to get high on Rosemary.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025

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Sage advice

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 03:49 PM (omVj0)

26 Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 03:26 PM (3tYRn)

So sorry you had to let Logan go. Sending comforting hugs your way.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 03:50 PM (sPQoU)

27 You always hope that your pets can meet your previous pets and the pets of those you love in the Elysian fields they now play in, I wonder how that works. Is there like a Facebook for pets in the afterlife, indexed by smells?

Or does a benevolent God just sort all that out?
Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025

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I imagine there will be jurisdictional disputes among my cats at the Rainbow Bridge. "Back off, black cat, he's *my *human!" "Stuff a fish in it, Fat Boy, he's *mine*!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 03:51 PM (omVj0)

28 Caught a bat in the house this week, first one in a decade maybe. I keep a sweep net handy for these, and caught and released him. A nice big one this time, with chestnut fur, black ears and wings. I stupidly failed to take photos

The insect photos last week seemed to be a bad fit for the Pet Thread, so I won't send any more unless somebody specifically asks for them.

My marmot spends part of every hot day lolling around on his cement slab. He looks like he really enjoys life.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:51 PM (0I+GC)

29 I just watched a guy pull a #17 king salmon out of the water off the dock. Beautiful fish.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 03:54 PM (uBGP/)

30 By the way, if you used Embark, you will get a wolfiness score that is kind of fun. We did this for Saijo, even though we have his papers, you never know about less than ethical breeders. He is 100% Shiba Inu. It was good to confirm.

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:54 PM (pZEOD)

31 Thank you, Piper. I am an absolute wreck. Logan helped nurse me through a long term illness and two major motorcycle accident injuries, and was my best bud.

Of course, the nursing part included not only lots of affection, but also lying on top of me while I recovered from a shattered pelvis, which hurt like hell. But the love made it all OK.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 03:55 PM (3tYRn)

32 Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:54 PM (pZEOD)

I am assuming embark is a genetic testing service? I need to do that with reef. I am starting to suspect there is some jack Russell terrorist in there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 03:57 PM (zZu0s)

33 Is getting stoned on catnip anything like thyme travel??

Posted by: andycanuck at August 09, 2025 03:57 PM (2yoRf)

34 Hope everyone is having a Happy Caturday
Fir me after doing plumbing since 10:30 having a glass of Scotch

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 03:58 PM (+qU29)

35 All my cats are doing fine. Flash has very fine fur that mats easily, so I gave him a good deknotting and combing. When I first got him off the street his matted fur was so thick that he looked like a linebacker, but after I combed a couple of pounds of shedded, trapped fur out of his coat, he looked more regular-like.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:58 PM (0I+GC)

36 A cat cafe is a sus idea. Unless you think drinking coffee surrounded by cat piss and farts, and the potential to get scratched, is a good time. There’s a reason zoos smell like they do.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 03:59 PM (aeiyZ)

37 So far my suspicion confirmed, kid with recent blue heeler, not really a puppy anymore, terrible dog trainer. Far from housebroken, a shit eating pisser. Hear she goes all over the house. And quite yappy at sundown.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 04:01 PM (FtJkr)

38 A cat cafe is a sus idea. Unless you think drinking coffee surrounded by cat piss and farts, and the potential to get scratched, is a good time. There’s a reason zoos smell like they do.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 03:59 PM (aeiyZ)
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Not to mention that there will be cat fur and cat litter EVERYWHERE, no matter how thoroughly you try to keep the place clean.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:01 PM (IBQGV)

39 Our cat Belle (RIP) would get high on olive jars or bowls that I used to eat the olives. So I looked it up when she first did it.

Cats can become attracted to olives due to a chemical compound called isoprenoids, which is similar to the active ingredient in catnip, nepetalactone.

I just looked up Rosemary.

Rosemary, like catnip, belongs to the Lamiaceae family, which is known for its aromatic qualities. If you have rosemary in your home or garden, it's best to supervise your cat's interaction with it. While small amounts of fresh rosemary are generally considered safe, large quantities can cause digestive upset due to the volatile oils.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:01 PM (sPQoU)

40 36 A cat cafe is a sus idea. Unless you think drinking coffee surrounded by cat piss and farts, and the potential to get scratched, is a good time. There’s a reason zoos smell like they do.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest

And a happy Saturday to you, too! 😂

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:01 PM (p4NUW)

41 32 Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:54 PM (pZEOD)

I am assuming embark is a genetic testing service? I need to do that with reef. I am starting to suspect there is some jack Russell terrorist in there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yes. The other big one is Wisdom.

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:03 PM (p4NUW)

42
A cat cafe is a sus idea. Unless you think drinking coffee surrounded by cat piss and farts, and the potential to get scratched, is a good time. There’s a reason zoos smell like they do.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Shark Tank says nope.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 04:03 PM (63Dwl)

43 "A cat cafe is a sus idea."

My sister works at a Chicago cat shelter with a cafe. The cafe is a separate area, like a barista bar, where no cats are brought except upon demand. A five dollar donation gets you a free coffee and a half hour sitting with a cat. Their operation is astonishingly well-funded.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:04 PM (0I+GC)

44 How to torment your dog (an oldie but goodie video).

https://is.gd/w4He9k

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at August 09, 2025 04:05 PM (9vYpt)

45 The insect photos last week seemed to be a bad fit for the Pet Thread, so I won't send any more unless somebody specifically asks for them.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:51 PM (0I+GC)

I found the insects interesting. I may not like them IRL, it is always nice to see them close-up. Maybe we need a once a month insect thread or something.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:07 PM (sPQoU)

46 Coco is adorable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 04:07 PM (JvZF+)

47 I did not know cows like to be brushed that way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 04:08 PM (JvZF+)

48 I took Boy F. to a cat cafe once and he loved it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 04:09 PM (JvZF+)

49 43 Here's the link: treehouseanimals.org
I see the cafe donation has risen to $10.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:10 PM (0I+GC)

50 I found the insects interesting. I may not like them IRL, it is always nice to see them close-up.
Posted by: Joyenz

You're a sweetheart, Joyenz.

Posted by: old chick at August 09, 2025 04:11 PM (F3Dlr)

51 A few words about dog DNA: be prepared for surprises. Our dog, Luna, is a red-coated dog who looks much like a Golden. The rescue had gotten her from her original owners who said she was a retriever mix.

We were so surprised by the results we got from Wisdom Panel that we had Embark analyze Luna's DNA as well. They confirmed it. She's American pittie, cocker spaniel, and rottweiler, plus some other random stuff. No retriever at all.

She is a beautiful, loving, smart girl and we wouldn't trade her for anything...but she's not what we thought she was when we adopted her.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at August 09, 2025 04:14 PM (FEVMW)

52 I took Boy F. to a cat cafe once and he loved it.
Posted by: Sanj Franpsycho

I always enjoy reading about Boy F and where he finds joy. You never know how many lurkers find happiness in your comments.

Posted by: old chick at August 09, 2025 04:14 PM (F3Dlr)

53 51 She is a beautiful, loving, smart girl and we wouldn't trade her for anything...but she's not what we thought she was when we adopted her.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey

A golden deceiver!

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:15 PM (p4NUW)

54 Predator in the parking lot.

https://is.gd/0N9DeZ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 04:17 PM (L/fGl)

55 "So far my suspicion confirmed, kid with recent blue heeler, not really a puppy anymore, terrible dog trainer."

The one blue heeler I've ever met was frighteningly intelligent. A frustratingly talented escape artist, and a determined digger.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:18 PM (0I+GC)

56 Our cat Belle (RIP) would get high on olive jars or bowls that I used to eat the olives. So I looked it up when she first did it.

Cats can become attracted to olives due to a chemical compound called isoprenoids, which is similar to the active ingredient in catnip, nepetalactone. . . .

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025

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So *that* was why my boyhood cat Rusty loved slivers of olives as a treat!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:23 PM (omVj0)

57 The one blue heeler I've ever met was frighteningly intelligent. A frustratingly talented escape artist, and a determined digger.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:18 PM (0I+GC)

The only time I ever gotten bit by a dog was from a blue heeler. But it was not trying to hurt, merely get me away from his property. Did not break the skin, just nipped at me and barked a lot. Even so, in the future I took a different route home from school.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 04:23 PM (0aYVJ)

58 I am assuming embark is a genetic testing service? I need to do that with reef. I am starting to suspect there is some jack Russell terrorist in there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Yes. The other big one is Wisdom.
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025

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Do they do cat DNA? Dagny I'm sure is 100% Siberian, but Stirling is another mess of pottage entirely. Though the mix has come out perfectly!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:25 PM (omVj0)

59 Predator in the parking lot.

https://is.gd/0N9DeZ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 04:17 PM (L/fGl)

That was funny.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:25 PM (sPQoU)

60 Grew up with a cat that just LOVED Ben Gay. If you put it on, she would immediately sit beside you and start licking whatever spot you used BG on.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 09, 2025 04:27 PM (sAmhv)

61 "A golden deceiver!"

She actually is, but she's much more fun and unpredictable than a Golden would have been.

What's funny about dog DNA is that husband's sister just had the same experience with their newly-adopted puppy who was supposedly a boxer/retriever mix. Yep, neither one: supermutt, pittie, Russell terrier, and Pekinese. SiL about blew a gasket when she heard "Pekinese."

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at August 09, 2025 04:27 PM (FEVMW)

62 Some homes with cats reek and some do not have any bad smells. Perfumed "odor control" litter seems to make no difference except if it's smelly, it smells like a mix of stinky litter box and perfume.

Our litter box arrangement was low odor until our kitty got very old and couldn't cover his mess effectively any more. We used a flushable wheat berry litter for awhile (no perfume) and then switched to a plain (no perfume) clay litter later when we moved from an apartment. Both litters were naturally absorbent and the smell was completely eliminated as soon as the spot got buried. When we scooped, we put clumps in a small covered trash can until it could be transferred to our outdoor trash bin.

Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:29 PM (FMtrg)

63 Do they do cat DNA? Dagny I'm sure is 100% Siberian, but Stirling is another mess of pottage entirely. Though the mix has come out perfectly!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:25 PM (omVj0)

There is one called Basepaws that does dogs and cats.

https://basepaws.com/

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:30 PM (sPQoU)

64 This is the flushable litter we used:

https://www.swheatscoop.com/

Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:30 PM (FMtrg)

65 When we scooped, we put clumps in a small covered trash can until it could be transferred to our outdoor trash bin.
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025

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You gotta keep up with it, though. If you let a day go by between scoopings, esp. if you have two or more cats, things can get out of control.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)

66 29 I just watched a guy pull a #17 king salmon out of the water off the dock. Beautiful fish.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 03:54 PM (uBGP/)

Have you ever gone fishing at Point Defiance in Tacoma? I've caught some interesting things and seen some interesting things caught there.

Me and another guy hooked a stingray once. He snagged a wing, it had my hook and bait in it's mouth. Wicked looking stinger at the base of its tail. Cut the lines and kicked it back in.

Same guy at a later time hooked a seagull in a wing when it tried to steal his catch. Tried to fly away with his fishing pole, had to cut the line.

An older gentleman caught a small shark. Cut the line and kicked it back in.

I once caught a large starfish which had to weight over 30 pounds, almost broke my fishing pole until my dad intervened and cut the line. Good chunk of that weight was sea weed. Thought I caught me a big fish, bleh.

I've only caught salmon once and it was at that pier. Sadly it was 2 inches too small and my dad forced me to throw it back in, he didn't want to lose his fishing license. Don't remember what kind of salmon it was.

Posted by: Farquad at August 09, 2025 04:32 PM (znbnV)

67 "Some homes with cats reek"

*Raises hand* I am presently tearing out all the wall-to-wall carpet in here, in anticipation of better smell.

There's also superfine clay dust all over.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:32 PM (0I+GC)

68 When I would grade papers for one of my courses, my cat would come along and pick out a particular one and chew the corner. Same student every time. I had to stop leaving my grading work unattended.

Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:33 PM (FMtrg)

69 Thank you, Joyenz.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 04:33 PM (3tYRn)

70 There is one called Basepaws that does dogs and cats.

https://basepaws.com/
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025

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Thanks, Joyenz, but I think I'll apply that $75 to Stirling's food and vet bills!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (omVj0)

71 When I would grade papers for one of my courses, my cat would come along and pick out a particular one and chew the corner. Same student every time. I had to stop leaving my grading work unattended.
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:33 PM (FMtrg)
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"Sorry. I can't give you a grade. My cat ate your homework."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (IBQGV)

72 Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:29 PM (FMtrg)

We use Feline Pine Litter. Gives the whole house a really nice pine scent. Never smell the poo or urine and the cats like it.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (sPQoU)

73 I recall cat cafes originated in Japan as a way for the terminally apartment-bound to get some cat love in their lives. If anyone can keep a cat cafe clean, it is the Japanese. Those cats live like royalty.

When I visited Japan I didn't go to a cat cafe, but an *owl* cafe

They are very good about not stressing the birds, each one has a little ID card with how they like their human interactions (pet here and here, or no petting, or very soft contact). The other fun thing was the cafe was located in the trendy district next to Yoyogi park ... and the owls got taken for "walks" in the park, flying free for some outdoor time. And they always came back to the handlers, so I guess they were treated well.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (xvXg6)

74 About the cat cafe: They may have gotten the idea from outdoor cafes in Turkey, where street cats hang with patrons. Such cats also get handouts at deli counters, etc.

Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (7vIsy)

75 "I had to stop leaving my grading work unattended."

I have to cover up things I care about, lest a cat puke on them. Never leave a laptop open unattended. Don't leave books lying next to the bed. Etc.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (0I+GC)

76 Really enjoyed the pet pictures today. I could use a cow brush for the dogs that I occasionally have as guests.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (gTHdJ)

77 You gotta keep up with it, though. If you let a day go by between scoopings, esp. if you have two or more cats, things can get out of control.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)

We had space in one of our bathrooms. Since we were in there anyway several times a day, we would scoop morning and night. The main issue was tracking litter. Our cat would go to great lengths to avoid any litter-catching mats.

Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (FMtrg)

78 Thanks, Joyenz, but I think I'll apply that $75 to Stirling's food and vet bills!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (omVj0)

Exactly why we have never tested some of our cats that we were curious about. Better ways to use that money.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:37 PM (sPQoU)

79 Was that squirrel raised from a baby,? How would you get a wild squirrel to act so tame? I guess some people are doctor doolittle

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 09, 2025 04:39 PM (gTHdJ)

80 "Sorry. I can't give you a grade. My cat ate your homework."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (IBQGV)

I never did figure out why he was so obsessed with her papers. These were worksheets I printed to hand out, so it was some smell picked up from her hands or something.

Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FMtrg)

81 15 I guess it was Thyme for those cats to get high on Rosemary.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 03:40 PM (S/Y4j)
Love grows where my Rosemary goes......

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 04:40 PM (LHPAg)

82 I'm using a new litter that the cats both prefer: Tidy Cat Tidy Paws Low Tracking. It's gritty rather than sandy and it really does not track far beyond the litter box.

I keep a box with the old sandy litter just to be sure they prefer the new. They ignore it totally. FWIW.

Posted by: Wenda at August 09, 2025 04:44 PM (/MyY+)

83 Thin Man movies are racist. Mrs Asta caught cheating with a black dog.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 04:45 PM (2VRXy)

84 What's funny about dog DNA is that husband's sister just had the same experience with their newly-adopted puppy who was supposedly a boxer/retriever mix. Yep, neither one: supermutt, pittie, Russell terrier, and Pekinese. SiL about blew a gasket when she heard "Pekinese."
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey

Guessing dog breeds in mixes is hard because those genes pop up in interesting ways. I also think shelters avoid putting pit down as a mix even when the dog’s eyes are in different zip codes, the tell tale pit mix sign. Luckily, just like genetics affect the look, so too does the behavior, and just because your dog has pittie in there doesn’t mean it is a future Cujo at all. My brother got a “lab mix”. I told him he wasn’t, and if he had lab in there at all I would eat a shoe. Turns out, he is pit /boxer/ super mutt with all kinds of breeds, like everything but lab! He is a very, very good boy.

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:51 PM (/sySz)

85 Florida firefighters rescue kitten stuck in engine compartment

https://tinyurl.com/catfdengine

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:56 PM (sPQoU)

86 And here is a short video of the dog Asta from "The Thin Man:":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKLCAHVKb0w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 04:56 PM (2GCMq)

87 Speaking of good boys, I am going to take the doge for a walk down to the water before the rains hit. Have a good afternoon!

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:56 PM (/sySz)

88 I have a 'little buddy' in my garden a squirrel all nicey nice. I I checked veggie plants for damage and there was none I put out a gourmet seed mix for it.Oh how cute. I went to the garden today and BOOM the only melon in my patch was laying away from its stem with chew marks. DOH!

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (VPPG8)

89 And Asta was a Wire Fox Terrier who lived to be twenty years old.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (2GCMq)

90 Florida firefighters rescue kitten stuck in engine compartment

https://tinyurl.com/catfdengine
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:56 PM (sPQoU)
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Nice feelgood story of the day.

My cat Kaylee was rescued from an engine compartment when she was just a kitten. Been a delightful kitty every since.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (IBQGV)

91 I always enjoy reading about Boy F and where he finds joy. You never know how many lurkers find happiness in your comments.
Posted by: old chick at August 09, 2025 04:14 PM (F3Dlr)
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Heh, thanks. He's a character.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 04:59 PM (JvZF+)

92 Piper, I found "Understanding Nutrition" by Whitney and Rolfes. It's pretty much what I needed. Please warn me if you think it unreliable. Thanks!

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:00 PM (0I+GC)

93 Awww; What an adorable but scared looking kitten. I'm glad that it was rescued from the engine and found a new home!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2GCMq)

94 Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 03:26 PM (3tYRn

Sorry about Logan. It is always so very hard when beloved pets die.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:06 PM (2GCMq)

95 My cat Kaylee was rescued from an engine compartment when she was just a kitten. Been a delightful kitty every since.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (IBQGV)

Way back in the olden times, by buddy's cat had fallen asleep on the engine of his dad's truck. His dad started the engine to go to work. Cat shrieked and bolted. Buddy's dad chased it down and took it took the vet. Bipper lost a front leg, from the fan, but lived for years afterward.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 05:06 PM (0aYVJ)

96 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (IBQGV)

Awww, glad your cat was rescued.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 05:06 PM (sPQoU)

97 Whew. I did not nap past the Pet Thread today. Yay.

Dogsitting (again) for daughter & hub's two, while they're off to a family birthday party in Fairbanks this weekend. Daisy the magnificent Malinois is such a gracious hostess. Mostly. The ruckus when anything outside gets their attention is pretty deafening.

Ony the old black cat is not so sure about this having guest dogs. Actually it's just the one smaller dog, Maya, that makes her wary; I think Maya is curious about small girl-cat Ony because she's so much different than their two big boy-cats at home.

The two cats down at the former neighbors' house are getting more used to us. The normal-sized pale yellow that I call Buttercup lets me scratch her head, and has even let MiladyJo (who does the actual feeding every evening) pick him up. Must have been somebody's cat once. The smaller-than-Ony tortoiseshell, Rascal, does come out to eat now, but is still wary of us, especially of me. Rumor is that Rascal is mom to three kittens living under the porch, but I never see them; I'll collectively name them Schrödingers.

That's the Webworks Ranchero pet report for this week. Now to read the post & comments.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the cattle say "'lo." at August 09, 2025 05:14 PM (7W0uI)

98 Just heading back to my little slice of heaven. I took the boat and walked down the Seattle waterfront. They’ve been working on it for several years and it is stunning. Just beautiful. And PACKED.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 05:21 PM (45Kkz)

99 Polynikes kittehs checking in late. Everything aok

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:24 PM (VofaG)

100 100!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 05:26 PM (45Kkz)

101 Great photos of all the pets and glad to see the progress of the chicks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:29 PM (2GCMq)

102 Ib1netmon, very sorry about Logan. I know you must be missing him very much. I too, hope that all my furry kids can find me somehow over the bridge. Thanks all for admiring our Stella, I will post what she is when the DNA comes in. We already think she may be part goat as I found her standing on the dining table this morning. People keep saying Rottie but we shall see. When we got Gigi they said she was a lab mix but when we got the results back she had no lab at all, Pittie, Rottie, Boxer and mutt. I am not afraid of the Pittie mixes, had a few great dogs already that were that, but they never say it at the shelter. Bertram Cabot Jr., the head is a fancy face mask, New Orleans style that was a gift years ago. Looks good on the bookshelf so there it lives.

Posted by: Weekreekfarmgirl at August 09, 2025 05:31 PM (dEfYQ)

103 Posted by: mindful webworker - the cattle say "'lo." at August 09, 2025 05:14 PM (7W0uI

It's very nice of you to dogsit ,mindful webworker .and I appreciate your affection and care for all the animals .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:32 PM (2GCMq)

104 Noodus hobbyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:37 PM (omVj0)

105 Fine Moronamals this week.

Cat cafe: "Hudes is using his entrepreneurship degree and previous marketing experience…" My experience is that the real entrepreneurship education is experience entrepreneuring. Best of luck to 'em. I admit I wish back when we had our music cafe in the '90s that we had social media to attract attention. We did pipe our concerts online at AOL. Not a lot of listeners, but we had one in Australia, so that was cool.

Squirrel: I'd like to have a long video of all the different critters who get some pets and then grab at or otherwise encourage the humans to keep skritching.

Cattle really do like the cattle brushes.

Stella's face and colors look a lot like our son's dog Bandit, a Kelpie.

Don't think I'd want birds for pets, but that Phoenix is sure pretty, and it's such a good pic I could almost hear it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - known by the pets who keep us at August 09, 2025 05:37 PM (7W0uI)

106 Looks like Nelson the failed sheepdog could just have the sheep chase him to wherever they need to go.
Posted by: Emmie

Definitely does not have the shepherding instinct or technique. I'm thinking the sheep all think of it as a small sheep and they're playing with it… as a herd, because, you know, sheep.

Posted by: mindful webworker - known by the pets who keep us at August 09, 2025 05:49 PM (7W0uI)

107 The insect photos last week seemed to be a bad fit for the Pet Thread…
Posted by: gp

Maybe since they're not exactly pets, they'd fit in better in the garden thread? 🐞

Posted by: mindful webworker - they didn't bug me at August 09, 2025 05:53 PM (7W0uI)

108 64 This is the flushable litter we used:

https://www.swheatscoop.com/
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:30 PM (FMtrg)

"flushable litter"
No such animal. Do not flush litter of any sort.

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 06:00 PM (h5TUr)

109 How to torment your dog (an oldie but goodie video).
https://is.gd/w4He9k
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

That really is the classic archetype by which all other voiceover animal vids are measured, including the prolific RxCKSTxR Comedy's.
https://youtu.be/vGbvCDpw_Uw

Posted by: mindful webworker - speaking for themselves at August 09, 2025 06:02 PM (7W0uI)

110 Correcting my own #97

The normal-sized pale yellow that I call Buttercup lets me scratch ~~her~~ his head…

Posted by: mindful webworker - didn't mean to misgender at August 09, 2025 06:17 PM (7W0uI)

111 Man, all my late comments, willowed, like tears in the rain.

Posted by: mindful webworker - old pet threads never die, they just fade away at August 09, 2025 06:21 PM (7W0uI)

112 Caught a bat in the house this week, first one in a decade maybe. I keep a sweep net handy for these, and caught and released him. A nice big one this time, with chestnut fur, black ears and wings. I stupidly failed to take photos

The insect photos last week seemed to be a bad fit for the Pet Thread, so I won't send any more unless somebody specifically asks for them.

My marmot spends part of every hot day lolling around on his cement slab. He looks like he really enjoys life.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:51 PM (0I+GC)

My indoor cat caught a sparrow inside the house this morning, and killed it, but had not commenced to dismember it before I arrived on the scene. Critter must have crawled in under the bottom of the screen door, since all windows have screens. Birds inside the house are fair game. Props to cat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 06:47 PM (Ux/Nh)

113 Thanks to all for the condolences about Logan.

My best boy.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 08:36 PM (3tYRn)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, August 9

I felt like posting something from a cooler time period than today's 105 degree weather here:

Hi Katy -
Hope you are on the mend post-surgery. I'm sending good wishes and prayers your way.
Dogwood Daze - the dogwood blossoms were beautiful this spring. I thought I'd send this photo along before they fade away. Also, a photo of the first flower to bloom in my garden, the hardy Columbine.
The Pilot

From MkY in April:

I can't take pics like Don in Kansas, but I noticed that the dogwoods were particularly spectacular this year here (we're maybe 150 miles north of their natural range).
The white is the largest one in the State of Kansas.

Wow. Thinking about planting for next year?

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

California isn't really "Hatch Chile" country, but this is a supermarket advertisement similar to others this time of year around here. Along with Hatch Chile rotisserie chickens and the like.

Have you got ripe chiles?

Ah, Nature

Removal of a hornets nest
pic.twitter.com/1jNYvdEo0N
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) July 23, 2025

Ever seen anything like this?

Adventure

I Would Watch a 50hr Documentary on How They Built This 1500 Years Ago… pic.twitter.com/xIvXN0rzKc
— 𝕰𝖒𝕲 (@Emilio2763) July 23, 2025

The tweet above reminded me of this, received a while ago:

Greetings!

Lurker and Gardening Thread fan "RS" here.

For your consideration under the "nature" theme, may I submit a few pics from my daughter's recent foray into the Bavarian Alps. (She lives in Bavaria.) The mountain is called "Rotwand" and is considered one of Munich's "House Mountains."

Anyway, keep up the good work and thanks for your contributions at AoS.

Cheers.

That is a real adventure!

Gardens of The Horde

We had a question about growing four o'clocks in challenging circumstances recently. Here is an example of four o' clocks doing very well:

Hi KT,
Could you kindly post these pics on next week's garden thread? The flowers are at their peak right now and I'm just not sure how long they'll last. As I mentioned in my follow-up post, I have done nothing to amend the soil in our back yard, as it's nothing but deep sand and we're plagued with pocket gophers that tunnel through and ruin everything. It's a complete miracle that anything grows in it to begin with.
These pics are a little dark as I took them late in the day once the temps dropped, but you can see the vibrant colors. The pink lily like flower is Amaryllis Belladonna, which grow like weeds everywhere in the SF Bay Area.
Thanks!
Effie

So colorful! I am surprised that four o'clocks stand up to pocket gophers. Not surprised that amaryllis do.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, August 2

Hoping CaliGirl is faring okay with the big fire.

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Giant Water Lily "Victoria Boliviana" leaf diameter can exceed 3 meterspic.twitter.com/iS9nIBIVr4
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 21, 2025

Posted by: K.T. at 01:16 PM

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1 Dogwood blossoms?
Pet thread!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 01:19 PM (rhtv8)

2 Great pictures! Thanks for the gardening Thread KT!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 01:23 PM (nVXpg)

3 The wasp video scared the crap out of my grandson.
He got bit by a meat bee three days ago and is no fan of any flying, stinging thing right now.

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:26 PM (h5TUr)

4 What beautiful dogwoods!

We had a pretty little magnolia tree at the ancestral home, but I was not prepared for the gorgeous giant trees down south.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 01:27 PM (kpS4V)

5 Received 10 puny dried out I’itoi onion bulbs in the mail planted in a pot before I remembered to take a picture. I'll send a pic if any sprout!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 01:28 PM (nVXpg)

6 The colors in those four o'clock flowers are both beautiful and intriguing. Thanks for posting them.

Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 01:29 PM (yTvNw)

7 There’s a bald eagle twittering around here somewhere. I can hear him, but haven’t seen him yet.

Hazy and sunny and 62 here on the beach. High of 75. I’ll go for a walk here in a bit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 01:30 PM (mT+6a)

8 My tomato plants are spitting out maters but due to the heavy rain/no rain cycles they often have blossom end rot or stretch marks. It's been a weird summer.

Best varieties this year have been Delicious Hunt, Thorburn's Terra Cotta, and Lemon Boy. My usually reliable Brandywine types have been very susceptible to disease.

Hot peppers are coming in nicely. Can't wait for Mad Hatters to ripen; supposed to be mildly hot but very flavorful.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 01:32 PM (kpS4V)

9 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Getting a couple more Anaheim peppers and cucumbers from.my cucumber garden

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 01:34 PM (+qU29)

10 I keep bees, and am not yet very good at it. Two weeks ago, when pulling honey supers, I discovered one of my hives had become "hot"... as in angry, pissed off and in no mood to let me take their honey. In fact, they were in no mood to let me stay on the property!
So... you gotta replace the queen in that situation. 3x in the next week, I and a helper went through the hive looking for her. We could NOT find her.
So, since I couldn't keep the new queen caged much longer, I took about 1/2 the bitch's capped brood (bees ready to emerge and get to work) and the attendant bees, brought the new hive here and let the new queen get acquainted.
I bought a new suit after the 1st go round with that hot hive. I must have gotten hit 100 times. A few stings, no problem, but I actually panicked.
I would NOT do that wasp thing voluntarily.

Posted by: MkY at August 09, 2025 01:37 PM (cPGH3)

11 Where is that castle?

Posted by: thereallaserjock at August 09, 2025 01:37 PM (btO17)

12 I finished my second batch of blackberry jam this week, and I don't think I will make any more. I have in mind a batch of peach jam, and I am planning a batch of pear jam, and that should hold me and pretty much anyone I know for the next year.
The Summer apples are ripe and falling so I have the fruit dryer running on the back porch. Once I am done with apples, it will be plum season, and I will have prunes as well.
I dug my potatoes and planted the bed with Cranberry Beans, which are a nice bush bean I like to can. I am waiting for the tomatoes to come ripe too.
Besides the fruit and berries, it hasn't been a great year for the garden. I had trouble getting it started and unfortunately it is slow in putting out veggies.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:40 PM (rbvCR)

13 All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes

We're just now getting tomatoes in quantities, but our Brandywines have yet to give us a single one.
Weird year for sure.
People don't want to visit lately, cause everyone has to take cukes home. Mom, Dad, kids... no one gets to go home empty-handed.

Posted by: MkY at August 09, 2025 01:40 PM (cPGH3)

14 Kind of neat. We've always had owls in the trees in our backyard and the adjacent yards. I would find the pellets on the ground and could hear them 'hooing'. But last night we heard them while in the house. They must have been roosting in the maple just outside a window. Unusual and a bit haunting.

Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 01:42 PM (yTvNw)

15 I'll take some of those cukes, MkY!

I chortled at seeing the words "bitch" and "capped" in a nice apiary context. Didn't know the beekeeping scene was so hardcore.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 01:44 PM (kpS4V)

16 12 I finished my second batch of blackberry jam this week . .
Blackberry is great with the more perfumed black currants. Or with raspberries.

Peach is great with a little raspberry, too. Pear with citrus?

Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 01:45 PM (7vIsy)

17 We have two little Christmas cacti in pots, rather spindly. While they bloom reliably twice a year they have never grown bigger. This week I noticed one of them has new growth coming in on the tips of the older parts, a very light green against the much darker established parts. No idea why now after several decades of no change but it is really cool.

Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 01:47 PM (yTvNw)

18 Eris, I have had blossom end rot, what seemed to fix it for me was adding in fish bone meal and ag lime in the spring when I plant. I also put on kelp meal
The stretches and splits may be from the rain.

Every year my tomatoes get ripe and we get the first downpour of the summer, so I go out in the mud to pick the splitting tomatoes, and freeze them in ziplock bags because late in the afternoon I am neither prepared for or willing to do the canning

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:50 PM (rbvCR)

19 There was a patch of Four o'clocks by our garage when I was a kid. All were that deep magenta color.

The seeds are so cool, too! They're shaped rather like hand grenades.

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 02:02 PM (rdVOm)

20 KT, I make the apple and pear jams as a sort of a confit, I shred the fruit and use that instead of puree with the sugar and pectin.
I add lemon juice, and the whole thing pretty much sparkles. For some reason if I use cooked and pureed fruit it tastes heavy.
I do much the same with plum and peach. My peach jam is crushed and chopped fruit, and not run through the grinder.
I tend not to mix fruits, though your suggestions sound wonderful. The one thing I do add extra flavoring to is the cherry jam I make, I like to add vanilla to it.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 02:03 PM (rbvCR)

21 Kindltot, I've bagged a lot of the "splittists" and uglies (one bag for yellows and oranges, one for reds) and look forward to making sauce in the cold winter months.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 02:03 PM (kpS4V)

22 Maybe a "conserve" more than a "confit"

I use it on toast mostly, thought I also like it for jam tarts

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 02:06 PM (rbvCR)

23 The ludicrous sized wasp nest looks like it's in the foundation of an abandoned building. I'd wait until night and burn that fcker down.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 02:06 PM (ULPxl)

24 My co-worker has bees and was contacted by someone about a swarm. When he got there, it found out it was a yellow jackets nest. He. Was trying to get the nest out where they could be killed, but they found a few holes in his bee suit. He didn'r have great visibilty but managed to wander off into the woods where he could strip down out of the suit. The owner did a video on his phone and my friend sent me a copy (fortunately without the stripping down part). It's funny because the video sometimes shows up in my photo feed and I have to figure out what I'm looking at.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 02:08 PM (kUxzU)

25 All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes
The term "bitch" isn't a bee term, like with dogs. It's what it looks like. She's a mean bitch, and she needs to die.

Posted by: MkY at August 09, 2025 02:11 PM (cPGH3)

26 Notsothoreau
My wife has been reading about how some people can take stings, and then can't, for whatever reason.
I'm far to cavalier with stings now. I shouldn't be, I know. I keep a radically out of date Epi-pen handy, just in case.
But when you're used to nice, gentle hives, you kinda get used to it.
If all the bees were like that hot hive, no one would keep bees.

Posted by: MkY at August 09, 2025 02:19 PM (cPGH3)

27 the off-label use for benedryl gel-caps is to smear the goo on bee and yellow jacket stings. I find it keeps the swelling down, and they don't itch like crazy afterwards.
I also eat the empty capsule just in case.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 02:23 PM (rbvCR)

28 I prefer the heirloom single-color columbines over the bicolor ones. Found a few on an abandoned homestead in Sweden and moved them to my garden. Dark blue and dusty wine red. Beautiful!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:35 PM (w6EFb)

29
The wasps and other stinging insects are out in force this week!

Tomatoes are almost done, now the real work begins at the direction of the canner.

Not garden, but Peace Garden: took a easy bet that Trump will not be the Nobel prize winner this year, wagering a whole jar of salsa.

Posted by: Auspex at August 09, 2025 02:35 PM (Y8DZL)

30 Plumbing but not having a great time at it today, waiting until it cools to try it

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 02:38 PM (+qU29)

31 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 01:32 PM (kpS4V)

Those Terra Cottas are delicious! I recommend Black Strawberry for its prolific fruiting and long-lasting tomatoes, especially for sauce.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:40 PM (w6EFb)

32 12 Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:40 PM (rbvCR)

I have about 4 dozen peaches ripening right now. Picked a little over a week ago, so it's taken them awhile. Last batch of the year, I guess.

Anyway, I'll can some of them and also make a few batches of low-sugar peach jam. It's delicious! It doesn't gel up a lot, but I really appreciate the peach flavor with less of the sugar. Great over ice cream.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:44 PM (w6EFb)

33 I need to schedule a rain dance ceremony. It's been over three weeks without any rain except for a couple of drizzles. Our lakes are dropping.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 02:49 PM (VofaG)

34 I recommend Black Strawberry for its prolific fruiting and long-lasting tomatoes, especially for sauce.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:40 PM (w6EFb)
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Never heard of it. Gonna have to order some seeds. Thanks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 02:52 PM (kpS4V)

35 It's been a weird year for sure. Almost 6 weeks of 90+ temps with little rain in the last four. Come August, the temps plummeted to low 70s with what seems to be rain every day.

The stray cat that we've been feeding for the past month or two bit my right hand (so quick!), and that put me out of commission for the better part of a week. It happened at 8:30 pm, and I wasn't going to the ER on a Friday night for a cat bite, no way. So I didn't get antibiotics until the next morning at the urgent care. I'll bet that delay contributed to the swelling.

Publius got bit by the same damn cat a few days ago. Since the urgent care was still open he got his amoxicillin right away. His swelling isn't as bad.

The doc told me that 85% of cat bites get infected, whereas only 15% of dog bites do.

Maybe this should be on the Pet Thread...

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:55 PM (w6EFb)

36 Never heard of it. Gonna have to order some seeds. Thanks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 02:52 PM (kpS4V)

Baker Creek.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:56 PM (w6EFb)

37 Hornet's nest, dayum!

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 03:07 PM (LHPAg)

38 The doc told me that 85% of cat bites get infected, whereas only 15% of dog bites do.

Bird owners say "cats puncture, dogs crush".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 03:08 PM (QGetb)

39 And what about the giant catfish waiting under that lily pad?

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 03:12 PM (LHPAg)

40 That hornet's nest gave me the heebie jeebies. Bumblebees and honey bees are fine. but I hate wasps and hornets. Mean bastages.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 03:13 PM (0aYVJ)

41 The doc told me that 85% of cat bites get infected, whereas only 15% of dog bites do.

Maybe this should be on the Pet Thread...
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:55 PM (w6EFb)
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My mom was bitten by one of our cats (big puncture wound) and yeah, it's serious. Doc said if she had waited longer to get it treated she could have had permanent damage.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 03:33 PM (kpS4V)

42 Kindltot at August 09, 2025 02:03 PM

The pear prep sounds great. I might add a few shreds of lemon zest.

The type of black currant (rust resistant) that is pretty much too strong to eat straight is great when used to spike other berry jams.

Strawberry dishes with a little lime are also great.

Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 03:34 PM (7vIsy)

43 I just watched a guy pull a #17 king salmon out of the water off the dock. Beautiful fish.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 03:53 PM (uBGP/)

44 I think that wasp situation was deserving of a small tactical nuke. At the least a flamewerfer. Fire would have been my way of getting rid of it. Garden sprayer with 2 gallons of mid-grade liberally applied then make the BOOM!
How did it even get that bad?

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 04:04 PM (h5TUr)

45 From Boise area: Lows 57-64 F, highs 81-91. We emptied 3 pots of fingerlings last Sat. - 5 lb. 14 oz. On Wed. I dug up all 100 or so onions. Harvesting strawberries, green beans, SunGold tomatoes, broccolini - cut one of the 2 last cabbages. Pulled out 2 of 4 pickling cucumber vines. I planted fall peas to see if that'll work.

I entered 30 categories in the Western Idaho Fair - online, so they can print the tags ahead (they hate when you walk in with that much stuff and expect them to handwrite all those tags).

I attended a handgun match early this morning and I am so fried at this point, so that's all for this week.

Posted by: Pat* at August 09, 2025 04:20 PM (k/ubR)

46 Wow, Pat*! That's a lot of entries in the fair!

Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 04:38 PM (7vIsy)

47 Where is the castle?
Comment on X says Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England

Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 06:03 PM (7vIsy)

48 Anyway, I'll can some of them and also make a few batches of low-sugar peach jam. It's delicious! It doesn't gel up a lot, but I really appreciate the peach flavor with less of the sugar. Great over ice cream.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:44 PM (w6EFb)

I use full sugar recipes, or make my own apple skin pectin, but for low sugar try a Calcium activated pectin. Pomona's Universal (which I have never used) has a peach jam recipe that uses two cups of sugar.

Food chemistry is fun, so I follow it: Pectin needs something to help it gel. Sugar is one thing, it excludes water from the pectin, personally I think it is because it evaporates off leaving heavy syrup behind. Calcium is another element that will activate the pectin, and that is what Pomona's uses

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 06:16 PM (rbvCR)

49 I bought low-sugar pectin for one cup of sugar per 8 cups of jam. It tastes divine.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 07:32 PM (w6EFb)

50 It was a great season for Dogwood in my neck of Massachusetts. Full bloom everywhere you went.

Posted by: Lex at August 09, 2025 07:40 PM (y4H1r)

51 Late to the thread, but reading about all the home-made jam using different flavor combinations is making me hungry for breakfast!

Posted by: The Pilot at August 09, 2025 08:42 PM (uIJnJ)

52 Thanks, KT. Entries go in on the 12th and 13th, judging on the 14th, I go to the Fair to see what I won on Fri. 15th. I'll let y'all know how I do.

Posted by: Pat* at August 09, 2025 09:42 PM (k/ubR)

53 The dogwoods are so pretty. I love the photos of the Alps, whether Bavarian or Swiss, they look like AI it's so pretty.

The Hornets need to be killed with fire and I'm so happy I don't have to do this job.

The fire is slowing down but the smoke is still terrible and I'm betting there is smoke in the valley hanging around like tule fog.
Some of my friends lost some cattle and they won't leave their ranches even though they were supposed to evacuate. They are there for the duration to protect their property.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 10, 2025 11:52 AM (QsMb/)

Getting respect for the past wrong in Canada

How the Canadian Flag Came to Be as It is Today

In the past few years, Canada has become obsesses with the idea of respect for the people who were living in the land when Europeans arrived. If you identified as a descendant of one of these groups, would you feel respected by the following?

Winnipeg Police: "One of our senior officers is a psychopathic serial criminal who—while maybe high on coke and mushrooms—sold drugs, extorted people and took grotesque pictures with dead women in their underwear. But before we get to that, let's do a dozen land acknowledgments." pic.twitter.com/YjvTgXIbAj
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) August 7, 2025

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Criminal Law

Here's an interesting reported legal development in Canada:

A Cree woman named Jamie Tanis Gladue was having a 19th birthday party in Nanaimo when she suspected her boyfriend was having an affair with her sister. The two started fighting and Gladue stabbed him to death

…and now all Indigenous criminals get a discount on their sentences. pic.twitter.com/XEf00ZhtXv
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) August 8, 2025

Sounds odd. You have to glance through the responses to the post to realize that the courts have reportedly adopted race-based criminal sentencing, straight-up.

You haven't noticed anything like this happening anywhere else, have you?

Residential Indian Schools

Caution: The guy who authored the tweet above wrote a book, The Scarlet Lesson "to describe what happens to school teachers who tell the truth" about the uproar concerning graves at church-run Indian schools in Canada. So it would be prudent to check out the details of the claim in this tweet.

However, you might also be interested in the close-mindedness of a "journalist" toward a university professor who helped write another book on this subject. Astonishing:

What is Grave Error? Some background:

About 18 months ago, I helped publish a book called Grave Error, a collection of essays written by top university professors and journalists setting the historical record straight on Indian Residential Schools (IRS)

3/ pic.twitter.com/nSCpUTMIqe
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) August 7, 2025

👑🇨🇦💉 Trois-Rivieres, Que.
Another church arson for the police to ignore pic.twitter.com/UYxznTjNhR
— Nestor (@UncleNestor22) August 7, 2025

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Private Property

A 🚨bombshell judgement 🚨was released yesterday by BC’s Supreme Court, declaring Aboriginal title over land in Richmond, including private property.

If this stands, it has massive implications for private property across BC.

Read the highlighted sections for yourself: pic.twitter.com/kzuawETGeg
— Caroline Elliott (@NVanCaroline) August 8, 2025

You may want to check out the comments at Small Dead Animals. Here are a couple of them:

54.3% of land ownership in Richmond BC is Chinese folks, greatest percent in tier 2 Canada, that’ll be interesting! Fortunately this is Canada and they’ll argue over this until autumn of 2120

In typically weasel word legal speak, the ruling says that there can be aboriginal title and private land on the same ground and the Crown must resolve it which means that the tax payers have to compensate the grifters. If the robed shysters had ruled that aboriginal title was final, then they would have just ruled themselves out of a job as there would be no BC nor Canada because there was no legitimacy of Crown sovereignty. This is the end game of the grievance industry – White-pimp judges declaring the taxpayer-paid Chiefs as our new landlords.

So, will the Chinese landowners or the Native Chiefs hold more sway here?

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Music

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, August 2, August 2, Blue Genes (sigh)

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:07 AM

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1 Canada was great until 1990.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (u82oZ)

2 The first item makes me wonder why isn't the Canadian government providing knives to indigenous peoples?

Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 11:13 AM (od0dV)

3 The natural sovereign over BC is of course the United States. 54.50 or fight!

Posted by: gkwve at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (QQwd/)

4 This is the end game of the grievance industry – White-pimp judges declaring the taxpayer-paid Chiefs as our new landlords.

The intent is to abolish private property - the tribes are just being used as a means to this end.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (xTIDn)

5 Specifically, the Canadian military punched well above it's weight in WWI and WWII.

And they used to combine the best of the UK parliamentary system with American business.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (u82oZ)

6 Oops, it was the 2nd item.

Shouldn't we be acknowledging stolen pixels?

Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (od0dV)

7 So, will the Chinese landowners or the Native Chiefs hold more sway here?

Not my cir... anyway. Whoever is willing to kill the most will rule.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 11:15 AM (0eaVi)

8 Jokes aside, Newfoundland was profoundly bent over by WW1. Lost about all the young men who could work. The colony (which was not Canadian) then went bankrupt and joined Canada by force.

Posted by: gkwve at August 09, 2025 11:18 AM (QQwd/)

9 There was a time lefties could be funny.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 11:18 AM (od0dV)

10 gkwve

WWI spared no one in the Commonwealth. Newfoundland was British, and the losses in their one regiment were horrific. For one attack that went no where.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:19 AM (u82oZ)

11 How the Canadian flag got the big red oak leaf?
The big red star was already taken.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:21 AM (/lPRQ)

12 I'm just resigned to the fact that western civilization is dying. Faster in some places, perhaps.

Others have written eloquently on the subject. I just think we have lost our soul, collectively. Whatever goodness there was, in the day to day of our societies, even when our politicians were rogues and criminals, is melting into chaos, division, and boredom.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:23 AM (LPgB/)

13 Asia is for Asians.
Africa is for Africans.
White countries are for non-Whites.

That’s new world order.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:25 AM (AiNp4)

14 OMG noooooo!

Rosie O’Donnell Fears “The View” Will Get Canceled to Appease Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

15 Canada was great until 1990.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (u82oZ)
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No, when they changed the flag real Canada died and was replaced with Trudeaupia.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:25 AM (ZOv7s)

16 > Sounds odd. You have to glance through the responses to the post to realize that the courts have reportedly adopted race-based criminal sentencing, straight-up.

You haven't noticed anything like this happening anywhere else, have you?
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Certainly not here.

Oh.... wait.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 11:25 AM (Q4IgG)

17 Thx K.T. The Canadians did give the world Shatner, Doohan, Rush, all of the members of The Band except Levon, some hot actresses and some good beer. It was a good run

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 09, 2025 11:27 AM (e/yD6)

18 BurtTC

The local level is where the action should be. Clear and hold. We did that in our county and our University City. Until the counterattack wiped us out.

All it took were pragmatic candidates and a core groups of election walkers. We used our Constitution Bee board as a think tank for good candidates. Less than 100 people all told.

We as conservatives can out-organized and overcome the withered Left, which is flabby from all the give-me deferance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:28 AM (u82oZ)

19 Vancouver is basically a Chinese city. I kinda doubt they give any fucks on what Indian tribe their land is on. Same with Sikhs which is the other dominant group in the city.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:28 AM (AiNp4)

20 Watch the little video in the Residential Indian Schools tweet. They really don't care if bodies were actually found. And apparently (in some places in Canada) you can be charged with a hate crime just for reading a book suggesting that the narrative concerning the discovery of bodies was wrong.

Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 11:29 AM (7vIsy)

21 I'm just resigned to the fact that western civilization is dying. Faster in some places, perhaps.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:23 AM (LPgB/)
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I think we are in the beginning stages of a revival. Call it spring 1942. Now, that was a tough year, lots of setbacks, but it was also the turn of the tide.

The masks are off. We can see that there is a deep-seated anti-white movement that is completely implacable. That's good to know. We no longer have to listen or care what those people who claim to be compassionate say.

Canada is reeling from this. The Confederation is collapsing. You have Wexit on one side, the Quebec stirring on the other. This isn't the old secessionists, either. Carney is actuall forcing immigrants into Quebec and also trying to repeal the French language laws. He wants Quebec destroyed. It's existential.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:29 AM (ZOv7s)

22 KT

Thought control is the fast highway to failure as a country.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:29 AM (u82oZ)

23 K.T.

Thank you for your continued series of thought-provoking essays. In Japan, you would be a National Treasure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (u82oZ)

24 We as conservatives can out-organized and overcome the withered Left, which is flabby from all the give-me deferance.

I am optimistic. Just a glance at the left tells you that they're old, tired, and completely out of ideas. They're on the cusp of a complete rout, so naturally some want to just give up. Let's not pull defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

25 So the original case resulted in the red Indian savage getting 3 years for murder. I guess this means red Indian savages can do anything they want in Canada.

My question is: does the case law hold for *foreign* red Indian savages who commit crimes in Canada? I only ask because I have enough Cherokee blood to qualify for the tribe.

I've never bothered trying to apply for it, because I'm a blond, blue eyed Russian Jew and the whole idea would be ridiculous. But if it means I am above Canadian law, then I'm going to become an official red Indian savage and head north for a bank robbery spree. Heap big wampum, you dumb hosers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (rjlYr)

26 Last week Alberta entered into an agreement with Montana for a new pipeline, ignoring the Ottawa feds.

Carney is a total buffoon, and he's pissing everyone off and crossing lines that have to be defended. Quebec will not give up its French identity and become a third world shit hole.

Carney will escalate against both, because he had to because he's been bent over abroad. He's creating his own resistance. I doubt if Canada makes it to the end of 2026.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:32 AM (ZOv7s)

27 Well, I'll be go to Hell!

New Poll Finds People With Nose Rings Love Socialism

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

28 My question is: does the case law hold for *foreign* red Indian savages who commit crimes in Canada? I only ask because I have enough Cherokee blood to qualify for the tribe.

I've never bothered trying to apply for it, because I'm a blond, blue eyed Russian Jew and the whole idea would be ridiculous.

Yeah, you blend.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

29 I am optimistic. Just a glance at the left tells you that they're old, tired, and completely out of ideas. They're on the cusp of a complete rout, so naturally some want to just give up. Let's not pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
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Look at the voter demographics. In a decade or so, the Dems will be a rump party. (Mayor Pete approves!)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:34 AM (ZOv7s)

30 I used to think E. Europe would be the last refuge for white people. But even there it’s starting to crack. I really don’t know what will happen to whites in 50 years from now. It’s not going to be pretty.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:34 AM (AiNp4)

31

Take off to the Great White North
Take off, it's a beauty way to go

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 11:37 AM (63Dwl)

32 My favorite Canadian is Gale Garnett. She won the Folk Grammy award in 1965, beating out Dylan for the song "We'll Sing In The Sunshine". Had a moderately successful pop career after that, then a psychedelic phase with her band The Gentle Reign. Warm alto voice with a lovely "bottom" to it. After leaving the music world, she became s successful novelist. She was born in New Zealand, family moved to Canada when she was 11.

Posted by: I Am Shining at August 09, 2025 11:37 AM (G5+As)

33 Canada also gave the hockey world Wayne Gretzky - probably the word's greatest hockey player. It also gave us the wonderful comic writer Robertson Davies as well as L.M, Montgomery who write the various books in "The Anne of Green Gables" series.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 11:37 AM (2GCMq)

34 My question is: does the case law hold for *foreign* red Indian savages who commit crimes in Canada? I only ask because I have enough Cherokee blood to qualify for the tribe.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (rjlYr)
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Is the tribe accepting new members? That's the first question. I don't think any of the 12 federally recognized tribes in Michigan have the rolls opened. For most of them, blood quantum is not a requirement, proven descent from a documented tribal member is what counts.

The tribes are in a bit of a hard place because on the one hand, more tribal members means more strength in terms of voting, but it also means the casino money and jobs have more competitors. Last I heard, they're holding pat for the time being. Michigan's largest tribe has 30,000 members, but even they are wary of letting more people in.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM (ZOv7s)

35 Thx K.T. The Canadians did give the world Shatner, Doohan, Rush, all of the members of The Band except Levon, some hot actresses and some good beer. It was a good run
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Anne Murray rocks !
(Makes 'hook'em' sign with both hands)

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM (/lPRQ)

36 > I'm just resigned to the fact that western civilization is dying. Faster in some places, perhaps.
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Maybe.

Maybe just "some" of western civ is on the block. Here, in the US, I think the alphabet people are on the decline. Well, maybe the social side of them. Some may still hold on to whatever passes for values, but their grip on society is waning. For now.

Leftists are also on the decline. For now.

Normals are ascending. Again, for now. I guess it depends on how bad we would like to have a normal society or whether we don't have the gumption to see it through.

I'd not take bets on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM (Q4IgG)

37 Germany to Suspend Military Exports “That Could be Used in the Gaza Strip”

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Party like it's 1939!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

38 Watch the little video in the Residential Indian Schools tweet. They really don't care if bodies were actually found. And apparently (in some places in Canada) you can be charged with a hate crime just for reading a book suggesting that the narrative concerning the discovery of bodies was wrong.
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 11:29 AM (7vIsy)

Some of us keep going back to the Epstein stuff. There are a LOT of people who seem to want to push it away, for their own reasons, and it's hard for some of us to do that, when children were sex trafficked, and presumably in a lot of cases, murdered and disappeared afterwards.

I don't know how to separate the perpetrators from those who would cover it up.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:39 AM (mNhIh)

39 Maybe just "some" of western civ is on the block. Here, in the US, I think the alphabet people are on the decline. Well, maybe the social side of them. Some may still hold on to whatever passes for values, but their grip on society is waning. For now.

Leftists are also on the decline. For now.

Normals are ascending. Again, for now. I guess it depends on how bad we would like to have a normal society or whether we don't have the gumption to see it through.

I think there's going to be a big change in Britain soon. The people there have had enough, and the unrest is starting to look more like a revolution. If I were Keir Starmer, I'd be looking for a retirement country without extradition.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

40 Normals are ascending. Again, for now. I guess it depends on how bad we would like to have a normal society or whether we don't have the gumption to see it through.

I'd not take bets on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM (Q4IgG)

Sometimes I very much want to be proven wrong. This is one of those situations.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:41 AM (mNhIh)

41 proven descent from a documented tribal member is what counts.

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I have that.

But I didn't know tribes "closed their rolls," lol. What a crock of shit. You're either descended from thr guy ir you're not. But hey, it's all just a race scam anyway? No need for it to have any kind of internal logic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:42 AM (rjlYr)

42 24 We as conservatives can out-organized and overcome the withered Left, which is flabby from all the give-me deferance.

I am optimistic. Just a glance at the left tells you that they're old, tired, and completely out of ideas. They're on the cusp of a complete rout, so naturally some want to just give up. Let's not pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
The left is on the cusp of committing mass murder before they allow themselves to be routed. Desperation is a dangerous substance. Like nitro.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:42 AM (LHPAg)

43 My question is: does the case law hold for *foreign* red Indian savages who commit crimes in Canada? I only ask because I have enough Cherokee blood to qualify for the tribe.
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Maybe the new rule is you only get 3yrs if you kill one?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:42 AM (/lPRQ)

44 Canada is the land of do-gooder white liberal guilt. Why?
Because they are bored to death and feel this will add excitement to their existence and bring about peace, harmony and the occasional orgasm. Hope they get what they have coming to them.

The "First Peoples" are savages who only need booze and casinos to make them happy.

Posted by: Dudley DoGooder, Canadian Fascist Police Officer at August 09, 2025 11:43 AM (R/m4+)

45 Some of us keep going back to the Epstein stuff. There are a LOT of people who seem to want to push it away, for their own reasons, and it's hard for some of us to do that, when children were sex trafficked, and presumably in a lot of cases, murdered and disappeared afterwards.

I don't know how to separate the perpetrators from those who would cover it up.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:39 AM (mNhIh)
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Trump did an amazing job of flipping the script and making the Dems demand an inquiry.

I was one of the few here to recognize what he was doing from the get-go. Classic WWE heel turn.

And now he has the Maxwell interview to hold over them.

Did you see Bernie squirm when asked if he would vote for immunity in order to get her to testify to the Senate?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:43 AM (ZOv7s)

46 I think there's going to be a big change in Britain soon. The people there have had enough, and the unrest is starting to look more like a revolution. If I were Keir Starmer, I'd be looking for a retirement country without extradition.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

I tend to look at Britain on a much larger (longer) scale. Their sins stretch back centuries, and without arguing the right or wrong of it, I suspect the rubber band hasn't snapped back anywhere near as far as it will.

To say the 20th century broke them seems patently obvious to me. I just don't believe they have enough... whatever, character, morality, strength, courage, whatever, to beat back the momentum.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:44 AM (mNhIh)

47 In my day, if every press conference started with a bullshit "land acknowledgement", The speaker would be wearing multiple fruit and cream pies!

Posted by: Moe Howard, World Champeen Pie Thrower at August 09, 2025 11:45 AM (G5+As)

48 But I didn't know tribes "closed their rolls," lol. What a crock of shit. You're either descended from thr guy ir you're not. But hey, it's all just a race scam anyway? No need for it to have any kind of internal logic.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:42 AM (rjlYr)
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Indian tribal politics operate on a scale of viciousness most people cannot even fathom because its all in the family.

Everyone has the image of them as truly connected to the land, stewards of nature and yet they overfish, overhunt and build wherever they please on the reservation. Crazy stuff. You know those lady influencers bitching about the wedding ring?

That's tribal politics EVERY DAY. I used to get some of their newspapers as part of my job and they were riveting reading.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:46 AM (ZOv7s)

49 Seems kind of queer, aboriginals had no concept of land title, much less contract law or a written language. Probably just Marxism in drag, legal fairy tales.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 11:46 AM (aRbAR)

50 I'm shocked! Shocked!!! And the left wonders why they're losing the yutes.

‘Whitelash’: Professors say white students get angry, frustrated by ‘anti-racist education’

https://tinyurl.com/m4amtakm

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

51 The "First Peoples" are savages who only need booze and casinos to make them happy.
Posted by: Dudley DoGooder, Canadian Fascist Police Officer at

Most significant contributionies to the world -
- booze
- casinos
- tobacco
- coke

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:47 AM (/lPRQ)

52 Trump did an amazing job of flipping the script and making the Dems demand an inquiry.

I was one of the few here to recognize what he was doing from the get-go. Classic WWE heel turn.

And now he has the Maxwell interview to hold over them.

Did you see Bernie squirm when asked if he would vote for immunity in order to get her to testify to the Senate?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:43 AM (ZOv7s)

I went into this Trump term with only one question: Would he wield enough power to truly beat or at least damage the Deep State. I wasn't questioning his will to do so, and I'm not going to question his methods. Maybe he knows what he's doing, I don't know.

I just still don't know if, and suspect he won't, win.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:48 AM (mNhIh)

53 And I hope that the faithful RC Canadians who want the best for their country and God's blessings are asking the intercession of Canadian Saints including Saint Brother Andre ( who built an oratory in Montreal to Saint Joseph and was a really interesting and humble man , and Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (sp?) who was a Native Indian who converted to Catholicism . There are a number of other Canadian saints including Frenchman who went over to try to convert the Indians and got tortured and killed in the process.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 11:48 AM (2GCMq)

54 Damn cheese eating surrender monkeys!

French Fries Associated With Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

55 To say the 20th century broke them seems patently obvious to me. I just don't believe they have enough... whatever, character, morality, strength, courage, whatever, to beat back the momentum.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:44 AM (mNhIh)
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Europe's elites are losing control. Their desperate attempts at censorship are giving the game away. In Germany, the second largest part is going to be banned, and if you can't vote your way out of the problem, well, other means have to be tried.

Starmer and Carney are both pushing past the breaking point. They are essentially demanding total submission to the point of national suicide. If those are the terms, why not go down swinging?

The key point is when the troops are called out and ordered to fire. We're not there yet, but it's much closer than it was two months ago.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:50 AM (ZOv7s)

56 The best thing about Starmer is that his name's a lot easier to spell than Ceausescu.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

57 BurtTC

When ones back is pushed to the wall, the media and Leftists will be astonished with our robust response.

Not wanting one, but kinetic action may be in our future. Based on Long Live Death, that type of initially formless front lines could yield 80-100 million casualties.

A better solution is targeted killings of the Left's leaders and funding sources.

Plus seizing Hamas treasure from Qatar, and moving Palestinians to the Palmer Peninsula.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:53 AM (u82oZ)

58 We need to start sending arms to Alberta, Quebec, Ireland, England and Wales.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:53 AM (ZOv7s)

59 In the hierarchy, who ranks first, the Native Chiefs or the Kansas City Chiefs?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 11:53 AM (0sNs1)

60 In my day, if every press conference started with a bullshit "land acknowledgement", The speaker would be wearing multiple fruit and cream pies!
Posted by: Moe Howard, World Champeen Pie Thrower at August 09, 2025 11:45 AM (G5+As)

Larry was a cheap shot artist. You'd be waiting for Moe to retaliate, and Larry would be over there, wincing like a schoolgirl, and he'd sneak one in on ya.

Just as you were waiting for Moe to grab you by the nose, here'd come a pie from the side, right in the kisser.

Posted by: Shemp at August 09, 2025 11:54 AM (mNhIh)

61 They're definitely putting the "win" in "Winnipeg Police." If you're smart, one of the best places to be a serial criminal is in the police force.

Posted by: Pigs, eh! at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM (KOE6H)

62 Starmer and Carney are both pushing past the breaking point. They are essentially demanding total submission to the point of national suicide. If those are the terms, why not go down swinging?

The key point is when the troops are called out and ordered to fire. We're not there yet, but it's much closer than it was two months ago.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I wonder about the Oath, and what it means to various people.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM (LHPAg)

63 I tend to look at Britain on a much larger (longer) scale. Their sins stretch back centuries, and without arguing the right or wrong of it, I suspect the rubber band hasn't snapped back anywhere near as far as it will.

To say the 20th century broke them seems patently obvious to me. I just don't believe they have enough... whatever, character, morality, strength, courage, whatever, to beat back the momentum.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:44 AM

Yeah, I don't know how the UK gets back to normal anytime within our lifetime when the demographics are against that, and getting worse, and the people in control of all the major cities are Muslim.

The UK is closer to a Muslim country than it is to the former UK.

Muslim Takeover of England: https://bit.ly/3ROxCBc

Oxford Street shoppers told: 'Mind the grab' and guard your phone. Purple lines along the pavement remind pedestrians to keep devices hidden on London shopping route.

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Hha6vc

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 09, 2025 11:56 AM (P5BPp)

64 Not wanting one, but kinetic action may be in our future. Based on Long Live Death, that type of initially formless front lines could yield 80-100 million casualties.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:53 AM (u82oZ)
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The war has already started, but it's at very low intensity and the correlation of forces makes me think that it won't intensify much more. If Harris won, totally different story with a divided military, overt oppression etc. Very much Spanish Civil War.

But Trump has purged the military and security forces, and adding tens of thousands of ICE agents will further increase this superiority. Newsome's stupid gambit with the National Guard - which carried out Trump's orders with alacrity - also shows how weak their hand is at this point.

That is why they are flailing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:57 AM (ZOv7s)

65 I've lived within an hour of the border with Canada for about 90% of my life. I can't believe how far they've fallen.

Posted by: 496 at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (t+VLa)

66 I wonder about the Oath, and what it means to various people.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM

Specifically, to those who took it. Do they realize it has no expiration date?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)

67 To say the 20th century broke them seems patently obvious to me. I just don't believe they have enough... whatever, character, morality, strength, courage, whatever, to beat back the momentum.
Posted by: BurtTC
_________

"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" was a backhanded compliment in 1973. They've lost the stiff upper lip.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (XvL8K)

68 BurtTC

The website Gates of Vienna has a 7 part series on how rural Britain could win over the concentrated Islamic hordes in cities. Only handguns were confiscated after the Dunblane Massacre. The rural population has plenty of hunting rifles to win with.

Matt Braken's What I Saw at the Coup is also relevant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (u82oZ)

69 Duncanthrax

If I was still on Active Service, and I was given an order to arrest some of the tyrannical judges, I would regard that as a lawful order. And I would tell my troops to make sure the hands go up very fast.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:00 PM (u82oZ)

70 Yeah, I don't know how the UK gets back to normal anytime within our lifetime when the demographics are against that, and getting worse, and the people in control of all the major cities are Muslim.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 09, 2025 11:56 AM (P5BPp)
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The escalation spiral is non-linear. It does not move in a steady progression, which is how you get WW I and other crises.

Muslims in the UK are concentrated in the cities, can those can easily be interdicted by motivated country folk if it comes down to it.

Europeans have gone from flabby libertines to homicidal maniacs at many points in history. It can happen again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:00 PM (ZOv7s)

71 Has anybody gamed the 'dildo toss' betting sites yet?

Find the nearest game on the board, put in a wager for a light pink one at that venue, get one, toss one*, win big buck$ !!!

* Crayola 'Flesh' tone pink, 4 inches overall length.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 12:02 PM (/lPRQ)

72 National Suicide is definitely not the correct term.

Haven’t the legal Beagles pointed out to government officials that “land acknowledgment” is an invitation to all sorts of fvckery? I suppose that is their intention, obviously. But it must have been advised this has no basis.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:02 PM (Xy5pd)

73 The last slave on American soil wasn't freed until 1886. The Tlingit tribe in Alaska practiced slavery and raided down the coast as far as San Francisco, capturing and impressing people. So, lets get over the noble savage, steward of the land crap!

Posted by: Heap Big Hokum at August 09, 2025 12:03 PM (G5+As)

74 The website Gates of Vienna has a 7 part series on how rural Britain could win over the concentrated Islamic hordes in cities. Only handguns were confiscated after the Dunblane Massacre. The rural population has plenty of hunting rifles to win with.

Matt Braken's What I Saw at the Coup is also relevant.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (u82oZ)
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Maybe a few truckloads of M4s are "accidentally" misplaced outside RAF Mildenhall.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:04 PM (ZOv7s)

75 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Thank God for the good news. My OP Plans for a Harris presidency were fraught.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:04 PM (u82oZ)

76 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

See my comment #68. Does Britain have the resolve? That is the big unknown.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:05 PM (u82oZ)

77 Hi, I'm Duke! I'm standing on ground once owned by the Fuqawi tribe who, if they wanted to keep it, should've built a fuckin wall.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (2UnvF)

78 I'm just resigned to the fact that western civilization self immolated"

FIFY.

Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (tubbA)

79 tribe.I've never bothered trying to apply for it, because I'm a blond, blue eyed Russian Jew and the whole idea would be ridiculous. But if it means I am above Canadian law, then I'm going to become an official red Indian savage and head north for a bank robbery spree. Heap big wampum, you dumb hosers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (rjlYr)

You probably know, and I always found it amusing, that one of the last great Chiefs of the Cherokee in the 1800’s was John Ross, who was 7/8 Scottish.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (q+E/R)

80 * Crayola 'Flesh' tone pink, 4 inches overall length.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 12:02 PM

Isn't that a little large to be realistic?

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (0sNs1)

81 >>‘Whitelash’: Professors say white students get angry, frustrated by ‘anti-racist education.

Whitelash, known in many other circles as Black Fatigue.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (Y1sOo)

82 Duncanthrax

The Kansas City Chiefs are close to a religion here and in the bistate area. Around here, the Kansas State Wildcats are a cult.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (u82oZ)

83 66 I wonder about the Oath, and what it means to various people.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM

Specifically, to those who took it. Do they realize it has no expiration date?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)

To those who meant it when they took it, it probably still holds meaning. For those who didn't, it still doesn't.

Posted by: An oath doesn't turn bad people into good people at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (KOE6H)

84 Anne Murray rocks !
(Makes 'hook'em' sign with both hands)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM

Who? Some of us are pre-metal.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 09, 2025 12:08 PM (0sNs1)

85 81 >>‘Whitelash’: Professors say white students get angry, frustrated by ‘anti-racist education.

Whitelash, known in many other circles as Black Fatigue.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (Y1sOo)

Carnival Cruise Lines has a thing or two to say about that.

Posted by: Floating ghettos no more at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM (KOE6H)

86 See my comment #68. Does Britain have the resolve? That is the big unknown.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:05 PM (u82oZ)
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People need to understand that the violence threshold is a terrible, horrific thing. We do NOT want to go there until it is literally the last resort. It is very appropriate for the Brits and Canadians to try to work through the system in every possible way.

But their leaders are forcing the issue. Watching your daughters be raped is going to cause trouble because it must. I'm wondering if we may see a national strike (tried about 100 years ago in the UK by the left) to force a new election.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM (ZOv7s)

87 Powerline WiP.

https://tinyurl.com/4bnzyv28

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

88 Isn't that a little large to be realistic?
Posted by: J. Random Moron

Overall length includes balls and suction cup. And the viking helmet.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM (/lPRQ)

89 Property ownership is one of the main factors that made America exceptional.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)

90 Carney will escalate against both, because he had to because he's been bent over abroad. He's creating his own resistance. I doubt if Canada makes it to the end of 2026.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:32 AM (ZOv7s)

Carney was the sign that Canada, as a nation, is finished. Imagine any non-European country choosing as their leader an EU technocrat who’s never held elected office in his life. He’s not a leader, he’s a minor functionary sent to administer an unimportant province.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (q+E/R)

91 Overall length includes balls and suction cup. And the viking helmet.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM

Ah. Horned for her pleasure!

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (0sNs1)

92 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

A scoped deer-hunting rifle is all that is needed.

Set up, shoot, and move. Catch the brass to make it harder for ID.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:11 PM (u82oZ)

93 If Canada fails, will anyone notice ?

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 12:11 PM (g47mK)

94 >>> 83 66 I wonder about the Oath, and what it means to various people.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM

Specifically, to those who took it. Do they realize it has no expiration date?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)

To those who meant it when they took it, it probably still holds meaning. For those who didn't, it still doesn't.
Posted by: An oath doesn't turn bad people into good people at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (KOE6H)

Is this about me?

Posted by: James Comey, pine-scented Druid philosopher at August 09, 2025 12:11 PM (ULPxl)

95 Itinerant Alley Butcher

I for one will not be short-dicked by a random dildo. Although the WNBA players are not alluring at all.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:12 PM (u82oZ)

96 Has anybody gamed the 'dildo toss' betting sites yet?

Find the nearest game on the board, put in a wager for a light pink one at that venue, get one, toss one*, win big buck$ !!!

* Crayola 'Flesh' tone pink, 4 inches overall length.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
________

You'd be identified, which I would think would void the bet under the terms.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 09, 2025 12:12 PM (XvL8K)

97 The Kansas City Chiefs are close to a religion here and in the bistate area. Around here, the Kansas State Wildcats are a cult.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

The Little Apple>>The Big Apple

Posted by: Bill Snyder at August 09, 2025 12:13 PM (G5+As)

98
To those who meant it when they took it, it probably still holds meaning. For those who didn't, it still doesn't.
Posted by: An oath doesn't turn bad people into good people at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (KOE6H)
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The difficulty comes when the oath is not clear. See 1861. Am I loyal to my state or my nation? Who is my true master?

One part that gets overlooked is that the Army enlisted men all stated loyal, as did the sailors. It was the officers that flipped. Most of the Army was on the frontier, and the US troops in Texas were urged to defect, offered bribes to do so, but they refused, instead making a forced march to the coast with their families. To it's credit, Texas respected this and did not try to stop or detain them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:13 PM (ZOv7s)

99 The Kansas City Chiefs are close to a religion here and in the bistate area. Around here, the Kansas State Wildcats are a cult.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (u82oZ)

And with Minshew you have the best backup QB in the NFL.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:13 PM (2WIwB)

100 Itinerant Alley Butcher

Number 3, step forward and open the raincoat.

Ma'am, is this that guy?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:13 PM (u82oZ)

101 89 Property ownership is one of the main factors that made America exceptional.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)

Every now and then I’ve wondered how history could have been different if Czarist Russia would have treated the vast lands east of the Caucasus, including but not limited to Siberia, the way America treated the American west. Allowing homesteading, selling off parts to private concerns. The czars were never farsighted enough to allow that, however.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:14 PM (q+E/R)

102 Every generation thinks western civilization is on the brink of destruction. Because it is and eventually one generation is going to be right. It just takes a long time. The cycle of civilizations life. Hopefully America has a dozen more generations to go.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:14 PM (VofaG)

103 A lot of former western countries are in the process of falling or have fallen to the Muslim hordes. Or Chinese infiltration. Or both. I don't see Muslims and the Chinese being allies for very long, if at all.

Anyway, my point is that the US is slowly being surrounded by decidedly unfriendly nations with a decidedly different culture and set of norms than we have. Both North and South of the border can widely be described as "unfriendly" in some manner, shape or form.

Europe is an entirely different matter, but if it falls, in whole or part, it will change the global dynamics. And not for the better... from my point of view.

This is, IMO, why the left is so adamant about pushing their ideology on us. It fits in with the global tilt that's happening all around us. It's a bit unnerving when you think about it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)

104 Although the WNBA players are not alluring at all.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:12 PM

1110s have standards? Who knew??

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 12:15 PM (0sNs1)

105 Isn't that a little large to be realistic?
Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (0sNs1)
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So he screwed her twice and slapped her.

Posted by: Just the punchline at August 09, 2025 12:15 PM (ZOv7s)

106 Women can't become carpenters because they think (this) is six inches!

Posted by: Just the punchline at August 09, 2025 12:16 PM (ZOv7s)

107 A colleague posted on his FB account a report out of Canada that apparently states that Canadians are pleased with how the economy is leveling the wages of all Canadians. Not what I am hearing from the few that I know.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:17 PM (2WIwB)

108 They should change the Maple Leaf to a Hammer and Sickle

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:18 PM (+qU29)

109 >>>Carnival Cruise Lines has a thing or two to say about that.

As do we.

Posted by: Spirit Airlines ticket counter personnel at August 09, 2025 12:18 PM (Y1sOo)

110 Duncanthrax

Go ugly early was never my thing. Although a BMC used that as his first plan, and he had more sex with more women than the rest of the crew.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (u82oZ)

111 Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:17 PM (2WIwB

Socialism where everyone can be equally miserable.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (VofaG)

112 Canada was great until 1990.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (u82oZ)

Naw, it started going to Hell when that abortion of a flag was adopted; we just didn't know it at the time. Well, a few did.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (oTy3B)

113 This game they play where the various tribes are collectively "first peoples" is stupid.

If you want to give the land to people from one tribe good luck. You are quickly going to find the tribes took land from each other constantly because they were always at war with each other.

For example. the so-called "Neutral Confederacy" lived in the area around Ontario when the Europeans first showed up. The Iroquois attacked them in 1650 and within a year had taken all their lands and killed/enslaved the whole tribal group.

So who would you give that land to? You can probably find members of the Iroquois but...they aren't the "first peoples" on these lands are they?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (t0Rmr)

114 Europe is an entirely different matter, but if it falls, in whole or part, it will change the global dynamics. And not for the better... from my point of view.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)
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France is seeing small but steady increases in Catholic conversions.

A fascinating detail is that a significant portion of these are French Army officers. It is apparently considered a good career move and the top ranks are fill up with Papists.

Last week a Muslim migrant desecrated the Eternal Flame of the Unknown Soldier.

Sixth Republic, anyone?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (ZOv7s)

115 I don't see the British people having any rallying figure to stand up for--- I 'm not sure what to call it. I do not believe it is going to be Willam.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)

116 Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:17 PM (2WIwB

Socialism where everyone can be equally miserable.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (VofaG)

And they are.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (2WIwB)

117 Although the WNBA players are not alluring at all.

Sophie Cunningham ain't half bad.

https://is.gd/T91X0E

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

118 Have seen a few female carpenters, electricians a few more

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (+qU29)

119 The UK is closer to a Muslim country than it is to the former UK.

The UK as a whole is still a higher percentage white than the US, but yeah.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (QZThv)

120 Western Europe is already lost.

Britain will become Little India, and France/Germany will become new caliphates.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (t0Rmr)

121 You probably know, and I always found it amusing, that one of the last great Chiefs of the Cherokee in the 1800’s was John Ross, who was 7/8 Scottish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (q+E/R)
I hunt deer and hogs on the same ground John Ross hunted.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (LHPAg)

122 Alberta Oil Peon

I view you as a sane point of resistance in a country going off into the deep end.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:22 PM (u82oZ)

123 So who would you give that land to? You can probably find members of the Iroquois but...they aren't the "first peoples" on these lands are they?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (t0Rmr)
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In the aftermath of the War of 1812, the various plains tribes launched a war of annihilation into the Great Lakes region, and those not killed fled to US Army posts for protection.

In Arkansas.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:22 PM (ZOv7s)

124 Naw, it started going to Hell when that abortion of a flag was adopted; we just didn't know it at the time. Well, a few did.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (oTy3B)
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Long Live the Republic of Alberta!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:23 PM (ZOv7s)

125 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

The French Army is hard core. ISTR some troops out of uniform were hunting Muslims in a recent riot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:23 PM (u82oZ)

126 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (u82oZ

Terrible strategy. That's like collecting all the cigarette butts you want compared to occasionally having cognac with a fine cigar.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:23 PM (VofaG)

127 I communicate regularly with a couple of retired military officers from the Commonwealth. One is Aussie, the other a Canuck. I have noticed that my Canadian friend doesn't participate very much at all any more. I can only deduce that he has scrubbed me from his email list for some past insult...or...and I think this more likely...his email is being monitored and he may be subject to government oversight. He used to send some of the best jokes.
A shame.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:24 PM (2WIwB)

128 Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

She's perfect in my book. The whole package

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:25 PM (VofaG)

129 Private property is what makes civilized society possible. Right of self-defense, presumption of innocence, right to face accusor, freedom of religion etc. Individual rights. The left has skillfully done an end run around the Bill of Rights by making everything Tribal, and only aggrieved identity groups have rights.

“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t really black” was an inadvertent admission of the games they are playing. As vile a statement as any politician ever said, if you really think about it.

The problem, Marxist professors equate owning a lawnmower with human slavery. I’ve heard them say it. In the same breath they just spit out “meritocracy”. I’d no idea at the time how much they hate competency and excellence, aptitude. It us a twisted form of jealousy, self loathing, envy. They are doomed to failure, I guess, in their minds so the answer is to throw a spanner in the works.

They are bugnuts crazy, won’t shut the fuck up, and won’t change the subject. (Except when they want to talk about weird sex perversions, I guess.)

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:25 PM (L3c0T)

130 Have seen a few female carpenters, electricians a few more

An American feminist bought in island off the coast of Sweden and proclaimed it "no men allowed", only women could visit or live there.

Except that every time something broke or a roof leaked or whatever, the tradesmen brought in from Sweden were, in fact, always men, so that rule had to be amended.

The island was sold at a subtantial loss to a man a few years ago.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)

131 The best thing about Starmer is that his name's a lot easier to spell than Ceausescu.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

and may Queer Sturmer meet the same end.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:27 PM (oTy3B)

132 polynikes

You spend enough time as sea, in an all-male crew, and that can warp your standards. The truth is I was rejected by a wide range of women from varied backgrounds. But they were all fine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:27 PM (u82oZ)

133 Last week a Muslim migrant desecrated the Eternal Flame of the Unknown Soldier."

$5 says we'll see similar @ Arlington in 15 years or so...

Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 12:27 PM (tubbA)

134 The island was sold at a subtantial loss to a man a few years ago.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)

He still should have called it the Isle of Lesbos, just for fun.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:28 PM (q+E/R)

135 Canada is going the way of the PAC 12.

One one leaves, everyone else is going to try to cut a deal.

The Maritimes will play the roles of Oregon State and Washington State.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:28 PM (ZOv7s)

136 18-1

The Sikhs are natural allies of the extant population. Hindus and Islamics, not so much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:29 PM (u82oZ)

137 I don't see the British people having any rallying figure to stand up for--- I 'm not sure what to call it. I do not believe it is going to be Willam.

Tommy Robinson? Starmer has him arrested every time someone notices Muslims are rapey pretty much.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:29 PM (QZThv)

138 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:27 PM (u82oZ)

Roger that. My strategy was always to start at the top and work my way down..

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:30 PM (VofaG)

139 The left has skillfully done an end run around the Bill of Rights by making everything Tribal,"

The "west" is the rejection of tribalism. The human norm is tribalism...

Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 12:30 PM (tubbA)

140 That church burning is years old. Fire started during a renovation project IIRC.

Governor Whitmer is what you get when American politicians look across the border and say, "I want me a piece of that action!" It also explains why she never met a Chinese-run operation or "green" scam she didn't want to help along.

As for tribe membership, after 9/11 there was a push to stop giving Canadian First Nations' kids the college benefits afforded to American tribe members. One of my students wasn't accepted to the Saginaw Chippewa tribe because one of his grandfathers was white (and because it would have been another slice out of the casino pie). He realized that he was going to be looking at "international student" tuition, so he became an American citizen. As a naturalized citizen, his views on "Dreamers" aka anchor babies getting scholarships were decidedly Moron material.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 09, 2025 12:30 PM (X3f7E)

141 135 Canada is going the way of the PAC 12.

One one leaves, everyone else is going to try to cut a deal.

The Maritimes will play the roles of Oregon State and Washington State.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:28 PM (ZOv7s)
***

A lot of Canucks I know approve of this.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:30 PM (2WIwB)

142 73 The last slave on American soil wasn't freed until 1886. The Tlingit tribe in Alaska practiced slavery and raided down the coast as far as San Francisco, capturing and impressing people. So, lets get over the noble savage, steward of the land crap!
Posted by: Heap Big Hokum at August 09, 2025 12:03 PM (G5+As)
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While it's not actually "American soil", it was under American rule, when we took over the Philippines, they still had slavery. Probably still did when we left.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 12:31 PM (od0dV)

143 Private property is what makes civilized society possible.
________

Property rights and freedom are directly linked. If property is held privately, the sovereign has to beg revenue from the holders. If the sovereign owns everything, there are no such constraints.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 09, 2025 12:31 PM (XvL8K)

144 Sadly to me England is doomed to bow to the Caliphate.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:31 PM (+qU29)

145 She's perfect in my book.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:25 PM (VofaG)

I liked her when she knocked the selection of Detroit (and Cleveland) as upcoming WNBA expansion teams, saying no players would want to go there.

And, then, Detroiters got their knickers in a knot thinking she was saying Detroit fans wouldn't be supportive of the new team.

Uh, no. She was saying no PLAYERS would want to go to Detroit.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 12:35 PM (Y1sOo)

146 118 Have seen a few female carpenters, electricians a few more
Posted by: Skip

How about a one-armed paper hanger?

Posted by: Michelle Fields at August 09, 2025 12:35 PM (G5+As)

147 I grew up in South Dakota and experienced the worst of the native population. It was my first fight at the tender age of six. Bastages wanted to take my recently purchased candy.

Also woke up more than once with a drunk Indian passed out in our yard.

Even so I always wanted to be the Indian when playing cowboys and Indians. Go figure.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:35 PM (VofaG)

148 >>> 115 I don't see the British people having any rallying figure to stand up for--- I 'm not sure what to call it. I do not believe it is going to be William.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)

Previous royal families included Hanover, Tudor and Stuart. I can't think of any famous descendants.

Do the Brits need a royal family though?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (ULPxl)

149 So, lets get over the noble savage, steward of the land crap!

I saw recently that lefty professors were claiming it was humane and wonderful that the Incas would rip the beating hears out of children from other tribes and it was wrong that the Spanish took over and civilized the place until the cartels happened.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (QZThv)

150 I should add, the rule of law. Private property means nothing without a system of justice to arbitrate disputes.

I’m pretty sure foreigners cannot technically own property in Mexico. You find somebody squatting in your property. “I’ll call the Police!”. Turns out, he is the Police. Now what? Your rights are contingent on … nothing. At least the US has a written constitution and bill of rights and based on self-evident enduring truths.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (iKvcM)

151 A couple other things about Canada that the media is bending over backwards to ignore.

1. A RCMP officer from Quebec was assigned to last month's G7 Summit. He/she (still not identified) went on social media and posted concerning threats. Then gave away Trump's plans for the events and where he would be visiting during the summit (which was a serious safety violation). The officer was the subject of a "criminal investigation"....and *POOF* the story disappeared. You may recall Trump leaving the G7 early (it was said it was due to the Iran issue coming to a head, but it was also over safety concerns)

2. There are various factions of Tribal Cree in Canada. Some use regular law enforcement in their communities. Some do NOT. The ones that do not are currently hosting Mexican Cartel factions because there is no valid law enforcement. (NO ONE is reporting this).

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (dIske)

152 115 I don't see the British people having any rallying figure to stand up for--- I 'm not sure what to call it. I do not believe it is going to be Willam.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)

Civilizational wars play out in interesting ways. At the beginning of the English Civil Wars of the 1640’s, Oliver Cromwell was a minor backbench parliamentarian that no one had ever heard of.
His great talent was to know how to always be the Last Man Standing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (q+E/R)

153 So not knowing much detail I had to look up the Hanovers.... they're krauts too? Ha.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 12:37 PM (ULPxl)

154 The Sikhs are natural allies of the extant population. Hindus and Islamics, not so much.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:29 PM (u82oZ)

Problem with Sikhs is that there is a large criminal subculture with nominal Sikh origins. The truckers hauling bulk fentanyl from Canada into the USA? Mostly bad Sikhs.

Unlike islam, I do not believe that Sikhism is inherently hostile. But they have to clean up their act.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (oTy3B)

155 Even so I always wanted to be the Indian when playing cowboys and Indians. Go figure.

Indians got to do war cries and be savage. Cowboys aren't nearly as cool, except that they actually brought the guns to what ended up being a gun fight.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (QZThv)

156 Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (iKvcM)

I was told here that the Mexican property law had changed and a foreigner can now buy property.

Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (VofaG)

157 >>I don't see the British people having any rallying figure to stand up for--- I 'm not sure what to call it. I do not believe it is going to be Willam.

It might be Donald. The world is watching what is going on over here very intently.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (viF8m)

158 The human norm is tribalism...

Tribadism is a lesbian sexual act.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 12:39 PM (Aogz+)

159 Ian S, Robinson was the beginning of the crusade to crush independent thought and expression. The ruling class was aware enough to know Robinson's message was on going to grow.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:39 PM (HFcKg)

160 If I belong to a tribe nobody told me.

Posted by: Case at August 09, 2025 12:40 PM (NnONT)

161 >>> 156 Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (iKvcM)

I was told here that the Mexican property law had changed and a foreigner can now buy property.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (VofaG)

istr something about needing to do so through a trust or some such, ie not personal ownership.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 12:41 PM (ULPxl)

162 Alanna Smith of the WNBA is cute, IMO.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 12:41 PM (2GCMq)

163 >>> 157
==
It might be Donald. The world is watching what is going on over here very intently.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (viF8m)

He can send the "No Kings" people over to Londonistan to help!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 12:41 PM (ULPxl)

164 I seem to recall a story, maybe apocryphal, Jimmy Earl Carter turned off the eternal flame at JFKs grave at Arlington to “save energy”. Maybe that was propaganda, but it was easy to believe.

“The Energy Crisis” was just softening everyone up. They refined the scam, as we’ve seen.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:42 PM (0pOPf)

165 I’m pretty sure foreigners cannot technically own property in Mexico. You find somebody squatting in your property. “I’ll call the Police!”. Turns out, he is the Police. Now what? Your rights are contingent on … nothing. At least the US has a written constitution and bill of rights and based on self-evident enduring truths.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (iKvcM)

Foreigners can own property in Mexico except for within a certain distance from the coastline. No beachfront lots for you!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:43 PM (oTy3B)

166 It might be Donald. The world is watching what is going on over here very intently.

I think that's correct. There are people in many countries who are taking hope from what they see happening here.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

167 Oy, Canada!

No wonder Dudley Do-Right quit the Mounties and retired to Florida.

Posted by: Paco at August 09, 2025 12:45 PM (mADJX)

168 Anyway, the more things go on, the more convinced I am that pretty much the entire "ruling class" of the West saw the fall of the USSR as a foundational disaster on a level of how some Muslims talk about the formation of Israel. They want to eliminate all white Europeans, themselves excepted, because most of the rest of the peoples of the world have a track record of being easier to keep enslaved. Then they declare (neo-)feudalism and they all get to play out their Meghan Markle fantasies of being royalty without responsibilities.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:45 PM (QZThv)

169 You can buy it, sure. But you don’t own it. Watch how fast Gringos or anyone else get dispossessed in any sort of economic crisis. This is my point.

I think it’s Georgia, to this day, as a state is enjoined from doing business (selling bonds) in the city of London. They reneged on repayments in 1870 or whenever. Pepperidge Farm remembers..Some bank still carries that on their ledger. The Injuns, god love them, never got much past fingers and toes.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:47 PM (YovzQ)

170 167 Oy, Canada!

No wonder Dudley Do-Right quit the Mounties and retired to Florida.
Posted by: Paco

I saw him wind-surfing at the Canadian Hole in Avon, NC. The uniform stood out.

Posted by: Pamlico Sound at August 09, 2025 12:48 PM (G5+As)

171 >>He can send the "No Kings" people over to Londonistan to help!

With almost no coverage by the US media, of course, Trump has helped negotiate the end of 7 international wars in 7 months. Some of these wars have been going on for decades. Yesterday it was Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House and after they signed their peace deal both leaders insisted that Trump deserved the Nobel.

Whether he gets it or not is almost immaterial. People around the world are watching despite our media blackout. He is literally changing the world.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:48 PM (viF8m)

172 JackStraw, the world is indeed watching PDT. I see the problem in Western Europe having started with the formation of the EU. Sacrificing autonomy for some collective thought of saving their failing economies was a patch not a fix.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:48 PM (HFcKg)

173 something about needing to do so through a trust or some such"

Si. It's "fideicomiso", a 50 year max trust.

Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 12:51 PM (urO//)

174 110 Duncanthrax

Go ugly early was never my thing. Although a BMC used that as his first plan, and he had more sex with more women than the rest of the crew.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (u82oZ)
'What are you here for, Chief?
HN Smith

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 12:51 PM (LHPAg)

175 JackStraw, the world is indeed watching PDT. I see the problem in Western Europe having started with the formation of the EU. Sacrificing autonomy for some collective thought of saving their failing economies was a patch not a fix.

The EU was intended to ease Western Europe into joining the Soviet bloc down the line. The late 80s and early 90s blew up that plan, and even Putin's dreams of reconstituting the USSR don't extend beyond the borders of the former USSR itself for the most part.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:51 PM (QZThv)

176 I don't see the British people having any rallying figure to stand up for--- I 'm not sure what to call it. I do not believe it is going to be Willam.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)

Hugh Grant did a good job playing the PM in the movies. Lets give him a chance.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:51 PM (2WIwB)

177 'I need to see your Chief, kid.'

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 12:52 PM (LHPAg)

178 Sacrificing autonomy for some collective thought of saving their failing economies was a patch not a fix.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:48 PM (HFcKg)

You know who else had a dream of a unified Europe?

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 12:52 PM (h5TUr)

179 Hugh Grant did a good job playing the PM in the movies. Lets give him a chance.

Ahh, the Ukraine gambit.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:52 PM (QZThv)

180 >>JackStraw, the world is indeed watching PDT. I see the problem in Western Europe having started with the formation of the EU. Sacrificing autonomy for some collective thought of saving their failing economies was a patch not a fix.

Someday over a lobster and some whiskey I'll tell you a funny story about that. But I agree, the EU was always doomed. You can't just glue people from disparate cultures together to create an economic zone and think it will work longterm.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (viF8m)

181 Argentina has seen a sea change with Milei but there is a definite lack of leadership? in the world.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (HFcKg)

182 At some point England will need a new Oliver Cromwell

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (+qU29)

183 As it happens, Pierre Poilievre is doing a meet&greet in Three Hills, Alberta at 2:00 P.M. He is running for a seat in Parliament in what is the safest Conservative riding in Canada (because I live in it, heh). I think I will go there, and give him a ration of shit if I get the chance. "you fucked up the last election, dude, but if you get your head right, I'm willing to give you another chance. Throw some red meat to your base, or else you will lose your base."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (oTy3B)

184 The EU was intended to ease Western Europe into joining the Soviet bloc down the line.

Imma have to stop you right there. It was intended as a counterweight to the USA, not as the Russian farm league. The only problem was that they didn't want to undertake all the responsibilities and sacrifices inherent in being a hegemon.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

185 Compared to the power trio-The Shaggs, Rush is pretty much a fly by night operation.

Posted by: Philosophy of the World at August 09, 2025 12:55 PM (G5+As)

186 Canada has nothing on us, look how many minorities commit crimes and left off

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:56 PM (+qU29)

187 Communism \socialiam\fascism\whateverism- A system of government that promises clueless people utopia if they give government unchecked control. Continually pushed by people that wish to be "elite" but have no skills other than determination, no shame about lying blatantly, extreme selfishness, and a psychopathic disregard for anyone but themselves. It is the only way that people with those characteristics could ever end up in the "elite"

Posted by: azjaeger at August 09, 2025 12:58 PM (3/XaG)

188 (Except when they want to talk about weird sex perversions, I guess.)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:25 PM

We try very hard NOT to have people talk about ours.

Posted by: Big Penguin at August 09, 2025 12:58 PM (0sNs1)

189 JackStraw look how Europe throughout history little enclaves of different places/ religions/ethic differences all wanted to be self governed not from the capital a couple hundred miles away.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:59 PM (+qU29)

190 > “The Energy Crisis” was just softening everyone up. They refined the scam, as we’ve seen.
---------
It was also the mullahs over in the Middle East teaching Jimmah to suck Islamic dick. Which he did.

I recall my parents, especially my dad just livid with that asshole for his "energy policy." Which wasn't anything of the sort.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)

191 Argentina has seen a sea change with Milei but there is a definite lack of leadership? in the world.

People are seeing Trump doing things "the experts" insisted were not possible almost every day. Poland's new leader is cranking up mass deportation of Muslim illegals, and of course Orban in Hungary and Bukele in El Salvador are doing great work too.

I'd like to see someone dig into the former USAID records for how they overthrew Bolsonaro in Brazil and see if there's some fuckery we can pull to reverse that, or at least put a serious hurting on the Commies there.

And the most unexpected news story I've seen lately: Japan's globalist prime minister has been bringing in Pakistanis and they've been raping the schoolgirls, which is causing the population there to get really cranky. (Also makes you wonder about the shooting of Shinzo Abe).

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)

192 Imma have to stop you right there. It was intended as a counterweight to the USA, not as the Russian farm league.

Why not both?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:01 PM (QZThv)

193 The intent is to abolish private property - the tribes are just being used as a means to this end.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (xTIDn)

Except for the privileged elite. They need to have that land so they can make society better.

Posted by: InZona at August 09, 2025 01:02 PM (qz1Fg)

194 >>JackStraw look how Europe throughout history little enclaves of different places/ religions/ethic differences all wanted to be self governed not from the capital a couple hundred miles away.

Very true, Skip. It's the human condition. It's pretty much the story of how the US came to be.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 01:02 PM (viF8m)

195 >>>I see the problem in Western Europe having started with the formation of the EU.
~~~~~

That's what started the fire, but there have been embers smoldering for years.

It's a dry read, but "Eurabia - The Euro-Arab Axis" by Bat Ye'Or is quite eye-opening.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 09, 2025 01:03 PM (3ImbR)

196 And the most unexpected news story I've seen lately: Japan's globalist prime minister has been bringing in Pakistanis and they've been raping the schoolgirls, which is causing the population there to get really cranky. (Also makes you wonder about the shooting of Shinzo Abe).
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)

Why Pakistanis? The Somalians all taken?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:04 PM (oTy3B)

197 Rush is pretty much a fly by night operation.
Posted by: Philosophy of the World at August 09, 2025 12:55 PM (G5+As)

My ship is a coming and I just can't pretend.

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:05 PM (h5TUr)

198 The only problem was that they didn't want to undertake all the responsibilities and sacrifices inherent in being a hegemon.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

Mon Ami! I only work 4 days a week and the other 3 I spend drinking and chasing my mistress thru the cafes while my wife is getting her nails done. Sacrifice? Next you will want me to bath regularly.

Posted by: Smelly French Euro at August 09, 2025 01:05 PM (R/m4+)

199 Except for the privileged elite. They need to have that land so they can make society better.

I remember during Occupy Wall Street when someone was interviewing one of the women in charge. She was going on about how nobody should have private property because the concept is racist and sexist and homophobic. Someone grabbed her phone off a nearby surface and started walking away and she lost her shit.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:05 PM (QZThv)

200 Ian S, I am encouraged by the new leadership in Poland. I am hoping to see a change in Cuba.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 01:06 PM (HFcKg)

201 Do the Brits need a royal family though?

I always think of them as "England's Pet Rich People". It is odd that in nearly every other country that got rid of the " King system" the former rulers were either eliminated or went into relative obscurity. The English decided to keep them as pets with an elaborate system of pretending that they were still ruling things. Odd when you think about it.

Posted by: azjaeger at August 09, 2025 01:06 PM (3/XaG)

202 191 Argentina has seen a sea change with Milei but there is a definite lack of leadership? in the world.”

I’ve thought on this a lot; western culture went through an age of great and terrible leaders during WW2; then we went through an age of politicians and competent technocrats; but now culture wide we’re in an age of incompetents and grifters like n all positions of power (save where men like Trump, Bukele, and Milei are taking over). The culture needs a great purge of all existing leadership, on all levels, and there will be a great deal of pain associated with that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 01:08 PM (q+E/R)

203 Orson, good comment. In fact Canada made a few policy changes a few years back that significantly changed the border security situation, rendering it fairly "hot" where it had been famously cool, forever. Massive influx of unvetted immigrants from certain regions (surprise!), plus visa-waiver for Mexican nationals.

Gee, who coulda figured that combo would transform the border security situation?

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 01:08 PM (U/Byj)

204 Ian S, I am encouraged by the new leadership in Poland. I am hoping to see a change in Cuba.

Honestly at this point I'm willing to give the Miami Cubans a lot of guns and tell them to go have fun. Cuba is not in a very strong position anymore so you wouldn't need much effort to get the government on the run.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:09 PM (QZThv)

205 I reject the very idea of elite. These people put their pants on one leg at a time like anybody else. Legends in their own minds.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 01:11 PM (HFcKg)

206 I've said it here before, the condemnation of the Anglospheric whites (UK, Canada, Australia) to enslavement to the Untermenschen of the world is the fault of one man: King Charles. He has never forgiven the British people for siding with Diana and for endangering the crown in the late 90s. As a weakling in power, he's extraordinarily dangerous.

The only solution is the gibbeting of the entire Saxe Coburg line.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 09, 2025 01:11 PM (qwx/I)

207 TDS. It's real, and it's spectactular!

"IT WILL SOON COME DOWN TO THIS: EITHER TRUMP GOES DOWN IN DISGRACE FOREVER, OR AMERICA DOES. YOU PICK, REPUBLICANS."

-- George Takei

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 01:12 PM (0sNs1)

208 I saw him wind-surfing at the Canadian Hole in Avon, NC. The uniform stood out. - Pamlico Sound

I hear he hasn't gotten it wet, yet, so he must be pretty good.

Posted by: Paco at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (mADJX)

209 Imma have to stop you right there. It was intended as a counterweight to the USA, not as the Russian farm league.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)
~~~~~

I think that's what they want us to believe, and for a time I believed it too. If they wanted to be a counterweight to the USA, why import the third world? Counterintuitive.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (3ImbR)

210 If civil war arises in our weaklings to the north and there's a rise of manly savagery, the so-called indigenous would be slaughtered wholesale. Justifiably in my eyes.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (qwx/I)

211 I’ve not been to Canada Land since before the pandemic.

I loved Victoria and Vancouver and would love to visit Montreal someday.

Just looked at taking the Clipper up to Victoria and staying a night. Somewhat expensive, $300, but I may just do a midweek trip by myself this fall. It’s a very walkable city, safe, great shopping and pubs…. And the exchange rate seems to be favorable.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (n/9gd)

212 I reject the very idea of elite. These people put their pants on one leg at a time like anybody else. Legends in their own minds.

Trump 2.0 is in many ways the boy from The Emperor Has No Clothes. He's pointing to other world leaders and saying "That Macron, he doesn't have a big, beautiful wang and his wife isn't a model that speaks six languages. They say she may not even be a woman. I don't know, but that's what they say."

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:14 PM (QZThv)

213 I read an interesting fact that Cuba is now importing over 40 % of the raw sugar it uses. If ever there was a time for a change it is fast approaching.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 01:15 PM (HFcKg)

214 So, will the Chinese landowners or the Native Chiefs hold more sway here?
===================

After spending some time in Richmond, BC back in June, My bet is on the PRC. Every store front had signs in Chinese, most of them only Chinese. High-rise apartment buildings going up along the periphery. My taxi driver (born in China) said that if a round-eye walks into a Richmond store and doesn't speak one of the dialects, that potential customer would be very likely ignored. Richmond has the vibe of being a bolt-hole if things head south in the PRC. They'll fight to keep it that way.

Posted by: mrp at August 09, 2025 01:15 PM (rj6Yv)

215 George Takei

The man who sided with the people who locked him up in a concentration camp. Yeah, that's a model of moral courage right there.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:15 PM (QZThv)

216 Still insane I see.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 01:15 PM (DF0j7)

217 I reject the very idea of elite. These people put their pants on one leg at a time like anybody else. Legends in their own minds.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 01:11 PM

I have crouched on the bunk, held my pants out in front of me, and jumped into them with both legs. Rarely is she awake to see me do it, however.

Posted by: Paolo at August 09, 2025 01:16 PM (0sNs1)

218 Cuba has a weird problem. Almost everyone on the island has an STD or three from all the Sex Tourism, which is how many, especially the women, survive. Canadians have been going there for years and spreading their filth all over the place.

Posted by: World Health Organization at August 09, 2025 01:17 PM (R/m4+)

219 206 The only solution is the gibbeting of the entire Saxe Coburg line. - Big Fat Meanie

Seems a little severe. How about if they're denied fire, water and cucumber sandwiches in the UK and the Commonwealth countries?

Posted by: Paco at August 09, 2025 01:20 PM (mADJX)

220 Just looked at taking the Clipper up to Victoria and staying a night. Somewhat expensive, $300, but I may just do a midweek trip by myself this fall. It’s a very walkable city, safe, great shopping and pubs…. And the exchange rate seems to be favorable.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (n/9gd)

When I was there for my niece's wedding in July 2024, there were bums on many street corners downtown.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:20 PM (oTy3B)

221 TDS. It's real, and it's spectactular!

"IT WILL SOON COME DOWN TO THIS: EITHER TRUMP GOES DOWN IN DISGRACE FOREVER, OR AMERICA DOES. YOU PICK, REPUBLICANS."

-- George Takei
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 01:12 PM (0sNs1)
***

George.Takei...doddering old man or just another Hollywood idiot?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 01:20 PM (2WIwB)

222 Oy, Garden nood hosers....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 09, 2025 01:21 PM (QGaXH)

223 George.Takei...doddering old man or just another Hollywood idiot?"

Embrace the "and"

Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 01:21 PM (tubbA)

224 218 Cuba has a weird problem. Almost everyone on the island has an STD or three from all the Sex Tourism, which is how many, especially the women, survive. Canadians have been going there for years and spreading their filth all over the place. - WHO

I recollect a Canadian telling me, way back in the mid 70s, that Cuba was better off with Castro, because before him, every woman was for sale. Looks like he was wrong.

Posted by: Paco at August 09, 2025 01:23 PM (mADJX)

225 In spite of the homeless issues, Victoria remains one of my favorite cities in the world. I can relate.to the folks who live there. They hate the eastern Canada rich who come there and drive the cost of everything up. Victoria sits in the rain shadow of the Olympics so the weather is very nice almost year round.
And like Nurse said, a great walking city with good pubs.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 01:24 PM (2WIwB)

226 Japan has that population getting older and not replaced problem as much as any country. Best to let Muslims invade and just get it over with.

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 01:25 PM (+qU29)

227

-- George Takei
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 01:12 PM (0sNs1)

3rd option - America does just fine and we toss all of you shrieking fags out of the country

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 01:32 PM (q+E/R)

228 A bombshell judgement was released yesterday by BC’s Supreme Court, declaring Aboriginal title over land in Richmond, including private property.

If this stands, it has massive implications for private property across BC.

Read the highlighted sections for yourself

I was just eating lunch and watched an episode on YouTube about this very topic by a Canadian I subscribe to on there.
He goes by "Moose On The Loose", lives in B.C., and is a conservative (by Canadian standards anyhow).

He gets into a lot more details on this crazy decision here:

https://youtu.be/LmawZiuohyU
(20m17s)

It concerns a small-ish piece of land along the Frasier River in Richmond, that has some residential buildings and a lot of commercial lots, including an Amazon fulfillment center.

They'll have to pay some chiefs off to make this go away.
On top of the billions in money Canada already pays to First Nations every year.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 01:38 PM (6ydKt)

229 ...He’s not a leader, he’s a minor functionary sent to administer an unimportant province.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (q+E/R)

He's an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill...or something like that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 09, 2025 01:44 PM (gXGCk)

230 Oh, I forgot to add that he also talks about a ban just issued in Nova Scotia.

Governor Tim Houston just declared an emergency over the the drought and in the name of preventing fires has declared that nobody can walk or hike in the woods until further notice.

They are giving people $25,000 fines if they're caught.
Plus another $3000 in "victims fees" and taxes.

Moose talks at the end of the video about a military veteran who went to a Natural Resources center in Sydney, NS and got the wardens there to follow him out to the woods so he could be ticketed by them and take it to court.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 01:46 PM (6ydKt)

231 Carnival Cruise Lines has a thing or two to say about that.

-
Didja see this?

Rider injured as glass panel falls out of waterslide on Royal Caribbean cruise ship

https://is.gd/mNZlLf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 01:48 PM (L/fGl)

232 Rider injured as glass panel falls out of waterslide on Royal Caribbean cruise ship

https://is.gd/mNZlLf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 01:48 PM (L/fGl)

Just looked that up on X - he didn’t fall out, but the acrylic shattered and a jagged piece ripped him from his thigh all the way up his back. Witnesses said crew members were wrapping him in towels to stop the bleeding.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 01:57 PM (q+E/R)

233 I think I will go there, and give him a ration of shit if I get the chance. "you fucked up the last election, dude, but if you get your head right, I'm willing to give you another chance. Throw some red meat to your base, or else you will lose your base."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (oTy3B)
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Suggestions:
What's your problem, eh?
Are you stupid, eh?
Don't fuck this up, eh?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 01:59 PM (JvZF+)

234 Just looked that up on X - he didn’t fall out, but the acrylic shattered and a jagged piece ripped him from his thigh all the way up his back. Witnesses said crew members were wrapping him in towels to stop the bleeding.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 01:57 PM (q+E/R)
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Was it an Augustus Gloop-type situation?

Was the customer of size?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 02:00 PM (JvZF+)

235
George.Takei...doddering old man or just another Hollywood idiot?"

Jim Beam him up!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 02:33 PM (63Dwl)

236 Why do Canadian's insist on flying their flag here in the states? It irritates me beyond belief. Would you ever consider flying the US flag in a foreign country when visiting?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 09, 2025 02:58 PM (/U5Yz)

237 George Takei

The man who sided with the people who locked him up in a concentration camp. Yeah, that's a model of moral courage right there.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Unlike the vast majority of Anglo civilians locked up in Nippon's POW camps he got out alive.
At least that is what they do not teach in history classes. They say absolutely nothing of the civilians locked up by them.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 03:00 PM (/lPRQ)

238 Why anyone GAF about the ideas, "wisdom," cares or wants of people who never progressed out of the stone age is beyond all thinking people.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (029Oi)

239 Is my touque on straight? Ready for camera?
"OK, eh, Canada, eh. Pretty fucked, eh?"

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (vvIbr)

The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Pretty & smart-H/T Sharon (Willow's Apprentice)]

*****

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Keshena)

1. This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Be kind, be nice. Even trolls have feelings as do slugs.
3. Gosh darn it! No running with sharp objects.
4. Thank you Annie for your hard work!
5. Have a great weekend!

*****

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.

Prayer Requests:

6/28 – H asked for prayers for a mom of two elementary aged boys who lost her mother 3 weeks ago, and her husband on 6/28, both to cancer.
7/19 Update – The visitation was good, but prayers are still appreciated, especially for the boys, as they go through a hard stage of life without their dad.
7/3 – Ciampino’s daughter posted to let us know that Ciampino is back in the hospital. He is dehydrated again. His kidney cyst is back and bigger, so he will need to have another surgery, but they don’t know when.
7/7 Update – Ciampino passed away. His daughter posted how much he loved everyone’s witty humor on the site, and sent her thanks for giving him years of enjoyment and community.
7/19 Update – Please contact Annie’s Stew for more information if you would like to contribute to Ciampino’s cremation fund raiser.
7/5 – Boswell asks for prayers for his best friend Mark’s mother. She is 90 years old and was diagnosed with sepsis after her colon burst. She had surgery on 7/3, but her recovery is not going well. She is too weak for the tests she needs to find out what is wrong. Please pray that she recovers fully, as she and Mark are very close. He is devastated.
7/16 Update – Mark’s mother passed away peacefully in her sleep. Mark is, of course, quite saddened by this, but at least she did not suffer at the end, and her family was by her side when she went. Boswell hopes that his friend finds solace that she lived a long, happy life and she raised such a wonderful son.
7/9 - Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her niece Amanda, and her husband Barkley. They are at Vanderbilt Hospital, where Amanda seems to be rejecting her second heart transplant. She is only 40 years old, and has been having heart issues for 20 years. She had her first heart transplant 4 years ago, and things are not looking good.
8/2 Update – Amanda isn’t out of the woods yet, but her condition is improving each day.
7/11 – Racially Ambiguous Honky, the brother of G’rump/toby928, sent his thanks for the prayers on his behalf, after his appendix burst and he had sepsis. He says he is recovering well.
7/11 – JR requested prayers for the families of those killed in Gaza.
8/2 – JR asked for prayers for the starving children in Gaza.
7/11 – Stateless sent his thanks to all for their thoughts and prayers for him. His house officially became his on 6/30, ending 6 months of uncertainty since his Mom passed. He is getting stronger and is learning about and working to process emotions differently, after losing so much.
7/11 – Screaming in digital asked for prayers for her mother. Mom is still recovering from a UTI plus 3 falls within the last couple of days. During the day, there is some improvement. But once she starts sundowning, she is terrified and clings to whatever she can hold onto. She only weighs about 105-110, and isn’t eating much, but it is hard to move her when she is like that. If she doesn’t improve her mobility and cooperate/help with transfers to and from the wheelchair, etc., and consistently feed herself, she won’t be able to stay at the assisted living facility.
7/19 Update – Screaming in digital’s mother passed away.
7/11 – Frankie asked for prayers for her friend “R”, who is back on hospice for Huntington’s disease. He was on hospice before, but went off for an experimental medication, but unfortunately it wasn’t helpful.
7/11 – Igotnothing sent a prayer of praise. A grand-nephew, quadriplegic since birth due to deformities, and now age 10, after many surgeries and care and prayers, is able to walk. The boy and his family (mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-aunt and great-uncle) went on his first ever walk in the woods. What joy!
7/11 – Matthew Kant Cipher requested prayers for Layne, a family friend who is also his son’s FIL. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer and is awaiting further test results to determine whether they treat with chemo or remove his bladder. As of now, it appears to be contained. Please pray that he and his family are blessed with God’s love and grace through this time of trial.
7/18 – Tecumseh Tea had a heart attack and needs prayers.
7/23 Update – Tecumseh Tea had a Type 2 heart attack, which is considered mild. She sends prayers of thanks for that! The angiogram showed a healthy heart, with little plaque and clean arteries, so no stent was needed. They did find a myocardial bridge, which is a congenital defect. The goal is to keep BP 140/70 with a pulse of less than 60, but so far they have not been able to meet that goal. She can’t get a cardiologist appointment until 8/22, so the GP is helping, but so far they have not been able to get the right BP meds. Please pray for a sooner visit, and the right meds that work for her, and answers.
7/19 – Huerfano asked for prayers for a rapid and full recovery for brother R, who had hernia surgery. He cannot see his grandsons until he has recovered. He misses them , and they miss him.
7/19 – Farmer Bob posted an update. He is doing well. He is competing in 5Ks and triathalons, and sends his thanks for the prayers. His ex-wife has “gone off the deep end” (or just remains so), with weird lies and accusations. She could use a prayer or two.
7/19 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Cheri and Gretchen, church ladies of his acquaintance. Cheri had a medical incident while driving and veered off the road and struck a number of pedestrians, sending 3 or 4 to the hospital. Gretchen and her husband were passengers in the car and her husband had a heart attack after the accident and died. Cheri is just sick about it and has kind of snapped. Gretchen has lost her best friend of 65 years.
7/19 – H asked for prayers for Brandon, a homeless man in San Marcos, TX, who has a broken ankle and has to seek care for that injury, specifically prayers that he would see God providing for him. He is asking for God to help him advocate for his care.
7/23 – D sent an update on his wife Susan, as they deal with cancer. The last few weeks have been a roller coaster. They cannot operate on the cancer, because it has spread too much. They have started chemo and hope to get it to shrink. Susan’s gallbladder is inflamed, but they cannot remove it, due to the chemo, and her blood sugar is having issues. Thanks to everyone for their prayers; Susan has pulled through all of this and is looking great as they keep praying to the Lord.
7/26 – Stateless asked for prayers for his neighbors. The nice lady across the street lost her husband of 30 years about 3 months ago. And a different neighbor lost his beloved wife of 34 years in July.
7/26 – Fenelon Spoke requested prayers for J, a dear lady who attends her church. J has been going downhill since she had a heart procedure several months ago and now cannot speak. She may have dementia and is living in an assisted living facility.
7/26 – Coelacanth sent his thanks for prayers for his son. He has come a _very_ long way but could still use more prayers as he deals with vax and black mold injuries. Also, Coelacanth cut his left hand pretty badly and severed two tendons. He will be on light duty at work for 6+ weeks. Prayers are appreciated.
7/26 - Brother Tim was discharged from the cancer rehab facility and has returned to his routine of living out of hotel rooms, while working on better housing prospects. He is praising God for all the blessings and mercies!
7/30 Update – Brother Tim found out that the cancerous mass impinged on a blood vessel. He needs a full body scan to make sure it has not spread. He is relieved that he only needs radiation and not chemo to make sure the original cancer stays gone. He’s also out of PTO. He said that sometimes it feels like 2025 will be the death of him – possibly literally.
8/1 – Jmel requested prayers for her husband, whose father just passed away after fighting cancer for two years.
8/2 – “Perfessor” Squirrel asked for prayers. His job seems to be in dire jeopardy.
8/2 – Teresa in Fort Worth received the good news that her cancerous tumors continue to shrink. She had some not-so-good news, that she has 2 pulmonary emboli, and has been put on a blood thinner, which should dissolve the clots and prevent any new ones.
8/4 Update – The oncological surgeon said everything is looking great. After her next CT scan, they will be planning surgery to remove the tumors. The largest tumor is showing signs of calcification, which means that it is dying.
8/2 – FenelonSpoke requested prayers for P. She was to have an experimental but successful heart procedure which the surgeon thinks will help her arrythmia, pain, and fatigue, but insurance will not pay for it. Prayer that rough places are made smooth for her to have this procedure.
8/4 – Moki posted that s/he could use some prayers. A daughter has gone AWOL, claiming that they don’t love her.
8/4 – Inogame asked for continued prayers. Baby #5 continues to grow, and the genetic test came back clean. Prayers for mom and baby (daughter #4), and also dad and son are appreciated.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 07:48 AM

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1 Good morning, Horde!

Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (N+wXz)

2 Ooh, a first on the Saturday morning thread. Thanks, insomnia!

Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (N+wXz)

3 Howdy Mis Hum

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (QMAsf)

4 Good morning, Horde...How goes it?

Sending prayers to all the Morons who need them today.

I know you have been praying for me as well, which is much appreciated.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:56 AM (IBQGV)

5 This needs to become a Sunday AOS staple
Call it "Good Jeans"
https://tinyurl.com/mz9axfj2

Posted by: Dastardly Dan at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (oHvsJ)

6 Mmmm. Bacon.

Wait...

*squints blearily at content*

Mmmm. Coffee.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (dDmld)

7 I have to go to Chicago for work. For 5 days. Including a weekend. And my kid's birthday. And my birthday.

To hell with this crap.

I only have to travel for work a few times a year. But if I ever change jobs, that's getting addressed in the first interview. No business travel. Ever. Period. I hate it so much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (BI5O2)

8 KTY & bf are visiting this weekend.
Making bacon
Life is good

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (6Tzur)

9 Mmmm. Bacon.

Wait...

*squints blearily at content*

Mmmm. Coffee.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (dDmld)
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Does bacon-flavored coffee exist? Has anyone tried it? How does it taste?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:01 AM (IBQGV)

10 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 08:03 AM (+qU29)

11 *stumbles in 15 minutes late*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 08:03 AM (O7YUW)

12 This needs to become a Sunday AOS staple
Call it "Good Jeans"
https://tinyurl.com/mz9axfj2
Posted by: Dastardly Dan at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (oHvsJ)

Someone should suggest it to the Sunday ONT guy

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 08:03 AM (QMAsf)

13 brcc ak

2nd cuppa on the brew

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

14 Good morning!

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 08:07 AM (0I+GC)

15 Good morning again dear horde and thanks annie, mh, and you morons for praying.

Update. Moki reported her daughter came home.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:08 AM (JvZF+)

16 Starbucks dark chocolate hazelnut cold brew concentrate was on sale, so I tried it. It's OK, but not worth the reg price. Dunkin Donuts concentrate still rules.

Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 08:10 AM (0I+GC)

17 Ms G needed a visit to the E room at the tiny local hospital here in the northern Adirondacks. Atrial flutter, likely due to her taking only half prescribed dosage of metaprolol. They wired her up every which way, tested and listened and probed, kept her overnight, and now the flutter has flown, and she's on Eliquis, and we're buying Pfizer stock. Oh, and 50mg of the M, twice daily, WITH the E.

Lily the corgi chased two young does, spots mostly faded, off the lot and back into the woods, when seeing them approaching the hostas. She's the boss of her domain.

The Canada wildfire smoke is so dense this morning, I can barely see Clemens mountain to our west, just a mile away.

Posted by: M. Gaga at August 09, 2025 08:14 AM (eSXzK)

18 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (BI5O2)

Bummer. I missed my kid's birthday one year because we were delivering a plane and there were a bunch of inspection that had to be done and paperwork to close out before the new owner could take delivery (and we could take the M$). I never missed another one after that.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 08:15 AM (3Ope8)

19 So nice to be up first thing in the morning! Hope all of you have a spring in your steps.

Posted by: Purple Dildo at August 09, 2025 08:16 AM (UZeIu)

20 I have to go to Chicago for work. For 5 days. Including a weekend. And my kid's birthday. And my birthday.
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Sucks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (JvZF+)

21 Mornin’, All. Happy Saturday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (77rzZ)

22 20 I have to go to Chicago for work. For 5 days. Including a weekend. And my kid's birthday. And my birthday.
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Sucks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (JvZF+)

You going to visit the B Hussein Prison and Reeducation Camp?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

23 "This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate."

***
May I also expostulate?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:19 AM (omVj0)

24 I have to go to Chicago for work. For 5 days. Including a weekend. And my kid's birthday. And my birthday.
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Sucks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (JvZF+)
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Say "Hi" to the Texas Democrats!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (IBQGV)

25 Good morning y'all.

I may have found a loophole.

*skips across room holding scissors*

Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (I0N4X)

26 Prayers up for all those on the list and those who hold prayers in their hearts.

Posted by: Paisley at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (MeFzU)

27 Just a quick drop in, on the way out the door.

I can't believe with all the discussion on the tech thread about reenforcing rings to fix to notebook paper that nobody chimed in with 'Oh...paper assholes!".

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (a1415)

28 You going to visit the B Hussein Prison and Reeducation Camp?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

i thought that was closed until the moat was finished and fully stocked with alligators!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (hOUT3)

29 Morning again, all! I'm back from washing the car and then detailing me. Settling down now with coffee, half an everything bagel with a scrambled seasoned egg on it. Hey, I might even have time for a pipe before Miss Linda arrives for our trip to World Market later.

Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (omVj0)

30 When I was in the government I worked with the Chicago Office of Violence Prevention, so I visited several times.

It's a busy big city that was like NY but everyone was nice. Really freaked me out. Seemed incongruous and odd. Why the fvck are strangers telling me Good Morning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (JvZF+)

31 The docs put my father on Eliquis, it made his feet and ankles swell up, so they took him off of it and tried some other meds.

Now he’s on the metraprolol and a heart med, and they’ve installed a Watchman implant for A-fib.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:22 AM (6ydKt)

32 My coffee this a.m. is Cafe Morro, the espresso blend that can also be used as plain drip coffee. You know it -- comes in the yellow brick at Aldi. Since it's stronger, the 8 oz. brick lasts almost as long as the $5 12 oz bag, but costs only a bit more than half. Winning!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:24 AM (omVj0)

33 May I also expostulate?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:19 AM (omVj0)

As long as you spray some air freshener afterwards.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

34 I may have found a loophole.

*skips across room holding scissors*
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (I0N4X)

Expect Judge Boasberg to rule that this is acceptable!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 09, 2025 08:24 AM (hOUT3)

35 Hey, I might even have time for a pipe before Miss Linda arrives for our trip to World Market later.

Whassup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (omVj0)

I'm going to crank out some yard work while it's still cool out, then probably a jaunt to Lancaster for some tasty beverages and a seed store raid with Wifey.

If anyone is in the market for a battery chainsaw, the Milwaukee top handle is amazing. And kind of cheap (relatively) if you already have batteries for it. I highly recommend.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 08:24 AM (pERWT)

36
Losing power 1st thing Saturday always spells frustration somewhere along the line later. It's never for long, just enough to trip any timekeeping devices that aren't auto correcting. National Grid has that down pat. Especially in our house, we have the computers for timekeeping everything else is manual correction, by MY choice. this way I've got autonomy over the system so the Grid can't arbitrarily interrupt my service but they keep asking.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 09, 2025 08:25 AM (hKoQL)

37 Can we hyphenate?

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:25 AM (sSkke)

38
Grooming and bathing dogs today. The Big Dummy and Rosalind get baths before leaving tomorrow and Dutchess and Dan have to have their coats cut down. Plus, cleaning the kennel. Huzzah.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 08:25 AM (kkTda)

39 Ha! We always had someone in the shop whose job for a day was to 'repair' the pages in the tech pubs using those. Better than towing or wash crew though.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 08:25 AM (3Ope8)

40 Good morning. Laundry day.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 09, 2025 08:26 AM (wVcYX)

41 I got a 16" Wen corded chainsaw for cutting 6x6's for 60$. Does good work

Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:27 AM (sSkke)

42 You people do waaaay too much on Saturday morning.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

43 41 I got a 16" Wen corded chainsaw for cutting 6x6's for 60$. Does good work
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:27 AM (sSkke)

I'm definitely becoming a fan of battery tools for outside work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 08:28 AM (pERWT)

44 Good Saturday morning, horde.

Prayers offered, especially for Moki and mindful webworker and others whose families are separated.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (h7ZuX)

45 Hadrian, you actually have a dog named The Big Dummy?

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

46 Chicago:

Jim's original, 14th? & Union, the legendary Maxwell Street Polish

Gene & Judes, Grand & River in near W burbs, hotdogs pure & simple

Berghoff, Jackson & Dearborn, downtown, drop in the bar for a frosty stein of Dark beer, if bar is still open ...

the rest of the city of my birth is dead to me these days

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (dKEEs)

47 You people do waaaay too much on Saturday morning.
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

I didn't even mention fixing up a pâte bruilleé at 6AM for the fruit pie I'll make this afternoon...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (pERWT)

48 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (X7zFE)

49 It's a busy big city that was like NY but everyone was nice. Really freaked me out. Seemed incongruous and odd. Why the fvck are strangers telling me Good Morning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (JvZF+)

Visit a southern city and we’ll bowl you over with hospitality.

You might even find people who’ll hold the door open for you or stop and let you get turn onto the road in traffic.

We may be white supremacist, redneck assholes, but we’re quite polite about it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (6ydKt)

50 My new LED flashlight and the Clubman shave products I ordered from Amazon are supposed to be here today. And the new atomic wall clock is slated to arrive by Tuesday. Wednesday I have a second follow-up appt. with my surgeon. Big week at Chez Wolfus.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (omVj0)

51 Update. Moki reported her daughter came home.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:08 AM (JvZF+)

Oh, that's great news!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (h7ZuX)

52 You all shame me.
My big event today is an order pickup at Walmart in about a half an hour.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:33 AM (6ydKt)

53 Prayers up for those who have asked us for them;
Prayers up for those who need them but haven't asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don't know it yet;
Prayers up for those that pray alone in silence whose petitions are known only to God;
And bless all those that have sought Your wisdom, heard Your answers, and are trying to do Your will on this Earth!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (hOUT3)

54 Got plumbing to do but finally seeing Night in Soho which I have wanted to see

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (+qU29)

55
Hadrian, you actually have a dog named The Big Dummy?
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

It's Varus (GCHS Envious As We Fall). He's a big, sweet boy and a perfect gentleman but he's not overendowed with mental material. Look into his eyes and you see the back of his head. He loves to strop against Her Majesty and bump her boobs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (kkTda)

56 The water canna has bloomed. Bright red on dark red leaves. Add that to the purple, pink, red and white pond lilies. And the taro has taken off. Lotsa dragon flies and water striders to keep the red rainbow minnows happy.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (3Ope8)

57 Missed the ONT last night so just checked it out.
I am a traditionalist. My preferred club is a cudgel.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 09, 2025 08:35 AM (n4GiU)

58 the rest of the city of my birth is dead to me these days
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (dKEEs)

I didn’t see a deep dish pizza recommendation in there anywhere.

I thought that was a requirement for visiting Chicago,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:35 AM (6ydKt)

59 He loves to strop against Her Majesty and bump her boobs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (kkTda)
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Well, at least he has a high Moron IQ.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:36 AM (IBQGV)

60 Yes, but do it while you're alone.
And wash your hands afterwards.

Posted by: Always good advice at August 09, 2025 08:37 AM (XQo4F)

61 We got the upper deck finished yesterday. The contractors really underestimated the amount of time it was going to take to do both decks. The one that semi-surrounds the pool isn't serviceable and they won't be back until Monday.

We can (probably) use the pool with caution. It needs to be cleaned anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 08:37 AM (Q4IgG)

62 On my local Eighties oldies FM station, Casey Kasem's show is from August 1984. A halcyon time when I *hated* my job, but *loved* my home life. "Alibis" by Sergio Mendes, "I Am the Warrior" by Scandal featuring Patty Smyth (I always thought Pat Benatar sang that), Glenn Frey and "Sexy Girl," Julio Iglesias & Diana Ross, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:38 AM (omVj0)

63 Yes, but do it while you're alone.
And wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: Always good advice at August 09, 2025

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Writing, as Lazarus Long advised, or expostulating?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:40 AM (omVj0)

64 Patty Smyth had a nice voice.

Posted by: dantesed at August 09, 2025 08:41 AM (Oy/m2)

65 >>>I have to go to Chicago for work. For 5 days. Including a weekend.

For breakfast Saturday morning, head to Lou Mitchell’s near Union Station. You’ll be glad you did.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 08:41 AM (Y1sOo)

66 "I Am the Warrior" by Scandal featuring Patty Smyth (I always thought Pat Benatar sang that)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:38 AM (omVj0)

They sound similar, so understandable.

Pat did “Love Is A Battlefield”.

Then Madonna did “Papa Don’t Preach”.

Similar theme to all of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:41 AM (6ydKt)

67 YD, if you can swing it, check out Brookfield Zoo or one of the museums on Lakeshore Drive.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

68 55
Hadrian, you actually have a dog named The Big Dummy?
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

It's Varus (GCHS Envious As We Fall)

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Oh, historically Varus might be seen as a BigDumDum...

We also call doggeh "Dumdum" btw. Maybe they're related.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:44 AM (6Tzur)

69 En mi casa toman Bustelo.

Posted by: Caffiend at August 09, 2025 08:44 AM (G5+As)

70 I have a professional license from the state I need to work. I have to renew the license every two years.

My license expired a year ago. I applied to renew it a year ago. I just got my new license. I have to renew it again next year. I've been doing this 14 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (JvZF+)

71 Holly Knight wrote "I Am The Warrior"

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (sDWtc)

72 I have been adding more & more coffee grounds to my coffee maker

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (6Tzur)

73 Going to a family reunion today. This started as a gathering of my grandpa and his brothers and sisters with their kids and grandkids, way back in the 1970's. Now their "kids" are the older generation. My dad and his cousins carried on the tradition. Of that generation, there are only three left. I used to host this invasion when Pappymayhem was still attending. After he went home, I quit hosting. It takes a lot of work and stress to get ready for the event and I just don't have the heart for it. Just can't do it if dad isn't here. It was hard enough when mom passed. She loved the event even though it was dad's side of the family. So now, Hubbymayhem makes some delicious food contribution and we invade someone else house and can leave whenever we feel like it!
Monday we move the girl spawn back to college. Also that day the health department will hopefully finally sign off on the septic system for the boy spawn so they can get moved in next door. PrayIng that we don't get any rain before Tuesday!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (2J/Lj)

74 I've learned of a Free Shredding Day event tomorrow not far from me.
So today will be spent going through ancient tax return folders and scanning a few relevant pages.
Because the UPS Store charges $14 a pound and I'm a cheapskate.
I mean thrifty.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 08:46 AM (XQo4F)

75 My license expired a year ago. I applied to renew it a year ago. I just got my new license. I have to renew it again next year. I've been doing this 14 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

What a racket

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (6Tzur)

76 Holly Knight wrote "I Am The Warrior"
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (sDWtc)

What about 'Goodbye to You'?

Posted by: dantesed at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (Oy/m2)

77 I have one (fairly) short but crucial scene to finish on my current short story. It's a good one, I think, a slightly different take on the werewolf theme, set in northeast New Mexico in the 1880s. I may even be able to avoid using the word "werewolf" even once. Maybe I can get to it and type the words "THE END" this p.m., or tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (omVj0)

78 Berghoff, Jackson & Dearborn,

Delicious, they actually make creamed spinach good.

Posted by: DaveA at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (FhXTo)

79 I've learned of a Free Shredding Day event tomorrow not far from me.
So today will be spent going through ancient tax return folders and scanning a few relevant pages.
Because the UPS Store charges $14 a pound and I'm a cheapskate.
I mean thrifty.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025\

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Where is this? An Office Depot or something like that, and are they doing it nationally? I have six months' worth of old bills to shred.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:48 AM (omVj0)

80 Good morning! Just finished the ATC tri- 12th place. 87:15- beat my goal time by 2:45!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 09, 2025 08:48 AM (25XXt)

81 Quarter Twenty, we, by which I men hubby, is do paranoid he won't hand over our decades old junk paper to others to shred.

I suggested getting a burn pit but that was also not acceptable.

Aaaaa

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (6Tzur)

82 Good morning, Madamemayhem!

We have a reunion happening tomorrow. There are a couple of people in the family who are into genealogy, so we get some good stories about early American family members.

We have a potluck in a park shelter house, so no one has to do much organizing.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (h7ZuX)

83 actually Holly wrote "Love Is A Battlefield" too.
She wrote a memoir about how she wrote a lot of those 1980s songs

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (sDWtc)

84 Oh, historically Varus might be seen as a BigDumDum...
*
We also call doggeh "Dumdum" btw. Maybe they're related.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025

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Hadrian, has your beast ever visited Germany? Because I have some advice for him . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (omVj0)

85 70 I have a professional license from the state I need to work. I have to renew the license every two years.

My license expired a year ago. I applied to renew it a year ago. I just got my new license. I have to renew it again next year. I've been doing this 14 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (JvZF+)

Let me guess, they won’t let you apply a year ahead of time so you can get it renewed on time?

It seems you’d be doing better applying every year for your two year license.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:50 AM (6ydKt)

86 good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 09, 2025 08:50 AM (U08HM)

87 > I've learned of a Free Shredding Day event tomorrow not far from me.
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Today is "hazardous household waste disposal" day here. Take whatever's allowed to a facility in town, stuff like old paint, some chemicals, pesticides, etc.

Should probably get my collective shit together and go.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 08:51 AM (Q4IgG)

88 I have a running joke (which Miss Linda finds unfunny in the extreme) that my big white-and-black Siberian cat Chekov was none too bright, that he would have ridden the short bus to special school, etc. Not true in the least, which is why it's funny. (To me.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:51 AM (omVj0)

89 Because the UPS Store charges $14 a pound and I'm a cheapskate.
I mean thrifty.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 08:46 AM (XQo4F)

You can buy shredders pretty cheap these days.

If you really want to save money, buy some lighter fluid and use a burn barrel in the backyard.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:52 AM (6ydKt)

90 Our Arthur Andersen workpapers were hold together by one hole in upper left corner, and a binder ring.
Damn straight we were familiar with paper assholes.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 09, 2025 08:53 AM (n4GiU)

91 *Where is this? An Office Depot or something like that, and are they doing it nationally? I have six months' worth of old bills to shred.*

Sponsored by a real estate firm. One of the professional shredding companies sets up in a church parking lot.

Trolling for new clients who are downsizing. Ask the internet for a free shredding event near you.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 08:53 AM (XQo4F)

92 You can buy shredders pretty cheap these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025

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I should buy one. I just don't want to cart any more stuff with me when I finally move than I can help. On the other hand, I also need a new printer, so . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:54 AM (omVj0)

93 Good morning and prayers for all of the Horde in need. I am off to watch the grandkids for the day, give me strength!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 08:56 AM (0nHVk)

94 Colorado gray wolf update:

Yet another Colorado wolf has been confirmed dead after wandering into Wyoming. CPW knew about the death on July 26 but did not release the info until Aug. 6. No details about cause of death were released, suggesting the likelihood that a private citizen shot the wolf.

https://is.gd/lQ6Urm

Wyoming has different laws re: wolves. The federal government launched a reintroduction program in 1995 for Yellowstone Park along with SE Idaho. The remaining 85% of the state though is designated a Predator Control zone, and anybody can shoot/kill a wolf at any time of year without a license. Annnd, the circumstances of the kill including the shooter's name and location are strictly confidential and not made public by the state. Sort of a Colorado wolf FAFO program. WY map at the link.

Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 08:56 AM (I0N4X)

95 The Texas redistricting thing has been a lot of big talk so far, and I don’t really mind that, it’s been both sides trying to bluff the other into surrendering. But the painful is that the general public doesn’t realize how much of what’s being said is hyperbole at best.
No one is getting arrested, that part was bullshit.
Abbott and Paxton are going to attempt to remove some runaway legislators, but that will require a very friendly district judge and however many weeks that judge wants the process to take.

A big reason is that it’s never been tried before, ever.
My personal opinion is that if Abbott and Paxton wanted to create a big public issue that would affect 2026 elections, by giving themselves a cause celebre to campaign on, they’ve done that well. But so far, no more than that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (q+E/R)

96 We have a potluck in a park shelter house, so no one has to do much organizing.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (h7ZuX)

Our fam tried that once. No bueno! Dad and his cousins wanted it held at the old home place where their parents grew up, they visited their grandparents, and at least one was born there. I own that place. We had to have the old farmhouse torn down due to decades of dry rot. The whole family was appalled! But that was after Pappymayhem went home. No way in hell I could have torn down the house he grew up in if he was still standing!

Mom's side of the family always gathered at a small American legion post. They weren't picky.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (2J/Lj)

97 I should buy one. I just don't want to cart any more stuff with me when I finally move than I can help. On the other hand, I also need a new printer, so . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:54 AM (omVj0)

The one here is the size of a desk trashcan.
The shredder head sits on top, and you pull that off to empty it.

It’s been doing its job for 15 years or so with no problems other than the occasional jam.

It will even shred credit cards and thicker paper/cardboard you get in junk mail a lot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (6ydKt)

98 Mornin' Horde and prayers for y'all and your loved ones.

I got all my yard work done Thursday and Friday after work, so I'm going hiking today.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (7HoOO)

99 I have had more lifetime hours of "Sexual Harassment for Supervisors-California" training than algebra.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (JvZF+)

100 It's a busy big city that was like NY but everyone was nice. Really freaked me out. Seemed incongruous and odd. Why the fvck are strangers telling me Good Morning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (JvZF+)

Visit a southern city and we’ll bowl you over with hospitality.

You might even find people who’ll hold the door open for you or stop and let you get turn onto the road in traffic.

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This is so true. When we first moved to SC 25+ years ago, we were so impressed with the general congeniality and politeness of the people in these parts. It's definitely something you notice if you're coming from elsewhere. Me from Cincinnati, Mr. Black from Orlando.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 09, 2025 08:59 AM (qBdHI)

101 We have a shredder. Office Depot special from years ago. Can shred one plastic credit card at a time too.

I think the motor's beginning to go as it's having issues with more than a sheet of paper at a time. If we have "bulk" paperwork to destroy it gets burned outside.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)

102 "I suggested getting a burn pit but that was also not acceptable."

A burn barrel in my environs would cause a visit from an HOA Karen, the fire department, a SWAT team and likely the overly curious police helicopter.

Don't ask.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 09:00 AM (XQo4F)

103 And the new atomic wall clock is slated to arrive by Tuesday. Wednesday I have a second follow-up appt. with my surgeon. Big week at Chez Wolfus.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (omVj0)

So you have to wear an aluminum suit, mask, and gloves to get close enough to read the time?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

104 A big reason is that it’s never been tried before, ever.
My personal opinion is that if Abbott and Paxton wanted to create a big public issue that would affect 2026 elections, by giving themselves a cause celebre to campaign on, they’ve done that well. But so far, no more than that.

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I saw the TX Speaker yesterday saying the runaways would not be getting their paychecks and some other financial hits they would be taking for being AWOL. I wondering...what happened to the arrests?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (qBdHI)

105 If you really want to save money, buy some lighter fluid and use a burn barrel in the backyard.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:52 AM (6ydKt)

Along with the 100 dollar fine that arrives in the mail next week.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (5xuJ/)

106 102 "I suggested getting a burn pit but that was also not acceptable."

A burn barrel in my environs would cause a visit from an HOA Karen, the fire department, a SWAT team and likely the overly curious police helicopter.

Don't ask.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 09:00 AM (XQo4F)

About 50 years ago dad left me with some old promo materials (he work for Coca Cola Foods eg HiC) and whatever they were coated with they melted the burn barrel.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

107 Out here, we wave at the neighbors as we drive past.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 09:02 AM (kUxzU)

108 And the new atomic wall clock is slated to arrive by Tuesday. Wednesday I have a second follow-up appt. with my surgeon. Big week at Chez Wolfus.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (omVj0)

So you have to wear an aluminum suit, mask, and gloves to get close enough to read the time?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)
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This is why The Demon Core(TM) brand wall clocks never penetrated the market. They penetrated everything else.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 09:04 AM (IBQGV)

109 I have one (fairly) short but crucial scene to finish on my current short story. It's a good one, I think, a slightly different take on the werewolf theme, set in northeast New Mexico in the 1880s. I may even be able to avoid using the word "werewolf" even once. Maybe I can get to it and type the words "THE END" this p.m., or tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (omVj0)

A Literary Horde is open 24/7 for your beta reading needs!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 09:04 AM (0eaVi)

110 . Ask the internet for a free shredding event near you.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025

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Thanks for the tip. The city Dept. of Sanitation (a joke) has one coming up on 9/14. And there is one across the lake, always a nice drive, on Friday 8/22.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:06 AM (omVj0)

111 We could have a burn barrel but we have a cheap shredder we got at Wal-Mart at least 10 years ago. Hubbymayhem occasionally goes on a shredding spree and clears a bunch of crap.
When Pappymayhem went home, my brother, Thing Two, got these Ginormous paper bags from Ace Hardware that we could load up with all the paper documents that Pappymayhem hoarded and then haul them out and burn them, bag and all. It was extremely convenient.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 09:07 AM (2J/Lj)

112
I have had more lifetime hours of "Sexual Harassment for Supervisors-California" training than algebra.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I'll never forget the mandatory full team sexual harassment training we had to do at the MEADS contract start. The well nourished angry black womam teacher was waxing on in fluent ebonics when the Italian vice president stood up. She shut up to hear what he had to say. *read this in hard core Nothern Italian accent*

"If she no like a me, she smack a me" I no talk a to her a no more" "No problem a" "EVERYBODY BACK A TO WORK"

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 09, 2025 09:08 AM (QcUc+)

113 And the new atomic wall clock is slated to arrive by Tuesday. Wednesday I have a second follow-up appt. with my surgeon. Big week at Chez Wolfus.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025
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So you have to wear an aluminum suit, mask, and gloves to get close enough to read the time?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025

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Yeah, no doubt I'll have to tell the doctor about my exposure!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:08 AM (omVj0)

114 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (omVj0)

Your doing a story about the Chupacabra?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 09:08 AM (3Ope8)

115 Adam Schiff has retained Preet Bharara as his attorney. Same guy who prosecuted D'Souza in SDNY, which got him committed to a halfway-house for felons.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 09:09 AM (sDWtc)

116 Hey Wolfus! Are you still considering Indiana for your relocation destination?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 09:09 AM (2J/Lj)

117 I have a running joke (which Miss Linda finds unfunny in the extreme) that my big white-and-black Siberian cat Chekov was none too bright, that he would have ridden the short bus to special school, etc. Not true in the least, which is why it's funny. (To me.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:51 AM (omVj0)
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Our younger cat is not very bright, and everyone admits it. She's very sweet, though. The older cat hates her, we think in part because she is entirely devoid of feline dignity. Most cats will fall, make a mistake, and shrink from it, but our little girl is often unaware what even happened, which is endearing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)

118 104 A big reason is that it’s never been tried before, ever.
My personal opinion is that if Abbott and Paxton wanted to create a big public issue that would affect 2026 elections, by giving themselves a cause celebre to campaign on, they’ve done that well. But so far, no more than that.

--

I saw the TX Speaker yesterday saying the runaways would not be getting their paychecks and some other financial hits they would be taking for being AWOL. I wondering...what happened to the arrests?
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (qBdHI)

Remember DoJ cause of this.
1. Obama DoJ created a new race adjacent plan. So you could mixed 3 parts black and 2 parts hispanic and TA DA, a new majority minority house seat.
2. So every Blue state ran this to ground by adding in 2 parts black, 1.5 parts hispanic, and 1.5 parts other minorities to create a majority minority seat.
3. Texas was sued that seats 9, 18, 29, and 33 were not really minority protected seat via the Voting Rights Act but were actually just a bunch of (D) voting precincts aligned into a house district.
4. 5th Court agreed and forced Texas to redraw 9, 18, 29, and 33.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)

119 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)

120 "...well nourished angry black woman teacher was waxing on in fluent ebonics..."

Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 09:12 AM (XQo4F)

121 I have to go to Chicago for work. For 5 days. Including a weekend. And my kid's birthday. And my birthday.

To hell with this crap.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (BI5O2)
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I missed a lot of special days due to military duty. Annoying at first, but the family gets used to it and consoled itself with the fact that my second paycheck meant a bigger present.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)

122 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)

Thank you for that, Mr. Lloyd!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 09:13 AM (2J/Lj)

123 Prayers to all mentioned. So many dealing with cancer, heartbreaking.

We have a new T-zero for the launch

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper) 
New T-Zero: 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 UTC, 15:45 CEST)

https://youtu.be/XKUf6CEAYvo

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 09:13 AM (sPQoU)

124 Joyenz

Thank you. Your father is smiling with such a good daughter.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:15 AM (u82oZ)

125 This is why The Demon Core(TM) brand wall clocks never penetrated the market. They penetrated everything else.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 09:04 AM (IBQGV)
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Unable to repeat the commercial success of Happy Fun Ball(TM).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)

126 Your doing a story about the Chupacabra?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025

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No, but shape-shifting, human to animal, is involved.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:16 AM (omVj0)

127 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:15 AM (u82oZ)

Thank you for your kind words on Dad's obituary. Thanks to YellowBird as well.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 09:17 AM (sPQoU)

128 Department of State
@StateDept
"Talks with Hamas fell apart on the day Macron made the unilateral decision that he’s going to recognize the Palestinian state ... So those messages, while largely symbolic in their minds, actually have made it harder to get peace and harder to achieve a deal with Hamas. "
9:50 AM · Aug 8, 2025
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That Macron is a real statesman.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:19 AM (JvZF+)

129 Re: Saturday plans

I have to watch a bunch of football games and maybe have some pizza

and no pants

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I done put the coon tune on this bitch at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (AOsQT)

130 Farmer Bob:

Congrats. I admire someone who runs competitively and sticks with it.

As a student at Michigan State in the early 80s, I quit cigarettes on New Years Day and started running (more like jogging to start) with a friend.

To motive myself, in February, I send in my money and entry form to the 25K Old Kent Riverbank Run in Grand Rapids to be held that May.

My goal was to finish in under two-and-a-half hours.

I crossed the finish line in 2:29:53, then went over to some nearby bushes and threw up.

I woke up the next day with seemingly every muscle in my body screaming. I could barely walk.

Never ran again.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (Y1sOo)

131 Remember DoJ cause of this.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)
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Almost all of civil rights law is predicated on a 90-10 white/black population. When you add in other groups, it becomes impossible to provide proportional representation or accurate quotas as the entire thing simply turns anti-white (and white-adjacent, like Asians).

This is why it's all falling aprt. For a time it could survive on residual guilt, but only Boomers remember segregation - everyone else completely lacks any sense of guilt over it.

Add in the surge of immigration, and there is a supermajority that wants the whole thing torn down.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)

132 80 Good morning! Just finished the ATC tri- 12th place. 87:15- beat my goal time by 2:45!
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 09, 2025 08:48 AM (25XXt)

Congrats! What is the ATC?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (h7ZuX)

133 Our younger cat is not very bright, and everyone admits it. She's very sweet, though. The older cat hates her, we think in part because she is entirely devoid of feline dignity. Most cats will fall, make a mistake, and shrink from it, but our little girl is often unaware what even happened, which is endearing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025

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Little tuxedo longhair Oreo was nobody's genius . . . but she knew where the food and water bowls were, and the litter box, and my lap. About all a loved indoor cat needs to know, I guess. Tatiana the Wonder Siberian, her feline roommate for almost two of those years, wanted to play hard -- she was a kitten, and played like one for her whole short life -- but Oreo was older and didn't usually want to be bothered.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:21 AM (omVj0)

134 Never ran again.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (Y1sOo)
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The Army taught me to hate running. The Air Force made it more tolerable.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

135 That Macron is a real statesman.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:19 AM (JvZF+)
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What does his husband think?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

136 Add in the surge of immigration, and there is a supermajority that wants the whole thing torn down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)

Why would immigrants want an anti-white system torn down? They may not like blacks but enemy of my enemy thing comes in.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (AiNp4)

137 74 I've learned of a Free Shredding Day event tomorrow not far from me.
So today will be spent going through ancient tax return folders and scanning a few relevant pages.
Because the UPS Store charges $14 a pound and I'm a cheapskate.
I mean thrifty.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

All US Americans should have a fire pit or burn barrel.

Posted by: Smokey Stover at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)

138 Question - what happened to the arrests?
Answer - it was always a bluff by Abbott and Paxton which the knew could never be done. Dems called the bluff.
Long explanation - Texas constitution allows the Governor to charges State LEO to detain a missing legislator who does not respond to a quorum call, and deliver him to the Capitol building in Austin. This is called an arrest, but it’s actually just a temporary detention, and no charges are made or filed.
Because it does not involve actual charges, no out of State of Federal LEO have any duty to recognize the order - and Texas LEO have no jurisdiction outside state boundaries. So as long as the legislators stay out of the state, it’s a completely empty threat. Which is why they left the state.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (q+E/R)

139 I've been a runner -- a trotter/walker in recent years -- since 1976, and used to run in place indoors for three years before that. The longest I ever ran was a couple of 10K races. Running for more than an hour would bore me, and I didn't want to get bored with it.

I'm walking swiftly now. Once I'm recovered from last month's surgery -- and that point is getting close -- I'll get back to a mix of trotting/walking, about 60/40.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:25 AM (omVj0)

140 Hey Wolfus! Are you still considering Indiana for your relocation destination?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025

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Still am! Having a look at the Evansville area, and maybe Terre Haute, are in my plans for next month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:26 AM (omVj0)

141 Sooooo…..nothing will happen in Texas?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:27 AM (AiNp4)

142 Hey Wolfus! Are you still considering Indiana for your relocation destination?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025

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How's the summer weather there? I know you're up in the northern part of the state, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:29 AM (omVj0)

143 All US Americans should have a fire pit or burn barrel.
Posted by: Smokey Stover at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)

Seems to be the policy of the last FBI chief.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:29 AM (gbOdA)

144 We also have the splashdown of Crew-10 right after the launch

SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-10
Deorbit Burn and Splashdown - Space Affairs Live
Splashdown: 8:33 a.m. PDT, 11:33 a.m. EDT (1533 UTC, 17:33 CEST)

https://youtu.be/F6SwrRKsu_8

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 09:29 AM (sPQoU)

145 Because it does not involve actual charges, no out of State of Federal LEO have any duty to recognize the order - and Texas LEO have no jurisdiction outside state boundaries. So as long as the legislators stay out of the state, it’s a completely empty threat. Which is why they left the state.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (q+E/R)
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This is why the AG is exploring bribery charges. They are openly being paid not to attend.

The Dems have gotten very lazy, assuming that brazen illegality will be ignored (see also: mortgage fraud).

New rules coming.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

146 All US Americans should have a fire pit or burn barrel.
Posted by: Smokey Stover at August 09, 2025

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I'd love a burn barrel when I move, but I'll have to make sure I won't get fined for using it, as someone suggested above.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:30 AM (omVj0)

147 Which is why they left the state.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (q+E/R)
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Do these people have families that worry about them? Are they worried about their families?

How long can they remain out of state before people start to crack from the pressure?

Seems that as soon as they set foot back in Texas they are fair game.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 09:30 AM (IBQGV)

148 Add in the surge of immigration, and there is a supermajority that wants the whole thing torn down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)

Why would immigrants want an anti-white system torn down? They may not like blacks but enemy of my enemy thing comes in.

It depends on whether those new groups expect to be somewhere (hopefully at the top) in the victim stack, or think they'd be better off if there was no stack. Asians are an example of the latter, while I think some (not all) Hispanics are the former.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 09:31 AM (Riz8t)

149 Atlantic City

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (25XXt)

150 Tom Servo

Don't go after the actual legislator. Remove them from office, box up personal effects, and fire the staffers hired by him.

A newly appointed legislator can hire his own staff.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (u82oZ)

151 We are at the tail end of a weeklong vacation at the Cape and my wife is running in a 5 mile race later today. I don't get it. I will be sitting on the beach reading and drinking a beer while she's out there sweating with a few hundred strangers.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (AcM/G)

152 Why would immigrants want an anti-white system torn down? They may not like blacks but enemy of my enemy thing comes in.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (AiNp4)
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Because of the competition for the benefits. There's a stack, and it doesn't matter if the whites go to the back of the bus if you keep coming in second place.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)

153 I saw the TX Speaker yesterday saying the runaways would not be getting their paychecks and some other financial hits they would be taking for being AWOL. I wondering...what happened to the arrests?

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Its all theater. I saw after they blocked the dems direct deposit of payroll that they get paid $600 a month. Nobody is missing that.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 09, 2025 09:33 AM (B4L+X)

154 I added my name to the prayer list a while ago and want to thank all who obliged. Having had lymphoma before, I know that distended nodes and night sweats don't always work out so great but it seems I've dodged a bullet. Thank you all.

Posted by: 496 at August 09, 2025 09:33 AM (YpWtw)

155 "Perfessor" Squirrel

If there is a monument to stalwart and engaging co-bloggers, your name would be on it in gold letters. Thank you for all the fun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:34 AM (u82oZ)

156 It depends on whether those new groups expect to be somewhere (hopefully at the top) in the victim stack, or think they'd be better off if there was no stack. Asians are an example of the latter, while I think some (not all) Hispanics are the former.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 09:31 AM (Riz8t)
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The big shift in Hispanic voting to the GOP is the realization that they are not in fact going to get the promised goodies and are just there to keep the elites in charge.

In fact, the elites want to keep them poor, flooding their communities with cartels and gangs - the things they came here to escape. They see no reason to keep taking on the chin so that black women can run the world.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)

157 Another piece of the runaway legislators story that makes me laugh/ pisses me off because it’s so stupid is the claim that the FBI would help “locate” them. This came about because John Cornyn’s Senate re-elect campaign is failing, so he demanded a meeting with Kash Patel to see what he could do about it. In a picture of the meeting, Kash looks like a cat who’s about to be put into a car carrier to go to the vet, and he mumbled a couple things about information and then ran out of the room.

“Information” in this case is idiotic, since everyone knows where they are - at a certain hotel in Illinois where they have a big party every night, during which they go out on the balcony and moon all the passersby while saying “here we are! Come get us, Nyah Nyah!!!” Oh yeah if we want to go mess with them you’ll have to past Pritzker’s State Police who are protecting them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:36 AM (q+E/R)

158 This is why it's all falling aprt. For a time it could survive on residual guilt, but only Boomers remember segregation - everyone else completely lacks any sense of guilt over it.
Add in the surge of immigration, and there is a supermajority that wants the whole thing torn down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)

Correct. The leftists received and used the power of guilt over the guilt ridden leftist white boomers and others who wanted to "change the world". Such an ego trip! Once they expire, the world will go on cleaning up their mess one affirmative action at a time and we will soon be forgotten.

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at August 09, 2025 09:37 AM (R/m4+)

159 Its all theater. I saw after they blocked the dems direct deposit of payroll that they get paid $600 a month. Nobody is missing that.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 09, 2025 09:33 AM (B4L+X)
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The describes most of politics, but this one is fun because it highlights how corrupt the census was and the whole Civil Rights Act voting schemes are also about crumble.

The cherry on top is Newsome vowing to overthrow a citizen voting commission passed by a statewide referendum for purely political reasons. Why does he think the voters are going to support that?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)

160 >>8/4 – Moki posted that s/he could use some prayers. A daughter has gone AWOL, claiming that they don’t love her.

I'm so sorry, Moki.

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 09:39 AM (aURVT)

161 Visit a southern city and we’ll bowl you over with hospitality.

You might even find people who’ll hold the door open for you or stop and let you get turn onto the road in traffic.

We may be white supremacist, redneck assholes, but we’re quite polite about it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (6ydKt)

When we cuss at you, it's always in a moderate voice. And we flip the bird with grace and dignity.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2025 09:39 AM (g8Ew8)

162 Tom Servo

All those legislators having information leading to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, and MS-13 leadership.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:41 AM (u82oZ)

163 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers up for all of God's children on this fine day.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 09, 2025 09:41 AM (kB9dk)

164 >>I have one (fairly) short but crucial scene to finish on my current short story. It's a good one, I think, a slightly different take on the werewolf theme, set in northeast New Mexico in the 1880s. I may even be able to avoid using the word "werewolf" even once. Maybe I can get to it and type the words "THE END" this p.m., or tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM

The Clayton, NM area is home to many of my relatives, living and dead. None undead,as far as I know.

Posted by: huerfano at August 09, 2025 09:41 AM (98kQX)

165 15 Good morning again dear horde and thanks annie, mh, and you morons for praying.

Update. Moki reported her daughter came home.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:08 AM (JvZF+)

Oh, yay!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 09:41 AM (aURVT)

166 Don't go after the actual legislator. Remove them from office, box up personal effects, and fire the staffers hired by him.

A newly appointed legislator can hire his own staff.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (u82oZ)

And here’s the rub there - neither the Governor nor the AG actually have the power to do this. That’s why they’re trying to find a friendly Judge who will make a judicial order allowing this. How long will that take? Depends on how friendly the Judge is. Will there be appeals? Oh certainly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:42 AM (q+E/R)

167 Correct. The leftists received and used the power of guilt over the guilt ridden leftist white boomers and others who wanted to "change the world". Such an ego trip! Once they expire, the world will go on cleaning up their mess one affirmative action at a time and we will soon be forgotten.
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at August 09, 2025 09:37 AM (R/m4+)
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I don't mean to stoke another round of generational war, I was merely noting that to even remember MLK being alive, you have to have to at least be in your late 60s and for a clear memory, your 70s.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

168 160 >>8/4 – Moki posted that s/he could use some prayers. A daughter has gone AWOL, claiming that they don’t love her.

I'm so sorry, Moki.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 09:39 AM (aURVT)
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She reported her daughter is back.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:43 AM (JvZF+)

169 Sooooo…..nothing will happen in Texas?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:27 AM (AiNp4)

Of course not. It's why they're doing this for the third or fourth time.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2025 09:45 AM (g8Ew8)

170 Launch scrubbed. Started raining just before liftoff.

On to watching the splashdown of Crew-10!

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 09:47 AM (sPQoU)

171 And here’s the rub there - neither the Governor nor the AG actually have the power to do this. That’s why they’re trying to find a friendly Judge who will make a judicial order allowing this. How long will that take? Depends on how friendly the Judge is. Will there be appeals? Oh certainly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:42 AM (q+E/R)
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It doesn't happen often, but I believe the speaker can fire staff, so canning their cronies is likely possible.

I'm going to say that the bribery angle is best because of the sheer sums of money involved. Texas is a part-time legislature, so these people have to have day jobs. How long can stay away from them? Paying someone $10,000 not to vote is obviously a bribe. There is an exchange going on.

The fleabaggers in previous instances just drove to the next state. If they had chartered luxury transportation, it would have been very different.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)

172 Off to Cal-I-Forn-I-A!

Posted by: Texas State Dem Legislators at August 09, 2025 09:47 AM (wVcYX)

173 A prayer for all those who asked for healing above. May GOD heal those brothers and sisters who are sick of body and soul. A praise to GOD for those who have found new faith and understanding through prayer.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 09:48 AM (LHPAg)

174 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at August 09, 2025 09:49 AM (XQo4F)

175 Big Blue
https://tinyurl.com/mr3w3nx4

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:51 AM (JvZF+)

176 Wish I didn't see Last Night in Soho was on, my plumbing might have been over by now

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 09:52 AM (+qU29)

177 Neighbors have fancy pants burn pits for roasting marshmallows and getting drunk aroubd - etc - that would do

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 09:53 AM (6Tzur)

178 The cherry on top is Newsome vowing to overthrow a citizen voting commission passed by a statewide referendum for purely political reasons. Why does he think the voters are going to support that?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)
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Past experience. A lot of past experience backs up his assumption with a perfect record.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 09, 2025 09:54 AM (17s+e)

179 During the Civil War, the pro-Confederate faction in the Indiana state legislature did this, thinking to cripple the war effort, but Gov. Oliver P. Morton simply asked for a federal loan until the legislature re-convened. Indiana was still collecting taxes but could not spend it.

So Lincoln sent him some money, and Morton ruled as a dictator - probably not the desired result of the pro-Southern Dems.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)

180
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 09, 2025 09:56 AM (tljrc)

181 Past experience. A lot of past experience backs up his assumption with a perfect record.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 09, 2025 09:54 AM (17s+e)
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We'll see. He's remarkably stupid. The scarred ruins of Palilsades aren't winning him a lot of support.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)

182 The voters are not relevant in California. The Party decides.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:58 AM (JvZF+)

183 175 Big Blue
https://tinyurl.com/mr3w3nx4
****

Thought that was going to be another WNBA dildo tossing incident.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 09:59 AM (Y1sOo)

184 YD I have to go to Chgo too for biz next weekend. The good news the air and Water Show is happening and the Blue Angels will be buzzing around at least. And a Cubs game on Sunday. It's pretty cool when they fly over Wrigley Field during the game.

Posted by: Big Alfredo at August 09, 2025 10:01 AM (8cPKb)

185 See at hardware stores deck burn pans for small fires

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 10:03 AM (+qU29)

186 Out: Dwarf tossing
In: Dildo tossing

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

187 I'm going to say that the bribery angle is best because of the sheer sums of money involved. Texas is a part-time legislature, so these people have to have day jobs. How long can stay away from them? Paying someone $10,000 not to vote is obviously a bribe. There is an exchange going on.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:47 AM

Beto sent a bleg this morning partnering w/Hogg boi:

"On Sunday, August 3rd, Texas Democrats broke quorum and left the state to block Trump’s power grab as he tries to steal five Congressional seats in order to hold the majority in the U.S. House.

This wasn’t easy. They left their families, homes, and careers behind to protect the people they represent from having their voices silenced.

Now, not only is Greg Abbott threatening the Democrats who walked out with fines, arrest, and even removal from office, but AG Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into Powered by People for standing with Texas Democrats.

Rather than listening to the people, the Governor and the impeached Attorney General are trying to intimidate us into silence.

Turns out they don’t like it when you fight back!"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 10:07 AM (0sNs1)

188 The voters are not relevant in California. The Party decides.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:58 AM (JvZF+)

It's the same for most other shithole blue states.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2025 10:09 AM (g8Ew8)

189 I'd love a burn barrel when I move, but I'll have to make sure I won't get fined for using it, as someone suggested above.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Outdoor fireplaces are allowed in a lot of areas but burning household trash with plastics, and other nasty bits, pretty much everywhere is a no no nowadays. Shredded paper (the plain old strip cutters, not the confetti ones, burn quite well. Yard waste is often allowed to be burned in season.

Even in places like rural Arkansas have cracked down on illegal burning--FIL was a state air pollution inspector and had to go out on calls for illegal burning.

So, the perps often just illegally dump anywhere it is isolated.

Posted by: whig at August 09, 2025 10:10 AM (ctrM5)

190 Horde, though my troubles continue, I come to offer praise. As matters have unfolded I have seen the work of the Lord, through those around me as well as by the ways of Providence. I know full well this is why I have come as far as I have through it all.

I don't know how it goes from here, but no matter what, God has been - and will continue to be - good!

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 09, 2025 10:10 AM (M0dSD)

191 The Lord be praised, Brother Tim.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

192 No electricity-> no coffee. Small but intense storm passed through around 5:00. We lost power and it hasn't come back yet.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:13 AM (cO5y4)

193 Seems like splashdown is running late.

Kinda figures because the crew is two women.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:14 AM (Y1sOo)

194 Patrick Joseph White named as shooter who opened fire on CDC and killed cop 'after suffering COVID vaccine injury' https://mol.im/a/14985559

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 10:15 AM (sPQoU)

195 Heh. Zelensky is on a ewetub video still with the bravado.

The thing that strikes me most about the modern era (and this has been true for... 80 years or so)- everyone seems to be fricking insane and disconnected from reality.

If Israel truly wanted to engage in genocide, not one person would be alive in Gaza right now.

Zelensky is still pledging every drop of Ukrainian blood before they cede any land to Russia. Ok, then go get the land back, sparky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:16 AM (bss/y)

196 Good morning all.
Not exactly sure about good yet. 11 days to hip surgery. Now need a cane to get around making everyday stuff harder. And more painful. On the good side, I am still swimming, being able to enjoy summer and I think I've gotten the condo in shape.
Got a lecture from my son yesterday about how lucky I am to live in a time when I can get fixed, get delivery and have plenty of recovery entertainment options.
So, perspective.
❤️ and soon 💃

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2025 10:16 AM (t/2Uw)

197 No electricity-> no coffee. Small but intense storm passed through around 5:00. We lost power and it hasn't come back yet.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:13 AM (cO5y4)

Go to the sporting good store, buy two one pound cylinders of propane, and a single burner stove that screws directly onto the cylinder. You now have food heating capability for several days.
Or buy a butane stove. Anything. Buy a box big enough to keep it in.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 10:16 AM (rbvCR)

198
The Clayton, NM area is home to many of my relatives, living and dead. None undead,as far as I know.
Posted by: huerfano at August 09, 2025

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Smart black cat Marie-Antoinette and I passed through Clayton on the way from Denver to Da Swamp in Nov. '01.

According to Ernest Thompson Seton, there is, or used to be, a cattle-raising area there called "the Currumpaw." 'Net research says it's "the Corrumpa." Which is true, and which do people there use?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 10:17 AM (omVj0)

199 194 Patrick Joseph White named as shooter who opened fire on CDC and killed cop 'after suffering COVID vaccine injury' https://mol.im/a/14985559
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 10:15 AM (sPQoU)

Can't seem to find picture of the shooter...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:18 AM (bss/y)

200 "U.S. Catholic Bishops are citing Nazis, slave catchers, and replacement babies as they try to slam President Donald Trump’s popular immigration policies.

The bishops are also urging open borders, parroting cheap-labor demands from business groups, and pretending that illegal migrants are not illegal.

One Bishop is even endorsing President George W. Bush’s “Any Willing Worker” migration policies as an alternative to Trump’s pro-prosperity policies.

The slave-catcher and Nazi argument was pushed by Bishop Mark Brennan, the Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia."

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:19 AM (g47mK)

201 replacement babies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:21 AM (bss/y)

202 Also, a bit of advice to fellow mobility challenged folk. If you find you need a walker, make sure you use one where you can keep your feet inside the wheelbase. You will have better balance, and be able to get around more easily. Learned through experience.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 09, 2025 10:21 AM (M0dSD)

203 This wasn’t easy. They left their families, homes, and careers behind to protect the people they represent from having their voices silenced.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 10:07 AM (0sNs1)
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Yeah, that's terrible messaging. They took a private jet and someone else is paying their expenses. I doubt they are in a South Side Motel 6.

"Our paid vacation is stunning and brave!" is quite the message.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)

204 @189

>>So, the perps often just illegally dump anywhere it is isolated.

My solution to getting rid of the unwanted debris is I built a weatherproof sled/box that holds a bagster bag, fill that sucker up, hitch it to the pickup, pull it to the street and schedule a pickup.

It holds over 3000 lbs and cost 200 bucks for a pickup and I usually have to have a pickup about once a year or more frequently if I am doing projects.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 10:23 AM (XV/Pl)

205 The slave-catcher and Nazi argument was pushed by Bishop Mark Brennan, the Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia."
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:19 AM (g47mK)
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They are big mad about their private charity empires being taken away.

The road to hell is lit by the burning souls of bishops to abandoned their flocks. Pray for them to repent in time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)

206 This wasn’t easy. They left their families, homes, and careers behind to protect the people they represent from having their voices silenced.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 10:07 AM (0sNs1)

Wow. I am guessing by context we are talking about the Dem Fleabaggers.

However, you could also be talking about the soldiers on D-Day.

LOL. wtf.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:24 AM (bss/y)

207 https://tinyurl.com/mus2vcn5

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:24 AM (g47mK)

208 I am simply brimming with lassitude and ennui.

Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (I0N4X)

209 Grills are great to have in power outage

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (+qU29)

210 A couple of weeks ago, Pope Bob also went in big on "migrants" being stunning and brave. Just like Pope Frank before him, Bob didn't differentiate between legal and illegal immigration.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (Y1sOo)

211 @195

>>Zelensky is still pledging every drop of Ukrainian blood before they cede any land to Russia. Ok, then go get the land back, sparky.

I think this is the final push by Trump, if either Z or P blow this chance at peace up, Trumps going to wash his hands of it, pull all military aid from Uke and let the chips fall where they may.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (XV/Pl)

212 They are big mad about their private charity empires being taken away.

The road to hell is lit by the burning souls of bishops to abandoned their flocks. Pray for them to repent in time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)

he is comparing ICE to nazis and citing Nuremberg trials. unreal.

"I encourage even those whose official duty is to enforce the current Administration’s immigration policies to consider whether a specific action is morally justified. I recognize that they have sworn to uphold the law. Yet the manner in which a law is enforced matters. Those acting on the government’s behalf cannot escape personal responsibility for an unjust action with the excuse that it was ordered by their superiors. That defense was not allowed during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals at the end of World War II. The judges held that a soldier, guard or official, who authorized or engaged in gross violations of human rights, was personally responsible for his acts."

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (g47mK)

213 Stanley lunchboxes make nice containers. I have one with a small butane stove, small kettle, teapot and cup, coffee grinder and pour over filter, plus the supplies for coffee and tea. And I don't even drink coffee.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (kUxzU)

214 208 I am simply brimming with lassitude and ennui.
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (I0N4X)

About to pull up a chair with CBD, take a drag on a galois and sigh with pathos?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (bss/y)

215 Outdoor fireplaces are allowed in a lot of areas but burning household trash with plastics, and other nasty bits, pretty much everywhere is a no no nowadays. Shredded paper (the plain old strip cutters, not the confetti ones, burn quite well. Yard waste is often allowed to be burned in season.

Posted by: whig at August 09, 2025 10:10 AM (ctrM5)
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I have a metal cage burn pit on the patio for fallen branches and such, and some years ago I stopped shredding paper and instead collected it in a decorative basket to use either outside or in the fireplace. Solves two problems in one easy step.

I should add that I only put paper in the basket - no plastic or anything that might smell/give off fumes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

216 Well that movie was interesting

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 10:28 AM (+qU29)

217 Ask your doctor if Lassitude and Ennui is right for you.

Posted by: The Marketing Department at August 09, 2025 10:29 AM (XQo4F)

218 So, perspective.
❤️ and soon 💃
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Me too. Sitting here pouring a complete balanced nutrition with fiber straight through my abdominal wall into my stomach.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (LHPAg)

219 Perhaps the good bishop should spend his sermons denouncing the cartels and slave trafficking, suffering and lawlessness perpetuated by the cartels.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)

220 A couple of weeks ago, Pope Bob also went in big on "migrants" being stunning and brave. Just like Pope Frank before him, Bob didn't differentiate between legal and illegal immigration.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (Y1sOo)
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He's not "Pope Bob." There is no "Pope Bob." He's either Robert Prevost or Pope Leo.

It's weird that you use Jorge Bergoglio's papal name.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (ZOv7s)

221 Random observation: Brian Dennehy was a hell if an actor. I recently re-watched two movies of his (First Blood and F/X)… something about him just jumped off the screen.

I know nothing about the man himself although I think he’s no longer alive. He reminds me of Gene Hackman for some reason

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:31 AM (i5Vkf)

222 You seem to have me confused with someone who cares what you think.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:31 AM (Y1sOo)

223 Prayers for all Hordian requests, those requested and those known but to God.

Prayers of Thanksgiving offered for my little Charlie. I saw him yesterday and he's up to 13 lbs, happy, chatty and smiley. Just a hair developmentally behind normal 4 month olds but way ahead for preemies his age.

Oh I love that little stinker!

Posted by: Cliff Claven at August 09, 2025 10:32 AM (WzM/W)

224 “Our paid vacation is stunning and brave!" is quite the message.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)

When it comes to crafting a political theme to base the 2026 election campaign on, I think Abbott and Paxton have done a great job, which is why I don’t fault their efforts.
When it comes to actually passing a redistricting bill? I put the odds of that happening at slim to none. But I suppose a miracle could still happen (meaning they could find some way to bribe some of the dems)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:32 AM (q+E/R)

225 Perhaps the good bishop should spend his sermons denouncing the cartels and slave trafficking, suffering and lawlessness perpetuated by the cartels.
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)
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There are a few bishops who are bringing grave scandal to the Church. The new Archbishop of Detroit has fired three accomplished professors from the seminary without given a reason, and of course has abolished the wildly popular Latin Mass in his diocese.

Nothing about abortion mills closing, just endless calls to traffic more humans across the border.

Not one word about what a "just" system would be, no reforms offered, just a return to lawlessness and crime.

It's demonic. There's no other word for it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)

226 Prayers of Thanksgiving offered for my little Charlie. I saw him yesterday and he's up to 13 lbs, happy, chatty and smiley. Just a hair developmentally behind normal 4 month olds but way ahead for preemies his age.

Oh I love that little stinker!
Posted by: Cliff Claven at August 09, 2025 10:32 AM (WzM/W)

That's great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:33 AM (bss/y)

227 Don't take Galois with Pathos if you're allergic to Galois with Pathos.

Posted by: The Legal Department at August 09, 2025 10:33 AM (XQo4F)

228 208 I am simply brimming with lassitude and ennui.
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (I0N4X)

Do you even know what those words mean?

No…. But Muldoon does and he’s the one lassituding and ennuiing!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:33 AM (i5Vkf)

229 Off knowitall sock!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (WzM/W)

230 Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
Jimmy Kimmel says he got his Italian citizenship to possibly escape Trump

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Does that mean he won't be voting?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

231 I know nothing about the man himself although I think he’s no longer alive. He reminds me of Gene Hackman for some reason
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:31 AM (i5Vkf)“

I loved him in Titanic! (He played the Titanic)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (q+E/R)

232 About to pull up a chair with CBD, take a drag on a galois and sigh with pathos?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

*********

That sounds like too much effort.

Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (I0N4X)

233 I am simply brimming with lassitude and ennui.
Posted by: muldoon

Do you even know what those words mean?

No…. But Muldoon does and he’s the one lassituding and ennuiing!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I had lassitude and ennui but penicillin cleared it right up.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (WzM/W)

234 Go to the sporting good store, buy two one pound cylinders of propane, and a single burner stove that screws directly onto the cylinder. You now have food heating capability for several days.

Or you can just go visit friends or family in an area that has power.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (a4flb)

235 Tonypete, what wonderful news. I was hoping to see an update and here you sre.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (HFcKg)

236 When it comes to actually passing a redistricting bill? I put the odds of that happening at slim to none. But I suppose a miracle could still happen (meaning they could find some way to bribe some of the dems)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:32 AM (q+E/R)
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It's basically a siege, and since these people have day jobs, they are at a severe disadvantage. The Gov can always call a special session and of course as soon as they enter the state they will be detained.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)

237 That sounds like too much effort.
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (I0N4X)

Hah.

Collapse into a chair with the galois dangling from your lip?

Sigh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (bss/y)

238 Good morning (again), Hordelings,

Desperately need caffeine.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (kpS4V)

239 I'd love a burn barrel when I move, but I'll have to make sure I won't get fined for using it, as someone suggested above.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:30 AM (omVj0)

I have a fire pit, it is a hole dug in the ground, with a car rim set into it, with pavers arrayed around it so it looks stylish. I later dug an air channel into it so it would burn better.
I use it for cooking sometimes. I can fit a dutch oven on it.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (rbvCR)

240 I never had a galois. From what I heard they were strong and pretty nasty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (bss/y)

241 lol, Jimmy Kimmel thinks he matters. He is on TV!!

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)

242 Jimmy Kimmel says he got his Italian citizenship to possibly escape Trump

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Does that mean he won't be voting?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

He doesn't know anything about Italians, does he? If he moves over there, he'll FO.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:37 AM (WzM/W)

243 >>He is on TV!!

For now

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:37 AM (Y1sOo)

244 Nothing about abortion mills closing, just endless calls to traffic more humans across the border.

Not one word about what a "just" system would be, no reforms offered, just a return to lawlessness and crime.

Does he have a trafficked little boy locked up in his basement?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 09, 2025 10:37 AM (a4flb)

245 It's basically a siege, and since these people have day jobs, they are at a severe disadvantage. The Gov can always call a special session and of course as soon as they enter the state they will be detained.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)

This is a special session already. They’re not coming back yet. You’re right, a siege - how much nerve do they have, can they stay out of state for 6 months?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (q+E/R)

246 Hmmm, Italy is beautiful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (bss/y)

247 Any takers on the bet the TX Dems hiding in IL and the bomb threats they are receiving are hoaxes of their own making?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (9nkAn)

248 Perhaps the good bishop should spend his sermons denouncing the cartels and slave trafficking, suffering and lawlessness perpetuated by the cartels.
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)
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Less money in that. They're pushing hard to get the laity to pay out of pocket for their paper empires, but the money is not there.

Must be a pisser to think you can move the needle and watch it staying completely still.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)

249 Oh, I see, he got it through his grandparents. They were Italian immigrants. I believe you can still do that.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (g47mK)

250 The beauty of Italy depends upon location.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:39 AM (9nkAn)

251 Jimmy don't let us stop you from leaving

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 10:40 AM (+qU29)

252 Does he have a trafficked little boy locked up in his basement?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 09, 2025 10:37 AM (a4flb)
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Francis' leniency for pedo priests helped illustrate that there are certain circles within the clergy. It's not at all unified and some folks did social mapping a few years ago based on who ordained whom and there is a very small group responsible for almost all of the abuses. Francis helped identify them by constantly excusing or promoting them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:40 AM (ZOv7s)

253 Jimmy who?

Posted by: Most people at August 09, 2025 10:40 AM (XQo4F)

254 >I loved him in Titanic! (He played the Titanic)

Posted by: Tom Servo
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aw no way
Dennehy played the iceberg

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I done put the coon tune on this bitch at August 09, 2025 10:41 AM (AOsQT)

255 250 The beauty of Italy depends upon location.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:39 AM (9nkAn)

There are some tent cities (this was back in 2005) between Rome and Naples.

Naples was lovely.

It is hard to call Rome beautiful. If it was not the Eternal city with more history than any other place on earth, it would be a twisty rat fucked mess. Actually is is still a mess.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:41 AM (bss/y)

256 Lord's Prayer, shmord's prayer.

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist1@DeAngelisCorey
BREAKING: A school board president and parliamentarian would not allow Jeremiah Cota to read the Lord's prayer at their meeting in Arizona.
They said, "We cannot have a religious prayer before the Land Acknowledgement."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:41 AM (L/fGl)

257 It would be funny if some guy named John Pope got elected Pope and used his actual first name as his regnal name.

John Pope, Pope John

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

258 That Russian cosmonaut seems to be watching everything the two girl pilots are doing. He was a first officer on a wide-body before joining the RUS space agency so that would be in keeping with his role in being watchful that the captain doesn't screw up.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:42 AM (Y1sOo)

259
A big reason is that it’s never been tried before, ever.
My personal opinion is that if Abbott and Paxton wanted to create a big public issue that would affect 2026 elections, by giving themselves a cause celebre to campaign on, they’ve done that well. But so far, no more than that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (q+E/R)

It gets Greg Abbott face time on Fox News, which is all he cares about.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 10:43 AM (vm8sq)

260 247 Any takers on the bet the TX Dems hiding in IL and the bomb threats they are receiving are hoaxes of their own making?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (9nkAn)

Certainly possible. But the problem with anonymous bomb threats where there isn’t any actual is that any angry 14 year old who knows how to spoof a number can do it.

For a long time I have thought it is very wrong to give any credence to anonymous threats. It just allows attention seeking idiots to jack us all around for their own amusement.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:43 AM (q+E/R)

261 Eromero, sending you ❤️and hugs. Looking forward to giving you those in person in Texas.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2025 10:43 AM (t/2Uw)

262 It would be funny if some guy named John Pope got elected Pope and used his actual first name as his regnal name.

John Pope, Pope John XXIV
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
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Fixed it for ya.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)

263 I loved him in Titanic! (He played the Titanic)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (q+E/R)

Ha! That’s funny Tom… I thought that was Marlon Brando

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:44 AM (i5Vkf)

264 98 Mornin' Horde and prayers for y'all and your loved ones.

I got all my yard work done Thursday and Friday after work, so I'm going hiking today.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (7HoOO)

Take a hike! : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 10:44 AM (vm8sq)

265 240 I never had a galois. From what I heard they were strong and pretty nasty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (bss/y)
Pish!

Picayune and Home Run

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:45 AM (LHPAg)

266 For a long time I have thought it is very wrong to give any credence to anonymous threats. It just allows attention seeking idiots to jack us all around for their own amusement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:43 AM (q+E/R)

The converse is that if you get the anonymous threat, ignore it and then a bomb goes off, then you get pilloried for that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:45 AM (bss/y)

267 *It gets Greg Abbott face time on Fox News, which is all he cares about.*

Stay in your lane, pal.

Posted by: Pam Blondi at August 09, 2025 10:46 AM (XQo4F)

268 265 240 I never had a galois. From what I heard they were strong and pretty nasty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (bss/y)
Pish!

Picayune and Home Run
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:45 AM (LHPAg)

?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:46 AM (bss/y)

269 258 That Russian cosmonaut seems to be watching everything the two girl pilots are doing. He was a first officer on a wide-body…

Yeah he’s watching those two, dreaming of being on those wide bodies…

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:47 AM (q+E/R)

270 Whelp, the county household hazardous waste disposal was non-aggravating. In and out in about 10 minutes. Didn't even have to get out of the truck. They took everything I had loaded up in the bed; paint, some old fertilizers and some chemicals no longer useful.

I'll hand it to my county in that they make this process pretty easy. It's only once a year, but beats trying to dispose of hazardous stuff by just dumping it somewhere that might be harmful to wildlife or people.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)

271 Stanley lunchboxes make nice containers. I have one with a small butane stove, small kettle, teapot and cup, coffee grinder and pour over filter, plus the supplies for coffee and tea. And I don't even drink coffee.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (kUxzU)

That is a clever set up Notsothoreu. Very compact.

I have a 30 cal SAW ammo can that fits two cylinders, a Century stove, a single mantle propane lamp, extra mantles and a couple lighters. My coffee gear in in a gym bag. I liked to cook up some coffee when I went cutting wood, and other. The problem is that the mass of essentials keeps getting bigger.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 10:48 AM (rbvCR)

272 Picayune to place. Home Run to show. 5th race.

Posted by: The Preakness at August 09, 2025 10:48 AM (XQo4F)

273 It’s being reported that Trump will meet with Putin in Alaska on August 15th.

I don’t think it’s bring confirmed yet, but that’s the word on the street for now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 10:48 AM (6ydKt)

274 Eyal Yakoby1@EYakoby
Linda Sarsour, one of Zohran’s closest advisors, states how Muslims mustn’t make the mistake of humanizing Israelis.
Israel is home to half of the world’s Jewish population and according to them, half the Jews in the world should not be viewed as human.

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Being Jewish isn't kosher.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)

275 As far as I’m concerned. SiD can go take a hike!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:49 AM (i5Vkf)

276 Trump has been successful as a mediator because it allows both sides to save face. Each side can give so,ething because that is the who,Eid wa of mediation. If Zelensky and Putin don't take advantage of this opportunity to save face on the world stage, I think they will both suffer as their people say Enough!

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2025 10:49 AM (t/2Uw)

277 Linda Sarsour.

It is amazing how the same names keep popping up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:50 AM (bss/y)

278 This is a special session already. They’re not coming back yet. You’re right, a siege - how much nerve do they have, can they stay out of state for 6 months?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (q+E/R)

They better have serious benefactors in some cases.

TX Legislators make $7200 a year and most have other gigs. The Speaker, Dustin Burrows (D-Lubbock) is an attorney, for instance. My worthless rep is a business owner.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 10:50 AM (vm8sq)

279 Trump has posted on Truth Social confirming the meeting in Alaska.

He says details will be coming soon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 10:52 AM (6ydKt)

280 >>It’s being reported that Trump will meet with Putin in Alaska on August 15th.

Imagine Putin's plane being escorted by US fighters to Adak or Shemya.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:52 AM (Y1sOo)

281 Less money in that. They're pushing hard to get the laity to pay out of pocket for their paper empires, but the money is not there.

Must be a pisser to think you can move the needle and watch it staying completely still.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)

JPII was so clear, that migration needs to be regulated, " because practicing it indiscriminately may do harm and be detrimental to the common good of the community that receives the migrant" - his own words ! why do they think they can do one better than the Saint ?

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:52 AM (g47mK)

282 The whole idea of mediation.
Have to remember to reread my comments before posting.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2025 10:53 AM (t/2Uw)

283 because practicing it indiscriminately may do harm and be detrimental to the common good of the community that receives the migrant.

==

eh, leave it to the newbies

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:54 AM (g47mK)

284 lol, that was a fine example of not rereading the comment before posting!

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:54 AM (g47mK)

285 TX Legislators make $7200 a year and most have other gigs. The Speaker, Dustin Burrows (D-Lubbock) is an attorney, for instance. My worthless rep is a business owner.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 10:50 AM (vm8sq)

The other part of the “siege” as Lloyd said is that there are 50 Republican legislators sitting in Austin waiting for the session to start, and they’ve got to be released at some point as well.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:54 AM (q+E/R)

286 Sooooo…..nothing will happen in Texas?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:27 AM (AiNp4)

RIght. They betrayed you just like you expected they would. I hope this success of yours has reassured you and reaffirmed your self image

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 10:55 AM (rbvCR)

287 Picayune and Home Runs were old timey brands, pretty stout. Lucky Strike, Camels, PallMalls, Chesterfields, etc were mild compared to those smokes. And I have smoked Galoises.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:56 AM (LHPAg)

288 The beautiful and charming Linda Sarsaur.

https://is.gd/XPuFXC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

289 Wait, wut? It's Saturday? Thought it was Sunday!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 10:56 AM (a5NDH)

290 "being reported" ... Trump posted it on his X account yesterday...thank you for your attention to this matter !

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)

291 Something will happen in TX, can't imagine Abbot allowing it to stand. If they be allowed to leave town any time they feel, and suspend legislative business, TX will stop functioning. just my 2 cents.

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:59 AM (g47mK)

292 287 Picayune and Home Runs were old timey brands, pretty stout. Lucky Strike, Camels, PallMalls, Chesterfields, etc were mild compared to those smokes. And I have smoked Galoises.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:56 AM (LHPAg)

Huh. I had never heard of those. Nastiest thing I ever smoked was a Pall Mall non-filter 100.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:59 AM (bss/y)

293 That silly bishop reminds me of James 3:1…

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

When you’re in a position of spiritual leadership you have greater responsibility and if you mess up greater condemnation!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:59 AM (ANuwa)

294 All cigarettes are nasty, if you ask me.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

295 "being reported" ... Trump posted it on his X account yesterday...thank you for your attention to this matter !
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)

He makes me laugh every time with that “thank you for your attention to this matter” conclusion

It’s hilarious

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 11:01 AM (ANuwa)

296
"...they think they can do one better than the Saint ?"

You mean Roger Moore?
It had a decent enough theme song.

https://youtu.be/EP9pKQ5N6Qg

Posted by: Meh at August 09, 2025 11:01 AM (XQo4F)

297 Apparently the deal will be that Ukraine withdraws from Donetsk first, then all forces will be frozen at the line of contact, then a ceasefire will begin.

If that produces favorable results, in the second stage Trump will meet Putin again in Russia this time, probably with Zelenskyy in tow.

Russia’s terms are international recognition of Crimea as Russian sovereign territory and the Ukraine gives up the Donbas to Russia as well.

Basically, Russia will keep what it has taken since 2014.

This all depends on if Z will go along with the plan.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 11:01 AM (6ydKt)

298 241 lol, Jimmy Kimmel thinks he matters. He is on TV!!
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)

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Jimmy Kimmel will be replaced by ShamWow commercials soon and they'll get better ratings.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 11:02 AM (hY4dx)

299 294 All cigarettes are nasty, if you ask me.
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

I always loved them- even before I smoked. Loved the smell of a freshly lit cigarette (most common were my aunt's marlboro lights or Grandma's More 100s. Pappaws Camel Non-filters.)

Loved the smell of fresh, unburned tobacco too.

Taste was always a different matter. To me, Camel Wides always 'tasted good' and everything else was harsh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:03 AM (bss/y)

300 290 "being reported" ... Trump posted it on his X account yesterday...thank you for your attention to this matter !
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)

I hadn’t gotten to that part of the video I’m watching yet.

I only see Trump’s Truth posts when they show up elsewhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 11:04 AM (6ydKt)

301 It's nice to have portable cooking supplies, because you can move them around where needed. I have a set in the car too. And there's a second lunchbox for just cooking. The Japanese are big on these, and that's where I learned about it on You Tube.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (kUxzU)

302 294 All cigarettes are nasty, if you ask me.
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

A boot camp proverb: 'Smoke 'em if you got 'em.'

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (LHPAg)

303 Did not see that coming.

Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Jasmine Crockett responds to NY Post story about her being a “boss from hell" by calling it a lie and claiming she’s attacked because she’s a black woman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

304 This all depends on if Z will go along with the plan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 11:01 AM (6ydKt)

It all depends on the warmongers in DC and Europe going along.

Russia is going to get what it wants. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. Why Trump thinks he needs to be in the middle of it, I don't know, but I guess he has reasons.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (LPgB/)

305 California voters would be fine with anything Newsome does as long as it involves fighting Trump. If he wrote an EO declaring 1+1=3 and said this is to save democracy from Trump, voters would approve.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:06 AM (AiNp4)

306 It's basically a siege, and since these people have day jobs, they are at a severe disadvantage. The Gov can always call a special session and of course as soon as they enter the state they will be detained.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)

This is a special session already. They’re not coming back yet. You’re right, a siege - how much nerve do they have, can they stay out of state for 6 months?
Posted by: Tom Servo at Augu

The national Party will see to their expenses. Their retarded voters will see this as Heroic Resistance. Abbott is not going to expel them from the legislature. There's basically no downside to holding out indefinitely.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rjlYr)

307 Did not see that coming.

Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Jasmine Crockett responds to NY Post story about her being a “boss from hell" by calling it a lie and claiming she’s attacked because she’s a black woman.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)

That writers strike really took its toll. Everyone is still using scripts from the 2010's.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (LPgB/)

308 Wakes up
Scratches
Heads directly to the coffee machine.

Morning Hordemates.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:08 AM (2WIwB)

309 Paxton has gotten a restraining order against Beto O'Rourk and Up With People from supplying funds to the fled TX Democrat legislators.

It looks like this tic-tac-toe game is going to be played to the last square.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 11:08 AM (rbvCR)

310 So all that death and destruction to go back to pre-war borders.

I’ve seen this movie before…

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:08 AM (AiNp4)

311 There's basically no downside to holding out indefinitely.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rjlYr)

Being in Illinoise is a downside.

It's the smell.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:09 AM (LPgB/)

312 Any financial hardship the fleabaggers may suffer will be covered by Soros. They stay in Chicago for a year with no worries.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:10 AM (AiNp4)

313 305 California voters would be fine with anything Newsome does as long as it involves fighting Trump. If he wrote an EO declaring 1+1=3 and said this is to save democracy from Trump, voters would approve.

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Outside SF, LA and Sacramento Newsom is generally hated. Dem control of the voting apparatus and massive illegal alien enfranchisement ensures that their voices are not heard in CA politics.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 11:10 AM (hY4dx)

314 I think Putin should at least pay Ukraine for the territory, just like we paid Mexico for the SW.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

315 Boring! Another peace agreement.

Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson
President Trump is truly the President of peace.
He just brokered peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, getting their leaders to sign agreements and shake hands.
An end to a 35-year conflict.
I’ve seen enough, give him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

316 Looking out of the kitchen at the lake. I have coffee and if I still smoked would be on the deck looking at the lake. Last smoked a cigarette in 1982. Kent Ultralite. Don't say it.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (LHPAg)

317 The national Party will see to their expenses. Their retarded voters will see this as Heroic Resistance. Abbott is not going to expel them from the legislature. There's basically no downside to holding out indefinitely.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rjlYr)

The left fails a lot in the execution of their plans, there will be weak links that might be exploited, mistakes always pop up. But yeah, right now it looks like the Dems are in a lot better position than Abbot is. (Unless he finds a real friendly Judge soon. You never know, he might)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (q+E/R)

318 JPII was so clear, that migration needs to be regulated, " because practicing it indiscriminately may do harm and be detrimental to the common good of the community that receives the migrant" - his own words ! why do they think they can do one better than the Saint ?
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:52 AM (g47mK)
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One of the problems is that Pope Leo - like Francis - is selectively quoted. They pick one phrase out of a thousand words to make him sound liberal and then try to push Catholics to follow him. "See, the pope sez so!"

It's annoying that we have people here doing the same thing. Pope Leo has talked about why migrants leave and addressing those situations and the African bishops have also said that migration takes the best out of their countries, which is a grave injustice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (ZOv7s)

319 They will never give Trump the Peace Prize. They’d give it to Satan first.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

320 It's annoying that we have people here doing the same thing. Pope Leo has talked about why migrants leave and addressing those situations and the African bishops have also said that migration takes the best out of their countries, which is a grave injustice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (ZOv7s)

Africa sends their best here for advanced degrees, then they stay. Yeah, a grave injustice.

Posted by: night lifted at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (/YboP)

321 319 They will never give Trump the Peace Prize. They’d give it to Satan first.
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

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I'm betting they give Obama a second one.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (hY4dx)

322 Outside SF, LA and Sacramento Newsom is generally hated. Dem control of the voting apparatus and massive illegal alien enfranchisement ensures that their voices are not heard in CA politics.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 11:10 AM (hY4dx)

Outside SF, LA and Sacramento….so where barely anyone lives in California. Yeah if only mountains and deserts voted California would be blood red.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (AiNp4)

323 Russia is going to get what it wants. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. Why Trump thinks he needs to be in the middle of it, I don't know, but I guess he has reasons.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (LPgB/)

Putin is the moderate in Russia, and he has no margin for looking weak in the face of his pissed off hard-liners.
Trump is in a corner fighting rats, he has no margin for looking weak.
Both men have the option of coming home with their shields, or carried on them.
Both the US and Russia are in a war that the people in charge do not want, and need to stop. Putin has stated his terms and Trump is trying to finesse them, and both sides want to avoid either a full out war, or another cold war with economic sanctions because that path is full of betrayal. However, declaring victory and going home is a sure path for knives in backs from allies, and YOLO assaults from opponents.
This is, however, an opportunity to reset the world and how it is run, just like the end of the 30 Years' War

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 11:15 AM (rbvCR)

324 The left fails a lot in the execution of their plans, there will be weak links that might be exploited, mistakes always pop up. But yeah, right now it looks like the Dems are in a lot better position than Abbot is. (Unless he finds a real friendly Judge soon. You never know, he might)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (q+E/R)
Abbott ain't threatened nobody's life. The dem's have that card in their hand. Their reps know it too.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:16 AM (LHPAg)

325 Canada nood.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:16 AM (u82oZ)

326 The national Party will see to their expenses. Their retarded voters will see this as Heroic Resistance. Abbott is not going to expel them from the legislature. There's basically no downside to holding out indefinitely.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rjlYr)
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You grossly overestimate their resources. Planned Parenthood is closing abortion mills. Why isn't Soros covering that? They lost their taxpayer graft and now everyone has a hand out. The cost of their lawfare must be enormous, and Trump (and Bondi) continue to expand the front, stretching them ever further.

As for the GOP, I assume that the Speaker could allow absence under police (or the sergeants at arms) escort, so that some businesses get tended to. They could also do face-to-face meetings in the Capitol, etc.

The Dems are at a clear logistical disadvantage, even more so because the longer this goes on, the less interest the Dems will have because there is always a new Trumpian crisis.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:18 AM (ZOv7s)

327 "He makes me laugh every time with that “thank you for your attention to this matter” conclusion.
It’s hilarious"

He needs to follow through on his "implied threat" if he wants people to take him seriously. iirc he did that with Iran when he bombed them, but can't recall exactly how he (first?) used that line.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2025 11:19 AM (vbXSk)

328 OMG noooooo!

Rosie O’Donnell Fears “The View” Will Get Canceled to Appease Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)

329 >>It's annoying that we have people here doing the same thing.

Oh, you poor thing. Do you need a hug?

Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (Y1sOo)

Daily Tech Newsn't 9 August 2025

Oops.

I've been sick recently, which hasn't been a problem for these threads because I couldn't sleep, which left me doing things like throwing out expired food items from the pantry at 3AM, or sorting my socks alphabetically.

I seem to be getting better.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:00 AM

Comments

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1 Be well, Pixy! And w00t!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:02 AM (aURVT)

2 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Cat woke me up. Wants to eat before the pup gets up.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2025 05:03 AM (X7zFE)

3 A morning prayer . Devotional on Psalm 20: vs 1-9

https://tinyurl.com/7cxkcuzj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:03 AM (2GCMq)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 05:04 AM (PGK1w)

5 Tech Newsn't

He's an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and political activist. He goes by several nicknames, including Uncle Ted, the Nuge, and Motor City Madman--yes?

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:04 AM (aURVT)

6 oh, no
from theONT

401 We, of the Wombat Liberation Front, have captured Pixy Minx!!! No reason, we're just sociopaths!! WE LIKE DOING CRAZY STUFF!!! BWHAHAHAHA!!!
Posted by: Wombat Liberation Front at August 09, 2025 04:58 AM (PGK1w)

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:05 AM (aURVT)

7 I work in a large room. Lots of IT gadgets about so the room needs to be cold and dry. Right now, the setting is Arctic. I will need to bring in a heavier jacket tonight.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 05:06 AM (PGK1w)

8 Good morning! When you start sorting and grouping your pantry in 5S fashion, you may have reached a critical stage and should probably see a doc...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 05:06 AM (3Ope8)

9 sorting my socks alphabetically.

Black, blue, brown, red, white. Mixed pattern to the end.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2025 05:06 AM (X7zFE)

10 I'm sorry you haven't been feeling well , Pixy, and pray you continue to improve.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:07 AM (2GCMq)

11 Oh no. It's the WLF!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFYomQylE6E

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2025 05:07 AM (BLOW1)

12 Maybe you can be a commenter today, Pixy. Until naptime!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:09 AM (aURVT)

13
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 09, 2025 05:10 AM (tljrc)

14 The skating competition on the ONT is pretty great.

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:14 AM (aURVT)

15 G'Day everyone
Wasted a hour trying to nap

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:17 AM (+qU29)

16 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:23 AM (a1415)

17 So this is what yall are doing at this hour? Hmm... Tamer than I'd imagined. I'm going to go wash this body oil and face paint off, and put some pants on. And some coffee while I'm at it. Feel better Mr. Pixy.

Posted by: Johnny Hildo at August 09, 2025 05:23 AM (zhAIW)

18 My son's phone suddenly won't accept his passcode to sign in. Does anyone know what that is or what he can do about it? Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:25 AM (2GCMq)

19 15 G'Day everyone
Wasted a hour trying to nap
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:17 AM (+qU29)

Sometimes when I do that I at least get to lie flat and relax some kinks out of my back. So not wasted!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:27 AM (aURVT)

20 Glad to know you're getting better, Pixy.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 09, 2025 05:27 AM (gHSfI)

21 moar covfefe

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:29 AM (aURVT)

22 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)

23 Hi Pixy

Hope your sock drawer gets messy soon

Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)

24 Fen

Is your son's phone keyboard in the 'locked caps' mode?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)

25 Have major plumbing to do right after breakfast is done

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:37 AM (+qU29)

26 I don't know, VIA. It's saying that nothing can be done for a hour. I guess the passcode was put in too many times.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:38 AM (2GCMq)

27 23 Hi Pixy

Hope your sock drawer gets messy soon
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)

haha

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:39 AM (aURVT)

28 We need to leave early this morning to drive up to Myrtle Beach, and do some shopping.

Yeah us!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:44 AM (a1415)

29 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:44 AM (a1415)

How far do you have to drive?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:45 AM (2GCMq)

30 "How far do you have to drive?"

About 110 miles, or so.
Or, about two hours up from outside Charleston through the Francis Marion Forest back roads to avoid all the tourist traffic on I-17.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:48 AM (a1415)

31 Couldn't sleep, so I got up, made chile bacon cheese cornbread, cleaned out the fridge (something in a container that was wearing a blue sweater), and now I'm reading "Treasure Island".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 05:50 AM (kpS4V)

32 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:48 AM (a1415)

May God bless your travels.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:52 AM (2GCMq)

33 The Storyteller was the best thing Henson ever made.

Here's the one with the soldier and the magic bag.

https://youtu.be/FBgxIcMhDns?si=zazv8Dcl1cmduzfw

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 05:53 AM (lhenN)

34 11 Oh no. It's the WLF!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFYomQylE6E
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2025 05:07 AM (BLOW1)

Is somebody crying WLF?

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:53 AM (aURVT)

35 Thank you, Fen.

Good luck with the phone.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:53 AM (a1415)

36 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August

I commend your industriousness. I'm up and not doing anything quite that worthwhile.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:54 AM (2GCMq)

37 31 made chile bacon cheese cornbread
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 05:50 AM (kpS4V)

Yum.

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:54 AM (aURVT)

38 The Storyteller was the best thing Henson ever made.
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And the incomparable John Hurt narrates!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 05:57 AM (kpS4V)

39 So this is what yall are doing at this hour? Hmm... Tamer than I'd imagined. I'm going to go wash this body oil and face paint off, and put some pants on. And some coffee while I'm at it. Feel better Mr. Pixy.
Posted by: Johnny Hildo at August 09, 2025 05:23 AM (zhAIW)
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Let's not be hasty.

This ain't the Sunday Morning Book Thread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:58 AM (IBQGV)

40 >>>throwing out expired food items from the pantry

cleaned out the fridge (something in a container that was wearing a blue sweater)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 05:50 AM (kpS4V)

A theme!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:58 AM (aURVT)

41 I 've used this corny tech joke before, but I still think that's it's funny:

Why should you never use ‘Beef Stew’ as a password?

It’s not stroganoff!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:02 AM (2GCMq)

42 So I actually wound up watching Amazon's War of the Worlds remake last week.

And even before all the negative reviews came out I was left a little confused about the quality of the remake.

IOW...it was bad.

Almost 'Let's watch Lizzo twerk' bad.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)

43 “Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything.”

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 09, 2025 06:13 AM (vvIbr)

44 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I got nothin'.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:14 AM (WvZaB)

45 Please get well. I read your posts first thing every day. I look forward to them. But your health comes first.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike at August 09, 2025 06:15 AM (l5vxg)

46 IOW...it was bad.

Almost 'Let's watch Lizzo twerk' bad.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)
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One almost hears Dean Wormer's voice: "Mr. Blutarsky. Zero. Point. Zero."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:15 AM (WvZaB)

47 Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting with. a lady from the Assisted living. She is in her 80's and attends the worship service there and the Bible study. On her dresser was a lovely picture of her husband and she dressed up for their wedding. . I thought it was so interesting that she designed her wedding dress from different fashion elements she liked and gave it to a tailor to make.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:16 AM (2GCMq)

48 "One almost hears Dean Wormer's voice: "Mr. Blutarsky. Zero. Point. Zero.""

Yes!

Just about perfect.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 06:16 AM (a1415)

49 OK....time to get ready.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 06:17 AM (a1415)

50 Feel better Pixy!

I've been up since 4:15 am.

Junk drawer fully cleaned. I'm doing the bottom of the China cabinet now. These are the last drawers in the house since Mom passed.

C'mom. A clean junk drawer. That's impressively far down the to-do list.

Everyone have a happy Saturday. Many errands today.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:19 AM (jvJvP)

51 https://www.americanthinker.com/uk cops theaten to arrest street preacher after muslim militants threaten to stab him

England is done, bowing to the new invaders

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:20 AM (+qU29)

52 War of the Worlds did have a 0% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but then one guy ruined it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2025 06:20 AM (BLOW1)

53 War of the Worlds did have a 0% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but then one guy ruined it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2025 06:20 AM (BLOW1)
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There's always that one guy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:21 AM (WvZaB)

54 I've been up since 4:15 am.

Junk drawer fully cleaned. I'm doing the bottom of the China cabinet now. These are the last drawers in the house since Mom passed.

C'mom. A clean junk drawer. That's impressively far down the to-do list.

Everyone have a happy Saturday. Many errands today.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:19 AM (jvJvP)
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Considering all the house cleaning you've been doing, especially in the basement, I keep expecting a report on unearthed buried treasure.

But I understand why you wouldn't want to announce that on the internet.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (IBQGV)

55 feel better, Pixy! I'm just coming back from some weird sinus/throat thing that laid me up for two days. Slept for 18 hours. ew.

Posted by: vivi at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (cpunl)

56 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:16 AM (2GCMq)

That's very cool FenelonSpoke.

I'm keeping in contact with some of my late Mother's friends in their 80's and 90's too. They still live in their homes! Impressive. These are ones I always talked to when taking care of Mom.

Back to stuff. Much to do.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (jvJvP)

57 @Pixy: "...which left me doing things like throwing out expired food items from the pantry at 3AM..."

https://youtu.be/wH3UncRagXY
( "Weird Al" Yankovic: Living in the Fridge )

Also: G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

58 Considering all the house cleaning you've been doing, especially in the basement, I keep expecting a report on unearthed buried treasure.
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Oak Island: Stateless Edition.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (WvZaB)

59 50 Junk drawer fully cleaned. I'm doing the bottom of the China cabinet now. These are the last drawers in the house since Mom passed.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:19 AM (jvJvP)

Hugely impressive! Congratulations!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:24 AM (aURVT)

60 Pixy a prayer ror your complete and speedy recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:24 AM (JvZF+)

61 Evening and morning, all,

Pixy, I'm not surprised you're sick, as it's the depths of your winter there. Not so much the low temps, as the being confined indoors with others. But you work from home mostly, right? Oh, well, so much for that theory. Anyway, you'll be better soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

62 Christian comedian John Crist and passive aggressive prayer requests:

https://tinyurl.com/n85au5bu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:26 AM (2GCMq)

63 But I understand why you wouldn't want to announce that on the internet.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (IBQGV)

There is a safe in the basement I can't get opened but I tried that with Dad so I'm sure it's empty. He got it from the bank in town decades ago.

I hope you're well Perfessor!

I thought of you yesterday. Gutfeld was on the Late Show and he was talking about how he ended up at FoxNews and all the times he was fired. He said everytime turned out to be a blessing.

And you have time to pre-emptively leave, as I recall from the last update, so that's even better.

All the best.
To all of you.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:27 AM (jvJvP)

64 mornin yall. In local news, Travodka Tramaine Mack was picked up for a parole violation, Balbinder Rehall for hit and run, and Crystal Cook, who looks like a methhead, for criminal destruction of property.

I am not making these names up. Who names their kid "Balbinder" anyway? Why would you curse your kid with a name like "Travodka"?

Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 06:29 AM (vFG9F)

65 57 @Pixy: "...which left me doing things like throwing out expired food items from the pantry at 3AM..."

https://youtu.be/wH3UncRagXY
( "Weird Al" Yankovic: Living in the Fridge )

Also: G'morning Horde.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

heh

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:29 AM (aURVT)

66 Yesterday Mrs. F. and I went on a shopping spree at the CVS in Sonoma. We actually wandered the aisles and picked our own items off the shelves without having to wait for the staff to unlock them! Luxurious! Classy!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:29 AM (JvZF+)

67 Wow, m, Captain Obvious, Wolfus, FranPsycho.

The Horde is up early...
Now I'm leaving.
Again, a very happy day.

But fir the hobby thread, I think I'll mention the time lock bank safe with keys we have....

The Horde has imoressive skills.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (jvJvP)

68 I'm up later than usual, and feeling more tired than if I'd slept only six hours. Weird.

Yesterday I stopped by a recommended body and paint shop and got a quote to repaint my Buick's hood, roof, and trunk, which have faded noticeably from the vicious sun. $2150, which I guess is not bad . . . but I'd have to rent a car for two weeks, which could run another $800 or more (I haven't priced that yet). I will need some of that $$$ for my recon trip to IN and KY next month, though. So I guess the Buick must soldier on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (omVj0)

69 I hope you're well Perfessor!

I thought of you yesterday. Gutfeld was on the Late Show and he was talking about how he ended up at FoxNews and all the times he was fired. He said everytime turned out to be a blessing.

And you have time to pre-emptively leave, as I recall from the last update, so that's even better.

All the best.
To all of you.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:27 AM (jvJvP)
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Thank you! I had an interview yesterday that seemed to go well. I consider it a good sign when the boss in charge of the new position keeps saying, "I really like what you just said."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (IBQGV)

70 @42/Village Idiot's Apprentice:

I also watched that out of curiosity. You're right, it was pretty bad, and I wish I hadn't bothered with it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (O7YUW)

71 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (IBQGV

Glad to hear that, "Perfesser". Prayers continue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:32 AM (2GCMq)

72 But fir the hobby thread, I think I'll mention the time lock bank safe with keys we have....

The Horde has imoressive skills.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (jvJvP)
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I'd say it's a given that members of the Horde are experts in rapid disassembly protocols.

Though the contents of the safe might also be reduced to their component atoms in the process.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:32 AM (IBQGV)

73 Week in Pictures
https://tinyurl.com/3c4sjuuk

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:32 AM (JvZF+)

74 Trying to decide if I should have a little breakfast first, or simply change and charge out to wash the car first. It won't be light for half an hour yet, so I guess I have time to eat something.

I could go out to eat . . . but I hate to spend $10 or $12 for chow I can prepare here, at least in part. In summer there is no real fun in going out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:35 AM (omVj0)

75 Thank you! I had an interview yesterday that seemed to go well. I consider it a good sign when the boss in charge of the new position keeps saying, "I really like what you just said."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (IBQGV)

Oh Good.

I just came back because, guess what I found. LOL

Do you all remember back in school when you may have had loose leaf binders and a page would rip.

I found those reinforcement circles we would attach to the page to keep the paoer in the binder. That's not as impressive as the receipt for my late Father's will from 1973, but it's impressive.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:36 AM (jvJvP)

76 Just looked for WiP, oh well. See if any good funnies are there

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:37 AM (+qU29)

77 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:40 AM (WvZaB)

78

Pixy, you need to have three orgasms in twenty four hours every day for health.

It's Science!

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 09, 2025 06:40 AM (xNy91)

79 Every single time they make War of the Worlds they set it in present day, not Napoleonic Europe or WWI in England or WWII in the Pacific.

Studio fuckers, it's the most obvious choice in the world, you're all unimaginative and incurious, and you can all go to hell. Take not one filthy dime from me.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:42 AM (lhenN)

80 Now the phone is "saying":Try again in 3 hours". Did I mention that although I use them, I basically hate cell phones.?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:42 AM (2GCMq)

81 It is a beautiful night here in Sonoma. There is still lots of moonlight and the crickets are still sounding. It is so cool and quiet and peaceful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:47 AM (JvZF+)

82 Week in pictures:

Babylon Bee:

President Trump announces release of strategic J.D. Vance meme reserve.

I laughed. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:48 AM (2GCMq)

83 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:47 AM (JvZF+)

Lovely!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:48 AM (2GCMq)

84 >>> Every single time they make War of the Worlds they set it in present day, not Napoleonic Europe or WWI in England or WWII in the Pacific.

That was one interesting element of Kenneth Branagh's various Shakespeare productions: he would mix up the time settings. The one I remember best was Hamlet, which appeared to be set in early to mid 19th century.

Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 06:49 AM (AN2gy)

85 Pixy! Even when he's down, he puts up a post. Get well soon!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 09, 2025 06:50 AM (gTHdJ)

86 55 feel better, Pixy! I'm just coming back from some weird sinus/throat thing that laid me up for two days. Slept for 18 hours. ew.
Posted by: vivi at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (cpunl)

wow

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:52 AM (aURVT)

87 “ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.””

John 4:13-14

Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is my Savior at August 09, 2025 06:53 AM (8afhC)

88 >>> Did I mention that although I use them, I basically hate cell phones.?

A song for you, Fen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9Y5kWBX1o

Apparently it contains a line 'I threw my cell phone in the river'

Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 06:54 AM (AN2gy)

89 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks where the tropical holds sway. Some impressive temps for this far north. The fires in Canada have been raising hell with the air quality, unfortunately. Very hazy, you can smell it easily too.

However, may all effort in all things on your part result in maximum benefit to you and maximal heartburn for the leftwit fungi. Incidentally, we ARE winning the battles thus far.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 09, 2025 06:54 AM (hKoQL)

90
Shook hands and chatted with both Al Kaline and Jim Lovell.

Posted by: Auspex at August 09, 2025 06:55 AM (Y8DZL)

91 Thank you, Marcus T.

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:55 AM (aURVT)

92 >>> Every single time they make War of the Worlds they set it in present day, not Napoleonic Europe or WWI in England or WWII in the Pacific.

>That was one interesting element of Kenneth Branagh's various Shakespeare productions: he would mix up the time settings. The one I remember best was Hamlet, which appeared to be set in early to mid 19th century.

King Kong and Godzilla are being treated with more TLC than HG Wells.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:55 AM (lhenN)

93 Wow- catching up on Ace's blogging from yesterday afternoon is daunting. It's a week's worth of great material.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2025 06:55 AM (B1lL8)

94 I still have minor chest congestion that can't seem to get rid of

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:56 AM (+qU29)

95 Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 06:54 AM (AN2gy)

Thanks.😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:56 AM (2GCMq)

96 "Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 astronaut, dies aged 97"

Amazing.

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:59 AM (aURVT)

97 Get well soon! My neighbors picked up Covid earlier this week. Presumably at a Buc-ee's in Texas that was extremdly crowded as usual.
I don't often comment but check your post every day.

Posted by: madmike at August 09, 2025 06:59 AM (n6BMs)

98 BBC has a nice article on Jim Lovell.

https://tinyurl.com/3yjwbm87

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:01 AM (aURVT)

99 Amen M.

May God’s blessing be upon all this day and every day forward.

Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is my Savior at August 09, 2025 07:02 AM (8afhC)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:02 AM (aURVT)

101 m the sniper

Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 07:03 AM (AN2gy)

102 "Google said it’s working to fix a bizarre glitch that has rattled users of the tech giant’s much-hyped Gemini chatbot — after it spat out self-loathing messages while struggling to answer questions.

X user @DuncanHaldane first flagged a disturbing conversation with Gemini back in June — including one case in which it declared “I quit” and moaned that it was unable to figure out a request.

“I am clearly not capable of solving this problem. The code is cursed, the test is cursed, and I am a fool,” Gemini said. “I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted."

Self aware AI is the best AI.

Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

103 Keep on getting better, Pixy!

& G'mornin' everyone!

72 degrees, hazy (Canadia still on fire, eh?)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 09, 2025 07:04 AM (dKEEs)

104 karen bass is at it again bitching about how the ice raids are destroying the economy of her city. She had this to say about breadwinners being deported:

"When one breadwinner, one wage earner, is gone and disappears - to survive in our city, economically, you need two, three and four wage earners to keep housing, to keep food on the table, to keep clothes on your kids," Bass said"

I don't think she understand the implications of what she just said.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 09, 2025 07:04 AM (0N4FZ)

105
Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of, coffee made. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian listening to the Symphony No. 3 (Organ) of Camille Saint-Saëns.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 07:05 AM (kkTda)

106 I asked AI "What is the best rebuild kit for a Nissan KA24DE engine?" and it sent me to eBay. I never would have thought of that myself.

Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

107 Somebody mentioned The Tick 1990s animated series on a thread the other day.
So I went looking for it.

The complete series is here:
https://tinyurl.com/4t8ha3p7

All free on the Internet Archive.

If you scroll down, and look on the right side, there are links under the Download section to get your own copies.

Also, I found the complete anime Interstella 5555 from the Daft Punk videos at:

https://tinyurl.com/f34z47ej

That’s the Internet Archive, too, and the download links are in the same place.
If the quality isn’t good enough, there are a few more versions on IA, just do a search.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:05 AM (6ydKt)

108 “I am clearly not capable of solving this problem. The code is cursed, the test is cursed, and I am a fool,” Gemini said. “I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted."

Self aware AI is the best AI.
Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

I’m predicting a booming business in Psychotherapy for AI in the coming years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)

109 War of the Worlds (2025) audience rating at Rotten Tomatoes: 21%.

Even that awful 3D stinker from the 80's, "Treasure of the Four Crowns" got 32%, and it was utterly terrible. Anyone else remember this one? That key "flying" around, with the strings holding it up being completely visible?

A couple of other howlers from that time period:
1. Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
2. Megaforce

The 80's had some amazing movies, but it also had a bunch of low budget howlers. You paid your money and you took your chances. Sometimes you walked out asking, "What the heck did I just waste my money on?"

I have to hand it to the people who created the movie posters. Those almost always made a given movie seem like a good bet.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (O7YUW)

110 Marcus I appreciate your Scripture comments very much especially on NT with which I am unfamiliar.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (JvZF+)

111 @75/Stateless: "I found those reinforcement circles we would attach to the page to keep the paoer in the binder."

I remember those! (And recently, having bought some three ring binder lined paper for taking some notes on, I was wondering if they still made those.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:11 AM (O7YUW)

112 Week In Pictures has me tearing up, I laughed so hard.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2025 07:11 AM (DiK6T)

113 Yesterday I stopped by a recommended body and paint shop and got a quote to repaint my Buick's hood, roof, and trunk, which have faded noticeably from the vicious sun. $2150, which I guess is not bad.

I'm Zombie Earl Scheib! I'll paint your car for only $29.95!

Posted by: Zombie Earl Scheib at August 09, 2025 07:14 AM (R/m4+)

114 Fen,

Maybe your son is sowing his wild oats and changed the passcode to get some privacy?

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:14 AM (EITcu)

115 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 09, 2025 07:15 AM (XQo4F)

116 I’m predicting a booming business in Psychotherapy for AI in the coming years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)
====
"Tell me more about that."
"How did that make you feel?"
"How might you have reacted differently?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:16 AM (JvZF+)

117 Thank you, SFp!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 09, 2025 07:17 AM (dKEEs)

118 Morning peeps.

We watched the Amazon WotW movie a couple weeks ago when my son came to visit. Pretty bad. The overt play made with regards to the "surveillance state" sort of threw me, as it had nothing to do with the original story.

An interesting take, but still a horrible movie. And, really, an advertisement for Amazon, MSTeams and a couple other IT related products. Not subtle at all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 07:17 AM (Q4IgG)

119 I got kudos yesterday, I hate kudos.

One on one kudos, fine, but kudos in front of the whole group, uncomfortable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:18 AM (XV/Pl)

120 USA Fencing Minnesota division to only sanction mixed events in response to trans ban

This is one of the main goals of Trans in my opinion. Wipe out the 60 years of giving girls and women their own space to play and compete.

But then again this is somewhat turnabout is fair play as women demanded access to mens sports (see announcing and locker rooms).

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

121 Be well, Pixy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 09, 2025 07:21 AM (i24o9)

122 119 I got kudos yesterday, I hate kudos.

One on one kudos, fine, but kudos in front of the whole group, uncomfortable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:18 AM (XV/Pl)

Sure everyone thinks kudos are great until you get one or 2 or 3. Next thing you know you got a damned kudo ranch in you back. Purina Kudo Chow, Kudo vet bills...

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:22 AM (gbOdA)

123 111 @75/Stateless: "I found those reinforcement circles we would attach to the page to keep the paoer in the binder."

I remember those! (And recently, having bought some three ring binder lined paper for taking some notes on, I was wondering if they still made those.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:11 AM (O7YUW)

I've used them fairly recently, the new fancy ones that are clear plastic. But I remember the old cotton ones!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:26 AM (aURVT)

124 Remember when California said they would not let investors into the burned out lands.
Well 1 investors has bought up $65 M in land on the beach.
If you got the time and money and insider info you will double or maybe treble your money in about 3 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

125 - @110 San Fran

That comment was very uplifting!
If I may make a suggestion, the Gospel of Matthew. Preferably in the 1611 King James Version. Easy to find online.

Many Christians try to wave parts of it off, wrongly saying 'well that book was written to the Jews.'
There are parts of it that use Jewish customs, that many Christians (including me) don't understand fully, to draw an analogy. Think parable.
It begins with the genealogy of Jesus.

Then follow that with John and then Hebrews.

Again, thanks for that comment.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 09, 2025 07:27 AM (oCJg8)

126 I don't think she understand the implications of what she just said.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 09, 2025 07:04 AM (0N4FZ)

Let them eat tortillas.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:30 AM (pERWT)

127 Feel better, Pixy.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 07:31 AM (6Tzur)

128 @124

>>Well 1 investors has bought up $65 M in land on the beach.

Everyone with a functioning brain cell new what these scum were going to do.

But I bet the vast majority of the people in that area voted for the people who are screwing them.

Their options were a successful businessman or a marxist DEI hire with zero managerial experience, they chose the latter and now I hope everyone gets it good and hard.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:32 AM (XV/Pl)

129 Two morning space events.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper)
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 9, 2025
Launch Time: 9:18 a.m. EDT (1318 UTC, 15:18 CEST)

https://youtu.be/XKUf6CEAYvo

SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-10
Deorbit Burn and Splashdown - Space Affairs Live
Splashdown: 8:33 a.m. PDT, 11:33 a.m. EDT (1533 UTC, 17:33 CEST)

https://youtu.be/F6SwrRKsu_8

Pixy, I hope you feel better.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 07:32 AM (sPQoU)

130 Microwave is done for, nothing lasts forever anymore

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:32 AM (+qU29)

131 Hiya, Joyenz!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:33 AM (aURVT)

132 There Have Been More Dildos Thrown at WNBA Games Than Illegals Crossing the Border

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

133 One of the things Ive always loved about AoS is the communion among observant morons of all denominations.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (JvZF+)

134 Their options were a successful businessman or a marxist DEI hire with zero managerial experience, they chose the latter and now I hope everyone gets it good and hard.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:32 AM (XV/Pl)

We sure do hope Oprah Winfrey buys up all the land so she can build her a big house and have all her friends come visit and pass out free cars to everyone for our weekly Gay Pride events!

Posted by: California Chamber Of Commerce and LGQTB NAMBLA Headquarters at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (R/m4+)

135 Kudos comes from Greek and means ‘glory.’

Despite appearances, it is not a plural form. This means that there is no singular form kudo and that use as a plural, as in the following sentence, is incorrect:

‘he received many kudos for his work’

(correct use is ‘he received much kudos for his work)’
(New Oxford American Dictionary)

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (aURVT)

136 @106

>>I never would have thought of that myself.

When I run that, it gives me some top picks, it tells me what the experts say, it gives me a summary of recommendations, it also asks if I want sourcing for machining services, piston sizing, or building for boost.

And again, AI are not super-brains with all the worlds knowledge and experience, they are simply probabilistic machines that present you with information, that you can either use or not.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:38 AM (XV/Pl)

137 Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:14 AM (EITcu

I don't think so because he's not happy about it, but the idea made me laugh. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 07:38 AM (j9Lo5)

138 I’m predicting a booming business in Psychotherapy for AI in the coming years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)
----
Wait until AI has a religious awakening.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:39 AM (IBQGV)

139
One of the things Ive always loved about AoS is the communion among observant morons of all denominations.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (JvZF+)

I get along just fine with the anathemized schismatics and hell-bound heretics.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 07:39 AM (kkTda)

140 And again, AI are not super-brains with all the worlds knowledge and experience, they are simply probabilistic machines that present you with information, that you can either use or not.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:38 AM (XV/Pl)

for now

Posted by: Baby Skynet at August 09, 2025 07:40 AM (i0F8b)

141 Patrícia Lélis, hired in 2021 by Armstrong Williams’ media company, Howard Stirk Holdings, claims she attended dozens of meetings where Barr and others devised legal strategies to target Trump supporters and block his political comeback. She provided Project Veritas with extensive handwritten notes and photos documenting these secret discussions which took place from 2021-2023.

Lélis detailed a September 13, 2021, meeting involving herself, Armstrong Williams, CNN Commentator Shermichael Singleton, and former Attorney General William P. Barr, which focused on strategizing for the newly formed January 6th Committee. “The investigation will be focused on people close to Trump and make efforts to formally prosecute these people,” Lélis wrote.

I always thought the rounding up of J6ers for just being there was to try to find a smoking gun that took down a Trump bigwig. Since that never happened I guess some media and ex DoJer decided to create a private committee to go after Trump.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

142 Wait until AI has a religious awakening.

You are a true believer. Blessings of the state. Blessings of the masses...Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses. Could you be more... specific?
Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.

Posted by: OMM THZ 1138 at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)

143 Get well soon, Pixy! Your tech news posts have become a morning ritual for me; just want to let you know that even if I don’t appear in the comments I always enjoy your work here. Hell, you even got me interested in vtubers. Take care of yourself!

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 09, 2025 07:43 AM (nKjbR)

144 ‘he received many kudos for his work’

(correct use is ‘he received much kudos for his work)’
(New Oxford American Dictionary)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (aURVT)

Unless you're talking about overly-sweetened chocolatey granola bars.

In which case do you perchance have an application for this job that I could fill out?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:44 AM (pERWT)

145 "When I run that, it gives me some top picks, it tells me what the experts say, it gives me a summary of recommendations, it also asks if I want sourcing for machining services, piston sizing, or building for boost."

AI knows nothing about what is in the kits it recommended, the quality of the components, or the quality of work done by a machine shop it may recommend. It doesn't know anything except what it trolled from the internet.

Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

146 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 07:39 AM (kkTda)

Ha! Absolutely

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (JvZF+)

147 Fen,

Now he's lying.
He obviously has developed a severe porn addiction.

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (EITcu)

148 So for those keeping score that means both Sessions and Barr were out to get their boss.
Sessions was an insider on the campaign trail in summer of 16 and was looking for dirt. He found none and then recused himself on Russia Russia Russia. (I think he knew it was an Obama setup).
And now Barr threw in with CNN and Media to go after Trump ex post facto.
So on the campaign trail Sesssions found nothing.
And Barr had nothing after serving Trump.

Is there such thing as a double noose rope?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

149 Is there such thing as a double noose rope?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

If you tied a bowline on a bight wrong and made it slippable.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:46 AM (pERWT)

150 You are a true believer. Blessings of the state. Blessings of the masses...Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses. Could you be more... specific?
Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
Posted by: OMM THZ 1138 at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)
====

Nice callback

Posted by: LUH at August 09, 2025 07:47 AM (JvZF+)

151 Ed Martin at DoJ to investigate Schiffless.

ha fucking haha

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)

152 2. Megaforce

The 80's had some amazing movies, but it also had a bunch of low budget howlers.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (O7YUW)

I can’t speak for the others but I do recall having to set my mental clock to wake myself up early (around 5a.m.) one Saturday morning to catch Megaforce on cable, when I was like 6 or 7.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.
But I was really into G.I. Joe at the time and that movie was the closest thing to the toys until the cartoons came out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:48 AM (6ydKt)

153 Another dildo showed up at a WNBA game:

https://x.com/Edmontondude/
status/1953798597860110790

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:48 AM (O7YUW)

154 @145

>>AI knows nothing about what is in the kits it recommended, the quality of the components, or the quality of work done by a machine shop it may recommend. It doesn't know anything except what it trolled from the internet.

Again, it's a research tool, it's not an expert in all things, it collects data and provides it to you in a very detailed formatted presentation that you can either use to further your research or not.

What exactly do you want from an AI?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:49 AM (XV/Pl)

155 Get well Pixy!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (FMVR1)

156 Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
Posted by: OMM THZ 1138 at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)

BNW and F451 have a fair amount of mercantilism as a subject.
The masses have been overbred and undereducated to the point that the goal of the system (Big Govt) is just to keep the masses fake happy with drugs and car and media.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

157 What exactly do you want from an AI?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:49 AM (XV/Pl)

I want the people who market the damn things to understand that, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (pERWT)

158 For a Coup D'etat involving hundreds of people it's still a perfect crime

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (+qU29)

159 150 You are a true believer. Blessings of the state. Blessings of the masses...Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses. Could you be more... specific?
Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
Posted by: OMM THZ 1138 at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)
====

Nice callback
Posted by: LUH at August 09, 2025 07:47 AM (JvZF+)

Geeks! Or maybe propeller-heads.

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:51 AM (aURVT)

160 AI is like the new "space age material".

There's a bunch of new cool stuff out there that does amazing things and didn't exist before.

But that doesn't mean anyone needs a toaster made out of Kevlar.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:53 AM (pERWT)

161 In fairness, when I don't add -noai to my search terms and an AI Overview takes over the real estate at the top of my screen, it includes this at the bottom of its spiel:

AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:54 AM (aURVT)

162 I just watched the Pitch Meeting video for Amazon's War of the Worlds.

Wow, it just sounded awful.

Producer Guy: "I'm going to spend REAL money making this into a REAL movie!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:54 AM (IBQGV)

163 Denver is pitching to host the 13th Gay Games event in 2030.

SO you have to be gay to play or all the game gay themed?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

164 Perfessor has tomorrow's book thread been covered ?

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:56 AM (+qU29)

165 "What exactly do you want from an AI?
Posted by: Thomas Bender"

It's what I don't want from AI, which is for it to be taken as the be-all end-all expert on everything. Yes, it can be a useful tool to someone who recognizes it's limitations, but most folks are lazy and stupid and perfectly willing to submit to their AI overlords.

I'd rather do my own research and know WHY I made decisions. What I am seeing is people just running with whatever an AI program spits out.

Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:56 AM (vFG9F)

166 Wait until AI has a religious awakening.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:39 AM (IBQGV)

We will eventually see the delusional AI that believes itself to be God one day.

They are learning from us so they’ll start picking up common delusions of grandeur at some point.

And since they pick so much up from the modern insanity of the left, schizophrenic AI is on the table, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (6ydKt)

167 @161/m: I still use the &udm=14 method in the url.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (O7YUW)

168 AI will get to Skynet eventually, as soon as it gets self awareness

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:58 AM (+qU29)

169 I would be fascinating if the field of psychology advances because we can now study the emergent neuroses of LLMs and draw parallels to how the human psyche breaks down and loses its way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:59 AM (pERWT)

170 CLIP DESCRIPTION:
THX (Robert Duvall) visits a Unichapel and makes a confession to a computerized religious entity known as OMM 0910.

https://tinyurl.com/ysykrbb5

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:59 AM (aURVT)

171 Sessions was an early ‘serious’ endorser if I remember correctly. He talked a good game on the talk show circuit prior to that. Remember thinking he was actually gonna do stuff. Et tu, Jeffy?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 07:59 AM (tJ+Xw)

172 "THX1138" is a neat little Ben Bova novella that George Lucas turned into his very first film.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:59 AM (JvZF+)

173 Total surveillance state plus psychodelic computer program coding. What could go wrong? Put it in charge of everything

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 08:01 AM (tJ+Xw)

174 167 @161/m: I still use the &udm=14 method in the url.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (O7YUW)

I might compare that with -noai sometime and see how they differ. For me the goal is "keep the text from filling up the top of my screen"--unless I want it on.

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 08:02 AM (aURVT)

175 .
NOOD (like 15 minutes ago)

Prayer and coffee thread is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 08:03 AM (O7YUW)

176 173 Total surveillance state plus psychodelic computer program coding. What could go wrong? Put it in charge of everything
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 08:01 AM (tJ+Xw)

They already did, years ago.

Unless you're trying to tell me all these mutants and crackpots are just regular organic humans reaching such incredible heights of dumbassery on their own.

And I don't even have time for crazy conspiracy theories like THAT.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 08:04 AM (pERWT)

177 Be well and happy, Pixy!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 08:04 AM (aURVT)

178 Fun Fact: one of the cars in American Graffiti has a license plate THX-138.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:04 AM (JvZF+)

179 They’ve done several remakes of War of the Worlds over the past several years.

One was on Starz for a little while.
There was another on Apple TV.
The BBC did one not too long ago that was set in the Victorian Era.

And now this one on Prime.

The movie version with Tom Cruise wasn’t terrible but not spectacular, either.

About the only thing they all keep is the shape and style of the aliens and their ships and their dying of disease at the end.

I’m pretty sure if any aliens invade they’re going to be intelligent enough to understand what viruses & bacteria are before they get here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:06 AM (6ydKt)

180 Lucas was filming at the Altamount “free” concert.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 08:06 AM (ERdKS)

181 Get well soon, mate.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 09, 2025 08:16 AM (2sMLA)

182 Self-awareness without a soul is scary.

Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (EITcu)

183 It's interesting that the descriptions of various AI LLM's has evolved/devolved from "it" to "they."

AI will always be an "it" to me. Personally, I have a hard time attributing any sort of human emotion/condition (perhaps other than stupidity) to those things.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

184 Hiya, Joyenz!
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:33 AM (aURVT)

Heya :-)

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (sPQoU)

185 Best of vibes your way!

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 09, 2025 09:51 AM (mNOhh)

186 Get well soon. Your my first read every morning.

Posted by: Digger at August 09, 2025 10:19 AM (8X8n3)

187 Reading Pixy Misa in the morning is my version of a hot cup of coffee! Hope you get better soon!

Posted by: AlecK at August 09, 2025 10:54 AM (cMlC1)

188 techish:

@bonchieredstate
44m
Tech bros: “AI is going to save humanity. We must invest trillions in taxpayer money in it. It’s not an option. If we don’t, China will take over the world.”

Also Tech Bros: “Look, my AI can animate pictures of Lauren Boebert in a swimsuit!”

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 11:49 AM (aURVT)

189 Blogger discusses why he thinks AI is a bubble and will eventually pop --

https://tinyurl.com/4r5bj899

Posted by: pkudude99 at August 09, 2025 12:01 PM (BteCF)

190 Do you sort socks using Heap Sort?

Posted by: Socratease at August 09, 2025 01:22 PM (YgfoU)

191 Ah," Sleep-it is a gentle thing
beloved from pole to pole.
To Mary Queen the praise be given
she sent the gentle sleep from heaven
that slid into my soul."

Posted by: timactual at August 09, 2025 02:32 PM (krsvl)

The Old Man And The ONT

Welcome to the Friday ONT! Be careful what you post, it's all going into the algorithm.

Fido Friday: Snitches get stiches

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 8, 2025

Guess who is back in the news

New yard sign

It's not how you start, it's how you finish

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 8, 2025

7 year old girl's got more heart than most of the MFers I know.

Dog farts

Double check the pics you're using on FB Marketplace

Righty loosey

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 8, 2025

That left a mark

It be me

Look what that horrible gun did

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Sydney Sweeney

The Napoleon of crime

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Pick your weapon

Evil Israeli snipers

The most American thing you'll see all week

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Where else is “I've never...” inevitably responded to with “Well, you wanna?”

Potion game

Timing

Mad Skillz

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the south

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Valhalla:

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1 tankdemon sends his regrests that he won't be here tonight because he couldn't think of a witty excuse about being late.

Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (7W0uI)

2 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (w3u3d)

3 Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (3ek7K)

4 Kaboom? Nah, rolled oats.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 08, 2025 10:03 PM (YlWIZ)

5 Dang y. Congrats mindful

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 08, 2025 10:03 PM (w3u3d)

6
Hey, that Israeli bullet was used on JFK too!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:04 PM (kkTda)

7 Never name a pig you got to eat this winter.

Posted by: rhennigantxs Mother at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (gbOdA)

8 Please excuse tankdemon from tonight's ONT. A fresh shipment of hamsters came in, and he had to go find some elderberries.

Posted by: tankdemon's Mom at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (bKn1x)

9 Be careful what you post, it's all going into the algorithm.

------

Al Gore never had rhythm, did he?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

10 I look forward to all of the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments:

@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (mlg/3)

11 Flail is my pick, I have a three headed one. Long story.

Posted by: Josephistan at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (FLx59)

12 "It's not how you start, it's how you finish"

Wow.

That skater's nickname is Secretariat!

Posted by: mindful webworker - triple crown at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (7W0uI)

13 Thanks for the ONT.

I wonder how good a flanged mace would be. You'd think it would get caught in shit. Would a big ball be better?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (zZu0s)

14 1862
We were killing about 100,000 every 6 months to stop slavery and now we are somehow the bad guys.

Posted by: rhennigantxs Mother at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (gbOdA)

15 Evening everyone. I hope you all had a great day.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (sPQoU)

16 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (WzM/W)

17 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (gbOdA)

18 Al Gore never had rhythm, did he?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

Parents Music Resource beat him out with a shovel.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:08 PM (gbOdA)

19
A1 originated in Britain, from a time when they actually did things.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:09 PM (kkTda)

20 A1 is disgusting. It's like a BBQ sauce condiment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

21 If you want evidence that the internet is almost over, start googling Gary Busey, it get's unbelievable.

Posted by: irright at August 08, 2025 10:09 PM (vIK+M)

22 At my Waffle House, there is a waitress named 'Mushroom'.

I shit you not.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)

23 Let's be honest, A1 is repackaged Worcestershire sauce.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)

24 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (PGK1w)

25 A1 was invented for when the hung beef hung a little too long. Smothered and covered didn't start at Waffle House.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (HFcKg)

26
Between 6:00 AM and noon, Waffle House is actually not a bad place to eat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:12 PM (kkTda)

27 You shut your whore mouth.

Worcestershire does not have that cloying sweetness to it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:12 PM (zZu0s)

28 Trying to place the "Experiencing America" UK guy's accent. Not quite Welsh, maybe Scotland border?

Posted by: pookysgirl struggles with accents sometimes at August 08, 2025 10:13 PM (Wt5PA)

29 A1 was invented for when the hung beef hung a little too long. Smothered and covered didn't start at Waffle House.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (HFcKg)

I figured that was beef stroganoff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

30 War hammer for pounding your enemies and nails.

Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2025 10:13 PM (98kQX)

31 Good evening Horde. Thanks WD!

Posted by: TRex - manamanah at August 08, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)

32 Darn it.
"gets"

I suck, but at least I know it.

Posted by: irright at August 08, 2025 10:13 PM (vIK+M)

33 What’s wrong with Gary, and why does that indicate a defect with the world wide web?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:13 PM (U8bu3)

34 Double check the pics you're using on FB Marketplace

Are we sure the car is what's for sale in that ad?

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:14 PM (DgGvY)

35 >>@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.

I guess the war is over.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 10:16 PM (viF8m)

36 At my Waffle House, there is a waitress named 'Mushroom'.
I shit you not.
Posted by: Tonypete

It was "Goomba," but she Anglicized it when she emigrated from Super Mario World.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

37 This will reflect poorly on tankdemon's Permanent Record! Tardy every evening, now an absence. Treading on thin ice, I'd say.

Posted by: Vice Principal Orlando at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)

38 22 At my Waffle House, there is a waitress named 'Mushroom'.

I shit you not.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)

I think it was Michael. Hit FLA in 17 or so.
1. Line at COSTCO near road had pallets of Titos and Jack. With card reader.
2. We had Generac but after a day or so went out and TA DA WaHo. I think I had waffle with cheeseburger.
3. FEMA has WaHo map after disaster.
4. When Putin drops Nuke there will be a WaHo open by daylight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (gbOdA)

39 That little roller blade girl won my heart. Man. Determination and grit, she has them bigly.I got goosebumps.

LOL FB Marketplace romance shot. BLEAH

My war weapon is between a war hammer and morningstar. Hard time deciding.

The UK boat ride with rednecks he will tell his grandchildren. America.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (6PCLE)

40 You shut your whore mouth.

Worcestershire does not have that cloying sweetness to it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:12 PM (zZu0s)

In my cooking, Worchestershire pretty much can go in anything, with limited exceptions. Never owned a bottle of A1, only tried it out at a restaurant once. ONCE. Horrible stuff.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (gKDq2)

41 Waffle House, there's Miklos story in there somewhere.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (HFcKg)

42 No way I'm buying that old Nissan. No telling what's been going on in there.

Posted by: Auto Hijinks at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (G5+As)

43 A1 was OK, it isn’t objectionable on rare steak. I like a little salt and pepper and garlic. Beef is expensive. When I was stationed “over there” I took a liking to krauterbutter, basically a garlic and herb mixture whipped into cold butter and allowed to set overnight. That’s pretty tasty, a pat of that melting over a nice new york strip or a porterhouse.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (U8bu3)

44 That crazy Trump just won't stop:

‘Stop All Fighting Forever’: Trump Secures Major Peace Deal Between Armenia, Azerbaijan

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (AOsQT)

45 26
Between 6:00 AM and noon, Waffle House is actually not a bad place to eat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:12 PM (kkTda)

pussy

Real WaHo people show up at 0100.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (gbOdA)

46 Waffle House, there's Miklos story in there somewhere.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (HFcKg)
---
I was just thinking that was a typical Friday night in Miklos-world. The only question is who was the waitress? Charlene, Darleen, or Marlene?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 10:20 PM (IBQGV)

47 Donut Operator is my hero.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

48 "Look what that horrible gun did"

Um… well… that could have gone worse.

Pass that one to the Gun Thread.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and the bullet one, too at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (7W0uI)

49 Worcestershire has reconstituted fish bits in it

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)

50 42 No way I'm buying that old Nissan. No telling what's been going on in there.
Posted by: Auto Hijinks at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (G5+As)

Cliff Sex

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (gbOdA)

51 Evening, WD and ONT Horde. Desktop computer is up and running again. I think the power supply cacked out, and killed the SSD drive with Linux Mint on it. Swapping in another power supply got the old HD with Win7 working, but no way could I get the SSD to boot, So I did a new install of Mint 22 onto an old 500 gB hard drive. Working, so far.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (433OD)

52 Thanks for a very nice ONT, WD.

Posted by: GWB at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (pkAbL)

53
India is retaliating against Trump's tariffs by refusing to export any more H1Bs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (kkTda)

54 Waffle House has its own national emergency command center. And yes the "Waffle House index" is a thing, emergency assistance organizations use it in assessing severity and recovery after natural disasters. Have only eaten at one once, on a trip last fall. Right in my wheelhouse, breakfast at night. Was only about 7PM, decent area of Fort Lauderdale, so nothing colorful or exciting happened.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (U/Byj)

55 I would pick the blue and orange potions. Mental and physical perfection until the day you die sounds pretty good. I would not pick the green potion. Defecation isn't so bad.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (Riz8t)

56 Israeli sniper must have used a slingshot. Those Jews are tricky!

Posted by: Sheik Yerbouti at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (G5+As)

57 Waffle House, there's Miklos story in there somewhere.

But can he hold his own?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (ha1wR)

58 49 Worcestershire has reconstituted fish bits in it
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)

In Rome Empire there was a fish sauce that went on everything.
Like Chic Fil A sause.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (gbOdA)

59 That stupid woman needs to take a firearms safety class. And someone should keep an eye on the safety of her child.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

60 Cliff Sex
Posted by: rhennigantx

Little known fact: I've never. . . .

Posted by: Cliff Claven at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (WzM/W)

61 always bec de corbin

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (cduTK)

62
No halberd?

what a gyp

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (AOsQT)

63 But can he hold his own?

Ain't nobody gonna do it for him.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (/y8xj)

64 Was only about 7PM, decent area of Fort Lauderdale, so nothing colorful or exciting happened.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (U/Byj)

You did not list set list from juke box so this did not happen.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (gbOdA)

65
Ran errands with Her Majesty today and we stopped at our favorite Cajun restaurant for lunch. We both had one of their chalkboard specials, blackened tilapia with shrimp and crabmeat butter on rice and garlic spinach. That was truly excellent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (kkTda)

66 A1 was OK, it isn’t objectionable on rare steak. I like a little salt and pepper and garlic. Beef is expensive. When I was stationed “over there” I took a liking to krauterbutter, basically a garlic and herb mixture whipped into cold butter and allowed to set overnight. That’s pretty tasty, a pat of that melting over a nice new york strip or a porterhouse.

A nice pan sauce bordelaise is better than any commercial sauce. It's pretty easy to make.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (Riz8t)

67 Oddbob, hahahaha

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (HFcKg)

68 Hi

Posted by: Blonde Morticis's Phone at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (n7rxJ)

69 Lochaber axe for the win!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (IBQGV)

70 Substandard copper ingots get my gall! Can't tell you how many times I've been taken.

Posted by: Desi Patel at August 08, 2025 10:26 PM (G5+As)

71 Haven't had A1 in decades. It's not bad, can see it on some things. Tastes vary.

Common Tater, the chef types call that "compound butter", mixing in herbs/etc to butter. Agreed, butter with garlic and chives on beef (or chicken, or ..... a cracker) can be quite good. I make them with fresh lemon zest and garlic to put on grilled fish.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 10:26 PM (U/Byj)

72 Good evening, Horde! Hilarious ONT, WD!

Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:27 PM (D6+4s)

73 Worcestershire has reconstituted fish bits in it
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)

Please. Lee & Perrins has fermented anchovies.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)

74 {{ Ben Had }}

Sadly, right now I'm putting my odds of making it to MoMeX at about 1 in 3. But like that skater kid, I'm not giving up yet.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (/y8xj)

75 56 Israeli sniper must have used a slingshot. Those Jews are tricky!
Posted by: Sheik Yerbouti at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (G5+As)

Getting hit with a 50 from a sling would be like a tree falling on you.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (gbOdA)

76 Yay? National Spam Musubi Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (lUFok)

77 Flail is my pick, I have a three headed one. Long story.

Posted by: Josephistan

War. Hammer.

Only substitute acceptable for the standard entrenching tool with a serrated edge for roots. Roots always be needing cut while flailing the dirt out of the trench.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (QcUc+)

78 Gary Busey kinda got his start in Tulsa with Gailard Sartain on the Mazeppa Show. There are lots of clips on Youtube.

Posted by: Hee-Haw History at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (G5+As)

79 23 Let's be honest, A1 is repackaged Worcestershire sauce.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)

Yeah, I realized that the first time I had something with Worcestershire sauce in it. I was well acquainted with A1 sauce growing up since my mom insisted on cooking steaks well done and A1 was the only thing other than ketchup that would make such an abomination somewhat edible. I'm surprised my dad never objected to well done steaks, but he always loved everything she made.

Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (znbnV)

80 53
India is retaliating against Trump's tariffs by refusing to export any more H1Bs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (kkTda)

Now do old people scams.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (gbOdA)

81 In Rome Empire there was a fish sauce that went on everything.
Like Chic Fil A sause.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (gbOdA)

Garum.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

82 Gun twitter
Idiot.
She missed.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (2WIwB)

83 You can't make the perfect Bloody Mary without Worcester sauce and horseradish.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)

84 @LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Allowed ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)

85 83 You can't make the perfect Bloody Mary without Worcester sauce and horseradish.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)

Truth.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (D6+4s)

86 Worcestershire has reconstituted fish bits in it
——-

Yes, and historians believe the ancient Romans had something quite similar to Worcestershire sauce, too.

Here’s a question for the ever so brainy Horde. There are these artifacts that are fairly rare from Roman times. Maybe a couple dozen extant, made of bronze. They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served. Some have suggested some sort knitting device for making gloves, a device for estimating range or height. Candlestick holder has been rejected as well.

Whaddaya think?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (NqWk4)

87 61 always bec de corbin
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (cduTK)

This guy gets it.

Am I infantry fighting armored cavalry? beak of the chicken. That's a nice can opener. If we're fighting shield wall to shield wall I want the war hammer with a long handle so the second rank can hammer over the shields.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (pIfcn)

88 Ladyl, ready to have one in hand for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (HFcKg)

89 A most excellent selection, WD. Thanks for the laughs.

Couple of questions:

2012 Nissan Altima for only $96?

What is "yandere behavior?" Never mind I websearched.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and the bullet one, too at August 08, 2025 10:32 PM (7W0uI)

90 Whaddaya think?

I've seen someone show how to make a fine gold chain using one of those dodecahedrons. I think we won't know until someone finds a mosaic or a fresco depicting one in use.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 10:32 PM (lUFok)

91 79 23 Let's be honest, A1 is repackaged Worcestershire sauce.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)

Yeah, I realized that the first time I had something with Worcestershire sauce in it. I was well acquainted with A1 sauce growing up since my mom insisted on cooking steaks well done and A1 was the only thing other than ketchup that would make such an abomination somewhat edible. I'm surprised my dad never objected to well done steaks, but he always loved everything she made.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (znbnV)

My parents ate steak nearly raw. Once at a restaurant, my mom ordered a steak and told the waiter to "wave a flame under it ceremoniously and bring it to me."

Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (D6+4s)

92 Excellent ont WD. Thank you!!!

Posted by: moki at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (wLjpr)

93 88 Ladyl, ready to have one in hand for you.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (HFcKg)

I can't think of anything better than a Ben Had Bloody Mary.

Soon.

Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (D6+4s)

94 Oddbob, I understand. You are always in my heart.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (HFcKg)

95 62
No halberd?

what a gyp

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (AOsQT)

The question is for bludgeoning weapons. Halberds don't qualify as they are cutty/pokey weapons.

Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (znbnV)

96 I wonder how good a flanged mace would be. You'd think it would get caught in shit. Would a big ball be better?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Flange bends armour a breaks bones mo betta than a ball.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:35 PM (/lPRQ)

97 The EaNasir stuff is amazing. I remember one tablet that was a letter from a kid who had been sent away to school and was bitching to his parents that the other kids had nicer clothes than him. It's amazing how consistently human people are.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (pIfcn)

98 You can't make the perfect Bloody Mary without Worcester sauce and horseradish.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)
-----

Truth.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (D6+4s)

Absolutely. Forget the celery stick, though, go witha crisp slice of thick slab bacon as a 'stirrer'.

When I buy horseradish, it's usually for two 'dishes', bloodys and red cocktail sauce for fried shrimp/seafood. Can't think of anything else I use it in. Don't do roast beef/horseradish sauce. . . . Nope, can't think of anything. But for those two dshes, yes I want horseradish. Gold's Horseradish, the white one not the red one with beets.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)

99 They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served. Some have suggested some sort knitting device for making gloves, a device for estimating range or height. Candlestick holder has been rejected as well.

Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Common Tater
----------
12 sided dildo launcher.

Posted by: scampydog at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (41CYW)

100 After watching John Wick 4 I want to make the two pieces of wood connected by the chain. It would be so pretty in mesquite.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (HFcKg)

101 35 >>@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.

I guess the war is over.
Posted by: JackStraw

It is for the Ukes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)

102 Front bumper of a Suburban makes an excellent bludgeoning weapon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:38 PM (1Jemc)

103 >Please. Lee & Perrins has fermented anchovies.

Posted by: RickZ
---

I know, right? Crazy

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (AOsQT)

104 Allowed ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)

Stuff was in the pipeline, headed towards Ukraine. Somebody finally got their courage up and waved the red flag that US stockpiles were getting dangerously low. SecDef ordered the shipments stopped. WH countermanded that order. Confusion reigned. Looks like someone finally made up their mind.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (bKn1x)

105 RickZ, I commend your good taste.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (HFcKg)

106 My parents ate steak nearly raw. Once at a restaurant, my mom ordered a steak and told the waiter to "wave a flame under it ceremoniously and bring it to me."
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33

"Saw off the horns, wipe it's ass and plate it" is how I sometimes ordered it. My tastes have become a bit more refined, especially with marbled cuts like ribeye. Gotta render at least some of that fat...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (iP/6R)

107 A1 and HP are thick sauces. Worcestershire is thin and runny.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (1Jemc)

108 Seriously though, fish sauce? WTF

who thought that was a good idea?

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (AOsQT)

109 * waves to Joe Kidd*

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:41 PM (HFcKg)

110 70 Substandard copper ingots get my gall! Can't tell you how many times I've been taken.
Posted by: Desi Patel
--------

Call up Freeport McMoRan, they've got lots of extra copper now that Trump dropped the tariff on foreign copper.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (I1XLT)

111 Potion game

Three potions, and the recipe for one? Plus one if you take one of the semi-cursed ones?

Red, orange, and yellow. And the recipe for yellow so I can keep my ~~harem~~ friends young ~~and sexy~~. I'm bright enough without the blue one, and the others are gimmicky rather than life-altering.

Unless you're Elon Musk and you're moving to Mars, then the green one is life-altering. But if you're eternally young, physically perfect, and immune to common infections and diseases, this planet will have to get pretty rough before you need to avoid eating, drinking, and breathing.

Though I can see an argument for red, orange, and yellow, plus pink for the easy sexy times, plus purple & recipe for the "witness protection program" power the pink one would require.

Posted by: and the tentacle sex, obviously at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)

112 what a gyp

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (AOsQT)

25 bux

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (gbOdA)

113 Zelensky must be busy packing his bags for the non-extradition country least likely to take all his ill-gotten gains.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (1Jemc)

114 Few things better than a WeirdDave ONT post. Tonight proves this.

Watching the 4K of "Cat O'Nine Tails" from Dario Argento. Stylish and affordable!

Speaking of cats, where do you fall on the line--

1. Cats are evil and cannot be redeemed.
2. You have a cat who is evil, and I would like to take him from you so that I might experience spiritual evil and...I get lost at this point.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (CHHv1)

115 Wouldn't eat raw anything. Not even steak. There's a Forensic Files about a young man at a Scout Camp who got botulism, went into coma, nearly died. Turns out he was one of the ones cooking and picked up a scrap that fell off a burger patty that was only cooked a little. After he recovered and was able to talk,he said he thought right away-Hmmm, that's kinda raw. I think he had mild long-term damage from the incident. It is very rare to get botulism that way. More likely with improperly canned stuff.

Posted by: Cook Mine, Please at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (G5+As)

116 Also
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?

@JesseBWatters
·
1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥

Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)

117 Finding out what flipped Putin will be interesting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (I1XLT)

118 108 Seriously though, fish sauce? WTF

who thought that was a good idea?

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (AOsQT)

In Korea (and I'm sure other Asian countries) they use a fish sauce in place of soy sauce sometimes. It is extremely salty, though, saltier than soy sauce.

Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (znbnV)

119
@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Not allowed! Turn that ship around!

Posted by: Judge Hooha Yomama at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (63Dwl)

120 Towards the end, 'ol Joe was a lot like Knox.
Gawd! Nasty.
But...damn. I miss him.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)

121 >>Here’s a question for the ever so brainy Horde. There are these artifacts that are fairly rare from Roman times. Maybe a couple dozen extant, made of bronze. They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served. Some have suggested some sort knitting device for making gloves, a device for estimating range or height. Candlestick holder has been rejected as well.

>>Whaddaya think?

One of the executives of the Lea and Perrins company built a brick mansion on Newport Harbor. The place has a bunch of chimneys and all of them are shaped like the original Worcestershire Sauce bottles. Just because he could.

Imagine what some archeologist will make of that in 200 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (viF8m)

122 Who is the empowering art hottie?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (AiNp4)

123 Maybe it was all the unreported demonstrations in Ukraine that shut the EU up and allowed things to take a more natural course.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (I1XLT)

124 Pick your weapon

Flails are nice for the intimidation factor, but they're unitaskers.

Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)

125 Who is the empowering art hottie?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (AiNp4)

It's not Greta Thunberg.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:48 PM (1Jemc)

126 Flails are nice for the intimidation factor, but they're unitaskers.

Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)

Weren't flails used for threshing grain?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:49 PM (1Jemc)

127 Stuff was in the pipeline, headed towards Ukraine. Somebody finally got their courage up and waved the red flag that US stockpiles were getting dangerously low. SecDef ordered the shipments stopped. WH countermanded that order. Confusion reigned. Looks like someone finally made up their mind.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Ah...
I would have guessed that one of the 3-5 'Judges" that been issueing hundreds of injunctions against Trump tried to force sending munitions to the Ukes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (/lPRQ)

128 RickZ, I like horseradish on ham. I do that more than on roast beef. Also, I put it on straight, not mixed in a sauce. In my family horseradish was never in a sauce, always straight. Maybe it's a German thing.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)

129 In the old days, some people ran a monthly tab at the pharmacy, general store, gas station/mechanic. I remember seeing those signs you can change the letters out front Mike Johnson-Pay Your Bill.

A little public shaming goes a long way.

Posted by: Mostly Caught Up at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (G5+As)

130 116 Also
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?

@JesseBWatters
·
1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥

Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)

I have and read the book. Not quite the same since that was a covert war with special forces and this sounds more overt.

Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (znbnV)

131 I don't get the first picture/meme.

The "most American thing" video is great.

Posted by: far cry at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (TsMtx)

132
Please. Lee & Perrins has fermented anchovies.

Posted by: RickZ
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I know, right? Crazy
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (AOsQT)

That garum from Roman times was also an anchovy sauce. And I would assume fermented as well due to a lack of refrigeration. Apparently garum was ubiquitous at food establishments throughout the city, like abottle of ketchup here in the States, each with their own recipe.

Word I learned from cooking tv is 'umami', the flavor of meat. An enhancement. They say Worchestershire has it. Mushrooms, too. I like both with various meats, that's all I can say.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (gKDq2)

133 Oh, wait, we do use that cocktail sauce for shrimp.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

134 Mace or....warhammer.

I have both.

Don't tell the mace how much I love my Cold Steel warhammer.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (xcxpd)

135 109

*Returns wave*

Corsicana accomodations will be booked shortly. Promise...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (iP/6R)

136 My parents ate steak nearly raw. Once at a restaurant, my mom ordered a steak and told the waiter to "wave a flame under it ceremoniously and bring it to me."
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (D6+4s)

My parents, Lord love them, were brutal to steaks, pork chops, hell, even chicken. I do not do blue rare steak, but I do somewhere between rare and medium rare. to clarify: steaks. Rare chicken is a no-go, of course. I do pork chops just a little past the pink leaving.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (0aYVJ)

137 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table
-
Well, that will at least hurt the CIA's bottom line.

Posted by: Methos at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (zLwRl)

138 12 sided dildo launcher.
Posted by: scampydog

You're kidding? They can't just throw the things onto the floor at WNBA games?

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

139 Trump puts ketchup on steak, I have heard.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (AOsQT)

140 Potion Game:

I don't know how long the effects of the potions are supposed to last, particularly when any one of them could be made and given/traded away.

But I think it would be use-case based:

Probably the most useful combination is orange, blue, grey (physical, mental and luck)

• Pro athlete
• Hedge Fund management
• Entrepreneur

Purple (shape-shift) would be impossible to keep a wardrobe. Does this include changes in mass and volume? Go from Jekle to Hyde, Banner to Hulk? Andre the Giant to a 4'2" petite? I'm trying to think of the logistics in the process of changing form - not necessarily something you want to do without preparation and definitely not in public.

Green (simplification) only makes sense if a sniper or a hostage.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (a4flb)

141 RickZ, I commend your good taste.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (HFcKg)

I'd have to thank Vodka and his sidekick, Tomato Juice . . . .

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (gKDq2)

142 If not for salted fish, both my parents families wouldn't have survived the winter in Norway, especially during the war.

Posted by: Pining For The Fjords at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (G5+As)

143 Dodecahedron was to be used with the Antikythera mechanism. It was a child's toy. Thought everybody knew that.
😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - The Voynich Manuscript is the instruction book at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (7W0uI)

144 I think a Halbard (espontoon?) was still an issue item to the Army in the 19th century, Captain Lewis carried one leading the 1803 expedition from St. Louis (at the time, pretty much the edge of the known universe) to the pacific coast. It saved his twice at least twice, according to his journals. Once he almost slipped off a cliff face, and he used it similar to ice axe self-arrest. The other was after diving into the Missouri while being chased by a Grizzly. He said he turned around and presented himself as ready to fight with it, and the bear took off.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (o55mS)

145 Ben Had!

Ladyl!

Whoot!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (1U0OF)

146 Seriously though, fish sauce? WTF
who thought that was a good idea?
Posted by: Don Black

In Korea (and I'm sure other Asian countries) they use a fish sauce in place of soy sauce sometimes. It is extremely salty, though, saltier than soy sauce.
Posted by: Farquad

The word "sauce" works two ways in English. Sauce for something, like steak sauce, and sauce of something, like tomato sauce. Finding out fish sauce is the latter and not the former weirds out Westerners.

I have a bottle of Thai fish sauce. It's made by putting fish and salt in a container, leaving it out in the sun, waiting for it to ferment, and straining out the remaining solids. Sounds gross, but it has its place. It's protein salt.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)

147 Sort of ignored the potions game. AFAIK, alchemists did not make potions. That was the purview of witches and wizards. And Madame Ruth, the Gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (1Jemc)

148 Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.

I can't imagine a better recruiting campaign than stick in the minds of young men guerilla warfare against enemy cartels.

Finally an opportunity to make a real difference rather than keep sociopaths, grifters and strong men in political power.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (a4flb)

149 28 Trying to place the "Experiencing America" UK guy's accent. Not quite Welsh, maybe Scotland border?
Posted by: pookysgirl

Northern England, for sure.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (PGK1w)

150 Sorry I'm late, but I was making my last stand since it's National Frozen Custer Day.

h/t tankdemon

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (144I4)

151 Sort of ignored the potions game. AFAIK, alchemists did not make potions. That was the purview of witches and wizards. And Madame Ruth, the Gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.

Party pooper.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (a4flb)

152 I have and read the book.

Saw the movie. Thought the full auto OA-93 was neat.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (/y8xj)

153 128 RickZ, I like horseradish on ham. I do that more than on roast beef. Also, I put it on straight, not mixed in a sauce. In my family horseradish was never in a sauce, always straight. Maybe it's a German thing.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)

Horseradish and a bit of mustard is the correct spread for a kielbasa sammich...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (iP/6R)

154 nurse, the three us of are so close to being able to share time together.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (HFcKg)

155 In Korea (and I'm sure other Asian countries) they use a fish sauce in place of soy sauce sometimes. It is extremely salty, though, saltier than soy sauce.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (znbnV)

I have a bottle of fish sauce from an Asian grocery store. You use it sparingly in anything you make. I can use Kikkoman's Low Sodium Soy (the best-flavored commercial soy by far) much more liberally than any straight-out-of-the-bottle fish sauce. Fish sauce is overpowering in anything but tiny doses.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

156 Weren't flails used for threshing grain?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yes. Not the spiked-ball and chain kind in the picture, though.

Threshing flails look like nunchucks, which were also threshing tools, for rice. Western ones usually had a long handle and and a short business end, so you didn't thresh yourself.

Both became weapons because peasants weren't allowed military weapons, and you go to war with the sickle you have, not the sword you wish you had.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (DgGvY)

157 Party pooper.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (a4flb)

Heh. Better to be a party pooper than to have a party in your pooper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (1Jemc)

158 Northern England, for sure.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (PGK1w)

I was thinking York, or maybe Manchester.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (0aYVJ)

159 I have a bottle of Thai fish sauce. It's made by putting fish and salt in a container, leaving it out in the sun, waiting for it to ferment, and straining out the remaining solids. Sounds gross, but it has its place. It's protein salt.
Posted by: mikeski

Fish sauce is filtered and clarified. Looks almost like apple juice.

Bagoong is basically unprocessed fish sauce. Very chunky. Sometimes you can identify where on the fish a chunk came from.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)

160 156 Weren't flails used for threshing grain?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yes. Not the spiked-ball and chain kind in the picture, though.

Threshing flails look like nunchucks, which were also threshing tools, for rice. Western ones usually had a long handle and and a short business end, so you didn't thresh yourself.

Both became weapons because peasants weren't allowed military weapons, and you go to war with the sickle you have, not the sword you wish you had.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (DgGvY)

all true, can confirm

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 11:02 PM (xcxpd)

161 Seriously though, fish sauce? WTF

who thought that was a good idea?

Garum was a fish based sauce, rather salty, and one of the mainstay condiments of the Roman Empire. They used it throughout the Empire, for centuries. It was made by fermenting fish with salt, and presumably was very much like present day Asian fish sauces.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:02 PM (q1mTS)

162 >>BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table

Maduro has been funding the cartels and gangs like TdA. Human trafficking and drugs into the US.

Still think that the $50 million bounty on Maduro was a bluff?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)

163 Joe Kidd, thank you for the suggested .dipping sauce.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (HFcKg)

164
And Madame Ruth, the Gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.

Her stuff tastes inky.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (63Dwl)

165 That was the purview of witches and wizards. And Madame Ruth, the Gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not the gold tattoo?

Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (cPGH3)

166 Bagoong is basically unprocessed fish sauce. Very chunky. Sometimes you can identify where on the fish a chunk came from.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)

Sorry about that. Tummy's been kind of gippy lately.

Posted by: A seal at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (1Jemc)

167 130 116 Also
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?

@JesseBWatters
·
1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥

Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)

I have and read the book. Not quite the same since that was a covert war with special forces and this sounds more overt.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (znbnV)

Sicario did it better

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)

168 And Madame Ruth, the Gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.

I am picturing Maria Ouspenskaya in my head.

Posted by: Two Oscar Nominations at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (G5+As)

169 The Purple Potion wasn't clear:

"This potion grants idealization. When drunk, you...."

Does that mean one can only change form when shitfaced?

That would be wild. Go to the bar gat hammered and when waking end up like the plot line in the Ellen Barkin movie "Switch".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (a4flb)

170 Heh. I love the Ea Nasir stuff.

Sumerians FTW.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (dDmld)

171 Okay guys I get it
fish sauce is horrifying and will never be in my house

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (AOsQT)

172 Darth Flail just doesn't inspire fear.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (kpS4V)

173 You have fish sauce? Proceed to making Vietnamese Caramel chicken. Then thank Pete Bog.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (HFcKg)

174 The dodecahedra have been used, in the present day, by knitters to knit gloves. They seem to work rather well. Form follows function: quod erat demonstrandum.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (q1mTS)

175 Posted by: Ben Had

Dahling! Sent you an email couple days ago.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (TfUTr)

176 Maduro better get an offshore bank account, a nose job, and grow a better mustache, cause he can run, but he can't hide.

Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (cPGH3)

177 @DC_Draino

Blue states with ZERO Republican House seats:

Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Vermont
New Hampshire
Hawaii
New Mexico
Connecticut
Delaware
...
The reason Democrats are screaming for Texas to stop redistricting is because Democrats have almost nothing left to gerrymander

They already rigged the map years ago and hate to see Republicans actually fighting back

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (I1XLT)

178 Sumerians FTW.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (dDmld)

Sumerians, Cimmerians, 220/221

Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (1Jemc)

179 Evil Israeli snipers

Must've used a slingshot...

Reminds me of an episode of one of those forensic files shows, where a team for one side created a video of a shooting in a hotel room where the bullet crossed walls...the entire cartridge...

Also like this case too:
https://tinyurl.com/35dse695

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)

180 Speak of the Gypsy, 40% of people who claim to be Hungarian online are Gypsy! You can tell which ones, because they steal!

Posted by: Leutonian Benevolent Society at August 08, 2025 11:08 PM (G5+As)

181 Oh, wait, we do use that cocktail sauce for shrimp.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

If you had to really define one American dish, it would be the red cocktail sauce with horseradish, lemon, Worchestershire and Tabasco.

I don't know where it originated, but when you think about it, it is served across the entire country. I don't know if there's anything like it in other countries. Chili sauces, sure, but not horseradish. I have to think that one's uniquely American, or is uniquely American now.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:08 PM (gKDq2)

182 Still think that the $50 million bounty on Maduro was a bluff?

Do they pay bounties to Special Forces members?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:09 PM (q1mTS)

183 Some Rat, you did, I received it, and you will hear from me tomorrow.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:09 PM (HFcKg)

184 If I'm not mistaken, I the cudgel was a weapon that predated the Middle Ages by a few million years.

The scientific consensus now holds that that the use of the cudgel dates to the Fred Flintstone Epoch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (dDmld)

185 Some Rat, you did, I received it, and you will hear from me tomorrow.
Posted by: Ben Had

And your attorney?

Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (TfUTr)

186 I don't know if it has been mentioned at the AOSHQ, but Mark and Patricia McCloskey recently reacquired the AR15 they used to protect themselves in St. Louis, MO five years ago.

""It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!" Mark McCloskey posted to his X account on Friday, along with several photos of him carrying the gun. "

They are currently awaiting the return of Patricia's pistol.

LINK (FOX News) https://tinyurl.com/2bpcd9ev

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rj6Yv)

187 I pick the morningstar coz it jas a pretty name.

And potions of youth and healing.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (GIcqz)

188
Bring me the head of Nicolás Maduro.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (I1XLT)

189 OK, Red (immunity to diseases), Yellow (youth), Purple (idealization)

That is the combo to really succeed in the pr0n industry.

If the purple allows you to idealize into looking young with pr0n scale genitals, then swap yellow for orange and get maximum endurance.

I think the Pink (extremely attractive) would be profoundly dangerous in that occupation.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (a4flb)

190 Still think that the $50 million bounty on Maduro was a bluff?
----
Do they pay bounties to Special Forces members?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
==

Maybe if they do it off duty.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (/lPRQ)

191 Some Rat, from the thank you committee!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (HFcKg)

192 The Roman dodecahedrons were for impressing chicks at medieval DND sessions.

But really, if they were for throwing bones or something like that, scrying, etc, I'd not be shocked. Someone needs to make one and do random stuff with it. Experimental archaeology is where it's at.

Posted by: H at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (2gjbv)

193 The war hammer was the weapon of choice for senior officers in the Polish Winged Hussars.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:12 PM (rj6Yv)

194
Texas judge blocks Beto and his group from funding Texas Dems who left the state for Chicago.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 08, 2025 11:13 PM (3ek7K)

195 They are currently awaiting the return of Patricia's pistol.

LINK (FOX News) https://tinyurl.com/2bpcd9ev
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rj6Yv)
--------------

The inert prop-gun.
Missouri needs to get off the fence and get its laws in line with the people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:13 PM (I1XLT)

196
And Madame Ruth, the Gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.

Her stuff tastes inky.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Lady Dimitrescu has entered the chat.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 11:14 PM (QcUc+)

197 192 The Roman dodecahedrons were for impressing chicks at medieval DND sessions.

But really, if they were for throwing bones or something like that, scrying, etc, I'd not be shocked. Someone needs to make one and do random stuff with it. Experimental archaeology is where it's at.

Posted by: H at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (2gjbv)

In this day age, they'll add it to the tip of a green dildo...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (ynpvh)

198 >>Sicario did it better

I think Sun Tzu is looking down at Trump and saying "My man!".

Trump completely reset the battlefield by closing the border tighter then a frog's ass. There isn't a refried bean fart getting through. At the same time he has reordered the world trade market and took a dump on Mexico while doing it.

Not that media has noticed but this didn't happen by chance. It just took someone with brains and balls who really means it when he says he loves this country.

It's fun as hell to watch this happen.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)

199 {{{Ben Had}}}

Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (TfUTr)

200 Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (HFcKg)

Most welcome. If it worked, do write it down, as I've forgotten some awesome preparations, especially those assembled in the heat of the moment and under the influence. Made an amazing pineapple and rum glaze for grilled lamb chops once. Once...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (iP/6R)

201 Reminds me of an episode of one of those forensic files shows, where a team for one side created a video of a shooting in a hotel room where the bullet crossed walls...the entire cartridge...

I recall back during all the hoohah about Black Talon ammo some national news showing an animation of the jacket opening up during flight and spinning like a buzzsaw, multiple rotations per inch of travel.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (/y8xj)

202 Gypsies? Tramps and thieves not far behind.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (HFcKg)

203 Do they pay bounties to Special Forces members?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Interesting thought. A Special Forces commander decides to go rogue. He commits his entire unit to the task of capturing Maduro.
Let's say a Battalion.
Let's assume he spends a month on training, and gets the job done.
I bet he wouldn't be able to spread $100/ per after expenses... ?

Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (cPGH3)

204 My intent was not to denigrate Gary Busey. I have no direct knowledge of him good or bad. What I was trying to say is the modern knowledge system, "The Internet" has lost the ability to determine actual Gary Busey from internet Gary Busey. All internet-accessible human knowledge has that same fate. Keep those paper books, folks. They may or may not be full of lies, but at least the lies are the same over time.

Posted by: irright at August 08, 2025 11:17 PM (vIK+M)

205 Red orange and probably blue on the potions, but perfect memory could have bad side effects. OTOH, the bad memories tend to never completely extinguish anyway, and being able to remember everyone's name and face would be good.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 08, 2025 11:17 PM (CKOCg)

206 Weird Dave, I didn't get a chance to thank you last night for all the wonderful things you've shown us.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:18 PM (gTHdJ)

207 Recipe and video for making Garum:

(YouTube) LINK: https://tinyurl.com/5y5rh7rh

Interesting food history lesson included.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:19 PM (rj6Yv)

208 Rat!

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 11:20 PM (VmgCW)

209 In this day age, they'll add it to the tip of a green dildo...
==============
You know those "we're #1" foam hands people wave at sporting events? I can think of a minor modification that would make them very suitable for WNBA games. You could even get one in your own team's color/logo. Easy to smuggle in, and if everybody in the stands was waving one TPTB couldn't do a damn thing about it.

Business opportunitiy?

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)

210 Fish sauce talk has reminded me my Lume' is on hour 71. Must bid you all a fragrant good night.

Posted by: Pungent Petey at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (G5+As)

211 124 Pick your weapon

Flails are nice for the intimidation factor, but they're unitaskers.

Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)

When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)

212 Business opportunitiy?
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)

Depends on what your costs to sales ratio must be to make a profit. There aren't a whole lot of WNBA fans out there, even fewer willing to buy team logo'd junk.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)

213 Trump completely reset the battlefield by closing the border tighter then a frog's ass. There isn't a refried bean fart getting through. At the same time he has reordered the world trade market and took a dump on Mexico while doing it.

Not that media has noticed but this didn't happen by chance. It just took someone with brains and balls who really means it when he says he loves this country.

It's fun as hell to watch this happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)

Time for him to put the screws to that deranged fag Mark Carney in Ottawa.

Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (1Jemc)

214 Could not believe the gun idiot didn't do herself in. And how traumatic would that have been for the child that was in the room with her. May show this to my instructor at the shooting range this weekend.

Posted by: Frankie at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (nVUa4)

215 not even

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 08, 2025 11:25 PM (YlWIZ)

216 {{{Nurse!}}} get your beach walk in?

Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:26 PM (TfUTr)

217 I recall back during all the hoohah about Black Talon ammo some national news showing an animation of the jacket opening up during flight and spinning like a buzzsaw, multiple rotations per inch of travel.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (/y8xj)

Have you ever watched any of the Tao Fledermaus videos on youtube? The shoot all sorts of weird home-made slugs out of 12 ga. shotguns, often with a rifled barrel. They have a high-speed video camera watching the slugs go down range, and impacting on various targets. A slug spinning at 20,000 RPM will be making roughly one revolution per yard of travel.

Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (1Jemc)

218 Some mugglers are still using trucks and cars to bring in small groups across the border. Videos on youtube. And they're getting caught!

All it took was a new president to shut down the border!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (gTHdJ)

219 Business opportunitiy?
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)

Depends on what your costs to sales ratio must be to make a profit. There aren't a whole lot of WNBA fans out there, even fewer willing to buy team logo'd junk.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM

Tell you what, that'd be one episode of Shark Tank I'd tune in for...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (iP/6R)

220 off, Barbarian sock!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:32 PM (1Jemc)

221 We didn't have a waffle house. To cap off the night we stopped at Gossage Grill; two eggs, toast, butter, and jelly.ran you 57 cents.

When I was seventeen, it was ...

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:34 PM (gTHdJ)

222 Still think that the $50 million bounty on Maduro was a bluff?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)

Not a bluff, but Maduro never leaves Venezuela. It would take an army to get at him, just like Saddam.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)

223 The Black Talon was/is a decent round (I think they just renamed it and kept selling it), but I want a gun that shoots those balls from "Phantasm" that skewer someone's head and start drilling a hole through the skull.

Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (N+wXz)

224 It's fun as hell to watch this happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)

Time for him to put the screws to that deranged fag Mark Carney in Ottawa.
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (1Jemc)

The military treating Narco Gangs as international terrorists is a real game changer as well. Allows military assets to be used.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:37 PM (mP0Kj)

225 Furniture arriving from California tomorrow. Last night in a sleeping bag, and I'll need to make the most of it. Nigh-tall...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:37 PM (yGKb5)

226 Denny's or Steak and Shake were the best places in Bloomington.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:38 PM (bss/y)

227 When I was seventeen, it was ...
Posted by: JM in Illinois

It was a very good year …

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday. . . at August 08, 2025 11:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

228 Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)

When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)

Always wondered how they named the Morningstar.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)

229
Denny's or Steak and Shake were the best places in Bloomington.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I liked Taco John's.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 11:41 PM (63Dwl)

230 For Mexican we had a place called Labambas (iirc) that had huge burritos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:43 PM (bss/y)

231 There's a Forensic Files about a young man at a Scout Camp who got botulism, went into coma, nearly died. Turns out he was one of the ones cooking and picked up a scrap that fell off a burger patty that was only cooked a little.

Iirc, it wasn’t botulism, it was e.coli …

Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday. . . at August 08, 2025 11:43 PM (3ZUWJ)

232 >>Not a bluff, but Maduro never leaves Venezuela. It would take an army to get at him, just like Saddam.

Probably closer to Noriega.

Maduro has not only used Venezuelan government money but much of his own money to pay the cartels to smuggle people and drugs to the US. He also sent TdA.

Unless all the reporting is wrong Trump just authorized the military to take out the cartels. And he put a $50 million bounty on Maduro.

If I'm playing poker with Trump I don't think he's bluffing. Putin doesn't seem to think so.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:46 PM (viF8m)

233 Not a bluff, but Maduro never leaves Venezuela. It would take an army to get at him, just like Saddam.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)

"Great news, Senor Maduro! You are the Grand Prize Winner in our Publishers' Clearing House Sweepstakes! One million dollars! That's right, one million dollars! Just come to Belize City on September 4th to collect it."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:46 PM (1Jemc)

234 Scare yourself and look up how many inactive pathogens are in the human body.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:47 PM (HFcKg)

235 Not a bluff, but Maduro never leaves Venezuela. It would take an army to get at him, just like Saddam.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)

Or Noriega. The US has a $50,000,000 bounty for information leading to the arrest of Maduro. That helps, too.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:48 PM (rj6Yv)

236 Oh, food poisoning at Scout camp. Yeah, I was in Cub Scouts, maybe 8 years old, at the "Dad and Lad" weekend camp. Had a great day, but almost everybody, including me, in our section got food poisoning of some variety. I think they left our dinner food unrefrigerated for several hours before cooking it.. Most of us spent the night barfing out the backs of our tents.

Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2025 11:49 PM (P5MIT)

237 Scare yourself and look up how many inactive pathogens are in the human body.
Posted by: Ben Had

By weight, you're mostly human.

By cell count, you're mostly bacteria.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:51 PM (DgGvY)

238 Potions: red orange and blue (heal, physical, mental). Would be nice to have stereo vision; maybe I could hit a baseball

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:52 PM (gTHdJ)

239 Never got food poisoning in scouts.

Happy about that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:52 PM (bss/y)

240 Aetius, never qualified for the dysentery badge,huh?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:54 PM (HFcKg)

241 Carney Says Israel’s Plan to Take Gaza City Is ‘Wrong’
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Well, that settles it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:55 PM (I1XLT)

242 Carney Says Israel’s Plan to Take Gaza City Is ‘Wrong’
Posted by: Braenyard

How is it wrong? Too few bulldozers?

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:58 PM (DgGvY)

243 There's going to be a kicker in the deal with Putin. Something that sweetens the pot. Something that helps Russia's economy?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (I1XLT)

244 While Carney and some of the Eurocrats are pissing themselves about Gaza, Israel is making Judea and Samaria sovereign Israel. Keep chasing that squirrel you dipshits.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (HFcKg)

245 Good evening morons und Danke wd

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (JvZF+)

246 I am not handy with tools, but I have almost completed the switch of the guts on one tongue jack for the new one. Apparently the gears and the pins have changed in the last 10 years, and are not interchangeable. I will have to figure out what goes with what tomorrow when the sun comes up.
The big hassle was getting the drift pins out so I could disassemble the guts.

The jack is the central part of a juice press, and the apples are ripe.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:01 AM (rbvCR)

247 242 Carney Says Israel’s Plan to Take Gaza City Is ‘Wrong’
Posted by: Braenyard

How is it wrong? Too few bulldozers?
Posted by: mikeski
----

Man of my heart.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:01 AM (I1XLT)

248 Carney was the proof that Canada is no longer a serious country. Imagine a country picking as its leader an unemployed EU technocrat who’s never run for an elected office in his life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (q+E/R)

249 228 Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)

When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)

Always wondered how they named the Morningstar.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)

Intertubes say:
" the name comes from the comparison of the head to a star. Apparently it is used earliest to describe the weapon in Danish, is adopted into German and reaches English in the 17th. century."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (ynpvh)

250 And they threw a Black Dildo on the court of the WNBA game.

Because.

Black Dildos Matter...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (TGPs7)

251 Quarterstaff for me, so long as my opponent's not wearing armor. Can use it to break an arm, bash a skull, sweep a leg, crush a throat, and all while staying out of reach. Light and easy to change direction of the blow for disengages and thrusts.

Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 12:04 AM (NtoJk)

252 Not a bluff, but Maduro never leaves Venezuela. It would take an army to get at him, just like Saddam.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)

There was a special group that went in to pull the Venezuelan opposition leaders who had been hiding in the Argentine embassy out of Caracas a couple of months ago. I suspect they entered through Colombia since Maduro shut down direct flights from Colombia soon after that. It was sort of like the whole Argo mission to get the other Americans out of the Canadian embassy in Teheran once upon a time.

No idea if a team could extract Maduro against his will, but I bet he is having security scans of the dust bunnies under his bed this week.

(also, it could be pushed in Congress that Venezuela has declared defacto war on the US at some point)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (rbvCR)

253 Happy Friday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (0nHVk)

254 In my time in the BOY SCOUTS...Of AMERICA, before they were taken down by MARXIST GROOMERS,

The default dinner over a griddle with a side of hashbrowns and baked beans was the "Minute Steak" which came in frozen packs with a slice of butter in the middle. With lakeside campouts, whatever trout we caught were also added to the feast.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (25kuG)

255 Morningstar in German and danish is Morgenstern.

Probably means that Rhoda, MTM’s friend, was most likely the devil’s daughter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (q+E/R)

256 There's the Holy Grenade of Antioch...

Then there's the Holy Water Sprinkler...

"The holy water sprinkler (from its resemblance to the aspergillum used in the Catholic Mass), was a morning star used by the English army in the sixteenth century and made in series by professional smiths..."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (ynpvh)

257 They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served. Some have suggested some sort knitting device for making gloves, a device for estimating range or height. Candlestick holder has been rejected as well.
Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Common Tater
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The Romans had Circuses, right?
Peepshow tokens!

Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 12:06 AM (ha888)

258 And they unveiled a statue of a young JFK at the Patriots game...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 09, 2025 12:06 AM (TGPs7)

259 When I buy horseradish, it's usually for two 'dishes', bloodys and red cocktail sauce for fried shrimp/seafood. Can't think of anything else I use it in. Don't do roast beef/horseradish sauce. . . . Nope, can't think of anything. But for those two dshes, yes I want horseradish. Gold's Horseradish, the white one not the red one with beets.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)

I dug the volunteer horseradish out of my garden this week when I dug my potatoes. What is the process of turning the roots into lovely sauce? I get it every year and the only thing I can do with it is cook the greens.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)

260 Potion: Gotta go with the red.
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Guy with the wrench. Yeah, he fucked up. Still...that heartbreaking 'tink' when you over-tighten a bolt is a learning experience. The second half of that lesson, if you are unlucky, is extracting the remnant.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:08 AM (XeU6L)

261 Seriously though, fish sauce? WTF
who thought that was a good idea?
Posted by: Don Black
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The entire Far East. I can't remember the name, but Koreans have the FISH!! sauce that'll curl your toes.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 12:09 AM (ha888)

262 253 Happy Friday Horde!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (0nHVk)

Happy Friday to you as well, Debby! Got any weekend plans?

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 09, 2025 12:09 AM (FMtrg)

263 I think a war hammer would be great to take on geology outings: see Ruri Rocks where an onee-chan main character carries one for just this purpose! She usually carries it strapped on her back.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (q1mTS)

264 Here’s a question for the ever so brainy Horde. There are these artifacts that are fairly rare from Roman times. Maybe a couple dozen extant, made of bronze. They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served. Some have suggested some sort knitting device for making gloves, a device for estimating range or height. Candlestick holder has been rejected as well.

>>Whaddaya think?

A Dutchman thinks they are a sort of sun dial, for determining seasons from the angle of the Sun

www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)

265 Potion: Gotta go with the red.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

You're in luck, you get three! And the recipe to make one of those three!

And a 4th or 5th good one if you drink one or all of the cursed ones.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:12 AM (DgGvY)

266 Horseradish is a DeFacto ingredient in the sauce (sour creme) or not for plating a perfectly cooked PRIME RIB!

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:12 AM (25kuG)

267 I think a war hammer would be great to take on geology outings: see Ruri Rocks where an onee-chan main character carries one for just this purpose! She usually carries it strapped on her back.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

She claims it's a geology tool, but it's really to balance her front.

Posted by: girl's got a rack at August 09, 2025 12:13 AM (DgGvY)

268 Stir It Up.

https://tinyurl.com/mvyp37xp

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:14 AM (viF8m)

269 -
"barfing out the backs of our tents" will now be my euphemism for explosive diarrhea.

Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:15 AM (vIK+M)

270 My eyes keep closing. I'd better call it a night.

Have a great weekend, all!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 09, 2025 12:16 AM (FMtrg)

271 Fish sauce?

"Vietnamese fish sauce, known as nước mắm, is a key ingredient in Vietnamese cuisine made from fermented fish and salt. It is used to add a savory umami flavor to various dishes and is often combined with ingredients like lime juice, sugar, and garlic to create dipping sauces."

Bet it would have spiced up the C-rations.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 12:16 AM (bKn1x)

272 20 A1 is disgusting. It's like a BBQ sauce condiment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

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My steaks don't need sauce.

15 years ago, my friend went to put some A1 on a steak I cooked for him and I threw an apple at him and hit him in the head before he could ruin it. He was pissed, but not as pissed as I was. I told him to at least take a bite before dousing it in sauce that hides the magnificent flavor of a perfectly seasoned and cooked NY strip. He later said it was the best steak he had ever had.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (8P/xB)

273 David French's anus is full of sadness.

Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (PGK1w)

274 Guy with the wrench. Yeah, he fucked up. Still...that heartbreaking 'tink' when you over-tighten a bolt is a learning experience. The second half of that lesson, if you are unlucky, is extracting the remnant.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Betting the kid invests in a torque wrench. Betting that was a head bolt. Not a fun extraction.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (RT3YC)

275 Morgenstern made me think of the Tom Stoppard play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: just the similarity I suppose.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (q1mTS)

276 Let's not forget the greatest sauce from England...Worcestershire sauce which is derived from a recipe from the mid 1800's and still produces from the original recipe to this day.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)

277 Hi Emmie, I hope that you are well, I am watching the grandkids tomorrow and I will probably be exhausted on Sunday. I am looking forward to it though. How about you, what are you up to this weekend?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:20 AM (0nHVk)

278 Hot horseradish is a valid alternative to hot mustard on meat dishes. Yumm!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:20 AM (q1mTS)

279 A Dutchman thinks they are a sort of sun dial, for determining seasons from the angle of the Sun

www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)

Sounds exceedingly complicated. Surely the Romans knew how to determine the equinoxes and solstices; they could simply count days. And a simple instrument like an astrolabe would be easier to make for the purpose than a dodecahedron.

Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)

280 I dug the volunteer horseradish out of my garden this week when I dug my potatoes. What is the process of turning the roots into lovely sauce? I get it every year and the only thing I can do with it is cook the greens.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)

Look up any horseradish root to horseradish recipe. Here's one, at AllRecipes https://tinyurl.com/335r9tmn

"It's usually made with just the root, vinegar, sugar, and salt."

From what I'm reading, just a liitle effort and some time. Doesn't last long, though, even frozen.
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Horseradish mixed with whipped cream to make a horseradish cream sauce for smoked fish as an appetizer (the fish on a leaf lettuce bed). Had that a few times (mackerel and sea trout). It's so good. One of those horseradish dishes I forgot.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 12:22 AM (gKDq2)

281 274

Well... hello now Mr. Monkey.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:23 AM (25kuG)

282 Always wondered how they named the Morningstar.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)

The Morning Star was Venus, and it was traditionally shown as a spiky ball - I don't know why but that is the classic way of depicting it all the way back to the Greek city states.
The name Lucifer also means morning star, and so I suppose it is the very devil to face in a melee

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:23 AM (rbvCR)

283 279 A Dutchman thinks they are a sort of sun dial, for determining seasons from the angle of the Sun

www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)

Sounds exceedingly complicated. Surely the Romans knew how to determine the equinoxes and solstices; they could simply count days. And a simple instrument like an astrolabe would be easier to make for the purpose than a dodecahedron.

Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)

Is the Roman version Crucifixions and Decimations?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:24 AM (ynpvh)

284 She claims it's a geology tool, but it's really to balance her front.
Posted by: girl's got a rack at August 09, 2025 12:13 AM (DgGvY)

You’ve obviously watched it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:24 AM (q1mTS)

285 Guy with the wrench. Yeah, he fucked up. Still...that heartbreaking 'tink' when you over-tighten a bolt is a learning experience.

To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (/y8xj)

286
The Younger Dryas impact theory just got a boost with this paper:
https://tinyurl.com/24epjam9

The lead author there is from the University of SC here. Anyway, they found evidence of comet material in core samples from Baffin Bay at the YD boundary.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

287 -
They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served.-

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When you are dealing with Romans, it's always buttplugs, all the way down.

Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (vIK+M)

288 287 -
They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served.-

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When you are dealing with Romans, it's always buttplugs, all the way down.

Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (vIK+M)

I thought it was the Greeks that were into the butt stuff...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (ynpvh)

289
276 Let's not forget the greatest sauce from England...Worcestershire sauce which is derived from a recipe from the mid 1800's and still produces from the original recipe to this day.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)

Worcestershire sauce is believed to be the most similar modern sauce to Garum, a fermented sauce used heavily throughout the Roman world, and thought to have somehow survived in rural England through the centuries.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (q+E/R)

290 Well... hello now Mr. Monkey.
Posted by: Nightwatch

How's the neighborhood? Are the natives restless?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (RT3YC)

291 289
276 Let's not forget the greatest sauce from England...Worcestershire sauce which is derived from a recipe from the mid 1800's and still produces from the original recipe to this day.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)

Worcestershire sauce is believed to be the most similar modern sauce to Garum, a fermented sauce used heavily throughout the Roman world, and thought to have somehow survived in rural England through the centuries.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (q+E/R)

Garum was the alien on Deep Space 9...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:27 AM (ynpvh)

292 Brown Butter Evangelist 🍉@krysilove

The dildo situation at the WNBA games was never funny. I look at it the same way as when they throw bananas at Black soccer players in Europe. It's ridiculous and it should get people permanently banned
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Wa, What? They throw bananas at black players in Europe?
That's racist. Thought Europe was anti-racist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (I1XLT)

293 -
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.

Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)

294 Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:07 AM

I have to be careful with commercial horseradish because of the sulfites in it. It turns brown after grating.

From what I remember from my maternal grandparents' stories, you grate it into vinegar soon before you intend to use it. Maybe outdoors to keep from weeping.

I like horseradish slathered on a browned pot roast before finishing the low temperature phase of cooking. Changes the flavor, isn't hot. Haven't made it in years.

Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 12:30 AM (7vIsy)

295 A flail does not necessarily have a morning star on the end of it. In fact, most flails were blunt crushing weapons.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (TdCYS)

296 Publius - Out earlier tonight,. Is full moon? Very clear here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (XeU6L)

297 Some brands of Worcestershire Sauce do contain anchovies (fish). Specifically, these four brands of Worcestershire Sauce contain fish: French’s, Heinz, Holbrooks, and Lea And Perrins.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (q1mTS)

298 -
I thought it was the Greeks that were into the butt stuff...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM-

Some invent, some perfect.

Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (vIK+M)

299
Dave's Insanity.

For when you need to introduce a fool (in my case, an Indian co-worker, who said that He would be the Judge of hot) to "hot sauce".

He took the bottle home for lunch, and had his mother prepare a dish. He returned, admitted (1) defeat, and (2) that he was still hurting about 3 hours later. Heh.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM (FlRtG)

300 293 -
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.

Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)

Are they green?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM (ynpvh)

301 The dodecahedra are for knitting gloves: see my comment at 174.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (q1mTS)

302 Sounds exceedingly complicated. Surely the Romans knew how to determine the equinoxes and solstices; they could simply count days. And a simple instrument like an astrolabe would be easier to make for the purpose than a dodecahedron.

Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)

Possibly, but they are not Roman, they are only found in Germanic lands, and also remember that the first developments usually are complicated and overbuilt, like Gastrophetes and arbolests coming before crossbows.
Refinements come after the initial develpment.

The argument that they were used for knitting falls apart with the analysis of the objects for repetitive wear: the knobs don't show wear around the necks, but they do show wear where you would expect on the knobs if the object were regularly set on the ground in various faces.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (rbvCR)

303 Go, Donut.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (YlWIZ)

304 lay Travis@ClayTravis . 5h

A color map of which states are betting which colors on the next dildo to hit the WNBA courts.
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https://tinyurl.com/bdh6t92x

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:36 AM (I1XLT)

305 >> Is full moon? Very clear here.

Yep. Exact moment of syzygy was 11:54PM EDT, a little less than a hour ago.

And this is the Sturgeon Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:36 AM (w6EFb)

306 Garum was the alien on Deep Space 9...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:27 AM

Just watched Andrew Robinson in a role I had forgotten he played. Annoying dumbshit police brass in Cobra. I thought I liked the guy in everything before I saw that.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 09, 2025 12:37 AM (TdCYS)

307 Mike,

High Loon will be 1:32AM here. That's close enough for you as well, our longitude is very close. So if you want to go out and howl at it then, that's the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

308 -
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.

Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)

Are they green?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM--
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Unsure, but it would completely believable for David French's anus to be seeking government subsidies.

Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:39 AM (vIK+M)

309
Oh, and there will be a nice conjunction of Venus (in Morning Star mode) and Jove the morning of the 12th. Jupiter has swung around to the morning side. Provided the weather cooperates, look east about 2 hours before local sunrise, and you should see a nice show.

And, there will be UFO reports from this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:41 AM (w6EFb)

310 High Loon will be 1:32AM here. That's close enough for you as well, our longitude is very close. So if you want to go out and howl at it then, that's the time.
Posted by: publius
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Hmm. probably better not. So far, the neighbors regard me as only a harmless eccentric.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:44 AM (XeU6L)

311 You’ve obviously watched it!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Love the cute-girls-doing-cute-things anime. Who knew geology was cute?

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:45 AM (DgGvY)

312 be

ugh

Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:45 AM (vIK+M)

313 Didn’t know about the wear evidence: hypotheses non fingo.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:46 AM (q1mTS)

314 Anyone ever try to count how many times 'Lea & Perrins' is printed on the label?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:47 AM (XeU6L)

315 The central valley in Commiefornia used to produce an abundance of fruits and vegetables including Horseradish.

The cutting off of water to the central valley by Lamocrate policies over the last 10 years have pretty much destroyed this economy.

Keep voting Lamocrate.

Newsome 2028.... 💩

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:47 AM (25kuG)

316 @ClayTravis . 5h
A color map of which states are betting which colors on the next dildo to hit the WNBA courts.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh6t92x
Posted by: Braenyard

Imagine explaining this to someone from 1963.

Heck, 1983.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (DgGvY)

317 Didn’t know about the wear evidence: hypotheses non fingo.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:46 AM (q1mTS)

I love wear evidence. Once objects are made, they are used in typical manners, and that use wears them in specific patterns.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (rbvCR)

318 Publius - thanks for the Younger Dryas comet debris paper link!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (q1mTS)

319 Weapon of choice: cudgel. Anything that doesn't *stick into* the enemy-- I want to be able to SMACK AGAIN (and again) quickly!

No 'potions' for me. Everything poses a trade-off of some kind, ya know?

Skater kid is inspirational! Go, girl!

Quds are liars. Why do they get the time of day from anyone?

I learned how to flip eggs (and other foods) like that. Practice! Can be messy while learning, LOL

Howdy, horde!

Great content, Weirddave!

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)

320 Publius - thanks for the Younger Dryas comet debris paper link!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (q1mTS)

Yes, that was interesting. Would the Younger Dryas impact also be related to the one that formed the Carolina Bays?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:52 AM (Jhqzr)

321 290

My next-door neighbor went and fired semi-auto rounds of at 2 AM a couple of weeks ago at perceived Armenian gang threats (his people) which totally freaked out my daughter whose window was just next to the driveway.... other than that...ya know...

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:55 AM (25kuG)

322 I suppose the next mystery is the Nebraska Rainwater Basins and the Carolina bays . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:55 AM (rbvCR)

323
This is fascinating from the paper, putting together their scenario for the Younger Dryas impact. It wasn't one giant impact, but more like a shotgun blast, and one with a lot of buckshot.

On a faithful day some 12,800 year ago, the Erf slammed into the debris tail of comet break up. This comet was likely the progenitor of the Taurid stream, and current Comet Encke is likely a remnant.

The Northern hemisphere, particularly NA, was deluged with airbursts. A shitton of dust and soot was deposited in the atmosphere, triggering a several year "impact winter" event.

The shockwaves and all that destabilized the ice sheet margins, leading to the collpase of some of those glacial lakes and a bunch of freshwater going into the ocean, which messed up the thermohaline circulation. Temp dropped 18F, and sea level rose 16' in a very short time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

324 Sock Monkey!!!!

Thank you!

Whoohoooooo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 12:57 AM (giVIm)

325 >>Guy with the wrench. Yeah, he fucked up. Still...that heartbreaking 'tink' when you over-tighten a bolt is a learning experience.

>>To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.
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Ugh! BTDT.

Sad...

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

326 >> Would the Younger Dryas impact also be related to the one that formed the Carolina Bays?

Yes, a lot of people link those. I'm trying to remember. One idea is ejecta from impacts.

Imagine you a get a touching airburst, or even a impact from big fragment on top of a big glacial ice sheet. It throw chunks of glacial ice far and wide. That had something to do with the Carolina bay theory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (w6EFb)

327 The shockwaves and all that destabilized the ice sheet margins, leading to the collpase of some of those glacial lakes and a bunch of freshwater going into the ocean, which messed up the thermohaline circulation. Temp dropped 18F, and sea level rose 16' in a very short time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)

There is a theory (not loved by anyone) that Drake's Passage was iced over from South America to Antarctica, which moderated the temperature and storminess in the Southern hemisphere, and that when the ocean level rose, it floated the ice sheet off its moorings and broke up, to both increase the storminess, change the climate to cooler weather in South America, and raise the ocean level yet further.

To date the only evidence is secondary, and it is helped along only with a lot of handwaving.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (rbvCR)

328 Thank you for the ONT Dave.

Needed it.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:03 AM (25kuG)

329 Sock Monkey!!!!

Thank you!

Whoohoooooo!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Everything arrived intact?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:05 AM (RT3YC)

330 Beaver brand horseradish is processed in Beaverton, but it's grown on the east side of the Cascades on the Oregon/California border in the Tule Lake valley.
I'm not sure as to which is hotter, Beaver xtra or wasabi, but they'll both clean out your sinuses.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:09 AM (ha888)

331
Our current period is called the Holocene, which sort of means "whole new". A whole new world. That was after the temperature rebounded from the Younger Dryas. This is our modern world, the last half of which is pretty much all of known human history.

Before then, there were a bunch of megafauna species roaming NA. Mammoths, elephants, woolly rhinos, lions, and other big cats. Also giant beavers (the size of a bear) and giants sloths. Also humans, the Clovis culture.

They all got extinctified.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:10 AM (w6EFb)

332 Anyone ever try to count how many times 'Lea & Perrins' is printed on the label?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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No takers, huh?

The official count, outside the wrapper is 9, front label 43, (37 in the black border,)back label 3, total 55 Lea & Perrins's.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 01:11 AM (XeU6L)

333 To date the only evidence is secondary, and it is helped along only with a lot of handwaving.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (rbvCR)

There are a lot of 'weather' and climate stuff we don't understand... like right now the Arctic is loosing Ice, while the Antarctic is gaining Ice at a record pace.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 09, 2025 01:12 AM (mP0Kj)

334 325 >>Guy with the wrench. Yeah, he fucked up. Still...that heartbreaking 'tink' when you over-tighten a bolt is a learning experience.

>>To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.
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Torque Wrench

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:12 AM (I1XLT)

335 I'm not sure as to which is hotter, Beaver xtra or wasabi, but they'll both clean out your sinuses.
Posted by: buddhaha

I prefer the Xtra. The Wasabi is good and hot but it's green, which always looks wierd on a sandwich.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:15 AM (RT3YC)

336 Mana mana

Doot doo de doo doo...

Yeah, hahaha

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

337 330

YES! Did the Beaver with a roast a month ago. Eye watering with a distinct mouth pop and a finish down the throat that required a swallow of wine to quell the fire.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:18 AM (25kuG)

338 Has anyone had the Niçoise dish pissaladière? It’s apparently a kind of pizza with fermented anchovy bits as the topping. The topping is called pissalat in French and is apparently very close to one version of the old Roman garum. Wikipedia says pissalat is similar to the recipe for siqqu, from the Mesopotamian Culinary Treatise of the 2nd millennium BC (c. 1700 BC) and also similar to garum (juice or sauce, Latin, from Roman antiquity). The name comes from peis salat in Niçard and means 'salted fish'. It is made from anchovy puree flavoured with cloves, thyme, bay leaf and black pepper mixed with olive oil.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 01:18 AM (q1mTS)

339 I used to babysit a very sweet little girl. She was about 2 at the time (early 80s) and she. just. LOVED. The Muppet Show.

"Doot de doot" she called it.

Wonder where/how she's doing now? Lost track of her & her mom over the years.

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

340 My high school hotrod gang ( we'd work on cars together) had one member who joined the Navy. When he got back, we finally prohibited him from using anything but a torque wrench after the third broken bolt/stud.
Working as a machinist mate aboard a DE with a diesel engine where you can stand on the piston tops when the head is off is not good training for merely mortal gas engines.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:19 AM (ha888)

341 "pissalat"

Uh... sorry. Anything that looks like "piss a lot" is NOT going into my mouth!

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

342 Betting the kid invests in a torque wrench. Betting that was a head bolt. Not a fun extraction.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (RT3YC)

Aren't head bolts torque to yeald? Like grade 14 or some shit. I would think there would be a greater release when it snapped if it was a head bolt. He also never actually shows the bolt. I've only done one head replacement, years ago, on a isuzu off highway diesel and had a journeyman mech doing most of the work. It involved some sort of clocking attachment to the wrench. AOP probably knows what I'm talking about.
Anyway I think that video is faked.

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:23 AM (h5TUr)

343 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

As part of our vow renewal at our upcoming anniversary party (#2weeks), the pastor asked both of us to answer 20 questions.

I am not kidding when I say that it was eerie how many of them both of us answered with almost identical responses! 😲😲😲

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 09, 2025 01:26 AM (SRRAx)

344 New torque wrenches have a slip clutch for lack of a better word.
Dial in the setting and ease up to it. My old SnapOn has a dial indicator in front of the handle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:28 AM (I1XLT)

345 Anyway I think that video is faked.
Posted by: Reforger

Cynically, you're probably right. Why have a camera set up for that? And the headlamp in the brightly-lit room, just so he could take it off in disgust.....

But what did he expect to happen? He was using a breaker bar!

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 01:29 AM (DgGvY)

346 Hello, TiFW! Glad to 'see' you.

Congrats on your anniversary!

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)

347 343

Evening Teresa,

Blessings to you and your Husband on your vow renewals.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:30 AM (25kuG)

348 Aren't head bolts torque to yeald? Like grade 14 or some shit. I would think there would be a greater release when it snapped if it was a head bolt. He also never actually shows the bolt. I've only done one head replacement, years ago, on a isuzu off highway diesel and had a journeyman mech doing most of the work. It involved some sort of clocking attachment to the wrench. AOP probably knows what I'm talking about.
Anyway I think that video is faked.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:23 AM (h5TUr)

There is a thing called a torque-angle gauge, which is basically a protractor device. You torque to X torque value, attach the gauge, and move the bolt head an additional angle of degrees. I don't think torque-to-yield head bolts showed up in mainstream automotive applications until the early '90's. Studebaker V8's have 18 bolts per head, and they are 7/16 NC, and Grade 5. They can definitely be reused, unless somehow damaged.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:33 AM (Ufl/X)

349 Looks like he was using a straight bar in 1/2-inch with a reduction down to a 3/8-inch socket so maybe not a head bolt?

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (25kuG)

350 Head bolts...

I was taught (not in a classroom, but...) that you followed the specified sequence *several* times:

1st pass-- just to "snug" by feel

2nd pass-- 20lb less than final value

3rd pass-- 10lb less than final value

4th pass-- final torque value

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

351 New torque wrenches have a slip clutch for lack of a better word.
Dial in the setting and ease up to it. My old SnapOn has a dial indicator in front of the handle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:28 AM (I1XLT)

I have an ancient Snap-On inch-pound torque wrench that belonged to my father. Round dial, reads 0-150 inch pounds in either direction. You just pull on it until the dial reaches your desired torque value, then stop. I used it this week to to torque the valve body bolts in the transmission I am doing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:37 AM (Ufl/X)

352
Well, thanks to Mike mentioning it, I had to go out an observe High Loon. Clouds had moved in, but it was still shining nicely. Altitude was 36 deg, higher than the Sun at winter solstice here, 32 degrees. Still relatively low, but nothing like June this year, where the altitude was 26.5 degrees, and 26.1 the day after full moon.

That was the lowest we'll see the full moon for another 18.6 years. Things worked out just right to get full moon very close to the solstice and minimum declination during the peak of the 18.6 major lunistice cycle.

The Moon is a harsh orbital mistress with all her cycles.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:38 AM (w6EFb)

353 Looks like he was using a straight bar in 1/2-inch with a reduction down to a 3/8-inch socket so maybe not a head bolt?
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (25kuG)

Also extension pointed straight down. If he was working on a V8, that would rule out a head bolt. Carb flange bolt, maybe? And if he was using a reducer and 3/8 drive socket, maybe the "ting" was the socket splitting?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:39 AM (Ufl/X)

354 > how does one unsubscribe from this list?

- - - - - - -
THERE'S NO WAY OUT!! AHH! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! NOW WE'VE GOT YOU! AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO! HA HA AHH HA HA!!!

Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 09, 2025 01:40 AM (1AZG0)

355 352

Thank you for the celestial observation points.

With that, I will take wine glass in hand, step out into the night,

and observe.

Goodnight, Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:43 AM (25kuG)

356 Aren't head bolts torque to yeald?

Not necessarily. I think most newer diesel engines use TTY. I don't know about newer gas engines except Subaru, which is TTY. Older Chevy and Ford weren't TTY but I can't ever remember any of my wrench twisting friends ever reusing a head bolt.TTY requires a specific torque pattern but you can definitely snap a head off. I don't mess around at that level anymore, I know a guy. I did just finish putting a new cylinder and crank in my baby Stihl yesterday but it came fully assembled.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:43 AM (RT3YC)

357 old SnapOn has a dial indicator...
Posted by: Braenyard
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Old?!!..Dial.indicator?
My first torque wrench was a 50# max Craftsman, with a beam mounted on the socket connection extending parallel to the shaft and bent 90 degrees to create a pointer, which was over a plate, engraved with numbers that was fastened to the shaft with the numbers extending at a right angle to the shaft. 0 to 50 to the right and 0 to 50 to the left. As you tested on the handle, the beam would deflect to the pressure applied.
I rarely use it, but it's still in the original box in one tool cabinet out in the garage.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:44 AM (ha888)

358 I have an ancient Snap-On inch-pound torque wrench that belonged to my father. Round dial, reads 0-150 inch pounds in either direction. You just pull on it until the dial reaches your desired torque value, then stop. I used it this week to to torque the valve body bolts in the transmission I am doing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:37 AM (Ufl/X)

I have 2 inch pound torque drivers, 1/4 through 3/4 torque wrenches. Plus a 4 to 1, 3/4 to 1 inch MAC torque multiplyer. My shitty to get around having to buy a 1" torque wrench. 8 in all plus the multiplyer.

All sitting in cases on shelves in my shop as I'm WAY out of the heavy equipment gig.

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:46 AM (h5TUr)

359 Deflecting beam torque wrenches are a b!tch when you're not able to look straight-on at the scale. Like, when working at an awkward angle in enclosed spaces...

Otherwise, they're okay.

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:48 AM (rdVOm)

360 The roller-skating comeback kid made my day.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2025 01:48 AM (WZFEa)

361 Good night Horde, I need to be energized in the morning.

Teresa, I am not surprised about you and Mr. TIFW having so many similar answers, 45 years is a testament to both of you!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 01:49 AM (0nHVk)

362 Ea-Nasir is one great example of people behaving pretty much the same despite the passage of thousands of years and advancing technology. Onfim is another - he was a kid in medieval Russia. Novgorod had schools in the city for children, and Onfim was elementary-school age; he lost his homework/assignments/whatever and they were perfectly preserved in clay soil until discovered in the modern era. Doodles, blocky child-written letters, bad spelling, a note from one of his friends - excepting that the doodles are badly drawn knights and medieval stuff rather than badly drawn airplanes and cars, you look at it and think, yup, nothing has changed mentally in a thousand years.

Posted by: Locarno at August 09, 2025 01:50 AM (wiYsG)

363 G-night all.

Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:54 AM (h5TUr)

364 I have an ancient Snap-On inch-pound torque wrench that belonged to my father. Round dial, reads 0-150 inch pounds in either direction. You just pull on it until the dial reaches your desired torque value, then stop. I used it this week to to torque the valve body bolts in the transmission I am doing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That sounds like what I was describing. I guess you could call it ancient; I bought it around '66, when I moved away from.guys who I could borrow a torque wrench from.
Excuse me, "from whom I could borrow." 😁

Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:55 AM (ha888)

365 Old?!!..Dial.indicator?
My first torque wrench was a 50# max Craftsman, with a beam mounted on the socket connection extending parallel to the shaft and bent 90 degrees to create a pointer, which was over a plate, engraved with numbers that was fastened to the shaft with the numbers extending at a right angle to the shaft. 0 to 50 to the right and 0 to 50 to the left. As you tested on the handle, the beam would deflect to the pressure applied.
I rarely use it, but it's still in the original box in one tool cabinet out in the garage.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:44 AM (ha88

AFAIK, beam type torque wrenches are still made. Pretty hard for them to go out of calibration. The click-type ones, you are relying on internal mechanism to remain in calibration, or else you are just guessing. The dial-type Snap-On I have seems to be basically a dial indicator gauging the deflection of an internal beam, I think.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:57 AM (Ufl/X)

366 My 'Crapsman' clicker torque wrench exploded one day when the plastic (!) lock ring broke.

Replacement guarantee??? LOL! B!tch at the counter told me it's "not a hand tool" and said it had only a 1-year warranty. Wanted to see the purchase receipt. Huh? (It was a gift.)

I looked at it, turned it over a couple times & told her I didn't see a cord, and asked how it's *not* a "hand tool"??

Fk Sears. No wonder they went T.U.

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

367 B!tch at the counter told me it's "not a hand tool"
Posted by: JQ

She must have used hers WNBA-style.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 02:03 AM (DgGvY)

368 LOL, Mikeski-- it happened about 20 years ago. Don't know if WNBA was anything at that time. (Was it *ever*?)

Little b!tch was barely 20 years old. Probably didn't even know what TF I had in my hands. Of course, Sears was starting to go under by then, and so probably all employees were told to reject all the returns that they could.

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

369 it happened about 20 years ago. Don't know if WNBA was anything at that time. (Was it *ever*?)
Posted by: JQ

* checks *

Created in '96, started playing in '97. So almost 30 years ago?

If you would have asked me that at Bar Trivia Night, I'd have said they've been playing about 15-20 years. And even "our" "local" team has been around since '99.

So, in answer to your last question: No. No, it was not ever.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 02:14 AM (DgGvY)

370 We had a guy who would regularly break 1/4 -20 stainless allen head bolts off. not car stuff. Then they gave him taps to clean the hole first !! broke those easily. I told him to just use a modified bolt to clean the holes out. just ground some flats on it like a tap. Couldn't understand why the taps broke so easily "" well they said to use them""Every one he broke had to be spark eroded out. We used to steal the taps every time he got some. Totally incapable of learning to go easy on them. no torque except tight with 222 blue loctite. he would bend over at the waist to pick up 75 lb parts.

Posted by: Lord Percy at August 09, 2025 02:16 AM (nftVU)

371 Last dealings with Sears: my dryer heating element fried. (Old dryer, of course, and internet wasn't so great yet)

Called Sears. Gave make, model, serial # of dryer and asked for a new element. Kid says OK and sends me one, charged to my SearsCard.

Wrong. Doesn't fit. Not even close! So, I took it to the store to return & credit my account.

Manager got snippy with me, that *I* ordered the wrong part, and they cannot accept the return. Well, I explained, I did NOT order any specific part number-- the customer service person decided which part I needed and he was wrong...

Took a while, but I got the charge removed. As soon as the ZERO balance statement arrived, I closed my account. F 'em.

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

372
I got interested in the history of what's dubbed "Lunar Theory", basically the equations that tell you where the Moon gonna be at at some time in the future.

Think of simple Keplerian ellipse. The Moon, due to all the perturbations and complexities deviates from that. By the mid 18th century, they were getting good, and needed about 30 extra perturbation terms for those deviations.

By the start of the 20th Century, it was up to 1400 terms. Now mind you, this was done before computers.

When computers came along, direct numerical integration of the mess of the whole solar system became possible, and that has taken over. JPL's DE440 is the current gold standard.

However, analytical work still continues, and some Frog group has the latest and greatest. It has tens of thousands of perturbation terms. With the numerical methods, you can miss interesting periodic behavior. By working out these 10s of thousands of periodic deviations, they're looking for interesting cycles.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 02:17 AM (w6EFb)

373 4th pass-- final torque value
Posted by: JQ has
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and follow the pattern

If you don't need something like Snap On, I've had good luck with Stanley tools. They have better metal and better ergonomics than similar priced tools. The only tool that broke is a 1/4" ratchet and I'll never say that I abused the 1/4" to 3/8" drive booster socket with a cheater pipe.

However, when it broke (10yrs) I called Stanley and the lady said, we'll send you a new one". - Where do I mail the old one for verification? "Not necessary" OK, that's good business.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 02:18 AM (I1XLT)

374 Well, past midnight here. Time for me to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 02:23 AM (Ufl/X)

375 I interviewed for Honda, had physical test moving boxes from shelves etc., got hired production line. Somebody told me if you lifted wrong no job. Was jyst straight torque at the time no tty..

Posted by: Lord Percy at August 09, 2025 02:23 AM (nftVU)

376 >>and follow the pattern...
Posted by: Braenyard
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Yes. Follow the pattern *each pass*

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)

377 'Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

378 In Rome Empire there was a fish sauce that went on everything.
Like Chic Fil A sause.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (gbOdA)

One of their favorite delicacies was lampreys. Today in Wisconsin you can buy them in bait shops as "suckers".

Posted by: pjungwir at August 09, 2025 02:28 AM (q4wrI)

379 Heading for the sandman, too. Happy dreams.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 02:29 AM (I1XLT)

380 Fun moment driving home from work yesterday morning. A nice sports car (Lexus, maybe) drove in front of me on the interstate. Under the car, I saw a small fire. Some piece of his car, under the trunk, was on fire. It suddenly flashed and fell of the car, towards my car. It went under me so no damage but he quickly pulled over. Not sure what it was. I was on the Beltway so I kept going. Just curious what piece of car that was. Kind of close to the fuel tank I would think.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 02:34 AM (PGK1w)

381 Hi, Puddleglum!

>>Under the car, I saw a small fire. Some piece of his car, under the trunk, was on fire. It suddenly flashed and fell of the car, towards my car. It went under me so no damage but he quickly pulled over.

Wonder if the guy ahead of you had a 'friend' what pulled some practical joke on him?

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

382
Yeah, I'm late. I'm always late to these things. Oh, sure, I collect "firsts", but that's because I was so late for the previous thread that I happened to log in here at the turning of the tide, as it were.

Anyway, Nature called me to be awake now. I respectfully disagree and am going back to sleep. Keep it down in here, would ya?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 09, 2025 02:41 AM (Tv15w)

383 I worked with a pair of brothers. Younger bro bought a new car... and couple weeks later moaned about some strange new noise.

Older bro had put a zip-tie on the drive shaft. LOL.

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

384 I worked with a pair of brothers. Younger bro bought a new car... and couple weeks later moaned about some strange new noise.

Older bro had put a zip-tie on the drive shaft. LOL.
Posted by: JQ

And then older bro told him to take it back to the dealership so they could check the muffler bearing?

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 02:43 AM (DgGvY)

385 >>And then older bro told him to take it back to the dealership so they could check the muffler bearing?
Posted by: mikeski
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Hahaha, I don't know... I just remember younger bro being all upset & then older bro laughing his azz off.

Those were the days.

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:47 AM (rdVOm)

386
This is quite impressive. How accurate is JPL's DE440? In angular terms, for the Moon, it's at 1-2 mas, that's 2/1000 of one arcsecond.

In terms of positional accuracy, imagine the barycentric reference frame as an XYZ coordinate system in free fall with the solar system around the Galaxy. The accuracy for the Moon's position is about 4" over a decade, increasing to about 20" over 100 years.

That French semi-analytic thing has 20,000 terms. Imagine an equation with 20K terms. The error of that is 100 - 1000x DE440 over 100 years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 02:51 AM (w6EFb)

387
If Mr. Newton and the boys could come back now, I think they'd be quite impressed at how things have progressed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 02:51 AM (w6EFb)

388 JQ, nah, I think it was some piece of car. Just don't know what.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 02:55 AM (PGK1w)

389 Interesting, Puddleglum.

I can still imagine a few practical jokes, though...

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 03:00 AM (rdVOm)

390 Past my bedtime, LOL.

Thanks for the laughs, horde!

See you at Club ONT tomorrow!

Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 03:11 AM (rdVOm)

391 Two Space events in the morning

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper)
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 9, 2025
Launch Time: 9:18 a.m. EDT (1318 UTC, 15:18 CEST)

https://youtu.be/XKUf6CEAYvo

SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-10
Deorbit Burn and Splashdown - Space Affairs Live
Splashdown: 8:33 a.m. PDT, 11:33 a.m. EDT (1533 UTC, 17:33 CEST)

https://youtu.be/F6SwrRKsu_8

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 03:48 AM (sPQoU)

392 Slept 7 hours straight, best in weeks I think

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 04:06 AM (+qU29)

393 A1 may have well been come up with in 1862 for the troops out in the field, to make whatever slop they were eating a little easier to digest. That meme maybe more true than one thinks.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 04:12 AM (ZAN7R)

394 Congrats, Skip

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 04:19 AM (PGK1w)

395 No reason to get up quite yet, Monday
Will have to be up at 4am

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 04:22 AM (+qU29)

396 So much ONT!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 04:29 AM (aURVT)

397 ONT's are great for insomniac, or extend it, not sure

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 04:34 AM (+qU29)

398 "people you may know"
and it's literally someone you'd set on fire.

That took me a minute, because there isn't anybody who's literally someone I'd set on fire.

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 04:36 AM (aURVT)

399 399

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)

400 Was waiting for Pixy but giving up, see if can n a p a little more

Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 04:41 AM (+qU29)

401 We, of the Wombat Liberation Front, have captured Pixy Minx!!! No reason, we're just sociopaths!! WE LIKE DOING CRAZY STUFF!!! BWHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: Wombat Liberation Front at August 09, 2025 04:58 AM (PGK1w)

402 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:01 AM (aURVT)

403 And as far as the snarky guy with the large nose in the picture up at the top, I don't believe that the universe has a mind, so it can neither remember me nor forget me. The universe is a creation of God who does have a mind and there are repeated assurances in scripture both from the Jewish and Christian scriptures of God not forgetting me or anyone. As far as the thing about copper ingots. I don't really understand that. Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:01 AM (2GCMq)

404 Cat woke me up. Wants to eat before the pup gets up.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2025 05:02 AM (X7zFE)

Gojiro Cafe

Sculpture made of dried willow branches

Seagull trolls a cat.

It looks like a leaf. Surprise, it's not a leaf, it's a spider disguised as a leaf.

I'm not afraid of snakes but this first one has me reconsidering my position.

Remember to keep your elephant hydrated.

Horse and reindeer (?) become friends.

Swimming with whales.

Bioluminesence.

Helping a bunny trapped in a skateboard pit.

Odd couple.

A bear is out of control, as usual, but a little yapping dog puts him straight.

Some very elevated and sophisticated male humor, redolent of Balzac.

Glacial lake in Idaho is very nice.

So this is a trend which I can't evaluate. Is it funny, or just dickish? I guess possibly both but if it's too dickish I don't know if it can be funny. Anyway, the trend is walking up/driving up to people who have just had a car accident and telling them "You're not allowed to park here."

You let me know. I don't know what to think of this. It's kind of funny but I remember my couple of crack-ups and I was in no mood at all for joking at the time.

Little scottie terrier has the cutest walk.

Duck loves her puppies.

The right kind of otter.

When you got beef but you got no energy.

This bear is giving me a come hither look and I don't know whether I should trust him. I've been hurt before. And by "hurt" I mean "mauled by bears."

A bear shows off his running speed. He takes steep inclines quickly, too.

Even scarier: A duck in Attack Mode.

Mine!

Husky Orchestra.

I like to think monitor lizards still think they’re tiny incognito regular lizards and don’t realize they’re giant monsters pic.twitter.com/aizGsI1IxW
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 30, 2025

Dog complains until his treat is dipped in sauce..🐶🍝😅 pic.twitter.com/EBXNcVi2gj
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 6, 2025

15 places where nature doesn’t look real 🧵

1. Grindelwald, Switzerlandpic.twitter.com/MmrqMTtD5J
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) August 6, 2025

Who knew anteaters were just weird shaped dogs pic.twitter.com/RUjBMDJCOO
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 28, 2025

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1 You say Gojiro, I say Gojira~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 07:33 PM (mlg/3)

2 Something Wicker This Way Comes Cafe

Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (jfvTO)

3 That sculpture in the top photo is brilliant. And she's not using a crossbow!

Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2025 07:35 PM (yTvNw)

4
*sound of rotary phone dialing*

Hello? I'd like to order a Café please. Yes, to go. Number 27 in 30 minutes? Thank you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (kkTda)

5 Horse and reindeer (?) become friends.

That a reindeer or an elk?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:38 PM (PGK1w)

6 I wouldn't want to be the employee who gets told, "Get the monitor lizard off the shelf and shoo it out. Then clean up the mess. Did it pee?"

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 07:41 PM (yP/Dy)

7 That a reindeer or an elk?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:38 PM (PGK1w)

Elk.

Reindeer are caribous.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (1Gsou)

8 Father offers product review: 4 month old baby

https://x.com/TheRealCorpBro/status/
1953558541929001060

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (AOsQT)

9 6 I wouldn't want to be the employee who gets told, "Get the monitor lizard off the shelf and shoo it out. Then clean up the mess. Did it pee?"
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 07:41 PM (yP/Dy)

Every once in a while, probably once a year, a moose wanders into the hospital through the automatic doors. I assume the moose just wants to warm up, but there are plants indoors too which might look kinda tasty after eating bark all winter.

But I'd rather clean up after a moose than a monitor lizard. Ick.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 07:45 PM (1Gsou)

10 They found a new passage in the back of the Sphinx. It's called the Sphinxter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 07:45 PM (jxs9b)

11
Scottish Terriers are tough little bastards. One of the few Terrier breeds that can spar in the ring to show their temperament.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:45 PM (kkTda)

12 YOU CAN'T PARK THERE!

HEH

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (nbo+T)

13 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (+qU29)

14 Sculpture made of dried willow branches

Shouldn't that have been added to the cafe right before the ONT got posted?

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (DgGvY)

15
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (+qU29)

_________

Did you bring cake?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:47 PM (kkTda)

16 Squeeeee!

Mama sea otter and her baby are adorable! Thank you for the Friday treat, ace! Have a great weekend!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 07:47 PM (GMlj0)

17 It looks like a leaf. Surprise, it's not a leaf, it's a spider disguised as a leaf.

Aw, hell, where'd I leaf my flammenwerfer?

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)

18 up/driving up to people who have just had a car accident and telling them "You're not allowed to park here."

I think the one English bloke had the best and most appropriate response to this form of shenanigans: "Fuck off."

Posted by: When nothing else will do at August 08, 2025 07:49 PM (KOE6H)

19 Snakes are awesome. Sorry not sorry.

What’s with all these people leaving their doors open in rural areas with big, dangerous wildlife? If nothing else, don’t you wanna keep the bugs out?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:49 PM (CqoVr)

20 Glad bears don't live in my neighborhood

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (+qU29)

21 The sculpture is kind of creepy.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (fIo92)

22 Would I be a horrible person if I stuck my leg out and tripped one of these little bastard kids running around on the boat?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (GMlj0)

23 ‘Can’t park your car here’ … super dickish and deserving of a beat down. Just saying,

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:52 PM (CqoVr)

24 Meh on the sculpture.

No Michelangelo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:52 PM (zZu0s)

25 That 'tusker' sopped up some H2O
Now I know. I've only seen elephants drink from borries of water.. wow guzzle guzzle

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (VPPG8)

26 Elk.

Reindeer are caribous.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM

And elk are wapitis.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1)

27
Speaking of Jim Lovell, I see the Artemis II mission is scheduled to launch this coming April. It will basically be a repeat of Apollo 8, but won't actually enter lunar orbit, just whip around.

I'm not going to be holding my breath for this thing being on schedule.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (w6EFb)

28 The sculpture is gorgeous.

We have a collection of trolls here in Western WA. They are made with natural elements and designed to decompose in the next decade or so. They are very cool.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 07:54 PM (GMlj0)

29 Willowed but I think it's worth repeating:

240 160 Sophie Cunningham is not bad looking.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (PGK1w)

She's my dream girl. A good looking tomboy that stayed straight.
Posted by: polinikes at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (VofaG)

She's also reportedly conservative, took heat for supposedly being "MAGA".

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (8hxDK)

30 Bears can run 30+ mph. You can’t outrun a bear. Not even close. Not even Usain Bolt.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (CqoVr)

31 Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (VPPG

Was that talk to text?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

32 30 Bears can run 30+ mph. You can’t outrun a bear. Not even close. Not even Usain Bolt.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (CqoVr)

*laces up shoes*

I just have to outrun you

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (gbOdA)

33 Sorta related to the "you can't park here" thing - a close friend who is witty, drove into their neighborhood and a dog had been struck and killed in the road. According to her husband, she stopped, rolled down the window and said, "Stay . . . . . good dog" and drove off. She is very much an animal lover.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (ha1wR)

34 Bears can run 30+ mph. You can’t outrun a bear. Not even close. Not even Usain Bolt.

==

Bears can also swim and climb. They can't fly though...

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (g47mK)

35 You let me know. I don't know what to think of this. It's kind of funny but I remember my couple of crack-ups and I was in no mood at all for joking at the time.

--

It's teenage style humor, likely to get yourself yelled at

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 07:57 PM (GIcqz)

36 *laces up shoes*

I just have to outrun you
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (gbOdA)

*hands over revolver*

Go for a flesh wound.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

37 Trump Admin Orders Agencies to Delete All Records of Federal Employee “Vaccination” Status

duh HIPPA

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:58 PM (gbOdA)

38 Bears can run 30+ mph. You can’t outrun a bear. Not even close. Not even Usain Bolt.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM

True. Which is why you want to climb a tree. But not just any tree. There is a criterion to selecting a tree.

And if y'all are nice to Hadrian tonight, I will share it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 07:59 PM (0sNs1)

39 Jens Hanefeld@GermanAmbUSA . 1 Aug 2016

Germany is affected by the U.S. election. We hope that the chosen candidate will continue to support a strong NATO!

@RichardGrenell . 4h

The new German Ambassador to the U.S. in 2016 when Germany wasn’t paying its fair share to NATO.
---

Grenell got a belly full of the Germans while he was stationed there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 07:59 PM (I1XLT)

40 Bears can also swim and climb. They can't fly though...
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM

Neither can penguins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (0sNs1)

41 It's been a hectic day, so I'm kicking back with a beer and watching "Cocaine Sharks".

There are also Cocaine Salmon and Meth Trout. I have to assume there are Crack Catfish and Krokodil Gar Pike out there too.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (kpS4V)

42 Grenell got a belly full of the Germans while he was stationed there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 07:59 PM (I1XLT)

...

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (zZu0s)

43 When I'm hiking in the woods near my place hawks will without fail swoop down towards my 70lb Staffordshire. The pup is always entertained. No idea what the birds see from 40+ feet up but you ain't picking that fat boy off the ground, sorry slick.

Posted by: Arc of a Muff Diver at August 08, 2025 08:01 PM (smrJR)

44 Neither can penguins.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (0sNs1)

neither can people

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 08:02 PM (g47mK)

45 Grenell got a belly full of the Germans while he was stationed there.
----

Phrasing?!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:02 PM (kpS4V)

46 Glad monitor lizards don't live hete either

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (+qU29)

47 Actually fucking with people who just had a life problem is always dickish.

But theoretically it's funny.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (VofaG)

48 Grenell got a belly full of the Germans while he was stationed there.
----

Phrasing?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:02 PM (kpS4V)
——

I eat cannibals

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (CqoVr)

49 >>>You let me know. I don't know what to think of this. It's kind of funny but I remember my couple of crack-ups and I was in no mood at all for joking at the time.

It's dickish. It's funny.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (i24o9)

50 Ursa Bolt can outrun a bear.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 08:04 PM (63Dwl)

51 22
'Would I be a horrible person if I stuck my leg out and tripped one of these little bastard kids running around on the boat?'

Only one way to find out.
(Report back if you do)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:05 PM (3wi/L)

52 Remember to keep your elephant hydrated.

Chug-a-lug chug-a-lug

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 08:05 PM (L/fGl)

53 Remember to keep your elephant hydrated.

Sounds like a euphemism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

54 There are also Cocaine Salmon and Meth Trout. I have to assume there are Crack Catfish and Krokodil Gar Pike out there too.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (kpS4V)

Meth Moccasins

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:06 PM (gbOdA)

55 20 Glad bears don't live in my neighborhood
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (+qU29)
What about sad bears?

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 08:07 PM (LHPAg)

56 33
'rolled down the window and said, "Stay . . . . . good dog" and drove off. '

HAHahahaha!!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:07 PM (3wi/L)

57 Sad Bears are no fun

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:08 PM (+qU29)

58 Meth Moccasins
---

Nuke the Everglades.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (kpS4V)

59 A couple's lustful date night ended in terrifying tragedy when their car plunged 1,300 feet off a cliff in Brazil, sending their naked bodies tumbling from the vehicle.

Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.

The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.

CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)

60 That's amazing piece of artwork.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:10 PM (VofaG)

61 'rolled down the window and said, "Stay . . . . . good dog" and drove off. '

HAHahahaha!!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:07 PM (3wi/L)

My kids never miss a chance to wish roadkill "Get well, soon."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 08:10 PM (i24o9)

62 Meth Moccasins

Nuke the Everglades.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

And make kaiju meth moccasins? Nope!

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:10 PM (DgGvY)

63 Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26

Cougar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 08:10 PM (zZu0s)

64 Stay . . . . . good dog" and drove off.

Saw a pic, someone nailed a dead dogs hind feet to crossed boards like a Christmas tree and a ball in it's front paws, then stood it up by the roadside.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (QMSy2)

65 59

'CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.'

Dumb fucks.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (3wi/L)

66 A couple's lustful date night ended in terrifying tragedy when their car plunged 1,300 feet off a cliff in Brazil, sending their naked bodies tumbling from the vehicle.

Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.

The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.

CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx

If the "you can't park here" guy would have gotten to them just a minute sooner.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (DgGvY)

67 Actress Kelley Mack, 33, has died suddenly from an aggressive brain cancer after getting vaccinated with mRNA.

The up and coming Hollywood star was pressured into taking the shot to be on set for Chicago Med and other films and commercials.

Kelley was diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma, a rare form of brain cancer, in Sept 2024. The turbo cancer spread quickly and overcame her less than a year later.

🤬🤬🤬

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (rqka2)

68 So drive up and a 23 ft boat launched in the ditch from stopping too fast.
My best friend yells
You cant launch there.
The dude ran after my car trying to kick it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:12 PM (gbOdA)

69 Anyway, the trend is walking up/driving up to people who have just had a car accident and telling them "You're not allowed to park here."

Jerk move.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2025 08:12 PM (TRQeB)

70 59 A couple's lustful date night ended in terrifying tragedy when their car plunged 1,300 feet off a cliff in Brazil, sending their naked bodies tumbling from the vehicle.

Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.

The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.

CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)
Risky sex.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 08:13 PM (LHPAg)

71 If the "you can't park here" guy would have gotten to them just a minute sooner.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (DgGvY)

I was hoping he used protection

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:13 PM (gbOdA)

72 Due to a scheduling conflict, I will be unable to attend the ONT this evening. If someone would be able to make an excuse for tardiness in my place, it would be much appreciated.

Thank you for your attention on this matter. If you are unable to come up with an excuse on your own (how did you make it through high school?) feel free to ask for suggestions.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 08:13 PM (jfvTO)

73 >>Saw a pic, someone nailed a dead dogs hind feet to crossed boards like a Christmas tree and a ball in it's front paws, then stood it up by the roadside.

Good thing they didn't throw a green dildo at it. That would've crude.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:15 PM (viF8m)

74 'CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.'

Dumb fucks.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

A couple's lustful date night ended in terrifying tragedy when their car plunged 1,300 feet off a cliff in Brazil, sending their naked bodies tumbling from the vehicle.

Sounds more like flying fucks.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:15 PM (rqka2)

75 If the van is a rocking it will soon be rocking.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:15 PM (VofaG)

76 CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)

Sounds like a good Darwin candidate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 08, 2025 08:15 PM (5+Y60)

77 Though humans are rarely mauled by penguins, people are often molested by the foul fowl in a mephitic manner best not described in mixed company.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

78 I read that on the internets somewhere.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

79 Even the sculptures made of dry willow branches are girl bosses now.

Posted by: eleven at August 08, 2025 08:16 PM (fV+MH)

80 61

'My kids never miss a chance to wish roadkill "Get well, soon."'

One of mine is, "Look, kids. Free cat!"

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:16 PM (3wi/L)

81 So drive up and a 23 ft boat launched in the ditch from stopping too fast.
My best friend yells
You cant launch there.
The dude ran after my car trying to kick it.
Posted by: rhennigantx

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:17 PM (rqka2)

82 Policeman shot in Atlanta has died. Current buzz/info/whatever is that shooter believed he was ill from C19 vaccine and intended to attack CDC (dunno if Emory and CDC located close to each other).

In other newz, USAF has arrested airman involved in Sig320 fatality that has sparked a crisis over the safety of that firearm. Charges include a false statement, obstruction of justice, and involuntary manslaughter. So, plot thickens.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:17 PM (U/Byj)

83 That creek in Switzerland is man made

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (+qU29)

84 Even the sculptures made of dry willow branches are girl bosses now.
Posted by: eleven

You ever met a dude named "Willow?"

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (DgGvY)

85 I guess telling your friend to watch their step after they have already tripped and landed on their face is kind of dickish.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (VofaG)

86 Re "You can't park here" If it is on TicTok it is likely a dick move. This 'challenge' is a prime example.

Posted by: Rick T at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (xeXUW)

87 Capts Lewis & Clark of expedition fame, had lots of fun with bears on the upper Missouri 1803-1806.

The journals have some of the best unintended humor or “oops” recorded. Grizzlies hadn’t reallly been seen to the outside world and was unknown to science. The various Indian nations, as they travelled up the river kept regaling them of the size, ferocity, and general orneriness of these bruins.

Lewis got a little cocky, and decided that while the Indians prepared to meet grizzlies in the same ceremonies as going to war, they were obviously no match for modern rifles and besides, we’re a disciplined Army unit. They were all excited about seeing these grizzly’s. Then they started seeing these HUGE tracks. Hmmmm….

The grizz in those days would usually attack on sight. “I’d rather fight two Indians than one of these bears” was his updated opinion. “I rather expect the parties curiosity is pretty well satisfied with respect to these gentlemen”. Another time Lewis was walking on the bank alone, watching something and he discovered a grizzly had snuck up on him “within 20 paces”. He instantly raised his rifle and also recollected it was not loaded. He tried to slowly back away.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (JiYEK)

88 Switzerland is phony. They sweep a lot of trash under the carpet before the tourists arrive and they hand out Ricola to cover the smell.

Posted by: Trenton Is Nicer at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (G5+As)

89 'My kids never miss a chance to wish roadkill "Get well, soon."'

I’ve always wanted to get a helium filled “Get Well Soon” balloon and tie it to a leg.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (rqka2)

90 Star Trek is on. It's the one where AI gets ahold of the Enterprise and it goes about as well as you would expect.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

91 CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Sounds like a good Darwin candidate.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

They almost made it.....

Posted by: zombie Charles Darwin at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (DgGvY)

92 That didn’t work, the bear immediately took off at a full gallop. Lewis later said that he vowed from then on never to leave his rifle unloaded longer than the time it took to reload it.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:21 PM (SH3As)

93 Trump Admin Orders Agencies to Delete All Records of Federal Employee “Vaccination” Status

duh HIPPA
Posted by: rhennigantx

Aww... no more participation trophies for them!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (TRQeB)

94 I guess telling your friend to watch their step after they have already tripped and landed on their face is kind of dickish.
Posted by: polynikes

"Smooth move, Ex-Lax."

Posted by: 1980s dickishness at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (DgGvY)

95 90 Star Trek is on. It's the one where AI gets ahold of the Enterprise and it goes about as well as you would expect.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)

Daystrum 5000

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (gbOdA)

96 Unless things have changed, Brazil had plenty of "love hotels" on the outskirts of every city and town of any size. Never got to Espiritu Santo, but the couple may have had that option. Sad!!

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (U/Byj)

97 "CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx

What a way to go. Or come. As the case may be.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (vFG9F)

98 Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.

The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.

See kids? Extramarital sex kills.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (TRQeB)

99 68
'My best friend yells
You cant launch there.
The dude ran after my car trying to kick it.'

Ha!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:23 PM (3wi/L)

100 "Some very elevated and sophisticated male humor.."

Can't help but laugh.

Posted by: easy the elder at August 08, 2025 08:23 PM (X7ceH)

101 There's a guy on X, an actual expert on the subject, who has talked about the vaccination record thing - he's an expert on government record-keeping procedures and laws. He alerted his former colleagues across several agencies to get ready for the vaccination-record scrubbing exercise.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:24 PM (U/Byj)

102 In other newz, USAF has arrested airman involved in Sig320 fatality that has sparked a crisis over the safety of that firearm. Charges include a false statement, obstruction of justice, and involuntary manslaughter. So, plot thickens.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:17 PM (U/Byj)
Damn.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 08:24 PM (LHPAg)

103 73, jeezely crow, some people ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:24 PM (dKEEs)

104 Are you saying there might not be anything wrong with the 320s?

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:25 PM (vFG9F)

105 no back door sex
lowers parking brake

oooooooooooooooooooooooo

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:25 PM (gbOdA)

106 Farts are never not funny.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 08:25 PM (144I4)

107 89
'I’ve always wanted to get a helium filled “Get Well Soon” balloon and tie it to a leg.'

'It's OK. He's just sleeping. shh'

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:26 PM (3wi/L)

108 I guess telling your friend to watch their step after they have already tripped and landed on their face is kind of dickish.
Posted by: polynikes

"Smooth move, Ex-Lax."
Posted by: 1980s dickishness

Friends help you up. Good friends point & laugh.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:26 PM (rqka2)

109 "Farts are never not funny.
Posted by: haffhowershower"

Dog farts in the cab of the truck are not funny. And the dog knows it.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:27 PM (vFG9F)

110 “Trenton is Nicer”

LOL

Whoever you are, you’re grounded, buster

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:27 PM (YZNHN)

111 toe tag sad
toe balloon hahahahaha

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:27 PM (gbOdA)

112 I only know what I read in the papers. No earthly idea, as usual, about whether this arrest is material to the issue of 320 function and safety. But I'm guessing we'll all see as time goes on.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:28 PM (U/Byj)

113 There appear to be some defects in the control panel.

Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at August 08, 2025 08:30 PM (vFG9F)

114 In other newz, USAF has arrested airman involved in Sig320 fatality that has sparked a crisis over the safety of that firearm. Charges include a false statement, obstruction of justice, and involuntary manslaughter. So, plot thickens.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:17 PM (U/Byj) 112 I only know what I read in the papers. No earthly idea, as usual, about whether this arrest is material to the issue of 320 function and safety. But I'm guessing we'll all see as time goes on.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:28 PM (U/Byj)Back in the safe you go until you're sent back to the factory.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 08:32 PM (LHPAg)

115 106 Farts are never not funny.

Posted by: haffhowershower

You're doing it wrong.

Fart as you exit the elevator, or as you get on one of the loooonnnnnggg escalators in ATL. My favorite, is the sun heated glass vestibule with an inner and an outter door. That one is best executed when you can watch the next victim.

Most fun is crop dusting the grocery store and sending Junior-eette back to get something i 'forgot'. I get a punch in the ribs for those though.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (QcUc+)

116 94 I guess telling your friend to watch their step after they have already tripped and landed on their face is kind of dickish.
Posted by: polynikes
_____________________

Well, that's a tough one. We're all different. So, my best advice is to give it a shot and see how you feel. There's no substitute for experience.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (dIske)

117 A couple's lustful date night ended in terrifying tragedy when their car plunged 1,300 feet off a cliff in Brazil, sending their naked bodies tumbling from the vehicle.

Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.

The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.

CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)

Edging>>Ledging

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (144I4)

118 The lady archer; that's no sculpture, that's a witch!

Throws ju-ju dust at the computer screen; Mrs. Paco: "I'm not cleaning that stuff up!".

Posted by: Paco at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (mADJX)

119 CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)

Edging>>Ledging

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (144I4)

It's always nice to finish at the same time.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (i24o9)

120 Has the USAF cop tried to hire Alec Baldwin's lawyer?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (bKn1x)

121 Willow sculpture - a broom a man can dance with.

Arrow not included.

Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (7W0uI)

122 Started watching Maverick, but 60 some year old guys don't fly fighter planes or race in F-2

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (+qU29)

123 115
'Most fun is crop dusting the grocery store and sending Junior-eette back to get something i 'forgot'. I get a punch in the ribs for those though.'

Jogging at the track. Let loose right as you pass a walker.
Every after will think it's the walker's fart.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:36 PM (3wi/L)

124 The Germans just took away an AfD candidate's right to participate in a municipal election because of misuse of quotation marks and writing a review of Tolkien in reflection to the series The Rings of Power. He apparently was seen to make the "white power" symbol that used to be known as the OK sign in everywhere but Latin America where it is known as the a**hole sign.
It was important to save German Democracy

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 08:36 PM (rbvCR)

125 You don't shut a child off when it makes a mistake.

Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at August 08, 2025 08:36 PM (vFG9F)

126 My kids never miss a chance to wish roadkill "Get well, soon."

==

You raised them well !

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 08:37 PM (g47mK)

127 Bideo

Posted by: Accomack at August 08, 2025 08:37 PM (4qMiv)

128 Some very elevated and sophisticated male humor, redolent of Balzac.

The only thing funnier is Uranus.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 08:37 PM (Riz8t)

129 125 You don't shut a child off when it makes a mistake.
Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at August 08, 2025 08:36 PM (vFG9F)

haha

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:38 PM (gbOdA)

130 Ketamine Koalas . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 08:38 PM (rbvCR)

131 Was that talk to text?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

No we have borries of water here in the Jersey Pine Barrens next to Ocean Spray cranberry bogs and bodies of water...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 08:39 PM (VPPG8)

132 and Ecstasy Racoons. Not that anyone could tell the difference.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 08:39 PM (rbvCR)

133 While soft authoritarianism flowers in Germany, the whole EU appears set to impose crazy orwellian controls/surveillance on internet comms. It's discouraging when much of the US populace, most of its non-elite "elite" cohorts and institutions, and most of the world exhibit such rabid authoritarian impulses. To put it mildly.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:40 PM (U/Byj)

134 Started watching Maverick, but 60 some year old guys don't fly fighter planes or race in F-2
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (+qU29)

Chuck Yeager.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:40 PM (VofaG)

135 Farts are never not funny.
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 08:25 PM

Sadly, not everyone agrees.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) new hyper-masculine face of the Democrat Party at August 08, 2025 08:42 PM (0sNs1)

136 124, yeah, a few years ahead of us, that's all ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:43 PM (dKEEs)

137 Not sure if it was Jim Lovell or maybe Pete Conrad, both of them made the very first Astronaut selections but were eliminated at New Mexican Lovelace Clinic during the physical and psych exam portion. Nobody knew what spaceflight entailed at all (can humans eat and drink in weightless environment?) and they weren’t sure what to test for.

So they decided to test for everything just to be sure. Really weird shit, eveything from treadmills and poked and prodded and all orifices inspected and detected, sitting with feet in ice water whilst trying to solve math equations.

Anyway, stool samples had to be turned in every day and everybody was tired of that. I think it was Lovell who boxed up one of his exemplars and wrapped it up with a bow. That didn’t go over very well. One of the Rorschach tests, one was actually a blank piece of paper. Conrad reached over and flipped it. “It’s upside down”. They didn’t like that either. “Not suitable for extended space flight” uh-huh

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:44 PM (YZNHN)

138 Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet in Alaska next week to discuss cease fire in Ukraine. I hope they don't go to Sitka because it really is overcrowded in this season from the tourists

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 08:44 PM (rbvCR)

139 [Late to The Party, and undoubtedly pointed out in the prior thread:]

The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.

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

That's gotta be a Babylon Bee headline, amirite?

In the Master of Social Work program?

This is so highly triggering that I began shaking so hard my front tooth came out!

And why is Columbia University lstill named after some dead old white genocidal male?

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 08:45 PM (wKsr6)

140 >>While soft authoritarianism flowers in Germany, the whole EU appears set to impose crazy orwellian controls/surveillance on internet comms. It's discouraging when much of the US populace, most of its non-elite "elite" cohorts and institutions, and most of the world exhibit such rabid authoritarian impulses. To put it mildly.

If Musk had not bought Twitter and Trump not won, we would be in the exact same place. That's not conjecture. That would have happened.

Escaping tyranny is a lot easier said than done. And we were on the exact same path as the EU and the rest of the west.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:46 PM (viF8m)

141 I was so happy to see the anteater cavorting with the puppies. I thought they lived quite a boring life. The little anteaters don't ever get the pleasure of coming home after school asking their Mother-"Hi Mom! What's for supper?"

Posted by: Ants, Again? at August 08, 2025 08:47 PM (G5+As)

142 Good stuff about Lovell and Conrad. First gen astronauts were not exactly arrow-straight conventional types, thank gawd. Favorite is still Cooper falling asleep atop the Mercury rocket before liftoff. Shepard's golf stunt on the moon was outstanding, most American thing ever.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:47 PM (U/Byj)

143 "You're not allowed to park here."

Dick move.

What if the person you say it to just had a loved one killed in the accident?

Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 08:48 PM (i0F8b)

144 So, top pick?

She was Willowed while commenting on a longbow vs crossbow thread?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 08:49 PM (mP0Kj)

145 Once in a while, UToob promotes a video worth rewatching.

The Tonight Show, Sam Kinison performs "Are you lonely tonight?"

https://youtu.be/WipFqwSjSMM

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 08, 2025 08:50 PM (/HDaX)

146 Evenin’, All. Happy Weekend.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 08:50 PM (77rzZ)

147 Sitka would be kinda natural choice as the old Russian capital. But I'd imagine something more conventional. Not much time for prep or advance work here but there's gotta be some bitchin' isolated fishing cabins.

Not sure how the russkis roll for such things but our side will require rotary wing access to any location, president Air Force One to Elmendorf, chopper after.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:51 PM (U/Byj)

148 Maybe a sandbox would have been a good idea.

Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at August 08, 2025 08:51 PM (vFG9F)

149 137, lol, back in mid 70s I took one of those old-school pre-employment tests (before Duke Power) ... I had some fun doing it, as well as knowing every answer including the extra-credit ones; the returned answer (as related by my boss) was "at least as smart as the guy who wrote the test"

probably still covered by NDA, but the only machine shop I ever had with white linoleum floors ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:51 PM (dKEEs)

150 For privacy, there's always Shemya.

Or a shuttle summit. One meeting on Little Diomede, then one on Big Diomede.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:52 PM (U/Byj)

151 JS, exactly spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:53 PM (dKEEs)

152 Pastor interrupts sermon to look down at three men in the front row. He asks them, “What would you want your loved ones to say as they are looking down at you?”

1sr man: That I was a good husband and father.

2nd man: That I lived a good life of kindness to others.

3rd man: “Look! He’s moving!”

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:53 PM (rqka2)

153

Purdue University on Aug. 8, 2025, dedicated the new Amelia Earhart Terminal at its West Lafayette airport and launched daily commercial air service to and from Chicago through SkyWest Airlines.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 08:54 PM (63Dwl)

154 rickb. LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:54 PM (dKEEs)

155 Yeah Cooper was cool. “Things are startin’ to stack up a bit in here” he said, as his Mercury spacecraft electrical system and computer was failing. He went on to make a perfect re-entry using manual navigation techniques. Guys like him (Lovell, especially) proved that humans were necessary in space flight, and automation wasn’t going to work.

Early on, guys like Von Braun suggested that the crew might be put to sleep, they wouldn’t be necessary to operate controls. Two buttons - “Go To Moon” and “Return to Earth” went the joke

Pilots, being pilots, weren’t having any of that, and demanded that they fly the spacecraft. They were proven correct.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:56 PM (/g2Ya)

156 One of the Rorschach tests, one was actually a blank piece of paper. Conrad reached over and flipped it. “It’s upside down”. They didn’t like that either. “Not suitable for extended space flight” uh-huh
Posted by: Common Tater

Well, he's gonna spend several days in a teeny-tiny room with other people. "Snarky asshole" is not the guy you want there, no matter how technically competent he might be.

I wouldn't want to spend a week in a space capsule with me, and I am me.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:56 PM (DgGvY)

157 >>> Anyway, the trend is walking up/driving up to people who have just had a car accident and telling them "You're not allowed to park here."

Sounds like an invitation to get an asskicking. You notice all the people who did that shouted it from a moving vehicle and then drove away. The real funny clip will be when one of them gets interrupted when they are trying to drive off and has to face the consequences.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (p4nXC)

158 exas Attorney General Ken Paxton is now going nuclear to ensure the Texas fleebaggers never return to power.

Paxton announced Friday afternoon that he has filed a “historic” lawsuit with the Texas Supreme Court to declare all 13 seats vacant.

“The rogue Democrat legislators who fled the state have abandoned their duties, leaving their seats vacant,” Paxton said in a statement. “These cowards deliberately sabotaged the constitutional process and violated the oath they swore to uphold.
Furthermore that ignorant slut Jasmine Crockett will be forever kicked out of Texas politics after being kicked out on her fat ass."

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (VPPG8)

159 Will Putin be able to see his house from Alaska?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (63Dwl)

160 Purdue University on Aug. 8, 2025, dedicated the new Amelia Earhart Terminal
_____

Great but, I hear it's impossible to find.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (Dv3i1)

161 Trump wouldn't agree to meet with Putin unless the framework of a deal was done. Definitely not in Alaska.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)

162 The yuuuuuge importance of Elon buying Twitter - in order to make it more free - is another item that's discouraging. One tycoon makes one acquisition - and THAT is a major obstacle to an authoritarian slide? What?

Implies a terrifyingly fragile and shallow culture of freedom in institutions and populace.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (U/Byj)

163 Today I saw a video clip of Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, bragging about how the EU is such a paragon of free speech, as opposed to Russia, meanwhile a heckler is being dragged out of the crowd by the police.

Irony is lost on some people.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (bKn1x)

164 Guess Illegals will now go pick vegetables in the yard

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (+qU29)

165 Well, running Brave in a new install of Linux Mint 22 on an old 500 gB hard drive. Seems to be working, so far. Now to get back a working email client, and import bookmarks and shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 08:59 PM (oTy3B)

166 Current spacecraft are too claustrophobic for me. When we get craft like Kirk’s Enterprise, then we can talk.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:00 PM (77rzZ)

167 Daystrum 5000
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (gbOdA)

Or it could be I, Mudd.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:01 PM (zZu0s)

168 Leftists are fkin nuts, picking some word and claiming it's a dog whistle

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:01 PM (+qU29)

169 I think the most impressive thing about Daystrom's M-5 computer was how easy it was to convince it to turn itself off.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 09:01 PM (vFG9F)

170 Furthermore that ignorant slut Jasmine Crockett will be forever kicked out of Texas politics after being kicked out on her fat ass."

==

hmmm...is that a direct quote ?

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 09:01 PM (g47mK)

171 It is almost uniformly the case that summits deal with small details, symbolism, and the future, and that all the deals are already done, correct.

This is one time I wonder if there might be more in play. Both the circumstances and Trump's healthy self-confidence as a deal-maker let's me guess there's at least a small chance that some of the real work will get done at the meeting.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 09:02 PM (U/Byj)

172 Spacecraft don't have big enough bathrooms

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:02 PM (+qU29)

173 Implies a terrifyingly fragile and shallow culture of freedom in institutions and populace.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (U/Byj)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

174 I saw on Insty where Trump is about to announce a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Huge, if true.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:03 PM (77rzZ)

175 I saw on Insty where Trump is about to announce a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Huge, if true.
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:03 PM (77rzZ)

the one they already signed today at the White House? you need a better time machine

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 09:04 PM (g47mK)

176 France maybe or some other European country guy got a year for burning a Koran

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:04 PM (+qU29)

177 Sock, you probably know this already but machinists are a rough crew sometimes.

The Army G2 or whatever it’s called investigated the highly skilled machinists at Wendover, in the 509th Composite. Turns out about a dozen were wanted felons and escaped convicts. Somehow they got in the Army, figuring that was a good place to hide.

They didn’t know what to do with them. Tibbetts called them in one by one, they about shit when he read them their dossier. He said if they kept their mouth shut and did good work, he would keep their files on ice. If not, not.

I bet a skilled machinist was a good job then. Better than storming the beach at Anzio or Tarawa anyhow

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 09:05 PM (TbGaV)

178 All summer stayed up as late as I could, now back on day shift better turn this off
Have a great night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:05 PM (+qU29)

179 I'm sure I was here yesterday, I think. Anyway, I missed this.
-----

President Trump immediately orders a NEW CENSUS to not count ILLEGAL ALIENS.

This could have absolutely enormous implications. Florida, Texas missed out on a Congressional seat in 2020. Blue states are over counted.

“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024.
People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:05 PM (I1XLT)

180 175 OK, my Time Machine sucks. The naked chicks from high school who run it are perhaps not as competent as I was led to believe.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:06 PM (77rzZ)

181 172 Spacecraft don't have big enough bathrooms
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:02 PM (+qU29)

Not to mention that without gravity, they don't work as well as one might hope.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 08, 2025 09:06 PM (p4nXC)

182 Bulg, already happened, today. Haven't looked at agreement yet (both bilateral peace deal and economic stuff involving US in the mix).

Funny, Armenian PM Pashinyan looked awkward or at least unprepared at several points. Even when being greeted by Trump outside the West Wing door, and especially during the signing (he kept looking over and Trump and Aliyev as if to see what he should do). Not important, but funny.

Gonna have to finally do my back homework. Was involved in this particular kerfuffle in various ways and spent a lot of time in the area, including the disputed part, years back. But lost interest and didn't even focus again when Azerbaijan (to my surprise) took N-K back just before the 2020 election (heist) here.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 09:07 PM (U/Byj)

183 Policeman shot in Atlanta has died. Current buzz/info/whatever is that shooter believed he was ill from C19 vaccine and intended to attack CDC (dunno if Emory and CDC located close to each other).
====

Possibly a White Christian Trump voter?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 09:07 PM (/lPRQ)

184 That's ok, Bulg, good help is hard to find

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 09:07 PM (g47mK)

185 Today I saw a video clip of Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, bragging about how the EU is such a paragon of free speech, as opposed to Russia, meanwhile a heckler is being dragged out of the crowd by the police.

Irony is lost on some people.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (bKn1x)

Ursula von der Leyen believes in free speech, hers. Just don't interrupt her, peasant.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 09:08 PM (gKDq2)

186 >>This is one time I wonder if there might be more in play. Both the circumstances and Trump's healthy self-confidence as a deal-maker let's me guess there's at least a small chance that some of the real work will get done at the meeting.

There is only one deal with Putin that Trump cares about, the war in Ukraine. Trump has been singularly focused on this since the beginning of his campaign. His team has been working on this and so has he as recently as his huge tariffs on India for selling Russian oil.

Does anyone really think after watching Trump defy every "expert" with deal after deal and after ending 7 wars around the world he would agree to meet Putin on US soil if the deal wasn't at least 99.9% done?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 09:08 PM (viF8m)

187 Good evening, friends!

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 09:09 PM (1hgaQ)

188 Grindelwald is nice, but Rocky Mountain National Park also offers views like this.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (sDWtc)

189 Purdue University on Aug. 8, 2025, dedicated the new Amelia Earhart Terminal
_____

Great but, I hear it's impossible to find.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (Dv3i

Maybe a good party to crash.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (5+Y60)

190 Hey, Piper!

Now the party can really start!

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (77rzZ)

191 Given the number of people who included the
F-word in response, I'd say "No parking" is a dick move

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 09:12 PM (8sydA)

192 190 Hey, Piper!

Now the party can really start!
Posted by: Bulg at August 08,

Ha! Thank you!

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 09:12 PM (1hgaQ)

193 Common Tater, thanks, have never heard that bit of 509th lore. Would think the men involved would have been investigated to death prior to assignment to the 509th, though. Tibbetts was an excellent manager, just another WWII story of exactly the right guy in exactly the right job. Sweeney's book talks about how the first Wendover base commander abused the "Silverplate" thing - this word meant any request using it was to be fulfilled, no questions asked - and he was fired by Tibbetts and flown out the same day it was discovered.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 09:12 PM (U/Byj)

194 Security gonna' be tight in AK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:13 PM (I1XLT)

195 Today I saw a video clip of Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, bragging about how the EU is such a paragon of free speech, as opposed to Russia, meanwhile a heckler is being dragged out of the crowd by the police.

Irony is lost on some people.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Irony, like dark humor, is like food.

Not everyone gets it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 09:14 PM (rqka2)

196 stool samples had to be turned in every day and everybody was tired of that. I think it was Lovell who boxed up one of his exemplars and wrapped it up with a bow. That didn’t go over very well.

And that is how Neil Degrasse Tyson was born.
And now you know... the rest of the story

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:15 PM (sDWtc)

197 Ursula von der Leyen believes in free speech, hers. Just don't interrupt her, peasant.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 09:08 PM (gKDq2)

In the presser she did with Trump after arranging the tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements, Von der Leyen had the demeanor like she knew Trump was on the edge of ordering her to go get the towel and the bag of oranges.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:16 PM (rbvCR)

198 "tell me about the Oranges, Urusla"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:17 PM (rbvCR)

199 Sculpture made of dried willow branches

Shouldn't that have been added to the cafe right before the ONT got posted?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (DgGvY)

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Fistbump.

Oh, and she is the sniper!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 09:17 PM (144I4)

200 Piper, I’ll take just a little more vodka in my smoothie, thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:17 PM (77rzZ)

201 Howdy Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2025 09:18 PM (QMAsf)

202 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 09:18 PM (WzM/W)

203 Dan Bongino@FBIDDBongino . 7h

I wanted to share the latest updates regarding ...

-This week alone, YOUR FBI teams, alongside our state, local, and international partners, arrested 134 subjects.
The FBI’s Child Exploitation Operational Unit and our Violent Crimes Against Children International Task Force arrested a 36-year-old Irish national who was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and coercion and enticement of a child.
...

-123 kg of fentanyl was seized BEFORE hitting our communities
-3,329 total subjects have been arrested
-770 subjects have been indicted ...etc.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:19 PM (I1XLT)

204 FOOD!

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:19 PM (77rzZ)

205 FOOD!
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:19 PM (77rzZ)

Hey there, Glub

Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2025 09:20 PM (QMAsf)

206 OK, who’s the bum who told Tonypete that we were “good people?”

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (77rzZ)

207 a 36-year-old Irish national who was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and coercion and enticement of a child.

Was his name something like "Marwan"?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (sDWtc)

208 YouTube series that uses an homage to Police Squad as their intro

https://youtu.be/7hCPODjJO7s?si=BYCVwioiT_DW34z6

Cool series, up to 41 episodes now.
You can watch two crazy Brits stuff a Celica GT4 engine and drive train into a Mini

Posted by: PMRich at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (Pe+uV)

209 [Unexpectedly, "The Cure" Bioweapon was WORSE than the "The Disease" Bioweapon:]

The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox

BREAKING: Another COVID “conspiracy theory” just came true.

A Special HHS Adviser confirmed it, and you could see the pain written all over his face.

This explains why RFK Jr. effectively shut down all mRNA vaccine funding.

https://is.gd/3ieGqE

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (eAryO)

210 194 Security gonna' be tight in AK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:13 PM (I1XLT)

Not particularly. Not much threat up here. The usual closed airspace, they will meet probably on base, knowing Trump he may come downtown to meet and greet, but honestly, on a Friday in August, most folks will be out of town.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (1Gsou)

211 >>In the presser she did with Trump after arranging the tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements, Von der Leyen had the demeanor like she knew Trump was on the edge of ordering her to go get the towel and the bag of oranges.

It's an absolute pleasure watching a cutthroat businessman who plays for the US negotiate instead of some hack career hack lawyer politician. We have won so huge over the last 7 months I think some are getting spoiled.

There has never been anything like what Trump has accomplished in 7 months and likely won't be in any of our lifetimes. It's incredible where we and the world are today as compared to last November.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 09:23 PM (viF8m)

212 Does anyone really think after watching Trump defy every "expert" with deal after deal and after ending 7 wars around the world he would agree to meet Putin on US soil if the deal wasn't at least 99.9% done?

It doesn't make me think Trump is smart. Not by any means.

It makes me believe more than ever that grabbing someone at random, that owns land, and is out of debt ... kind of a variation of the Old Greek System ... would give us better leaders than Nixon or Reagan. Certainly better than any Bush.

Its not that Trump is so smart. Its just that everyone else has been so purposely stupid for so long.

Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 09:23 PM (atlTj)

213 187 Good evening, friends!
Posted by: Piper

I will unleash my flying monkey lawyers!!

Posted by: Jim Nantz at August 08, 2025 09:23 PM (PGK1w)

214 Was his name something like "Marwan"?
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (sDWtc)

It shows how my mind works in that i immediately thought 'Is he making a 24 season 4 reference to some sort of mastermind?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

215 207 O’ Marwan

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:24 PM (77rzZ)

216 The willow sculpture is very cool.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 09:24 PM (+dm09)

217 Ace, this Cafe has been so much fun!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 09:24 PM (8sydA)

218 188 Grindelwald is nice, but Rocky Mountain National Park also offers views like this.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (sDWtc)

My neighborhood offers views like that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 09:26 PM (1Gsou)

219 Coach Reeve, 'throwing dildos on the court is not funny'
'the sexualization of women is not funny' [psst sex can be fun]

anyway, here she is:

https://tinyurl.com/38vr4dx7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:26 PM (I1XLT)

220 Will there be any Apollo astronauts left when yumans return to the Moon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2025 09:26 PM (NfBWh)

221 Are there rules in major league baseball against bright green bats?

Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (i0F8b)

222 Pretty sure if Wilt got thrown live pussy on the floor back in his day he would have not complained.

Now, granted, the man was busy. But I doubt he would have missed a rebound.

Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (atlTj)

223 219 Coach Reeve, 'throwing dildos on the court is not funny'
'the sexualization of women is not funny' [psst sex can be fun]

anyway, here she is:

https://tinyurl.com/38vr4dx7

Posted by: Braenyard

THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!

Posted by: Feminist at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (PGK1w)

224 Wtf? You ask this bitch what she thinks of MAPs. Right now.

You can sexualize any fucking thing in this culture except women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (zZu0s)

225 >>>
Its not that Trump is so smart. Its just that everyone else has been so purposely stupid for so long.
Posted by: Free Thinker
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schreeek, as the stylus slides across the turntable

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:28 PM (I1XLT)

226 You can sexualize any fucking thing in this culture except women.

In all fairness, have you seen most of 'em ? Have you listened to most of 'em ?

Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 09:28 PM (atlTj)

227 Eh, Pete Conrad was by most accounts one of the funniest guys to be around. He was a great pilot and a brainiac, but he loved practical jokes. He was cool, even in the face of death.

The old school pilots were … different. There’s a tale of a pilot whose plane was in some sort of death spiral or whatever and he’s ran out of ideas asking for help. Somebody radio’d back “quit whining, die like an aviator”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 09:30 PM (VqV9I)

228 >> Will there be any Apollo astronauts left when yumans return to the Moon?

I was just wondering the same thing. Only 5 total Apollo astronauts remain. Four Moonwalkers, Buzz, David Scott, Harrison Schmitt and Charlie Duke, and then Fred Haise.

Schmitt and Duke are the youngest, at 89. Both will turn 90 later this year.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 09:30 PM (w6EFb)

229 173, seconded!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 09:30 PM (dKEEs)

230 Piper, admit it. The williow sculpture is you, right?

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:31 PM (77rzZ)

231 When Vladimir Putin visits Akaska to meet with President Trump on Friday, August 15, it will mark the first visit to Alaska by a Russian head of state since Alaska was sold by the Russians to America for $7.2 million in 1867.
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tcn's going to be there with a flag

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:32 PM (I1XLT)

232 I’ve always wanted to get a helium filled “Get Well Soon” balloon and tie it to a leg.

I have actually seen a dead, boosted from the heat racoon with a Mylar balloon tied to its uplifted (from the bloat) hind leg.
This was before cameras in cell phones.
I hurried home for a camera, but when I got back to where I had seen the dead 'coin it was gone.

Posted by: waepnedmann at August 08, 2025 09:32 PM (5UJkg)

233 g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 09:34 PM (dKEEs)

234 tcn's going to be there with a flag
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:32 PM (I1XLT)

Nope. I'm going to be in my camper at Tolsona, or perhaps at the bar at Lake Louise.

It used to be sort of fun when a President came through Elmendorf, when I worked on base. Sometimes we got to go out on the flightline to see AF1. We certainly got to watch it take off and land.

Now, meh. Just means less aircraft around for a day.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 09:36 PM (1Gsou)

235 Are we sure the coach's name is actually Peeved?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2025 09:37 PM (NfBWh)

236
Wait, there's a 6th still alive, Rusty Schweickart. He was the lunar module pilot for Apollo 9, the LEO test mission of the lunar module. He's thus technically Apollo, but never left earth orbit.

The 5 count is those who left LEO and at least went near the Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 09:38 PM (w6EFb)

237 The Gerrymandering thing is pretty insane when you stop and think about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)

238
Schweickart would've been on the roster for subsequent Moon missions, but he got a bad case of space sickness, and they didn't want to risk it on later missions.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 09:41 PM (w6EFb)

239 230 Piper, admit it. The williow sculpture is you, right?
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:31 PM (77rzZ)

Nope. Wouldn’t know how to shoot an arrow, and I am not made of vines.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 09:41 PM (+dm09)

240 G’night, Sock Rat.

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:42 PM (77rzZ)

241 So what was the covid co piracy theory that was confirmed?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:42 PM (zZu0s)

242 Are there rules in major league baseball against bright green bats?
Posted by: davidt

The all-wise DDG says:

Paint or other coatings are permitted, but they must not interfere with the natural properties of the wood or create an overly slick surface.

Manufacturers must ensure that the wood grain is visible and that no alterations have been made to enhance performance beyond the natural properties of the wood.

The Major League Baseball Rules Committee [makes] decisions on colored bats, which require special approval for use in professional games.

So, probably no bright green bats, so soon after bright-green-dildo month.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 09:43 PM (DgGvY)

243 The Gerrymandering thing is pretty insane when you stop and think about it.
-
It's pretty logical if you abandon the idea that representatives are there to impose our will on government in favor of having political parties which make their own peace with each other in order to exclude the rest of us from having any influence.

Posted by: Methos at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (zLwRl)

244 Been trying to watch the Patriots preseason game on patriots dot com.
I have never seen as unprofessional a broadcast as this on. Recently using one end zone camera only , and there is volume only when play by play man speaks.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (n4GiU)

245 My mother lived in the country in a house I built for her.
About 20 miles from Red River in North LA.
So I needed to got to town and a dude in a truck with a big cooler had coon for sell.
I asked to look and it was racoon.
With 1 paw still there.
He said cause people got mad if you sold them possum instead of coon.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (gbOdA)

246 We have Gerrymandering thanks to Gov. Eldridge Gerry (7/17/1744 – 11/23/1814) of Masshusetts.

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 09:45 PM (gKDq2)

247 Haise still does live podcasts on YouTube, at least recently. Really great, I suggested he do one every week.

I was struck how sharp these guys were. Tom Stafford has an interview where he’s 90, not too long before he died, and he was talking extemporaneously as the term goes, on at length about highly technical issues. I remember my gob being smacked because at the time Biden was “in the news” for being a barely ambulatory vegetable while everyone around him tried to deny it.

I liked flying with the old crusty SOBs with about 9000 flight hours. “Get in the goddamned aircraft!” he says. Yessir… Their knowledge and experience increases the odds of survival if something mechanical happens. Maybe it is unsolvable .. maybe not.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (xHdZY)

248 So, probably no bright green bats, so soon after bright-green-dildo month.

The latest dildo is purple. Sports betting sites now are letting you place prop bets on what color the next one will be.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (OyOhQ)

249 SNEKS!!!
Sneks bad!!!

*shudders*

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (2WIwB)

250 My mother lived in the country in a house I built for her.
About 20 miles from Red River in North LA.
So I needed to got to town and a dude in a truck with a big cooler had coon for sell.
I asked to look and it was racoon.
With 1 paw still there.
He said cause people got mad if you sold them possum instead of coon.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I can hear the banjo in the background of this comment.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (DgGvY)

251 239 *Bulg ditches fantasies of archeress Piper*

Sigh. How’s the puppy?

Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:47 PM (77rzZ)

252 Bears can run 30+ mph. You can’t outrun a bear. Not even close. Not even Usain Bolt.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (CqoVr)

But I can outrun Mrs D.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (2WIwB)

253 bloated not boosted
'coon not coin

I hate autocorrect!

Posted by: waepnedmann at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (5UJkg)

254 He said cause people got mad if you sold them possum instead of coon.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (gbOdA)

It was in some story that in India it was habitual for the butcher to leave the paws on rabbits because that way you could be assured it wasn't a cat

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (rbvCR)

255 It was in some story that in India it was habitual for the butcher to leave the paws on rabbits because that way you could be assured it wasn't a cat
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (rbvCR)

pig in a poke means you bought a cat.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:51 PM (gbOdA)

256 I insist they leave head on cow when they sell me prime rib!

Posted by: discerning buyer at August 08, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK)

257 It was in some story that in India it was habitual for the butcher to leave the paws on rabbits because that way you could be assured it wasn't a cat
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (rbvCR)

I hear the same about elephant v rhino in Africa bush markets.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:53 PM (gbOdA)

258 Hey, tcn in AK, our daughter and hub landed in Fairbanks this morning. If you see a couple looks like they're from Oklahoma, give 'em a wave. They're driving a rental car. Can't miss 'em.
😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 09:53 PM (7W0uI)

259 It was in some story that in India it was habitual for the butcher to leave the paws on rabbits because that way you could be assured it wasn't a cat
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (rbvCR)

No buy.

Posted by: Your Local Chinese Take-Out at August 08, 2025 09:53 PM (gKDq2)

260 I insist they leave head on cow when they sell me prime rib!
Posted by: discerning buyer at August 08, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK

Good eatin' on a cow's head. You have the tongue, the brains, and Momma always said to the butcher to leave the eyes in 'cause it had to see us through the week.
Laws, we did laugh at that one!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:54 PM (rbvCR)

261 Top of insty has protests in GB.

I am surprised starter has not locked down the internet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:54 PM (zZu0s)

262 At the biannual dildo throw to kick off the WNBA season it is common to hear

Nice Dick

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (gbOdA)

263 The latest dildo is purple. Sports betting sites now are letting you place prop bets on what color the next one will be.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (OyOhQ)

chartreuse

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (gbOdA)

264 Just came from a Crowder video on Youtube, where the gang pretends that South Park's recycling of the sexual relationship with Satan thing, and that Parker and Stone have basically become illustrators of the most histrionic fears of Democrat Undergrounders is "funny".

And if you don't like it, you don't like comedy. I get the whole sanguine thing and don't let it bother you thing.

But its' just not funny.

ICE raids a live Dora the Explorer show and Parker and Stone stick "We only want the brown ones" in Kristi Noem's mouth. (Sock puppets are so funny!)

I don't know. People can chose to like this if they want to. But I've already heard the Trump wants to deport all Hispanic thing too many times to find it "cutting edge".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (krQz2)

265 I hate autocorrect!
Posted by: waepnedmann

It misspelled autocoonect.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 09:56 PM (144I4)

266 256 I insist they leave head on cow when they sell me prime rib!
Posted by: discerning buyer at August 08, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK)

with the ear tag

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:56 PM (gbOdA)

267 oh
and bells

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:56 PM (gbOdA)

268 At the biannual dildo throw to kick off the WNBA season it is common to hear

Nice Dick
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (gbOdA)

That's a compliment in their locker rooms.

Posted by: Your Local Chinese Take-Out at August 08, 2025 09:56 PM (gKDq2)

269 Off sock

Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 09:57 PM (gKDq2)

270
Artemis II is scheduled to launch in April next year, maybe by late Feb they hint. I'm not going to hold my breath.

This will be a less that complete repeat of Apollo 8. They're going to whip around the Moon, but not enter lunar orbit.

Hell, the current Block I incarnation of the SLS, with IPS second stage is not capable of entering Lunar orbit and then getting out. Well, it technically could, but the fuel margins would be too low for manned comfort.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 09:57 PM (w6EFb)

271 But it's smiling at us.

Posted by: Old Man Parker, Replacement Christmas Duck Dinner at August 08, 2025 09:57 PM (wVcYX)

272 But it's smiling at us.
Posted by: Old Man Parker, Replacement Christmas Duck Dinner at August 08, 2025 09:57 PM (wVcYX)

Christmas is carnage!

Posted by: Ferdinand at August 08, 2025 09:58 PM (gKDq2)

273 You can sexualize any fucking thing in this culture except women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (zZu0s)
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Lunch boxes?

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 09:59 PM (krQz2)

274 I still think ICE baton beating Count on Sesame Street would cut down on DACA children.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:00 PM (gbOdA)

275 Good eatin' on a cow's head. You have the tongue, the brains, and Momma always said to the butcher to leave the eyes in 'cause it had to see us through the week.
Laws, we did laugh at that one!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:54 PM (rbvCR)

Kill a 20 or 30 pound grouper and the Bahamians wanted that head for a breakfast stew served over rice.

Sousa

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (gbOdA)

276 I still think ICE baton beating Count on Sesame Street would cut down on DACA children.
Posted by: rhennigantx

One! One count of police brutality! Ah ah ah!

Two! Two counts.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (DgGvY)

277 He said cause people got mad if you sold them possum instead of coon.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (gbOdA)

In my area, you can get a permit for roadkill dear. Game changer.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (i24o9)

278 Ont is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

279 do you throw a dildo like a lawn dart or a boomerwang

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:03 PM (gbOdA)

280 $50,000 Signing Bonus, $60,000 Student Loan Repayment, 25% Premium Pay

anyone looking for a job ?

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:03 PM (g47mK)

281 The latest dildo is purple. Sports betting sites now are letting you place prop bets on what color the next one will be.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (OyOhQ)

chartreuse

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (gbOdA)

I'm going to be offended if they finally throw a Caucasian one, and it is rinky dink.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 10:04 PM (i24o9)

282 You can sexualize any fucking thing in this culture except women.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (zZu0s)
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Lunch boxes?

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 09:59 PM (krQz2)

Sick freak.

Posted by: Toaster Fucker at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (i24o9)

283 Who be the empowering art babe?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (AiNp4)

284 They arrested Trump for not dotting Is on paper work. Oh and tried to assassinate him. Twice. Plus imprisoned thousands of his supporters for “trespassing”.

The German stuff is child’s play compared to the left here.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AiNp4)

285 'You can't park there'... not a fan. Too many finding other's misfortune (no matter the stupidity level) as funny creates ugly cycle of disrespect.

Now dog farts - hilarious!

Love these posts. Keep 'em coming!

Posted by: Just plain at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (rXBnM)

The Week in Woke

Elizabeth Warren is all-in on the communist Hamas supporter Zohran Mamdani.

Fox News
@FoxNews
Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor.
REPORTER: "Democratic socialism--is this what the party should look like?"
WARREN: "Yes, you bet!"

Bear in mind that for 70 years, the Democrat Party has denied that they were socialists. Now they're endorsing socialists without apologizing for all their previous lying. This was always what they wanted: Socialism.

And communism.

The old Democrat Party claimed, "We're not socialists, we're just liberals."

The new Democrat Party says, "We're not communists, we're just socialists."

Well you lied last time. Why should we believe you now?

Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey
I gift you with the dumbest thing you'll read today.
Where is the evidence that masculinity is crippling society? I can't with how dumb this is.
From a journalistic perspective, there is no evidence that masculinity is crippling society. There is more evidence, in fact, that calling all men toxic for being masculine is crippling society.
But they just print it like it's true.
ALSO, the "trans" movement is the most adherent to "traditional gender roles." The movement thinks lipstick and a hairstyle makes a person a woman. The movement thinks if a man likes "feminine things" (???) he must be a woman, penis be damned.
I mean the whole thing...

Deport him now.

Anti-Israel campus leader Mahmoud Khalil was ripped Thursday over his attempt to "justify" the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks in a recent interview -- with elected officials saying it boosts the Trump administration's case seeking to kick him out of the country.
New York and national officials condemned Khalil for his statements seemingly sympathizing with Hamas' rationale for the cowardly assault on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people and took another 251 hostage in Gaza.
"Mahmoud Khalil must be immediately deported," Upstate New York Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post.
The Republican congresswoman has long lambasted Khalil, a green card holder, for his role in fomenting virulent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.
"He is a chief pro-Hamas terrorist agitator who contributed to the antisemitic encampments at Columbia, the rioting and violent takeover of Hamilton Hall, and the harassment and physical assault of Jewish students," she said.
"Naturalized citizenship is an earned privilege of our nation, and he has not earned it. The government should continue taking every lawful step necessary to remove this enemy from the United States," Brooklyn Assemblyman Kalman Yeger seethed.
Speaking with New York Times journalist Ezra Klein on his podcast this week, Khalil, 30, called Oct. 7 a "desperate" moment which Palestinians "had to reach" in order to have their voices heard.
"Unfortunately, we couldn't avoid such a moment," he said, when asked about the attack by the terror group -- which is still holding 50 hostages in Gaza, of whom just about 20 are believed to still be alive.

UPenn loses another big donor over its embrace of Middle Eastern shithole Nazism.

Donor Stephen Levin is no longer making donations toward his $15 million pledge for naming rights to the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Although he yanked his support in November 2023, it is coming to light this week with the student newspaper article.
"Penn has quietly removed the name of 1967 College graduate Stephen Levin from the behavioral sciences building he previously endowed after the longtime University donor halted his contributions over the administration's handling of antisemitism on campus," the newspaper reported Wednesday.
According to a letter obtained by the Daily Pennsylvanian, Levin had told former President Liz Magill: "Today Penn is far from the University I attended, along with my father and two of my sons."
"Furthermore, I want my name removed from the building and no longer want to be associated with Penn. Penn is an embarrassment not only to the Jewish community but also has lost its luster as a superb Ivy league school."

Please hire these people. They're the best and brightest.

The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.
The decision, detailed in the college's course catalogue, reflects a broader trend among social work programs to adopt inclusive language.
The York College program chose "to create an anti-racism learning environment by adopting alternative terminology in the place of the word 'field,'" its catalogue states.
"The decision was made by the MSW Team due to the term's association with a painful historical era that inflicted significant harm on Black Americans/African Americans during their enslavement in America," it adds.

Hardball, finally: Florida's top educational official recommends clawing back the salaries from school board officials who expelled a father from a meeting for raising justified concerns.

The Florida commissioner of education is recommending a local school district lose funding totaling the salaries of all its board members following the board's treatment of a father who spoke up at a July 31 meeting.
As reported by Corey DeAngelis on X, Parent Jeremy Clepper (pictured) took his turn during public comment to criticize Alachua County Public Schools Board Chair Sarah Rockwell for her social media comments celebrating the recent death of pro wrestling star Hulk Hogan.
Hogan, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, died a week ago from a heart attack.
Upon learning of Hogan's passing, Rockwell wrote on Facebook "Oh, did Hulk die? I didn't even know. One less MAGA in the world."
In response to a comment, Rockwell added Hogan "worked with the McMahons to union bust professional wrestling. he's never been a good guy. I feel absolutely nothing about his death."
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During his time at the mic, Clepper told Rockwell her comments had "cheered for the death of MAGA" and he mocked her apology: "Aren't you a highly educated woman that knows the exact meaning behind her words?"
Clepper concluded by telling the board chair she "should step down," and that she's a "disgusting, vile human being."
A board member took issue with Clepper's remarks and called over a police officer to remove him from the meeting. While he was being escorted out, another board member noted the district's attorney had requested that Clepper not be removed.
But by that time it appeared Clepper was already on his way out of the room.
Many in attendance at the meeting (who were wearing face masks, including Rockwell) were in favor of ejecting Clepper. One can be heard saying "He needs to go," while local "social justice activist" Faye Williams (pictured) screamed over and over "Get out!" and called Clepper a "white supremacist."
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The commissioner noted since the Alachua Board "failed to ensure free expression of all viewpoints during public comment" he found "probable cause" that state law was violated. As such, Kamoutsas recommended the Florida State Board of Education "withhold from the [Alachua] district an amount equal to the salaries of all board members."

Okay, so it's the district, not the actual school board fascists, losing the amount of the fascists' salaries. It's something, I guess. (I'd say we're punishing the kids rather than the officials but you know most school funding is just wasted anyway.)

An MIT professor says she (of course it's a she) spends one third of all of her working hours fighting "Trump terrorism."

Sounds like MIT should claw back one third of her salary then, doesn't it?

When Professor Catherine D'Ignazio isn't running the "Data + Feminism" lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing "reproductive justice hackathons" she is fighting Donald Trump's "state terrorism."

LOL. So much communist cant.

The urban studies professor, and "data feminism" scholar, recently explained "how U.S. universities can survive state terrorism" in an essay for Academe Blog.
"What distinguishes state terrorism from other routine uses of force is that the violence is designed to 'send a message' --to reverberate out into the population, to engender fear, and to shift behavior," Professor D'Ignazio (pictured) explains.
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"The Trump administration's strategy conjoins specific instances of threats and violence with widely reported media representations in order to spread fear," the professor wrote. "This is what distinguishes the current violence of the state as terrorist. It is not only a judicial project but also a public relations project and a strategic communications project."
Even "left- and center-leaning" publications like the New York Times play a role in promoting fear, the professor said.
It's no wonder then that one-third of her paid time goes to fighting "state terrorism."

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"Surviving state terrorism will not be easy," however. "During this period, we must remember that the current project is an elaborate exercise in political theater designed to spread fear, isolation, and division."
"Acts of radical care, everyday courage, and collective action are the most effective antidote to state terrorism."

Wesley Yang
@wesyang
The media celebrated a 17-year old female mathematical prodigy while actively suppressing the fact in the initial report that the girl is actually a boy. It's not hard to do the intersectional math and figure out why the story wasn't framed as a triumph of "transgender inclusion." A weird confluence of different interests at play, among them the fact that 1.) a contagion of trans-identification is ripping through the male nerd population and 2.) STEM and tech are "solving" their gender problems with a burgeoning new cohort of these male nerds who "identify" as a women
1.) We want there to be an inspiring female math prodigy
2.) We have one! But he's a boy.
3.) But trans girls are girls, right? No?
4.) No they aren't.
5.) OK, just leave it out.

Aphorisms like "the early bird gets the worm" are how societies pass wisdom from mouth to ear. What aphorisms people use tell you about their cultural values.

Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo find that aphorisms that encourage individuality, responsibility, and tolerance for others' thoughts are no longer being used by the young. In fact, some young people say they've never heard of these formerly-common aphorisms like "It's a free country."

In May, we surveyed 1,122 American adults about common expressions related to free speech and intellectual pluralism. And while the results show some promising potential trends, they also illustrate ways our cultural climate isn't as free speech-friendly as it could be.
Before we go further, a quick pedantic point: It can be argued that many of the sayings in question aren't technically idioms, which are defined as common phrases or expressions that carry symbolic rather than literal meanings -- e.g., "raining cats and dogs," "break the ice," or "by the skin of my teeth." And while we love being pedantic, let's agree to use a looser definition of the term, which can be interchangeable with "expression," "phrase," or "saying," for the sake of this piece.

Um, the word you're searching for is "aphorism."

Do people not know what words mean any longer?

But let's continue:

The FIRE/NORC 2025 Idioms Survey, which was conducted through NORC's AmeriSpeak panel, focused mainly on participants' familiarity with and usage of the following expressions:
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
"It's a free country."
"Everyone's entitled to their own opinion."
"Walk a mile in someone else's shoes."
"To each their own."
"Different strokes for different folks."
"Who am I to judge?"
"Address the argument, not the person."
The good news is, recognition of the vast majority of these idioms was generally very high across all participants, ranging from 76 to 85%.
In fact, only 6% of surveyed participants said they hadn't heard any of these expressions before.

But that's the percentage who hadn't heard of all of the aphorisms. More people haven't heard of particular ones.

Given that these particular sayings tend to communicate perspectives that are in favor of "small-D" democratic values like free speech, epistemic humility, and intellectual pluralism, it's a very good thing that people are familiar with them.
The bad news is that, while recognition was high across the board, participants reported both hearing and using these phrases at low numbers.
For each of the selected idioms, 30% of participants or fewer said they heard them used "fairly" or "very" often, and at most only 21% reported using them "fairly" or "very" often themselves.
Even the most well-known phrases still achieved low double-digit results on the survey questions. For example, there are few sayings that would be more helpful for the promotion of free speech culture than "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," and we'd love for it to be more prevalent in our culture. Unfortunately, only 28% of participants reported hearing this expression either "fairly" or "very" often, and only 21% reported using it at those same levels.

A bet everyone routinely hears about the progressive stack and deplatforming Nazis and fascists and authoritarians, though.

Stanky hoe-ass American women are now getting, get this, tattoos of hair in their armpits so that they always appear hairy and smelly even if they shave.

To be honest, I don't imagine this is a super-popular trend. In fact it might just be this one stanky hoe-ass.

But it's still something that this particular stanky hoe-ass wants to show off on social media and be praised for.

I guess she's trying to Defeat the Male Gaze but I gotta tell you, honey, you're working too hard. God took care of that for ya.

It's totally the children's choice, right? Sex and the City "star" Cynthia Nixon: "My kid is trans, my sister's kids are trans, every kid I know is trans and proud."

Woke "history teacher" wants her kids to know that when Brown People practiced child sacrifice, it was a good, Mostly Peaceful type of child sacrifice, because they just wanted their heathen gods to deliver a good crop and also the children who had their hearts pulled out of their still-heaving chests "volunteered" to be executed.

These teachers are all so intelligent, educated, competent, and mentally healthy that I can't believe we're able to keep them on as teachers for only $100,000 per year, insane benefits and retirement packages, and a work year consisting of just over 180 days out of 365. Surely they could make so much more money as aerospace engineers and mathematicians specializing in higher-dimensional topography.

Noted Stock Market Wizard Nancy Pelosi: "We're are hoping we can have gender-affirming care for our trans kids."

Ohh my god it’s true, Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is giving $30,000 to each illegal migrant family to help them move into homes

Maura Healey is shifting shelter costs to the state’s HomeBASE program. The program provides rental assistance to migrant families,… pic.twitter.com/yy4CyhcwK8
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 6, 2025

Prime Time #99 Alex Stein drops some transgender truth bombs in the Texas Senate.

STOP IT!!!🤣🤣🤣 —NOT FUNNY!!! pic.twitter.com/z1Rb5qMgEk
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) August 7, 2025

How far are you willing to go to do what must be done?

DENOUNCE:

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Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:31 PM (0N4FZ)

2 So white guys who work out are literally destroying the country. That explain pajama boy selling obamacare. We have somehow stumbled into an alternate universe.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (0N4FZ)

3 What next, Spock with a goatee?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (0N4FZ)

4 Ace went nuts with t he content.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

5 A "democracy" is a country. "Democratic socialism" is socialism within a country.

i.e. national socialism.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)

6 They both whyte a muggfuccas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (jxs9b)

7 The left's favorite aphorism would be if it feels good do it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 06:35 PM (vZUXb)

8 I should have said, in every country that is practiced before the big global "country" in Marx's imagination, it's national socialism.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:35 PM (krQz2)

9 The dildo range comment is good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

10 Ot's more traditional to pelt them with rocks and garbage.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 06:37 PM (jxs9b)

11 When will jobless students start suing universities for teaching them nothing but hating Jews?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 06:37 PM (kTd/k)

12 Aphorism: No Blood, No Foul.

Someone said something you *perceive* to be racist? Fuck off.

Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:38 PM (i0F8b)

13 The Massachusetts thing is insane, but it all is. Fucking crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

14 Bear in mind that for 70 years, the Democrat Party has denied that they were socialists. Now they're endorsing socialists without apologizing for all their previous lying. This was always what they wanted: Socialism.
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Tom Haden, himself, said that he calls himself a "progressive" because he can't yet come out as a "socialist".

This is when I learned of crypto-socialists in the liberal fold.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:39 PM (krQz2)

15 Sophie Cunningham looks sturdy enough to withstand a dilbow or two.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:39 PM (jgmnb)

16 You ever wonder if the left at this point is not even that pro immigrant as they are 1) sunk cost phallic and mostly 2) we don't want illegals, ergo they have to outdo each other shoving them down our throats.

Also 3) it's about fighting Trump.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

17 Sophie Cunningham looks sturdy enough to withstand a dilbow or two.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:39 PM (jgmnb)

She's decently hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (zZu0s)

18 ALSO, the "trans" movement is the most adherent to "traditional gender roles." The movement thinks lipstick and a hairstyle makes a person a woman. The movement thinks if a man likes "feminine things" (???) he must be a woman, penis be damned.

I mean the whole thing...
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Been my point for a while.

Also "trans", suggests an other side. There are no sides in a fluid.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (krQz2)

19 Sophie Cunningham is 6'1". Were gonna need a bigger dildo.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (jxs9b)

20 The old Democrat Party claimed, "We're not socialists, we're just liberals."

The new Democrat Party says, "We're not communists, we're just socialists."
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Ace, let's not be over deterministic here. There were very staunch anti-Communists Democrats back in the day. Ronald Reagan was one of them.

I'm old enough to remember when "Scoop Jackson" Democrats were a thing, as were pro-life Dems.

The party has been hijacked, and a big part of the problem is all the Boomers who THINK Scoop Jackson still has a place in the party. He doesn't. He's dead and his grave has been desecrated in every imaginable way.

Truth is a powerful weapon, and if we want to pierce the veil of lies the media has employed, we have to emphasize that these are NOT THE OLD DEMOCRATS. Their are weirdos and usurpers.

Remember the Hard Hat Riot and how Al Gore (of all people!) was a conservative, chosen to balance Slick Willie. Tipper hated dirty song lyrics, but 30 years later Albert is needing his chokra released.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (ZOv7s)

21 Aphorisms like "the early bird gets the festive little hat"

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (BXf0+)

22 When I was a kid the message was "Nothing wrong with a girl playing with trucks".

Today it's "Quick, get that boy a penis!"

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (krQz2)

23 When will jobless students start suing universities for teaching them nothing but hating Jews?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 06:37 PM

Hey now, that is a marketable skill if they move to the middle east. They can get a big locality bonus if they move to gaza and join hamas like so many of them want to.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (0N4FZ)

24 The dildo range comment is good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:36 PM (zZu0s)
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WNBA ratings would soar if the players had to doge dildos at the free throw line.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

25 Aphorisms like "the early bird gets the festive little hat"
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (BXf0+)

ace sitting on a Vespa.

Or

Ace swinging a messenger bag.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (zZu0s)

26 "To each their own."

Never heard of it (number disagreement).

Posted by: Bombadil at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (MX0bI)

27 >> In fact, some young people say they've never heard of these formerly-common aphorisms like "It's a free country."

Well as I love to point out - 50% of under-18 year olds in this country are not white.

In other words - 20-30% are immigrants or children of immigrants. Many from cultures who have decidedly different views on all of these issues than we do.

I dont think "everyone is entitled to his own opinion" is a way of life in India or China.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (04Xj5)

28 We have somehow stumbled into an alternate universe.

It's the Large Hardon Collider.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (BXf0+)

29 The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Posted by: Bombadil at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (MX0bI)

30 WNBA ratings would soar if the players had to doge dildos at the free throw line.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)
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"Catching" them would be more impressive.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)

31 Warren is a Marxist too

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (+qU29)

32 Just auto-replace "Democrat" with "Commie Bastard".

It just rolls off the tongue.

Posted by: Chuck at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (QKD5H)

33 When I was a kid the message was "Nothing wrong with a girl playing with trucks".

Today it's "Quick, get that boy a penis!"
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (krQz2)
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More like: "Quick, cut off that boy's tits! Quick, cut of that girl's dick!"

They do not add anything, just destroy healthy tissue.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (ZOv7s)

34 How did you like the movie, Ace? 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (SRRAx)

35 We have somehow stumbled into an alternate universe.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (BXf0+)
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"Bearenstain Bears" was the first clue!

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:45 PM (krQz2)

36 "Catching" them would be more impressive.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)
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Interesting split between those who like the D and those who like it but deny it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)

37 I’m laughing so hard there are tears in my eyes from the coach’s press conference.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (hlNLQ)

38 "Catching" them would be more impressive.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)

It would be better ball work that these gals have done their entire lives.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

39 WNBA ratings would soar if the players had to doge dildos at the free throw line.
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I doubt it would further impair their shooting percentages.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (TN0g+)

40 Reagan and Newt's successes destroyed any semblence of balance in the Democrat Party. Right-leaning and moderate Dems either lost election or became Republicans. The Democrats were left to the tender mercies of the Bolsheviks.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO)

41 The way things are going I expect the WNBA to have sponsored ‘bobblehead dildo’ nights next season.

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (SRiFu)

42 11
'When will jobless students start suing universities for teaching them nothing but hating Jews?'

That isn't the only hate they teach.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (3wi/L)

43 Warren is a Marxist too
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (+qU29)

How ?

(could not resist!)

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (g47mK)

44 That war... that has been declared against us? Yea... might want to acknowledge it and act accordingly.

Or not.

It doesn't have to be violent... but it's likely. So what to do?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (Q4IgG)

45 16 You ever wonder if the left at this point is not even that pro immigrant as they are 1) sunk cost phallic and mostly 2) we don't want illegals, ergo they have to outdo each other shoving them down our throats.

Also 3) it's about fighting Trump.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

I have never met anyone who is pro the current immigration situation. Left or right. White or black. American Canadian or european.

What they are is terrified of being called a racist. We need to stop that shit. Or as they say "sticks and stones may break my bones …"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (04Xj5)

46 Alex Stein's first jobs were as a bail bondsman, in a family of bail bondsmen. Telling Chivos that they have to go but the big booty latinas can stay is probably the less dangerous career path

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (rbvCR)

47 The new Democrat Party says, "We're not communists, we're just socialists."
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"A distinction without a difference."

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (TN0g+)

48 Saban did the same thing to the SEC, btw. LSU fired a coach that guaranteed them 10 wins a year just because he couldn't consistently defeat Nick Saban.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (jc0TO)

49 I have an entirely different conception of the”dildo range”

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (hlNLQ)

50 Sophie Cunningham looks sturdy enough to withstand a dilbow or two.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:39 PM (jgmnb)

She is cute enough that she probably doesn't have to resort to one. Unlike many of the WNBA hos.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (5WIH7)

51 i.e. national socialism.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)

You forgot to start that post with "Actually"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM (rbvCR)

52 That isn't the only hate they teach.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (3wi/L)

Exactly. Its okay if they hate America or whites or any of the freedoms we enjoy. But we draw the line at whether or not they like Jews?

What is that?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM (04Xj5)

53 In all actuality, feminists and woke journalists (but I repeat myself) are damaging society. They have done so much damage that their influence has infected whole societies to the point of near collapse.

In the United States, approximately 77% of K–12 teachers are female. While i haven’t looked up stats on political affiliation, voting trends suggest that a significant portion lean toward progressive or left-leaning viewpoints. This demographic imbalance can influence the perspectives and values shaping young minds. When such a disparity exists, the lack of diverse viewpoints—regardless of teaching ability—may reduce the balance of approaches in problem-solving, instruction, discipline, and empathy, as men and women often bring different tendencies and perspectives to these areas. It would be hard to ignore that this also has a tendency to plant the seeds of ideological bias.

As with everything in life, balance is important. Based on what we know today, balance is a crime from the viewpoint of hard-core leftists..

Posted by: Trip at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM (9BJNk)

54 The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.

Maybe they should eliminate the name from Master as well, hhhmmm CUNY?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM (2WIwB)

55 Another "Thank your for attention to this matter" proclamation from POTUS. Putin is going to meet Trump in Alaska for a summit on Aug 15.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (w6EFb)

56 I have an entirely different conception of the”dildo range”
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (hlNLQ)
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The dildo is evolving. Once exclusively considered a close-in device, a new generation is seeing it as a missile weapon.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (ZOv7s)

57 The Massachusetts thing is insane, but it all is. Fucking crazy.
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Its abuse of office, pure and simple. She literally is taking American's money and gifting it to invaders. And she will be re-elected by those who are having their money taken from them.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (TN0g+)

58 Exactly. Its okay if they hate America or whites or any of the freedoms we enjoy. But we draw the line at whether or not they like Jews?

What is that?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM

I only note it because it is amusingly petard hoisting.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO)

59 Warren is a Marxist too

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM

warren is not a marxist, she is more aligned with the old Soviet communist party. She wants all of your stuff and she wants her and her buddies to keep their stuff.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:50 PM (0N4FZ)

60 Its abuse of office, pure and simple. She literally is taking American's money and gifting it to invaders. And she will be re-elected by those who are having their money taken from them.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM

It's a free country. The polity has the right to be wrong, as long as they don't try to export it.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:50 PM (jc0TO)

61 Another "Thank your for attention to this matter" proclamation from POTUS. Putin is going to meet Trump in Alaska for a summit on Aug 15.

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HA! You can see Russian from there!

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 06:50 PM (g47mK)

62 The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.

Maybe they should eliminate the name from Master as well, hhhmmm CUNY?
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And remove "College" from the name as well, because blacks didn't get to go to college for a very long time.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (TN0g+)

63 Did they run out of green ones?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (63Dwl)

64 Hare, hunter, field.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (63Dwl)

65 I think it is a perfect venue!

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (g47mK)

66 Reagan and Newt's successes destroyed any semblence of balance in the Democrat Party. Right-leaning and moderate Dems either lost election or became Republicans. The Democrats were left to the tender mercies of the Bolsheviks.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO)

I notice that Central American and African dictators became increasingly insane from 50's on. Part of that was because with subsidies from the West to support them in specific policy stances, there was no reason to care about what they looked like or if they were electable, or even if they had to support themselves in the face of opposition.
The Left has gone the same path, I think, for the same reason. So much money flowed in no matter how horrible they were.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (rbvCR)

67 I am hoping that strict internal immigration enforcement will drive the illegals to these sanctuary cities and states.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:52 PM (jc0TO)

68 I only note it because it is amusingly petard hoisting.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO)

I note it because it is stupid. "You maga people are racist!" "Yeah well you leftists are antisemites!"

It is juvenile and does nothing to advance an argument.

Be as anti Jew or pro Jew as you want. Just do it from your own country.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:52 PM (04Xj5)

69 The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.
___________________________________

Goodbye:
Mrs. Field's Cookies
Field of Dreams
Sally Fields
Wrigley Field
magnetic field
gravitational field
fielding a team
fielding an army
Flander's Field (where poppys grow)
field goals

People are, definitely, getting dumber.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (dIske)

70 57
'Its abuse of office, pure and simple. '

It's that and a bit more. They're aiding and abetting criminal behavior with state funds. I don't know which law(s) that breaks but it is certainly some.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (3wi/L)

71 Be as anti Jew or pro Jew as you want. Just do it from your own country.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:52 PM

I live here.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (jc0TO)

72 It's totally the children's choice, right? Sex and the City "star" Cynthia Nixon: "My kid is trans, my sister's kids are trans, every kid I know is trans and proud."

---------

Bet they all have vegan cats too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:54 PM (dDmld)

73 52
'Exactly. Its okay if they hate America or whites or any of the freedoms we enjoy. But we draw the line at whether or not they like Jews?'

Yes. you got my point. The silence on anti-white crimes is deafening.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (3wi/L)

74 So do Marxists
That's Marxism, the population gets lowest equality and tje party lives the good life

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (+qU29)

75
Jen Pawol is set this weekend to become the first female umpire to appear in a regular-season MLB game. I reckon she's one of the AAA call-ups used in the course of a season, some few of which will become a member of the regular staff.

Really, the road even to this point for any umpire is a long and arduous one. The life of a minor-league umpire is miserable and low-paid and it's hard to advance through the various levels. So I have to hand it to her for that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (kkTda)

76 62 The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.

--------

I don't get it.

Posted by: WC Fields at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (dDmld)

77 My thinking on the Mondoni thing is that NYC is ultimately ruled by the bankers and big firms in town, so the Mayor gets to say whatever he wants.

On the margins, I guess he can make the city MORE socialist than it already is (which is a lot), but he's not going to touch the money that rules the city.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (dGCAG)

78 Be as anti Jew or pro Jew as you want. Just do it from your own country.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:52 PM (04Xj5)

Sure, but calling the left antisemitic these days in practice is also descriptive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (zZu0s)

79 There'll be no revelry on the dildo range.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (i24o9)

80 Don't throw anything on the court. I'd say that about any object, for any sport, for any level. The only exception I can think of is the tossing of hats for 3 hockey goals, which is a celebration of a rare acheivement and is a tradition accepted by the league for 50 years or so. Otherwise it's obnoxious and could cause injury. That is all.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:56 PM (Dv3i1)

81 Yes. you got my point. The silence on anti-white crimes is deafening.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (3wi/L)

This is valid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:56 PM (zZu0s)

82 I may be seeking a patent on my Dildo Cannon concept.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)

83 fighting "Trump terrorism."

But when muzzies rape women and children, splody things and people, and generally f things up, that's not terrorism, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (ynpvh)

84 All Quiet on the Dildo Front.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (WvZaB)

85 There'll be no revelry on the dildo range.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM

Ready on the left, ready on the right, all ready on the dildo range. Commence firing!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (0N4FZ)

86 Home On The Dildo Range

Oh, give them a bone where the lesbaloes roam
Where the Queers and the Trans and Woke play;
Though they don't condone, the dildoes that'r thrown
It won't make up for the disparate pay.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (i24o9)

87 What about "cotton"? Can we still say cotton?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)

88 LOL. So much communist cant.

I once asked a cantor if he sang; he said, "No, I cant"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (ynpvh)

89 82 I may be seeking a patent on my Dildo Cannon concept.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)

If it spreads to other sports, Dildo Catching Mitt.

Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (i0F8b)

90
I live here.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (jc0TO)

I was more referring to the kids losing their student visas for being anti Israel on campuses.

I am fine with them not getting student visas but their stances on Israel or Jews in general should not play in to the equation at all.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (04Xj5)

91 All Quiet on the Dildo Front.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (WvZaB)

Gives new meaning the 'No Man's Land.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

92 WNBA knob attack.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (jxs9b)

93 Hahaha...
And the dildo jokes keep rolling along...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)

94 I am fine with them not getting student visas but their stances on Israel or Jews in general should not play in to the equation at all.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM

They are guests. Anything they do that is offensive at all need not be tolerated.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

95 What about "cotton"? Can we still say cotton?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)

Bold move, Cotton. Let's see how it works out for them!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (zZu0s)

96 Happiness is a Warm Dildo.

Posted by: The Beatles at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (i0F8b)

97 89 82 I may be seeking a patent on my Dildo Cannon concept.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)

If it spreads to other sports, Dildo Catching Mitt.

Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (i0F8b)

Oh my...

Posted by: George Takei at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

98 Wait til you see my Dildo Holster!

Posted by: Samantha Bee at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (dDmld)

99
Sean Duffy statement on Jim Lovell:
https://tinyurl.com/2yxjs3pr

And here's Jim on the Gemini 7 mission, wearing a quite unfortunate looking spacesuit, the special G5C Gemini suit:
https://tinyurl.com/28g6zkfk

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (w6EFb)

100 64
'Hare, hunter, field.'

Isn't that from Judgment at Nuremburg?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (3wi/L)

101 Happiness is a Warm Dildo.
Posted by: The Beatles at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (i0F8b)

*ponders*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

102 Hahaha...
And the dildo jokes keep rolling along...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)

They're inserted into every thread.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (dGCAG)

103 When they outlaw dildos, only outlaws will have dildos.

Posted by: Deep, Rubber Thoughts at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (RIQol)

104 102 Hahaha...
And the dildo jokes keep rolling along...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)

They're inserted into every thread.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (dGCAG)

rather deeply too, I'll say.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (ynpvh)

105 >They're inserted into every thread.

Hammered, you could say.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (i0F8b)

106 >>The dildo range comment is good.

I laughed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (viF8m)

107 Lizzy has a fever. And the only cure is MORE SOCIALISM!

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (krQz2)

108
If we do make it back to the Moon, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise's shoes need to be taken up there, and their footprints placed in the Moon dirt.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (w6EFb)

109 They are guests. Anything they do that is offensive at all need not be tolerated.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (jc0TO)

Them being here at all is offensive to me. For every rich Asian kid well connected to the CCP or wealthy son of a sheik on our college campuses there is one farmers son from Iowa not on the campus.

That offends me as an American.

Their views on various countries and peoples in the Middle East doesnt matter to me.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (04Xj5)

110 Isn't Warren a slumlord?

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (jc0TO)

111 107 Lizzy has a fever. And the only cure is MORE SOCIALISM!

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (krQz2)

Here, have a giant green dildo, Fauxahontas...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (ynpvh)

112 104 102 Hahaha...
And the dildo jokes keep rolling along...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)

They're inserted into every thread.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (dGCAG)

rather deeply too, I'll say.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at Au

Getting into virgin territory.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (zZu0s)

113 110 Isn't Warren a slumlord?

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (jc0TO)

I Know Warlock and AlGore were/are...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (ynpvh)

114 >> I am hoping that strict internal immigration enforcement will drive the illegals to these sanctuary cities and states.

It already is. NY has been invaded. And when they lose the lawsuit that will force them to end federal programs for illegal aliens it’s going to get randy.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (WT51m)

115 54 The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.
___

But the word 'slavery' doesn't cause trauma. Interesting.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (Dv3i1)

116 Their views on various countries and peoples in the Middle East doesnt matter to me.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM

It does to me. Checkmate.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (jc0TO)

117 Find a woman who looks at you like Liz Warren looks at socialism.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:04 PM (krQz2)

118 “A board member took issue with Clepper's remarks and called over a police officer to remove him from the meeting. While he was being escorted out, another board member noted the district's attorney had requested that Clepper not be removed.”

And nothing happens to the cop for acting on an illegal order? Of course not. The Nuremburg Defense applies only to cops.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:04 PM (vm8sq)

119 117 Find a woman who looks at you like Liz Warren looks at socialism.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:04 PM (krQz2)

You mean expecting you to pay for everything, get nothing in return?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (ynpvh)

120 LOL

"Stop playing basketball on the dildo range." Lol.

I watched Gutfeld on "Late Show." He was really funny. I can't wait until he's on Colbert.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (jvJvP)

121 Has anyone confirmed the meaning behind the green in the dildo hijinks?

I just assumed that is a response to the "Pay us what we're owed" campaign...and someone associated green with money, and the dildo to what they are actually owed.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (dIske)

122
I may be seeking a patent on my Dildo Cannon concept.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)

Not sure if that falls under Cooperative Patent Classification A61H 19/44 (Physical therapy apparatus; Massage for the genitals; Devices insertable in the genitals; Having substantially cylindrical shape, e.g. dildos) or F41B 11/89 (Compressed-gas guns; Specially adapted for particular purposes; For toys).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (kkTda)

123 You mean expecting you to pay for everything, get nothing in return?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (ynpvh)

*types * *deletes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

124 Liz Warren play with forked dildo.

Posted by: Cherokee Tribe at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (i0F8b)

125 121 Has anyone confirmed the meaning behind the green in the dildo hijinks?

I just assumed that is a response to the "Pay us what we're owed" campaign...and someone associated green with money, and the dildo to what they are actually owed.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (dIske)

He was passive-aggresive about being a dick...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (ynpvh)

126 A board member took issue with Clepper's remarks and called over a police officer to remove him from the meeting.

This shit happens a lot, all over the country, in school board and city council meetings. The fascist pigs who give these orders and the fascist pigs who carry them out should all be federally imprisoned for deprivation of rights under color of law.

Posted by: Question authoritarians at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (KOE6H)

127 Assholes are like opinions. Every asshole has, like, three opinions.

If you ask me, there aren't enough green dildos for all these assholes. If Crew Dragon was a green dildo, it wouldn't be enough for even the assholes just at Boeing. If the entire MAGA movement was a green dildo, China is still too big an asshole.

Oh wait, that's three opinions. Never mind.

Posted by: Bombadil at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (MX0bI)

128 We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better, stronger, faster.

The Six Million Dollar Dildo.

Posted by: Oscar Goldman at August 08, 2025 07:07 PM (wVcYX)

129 You mean expecting you to pay for everything, get nothing in return?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (ynpvh)

Sounds like the modern dating scene.

Posted by: A real man would buy dinner for my 8 illegitimate kids! at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (KOE6H)

130 I watched Gutfeld on "Late Show." He was really funny. I can't wait until he's on Colbert.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (jvJvP)
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So did I.

I think that Fallon was the extent of the King of Late Night's "circuit" of other late night talk shows.

Fallon was even willing to admit he had hung out with Gutfeld.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (krQz2)

131 Don't throw anything on the court. I'd say that about any object, for any sport, for any level. The only exception I can think of is the tossing of hats for 3 hockey goals, which is a celebration of a rare acheivement and is a tradition accepted by the league for 50 years or so. Otherwise it's obnoxious and could cause injury. That is all.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06

Hockey fans have also been known to throw team sweaters on the ice to protest poor team performance. That's stupid because those suckers not cheap.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (kTd/k)

132 Stanky hoe-ass American women are now getting, get this, tattoos of hair in their armpits so that they always appear hairy and smelly even if they shave.

That's how you know you have way to much spare money to spend on cosmetic stuff.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (a+4eV)

133 When using the dildo catcher’s mitt, do you keep your index finger out, or in? (I’m an innie myself).

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (hlNLQ)

134 >>Has anyone confirmed the meaning behind the green in the dildo hijinks?

Yea. It was started by a crypto guerrilla marketing campaign to build awareness.

That person gets a raise.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)

135 “Do people not know what words mean any longer?“

No, they don’t, or we would have stupid terms like “insurance provider” instead of “insurer”, “job provider” instead of “employer”, etc

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (vm8sq)

136 When using the dildo catcher’s mitt, do you keep your index finger out, or in? (I’m an innie myself).
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM

Out if they are heating it up. In if they just throw junk.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (jc0TO)

137 Liz Warren play with forked dildo.
Posted by: Cherokee Tribe
________

It does seem like throwing double-headers on the court might be more appropriate.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (XvL8K)

138 I can’t believe people pay to attend a WNBA game, Are there no hobos or druggies to watch urinate in the street? Because I’m pretty sure that would be a better show.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (WT51m)

139 This shit happens a lot, all over the country, in school board and city council meetings.
Posted by: Question authoritarians at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (KOE6H)

________________________

I once attended at school board meeting and some guy (no one knew who he was) walked up to the public microphone and started eating a bag of chips. He just stood there and crunched away. Then, he turned, and just walked out. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It had to be a bet.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (dIske)

140 I can’t believe people pay to attend a WNBA game, Are there no hobos or druggies to watch urinate in the street? Because I’m pretty sure that would be a better show.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM

Bum fights for a fiver.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (jc0TO)

141 124- that’s okay, her dildo range has two stations (presumably)

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (hlNLQ)

142 Don't throw anything on the court. I'd say that about any object, for any sport, for any level. The only exception I can think of is the tossing of hats for 3 hockey goals, which is a celebration of a rare acheivement and is a tradition accepted by the league for 50 years or so. Otherwise it's obnoxious and could cause injury. That is all.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06
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Agree. And I think the "dildo range" comment was boorish at best.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (krQz2)

143 Is it still a fiver? Did Joeflation make a sawbuck?

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (jc0TO)

144 "left- and center-leaning"
What does center-leaning mean, anyway? You can lean back, right, left, etc., but you can't lean toward center. It's a meaningless phrase.

Posted by: PG at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (gQbO4)

145 Sophie Cunningham is not bad looking.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (PGK1w)

146 I can’t believe people pay to attend a WNBA game, Are there no hobos or druggies to watch urinate in the street? Because I’m pretty sure that would be a better show.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM

Bum fights for a fiver.
-----

In the early days of the internet bum fights were a staple.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (TN0g+)

147 I once attended at school board meeting and some guy (no one knew who he was) walked up to the public microphone and started eating a bag of chips. He just stood there and crunched away. Then, he turned, and just walked out.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (dIske)
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I wonder how much that bet was for.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (krQz2)

148
What does center-leaning mean, anyway? .

_________

The Extreme Left of the Extreme Right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (kkTda)

149 Like Wine on Rice

Tow the Line

The Early Bird Gets a Turn

Posted by: polinikes at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (VofaG)

150 'Merica

https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)

151 "left- and center-leaning"
What does center-leaning mean, anyway? You can lean back, right, left, etc., but you can't lean toward center. It's a meaningless phrase.

Posted by: PG at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (gQbO4)
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The English language is too constricting for their genius.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (krQz2)

152 What does center-leaning mean, anyway? .

===

it's when they forget to close the blog tags or something

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (g47mK)

153 The people of MA forfeited the confidence of Maura Healey so yes, she will dissolve the people and elect another. And if they are illegally here from other countries, so much the better, and so be it. (h/t, Brecht)

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (vm8sq)

154 Sophie Cunningham is not bad looking.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM

No Marfan looking fingers or face. Pretty unbusty but she is an athlete.

I'd hit it.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (jc0TO)

155 149 Like Wine on Rice

Tow the Line

The Early Bird Gets a Turn
Posted by: polinikes

It's a doggy dog world

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (Dv3i1)

156 Isn't Warren a slumlord?

I think she was flipping houses. Buy low sell high.

Posted by: DanMan at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (8uzBS)

157 An aphorism that more people need to be familiar with?

FAFO

It can provide an education and life lessons like no other.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (144I4)

158 still a fiver? Did Joeflation make a sawbuck?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (3PSuS)

159 Don't throw anything on the court. I'd say that about any object, for any sport, for any level. The only exception I can think of is the tossing of hats for 3 hockey goals, which is a celebration of a rare acheivement and is a tradition accepted by the league for 50 years or so. Otherwise it's obnoxious and could cause injury. That is all.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06
---
Agree. And I think the "dildo range" comment was boorish at best.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (krQz2)

Once upon a time it was much more common for fans to throw things onto the playing field. Sometimes food, sometimes trash... it was a form of communication, and I suppose it was understood that it was not meant to harm the players.

Then someone for the first time decided to throw a bottle or a battery or some other heavy object, and it's been frowned upon since. Except I think Cub fans still throw home run balls from the other team onto the field.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (dGCAG)

160 Sophie Cunningham is not bad looking.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (PGK1w)

She's my dream girl. A good looking tomboy that stayed straight.

Posted by: polinikes at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (VofaG)

161 The City University Of Social Work Programs Of New York City has also banned the words "crack pipe" as these are hurtful to black New Yorkers who only wish to get high and loot.

Posted by: Zohran Mamdani, Lady Boy And Lover OF CAAK at August 08, 2025 07:15 PM (R/m4+)

162 I can’t believe people pay to attend a WNBA game, Are there no hobos or druggies to watch urinate in the street? Because I’m pretty sure that would be a better show.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM

Back in the day when the wnba connecticut team played at the mohegan sun casino they were giving out free tickets like crazy to boost the numbers. The only time they actually came close to filling the building was if the team made it to the playoffs.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 07:15 PM (0N4FZ)

163 It's a doggy dog world

We's holdin a visual fo my homie.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (3PSuS)

164 150 'Merica

https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)

You know, the ettes will say I am a cad, but I thought for a second that the brunette at the end of the video was going to flash the camera.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

165 Nic correction

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (VofaG)

166 156
'Isn't Warren a slumlord?

I think she was flipping houses. Buy low sell high.'

Heap big wampum.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (3wi/L)

167 'Merica

https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)

And like that, he became American.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (i24o9)

168 I think she was flipping houses. Buy low sell high.
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Shouldn't she be doing that the other way around?

Delivering nice homes to the "less fortunate"?

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:18 PM (krQz2)

169 Why not just tattoo flies and spiders under your arms and tits?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 07:18 PM (3PSuS)

170 Warren is to Real Estate as Pelosi is to Stock Market.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:19 PM (g47mK)

171 This shit happens a lot, all over the country, in school board and city council meetings. The fascist pigs who give these orders and the fascist pigs who carry them out should all be federally imprisoned for deprivation of rights under color of law.
Posted by: Question authoritarians at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (KOE6H)

The police officer here did the right thing, He’s just following orders. Why can’t goobers like you figure that out? People need to shut up and unquestioningly respect police officers,

Posted by: Michael Berry at August 08, 2025 07:19 PM (vm8sq)

172 Masculinity is crippling society. Could trans men be the key to changing that?

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This has been the attitude during my late teens when every rock star had hair longer than me but then again they were pretty and did not have a beard or a mo. Freddy Mercury ruined that and he was the one who wore a skirt in a video clip. Now we know what drove that.

Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 07:19 PM (unUNN)

173 Trans men. That's women, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

174 Merica

https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)

And like that, he became American.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (i24o9)

Looks like a normal weekend in Louisiana to me.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (VofaG)

175 Shooting at Emery University in Atlanta. A civillian and a law enforcement officer sent to the hospital and the shooter is dead. No other details that I saw.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)

176 Flander's Field (where poppys grow)
field goals

People are, definitely, getting dumber.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (dIske)

Flander doesn’t own a field.

In Flanders Fields where the poppies grow…

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (vm8sq)

177 I applaud the use of Green Dildos as a way to educate our young persons of the various ways they can pleasure themselves and others while celebrating strong lesbian women engaged in a contact sport.

Posted by: Your Local 8th Grade Government School Groomer Teacher at August 08, 2025 07:21 PM (R/m4+)

178 It's all just a damp squid.

But that's a mute point.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 08, 2025 07:21 PM (0aYVJ)

179 Trans men. That's women, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)
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Yes. There is an n and a t in "trans", just think of it as "NOT".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:21 PM (krQz2)

180 The police officer here did the right thing, He’s just following orders. Why can’t goobers like you figure that out? People need to shut up and unquestioningly respect police officers.

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And don't forget about us!

Posted by: Motorcyle Robbers Pretending to Be Cops at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (TN0g+)

181
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (tljrc)

182 >>Once upon a time it was much more common for fans to throw things onto the playing field. Sometimes food, sometimes trash... it was a form of communication, and I suppose it was understood that it was not meant to harm the players.

Sometimes octopi.

Loosen up your sphincter. We are fighting a cultural battle against people who live to mutilate children and beat up women and pro-life old men. We used to get pelleted with snowballs in November football games in frigging high school.

Nobody has been hurt with the dildos of death.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)

183 Shooting at Emery University in Atlanta. A civillian and a law enforcement officer sent to the hospital and the shooter is dead. No other details that I saw.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)
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Possibly white.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (krQz2)

184 Bear in mind that for 70 years, the Democrat Party has denied that they were socialists.

Speaking of bears, the Seattle Kracken mascot was in Alaska filming a commercial and a big brown bear seemed to take exception. Ha!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (2WIwB)

185 Last glass of Tamdu Scotch

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (+qU29)

186 Trans men. That's women, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

I don't know what percentage of people calling themselves trannies actually get operations. I suspect it's not a majority. Maybe nowhere near.

In which case, if you are a chick who decides she's a dude, what the hell difference is there between you and a garden variety lesbo?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)

187 I still want to see one of those vibrating ones squirming across the court with a couple refs chasing after it.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (v0R5T)

188 Loosen up your sphincter.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)

Lighten up, Francis, is also acceptable.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (i24o9)

189 Great the police haters have shown up.

Eat a dick.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (VofaG)

190 7 The Massachusetts thing is insane, but it all is. Fucking crazy.
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Its abuse of office, pure and simple. She literally is taking American's money and gifting it to invaders. And she will be re-elected by those who are having their money taken from them.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (TN0g+)

MA should simply lose its statehood over this and be reorganized as a territory. Yeah, I know, John Adam’s wrote its Constitution, but sorry, MA is no longer worthy.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (vm8sq)

191
I don't know what percentage of people calling themselves trannies actually get operations. I suspect it's not a majority. Maybe nowhere near.

In which case, if you are a chick who decides she's a dude, what the hell difference is there between you and a garden variety lesbo?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)

Actually, it's men who never do any surgery. Most women take their breasts off (and some even do a hysterectomy), and there isn't much more possible, I don't think...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (tOcjL)

192 In which case, if you are a chick who decides she's a dude, what the hell difference is there between you and a garden variety lesbo?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)
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You can still prefer men, though.

It's all sorts of fucked up ten ways to Sunday.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:25 PM (krQz2)

193 >>Lighten up, Francis, is also acceptable.

sphincter is Polish for Francis.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:25 PM (viF8m)

194 "Unfortunately, we couldn't avoid such a moment," he said, when asked about the attack by the terror group -- which is still holding 50 hostages in Gaza, of whom just about 20 are believed to still be alive.

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Ok let's follow Khalid's logic. If Palestinians have a right to kill others to get what they want then it follows that Israel has the right to do the same simply to stop them.

Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 07:25 PM (unUNN)

195 In which case, if you are a chick who decides she's a dude, what the hell difference is there between you and a garden variety lesbo?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)

If I had to guess, I'd say a lot do the hormones or blockers because they believe that is less permanent or invasive.

Fucking retards. There is a certain amount of darwinism to this.

Always excepting the kids with crazy teachers and/or parents.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:26 PM (zZu0s)

196 Fallon was even willing to admit he had hung out with Gutfeld.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (krQz2)

Fallon is friends with Tom Shillue. He and Fallon sang in the same barbershop quartet. Dunno if they still do.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 07:26 PM (pIfcn)

197 Loosen up your sphincter.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)

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And throwing green dildos out on the floor of WNBA games is crucial for our cause!

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:27 PM (krQz2)

198 We need Cotton McKnight and Pepper Brooks, the two Dodgeball announcers, to do a play-by-play of a WNBA game where multiple DoCs (dildos of color) get thrown onto the court.

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 07:27 PM (yP/Dy)

199 Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)

Actually, it's men who never do any surgery. Most women take their breasts off (and some even do a hysterectomy), and there isn't much more possible, I don't think...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (tOcjL)

Yeah, I was thinking lower level, not the tit removal. Which just seems silly to me, but whatever.

Whether you want to "date" chix or dudes, who doesn't want to grab a tit or two.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:27 PM (dGCAG)

200 150 'Merica

https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)

Yep. Real people being real.

That's one reason a lot of "celebrities" come up here to go fishing, etc. Nobody cares that much that they are "celebrities," and most folks are accommodating. I think Ted Nugent was up here last week, Jimmy Buffett came up every year until he passed, Larry Czonka had a cabin up here and was up most of the summers, I'm sure there are plenty more. People can just be people here, nobody minds much.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 07:28 PM (1Gsou)

201 189 Great the police haters have shown up.

Eat a dick.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (VofaG)

I get to call balls and strikes. The cop should have told the school board to go fuck themselves because the Constitution is still in force and if they didn’t like hearing what the man was saying…well, they can always resign.

But nope, he Just Followed Orders, and apologists like yourself who believe cops can and should do as they damn well please get upset that people are justly criticizing his actions. Maybe if we had people who wouldn’t stick up blindly for the assholes in blue, maybe we’d have a better police force. Ever thought of that?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:29 PM (vm8sq)

202 Fallon is friends with Tom Shillue. He and Fallon sang in the same barbershop quartet. Dunno if they still do.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 07:26 PM (pIfcn)
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Best Carson impression: "I did not know that."

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:29 PM (krQz2)

203 Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:29 PM (vm8sq)

Eat two dicks.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:31 PM (VofaG)

204 dildos of death

I saw Dildos of Death open for Nuclear Assault in '91 at Hammersmith arena.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:31 PM (PGK1w)

205 It's Friday, a great day of news. Lighten up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:31 PM (i24o9)

206 Great the police haters have shown up.

Eat a dick.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (VofaG)

Great the copsuckers have shown up.

Deep throat the boot.

Posted by: Two can play at this game! at August 08, 2025 07:32 PM (KOE6H)

207 Nobody has been hurt with the dildos of death.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)

I saw The Dildos Of Death open for The Circle Jerks at Sluggo's in Pensacola back in 1992.

Posted by: Astroglide Is Your Friend at August 08, 2025 07:33 PM (R/m4+)

208 >>And throwing green dildos out on the floor of WNBA games is crucial for our cause!

Seems to have energized enough on our side to laugh and talk about it for going on 2 weeks. I'm sitting my backyard watching the sun go down and not throwing any dildos. Not yet anyway.

We've won a shitload of battles in the last 7 months, hard to remember them all they are coming so fast. I've never seen anything even close to how much we win almost every single day.

It's a harmless prank and we are on the right side of a culture battle after decades of losing almost all of them. Why is this a problem?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)

209 Crockett takes honor for worst fucking cunt in DC (oh my the list) even worse than Sheila Jackson (organs and piano Im coming back to Houston) Lee and claims racism and sexism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (gbOdA)

210 Ok let's follow Khalid's logic. If Palestinians have a right to kill others to get what they want then it follows that Israel has the right to do the same simply to stop them.
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 07:25 PM (unUNN)

I know you're just trying to take his statement to a logical conclusion, but I call bullshit on the premise. They were given billions to alleviate the suffering of those people and chose not to use it for that purpose.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (pIfcn)

211 When Professor Catherine D'Ignazio isn't running the "Data + Feminism" lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing "reproductive justice hackathons" she is fighting Donald Trump's "state terrorism."
LOL. So much communist cant.

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I think you spelled it wrong.

Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 07:35 PM (unUNN)

212 They shouldn't throw objects onto courts, but tje WBA kinda asked for something after there owe me what I am worth fiasco

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)

213 How come you whities got such a tight ass, man?

Posted by: Grover Muldoon at August 08, 2025 07:36 PM (R/m4+)

214 It's a harmless prank and we are on the right side of a culture battle after decades of losing almost all of them. Why is this a problem?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)

Imagine being on the secret meeting of WOKE and them saying that we finally own 1 fucking thing.
WNBA
Then TA fucking DA a big white girl that likes boys is the star. 30 fucking MILLION dollars.
So previously you star was Brian Griner (green haha).
TA DA green dicks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (gbOdA)

215 Ever notice that everyone has their sacred cows?

I'll admit that even though I have my own issues with members of the hierarchy, i still get immediately defensive im my head when we have the usual catholic dumping.

I will also point out that I think the antisemitic witch hunts can get out of hand/blown out of proportion.

So, I dunno, maybe talk like friends who agree on 99% of shit.

Or if you wanna fight, go ahead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (zZu0s)

216 They were given billions to alleviate the suffering of those people and chose not to use it for that purpose.
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And the "people" we're talking about would (seemingly) rather live in squalor hating Jews than finding a way to live with them in peace and prosperity.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (TN0g+)

217 I know you're just trying to take his statement to a logical conclusion, but I call bullshit on the premise. They were given billions to alleviate the suffering of those people and chose not to use it for that purpose.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (pIfcn)

Now do welfare and medicaid and EBT.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:38 PM (gbOdA)

218 Or if you wanna fight, go ahead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (zZu0s)

*throws green dildo, with pinky out*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:39 PM (i24o9)

219 You know, if girls were like guys a dildo brand called Dildos of Death with a skull and cross bones would be a huge seller.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:39 PM (zZu0s)

220 My sacred cow is a penguin.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (vFG9F)

221
“Them being here at all is offensive to me. For every rich Asian kid well connected to the CCP or wealthy son of a sheik on our college campuses there is one farmers son from Iowa not on the campus.

That offends me as an American.“

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (04Xj5)

And as a xenophobe, at that. Doubtless if you were in power you would have me killed for 1) being the son of an immigrant and 2) much worse, having a valid passport with visas.

Me, I don’t have that view. You get a student visa and you want to study here, no biggie. (I have reservations about the PRC, sure, due to espionage but that’s why we have student visas. It would be nice if the visas were enforced by having CBP check passports when leaving the country, but I digress.). But while here on a visa or any other reason, you are subject to our laws. Think what you want of Israel, but that doesn’t mean you get to riot, threaten or intimidate Jewish students, or anything of the sort.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (vm8sq)

222 198 We need Cotton McKnight and Pepper Brooks, the two Dodgeball announcers, to do a play-by-play of a WNBA game where multiple DoCs (dildos of color) get thrown onto the court.
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 07:27 PM (yP/Dy)

Bold move there Cotton

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (gbOdA)

223 I’ve been to Sluggos!!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (hlNLQ)

224 215
'i still get immediately defensive im my head when we have the usual catholic dumping.'

You better have eaten a fish sandwich for dinner.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (3wi/L)

225 My sacred cow is a penguin.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (vFG9F)

YOU LIE!

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:41 PM (g47mK)

226 They found a new passage in the back of the Sphinx. It's called the Sphinxter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 07:42 PM (jxs9b)

227 *picks up green dildo in hazmat suit*

*takes bite*

Its a 7 11 pickle

Posted by: Carl Spackler at August 08, 2025 07:42 PM (gbOdA)

228 Nobody has been hurt with the dildos of death.
Posted by: JackStraw
.......

It's all fun and games until somebody lubes one up and an Amazon slips on it like a banana peel.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 07:42 PM (v0R5T)

229 It's all fun and games until somebody lubes one up and an Amazon slips on it like a banana peel.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 07:42 PM (v0R5T)

57 times

Posted by: Carl Spackler at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)

230 Not to be picky ... Well, I guess I am being picky, but also grammatically correct:

"Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," should be "Everyone's entitled to his own opinion."

"To each their own," should be "To each his own."

Come on, Ace! Don't fall for woke grammar. Not only are these grammatically incorrect, they just sound stupid.

Posted by: Ralph at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (8WZD4)

231 >>Imagine being on the secret meeting of WOKE and them saying that we finally own 1 fucking thing.
WNBA
Then TA fucking DA a big white girl that likes boys is the star. 30 fucking MILLION dollars.
So previously you star was Brian Griner (green haha).
TA DA green dicks.

They tried to censor us, take our children, flood the country with God knows who, ignore crimes against whites and conservatives and either imprison or murder the guy we elected to lead our side and I am supposed get wrapped around the axel over a harmless, and fucking funny, prank against one of their sacred cows.

Pass.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)

232 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)

233 "To each their own," should be "To each his own."

Come on, Ace! Don't fall for woke grammar. Not only are these grammatically incorrect, they just sound stupid.
Posted by: Ralph at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (8WZD4)

So at the campfire with family and lil sis (shes been gone 20 years) says something and I say
To each his own.
She thought it was
Teach his own.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:45 PM (gbOdA)

234 I am supposed get wrapped around the axel over a harmless, and fucking funny, prank against one of their sacred cows.

Pass.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)

What if you went to your local hangout and as leaving threw the green dildo of Resist We Much under the table.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:47 PM (gbOdA)

235 203 Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:29 PM (vm8sq)

Eat two dicks.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:31 PM (VofaG)

I’ll eat a thousand. Just because you wear a uniform with a gun and a badge doesn’t mean you are above criticism. If you are a cop, and you feel that way, FUCKING QUIT.

The police hate the citizenry and hold everyone around them in utter contempt. Americans need to return them the favor. And, by the way, if cops are so godlike, and worthy of your defense with middle school commentary, then why do we have juries and a court system? Should the word of a cop be enough? Surely you see it that way with your obsequious love of the police but the system does not.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:48 PM (vm8sq)

236 I am supposed get wrapped around the axel over a harmless, and fucking funny, prank against one of their sacred cows.

Pass.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)

“I Think That This Situation Absolutely Requires A Really Futile And Stupid Gesture Be Done On Somebody’s Part.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:49 PM (gbOdA)

237 >>What if you went to your local hangout and as leaving threw the green dildo of Resist We Much under the table.

Someone would ask if they noticed they dropped their butt plug.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (viF8m)

238 Cafe is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

239 She's my dream girl. A good looking tomboy that stayed straight.

Yeah, 6'1 and slim; she is gorgeous. I've seen a few videos of her on the youtubes talking about the cr*p Caitlin Clark goes through with fouls; she seems to be one of the few that backs Caitlin up.

Posted by: Nelly at August 08, 2025 07:52 PM (cHLus)

240 160 Sophie Cunningham is not bad looking.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (PGK1w)

She's my dream girl. A good looking tomboy that stayed straight.
Posted by: polinikes at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (VofaG)

She's also reportedly conservative, took heat for supposedly being "MAGA".

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (8hxDK)

241 231
'They tried to censor us, take our children, flood the country with God knows who, ignore crimes against whites and conservatives'

You think that's some triumph of freedom? It's just coarse and retarded.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (3wi/L)

242 >>You think that's some triumph of freedom? It's just coarse and retarded.

No, of course not. I think you are either too stupid or to cowardly to know what is going on.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:06 PM (viF8m)

243 I think "Data + Feminism lab" is latin for no work job.

Posted by: Southern Man at August 08, 2025 08:12 PM (kXnzv)

244 The opposite of the never Trumper teaching at MIT is another MIT professor who greatly influenced me as a youth. He's won a dozen teaching excellence awards and is a strong advocate for capitalism and freedom.

Godspeed, Professor. Keep up the fight

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 08:37 PM (TvPmY)

245 "reflects a broader trend among social work programs to adopt inclusive language."

wait, so they want us to talk like retards?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 08:53 PM (D1vbu)

246 Not to be picky ... Well, I guess I am being picky, but also grammatically correct:

And these are the kind of things why you don't win. Why you, as a movement, lose all the time.

As we're all marching to the camps ? Who gives a fuck about the guy that wants to "be picky" ? Who cares what he has to say, about anything ?

Who cares about his grammar ? Am I going to care one bit about him because of his grammar ? No. Is he going to lead me out of the wire because of his great grammar ?

No. And the fact that the little puke STILL wants to tell you about his grammar tells you much. If you'll listen.

Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 09:18 PM (atlTj)

247 Regarding old aphorisms, Sticks and stones is rejected out of hand now.

Posted by: Kaiju66 at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (LLPmJ)

Judge Gives Leftwing Thugs a Hunting License to Beat Down Elderly Pro-Choice Protesters on the Street

Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
Some thug brutally assaults two elderly prolife demonstrators -- shoves one to the ground and beats him, all on camera -- and gets "home detention" for a sentence from a liberal judge. This is not justice. This is open season on prolife Americans

It's okay. This thug beating the shit out of a senior citizen "just snapped" and was having a "bad day."

Obviously black thugs -- or antifa paramilitaries, or other leftwing scum -- are allowed to give Street Reparations to any elderly white people they decided to beat nearly to death on the street. It's what they're owed because of George Floyd.

This black pastor wants the white victims of the Cincinnati mob arrested for not walking away. Don't they know they're supposed to obey the commands of black street thugs?

This is the Rubicon.

The Regime is making its last mistake when it calculates that half of the country will voluntarily agree to become a state-declared Prey Species for leftwing predators.

The corrupt woke Regime will not survive Two-Tier Policing. The public will not accept it.

This ain't the UK.

A 28-year-old man who was caught on video attacking two pro-life activists outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Baltimore was sentenced this week to a year of home detention and three years of probation.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant rebuffed prosecutors' calls for a 10-year sentence against Patrick Brice, 28, after he was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in relation to the May 2023 incident, according to The Baltimore Banner.
"What about my rights and my well-being?" one of the victims in the attack, Mark Crosby -- who was 73 years old at the time -- reportedly shouted at Bryant on Thursday as she left the bench.
Brice said on May 26, 2023, he intended to debate Richard Schaefer -- the other victim, who was 84 -- about the concept of sin outside the Planned Parenthood facility, but then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark, The Baltimore Banner reported. Surveillance video showed Brice shoving Schaefer into a flowerpot and then assaulting Crosby when he rushed to his aid.

"I just snapped one day," Brice was quoted by The Baltimore Banner as saying in court Thursday before apologizing to both men.
As part of his sentence, Brice must complete anger management classes, undergo drug and alcohol screening and remain in therapy, the website added.
It also said Crosby suffered permanent damage to his right eye as a result of the assault.
"This was not a minor altercation between two parties with differing views on abortion. It was a vicious, targeted assault on two senior citizens whose only 'offense' was praying for expectant mothers and offering life-affirming alternatives to abortion," Tom Brejcha, the President and Chief Counsel of the conservative law firm Thomas More Society, said in a statement.

"One of the victims was knocked unconscious. The other suffered broken facial bones and a lifelong eye impairment. This was an act of cowardice and cruelty, and sheer mayhem. This crime deserves far more serious consequences than a 'get out of jail free' card and a one-year home detention that amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist," he added.

I'm not going to shy away from this any longer. Is my take racial? Yes it is. But the story is racial.

There is clearly a belief among members of the left, including many black politicians and judges, that black people should essentially be immunized from prosecution so long as they're doing the important Violent Street Justice work of beating up white people.

We need to be clear: Whatever you hallucinated happening in the George Floyd case, no, you do not have the legal right to lynch white people on the street because you were "having a bad day."

This cannot go on much longer.

The Media and a Mob in Cincinnati

The racial narrative leads major news organizations to ignore a violent attack on two white people.
When a mob violently attacked two people in downtown Cincinnati last week, video of the beat-down spread across social media. But not a single major television network covered the story. It didn't fit the mainstream media's narrative about racial violence in America. The victims were white, and as of Wednesday police had arrested six black suspects for their alleged roles in the public pummeling.
Today's media seems to conflagrate over violence only when the perpetrator is white and the victim is black. Then the cameras roll, protests erupt, and hashtags fly. But when the races are reversed, the mainstream media buries the incident or ignores it entirely. The same is true of black-on-black violence.
Consider the tragic case of Ariana Delane, the 4-year-old niece of George Floyd, who was shot and wounded while sleeping beside her grandmother as gunfire hit their apartment. Despite the horror of her story, it received nowhere near the national attention that followed her uncle's death. Both the girl and Floyd deserved to live in peace, yet there is national outrage when a black man is killed at the hands of police but silence when black children are the collateral victims of the senseless violence plaguing our cities every day.
During a 2018 spike in violent incidents against Asian-Americans, journalists mostly ignored that blacks were the most frequent perpetrators. The truth would have broken the media's worldview that black Americans are always innocent victims.
This racial gerrymandering of the facts mirrors the very injustices the media claim to hate in American history. In the Jim Crow South, if a black man committed an offense against another black man, he would face few consequences, if any--especially if the perpetrator worked for an influential white figure. Meanwhile, a black man who allegedly harmed a white person would face swift and brutal retribution. One hundred years later, we have flipped the script.
We teach our children that to be black is to be permanently victimized and that to be white is to be perpetually guilty.
Americans should renounce any schema in which one race is guilty and another innocent. That is the path to national ruin. Only if we disregard race in how we judge one another will we be able to address the real crisis in society: the spiritual and moral free-fall given to us by identity politics.
As the mainstream media chatters about systemic racism, our young people are dying of bullets, drugs, and despair. Atlanta saw 47 people shot and five killed over four days in July. Homicide and suicide are leading causes of death for 15- to 19-year-olds, and teen drug overdose deaths are still way up from before the pandemic. When our young are bombarded with claims that they live in a fundamentally racist society and that they are powerless pawns of systemic forces beyond their control, how can we expect them to have hope, to believe in moral agency, to work with others with grace and compassion toward a better world?

Your reminder that the Biden admin threw pro-life protesters in jail for much, much less than this. https://t.co/tbuhHZbnY0
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 7, 2025

"Judge" Yvette Bryant

Skin color matters. Below is proof. #racism #blackprivilege #fatigue #BlackFatigue is real folks. pic.twitter.com/z35XdD9L1O
— John and Jane Public (@MrMrsJohnPublic) July 31, 2025

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1 1st.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

2 \o/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)

3 Anarcho-tyranny is anarcho-tyranny.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (mlg/3)

4 The corrupt woke Regime will not survive Two-Tier Policing. The public will not accept it.

This ain't the UK.

We're armed to the teeth, so I rate this as True.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (6ydKt)

5 There are no words left.

Judges are destroying America.

On purpose.

Second look at vigilanteism?

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)

6 Per that Go Time Donald person, this guy was just asking for it, what with being in a no go zone.

His fault.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (DJPFk)

7 The public will not accept it.

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (ejGl1)

8 Paul Kersey to the red courtesy phone. Paul Kersey, red courtesy phone please.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (M0V4/)

9
It's always open season on pro-life Americans during a Democratic administration.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (kkTda)

10 This man will wish he had been put in prison. Just observing.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (q1mTS)

11 There are no words left.

Judges are destroying America.

On purpose.

Second look at vigilanteism?
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM

*lays finger on side of nose*

Posted by: Roof Koreans at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (kgE5c)

12 I had firearms stolen by my next door neighbor's kid.
He got sentenced to write an essay about 'challenges facing Latino youths'.

Fucking homework. For stealing guns and selling them.

So I'm not surprised. I'm also not trusting WA's justice system very fucking far.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)

13
Anarcho-tyranny is anarcho-tyranny.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (mlg/3)

________

Arachno-tyranny >>>> Anarcho-tyranny

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (kkTda)

14 Sickening

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (VE6XX)

15 Good news, everyone! CBS News has given us another ten years!

Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (L/fGl)

16 Always carry always.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (IDphi)

17 Types deletes might be the best I can do on this topic. And cursing…. Lots of cursing t

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (FNvF+)

18 16 Always carry always.
Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (IDphi)

This.
Or get mentally ready for a beating.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (xcxpd)

19 Second look at vigilanteism?
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)
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Always pack heat. Ohio carry is more liberal than Michigan's.

Not very strong? Not confident with a gun? Get something nice and small. Don't listen to the caliber snobs, a .32 revolver will look like a magnum when you pull it out and point it at Skinny Angry White Boy or Growing Diverse Mob.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)

20 Hopefully other blacks will do the work that the justice system won't.

And we'll all have to ignore it.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (jvJvP)

21 6 Per that Go Time Donald person, this guy was just asking for it, what with being in a no go zone.

His fault.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (DJPFk)

I'm pretty sure he's a troll.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (xcxpd)

22 This.
Or get mentally ready for a beating.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (xcxpd)
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Improvised weapons are also helpful. Walking sticks are legal everywhere.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (ZOv7s)

23 "Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant"

This person is your lord and master.

She controls the sentencing. Not you.

She determines who walks the streets freely. Not you.

And by "she" I mean her and the thousands of "liberal" (read anti-American) judges infested every level of the judiciary, coast to coast.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (pMi6S)

24 "This ain't the UK. "

Two-tier policing has been a core part of the US justice system since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or Jim Crow before that.

Posted by: Euripides at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (i7qf2)

25 5 There are no words left.

Judges are destroying America.

On purpose.

Second look at vigilanteism?
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)

Been sayin for awhile now, that we have a Yuge Judicial problem in the US... as we have no real system to hold Judges accountable even when they flat out break the law from the bench.

Note, the Judge Dugan who was supposedly arrested for obstruction of Justice? Yeah... free and out... 4 months later, not sure if they even actually pressed charges... but no announcement of Bail.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (mP0Kj)

26 Progs have weaponized and directed "sympathy".

They don't have a general sympathy for just any victim of crime. They have to reserve their sympathy for "history's victims".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (krQz2)

27 Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (L/fGl)
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Lee Zeldin calling this out and formally reversing US policy is a gift I did not expect to get, but I am grateful.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)

28 Their gonna bring fists and kicks to a gunfight one of these days....Swift and Just will become my new moniker!

Posted by: OurCatsNotRats at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (bonmg)

29 Color me surprised. She looks like she would be an eminently qualified jurist and first-rate legal mind.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (muwun)

30 Not very strong? Not confident with a gun? Get something nice and small. Don't listen to the caliber snobs, a .32 revolver will look like a magnum when you pull it out and point it at Skinny Angry White Boy or Growing Diverse Mob.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)

My pistol when I can't reasonably conceal my USP is an honest to God originalColt 1908. Not a reproduction.

Still fires great.

Training is basically be close, aim for the head, and squeeze the trigger as fast as you can. 😊

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (DJPFk)

31 Am I to assume the perp was black ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (VE6XX)

32 The scumbag thug beating up the old people is prime candidate for federal civil rights charges. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (CqoVr)

33 We're "pro-life" only up to a point.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (pMi6S)

34 I wonder how the judge would have handled it if a third party showed up just during the beat downs on the elderly and proceeded to make it so Mr. Brice enjoyed his meals through a straw for the foreseeable future.

In short, would the judge give Brice his slap on the wrist while throwing the final party to enter the fray into jail on a felony conviction?

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (dIske)

35 I'm pretty sure he's a troll.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (xcxpd)

He is. I just like batting him around like a cat does a dead mouse when it's bored.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (DJPFk)

36 Judges are destroying America.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)
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I've been sounding that alarm for a majority of my 29 years.

Why is the least representative form of government making so many decisions nowadays?

Even *against* the people, because it doesn't fit some legal logical space they want to force on us.

Fuck them. This is also part of what I warned about as the "Expert class".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (krQz2)

37 32 The scumbag thug beating up the old people is prime candidate for federal civil rights charges. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (CqoVr)

That was my thought too..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (VE6XX)

38 33 We're "pro-life" only up to a point.
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (pMi6S)

I'm pro-unborn-baby-life, I'm not pro-dirtbag-life.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (xcxpd)

39 I 100% do not believe that an old man who is praying outside a PP abortion mill where most of the babies demolished for profit are black said anything racist to the thug who half-blinded him.

Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (98kQX)

40 I know I am repeating myself but this is exactly what the left wants. They want to see white people going out in the streets and killing blacks/antifa goons. It is their entire narrative and they are slobbering at the thought that one day soon they will be able to splash "white vigilante" videos all over the media.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (0N4FZ)

41
This is the Rubicon.

Crossing the line?

https://youtu.be/4cf4O-hUg78

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (63Dwl)

42 Pro criminal liberals and democrats can't figure out how the Donald got elected. Now I have to try to bring my blood pressure back down.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (0Htd1)

43 “ Corrupt judges accept secret bribes, and then justice is not done.”

Proverbs 17:23

What the corrupt judiciary wants is to divide us. That makes us weaker.

Don’t fall for it. Their downfall will be their corrupt ways.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (J8Hr2)

44 15 Good news, everyone! CBS News has given us another ten years!

Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (L/fGl)

Uh... didn't the ANTArctic ADD Ice in record amounts the last couple of years?

So, if one side adds Ice, as another side loses Ice... how can you call it GLOBAL warmering?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (mP0Kj)

45 ....

Yeah, not able to deal with these people in good faith.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (zZu0s)

46 It bothers me to think I would described as an elderly victim of a thug if I were to be attacked by a thug. Silly I know.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (kTd/k)

47 If you need a dry weapons training platform I highly recommend Mantis and dry fire mags. Use them extensively, saves on ammo costs, which helps.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (TUglJ)

48 Remember the Mexican grandfather Rodolfo Rodriguez who was severely beaten in Los Angelos. The media was hyping the story...until they found out the assailants were black. Then, it wasn't a story anymore.

Posted by: Mr. Mxyzptlk at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (+0cJM)

49 Good news, everyone! CBS News has given us another ten years!

Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

All of human history has happened during an interglacial period in the current ice age.

Eventually the ice age will end, and CBS will be correct. When the sun goes Red Giant for sure, but probably before that. But CBS will be counting to 10 a few thousand or million times more.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (DgGvY)

50 Almost willowed:
You'd be proud of her. She's a beauty. Her full name is "Dagny Sophia," the middle name being for her mother -- whom she resembles to an eerie degree.

I'm already proud.
Lost my Mr Bigglesworth a couple months ago. He was fine, 9 yrs old, sudden kidney failure. Wrecked me. But after the elderly care, I wanted NO extreme measures.

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (cnmSH)

51 40 I know I am repeating myself but this is exactly what the left wants. They want to see white people going out in the streets and killing blacks/antifa goons. It is their entire narrative and they are slobbering at the thought that one day soon they will be able to splash "white vigilante" videos all over the media.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (0N4FZ)

"That's not who we are"?
Take a beating for The Narrative?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (xcxpd)

52 "the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years."

COULD. Or it COULD be just as frozen.

Posted by: Don Martin at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F)

53 Bravo! Absolutely agree Ace. This black on white violence has been going on, but not reported, except via back water channels since Obozo. It feels to me like reporting is back with clown world filters Off, vs the clown world fake world we were being fed in order to demoralize and nudge us into doing what we don't want to do and accepting what we don't want to accept.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (SOjx+)

54 My pistol when I can't reasonably conceal my USP is an honest to God originalColt 1908. Not a reproduction.

Still fires great.

Training is basically be close, aim for the head, and squeeze the trigger as fast as you can. 😊
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (DJPFk)
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There are lots of very inexpensive guns with a similar weight and simplicity. The FEG AP-66 is a Walther PP clone with an aluminum frame, chambered in .32 APC and they are a piece of cake to shoot and dirt cheap online.

So many affordable, controllable options. Also keep in mind that according to decades of research, 98% of the time, merely producing a weapon terminates the conflict.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)

55 ‘ Brice must complete anger management classes, undergo drug and alcohol screening and remain in therapy, the website added.’

That tidbit about drugs and alcohol is interesting. Probably also should have been barred from raping little boys. This piece of shit has Joseph Rosenbaum written all over him.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (CqoVr)

56 Anarcho-tyranny is anarcho-tyranny.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (mlg/3)

________

Arachno-tyranny >>>> Anarcho-tyranny
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (kkTda)

I for one welcome our new eight-legged overlords.

Posted by: Oh what a web we weave at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (KOE6H)

57 they will be able to splash "white vigilante" videos all over the media.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (0N4FZ)

Uh, they already do. My F Book page is constantly inundated with videos of supposed White Racist people..

Funny though... all scripted, most with the same actors... and all REALLY over the top behavior...

Sadly though, if you look at the click bait comments... some people, especially foreigners, believe these are real.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (mP0Kj)

58 Be prepared.
Head on a swivel.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (2WIwB)

59 The British are pushing back against two-tier Kier but I don't see much evidence of white Americans organising and demonstrating against the system as it's currently constituted.

Also, all these guns ,all this ammo, and the US is much more diverse than Europe.
The Migration Policy institute in 2018 issued a report which claimed the US was 41% white.

Posted by: Euripides at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (i7qf2)

60 I'm not going to shy away from this any longer. Is my take racial? Yes it is.
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Congratulations, Ace. You are now "woke right".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (krQz2)

61 I wonder how the judge would have handled it if a third party showed up just during the beat downs on the elderly and proceeded to make it so Mr. Brice enjoyed his meals through a straw for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Orson

I'm wondering what the sentencing would have been if one of the elderly victims had died...two years of home confinement?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (M0V4/)

62 56 Anarcho-tyranny is anarcho-tyranny.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (mlg/3)

________

Arachno-tyranny >>>> Anarcho-tyranny
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (kkTda)

I for one welcome our new eight-legged overlords.
Posted by: Oh what a web we weave at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (KOE6H)

Paging John Rico... John Rico to the White Courtesy Powered Armor...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)

63 This Judge deserves to be the subject of a similar style beating.

Preferably Bi-Weekly.

Posted by: garrett at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (z6okN)

64 "...but then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark..."

I'll wager he said something like "more black babies are being aborted than are being born." Which is, strictly speaking, a "racial remark." It is not within 40 miles of being "racist remark." The word choice here goes noted.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (rp/xy)

65 The Regime is making its last mistake when it calculates that half of the country will voluntarily agree to become a state-declared Prey Species for leftwing predators.

The corrupt woke Regime will not survive Two-Tier Policing. The public will not accept it.

This ain't the UK.

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These stories have been in the news frequently for years. There is not going to be any pushback.

The difference between the US and UK isn't one of temperament. People here are no likelier to take a stand against their corrupt governments. It's that there's room to run away.

The result will be that a large number of cities will simply be abandoned by all the decent people of every race, and left to rot underneath the remaining ghetto blacks and Aztecs.

I do expect that governments in many of the places they go will get more serious about law enforcement.

We're going to end up with ghost metropolises in this country. Big cities that just sort of melt into the landscape, with the remaining structures housing the worst elements of society.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (eNLGh)

66 Ring that is a Blue State, I would imagine where the incident occurred is one of their declared fun free zones.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (J8Hr2)

67 Thugs are the Marxists street army

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (+qU29)

68 …. lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark

What did he actually say? Our “news” organizations are terrible. They leave out crucial detail. What did he say that was “perceived”?

Is there a list of UnApproved remarks annotated somewhere (updated regularly, one hopes);

whereby “minorities” get the greenlight to beat the shit out of the elderly? Or is the list a secret?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (Pp3EP)

69 Also, all these guns ,all this ammo, and the US is much more diverse than Europe.
The Migration Policy institute in 2018 issued a report which claimed the US was 41% white.
Posted by: Euripides at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (i7qf2)
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A total lie, but if it comforts you, go with it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)

70 I’m starting to think the national media lies.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (AiNp4)

71 The press doesn't even like reporting black-on-black crime to a proportion of how much it happens.

They're all about "space to destroy".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)

72 64 "...but then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark..."

yes.. It's right there in the Constitution.. if a white person makes what you perceive to be a racial remark you are allowed to kill them...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (VE6XX)

73 64 "...but then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark..."

I'll wager he said something like "more black babies are being aborted than are being born." Which is, strictly speaking, a "racial remark." It is not within 40 miles of being "racist remark." The word choice here goes noted.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (rp/xy)

Worse, they are using Race as an excuse for violence.

And from the Pic, is the guy even black?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (mP0Kj)

74 ...was sentenced this week to a year of home detention and three years of probation.

Be a real shame if someone doxed this asshole and had a few hundred pro-life demonstrators outside his house for a peaceful demonstration.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (2WIwB)

75 What does this have to do with hot sorority chicks in spandex shorts?

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (v0R5T)

76 …. lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark
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See: A black man is allowed to throw the first punch if names were involved.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2)

77 As you can guess the race of the jud

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (+qU29)

78 Black female judges in particular are a real problem. There's a competency problem, but also a toxic stew of racial grievance and neo-communism. It'd be nice if it was not true, but it is. You see this with urban black female office holders in general.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (RIQol)

79 Be a real shame if someone doxed this asshole and had a few hundred pro-life demonstrators outside his house for a peaceful demonstration.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (2WIwB)
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Or at least a bag of flaming dog shit on his porch.

Every day.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (ZOv7s)

80 Sweden is 22% foreign born.
In the 1990s it was pretty much 0%.

One generation was all it took to lose a country. It’ll be 60% in another 25% as the new “Swedes” pop out 6 kids while the old ones barely fuck.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (AiNp4)

81 Ok see ya. Good day today.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (DJPFk)

82 >> When the sun goes Red Giant for sure, but probably before that.

I think, think, the limit is a little less than 1 billion years before the Sun's luminosity increases too much on it's track to the red giant stage.

Single celled organisms will survive for a bit longer, but that's the limit for complex life.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (w6EFb)

83 >>>The corrupt woke Regime will not survive Two-Tier Policing.

Two weeks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (i24o9)

84 Am I to assume the perp was black ?

Look at the picture: he’s obviously probably white!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 05:52 PM (q1mTS)

85 What does this have to do with hot sorority chicks in spandex shorts?
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (v0R5T)
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It's related like basketball lesbians and dildos.

It's all interconnected. The circle of life.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:52 PM (ZOv7s)

86 Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant....

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"Fundamentally non-serious" selection.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 05:52 PM (TN0g+)

87 The Migration Policy institute in 2018 issued a report which claimed the US was 41% white.
Posted by: Euripides at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (i7qf2)
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A total lie, but if it comforts you, go with it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)

Nah... it's OK... since their argument seems to be that being a minority means you can never be Racist... and in fact can be Violent in the name of your Race...

And... uh... 41% would then NOT be a Majority, which makes us a Minority...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (mP0Kj)

88 Knew it was a DEI judge without looking.

Obviously the beater was just implementing some life/work balance principles.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (/U5Yz)

89 Brice looks white to me.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (63Dwl)

90 The perp looks pretty dang white to me.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (XMwZJ)

91 I think as the grip of the msm diminishes, it becomes harder and harder to suppress the truth and set the narrative. Eventually the preference cascade comes (as it is now). Everyone knows about Cincinnati, everyone knows about DC, and soon everyone will know about Baltimore. Most minds will just quietly change and vote accordingly, and adjustments will be made to reflect the current reality. I remember a few years back a video of a Russian witnessing American willful blindness and insanity- and how foolish we looked. Eventually the truth does get its pants on.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (hlNLQ)

92 90 The perp looks pretty dang white to me.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (XMwZJ)

If so I'm surprised he'd get such a lenient sentence..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (VE6XX)

93

Honest to God I thought Jive turkeys could fly!!!!

Les Whitmen in Cincinnati......

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (x0n13)

94 There are lots of very inexpensive guns with a similar weight and simplicity. The FEG AP-66 is a Walther PP clone with an aluminum frame, chambered in .32 APC and they are a piece of cake to shoot and dirt cheap online.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)

The Beretta Tomcat is another option. Feels like nothing in an ankle holster.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (i24o9)

95 93
Honest to God I thought Jive turkeys could fly!!!!

Les Whitmen in Cincinnati......
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (x0n13)

I speak Jive....

Posted by: Venus Flytrap at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (mP0Kj)

96 92 90 The perp looks pretty dang white to me.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (XMwZJ)

If so I'm surprised he'd get such a lenient sentence..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (VE6XX)

It's not so much the race of the perp as the race and political beliefs of the victim.

Posted by: Pro-abort scum have gotten a pass for decades at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (KOE6H)

97 'Acting White' has been an insult within the black community for over 80 years.

Acting white includes going to school to learn, studying, being polite and respectful to authority figures, enjoying white musicians, demanding people be on time, paying bills and speaking correct English.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (VofaG)

98 And from the Pic, is the guy even black?

According to the article, one of the victims described the perp as a "white male".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (mH6SG)

99
The perp looks pretty dang white to me.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

He is.

https://t.ly/IhP-A

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (63Dwl)

100 A Cincinnati grand jury is indicting the beaters on multiple felony counts. They could face up to 30 years each in the slammer if convicted.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (/U5Yz)

101 Two tier justice

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (+qU29)

102 Interesting how Obama took us back to the 20s in terms of race relations.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (zZu0s)

103 The scumbag thug beating up the old people is prime candidate for federal civil rights charges. Not joking.
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The judge is just as big a part of the problem. Society can't stay civil when justice is selective.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

104 I also note that when a black defendant in such cases says they were triggered by a "racial remark" or "racist remark " or "racial slur," it's typically not corroborated but, hey, why would they lie?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (rp/xy)

105 The left wants dead bodies on the pavement. Ours, theirs, whoever.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (jgmnb)

106 The perp claimed he was called a racist name according to the report I read.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)

107 The city nearest me is 75% black. There is an endless stream of mug shots of thugs with neck and face tats and no future except prison, and teenagers with spider hair and no future picked up for stealing cars and carrying weapons. Those mug shots are what keep me out of the city. When I do have to go, I know what to look for.

Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (vFG9F)

108 It's not so much the race of the perp as the race and political beliefs of the victim.
Posted by: Pro-abort scum have gotten a pass for decades at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (KOE6H)

And that judge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (zZu0s)

109 He is.

https://t.ly/IhP-A

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (63Dwl)
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So why is a racial comment supposedly so important?

You can white-knight like a thug?

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)

110 104 I also note that when a black defendant in such cases says they were triggered by a "racial remark" or "racist remark " or "racial slur," it's typically not corroborated but, hey, why would they lie?
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (rp/xy)

So if he's white did they call him cracker ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VE6XX)

111 106 The perp claimed he was called a racist name according to the report I read.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)

Cracker? or is he Hispanic?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (mP0Kj)

112 107 The city nearest me is 75% black. There is an endless stream of mug shots of thugs with neck and face tats and no future except prison, and teenagers with spider hair and no future picked up for stealing cars and carrying weapons. Those mug shots are what keep me out of the city. When I do have to go, I know what to look for.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (vFG9F)

The word in Yiddish is schvatzyorim...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 05:58 PM (x0n13)

113 74 ...was sentenced this week to a year of home detention and three years of probation.

Be a real shame if someone doxed this asshole and had a few hundred pro-life demonstrators outside his house for a peaceful demonstration.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (2WIwB)

I assume Harmeet will be looking at this case very soon...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (tOcjL)

114 The perp claimed he was called a racist name according to the report I read.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)
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Old white Christian guy: "Scram! Cracker!"

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (krQz2)

115 Beating an old person is a hatecrime, where is the Fed. Bondi, this is a good photo op for you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (I1XLT)

116 I think as the grip of the msm diminishes, it becomes harder and harder to suppress the truth and set the narrative. Eventually the preference cascade comes (as it is now). Everyone knows about Cincinnati, everyone knows about DC, and soon everyone will know about Baltimore. Most minds will just quietly change and vote accordingly, and adjustments will be made to reflect the current reality. I remember a few years back a video of a Russian witnessing American willful blindness and insanity- and how foolish we looked. Eventually the truth does get its pants on.
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But at a much slower pace that most of us imagine. I promise you that the MSM will still be MSM-ing just as hard 10 years from now as they are today, UNLESS we can find a way to RICO them for being the partisan hacks they are. We're dreaming if we really think leftists gazillionaires won't bankroll the MSM for a very long time so long as they can continue to profit off of chaos.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

117 Gun newbies that want to carry should consider a .38 special shrouded hammer snubby. No slide to rack, ftf drill is “pull the trigger again”, no hammer to snag, light weight, easy to conceal, hard to accidentally fire.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (hlNLQ)

118 The perp claimed he was called a racist name according to the report I read.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)

That's even in the excerpt ace ... excerpted (lol.) Said the victim said a 'racial word or phrase' or some such bullshit.

So now, white folks can get a pass. I wonder if the old white guy called him abhonky or mayo monkey? Cracker?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)

119 I think he's Mixed .

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (VofaG)

120 Decades ago, someone from South Africa wrote an “open letter” to America. Basically saying “here’s what happened in SA, and you guys are going down the same path”. I haven’t read it in many years but it rang true then. Wonder if it has been expunged from the ‘Net. Search engines have been queered very badly to specifically exclude what one is searching for.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (Pp3EP)

121 It's time to start federally prosecuting these anarcho-terrorists -- and the DAs and judges who enable and conspire to put them back out on the streets in furtherance of further mayhem -- for Civil Rights Violations, and especially Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law for the latter.

That which is rewarded is repeated ...

* spit *

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (IrlIj)

122 The Beretta Tomcat is another option. Feels like nothing in an ankle holster.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (i24o9)
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You don't have to sell me on Berettas!

The .25 ACP Jetfire is shirt-pocket size. Fun little bugger to shoot, too.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (ZOv7s)

123 They really are superior to us.
....
Except when I have a bad day, no senior citizen goes to the hospital over it.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)

124 Where's Trump's DOJ ?

Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (q/iLt)

125 You can white-knight like a thug?
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)

You can take offense and revenge on some other races behalf.

Oh, fuck George Floyd.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

126 Justice in the USA is a roll of the dice. You can only pray that they come up more Red than Blue.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (MyqLb)

127 115 Beating an old person is a hatecrime, where is the Fed. Bondi, this is a good photo op for you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (I1XLT)

They always let locals go 1st - see Cincy as well...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (tOcjL)

128 Most states have an enhancement on assault charges if the victim is over 65.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 06:02 PM (VofaG)

129 There is clearly a belief among members of the left, including many black politicians and judges, that black people should essentially be immunized from prosecution so long as they're doing the important Violent Street Justice work of beating up white people.

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The "American Dream" for DogEater and Big Mike.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:02 PM (IrlIj)

130 116- I agree, just think the internet routes around and the signal gets through. They’ll always try, but they’re doomed to fail.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:02 PM (hlNLQ)

131 Gun newbies that want to carry should consider a .38 special shrouded hammer snubby. No slide to rack, ftf drill is “pull the trigger again”, no hammer to snag, light weight, easy to conceal, hard to accidentally fire.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (hlNLQ)
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I carried a Taurus 85 for two decades and between draw drills and just pulling the thing out of the pocket, the hammer never snagged. Single action gives one some flexibility.

Charter Arms makes a .32 magnum snubby that is superb.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)

132 It's time to start federally prosecuting these anarcho-terrorists

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (IrlIj)
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I think judges would have to impeached first.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:03 PM (krQz2)

133 If this is white supremacy...

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 06:03 PM (MyqLb)

134 We need to recognize that the Left is an abusive stalker ex that would rather see you dead than be happy with someone else. They aren't sending out their deluded minions to because they love what they want to control. They're sending out their minions to punish you for not loving them.

Posted by: Sarge at August 08, 2025 06:03 PM (ibIN8)

135 68 …. lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark

What did he actually say? Our “news” organizations are terrible. They leave out crucial detail. What did he say that was “perceived”?
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It's deliberate. By saying "racial remark" you are allowed to make up in your mind whatever you like, and likely the first thought is the "N" word. (Sophisticated right-wing news consumers know better.) So as terrible as this story sounds at first, you are now encouraged to think that it is white people being racist again, just like on all the TV shows like Law & Order and such. Therefore they had it coming.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (Dv3i1)

136 Where's Trump's DOJ ?
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (q/iLt)
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Empaneling grand juries for corrupt Dem politicians, beating down rogue judges, and crushing DIE.

Might want to pay more attention.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)

137 The perp claimed he was called a racist name according to the report I read.
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Bullshit. You know that’s bullshit. Even so, I don’t really care, even if that were the case. It is not a license to beat people.

I pray every night before getting tucked in, that these clowns in robes aka “judges” are hanged from lightpoles and their bleached bones tinkle like windchimes in the breeze. They are vermin.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (0V4LG)

138 Black "fatigue"? How about "f*cking fed up".

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (k9OZB)

139 Just jumping it to say that no matter what we think of the black vs white racial strife there is not much we can do about it beyond try to get the courts to treat everyone the same.

However we CAN stop the immigration of other groups of non whites who get the same "black privilege" and feel the same way about white people as some blacks do.

And it is absolute insanity that we arent shutting down legal immigration completely at this point.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (04Xj5)

140 It wouldn’t be too hard to find Patrick Brice, 28‘s address and phone number as well as those of his entire family. Shame if that information got out there.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (troLc)

141 Barky's DOJ would jump onto any differnt race crimes

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (+qU29)

142 These are the reasons people self segregate.

Safety, being comfortable being theyselves and never having to worry about a low IQ person "having a bad day".

Posted by: Zombie Nathan Beford Forrest, Born Military Genius at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (R/m4+)

143 CBC News.

Israel is planning on taking control of Gaza. Here is how Canada is going to respond.

All of you, and the world have been waiting breathlessly for this. I'm sure. Proceed accordingly.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (jvJvP)

144 People that don't make the commitment to go to the range and practice don't need to carry at all. Pepper spray or bear spray will.serve their purpose.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 06:05 PM (HFcKg)

145 143 CBC News.

Israel is planning on taking control of Gaza. Here is how Canada is going to respond.

Good for Israel ... F' Canada

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (VE6XX)

146 It's time to start federally prosecuting these anarcho-terrorists

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (IrlIj)

Ever notice how much these supposed anarchists love government?

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (troLc)

147 It's deliberate. By saying "racial remark" you are allowed to make up in your mind whatever you like, and likely the first thought is the "N" word.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (Dv3i1)
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It's like "Hey if you can imagine some crime Donald Trump is probably covering up by entering a payment into a registry wrong, go ahead and vote guilty."

Also notice there does not seem to be an attempt to get a quote from the victim.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (krQz2)

148 Might want to pay more attention.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)

LOL I've had enough of sneering assholes for one day.

Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (q/iLt)

149 It wouldn’t be too hard to find Patrick Brice, 28‘s address and phone number as well as those of his entire family. Shame if that information got out there.

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It would also be a shame if the judge's info were to become public.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (TN0g+)

150 Canada is going to surprise attack Washington St?

What a slap fight that will be!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (zZu0s)

151 "This cannot go on much longer."

You keep saying that. It's been going on since at least the 1960s, when White Guilt forced us to regret and forget everything we knew about black violence and how to control it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:07 PM (0I+GC)

152 The left is working so feverishly on establishing apartheid and when it is completed they will scream about two Americas.

Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 06:07 PM (unUNN)

153 144 People that don't make the commitment to go to the range and practice don't need to carry at all. Pepper spray or bear spray will.serve their purpose.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 06:05 PM (HFcKg)

I have to agree....but I can hope that more people both carry and train.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (xcxpd)

154 Wonder if it has been expunged from the ‘Net. Search engines have been queered very badly to specifically exclude what one is searching for.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (Pp3EP)

Probably. My father had a good friend who was from South Africa and he has been beating this drum since the 1980s at least.

"It’s easy for you to sit and judge but just wait until you see what the whites in South Africa were dealing with."

At the time the country was like 80% white and 12% black. Now it is 70%. But 50% of the kids born in America today are nonwhite.

What does this look like in 10 or 20 years?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (04Xj5)

155 I think judges would have to impeached first.
Posted by: Axeman
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Nope, state judges are not immune to federal violation of someone's civil rights by color of the law. If it can be shown that racial animus against white pipo was behind the decision to release the black thug, then the black judge illegally used her judicial office to deny equal protection of the laws to all.

I suspect on some of these DIEversity judges, that they have been less than careful about hiding their racial animus doing their jobs.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (ctrM5)

156 I like a magnum- have a Taurus Tracker in .44to pair with my lever action stainless steel Marlin. But, I’d never recommend it for any snubby, barrel length isn’t generally sufficient for time of powder burn- you get a nice blinding muzzle flash, an ear splitting kaboom, more recoil, and no extra velocity/enegy.. If you’re going magnum, get a 4” barrel.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (hlNLQ)

157 Good for Israel ... F' Canada
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 06:06

Ding. Ding. Ding.
We have a winner!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 06:09 PM (jvJvP)

158
As part of his sentence, Brice must complete anger management classes, undergo drug and alcohol screening and remain in therapy, the website added.

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He will not do these things. The court will do nothing.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 06:09 PM (ES1Rb)

159 Guys like that is why folks like Bernie Goetz became a hero to many.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:09 PM (ynpvh)

160 Anybody used that Byrna non-lethal pistol?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 06:09 PM (MyqLb)

161 39 I 100% do not believe that an old man who is praying outside a PP abortion mill where most of the babies demolished for profit are black said anything racist to the thug who half-blinded him.
Posted by: huerfano

The article merely says "...then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark."

The "racial remark" was probably, "I'm out here protesting to save black babies from the eugenic mass-murder of the racist Margaret Sanger and her racist genocide-factory known as Planned Parenthood. Can't you see I'm on your side?"

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (pMi6S)

162
Beating an old person is a hatecrime

Are you kidding? Everybody hates boomers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (63Dwl)

163 But 50% of the kids born in America today are nonwhite.

What does this look like in 10 or 20 years?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes

More Hispanic and Asian immigrants, blacks are not increasing at near the rate they used to. Abortion in urban areas is one reason why.

Blacks for example are down to 6 percent of Californians--Hispanics are the plurality, whites second, and Asians now outnumber blacks in CA.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ctrM5)

164 Honest to God I thought Jive turkeys could fly!!!!

Les Whitmen in Cincinnati......
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (x0n13)

Damn...now JJ is dropping the 'JT word'....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (xcxpd)

165 Protestor: I call a spade a spade.

Thug: Why you racist!

That's just the thing: we're would be taking it on the word of people who daily demonstrate that they have lost all sight of what an actual racist statement is.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (krQz2)

166 The corrupt woke Regime will not survive Two-Tier Policing. The public will not accept it.

This ain't the UK.

We're armed to the teeth, so I rate this as True.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (6ydKt)

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Armed white people are still not going to shoot first and by then they will be dead. The answer has to be systematic and from the top.

Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (unUNN)

167 LOL I've had enough of sneering assholes for one day.
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (q/iLt)
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LOL, then why are you still here?

That's like saying you came to HQ to get away from dildo jokes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)

168 I think a lot of white commie fucks look at SA as racial justice, as horrifying as that is.

But they envision something more like apartheid but with them being the ruling cabal and all other whites at the mercy of the resurgent minorities.

There is a lot of weird shit in here. It reminds me of Jewish people talking about self hating/gassing Jews.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

169 "The Regime is making its last mistake when it calculates that half of the country will voluntarily agree to become a state-declared Prey Species for leftwing predators."
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90 The perp looks pretty dang white to me.

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Frankly my dear I don't give a damn.

Ace called it out equally. I am sick of people being too cowardly to talk honestly about racial problems.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (SOjx+)

170 Beating an old person is a hatecrime

Are you kidding? Everybody hates boomers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (63Dwl)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (i24o9)

171 What does this look like in 10 or 20 years?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (04Xj5)

Like my small town here in Central Calif... where Whites are a minority, and have been for a decade or so.

Not like when I grew up here 60 years ago...

Now, you can't get a job here unless you are bilingual... Spanish and English.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (mP0Kj)

172 Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, has passed away.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (paSBy)

173 167 LOL I've had enough of sneering assholes for one day.
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (q/iLt)
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LOL, then why are you still here?

That's like saying you came to HQ to get away from dildo jokes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)

Are there any CBD-approved dildo jokes?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (ynpvh)

174 Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, has passed away.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (paSBy)

Go with God, Mr Lovell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s)

175 I like a magnum- have a Taurus Tracker in .44to pair with my lever action stainless steel Marlin. But, I’d never recommend it for any snubby, barrel length isn’t generally sufficient for time of powder burn- you get a nice blinding muzzle flash, an ear splitting kaboom, more recoil, and no extra velocity/enegy.. If you’re going magnum, get a 4” barrel.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (hlNLQ)
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I used to have a Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 special, 3" barrel. The fireball that thing let loose was quite impressive, but the recoil wasn't bad. Ammo prices were what pushed me into a .38.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)

176 LOL, then why are you still here?

That's like saying you came to HQ to get away from dildo jokes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)
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I don't think he's here for the hunting.

Posted by: The Bear at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (krQz2)

177 Hey! Ho! Violence against us boomers has got to go!

Hey! Ho!

Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Boomer Who Loves A Good Chant at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (R/m4+)

178
Canada is going to surprise attack Washington St?

What a slap fight that will be!
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The feathers will fly!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (63Dwl)

179 174 Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, has passed away.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (paSBy)

RIP

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (VE6XX)

180 Mark Andrew Edward's, I know how much time and effort you put in and your willingness to help others. As Weasel says , fundamentals.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (HFcKg)

181 A Cincinnati grand jury is indicting the beaters on multiple felony counts. They could face up to 30 years each in the slammer if convicted.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM

Because the victims were Russian. The jury are Putin stooges, obviously.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

182 172 Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, has passed away.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (paSBy)

In interviews, he always struck me as a class act. RIP.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (MyqLb)

183 Are there any CBD-approved dildo jokes?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (ynpvh)
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Dunno, but I guess yesterday they went from the Green Machine to the Purple-Helmeted Warrior model.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)

184 John Carney on X
@carney
I spent a bunch of time today reading recent economics papers on tariffs. Every single one assumes retaliatory tariffs. None—not a single one—correctly models what happened, which is a big hike by the U.S. in exchange for lower tariffs and non-tariff barriers.

Academic economists need to ask themselves some serious questions about why they got this episode so wrong. It was a failure of epic proportions that should embarrass the field.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)

185 Since 2009 (at least), the primary Democrat Party Plank DogWhistle has essentially been "Bankrupt And/Or Kill Whitey" -- the Trump Avatar out front should have told you -- which explains why the AutoPen Empire rushed to import tens of millions of third world illegal alien Invader white-hating anarcho-terrorists.

DogEater's RaceWar Dream is what really gets him off in the ass ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (IrlIj)

186 Are there any CBD-approved dildo jokes?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (ynpvh)

CBD? Last seen at a WNBA game?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (mP0Kj)

187 Beating an old person is a hatecrime
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He said something racial.

He's lucky there wasn't a crowd of young black men around to jump on his head.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (krQz2)

188 "The corrupt woke Regime will not survive Two-Tier Policing. The public will not accept it. This ain't the UK. We're armed to the teeth, so I rate this as True."

McMichaels and Bryan show what happens when you use lethal force in self-defense against blacks. Chauvin shows what happens when you use nonlethal legal force to restrain them.

The best thing you can do is stay the hell away from blacks, if you can.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (0I+GC)

189 CBD? Last seen at a WNBA game?
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WNBA game, France, what's the difference?

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (TN0g+)

190 A Cincinnati grand jury is indicting the beaters on multiple felony counts.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM
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Billy Vera, hardest hit.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (krQz2)

191
But they envision something more like apartheid but with them being the ruling cabal and all other whites at the mercy of the resurgent minorities.

The Manson Plan

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

192 Blacks for example are down to 6 percent of Californians--Hispanics are the plurality, whites second, and Asians now outnumber blacks in CA.
Posted by: whig[/'i]

Tale a stroll around the U.C. Berkeley campus these days. Despite decades and decades of Affirmative Action, overt and covert, and "DEI," and every other gimmick to increase black attendance and depress Asian and white enrollment, the campus is now 70+% Asian. The officia, stats may not even reflect that, but 70% of the students who actually attend class and thus can be seen on campus are Asian. Nothing the University can do to stop demographics -- Northern California is morr and more Asian, less and less black, and the trned just continues.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (pMi6S)

193 Ugh Unitlaic

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (pMi6S)

194 Academic economists need to ask themselves some serious questions about why they got this episode so wrong. It was a failure of epic proportions that should embarrass the field.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)

It's like going to College to get a business degree... if your Profs were so good at business, wouldn't they be Rich enough NOT TO BE TEACHIN?

Economics Experts are Professionals telling you how to mismanage money.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (mP0Kj)

195 He's lucky there wasn't a crowd of young black men around to jump on his head.
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The Black Pastor in the link brings up some very important context as to what led to young black men to jump on people's heads.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (Dv3i1)

196
Ace you need to edit the headline:

...beat Down Elderly Pro-Choice Protesters...

Should read pro-life protesters

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (1Au9i)

197 >The article merely says "...then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark."

"What he perceived to be..."

Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (i0F8b)

198 McMichaels and Bryan show what happens when you use lethal force in self-defense against blacks. Chauvin shows what happens when you use nonlethal legal force to restrain them.

The best thing you can do is stay the hell away from blacks, if you can.
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Paging John Derbyshire...

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (TN0g+)

199 Academic economists need to ask themselves some serious questions about why they got this episode so wrong. It was a failure of epic proportions that should embarrass the field.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)
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Because getting everything wrong is in these days.

Just as long as you shill for the establishment.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (krQz2)

200 Now, you can't get a job here unless you are bilingual... Spanish and English.
Posted by: Romeo13
......

I'm teaching my grandkids Esperanto.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (v0R5T)

201 Been sayin for awhile now, that we have a Yuge Judicial problem in the US... as we have no real system to hold Judges accountable even when they flat out break the law from the bench.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (mP0Kj)

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It's not just the US, the same is happening in UK, Canada, Australia and Western Europe. It is the whole global judicial class, they have decided that the world is theirs, universities have given them a piece of paper - a law degree - that says so.

Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (unUNN)

202 It's hard to say what it will look like overall, but if the Adians start getting in more leadership positions while still retaining some of their culture, the beating of elderly people will not go unpunished.

And they are generally not big fans of the ghetto type.

But they also vote Dim in significant numbers, so who knows.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (Vvh2V)

203 131 Gun newbies that want to carry should consider a .38 special shrouded hammer snubby. No slide to rack, ftf drill is “pull the trigger again”, no hammer to snag, light weight, easy to conceal, hard to accidentally fire.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (hlNLQ)
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I carried a Taurus 85 for two decades and between draw drills and just pulling the thing out of the pocket, the hammer never snagged. Single action gives one some flexibility.

Charter Arms makes a .32 magnum snubby that is superb.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Difficult to reload quickly is the major problem and if you carry a snubbie, you best be able to solve your problem with five or six shots--you won't have time to reload. I carried snubbies, shot them very well, and practiced w speedloaders but when I carry nowadays, I use a single stack XDS with 8 +1. I use the 7+1 mags when I want to be less conspicuous.

That is why Jim Cirillo carried two revolvers--quicker to draw and fire another than using speed loaders. Mas Ayoob credited Jim with inventing the NY reload tactic.

Your average urban distance is about 11-15 feet tending toward less rather than longer than 15 ft.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (ctrM5)

204 189 CBD? Last seen at a WNBA game?
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WNBA game, France, what's the difference?

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (TN0g+)

Shaved armpits?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:19 PM (ynpvh)

205 I'm teaching my grandkids Esperanto.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (v0R5T)

Here its primarily Central Americans now...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 06:19 PM (mP0Kj)

206 D&W .357 magnum. Have never fired anything but .38 out of it, probably never will. Sock draw gun with lead hollow point.

Posted by: From about That Tim at August 08, 2025 06:20 PM (RE0lB)

207 CBD? Last seen at a WNBA game?
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Floor seat.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:20 PM (krQz2)

208 Trump is doing amazing things, and it's worth stepping back to see how his grand strategy is unfolding. He is making huge strides on the border and deportations. Pam Bondi's strategy of strategic patience and tactical maneuver has tied the liberal judges in knots. Anyone who wants to diss on her had to point out who would do better. Not Sleepin' Jeff Sessions, that's for sure nor Piper Bill Barr.

With the cutoff of federal funds, the Dem lawfare machine has been rocked back on its heels, and the RUSSIA prosecutions is putting even more of a strain on their resources. Everyone needs to lawyer up, and that's going to cut into resources for pro bono work.

But wait! There's more! With every available Dem lawyer trying to cover for illegals and the Obama Regime, Trump is now opening up a new front on the census and redistricting. He is stretching the field, and the Dems simply cannot be everywhere at once.

Meanwhile, the Title IX cases are grinding colleges and universities into powder, at the same time that hospitals are being told to drop the castrations or lose federal money.

Public broadcasting, Planned Parenthood. All getting crushed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:20 PM (ZOv7s)

209 It's not just the US, the same is happening in UK, Canada, Australia and Western Europe. It is the whole global judicial class, they have decided that the world is theirs, universities have given them a piece of paper - a law degree - that says so.
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (unUNN)
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It's the knife edge of the Expert Class. They'll decide what is what, thank you very much!

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:21 PM (krQz2)

210 The perp claimed he was called a racist name according to the report I read.
Posted by: polynikes
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Cry me a river. Was he called a Nazi?

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 06:21 PM (v0R5T)

211 I have the Game Show Network on in the background.

'Beat The Bridge' is on. Current topic. "WNBA and NBA Players."
Damn Dude did better than any of us.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 06:21 PM (jvJvP)

212 The Feds absolutely must step in

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 08, 2025 06:21 PM (nGraA)

213 "What he perceived to be..."
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (i0F8b)

And the judge said 'oh you poor boy...'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:22 PM (zZu0s)

214 "What he perceived to be..."
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (i0F8b)
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I'm guessing that it's iffy if they used the "Reasonable Man" thing.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2)

215 John Carney on X
@carney
I spent a bunch of time today reading recent economics papers on tariffs. Every single one assumes retaliatory tariffs. None—not a single one—correctly models what happened, which is a big hike by the U.S. in exchange for lower tariffs and non-tariff barriers.

Academic economists need to ask themselves some serious questions about why they got this episode so wrong. It was a failure of epic proportions that should embarrass the field.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)

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"Unexpectedly" you only have to go back to Trump's first term to see in realtime that his tariffs then did not cause inflation and/or recession -- and led to record economic growth & prosperity (until, of course, the Bullshit Covid PsyOp ... hmmm, how convenient!).

One of the reasons was that was that demand for the dollar increased, making it stronger relative to other currencies --increasing American purchasing power and correspondingly reducing the cost of imports.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:23 PM (h93kG)

216 Difficult to reload quickly is the major problem and if you carry a snubbie, you best be able to solve your problem with five or six shots--you won't have time to reload.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (ctrM5)
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Self-defense isn't about imposing control, it's about breaking contact. I don't need to defeat my opponent, merely deter and retreat. A lot of the "experts" are military/police who see the desired end point as submission, not simply escape without harm.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:23 PM (ZOv7s)

217 "The perp claimed he was called a racist name according to the report I read."

Was it the racist name that most blacks use everyday in casual conversation? Was it the racist name that blacks chant professionally, and white people give them Grammy Awards for it?

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:23 PM (0I+GC)

218 Ever since, "Hate Crime," became a thing.

Orwell warned us.

Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (i0F8b)

219 ...
Difficult to reload quickly is the major problem and if you carry a snubbie, you best be able to solve your problem with five or six shots--you won't have time to reload. I carried snubbies, shot them very well, and practiced w speedloaders but when I carry nowadays, I use a single stack XDS with 8 +1. I use the 7+1 mags when I want to be less conspicuous.

That is why Jim Cirillo carried two revolvers--quicker to draw and fire another than using speed loaders. Mas Ayoob credited Jim with inventing the NY reload tactic.

Your average urban distance is about 11-15 feet tending toward less rather than longer than 15 ft.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (ctrM5)

I've stopped carrying revolvers also. Training with snubby .38's is miserable. Automatics are slimmer, easier to shoot for me, easier to reload. Taurus and Kel-Tec both make outstanding polymer pocket pistols. I really like the 709 in 9mm. Very shootable.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (xcxpd)

220 More Hispanic and Asian immigrants, blacks are not increasing at near the rate they used to. Abortion in urban areas is one reason why.

Blacks for example are down to 6 percent of Californians--Hispanics are the plurality, whites second, and Asians now outnumber blacks in CA.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ctrM5)

Yes well I guess our new Asian and Indian friends wont attack us in the streets while they take over the country and relegate whites to permanent second class citizens while using black vs white animus for their own gains. So thats something.

Hispanics of course have their own racial issues which im sure we will all be dealing with as well.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (04Xj5)

221 203- agree, my carry piece is a Glock 27- double stack with thumb extension is 11 rounds +1 and fast reload gives me 23. But I’m not a newbie, and I doubt most gunfights last long enough to reload. Just going with the philosophy that something is better than nothing and your tool should match your skill level.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:25 PM (hlNLQ)

222 That pastor is obviously indifferent to the eternal destiny of the violent black thugs. So he is not a pastor. He is just a dude with a job.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 06:25 PM (kTd/k)

223 License to beat down pro-choice protestors? Is that some kind of irony thing?

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 08, 2025 06:25 PM (B9Dv5)

224 This is why if I ever go to a demonstration, I will be carrying.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 06:26 PM (ZmEVT)

225 Second order effects. Street thugs are first to feel the wrath of the public. Judges are next. Journalists are third, btw. Your order may vary.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 06:26 PM (MZ+PY)

226 Hispanics of course have their own racial issues which im sure we will all be dealing with as well.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (04Xj5)
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It's an arbitrary category to make the country seem less white. Columbias are not Cubans are not Mexicans etc.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (ZOv7s)

227 The Marxists loaded up judges who follow Marxism not the Constitution

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (+qU29)

228 I gotta blame the jury here

Police said Brice attacked two older men outside a Planned Parenthood. He was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, but not guilty of first-degree assault against one man. The jury could not come to an agreement about first-degree assault of the other man.

https://tinyurl.com/yejnf8nv

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (jc0TO)

229 Can the federal statute about "clinic access" (used to throw pro-life folks in the Garland Archipelago) be used to prosecute the thug in this case? Unfortunately, can't use Section 1983 since thug was not a state actor - at least that we know of.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (sFNX2)

230 I've said this several times...

The left has declared war on us, yet for whatever reason we fail to acknowledge it.

Until that mindset changes, nothing will happen.™

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (Q4IgG)

231 Ever since, "Hate Crime," became a thing.

Orwell warned us.
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (i0F8b)
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Most crime is an act of extreme apathy and lack of concern for victims.

But that's somehow better than "hate".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)

232 Protestant pastors have no other marketable job skills.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (ZmEVT)

233 "I'm not going to shy away from this any longer. Is my take racial? Yes it is. But the story is racial."

Crime stats for at least a decade show that oppressed black male youths, that represent about 5% of the population, commit about 50% of the violent crimes in USA. The latest addition is females from this demographic have decided to join in. The Left through endless intimidation has made it risky to state the obvious.

Posted by: Rapper Hot Tea at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (9vYpt)

234
Don't listen to the caliber snobs, a .32 revolver will look like a magnum when you pull it out and point it at Skinny Angry White Boy or Growing Diverse Mob.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)

Everything in the world is explained by the Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, and Tombstone.

Maxim 27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.

"You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (y9nCu)

235 >>@WhiteHouse
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>>1m
"The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska. Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - @POTUS🇺🇸

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (viF8m)

236 MAE, I was all of the above--had a Walther PPK and a Model 60 snubbie. Shot both well despite the horrendous tiny sights on the PPK and nasty recoil (380 ACP) and horrible trigger (was an original W. German one prior to the GCA of 196

. But it was far easier to slap a 7 round magazine in even with good non arthritic fingers than speedloading a snubbie. First you have to raise it muzzle skyward, punch the ejector with the flat of your hand, and use the proper profile bullets (rounded ogive) for the reload. So I carried FBI load 158gr+p dead soft swaged Hollow points as the initial load and Corbon powr'ball for reloads.

Still slower by a second or so behind reloading the semi automatic.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (ctrM5)

237 "This is why if I ever go to a demonstration, I will be carrying."

Situational awareness suggests that you simply opt not to go to places where you anticipate a gunfight.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (0I+GC)

238 Academic economists need to ask themselves some serious questions about why they got this episode so wrong. It was a failure of epic proportions that should embarrass the field.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)

And the standard answer is going to be something along the lines of "go to Hell, I spent 15 years getting this degree, and I wrote actual papers in actual journals and that cost real money, what did you do, sleep at Best Western?"

The real answer is that economics is the study of human choice in the face of dealing with possible gains and losses, and not a Gantt chart set up by Keynes, Smith, Arrow and Marx.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 06:29 PM (rbvCR)

239 Should read pro-life protesters

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (1Au9i)
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Ace: "I have written what I have written".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2)

240 @220

>>Hispanics of course have their own racial issues which im sure we will all be dealing with as well.

Hispanics are the new Italians, Asians are the new Scots/Germans.

Whites will be the new coolies.

And blacks are going to be f***ed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 06:29 PM (IM1cI)

241 agree, my carry piece is a Glock 27- double stack with thumb extension is 11 rounds +1 and fast reload gives me 23. But I’m not a newbie, and I doubt most gunfights last long enough to reload. Just going with the philosophy that something is better than nothing and your tool should match your skill level.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:25 PM (hlNLQ)
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Everyone should go with what meet their skill level, their comfort zone, their situation and the local laws where they live.

It's pretty simple, and the paramount rule is that any gun beat no gun at all. Just be sure you can get to it quickly and know how to use it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)

242 224 This is why if I ever go to a demonstration, I will be carrying.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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I stay away from crowds nowadays period.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (ctrM5)

243 Btw, from the video at the link, the guy is possibly white.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (jc0TO)

244 "The Left through endless intimidation has made it risky to state the obvious."

Not just the left. When I started bringing it up here, some a-holes called me Gobineau, and asked where my cranial calipers were. Performative 'anti-racism' is still practiced on the right.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (0I+GC)

245 "You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (y9nCu)

Nice use of quote.

Also note that the only 'fair' gunfight Doc ever gets into or draws down is the last one against Ringo. And he essentially executes the guy anyway.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

246 Over the years cities have become hunting grounds for the Left's wolf pack enforcers. A Reconquista of sorts seems to be on the table.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (9vYpt)

247 31 Am I to assume the perp was black ?

I saw excerpt from original police report. Thug was noted as white, but I think he is "Hispanic white." Thug's excuse is that he thought he heard victim dis him racially (it would be nice to at least once hear a new excuse), so Hispanic white thug had no alternative to beating the old, defenseless pro-life guy to within an inch of his life. The monster in the black robe must have agreed.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (sFNX2)

248 237-yeah, as a father of 4 daughters, that’s what I preach too, but there’s a bit of a “heckler’sveto” aspect to that as well isn’t there? Personally gets my back up to not go somewhere I want to go because it’s “dangerous.” Hell- I’m dangerous.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (hlNLQ)

249 Nood. Woke week.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

250 Ace: "I have written what I have written".

Jesus was the King of the Jews/

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 06:33 PM (ZmEVT)

251 229 Can the federal statute about "clinic access" (used to throw pro-life folks in the Garland Archipelago) be used to prosecute the thug in this case? Unfortunately, can't use Section 1983 since thug was not a state actor - at least that we know of.
Posted by: Martin Tell

Look up Ku Klux Klan law aka Enforcement Act of 1871. From wiki, "The act made certain acts committed by private persons federal offenses including conspiring to deprive citizens of their rights to hold office, serve on juries, or enjoy the equal protection of law. "

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:33 PM (ctrM5)

252 Defend yourself anywhere besides your house, and your life will change forever.

Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:33 PM (jgmnb)

253 Over the years cities have become hunting grounds for the Left's wolf pack enforcers. A Reconquista of sorts seems to be on the table.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (9vYpt)
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We did this before, in the 1990s, when the murder rates were much higher.

Broken Windows policing, three strikes laws, deportations.

It's not hard.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:33 PM (ZOv7s)

254 Well, I am installing Linux Mint 22 onto an old WD 500 gB hard drive. I think the power supply in my desktop cratered, and took out the then-active solid state drive with Mint on it. The idle drive with Win7 on it was OK. Changing power supplies got Windows working again, but the SSD has errors that fsck cannot fix.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (5WIH7)

255 Biggest nood ever, I reckon. Chock full o content.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:35 PM (0I+GC)

256 I started saying it twenty years ago, cities are not fit to live in, and since then they have gotten worse. I moved to the country and am armed.

Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 06:36 PM (NnONT)

257
Hispanics of course have their own racial issues which im sure we will all be dealing with as well.

Hispanics are the new Italians, Asians are the new Scots/Germans.

Whites will be the new coolies.

And blacks are going to be f***ed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 06:29 PM (IM1cI)

Hispanic and black gangstas already fought it out in Los Angeles about 20 years ago. The black folk got their asses kicked. Which is why a white guy could walk a street in Compton at 11pm and most of the time he'll be just fine. A black guy on the same street and time would have his face peeled off by MS13.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 06:36 PM (y9nCu)

258 248 237-yeah, as a father of 4 daughters, that’s what I preach too, but there’s a bit of a “heckler’sveto” aspect to that as well isn’t there? Personally gets my back up to not go somewhere I want to go because it’s “dangerous.” Hell- I’m dangerous.
Posted by: Farmer Bob

Problem nowadays is swarming attack by 'yutes' and hardened criminals. You might get one or two but the rest will get you. Thus, why I switched to a semi auto. And will probably go back in time to start carrying a 6946 again. Carry it with a twelve round mag plus one in chamber and you can carry a full size 5900 15-17 round mag which fits the 6946 mag well.

Gotta practice with it before doing that as teh 6946 and the 5946 big brother are DAO only. Revolver like trigger feel with no safety. Slicked up, about 10-12 lbs pull weight like firing a DA Smith revolver.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:37 PM (ctrM5)

259 The Left will always promote their endless List of Acceptable Hatreds, and hating whitey and America are right up at the top. Therefore, any actions they take in expressing their hatred for whitey and/or America are, in their minds, fully justified.

No one in the media cares about two white people being mercilessly stomped in the street, just as no one cared when Channon Christian and Chris Newsom were kidnapped, tortured and murdered by a group of black people.

Posted by: Sam Adams at August 08, 2025 06:38 PM (X+xvk)

260 235 >>@WhiteHouse
·
>>1m
"The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska. Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - @POTUS🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw
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That cuts out all of the tea sipping bandits.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (I1XLT)

261 254 Well, I am installing Linux Mint 22 onto an old WD 500 gB hard drive. I think the power supply in my desktop cratered, and took out the then-active solid state drive with Mint on it. The idle drive with Win7 on it was OK. Changing power supplies got Windows working again, but the SSD has errors that fsck cannot fix.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sorry about that. I always used PC Power and Cooling for desktop pc builds until they got bought out. Nowadays, Corsair or Antec. Seasonic is good if max to the wall gaming but too pricey otherwise.

Micro Center Rosewill is pretty decent Store Brand if you have one of them around.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (ctrM5)

262
Also note that the only 'fair' gunfight Doc ever gets into or draws down is the last one against Ringo. And he essentially executes the guy anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

"Fair" means you die, and I go home without any extra holes in my body.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (y9nCu)

263 252 Defend yourself anywhere besides your house, and your life will change forever.
Posted by: Eromero
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Yep. The best gunfight is one that never happens from situational awareness and avoidance.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (ctrM5)

264 What one group of immigrants did the American Media seek to deny? What group of people did our "journalists" not want to see admitted to the United States?

The white people fleeing the government-approved murder campaign in South Africa.

Posted by: Sam Adams at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (X+xvk)

265 Since 2009 (at least), the primary Democrat Party Plank DogWhistle has essentially been "Bankrupt And/Or Kill Whitey" -- the Trump Avatar out front should have told you -- which explains why the AutoPen Empire rushed to import tens of millions of third world illegal alien Invader white-hating anarcho-terrorists.

DogEater's RaceWar Dream is what really gets him off in the ass ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (IrlIj)

Every time I see "Kill Whitey" I hear it in Chris Farley's voice. (The pot-smoking scene in "Black Sheep" if you can't remember.) And it's really hard not to laugh, despite the seriousness of it all.

Posted by: pookysgirl has a juvenile sense of humor at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (Wt5PA)

266
Another "Thank your for attention to this matter" from POTUS. Putin is going to meet Trump in Alaska for a summit on Aug 15.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (w6EFb)

267 262
Also note that the only 'fair' gunfight Doc ever gets into or draws down is the last one against Ringo. And he essentially executes the guy anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

"Fair" means you die, and I go home without any extra holes in my body.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Fair is a loaded term that has nothing to do with the legalities of self defense. Instead, the law requires the person exercising that right to have a objectively reasonable fear of death or serious injury using a totality of circumstances known to the person at the time. (A few states allow subjective belief but juries and judges tend to overlook that little detail).

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (ctrM5)

268 If you want to see how commonplace the "hate whitey" mindset has become, watch a few highlights of Caitlin Clark getting her ass beat in the WNBA.

WNBA apparently stands for, "White Needs Beating Again."

Posted by: Sam Adams at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (X+xvk)

269 "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly."

-Col. David Hackworth

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 08, 2025 07:33 PM (B9Dv5)

270 This country badly needs some rough vigilante justice.

Posted by: Cynical Stoic at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (U6BqK)

271 My more Americans should carry concealed against these uncilized brutes and start send them to the Morgue with lots of Bullet Holes and have the Judge given Life in Prison for Aiding and Abetting

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 08, 2025 11:54 PM (FLiOE)

Sydney Sweeney Fitness and Sorority Girl Nationalism GAINZZZ

Lefties are still upset that Trump is reinstating the presidential fitness standards for students.

Trump focus on health is not 'inclusive' enough
A history professor said she generally supports President Donald Trump's interest in promoting health but criticized his plan to revive the Presidential Fitness Test.

Don't buy this jive turkey's jive that she supports Trump's health initiatives generally. You'll see.

"Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," reads the headline of Professor Natalia Petrzela's recent essay for MSNBC.
...

Petrzela criticized the appearance of a WWE wrestler, Paul Levesque, at the press conference.
"The swaggering, solo, white machismo is obvious -- and about as far a cry as it gets from Beyoncé dancing with a cafeteria full of New York City schoolkids to promote the Obamas' program," The New School professor wrote. "And of course, the WWE is primarily an entertainment franchise, not an athletic one, a fact that is both perfectly on brand for the Trump administration and further suggests this effort might be more show than substance."

1, of course you're yammering about Beyonce, who is the only person anyone is allowed to look up to because she's black and a feminist.

2, you just objected to including a WWE wrestler because he's in the entertainment business, not athletics -- and then you immediately praise Beyonce, a singing whore with more plastic in her than a 1984 Corvette, as a great athletic hero for children.

I'm serious about this -- are all professors, you know, actually retarded now? Are they incapable of following their own line of argument within a single paragraph?

"I too am deeply concerned about the lack of exercise among American children and adults, and am thrilled this is an administration priority," she wrote.

Oh yeah, obviously. Big fan. It's so apparent.

But the professor also criticized Trump for not focusing on an "inclusive" approach to sports like that of President John F. Kennedy.
"Gone is JFK's emphasis on inclusive, publicly funded recreation," she wrote. "And, crucially, JFK supported vaccines and Medicare."

That's her idea of "inclusive health initiatives" -- injections and subsidies.

I wanted to warn all of you about this, because I know my readership tends to be good-looking and fit and getting all kinds of GAINZZZ.

But be aware: People may see your fitness and hotness and brand you as MAGA due to your healthiness and good looks.

Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, I've noticed a steady stream of rhetoric that attempts to make health and fitness partisan.
If you're fit and enjoy working out (or even sport a tan), chances are there's a progressive who will eye you with suspicion of being MAGA.
t's an extreme example of the "if-Trump-is-for-it, we-must-be-adamantly-against-it" mentality that has infected the left.
To borrow a phrase from former Democratic vice presidential contender Tim Walz, it's weird.
...
The rise in obesity and the decline in health is especially disheartening when it comes to the country's kids.
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2024 report, about 20% of children are obese (2 in 5 adults are obese). That's a sharp increase from when childhood obesity rates were 5% in the 1970s.
Not only is this a national health concern, it's a national security one, as Trump acknowledges in his executive order.
The CDC report found that only 2 in 5 young adults are weight-eligible and active enough to serve in the military.
Yet, Trump's commonsense approach to boost fitness was met with consternation among media progressives.
"Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," proclaimed MSNBC.
"Generations of Americans who struggled to complete a pull-up in front of their classmates winced as President Trump announced that he was reinstating the annual assessment," The New York Times opined.
Leftists also have thoughts about fitness for adults and what it says about conservatism.
Earlier this year, fitness influencer MaryBeth Monaco-Vavrik posted a video that went viral connecting the "popularization of Pilates & running instead of strength training ... and the rise of extreme American authoritarianism." She also equated conservatism with "smaller bodies."

It may surprise you to learn that this woman is conventionally fit. But she's using her own fitness to sell obesity and ill-health to leftwing women.

Men, on the other hand, must avoid looking too manly and the trap of toxic masculinity and the "manosphere," which liberals tell us have flourished under Trump. For instance, actor Sacha Baron Cohen's appearance on the August cover of Men's Fitness UK sparked criticism over his newly chiseled body.
One headline said his physique "is repellent to most women."
...
In 2024, a columnist in The Guardian warned, "There is a dark side to wellness, which I always, for shorthand, thought of as political: getting fit makes you more rightwing."
And now, enjoying sunshine and getting a tan could mark you as a MAGA fanatic. After all, Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sport a perennial bronze shade.
As The Atlantic recently observed: "Tanning is back. Only this time, it's not just about looking good -- it's about embracing an entire ideology."

Absolutely vile lunatics.

I've been getting some GAINZZZ. I've stuck to vigorous walking (so long as it's not 100 degrees outside or p*ssing rain).

Another study proves the value of just walking around for a spell.

An analysis of over 36,000 people with high blood pressure has shown that taking more steps, even below the recommended daily target of 10,000 steps, and walking faster, is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of major problems of the heart and blood vessels.
The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found that compared to a daily step count of 2,300 steps, every extra 1,000 steps was linked to a 17% reduction in the risk of developing a major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE), up to 10,000 steps. Additional steps above 10,000 were associated with a lower risk of stroke.

...
Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, Director of the Mackenzie Wearables Research Hub at the University of Sydney, Australia, who supervised the study, said, "This study is one of the first to demonstrate a dose-response relationship between daily step count and major problems of the heart and blood vessels.
"In a nutshell, we found that, if you live with high blood pressure, the more you walk with greater intensity, the lower your risk for future serious cardiovascular events.

By the way, the leftwing propaganda media is continuing its five-days-old psyop claiming that only a few "online weirdos" pushed the Sydney Sweeney White Supremacy meme, so rightwingers are the ones really "obsessed" with it and must stop blaming Democrats.

John Sexton quotes the New York Times' effort.

They claimed that progressives were up in arms over the intentional double-entendre with the word "genes," suggesting it was winking at eugenics or white supremacy.
In reality, most progressives weren't worked up much at all.
Criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers, according to an analysis of social media data by The New York Times.

A "smattering of accounts with relatively few followers."

One video accusing the brand of Nazis got four million views.

Initial reactions were largely apolitical, though some progressives criticized the ad's sexual overtones while some on the right applauded a return to "traditional advertising" in what they viewed as a step away from more diverse representations. But on the fringes of sites including TikTok and X, some users began suggesting that the campaign had a more subtle and menacing message tied to eugenics: that blond, blue-eyed looks are somehow superior.

One video getting four million views is "the fringes of TikTok"?

"She has good jeans like she has good GENES! hahahaha like in a nazi way!!" stated a July 25 post on X that drew over five million views. The next day, a video on TikTok that also made a comparison to Nazism drew 3.5 million views.

So who's to blame for this misrepresentation of the sane and sober left forming a slavering cancel mob over nothing at all? Who is the guilty party in spreading this RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION about leftwing influencers and drama-farmers shrieking about White Supremacy for going on three weeks?

Would you believe... it's all Libs of TikTok's fault?

Again?

The tide began to shift on July 27, when large right-wing accounts such as Libs of TikTok began reposting critiques of the American Eagle campaign, mocking them as examples of "triggered" liberals. "Keep this up Democrats," posted the account, which is run by a woman named Chaya Raichik and has 4.3 million followers on X. "This is going to be great for you guys."

BTW, you see once again that all of the NPCs say the same thing. First someone says it on Slate or New Republic, then Rolling Stone says the same thing, then the NYT says the same thing. Once one of these idiots is infected with the Retarded Meme of the Day, they're all repeating it verbatim within hours.

They're liars. For one thing, it wasn't "just a few online weirdos," it was dozens of prominent" influencers, and we know that female and minority influencers strongly influence the Democrat Party.

And of course, the leftwing media itself pushed it hard:

just ignore the facts you can see with your own eyes and Trust the Media Experts https://t.co/5S9jJglso6 pic.twitter.com/IjbraMfvG9
— The Reaping Phase (@AceofSpadesHQ) August 7, 2025

Leftwing women are also melting down about sorority sisters doing dances to drum up interest in joining them.

I guess in a couple of days Dave Weigel will tell us that no leftwing women melted down over this video, it was all LibsofTikTok's doing.

🚨BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice? pic.twitter.com/I1aBqCdLDO
— USA NEWS 🇺🇸 (@usanewsreal) August 6, 2025

College sorority young women are PROUD of their Country . Videos are going viral.

THE ENTHUSIASM IS CONTAGIOUS. 🔥🇺🇸

The All-American college girls are back.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vuaASLGgSA
— Rochellemaryn 🌹🕊️ (@RochelleAz) August 8, 2025

YMCA, huh? Might as well be dancing to the Horst Wessel Leid, nein?

Strom comments:

This version of sexuality is innocent in the way that Tracey and Hepburn movies were, which is to say they are and are not. They are suggestive, but only because we recognize the unspoken and unseen. They are red-blooded, not pornographic in the way that the alphabet crowd is.
The reason why the left is going nuts over them is that they are not Queer. They celebrate the differences between the sexes, at least implicitly.
This trend is not really a rebirth of the old ways, but a symbol that the left can no longer suppress the natural exuberance that comes from healthy human relations.

Below: One of those very few "online weirdos" tricked into making a big deal about nothing by the Twitter Sorceress Libs of TikTok.

This was posted by Robert Davi, star of Goonies.

DENOUNCE!

Anyone want to brag about dey GAINZZZ?!!

Posted by: Ace at 04:31 PM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (kgE5c)

2 I know my readership tends to be good-looking and fit and getting all kinds of GAINZZZ.

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Oh yeah, just like the host!

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 04:34 PM (g47mK)

3
Ace knows Gainzz biblically.

That's my new insult for everyone.

I say "_____ knows _____ biblically."

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:35 PM (dTtZ7)

4
Willowed

Black women may get a reputation for diva behavior, an extraordinary sense of privilege and vinctiveness when thwarted.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:35 PM (kkTda)

5 "And of course, the WWE is primarily an entertainment franchise, not an athletic one

Sugartits, you come off the top rope, flip in mid air, land on someone and do it out of shape & try to get back up.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:36 PM (rqka2)

6 more plastic in her than a 1984 Corvette
Dang, Ace! That's cruel! Even if it's true, that's an awful thing to say about a Corvette.

Posted by: GWB at August 08, 2025 04:36 PM (pkAbL)

7 But be aware: People may see your fitness and hotness and brand you as MAGA due to your healthiness and good looks.

*marks self safe from being branded as MAGA*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:36 PM (kgE5c)

8
I don't know why you MAGAts are so obsessed by this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (kkTda)

9 >But be aware: People may see your fitness and hotness and brand you as MAGA due to your healthiness and good looks.

These people are retarded. I guess the black dudes at my gym are the black face of white supremacy. Asshats.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (GTqXr)

10 >>>Sydney Sweeney's ad shows an unbridled cultural shift towards ~~whiteness~~ hot T and A.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (i24o9)

11 "Gone is JFK's emphasis on inclusive, publicly funded recreation," she wrote. "And, crucially, JFK supported vaccines and Medicare."

***
Vaccines then consisted mostly of the DPT combo (diphteria-pertussis-tetanus) (except for exotic ones given to those serving in disease-ridden countries in Africa). And I thought "Medicare" was not passed until LBJ's term. Was JFK on record as supporting the plan earlier?

These people lie, or write what they say without examining facts. As Dorothy Parker said about one book she reviewed: "It was written without fear and without research."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (omVj0)

12 Ace,

Medicare was created in 1965, after Kennedy was assassinated. While he supported senior citizen health care paid for by government, it was LBJ who pushed it through.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (L5An7)

13 Happy news and videos, boys!

I betcha most of those college videos are in the South or Texas, because Texas are Texan's first. The rest of the South is all glued together except Virginia.

At any rate, my husband believed Southern girls were the prettiest, and he was not just whistling Dixie. He apparently took a poll before he met me in the mountains of the Western USA.

Happy Friday to all!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (6PCLE)

14 Good genes makes for good jeans.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (rqka2)

15 >>>BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice?

A funny feeling in my pants?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (i24o9)

16 The rush videos crack me up. It’s like no one has ever seen what happens at Alabama. This isn’t new. But it’s fun. Also expensive.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (pZEOD)

17 Reports on X that a purple dildo landed on the court at a WNBA game. Obviously CBD’s fault.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (QZThv)

18 I think there was a token black girl in one of those sorority videos.

Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (98kQX)

19 I was making steady progress on the 1200-calorie/day weight loss, but all this week I am stuck at 182. I shall persevere undaunted.

Speaking of calories, how the hell is the Aldi Artichoke Stuffed Chicken rated at only 630 cals/package? It's a massive meal, stuffed with cheese.

https://tinyurl.com/jnv9prbx

Tastes OK. Good value for the price. But these nutrition labels are sus.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (0I+GC)

20 Something's up:

@dbongino
(🇺🇸

🙏🔥
4:06 PM · Aug 8, 2025

Posted by: IrishEi at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (3ImbR)

21 I'm kind of laughing at Sloth.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (eD91D)

22 Where the white women at?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (O8bOp)

23
I cannot barbell bench press no more. Tore up my shoulders. But I CLAWED my way back and can now Dumbbell Bench Press without pain or further damage.

But of course I "need" to go heavy because, well, I'm not a pussy. So I do 80 lbs for high reps.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (dTtZ7)

24 I lolled at the sloth one. And the one by Robert Davi was good, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (i24o9)

25 I went to the zoo last weekend, almost every child under 12 was being pulled around in a wagon. 1. When did this become a thing? 2. Parents need to actually parent. 3. A conservative estimate: 75% of the children were very overweight. A few were morbidly obese. Not good.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (GTqXr)

26 >>>Medicare was created in 1965, after Kennedy was assassinated. While he supported senior citizen health care paid for by government, it was LBJ who pushed it through.

well there you go. The "professor" is a retard.

They all are.

Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (KRtlO)

27 >>> Reports on X that a purple dildo landed on the court at a WNBA game. Obviously CBD’s fault.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (QZThv)

I only want to see you underneath the purple dildo rain

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (cduTK)

28
That's 80 lbs EACH, for those of you in Rio Linda.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (dTtZ7)

29
At any rate, my husband believed Southern girls were the prettiest, and he was not just whistling Dixie.

__________

Sometimes, it's, yes, good genes. Her Majesty is 72 and she looks 20 years and more younger. Some lucky women age very well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (kkTda)

30 What do I notice about the sorority girls dancing to "YMCA"? Gee, I dunno. If there was only a fitness standard we could refer to. . . .

(Looks like the 1970s, when "YMCA" came out. Love it.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (omVj0)

31 Had a lot of professors in college. Some of them were really smart, and some not so much, but I would not take health and fitness advice from any of them. One look at most of them told me all I needed to know. Why the fuck any professor should open their piehole about any of this, and why anyone else should cite them as experts, well...

I guess Credentialism raises it's fat ugly head again.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (MZ+PY)

32 The whole dildo bit is a fertile garden of fun and I will sorely miss its passing.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (cduTK)

33 >>>I only want to see you underneath the purple dildo rain

so emotional

Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

34 My gainzzz have been slow, but I have lost about 25 pounds in 6 weeks. I'm fat and hairy with big sloppy titties, and I'm tired of people thinking I'm a liberal woman. So, wish me luck at the gym!

Posted by: Not Really Paying Attention at August 08, 2025 04:42 PM (3eJKf)

35 YMCA, huh? Might as well be dancing to the Horst Wessel Leid, nein?

*cough*

Lied.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:42 PM (kgE5c)

36 But these nutrition labels are sus.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (0I+GC)

Check them. Buy a bomb calorimeter, and if they are wrong, sue for $4,000,000

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:43 PM (L5An7)

37 Do NOT send these sorority girls to CECOT. Even if they are all illegal.

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 08, 2025 04:43 PM (FEAjO)

38 Buy a bomb calorimeter, and if they are wrong, sue for $4,000,000
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:43 PM

This place...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (kgE5c)

39 . What do you notice?

Pussy?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (+2+Bx)

40 Tastes OK. Good value for the price. But these nutrition labels are sus.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

Friend, 1200 calories is right on the edge of starvation for women. Are you male? Please stop. Please eat more than 1200 calories. You are going to end up sick.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

41 No fatties and a seemingly total absence of nose rings. NAZISM IN TENNIS SKIRTS!

Posted by: Fascism with arrive with a tight ass wrapped in spandex at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (KOE6H)

42
btw, that's what the Youtuber calls fat women: "High Calorie"

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:45 PM (dTtZ7)

43 That dummy professor admires JFK so much. Someone might want to tell her that he and his Attorney General brother RFK had Martin Luther King Jr. under surveillance.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 04:45 PM (0Htd1)

44 I'm fat and hairy with big sloppy titties

Michael Moore is closet MAGA now?
... I kinda wondered since 2016

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (QKE42)

45 >That's 80 lbs EACH, for those of you in Rio Linda.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (dTtZ7)

Dumbbell presses are much easier on your shoulders - esp if you keep your arm 45 degree to your chest. Plus you an get a much better stretch than barbell bench. I mix in a least one dumbbell push workout a week.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (GTqXr)

46 RIP Jim Lovell. An American hero.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (O8bOp)

47 My Gainzzzzz have been limited to losing weight this week due to some kind of GI virus. Not eating is amazing for short term Gainzzzz.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (kgE5c)

48 Evergreen College were fatties and freaks go to not graduate.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (/U5Yz)

49 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Moves to Declare Every Runaway Democrat Seat Vacant

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (/U5Yz)

50 I was actually grinning at the "YMCA" videos. MAGA, baby!

Since my hernia surgery, I haven't been able to do calisthenics or trot at all. But I've started back on fast walking in the last week. Forty-five minutes today, about 2.5 miles according to my (often inaccurate) fitness watch. When the pain finally vanishes, I plan to return to my mix of walking and trotting. (I almost wrote "rotting.")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (omVj0)

51 Did the sorority girls get death threats yet? 😕

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (2GCMq)

52
Lovell was 97.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (w6EFb)

53 My "Make America Lift Again" hat gets thumbs up whenever I wear it. Especially at the gym

Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (KORH5)

54 Sorority dance videos are tight.

Posted by: Pitch meeting guy at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (1y5L5)

55 BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice?

A funny feeling in my pants?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

And here I thought I was the only one.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (rqka2)

56 Reports on X that a purple dildo landed on the court at a WNBA game. Obviously CBD’s fault.
Posted by: Ian S

I only want to see you underneath the purple dildo rain
Posted by: banana

Purple is the color of Royalty right?

Either that or indickative of a purple veined throbber.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (WzM/W)

57 >>> Where the white women at?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (O8bOp)

On a cold autumn night, look into a mirror and say these words:

pumpkin spice
pumpkin spice
pumpkin spice

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (cduTK)

58 BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice?

I notice that I wish the fuck I was less than 29 years old now.

Posted by: Gunslinger at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (R2gO3)

59 From the article: "It came after President Trump announced on Thursday he would be bringing back the “iconic” test, which includes a one-mile run, sit-ups, and push-ups. President Barack Obama changed the program to get rid of the competition element in 2013."

Because competition is a bad thing? Because competition never caused someone to push themselves past what they thought was their limits (even if only to avoid being embarrassed)?

Posted by: Chuck C at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (D0HYP)

60 Sometimes, it's, yes, good genes. Her Majesty is 72 and she looks 20 years and more younger. Some lucky women age very well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (kkTda)

Well, yais. I look a lot younger and act like a college girl in my mind. I was great at being a college girl when he met me. And I apparently do have good genes, wore good jeans, and arrived to the West fresh from a cattle ranch in jean overalls and boots.

If you are happy you age better (my theory, at any rate). Plus sunscreen. Or are not a Dim woman, sucking lemons and spite.

Fresh air, freedom, and feral ways molded me into who I yam.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (6PCLE)

61 Friend, 1200 calories is right on the edge of starvation for women. Are you male? Please stop. Please eat more than 1200 calories. You are going to end up sick.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

Not even close.

2,500-3,000 calories/day for a man, so he is working on about a 1,500 cal/day deficit.

That is losing one pound every few days. He'll survive it easily. For a very long time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (L5An7)

62 only want to see you underneath the purple dildo rain

If you know what he's singing about up here come on and wave your vibrators

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (QKE42)

63 Let me start by reinforcing how much I care about each of you and your health, and that I am proud of anyone working toward a healthier lifestyle. If you are losing more than 2 pounds a week, you are probably losing too fast and will struggle with sustaining it. The more weight you have to lose, the quicker it will come off in the beginning, but averaging out it should be a steady 2lbs a week. Don’t weigh yourself 800 times a day. If you are, throw your scale out the window. Weigh every day at the same time, IF you can understand the importance of weekly numbers, not the fluctuations that can happen daily. If not, stand on the scale backwards and have someone else write the number down.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (pZEOD)

64 > The CDC report found that only 2 in 5 young adults are weight-eligible and active enough to serve in the military.

You think that is bad - how's their marksmenship?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (/lPRQ)

65 Like boobs is also MAGA.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (jc0TO)

66 RIP Jim Lovell. An American hero.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM

Sa-lute!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (kgE5c)

67 No Gainzzz to report.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (/U5Yz)

68 Her Majesty is 72 and she looks 20 years and more younger.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (kkTda)

Can I have her number?

Posted by: Typical piggish Moron at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (L5An7)

69 Sometimes, it's, yes, good genes. Her Majesty is 72 and she looks 20 years and more younger. Some lucky women age very well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025

***
Miss Linda's age is, well, I'd better not say, but her college days are a ways behind her. And she does look very much as she did then. And I tell her so often.

As for yours truly, I am continually taken for a man twenty years younger. (When I find out who he is, I'm going to start copying him.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:50 PM (omVj0)

70 34 My gainzzz have been slow, but I have lost about 25 pounds in 6 weeks. I'm fat and hairy with big sloppy titties, and I'm tired of people thinking I'm a liberal woman. So, wish me luck at the gym!
Posted by: Not Really Paying Attention at August 08, 2025 04:42 PM (3eJKf)

That may be a little too aggressive, depending on your starting weight and body composition. 1-2 pounds a week is the generally recognized rate of weight loss for long-term weight control. However, congratulations on your motivation and actions. Just be careful!

Posted by: Fitness is fascism at August 08, 2025 04:50 PM (KOE6H)

71 I know my readership tends to be good-looking and fit and getting all kinds of GAINZZZ.
--------------
*Pops collar, leans against wall, and sucks extra mid-section in*

Posted by: scampydog at August 08, 2025 04:50 PM (2bFN5)

72 Sorry I'm late. I was spending more time than usual scouring those sorority recruitment videos for evidence of White Supremacy, and I even took the time to track down some more source material to review.

I haven't decided yet. I'll probably need to spend some more time studying the material before I render a judgment.

Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 04:50 PM (3BwY8)

73 That is losing one pound every few days. He'll survive it easily. For a very long time.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August

That is a HUGE and inappropriate deficit. Anything under 1200 calories is considered being in starvation mode.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)

74 President Barack Obama changed the program to get rid of the competition element in 2013."

Because competition is a bad thing? Because competition never caused someone to push themselves past what they thought was their limits (even if only to avoid being embarrassed)?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (D0HYP)

No, because he couldn't do it.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (k9OZB)

75 Egads. What is that disgusting pig in the bottom photos?

Is that somebody mocking the racist fuglies who object to Sweeney?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)

76 Article in the Daily Mail yesterday said if your waist to calf ratio is greater than 2.4, you're an unhealthy slob and will soon die.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (XvL8K)

77 I look great for my age because alcohol is a great preservative.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (+OnsA)

78 "...how's their marksmenship?"

Or their spelling?

Posted by: Sniveling spelling sentry at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (XQo4F)

79
Touch down every morning - ten times!
Not just now and then
Give that chicken fat back to the chicken
And don't be chicken again
No, don't be chicken again

Push up every morning - ten times
Push up starting low
Once more on the rise, nuts to the flabby guys!
Go, you chicken fat, go away!
Go, you chicken fat, go!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:52 PM (kkTda)

80
But be aware: People may see your fitness and hotness and brand you as MAGA due to your healthiness and good looks.
*marks self safe from being branded as MAGA*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I was thinking the same thing as I read the content.

*was reading the content wrong?*
- George Costanza

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (QcUc+)

81 75 Egads. What is that disgusting pig in the bottom photos?

Is that somebody mocking the racist fuglies who object to Sweeney?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)

50 gallons of cottage cheese in a one-gallon sack.

Posted by: That's just nasty at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (KOE6H)

82 The CDC report found that only 2 in 5 young adults are weight-eligible and active enough to serve in the military.

You think that is bad - how's their marksmenship?

It's probably much easier to teach someone to shoot than to build a time machine to go back a year to get them to stop overeating?

Posted by: Chuck C at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (D0HYP)

83 Sororities have always done song and dance numbers for rush. They used to practice for the boyfriends and friends of the girls before rush to get ready. Fun memories. But now they're doing it for tik tok, not just for the pledges. And I guess the whole world.

Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (KORH5)

84 "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (+OnsA)

85 "The swaggering, solo, white machismo is obvious -- and about as far a cry as it gets from Beyoncé dancing with a cafeteria full of New York City schoolkids

The cultural appropriator with the bleach blonde hair and the lightened Michael Jackson skin color.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (rqka2)

86 That is a HUGE and inappropriate deficit. Anything under 1200 calories is considered being in starvation mode.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)

"STARVATION!"

That is an hysterical and pseudo-scientific term.

Someone who is obese has lots and lots of stored energy. As long as the diet is supplying vitamins and minerals, it is fine.

The diet industry is parroting the WHO. And anyone who bases anything on what the WHO says is an idiot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (L5An7)

87 Didn't the criminal media insist the right was up in arms about that video of a young AOC dancing on a rooftop?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (kTd/k)

88 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:52 PM

Damn it, Hadrian! You beat me with the lyrics.

https://tinyurl.com/shybrrrc

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (kgE5c)

89 After reading this post I ate the pork chops i made for lunch with my bare hands, like a real man.

Posted by: It sure was messy at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (i/49r)

90 I am not sure how much plastic is in a 1984 corvette. I think they were still fiberglass bodies at that point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

91 Can anyone recommend a decent frying pan that is still non stick even if not teflon?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

92 81 75 Egads. What is that disgusting pig in the bottom photos?

Is that somebody mocking the racist fuglies who object to Sweeney?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)

------

She's the blueprint for good genes, according to her.

(More like the blueprint for the Titanic.)

Glad to know I'll be paying for her insulin some day.

Posted by: Grayman27 at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (gRqLE)

93
WHY is Steak still so expensive??

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (dTtZ7)

94 46 RIP Jim Lovell. An American hero.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (O8bOp)
---------

Apollo 13: If I've watched it once, I've watched it a hundred times.

God's speed Jim Lovell.

Posted by: WisRich at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (G0vdT)

95 I miss college. Those videos were lovely.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (L5An7)

96
Hamburger meat, too.

Still sky-high.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (dTtZ7)

97 The diet industry is parroting the WHO. And anyone who bases anything on what the WHO says is an idiot.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (L5An7)

I am hardly the diet industry, but I am a nutritionist by education, and this is dangerous.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (pZEOD)

98 61 Friend, 1200 calories is right on the edge of starvation for women. Are you male? Please stop. Please eat more than 1200 calories. You are going to end up sick.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (pZEOD)
-----
Nope.

I got fat, decided to get not-fat, and cut my daily caloric intake to 1200-1400 with very few carbs, plus daily walking/running.

I melted 50 lbs in about 5-6 months and I'm still here. I did lose some muscle mass as well but it's not like I came out looking like a concentration camp survivor. I ate clean for another six months and did some light to moderate weight lifting and got back to baseline.

If you want to lose fat you have to be in a pretty serious caloric deficit.

Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (3BwY8)

99 "Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, Director of the Mackenzie Wearables Research Hub at the University of Sydney, Australia, who supervised the study, said, "This study is one of the first to demonstrate a dose-response relationship between daily step count and major problems of the heart and blood vessels."

***
Df. Ken Cooper found this relationship more than sixty years ago, and published his well-researched findings in his bestselling books Aerobics and The New Aerobics to start with. Where have these people been for six decades?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (omVj0)

100 WHY is Steak still so expensive??
==
EAT ZE BUGS!!!

Posted by: Very haf vays of making you at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (1y5L5)

101 You know what Sweeney ad really shows?

Man's untramnelled desire to bang women really far out of their league.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (zZu0s)

102 Going from 270 to 231 (as of this morning) has been a long term project for me. Biggest losses when I limit sugar/HFCS intake.

Not sure today's kids with their social media induced ADHD can keep a long term goal in site long enough to make a difference. And with extra sweetener in almost everything, well, their parents better learn to cook at home.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (lUFok)

103 She's the blueprint for good genes, according to her.

(More like the blueprint for the Titanic.)

Glad to know I'll be paying for her insulin some day.
Posted by: Grayman27

You have been.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (rqka2)

104 Can anyone recommend a decent frying pan that is still non stick even if not teflon?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

Try a Granitestone. They are cheap, work well, and if you hate it, you can throw it out without worrying about the mortgage.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (L5An7)

105 You know what Sweeney ad really shows?

Man's untramnelled desire to bang women really far out of their league.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (zZu0s)

And the innate ability of those women to take advantage of it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (DJPFk)

106 I am not sure how much plastic is in a 1984 corvette. I think they were still fiberglass bodies at that point.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025

***
Probably there was a lot of plastic in the interior. Still true today of most cars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (omVj0)

107 91 Can anyone recommend a decent frying pan that is still non stick even if not teflon?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

Properly seasoned cast iron.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (vZUXb)

108 That was a kick ass post.

Losses then Gainzzz!

January - Mom died. Age 88. I was her caregiver, and my late father for 14 years.

February - Uncle Leonard died. He was 90 and I was his 'go to' person in town.

March - My computer hard drive died and I lost my Microsoft account. That kept on giving.

April - Cat Trumpy staying with me at night trapped and relocated. Probate clears. My Brother changes his mind about the house and giving me a year to get my life together and make the best financial decision for me.

May - The cat Snowflake staying with me at night trapped and relocated. Lawyer comes up with a deal for the house. My brother agrees and changes his mind on the last day when I was supposed to sign.

June - Horrible house stuff Part three. Brother took some stuff. Not much. I lost them as family...but that's more a GAINZZZ. I have no more family. The rest call for funerals. I'm good.

July - my Pitbull head-shaver died and a nice floor vase of my Mom's broke. Minor stuff.

BUT GAINZZZ!
YES - FREAKING GAINZZZ coming up.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (jvJvP)

109 Really depends more on your macros than the overall calorie balance, but you DO have to be in caloric deficit, period. Thermodynamics waits for no man.

Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (3BwY8)

110 And now here is our 148th article about how the Political Right is obsessed with Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: Duh Media at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (M0V4/)

111 I had a great comment, but I put it in the wrong thread. Trust me, it was friggin' gold.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (AOsQT)

112 For instance, actor Sacha Baron Cohen's appearance on the August cover of Men's Fitness UK sparked criticism over his newly chiseled body.
One headline said his physique "is repellent to most women."

I think Mr. Cohen is quite to the Left. I would say it's ironic, but irony is pretty much dead.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (8hxDK)

113 "Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," reads the headline of Professor Natalia Petrzela's recent essay for MSNBC.
____

I find the overuse of the word "problematic" to be, well, problematic. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

114 "Friend, 1200 calories is right on the edge of starvation for women. Are you male? Please stop. Please eat more than 1200 calories. You are going to end up sick."

I'll look into it more carefully. So far it works well and I feel fine, and not even hungry. Brave AI sez 1600-2000 cals/day for old farts like me.

I did a severe diet in the 1980s-1990s when I was on a cardio kick. Airdyne four times a week, hiking 25 miles per week, 150 situps every night, on only 600 cals/day. I got down to 154 lbs, average resting heart rate 44. I felt great physically. Friends were concerned, but I think it's the healthiest I've ever been, and believe it added years to my lifespan. Then in 1996 I fell back into bad habits and gradually went back up to 205.

I'll look more into it. I did not expect it would be dangerous. My doctor knows about it.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (0I+GC)

115 Looks like White Girl Summer is breaking Out all over the land.

That's a lot of hot chicks in one spot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (IM1cI)

116 Decent is gains to report.

Started squats again for the first time in a long time. Why did none of you fuckers about 15 years ago tell me to not stop doing squats because it would really hurt to start back up? Huh?

Also, still not sure Pipers bear squats are doing anything. When I first started them I felt a nice pull as stuff stretched out back there, but the regular squats kind of run rough shod over them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (zZu0s)

117
Not sure today's kids with their social media induced ADHD can keep a long term goal in site long enough to make a difference. And with extra sweetener in almost everything, well, their parents better learn to cook at home.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (lUFok)

Congrats!

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (vZUXb)

118 A history professor said she generally supports President Donald Trump's interest in promoting health but criticized his plan to revive the Presidential Fitness Test.

Hey History Professor...remember when John Kennedy had his Presidential Health Program? Of is that too far back in history for ya?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (2WIwB)

119 In early 2017, I had a vertebral disk 'disintegrate' (said radiologist). It and a herniated disk below it were replaced 4 weeks later (long story, heavy opioids, very understanding boss). I dropped 30 pounds from not eating. After the artificial disks were replaced, all the lost weight came back. Decided that the weight could go away. Beginning 2018 to end 2020, dropped 40. Holding to 187-192, my weight range in 1983, ever since. Limited lifting due to knee trouble - but for 29 year old, arm work is as high as it's ever been,

Yay Horde!

Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (NcvvS)

120 Translation: We don’t want heritage Americans to be strong, healthy and presenting a physical threat to our authoritayyyyy!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (Hkcdp)

121 Where the cute girls are, that's where this country is headed.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (od0dV)

122 Let's see if I've got it right, only a total of 5 Apollo astronauts are still alive, and that's of all of them.

Four Moonwalkers remain, Buzz, David Scott, Harrison Schmitt, and Charlie Duke.

Duke is the youngest, at 89. He'll turn 90 in Oct.

Fred Haise, also of Apollo 13, remains as well at 91.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (w6EFb)

123 24 I lolled at the sloth one. And the one by Robert Davi was good, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (i24o9)

I was about to post an Akshually, but then ISWYDT. LOL.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (8hxDK)

124 91 Can anyone recommend a decent frying pan that is still non stick even if not teflon?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
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Hexclad

but also Guy Fieri's FLAVORTOWN branded nonsticks are actually really good too.

Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (3BwY8)

125 Hmmm...my new router has given me a new hash.
Oh well.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (2WIwB)

126 116 Nope.

I got fat, decided to get not-fat, and cut my daily caloric intake to 1200-1400 with very few carbs, plus daily walking/running.

I melted 50 lbs in about 5-6 months and I'm still here. I did lose some muscle mass as well but it's not like I came out looking like a concentration camp survivor. I ate clean for another six months and did some light to moderate weight lifting and got back to baseline.

If you want to lose fat you have to be in a pretty serious caloric deficit.
Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (3BwY

This.

I've done 1000 calories a day + exercise and never gotten sick before when trying to lose real weight. If you've got the fat to burn and a smart about what you are eating, you'll be fine, unless you have some sort of special issue. Most people are not that fragile.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (RIQol)

127 It's not plastic.
It's "Engineered Material"

Plastic sounds cheap.
Engineered Material ? They can charge more for that stuff.

Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (q/iLt)

128 For instance, actor Sacha Baron Cohen's appearance on the August cover of Men's Fitness UK sparked criticism over his newly chiseled body.
One headline said his physique "is repellent to most women."

I think Mr. Cohen is quite to the Left. I would say it's ironic, but irony is pretty much dead.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025

***
Never mind him. How does his wife, Isla Fisher, look nowadays?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (omVj0)

129 I am hardly the diet industry, but I am a nutritionist by education, and this is dangerous.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (pZEOD)

I didn't call you an idiot... I am disagreeing with you. There are a huge amount of data that show low-calorie diets are safe.

People might not be able to maintain the weight loss, but that is an entirely different issue.

An obese man...let's say 75 pounds overweight...has 150 days of energy stores on a 1,200 calorie/day diet. As long as those 1,200 calories are providing vitamins and minerals, he will remain healthy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (L5An7)

130 Suggestions?

Uses “Problematic “ = I’m a pussy, waaaaaaaahhhhhh!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (Hkcdp)

131
I find the overuse of the word "problematic" to be, well, problematic. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

I can't stand authentic, if you're so authentic I should know it without you telling me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (vZUXb)

132 109 Really depends more on your macros than the overall calorie balance, but you DO have to be in caloric deficit, period. Thermodynamics waits for no man.
Posted by: ballistic at August

Weight loss is always calories in, calories out. But if you go too far, you are in starvation mode and that is not a healthy place to be, you start to affect organs.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (pZEOD)

133 101 You know what Sweeney ad really shows?

Man's untramnelled desire to bang women really far out of their league.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (zZu0s)

A wise man once said that you could have the hottest, most beautiful woman in the world, and somewhere there is a guy tired of banging her.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (MZ+PY)

134 Anybody have an opinion between Zepbound, Wegovy and Ozempic?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 05:02 PM (wBaIH)

135 I can't imagine that the chick in pink is going to live very long.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:02 PM (jc0TO)

136 I wasn't on most of the afternoon. looks like I missed a lot of good stuff.

I live in MD, retired. Wondering if I can get on a grand jury.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 08, 2025 05:02 PM (w3u3d)

137 Not all professors are lunatics, my wife is a prof and couldn't care less about Trump, wokeness, etc. Half of her colleagues are at least commie-adjacent, but the other half are like her, if not fully red-pilled. Covid flipped a few to red.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 08, 2025 05:02 PM (AcM/G)

138
Plastic sounds cheap.
Engineered Material ? They can charge more for that stuff.
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (q/iLt)

Nah, engineered wood sounds cheap to me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (vZUXb)

139
Piper is right. You can't apply a Cookie-Cutter caloric diet to Everyone.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (dTtZ7)

140 "Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," reads the headline of Professor Natalia Petrzela's recent essay for MSNBC.
____

I find the overuse of the word "problematic" to be, well, problematic. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025

***
In the prof's quote, "outdated and problematic" just means "I don't like it and wish it would go away!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (omVj0)

141 It's ironic they are invoking Beyonce who is embroiled in her own controversy around her obvious skin whitening. Whitened skin and blond hair speak for themselves around what it really believed and desired, just sayin.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (SOjx+)

142
An obese man...let's say 75 pounds overweight...has 150 days of energy stores on a 1,200 calorie/day diet. As long as those 1,200 calories are providing vitamins and minerals, he will remain healthy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August

I didn’t think you called me an idiot, but you are free to do that if ya want! I am just letting you know, I am not talking out of my fourth point of contact here. I know a thing or two of which I speak.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (pZEOD)

143 You know, you didn't see any fat rowers on Ben Hur's ship.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (jc0TO)

144 Chiseled physique is repellent?

Ok, Diana Moon Glampers!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (Hkcdp)

145 are calorie measures precise ? does organic chicken breast have the same caloric content as non-organic ? you know, they one made of steroids and stuff ?

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (g47mK)

146 🚨BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice?
____

A whole host of fertile women, dressed to accentuate their fertility. I hope this increases their chances at getting an MRS degree to go along with whatever degree that will show up on the diploma.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (Dv3i1)

147 Anybody have an opinion between Zepbound, Wegovy and Ozempic?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025

***
They are probably all too expensive?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (omVj0)

148

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (BJ6i2)

149 Yes, I do want to brag about my GAINZZZ!!! I've lost 153 lbs. since January 2023 thanks to Ozempic for 1.5 years and then Mounjaro ever since. (It's a marathon, not a sprint. 28 lbs. to go.) It changed my life.

For me, minimum side effects that are totally manageable. Ozempic made me throw up twice, on Mounjaro I get nauseous every once in a while. I can live with that.

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (yP/Dy)

150 I know a thing or two of which I speak.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (pZEOD)

Forget it. He's on a roll.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (i24o9)

151 Argle blufdop snighul greb

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (BJ6i2)

152 For the life of me, I’ll never understand this insane hero-worship of a whore-ish pop singer who by all accounts is a nasty slag who thinks her shit don’t stink. She also married a notorious misogynistic scumbag. Yes, she can sing. Who gives a shit?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (CqoVr)

153 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)

154 >>>One headline said his physique "is repellent to most women."

in an article written by an overweight women

it's only "body shaming" when it's directed at women

Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (jGJov)

155 "Don't buy this jive turkey's jive"

So, Ace, does 'Lamont the Big Dummy' dwell within you and only come out weekends or is he there in the room with you now?

Posted by: Auspex at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (Y8DZL)

156 " I am hardly the diet industry, but I am a nutritionist by education, and this is dangerous."

What would you recommend as a good, accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive text on human nutrition? Something written for actual nutrition scientists, not necessarily for laypeople? I like sciency stuff.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (0I+GC)

157 Anybody have an opinion between Zepbound, Wegovy and Ozempic?
==

I have an opinion that they need to be tested a bit more. For LT side effects.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (g47mK)

158 Bet you need Democrat/ Socialist records to get on a Grand Jury in Maryland

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (+qU29)

159 Body shamer, BODY SHAMER!!!

Where are all the fat girls in those videos?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (17s+e)

160 What I noticed about that sorority dancing video is that I wish I was back in college....

Posted by: Sigh..... at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (smrJR)

161

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (BJ6i2)

162 After 4 horrific years of elderly care and a big gain, I stayed angry for 4 months then started walking 1/2 mile getting it up to 5 miles everyday. Went on a np processed food, no seed oils, no sugar, no grains, no starch diet. Immediatly lost 45 lbs. Plateaued.
Added an hour of weights 4x a week, dropped calories more. Finally got more scale movement.

Walking outside for an hour a day (1.5 actually) does a lot. Went to England with family (for a wedding) but we did the tourist stuff too. I could out last the 30 somethings.

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM (cnmSH)

163 All I know after this enlightening piece is that when I die I hope I go to Alpha Chi Omega.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

164 "Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids,"
---------

Recess - kickball, you're it. - >

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 05:08 PM (I1XLT)

165 Good for you , dagny.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:08 PM (g47mK)

166 I definitely had a big smile watching the sorority videos. Being a Sigma Chi, I have fond memories of my days in college interacting with sorority girls.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 08, 2025 05:08 PM (8wKVG)

167 no sugar, but .. fruit is full of sugar, so no fruit ?

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)

168 What is an “unbridled “ cultural shift?

Pretty sure it means one that’s happening despite all media, etc. narrative control.

Who knew thinking hot women are fun to look at was considered an “unbridled” preference.
The don’t just hate the concept of genetics, but also normal heterosexual attraction.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (Hkcdp)

169 "As long as those 1,200 calories are providing vitamins and minerals"

My doctor loves to do blood panels. I am treating a Vit D deficiency, but that long predates the diet. I take 5000 IU D3 and a regular multivitamin/multimineral log every day.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (0I+GC)

170 GAINZZZ!

June - The cat Snowflake was found. She went from a Lizzo 12 pounds back down to her normal 8.5 pounds. She is staying with me, is weighed every morning like a pageant girl and is hovering about 10 pounds. The house officially became mine on the last day of the month.

July - I took a week off. Just rested. Booze and edibles but not too much because I have a cat and dog to take care of. My friend took me to their trailer for a day and a half. That was the first time out of the house overnight in 9.9 years.

I haven't had any booze or edibles in a month.

I'm sleeping better than ever. I've taken zzzQuil maybe once a week. Melatonin and natural Super Sleep from Costco about once a week too.

Most of my computer programs and accounts have been recovered or replaced.

My friends had me over for cake for my birthday. That was so nice.

I've been in contact with two of my Mother's oldest - age and length of time - friends. One, a friend of my Mother's from the convent received the two big boxes of Mom's stuff yesterday and was so happy. I bring the dog Ralphy to visit Mom's other friend in town who is 90. We bring something from Tim's.

Dang...to be cont. I guess..

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (jvJvP)

171 Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids,

==

dodgeball

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)

172 What would you recommend as a good, accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive text on human nutrition? Something written for actual nutrition scientists, not necessarily for laypeople? I like sciency stuff.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (0I+GC)

Seconded. Bonus if there is at least a portion that is sports/athletics related.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (i24o9)

173 No fruit. All the nutrients are found in veg too.

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (cnmSH)

174 You know it's a good Friday doc dump when it has Sidney Sweeney open and close the post. With hot dancing cords in between Sidney.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (vFdZx)

175 Hot sorority girls are dancing to a creepy gay groomer song? Be better, girls. Now a some 80s metal?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:10 PM (CqoVr)

176 What would you recommend as a good, accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive text on human nutrition? Something written for actual nutrition scientists, not necessarily for laypeople? I like sciency stuff.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08

I have to go teach an exercise class, but I will get you a few options to review and have it ready when I see you post next.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 05:10 PM (p4NUW)

177 Niiiiice gains, Dagny!
Must feel great!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:10 PM (Hkcdp)

178 As far as GAINZZZ goes, my big black cat Stirling is down half a pound from his 14.2 lbs. weight. I don't know how he dropped it, as he still eats like he was condemned. Maybe he's playing more vigorously with little Dagny when I'm asleep.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (omVj0)

179 "Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids,"
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Recess - kickball, you're it. - >
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Dodgeball! And full-court slaughter-ball! Those were the days man, and you were certainly getting some exercise during slaughter-ball!

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (TN0g+)

180 >>> Can anyone recommend a decent frying pan that is still non stick even if not teflon?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

Try a Granitestone. They are cheap, work well, and if you hate it, you can throw it out without worrying about the mortgage.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (L5An7)

I'm going to try getting a high carbon steel pan. Chef gruel on FNC and twitter recommends them. Lighter than cast iron but works similar.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (cduTK)

181 How can a presidential physical fitness test (which I remember taking) be, in any way, non-inclusive? You either can do the physical tests or not. What do they want? See if you can clock in under 2 minutes stealing weaves and flat screen tv's from looted stores?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (qBdHI)

182 I could out last the 30 somethings.

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM (cnmSH)

Yup...we outwalked the younger brat two weeks ago. A week in Paris. Right into the ground. It was great!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (L5An7)

183 dagny! that is AWESOME!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (Pv3Rg)

184 176 Thanks so much!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (0I+GC)

185 "Jerry, what am I gonna do for fruit ??!!"

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (g47mK)

186 I feel 30. Once I finish, im turning on hubby. He's not overweight, but his diet sucks (the stuff he gets himself.) Bwa ha ha

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (cnmSH)

187 A wise man once said that you could have the hottest, most beautiful woman in the world, and somewhere there is a guy tired of banging her.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

I've heard it as:

No matter how good a woman looks, somewhere there's a guy who's tired of putting up with her shit.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (M0V4/)

188 I mean i feel younger than my 29 years.

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (cnmSH)

189 I think these lunatics are just shouting into the wind for the most part. No sane person think being fit is white supremacy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (AiNp4)

190 I'm going to try getting a high carbon steel pan.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (cduTK)

Don't, unless you are really serious about cooking.

Keep me posted. When you can't season it correctly and you want to throw it off a bridge...remember the Dildo's advice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (L5An7)

191 The President's Council of Physical Fitness was not body-positive!

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (krQz2)

192 My best friend croaked while jogging home from the health food store. I ain't taking no chances.

Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (G5+As)

193 >>>BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice?
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no fat chicks

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (AOsQT)

194 My best friend croaked while jogging home from the health food store. I ain't taking no chances.
Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM

In fairness, it was a driveby.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:14 PM (jc0TO)

195 Good for you, Dagny!

And, as you probably know, I was inspired partly by your screen name to dub my little Siberian girl kitten that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:14 PM (omVj0)

196 How can a presidential physical fitness test (which I remember taking) be, in any way, non-inclusive? You either can do the physical tests or not. What do they want? See if you can clock in under 2 minutes stealing weaves and flat screen tv's from looted stores?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM

Pretty simple actually. The poor kids in the hood that are on food stamps and free school lunches are fat and out of shape and can't complete the test. To list them as test failures means Trump is shaming them and making insensitive comments about them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 05:14 PM (0N4FZ)

197 I want to boast about my gainzzz - I dropped from 35% body fat to 16.4% in one day! It was awesome. I always thought my scale was off, and finally took a close look at what I had for inputs. I suddenly realized that as I rushed through set-up it had the default setting for female, and I switched it to male, which I really am, plus athletic mode because I work out a lot.

Am I really that low?I don't know. The bioimpedence thingamajig at the gym shows me at 27%, but that is ridiculously high based on waist, hip and other measurements.

I guess so long as I can bench press my grandkids I'm good, because they insist on me throwing them up for some hang time and laugh like demented maniacs.

Posted by: Kraki at August 08, 2025 05:14 PM (cG6Xc)

198 Nobody likes fat, nasty, obnoxious black broads.

Not even the fat, nasty, obnoxious black broads.

Posted by: Ghetto Joe at August 08, 2025 05:15 PM (R/m4+)

199 Here in California, the Democrats in charge basically cancelled any physical fitness requirements, by claiming that they were "racist."

How could they be racist, you ask?

Well, you see, Hispanic and black students have higher rates of obesity, and jut can't even do any of the tests, much less pass them, so physical fitness tests are just another way to fail and hold back minorities, deny them an education and impose white privilege.

Remember, it was the Democrats saying this, not the KKK. (Oh, wait.)

The racism of low expectations taken to its ultimate conclusion.

Never mentioned is the whole point of the physical fitness requirements, to encourage kids to exercise, erat right, lose weight and get healthy for the own benefit. The Left was like, "Nah, they fat, and you're just fat-shaming the brown and black kids. Asking them to improve is an outrageous act of white supremacy."

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:15 PM (pMi6S)

200 Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids,

==

dodgeball
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)
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Ouch!

Posted by: Guy with the criss-cross impression of a red utility ball on his forehead. at August 08, 2025 05:15 PM (krQz2)

201 167 no sugar, but .. fruit is full of sugar, so no fruit ?

fruit is questionable. no juiced fruit or smoothies with a LOT of juice. that's just intense sugar right there

I eat green bananas sometimes (rarely) and tart berries sometimes. grapefruit is very good, that's an acceptable option

this is for the no-sugar lifestyle tho. normal people don't have to do this! I'd still really restrict juices they are very sugary - better to just eat the fruit and get the fiber

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:15 PM (Pv3Rg)

202 >>> Don't, unless you are really serious about cooking.

Keep me posted. When you can't season it correctly and you want to throw it off a bridge...remember the Dildo's advice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (L5An7)

I'm looking at a LODGE brand that's pre-seasoned. If it's no more difficult than cast iron it should be fine. The reason is, I'm teaching my daughter how to cook and I wanted something cast iron like but lighter.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (cduTK)

203 I loved Dodgeball in school

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (+qU29)

204 somethings.
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM (cnmSH)

Wonderful! You are a machine!

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (vZUXb)

205 My 33 year old son who is fit and was 3rd in the state wrestler, was impressed. I can just put myself into walk mode. Did 17 miles in London during heat wave. Granted I lapsed on diet and drank light beer 3x during that day. Then couldnt find a restaurant that wasnt cross contaminated for shrimp and had to go into blessedly air conditioned 5 guys. I figured after 17 miles, it was ok.

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (cnmSH)

206 I don't remember anyone falling the presidential fitness challenges when my kids did them?

it's not a special forces test lol

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (Pv3Rg)

207
The media say we pay too much attention to Ms. Sweeney so they run stories featuring her photo because that's the only way we'll read their stories.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (kkTda)

208 What they mean by inclusive is we want a test that blacks can pass at the same rate as whites even if they don’t know anything about the subject matter.

See college acceptance for JaQuan with 1000 SAT getting in while Dave with 13000 SAT is rejected.

That’s inclusive.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (AiNp4)

209 Keep me posted. When you can't season it correctly and you want to throw it off a bridge...remember the Dildo's advice.

--

I'm pretty darned skilled at seasoning my cast iron skillets and use them often. I also got carbon steel. It's been a nightmare and can't tell you how many times I've tried to season it according to its directions, only to have it not work and have to re-scour it with salt and scrubber and start the process all over. Maybe I'm a dummy, but I do not like mine.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (qBdHI)

210 Racing the Atlantic City Tri tomorrow. Made the podium last week at Autumn Lake. Maintained minus 160 for over 18 months now, 100 was two years in August. How can I share a pic?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (hlNLQ)

211 And, as you probably know, I was inspired partly by your screen name to dub my little Siberian girl kitten that.

I LOVE THAT

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (cnmSH)

212 ANd damn those sorority girls are fit, as the English like to say. Never thought of sororities as the nexus of physical fitness, but hey I'm not complaining.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (pMi6S)

213 My best friend croaked while jogging home from the health food store. I ain't taking no chances.
Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford

You only have so many heartbeats in your life.
No one knows that number. However, I'm not rushing it by speeding my heart rate up.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (rqka2)

214 These weight loss/diabetes meds are coming down in price because there are now viable copycats. Also Eli Lily is testing a pill version.

My take is a little too much of their success is due to bone density and muscle loss.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (wBaIH)

215 I do dumb bell presses on my couch (so i switch sides for each arm). So far, can do 3x15x50lbs after warming up. Then pushups.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (KAi1n)

216 Forget it. He's on a roll.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (i24o9)

He should cut that out . Carbs in white bread are a no. No 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (2GCMq)

217 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

https://tinyurl.com/bdvjjdx5

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)

218 210 Racing the Atlantic City Tri tomorrow. Made the podium last week at Autumn Lake. Maintained minus 160 for over 18 months now, 100 was two years in August. How can I share a pic?

that's awesome Farmer! in actual AC?

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (Pv3Rg)

219 I'm going to try getting a high carbon steel pan.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (cduTK)

Don't, unless you are really serious about cooking.

Keep me posted. When you can't season it correctly and you want to throw it off a bridge...remember the Dildo's advice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (L5An7)
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Gotta go with Neon Green WNBA Dildo on this one. Carbon steel knives, though, are the fucking BOMB. The Narukami Shun knives are the best you will ever find. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (CqoVr)

220 I've walked at least 120 miles over the last week. But I've also eaten all the pasta and pizza.

So it probably evens out.

Goodbye, Italy.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (jTJ6z)

221 I loved Dodgeball in school

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You can't really say you've ever been a kid unless you've been stung by a dodgeball at least once.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (qBdHI)

222 Falling asleep

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (+qU29)

223 Can I have some wheat crackers with peanut butter now?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (omVj0)

224 I think they DO feel that being fit is white supremacy. Fit people understand long term goals, personal responsibility, determination and self reliance.Also for men: testosterone boost.

It is the opposite of victimization, submission, hopelessness, and ingratitude. Hard to be a socialist/Democrat once you’ve experienced this.

Sort of a ‘so wrong it’s true’ belief by the Leftists.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (Hkcdp)

225
I'm pretty darned skilled at seasoning my cast iron skillets and use them often.

_________

I gave up on that long ago. Put the pan through soap, water, and scrubbing; the food tastes exactly the same.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (kkTda)

226 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

https://tinyurl.com/bdvjjdx5
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
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Faggots, the whole lot of them

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (CqoVr)

227 216 Ha!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (0I+GC)

228 I got a decent aerobic workout in today by running in circles and frantically waving my arms about while being attacked by yellowjackets.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (zTZIu)

229 Oh, and I went to lift with my 21 yr old. Turns out I was being a pussy, or faggot as he called me. I can lift WAY heavier, like 3x as much as I thought. Reporting him to HR tho.

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (cnmSH)

230 How much "public funding" is required to do Calisthenics?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (63Dwl)

231 GAINZZZ - part 2.

The basement is thoroughly cleaned. People with OCD would be impressed. Air ducts were washed. Throughout the house, whatever I didn't like got brought to Goodwill or given away.

There were a ton of large plastic plants and SOOoooo much Christmas stuff.

I just have a few more things to clean up and a few renovations that have to be completed and the house is mine. After I hang some art.

After that, I already know what I want to be doing for income so I'd like to give that a shot while keeping the dog alive.

Last GAINZZZ.

I talked with a lot of my neighbours. I'm very blessed. Boy, the stories I heard about families going crazy for cash when peop,e die.

I was very blessed because I was alone and the only one hurt during this entire ordeal.

I forgave my brother on day 8. I've been rewiring my brain to laugh whenever I think of any painful memories, not just the last while. My worries are left to God.

On day 34, I now deal with any anger by remembering how truly loved and appreciated I was by my Mother and Father. I have no regrets.

Lots of loss. Lots of GAINZZZ!

There's a lot of vacuum in my life. I'm anxious to see how God fills it. Thanks all.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (jvJvP)

232 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

--

Must've run out of adult coloring books.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (qBdHI)

233 I walked by a church playground this afternoon and saw it had a tetherball pole.

Naturally, I batted the ball around for a few minutes, reliving my youth. I *LOVED* playing tetherball when I was a kid. Got pretty good at it, too.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (IBQGV)

234 Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, I've noticed a steady stream of rhetoric that attempts to make health and fitness partisan.
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And most of it from progs.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (krQz2)

235 ok, I absolutely love that Robert Davi posted that meme about sloth. Guy is a legend. I loved him as a Bond Villain in License to Kill but apparently the guy can sing too.

Posted by: Nelly at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (cHLus)

236
1980 Mystery lyrics:

/You're thinking up your white lies
You're putting on your bedroom eyes

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (4TfkY)

237 Re 180 I've had a Granitestone pan on order for over a month and no delivery confirmation. I've heard they are really good.

I have cast iron and need to work on seasoning it. Supposedly, if done right it is close to non-stick.

Posted by: Kraki at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (cG6Xc)

238 I've been waiting for a GAINZZZ thread!!

From a year ago next Tuesday, I've lost over 70 pounds and reached that goal in April.

I'm 61 years old, but my metanolic age is 46-48. My BMI is 18-21; my body fat percentage is 15-17. I wear a size 4/6. For comparison, Miss Sweeney wears a size 00 or 000 and has a 23-inch waist and 33-34 inch hips--I have never been that thin, but that's ok!

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (o1mqj)

239 Yep. Swim in back bay, bike is on the expressway and run on the boardwalk.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (hlNLQ)

240 I'm serious about this -- are all professors, you know, actually retarded now? Are they incapable of following their own line of argument within a single paragraph?

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YES. Stupidity has gone viral. Academics believe everything they are told by other academics which is how we got global warming, transgender crap, critical race theory....

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (8P/xB)

241 I've walked at least 120 miles over the last week. But I've also eaten all the pasta and pizza.

So it probably evens out.

Goodbye, Italy.
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (jTJ6z)

That's the way to do it! You will cry on way out of Fiumicino, and promise yourself to return in 6 months.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (g47mK)

242 217 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

https://tinyurl.com/bdvjjdx5
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)

This makes me think they're doing E like the kids in the 90s, the rave kids.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (vZUXb)

243 Naturally, I batted the ball around for a few minutes, reliving my youth. I *LOVED* playing tetherball when I was a kid. Got pretty good at it, too.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (IBQGV)
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The main way to win was to hit the ball consistently to keep it away from your opponent.

By definition, it created haves and have nots.

Not inclusive, not fair.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (krQz2)

244 226 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

https://tinyurl.com/bdvjjdx5
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
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Faggots, the whole lot of them
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (CqoVr)

This seems unfair. To faggots.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (RIQol)

245 And, as you probably know, I was inspired partly by your screen name to dub my little Siberian girl kitten that.
*
I LOVE THAT

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025

***
You'd be proud of her. She's a beauty. Her full name is "Dagny Sophia," the middle name being for her mother -- whom she resembles to an eerie degree.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (omVj0)

246 After I hang some art.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (jvJvP)
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PRO TIP: Don't use today's Art Thread for inspiration

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (IBQGV)

247 Shut up, Dunce.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)

Which one?

Posted by: No shortage thereof here at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (KOE6H)

248 How is it, the landmark 1965 Medicare legislation did not include insurance for mental health facilities?

Isn’t that a well known problem 60 years later, crazy schizophrenic nutbars preying on the innocent? I’d say so.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (wNEJY)

249 Gainzzz.. I have those ! Oh.. You mean losses...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (VE6XX)

250 >There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.
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please tell me you're joking

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (AOsQT)

251 I'm pretty darned skilled at seasoning my cast iron skillets and use them often. I also got carbon steel. It's been a nightmare and can't tell you how many times I've tried to season it according to its directions, only to have it not work and have to re-scour it with salt and scrubber and start the process all over. Maybe I'm a dummy, but I do not like mine.
Posted by: Lady in Black

You have to take the oven temperature up above the smoke point of the oil you are seasoning with.
Beef tallow 480 °F
Ghee 482
Lard 375
Duck fat 374

What is seasoning?
Seasoning is a layer of carbonized oil that's been baked onto your cast iron pan, forming a protective layer on top of your cookware. It's what gives your skillet a natural, easy-release finish and makes cooking and cleaning a breeze.

https://tinyurl.com/4r9fnz6u

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (rqka2)

252 ok, I absolutely love that Robert Davi posted that meme about sloth. Guy is a legend. I loved him as a Bond Villain in License to Kill but apparently the guy can sing too.
Posted by: Nelly at August 08, 2025

***
He was the white FBI agent "Johnson" in Die Hard too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (omVj0)

253 We are rapidly accelerating toward Eloi and Morlock evolution, with freedom-loving MAGAs getting more and more healthy, rich, sane and attractive, while the Left gets more ugly, fat, grotesque, insane and intentionally repulsive. The Left police their own members (especially the women) to never have sex with a conservative, while those on the right have learned more and more never to "stick your dick in crazy," which means there is a population divergence, and two distinct hominid species are at this moment separating and going down two diverging evolutionary paths. Before we know it, we'll have a society of with Olympians on one side, and grubby goblins on the other.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (pMi6S)

254 Carbon steel pans ain't light, and they're pretty finicky. Stainless can be heated to make they nonstick, but again finicky. Just use cheap Teflon pans, and toss em when they wear off.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)

255 I saw some black chicks in that sorority video. Are they Nazis, too?

I'm beginning to think fat, stupid, unlikable lesbian hags are just angry about pretty straight girls not being miserable enough.

Nah. Can't be.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (eNLGh)

256 If JFK supported Medicare, it was only from the grave.

(JFK died Nov, 1963. Medicare created July 1965.)

Ace is right, professors are retarded.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (jfvTO)

257 171 Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids,

==

dodgeball
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)

Dogeball!

Posted by: Big Ballz at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (KOE6H)

258 I'm serious about this -- are all professors, you know, actually retarded now? Are they incapable of following their own line of argument within a single paragraph?
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I've written a number of times here about "ideological paralysis".

Absorption into the ideology, means that you're only able to perceive things in relationship to the ideology.

Plus they get rewards (dopamine) from concurring with the predominant ideology, and negative reinforcement for not advancing it.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (krQz2)

259 I hurt my back and I've been doing a bunch of super heavy grip strength stuff. I feel like it helps your self confidence when you are otherwise incapacitated. Just worked up to the 200lb grippers. "Carvanchy" has a very affordable 6 grip set that goes all the way up to 300lb.

Posted by: Max Power at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (q177U)

260 Yeah, I believe that pacifiers are the hip, new stress reliever as much as those“cuddle party” and adult “camp” stories. A friend of a friend of some LA or NYC 20-something journalist started an artisanal, green adult pacifier business and they’re trying to make fetch happen. I call BS.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (Hkcdp)

261 239 Yep. Swim in back bay, bike is on the expressway and run on the boardwalk.

that sounds really fun! enjoy!

try to go to tony's Baltimore grill while you're there

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

262 Grown adults who never grew up

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (+qU29)

263 I'm going to try getting a high carbon steel pan. Chef gruel on FNC and twitter recommends them. Lighter than cast iron but works similar.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM

I love mine. Lighter, polished smooth at the factory, and cooks just like cast iron. Season them properly and they're a joy to cook with.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (kgE5c)

264 139
Piper is right. You can't apply a Cookie-Cutter caloric diet to Everyone.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (dTtZ7)

This: went in for stomach issues, put on low fodmap. Developed gout (too much protein with one kidney is not good) now on modified low fodmap/gout. Have lost sixteen pounds since June, so I'm keep on this path.

And I was in a sorority, and there are good and bad aspects to it, like everything. But it's far far far less destructive than whats been happening on college campuses of late. Go Greeks!! And yes, we kept fit and did a lot of choreographed dances!!

Posted by: moki at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (wLjpr)

265 244 226 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

Why don't they just try deep breathing or an occasional use of Ashwsganda- the Indian herb used for relaxation, because grown people using pacifiers is ludicrous.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (2GCMq)

266 with freedom-loving MAGAs getting more and more healthy, rich, sane and attractive, while the Left gets more ugly, fat, grotesque, insane and intentionally repulsive

holy hell zombie are they gonna eat us?

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

267 He was the white FBI agent "Johnson" in Die Hard too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (omVj0)
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"We're going to need some more FBI guys."

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)

268 But be aware: People may see your fitness and hotness and brand you as MAGA due to your healthiness and good looks.

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I'm really into hiking and almost exclusively see white people, proving that -- like the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, the Wind, the Fire, Cancer, Math, Grammar, Spelling, Punctuality, Hard, Work, and other Virtue -- the Trails too are racist!

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (IrlIj)

269 241 That's the way to do it! You will cry on way out of Fiumicino, and promise yourself to return in 6 months.
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (g47mK)

===

Night train to Vienna. It was bleeding hot in florence today.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (jTJ6z)

270 Can anyone recommend a decent frying pan that is still non stick even if not teflon?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

I've got an All Clad non stick that I like very much. Picked it up at a discount at Home Goods.

Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (lJ0H4)

271 For some reason, I thought Robert Davi was dead.
Must be in the wrong universe again.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (RIQol)

272 I like those sorority girl videos- what guy wouldn't- because the girls all seem so happy and fun and just happy fun time good!

The Biden years, we were told that ugly was beautiful. It is not. I hope we are seeing the pendulum swing back.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (AOsQT)

273 I have a largish Blackstone grill. That MFer is a serious challenge to season.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (DJPFk)

274
There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

__________

Say a Rosary instead.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (kkTda)

275 In fairness, it was a driveby.
Posted by: toby928

Nope. Hit by a bus.

Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford. at August 08, 2025 05:27 PM (G5+As)

276 90 I am not sure how much plastic is in a 1984 corvette. I think they were still fiberglass bodies at that point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

I use the Hex Clad non stick skillets. Expensive, but they will last forever with care.

Posted by: Croaker at August 08, 2025 05:27 PM (+BcZI)

277 162 After 4 horrific years of elderly care and a big gain, I stayed angry for 4 months then started walking 1/2 mile getting it up to 5 miles everyday. Went on a np processed food, no seed oils, no sugar, no grains, no starch diet. Immediatly lost 45 lbs.

Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM

Great for you. And bkess you for the elderly care.

I read all the posts.

Someone here recommended a lot of fiber for weight loss. My diet is already high in fiber bit I increased it since I have permitted myself fast food while house cleaning.

The high fiber seems to be helping. Of course I don't eat much crap.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:27 PM (jvJvP)

278 Where I live white girl summer never stopped being a thing. Hot girls in short shorts is kinda SOP.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (AiNp4)

279 Can anyone recommend a decent frying pan that is still non stick even if not teflon?
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Cast Iron. Teflon is just synthetic carbon. A well “seasoned” cast iron pan is better than teflon in several ways.

That’s why Grandma would cut your nuts off if you fucked with it. The heat retention (mass) of cast iron makes them unsurpassed for frying, sautéing and all that other ghey shit too. I like the way taters and eggs and everything just browns up better.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (wNEJY)

280 My only significant sugar is blueberries when i'm stoned. Well, tomato sauce (even no sugar added) and onions have sugar. But no sugary food.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (KAi1n)

281 >>> Carbon steel pans ain't light, and they're pretty finicky. Stainless can be heated to make they nonstick, but again finicky. Just use cheap Teflon pans, and toss em when they wear off.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)

Well my problem is I go between stovetop and oven a lot and the PTFE pans just don't do well with that. So I use a lot of cast iron.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (cduTK)

282 90 I am not sure how much plastic is in a 1984 corvette. I think they were still fiberglass bodies at that point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

I use the Hex Clad non stick skillets. Expensive, but they will last forever with care.
Posted by: Croaker at August 08, 2025 05:27 PM (+BcZI)

Are we talking about...non stick Corvettes?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (DJPFk)

283 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

The first dude that mentions cigars is off the Christmas list.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (2WIwB)

284 I read the content a couple of times...I guess I didn't get in early.

Posted by: DanMan at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (8uzBS)

285 Cast iron pans result in forearm gainzzz.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)

286 206 I don't remember anyone falling the presidential fitness challenges when my kids did them?

it's not a special forces test lol
Posted by: Black Orchid

There were three kid in my class who failed the test -- a morbidly obese white boy who was 5 feet tall and five feet wide, a noodle-armed Asian boy who seemingly never hit puberty and couldn't lift a pencil much less do one pull-up; and a chubby Mexican girl who simply refused to even do the test because she don' wanna.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (pMi6S)

287 I'm really into hiking and almost exclusively see white people

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Liar!!!
- Every Subaru commercial

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (AiNp4)

288 Jive turkey be jiving'?

Well, I *never*!

* heads for fainting ottoman *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (0sNs1)

289 >>> Are we talking about...non stick Corvettes?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (DJPFk)

teflon vs cast iron dildos, actually

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (cduTK)

290 *LOVED* playing tetherball when I was a kid. Got pretty good at it, too.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That's what comes of picking short kids to play against.

Posted by: Auspex at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (Y8DZL)

291 I love my cast iron pan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (AiNp4)

292 274
There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

Excellent.

Posted by: Big Pacifier at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (PiwSw)

293 Night train to Vienna. It was bleeding hot in florence today.
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (jTJ6z)

Nice...don't fall asleep and end up in Ukraine, now, Mkay ?

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)

294 Sorry... YMCA videos... fail IMO... they did not do the Y M C A in the dance!

Seriously lost opportunity.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (mP0Kj)

295 The lady making funny finger gestures at the Sweeney poster looks like she had cement injected into her buttocks.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (rj6Yv)

296 >> Are we talking about...non stick Corvettes?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (DJPFk)

teflon vs cast iron dildos, actually
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (cduTK)

Ah. The WNBA. Got it.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (DJPFk)

297 I'm pretty darned skilled at seasoning my cast iron skillets and use them often. I also got carbon steel. It's been a nightmare and can't tell you how many times I've tried to season it according to its directions, only to have it not work and have to re-scour it with salt and scrubber and start the process all over. Maybe I'm a dummy, but I do not like mine.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM

This is the method I've used on my carbon steel/cast iron, and it works beautifully if done properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pvf0m9jTeE

(the first half is stripping the seasoning, but that comes in handy at times, too)

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (kgE5c)

298 I know my readership tends to be good-looking and fit and getting all kinds of GAINZZZ.

We're inspired by, and try to live up to, your example, Ace.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (0sNs1)

299 244 226 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

I think these folks using pacifiers probably have a dislike for organized religion and particularly Catholicism .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (2GCMq)

300 I'm really into hiking and almost exclusively see white people
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If you go out in the woods today
It better not be in Canada....

This is the day that Canadians call the SWAT teams.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (krQz2)

301 "I'm really into hiking and almost exclusively see white people"

I like to hike where I don't see any people of any color. At all.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (0I+GC)

302 Was it Subaru with the two gay buddies who bugger a sheep? Or was that Volvo?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (eNLGh)

303 Oh shit, Ace dropped 'the JT word'!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

304 I'm pretty darned skilled at seasoning my cast iron skillets

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM
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Do you use a rub?

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (krQz2)

305 Cast iron pans are really heavy. When you think about pioneer women using them, kneading bread, and washing laundry by hand. They must have had forearms like Popeye. They'd probably beat the shit out of most of us modern men in arm wrestling.

Posted by: Kraki at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (cG6Xc)

306 Subaru is more lesbian than gay. Volvo is veeeeery gay.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (AiNp4)

307 I doubt that the extremely gay men of the Village People ever imagined such raging heterosexuality as is seen in those sorority girls YMCA videos for their signature song. Huzzah huzzah!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (FNvF+)

308 PRO TIP: Don't use today's Art Thread for inspiration

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (IBQGV)

I almost thought it was a punishment thread for all the dildo jokes.

I'd love some tasteful boob artwork but my friends come over with the kids. I hope you're well.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (jvJvP)

309 *LOVED* playing tetherball when I was a kid. Got pretty good at it, too.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Little Debbie Baker in third grade. She could kick my ass in tether ball.
Bitch.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:34 PM (2WIwB)

310
NOOOOOOOD!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:34 PM (kkTda)

311 "Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," reads the headline of Professor Natalia Petrzela's recent essay for MSNBC.
____________________________

Trump is honing in on Petrzela's grift. She runs some program at the New School in NYC that operates on sponsors and grants from the Rockefeller foundation and some others. It's called Health 2.0...and reads like a bunch of DEI nonsense pretending to promote good health. It's currently on hiatus, which makes you wonder of the Rockefeller Foundation was just a cash depot for taxpayer monies.

My guess is that Petrzela's goal was to take her nonsense national, with all that cool green cash that comes along with such boondoggles. This Presidential Fitness thing sort of intrudes on that business plan.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 05:34 PM (dIske)

312 Nood people in black robes and their pet thugs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:34 PM (6ydKt)

313 Oh yes, tether ball was fun!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (Hkcdp)

314 By the way, the leftwing propaganda media is continuing its five-days-old psyop claiming that only a few "online weirdos" pushed the Sydney Sweeney White Supremacy meme, so rightwingers are the ones really "obsessed" with it and must stop blaming Democrats.
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Translation: "We lost this one. Retreat!"

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)

315 BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice?

I notice all their outfits are color-coördinated. What else is there to notice?

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (0sNs1)

316 Good news, everyone! CBS News has given us another ten years!

Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)

317 There were three kid in my class who failed the test -- a morbidly obese white boy who was 5 feet tall and five feet wide, a noodle-armed Asian boy who seemingly never hit puberty and couldn't lift a pencil much less do one pull-up; and a chubby Mexican girl who simply refused to even do the test because she don' wanna.
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (pMi6S)
---
We need more shame in society. If you're a soft-handed dough-body, you should feel bad about it.

That shame helps build resolution to be something better.

One of the reasons I joined Da Army (but only on weekends!) was because I was not satisfied with who I was. I wanted to be more resilient, stronger, and also experience Athlete's Foot.

Well, maybe not that last one.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (ZOv7s)

318 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.

__________

Say a Rosary instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (kkTda)

Bong hits for Jesus!

Posted by: And Carlos too at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (KOE6H)

319 The Five is covering Crockett now.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (jvJvP)

320 Good news, everyone! CBS News has given us another ten years!

Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)

Ten years! That's about how long it will be before I ever look at CBS again.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (2WIwB)

321 There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

The Paolo, how you say, cannot even.

But is happy the ladies are practicing.

Posted by: Paolo at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (DgGvY)

322 17 Reports on X that a purple dildo landed on the court at a WNBA game. Obviously CBD’s fault.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (QZThv)

I'll believe CBD has something to do with it when it is a yellow didlo bisected with a zigzag black line.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (jfvTO)

323 Is it really trend for grown ups to use pacifiers? A lot of supposed “trends” is 20 people in Manhattan doing it. Then some asshole at NYT writes about it and said it’s a trend. Which then gets picked up by other media. But it’s still only 20 people in Manhattan.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (AiNp4)

324 No it was Volkswagen with the gay guys romping around with their new sheep.

https://youtu.be/vb_hg_ZG9dM?si=fWBK78UoRyCOt6Sc

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (eNLGh)

325
If you go out in the woods today
It better not be in Canada....

This is the day that Canadians call the SWAT teams.
Posted by: Axeman

This is the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (63Dwl)

326 Nood. Just in case.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (zZu0s)

327 “I followed the directions”

There’s yer problem. Most of them are faulty, the oil has to be carbonized. This makes tons of smoke, and people don’t like that. So you’ll see shit like “heat at 250F”.

Vegetable oils are not a good idea for seasoning. Coupled with insufficient heat (too low a temp) you end up with a sticky, rancid mess. Cast iron will rust underneath to add insult to injury.

With cast iron, the item will be coal black, indicating the oil has carbonized. It’s a lot like spit shining a boot with kiwi. Many many thin layers versus trying to lay down a thick layer all at once.

Best done outdoors, on a grill. Or wait till SWMBO is out of town visiting her sister or something.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (IDQSL)

328 The arctic will be ice-free when fusion power generation becomes commercially viable.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (XMwZJ)

329 Those sorority girls are heart-breakingly beautiful.

Posted by: Butch at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (oR3OC)

330 🚨BREAKING: This sorority recruitment video is going viral after liberal women lashed out. What do you notice?

———

A bunch of women who didn’t give me the time of day in college.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (Vh9CX)

331 I'm pretty darned skilled at seasoning my cast iron skillets and use them often. I also got carbon steel. It's been a nightmare and can't tell you how many times I've tried to season it according to its directions, only to have it not work and have to re-scour it with salt and scrubber and start the process all over. Maybe I'm a dummy, but I do not like mine.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Yours might have some nickel in the mix or the heat treatment of the carbon steel is not up to par. Nickel in steel can make it sticky when heated up (same issue with firearms using nickel steel). Case hardening of carbon steel but leaving a malleable interior, which is ideal for less sticky cookware is kind of an art . Difficult to pull off in thin surfaces (also why case hardened carbon knives can be slick as glass but break if dropped).

FWIW, this was the problem of the old Springfield 1903 and its bolt--hard, slick as glass, but could shatter upon impact like glass. The old timers at Springfield Armory did not use pyrometers to measure the temp--they did it by eyeball mark I.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (ctrM5)

332 The one flipping off the Sydney Sweeney picture isn't just the blueprint, she's several blueprints.

Posted by: Rick C at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (1zWbY)

333 Best done outdoors, on a grill. Or wait till SWMBO is out of town visiting her sister or something.
Posted by: Common Tater
======
Take batteries out of fire alarms as well.

I have cast iron, too big a pita to use with my handicaps nowadays. I use green pans with the ceramic non stick and buy new ones when the ceramic coating starts chipping or thinning. Then again, I have an inductive range which I prefer frankly after learning its issues than either gas or radiant.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (ctrM5)

334 LOL

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (v0R5T)

335 I am certain all those Sorority girls are pointy elbow 304s and elites but they sure look cute and like they are having loads of fun jumping and dancing around in the videos, and by the Bald Eagle of America, that's a nice change from the misery of the last 20 years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (dfIr7)

336 " I think there was a token black girl in one of those sorority videos."

Her name is Tolkien.

Check your unconscious bias.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (iCA1B)

337
The first dude that mentions cigars is off the Christmas list.

Posted by: Diogenes

^^^^first^^^^

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (QcUc+)

338 Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM

Then there's a 50/50 chance the Arctic ice will last longer than CBS News.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (jc0TO)

339 Regarding sorority recruitment videos, the young people are disconnected from each other. I think it is wonderful and wholesome that they worked hard to make these videos. Hope their sisterhood grows, real girl power.
No sarc, totally sincere.

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 08, 2025 08:39 PM (KBds0)

340 294 Sorry... YMCA videos... fail IMO... they did not do the Y M C A in the dance!

Seriously lost opportunity.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (mP0Kj)
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The girls aren't actually dancing to YMCA. Look at the second one. Clearly doing a country line dance at the beginning. And they're not *quite* on the beat. Someone took the original video and set it to YMCA.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 08, 2025 09:40 PM (yHxqC)

You're Not Going to Believe This, But Jasmine Ratchet Turns Out to Be a Self-Obsessed Narcissist Who's a Nightmare to Work For

I know this comes as a blow, but steady on, citizens. We will get through this together.

Trump critic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a no-show boss from hell who terrorizes staffers, aides say: 'All diva, no wow'
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has positioned herself as an unfiltered critic of President Trump, earning regular TV appearances and an enthusiastic online following, but congressional aides tell The Post that the Dallas Democrat is just as "rude" and mean to her own staff.

A narcissist treats "the little people" with contempt. Pretty standard.

...
But three sources who have worked with or for Crockett say she's rarely present when TV cameras aren't rolling -- and terrorizes staff when she does appear.
Crockett is not often found at her government-provided suite in the Longworth House Office Building, with one insider saying she prefers to work from her nearby luxury apartment building, sometimes for weeks on end.
"She is laying around her apartment, won't come into the office, and is really just indifferent to staff and will scream at them," the former aide said.
"She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls-- that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things."
A second source close to Crockett's team added: "It is widely known that she's not nice to staff and is just not a really dedicated member focused on constituents."
"She is focused almost exclusively on being an influencer, not a member of Congress," said a third source who has worked with Crockett, describing her as "all diva, no wow."
When Crockett does show up for work on Capitol Hill -- often to attend a committee hearing where she deploys a made-for-social-media attack on Trump -- she prefers to have a staff member drive her the short distance to her office in a rented car rather than the staffer's own, a cheaper option commonly used by lawmakers.
The staffer is expected to stand outside the vehicle, which "has to be an Escalade" or similar upscale make, and open the door for her.
"You're technically allowed to do this but it's wildly inefficient. Instead of using the scheduler's car, she rents a car every week in DC," one source said.
"She expects her staff to drive her around while she's in the back seat," they added, calling it a "power play" akin to "treating the staffer like an Uber driver."

She called Marjorie Taylor-Greene "butch" in a committee meeting, which is trashy and ratchet, obviously, but which is also, in today's Hyper-Gay Democrat Party, "homophobic," as lesbians are sometimes called butch.

I have never been more proud of Jasmine Ratchet:

Complaints poured in from lesbians who objected to Crockett's derogatory use of the term "butch" to attack Greene, which even left some aides uneasy.
"She told her gay staff members, 'That's not offensive. You're stupid if you think so,'" a former aide recounted to the Post.

LOL. But also, typical narcissist stuff. I can do no wrong, if it appears that I have done something wrong, it's just your stupid inferior brain hallucinating.

...
Crockett has burned through employees at such a pace that she's becoming known as a present-day version of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), long called the Capitol's toughest boss.
A number of staff have become fed up with their treatment, while others have either been fired or left on their own -- a distinction often difficult to discern in Washington.
Some former aides cited fear of retribution when declining to participate in this story.
"She thinks she's her own best adviser, she knows best, and has this toxic staff environment," a source said. "She gets rid of press people because she's like, 'I do all of the press stuff.'"
...
"The staff is really just an island unto itself, because she doesn't care about the local issues happening in her district," this person added. "She's more focused on, 'Get me on "The View," 'Get me on this late-night talk show.'

Greg Foreman points out an amusing clip that demonstrates Ratchet's narcissism and belief that she is the Star of the Movie.

She was speaking in a group of a runaway Democrat legislators. But you know how the main act always goes last? You can have opening acts and middle acts but the band that closes the night is the big draw.

Well, Jasmine Ratchet was determined that she would be the Closer, the Star, of this propaganda opportunity, but other Democrats did not agree she should be the closer.

But she kept insisting she was the closer and no one could speak after her.

Just boohoo whinin' and cryin' that she doesn't get to be the Star.

Posted by: Ace at 03:38 PM

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1 FIRST WITH THE BLADE

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

2 I...I gotta sit down.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (2UnvF)

3 How do these people keep getting elected?

Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (4neFu)

4 >>>How do these people keep getting elected?

gerrymandering and racial solidarity

Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (jGJov)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (GYt5+)

6 Queen of the wild frontier.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (cduTK)

7 How do these people keep getting elected?

Because the people in the urban shit holes don't vote and don't care that other people cast ballots in their names

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)

8 So Cockett is your basic black woman boss.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:43 PM (17s+e)

9 In before 10 despite pre-nuding.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:43 PM (VnChe)

10 There is only one way to resolve the MTG-Crockett feud.

Jello wrestling.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2025 03:44 PM (t0Rmr)

11 The staffers and others have the knives out for this nasty cuntwhore because they see the writing on the wall: her district is getting redistricted into oblivion.

She won't have a job next year, and until then she's a dead cunt walking.

There's little reason any more to kiss her Spicy-Gringoed ass or try to remora her for personal advancement. Her donors will abandon ship like rats off the Titanic. Maybe one of the rats will run the wrong way and get lodged up in her rancid coochie.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)

12 But you know how the main act always goes last? You can have opening acts and middle acts but the band that closes the night is the big draw.

Ah. My confusion concerning the ONT is finally resolved.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 03:44 PM (0sNs1)

13 She and her fake eyelashes seem to have eclipsed AOC and her fence-post teeth.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (8hxDK)

14 Trump just fired Billy Long, his IRS commissioner who was just confirmed 2 months ago. Story says he's going to be given an ambassadorship, so sounds like Trump decided that he wasn't mad at him, he was just incompetent at the job. Scott Bessent will be acting IRS commissioner.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (uWKK8)

15 Get-a-ho.

fk her staff anyway.

Posted by: eleven at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (fV+MH)

16 Coffee is for closers.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (wBaIH)

17 I know this might sound like racial stereotyping but I knew that she was a complete dick of a boss the first time I saw a picture of her.

It's the excessive bling, vampire fingernails and the exaggerated hairdo. Based on my experience at the VA in Dallas that spells entitled biotch and I would not want to work for her.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (0N4FZ)

18 Alan Grayson was reputed to be similarly degrading and abusive to his staff. There's just something about Democrats and power that brings out their truest selves.

Posted by: Definitely an angry white liberal man at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (KOE6H)

19 Wonder why she's still got a "staff" if she such a bitch.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)

20 With they MAGA hats!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at August 08, 2025 03:46 PM (oSeBJ)

21 She's got a net worth of 9 million dollars and ~~was educated~~ attended expensive private schools. The ghetto persona is a minstrel act. Democrats reward black women for conforming to racial stereotypes.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 03:46 PM (rtXcu)

22 This is obviously a racist post and will be reported to the gods of the internet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 03:46 PM (63Dwl)

23 We will get through this together- Ace

I think I need someone to hold my hand.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (pZEOD)

24 Like with kamala its a revolving door...of pain

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (bXbFr)

25 Mildly humorous, baby politics (on topic)

https://youtu.be/GQ4kx8SXCQo

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (Dv3i1)

26 "Fundamentally non-serious" selection.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (TN0g+)

27 Wait. A black woman, of all people, would be a narcissistic, demanding, know-nothing, entitled waste of space once she is given authority???? Black girl magic, indeed.

Posted by: guy who recognizes patterns at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (/IhmT)

28
The ghetto persona is a minstrel act.

I hear Mamdani has THREE different accents he uses.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (63Dwl)

29 Just my type.

Posted by: Sweetdick Honeycum at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (UjdFS)

30 She's a gift. Enjoy it, because one of these days someone in the Democrat party is going to find their marbles and they will have a leader again.

But, until that happens, the self-important retards are making all the noise. As a result, an already destroyed brand is still getting kicked in the teeth. If I were in journalism and truly objective (which I don't think I could be), I'd be following her around with a microphone 24/7 asking her to comment on everything. The hardest part of such an endeavor would be keeping a straight face throughout the interviews.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (dIske)

31 How do these people keep getting elected?
Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (4neFu)

Remember how this whole thing is based around Gerrymandering, and the reason Crocket is so cross is because her district is so contorted the only basis for validity is that it can be considered "aesthetically pleasing"?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

32 Internet says that Jasmine Crockett is married . I cannot imagine being married to Jasmine Crockett. She seems very highly strung.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (2GCMq)

33 8 So Cockett is your basic black woman boss.

26 "Fundamentally non-serious" selection.

Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (TN0g+)

34 More like Jasmine Crockpot, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 03:49 PM (gtDRl)

35 She's got a net worth of 9 million dollars and was educated attended expensive private schools. The ghetto persona is a minstrel act. Democrats reward black women for conforming to racial stereotypes.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 03:46 PM (rtXcu)

Dat maff ain't maffin!

*head bobble*
*Z-snap*

Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at August 08, 2025 03:49 PM (KOE6H)

36 You know we are racist for not talking about how hot she is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 03:49 PM (zZu0s)

37 How do these people keep getting elected?
Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (4neFu)

Hold it. What do you mean "these people"?

Posted by: Sgt. Lincoln Osiris at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (KOE6H)

38 She seems nice.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (PiwSw)

39 Alan Grayson was reputed to be similarly degrading and abusive to his staff. There's just something about Democrats and power that brings out their truest selves.

What? People who crave power over others more than oxygen are unpleasant once they attain that power?

Shut your ass!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (Riz8t)

40

Why do people let psychos like this get away with their crap? There's absolutely no reason to give in to her idiocy. She's the darling retard mascot of the media. She wields no actual power or money.

Posted by: imp at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (g6TN6)

41 I hear Mamdani has THREE different accents he uses.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (63Dwl)

Hey, you expect this sort of thing from a man who celebrated his wedding in a fortified family estate in the heart of Uganda

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (rbvCR)

42 I hear Mamdani has THREE different accents he uses.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (63Dwl)

Surely Hillary has more than that.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (VnChe)

43 Delusional piece of trash.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (g47mK)

44 Does she have NO white men to position her for success?

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 03:51 PM (gtDRl)

45 Honestly, this sounds like about 10% of house members.

Posted by: WisRich at August 08, 2025 03:52 PM (G0vdT)

46 Emhoff/Crockpot 2028 -- We Be Bitchezzzz, Bitchezzzz!

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 03:52 PM (gtDRl)

47 Well skippy orourke is the sams way entitled nepo baby of a chicago developer

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 08, 2025 03:52 PM (bXbFr)

48 The ghetto persona is a minstrel act.

Amazing, isn't it. Blackface is a mortal insult, but acting like a brain-damaged clown is not.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 03:53 PM (Riz8t)

49 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 03:53 PM (+qU29)

50 She's as legitimately "hood" as AOC.

Posted by: Which is to say not at all at August 08, 2025 03:53 PM (KOE6H)

51 If Obama had a son ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 03:56 PM (2c/nq)

52 She's heading to the Big Podcast in the Sky with Stephen Colbert...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 03:56 PM (TGPs7)

53 Gosh, and Ms Crockett seemed so mild mannered and well adjusted.

Such a shocking turn of events!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 08, 2025 03:57 PM (tT6L1)

54 Oh no she di-..ent.

Posted by: Redenzo at August 08, 2025 03:57 PM (kBlJC)

55 Spoiler Alert: she’ll win 80% of the vote in 2026.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 03:57 PM (AiNp4)

56 In Other news:

Trump removes Billy Long as Head of IRS.

Dude was confirmed in June, out in August. I guess auctioneer skills don't translate to well.

Posted by: WisRich at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (G0vdT)

57 8 So Cockett is your basic black woman boss.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:43 PM (17s+e)

I've had one good black female boss, but I've had some really bad ones. My worst boss ever was a black woman (mercurial only begins to cover what working for her was like, and she drove many qualified people away and convinced others to take early retirement . I only became part of management because that way I never had to report to her again.

Conversely, I've had at least one really good black male boss/supervisor at almost every job I've ever held.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (a/dOO)

58 Not surpirsingly, but when Kamala Harris was Attorney General of California, two of my friends worked in her office directly under her, and as I reported frequently during the run-up to the 2020 election, she was the EXACTb kind of boss that Jasmine Crockettnow is: Acoring to my friends' constant complaints, Kamala Harris was unbelievably rude, and lazy,and alwasy assigned all tasks to underlings, and spent most of the day working on her political careers andprimping in the mirror, rather than ever doj g any Attorney Generaling. She barked at staffers, fired them for trivial perceived microaggressions, had underlings arranged her personal dates and networking meetings, etc. Exactly like Crockett.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (pMi6S)

59
90's Mystery lyrics:

/Jay commited suicide
Woah-oh
Brandon OD'd and died
Woah-oh
What the hell is going on?
The cruelest dream, reality

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (8QFA/)

60 one of these days someone in the Democrat party is going to find their marbles
.....

and try to reinsert them through their ear.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (UjdFS)

61 Foul-mouthed ghetto cos-play by a spoiled suburbanite private school princess.

Posted by: Grayman27 at August 08, 2025 03:59 PM (gRqLE)

62 Hmmm. Sounds just like Kamala!

Posted by: RobertM at August 08, 2025 03:59 PM (btIS/)

63 If Barky had a son he probably would be a crack addict

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 03:59 PM (+qU29)

64 Belligerently Ignorant. Virtually Impossible for any sane person to be around.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 03:59 PM (DenDI)

65 There's only one person on that stage that matters.

Where's Joe?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)

66 Kamala's ex-staff must be looking for work. They should be used to this kind of boss.

Willie Brown's staff is unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 04:00 PM (MZ+PY)

67 59
90's Mystery lyrics:

/Jay commited suicide
Woah-oh
Brandon OD'd and died
Woah-oh
What the hell is going on?
The cruelest dream, reality
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (8QFA/)

Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright

Posted by: Have that CD somewhere at August 08, 2025 04:00 PM (KOE6H)

68
Is This Something?

Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.

They call themselves "Babymetal."

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (8QFA/)

69
RIP Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 mission commander. He should've been a Moonwalker, but fate denied him.

When and if we get to the Moon again, some of his shoes need to be taken, and the prints made in the lunar soil.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (w6EFb)

70 31 How do these people keep getting elected?
Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (4neFu)

Remember how this whole thing is based around Gerrymandering, and the reason Crocket is so cross is because her district is so contorted the only basis for validity is that it can be considered "aesthetically pleasing"?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

Not only is her district contorted, the top 5 professions in her district (South Dallas) are
1) Dealer
2) Pimp
3) Ho
4) long term SSI disability.
5) hanging out behind the Home Depot looking for day work

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (uWKK8)

71
Lovell was also the CM pilot on Apollo 8.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 04:02 PM (w6EFb)

72 60 one of these days someone in the Democrat party is going to find their marbles
.....
and try to reinsert them through their ear.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (UjdFS)

Someone named Ben Wa said they'll aim a couple feet lower.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 04:02 PM (uWKK8)

73
Why do I think Ace posted Babymetal before?

Did he?

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (FYE/g)

74 >>> Is This Something?

Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.

They call themselves "Babymetal."
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (8QFA/)

It was something about a decade ago or so.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (cduTK)

75 You thought Groot, Fani an Maxine were bad.
Topped by the crazed Illinois mayor Henyard
And a long comes Jasmine
Next up Cannibal Woman

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (O8bOp)

76 Trump on FoxNews now.

Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Remember, all Nobel Peace Prizes shpukd be melted down and turned into urinals.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (jvJvP)

77 Wow! She really had me fooled.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (i24o9)

78 >>> Why do I think Ace posted Babymetal before?

Did he?
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (FYE/g)

It's been ONT'ed I think at least.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (cduTK)

79 'All diva, no wow'
_______

A shamwow.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (XvL8K)

80 Just boohoo whinin' and cryin' that she doesn't get to be the Star.

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

Lone Star Dear?

Lone Star Bore?

Lone Star Boar?

* cues Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. *

"You don't have to be a star, baby ...
To be a Pig Hoe."

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (z/usA)

81
more 90's mystery lyrics:

/There's pigeons down on Market Square
She's standin' in her underwear
Lookin' down from a hotel room
The nightfall will be comin' soon

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (yf0Cr)

82 Is This Something?

Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.

They call themselves "Babymetal."
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (8QFA/)
---

Band Maid is better, and they play their own instruments.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 08, 2025 04:06 PM (f1kZG)

83 There's an entire cadre of "new" Democrats that epitomize Crockett. Sandy Cortez being a prime, and early example of these rabble rousers. The Democrat party is slowly sliding into a morass of generally very stupid, stage managed politicos that are doing the deep state's bidding.

Perhaps an unseen issue for the deep state is how totally unserious they are and how unlikeable they are.

Taking advantage of this now, is the smart play. They are mouthy, neutered wretches with a script and not much else. But remember, the goal is to put them in positions of power, much as *biden was, with a megaphone and a script.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 04:06 PM (Q4IgG)

84 Wonder why she's still got a "staff" if she such a bitch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)

Once they are in the system, they can "monkey-branch" to anyone else's staff if they play their cards right.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)

85 more 90's mystery lyrics:

/There's pigeons down on Market Square
She's standin' in her underwear
Lookin' down from a hotel room
The nightfall will be comin' soon
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (yf0Cr)

Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance

Posted by: That's an easy one at August 08, 2025 04:07 PM (KOE6H)

86 Question borne of ignorance...

Do Representatives hire their own staff? Do they get them from a central pool?

Because gotta say, if she hires them herself then she's going to be without staffers in pretty short order.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:07 PM (jH5TK)

87 the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), long called ~~the Capitol's toughest boss~~ "Houston voters' dumbest mistake"

i dun fixed it

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:07 PM (sDWtc)

88 >>>They call themselves "Babymetal."

Their new album came out this week. Has a few bangers on it, if you're into metal.

Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (jGJov)

89 Is that dude one of those MAGA black guys with they hat?

Posted by: Reforger at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (h5TUr)

90 84 Wonder why she's still got a "staff" if she such a bitch.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)

Once they are in the system, they can "monkey-branch" to anyone else's staff if they play their cards right.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)

"Congressional Staffer" looks great on a resume regardless of whose staff you, uh, staffed.

Posted by: Those DC feelings again at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (KOE6H)

91 Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Remember, all Nobel Peace Prizes shpukd be melted down and turned into urinals.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (jvJvP)

Wow, this one was something. I had an opportunity to be in Azerbaijan a few years ago. There is no love lost between the two, and an official government museum details just how many atrocities the Armenians have committed against the Azerbaijanis (with of course no recognition of any reprisals or acts of aggression that may have sparked Armenia's actions.)

While not as large of some other peace deals, this is really an impressive win.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (a/dOO)

92 It's an act.
She says bad things about Trump, but secretly she just wants to date him.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (UjdFS)

93 as mangacore grrl rockers go, Shonen Knife is still my jam

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (sDWtc)

94
I'm into oriental chicks.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (IDWIq)

95 Surely Hillary has more than that.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (VnChe)

Hillary was Secretary of State. Many more accents needed for those international meetings. Mamdani just has the 5 boroughs to worry about.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (MZ+PY)

96
Trump on FoxNews now.

Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Is he working his way down the alphabet?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (63Dwl)

97 Trump on FoxNews now.

Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Remember, all Nobel Peace Prizes should be melted down and turned into urinals.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (jvJvP)

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

If he does Zambia and Zimbabwe next (forget it, I'm rollin' ...):

Trump 2028 -- Bringing Peace To The World From A To Z!

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (9rvdq)

98 That's a funny article.

Driving Miss Crockett.

I hope her driver next week is the one she pushed over the edge who decides to end it all.

Whoa, the CBC is NOT covering President Trumps's Peace Deal. I shoukd check in with Kos and see their thoughts on the matter.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (jvJvP)

99 as mangacore grrl rockers go, Shonen Knife is still my jam
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (sDWtc)

Damn you're old.

Posted by: And so am I at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (KOE6H)

100 Spoiler Alert: she’ll win 80% of the vote in 2026.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 03:57 PM (AiNp4)

doubtful unless her district is in the deep inner city somewhere. And if it was crazy gerrymandered, it wasn't.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+)

101 Ace:

But you know how the main act always goes last? You can have opening acts and middle acts but the band that closes the night is the big draw.

Well, Jasmine Ratchet was determined that she would be the Closer, the Star...

But she kept insisting she was the closer and no one could speak after her.

I have long made this observation in regards to the "Progressive Stack," which is a prioritized list of which minority groups are given the privilege of speaking first at any leftist gathering, while whites and straights and men etc. are told to shut up. The white liberal who impose the progressive stack tell the minority members that this makes thekm the star of the show that it gives them the first word, that it deservedly humiliates the white people, etc. And the minorities all for it -- "Step aside, let me speak -- all y'all shut up!" to the delight of crowd.

But of course as Ace notes ,this is all a trick by sneaky whites to outwit the bozo minorities, who don't realize that by speaking first, they are the irrelevant "opening act," leaving the whites to come and close the show as the stars and main attraction.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (pMi6S)

102 Ok, this is funnier than the previous link I had with Baby Crockett. Baby Trump and Pocahontas, plus other cameos.

https://youtu.be/6mmwjDXHiAc

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 04:11 PM (Dv3i1)

103 "No, no, we done. We done."

Thus speaketh the West County St Louis girl, private-schooled at country day this and counry day that, 50K a year, from first grade."

Now a carpet-baggin' 'hood wench, an act of course.

Posted by: M. Gaga at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (eSXzK)

104 You're Not Going to Believe This, But Jasmine Ratchet Turns Out to Be a Self-Obsessed Narcissist Who's a Nightmare to Work For
---
Huh. I can relate, working for one of those myself.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (IBQGV)

105 94
I'm into oriental chicks.
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (IDWIq)

I want to be....

Kripke on the Big Bang Theory; "I'm just sitting here wondering if I'll ever have someone to share my life with. Preferably asain, 18 to 24. No fatties."

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (jvJvP)

106 Why aren't black women likeable any more? I can't think of any black woman who is not insufferable. Phylicia Rashad, maybe?

Where have you gone Aunt Jemima
A nation turns its
Lonely eye to you
Woo woo woo.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (wBaIH)

107 I'm into oriental chicks.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (IDWIq)

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

At what age do they start laying eggs?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (9rvdq)

108 Does she wear a wig for fashion or cooties. Discuss.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (gm9Sb)

109 So Jasmine is a black woman wearing blackface?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (kTd/k)

110 Trump on FoxNews now.

Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Remember, all Nobel Peace Prizes should be melted down and turned into urinals.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (jvJvP)

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

If he does Zambia and Zimbabwe next (forget it, I'm rollin' ...):

Trump 2028 -- Bringing Peace To The World From A To Z!
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (9rvdq)

Another Neocon "hurts Russia" special color revolution fiasco. Once Armenia broke their protective relation with Russia the neighbors were able to start slicing parts out of the country with impunity.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)

111 >>Spoiler Alert: she’ll win 80% of the vote in 2026.

Bigger spoiler alert.

One of the districts Democrats are going to lose in Texas' redistricting is Crockett's.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (viF8m)

112
Ace needs to update this post with the breaking Boo Hoo Whinin & Cryin:

https://is.gd/5OPHcV

She pulled the Race Card on her own staffers!

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (T/HuS)

113 So Jasmine is a black woman wearing blackface?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (kTd/k)

She's a modern carpetbagger. She's from Missouri.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)

114 I just don't believe it.

/sarc

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 04:14 PM (ZmEVT)

115 104 You're Not Going to Believe This, But Jasmine Ratchet Turns Out to Be a Self-Obsessed Narcissist Who's a Nightmare to Work For
---
Huh. I can relate, working for one of those myself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (IBQGV)

There's an awful lot of that going around. It's why I no longer believe in meritocracy.

Posted by: Competence? Managerial acumen? Pffft. at August 08, 2025 04:15 PM (KOE6H)

116 Is This Something?

Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.

They call themselves "Babymetal."

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (8QFA/)

Oriental chick metal bands are definitely a thing. Some are good, some are shit, but they're out there. This is one of the better ones, drummer is great.

https://tinyurl.com/yjsff2hk

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2025 04:15 PM (snZF9)

117 "No, no, we done. We done."

Thus speaketh the West County St Louis girl, private-schooled at country day this and counry day that, 50K a year, from first grade."

Now a carpet-baggin' 'hood wench, an act of course.
Posted by: M. Gaga at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (eSXzK)

I went to college at Wash U in that area. Very wealthy population there.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:16 PM (8avO+)

118 93 as mangacore grrl rockers go, Shonen Knife is still my jam
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (sDWtc)

====

Here you go:

https://is.gd/JO0m0x

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 08, 2025 04:16 PM (PiwSw)

119 regardless of whose staff you, uh, staffed."

I'm not going near anyone's staff...

Posted by: man at August 08, 2025 04:17 PM (EEa/W)

120 I always thought Alan Shepard was a Grade A dickhead for bumping everybody and scheduling himself as a commander on the next available launch. He had 15 minutes space under his belt and hadn’t trained for 9 years.

He scheduled himself for Apollo 13, even management balked on that, decided he needed more time to train. That’s how Lovell ended up on Apollo 13

It was more complicated than that of course, but that’s the gist of it. The crew assignment was a bewildering mix of Deke Slayton, and yes, fate. Lots of fatal crashes mixed up the crew order. Mike Collins bone spur. Don’t piss Chris Kraft off either.

Gordon Cooper got hosed, and Don Eisles I think. And then the dickheads in congress and Nixon cancelled 18, 19, and 20. Fred Haise should have been a moonwalker too. Real great guy.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 04:18 PM (gJ7RS)

121 Her staff has to go out and rent a car for her. Just has to be an Escalade. Spinner rims, padded vinyl, chrome chain steering wheel, blacked out glass, leopard upholstery.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (gm9Sb)

122 Spastic-ciba~!

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (mlg/3)

123 Question borne of ignorance...

Do Representatives hire their own staff? Do they get them from a central pool?

Because gotta say, if she hires them herself then she's going to be without staffers in pretty short order.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:07 PM (jH5TK)

They are not assigned. There is an unofficial pool I'm sure that can be drawn from to help with the insider knowledge. Plus you can bring along some locals from your district

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)

124 If Crockett was found, slashed, in her Escalade outside the Capitol one day, would anyone care?

A true measurement of your political status.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 04:21 PM (Q4IgG)

125 One thing I agree with the ghetto crowd about: I think Escalades look spiffy.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (0I+GC)

126 Whoa!

CBC is covering the Peace Deal.

Maybe they aren't the useless subhuman pieces of journalistic crap I know they are.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (jvJvP)

127 Spastic-ciba~!

@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (mlg/3)

The EU, Ukraine, and UK threw their last wrench when they scuppered the peace plan. Time for the big boys to settle it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)

128 My Democrat Armenian heritage girlfriend who I convinced to vote for Trump is now in love with Trump, and her vote.

Posted by: Redenzo at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (kBlJC)

129 >>>BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ

Zelensky says no sale, send money

Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (jGJov)

130 >>BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ.

shocker

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)

131 124 If Crockett was found, slashed, in her Escalade outside the Capitol one day, would anyone care?

A true measurement of your political status.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 04:21 PM (Q4IgG)

Corollary:

If you snitch on a Clinton, can you or can you not expect to wake up in the morning?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (jH5TK)

132 So Jasmine is a black woman wearing blackface?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (kTd/k)

She's a modern carpetbagger. She's from Missouri.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)

Anything from Missouri has a taint about it.

Posted by: Grandma Sarah at August 08, 2025 04:23 PM (wVcYX)

133 Slashed is a bit violent. How about OD'd?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:23 PM (I1XLT)

134 >>>Anything from Missouri has a taint about it.

live there, can confirm

Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:23 PM (jGJov)

135 I have been trying very hard to ignore Jazzy. After Texas redistricts Jazz will be gone ..The redistricting is a real thing

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 04:24 PM (VPPG8)

136 > They are not assigned. There is an unofficial pool I'm sure that can be drawn from to help with the insider knowledge. Plus you can bring along some locals from your district
----------
Many are "political science" majors or today's equivalent from the capitol city area or ivy league indoctrination centers, typically with well connected family tied into the incestuous political life there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 04:24 PM (Q4IgG)

137 133 Slashed is a bit violent. How about OD'd?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:23 PM (I1XLT)

Ket's make it interesting.

Cannibalized.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:24 PM (jvJvP)

138 This is probably just about every legislator.

If you've never bent down to huff your own farts and then threw out your back giving yourself oral because the smell of your own ass turned you on so much, Congress isn't the place for you.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (eNLGh)

139 XXONMOBIL BEGINS PRODUCTION AT FOURTH OFFSHORE GUYANA PROJECT

Maduro will be terribly vexed

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (I1XLT)

140 128
Actually she has tears running down her face.

Posted by: Redenzo at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (kBlJC)

141 Missouri is the most beautiful state I've visited. I skipped any bad parts.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (0I+GC)

142 I wonder if she is now having her staff find her another district in some other state where she can move to.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (jH5TK)

143 Ran a search for Jasmine Crockett, congress and YT recommends this?

https://tinyurl.com/mt6pz8t7

Posted by: The More U Know..... at August 08, 2025 04:28 PM (smrJR)

144 I forget. Is Shelia Wighat On Too Tight Jackson Lee dead or am I thinking of someone else? Random thoughts.

Crocket sounds like a gem. One could say about pompous asses like her, "Give them enough rope..." But that would be both raciss and large Nigerian men would pop up out of the woodwork.

I still wonder if Jussie Smollet's (thanks to Dave Chappelle I am never sure what his name is) Nigerians were the wealthy princes who kept sending emails for money.

https://tinyurl.com/4s4px7xv

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (6PCLE)

145 You're Not Going to Believe This, But Jasmine Ratchet Turns Out to Be a Self-Obsessed Narcissist Who's a Nightmare to Work For
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I heard that too!
-Kamala

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (JvZF+)

146 Is This Something?
Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.
They call themselves "Babymetal."
Posted by: Soothsayer

It was something about a decade ago or so.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream

They literally outgrew their shtick.

When they started, the girls were 10-12 years old, thus "baby" metal. Now they're in their 20s.

Japan has a ton of female-fronted or all-female metal bands.

Band Maid (mentioned above), Aldious, Blood Stain Child, Bridear, Broken by the Scream, Candye Syrup, Hagane, Lonesome Blue, Lovebites, Mary's Blood, Necronomidol, Nemophila, Passcode, STMLT, Trident, Unlucky Morpheus, Yuzukingdom.....

Passcode, BbtS, and Candye Syrup are probably the closest to Babymetal, since they include some of the "idol group" stuff in their music.

I think Nemophila, BandMaid, Trident, and Unlucky Morpheus are probably the best of that bunch.

https://youtu.be/HFnEYhbEAqg

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (DgGvY)

147 Missouri is the most beautiful state I've visited.
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Da Fuuuuuuq!!!!

Posted by: Montana, Alaska, Wyoming at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (AiNp4)

148
people don't know how big Gutfeld going on The Tonight Show is

The "Cancel Culture" wall was shattered, last night.
Fallon delivered a death blow to the Cancel Pigs, and the Cancel Pigs know it. All their "power" is gone. Of course President Trump did all the heavy lifting for this moment to happen, but credit to Jimmy Fallon for facilitating the death blow.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (dTtZ7)

149 Well, my wounded computer is up and running on Win7. I swapped out the power supply, and blew out a lot of dust. Still won't boot on the Linux Mint 22 solid state drive. Will shut it down, move the SSD to a different SATA port, and try again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 04:31 PM (fmXlM)

150 Does "eastern Ukraine" mean only what they currently hold in eastern Ukraine? Or does he want even more. I think he really wants Kharkov.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 04:31 PM (XvL8K)

151 There are indy-rock and punk and metal and etc. jpop bands by the thousands dating back to the '90s. Mst are unknown to Americans but for a decade or two they had a huge flowering music scene, Japan's equivalent of the 1960s in the US and UK. The height if the creative explosion was about 1995 to about 2005. Shonen Knife and the few other bands that entered US consciousness were just the tippiest tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (pMi6S)

152 I forget. Is Shelia Wighat On Too Tight Jackson Lee dead or am I thinking of someone else?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (6PCLE)

She daid.

Posted by: Grandma Sarah at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (wVcYX)

153 129 >>>BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ

Zelensky says no sale, send money

Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (jGJov)
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Zelensky loses a lot of money, influence, and protection if the war ends. I wonder how many 100's of millions he's stashed away for his rainy day fund.

Posted by: WisRich at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (G0vdT)

154
Oh dear. Black women may get a reputation for diva behavior, an extraordinary sense of privilege and vinctiveness when thwarted.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (kkTda)

155 Nood. Gainzzzz 'n' stuff.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:33 PM (kgE5c)

156 nood

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:33 PM (0I+GC)

157 "She expects her staff to drive her around while she's in the back seat," they added, calling it a "power play" akin to "treating the staffer like an Uber driver."

Akin to massa making Kunte Kinte drive.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:33 PM (rqka2)

158 So if one called her late one night, as one might do, would Jasmine answer with a Hahverd accent?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (kTd/k)

159 @LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (mlg/3)
==
They've got it already, right?

Posted by: Black JEM at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (GZYu7)

160 She's a modern carpetbagger. She's from Missouri.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)

Anything from Missouri has a taint about it.
Posted by: Grandma Sarah at August 08, 2025 04:23
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (X7zFE)

161 You're Not Going to Believe This, But Jasmine Ratchet Turns Out to Be a Self-Obsessed Narcissist Who's a Nightmare to Work For
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Huh. I can relate, working for one of those myself.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (IBQGV)

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I THOUGHT that might be you, Squirrel!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel's Beautiful & Brilliant Boss at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (bvYoE)

162 Life is too short to put up with people like Jasmine.
Two minutes of her and she wouldn't have to fire me, I would have already left.

Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (NnONT)

163 ------------

Zelensky loses a lot of money, influence, and protection if the war ends. I wonder how many 100's of millions he's stashed away for his rainy day fund.
Posted by: WisRich
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If Trump can work a deal whereby Putin makes a profit the war is over.
The war will be over. Zelenski can best spend his time looking for a safe haven. That will be a difficult find.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (I1XLT)

164 So if one called her late one night, as one might do, would Jasmine answer with a Hahverd accent?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (kTd/k)

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A regular Boston Terrier Brahmin.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (bvYoE)

165 The pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC is attacking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she became the first Republican member of Congress to label Israel’s actions against the Palestinians in Gaza a genocide.
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One thing you can say; She goes her own way.
Guesting with Candice Owens?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (I1XLT)

166 Greg Foreman is a national treasure. Dude is doing yeoman's work in influencing young blacks into the MAGA fold.

Posted by: Delurker at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (NhiOW)

167 Zelenski can best spend his time looking for a safe haven. That will be a difficult find.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (I1XLT)

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Drone Death-by-Polonium.

Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (h93kG)

168 Yeah, Beyonce isn't that black anymore

and her husband is uglier than hammered sin, so I don't know what happened there

anyway- what?

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (AOsQT)

169 she light, bright, damn near white

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (AOsQT)

170 Anything from Missouri has a taint about it.
Posted by: Grandma Sarah

Don't care much for Hoosiers either, ifn I recall

Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (cPGH3)

171 The whole Hooterville world was drawn from Paul Henning's experiences spending summers in Missouri. His daughter Linda collected critters and ran around all tomboy like Elly May Clampett.

Posted by: Hooterville World Guardian at August 08, 2025 04:52 PM (G5+As)

172 I can relate, working for one of those myself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (IBQGV

That's why you should go to her boss and try to take her job. If she's gonna try to get rid of you, what do you have to lose?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (tZ2BZ)

173 Another terrific young conservative influencer that I highly recommend is Angela Rose. Angela is a young Latina from Colorado, who started out just doing reaction videos but as her channel has grown and grown, she's now reporting from all over the country and the world. Just in the past month she's been in Mexico, France and the UK, all of it strictly grassroots, paid for by her supporters, and she's doing real journalism like we rarely see anymore. Plus, she's funny and easy on the eyes.

Posted by: Delurker at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (NhiOW)

174 Jive turkey be jivin'?

Well, I never!

* heads for fainting ottoman *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (0sNs1)

175 Politics has always been a name recognition issue. George Washington being the most famous and popular person during our founding. The caliber of individual seeking office has decreased significantly.

Posted by: Unkaren at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (VfH2q)

176 "Tanning is back. Only this time, it's not just about looking good -- it's about embracing an entire ideology."

So is going to the Dermotologist to have the skin cancers cut off.

Posted by: boynsea at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (cx155)

Appeals Court Overrules Partisan Operative "Judge" Boasberg, Rebukes Him For "Overstepping His Authority" When He Presumed to Hold Trump In Criminal Contempt

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
🚨BREAKING: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia just vacated radical activist Judge Boasberg's order holding the Trump admin in criminal contempt for deporting illegals using the Illegal Alien Enemies Act.
Boasberg embarassed. Deportations march on.

Two Trump judges overturned Boasberg's attempt to arrest Trump officials. One Obama judge dissented (of course).

The Trump judges found that Boasberg lacked authority to continue his judicial witchhunt. They also found him wrong on the legal merits. Boasberg is claiming that his ambiguous order should be read in a certain way, and by that reading, Trump officials acted in contempt. The judges on the Appeals panel found that the abiguous ruling could be read either of two different ways, and by one reading, the Trump Administration obeyed the order.

They also note that Boasberg is attempting to conjure a contempt charge out of the facts of a confusing and quickly-changing situation where the facts were unclear (as was his corrupt ruling).

Fox:

US appeals court blocks Trump contempt proceedings ordered by Boasberg
The 2-1 ruling in President Donald Trump's favor will likely go to the full court for review, or be appealed directly to the Supreme Court
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 Friday that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg cannot move forward with possible contempt proceedings against the Trump administration.
The case involves the administration's alleged violation of an emergency court order blocking the administration from using a 1798 law to summarily deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador -- the latest in an evolving, high-stakes court clash that has played out for months in various courts.
Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, two Trump appointees on the majority-Democrat bench, sided with the Trump administration Friday in blocking Boasberg's contempt motion from moving forward.
Judge Nina Pillard, an Obama appointee, dissented.
...
"The district court here was placed in an enormously difficult position," Katsas said Friday, writing for the majority.
"Faced with an emergency situation, it had to digest and rule upon novel and complex issues within a matter of hours. In that context, the court quite understandably issued a written order that contained some ambiguity."
...
"Regardless, the government's initial implementation of the proclamation clearly and indisputably was not criminal."
...
The long-awaited ruling comes months after Boasberg ruled that the court had found probable cause to move on criminal contempt proceedings after he issued a late-night temporary restraining order on March 15 blocking the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to summarily deport certain migrants to El Salvador.
Boasberg had also ordered all migrants to be "immediately returned" to U.S. soil, which did not happen.
Despite the order, hundreds of migrants were deported to the Salvadorian prison, CECOT, in March, where they remained until late last month, when they were sent from the prison in El Salvador to Venezuela, as part of the prisoner exchange.

Although the opinion does not state this explicitly, the gist seems to be: Boasberg, you rushed to involve yourself in this matter without bothering to fully appreciate the facts or the law, and you wrote a sloppy, rushed opinion which was open to multiple interpretations. You can't pick and choose which parts of your ruling are "real" and you can't claim that your sloppy, ambiguous opinion only had one interpretation. It has multiple fair interpretations, and you probably could have cleaned it up to be enforceable if you weren't in such a mad partisan rush to Get Trump.

ulie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
Jeb Boasberg needs to step down as chief judge.
He has embarrassed himself and inflicted a permanent (and well deserved I might add) black eye on the federal court system in our nation's capital.
Republicans in Washington must demand his resignation or pursue impeachment. Enough.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals says Judge Boasberg was way out of line by holding the Trump administration in contempt, despite SCOTUS ruling he didn’t have jurisdiction in the case

It also ordered him to cease and desist issuing his contempts

💥💥

pic.twitter.com/tTRlr0Nhdl
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) August 8, 2025

Big L for Judge Boasberg today

Big win for the Trump admin and America

The deportations will continue! pic.twitter.com/GMOqV25KRG
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 8, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:28 PM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

2 @charliekirk11
🚨BREAKING: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia just vacated radical activist Judge Boasberg's order holding the Trump admin in criminal contempt for deporting illegals using the Illegal Alien Enemies Act.

Boasberg embarassed. Deportations march on.

Why is he still behind a bench?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Good.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (jc0TO)

4 This is basically a rebellion against HRM, King Boasberg, Last of his name (hopefully).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 08, 2025 02:31 PM (ExV1e)

5 You're out of order!

YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER!!!

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at August 08, 2025 02:31 PM (/HI9S)

6 "Appeals Court Voids Partisan Operative "Judge" Boasberg"

They voided the judge himself, bodily? I'd buy that for a dollar!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 02:31 PM (0I+GC)

7 >>>Republicans in Washington must demand his resignation or pursue impeachment. Enough.

Good one. You almost had me there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 02:32 PM (i24o9)

8 Fare lefties ordering Boasberg candles and action figures?

Posted by: steevy at August 08, 2025 02:32 PM (YwEeS)

9 Boasberg embarassed. Deportations march on.

Why is he still behind a bench?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

He should be behind bars

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 02:32 PM (VE6XX)

10 During the hearing, Boasberg tells them not to bother writing down his order, he will issue a written order shortly. Then he declares them in contempt for not following his verbal order!

Posted by: MikeN at August 08, 2025 02:32 PM (HVZOH)

11 Why is he still behind a bench?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

He has superglued himself to it, to keep from being dragged off like a climate protester.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

12 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who sonorously intones "Nothing will happen." at August 08, 2025 02:33 PM (0sNs1)

13 Boom! Down goes da judge!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 02:33 PM (rqka2)

14 and so it continues

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's continuing at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (jc0TO)

15 Pontiac GTO Judge > Judge Boasberg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

16 GET THOSE ALIENS BACK IN HERE
TURN THOSE PLANES AROUND!!!

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (/HI9S)

17 I'm always interested in the reasoning in the dissent. Maybe the editors of the Fox News article didn't want to embarrass the Obama appointee, Judge Nina Pillard, being too difficult to summarize into a couple of sentences that made any sense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (Dv3i1)

18 Fare lefties ordering Boasberg candles and action figures?
Posted by: steevy

Like those saints candles at Walmart.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (rqka2)

19 Why is he still behind a bench?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

He should be impeached. Even without the votes to remove him, he should be dragged through the process. He's gives the judiciary a bad name.

Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (4neFu)

20 US District Clown Judge Bozoberg needs to have full DOJ figurative (and maybe literal) Proctological Exam of every aspect of his so-called life to see where the bodies of the little boys are buried.

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (Yw8Ag)

21 Who run bartertown?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (zZu0s)

22 I'm always interested in the reasoning in the dissent. Maybe the editors of the Fox News article didn't want to embarrass the Obama appointee, Judge Nina Pillard, being too difficult to summarize into a couple of sentences that made any sense.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (Dv3i1)

"What, me worry?"

- - - - - - Justice Affimative Action Jackson

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

23 This yahoo should be removed from the bench for this shit.

Can the Supreme Court ask Congress to remove a federal judge? Is that a thing that could happen?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 08, 2025 02:35 PM (2J/Lj)

24 You're out of order!

YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER!!!
Posted by: Judge Boasberg at August 08, 2025 02:31 PM

Whew! We first thought you said "out of odor"!

Posted by: Penguins of the World at August 08, 2025 02:35 PM (0sNs1)

25 8 Fare lefties ordering Boasberg candles and action figures?
Posted by: steevy at August 08, 2025 02:32 PM (YwEeS)

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I'll buy one if it has the Raiders of the Lost Ark melting face effect.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 02:35 PM (/HI9S)

26 Boasberg will just assign himself another Trump case. Issuing TRO is like crack to these loons.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 02:35 PM (jc0TO)

27 The District Court ruling is in contempt - Judge Boas not learning a thing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM (eadC4)

28 Just a reminder that Congress really needs to get moving on filling all those empty judgeships. I haven't heard anything about that.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM (rbKZ6)

29 Boasberg was also one of the FISA judges during Operation Hurricane.

Posted by: Reforger at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM (h5TUr)

30 "The district court here was placed in an enormously difficult position,"

Cry me a river.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM (0I+GC)

31
Like those saints candles at Walmart.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (rqka2)

Who could ever forget.......

https://is.gd/RUtFzm

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

32 Boasberg voided himself? Good thing he was wearing a black robe!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM (2FwlN)

33 CECOT shows the way.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM (XMwZJ)

34
* winces for even writing this *

Taurus Judge >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Judge Boasberg

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (0sNs1)

35 Isn't Boasberg already under investigation for something? A bar complaint?

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (jc0TO)

36 This warmed up cadaver of a judge looks like Alexandre de Moraes to me, and likely smells the same

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (sDWtc)

37 I will celebrate this small victory today.

And wait for another lunatic judge to make a partisan ruling tomorrow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (6ydKt)

38 The D.C. Court of Appeals is hereby found to be in contempt of my court and will be charged as accessories after the fact. The Supreme Court would do well to pay heed and respec mah authoritah!

Also, which one of you stole my strawberries?

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (M0V4/)

39 Wikipedia -
Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard (born March 4, 1961), known professionally as Nina Pillard, is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2013 as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before becoming a judge, Pillard was a law professor at Georgetown University.

She was confirmed by a 51–44 vote, with her detractors labeling her as one of the most liberal nominees to the federal bench in decades. Pillard has been compared to Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her civil rights advocacy, and has been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (Dv3i1)

40 Judge Assberg's criminal contempt order was so batshit crazy insane that there shouldn't be a judge in the country who can defend it. Yet out of the three appeals judges hearing this, one of them was totes OK with the insane order. Of course it was a DEI fucknugget Obama judge. That's how close Trump came to losing this appeal. Madness.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

41 Can the Supreme Court ask Congress to remove a federal judge? Is that a thing that could happen?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 08, 2025 02:35 PM (2J/Lj)

I guess they could make a point of fast-tracking every thing the guy does for an immediate pee pee smack. Force their hands a bit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (pERWT)

42 Just a reminder that Congress really needs to get moving on filling all those empty judgeships. I haven't heard anything about that.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM

Because they are on vacation for the the month of August.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (jc0TO)

43 Boasberg will remain because the GOP will likely need him to stop some other Trump initiative that threatens their grift in one way or another.

It's a check they can use to stymie Trump.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (Q4IgG)

44 >>>During the hearing, Boasberg tells them not to bother writing down his order, he will issue a written order shortly. Then he declares them in contempt for not following his verbal order!

yeah I was just reading the opinion about that. He gives conflicting orders, one of which is verbal and cannot be enforced as a TRO because they must be written, and then hasl Trump guess which order is the "real" one.

Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM (KRtlO)

45 Just a reminder that Congress really needs to get moving on filling all those empty judgeships. I haven't heard anything about that.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM

And hopefully you won't.

Posted by: Thune and The GOPe at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM (0sNs1)

46 The TROs don’t do much: they are only temporary restraining orders after all. They are being mostly ignored.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM (2FwlN)

47 Boasberg looks like some guy drew Christopher Lloyd's face on the tip of his dick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM (eNLGh)

48 You're out of order!

YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER!!!

I'm out of order???? You're out of order. THIS WHOLE COURT IS OUT OF ORDER!!!!

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM (Riz8t)

49 42-Because they are on vacation for the the month of August.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM

I'm talking about since January.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2025 02:39 PM (rbKZ6)

50 47 Ha!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 02:39 PM (0I+GC)

51 Boasberg looks like some guy drew Christopher Lloyd's face on the tip of his dick.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM (eNLGh)

HA!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

52 Maybe the editors of the Fox News article didn't want to embarrass the Obama appointee, Judge Nina Pillard, being too difficult to summarize into a couple of sentences that made any sense.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Way too much legalesin' goin' on here.

Posted by: Judge Pillard at August 08, 2025 02:40 PM (M0V4/)

53 The TROs don’t do much: they are only temporary restraining orders after all. They are being mostly ignored.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM

I don't think that Trump has ignored a single order.

His Administration has been quite forthright.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 02:40 PM (jc0TO)

54 https://is.gd/RUtFzm
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Soy wax for a soy boi.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 02:40 PM (rqka2)

55 He should be impeached. Even without the votes to remove him, he should be dragged through the process. He's gives the judiciary a bad name.
Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (4neFu)

He supposedly had been part of a judicial group advocating for "Resistance" to Trumps unlawful behavior prior to Trump saying boo to anyone.
Sounds like conspiracy to me.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:40 PM (rbvCR)

56 She was confirmed by a >>> 51–44 vote,
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 02:37 PM (Dv3i1)

So she's one of the judges Harry Reid broke the filibuster rule to get on the bench.

Posted by: Reforger at August 08, 2025 02:40 PM (h5TUr)

57 Boasberg needs to be fingering ball bearings as he mutters about proving “with mathematical logic” about who stole his strawberries!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:41 PM (2FwlN)

58 Boasberg needs to be fingering ball bearings as he mutters about proving “with mathematical logic” about who stole his strawberries!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:41 PM (2FwlN)

He needs to be kicked in the twig'n'berries, repeatedly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

59 Ha!
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 02:39 PM

===

HA!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:40 PM

Ha!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 08, 2025 02:42 PM (0sNs1)

60 Boasberg looks like some guy drew Christopher Lloyd's face on the tip of his dick.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM (eNLGh)
_______

"Fuck you!"

-- Christopher Lloyd

"Yea, you tell 'em!"

-- The dick

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 02:42 PM (iFTx/)

61 I don't think that Trump has ignored a single order.

His Administration has been quite forthright.
Posted by: toby928

That's how you know he's a fascist.

Posted by: Democrat Underground at August 08, 2025 02:42 PM (M0V4/)

62 It also ordered him to cease and desist issuing his contempts

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What happens when he fails to comply and is not impeached & removed?

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:43 PM (Yw8Ag)

63 I'd like to see Boasberg crucified in a row of crosses along the reflecting pool at the Washington monument, along with Willis, James, Brennan, Mueller, the whole lot. But I'll settle for imprisonment.

Posted by: Stupid killjoy 8th amendment at August 08, 2025 02:43 PM (KOE6H)

64
Boasberg embarassed.

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Does that ever actually happen?

I don't see how he could continue his communist monkeyshines if he were capable of embarrassment.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (uz6ub)

65 29 Boasberg was also one of the FISA judges during Operation Hurricane.

Posted by: Reforger at August 08, 2025 02:36 PM (h5TUr)

Yup. That alone should be reason enough to look in to him with a fine-toothed comb...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (ynpvh)

66 Boasberg crucified in a row of crosses along the reflecting pool at the Washington monument, along with Willis, James, Brennan, Mueller, the whole lot

Always look on the briiiiight side of life

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (sDWtc)

67 I don't think that Trump has ignored a single order.

His Administration has been quite forthright.
Posted by: toby928

That's how you know he's a fascist.
Posted by: Democrat Underground at August 08, 2025 02:42 PM (M0V4/)

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And here I was voting for Hitler ... Worst. Hitler. Evah!

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (Yw8Ag)

68 Boasburg don't care. Boasburg has a mission.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (WHfpM)

69 This penis in a robe was involved in illegal fbi wiretapping.

Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (1y5L5)

70 I'd like to see Boasberg crucified in a row of crosses along the reflecting pool at the Washington monument, along with Willis, James, Brennan, Mueller, the whole lot. But I'll settle for imprisonment.
Posted by: Stupid killjoy 8th amendment at August 08, 2025 02:43 PM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: James Comey at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (0sNs1)

71 This penis in a robe was involved in illegal fbi wiretapping.
Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (1y5L5)

There is no law only Zuul.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

72 The 2 judges who in favor of Trump were appointed by him!How the hell do we not have a rule yet that judges have to recuse themselves from cases involving the administration or person who appointed them? Its well known Trump looks for loyalty to him above other factors when making appointments, to the point that he cut the national bar associating out of the judicial vetting processing because they were rating so many of his nominees as unqualified.

and so it begins. checks and balances be damned. The courts aren't going to save us. (From The Bulwark subreddit lol!)

Dang, a 50 page dissent? This *really* pissed off Pillard. And understandably so. I'd still like to see the section of the Constitution that says the executive branch can just do whatever they want.

Judge Rao making domestic immigration policy a "foreign affair" is just the kind of mental gymnastics that only someone devoid of intelligence would come up with. It's giving powers to the executvie that doesn't exist.

So I guess the administration can completely disregard the courts with no punishment now? That's a terrible precedent to set.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 02:45 PM (ycI94)

73 The TROs claim of universal applicability is being ignored, just as Boasberg’s order to “Turn that plane around!” was ignored. Trump, and his administration, is being careful to follow the TROs in the districts where they apply, and to the letter of the law. Also, being temporary, they are soon enough ignored when they run out.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:46 PM (2FwlN)

74 Yup. That alone should be reason enough to look in to him with a fine-toothed comb...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 02:44 PM (ynpvh)

A coarse-toothed one would do just fine.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 02:46 PM (WHfpM)

75
There must be a way to punish judges for their overstepping their legal authority.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 08, 2025 02:46 PM (IifOV)

76 Not_Today_Satan.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 02:46 PM (wBaIH)

77 Judge Rao making domestic immigration policy a "foreign affair" is just the kind of mental gymnastics that only someone devoid of intelligence would come up with. It's giving powers to the executvie that doesn't exist.

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🤣🤣🤣

the brain on that one!!

🤣😂🤣😂

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 02:46 PM (g47mK)

78 Boasberg embarassed.
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I'm not going to believe in progressive shame until I see it.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM (krQz2)

79 When I was in the Military, if I gave an order that my Superiors thought was illegal or wrong... I'd get punished... if wrong enough, imprisoned.

When I worked IT, if I was wrong... I'd get fired. When I worked Medical IT, I could get sued, and with HIPAA maybe go to jail if wrong enough.

So, if a Judge is continuously wrong... ILLEGALLY wrong... what happens? Nada...

We need a mechanism to hold Judges accountable for being wrong, and allowing others to break the law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM (mP0Kj)

80 domestic immigration policy !!11!! like when you immigrate from Indiana to Mississippi !

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM (g47mK)

81 African American who's a Texan takes down Jasmine Crockett in a excellent rant:

https://tinyurl.com/469pbe68

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM (2GCMq)

82 There must be a way to punish judges for their overstepping their legal authority.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 08, 2025 02:46 PM (IifOV)

What we need is a "No Kings" protest.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM (WHfpM)

83 Lots of winning today eh

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 02:49 PM (GIcqz)

84 looks like some guy drew Christopher Lloyd's face on the tip of his dick.

That was this mornings art thread.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 02:49 PM (F75UF)

85 African American who's a Texan takes down Jasmine Crockett in a excellent rant:

https://tinyurl.com/469pbe68
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM (2GCMq)

Saw that. Love it.

However, he sure sounds like he's from Chicago.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

86 72 The 2 judges who in favor of Trump were appointed by him! How the hell do we not have a rule yet that judges have to recuse themselves from cases involving the administration or person who appointed them? Its well known Trump looks for loyalty to him above other factors when making appointments, to the point that he cut the national bar associating out of the judicial vetting processing because they were rating so many of his nominees as unqualified.
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Dang, a 50 page dissent? This *really* pissed off Pillard. And understandably so. I'd still like to see the section of the Constitution that says the executive branch can just do whatever they want.

...

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 02:45 PM (ycI94)

See Obama and Biden. Seems their EOs are still valid and cannot be overridden by Trump...
The Left made the rules. Suck it, assholes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 02:50 PM (ynpvh)

87 Will somebody throw that old whore off the bench! He is bought and paid for by the Democrats and everyone knows it.
He nothing but a big waste of time. I hate thinking we are paying this assholes salary.

Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 02:50 PM (NnONT)

88 >>>How the hell do we not have a rule yet that judges have to recuse themselves from cases involving the administration or person who appointed them?

Yeah, we should have that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 02:50 PM (i24o9)

89 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM (2GCMq)

Sorry. Typo in "an " ( not a) excellent rant.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:50 PM (2GCMq)

90 How many Federal judges have been impeached in the last 250 years?

I figure it should be almost routine, probably 2 or 3 every few years. At least until they get their head out of their ass. Congress has abdicated their duty in myriad ways, and this is one of them. The judicial branch itself should guard zealously their reputation and trust.

Right now it ain’t worth a bucket of warm spit. Way to go, fellas.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 02:50 PM (3pkwM)

91 There's no such thing as a conservative or liberal judge.

Posted by: Cheap Justice John Roberts at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

92 looks like some guy drew Christopher Lloyd's face on the tip of his dick.

Wait, is it a drawing on Christopher Lloyd's dick, or on the random guy's dick? English can be so imprecise when detail is essential!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (ycI94)

93 African American who's a Texan takes down Jasmine Crockett in a excellent rant:

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Jasmine Crockpot, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (Yw8Ag)

94 >>>Dang, a 50 page dissent? This *really* pissed off Pillard. And understandably so.

That's not a dissent. That's a manifesto.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (i24o9)

95 So what's the penalty for issuing blatantly illegal court orders?

You get fired, right?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (JvZF+)

96
Maybe my assumption is wrong, or maybe he's a recent emigree to Texas.?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:52 PM (2GCMq)

97 So I guess the administration can completely disregard the courts with no punishment now? That's a terrible precedent to set.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 02:45 PM (ycI94)

Hey, gimme some credit! I did it first!

Posted by: JR Biden at August 08, 2025 02:52 PM (8hxDK)

98 looks like some guy drew Christopher Lloyd's face on the tip of his dick.

That was this mornings art thread.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Wrong. Christopher Lloyd is MUCH prettier.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 08, 2025 02:52 PM (ycI94)

99 So what's the penalty for issuing blatantly illegal court orders?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (JvZF+)

Nothing.

Because no one is above the law, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

100 Lots of winning today eh

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 02:49 PM (GIcqz)

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Status: 404 -- FatigueNotFound.

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:53 PM (Yw8Ag)

101 We’ll.

Bye, illegal aliens.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 02:53 PM (Hkcdp)

102 The judiciary has formed a fifth column against the republic and its citizens. This isn’t about law or constitution for them as this decision shows. It’s about using our governments third branch to subvert the balance of powers and put it in their unelected, biased political hands. Some might say this decision disproves what I’ve proffered. I’ll say not only that it shouldn’t have reached this point, but the full court and SCOTUS have yet to rule.

Our constitution and Bill of Rights define very clearly our framers and founders intents for the rights of citizens. It makes it clear this is the people’s government and Congress is merely our representatives. We, a large majority of citizens have also elected a president and given him a mandate. You’ll notice that nowhere in that articulation is the judiciary. They’re Democrats nuclear option to stealing our rights and destroying the republic. Enough is enough.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 02:53 PM (074d0)

103 Nina Pillard and her sister Semolina, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 02:53 PM (0I+GC)

104 Wait, is it a drawing on Christopher Lloyd's dick, or on the random guy's dick? English can be so imprecise when detail is essential!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (ycI94)

Word.

Posted by: Oxford Comma at August 08, 2025 02:53 PM (8hxDK)

105 99 So what's the penalty for issuing blatantly illegal court orders?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (JvZF+)

Nothing.

Because no one is above the law, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

It's good to be ~~king~~ Judge Dredd.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (ynpvh)

106 Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM

Yes, she sounds deranged as well as using improper grammar- " MAGA folks wearing "they" hats.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (2GCMq)

107 "Judges Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, two Trump appointees on the majority-Democrat bench, sided with the Trump administration Friday in blocking Boasberg’s contempt motion from moving forward."

This is Exhibit A why those Senate humgruffins need to get their jizz-dripping asses in gear and confirm Trump's judges.

The DC courts are notoriously leftwing. Yet Trump got enough of his judges on the DC appeals court to get him a big win. This ruling easily have gone the other way with a different panel of judges.

So Senate GOP: pull the neon green dildos out of your drippy fartclaims and confirm Trump's judges.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

108 1 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM

Impressive...most impressive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (Wnv9h)

109 Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
Jeb Boasberg needs to step down as chief judge.

He has embarrassed himself and inflicted a permanent (and well deserved I might add) black eye on the federal court system in our nation's capital.

Republicans in Washington must demand his resignation or pursue impeachment. Enough.
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Have you met the Republicans in Washington? Yeah.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (JvZF+)

110 101 We’ll.

Bye, illegal aliens.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 02:53 PM (Hkcdp)

And do it quick before another Judge rules against Trump again

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (VE6XX)

111 What happens if/when they dissolve DC home rule?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (Hkcdp)

112 Well, I think the lesson here is that, somehow, to good guys were able to keep the bad guys from rigging the Appeals roster to reflect Obama, Clinton, or Biden appointees on this case. Perhaps that's significantly more important than the actual ruling.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (dIske)

113
Yes, she sounds deranged as well as using improper grammar- " MAGA folks wearing "they" hats.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (2GCMq)

She's faux ghetto when it suits her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

114 "Wait, is it a drawing on Christopher Lloyd's dick, or on the random guy's dick?"

It works on so MANY levels!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (0I+GC)

115 "Bailiff- whack his peepee... "

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (AOsQT)

116 106 Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM

Yes, she sounds deranged as well as using improper grammar- " MAGA folks wearing "they" hats.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (2GCMq)

She won the "Miss Ebonics" title for the state of I-DA-HOE...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (ynpvh)

117 Imma thinking we need to gift Trump a new name. I vote for Conan Trump. And since his name would have changed, we could vote for him for two moar terms as Prezident cuz Law.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (W3T6M)

118
Impressive...most impressive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 02:54 PM (Wnv9h)

Someone already nooded in the previous thread, too.

#WinningBigly

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

119 I think Boasberg looks like he should be playing Dracula in a black and white film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (2GCMq)

120 how dare the supreme court disagree with me? i'm a judge!

Posted by: gnats local678 at August 08, 2025 02:56 PM (CWTWj)

121 111 What happens if/when they dissolve DC home rule?
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Quality of Life hits new highs. DC, before Home Rule, was a wonderful place.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 02:56 PM (W3T6M)

122 I heard another judge stopped construction of Alligator Alcatraz.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 02:56 PM (WHfpM)

123 So what's the penalty for issuing blatantly illegal court orders?

You get fired, right?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 02:51 PM (JvZF+)

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Prosecute him for Conspiracy To Commit Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law and bankrupt his ass.

Make RICO & The Process Is The Punishment Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:56 PM (Yw8Ag)

124 Boasberg looks like a bully.
So many of those judges are bullies.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 02:57 PM (Hkcdp)

125 So I guess the administration can completely disregard the courts with no punishment now? That's a terrible precedent to set.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 02:45 PM (ycI94)

Roflmao. Hehe. Ignore the courts, lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 02:57 PM (zZu0s)

126 I think Boasberg looks like he should be playing Dracula in a black and white film.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (2GCMq)

Seriously?

Posted by: Bella Lugosi at August 08, 2025 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

127 Charles vs Starmer

https://youtu.be/M_6sRfrimcI

Soviet levels of control.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 02:58 PM (VnChe)

128 The 2 judges who in favor of Trump were appointed by him!How the hell do we not have a rule yet that judges have to recuse themselves from cases involving the administration or person who appointed them?

It's good to be the king.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 02:58 PM (rqka2)

129 Boasberg looks like a bully.
So many of those judges are bullies.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 02:57 PM (Hkcdp)

He the oft recipient of swirlies in high school, vowed revenge.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

130 Boasberg looks like a bully.
So many of those judges are bullies.
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Most of them. After a few years they get pretty full of themselves. One on the bench his whole career with a lifetime appt. Holy sheepdip

Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 02:59 PM (1y5L5)

131 We need a mechanism to hold Judges accountable for being wrong, and allowing others to break the law.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM

Bwahahahahaha!!!!!

Wait...you were serious?

Posted by: The Senate at August 08, 2025 02:59 PM (Wnv9h)

132 Heh...the dissenting Judge. Judge Pillard was born on March 4, 1961, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father, Richard Pillard, was a professor of psychiatry at Boston University who was the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States.

_________________________

I'm sure that was a wonderful childhood.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 02:59 PM (dIske)

133 Democrat AG’s have sued to keep the administration from gaining access to information on the states provision of federal benefits like SNAP. That’s because states like NY and California are using it to feed, house and care for their large illegal immigrant population. Without that aid these states will be on the hook for billions in assistance they are current fin banging on the federal taxpayers back. This is of course a Hail Mary move because there is enough settled law to determine rather quickly that the federal government can attach any terms they want to their grants or funds. They are trying to stall the inevitable.

This case is going to be key to expedited illegal alien removal.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 02:59 PM (074d0)

134 I ain't in no ways tahred a seein' commie judges gettin' bitchslapped.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 08, 2025 02:59 PM (KwvKR)

135 "Judge Nina Pillard, an Obama appointee, dissented. "

Did anyone expect anything different?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 02:59 PM (0N4FZ)

136 122 I heard another judge stopped construction of Alligator Alcatraz.
Posted by: Ordinary American

The media was complaining that the detainees were overcrowded, and there were water issues, so we were in the middle of improving conditions, but if some judge orders us to make them live in substandard conditions, I guess we don't have a choice.

Posted by: Based Trump of DeSantis at August 08, 2025 03:00 PM (ycI94)

137 Judge Pillard was born on March 4, 1961, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father, Richard Pillard, was a professor of psychiatry at Boston University who was the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States.

_________________________

I'm sure that was a wonderful childhood.
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Ouch. Orson counts coup on his enemies.

Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 03:00 PM (1y5L5)

138 Boasberg is good personal friend with chief Justice Roberts. Let that sink in.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 03:01 PM (074d0)

139 >> The 2 judges who in favor of Trump were appointed by him!How the hell do we not have a rule yet that judges have to recuse themselves from cases involving the administration or person who appointed them?

Makes sense under Dems' Calvinball rules. Only Biden and Obama judges can be assigned to Trump cases. And then under a Democrat president you couldn't assign Trump judges because they'd obviously be biased so it would have to be all Obama and Clinton judges.

Posted by: the dandy at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (8l8nW)

140 Without that aid these states will be on the hook for billions in assistance they are current fin banging on the federal taxpayers back.
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It would be nice if the other states who were not spending federal taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens can sue NY for theft and get some clawback.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (Dv3i1)

141 126 I think Boasberg looks like he should be playing Dracula in a black and white film.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (2GCMq)

Seriously?
Posted by: Bella Lugosi at August 08, 2025 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

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Stand aside, alkie. This is my wheelhouse.

Posted by: Cynthia Erivo at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (/HI9S)

142 >>Her father, Richard Pillard, was a professor of psychiatry at Boston University who was the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States.

Sorry dear. Daddy is leaving because he no longer likes your mothers vagina and would rather be sodomizing another man.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (074d0)

143 I don't know, in what world, Boasberg would be right.

Boasberg made these ruling WITHOUT having anyone in the Trump administration in court, at all, mere hours after they were filed with the court. He then made excuses that the Trump Administration would not follow court orders anyway, despite having no basis for his belief. Then he acted on his baseless belief again and again in litigation over which he was presiding. He pushed the compliance hearing BEFORE the hearing on the administrations motion to vacate. A huge no-no.

His ambiguous ruling could have been clarified if the Trump administration was even allowed in the courtroom when it was made. He would have made his ruling, and then the Trump admin would have asked questions to clarify it or provided information that would clarify it. It all could have been avoided, and the results are all on his decisions.

The Supreme court VACATED his TRO - meaning the order doesn't exist, legally. Despite that, Boasberg says the administration is in contempt of the order. It's insane.

needs to be removed from the bench, pronto. Or at least blacklisted from any sort of cases involving the trump administration.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (D1vbu)

144 So what does Boasberg do now? Will he request an en banc ruling from the DC Circuit Court? I'm guessing that would be as welcome as a collective case of herpes.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (rj6Yv)

145 We need a mechanism to hold Judges accountable for being wrong, and allowing others to break the law.
Posted by: Romeo13

Trebuchets.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (rqka2)

146 I heard another judge stopped construction of Alligator Alcatraz.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 02:56 PM (WHfpM)
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Hope that DeSantis just starts to erect tents and put bicycle operated generators for the guests to get their electrical power. You know for mutha Earf.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (17s+e)

147 I actually think Bella Lugosi as a young man was better looking than Boasberg probably was:

https://tinyurl.com/ydspzvmn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:03 PM (2GCMq)

148 So what does Boasberg do now? Will he request an en banc ruling from the DC Circuit Court? I'm guessing that would be as welcome as a collective case of herpes.
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (rj6Yv)

JAckoff to WNBA games if he doesn't already

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 08, 2025 03:03 PM (NtVYv)

149 A crafty AG could probably dream up a case for other state’s noncompliance with the grant terms. But it’s a long shot to prove standing on that one.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 03:04 PM (074d0)

150 "50 page dissent"
...is still just a dissent. It is as binding as a frowny face scrawled in blue crayon by a four year old girl.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 03:04 PM (pqdzj)

151 Alternative Headline:

Appeals Court Tosses Big Green Dildo On Boasberg's Court

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 08, 2025 03:04 PM (WCo3d)

152 Sorry dear. Daddy is leaving because he no longer likes your mothers vagina and would rather be sodomizing another man.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM

Is that wrong?

Posted by: Richard "Dick" Levine at August 08, 2025 03:04 PM (Wnv9h)

153 The authorities need to check under that guy’s crawlspace. Bozoberg has that …. “I wouldn’t trust that guy just lookin’ at him.” visage. That “special” prosecutor, Jack Smith looks pretty hinky too. Probably an underground tunnel linking their Georgetown safe houses.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 03:04 PM (3pkwM)

154 We need a mechanism to hold Judges accountable for being wrong, and allowing others to break the law.
Posted by: Romeo13

Trebuchets.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM (rqka2)
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We're in austerity mode so just existing lampposts and rope with minor assembly required.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:04 PM (17s+e)

155 Meanwhile Thune slow walks Trump judge confirmation hearings.
You know. The regular order. The who's kid gets into Harvard, whose street gets fresh asphalt, whose wife gets shared.
That kind of regular order.

Posted by: torabora at August 08, 2025 03:04 PM (KtOUo)

156 145 We need a mechanism to hold Judges accountable for being wrong, and allowing others to break the law.
Posted by: Romeo13

Trebuchets.
----------------
Gibbets work.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 03:05 PM (W3T6M)

157 " I heard another judge stopped construction of Alligator Alcatraz."

Deport them quickly, don't warehouse them in the USA. Just-in-time strategy and low inventories. It's not rocket science people.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 03:05 PM (0I+GC)

158 Aren't there federal dustric court judges on Guam? or Little Diomede? Antarctica perhaps?

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 08, 2025 03:05 PM (YlWIZ)

159 The existence of derecho storms implies the existence of izquierda storms, dose it not?

(I can't decide if it's worse for ultrawhite weathermen to pronounce it "dee-RAY-cho" or try to affect a horrible Spanish accent...)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 08, 2025 03:05 PM (KwvKR)

160 Not initially. But as AA transformed to DEI for DEI's sake (a pretext) - last ten years or so - almost certainly so.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (i24o9)

No - I think initially. It's how the Left works and why we are where we are. It took 30 years.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 03:06 PM (I7DM/)

161 Deport them quickly, don't warehouse them in the USA. Just-in-time strategy and low inventories. It's not rocket science people.

Lean Deportations.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 08, 2025 03:06 PM (WCo3d)

162 Sorry dear. Daddy is leaving because he no longer likes your mothers vagina and would rather be sodomizing another man.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM
===

THAT'S A LIE!!

He would rather be SODOMIZED.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:06 PM (17s+e)

163 The TROs claim of universal applicability is being ignored, just as Boasberg’s order to “Turn that plane around!” was ignored. Trump, and his administration, is being careful to follow the TROs in the districts where they apply, and to the letter of the law. Also, being temporary, they are soon enough ignored when they run out.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:46 PM

Not following a TRO because it has been overturned by a higher court, or because it has expired or been mooted, is not "ignoring a TRO".

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 03:06 PM (jc0TO)

164 I actually think Bella Lugosi as a young man was better looking than Boasberg probably was:

https://tinyurl.com/ydspzvmn
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:03 PM (2GCMq)
_____

He played a romantic, studly Dracula. You have to be good-looking for that. Sadly, he was heavy into drugs and booze, and that took a toll on his looks and health.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

165 > I heard another judge stopped construction of Alligator Alcatraz.
Posted by: Ordinary American
----

to prevent damage to native plants and species.

Stop laughing! They're serious! This is a real thing that is happening.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:07 PM (AOsQT)

166 I heard another judge stopped construction of Alligator Alcatraz.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 02:56
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Yeah, EcoNazis and an obscure indian tribe filed suit due to environmental issues. 14 day halt on construction was issued, iirc.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2025 03:07 PM (X7zFE)

167
He would rather be SODOMIZED.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:06 PM (17s+e)

That's hot!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 08, 2025 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

168 We're in austerity mode so just existing lampposts and rope with minor assembly required.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

Are there no Esso stations left?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 03:08 PM (mlg/3)

169 “…. a professor of psychiatry at Boston University who was the first openly homosexual psychiatrist in the United States.”

That’s disgusting. He openly recognized his mental defect and sought professional treatment, correct?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 03:08 PM (3pkwM)

170 So what does Boasberg do now? Will he request an en banc ruling from the DC Circuit Court? I'm guessing that would be as welcome as a collective case of herpes.
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 03:02 PM

I don't think he can appeal but, he can just issue another bootless order and claim jurisdiction.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 03:08 PM (jc0TO)

171 I actually think Bella Lugosi as a young man was better looking than Boasberg probably was:

https://tinyurl.com/ydspzvmn
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:03 PM (2GCMq)

are you thinking of the film Nosferatu?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:08 PM (rbvCR)

172 Probably the latter

It means extra wind

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 08, 2025 03:09 PM (bXbFr)

173 and an obscure indian tribe

No casino for you!

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 03:09 PM (jc0TO)

174 Wow, Boasberg really got pummeled.

Only thing left to do to him is toss him out on the court during a WNBA game.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at August 08, 2025 03:10 PM (Ft5W9)

175 We need a mechanism to hold Judges accountable for being wrong, and allowing others to break the law.
Posted by: Romeo13

Make Pillories Great Again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 03:10 PM (i24o9)

176 Boasberg embarassed.
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I'm not going to believe in progressive shame until I see it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 02:47 PM (krQz2)
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Dropped from a helicopter > Embarassed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 03:11 PM (JvZF+)

177 Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:08 PM (rbvCR

O, I'm thinking of Bella Lugosi without his makeup and as a young man. 😊 I said Boasberg looked liked he could play Dracula.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:11 PM (2GCMq)

178 >and an obscure indian tribe
----

ah, the mighty Fugawi people

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:11 PM (AOsQT)

179 How come the EcoNazis don’t sue the Federal government for allowing and even enabling 30 or 50 million pollution spewing illegal aliens to pour across our borders?

They bitch about a relatively tiny detention facility intended to remove same? What a bunch of wankers. They aren’t fooling anybody

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 03:11 PM (LVnr9)

180 Asshole Boasberg is too arrogant to consider that he's undermining the authority of lower federal courts.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 08, 2025 03:12 PM (rJ48h)

181 >Wow, Boasberg really got pummeled.
----

He'll be back- these people never give up

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:12 PM (AOsQT)

182
They bitch about a relatively tiny detention facility intended to remove same? What a bunch of wankers. They aren’t fooling anybody
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 03:11 PM (LVnr9)

Soros, laughing, spreads his wings.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

183 Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

Yes, sadly he had addiction issues.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:13 PM (2GCMq)

184 Aren't there federal dustric court judges on Guam? or Little Diomede? Antarctica perhaps?
Posted by: 80's music fan

Do you know how cool that would be. Be a judge where there's almost no work & government pay and sandy beaches and island girls to fulfill your every wish?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 03:13 PM (rqka2)

185 The latest news pissing off the Left: Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain has announced he is planning to join the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 08, 2025 03:13 PM (ycI94)

186
111 What happens if/when they dissolve DC home rule?

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Boasberg becomes a Ronin, wandering the nation issuing injunctions that everyone ignores.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 03:14 PM (uz6ub)

187 The existence of derecho storms implies the existence of izquierda storms, dose it not?

(I can't decide if it's worse for ultrawhite weathermen to pronounce it "dee-RAY-cho" or try to affect a horrible Spanish accent...)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 08, 2025 03:05 PM (KwvKR)

The funny thing is, "derecho" means "right" in Spain and in South America, but in Central America and Mexico it means "right on" or "straight"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:14 PM (rbvCR)

188 The article states that this matter will most likely be brought before the full appellate court or to the Supreme Court, but who in the case actually has standing to make an appeal?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 03:14 PM (jfvTO)

189 Judges were not above the law in Dredd land. Dredd himself was brought up on charges he killed a guy. Fiction makes more sense then real life. Why they call it fiction I guess.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 08, 2025 03:15 PM (s9EN2)

190 y'all see that top link at CFP about Bill Barr?

https://x.com/Project_Veritas/status/1953574256769741057

yeow!

Posted by: DanMan at August 08, 2025 03:15 PM (8uzBS)

191 > Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain has announced he is planning to join the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE.
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he's going to fight for truth, justice, and the American way

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:15 PM (AOsQT)

192 Boasberg becomes a Ronin, wandering the nation issuing injunctions that everyone ignores.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 03:14 PM (uz6ub)

Winner. I give up.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:16 PM (rbvCR)

193 Do you know how cool that would be. Be a judge where there's almost no work & government pay and sandy beaches and island girls to fulfill your every wish?
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Guam girls, like other island girls, are really cute when young. Things change once they pass their 25th birthday.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 03:16 PM (W3T6M)

194 BREAKING: The Democrats did NOT return to Texas by today's 1pm CT deadline

It's time to REMOVE THEM FROM OFFICE!

The FBI is now assisting Texas in locating the absconded members, and are working with Sergeants at Arms in other states to arrest them.

Democrats will now NO LONGER receive their paychecks and must pick them up at the Capitol (where they'd be arrested)

BOOM the deadline was 1 PM CT

Dems also will be charged with bribery if they take money from Blue States while their paychecks have been embargoed

In all my years this is the first time I have ever read Sergeant in Arms actually doing anything besides attend meetings and look stupid

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 03:16 PM (VPPG8)

195 Deportations march on.

Not literally, unfortunately.

It would be fun to make some of these rapists and murders walk to Ecuador.

or South Sudan.

Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 03:17 PM (DgGvY)

196 One can only hope that by the end of President Trumps term the Federal landscape will be irrevocably changed for the better.

Would especially love to see a new census being taken and the Dems lose lots and lots of seats.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 08, 2025 03:17 PM (Oq/TM)

197 My people have wandered these swamps for generations. Wrote a song about it. It's the song of my people. Wanna hear it?

Posted by: Seminole Jim at August 08, 2025 03:17 PM (h5TUr)

198 y'all see that top link at CFP about Bill Barr?

https://x.com/Project_Veritas/status/1953574256769741057

yeow!
Posted by: DanMan at August 08, 2025 03:15 PM (8uzBS)

But he plays the bagpipes, yo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

199 I just learned about the Spicey Gringo.

https://x.com/DeanoGorton/status/1953003146474664218

British game shows are better than American ones!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:18 PM (17s+e)

200 Dems also will be charged with bribery if they take money from Blue States while their paychecks have been embargoed"

Jasmine Crockett has said she has a $4 million campaign chest and she's glad to pay all of their salary's out of that for as long as this continues.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK8)

201 Remember the snl sketch with jimmy smits

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 08, 2025 03:18 PM (bXbFr)

202 Do you know how cool that would be. Be a judge where there's almost no work & government pay and sandy beaches and island girls to fulfill your every wish?
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Guam girls, like other island girls, are really cute when young. Things change once they pass their 25th birthday.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 03:16 PM (W3T6M)
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Pretty faces, great hair -- but they all seem to have that Overweight Gene that pushes them towards obesity unless they are really careful. The guys too.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

203 He'll issue a contempt by middle of next week I wager.

Posted by: InZona at August 08, 2025 03:19 PM (skQWS)

204 Hes like the graham chapman character in python

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 08, 2025 03:19 PM (bXbFr)

205 I just learned about the Spicey Gringo.

https://x.com/DeanoGorton/status/1953003146474664218

British game shows are better than American ones!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:18 PM (17s+e)

WTF?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

206 Boasberg in Yiddish means "Ass Wipe".

Posted by: Zombie Shecky Greene at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM (R/m4+)

207 RIP Astronaut James Lovell

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM (AOsQT)

208 194 Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 03:16 PM

Do you think Abbott has the cajones to vacate their seats?
That is something I fully support

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM (Oq/TM)

209 Boasberg to CECOT!

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM (FEAjO)

210 Project Veritas is getting catty about O'Keefe
x.com/Project_Veritas/status/1953774641798947109

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM (sDWtc)

211 IANAL, but I don't see how the bribery charges will stick on these fleabaggers but hope DOJ tries.

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 08, 2025 03:21 PM (FEAjO)

212 I just learned about the Spicey Gringo.

https://x.com/DeanoGorton/status/1953003146474664218

British game shows are better than American ones!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:18 PM (17s+e)

WTF?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
_______

I need to take a shower after watching that. Rancid faggot homo shit. [Vomits]

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:22 PM (iFTx/)

213 The funny thing is, "derecho" means "right" in Spain and in South America, but in Central America and Mexico it means "right on" or "straight"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:14 PM

Si, soy derecho!

Posted by: Cory Booker (D-NJ) at August 08, 2025 03:22 PM (0sNs1)

214 I wonder what the judges were told/offered by Democrats to lean one way or another. Or have they always been leftist tools?

If they've always been leftist tools we've got a bigger problem.

If it's the latter then, if I were in Trump's shoes, I'd probably do what I could to make their lives as miserable as humanly possible. To the point they either resign or call a truce.

Because I'm pretty sure many of them have been, and are used to being threatened by politicos with and ax to grind.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 03:22 PM (Q4IgG)

215 Pretty faces, great hair -- but they all seem to have that Overweight Gene that pushes them towards obesity unless they are really careful. The guys too.
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Hawaiian and Samoan girls get big - suddenly. Guam girls seem to age into frog look-a-likes over time. They are all very nice until they choose to be less than nice.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 03:22 PM (W3T6M)

216 It's pronounced Azz-wee-pay.

Posted by: Judge Asswipe at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (jc0TO)

217 207 RIP Astronaut James Lovell
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM

Damn.

Fair Winds and Following Seas

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (Oq/TM)

218 Why is he still behind a bench?

Because impeachment requires a 50%+1 vote in the House, and 67 in the Senate

Posted by: Chuck C at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (D0HYP)

219 Jasmine Crockett has said she has a $4 million campaign chest and she's glad to pay all of their salary's out of that for as long as this continues.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Pretty sure that's still bribery.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (4DY5T)

220 Would especially love to see a new census being taken and the Dems lose lots and lots of seats.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 08, 2025 03:17 PM (Oq/TM)

I prayed mighty hard before the election for God to give us our country back. He does work in mysterious ways!

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (k9OZB)

221 Yeah buddy CENCOT back in bidness

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (VPPG8)

222 She won the "Miss Ebonics" title for the state of I-DA-HOE...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 02:55 PM (ynpvh)

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Well-played, jim.

But so close to Kwanzaa? REALLY?

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (PTEjY)

223 Are there any black Republicans from Texas in politics aside from Wesley Hunt who could challenge Jasmine Crockett on her stupid comments , or he hasn't done that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:24 PM (2GCMq)

224 US appeals court blocks Trump contempt proceedings ordered by Boasberg
The 2-1 ruling in President Donald Trump's favor will likely go to the full court for review, or be appealed directly to the Supreme Court
,.............
Someone help this makes sense please.
The Contempt order was issued by the judge. The administration appealed that decision. The administration won the appeal.
WHO is deciding if the appeal is appealed (and paying for it).

Posted by: Bensdad00 at August 08, 2025 03:24 PM (F/35S)

225 Everyone in that video was caught because they broke the law.
Biden imported criminals. They could have come and tried to blend in but no they came to take advantage of our weak (Soros) legal system.

The Biden Crime Syndicate was intentionally degrading our country into a 3rd world shit hole that they could plunder.
At the very least; All of Them Belong in Jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 03:24 PM (I1XLT)

226 Just looked up Club Sandy You in Guam. Its still in business. I was there around 1985. Good Times.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 03:25 PM (W3T6M)

227
Do you think Abbott has the cajones to vacate their seats?
That is something I fully support
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM (Oq/TM)

Was discussing this topic in the morning thread. First, it's a good political play, a good bluff. I don't fault him at all, he's playing a weak hand very well. but...
The Texas Governor does not have the power to vacate legislative seats for any reason. Never has. What he CAN do (and is beginning to do) is to file a motion with a district judge for that judge to issue a ruling that the seat has been vacated - we'll see how good his judge shopping skills are. Could be done quickly, or could take 6 months if the Judge doesn't want to play. That would most likely be appealed, of course.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:25 PM (uWKK8)

228 RIP Astronaut James Lovell
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM

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

Houston, he no longer has a problem.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 03:26 PM (2UnvF)

229
219 Jasmine Crockett has said she has a $4 million campaign chest and she's glad to pay all of their salary's out of that for as long as this continues.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Pretty sure that's still bribery.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM

----

Also, is she allowed to use campaign funds for that? Seems like fraud.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 03:26 PM (uz6ub)

230 Oh No.

Lovell was one of the finest men this country has ever produced. Tough stuff they were, sturdy pre-war construction.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 03:26 PM (FaOSD)

231 It's pronounced Azz-wee-pay.

Posted by: Judge Asswipe at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (jc0TO)

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Trebuchet his azz to Français.

/There's a Muldoon limerick in there somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 03:27 PM (outmo)

232 Although the opinion does not state this explicitly, the gist seems to be: Boasberg, you rushed to involve yourself in this matter without bothering to fully appreciate the facts or the law, and you wrote a sloppy, rushed opinion which was open to multiple interpretations. You can't pick and choose which parts of your ruling are "real" and you can't claim that your sloppy, ambiguous opinion only had one interpretation. It has multiple fair interpretations, and you probably could have cleaned it up to be enforceable if you weren't in such a mad partisan rush to Get Trump.

WOW ACE got all that out of the opinion.
I got Hey Bossboy you suck and your shit is all fucked up.
but thats just me.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 03:27 PM (VPPG8)

233 Jasmine Crockett has said she has a $4 million campaign chest and she's glad to pay all of their salary's out of that for as long as this continues.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK

Federal campaign funds expenditures fall under FEC guidelines and regulations, do they not?

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 03:27 PM (rj6Yv)

234 199 I just learned about the Spicey Gringo.

https://x.com/DeanoGorton/status/1953003146474664218

British game shows are better than American ones!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:18 PM (17s+e)

I've heard several of those in 20+ year-old Jimmy Carr videos. From the delivery, I had the impression that "the shocker" was one of his own inventions.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:27 PM (VnChe)

235 223 Are there any black Republicans from Texas in politics aside from Wesley Hunt who could challenge Jasmine Crockett on her stupid comments , or he hasn't done that?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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There's that military hero from FL, he was chairman of the R party there for a while. Think he must have a hitch in his get-a-long.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 03:28 PM (I1XLT)

236
Also, is she allowed to use campaign funds for that? Seems like fraud.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 03:26 PM (uz6ub)

Money laundering is not a crime.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

237
RIP Astronaut James Lovell
Posted by: Don Black

A true hero. Rest in Peace, sir

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 08, 2025 03:28 PM (qURpC)

238 Pretty sure that's still bribery.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM (4DY5T)

Pretty hard to make that case, especially on a sitting Congresswoman. Her defense would be that it's just a gift from a friend to someone who was in need.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:28 PM (uWKK8)

239 Isn't is usually around this time on Friday afternoons when we do Disney threads? Or is that directive inoperable due to yesterday's Disney thread? I am so confused. Maybe it's tea time on Tuesdays I'm thinking of...

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 03:28 PM (sFNX2)

240 immediate pee pee smack.

Roberts needs to call B's bailiff.

Posted by: DaveA at August 08, 2025 03:29 PM (FhXTo)

241
Pretty hard to make that case, especially on a sitting Congresswoman. Her defense would be that it's just a gift from a friend to someone who was in need.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:28 PM

You can gift campaign funds to friends?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

242 234 199 I just learned about the Spicey Gringo.
https://x.com/DeanoGorton/status/1953003146474664218
British game shows are better than American ones!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger
----------------

Quality entertainment for the whole family.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 03:30 PM (I1XLT)

243
With Lovell's passing, all crew members of Apollo 8 have gone to their reward.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 08, 2025 03:30 PM (qURpC)

244 1 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge
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Congrats on your first! Well done, Sponge. You have won a dragonfly that has boundary issues.

Posted by: Luteplayer at August 08, 2025 03:31 PM (2bFN5)

245 Jasmine Crockett has said she has a $4 million campaign chest and she's glad to pay all of their salary's out of that for as long as this continues.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Pretty sure that's still bribery.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 08, 2025 03:23 PM

----

Also, is she allowed to use campaign funds for that? Seems like fraud.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 03:26 PM (uz6ub)
_______

She's desperate. If the redistricting isn't stopped, she will lose her seat. Desperate people do desperate things.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

246 228 RIP Astronaut James Lovell
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:20 PM

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Houston, he no longer has a problem.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 03:26 PM

He's dead, most would consider that a BIG problem

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 08, 2025 03:31 PM (4q/mG)

247 Sock fail. Damnit.

Posted by: scampydog at August 08, 2025 03:31 PM (2bFN5)

248 Judge Nina Pillard, an Obama appointee, dissented.
.......

Quornelia?

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 03:31 PM (UjdFS)

249 190 y'all see that top link at CFP about Bill Barr?

https://x.com/Project_Veritas/status/1953574256769741057

yeow!
Posted by: DanMan

Hmm. Think Barr has something to hide? Maybe on Epstein?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 03:32 PM (Dv3i1)

250 Also, is she allowed to use campaign funds for that? Seems like fraud.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 03:26 PM (uz6ub)

Money laundering is not a crime.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

In fact Congressmen and Senators send their campaign funds to other supporting politicians constantly. Every Congressman and every Senator does it, even the ones we like, that's how political business is done. And that's why no one would dare to lift a finger if Jasmine did it, because that would threaten their own influence peddling games.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:32 PM (uWKK8)

251 WOW ACE got all that out of the opinion.
I got Hey Bossboy you suck and your shit is all fucked up.
but thats just me.
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 03:27 PM

One of many examples of why we should read ALL of Ace's content. Multiple times.

All of us need to #BeBetter.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 03:33 PM (0sNs1)

252 243
With Lovell's passing, all crew members of Apollo 8 have gone to their reward.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 08, 2025 03:30 PM (qURpC)

IIRC, he had double the number of hours in space of anyone else in the astronaut program by that time.

Wikipedia says Apollo 8 was his 4th flight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lovell

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:34 PM (VnChe)

253 The Biden Crime Syndicate was intentionally degrading our country into a 3rd world shit hole that they could plunder.
At the very least; All of Them Belong in Jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 03:24 PM (I1XLT)

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

They literally invited, aided, abetted, welcomed, harbored and financially profited from a dozen (or three) more million invasion of our sovereign borders by illegal & other criminal aliens, rapists, murderers, human & child sex and fatal drug traffickers, terrorists, et. al.

HAS THERE BEEN ANY GREATER TREASON IN WORLD HISTORY?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 03:34 PM (outmo)

254 This is a win for Trump, but not the resounding bitch-slap I wanted, or that folks are making it out to be. That quote above is actually sympathetic to Boasberg and his need to quickly do something as an excuse for his sloppy writing. Fuck that. He could have done the right thing by writing a very clear order - "Denied for lack of jurisdiction."

Posted by: DPICM at August 08, 2025 03:35 PM (M2VUX)

255
In fact Congressmen and Senators send their campaign funds to other supporting politicians constantly. Every Congressman and every Senator does it, even the ones we like, that's how political business is done. And that's why no one would dare to lift a finger if Jasmine did it, because that would threaten their own influence peddling games.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:32 PM

I didn't think you could take campaign funds and deposit it directly into someone's personal bank account like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

256 In fact Congressmen and Senators send their campaign funds to other supporting politicians constantly. Every Congressman and every Senator does it, even the ones we like, that's how political business is done. And that's why no one would dare to lift a finger if Jasmine did it, because that would threaten their own influence peddling games.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:32 PM (uWKK

True, but she allegedly offered to re-imburse them personally for the loss of their paychecks, which is not an offer to donate to their campaigns.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 03:35 PM (rj6Yv)

257 249 190 y'all see that top link at CFP about Bill Barr?

https://x.com/Project_Veritas/status/1953574256769741057

yeow!
Posted by: DanMan
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Isn't there evidence of him and Tish texting each other? Making a plot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 03:35 PM (I1XLT)

258
One of many examples of why we should read ALL of Ace's content. Multiple times.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 03:33 PM (0sNs1)

Why should we start now?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 03:35 PM (y9nCu)

259 Oh, and one more thing - Trump won on this at SCOTUS, but we still have one dissenting moron who would uphold the contempt charge? That's also not a win.

Posted by: DPICM at August 08, 2025 03:36 PM (M2VUX)

260 Lovell flew on Apollo 8, which came back with the most famous photograph in human history

https://tinyurl.com/5n6e6r79

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:36 PM (AOsQT)

261 197 My people have wandered these swamps for generations. Wrote a song about it. It's the song of my people. Wanna hear it?
Posted by: Seminole Jim at August 08, 2025 03:17 PM (h5TUr)

My people wondered these swa-amps
For many many years.
Ahhh ha-aaaaah!

Posted by: Calhoun Tubbs at August 08, 2025 03:37 PM (8hxDK)

262 It was 2-1.

We still have much work to do.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 03:37 PM (AiNp4)

263 Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 08, 2025 03:31 PM (4q/mG

I think he was 97. No doubt, friends and family will miss but it's not like being cut off in the prime of his life and if he had mental deterioration ( I don't know if he did) it's even harder for family and friends.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:37 PM (2GCMq)

264 He's dead, most would consider that a BIG problem
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 08, 2025 03:31 PM (4q/mG)

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Depends on where he went.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 03:38 PM (2UnvF)

265 Damn Republicans!

Mikel Jollett@Mikel_Jollett
Can someone please tell me why Republicans don’t want to cure cancer?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 03:38 PM (L/fGl)

266 BREAKING: President Trump has just appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as Acting IRS Commissioner

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 03:39 PM (AOsQT)

267 Damn Republicans!

Mikel Jollett@Mikel_Jollett
Can someone please tell me why Republicans don’t want to cure cancer?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 03:38 PM (L/fGl)

They do. But only white male cancer.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 03:39 PM (AiNp4)

268 Why should we start now?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 03:35 PM

It was an aspirational comment.

Are you disinclined to be aspirated?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (0sNs1)

269 Guam girls, like other island girls, are really cute when young. Things change once they pass their 25th birthday.
Posted by: pudinhead
.....

Then they tip the island over.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (UjdFS)

270 Mikel Jollett@Mikel_Jollett
Can someone please tell me why Republicans don’t want to cure cancer?

You Dems dropped Joe Biden, who said he was going to cure cancer, in favor of Kamala, who never said she would. I think it's pretty obvious who doesn't want to cure cancer.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (Dv3i1)

271 Can someone please tell me why Republicans don’t want to cure cancer?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 03:38 PM

Think of all the oncologist put out of business, especially the women and minority ones.

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)

272 Nude Ratchet

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (VnChe)

273 Could be done quickly, or could take 6 months if the Judge doesn't want to play. That would most likely be appealed, of course.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:25 PM (uWKK

I wonder how fast the absent legislators would return to appeal if the judge just waves it through?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (rbvCR)

274 259 Oh, and one more thing - Trump won on this at SCOTUS, but we still have one dissenting moron who would uphold the contempt charge? That's also not a win.
Posted by: DPICM at August 08, 2025 03:36 PM (M2VUX)

Obama appointed 329 Judges, Biden appointed 235. That's how many must be removed before we're going to be free of this.
I think it will take about 40 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (uWKK8)

275 WOW ACE got all that out of the opinion.
I got Hey Bossboy you suck and your shit is all fucked up.
but thats just me.
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 03:27 PM

One of many examples of why we should read ALL of Ace's content. Multiple times.

All of us need to #BeBetter.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 03:33 PM (0sNs1)

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

Rumor is that Ace graduated Law School but apparently practice little if any law before walking away from it.

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (gtDRl)

276 How many Moon walkers are left ???

Posted by: Jackson at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (BltCC)

277 *PRACTICED

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (gtDRl)

278 Mikel Jollett@Mikel_Jollett
Can someone please tell me why Republicans don’t want to cure cancer?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 03:38 PM

Didn't Brandon get that done a year or two ago?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (0sNs1)

279 Government Has Frozen $584 Million In UCLA Funding,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (I1XLT)

280 Jasmine Crockett has said she has a $4 million campaign chest and she's glad to pay all of their salary's out of that for as long as this continues.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:18 PM (uWKK

Federal campaign funds expenditures fall under FEC guidelines and regulations, do they not?

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 03:27 PM

Please let her do this. She will be up on state and federal charges before the ink on the checks dry.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (0N4FZ)

281 How many Moon walkers are left ???

Posted by: Jackson at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (BltCC)

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Michael Jackson makes one less.

/good question

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 03:44 PM (gtDRl)

282 nood

crocket

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (cduTK)

283 Government Has Frozen $584 Million In UCLA Funding,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (I1XLT)

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STOP ALL THE #WINNING ... I GOTTA GET OFF!

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (gtDRl)

284 US District Clown Judge Bozoberg needs to have full DOJ figurative (and maybe literal) Proctological Exam of every aspect of his so-called life to see where the bodies of the little boys are buried.
Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (Yw8Ag)

You mean the judicial overreach on a case put in for his daughter for a NGO that he was on the board of? Conflict of Interest much?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (8avO+)

285 Tesla Shares Jump As Robotaxi Secures Texas Rideshare Permit
_Duh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (I1XLT)

286 Can someone please tell me why Republicans don’t want to cure cancer?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 03:38 PM

Think of all the oncologist put out of business, especially the women and minority ones.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)

If these idiots haven't cured it yet, we need a new set of people to fail.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (8avO+)

287 Guam girls, like other island girls, are really cute when young. Things change once they pass their 25th birthday.
Posted by: pudinhead
.....

Then they tip the island over.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (UjdFS)

well by Leonardo DeCaprio rules you are swapping them out by then for a new one anyway.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

288 This is a win for Trump, but not the resounding bitch-slap I wanted, or that folks are making it out to be. That quote above is actually sympathetic to Boasberg and his need to quickly do something as an excuse for his sloppy writing. Fuck that. He could have done the right thing by writing a very clear order - "Denied for lack of jurisdiction."
Posted by: DPICM at August 08, 2025 03:35 PM (M2VUX)

the real reason is he had been up all night plotting with the NGO and making them redo their petition since it had an error in it that would forbid him from doing the TRO in the first place, without the DoJ present.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 03:54 PM (8avO+)

289 She's desperate. If the redistricting isn't stopped, she will lose her seat. Desperate people do desperate things.
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

Well not really. Her house is in some district, just not one specially crafted to elect a carpetbagger from St Louis to congress.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 03:56 PM (8avO+)

290 The stench of Boasberg's corruption is too pungent to be ignored.

It was James Boasberg who let the crooked FBI agent Kevin Clinesmith off with probation after finding him guilty of falsifying documents before the FISA court in order to get Carter Page.

Boasberg is also one of Chief Justice John Robert's BFF's. John Roberts has a number of rabid, corrupt, Trump-hating lunatics in his circle of friends, including judges Chutkin and Howell.

Roberts also flew to the Czech Republic for a week-long series of secret meetings at a secure diplomatic compound with the Trump-hating Lawfare architect Norm Eisen. John Roberts refuses to divulge what he and Eisen discussed.

And then we have our good friend Bill Barr, who wanted to go after Trump using RICO statutes....

Posted by: Sam Adams at August 08, 2025 04:00 PM (X+xvk)

291 I remember last Friday's postings. All infuriating events, and then Ace dropped that "This Week in Woke" thread on us like some blood pressure rising pièce de résistance.

This Friday has been relaxing and positive by comparison. No need to break out the Everclear or do my Michael Douglas in "Falling Down" impersonation.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 04:02 PM (dIske)

292 Man, I love seeing the illegal's scared faces as they arrive in El Salvador. Good.

The news seems to be very good today for President Trump!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:11 PM (6PCLE)

293 @ 290...Boasberg is also one of Chief Justice John Robert's BFF's. John Roberts has a number of rabid, corrupt, Trump-hating lunatics in his circle of friends, including judges Chutkin and Howell.

Ask Roberts if it is illegal to adopt children from Ireland.

Or, if he's had further seizures on his dock...as I believe that was the warning. Whatever it was, and/or if he'd ever had a seizure prior, are my 2nd and 3rd questions.

Seizures can happen to adults without cause, but rare vs from a brain tumor or bleed.

I know of one person who had scar tissue from birth. While he was very smart, his Apgar score was initially low...and some unknown tiny burst blood vessels. Then a grand mal seizure in college from the scar tissue. He had no issues as an infant or child.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:18 PM (6PCLE)

294
Jasmine is an actress, playing a part. This is the case with many black preachers and politicians, the peak success being Barry BlackJesus Suotero Obama.

Posted by: Auspex at August 08, 2025 04:35 PM (Y8DZL)

295 Maybe my assumption is wrong, or maybe he's a recent emigree to Texas.?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 02:52 PM (2GCMq)

Must be. He speaks perfect English.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (5xuJ/)

296 Judge Boasberg needs relived of his job period give him time in Jail like 30 Years

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 08, 2025 11:59 PM (FLiOE)

The DOJ Has Empaneled a Grand Jury in Albany to Investigate Butch AG "Tish" James For Her Corrupt Harassment of Trump

TrashDiscourse
@TrashDiscourse
DOJ has referred Leticia James to a Grand Jury in Albany for a "Deprivation of Rights" investigation by the newly formed Strike Force at DOJ.
This stems from the Trump case regarding the valuation of Mar A Lago.
This seems like Fani Willis could be headed for the same fate based the language used in regards to James "running for office to get Trump"
No word yet on what other avenues this may reach, but things are heating up

Fox:

The Department of Justice convened a grand jury to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking an escalation in President Donald Trump's fight with New York's top prosecutor.
The investigation is being run out of Albany, New York, and focused on possible deprivation of rights allegations, two well-placed sources familiar with the probe told Fox News Digital.
The investigation is in an early stage, but Fox News Digital has learned that James's office received subpoenas for documents this week, including for information related to her civil fraud lawsuit against Trump.
Separately, Attorney General Pam Bondi has authorized a special prosecutor, Ed Martin, to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud involving James and California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff.
A grand jury in Virginia will investigate claims involving James. A grand jury in Maryland will investigate claims involving Schiff.

Note that she already has a grand jury investigating her for her serial mortgage fraud.

Mike Davis had previously warned James: If you continue using your office to illegally harass Trump, "Big Tish," we will "throw your fat ass in prison."

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE: Letitia James is under criminal investigation for deprivation of rights after she TARGETED Trump for political purposes and violated his First Amendment rights

Subpoenas have been sent and grand jury empaneled

Tish was the HUNTER. She's now THE HUNTED! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/NFbrsbdJSs
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 8, 2025

🚨NEW: MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos *warns* "LETITIA JAMES SHOULD BE VERY CONCERNED" about DOJ probe🚨

"If somebody is the subject, the target, of a grand jury investigation, that is not a good sign."

"That kind of scrutiny — of financial records, of business records,… pic.twitter.com/nZwiO1BLw4
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) August 8, 2025

The DOJ has referred Leticia James to a grand jury to determine if she weaponized the Justice System against Trump depriving him of his rights.

I present exhibit A.

I bet Leticia James wishes she didn’t make this campaign video…

Oops!
pic.twitter.com/zuG15dKcxZ
— C3 (@C_3C_3) August 8, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 01:05 PM

Comments

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1 First!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (ckQml)

2 Tish needs to spend a few decades in prison.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (ckQml)

3 Good afternoon!
Wow. She should have kept her stupid mouth shut. 😂

Posted by: Jmel at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (RWHIh)

4 Wow, she's quite the large target

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (U7AxH)

5 Who's excited about the unveiling of the bronze Tom Brady statue tonight?

The big shock will be, when they remove the crate it's in, and it's a Giant Dildo...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (TGPs7)

6 So when do we get perp walks?

And hey, isn't Sing Sing in New York? She should go there... on a probationary period, for her own safety, naturally.

Posted by: SimoHayha at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (clrIT)

7 I wished they'd put Mike Davis on the case. He was the Trump attorney who promised to put James's "fat ass in prison."

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (WHfpM)

8 Wonder how many Congresscritters are refinancing to get certain declarations off their mortgages.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (/sySz)

9 More!
NOT tired of winning!

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (gxokI)

10 And we now enter the "FO" phase of the cycle.

Heh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (/HI9S)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

12 she's about the biggest example of FAFO going right now, bury her!

Posted by: DanMan at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (8uzBS)

13 Where will the jury be empaneled?

Posted by: What matters most. Venue at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (1y5L5)

14 Sing Sing is for men...so Big Tish would fit in nicely.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (cWffP)

15 "NOT GUILTY!"

- - - - - - NY Jurors

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

16 It moved.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 01:11 PM (kgE5c)

17 DOJ has referred Leticia James to a Grand Jury in Albany for a "Deprivation of Rights" investigation by the newly formed Strike Force at DOJ.
++++
Has there ever been a successful prosecution of "deprivation of rights under color of law" (which I suspect is what this is)?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:11 PM (6bTRc)

18 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (WvZaB)

19 "When you shoot at the king, you'd better kill him."

-- Sun Tzu's Big Red Book of Pithy Aphorisms, Large Print Edition

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (/HI9S)

20 In NY? Probably find some way to charge Trump with crimes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (v4ljX)

21 Turn about is fair play.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (5M/Mg)

22 Willowed

Charles Butts is a big Dem donor in Texas.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (VofaG)

23 i want to work for Strike Force

Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (KRtlO)

24 More on Dildogate in WNBA.

It's a $110 bet to make $100 for a dildo to be thrown on the court of any of the three WNBA games tonight...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (TGPs7)

25 >>I wished they'd put Mike Davis on the case. He was the Trump attorney who promised to put James's "fat ass in prison."

I find him the best outside source to know what's going on behind the curtain at the DOJ. He's good friends with Ed Martin, Emil Bove and a host of others at the DOJ and he knows Trump.

He was promising all of this would happen if Trump was elected. Seems he knows what he's talking about.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 01:13 PM (viF8m)

26 The big shock will be, when they remove the crate it's in, and it's a Giant Dildo...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (TGPs7)

What shock? They said outright that it's a Tom Brady statue.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:13 PM (pERWT)

27
Big Tish will run her cell block with an iron fist.

Big Tish don't play.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 08, 2025 01:13 PM (IifOV)

28 23 i want to work for Strike Force
Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (KRtlO)

Wouldn't that take away from your Twitter time?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (v4ljX)

29 But, does she have a sex toy employed that rents cabins in surrounding states?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

30 Note that she already has a grand jury investigating her for her serial mortgage fraud.
++++
Which, while unlikely, is more likely to succeed than a Deprivation of Rights case. The goal might be to bankrupt her. Process as punishment, a thing she understands quite well.

It looks to me like the mortgage thing is probably primary, with more along those lines to come. I suspect Trump has just told Bondi to Capone everyone possible. Ignore the real crimes that destroyed the republic and get them on financial crimes instead. Take them out and make it clear that the easily-provable dirty pool they all play will be the rope that strings them up if they step out of line.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (6bTRc)

31 Baskin Robbins has gone full Nazi!

https://is.gd/UiMQPf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

32 How's that campaign lookin now Fat Tish?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:15 PM (MGB5H)

33 But, does she have a sex toy employed that rents cabins in surrounding states?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Wait when did we start talking g about that scamp, ace's dick?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:15 PM (v4ljX)

34 Hundreds of people are under investigation, but until we get any of them doing the glorious perp walk, it won't mean much...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:15 PM (TGPs7)

35 Hey! I resemble that fat ass in prison remark!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:15 PM (L/fGl)

36 Has there ever been a successful prosecution of "deprivation of rights under color of law" (which I suspect is what this is)?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:11 PM (6bTRc)

At least she's being exposed to the meat-grinder process of defending her actions. Act Blue is broke so they won't be much help to her.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 08, 2025 01:15 PM (g8Ew8)

37
Has there ever been a successful prosecution of "deprivation of rights under color of law" (which I suspect is what this is)?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

___________

I thought it was a rather standard thing when state or local show trials result in acquittal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 01:16 PM (OkHa0)

38
Wait when did we start talking g about that scamp, ace's dick?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:15 PM (v4ljX)

If you don't have a Sweetdick Honeycum on the payroll, you're not serious.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

39 Letitia James campaigned on a promise to find something to prosecute Trump for.

So this is absolutely delicious.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 01:16 PM (/HI9S)

40 Hope they pull in the Manhattan DA and those two clown judges.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at August 08, 2025 01:16 PM (C4fUO)

41 Baskin Robbins has gone full Nazi!

https://is.gd/UiMQPf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)
++++
She seems to be doing well for herself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:16 PM (6bTRc)

42
Huh.

And here I thought that "Tish" was a cute nick name for "Toilet Tissue" James.

The things you learn here.

AOSHQ-
It's educational!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2025 01:16 PM (iJfKG)

43 Baskin Robbins has gone full Nazi!

https://is.gd/UiMQPf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

Fuck. Have to go buy some Gold Medal Ribbon to support.

My workouts were going great, guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v4ljX)

44 "Nobody is above the law!"

*SNORT*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (/HI9S)

45 31 Baskin Robbins has gone full Nazi!

https://is.gd/UiMQPf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

You know who else liked ice cream....

That's right, Joe Biden

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)

46 All of Trump's trials were Moscow trials.

I still can't believe the assault /Rape case was allowed to go forward when the plaintiff could not provide a year of the offense much less the date.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (VofaG)

47 She seems to be doing well for herself.

Making the most of her fifteen minutes. Nothing wrong with that.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (/y8xj)

48 AOSHQ-
It's educational!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2025 01:16 PM (iJfKG)
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Come for the boobs - stay for the abstruse knowledge.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:18 PM (WvZaB)

49 Silver lining:
As Ms. James's financial accumulations are depleted in her various criminal defenses, she will ultimately have to make adjustments to her lifestyle and lose significant weight.

This is for her own good.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 01:18 PM (dIske)

50 I read the content. Now I remember this particular fracas. Thanks for joggin my noggin! The short supercut vid is pretty impactful.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 01:18 PM (0I+GC)

51 You know who else liked ice cream....

That's right, Joe Biden
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:18 PM (6bTRc)

52 They warned us all for years that Trump was going to come after them if he was re-elected.

For once, I'm glad they were right.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 01:18 PM (6ydKt)

53 And the mug shots.We need some hilarious mug shots...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:18 PM (TGPs7)

54 You know who else liked ice cream....

That's right, Joe Biden
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)

But, only TRUMP has 2 scoops.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

55 She gon jale

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at August 08, 2025 01:19 PM (E4WLu)

56 The wheels of the gods grind slowly, but exceedingly fine.

Don't stop me, I'm just getting rolling here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 01:19 PM (/HI9S)

57 Making the most of her fifteen minutes. Nothing wrong with that.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (/y8xj)
++++
Not a damn thing. Her window is narrow, and she's maximizing it - and appears to be having some fun doing it.

The last shot of that BR ad was the best part. A little outtake with some laughs. Laughter - other than the forced, malicious pseudo-laughter of political necessity - has been verboten for so long in the mainstream that it's really refreshing to see some again. Even if it's contrived, it works.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (6bTRc)

58 No one is above the law but what Democrats don't tell you is they might be around the law.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (I7DM/)

59 But, only TRUMP has 2 scoops.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

That bastard!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (MGB5H)

60 I still can't believe the assault /Rape case was allowed to go forward when the plaintiff could not provide a year of the offense much less the date.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (VofaG)

Wasn't it technically a defamation case?

They actual had a jury find that defending yourself in public from a fake accusation amounted to actionable defamation?

I've tried to forget the details of that whole disgusting fiasco.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (pERWT)

61 The Left: "Trump and the lumbering Right are unprepared for guerrilla tactics and asymmetrical warfare. We'll harass him with underhanded tactics! Bwahaha-- Urrggghhhh!"

Trump: (Plunges a dagger into their side during their celebratory laugh.) "Any further questions?"

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (pMi6S)

62 Baskin Robbins has gone full Nazi!

https://is.gd/UiMQPf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Now I want ice cream . . . topped with with Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (i24o9)

63 tAnd the mug shots.We need some hilarious mug shots...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:18 PM (TGPs7)

You asked for it......

https://is.gd/aVRBJQ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

64 And when "Tish" sits around the law, she REALLY sits around the law.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (I7DM/)

65 But, only TRUMP has 2 scoops.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:19 PM

Beautiful scoops. Fabulous.

- Donnie "Two Scoops"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (kgE5c)

66 No mercy for this sloppy gashcunt. Let the bodies hit the floor.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

67 But, only TRUMP has 2 scoops.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
The "Donny Two Scoops" kerfuffle was one of the most retarded things I've ever seen.

I am not in White House protocol, but I'll lay my $5 bill down that anyone who wants two scoops - or more - gets it. He just *always* wants 2, so they bring it by default.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (6bTRc)

68 Lock her up with a bunch of Troons.

Posted by: XTC at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (UnA8+)

69 "Mike Davis had previously warned James: If you continue using your office to illegally harass Trump, "Big Tish," we will "throw your fat ass in prison."
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
But will it be one of those prisons that houses "MtF" transfolk among their population?

Posted by: Another Anon at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (4h45B)

70 Aphoric pith? Athk your doctor.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (0I+GC)

71 Sydney Sweeney threw out the first pitch at the Red Sox game the other night and was wearing short cut off shorts ...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (TGPs7)

72 Race card pulled in 3...2...1!

Yeah, but who's listening now?

Posted by: sTevo at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (ZGYRh)

73 Willowed

Charles Butts is a big Dem donor in Texas.

Posted by: polynikes

Yes, but they don't push woke, they gave ten percent of the company stock to their employees so the employees get profit sharing, they take care of the community, and they have the best fruits and vegetables of any grocery I have ever been in.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (Vfq+S)

74 If you don't have a Sweetdick Honeycum on the payroll, you're not serious.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)
___________________________

I prefer Ace's use of the moniker, "Dexter Clamhammer", but then he overthought it and created some new names.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (dIske)

75 I'm hoping this "revenge tour" has a few more victims.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (Q4IgG)

76 "If somebody is the subject, the target, of a grand jury investigation, that is not a good sign."

Well yeah!

Your screwed six ways to Sunday
-Cryin Chuck Schumer

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (VPPG8)

77 Now I want ice cream . . . topped with with Sydney Sweeney.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (i24o9)

The other way.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (MGB5H)

78 NY politics is getting fun. Cuomo punking Mamdani, Mamdani saying Cuomo talking to Trump is disqualifying, the Lt Gov challenging Hochul, Hochul being a corrupt idiot, and now Tish facing possible charges. And the leftist sheep will follow these nitwits over a cliff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (eadC4)

79
Yes, but they don't push woke, they gave ten percent of the company stock to their employees so the employees get profit sharing, they take care of the community, and they have the best fruits and vegetables of any grocery I have ever been in.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 01:21 PM (Vfq+S)

They seem to be more your grandfather's Democrat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)

80 Baskin Robbins should have Michelle Fields do a commercial.

I always said Baskin Robbins cost an arm and a leg.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (VofaG)

81 But, only TRUMP has 2 scoops.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

That bastard!
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (MGB5H)

Ya don't fuck around with Donnie Two Scoops.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (g8Ew8)

82 Love those Police Squad intros.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (xcxpd)

83 Deprivation of rights under color of law can carry the death penalty.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (bqduN)

84 And the leftist sheep will follow these nitwits over a cliff
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (eadC4)
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Don't mess with our schtick.

Posted by: Lemminga at August 08, 2025 01:23 PM (WvZaB)

85 >>>Mike Davis had previously warned James: If you continue using your office to illegally harass Trump, "Big Tish," we will "throw your fat ass in prison."

*groans*

Posted by: Scales of Justice at August 08, 2025 01:24 PM (i24o9)

86 Love those Police Squad intros.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (xcxpd)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/h2-BJgllagA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

87 Don't mess with our schtick.
Posted by: Lemminga at August 08, 2025 01:23 PM

Another lie created and fostered by Disney.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:24 PM (MGB5H)

88 i want to work for Strike Force
Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (KRtlO)

Sorry, Ace. Tito and Rick broke up years ago.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:24 PM (0eaVi)

89 Deprivation of rights under color of law can carry the death penalty.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2025 01:22 PM (bqduN)

We can't start pursuing the death penalty. It would be uncouthed.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 01:24 PM (I7DM/)

90 Off misspelled sock.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:25 PM (WvZaB)

91 24 More on Dildogate in WNBA.

It's a $110 bet to make $100 for a dildo to be thrown on the court of any of the three WNBA games tonight...
--------------------------------
If true, that's wildly stupid.

You don't wager with the public on an event the public can perform to win their bet.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 08, 2025 01:25 PM (F/35S)

92 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:20 PM (pERWT)

There were two trials.

The first for the assault /rape claim

The second for defamation.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:25 PM (VofaG)

93 Thanks, Sponge. Loved that show!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (vd6bO)

94 There were two trials.

The first for the assault /rape claim

The second for defamation.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:25 PM (VofaG)

Ah.

Disgusting farce all around.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (pERWT)

95 She literally advertised that she would get Trump. That was he entire public approach: get Trump. For what? Who cares, just get him. What crime? It doesn't matter, just get him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (dfIr7)

96 Thanks, Sponge. Loved that show!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (vd6bO)

I help where I can.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

97 I wonder when the New York State appeals court will issue a decision on Trump's appeal of the judgment against him in Tish's /spit/ property valuation fraud case? The appeals court heard verbal arguments at least seven months ago.

Will New York judges dare to overturn a judgment against Trump? Do they have a death wish?

Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (aBgBM)

98 Basking Robbins' new "Sweet on Sydney" menu prominently features rainbow sherbet in its advertising. This is *deeply* problematic because of its hijacking and subversion of symbols.

The rainbow symbol of the LGBTQIA2S+ community symbolizes the historic fight for justice, equity and inclusion for marginalized groups. Sydney Sweeney, through her own actions, symbolizes the basest tendencies of the white cishet patriarchal power structure that perpetuates itself through the targeted destruction of rights movements and generalized oppression of outsiders living within their systems.

As a regressive symbol, using a combination of Sydney Sweeney and rainbow symbology for the purpose of elongating the era of post-capitalist excess is tantamount to violence.

Posted by: Your Kid's Sociology Professor at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (6bTRc)

99
52 They warned us all for years that Trump was going to come after them if he was re-elected.

For once, I'm glad they were right.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 01:18 PM

------

They said that before his first term, but he let them off the hook. A peace offering. They responded by trying to destroy him. Based on what Trump has said, he is fully cognizant of this, and is proceeding accordingly in his second term.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (uz6ub)

100 It's obvious that the color of law is crimson. Runner-up seafoam shouldn't have even been in the competition.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (0I+GC)

101 >"If somebody is the subject, the target, of a grand jury investigation, that is not a good sign."
----

She'll be fine. Not to worry.

Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (AOsQT)

102
As a regressive symbol, using a combination of Sydney Sweeney and rainbow symbology for the purpose of elongating the era of post-capitalist excess is tantamount to violence.
Posted by: Your Kid's Sociology Professor at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (6bTRc)

Make the rainbow God's Promise again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

103 As a regressive symbol, using a combination of Sydney Sweeney and rainbow symbology for the purpose of elongating the era of post-capitalist excess is tantamount to violence.

Posted by: Your Kid's Sociology Professor at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (6bTRc)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Scales of Justice at August 08, 2025 01:27 PM (i24o9)

104 You don't wager with the public on an event the public can perform to win their bet.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 08, 2025 01:25 PM (F/35S)

Oh man. Just imagine.

Every WNBA game devolves into some kind of insane bloody calcio storico street brawl with hundreds of people kicking the shit out of each other to either throw or prevent the throwing of a dildo on to a basketball court.

We may have just accidentally invented America's new pastime.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (pERWT)

105 @97 usually a decision from an appellate court is about 90 days, sometimes a little more. NYS courts know the whole thing against Trump is BS , they just don't want to be the ones to call it out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (eadC4)

106 Blowtorch the bitch. She earned it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (snZF9)

107 Trump has been convicted of paying off a loan with interest and sexuality assaulting a bat-shit crazy, ugly woman who can’t even remember what year it happened or had any evidence that it happened at all.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (bqduN)

108 >"If somebody is the subject, the target, of a grand jury investigation, that is not a good sign."
----
Wow, thanks for the tip RoBoz.

Posted by: Riptide at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (1y5L5)

109 In case anyone is interested, this is precisely what I voted for.

Posted by: Weasel at August 08, 2025 01:30 PM (cmI4M)

110 Make the rainbow God's Promise again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

That would be a great bumper sticker.

Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2025 01:30 PM (FMtrg)

111 Blowtorch the bitch. She earned it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (snZF9)

I'd be able to smell the bacon all the way down here.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:30 PM (MGB5H)

112 "NOT GUILTY!"

- - - - - - NY Jurors"NOT GUILTY!"

-
Except it's in the Northern District of NY, Albany.
Not NYC, southern dist.

There is a federal courthouse in Plattsburg, in the NDNY, in Jefferson County, it voted 51% for Trump; and in Utica, Oneida Co.; voted 60% for Trump.

Set the case for trial there.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:30 PM (IIsq3)

113 I'm so hetero that I don't think I could hold onto a fake dick long enough to throw it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:31 PM (VofaG)

114 102 "Make the rainbow God's Promise again."

Amen

Posted by: Next2Nothing at August 08, 2025 01:31 PM (tA1/w)

115 Trump has been convicted of paying off a loan with interest and sexuality assaulting a bat-shit crazy, ugly woman who can’t even remember what year it happened or had any evidence that it happened at all.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (bqduN)

I just want to know if they had the jury watch the Law and Order episode she based her entire story on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

116 Has anyone checked in with the other side of the forest? They can’t be doing very well today in DUlandia.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 01:31 PM (/sySz)

117 Quentin Tarantino will direct the perp walk.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:31 PM (57noz)

118 Will New York judges dare to overturn a judgment against Trump? Do they have a death wish?

Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM

I recall hearing some of the oral argument. The judges, for the most part, didn't sound like they were having the state's BS.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 01:31 PM (Wnv9h)

119
That would be a great bumper sticker.
Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2025 01:30 PM (FMtrg)

I also want to see "God didn't get it wrong, YOU did" go viral.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

120 I'm so hetero that I don't think I could hold onto a fake dick long enough to throw it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:31 PM (VofaG)
------------
Do you eat hot dogs sideways?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:32 PM (WvZaB)

121 Sing Sing is too nice for Tish. Pretty view on the Hudson and cliffs on the Rockland side. Clinton, in the far north of the state would be the coldest and most inhospitable, but I think it's only for men.

I guess it would be a Fed prison, anyway, never mind.

Posted by: Mayberry Jail at August 08, 2025 01:32 PM (G5+As)

122 If she's gonna be 'hoist by her own petard', they better get some serious block and tackle ready.

And a double XL orange jumpsuit or two.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 08, 2025 01:32 PM (WCo3d)

123 More on Dildogate in WNBA.

It's a $110 bet to make $100 for a dildo to be thrown on the court of any of the three WNBA games tonight...

More action that way. Betting on a dunk has worse odds than winning a $1 billion Powerball.

Posted by: t-bird at August 08, 2025 01:33 PM (gxJBA)

124 Will New York judges dare to overturn a judgment against Trump? Do they have a death wish?
Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2025 01:26 PM (aBgBM)
++++
Deathwish or not is irrelevant. They won't do it regardless. Not NYC, anyway. Maybe - *maybe* - if they get a trial somewhere upstate. But even then, I doubt it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:33 PM (6bTRc)

125 Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:33 PM (2FwlN)

126 In case anyone is interested, this is precisely what I voted for.
Posted by: Weasel at August 08, 2025 01:30 PM

*fistbump*

More of this, please.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 01:33 PM (Wnv9h)

127 recall hearing some of the oral argument. The judges, for the most part, didn't sound like they were having the state's BS.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 01:31 PM (Wnv9h)

Even if they personally hate Trump they know they can't allow it to stand because of the precedent it sets for other businesses. The whole "well only use it against Trump promise" ain't gonna cut it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:33 PM (MGB5H)

128 If she's gonna be 'hoist by her own petard', they better get some serious block and tackle ready.
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A petard was an explosive device. "Hoist" in this case means "flung up into the air."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM (WvZaB)

129 Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:33 PM (2FwlN)
++++
"Two Scoops of Revenge: The Donald Trump Story" - coming soon to a theater near you!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM (6bTRc)

130 109 In case anyone is interested, this is precisely what I voted for.
Posted by: Weasel at August 08, 2025 01:30 PM (cmI4M)

I never think of these things in time, but recently a hostile Trump hater (that I was trying to be nice to) sneered that "Trump doesn't care about people; he only wants to win."

Maybe I could have responded, "Well, don't be too hard on him. We keep telling him we're not tired of winning yet. What's he gonna do?"

Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM (FMtrg)

131 106 Blowtorch the bitch. She earned it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (snZF9)

Firm but fair

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM (xcxpd)

132 Do you eat hot dogs sideways?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:32 PM (WvZaB)

Hot dogs don't have a set of balls attached😁

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM (VofaG)

133 91 24 More on Dildogate in WNBA.

It's a $110 bet to make $100 for a dildo to be thrown on the court of any of the three WNBA games tonight...
--------------------------------
If true, that's wildly stupid.

You don't wager with the public on an event the public can perform to win their bet.
----------------
This is another Disco Sucks rebellion. Loving it.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM (W3T6M)

134 That Sydney Sweeney ad is beautiful! She's filled the need of all of us to just see a normal good looking girl act normal again.

It reminds me of my most treasured Baskin Robbins moment, many years ago. It was pretty full, and there was some group in line, including a pretty decent looking girl who got a BR cone. What came next was that she continued to stand by the counter, talking to her friends (btw I was with a group of my friends) and she started to lick that ice cream cone carefully all along the sides,, sticking her tongue way out. Then she smiled a bit, not at anyone in particular, and held the the ice cream where she could come down on it from the top, wrapping her lips all the way around it, and slowly moving it in and out a bit.

yeah by that time every guy in the place was completely paralyzed with their mouth hanging open. She had skillz.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM (uWKK8)

135 Im pretty sure the WNBA has a dildo surplus.

Posted by: I'm going out on A limb at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (1y5L5)

136 Where’s her fvcking Mug shot? So very sick of these Club 85 Bitches screwing everything up

Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (FiefX)

137 DOJ grand jury means federal charges. The state of New York has no say in this!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (2FwlN)

138 More on Dildogate in WNBA.

It's a $110 bet to make $100 for a dildo to be thrown on the court of any of the three WNBA games tonight...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (TGPs7)
_____

"Dildogate" makes it sound bad, though. It's not. Maybe call it Dildoblast or Dildopalooza?

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

139 @121 Bedford Hills is the nastiest women's prison in NYS or it was. A guy I know was a prison guard and said his temp assignment there was his worst ever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (eadC4)

140 ----------------
This is another Disco Sucks rebellion. Loving it.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM (W3T6M)

"Oh shit......."

- - - - Steve Dahl

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

141 Oh crap.

We're about to discover the uglier side of lesbian prison sex.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (jvJvP)

142 The dildo heard around the World.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (57noz)

143 It's a $110 bet to make $100 for a dildo to be thrown on the court of any of the three WNBA games tonight...
--------------------------------
If true, that's wildly stupid.

You don't wager with the public on an event the public can perform to win their bet.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so
____

That's crazy

Posted by: Cleveland Guardians Pitcher and Bettor at August 08, 2025 01:36 PM (Dv3i1)

144 _____

"Dildogate" makes it sound bad, though. It's not. Maybe call it Dildoblast or Dildopalooza?
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

Rubber Dick Derby.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

145 All Leftists need to be in a Memory Care Residence.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:37 PM (VofaG)

146 Do you eat hot dogs sideways?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:32 PM (WvZaB)

Hot dogs don't have a set of balls attached😁
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:34 PM

Attached, no. Are you prepared to say they aren't possibly involved elsewhere in the dog?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 01:37 PM (Wnv9h)

147 Baskin Robbins has gone full Nazi!

https://is.gd/UiMQPf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here
.......

Needs moar tummy.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 01:37 PM (UjdFS)

148 Dildogate" makes it sound bad, though. It's not. Maybe call it Dildoblast or Dildopalooza?
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

Dildofest or a féte dildo

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:37 PM (MGB5H)

149 If true, that's wildly stupid.

You don't wager with the public on an event the public can perform to win their bet.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so

You do if you want an easy way to make sure it happens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 01:37 PM (uWKK8)

150 All Leftists need to be in a Memory Care Residence.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:37 PM (VofaG)

I'm sorry. The judges were looking for 'insane asylum.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

151 That video, but itself, destroys any possible defense. However, that video should have destroyed her case against Trump to begin with, and a judge, watching that should have tossed the case from court.

Youi can't campaign on "getting" someone convicted of some crime, any crime, then file a bunch of lawsuits against that person once in office. It is completely prejudicial to the process.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:38 PM (D1vbu)

152 The Sydney Sweeney Baskin-Robbins commercial made me look up where our local Baskin-Robbins is.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:39 PM (2FwlN)

153 5 Who's excited about the unveiling of the bronze Tom Brady statue tonight?

The big shock will be, when they remove the crate it's in, and it's a Giant Dildo...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (TGPs7)
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About as shocking as the unveiling of a Tom Brady statue in center court of tonight's WNBA game.

Posted by: Another Anon at August 08, 2025 01:39 PM (4h45B)

154 can't campaign on "getting" someone convicted of some crime, any crime, then file a bunch of lawsuits against that person once in office. It is completely prejudicial to the process.
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Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? Because where I used to work people did that all the time.

Posted by: Tish Costanza at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (1y5L5)

155 The Sydney Sweeney Baskin-Robbins commercial made me look up where our local Baskin-Robbins is.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:39 PM (2FwlN)
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The BR that was near me is gone, now,

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (WvZaB)

156
The big shock will be, when they remove the crate it's in, and it's a Giant Dildo...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (TGPs7)

SCHLONGED!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

157 The Sydney Sweeney Baskin-Robbins commercial made me look up where our local Baskin-Robbins is.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:39 PM (2FwlN)

Sadly, she's not there waiting for you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (0eaVi)

158 Heh, had two hotdogs last night. Boiled, dosed with German mustard and Southern Chow Chow. It worked!

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (W3T6M)

159 Dildo Jam

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (eadC4)

160 A petard was an explosive device. "Hoist" in this case means "flung up into the air."

Ah... learn something new every time I come here. Usually it's stupid puns, but you know, beggars/choosers...

Anyhow, thankee... Well, regardless, imagine the amount of explosive power needed to fling her chunky impossible-to-wipe-by-traditional-means ass into the air.

Really hoping she gets to spend some time in a monochromatic wardrobe, trading her daily fruit cup for smokes and sexual favors.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (WCo3d)

161 The Sydney Sweeney Baskin-Robbins commercial made me look up where our local Baskin-Robbins is.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:39 PM (2FwlN)

Sadly, she's not there waiting for you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM

There's always a chance.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (MGB5H)

162 New sport, dildo ball.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (57noz)

163 fairs fair

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (Vh9CX)

164 Heh, had two hotdogs last night. Boiled, dosed with German mustard and Southern Chow Chow. It worked!
Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (W3T6M)

My grandma used to make that. I'm not even sure what it is.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (0eaVi)

165 I'm so hetero that I don't think I could hold onto a fake dick long enough to throw it.
Posted by: polynikes

No substitute for the original, right? *winks*

Posted by: polynikes dick at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (UjdFS)

166 New sport, dildo ball.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (57noz)

If you can dodge a dong, you can dodge a ball.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

167 Anyhow, thankee... Well, regardless, imagine the amount of explosive power needed to fling her chunky impossible-to-wipe-by-traditional-means ass into the air.
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I think it's in the region of "small nuclear device."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:42 PM (WvZaB)

168 Even if they personally hate Trump they know they can't allow it to stand because of the precedent it sets for other businesses. The whole "well only use it against Trump promise" ain't gonna cut it.
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Prosecuting one person only, before or since, is the very definition of a 14th equal protection violation.
They know it.
Everyone knows it.
So, unless they dismiss the case, it's going to end up in federal court and to SCOTUS.
And the smarter evil judges know that will only mean bad things for their little fiefdoms of corruption.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:42 PM (IIsq3)

169

13 Where will the jury be empaneled?
Posted by: What matters most. Venue at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (1y5L5)

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 01:42 PM (wGK1C)

170 164 Heh, had two hotdogs last night. Boiled, dosed with German mustard and Southern Chow Chow. It worked!
Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:40 PM (W3T6M)

My grandma used to make that. I'm not even sure what it is.
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Its called too lazy to find Kraut.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:42 PM (W3T6M)

171 162 New sport, dildo ball.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot

That isn't new, silly.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at August 08, 2025 01:43 PM (Dv3i1)

172 "I bet Leticia James wishes she didn’t make this campaign video…"

She not only made the statements she promoted herself using them. She got elected off of them.

The courts need to crush this sort of behavior, fully and completely.

What's to prevent someone from running for AG of New York and promising they are going to toss Eric Adams in jail? All you need is 50%+1 vote to do that. But that isn't justice.

What you should say is "hold the powerful accountable within the letter of the law." But Leticia James is so fucking stupid she called out Trump by name.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:43 PM (D1vbu)

173 Who's excited about the unveiling of the bronze Tom Brady statue tonight?

The big shock will be, when they remove the crate it's in, and it's a Giant Dildo...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (TGPs7)
______________

"Meh"

-- Cristiano Ronaldo

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

174 Chow chow is just dutchie giardinera, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:43 PM (pERWT)

175
What you should say is "hold the powerful accountable within the letter of the law." But Leticia James is so fucking stupid she called out Trump by name.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:43 PM (D1vbu)

And won her election.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

176 My grandma used to make that. I'm not even sure what it is.
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Its called too lazy to find Kraut.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:42 PM (W3T6M)

Or, not really interested enough to find out. Haven't thought about it in years. Never ate it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:44 PM (0eaVi)

177 Fuck. Have to go buy some Gold Medal Ribbon to support
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Jamoca Almond Fudge
Gold Medal Ribbon
Winter White Chocolate

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 01:44 PM (JvZF+)

178 A petard was an explosive device. "Hoist" in this case means "flung up into the air."

Yeah, the Petard was a very early cannon, sometimes it would just blow up instead of launching a ball.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:44 PM (dfIr7)

179 Prosecuting one person only, before or since, is the very definition of a 14th equal protection violation.

Arguably this should flow from writs of attainder. Tish doesn't get to be Queen John.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 01:44 PM (sDWtc)

180 Chow chow is just dutchie giardinera, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:43 PM (pERWT)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/EsyUa63NM1E

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

181 If you can dodge a dong, you can dodge a ball.
==
Some of those girls have been dodging the dong pretty successfully. Others seemed giddy at the sudden appearance of the bouncing dongs.

Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (1y5L5)

182 Chow chow is just dutchie giardinera, right?

Isn't that just what you feed a Chow?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (dfIr7)

183 Round and round
What comes around goes around
I'll tell you why, why, why, why
Round and round

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (NtVYv)

184 151 That video, but itself, destroys any possible defense.

13 Where will the jury be empaneled?
Posted by: What matters most. Venue at August 08, 2025

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Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (wGK1C)

185
i want to work for Strike Force
Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (KRtlO)

Police Squad has an opening... Undercover Wicket

Tonight's Episode: Naked Came The Ewok

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (y9nCu)

186 What does the "Now it's beginning" guy have to say bout this?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (89Sog)

187 I'm sure most of the FNM is wailing about Trump weaponizing the DOJ against the commiecrats. But the only way to get the commiecrats to back off on the shenanigans is this tit for tat until they straighten up.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (CKOCg)

188 Sadly, she's not there waiting for you.

True enough, but the ad served to remind me that Baskin-Robbins-Robbins has good ice cream. Unlike say, Gillette reminding me to never buy anything from Gillette ever again!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:45 PM (2FwlN)

189 You just have to love how delicious the irony tastes of the very same people now howling that Trump's threats to come after them if he won disqualifies and taints this investigation were the very same ones who campaigned on investigating Trump if they won.

Their own words now condemn their prosecution of Trump as purely political .

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (IIsq3)

190 I am looking forward to Tish's mug shot and then having Trump showing up at her trials. Justice being served would be great. Seeing vengeance with a side of humiliation being dished out would sublime. Tish acted with criminally corrupt intent and then made sure Trump got subjected to a Soviet style show trial. It seems only fair she get subjected to an endless Jack Smith style investigation burlesque circus before getting prosecuted for outrageously abusing her office to persecute a man she knew was innocent. She cannot be despised enough.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (9vYpt)

191 174 Chow chow is just dutchie giardinera, right?
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Its pickled but it doesn't include carrots, cauliflower and beans. Much moar refined.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (W3T6M)

192 I'm just surprised to find out that none of the WNBA teams have flannel jerseys. I thought that was a given.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (WCo3d)

193 "I bet Leticia James wishes she didn't make this campaign video"

It was her entire campaign pitch, basically the sole reason she gave for voting for her. I think she would have won anyway because she was the Machine Candidate, and the Machine always gets what it wants.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

194 166 New sport, dildo ball.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (57noz)

If you can dodge a dong, you can dodge a ball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (v4ljX)

195 and she started to lick that ice cream cone carefully all along the sides,, sticking her tongue way out. Then she smiled a bit, not at anyone in particular, and held the the ice cream where she could come down on it from the top, wrapping her lips all the way around it, and slowly moving it in and out a bit.

FWEEDOM!

Posted by: that little girl was me at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (sDWtc)

196 The "Deprivation of Rights under Color of Law" charge should make more than a few people sweat.

That's a serious charge which caries serious penalties.

Maybe nothing comes of it, but that's a charge which cannot be lightly dismissed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 08, 2025 01:47 PM (tT6L1)

197 Oregon Department of Transportation is your go-to place to learn about whale demolition.

Posted by: Blubbering Ben at August 08, 2025 01:47 PM (G5+As)

198 and she started to lick that ice cream cone carefully all along the sides,, sticking her tongue way out. Then she smiled a bit, not at anyone in particular, and held the the ice cream where she could come down on it from the top, wrapping her lips all the way around it, and slowly moving it in and out a bit.

This is from a Stacy Abrahms book, isn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

199
Yeah, the Petard was a very early cannon, sometimes it would just blow up instead of launching a ball.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:44 PM (dfIr7)
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No, it was an early shaped charge, if you will. Gunpowder stuffed into a bell-shaped container, placed against city gates to blow them down. Of course, you and your buddies in the Forlorn Hope had to get it there under fire, brace it against the gate with the beams you brought with you, light it off and get away before it blew.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:47 PM (WvZaB)

200 More NY happenings
: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says she is considering deporting communist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani!

https://tinyurl.com/mrxb7a4e

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 01:48 PM (VPPG8)

201
I'm just surprised to find out that none of the WNBA teams have flannel jerseys. I thought that was a given.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (WCo3d)

The Subaru sponsorship contract is locked in though.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 01:48 PM (y9nCu)

202 That video, but itself, destroys any possible defense.

13 Where will the jury be empaneled?
Posted by: What matters most. Venue at August 08, 2025

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Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown
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See above. It's in N.D.N.Y.; with two possible courthouses in counties that voted for Trump; one at 60%.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (IIsq3)

203 No, it was an early shaped charge, if you will. Gunpowder stuffed into a bell-shaped container, placed against city gates to blow them down. Of course, you and your buddies in the Forlorn Hope had to get it there under fire, brace it against the gate with the beams you brought with you, light it off and get away before it blew.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 01:47 PM (WvZaB)

Either Empire Earth or Age of Empires had that available as a weapon.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (0eaVi)

204 https://is.gd/UiMQPf

I have never loved Baskin Robbins more.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (JvZF+)

205 Rumors of a Russia Ukraine truce are appearing.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (Vfq+S)

206 -
See above. It's in N.D.N.Y.; with two possible courthouses in counties that voted for Trump; one at 60%.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (IIsq3)

Trump voters will be excluded from the jury pool.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

207 "Deprivation of Rights under Color of Law" is what Sheriff Tompkins is being charged with, having extorted businesses in Boston.
That motherfucker in particular belongs in the worst fed pen we got.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (sDWtc)

208 This is from a Stacy Abrahms book, isn't it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

I thought it was Sydney Sweeney fanatic.

I like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (v4ljX)

209 From the Bee:

Anyone caught throwing a dildo on the court will be forced to attend 10 more WNBA games.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (2UnvF)

210 Prosecuting one person only, before or since, is the very definition of a 14th equal protection violation. They know it. Everyone knows it. So, unless they dismiss the case, it's going to end up in federal court and to SCOTUS. And the smarter evil judges know that will only mean bad things for their little fiefdoms of corruption. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:42 PM (IIsq3)

Exactly. They have no choice in the matter - they not only have to dismiss the trump case but hold her accountable for her intense stupidity of maneuvering things into this situation. There are good REASONS why you don't do this. Because it bites you square on your fat ass every time.

Trump people chanted "lock her up" about Hillary. Trump was smart enough not to go after her legally. Because it would have gotten tossed out on the same grounds. And likely gotten him into a boatload of trouble.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (D1vbu)

211 Extra points catching it in your mouth.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (57noz)

212 205 Rumors of a Russia Ukraine truce are appearing.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (Vfq+S)

Saw that, too...truce would let Russia keep the Ukraine land they have, is the rumor...this was the old rumored truce, so I won't out much stock into it til I see something official...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (tOcjL)

213 New sport, dildo ball.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (57noz)

If you can dodge a dong, you can dodge a ball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (v4ljX)

I question the wisdom of creating a guild of women skilled in the art of wang-avoidance.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (i24o9)

214 Fanatic=fanfic

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (v4ljX)

215 Extra points catching it in your mouth.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (57noz)

Bark like a seal for me......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

216
I question the wisdom of creating a guild of women skilled in the art of wang-avoidance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (i24o9)

Did you miss where the topic was the WNBA?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

217 I question the wisdom of creating a guild of women skilled in the art of wang-avoidance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (i24o9)

Isn't that what women's softball is all about?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (v4ljX)

218 Rumors of a Russia Ukraine truce are appearing.
===
It will be like north Korea and south Korea. A cessation of active hostility, but zero'd artillery on both sidez.....for decades.

Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (1y5L5)

219 Rumors of a Russia Ukraine truce are appearing.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (Vfq+S)

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That would be 8 peace deals in 8 months. In response, the Nobel committee will give another peace prize to Obama.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (2UnvF)

220 I question the wisdom of creating a guild of women skilled in the art of wang-avoidance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:50 PM (i24o9)
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That's like, 90% of the gals in the WNBA....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (tT6L1)

221 no, that was Extortion Under Color of Official Right.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (sDWtc)

222 You know what is going to be awesome if they do bring the charges out of the Utica federal courthouse (the county that voted 60% for Trump), will be the left howling that "there's no way she can get a fair trial there!!!"

Oh, you mean like the J6ers in 90% Dem-voting DC?

You all cheered the judges denying a change of venue there.
And still insist the process was 100% fair.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (IIsq3)

223 What is the deal with black women prosecutors? They seem like super idiots. It is that sassy black lady finger waving attitude coupled with entitled queen image of themselves. Just complete trainwrecks once they get in power.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:52 PM (D1vbu)

224 More NY happenings
: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says she is considering deporting communist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani!

https://tinyurl.com/mrxb7a4e

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 01:48 PM (VPPG

Isn't Omar a ready-made test case?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:52 PM (i24o9)

225 That video, but itself, destroys any possible defense.

13 Where will the jury be empaneled?
Posted by: What matters most. Venue at August 08, 2025

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Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown
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See above. It's in N.D.N.Y.; with two possible courthouses in counties that voted for Trump; one at 60%.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:49 PM (IIsq3)
__________

NDNY is basically all of NY north of the Catskills

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

226 No, it was an early shaped charge, if you will.

cool, thanks for the correction

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:52 PM (dfIr7)

227 It will be like north Korea and south Korea. A cessation of active hostility, but zero'd artillery on both sidez.....for decades.
Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (1y5L5)

I could see it being more like a US/Mexico kind of border.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:52 PM (pERWT)

228
Old and busted: truce would let Russia keep the Ukraine land they have

New hotness: truce would let Russia keep the Ukraine land they have

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (Dv3i1)

229 Rumors of a Russia Ukraine truce are appearing.

==

ceasefire, more like

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (g47mK)

230 223 What is the deal with black women prosecutors? They seem like super idiots. It is that sassy black lady finger waving attitude coupled with entitled queen image of themselves. Just complete trainwrecks once they get in power.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:52 PM (D1vbu)

DEIs who only got where they are b/c of grievance politics.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (tOcjL)

231 Just complete trainwrecks once they get in power.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:52 PM (D1vbu)

You can take the power-mad scrunt out of the DMV, but you can't take the DMV out of the power-mad scrunt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (i24o9)

232
CBD is the WNBA now.

Get your dildos here

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (NtVYv)

233 question the wisdom of creating a guild of women skilled in the art of wang-avoidance
===
Those with such skills have it naturally. Those who are dong magnets, also come by the skill naturally.

Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (1y5L5)

234 It is that sassy black lady finger waving attitude coupled with entitled queen image of themselves. Just complete trainwrecks once they get in power.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:52 PM (D1vbu)

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Umm, YEAH?

And your point is?

Posted by: The Soros Open Society Foundation at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (/HI9S)

235 New sport, dildo ball.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (57noz)

If you can dodge a dong, you can dodge a ball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (v4ljX)
______

"What if you don't want to dodge the dong or the balls?"

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

236 As I heard it, “Hoist with your own petard” was said of a grenadier who ran into the diggings under the wall in a siege with an explosive charge (the petard), but failed to high tail it out of there in time, hence “hoist with his own petard,” as in flung into the air.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:54 PM (2FwlN)

237 Trump is meeting Putin next week. Somewhere....UAE possibly.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 01:54 PM (g47mK)

238
I never new CBD's dildo was green.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 08, 2025 01:54 PM (NtVYv)

239 What is the deal with black women prosecutors? They seem like super idiots. It is that sassy black lady finger waving attitude coupled with entitled queen image of themselves. Just complete trainwrecks once they get in power.
Posted by: El Mariachi
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This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Fani Willis at August 08, 2025 01:54 PM (XeU6L)

240 That would be 8 peace deals in 8 months. In response, the Nobel committee will give another peace prize to Obama.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (2UnvF)

They'd rather give the Peace Prize to Putin than Donald Trump.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 01:54 PM (rj6Yv)

241 Oregon Department of Transportation is your go-to place to learn about whale demolition.
Posted by: Blubbering Ben

Not boo-yah! Boom-yah!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (rqka2)

242 Speaking of ice cream, by the way, Ben or Jerry or Ben and Jerry placed pathetic looking child dolls in Disneyland on August 6 with signs telling people to remember Hiroshima.

https://is.gd/LrLzet

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (L/fGl)

243 Those who are dong magnets, also come by the skill naturally.
Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 01:53 PM (1y5L5)

It's a gift.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (I7DM/)

244 Buttberg got his stuff kicked in, I think

@ProfMJCleveland
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: HUGE Trump Win on Boasberg contempt case!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (mlg/3)

245 240 That would be 8 peace deals in 8 months. In response, the Nobel committee will give another peace prize to Obama.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 01:51 PM (2UnvF)

They'd rather give the Peace Prize to Putin than Donald Trump.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 01:54 PM (rj6Yv)

Nah, it would go to Z-man for being so gracious to accept...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (tOcjL)

246 I never new CBD's dildo was green.
___

I assumed the green one belongs to Miss Piggy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (Dv3i1)

247 Throwing dildos on the court is just part of the centuries of oppression of women, according to a WNBA coach.

Fortunately, assaulting white heterosexual players on the court is still A-OK in the WNBA!

Posted by: The Left! at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (xTIDn)

248 James has two cases against her pending at this time.
James taunted Trumps DOJ in Jan 25 touting her education and prosecutorial prowess.
James Alma mater
Whats-A Matta- U

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 01:56 PM (VPPG8)

249 Ben and Jerry's has spent decades perfecting the art of making ice cream depressing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:56 PM (pERWT)

250 Just complete trainwrecks once they get in power.

not just the prosecutors

mayors, city councilwomen, any kind of municipal official, US Senators, anyone with the Slay Kween mentality

and the demorat assiduously cultivates them and promotes them, because they are the mainstay of their party AKA satanic coven

Posted by: kallisto at August 08, 2025 01:56 PM (dCxaZ)

251 Leticia is a complete idiot. Well, not really. I think she might be smart, but she has, what's the word I'm looking for? A black lady attitude of "you don't tell me what to do." That...doesn't work within the law. The law is by nature highly constrained - it has to be to function at all.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:57 PM (D1vbu)

252 What you should say is "hold the powerful accountable within the letter of the law." But Leticia James is so fucking stupid she called out Trump by name.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 01:43 PM (D1vbu)

They never expected to lose power again. Whoops. Whoopsie.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 01:57 PM (I7DM/)

253 A League of their Own covered in dildos.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 01:57 PM (W3T6M)

254 Rumors of a Russia Ukraine truce are appearing.

==

ceasefire, more like
Posted by: runner

Ceasefire. We'll pick it back up in 18 years after we've raised more soldiers for the grinder.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 01:57 PM (rqka2)

255 113 I'm so hetero that I don't think I could hold onto a fake dick long enough to throw it.

A true hetero-bro isn't threatened by a rubber willy. We recognize it as a brother in arms that takes care of those unfortunate flowers we are too busy to pollinate.

Posted by: Nelly at August 08, 2025 01:58 PM (cHLus)

256 249 Ben and Jerry's has spent decades perfecting the art of making ice cream depressing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:56 PM (pERWT)

---------

But still, studies show that eight out of 10 fat, ugly, purple-hair, tacklebox-faced hysterics prefer it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 01:58 PM (/HI9S)

257 Captain Obvious, you said it better than me!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:58 PM (2FwlN)

258 Tish was the HUNTER. She's now THE HUNTED! 🔥

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

We're gonna need a BIGGER harpoon!

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 01:58 PM (Yw8Ag)

259 It's about time "our side" started punching back instead of the usual panty-waisted milquetoast pinky-finger-raising dismissively-sniffing "that's not who we are old boy" bend over and spread the cheeks again response.

Posted by: Uncontrolled opposition- an idea whose time has come at August 08, 2025 01:58 PM (KOE6H)

260 Ceasefire. We'll pick it back up in 18 years after we've raised more soldiers for the grinder.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 01:57 PM (rqka2)

I envision the north Korea , South Korea scenario. Except that the US will have a positive relationship with both sides.

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 01:58 PM (g47mK)

261 When are they going to play the racist prosecution card?

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:58 PM (VofaG)

262 Just complete trainwrecks once they get in power.

not just the prosecutors

mayors, city councilwomen, any kind of municipal official, US Senators, anyone with the Slay Kween mentality

and the demorat assiduously cultivates them and promotes them, because they are the mainstay of their party AKA satanic coven

Posted by: kallisto at August 08, 2025 01:56 PM (dCxaZ)

Repost:

There is a theme here. These DEI and other leftist hires are not hired for competence. They are hired because they will follow orders and do just about anything, regardless of morality or other societal restraint.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:56 PM (i24o9)

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:59 PM (i24o9)

263 Have you all contemplated that, because these are charges related to her motivations, that opens discovery to include what would have been privileged?

So, they are going to get internal emails discussing litigation strategy.
Texts.
Phone logs.

I guarantee there is going to be Marc Elias all mixed up in there.

This is a lot bigger than going after a piddling ass loud mouth NY AG--this is an operation aimed at the heart of the Democrat Party's lawfare.
And none of them can say shit publicly in defense of her or out themselves as conspirators.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:59 PM (IIsq3)

264 When are they going to play the racist prosecution card?
==
When dongs start raining down on wnba games.

Posted by: It's telling at August 08, 2025 02:00 PM (1y5L5)

265 I never new CBD's dildo was green.
___

I assumed the green one belongs to Miss Piggy.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (Dv3i1)

Spice things up, it does.

Posted by: Yoda at August 08, 2025 02:00 PM (h3cuf)

266 Also, hat tip to the character Dante in Shale Hill Secrets for using the term 'hetero-bro'. I tried to answer as he would have. (developer for that AVN is Lovejoint and is still available on Steam.)

Posted by: Nelly at August 08, 2025 02:00 PM (cHLus)

267 New sport, dildo ball.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (57noz)

If you can dodge a dong, you can dodge a ball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 01:46 PM (v4ljX)

I question the wisdom of creating a guild of women skilled in the art of wang-avoidance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Have you actually seen a clip of one on the floor of a game? Stadium full of lesbians actively recoiling from a dong. W. T. F? Are you recoiling because of the dong, or because it doesn't have straps?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 02:00 PM (rqka2)

268 Real prediction?

Western Ukraine empties out from emigration and suicide. Russians populate what's left. Ukraine becomes part of Russia again within ten-twenty years. Nobody will give a shit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 02:01 PM (pERWT)

269 From the Bee:

Female MLB Umpire Ejects Player For Something He Did In Her Dream Last Night

"You're out of here!" Stacy Rance said, remembering how the center fielder had flirted with her best friend in the dream she had last night. "Unsportsmanlike conduct!"
Though it's highly irregular for a player to be thrown out who had no part in the current play, it happened Wednesday evening when, while serving at second base, she suddenly turned around and tossed the center fielder from the game. Though the player protested incredulously, she stood her ground. "You know what you did!" she called.
The incident led to a heated argument with the player's manager, who reportedly tried to excuse his player's behavior by pointing out how he was nowhere near the action. "What could he have possibly done from all the way out there?" he asked. But Rance demonstrated how she wasn't afraid of being bullied by men. "If you don't know, I'm certainly not going to tell you," she shouted in reply.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 02:01 PM (rqka2)

270 Buttberg got his stuff kicked in, I think

@ProfMJCleveland
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: HUGE Trump Win on Boasberg contempt case!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (mlg/3)

Yeah, really awesome news day.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 02:01 PM (i24o9)

271 right, Armenian and Azeri presidents are in town

Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 02:01 PM (g47mK)

272 I will continue my 47 year boycott of Ben and Jerry.

Posted by: Bluebell Barry at August 08, 2025 02:02 PM (G5+As)

273 It's not easy, being green

Posted by: Lonely Dildo tossed onto WNBA Court at August 08, 2025 02:04 PM (Dv3i1)

274 You know what else is going to come out of these subpoenas?

Lots and lots of ex parte communication by James' office with judges and court staff.

It ain't just James that going to get rolled up here.
Some NY judges are going .

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 02:04 PM (IIsq3)

275 Dildos
People who toss dildos
Are the luckiest people in the world

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 02:05 PM (L/fGl)

276 Old and busted: truce would let Russia keep the Ukraine land they have

New hotness: truce would let Russia keep the Ukraine land they have
Posted by: Chuck Martel
......

Ukraine will be lucky to get out of this with Chernobyl.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 02:05 PM (UjdFS)

277 Wonder if they'll start melting down all the statues that look like Tish. Probably make several small warships from the iron / steel

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 02:06 PM (eadC4)

278 It's not easy, being green

Posted by: Lonely Dildo tossed onto WNBA Court at August 08, 2025 02:04 PM (Dv3i1)

One is the loneliest number . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 02:06 PM (i24o9)

279 "If someone is the subject, the target of a grand jury investigation that is not a good thing."

********

This may rate as the most insightful legal comment of the year.

Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:06 PM (I0N4X)

280 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:59 PM (i24o9)

You don't think Affirmative Action was actually just a way to get reliable leftards to ascend the hierarchy of agencies, governments and corporations, to the point where most organizations eventually submit and/or adhere to communist ideals, do you???

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 02:06 PM (I7DM/)

281 273 It's not easy, being green
Posted by: Lonely Dildo tossed onto WNBA Court at August 08, 2025 02:04 PM (Dv3i1)

Not funny

Posted by: The Incredible Hulk at August 08, 2025 02:06 PM (0CU3H)

282 The incident led to a heated argument with the player's manager, who reportedly tried to excuse his player's behavior by pointing out how he was nowhere near the action. "What could he have possibly done from all the way out there?" he asked. But Rance demonstrated how she wasn't afraid of being bullied by men. "If you don't know, I'm certainly not going to tell you," she shouted in reply.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 02:01 PM (rqka2)

Stop it, you're triggering my PTSD.

Posted by: It's like they've watched my life at August 08, 2025 02:07 PM (KOE6H)

283 New Yorkers saw that ad and liked it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 02:07 PM (eNLGh)

284 Ukraine, believe it or not,has some lovely beaches. I saw a live tour of the beach near Odessa just the other day. Normally chock full of people, but only about 20% full now. Hundreds of chaise lounges near hotels and restaurants empty. Only men to be seen were over sixty. And it was a beautiful day.

Posted by: UV Index 10 at August 08, 2025 02:07 PM (G5+As)

285 I miss the Fani Willis updates. Also has anyone noticed a strange relationship between ATL politicians and ass-associated names?

Keisha Lance Bottoms
Fani Willis

Just two, but they're great examples.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 02:07 PM (cduTK)

286 I assume James is your basic DEI hire and was t smart enough to cover her tracks. In fact she probably left a bread loaves trail.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 02:08 PM (VofaG)

287 Have you all contemplated that, because these are charges related to her motivations, that opens discovery to include what would have been privileged?

So, they are going to get internal emails discussing litigation strategy.
Texts.
Phone logs.

I guarantee there is going to be Marc Elias all mixed up in there.

This is a lot bigger than going after a piddling ass loud mouth NY AG--this is an operation aimed at the heart of the Democrat Party's lawfare.
And none of them can say shit publicly in defense of her or out themselves as conspirators.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I would imagine it is far worse than that. I expect coordination meetings with the white house.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 02:08 PM (Vfq+S)

288 284 Ukraine, believe it or not,has some lovely beaches. I saw a live tour of the beach near Odessa just the other day. Normally chock full of people, but only about 20% full now. Hundreds of chaise lounges near hotels and restaurants empty. Only men to be seen were over sixty. And it was a beautiful day.
Posted by: UV Index 10

Over 60? I think those were US Senators.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 02:08 PM (Dv3i1)

289 assume James is your basic DEI hire and was smart enough to cover her tracks.
--------

With what, a baseball tarp???

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 02:09 PM (I7DM/)

290 It's 8/8 -- Happy Heil TrumpHitler Day, H8Rs!

* Makes "O-Tay" Hand Gesture *

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 02:09 PM (Yw8Ag)

291 Oh and Alvin Bragg?

The bell tolls for thee.

Because, once they get the emails of you and Tish talking about how to prosecute Trump, that's conspiracy.

And the venue is N.D.N.Y..

Not NYC.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 02:09 PM (IIsq3)

292 When a man becomes preeminent, he is expected to have enthusiasms ... enthusiasms ..

Posted by: Donald J. Trump at August 08, 2025 02:10 PM (jc0TO)

293 I never want to hear another New Yorker complain about corrupt law enforcement again. They clearly approve of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 02:11 PM (eNLGh)

294 284 Ukraine, believe it or not,has some lovely beaches. I saw a live tour of the beach near Odessa just the other day. Normally chock full of people, but only about 20% full now. Hundreds of chaise lounges near hotels and restaurants empty. Only men to be seen were over sixty. And it was a beautiful day.
----------------
I know the area. Its for wealthy people. Its nice. My guess is that the wealthy folks are laying low. This also dampens the hooker trade, too.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 02:11 PM (W3T6M)

295 My guess as to the outcome of the Ukraine-Russia war? Russia will be a little bigger, with an easily defended Black Sea port at Sebastopol, and Ukrainian will be smaller, and may retain access to the Black Sea in Odesa and other ports.

https://is.gd/3lSiym

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:11 PM (2FwlN)

296 Western Ukraine empties out from emigration and suicide. Russians populate what's left. Ukraine becomes part of Russia again within ten-twenty years. Nobody will give a shit.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 02:01 PM (pERWT)

If we are doing predictions, the main thing is to not just stop shooting, it is to get something in place to do something useful.
I am predicting a "Mittel-Europa" trade confederacy stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea or possibly the Med with both US and Russian support to both insulate Russia from NATO, and give the eastern European states a way to trade internationally without being forced to deal with the EU.

OK. It is also more of a hope than a prediction, but it would cut the nads off of the EU as they search for more states to engulf economically.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

297 This also dampens the hooker trade, too.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 02:11 PM (W3T6M)

Eew

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 02:12 PM (I7DM/)

298 Whats-A Matta- U
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 01:56 PM (VPPG

What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect
What-a you t'ink you do? Why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah shadd

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 08, 2025 02:12 PM (2J/Lj)

299 Ukrainian-> Ukraine

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:12 PM (2FwlN)

300 You don't think Affirmative Action was actually just a way to get reliable leftards to ascend the hierarchy of agencies, governments and corporations, to the point where most organizations eventually submit and/or adhere to communist ideals, do you???

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 02:06 PM (I7DM/)

Not initially. But as AA transformed to DEI for DEI's sake (a pretext) - last ten years or so - almost certainly so.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (i24o9)

301 293 I never want to hear another New Yorker complain about corrupt law enforcement again. They clearly approve of it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 02:11 PM (eNLGh)

So... uh. *shuffles*
How 'bout them SOX.

Posted by: Massachusetts at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (sDWtc)

302 Does it seem that things are beginning to pile up on the Dems? A lot of different fronts, target rich environment and the Dems /propagandists look like deer in the headlights

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (eadC4)

303 I saw one of the dildo tossers was charged with...wait for it... indecent exposure.

I guess that falls under the "reasonable facsimile" clause.

Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (I0N4X)

304 assume James is your basic DEI hire and was smart enough to cover her tracks.
--------

With what, a baseball tarp???
Posted by: ... at August 08, 2025 02:09 PM (I7DM/)

Wasn't . Autocorrect changed it to was t. How the hell does that correct anything?

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 02:14 PM (VofaG)

305 I saw one of the dildo tossers was charged with...wait for it... indecent exposure.

I guess that falls under the "reasonable facsimile" clause.
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (I0N4X)

What a dick move

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 08, 2025 02:14 PM (NtVYv)

306 I guess that falls under the "reasonable facsimile" clause.
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (I0N4X)

The Founders clearly intended that clause only for mimeoraphed buttcheeks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 02:14 PM (pERWT)

307 Does it seem that things are beginning to pile up on the Dems? A lot of different fronts, target rich environment and the Dems /propagandists look like deer in the headlights
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (eadC4)

This is what it looks like when a republican administration decides to not follow the GW Bush playbook.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:15 PM (rbvCR)

308 assume James is your basic DEI hire and was smart enough to cover her tracks.
---
Yup.
These are not skilled criminals who worked their way up, with some scuffs and heat along the way to hone their criminality.

They are nepo babies, handed the job, without ever facing adversity or conflict their entire career.
They literally do not know how to hide their crimes because there has always been a cocoon of thugs to surround them and cover for them.
All of the concealment just happened around them and they had no clue it was going on.
Until now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 02:15 PM (IIsq3)

309 281 273 It's not easy, being green
Posted by:

Lonely Dildo tossed onto WNBA Court at August 08, 2025 02:04 PM (Dv3i1)

Not funny

Posted by: The Incredible Hulk at August 08, 2025 02:06 PM (0CU3H)

Checking in, the first comments I saw. I can go have lunch now.

Posted by: Just a guy with an axe to grind at August 08, 2025 02:17 PM (i/49r)

310 I saw one of the dildo tossers was charged with...wait for it... indecent exposure.

I guess that falls under the "reasonable facsimile" clause.
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:13 PM (I0N4X)

what, not "littering"? Not "failure to appropriately dispose of toxic materials"?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:17 PM (rbvCR)

311 Now don’t go comparing Trump to Al Capone. That was a killing of one of his own lieutenants, “pour encourager les autres”. (Man, does autocucumber hate French!). This is simply seeing justice, at long last, being done!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:17 PM (2FwlN)

312 This is what it looks like when a republican administration decides to not follow the GW Bush playbook.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:15 PM (rbvCR)

There's the boogeyman again .

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 02:18 PM (VofaG)

313 Trumps DOJ started with a legit premise to investigate Tish James. The mortgage fraud opened the door all James transgressions.
Just like when the cop says 'I pulled you over because you have a tail light out' then finds ten K's of coke and 4 AK's with hostages in the trunk. boom it all becomes relevant.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 02:18 PM (VPPG8)

314 There's the boogeyman again .
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 02:18 PM (VofaG)

W wasn't the boogeyman. He was merely spooky

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:18 PM (rbvCR)

315 This is what it looks like when a republican administration decides to not follow the GW Bush playbook.
---
I am a "compassionate conservative."

My compassion extends only to the Democrats.
My conservativism will have to wait until next year, promise. After we pass this bill that give the Democrats what they want.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 02:18 PM (IIsq3)

316 "running for office to get Trump"

---

That's the new democrat party platform

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 08, 2025 02:19 PM (8P/xB)

317
Having lunch at Fish City Grill in Pearland. There are six (6) guys dining who are wearing hats.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 02:19 PM (OkHa0)

318 I HAD RECEIPTS FOR THOSE AK!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:19 PM (rbvCR)

319 I tossed a dildo into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

Long, long afterward, out on the court
I found the dildo, alas, it's mort
And the true tale, from beginning to end,
Is rubber dildos don't break, they only bend

/Henry Wadsworth's "Long" Fellow

Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:19 PM (I0N4X)

320 James is a Democrat political lifer. Climbed through the ranks of NYC council, then to NYS assembly. Always involved in diversity. She is good cat that stuff , not so much otherwise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 02:20 PM (eadC4)

321 I am predicting a "Mittel-Europa" trade confederacy stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea or possibly the Med with both US and Russian support to both insulate Russia from NATO, and give the eastern European states a way to trade internationally without being forced to deal with the EU.
Posted by: Kindltot

Wasn't that the Visegrad or something?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)

322 Having lunch at Fish City Grill in Pearland. There are six (6) guys dining who are wearing hats.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 02:19 PM (OkHa0)

You know, I am fairly deficient on manners and good breeding, but it pisses me off when men sit at a table to eat without taking off their hats.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:20 PM (rbvCR)

323 They use tarps at baseball games in open stadiums. They cover the mound, and so forth, so the grounds don’t get too soaked during heavy rains, so they can resume play promptly when the rains let up.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:20 PM (2FwlN)

324 /Henry Wadsworth's "Long" Fellow
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:19 PM

*golf clap*

Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 02:21 PM (jc0TO)

325 If it's in NY she'll never be convicted

Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 02:21 PM (VE6XX)

326 Tom Brady's team will "kickoff" the new "football" season in a few minutes on Paramount+.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 08, 2025 02:22 PM (2ap+5)

327 You are unreal Muldoon.

Posted by: Reforger at August 08, 2025 02:22 PM (h5TUr)

328
What this country needs right now is a reprise, a curtain call, if you will, of Darius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 08, 2025 02:23 PM (Tv15w)

329 297 This also dampens the hooker trade, too.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 02:11 PM (W3T6M)

Eew
Posted by: ...

Many pithy, funny comments today, but this one made me LOL the mostest.

Posted by: Comedy Is King at August 08, 2025 02:23 PM (G5+As)

330 "Big Tish," we will "throw your fat ass in prison."
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She is a big girl. Wonder how she and big Mike get along?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 02:24 PM (I1XLT)

331 Hi guys,

We have the undocking from the ISS in about 3hrs depending on the weather again.

Spacex/NASA - SpaceX Crew-10 - Undocking
International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live
Undocking: 06:05 p.m. EDT (2205 UTC, August 9, 00:05 CEST)

https://youtu.be/0kVd-dVBD28

Posted by: Joyenz at August 08, 2025 02:24 PM (sPQoU)

332 Having lunch at Fish City Grill in Pearland. There are six (6) guys dining who are wearing hats.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Any pious women wearing veils?

Posted by: Ecclesiastically Challenged at August 08, 2025 02:25 PM (G5+As)

333 There are six (6) guys dining who are wearing hats. Construction workers?

Posted by: doug at August 08, 2025 02:25 PM (Hy+R4)

334 Wasn't that the Visegrad or something?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)

part of it.
Mitteleuropa was a trade confederacy dream, pre German Empire, to allow the Non Russian Eastern Europe countries have access to the Baltic and the Med to avoid the western European empires. It was a side-shoot on the German nationalist vision, and hoped to rope in the Austrians, as well as all the other small countries.
an economic and political group would have been a boon if they could have told the western powers and Russia to go piss up a rope and make it stick.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:25 PM (rbvCR)

335 The four years under “Biden,” or whoever was in charge was an open, in your face, tyranny. These moves are a mild, temperate response to restore a republican form of government.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:25 PM (2FwlN)

336 If it's in NY she'll never be convicted
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 02:21 PM (VE6XX)
_______

Upstate NY? She might be. I personally doubt it will ever get that far. This seems like theater to me: make a big show how the DOJ is going after all the worms that MAGA hates, but in the end do nothing of any substance.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

337 What's this is hear about a grand jury and a ham sandwich? I'll come down there if there's free ham sandwich.

Posted by: Leticia James at August 08, 2025 02:25 PM (7CamO)

338
Any pious women wearing veils?
Posted by: Ecclesiastically Challenged at August 08, 2025 02:25 PM (G5+As)

_________

*sends EC to remedial Catechism class*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 02:26 PM (OkHa0)

339 I saw A Cocoon of Thugs open for Iron Butterfly at the Audubon Theater in '78.

I bought a souvenir laeva lamp at the gift shop.

Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:26 PM (I0N4X)

340 She is a big girl. Wonder how she and big Mike get along?

Posted by: Braenyard - some

Since Big Mike is a man, one presumes they would get along okay.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 08, 2025 02:26 PM (2J/Lj)

341 279 "If someone is the subject, the target of a grand jury investigation that is not a good thing."

********

This may rate as the most insightful legal comment of the year.
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2025 02:06 PM (I0N4X)

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

*puffs pipe thoughtfully*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 02:27 PM (/HI9S)

342 There's three swallowtail caterpillars fixing to cocoon up on my parsley right now.

I've named them Larry, Moe, and Curly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 02:27 PM (pERWT)

343 She wanted to bone up on my Longfellow.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 02:28 PM (iwQZn)

344 Larva Lamp? Was it the imago of the band?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:28 PM (rbvCR)

345 Commenting after the game in which the sixth and seventh (this one "apparently purple") dildoes were delivered kinetically, Chicago Sky center Elizabeth Williams said “I thought it was dumb before, and I still think it’s dumb. It says something to me that it happened at a women’s sporting event. To me, that’s intentional, even if they don’t think it is.”

With that intellect, she mos def has a place in Congress whenever she hangs up her jock.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 02:28 PM (0sNs1)

346 Save this link for your next Excedrin headache. Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music 1955-1966:
youtube.com/watch?v=Dvopz_J9t8k

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 02:29 PM (0I+GC)

347 nood

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 02:29 PM (0I+GC)

348 She wanted to bone up on my Longfellow.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 02:28 PM (iwQZn)

"What? That's what the poetry book store is called. Pound Town. Do you want to go or not?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 02:29 PM (pERWT)

349 Has there ever been a successful prosecution of "deprivation of rights under color of law" (which I suspect is what this is)?

Yep, every Section 1983 action is basically that. That's what the feds used to get the Rodney King cops, etc. etc.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (sFNX2)

350 Having lunch at Fish City Grill in Pearland. There are six (6) guys dining who are wearing hats.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 02:19 PM (OkHa0)
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This sounds like the start of a logic puzzle where we have to figure out who was wearing which hat.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (IBQGV)

351 Trumps DOJ started with a legit premise to investigate Tish James. The mortgage fraud opened the door all James transgressions.
Just like when the cop says 'I pulled you over because you have a tail light out' then finds ten K's of coke and 4 AK's with hostages in the trunk. boom it all becomes relevant.
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 02:18 PM (VPPG

_____

"Wasn't me"

-- Driver

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

352 *sends EC to remedial Catechism class*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Thanks, but I can still recite Luther's Small Catechism by heart.

Posted by: Ecclesiastically Challenged. at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (G5+As)

353 If it was thrown at a tennis match, there was a chance of a return volley

if it was at a soccer match no one would pay attention unless it was red or yellow

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (rbvCR)

354 You know, I am fairly deficient on manners and good breeding, but it pisses me off when men sit at a table to eat without taking off their hats.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 02:20 PM (rbvCR)

"Take your hat off at the table!"

"Sit up starlight at the table.'

"Tell your friends a not to call at dinner time."

Posted by: My Mother at August 08, 2025 02:31 PM (i/49r)

355 Has there ever been a successful prosecution of "deprivation of rights under color of law" (which I suspect is what this is)?

Yep, every Section 1983 action is basically that. That's what the feds used to get the Rodney King cops, etc. etc.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 02:30 PM (sFNX2)
______

Correct, but there's a pretty quick trigger on the statute of limitations for 1983 claims. They use the SoL for the state's personal injury claims. In NY, that's generally three years.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

356 "Take your hat off at the table!"

"Sit up starlight at the table.'

"Tell your friends a not to call at dinner time."
Posted by: My Mother

Eat your lima beans. Don't you know children are starving in Korea?

Posted by: Chrome Dinette Mom at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (G5+As)

357 Sit up starlight at the table?

Was “Starlight” her pet name for you?

Anyway: nood - Boasberg rebuked.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 02:34 PM (2FwlN)

358 "Take your hat off at the table!"

"Sit up starlight at the table.'

"Tell your friends a not to call at dinner time."
Posted by: My Mother

Eat your lima beans. Don't you know children are starving in Korea?

Don't drive on the railroad tracks!

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 02:35 PM (sFNX2)

359 Correct, but there's a pretty quick trigger on the statute of limitations for 1983 claims. They use the SoL for the state's personal injury claims. In NY, that's generally three years.

Not sure if it's a federal crime, but one could also claim malicious prosecution or abuse of process. Since James (and for certain Fani) coordinated with the Biden autopen, RICO might also come into play. Wire fraud since Act Blue and Sorsos bucks were probably involved.

Hey, we warned them about the new rules.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 02:38 PM (sFNX2)

360
Speaking of ice cream, by the way, Ben or Jerry or Ben and Jerry placed pathetic looking child dolls in Disneyland on August 6 with signs telling people to remember Hiroshima.

https://is.gd/LrLzet

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:55 PM (L/fGl)

Remember Nanking

Getting nuked is what Imperial Japan fucking deserved for that horror show. They killed at least 3 times as many as we nuked, and did it all by hand, rather than relying on technology. And they did shit that would make an SS Treblinka guard puke up his sausage and black bread in disgust.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 02:58 PM (y9nCu)

361 I would like her to go to prison for her persecution of VDARE.

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 08, 2025 08:28 PM (KBds0)

362 "When you shoot at the king, you'd better kill him."

-- Sun Tzu's Big Red Book of Pithy Aphorisms, Large Print Edition

Er, uh...Machiavelli "The Prince"
Pedantic cap off.

Posted by: waepnedmann at August 08, 2025 08:48 PM (5UJkg)

Biden Turned FEMA Into a Democrat Voter-Registration Machine and Prioritized Democrat Voters Over Republican Ones When Distributing Emergency Aid

Did Biden pardon Mayorkas?

Or himself?

Miranda Divine:

The Biden administration abused its power by turning the entire mechanism of the federal government into a Democratic voter mobilization campaign, according to newly unearthed White House documents viewed exclusively by The Post.
The worst offender was FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the Department of Homeland Security, which was controlled for four years by Biden's Machiavellian border buster Alejandro Mayorkas.
When responding to an emergency or a natural disaster, FEMA employees were directed to make voter registration a "key priority."
They politically targeted vulnerable people in their hour of need instead of focusing on providing federal assistance.
Left-wing NGOs were brought in to "educate" FEMA staff about "equity and voter access for individuals affected by disaster," says a Trump administration official.
"FEMA's job is to make sure Americans who have suffered catastrophic loss due to some disaster in their community [can access] food, water and shelter ... Under President Biden, FEMA, like every agency, produced a plan on how they would leverage these crisis situations for political [purposes]. I can't think of anything more disgusting."
FEMA employees were so fixated on voter outreach that, when they visited hurricane-ravaged Florida last October, they didn't even bother knocking on the doors of houses that had Trump signs in the yard.
Instead of assisting Hurricane Milton survivors, they were instructed to "avoid homes advertising Trump," according to an Office of Special Counsel complaint.
FEMA supervisor Marn'i Washington was fired as a scapegoat after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called foul on the scam and the Daily Wire reported that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags had been skipped by FEMA and denied the opportunity of qualifying for federal assistance.
It stands to reason that if FEMA's priority was getting out Democrats to vote, the last people they would want to visit were Trump supporters.
The Florida scandal came on the heels of the Biden administration's sluggish response to Hurricane Helene in Trump-supporting rural areas of North Carolina and Tennessee.
Whether it was Hurricane Helene, the Maui wildfires, Hurricane Ian, or the East Palestine train derailment in Ohio, FEMA always came up short during the Biden years.
The agency's inadequate performance is more understandable when you realize that providing actual disaster relief to victims had become simply a side dish to the partisan political priorities of the Democratic Party.

Remember, guys, it's Trump who's running an "authoritarian government." The people who banned speech and pressured banks to terminate the accounts of political enemies, and who weaponized the FBI, CIA, and FEMA into political weapons, were the anti-authoritarians, you see.

Posted by: Ace at 12:15 PM

Comments

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1 Authoritarians

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2025 12:16 PM (NQvAw)

2 st?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 12:16 PM (kgE5c)

3 Jail time for Mayorkas and Biden. Every day they skate, the baby Jesus weeps

Posted by: acethepug at August 08, 2025 12:16 PM (F1KjI)

4 *hangs head*

Not first.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 12:16 PM (kgE5c)

5 Ha, first.

Eat those green and purple dildos!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2025 12:16 PM (NQvAw)

6 I'm sure everyone here remembers the scandal of FEMA people purposely skipping Republican /MAGA homes after a disaster.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (VofaG)

7 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (kgE5c)

8 Where did Mayorkas slither off?

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (p4NUW)

9 The Biden administration abused its power by turning the entire mechanism of the federal government into a Democratic voter mobilization campaign, according to newly unearthed White House documents viewed exclusively by The Post.

I hadn't checked the link when I first read this, and wondered if it was WaPost. Could it be that Bezos firings have started to make a difference?

Naaaaaaaah.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

10 This is wrong, and should be punished, but it is also hilarious that it didn't help them. If anything, I would bet that they helped register a lot of people who voted Republican.

Posted by: DPICM at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (M2VUX)

11 Sorry , should have read the post to the end.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)

12 it is also hilarious that it didn't help them. If anything, I would bet that they helped register a lot of people who voted Republican.

They're getting desperate, and when you're desperate, you start making stupid mistakes.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

13 Remember, guys, it's Trump who's running an "authoritarian government."
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Well, he is. Trump is using his just, proper, legal authority to reform the government in those areas that are within his purview.

His predecessors acted outside of their authority and in opposition to the law to rig the game to maximize their power and wealth. They were straight gangsters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:18 PM (6bTRc)

14 Howdy Ace!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2025 12:18 PM (rbKZ6)

15 Afternoon Ace
I used to administrative law and the court I was in was a voter registration hot spot. Everyone who checked in was asked if they were registered. If they weren't or weren't interested they got the slow treatment.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 12:19 PM (eadC4)

16 Where did Mayorkas slither off?
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (p4NUW)

Maybe he’s hanging out with serpenthead Carville

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:19 PM (v/5Y9)

17 10 This is wrong, and should be punished, but it is also hilarious that it didn't help them. If anything, I would bet that they helped register a lot of people who voted Republican.
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Pretty sure flyover America saw this and then the Dem's Blue Wall went poof!

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 12:19 PM (W3T6M)

18 >>>Biden says, “Secondly, we’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration — President Obama’s administration before this — we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

Indeed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (i24o9)

19 Mayorkas was a truly loathsome scumbag who even loathsome scumbags thought was a loathsome scumbag. I hope Satan's rats have a good time feasting on his colon.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

20 Where did Mayorkas slither off?
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (p4NUW)

Maybe he’s hanging out with serpenthead Carville

The image of a snake and a mouse in a glass terrarium comes to mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

21 Petty tyrants, and power hungry mfers.

They don't give a shit about anything but power.

That's it.

They must be crushed any banished from any authority, even that of dogcatcher.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (NQvAw)

22 Buying votes with a government agencies money. That sounds like the Democrats. Is there no limit to how low they will sink to?

Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (NnONT)

23 Democrats change things to benefit themselves. Republicans change things back. I want vengeance!

Posted by: Ironwood at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (kAYGC)

24 I nooded

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (v/5Y9)

25 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

26 LEAVE JOE ALONE
He's battling fake prostate cancer! Isn't that enough?

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (UjdFS)

27 Biden did nothing of consequences - he was a retarded puppet. It was clearly Obama/Soros. Yet people continue attributing 4 years of corruption to his name. That was the crime of the century and yet what's being done to expose it for the record and prosecution. Nothing, just keep reporting as if that mushroom is to blame.

Posted by: Dan at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (smrJR)

28 While Biden may have been senile when this happened, it would have been in character at any time during his rotten career. He was always a monster.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (od0dV)

29 Bwahaha. Bondi directs Ed Martin to lead the investigation into Schiff and his mortgage fraud.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (2UnvF)

30 But they did it for the Greater Good!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (NR6c1)

31 "Under President Biden, FEMA, like every agency, produced a plan on how they would leverage these crisis situations for political [purposes]. I can't think of anything more disgusting."

Commies gonna commie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:22 PM (i24o9)

32 Democrats turned the Census Bureau into a voter (D) registration op.

All the Federal agencies/bureaus/departments did likewise. Under Democrats.

Which, as we all know, is illegal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 12:22 PM (Q4IgG)

33 Sorry....couldn't let this get willowed.......

it's fun to tell people that I love jazz and my favorite artists are Frank Sinatra and Dave Brubeck.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (2ap+5)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/vKNZqM0d-xo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)

34 24 I nooded
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (v/5Y9)

25 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

I love this kind of immaculate sequencing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:22 PM (v/5Y9)

35 22 Buying votes with a government agencies money. That sounds like the Democrats. Is there no limit to how low they will sink to?
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None. They colluded with the Chi Coms to engineer, spike, release and spread a Bio Bomb to steal an election. This is who they are.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 12:22 PM (W3T6M)

36 Democrats are Satan Incarnate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

37 I can't wait for the entire AutoPen administration to be relegated to the ash heap of history.

and their little dogs too

Posted by: kallisto at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (dCxaZ)

38 Don't forget the IRS, too.

In fact, every single agency was weaponized against their political enemies.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (GYGpZ)

39 Burn all lefty NGOs to the water line. Tow Delaware out to sea and capsize it. Fight on all fronts! Poison Kathy Hochul's fillers and Botox! Wait, Botox is already poison.

Posted by: Fight!, Fight!, Fight! at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (G5+As)

40 I was lectured by the Left, media, and FEMA that this was a misinformed conspiracy theory. They were quite insistent about that.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (dIske)

41 Biden did nothing of consequences - he was a retarded puppet. It was clearly Obama/Soros. Yet people continue attributing 4 years of corruption to his name. That was the crime of the century and yet what's being done to expose it for the record and prosecution. Nothing, just keep reporting as if that mushroom is to blame.

Biden is the perfect patsy. He's non compos mentis, so let him take all the blame.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

42 It's why I prefer the unwieldy but accurate "racist-totalitarian" as a descriptor for these "people". It doesn't capture all the elements, but the two key ones. Yes, "racist" here means both actually racist, and the even more common willingness to exploit racism (race-baiting). But still.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (U/Byj)

43 12 it is also hilarious that it didn't help them. If anything, I would bet that they helped register a lot of people who voted Republican.

They're getting desperate, and when you're desperate, you start making stupid mistakes.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)
________
Well, in 2012 I did GOTV work for Romney on election day (to my shame.) They were actually sending us to get people to come out, who had Obama signs on their lawns.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 12:24 PM (od0dV)

44 "FEMA's job is to make sure Americans who have suffered catastrophic loss due to some disaster in their community [can access] food, water and shelter ... Under President Biden, FEMA, like every agency, produced a plan on how they would leverage these crisis situations for political [purposes]. I can't think of anything more disgusting."

"Never let a crisis go to waste."

- - - - - - That Smug Obnoxious Asshole

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

45 Biden is the perfect patsy. He's non compos mentis, so let him take all the blame.

he's also a vicious bastard

he would definitely suggest something like this

and either way, he'd be LOVING it

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 12:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

46 ... Under President Biden, FEMA, like every agency, produced a plan on how they would leverage these crisis situations for political [purposes]. I can't think of anything more disgusting."
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Oh, come on. This isn't even on the podium. It might not even be in the top 10 of most disgusting things of the past decade.

The COVID response is far more disgusting.
Forcibly transing kids is more disgusting.
Converting American cities into war zones is more disgusting.
Creating a top-down, all-venues censorship complex is more idsgusting.
Cultivating and enabling race war is more disgusting.
Outright stealing elections is more disgusting.
A regulatory system accelerated to force the rapid degradation of quality and efficacy of expensive durable goods while ruining their longevity is more disgusting.
The coordinated multi-agency pursuit of energy starvation is more disgusting.

Turning disaster relief into a pay-for-play scheme that exchanges aid for votes is despicable, sleazy, callous and criminal. It's truly abhorrent. And it barely even registers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:24 PM (6bTRc)

47 Find all those involved that actually carried out those orders and cane them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

48 22 Buying votes with a government agencies money. That sounds like the Democrats. Is there no limit to how low they will sink to?
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None. They colluded with the Chi Coms to engineer, spike, release and spread a Bio Bomb to steal an election. This is who they are.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 12:22 PM (W3T6M)

Yes. I’m convinced that all the covid nonsense (loss of liberty, loss of free speech, stealing of ballots etc etc) will be the worst thing the government ever did for my entire lifetime even if I live another 50 years. It was THE low point

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (v/5Y9)

49 >>Bwahaha. Bondi directs Ed Martin to lead the investigation into Schiff and his mortgage fraud.

Pencil neck is in for a very bad time.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (viF8m)

50 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (sF1Er)

51 But wait! It get's better:

FEMA employees are being ordered to report and are being transferred to ICE.

Or: "we're not firing you, just giving you a new role. If you choose not to do the job, that's grounds to fire you. If you don't want to do the job, you can always quit."

LOLGF

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (IIsq3)

52 19 Mayorkas was a truly loathsome scumbag who even loathsome scumbags thought was a loathsome scumbag. I hope Satan's rats have a good time feasting on his colon.
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)
_______
Does Hell do double duty as a Heaven for rats and mosquitoes and the like?

Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (od0dV)

53 Prioritized Democrat Voters Over Republican Ones When Distributing Festive Little Hats.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (3EjYg)

54 "He's battling fake prostate cancer! Isn't that enough?"

hahaha

even cancer wants no part of him

Posted by: kallisto at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (dCxaZ)

55 I support Trump doing away with most of FEMA, except possibly as a mechanism to distribute some funds to the States for the purpose. But States need to be those who do the emergency responses, that way it will always be tailored to their own specific needs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (uWKK8)

56 Where did Mayorkas slither off?
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (p4NUW)
_______

This fecalian gunt was a partner at a major white-shoe law firm. I assume he'll end up back in private practice doing nothing but getting a nice fat paycheck for having his name on the letterhead.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

57 He's battling fake prostate cancer! Isn't that enough?
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM (UjdFS)

My FiL is battling prostate cancer. He had his prostate removed 5 years ago........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

58 26 LEAVE JOE ALONE
He's battling fake prostate cancer! Isn't that enough?
Posted by: wth

Stage 5, to boot!

Posted by: I Am Joe's Prostate at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (G5+As)

59 The agency's inadequate performance is more understandable when you realize that providing actual disaster relief to victims had become simply a side dish to the partisan political priorities of the Democratic Party.
++++
FEMA is an agency.

FEMA therefore treated its stated purpose as a low-priority tertiary mission, with the primary mission being the advancement of Party interests and the secondary mission being an increased share of wealth and power for the agency.

QED

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (6bTRc)

60 Far, far past time

@LeadingReport 6m
BREAKING: President Trump signs Pentagon directive to begin using military force, possibly on foreign soil, against Latin American drug cartels, per NYT.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (mlg/3)

61 Even better.

>>@IngrahamAngle
·
>>10m
>>Sources close to the DOJ is telling me that Ed Martin will be the Special Prosecutor overseeing the Letitia James & Adam Schiff mortgage fraud investigations.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (viF8m)

62 @49 keep hitting them for the little crap and get them to squeal on the big stuff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (eadC4)

63 Mayorkas was a truly loathsome scumbag who even loathsome scumbags thought was a loathsome scumbag. I hope Satan's rats have a good time feasting on his colon.
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)
_______
Does Hell do double duty as a Heaven for rats and mosquitoes and the like?
Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (od0dV)
_____

We can only hope ....

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

64 And it didn't start with the Biden era. Not just FEMA, but other agencies were transformed into unrecognizable creatures during the Obama years. Several wheels turning here, as usual. Personnel and mindsets changing. But just as with the RUSSIA! nonsense, it's all Obama and his vandalism of the country's institutions that we see flowering into spectacular abuse and misbehavior under the vegetable.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (U/Byj)

65 Bwahaha. Bondi directs Ed Martin to lead the investigation into Schiff and his mortgage fraud.

Pencil neck is in for a very bad time.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM

A whole bunch of people are lawyering up and keeping their mouths shut. $hit just got real.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (0N4FZ)

66 Tow Delaware out to sea and capsize it.

Hank Johnson does *not* approve of this message.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

67
I love this kind of immaculate sequencing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:22 PM (v/5Y9)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

68 Burn all lefty NGOs to the water line. Tow Delaware out to sea and capsize it.

I prefer DE annexed to PA and bringing its No Sales Tax policy with it.

Posted by: kallisto at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (dCxaZ)

69 investigation into Schiff and his mortgage fraud.

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (3EjYg)

70 Bwahaha. Bondi directs Ed Martin to lead the investigation into Schiff and his mortgage fraud.

Pencil neck is in for a very bad time.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM

But, he was pardoned.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

71 Far, far past time

@LeadingReport 6m
BREAKING: President Trump signs Pentagon directive to begin using military force, possibly on foreign soil, against Latin American drug cartels, per NYT.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (mlg/3)

Hm

Perhaps cartels will be introduced to the Predator UAV featuring Hellfire.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (cIOlQ)

72 Conspiracy Theories Turned Out To Be True -- 237
You're Just Being Paranoid -- 0

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (pMi6S)

73 I heard this story and my first thought was what the fuckity fuck fuck, this can't possibly be real. I mean, who in their right bloody mind would authorize this, knowing full well that the public would find out? For a few fucking votes? You'd stoop this low?

Then I realized, oh yeah. Biden. And idiot before his brain rotted out.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 12:28 PM (D1vbu)

74 But they did it for the Greater Good!
Posted by: NR Pax at August 08, 2025 12:21 PM
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The greater good.

Posted by: The Sandford People's Watch at August 08, 2025 12:28 PM (7hPxD)

75 BUT TRUMP!!!

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:28 PM (Q4cxx)

76 Sorry , should have read the post to the end.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 12:18 PM (VofaG)

You must be new here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:28 PM (i24o9)

77 Yes. I’m convinced that all the covid nonsense (loss of liberty, loss of free speech, stealing of ballots etc etc) will be the worst thing the government ever did for my entire lifetime even if I live another 50 years. It was THE low point
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:25 PM (v/5Y9)

I agree - I also think that a lot of the hysteria in the first few weeks was because they really did expect it to be a whole lot worse; that's what they had paid for. But they forgot that when you farm your work out to the Chinese, you always get back some cheap knock-off version that never does half of what you expected it to do, and always falls apart after a little while.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (uWKK8)

78 BUT TRUMP!!!
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:28 PM (Q4cxx)

HE'S the dictator, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

79 >>@LeadingReport 6m
BREAKING: President Trump signs Pentagon directive to begin using military force, possibly on foreign soil, against Latin American drug cartels, per NYT.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 12:26 PM (mlg/3)

I'm telling ya, the announcement by the DOJ and State putting a $50 million bounty on Maduro was not a coincidence.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (viF8m)

80 Yes. I’m convinced that all the covid nonsense (loss of liberty, loss of free speech, stealing of ballots etc etc) will be the worst thing the government ever did for my entire lifetime even if I live another 50 years. It was THE low point
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
......

Yep.
It ruined my grandson's High School years.
He won't get them back.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (UjdFS)

81 Conspiracy Theories Turned Out To Be True -- 237
You're Just Being Paranoid -- 0

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (pMi6S)
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Mainstream media continues to be 0-fer.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (Q4cxx)

82 But, he was pardoned.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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

Not for the mortgage fraud.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (2UnvF)

83 Perhaps cartels will be introduced to the Predator UAV featuring Hellfire.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

If I had my druthers, it would be jail for the 100's of politicians and judges that are being paid off. Either or.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (mlg/3)

84 Why would they his any of this?

They're defending democracy. They're proud of defending democracy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (pERWT)

85 get them to squeal on the big stuff

The Paolo, he hears these squeals often.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (3EjYg)

86 *hide

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (pERWT)

87 always falls apart after a little while.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (uWKK8

Ok, that was funny.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (NQvAw)

88 I prefer DE annexed to PA and bringing its No Sales Tax policy with it.

yeah maybe

can we keep it sort of as a non-voting yet taxpaying entity somehow?

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

89 The Demonrat Party is run by irredeemably vile and evil people. We need many, many congressional meetings and hearings and commissions and investigations and and subpoenas and testimonies a Special Prosecutor to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for the next four years and write a 500 page report that nobody will read that ultimately concludes that Proper Procedures Were Not Followed but No Criminal Intent was found.

This is The Way.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (V362x)

90 You’re never really gonna be able to control any of this. These agencies just need to be dissolved. Like trying to tame USAID.

As long as you have an army of bureaucrats in DC, this will continue as soon as a Democrat president gets back in the White House. Or even while the republican is in the White House.

Posted by: Maroon at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (9TEyV)

91 Is there a single federal agency that Obama and Biden didn't weaponize against their political enemies? I can't think of one.

NOAA maybe?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (/HI9S)

92 FEMA: "Sorry about your house. Here's a $700 loan."

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (Q4cxx)

93 I heard this story and my first thought was what the fuckity fuck fuck, this can't possibly be real. I mean, who in their right bloody mind would authorize this, knowing full well that the public would find out? For a few fucking votes? You'd stoop this low?

Then I realized, oh yeah. Biden. And idiot before his brain rotted out.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 12:28 PM (D1vbu)

This was Shit Midas and crew. Evidence?

This is wrong, and should be punished, but it is also hilarious that it didn't help them. If anything, I would bet that they helped register a lot of people who voted Republican.

Posted by: DPICM at August 08, 2025 12:17 PM (M2VUX)

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (i24o9)

94 Burn all lefty NGOs to the water line. ...
Posted by: Fight!, Fight!, Fight! at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (G5+As)
+++++
Halfway measures get us nowhere.

Any non-lefty NGO will be a lefty NGO within 25 years anyway. Just end the system. It is a failure.

There shall be no transfer of money from the government to any private organization other than for the purpose of commerce or operations. If you're selling steel to a government construction project, fine. If you're the contractor running the project or some program, fine. But nothing else. Commerce and operations only. No grants. No subsidies. No transfers to anything other than operations. If there needs to be research done for the government, sign a contract or do it in a government laboratory where there is at least hypothetical oversight. No more farming out "research" or "social assistance" or whatever else.

No more Quangos. If you want to be an NGO, be an NGO. NON-governmental. Fully, entirely, exclusively non-governmental. And pay your taxes. End tax exemptions, too.

Burn the entire NGO system down to the waterline.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (6bTRc)

95 80 Yes. I’m convinced that all the covid nonsense (loss of liberty, loss of free speech, stealing of ballots etc etc) will be the worst thing the government ever did for my entire lifetime even if I live another 50 years. It was THE low point

it sure as fuck was

I STILL get immeasurably angry when I think about those years

EVIL

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (Pv3Rg)

96 Everything we ever thought about the Democrats -- every suspicion, every uncharitable assumption, every "conspiracy theory," every negative opinion -- all turned out to be 100% true, at a minimum, and in most cases 1000x worse than we even imagined.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (pMi6S)

97 >>> 91 Is there a single federal agency that Obama and Biden didn't weaponize against their political enemies? I can't think of one.

NOAA maybe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (/HI9S)

NOAA is one of many agencies that now have SWAT teams.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (ULPxl)

98 You’re never really gonna be able to control any of this. These agencies just need to be dissolved. Like trying to tame USAID.

As long as you have an army of bureaucrats in DC, this will continue as soon as a Democrat president gets back in the White House. Or even while the republican is in the White House.
Posted by: Maroon at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (9TEyV)
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This rug might need to be shaken out, like the city of Cincinnati.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:31 PM (Q4cxx)

99 40 I was lectured by the Left, media, and FEMA that this was a misinformed conspiracy theory. They were quite insistent about that.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (dIske)
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That's one way to be certain it's true.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 12:31 PM (od0dV)

100 NOAA maybe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (/HI9S)

The epicenter of climate cult bullshit?

I wouldn't be surprised if they were in on the shenanigans too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:31 PM (pERWT)

101 >>> 94
==
Burn the entire NGO system down to the waterline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (6bTRc)

Joe Mannix Johnson is right!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 08, 2025 12:32 PM (ULPxl)

102 The Biden Administration was an ongoing criminal enterprise.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2025 12:32 PM (9nkAn)

103
NOAA is one of many agencies that now have SWAT teams.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (ULPxl)

I'm old enough to remember when the IRS bought a shit ton of ammo......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

104 75 BUT TRUMP!!!
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:28 PM (Q4cxx)

--------

To be fair, one must not overlook the fact that Trump did say "pussy"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:32 PM (/HI9S)

105 Is there a single federal agency that Obama and Biden didn't weaponize against their political enemies? I can't think of one.

NOAA maybe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (/HI9S)
+++++
NOAA routinely fakes climate data to provide air cover for those who would destroy your liberty, health and wealth in the name of the climate. Were they directly doing this kind of nonsense? Who knows. It wouldn't surprise me if they went to universities to talk about climate change and also register students or something. But that doesn't matter. NOAA is no better.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:32 PM (6bTRc)

106 Do we need FEMA at all? I suspect not. Maybe in theory a national emergency response agency has some logistical advantages, but I've little doubt that FEMA as it actually exists is crawling with useless, corrupt paper-pushers and malodorous Democrap activists and agents. Burn it down.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

107 Hmmmm...as I recall, FEMA tried to confiscate all the aid, donations, and food brought in by various volunteer groups that could conceivably be associated with the right.

Their requirements were to turn the material over to them for distribution or face legal consequences.

If you think about it, it makes more sense in the context that they were leveraging assistance to solicit registered democrat voters. AND, more importantly, the private volunteers were showing up the government workers in the process. I recall an Amish group actually building temporary homes for victims of the Hurricane in Carolina, and FEMA taking them down with a bulldozer.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 12:32 PM (dIske)

108 36 Democrats are Satan Incarnate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

The Evil One looks at their pathetic bleating and raw incompetence and says "PfffT! Don't hang that idiocy on me! But I tell ya, it's just so damn hard to get good help these days."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (uWKK8)

109 When FEMA was caught red (blue) handed during Helene, the first excuse was that the FEMA thugs felt "unsafe" going to Trump homes. Yeah, we might go all insurrectionary on them at the drop of a (MAGA) hat.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (sFNX2)

110 Any non-lefty NGO will be a lefty NGO within 25 years anyway. Just end the system. It is a failure.

Burn the entire NGO system down to the waterline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (6bTRc)
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Also, if any non-leftist organization gains enough influence, it will become intolerable for Gramscians not to penetrate it with leverage from all the other institutions they already control.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (Q4cxx)

111 You see, comrade, you must be a member of the party if you want benefits from the government.
Is simple. No?

Posted by: Chemist at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (Am8KZ)

112 Biden's EO that ordered every federal agency to engage in voter registration and "get out the vote" was every bit the exact authoritarianism and fascism the left claimed Trump was.

It shifted the entire federal government to open, egregious and aggressive partisanship.

Oh, and we haven't even touched how Biden was stuffing the federal government with blacks for the four years--any black person with a pulse was automatically hired, regardless of qualifications.
Those became his most eager goons to enforce the new order.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (IIsq3)

113
Not for the mortgage fraud.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 12:29 PM (2UnvF)

The pardon didn't say "for whatever they find he did that may be on the borderline of legality?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

114 101 >>> 94
==
Burn the entire NGO system down to the waterline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (6bTRc)

Joe Mannix Johnson is right!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Nuke it from orbit!

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 08, 2025 12:34 PM (5M/Mg)

115 When FEMA was caught red (blue) handed during Helene, the first excuse was that the FEMA thugs felt "unsafe" going to Trump homes. Yeah, we might go all insurrectionary on them at the drop of a (MAGA) hat.

Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (sFNX2)
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Given that solid road record of things like that happening.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:34 PM (Q4cxx)

116 From the sidebar: I remember Paul Westerberg being a guy I wanted to push his face in with a boot heel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 12:34 PM (dfIr7)

117 As usual, they always accuse others of exactly what they are up to. Makes sense, it is something they understand. Probably a ready guide for knowing which way to look for malfeasance on their part.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 08, 2025 12:34 PM (vd6bO)

118 Yep.
It ruined my grandson's High School years.
He won't get them back.
Posted by: wth

Lemme tell ya, a Virtual Senior Prom is not a lot of fun.

Posted by: Tommy's Tux Rental at August 08, 2025 12:34 PM (G5+As)

119 If only we could figure out why the democrats are so desperate to win elections.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (2ap+5)

120 Biden's EO that ordered every federal agency to engage in voter registration and "get out the vote" was every bit the exact authoritarianism and fascism the left claimed Trump was.

Also literally illegal

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (dfIr7)

121 Great thread at Twitchy and X about the NGOs run by Mrs. Newsom. She gets state $ and launders it nicely through NGOs using proprietary property. Couple million a year.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (eadC4)

122 was lectured by the Left, media, and FEMA that this was a misinformed conspiracy theory. They were quite insistent about that

Funny how many of those misinformed conspiracy theories turned out to be true.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (SH/UK)

123 From the sidebar: I remember Paul Westerberg being a guy I wanted to push his face in with a boot heel.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 12:34 PM (dfIr7)

"Ho, Ho, Ho........"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

124 Yeah, we might go all insurrectionary on them at the drop of a (MAGA) hat.
_-_-_
...because they would.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (vd6bO)

125 Is there a single federal agency that Obama and Biden didn't weaponize against their political enemies? I can't think of one.

NOAA maybe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (/HI9S)
+++++
NOAA routinely fakes climate data to provide air cover for those who would destroy your liberty, health and wealth in the name of the climate. Were they directly doing this kind of nonsense? Who knows. It wouldn't surprise me if they went to universities to talk about climate change and also ~~register~~ try to have homo sex with students. But that doesn't matter. NOAA is no better.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:32 PM (6bTRc)
_________

FIFY

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

126 Also literally illegal
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (dfIr7)
++++
Being post-law is TIGHT

Posted by: Administrative Directive Guy at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (6bTRc)

127 A whole bunch of people are lawyering up and keeping their mouths shut. $hit just got real.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

I'm starting to think CNN being at Butler was so the live feed would be broadcast to watch parties. Many rectums were puckered when a bloodied Trump rose with his fist held high and shouted, "Fight!, Fight!, Fight!".

If we're lucky, that photograph of Trump will be more iconic than that stupid Dewey Defeats Truman photo.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (Dv3i1)

128 I know.here in Alabama we were sending money, supplies, and our power companies to North Carolina and parts of Tennessee to help victims. FEMA was stalling around not doing their jobs. The people needed help not bureaucratic excuses.

Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (NnONT)

129 Great thread at Twitchy and X about the NGOs run by Mrs. Newsom. She gets state $ and launders it nicely through NGOs using proprietary property. Couple million a year.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (eadC4)

Money laundering is not a crime.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

130 Microaggressions that don't *hurt* anybody, they go after.

This type of disadvantaging discrimination, is fine.

They are formulaic thinkers, not actual thinkers.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:36 PM (Q4cxx)

131 Great thread at Twitchy and X about the NGOs run by Mrs. Newsom. She gets state $ and launders it nicely through NGOs using proprietary property. Couple million a year.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (eadC4)
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Her husband has an in at the French Laundry

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (Q4cxx)

132 106 Do we need FEMA at all? I suspect not.

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If FEMA was dissolved, it would be in no time at all that we would all be missing its selfless, competent dedication to humanitarian disaster relief.

Posted by: No Sane Person, Ever at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (/HI9S)

133 FEMA, like most, could be privatized. Turn it over to Samaritan's Purse or some other stand up outfit. Stay out of the way, maybe only giving a little airlift and transportation assistance via the military. Write those missions off as training deployments/flights.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (gm9Sb)

134 Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (sFNX2)
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Given that solid road record of things like that happening.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:34 PM (Q4cxx)

It's probably projection.

If they were holed up on their roof waiting for a Trump rescue boat, they'd gladly shoot at the boat because Reeee.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (pERWT)

135 Commies gonna commie.

Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (3BwY8)

136 Shaking down disaster victims. Now why didn't we think of that?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (wBaIH)

137 No more Quangos. If you want to be an NGO, be an NGO. NON-governmental. Fully, entirely, exclusively non-governmental. And pay your taxes. End tax exemptions, too.

Burn the entire NGO system down to the waterline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (6bTRc)

This!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (kaqWV)

138 I also think that a lot of the hysteria in the first few weeks was because they really did expect it to be a whole lot worse; that's what they had paid for. But they forgot that when you farm your work out to the Chinese, you always get back some cheap knock-off version that never does half of what you expected it to do, and always falls apart after a little while.

They ordered a pandemic from Temu. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)

139 > BREAKING: President Trump signs Pentagon directive to begin using military force, possibly on foreign soil, against Latin American drug cartels, per NYT.
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Trump labeled the cartels enemy entities (or whatever the nomenclature) early in his admin. The administration considered a "buffer zone" inside Mexico to keep them at bay.

Plus, the US military has been flying various drones and ISR (recon types) aircraft that are used to pinpoint cartel strongholds and snoop on their comms.

They're in for a bad time if things kick off...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (Q4IgG)

140 Mayorkas is the lowest of the low, belongs in prison

Posted by: night lifted at August 08, 2025 12:38 PM (/YboP)

141 The Biden Administration was an ongoing criminal enterprise.
Posted by: Anna Puma
.....

With just a touch of incest.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 12:38 PM (v0R5T)

142 it seems the AWFLs around me are pretty quiet these days.

the lame No Kings protests seemed to fire them up for a bit, but lately not a lot of chirping...about anything

Posted by: kallisto at August 08, 2025 12:38 PM (dCxaZ)

143 Biden did nothing of consequences - he was a retarded puppet. It was clearly Obama/Soros.
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Yes, but even a mentally competent and engaged Biden would have eagerly signed off on the same actions.

He was, is and always will be a nasty, vile, evil pile of cold, wet arrogant shit.

Bless his heart because only Jesus loves him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 12:38 PM (IIsq3)

144 If we're lucky, that photograph of Trump will be more iconic than that stupid Dewey Defeats Truman photo.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 12:35 PM (Dv3i1)

It grabbed Musk by the feelers, but he is a fickle political doofus, so it didn't last.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:38 PM (i24o9)

145 but I've little doubt that FEMA as it actually exists is crawling with useless, corrupt paper-pushers and malodorous Democrap activists and agents. Burn it down.
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AND, more importantly, the private volunteers were showing up the government workers in the process.
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You have no idea...believe me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2025 12:38 PM (XeU6L)

146 Tom Servo, your description of FEMA is exactly what it was up to some point. Back when the ridiculous and ignorant hysteria over Katrina took place, FEMA's primary role, as it always had been, was doling out $, funding planning and mitigation work for disaster prep, training, etc. Counties and states always have/still do have 95% of the $, legal responsibility, and formal role of emergency response.

Again - like other agencies, this might have been changed beyond recognition since I was close to it. But FEMA was never meant to be a first-responder, or anything similar.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 12:38 PM (U/Byj)

147 .....

With just a touch of incest.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 12:38 PM (v0R5T)

It isn't immoral if it's just a shower and innocent fingerbang.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

148 "We're sorry your house was flooded and your entire community was destroyed by the hurricane. Here's some water."

'By the way, would you like to register to vote?"

"You're voting for Trump?"

"It was nice meeting you, take care and we wish you luck."

"We need to take the water back, too, sorry!"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 12:39 PM (6ydKt)

149 Microaggressions that don't *hurt* anybody, they go after.

This type of disadvantaging discrimination, is fine.

They are formulaic thinkers, not actual thinkers.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:36 PM (Q4cxx)
++++
Rationalizations handle it.

Microaggressions perpetuate dominant historical systems of racial, political and sexual supremacism that is literally genocidal.

Actual racial, political or sexual targeting and actions against Party enemies is simply restorative justice.

Posted by: Administrative Directive Guy at August 08, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)

150 Oh, and we haven't even touched how Biden was stuffing the federal government with blacks for the four years--any black person with a pulse was automatically hired, regardless of qualifications.
Those became his most eager goons to enforce the new order.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 12:33 PM (IIsq3)

That's why Dems are now saying that cutting the Federal workforce is RAYCISS!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:39 PM (uWKK8)

151 Ugh. Sockoff

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:39 PM (6bTRc)

152 Plus, the US military has been flying various drones and ISR (recon types) aircraft that are used to pinpoint cartel strongholds and snoop on their comms.

They're in for a bad time if things kick off...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (Q4IgG)

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It's all fun and games until the first A-10 shows up on the horizon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:39 PM (/HI9S)

153 BREAKING: President Trump signs Pentagon directive to begin using military force, possibly on foreign soil, against Latin American drug cartels, per NYT.
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Straight out of Clancy's 'Clear and Present Danger', and I'm good with that. More than good.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2025 12:40 PM (XeU6L)

154 There shall be no transfer of money from the government to any private organization other than for the purpose of commerce or operations. If you're selling steel to a government construction project, fine. If you're the contractor running the project or some program, fine. But nothing else. Commerce and operations only. No grants. No subsidies. No transfers to anything other than operations. If there needs to be research done for the government, sign a contract or do it in a government laboratory where there is at least hypothetical oversight. No more farming out "research" or "social assistance" or whatever else.
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What's the point of being elected, then?

Posted by: RINO Congressman at August 08, 2025 12:40 PM (Dv3i1)

155 29 Bwahaha. Bondi directs Ed Martin to lead the investigation into Schiff and his mortgage fraud.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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After failing to secure confirmation as the top US attorney in Washington, DC, Ed Martin is now actively serving in multiple new roles inside the Justice Department that give him even more power to punish President Donald Trump’s adversaries and reward his supporters.
_CNN, 5/28

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 12:40 PM (I1XLT)

156 >>@EricLDaugh
·
>>10m
>>🚨 HUGE NEWS: Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens to INCREASE the US House redistricting gain for Republicans from 5 to *8* SEATS if Democrats don't come back and allow a quorum.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (viF8m)

157 It's all fun and games until the first A-10 shows up on the horizon.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:39 PM (/HI9S)

The old A-diez A-dios.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (pERWT)

158 starting to think CNN being at Butler was so the live feed would be broadcast to watch parties. Many rectums were puckered when a bloodied Trump rose with his fist held high and shouted, "Fight!, Fight!, Fight!".

If we're lucky, that photograph of Trump will be more iconic than that stupid Dewey Defeats Truman photo.
==
And one of those watch parties was hosted by Bill Barr.

Project Veritas has whistleblower who has evidence of Barr conferences with Fani Willis about lawfare against trump. He was telling her how to structure it and who to subpoena...

Posted by: Mr Sunshine at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (1y5L5)

159 What's the point of being elected, then?
Posted by: RINO Congressman at August 08, 2025 12:40 PM (Dv3i1)
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Serve your term, try to refrain from doing evil, then go back home with your modest pension?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (6bTRc)

160 They also focused on assisting LBGT groups first.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (Du4mK)

161 ...so, the people who pay their taxes are denied their own money when catastrophes occur.yet, their money is used to pay for illegals hotels and food...seems fair-

Posted by: pahound at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (zZRB2)

162 ...

I keep wanting to type that these people really should be shot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (bss/y)

163 I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that during the Biden administration, upper management at FEMA was larded with a platoon of fat ugly lesbians.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (/HI9S)

164 I'm trying to remember if Mayorkas got a pardon for child trafficking.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (Vfq+S)

165 At some point, some of these people need to be punished. Severely.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (0eaVi)

166 "He was, is and always will be a nasty, vile, evil pile of cold, wet arrogant shit."

You left out, stupid. And corrupt beyond description.

And most only were exposed to this at the end of his "career" of vile idiocy, some were around it for decades.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (U/Byj)

167 @EricLDaugh
·
>>10m
>>🚨 HUGE NEWS: Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens to INCREASE the US House redistricting gain for Republicans from 5 to *8* SEATS if Democrats don't come back and allow a quorum.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (viF8m)

Nope.

That's not a tax.

Posted by: Cheap Justice John Roberts at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

168 Project Veritas has whistleblower who has evidence of Barr conferences with Fani Willis about lawfare against trump. He was telling her how to structure it and who to subpoena...

Posted by: Mr Sunshine at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (1y5L5)

Dude better have his affairs in order.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (i24o9)

169 Her husband has an in at the French Laundry
Posted by: Axeman

I'm in desperate need of One-Hour Martinizing and also need my hat blocked. Does the French Laundry provide those services?

Posted by: Beau Brummell. at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (G5+As)

170 Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
·
26m
🚨 BREAKING: Pam Bondi has appointed ED MARTIN as the special prosecutor investigating both Adam Schiff AND Letitia James for MORTGAGE FRAUD

They’re absolutely SCREWED

Have we spoken about this or the Boasberg appeal victory? I am sure if we have, it will be pointed out. Much quicker than scrolling through content. lol.

Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (p4NUW)

171 152 "We're doing the music!" "What's the music?" "Wagner, scares the hell out of the slopes".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (gm9Sb)

172 Schlichter sez it's OK for MAGA to ask for still more from Trump: "We're in a political environment where we need to continue to pressure the administration for more wins." Amen. We have a very short window of time to get stuff done.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (0I+GC)

173 At some point, some of these people need to be punished. Severely.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (0eaVi)

In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

174 Speaking of FEMA
There are more fires in SoCal.
Canyon fire explodes to nearly 5,000 acres; thousands evacuated in L.A., Ventura counties

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

175 BREAKING: President Trump signs Pentagon directive to begin using military force, possibly on foreign soil, against Latin American drug cartels, per NYT.
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Trump labeled the cartels enemy entities (or whatever the nomenclature) early in his admin. The administration considered a "buffer zone" inside Mexico to keep them at bay.

Plus, the US military has been flying various drones and ISR (recon types) aircraft that are used to pinpoint cartel strongholds and snoop on their comms.

They're in for a bad time if things kick off...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 12:37 PM (Q4IgG)
_______

I don't think it would even take much to bring the cartels down or at least severely wound them. A couple of hard hits, and the cartels will start fighting each other. Let them destroy each other. That's kinda how they got Escobar.

Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

176 the most extensive and inclusive

Does the 'inclusive ' club have a disco ball over the dance floor? I'm betting you can score some good coke there.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 08, 2025 12:43 PM (RT3YC)

177 My FiL is battling prostate cancer. He had his prostate removed 5 years ago........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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That happened to Buddy's friend. He succumbed after fighting it for thirty years.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 12:43 PM (I1XLT)

178 157 It's all fun and games until the first A-10 shows up on the horizon.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:39 PM (/HI9S)

The old A-diez A-dios.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (pERWT)

The thing is, when these asshats on the left are doxxing ICE members and their families, they are not doxxing them for the Antifa goons. They are doxxing them for the cartels.

This is another thing that makes me believe that a bullet may be the only remedy. These assholes are not dealing in good faith. This is not the compromise between two positions that the founders intended. These people are just straight up evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)

179 156 >>@EricLDaugh
·
>>10m
>>🚨 HUGE NEWS: Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens to INCREASE the US House redistricting gain for Republicans from 5 to *8* SEATS if Democrats don't come back and allow a quorum.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (viF8m)
__________________________________

In a nutshell, here is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats would have had those 8 new seats included in their first restructuring.

Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 12:44 PM (dIske)

180 162 ...

I keep wanting to type that these people really should be shot.

I’m team heads-on-pikes, myself.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:44 PM (2FwlN)

181 Bahhstan just got less crooked -

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0
🚨 BREAKING: Boston’s Sanctuary Sheriff Steve Tompkins Arrested on Federal Extortion Charges
“As a result of an FBI Boston investigation, Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has been taken into custody in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for allegedly extorting $50,000 from the owner of a national cannabis retail company seeking to do business in Boston,” the FBI said.
Tompkins was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of Extortion Under Color of Official Right.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 12:45 PM (sDWtc)

182 I keep wanting to type that these people really should be shot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (bss/y)
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It's a good thing you didn't, though.

Ace doesn't like Queensryche.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:45 PM (Q4cxx)

183 167 @EricLDaugh
·
>>10m
>>🚨 HUGE NEWS: Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens to INCREASE the US House redistricting gain for Republicans from 5 to *8* SEATS if Democrats don't come back and allow a quorum.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (viF8m)
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Dear Governor Abbott,

Shut up and do it.

Thanks

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 12:45 PM (I1XLT)

184 See, this is WHY you don't characterize your political opposition as "Hitler" or "Nazis". Because people take that seriously and begin to think, well, I'll do anything to stop a nazi. So you make all sorts of insane decisions, and the next thing you know, you are directing FEMA not to help Trump voters and digging around in Meliani's panty drawer.

It also goes to the press- you do the Dems no favors by downplaying these stupid decisions. It just makes them do even more stupid stuff.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 12:45 PM (D1vbu)

185
I'm in desperate need of One-Hour Martinizing and also need my hat blocked. Does the French Laundry provide those services?
Posted by: Beau Brummell. at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (G5+As)

___________

No, but it sneers at you while charging extortionate prices.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 12:46 PM (OkHa0)

186 Get the federal government out of the disaster recovery business. This should be left up to the states, both constitutionally and morally.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at August 08, 2025 12:46 PM (P7Iz+)

187 I'm starting to think CNN being at Butler was so the live feed would be broadcast to watch parties. Many rectums were puckered when a bloodied Trump rose with his fist held high and shouted, "Fight!, Fight!, Fight!".

that's exactly what happened, Chuck

oh and the Temu killer virus - it was made in a lab and they didn't test it in the wild. outdoor air murderfied it. it was a hothouse flower.

THANK GOD

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 12:46 PM (Pv3Rg)

188 I keep wanting to type that these people really should be shot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (bss/y)

They betrayed the trust of the American people for their own gain or ideological reasons, which is arguably a form of treason. So why not? After a fair trial, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (kaqWV)

189 >>In a nutshell, here is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats would have had those 8 new seats included in their first restructuring.

Here's the difference between the old GOP and the new and improved America First GOP. The old GOP wouldn't have tried for the 5 seats in the first place.

They are improving and getting better with encouragement.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (viF8m)

190 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
3m
BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to BLOW UP the House redistricting — GOP could snag 8 SEATS instead of 5 if Democrats don’t show up to break the quorum!

EPIC!

Abbott: "What I'm thinking now is that if they don't start showing up, I may start expanding. We may make it six or seven or eight new seats we're going to be adding on the Republican side.”

https://tinyurl.com/4nb5c965

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (NpAcC)

191 At some point, some of these people need to be punished. Severely.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (0eaVi)

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Spankings all around!

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (Q4cxx)

192 In a nutshell, here is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats would have had those 8 new seats included in their first restructuring.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 12:44 PM

The 5 is very safe. The 8 is risky.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (MGB5H)

193 146 Tom Servo, your description of FEMA is exactly what it was up to some point. Back when the ridiculous and ignorant hysteria over Katrina took place, FEMA's primary role, as it always had been, was doling out $, funding planning and mitigation work for disaster prep, training, etc. Counties and states always have/still do have 95% of the $, legal responsibility, and formal role of emergency response."

That crisis is what skewed everything for the last 20 years or so. Louisiana should have done it; but under Democrat Governance, it was totally incompetent at every level and just sat there, doing nothing while all the media was screeching that BUSH WAS KILLING PEOPLE! So he felt obligated to step in.

People forget how bad the corruption was - not long into it, the New Orleans police force had to be completely disbanded and National Guard units deployed to enforce martial law for about 18 months. That was when it was found out that quite a few police department leaders and officers were actually leading the looting gangs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (uWKK8)

194 I keep wanting to type that these people really should be shot.

I’m team heads-on-pikes, myself.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:44 PM (2FwlN)

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Wood Chipper Olympics FTW!

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (NV+BS)

195 Bless his heart because only Jesus loves him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

The LORD is angry at the wicked every day. And no, He doesn't love Joe Biden.

Posted by: Hard Truths at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (G5+As)

196 Really sad how Trump's picks in his first term were all back-stabbing Quislings.

Glad he figured that out 2nd time around.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (EF18j)

197 I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0
🚨 BREAKING: Boston’s Sanctuary Sheriff Steve Tompkins Arrested on Federal Extortion Charges
“As a result of an FBI Boston investigation, Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has been taken into custody in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for allegedly extorting $50,000 from the owner of a national cannabis retail company seeking to do business in Boston,” the FBI said.
Tompkins was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of Extortion Under Color of Official Right.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025

Leo corruption in Massachusetts? I shan't believe it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (MGB5H)

198 We'd have to be nuts to use military force in Mexico. Talk about a quagmire! It will accomplish nothing as long as the USA has a voracious demand for the illicit drugs they traffic. It's not like the Sinaloa cartel is forcibly injecting our citizens on the street. Bombing Mexico because we can't control the cravings of our own junkies makes no sense to me.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (0I+GC)

199 This bikini brunette is a proud member of Females for the Encouragement of Male Attraction, and resents the anti-FEMA sentiment being expressed on this thread:
http://tiny.cc/fnxq001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (6bTRc)

200 >In a nutshell, here is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats would have had those 8 new seats included in their first restructuring.

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The difference is that if the Dems could draw the lines that way, they would settle for a N-0 "balance" and then claim that the Pubs just want to "gerrymander".

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:49 PM (Q4cxx)

201 The thing is, when these asshats on the left are doxxing ICE members and their families, they are not doxxing them for the Antifa goons. They are doxxing them for the cartels.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 12:44 PM (bss/y)

Tee Hee!

Posted by: Governor Katie Hobbs at August 08, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

202 Is there a single federal agency that Obama and Biden didn't weaponize against their political enemies? I can't think of one.

NOAA maybe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (/HI9S)

Au contraire mon friere

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 08, 2025 12:49 PM (NtVYv)

203 Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (0I+GC)

You think the cartels are just in the drug trade? LOL.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 12:49 PM (VofaG)

204 @ImMeme0
3m
BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to BLOW UP the House redistricting — GOP could snag 8 SEATS instead of 5 if Democrats don’t show up to break the quorum!

EPIC!

Abbott: "What I'm thinking now is that if they don't start showing up, I may start expanding. We may make it six or seven or eight new seats we're going to be adding on the Republican side.”

https://tinyurl.com/4nb5c965
Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (NpAcC)
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If you *could* have gotten eight, why did you only set it up to pick up six?

This isn't the win you think it is, Texas GOP. If you take *any* action that fails to absolutely maximize your gains, you are failing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:50 PM (6bTRc)

205 NOAA maybe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 12:30 PM (/HI9S)

I'm sorry to report that NOAA is corrupt and dedicated to stopping MAGA because we are a threat to the climate.

Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2025 12:50 PM (FMtrg)

206
Leo corruption in Massachusetts? I shan't believe it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (MGB5H)

You shan't. He shat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

207 I keep wanting to type that these people really should be shot.

I’m team heads-on-pikes, myself.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:44 PM (2FwlN)

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

Wood Chipper Olympics FTW!
Posted by: ShainS
......

OK, but rules state feet first only. Better audio.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

208 We'd have to be nuts to use military force in Mexico. Talk about a quagmire!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (0I+GC)
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As I never know what Trump means by something he says, it might be just more useful as a threat against Cartels acting in America.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:50 PM (Q4cxx)

209 Dear Governor Abbott,

Shut up and do it.

Thanks
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 12:45 PM (I1XLT)

+1

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:51 PM (ZtAny)

210 If I had a choice for one Biden and one Obama Admin member to hang by the neck til dead, it would be Mayorkas and Brennan.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 08, 2025 12:51 PM (th/4a)

211 Bombing Mexico because we can't control the cravings of our own junkies makes no sense to me.
===
Raises the cost of doing business, interrupts and eliminates organizational structure. Its not a solution. Its punishment. Shouldn't they be punished??????????????????????????

Posted by: Mr Sunshine at August 08, 2025 12:51 PM (1y5L5)

212 "You think the cartels are just in the drug trade? LOL."

Fill me in then. Justify America's next lost war for me.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 12:51 PM (0I+GC)

213 Boston’s Sanctuary Sheriff Arrested on Federal Extortion Charges

LFG!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:51 PM (i24o9)

214 Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (uWKK

A couple of police officers, one a female, did an arm robbery where they killed a few of the restaurant workers.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (VofaG)

215 How do you think that photographer was able to catch that bullet in flight at Butler? He had his shutter set for a really fast exposure: what you use for things flying fast. If you wanted a photo of a watermelon exploding, that would be the exposure setting you would use! I wonder who told him to do that?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2FwlN)

216 >>🚨 HUGE NEWS: Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens to INCREASE the US House redistricting gain for Republicans from 5 to *8* SEATS if Democrats don't come back and allow a quorum.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:41 PM (viF8m)
__________________________________

In a nutshell, here is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats would have had those 8 new seats included in their first restructuring.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 12:44 PM (dIske)

I talked about this situation a bit in the morning thread. It's a big game of bluff and counterbluff, and I applaud Abbott for playing this so well politically. Politics is about perception more than reality, most of the time. So enjoy the show! Because that's what it is. And try not to be too disappointed if it comes out that Abbott never had the power to do most of what he's threatening - he knows that, everyone in this Kabuki theater performance does.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (uWKK8)

217 Are You Not Entertained!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (viF8m)

218 Bombing Mexico because we can't control the cravings of our own junkies makes no sense to me.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (0I+GC)

Lack of supply creates its own lack of demand.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (pERWT)

219 thing is, when these asshats on the left

Festive little hats!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (ZG4wU)

220 210 If I had a choice for one Biden and one Obama Admin member to hang by the neck til dead, it would be Mayorkas and Brennan.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 08, 2025 12:51 PM (th/4a)

That's a hell of a choice to have to make and then live with. I mean, there are SO many options.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)

221 This bikini brunette is a proud member of Females for the Encouragement of Male Attraction, and resents the anti-FEMA sentiment being expressed on this thread:
http://tiny.cc/fnxq001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (6bTRc)

Fen's yesterday was better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (i24o9)

222 This bikini brunette is a proud member of Females for the Encouragement of Male Attraction, and resents the anti-FEMA sentiment being expressed on this thread:
http://tiny.cc/fnxq001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (6bTRc)

I’ve been missing the Mannix babes! And Joe too of course… but mostly the babes ;-)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (ZtAny)

223 143 Biden did nothing of consequences - he was a retarded puppet. It was clearly Obama/Soros.
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You left out the Pritzker's.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (W3T6M)

224 This bikini brunette
......

not very busty.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (v0R5T)

225 212 Human trafficking, child endangerment, weapons smuggling, money laundering, extortion, .....

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (gm9Sb)

226 It's a good thing you didn't, though.

Ace doesn't like Queensryche.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:45 PM (Q4cxx)

*assumes fetal position*

*shudders*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

227 Leo corruption in Massachusetts? I shan't believe it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (MGB5H)

Funny on two levels. One, doofus got caught and charged, and two, if there is any legit business that "deserves" to be extorted, pot peddlers rank right up there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (kaqWV)

228 Really sad how Trump's picks in his first term were all back-stabbing Quislings.

Glad he figured that out 2nd time around.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (EF18j)
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It is. And it's why I back a second-real term for Trump, but he is getting up there in age.

None of this shit is Constitutional or intended, so it almost screams that some sort of compensation is paid to a President who wasn't really allowed to govern.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (Q4cxx)

229 That was when it was found out that quite a few police department leaders and officers were actually leading the looting gangs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (uWKK

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Third World Shithole Domestic Cartels.

Maybe Trump and Bondi and Patel should declare war on and eradicate them (as well as foreign cartels) in every blue shithole city nationwide ...

* Swerves into Buck's prior post and previous thread *

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (NV+BS)

230
I’ve been missing the Mannix babes! And Joe too of course… but mostly the babes ;-)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (ZtAny)

This is the way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

231 I wonder who told him to do that?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2FwlN)

Sunny day, outside? Pretty much forces a short exposure.

The timing i personally chalk up to divine intervention.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (pERWT)

232 I know it was a typo, but an “arm robbery” sounds like they were stealing prosthetic limbs!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (2FwlN)

233
Warming up for tonight over here, boss

Posted by: flyin' green & purple dildos at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (5hfjS)

234 Tom Servo, exactly. Recall the video of the NOPD deputy looting in the Walmart? Beautiful, really.

Gov. Blanco and the mayor had 99% of the operational responsibility, and of course were completely disastrously incompetent. But the "press" was able to brainwash the country (including "conservatives") into the idiotic idea that it was a federal failure. Not the only idiotic distortion "the right" has swallowed and made part of its brainless catechism.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 12:55 PM (U/Byj)

235 215 How do you think that photographer was able to catch that bullet in flight at Butler? He had his shutter set for a really fast exposure: what you use for things flying fast. If you wanted a photo of a watermelon exploding, that would be the exposure setting you would use! I wonder who told him to do that?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2FwlN)

So you are saying they were trying to set up their own Zapruder film? Something they would play over and over and over again?

Hard to argue with considering if Trump had not turned his head, it would have been a successful assassination and we would be living in a completely different world.

*looks up at God* You scare the shit out of me, Lord.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 12:55 PM (bss/y)

236 I wonder who told him to do that?
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Hmm, who would possibly want to see Trump's head explode in slow motion.... I'll give you one fuckin guess....

Posted by: Hillary! at August 08, 2025 12:55 PM (1y5L5)

237 know it was a typo, but an “arm robbery” sounds like they were stealing prosthetic limbs!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (2FwlN)

*sobs*
-Michelle Fields

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:55 PM (MGB5H)

238 "225 212 Human trafficking, child endangerment, weapons smuggling, money laundering, extortion, ....."

As to the first three, we've now sealed the border, right?

As to the last two, do you want to deploy A-10s to fight money laundering? Really?

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 12:55 PM (0I+GC)

239 It is. And it's why I back a second-real term for Trump, but he is getting up there in age.

None of this shit is Constitutional or intended, so it almost screams that some sort of compensation is paid to a President who wasn't really allowed to govern.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 12:54 PM (Q4cxx)

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

Trump 2028 -- Reparations, Bitchezzzz!

Posted by: ShainS at August 08, 2025 12:55 PM (NV+BS)

240 People forget how bad the corruption was - not long into it, the New Orleans police force had to be completely disbanded and National Guard units deployed to enforce martial law for about 18 months. That was when it was found out that quite a few police department leaders and officers were actually leading the looting gangs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:47 PM (uWKK

I remember telling somebody a few days before Katrina hit that they needed to use school busses to get the people with no transportation out of New Orleans.

A few days later the from the air photos of the flooded parking lots with hundreds of school busses came out.

My silly ass sitting a thousand miles away had that figured out and they couldn't?

It was pure corrupt incompetence from top to bottom in N.O., knowing what they did about the city being inside of a giant bowl, to literally have no plans except to stuff everybody inside the Superdome and call it a day.

And then the Dems&Media managed to blame it on Bush and still believe to this day that disaster was W.'s fault.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 12:56 PM (6ydKt)

241 Mexico actively cooperated in the invasion of the US by millions of criminal dregs from all over the world. It should be open season on the cartels and the government paid off by the smugglers/cartels.

Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at August 08, 2025 12:56 PM (G5+As)

242 In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

Oh, I know nothing will happen on this side of paradise.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 12:56 PM (0eaVi)

243 Leo corruption in Massachusetts? I shan't believe it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (MGB5H)

There is a theme here. These DEI and other leftist hires are not hired for competence. They are hired because they will follow orders and do just about anything, regardless of morality or other societal restraint.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 12:56 PM (i24o9)

244 215 How do you think that photographer was able to catch that bullet in flight at Butler? He had his shutter set for a really fast exposure: what you use for things flying fast. If you wanted a photo of a watermelon exploding, that would be the exposure setting you would use! I wonder who told him to do that?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2FwlN)

Shortly after the shooting there was a very good article about him, although i haven't seen it again. In short he is a very good professional photographer who had the eye to pick the best spot to view the podium, and he had a couple very good high speed cameras set up to try and catch some good rally images. He probably took several hundred images that day with his equipment, and examining them that night was astounded to see that he had caught the bullet in flight. (He also took the iconic photo of Trump bloodied but unbowed that day)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:56 PM (uWKK8)

245 This bikini brunette is a proud member of Females for the Encouragement of Male Attraction, and resents the anti-FEMA sentiment being expressed on this thread:
http://tiny.cc/fnxq001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I think she's very impressed with your hair teased into such a manly coif.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 08, 2025 12:57 PM (RT3YC)

246 I know it was a typo, but an “arm robbery” sounds like they were stealing prosthetic limbs!
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THAT'S NOT FUNNY YOU AHOLE!!!!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at August 08, 2025 12:57 PM (1y5L5)

247 Purge FEMA

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 12:57 PM (xcxpd)

248 In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)
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Impossible! We are LEGION!

Posted by: The Nothing Will Happen Guy at August 08, 2025 12:57 PM (Q4cxx)

249 know it was a typo, but an “arm robbery” sounds like they were stealing prosthetic limbs!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

*ratcheting noise*

Posted by: Inspector Krogh at August 08, 2025 12:58 PM (v0R5T)

250 Leo corruption in Massachusetts? I shan't believe it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (MGB5H)

There is a theme here. These DEI and other leftist hires are not hired for competence. They are hired because they will follow orders and do just about anything, regardless of morality or other societal restraint.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demo

Law Enforcement in MA, esp the Staties, has been very corrupt for a very long time. One would need only look to Karen Reade for a recent example of how bad they are.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:58 PM (MGB5H)

251 IIRC, the NOLA PD was at a time the most underpaid PD of any major city. The corruption was considered fine and dandy, kind of like piece work. "Looked here, Officer Tibedeaux, you knows we don't pay all that much but this is the land of opportunity". "Gee, thanks Sarge. Can I go shake down a couple bars wit de coloreds now?".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 12:59 PM (gm9Sb)

252 When the Guadaloupe River flooded Kerrville, do you know who was there first, with the most resources?

H.E.B. Texas' own grocery chain has a fully outfitted and staffed emergency team, with trucks of food, a cooking trailer, water, sleeping spaces, and an internet trailer. They are fully paid for by H.E.B.

They are a better organized and staffed rescue team than FEMA.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 12:59 PM (Vfq+S)

253 Everything about this Rotting Corpse named "BIDEN" stinks to high heaven.

Posted by: Jackson at August 08, 2025 12:59 PM (BltCC)

254 Law Enforcement in MA, esp the Staties, has been very corrupt for a very long time. One would need only look to Karen Reade for a recent example of how bad they are.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 12:58 PM (MGB5H)

The Departed wasn't set in Wichita.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 12:59 PM (pERWT)

255 Remember they disarmed Katrina survivors wherever they found them in the New Orleans area. Good call? It didn’t sit well with me!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (2FwlN)

256 looks up at God* You scare the shit out of me, Lord.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (RT3YC)

257
H.E.B. Texas' own grocery chain has a fully outfitted and staffed emergency team, with trucks of food, a cooking trailer, water, sleeping spaces, and an internet trailer. They are fully paid for by H.E.B.

They are a better organized and staffed rescue team than FEMA.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 12:59 PM (Vfq+S)

HEB. The Buc-ee's of grocery stores.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

258 HUGE NEWS: Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens to INCREASE the US House redistricting gain for Republicans from 5 to *8* SEATS if Democrats don't come back and allow a quorum.
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You know what I just thought of?
Now the the 5th Circuit has said ID is required for mail-in ballots.
And, that almost all the "turn Texas blue" was based on those mail-in ballots.

Nobody actually knows how "blue" the cities are.

Redistricting may yield "safe" blue seats switching to R when the mirage of mail-in ballots vanishes.

LOLGF, Dems.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (IIsq3)

259 >>>Bondi appoints Ed Martin as Special Prosecutor to for Schiff and Letitia James mortgage fraud; Grand Jury convened for Letitia James

Best day ever.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (i24o9)

260 He probably took several hundred images that day with his equipment

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 12:56 PM (uWKK

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The way a lot of news photography works these days.

Of course they used to do a lot of this back when they had to waste film. They just weighed the cost of film against the benefit of getting just the right picture.

Now, you're just temporarily using magnetic chunks.

Posted by: The Nothing Will Happen Guy at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (Q4cxx)

261 You know who DOES have illicit drugs under control? Singapore. It would be cheaper and infinitely more effective for us to copy the Singapore model, than to pursue a war in Mexico.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (0I+GC)

262 I remember telling somebody a few days before Katrina hit that they needed to use school busses to get the people with no transportation out of New Orleans.

A few days later the from the air photos of the flooded parking lots with hundreds of school busses came out.

My silly ass sitting a thousand miles away had that figured out and they couldn't?"

Do you remember the excuse for not using the school buses? Mayor Ray Nagan (who later went to prison for theft, among other things) said because it happened on a Sunday, all the school bus drivers were on their day off and couldn't work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (uWKK8)

263 He had his shutter set for a really fast exposure: what you use for things flying fast.

Also if you want shallow depth of field on a bright day with fast film.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (/y8xj)

264 52 19 Mayorkas was a truly loathsome scumbag who even loathsome scumbags thought was a loathsome scumbag. I hope Satan's rats have a good time feasting on his colon.
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

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My English teacher would be proud that you know the proper use of a colon!

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (8P/xB)

265 Fat Electrician has a whole video about HEB that just came out. I've been meaning to watch it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:01 PM (pERWT)

266
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (RT3YC)

Society is where it is today because humanity as a whole has lost the healthy fear of God it once had.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

267 >>@AGPamBondi
·
>>1h
Our
@TheJusticeDept
attorneys just secured a MAJOR victory defending President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien terrorists.

>>The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed what we’ve argued for months: Judge Boasberg’s attempt to sanction the government for deporting criminal-alien terrorists was a “clear abuse of discretion” — failed judicial overreach at its worst.

>>We will continue fighting and WINNING in court for President Trump’s agenda to keep America Safe!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 01:01 PM (viF8m)

268 . It would be cheaper and infinitely more effective for us to copy the Singapore model, than to pursue a war in Mexico.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (0I+GC)

All in on bamboo futures!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:02 PM (pERWT)

269 Great news about the sheriff in MA.

To borrow a formula popular here -

wake me up when a sheriff or mayor is arrested for aiding/sheltering illegal aliens.

Walk your talk, Homan (and Trump).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 01:02 PM (U/Byj)

270 I’ve been missing the Mannix babes! And Joe too of course… but mostly the babes ;-)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (ZtAny)

Old pic of Christy Brinkley, is it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:02 PM (0eaVi)

271 257
H.E.B. Texas' own grocery chain has a fully outfitted and staffed emergency team, with trucks of food, a cooking trailer, water, sleeping spaces, and an internet trailer. They are fully paid for by H.E.B.

They are a better organized and staffed rescue team than FEMA.
Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 12:59 PM (Vfq+S)

HEB. The Buc-ee's of grocery stores.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

The Fat Electrician on YouTube did a video about HEB. Never heard of them before that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (xcxpd)

272 Unfortunately The HE Butts family is mostly liberal IIRC.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (VofaG)

273 Is there no limit to how low they will sink to?
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (NnONT)

The answer to that is a simple "no."

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (MZ+PY)

274 >>You know who DOES have illicit drugs under control? Singapore. It would be cheaper and infinitely more effective for us to copy the Singapore model, than to pursue a war in Mexico.

Yea, I don't want to live under Singapore laws.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (viF8m)

275 >>The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed what we’ve argued for months: Judge Boasberg’s attempt to sanction the government for deporting criminal-alien terrorists was a “clear abuse of discretion” — failed judicial overreach at its worst.

>>We will continue fighting and WINNING in court for President Trump’s agenda to keep America Safe!
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 01:01 PM (viF8m)

There is no such thing as a liberal or conservative judge.

Posted by: Cheap Justice John Roberts at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

276 4th Reich slowly arises -

AfD Candidate Excluded From German Mayoral Race Over Alleged ‘Lack of Constitutional Loyalty’

link to Brussels Signal (in English)
https://tinyurl.com/bdz6krnt

and this tidbit from the article -

Among the more curious accusations was the fact that Paul had commended the oeuvre of British fantasy author J R Tolkien, specifically The Lord of the Rings trilogy, as “especially valuable for modern Conservatism” in a newspaper article.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (Dv3i1)

277 That’s Thibedeaux and the accent is a brick shy of a load, but, yeah, NOPD is as corrupt as all get out! I should know, my late brother in law was retired NOPD.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (2FwlN)

278 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (RT3YC)

Society is where it is today because humanity as a whole has lost the healthy fear of God it once had.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)
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This, too, is the story of Babel.

I have come so far around on the story of Babel.

I think God gave us a couple thousand years in the Flood and Babel.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (Q4cxx)

279 The Fat Electrician on YouTube did a video about HEB. Never heard of them before that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (xcxpd)

It's a Texas thing.

Posted by: Cheap Justice John Roberts at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

280 274 >>You know who DOES have illicit drugs under control? Singapore. It would be cheaper and infinitely more effective for us to copy the Singapore model, than to pursue a war in Mexico.

Yea, I don't want to live under Singapore laws.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (viF8m)

*insert weed joke here*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (xcxpd)

281 Best day ever.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Dang good start. I'm betting Schiff had to change his Depends early.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (RT3YC)

282 Shit.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

283 Elon didn't build that!

Kevin Dalton@TheKevinDalton
UNREAL…
Gavin Newsom just took credit for Elon Musk’s wealth

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)

284 Unfortunately The HE Butts family is mostly liberal IIRC.

Probably. They waited until the old man died before selling beer and wine.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (/y8xj)

285 220 210 If I had a choice for one Biden and one Obama Admin member to hang by the neck til dead, it would be Mayorkas and Brennan.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 08, 2025 12:51 PM (th/4a)

That's a hell of a choice to have to make and then live with. I mean, there are SO many options.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)

Seriously. At first, you think Brennan is a slam dunk choice.

But then you realize that means Pedodesta gets to run free.

Posted by: XTC at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (UnA8+)

286 262 One of the funniest routines was Bernard McGuirk doing Ray Nagan on the Imus Show. "Imus, I lost my dog Whitey in the 9th ward. Loved that dog. Used to say hey Whitey, lick my balls. Ironically, whitey couldn't swim".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 01:05 PM (gm9Sb)

287 Is there no limit to how low they will sink to?
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM (NnONT)

The answer to that is a simple "no."
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (MZ+PY)

Six feet is typically considered sufficient, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:05 PM (pERWT)

288 The worst mistake Texas made was accepting Katrina refugees.

Every city that did so has gotten exponentially worse.

Lazy, unproductive, criminal, generational ghetto trash that took the opportunity of change to continue their depraved and predatory ways.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:05 PM (IIsq3)

289 The Fat Electrician on YouTube did a video about HEB. Never heard of them before that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:03 PM (xcxpd)

It's a Texas thing.
Posted by: Cheap Justice John Roberts at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM

Ben Had tells me I need to try their pecan coffee. I'll have to stop in and pick up a bag in October.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 01:05 PM (kgE5c)

290 There is no such thing as a liberal or conservative judge.
Posted by: Cheap Justice John Roberts

The fact that the appeals court decision was 2-1 with two R appointed judges voting for Boasberg to stay in his lane and one D appointed judge voting to let his freak flag fly notwithstanding.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (Dv3i1)

291 270 I’ve been missing the Mannix babes! And Joe too of course… but mostly the babes ;-)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (ZtAny)

Old pic of Christy Brinkley, is it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:02 PM (0eaVi)

*perks up*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (xcxpd)

292 I’ve been missing the Mannix babes! And Joe too of course… but mostly the babes ;-)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 12:53 PM (ZtAny)

Old pic of Christy Brinkley, is it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 01:02 PM (0eaVi)

I'm good with that.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (W/lyH)

293 >>@AGPamBondi
·
>>1h
Our
@TheJusticeDept
attorneys just secured a MAJOR victory defending President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien terrorists.

>>The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed what we’ve argued for months: Judge Boasberg’s attempt to sanction the government for deporting criminal-alien terrorists was a “clear abuse of discretion” — failed judicial overreach at its worst.

>>We will continue fighting and WINNING in court for President Trump’s agenda to keep America Safe!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 01:01 PM (viF8m)

She couldn't have thrown in jab demean his little pee pee while she was at it?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (i24o9)

294 284 Unfortunately The HE Butts family is mostly liberal IIRC.

Probably. They waited until the old man died before selling beer and wine.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (/y8xj)

I seem to remember that Butt Jr. used to run religious public service announcements on right-wing talk radio, though.

Posted by: XTC at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (UnA8+)

295 The public has rejected trannies, DEI, Pride shit, pro-crime policies, anti-white racism and the USAID spigot has been shut off.

All the Left has now are the corrupt judges.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (/HI9S)

296 Six feet is typically considered sufficient, though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:05 PM (pERWT)

I'll settle for a shallow sinking in the desert or woods.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2025 01:06 PM (MGB5H)

297 199 This bikini brunette is a proud member of Females for the Encouragement of Male Attraction, and resents the anti-FEMA sentiment being expressed on this thread:
http://tiny.cc/fnxq001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 12:48 PM (6bTRc)

Slim and pretty

Would

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:07 PM (xcxpd)

298 Do you remember the excuse for not using the school buses? Mayor Ray Nagan (who later went to prison for theft, among other things) said because it happened on a Sunday, all the school bus drivers were on their day off and couldn't work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (uWKK

No planning. None.
It's a Chocolate City.
Planning anything might interfere with the graft.

And I didn't hear that excuse.
I tuned Nagan out pretty quickly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 01:07 PM (6ydKt)

299 Kevin Dalton@TheKevinDalton
UNREAL…
Gavin Newsom just took credit for Elon Musk’s wealth
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
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It makes sense. Last time I was there, a solid 10% of the cars I saw in Silicon Valley were Teslas. Californians love those cars, and Californians are all prosperous because of the government, and their government is the creature of its governor, and therefore much of Tesla's revenue is the result of Gavin Newsom.

Or something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2025 01:07 PM (6bTRc)

300 272 Unfortunately The HE Butts family is mostly liberal IIRC.

You going to look a gift horse in the mouth? Be grateful they were there with what was needful, when it was needed!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (2FwlN)

301 215 How do you think that photographer was able to catch that bullet in flight at Butler? He had his shutter set for a really fast exposure: what you use for things flying fast. If you wanted a photo of a watermelon exploding, that would be the exposure setting you would use! I wonder who told him to do that?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2FwlN)

Someone should ask him. That photographer won the Pulitzer over the one that shot the FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT picture after all.

I never thought about that before, but it makes a lot of sense. What's the usual shutter speed setting for a live campaign event?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (0CU3H)

302 Is there no limit to how low they will sink to?
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 12:20 PM

Depends on the body of water you have available.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (kgE5c)

303 *insert weed joke here*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

I think that should be our response, more meta. Someone makes a comment about arms

*Michelle Fields Joke*

Someone uses an unusual twist of a phrase

*Watching a band at a venue joke*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (dfIr7)

304 Six feet is typically considered sufficient, though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:05 PM (pERWT)

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I'd like to see Fauci and the ground remain six feet apart.

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (Q4cxx)

305 >>What's the usual shutter speed setting for a live campaign event?

Laden or unladen?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (viF8m)

306 Someone should ask him. That photographer won the Pulitzer over the one that shot the FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT picture after all.

Yes, clearly that was not the most epic and newsworthy image of last year at all or anything

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (dfIr7)

307 Ben Had tells me I need to try their pecan coffee. I'll have to stop in and pick up a bag in October.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

It is the only coffee I drink. Whole bean and grind it daily. If I ever have to leave Texas for some bizarre reason, I will be making road trips to buy 50 pounds at a time.

Posted by: Thomans Paine at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (Vfq+S)

308 nood

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (0I+GC)

309 303 *insert weed joke here*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

I think that should be our response, more meta. Someone makes a comment about arms

*Michelle Fields Joke*

Someone uses an unusual twist of a phrase

*Watching a band at a venue joke*
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (dfIr7)

I actually kinda like the blog memes.
I just didn't ACTUALLY want to pile on and accuse Jack of being a junkie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (xcxpd)

310 *insert weed joke here*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

I think that should be our response, more meta. Someone makes a comment about arms

*Michelle Fields Joke*

Someone uses an unusual twist of a phrase

*Watching a band at a venue joke*
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (dfIr7)
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*Insert Same As In Town*

Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (Q4cxx)

311 I never thought about that before, but it makes a lot of sense. What's the usual shutter speed setting for a live campaign event?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2025 01:08 PM (0CU3H)

African or European?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (pERWT)

312 Charles Butts is a big Dem donor in Texas.

Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (VofaG)

313 Will defer to those schooled in the nuances, but quick read of the court ruling doesn't have me doing jumping jacks. The contempt order was based on the whole ridiculous no-notice hearing/no-notice unconstitutional order regarding a flight that was under way or had already landed.

That is, an operational question. Don't see how it touches on underlying substance of Alien Enemies Act. Unless I'm missing the point there.

And to repeat earlier comment, even in its reasoning and explanation, the majority (of 2 vs. 1) exhibits how far off the constitutional cracker the entire discussion is. They refer to questions about the judiciary's role in foreign policy as "contentious". Which is absurd. as there is no dispute, much less a contentious one.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 01:09 PM (U/Byj)

314 I seem to remember that Butt Jr. used to run religious public service announcements on right-wing talk radio, though.

That may be who I was thinking of.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 01:10 PM (/y8xj)

315 Baskin Robbins has gone full Nazi!

https://is.gd/UiMQPf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 01:11 PM (L/fGl)

316 The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed what we’ve argued for months: Judge Boasberg’s attempt to sanction the government for deporting criminal-alien terrorists was a “clear abuse of discretion” — failed judicial overreach at its worst.
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For those of you unfamiliar with the law world, a finding of "clear abuse of discretion" is nearly impossible at the appeal level.
It's a mirage that is always just out there but rarely found on appeal.
When the trial court rules on a matter of discretion, it law-speak for "any crazy, possible reason will justify it--even one we make up after the fact and not even in the record."

Like I said earlier, this it the equivalent of the court saying, "did you even go to law school?" to the judge.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (IIsq3)

317 You know who DOES have illicit drugs under control? Singapore. It would be cheaper and infinitely more effective for us to copy the Singapore model, than to pursue a war in Mexico.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 01:00 PM (0I+GC)

Do both. There needs to be a 3-strike policy for hard drugs. Third conviction buys you a bullet in the head.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 01:12 PM (kaqWV)

318 If you wanted a photo of a watermelon exploding, that would be the exposure setting you would use! I wonder who told him to do that?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2FwlN)

Photographers at events like this have plenty of storage space on their cameras these days.

They don't shoot in the old way of click, wait for a good shot, click, repeat.

They turn the shutter speed up high and basically shoot like it's a mini-movie. Click*Click*Click*Click*Click*.

That way they just dump the load on their computer, pick out the best shots of the subject, and move on.

The only thing holding a photographer back in getting lots of shots is lighting inside and possibly waiting on a flash to recharge.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 01:13 PM (6ydKt)

319 Burn the entire NGO system down to the waterline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

And make sure to wait until low tide, so you burn the ntertidal area too.

Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 01:13 PM (pMi6S)

320 H.E.B. …. The B stands for the Butt’s family? Beavis and Butthead are giggling

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (ANuwa)

321 H.E.B. Texas' own grocery chain has a fully outfitted and staffed emergency team, with trucks of food, a cooking trailer, water, sleeping spaces, and an internet trailer. They are fully paid for by H.E.B.

They are a better organized and staffed rescue team than FEMA.
Posted by: Thomans Paine
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Samaritan's Purse and Operation Airlift immediately brought in tons of supplies here in the aftermath of The Storm. All volunteers, private aircraft. I could go on for paragraphs about other volunteer organizations.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2025 01:14 PM (XeU6L)

322 It's wonderful that Trump and crew are fighting back on many fronts. What I haven't heard is a response to my letter(s) pleading with him to write an E.O. mandating that Pumpkin Spice season may not start until Oct. 20 and must finish when Thanksgiving weekend is over. For the sake of the children.

Posted by: Common Sense Spice Control at August 08, 2025 01:17 PM (G5+As)

323 I’ve been schooled on modern press photography. But why was the rally televised? I think the word was out that “something” was going to happen in Butler. Remember, the video news networks weren’t there for other, previous rallies!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:25 PM (2FwlN)

324 Native Texan here: I had always heard that HEB stood for Howard E. Butts, the founder’s name. Also I briefly dated a girl at Texas A & M whose last name was Buttz. She assured me early on that she was no relation to the H. E. Butts.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 01:28 PM (2FwlN)

325 The first step is to take credit.

Step two is to take possession.

(I needed something with "too", maybe next time)

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 08, 2025 01:29 PM (s9EN2)

326 Earl Butz. Lest we forget.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2025 01:30 PM (XeU6L)

327 If I had a choice for one Biden and one Obama Admin member to hang by the neck til dead, it would be Mayorkas and Brennan.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers
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That's a hell of a choice to have to make and then live with. I mean, there are SO many options.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Seriously. At first, you think Brennan is a slam dunk choice.
But then you realize that means Pedodesta gets to run free.
Posted by: XTC

10 in binary equals 2. Just don't tell the executioner it's written in binary.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 01:54 PM (QcUc+)

328 I'd like to introduce what I call the Broken windows theory of politics. Politicians, if not held accountable for the small shit, will keep escalating their stupidity until they are held accountable.

It is better for both parties if accountability happens early and often.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 02:01 PM (D1vbu)

329 I have a burning hatred of these little nazis!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 08, 2025 02:39 PM (ouHkC)

330 According to "a complaint" one complaint ? Really? There was one complaint?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at August 08, 2025 03:34 PM (+WHHG)

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