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Daily Tech News 18 January 2026
Top Story
- Same: Elon Musk wants $134 billion in his OpenAI lawsuit. (Tech Crunch)
The figure comes from expert witness C. Paul Wazzan, a financial economist whose bio says he has been deposed nearly 100 times and testified at trial more than a dozen times in complex commercial litigation cases.
I have acted as an expert witness once. You couldn't pay me enough to do it again... Though $134 billion would be tempting.Wazzan, who specializes in valuation and damages calculations in high-stakes disputes, determined that Musk is entitled to a hefty portion of OpenAI's current $500 billion valuation based on his $38 million seed donation when he co-founded the startup in 2015.
Much of the article is devoted to ad-hominem attacks by the partisan lunatics at Tech Crunch, who think fraud is okay against people for whom they feel irrational hatred.
- Better be quick, Elon because an analysis of OpenAI's finances suggests they could run out of money as soon as 2027. (Tom's Hardware)
If you're wondering why the beancounters at the big memory manufacturers are being wary of rapid expansion in the face of unprecedented demand, well, it's because they are able to read a spreadsheet and they do not like what they see.
Tech News
- Also because they are. Well, not Samsung but Micron has broken ground on its new $100 billion, 1.2 million square foot factory in upstate New York, which is expected to be in production by 2030. (The Register)
They originally planned to start construction in 2024, but were delayed by bats.The megafab - which would displace 500 acres of woods and wetlands, as well as two endangered species of bats - is scheduled to begin producing DRAM chips by 2030.
Part of the land the factory will be built on is swamp, so Micron has been obligated to build a new swamp to replace the old one.
Micron said it will create 1,216 acres of off-site bat habitat including maternity roosts to mitigate the potential damage its fab will cause to the Indiana and northern long-eared bat populations, as well as 628 acres of land to offset impacts to the sedge wren, short-eared owl, and northern harrier bird populations.
- Hardware Unboxed reported that there were no Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review cards to be had for a planned model roundup, that Asus told them the 5070 Ti was "end of life", and that Australian retailers reported that there was zero stock of any model at suppliers.
Nvidia insisted this was all lies and slander and slanderous lies and every model of the RTX 5000 lineup was still in production.
For the real story, let's check Newegg, since their site can easily be filtered to exclude second-hand and out-of-stock items and cards from strange marketplace sellers in Uzbekistan.
Total 5090 models available at any price: Zero.
5080 - one, at 80% over MSRP.
5070 Ti - one, at 40% over MSRP.
5070 - 8 models starting at close to MSRP.
5060 Ti 16GB - I initially found none at all, but a second search dug out one card.
5060 Ti 8GB - the model all the reviews told you not to buy is readily available starting at MSRP.
5060 - 20+ models in stock starting at MSRP.
5050 - 4 models in stock starting at MSRP.
So if you're looking for a low-end card or for the mid-range 12GB 5070, you're in luck - they're in stock and selling for their listed prices. But the cards with 16GB or more VRAM are gone.
On the AMD side things are a little better. The three 16GB cards - the 9060 XT, 9070, and 9070 XT - all show multiple models available, but all starting at 5% to 20% above MSRP, a problem that has persisted since they launched except for a few short weeks late last year.
Advantage: Team Unboxed.
- Well, that's... Something. Intel's Bartlett Lake embedded processors will bring up to 12 P-cores (full-size performance cores) and no E (efficiency / low power cores) running at up to 5.9GHz to Socket FC-LGA16A for the embedded market. (WCCFTech)
No Intel consumer CPU has ever had 12 P cores; the largest number ever was with the 10-core 10900 introduced in 2020, and subsequent to that the maximum has been 8.
But, you point out, these are embedded CPUs, not consumer models.
True. But Socket FC-LGA16A is better known as Socket 1700, the same one used by Intel's 12th, 13th, and 14th generation desktop CPUs, and for which inexpensive motherboards supporting both DDR4 and DDR5 are readily available.
Might be worth keeping an eye out for these.
- There are no cheap PCIe 4.0 switches to expand the number of lanes available in PC motherboards... Except motherboard chipsets like the AMD B650 which does exactly that so people are using it in unintended ways. (WCCFTech)
I mentioned this before but this is a nice roundup with pictures of expansion cards using the B650 to provide four additional M.2 slots and four SATA ports in a half-height form factor.
It's an open source project but it would be interesting to see someone pick it up and run with it.
- Rebuilding New York... In Minecraft. (Tom's Hardware)
A project born of the Wuflu lockdown and weaponised autism. It's legitimately impressive.
- Speaking of which, I played some more Hytale. Despite being in early access and its developers apologising for its unpolished state, it's a fun game - and it only costs $20.
The best way to think of it is that it's not a pure Minecraft clone but a combination of the best features of Minecraft and older action RPGs like Torchlight. The world can be taken apart and rebuilt block-by-block - mostly - but it's faster-paced and more action-oriented than Minecraft, and has story elements that Minecraft is mostly lacking.
- In praise of tyranny: Nearly 5 million social media accounts have been shut down in Australia, and the New York Times thinks that's a good thing. (New York Times)
What The Times largely avoids mentioning is that the teenagers affected immediately created new accounts and worked around the ban. Traffic from the sites to Australia has not been reduced at all since the ban went into effect.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: The ice isn't melting. WHY ISN'T THE ICE MELTING?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 18, 2026 04:05 AM (O6Vyi)
Posted by: Pete Bog at January 18, 2026 04:07 AM (qlUA+)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 18, 2026 04:09 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 18, 2026 04:29 AM (sAmhv)
I use ellipses for effect to show how sloooowly I'm moving here. A certain black cat, who shall remain nameless except that his name rhymes with "Hurling," woke me by leaping across me. Again. I *think* he's trying to get his little sister Dagny to leave the bed and play with him Or to get me up for his breakfast -- which he is NOT going to get for two more hours. Dammit.
Ahem. Good evening and morning, all. Whassup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 18, 2026 04:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 04:40 AM (SSiCQ)
Alex Cord plays the Wayne role, and he's not *bad,* but he's no Wayne.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 18, 2026 04:42 AM (wzUl9)
New to me.
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 04:52 AM (SSiCQ)
It's actually off to bed for me. Coming up on 2 AM Sunday here in the Peoples Republic (Commiefornia).
Wolfus - I watched a little of 1966 Stagecoach. Also has Slim Pickins as I think the Stagecoach driver. Can't mistake that accent of his!
And Ann Margaret....Mmmmmm - wistful smile...... heading off to my bunk...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2026 04:58 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 04:59 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: buzzion at January 18, 2026 04:59 AM (3tZV2)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 18, 2026 04:58 AM (QGaXH)
Sympathies.
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 05:01 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 18, 2026 05:05 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: fluffy at January 18, 2026 05:08 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Sunday . . . at January 18, 2026 05:11 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at January 18, 2026 05:14 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 05:18 AM (BSdIE)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 18, 2026 05:18 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Sunday . . . at January 18, 2026 05:11 AM (3ZUWJ)
On the Sunday morning sidewalks, wishin' Lord, that I was stoned
'Cause there's something in a Sunday, makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short of dyin', half as lonesome as the sound
On the sleepin' city side walks, Sunday mornin' comin' down
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 05:18 AM (SSiCQ)
'Cause there's something in a Sunday, makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short of dyin', half as lonesome as the sound
On the sleepin' city side walks, Sunday mornin' comin' down
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026
***
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad --
So I had one more for dessert. . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 18, 2026 05:22 AM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/bn9w8hbd
Leftists terrorists need a dead or alive bounty on their heads.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 18, 2026 05:29 AM (UUvzi)
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2026 05:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: buzzion
Yeah, it's going to be a big problem. Even if people buy 32GB instead of 64GB, you're paying three times as much for half the RAM.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 18, 2026 05:30 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 18, 2026 05:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 05:43 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Pixy Misa
>I bought a new notebook and it came with a Taiwanese AI stalker profiling me for facial recognition. I'm tempted to show it nothing but my junk because that's where the big money is at.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 05:43 AM (BSdIE)
Does that mean you would have to unzip whenever you log in? Things could get awkward at the local internet cafe.
Posted by: fluffy at January 18, 2026 05:49 AM (AN2gy)
Does that mean you would have to unzip whenever you log in? Things could get awkward at the local internet cafe.
Posted by: fluffy at January 18, 2026 05:49 AM (AN2gy)
He was in the pool!
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 05:52 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: fluffy
>Sacrifices must be made. I have no considerable financial assets so it must be seeking an identity wholly my own. I'm not shy.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 05:56 AM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 06:03 AM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2026 06:04 AM (Ia/+0)
@gbrl_dick
Jan 16
caught the 3yo walking into the house with a handful of gravel. when i asked him what it was for he said, “im going to put it in my bed”.
why on earth would you do that? “well i’ve already done yours and mum’s bed.”
sure enough, corner of the bed is crumpled. pull the covers back and there’s a handful of gravel right in the middle of the bed. he’d even remade it afterwards. unbelievable.
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 06:05 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 06:06 AM (BSdIE)
why on earth would you do that? “well i’ve already done yours and mum’s bed.”
sure enough, corner of the bed is crumpled. pull the covers back and there’s a handful of gravel right in the middle of the bed. he’d even remade it afterwards. unbelievable.
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026
***
The spirit of experimentation! Something tells me this kid will be a bright light in the world of Science in about twenty years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 18, 2026 06:10 AM (wzUl9)
On the other hand, it's less than three hours to the Book Thread.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 18, 2026 06:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2026 06:13 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 18, 2026 06:15 AM (MmTZZ)
Posted by: one hour sober at January 18, 2026 06:17 AM (Y1sOo)
And, if anyone is putting linux on old Macbook Pros or Airs, use LMDE. It's Mint based on Debian. For some reason, it handles the GPUs better. I get distortion on the Mint start up screens, but not with LMDE. Both use Cinnamon desktop and look identical.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2026 06:20 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: one hour sober
>Heh? What? I live on the continental divide here in the Rocky Mountains and it is 50 to 60 deg during the day. Okay, 23 at night, but WTF?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 06:23 AM (BSdIE)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway
...................................................
Outside the beltway too. Expecting snow later. Probably just an inch or two. The local newzcasts will be orgasmic with fearpron.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 18, 2026 06:24 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2026 06:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Got a conundrum this morning. A professor has emailed me with a question regarding his grade calculations in the learning management system.
Do I answer his question NOW, on a Sunday? Or do I wait until Tuesday when I'm technically back on the clock?
How much should I charge him for trying to get me to do math on a Sunday?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2026 06:28 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
..............................
I have Linux Mint 22.2 on an old HP laptop. It has a Radeon GPU and it will occasionally go dark, recover, go dark again, etc. I just reboot and it's fine. See a boat load of errors (GPU) before it reboots. LM does not like that GPU
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 18, 2026 06:28 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2026 06:29 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:31 AM (u82oZ)
Do I answer his question NOW, on a Sunday? Or do I wait until Tuesday when I'm technically back on the clock?
How much should I charge him for trying to get me to do math on a Sunday?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
>Let it go until Tuesday. Not your problem. Enjoy your weekend.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 06:32 AM (BSdIE)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 18, 2026 06:33 AM (Cjt/F)
If you answer him now, you create a new standard. Word may get around, and quick action will be the expectation. At the expense of your down time.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:34 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2026 06:35 AM (X4XpB)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 18, 2026 06:35 AM (+mUZM)
https://tinyurl.com/5n8x4nr3
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2026 06:37 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2026 06:37 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:40 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
>Don't do what I would do and tell him to 'fuck off.' That's why I am currently unemployed.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 06:41 AM (BSdIE)
They're Indiana bats in northern NY?
Being pro-illegal alien has really gone too far. Just send them home and let Indiana build a swamp for them. Criminy.
Posted by: GWB at January 18, 2026 06:43 AM (MU2We)
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews devotional:
https://tinyurl.com/4f882kk3
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2026 06:44 AM (rZCVI)
It's a balmy 12F this morning here in Bourbon Country. It won't break 30F today, but the sun will shine.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2026 06:45 AM (U2OZr)
Hit single digit temps earlier this morning. Getting warmer. Yesterday was cold and windy.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:47 AM (u82oZ)
What is going on in your world?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:40 AM (u82oZ)
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Not a whole lot, actually.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2026 06:48 AM (X4XpB)
Posted by: Don Black at January 18, 2026 06:49 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:50 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Just Wondering at January 18, 2026 06:50 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 18, 2026 06:50 AM (s5hGr)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:50 AM (u82oZ)
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Could be raining...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2026 06:51 AM (X4XpB)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 18, 2026 06:54 AM (X4XpB)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 18, 2026 06:55 AM (xRPmS)
22F with windchill, per AI summary.
Embarrassing.
Posted by: fluffy at January 18, 2026 06:55 AM (AN2gy)
I found some unusual items like a battery powered pencil sharpener of my late wife's. Or a Duracell coppertop AAA battery that expired in 2004, still with a charge of 1 volt. It was well protected.
Started to go through my pictures. Brought back a lot of memories.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:56 AM (u82oZ)
I listened to Wet Willie last night.
Posted by: fluffy at January 18, 2026 06:56 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 18, 2026 06:57 AM (3Ope8)
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Every winter around here there's a spate of house fires when it gets really cold and people turn to space heaters. Electric or propane. Last year around the holidays a house burned to the ground, killing the family. It was one of several such fires that year. And the old, wood framed or (like us) modular homes go up like tinder.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2026 06:59 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 18, 2026 06:59 AM (5xBgn)
Posted by: Colin at January 18, 2026 07:01 AM (wlQdF)
The rule for schools here is -20 ℉, or below zero temp.
School busses are no longer diesel, because the anti-pollution requirements made them unreliable, and DEF was a pain to add. So gas busses don't gum up like very cold diesel fuel will.
I found out one cold morning, when diesel froze in the fuel lines, even with a lot of additives. Was stuck on the road, by a curve.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 07:01 AM (u82oZ)
https://is.gd/MlTkUa
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 18, 2026 07:01 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 18, 2026 07:03 AM (7hx0x)
---
was it the bathroom window? Please tell me it came in thru the bathroom window
Posted by: Don Black at January 18, 2026 07:06 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2026 07:13 AM (odRhE)
Enjoy the warmth that modern power generation and distribution gives you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 07:13 AM (u82oZ)
We ard in a lunatic dream
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2026 07:19 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: The Patriarchy at January 18, 2026 07:20 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: The ghost of Samuel Langhorne Clemens at January 18, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 18, 2026 07:35 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 18, 2026 06:56 AM (u82oZ)
Well done! Good luck. Onward, upward.
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 07:35 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 18, 2026 07:01 AM (HTCU3)
Pixy isn't.
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 07:37 AM (SSiCQ)
"U.S. District Court Judge Consuelo B. Marshall issued an order Thursday forcing LAPD officers to stop using 40mm foam projectiles against protesters."
One of the reasons why?
"An officer shot a man in the groin, then shot a lawyer in the groin when the lawyer asked the officer for his name."
More of this, please.
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2026 07:39 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: The ghost of Samuel Langhorne Clemens at January 18, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Gotcha covered!
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 07:40 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at January 18, 2026 07:43 AM (R/m4+)
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Shakespeare smiles and nods into his beer.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 18, 2026 07:43 AM (1Tl5o)
Consuelo Marshall is an 80 yr old senior judge. A majority of the anti Trump administration decisions have been written by senior judges. It's like a rear guard actions by sixties radicals
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 18, 2026 07:44 AM (PTsqM)
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2026 07:44 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 18, 2026 07:45 AM (1Tl5o)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 18, 2026 07:01 AM (HTCU3)
Pixy isn't.
Posted by: m at January 18, 2026 07:37 AM (SSiCQ)
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Are you willing to bet your life on that?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 18, 2026 07:45 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: fd at January 18, 2026 07:46 AM (vFG9F)
Saturday Night Club ONT - January 17, 2026 [Double Play]
Orgeat syrup (pronounced "or-zha" or "or-zhat") is a sweet, nutty syrup primarily made from almonds, sugar, and a touch of floral elements like orange blossom water (and sometimes rose water). It has a rich, marzipan-like flavor with creamy, toasted almond notes and a subtle floral aroma. Historically, it originated from a barley-almond blend (the name comes from the French word for barley, "orge"), but modern versions focus on almonds. It's milky and emulsified, giving drinks a smooth texture.------ Meanwhile at Club Bulwark
Good Friday morning! One more shift, then time to cut loose. I'd advise sticking to traditional beverages; I hear the new Bud Light replacement is terrible. Have a great day and stay positive! pic.twitter.com/vIlS8IB0lq
— Hausmeister (@Witebred) January 16, 2026
A flock of about 50 sheep escaped from their owner while being herded and took a shopping trip to a nearby supermarket in Germany. A video taken at the Penny supermarket in Burgsinn, Lower Franconia, shows dozens of sheep flooding into the store through the front doors, causing chaos inside the store and leaving a trail of destruction and poop in their wake. Shepherd Dieter Michler said the sheep had broken away from a larger flock he had been herding through the area en route to the Sinn River. Michler said the sheep had apparently been distracted by acorns on the ground in the store's parking lot, and then went inside in search of more snacks. He said the sheep were safely reunited with the rest of the flock.
This band got its name by accident: while rehearsing in a Spartanburg, SC warehouse, they spotted a keychain belonging to a blind piano tuner who had used the space before them. And just like that, one of rock’s most iconic names was born. Name the band. pic.twitter.com/VfexuYKWgy
— 🇺🇸Hot Pepper (@Hot_Pepper76) January 12, 2026
----- Tonight's tuneage
How's that for an eclectic mix?!?
Diversified business endeavors
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - believe it at January 17, 2026 10:00 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 17, 2026 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: mikeski bears with it at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:03 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 10:04 PM (85Pr6)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 10:05 PM (SEFV4)
See, I told you I'd be back for the ONT, and I am.
However, Alito's will never be back. They knocked it down. For a plaza.
Plaza: n. Place for the homeless of San Francisco to poop and do drugs.
They saved the sign, so maybe the giant fish will end up in the Neon Graveyard.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 10:06 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:06 PM (RIvkX)
Marshall Tucker Band. Friends and I played them in a HS lip sync competition. Saw them three times in concert. Great band
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 10:07 PM (PTsqM)
This is the South American version of "did you know Reno is further west than Los Angeles?"
The entire continent of South America is further east than Jacksonville, Florida.
My favorite thing like that is that going from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama canal means you travel eastward.
You can see why on the map up there in the Content.
Posted by: mikeski spins right round at January 17, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 10:04 PM
***
Bewbs was the obvious path, so we took care of that last week to get it out of the way. Of course, bewbs are universal and could warrant a reprise at any time.
Posted by: TRex - double play dino at January 17, 2026 10:08 PM (cCn4/)
I am sorry, even Fry ain't going to be yelling "Take my money!" for this:
https://tinyurl.com/mrd3f2df
Crack IS the cheaper addiction nyah.
Robert, questions and/or comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:08 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 10:09 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:09 PM (I7mtr)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at January 17, 2026 10:09 PM (pscAN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:11 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)
Well, with today's plunge in temperatures, I'm thinking it's a good choc for a night hotlet. With MiladyJo's own home-mixed Irish Cream. (From a recipe online; we lost creeper's recipe.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - warm from the inside out at January 17, 2026 10:13 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 10:13 PM (o4wD0)
Posted by: Joyenz at January 17, 2026 10:13 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 10:14 PM (SEFV4)
Posted by: mikeski bears with it at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)
Who let the bears -into- the ONT?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2026 10:14 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Coffee, Tea, Or Me? at January 17, 2026 10:14 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:15 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 10:15 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
--
youtube.com/watch?v=it_ZGSHDrhQ
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:15 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Jonathan Lawson @ Colonial Penn at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Doof at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (SEFV4)
Much better name than the one you floated last week.
Let's par-tay!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (kB9dk)
I am sorry, even Fry ain't going to be yelling "Take my money!" for this:
https://tinyurl.com/mrd3f2df
Crack IS the cheaper addiction nyah.
Robert, questions and/or comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma
I did miss it.
1/1? So a life-size statue of an anime-looking video game character?
I can find better places to spend 7 grand. Like, buy almost every anime box set released last year.
Remember the old "_____ is my anti-drug" commercials?
"Anime is my anti-drug. Cuz when you're addicted to anime, you can't afford no drugs."
Posted by: mikeski can quit anytime at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (8zz6B)
https://shorturl.at/m3VDa
Goes to a wood tobacco pipe rack for $3000
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2026 10:18 PM (sqSJJ)
Posted by: Wally Walrus at January 17, 2026 10:18 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)
NASA rolled out the Artemis II stack to pad 39B today. The whole laborious process using that massive crawler-transporter took all day, about 12 hours to travel 4 miles from the VAB to the pad:
https://is.gd/SJVTgU
That's a live feed. Run it back all the way, and if you fast forward it there, you can actually see it's moving.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Two Of Pattie Boyd's husbands at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM
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Good evening LS! Glad you're here. Enjoy your time in Club ONT. Make sure to get your frequent patron card punched.
Posted by: TRex - dino dino at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (cCn4/)
Supposedly, advertisements to settle Minnesota pointed out that the state existed at the same latitudes as places like Paris and Venice.
Mostly Norwegians and Swedes fell for it.
Posted by: mikeski chills out at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Doof at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
The ONT continues to answer questions nobody was ever going to ask.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:22 PM (I7mtr)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 17, 2026 10:22 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17
Laundromat tanning sounds worse.
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:23 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:23 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Doof at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
So, there isn't a toilet?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 10:24 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (w6EFb)
When not taking rockets to the launch pad, the massive crawler-transporter earns its keep delivering income tax refunds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:24 PM (8zz6B)
🦖, 🎶,?
Is Doggo mad at you guys?
Well, I guess I'll sit back and enjoy the jolly banter of the Horde...
We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll argue, we'll talk some smack, and some of us will probably imbibe🍹🍺...woo hoo!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 17, 2026 10:24 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:25 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 10:25 PM (zZu0s)
71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Two Of Pattie Boyd's husbands at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (oftw2)
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Um, it's in the song. They're married to Mabel.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (RIvkX)
But it will go perfectly with your 1/1 scale Ayanami Rei statue...
Posted by: Anna Puma
Hah!
No 1/1s. Nor even 1/4s. I have a few 1/7s. Nothing very recent, though. Haruhi, K-On, Madoka, etc. This is my favorite:
https://is.gd/UAehe3
Posted by: mikeski geeks out at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)
Nurse will be happy tonight. I think she went to the Seattle/SF game. The Seachickens are stomping the gold miners.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (o4wD0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:23 PM (2GVsD)
There are worse venues for watercraft.
Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at January 17, 2026 10:27 PM (I7mtr)
Posted by: PabloD at January 17, 2026 10:27 PM (pXTL4)
All of these guys are more feminine that Killary.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:27 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Road Hog!!! at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: mindful webworker - double entrendy at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (FMpsC)
🦖, 🎶,?
Is Doggo mad at you guys?
Well, I guess I'll sit back and enjoy the jolly banter of the Horde...
We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll argue, we'll talk some smack, and some of us will probably imbibe🍹🍺...woo hoo!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 17, 2026 10:24 PM (LNeRu)
Doggo is off chasing squirrels or digging holes. He's still a good boy and will always be a D.
Posted by: Doof at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Piper
It sounds backwards. I'd think they'd be more into bleaching than tanning.
Posted by: mikeski is white enough at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at January 17, 2026 10:29 PM (I7mtr)
No idea just how sober anyone is. I sure know I'm not.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 10:29 PM (2WIwB)
Boy T Rex: Can I go out and play?
Dad: Did you finish your chores?
Boy: Did you?
(Cut)
Both T Rexes are out playing.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2026 10:29 PM (S/Y4j)
71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Was he well bread?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)
And light starch on the shirts.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (fhCge)
Posted by: PabloD
I forgot. What is the 12th anniversary again? Tin Foil?
Posted by: The Man From Glad at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (oftw2)
Oh wow, for $15 can download a file to 3D print Priss' Highway Star motorcycle from Revenge Road.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma
He isn't going to rise anymore.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (cYBz/)
71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
And I thought they cared.
Posted by: Dunkin's "Time to make the donuts" guy at January 17, 2026 10:31 PM (vSvIl)
71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Was he well bread?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)
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Have some sympathy. It's the yeast we can do.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 10:31 PM (fhCge)
Posted by: TRex - dino dino at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (cCn4/)
* * * *
Oh my goodness! I'm so glad to finally be eligible for a frequent patron card!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 10:31 PM (kB9dk)
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma
I guess he wasn't making the donuts.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (S/Y4j)
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Was he well bread?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)
Sadly, the police weren't there when he kneaded help.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (85Pr6)
Can you taste half an egg white? Is a raw egg white a good idea? And, I'm going to suggest that half an egg white isn't exactly a sought out texture for consumables.
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Cicero
Oh my - this place.
I am so going to hell.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
He heard the International Jewish Conspiracy used blood in Matzoh.
Posted by: I Knead You at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Did he proof that there is life after death?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 10:33 PM (fhCge)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 10:33 PM (hhkIi)
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma
Oh! I know what his last word was!
Posted by: Homer Simpson at January 17, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)
They're going to shoot for early Feb. launch. The launch window is Feb 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11.
This will basically be a repeat of Apollo 8, although they won't enter lunar orbit, just whip around with the figure 8 free-return. They will get farther from earth that any other human mission, and set the speed record coming back, breaking 25K mph. Apollo 13 set the distance record, and Apollo 10 set the speed record, at just under 25K mph, 24,791 mph.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 10:33 PM (hhkIi)
True. If a greasy bohunk falls in, at least you can finesse it so you don't lose any product.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (fhCge)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (eZ5tL)
Should we send flours to the funeral?
Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at January 17, 2026 10:36 PM (I7mtr)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:36 PM (I7mtr)
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma
I admit, I thought this was a joke, and was trying to figure out the "in a ____" pun with the wife's name.
But it happened and that is her name.
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 10:37 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen at January 17, 2026 10:37 PM (oftw2)
If South America wants to call dibbs, they should maybe...
discover a new world...forget western civ... I dunno, be worthy with something more than child sacrifice
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:38 PM (ciYHQ)
71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Was he well bread?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)
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Don't know, but I hear he was rolling in dough.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 17, 2026 10:38 PM (OGOaV)
Lyrics make no sense, but I have always loved it!
Thank you!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 17, 2026 10:38 PM (WONhk)
There are specific "Hazardous Orders" for child labor for the USDOL, that include mills and bakeries, and operating mixing machines. If they get a hold of you you are dead slower than diving down a chipper.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:39 PM (rbvCR)
Andrew McCarthy, astrophotographer extraordinaire, got a slot to film and photograph the launch live (it helps to be buds with the NASA director). Here's a short little video he took of the thing coming out of the VAB this morning:
https://is.gd/ORp7Vh
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mindful webworker - out where the prairie schooners sail at January 17, 2026 10:40 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (ACD6O)
The shortest distance from the US to Africa is from Maine to Morocco.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:40 PM (I7mtr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wSPR7zq7DA
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 17, 2026 10:41 PM (MZ+PY)
She's absolutely kicking ass.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 10:41 PM (2WIwB)
Tyler Robinson's attorney (he's the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk) has asked the court to dismiss the entire prosecution team because, get this, one of the prosecutors kid was in the audience when Kirk got shot. Here's the brilliant legal.theory as to.why this makes a difference: the prosecutor may have been influenced by his kid, and is now... wait for it... PREJUDICED... against her client! Plus, like cooties, this may have been transmitted to the rest of the team so they all.have to go.
She was dozing through the class on criminal court rules, and remembers something about how someone in the room is required to be neutral. The word "jury" never stuck, and, since she's the best and brightest, her delusions are precedent.
Never hire a lawyer under 50.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM (epPlm)
Posted by: mindful webworker - out where the prairie schooners sail at January 17, 2026 10:40 PM (FMpsC)
If you lived on the California coast you would be about Oxnard
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM (rbvCR)
The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10
They were loafing around? Sounds flakey.
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:43 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Iris at January 17, 2026 10:43 PM (bOJ2I)
Brian Dennehy is more feminine than Hillary.
Edmund is more feminine than Hillary.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 10:44 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (rbvCR
Used to listen to The Shadow on the radio as a kid.
Apropos of nothing.
Posted by: Javems at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (zFsEm)
Posted by: Iris at January 17, 2026 10:43 PM (bOJ2I)
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Don't trust anything they tell you. Verify it with the moose first.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:46 PM (OoFl2)
"No, Scott Adams didn't hate black people"
Wow, that must have really sucked to be falsely accused of something so reprehensible.
I hope his own people stood up for him, defended him, let him defend himself. Because that would have sucked even worse if they didn't.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:46 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:46 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 10:46 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM (epPlm)
Old Advice for lawyers:
When the facts are on your side, hammer on the jury.
When the Law is on your side, hammer on the judge.
When neither the facts or the law is on your side, hammer on the table.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (sqSJJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10
Butter late then never, I guess!
Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (nbLIj)
I listened to a whole bunch of Perry Mason radio episodes on a road trip a few years ago. I can still sing the Wildroot Cream Oil jingle.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (EXyHK)
Flat map projections give you a distorted picture. Mercator is the most familiar (and best for navigation purposes -- conformal, makes rhumb lines bearing easy), but the vertical stretch goes to infinity near the poles.
Anyway, on the flat map, that makes meridians parallel, and that really distorts the layout. The 3D globe projections are the best to see what things really look like. North America is sort of "cocked" sideways a bit compared to the picture Mercator gives you.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10
Butter late then never, I guess!
Posted by: Piper
After they retrieved him they whisked him away!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:48 PM (cYBz/)
"Junior" Thumann was the CEO's son who would watch us work while munching on a 2'long salami or pepperoni. He was about 6'8", 450 lbs. He had the biggest Mercedes sedan at the time and the suspension would go up or down a foot as he got into or out of it.
Posted by: One Of My Few Meat Stories at January 17, 2026 10:48 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (OGOaV)
I think the moose high-tailed it out of there when the bears showed up.
https://youtube.com/shorts/N7mJO6fGw8o
Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:48 PM (I7mtr)
The Turks invaded Cyprus, divided Nicosia, and drove all the Greek Orthodox out of Muslim areas.
But you youngsters keep shouting about the "occupation."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:49 PM (RIvkX)
"The Atlantic Narrows". In WWII it was an alternative route to the North Atlantic to avoid U-boats. Shorter/quicker crossing, and air cover was possible for much of the route.
Named the "trampoline of victory", for the shape of the route from the US Gulf ports, "bouncing" off Rio Grande do Norte, and arcing over to Africa.
Spent some time there (RGN, capital is Natal) many years ago. Favorite place in Brazil (and there are many). Quiet. Far enough north to be getting tropical. Incredible coast and beaches. I actually looked/asked around for American Army Air Corps guys who had stayed/come back (there were some, unsurprisingly) but never found any.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 10:49 PM (U/Byj)
Never hire a lawyer under 50.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM (epPlm)
I'll go out on a limb, and say not so much incompetence, as it is following orders from her paymasters to throw up as many stupid dleays as possible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:50 PM (8zz6B)
He was, reportedly, a crusty old fellow, but sweet.
🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - he was mixed up, though, at January 17, 2026 10:50 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: publius
What about the 'Dragons be here' parts of the unknown?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:50 PM (cYBz/)
Like most here, almost every day for 40 years I've been slimed as a racist sexist homophobic nazi who sleeps with his sister in a double-wide while dreaming of nuking Mecca ... and not once did I consider wiping their entire family off the face of the earth.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:51 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 10:52 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 17, 2026 10:53 PM (HTCU3)
All of these guys are more feminine that Killary.
Posted by: Tonypete
The movie "Blades of Glory" would be better. It's funny as hell. It satirizes the fact that men figure skating is a gay as hell sport.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 17, 2026 10:53 PM (0Htd1)
Plus, how the hell were the explorers expected to differentiate the two continents? One was in the northern hemisphere, the other in the southern hemisphere. Calling it East America would be leaving out some important context.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:54 PM (ciYHQ)
Do you have a newsletter?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2026 10:55 PM (sqSJJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 10:55 PM (U/Byj)
The shortest distance from the US to Africa is from Maine to Morocco.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Who would ever want to sail out of Maine?
Who would want to sail the North Atlantic?
Anyway, I said, the Americas.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:55 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Which is funny, because "pairs" figure skating sends you straight to third base.
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 10:56 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:57 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:57 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 10:57 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:57 PM (ACD6O)
I thought all of ICE was currently in Minneapolis.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:59 PM (I7mtr)
Posted by: mikeski
With a yucky woman!
Posted by: Man in the pair at January 17, 2026 11:00 PM (ftFVW)
In situations like this the offended, not the government, should receive the money.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:00 PM (ACD6O)
You need to Notary to document the guns you have in the canoe, right before the accident.
then the laundry to dry your clothes after the accident...
And then BINGO, suddenly your guns are gone.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2026 11:01 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: nerdygirl
you're SO mean!
Posted by: Dick Button, Rudy Galindo, Brian Boitano at January 17, 2026 11:01 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tonypete
You must mean West Texas. Where Dragons live in fear of being gobbled up by a tumbleweed leviathan
Ive seen things you people wouldn't believe. Armadillos on fire off the Balcones Escarpment
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:01 PM (ciYHQ)
I was just thinking about the old Tiki Bar TV video podcast tonight. They still have a web site so I downloaded all the episodes to my “media server”. Rewatched the first four tonight between Star Trek and quantum mechanics; and will rewatch the rest over the next few weeks.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 11:03 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:03 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Javems
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I loved the Fire sign Theater version, which had a.black guy in the role.
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
The Shadow do."
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 11:03 PM (epPlm)
...
Among those in the delegation were Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina,
_NYT
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:04 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 11:04 PM (PTsqM)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Yawn. Try being an expert archer.
Tim Curry's got nothing on me!
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:05 PM (ciYHQ)
Has she started the process of returning Alaska to Russia yet?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 11:05 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (rbvCR
Used to listen to The Shadow on the radio as a kid.
Apropos of nothing.
Posted by: Javems at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (zFsEm)
Phantom 1936... Batman... 1939.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2026 11:06 PM (mP0Kj)
Never hire a lawyer under 50.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM.
When I was watching the hearing the other day, "she" was a "he" and he was well over 30. But you're right about the idiocy and desperation of the argument.
You might be thinking of the attorney that was arguing in favor of boys in girls' sports before the Supreme Court. She was a dope!
Posted by: Moonbeam at January 17, 2026 11:06 PM (rbKZ6)
That guy got so into the dough he ended up getting hooked.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
No one seems to have heard of this movie, other than Kino-Lorber (who have it on blue-ray). Flawed presentation (the burned in subtitles interfere) but my God what a film.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (CHHv1)
The f***ing idiots couldn't even get it right and are reporting it as AWFUL's, with a U for urban. They really do live in a bubble.
Posted by: Ripley at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (hhkIi)
Yep, knew that.
South America is pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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They ought to return Murkowski's ass to Russia.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:09 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Fen
I saw Tumbleweed Leviathan open for Murder By Death at the Ector in '04.
https://youtu.be/croDgo5DEWo
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)
That is fascinating -- how the older systems worked. I've gotten off reading for hours a few times getting off on tangents of those systems.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:10 PM (w6EFb)
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Took me three hours. I pondered fomenting a revolution among the fifty people waiting there.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 11:11 PM (XeU6L)
Oh, great. Now I have "What would Brian Boitano do?" playing in my head. Thank you, and thank you to South Park.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 17, 2026 11:11 PM (0Htd1)
I have racked my brain for years... does anyone remember what the ads were for?
Posted by: 496 at January 17, 2026 11:12 PM (t+VLa)
I miss drive-in theaters. There was one in Dallas on Abrams and Forrest, but it closed down before I was legal to drive.
Do any exist today? Seems like an entrepreneur could make bank by opening a whitewashed nostalgic version. Its not like AMC theaters are making any money.
They could have roller-girls coast out to your car with food, like in the 50s.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:12 PM (ciYHQ)
I went into the book room and picked up a copy of the flight line tech order but didn't have the nerve to open it! About 3 inches thick and back around 1975 I think I knew almost all of it! We're talking analog - motors, shafts, pots, feedback loops, very discrete and varied power levels - - - too much!
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:13 PM (47diA)
Should we send flours to the funeral?
Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at January 17, 2026 10:36 PM (I7mtr)
It's the yeast we can do...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 17, 2026 11:13 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:14 PM (mlg/3)
The last one in OK (Guthrie) closed for good last month. I've seen a couple in Florida.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:15 PM (47diA)
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At yeast he died doing something he loved.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 17, 2026 11:15 PM (8JzZF)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:15 PM (ACD6O)
Some of those analog computer systems were absolutely amazing. I remember reading about some fire control system for the big guns on the battleships. They were constantly adjusting the guns, adjusting for ship motion to keep the barrel locked in the correct position relative to the target.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:17 PM (w6EFb)
https://youtu.be/croDgo5DEWo
Posted by: mikeski
See? I think I'm being clever and then this. Like that time I thought I had a shot at the cheerleader only to discover she was engaged to Brett Favre.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:17 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Piper
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Do they match the carpet? *drum roll* *cymbal.crash*
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 11:18 PM (epPlm)
"No, Scott Adams didn't hate black people"
Wow, that must have really sucked to be falsely accused of something so reprehensible.
I hope his own people stood up for him, defended him, let him defend himself. Because that would have sucked even worse if they didn't.
Posted by: Fen
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The irony is that it all stemmed from him responding with alarm to a Rasmussen poll in which 47% of Black people either disagreed or weren't sure that "It's okay to be white."
He said something like "IF that's true, then stay the hell away from Black people!"
Same thing that Jesse Jackson said many years ago.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 17, 2026 11:18 PM (djaKb)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
I thought you never made plans that far ahead.
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 11:19 PM (VHUov)
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Took me three hours. I pondered fomenting a revolution among the fifty people waiting there.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Renewed in TX yesterday, with appointment. No problems. Apparently it is a nightmare without an appointment. My little county was efficient and i was out in 30 minutes.
There was a young man there who no habla Ingles. He didn't have all the documentation needed and they sent him on his way until it could be provided. They weren't messing around at the Driver's license office. I voted for this.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 11:19 PM (85Pr6)
The two last models of Buffs used adaptations of those very systems on the defensive fire control of the machine guns in the tail! They had a hard time with the relative velocities of the targets and the B-52. BUT - the G model had four 50 cals and the H model had a 20mm gatling gun. Lotsa lead works.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:20 PM (47diA)
With modern navigation systems, it's possible to fly or sail a true geodesic, and not approximate with rhumb line way points.
You're doing continuous Riemann parallel transport on the fly (travelling truly "straight" such as it can be defined on a curved space). And for the WGS ellipsoid, not a spherical approximation.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 11:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:23 PM (47diA)
Posted by: PaleRider
Looking forward to the bodycam traffic stop. You might go viral!
Posted by: Bodycam Addict at January 17, 2026 11:23 PM (oftw2)
Pretty amazing.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:23 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:26 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:27 PM (ACD6O)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:27 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: mindful webworker - out where the prairie schooners sail at January 17, 2026 10:40 PM (FMpsC)
The Western Interior Seaway has been gone a long time, along with the mosasaurs that swam in it.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 11:27 PM (SEFV4)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:14 PM (mlg/3)
Bought a fez.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 11:27 PM (I7mtr)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:29 PM (47diA)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:29 PM (U/Byj)
I was reading something about navigation in the age of sail. For any long haul, you wanted to sail geodesics as much as possible -- the distance saved could make a big difference in time. They used spherical approximations -- pretended the earth was a perfect sphere. Spherical geodesics are relatively easy, just great circles, but actually sailing one continuously meant constant turning, and with all the errors, that was impossible. So they used way points. They'd sail a "straight" rhumb line course between way points.
About 5 or 6 was all that was usually required, and you'd be close enough.
In the age of the heroic polar explorers, however, they did start using try ellipsoidal geodesics, or tried to. Under those conditions, the difference was worth it -- could be life and death even. Ellipsoidal geodesics are much more complex -- you need Somali mathematicians of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:33 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:33 PM (kJmLc)
Pretty amazing.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:23 PM (U/Byj
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In Desert Storm, the big guns only ever had a one round Fire For Effect. Pretty damned impressive!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 11:33 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: publius
Or the gals from Hidden Figures, in a pinch.
Posted by: mikeski does not compute at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: PabloD at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (pXTL4)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: rhomboid
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That's fantastic. Imagine being in the turret. ...waiting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:35 PM (ACD6O)
Some of the early sailing stuff I've seen talked about less than 1 degree of error being acceptable until you sighted some land.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:35 PM (47diA)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:36 PM (U/Byj)
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Capt. Lou Albano had 16-inch guns.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 11:36 PM (nWPIJ)
Ellipsoidal geodesics are wild. On sphere, the geodesics are all closed paths, nice, "great" circles. On an ellipsoid, geodesics are not generally closed. For an oblate spheroid (equatorial cross section is a circle, but polar is an ellipse -- it's just a solid of revolution of an ellipse), there are some nice closed ones. All meridians are closed, and the equatorial one is closed.
The others are not. That is, if you go all the way around, you do not get back exactly where you started. You'll miss a little bit. If you keep going you'll eventually "densely cover" some finite region of the surface. There are all sorts of theorems about that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: rhomboid
That's fantastic. Imagine being in the turret. ...waiting.
Posted by: Braenyard
Ready!
Aim!
Fire!
.....
Wait for it!
Posted by: Adm. Monty Python at January 17, 2026 11:37 PM (VHUov)
My father was a lawyer who made his fortune off other lawyers.
They thought a law degree made them an expert in everything.
He bought me a corvette at 16, funded entirely off Hubris.
Yay Hubris. Patron Saint of my childhood dreams. The irony of the Corvette. By the time you can afford to buy one, it's unseemly inappropriate for a man of your age to drive one. And anyone flyent with wealth knows YOU DONT BUY YOUR SON A VETTE. But by some magical alignment of the stars, my father was new money who simply wanted to give his son the car he had dreamed of in his youth. 16 was the perfect age to appreciate the majesty of the Corvette. I would tell my parents I was going out on dates and just.. drive. For hours. It was a magical symbiosis - you felt like you were part of the machine.
Sorry for the ramble. I just miss the love of my youth.
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:38 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:36 PM (U/Byj)
Ha!
I have the video. It's awesome.
Whilst the navy was hammering the coast, I was slamming ATACMS at them further inland.
Moar awesome!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 11:39 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 11:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: mikeski
This must be the place where they empty all the old hourglasses.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:40 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:41 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:42 PM (47diA)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:42 PM (I++gp)
I suspect alcohol may of been involved.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 11:42 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (I++gp)
Posted by: JackStra
No. I sat in the Spanish cafe and got wired on those stupid tiny cups of coffee. Woof~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: scampydog at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Diogenes
I don't understand. You mean they only needed one round to adjust on target? Or are you talking about battleships obliterating entire grid squares in one volley?
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Seahawks at January 17, 2026 11:44 PM (pXTL4)
I suspect alcohol may of been involved.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 11:42 PM (2WIwB)
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They have holding cells at the stadium.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (kJmLc)
Secret Squirrel's sidekick...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 17, 2026 11:44 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: scampydog at January 17, 2026 11:45 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:45 PM (47diA)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:46 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:46 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:47 PM (47diA)
Posted by: PabloD at January 17, 2026 11:47 PM (pXTL4)
:-). Oblate spheroid to second order approximation, which is good enough. Mostly.
There's ellipsoids, geoids, and "topoids". This is an (exagerated) 3D model of the geoid. The is the equipotential surface of the earth gravity (and rotation terms). This would be the shape of "sea level":
https://is.gd/i1vzX5
Note that is not the topographical shape, but the gravitational shape. Now, plotting actual geodesics on such a general surface, why that would be difficult even for the Somalis.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:48 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:48 PM (kJmLc)
…um…
…it wouldn't be very healthy, I guess.
https://youtu.be/ypvUI1qqP2M
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - get the funniest looks from everyone we meet at January 17, 2026 11:48 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:50 PM (iUXlD)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:50 PM (U/Byj)
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That "downtown" is among the worst in North America. A stinking pile of crap. And I am an expert in stinking piles of crap. Especially that Horton Plaza. Who designed it Dr. Seuss?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 11:51 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:52 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm)
He said something like "IF that's true, then stay the hell away from Black people!"
Same thing that Jesse Jackson said many years ago.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Reminds me of that poor SOB who published "The Talk" for white kids. He was 100% spot on but was pilloried for it. I forget his name, did he ever recover from the fallout?
Edit: Grok reminds me he is John Derbyshire.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:52 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: night
And a thank you from this Dallas native for taking down our nemesis.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:54 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 11:56 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:46 PM (mlg/3)
I remember my first cup of coffee in Spain. The waitress pour a thick syrup into my cup. ( Think Elly Mae Clampett coffee from the Beverly Hillbillies TV show). Then poured hot milk into the cup. I was dubious at first but it was really good coffee that got me wired.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 17, 2026 11:56 PM (GGatE)
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 11:57 PM (epPlm)
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2026 11:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: XTC at January 18, 2026 12:00 AM (6Uni8)
WhoofreKinghooooooo!
Oldest son messaged me on Thursday and asked what my plans were for the game. Then he said I GOT TICKETS!
How much fun to go to a HUGE community event with your kid and have a BLAST!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 18, 2026 12:02 AM (GI7J4)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc
Say what you will about the Left, at least they fight for their people. Even when they know they are wrong. The Right could learn something from that.
Sometimes I wonder if our side is only defined by the Left's hatred of us. That if they simply ignored us, we would wander off on our separate ways to pursue career and family while being left alone. And the Left could just march on in. How ironic that they are control freaks who get in their own way.
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:03 AM (ciYHQ)
Minnedishu is dead set on starting a Civil War, it seems.
Posted by: XTC
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Guardsmen to the front!
wtf do they think this is?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2026 12:03 AM (djaKb)
Common conversation was; why are you here? I'm here from the main prison on appeal of a murder charge.
Yes sir, pay those fucking tickets or get a ticket lawyer. Whatever. You don't want to go to jail.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:06 AM (ACD6O)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 18, 2026 12:06 AM (2ZBXn)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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That is so awesome! Happy for you!
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:07 AM (rdVOm)
By the time it got dark it was almost curfew.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Why would you go to the drive in with a girl.who worried about curfew?
Posted by: buddha at January 18, 2026 12:10 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 18, 2026 12:10 AM (LNeRu)
Similar. What astonished me was they all confessed to each other. Right next to a wall phone with a huge sign warning that telephone conversations would be recorded. It never occurred to them that such a notification implied they should also expect no privacy rights as they chatted away under 3 security cams
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:10 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:13 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: scampydog at January 18, 2026 12:16 AM (41CYW)
How much fun to go to a HUGE community event with your kid and have a BLAST!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Congratulations! For the win, and the fact that -
He likes you! He really likes you!
Posted by: buddha at January 18, 2026 12:16 AM (epPlm)
What's interesting in the difference in the definition of latitude on an ellipsoid vs. a sphere. The current model of the earth used for navigation and GPS is WGS84, which uses a reference ellipsoid which is the best fit of the actual earth's geoid to a perfect oblate spheroid.
Latitude there is not the geocentric latitude, the angle of radius from the center to the point and the equator, but the angle of the normal to the surface at a given point with the equator. Those two are different. Anyway, if you're above or below the ellipsoid surface, your height is defined along such a normal, not the geocentric radius.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 18, 2026 12:16 AM (w6EFb)
Cheers!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 18, 2026 12:18 AM (0nHVk)
Love it.
Ya know, I was part of Operation Restore Hope. We risked our lives to save these people from Famine. It was a difficult adjustment for the Marine Corps too as it was our first humanitarian op.
And this is how the repay us? I almost wish I could take it back. But I can't go there, else my darkness might send me to MN to take it back one life at a time.
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:19 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 18, 2026 12:20 AM (/lPRQ)
And that normal is not the same as vertical or plumb. Plumb is the direction of gravity (well, the direction of the vector sum of true gravity and the centrifugal terms due to rotation), which is the normal of the geoid, not the ellipsoid. :-)
That difference is called the vertical deflection. It is not until modern times that this could even be measured. There was an error in the definition of the Prime meridian of about 100m due to this. They aligned the transit at the Royal Observatory perfectly plumb, with amazing precision using reflections of cross hairs in a pool of mercury, but because of that vertical deflection they were off a bit.
The transit wasn't exactly lying in a true meridional plane.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 18, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
Drunk
SEAHAWKS WIN! Blew
The Niners OUT!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (I++gp)
Did you get any of their gold from the enstompening?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 18, 2026 12:23 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:24 AM (rdVOm)
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That egg hypnotized me.
Where's the link to the topographical shape?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:24 AM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Braenyard
Or commit the crime in S.F.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 18, 2026 12:25 AM (KAi1n)
How much fun to go to a HUGE community event with your kid and have a BLAST!
Posted by: nurse ratched
Your team won at football, and you won at Momming!
Posted by: mikeski at January 18, 2026 12:25 AM (VHUov)
He likes you! He really likes you!
Posted by: buddha
Honestly.
That’s the best part.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 18, 2026 12:31 AM (7Lfjw)
The fields always had one child standing on a stump cracking a whip every 3 minutes.
The famine? A result of 5 gangs fighting over dirt. Same sht you see in south central LA. We were sent because they were raiding UN food and medicine meant for THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
Up in Baderra our leadership got chewed out for intercepting an air shipment of khat and burning it. Because THIS was Somalia rising back to "normal"
I know we had the best intentions but, like the Palestinians who teach their children to literally gang rape women to death, some tribes of humanity should be left to die. We don't need to carry that DNA into our future.
I was proud of what we did in Somalia. Minnesota has tarnished that.
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:34 AM (ciYHQ)
I do not know if any such thing actually exists in a similar form. The oceans are constantly changing with the tidal bulges and all that.
You can easily find flat topographical maps that will show you the elevation (height above geoid) for any land point on the globe, but I've never seen anything like that geoid model.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 18, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:03 AM (ciYHQ)
We're not a side. We're atomized individuals who believe in competition between said individuals.
If one falls behind, it's because they screwed up somewhere in their life and it's nobody else's responsibility to get them caught up.
If one who otherwise agrees with us is a bad actor, the principled stance isn't to circle the wagons and close ranks around the bad actor.
We're just not a collective like they are. That's probably a handicap when it comes to politics, and when it comes to "direct action".
But can you change that without betraying your principles?
Posted by: XTC at January 18, 2026 12:35 AM (6Uni8)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:36 AM (XV/Pl)
Drunk
SEAHAWKS WIN! Blew
The Niners OUT!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (I++gp)
Reading this post puts a WIDE SMILE on my face!
And nurse, in the words of blues guitarist Albert Collins, "I ain't drunk, I'm just drinkin'"
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 18, 2026 12:36 AM (4nEGa)
Morons!
PARTAY!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:50 PM
Great game nurse! The Seahawks looked amazing!
Posted by: Moonbeam at January 18, 2026 12:38 AM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:39 AM (ACD6O)
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 18, 2026 12:41 AM (noPDf)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Yeah, I roll my eyes at the America First crowd that doesn't seem to grasp that interference in Venezuela and Iran is part of that
BUT
I admit to some jealousy. Every story about the Left gaining momentum with their Insurrection seemed to be followed by a Trump statement on Iran. I want his full attention and I want him to stop warning rebels who need to be shot
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:42 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: XTC
I don't know - loyalty is a principle, and I thought we were a side so I need to process your pov. But you've given me something to consider, so thanks for taking the time to reply.
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:45 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:45 AM (ACD6O)
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm)
>>*bows head in silent prayer*
It really was a lovely ceremony, I feel bad for my wife as all her siblings have now journeyed on, she keeps saying she's all alone now. Which is heartbreaking.
I talked to my brothers and said, you know, one of us has to go first, they told me to shut the hell up.
My SIL death has had a very profound effect on everyone.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:50 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:50 AM (XV/Pl)
My condolences to your family.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 18, 2026 12:50 AM (dK+Kv)
Why would you go to the drive in with a girl.who worried about curfew?
Posted by: buddha
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Discipline.
It keeps life in order.
It doesn't eliminate fun.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:51 AM (ACD6O)
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:45 AM (ciYHQ)
Part of me wishes that we (right-leaning people in general) were more of a side, but then I realize that that's going to look to other people like weakness and hippie-dippy commie shit, and that's no good.
Posted by: XTC at January 18, 2026 12:52 AM (6Uni8)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 18, 2026 12:55 AM (0nHVk)
Grok's take:
4. Conclusion: Change Is Possible, But It Requires DisciplineYes, you can mitigate the handicap without full betrayal by emphasizing voluntary, decentralized cooperation driven by self-interest. Think of it as upgrading from solo players to a pickup basketball team: Individuals compete within the game but align temporarily for wins.
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:59 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 01:00 AM (XV/Pl)
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Dad said similar. He was the last of his generation in his family...very lonely indeed.
We had many conversations while he was on hospice; feels like I didn't even really know him until those days.
One day he broke down in tears, telling me he wanted to go back. Back to the time when he was 5 years old, living with his mom & dad and brother & sister, and play with his toy trains.
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
But it worries me that we have to operate on such a handicap when I'm still dealing with the fact that their side is willing to kill to advance their cause and we seem to lack the will.
That's two strikes. Its like we're working under a political philosophy that's not equipped to fight Marxism. Its frustrating.
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 01:03 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 18, 2026 01:03 AM (LDCG6)
Oh well. Sorry to be a downer. Ignore my ramblings. I need to get back to enjoying the era of Trump while it lasts
Greenland? LOL
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 01:08 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2026 01:11 AM (2WIwB)
>>One day he broke down in tears, telling me he wanted to go back. Back to the time when he was 5 years old, living with his mom & dad and brother & sister, and play with his toy trains.
Ahhh... Life... It's beautiful and cruel... and sometimes it ends with snow falling on your casket.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 01:11 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:50 AM (XV/Pl)
Condolences to you, TB.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:12 AM (8zz6B)
For any who would like to toast their loved ones or happier times (or anything at all.)
To The Future! May it be better than now!
*clinks glass*
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
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Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Ass whuppin!
Posted by: scampydog at January 17, 2026 11:45 PM (41CYW)
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Seahawks scored more points in the first 5 seconds than the Niners scored the entire game
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 18, 2026 01:18 AM (Wnqw0)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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We buried Dad on a beautiful late-Spring day. Sun shining, birds singing, flowers in bloom... he was finally pain-free.
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:21 AM (8zz6B)
UPDATE On US Tanker Seizures in the Caribbean | Six Supertankers Are in US Possession | What Next?
youtube.com/watch?v=JusYIRixp5E
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 01:21 AM (ACD6O)
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Yikes! Glad you had a buddy with trailer!
Don't like those *wake you up* noises, at all.
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)
Don't like those *wake you up* noises, at all.
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)
Buddy says,"you know you have Hagerty insurance. You could have called them and they would have gotten you a flatbed tow truck." And I am thinking, "yeah, right. Eventually, and maybe they would have hauled it to the nearest repair shop, still 50 miles away." I got it hauled to the vacant lot across the street, where we offloaded, and I drove it 200 yards to my driveway. And I hauled the damned trailer down here for him in the first place.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:33 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:41 AM (8zz6B)
*slides a beer down the bar for you*
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
But it worries me that we have to operate on such a handicap when I'm still dealing with the fact that their side is willing to kill to advance their cause and we seem to lack the will.
That's two strikes. Its like we're working under a political philosophy that's not equipped to fight Marxism. Its frustrating.
Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 01:03 AM (ciYHQ)
The Left had the will, post-Vietnam, to build a legal and financial infrastructure to protect their own when they took violent action.
The Right abandoned the institutions, and let the Left do it.
I know some will disagree, perhaps angrily, but I think that Vietnam ended up being the biggest Demoralization campaign in American history.
Posted by: XTC at January 18, 2026 01:42 AM (6Uni8)
Someone asked Grok to make a video as if it was Amelie, the character EngSoc is currently trying to suppress and its...good. https://tinyurl.com/4e2583j4
Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2026 01:48 AM (sKqQm)
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Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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His mom was doing a spit-roast but an 'extra' showed up
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Posted by: scampydog at January 18, 2026 02:55 AM (41CYW)
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Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
I'm going to.put this on the charger and hit the sack. Need more daylight tomorrow than I get if I stay up.for my usual bedtime.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 18, 2026 03:11 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 18, 2026 03:19 AM (EYUUI)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 18, 2026 01:03 AM (LDCG6)
There is a store just outside Glenallen, AK where the sign says Liquor and Office Supplies.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 18, 2026 03:29 AM (6Bc88)
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Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
>I'd buy you a drink, but if you're in Jersey, we're 2300+ miles away. Cheers, brother.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 18, 2026 04:26 AM (BSdIE)
The Saturday Evening Movie Post [with moviegique]: Dr. Zhivago
We enter the bleakest time of the year for dedicated moviegoers, what Red Letter Media used to call "F--- You, It's January." I think later they rebranded it as something like "F--- You, It's Forever" when looking at the dismal line up of...2019? I don't precisely recall, but it is hard to look at the slate of major releases with a sense of optimism.
We saw a good quasi-documentary about Storks called "The Tale of Silyan," which tells a true-ish story while featuring gorgeous images of storks and landscape, from National Geographic. Then there's "The Plague," an odd '90s coming-of-age story with strong horror elements. But, you know, junior high is already a horror story. It was solid. Joel Edgerton stars as the world's most clueless gym coach. We ventured out to a classic L.A. theater tp see the delightful 1958 Jacques Tati film, "Mon Oncle". I can't recommend it strongly enough. It's partly translated from French but partly not because the dialogue isn't that important. It's almost a silent cartoon comedy, very gentle, and at this point, painfully poignant, as this is a France which, even mocked, shall nevermore be. Speaking of painfully poignant, however, I went on the the 30th or 31st to see Dr. Zhivago. I nearly wept for the artistry, and realizing this is another thing that will not be created in the future. The beauty, the scope, the blocking, the set design--I mean, turning 1960s Spain in the summer into 1915 Russia in the winter. And the story itself is delicate. Nobody saves the cat. It's the 60th anniversary, so I thought I'd re-up the 50th anniversary review I wrote. I'm pretty much in accord with myself on this latest viewing (not always the case), but I liked it even more this time. I still find the elision of Lara and her abusive customer's relationship jarring. It's there but we have to do some heavy inferring. Sharif had to tape his eyes back to look less Egyptian. Can you imagine? It didn't do my heart good to watch tiny, dimwitted tyrants telling people what they should and shouldn't be allowed to have, and I despaired that those people are still running around, still thinking they should run things. Nonetheless, I will be surprised to see a better movie this year, unless I go see "Lawrence of Arabia".Ask me if I want to go see a three hour movie. (Go on, Peter Jackson, ask me.) The answer is likely to be “maaaaaaaaaybe”. Now, tell me it’s by David Lean, the great director of Lawrence of Arabia. I’ll have my popcorn in hand before you finish rolling your “r"s, which you should do, if you’re saying "David Lean, the great director of Lawrence of Arabia”.
Dr. Zhivago is, in fact, 3 hours and 20 minutes, and longer if you factor in the intermission and the overture, but much like Lawrence, it leaves you wanting more. But before we get into that, let’s just recap the plot: The eponymous Zhivago is orphaned at a young age and taken in by some family friends who have a daughter his age. Zhivago and the daughter fall in love and get married, and live happily ever after, in the manner of all protagonists of Russian novels.
The happy couple!
"Did somebody call for an emergency poet?"
They still look like this, but they pretend to smile now because it fools people. (Tom Courtenay won Best Supporting Actor and looks like the prototype for Indy's antagonist in "Raiders".)
I don't think frame captures do her justice but here's a classic shot.
Fun fact: This is entirely fake. Filmed in Spain in 100 degree weather, with the cast wearing fur coats and being trapped inside enclosed rooms to preserve the illusion/continuity. The actors nearly passed out at times.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:30 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:31 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:31 PM (asXVI)
Lara's Theme from Dr Zhivago
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:34 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 17, 2026 07:35 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2026 07:35 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:37 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:38 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
It's a Wonderful Life was actually released in January. It was a colossal bomb, so much so that the studio didn't bother to copywrite (?) it. That might not be the right term.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 17, 2026 07:38 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
Me too. I like Death of Stalin and the Lives of Others too.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 17, 2026 07:40 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:41 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:42 PM (bXbFr)
The only thing that always irritated me was how damned passive Zhivago was towards all that happened to him. But as his character stands for the Russian people themselves, perhaps that is appropriate.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 07:42 PM (m7iZ5)
The construction of the Turkestan-Siberia railroad. (It's still there today. For a round trip ticket between Tashkent and Novosibirsk, if you choose to ride platskartny klass with the proles, Grok sez you'll pay about $350 USD. Takes 2-3 days each direction, but the passenger train runs only once, one direction, per week.) The movie is exemplary of the Soviet industrial documentaries/dramas of the era: dynamically composed rapid-edit montage-fests. I gather that this one viralized on Western DVDs around 2011, with English intertitles and not-awful modern instrumental score supplied by a British documentarian who loved it so much that he wanted to marry it or something.
"Above Us the Waves" (1955)
A different kind of sub movie. Supposedly based on the true story, three Royal Navy four-man midget subs sail way up a Norwegian fjord to sap the Tirpitz. Recommended.
"Birds of Prey" (2020)
I expected to hate it, but I watched the whole thing, and didn't. I wouldn't blame anybody who does; not a bit.
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 07:43 PM (N8ZBc)
USA develops A-bombs, then warns The Future with a time capsule (just in case The Future forgets, I guess.) Includes the fateful meeting at which FDR consults Fala the Dog, Grace the Secretary, and Vannevar Bush the Egghead, as to whether to commence the Manhattan Project. When the Enola Gay tarries too long to suit her, Audrey Totter snaps at General Groves. That dame's got the kind of moxie that wins Total Wars. She's coming for you next, Bub: https://tinyurl.com/y94xapne
"The Last Blitzkrieg" (195
German soldiers, trained and uniformed to operate covertly among American troops, master the essential American traits:
1. Chew gum with grinning enthusiasm.
2. Be aware that Olive Oyl does not play in the National League.
C. Do not roll your R's or click your heels.
4. Share your cigarettes with a deft propulsive gesture.
Despite all their skills and drills, the filthy Krauts are undone by ... Dick York and Larry Storch.
"Conduct Unbecoming" (1975) Brit officers in pre-partition India solve a case of perverse assaults on local ladies. Good cast. Persis Khambatta gets stabbed in the butt, but recovers. She's much prettier here, with hair, tha
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 07:43 PM (N8ZBc)
I noticed jarres theme in the iconoclastic petersen soace opera enemy mine
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:46 PM (bXbFr)
USA develops A-bombs, then warns The Future with a time capsule (just in case The Future forgets, I guess.) Includes the fateful meeting at which FDR consults Fala the Dog, Grace the Secretary, and Vannevar Bush the Egghead, as to whether to commence the Manhattan Project. When the Enola Gay tarries too long to suit her, Audrey Totter snaps at General Groves. That dame's got the kind of moxie that wins Total Wars. She's coming for you next, Bub: https://tinyurl.com/y94xapne
"The Last Blitzkrieg" (195 German soldiers, trained and uniformed to operate covertly among American troops, master the essential American traits:
1. Chew gum with grinning enthusiasm.
2. Be aware that Olive Oyl does not play in the National League.
C. Do not roll your R's or click your heels.
4. Share your cigarettes with a deft propulsive gesture.
Despite all their skills and drills, the filthy Krauts are undone by ... Dick York and Larry Storch.
"Conduct Unbecoming" (1975) Brit officers in pre-partition India solve a case of perverse assaults on local ladies. Good cast. Persis Khambatta gets stabbed in the butt, but recovers. She's much prettier here, with hair, tha
Posted
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 17, 2026 07:46 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 07:46 PM (N8ZBc)
>>It's a Wonderful Life was actually released in January.
It had a premier in December and a wide release in January.
It still has some of the best acting I've ever seen in a film, the scene where Jimmy is praying to god to show him the way is about as real as it gets.
Funny enough, the next best bit of acting is Bogie breaking down in the bar in Casablanca.
Something about bars makes men get emotional.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2026 07:47 PM (XV/Pl)
|| Leans choices in direction, move away from the strong anticommunist dialogue of pasternak
Originally, I had written "I would go so far as to say this is NOT a political movie. It's just that communism sucks."
And I think that's true. Without being militant or partisan, it shows the absolute misery and evil of the system.
Alec Guiness is chilling.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:47 PM (asXVI)
Posted gp
Oops. I thought the Beginning of the End was MST3K fodder about giant locusts eating Chicago.
Kidding, gp.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 17, 2026 07:48 PM (cxFcK)
David Lean directed Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago in a row. Pretty good run.
The first time is saw Zhivago I thought Julie Christie was one of the most beautiful women ever
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 07:48 PM (PTsqM)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:48 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:49 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:49 PM (Ia/+0)
Hollywood, Hollywood ...
Fabulous Hollywood ...
Celluloid Babylon,
Glorious, Clamorous ...
City Delirious,
Frivolous, serious ...
Bold and ambitiouus,
And vicious and glamorous.
Drama - a city-full,
Tragic and pitiful ...
Bunk, junk, and genius
Amazingly blended ...
Tawdry, tremendous,
Absurd, stupendous,
Shoddy and cheap,
And astonishingly splendid ...
HOLLYWOOD!!
by Don Blanding, as quoted in Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon" (1975).
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 07:49 PM (N8ZBc)
"A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio" (1924) 31 mins.
youtube.com/watch?v=4Jwtyql1ntE
"The City and Around Los Angeles" (circa 1920s) 13 mins.
youtube.com/watch?v=eTfoFPvqQ90
"The City of Stars" (1925) 30 mins.
youtube.com/watch?v=qHQT1CDWXIA
"Hollywood Today" (192
22 mins.
youtube.com/watch?v=-XWINMB3jg8
"Hollywood: The Movieland of the World" (1929) 18 mins.
youtube.com/watch?v=lG0rnd-m3CU
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 07:50 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)
You misspelled the warmth of collectivism.
Posted by: The Zohran!! at January 17, 2026 07:50 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: pawn at January 17, 2026 07:50 PM (rbIOb)
youtube.com/watch?v=G8-LPlN4kcU
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 07:50 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:50 PM (bXbFr)
, "Witness Protection" (1999)
No Sir, I don't like them.
youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA
Posted by: Mister Horse at January 17, 2026 07:51 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 17, 2026 07:51 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:51 PM (bXbFr)
The woman singing in the background in the bar in It's A Wonderful Life is Adriana Caselotti, who was the voice of Disney's Snow White.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2026 07:52 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 07:52 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:54 PM (bXbFr)
Be tough to name a better one, or one even on par.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:54 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:55 PM (bXbFr)
It is a real shame that today's movies are too afraid to cast complex people. Timothee Chalamet is certainly not my idea of a leading man along the lines of an Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, Cary Grant, etc. The classic leading men - and women, too, for that matter - were REAL looking, not plastic or wimpy.
The reason so many films from back then look so much better is that they are on film, not videotape or CGI. The master filmmakers/cinematographers knew all of the nuances of their medium and took every advantage of those things.
It would be nice to see that stuff again, but it is probably prohibitively expensive these days.
When DD#3 was still living at home years ago, she and I used to occasionally go and see "old" classics at the local theater. It was fun to share those with her!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 17, 2026 07:55 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:56 PM (bXbFr)
Oh, yeah, this was part of a five-year-stretch when I took two of my kids to see all the classics. It's funny to me how movies seem to go in streaks. For a while, every theater around had a throwback.
Now it's basically all some theaters do, and the regular theaters cut way back.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:58 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 07:59 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 08:00 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Tuna at January 17, 2026 08:00 PM (lJ0H4)
I loved Dr. Zhivago when I first saw it. I love that whole Epic Sweep thing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 17, 2026 08:01 PM (djaKb)
That sounds about right. Lynch made a living revealing the darkness under the surface, and none of his films were quite as painfully beautiful as that one.
I realize lots of people prefer the glitz and glamour on the surface. Once you know what's underneath though, I find it hard to pretend it's not there.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:01 PM (f+DD4)
A: The President's Analyst -- James Coburn.
timely, Topical, and TERRIFYINGLY Satirical.
Key scene:
www.tinyurl.com/forWARd-whenLibsDisarm
alternatively Titled: when LIBs Attack
Kropotkin: "You want to be the hero? Save the World? Take the gun."
Dr. Sidney Schaefer: "No."
This moment emphasizes Schaefer's refusal to be a part of the violent actions expected of him... later seen admist the thrill of violent conflict... with a gun in his hand.
forWAR'd !!!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at January 17, 2026 08:02 PM (xkHo7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:02 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 08:02 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:34 PM (asXVI)
One of the talented girls in my HS class played this in a piano recital.
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 08:03 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Lirio100 at January 17, 2026 08:03 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 17, 2026 08:03 PM (8AONa)
Of course bertolucci is a little too entranced with the alluee of maoism vs the warlord era and the rise of chiang
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:05 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 08:06 PM (o4wD0)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:06 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 08:06 PM (o4wD0)
The movie was a famous failure, like Brendan Fraser's Monkeybone; but it seems better than Monkeybone so far.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 17, 2026 08:07 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:07 PM (bXbFr)
Quintet with Paul Newman.
What the F was he thinking making that movie.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:08 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:09 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:09 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:09 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Opinion
Seconded. Newman took chances like with Slapshot, but that one was a swing and a miss.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 17, 2026 08:10 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:10 PM (bXbFr)
Definitely wasn't because of Whoopi.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 08:11 PM (2GVsD)
One movie/series trope that's becoming tiresome: the family dinner featuring screaming, revelations of infidelity, exhibitions of dysfunction, etc.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 08:11 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:12 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:12 PM (bXbFr)
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I'd blame Redford but actors LOVE this kind of thing.
"Ordinary People" didn't help, tho'.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:13 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 08:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:14 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 08:15 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 08:15 PM (2GVsD)
I say yes.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:16 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:16 PM (bXbFr)
I like those when performed well.
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 08:17 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:17 PM (bXbFr)
Julie Christie is so beautiful that she could read the phone book and I would be enthralled.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2026 08:17 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:17 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:17 PM (bXbFr)
30 Days of Night.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:18 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 08:18 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:18 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:18 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 17, 2026 08:19 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:20 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 08:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 08:21 PM (q3u5l)
Perhaps roland jaffe and his opus dei treatment
Which is remarkably balanced
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:21 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:21 PM (KDPiq)
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That's weird. Grok suggests it could be that the intermission is missing, and the overture.
There's a TV version with Keira Knightly.
And a 7 hour Russian version.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:21 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 08:20 PM (Ia/+0)
It already has a place as my favorite war movie. The ending is awesome.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:22 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Javems at January 17, 2026 08:23 PM (MC7q0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:23 PM (bXbFr)
I love movies with lots of snow, which is what I presume we mean by "winter movies".
A Simple Plan
Let The Right One In
Troll Hunter
Grumpy Old Men
Rare Exports
Etc.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:23 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 08:24 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 08:24 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 08:24 PM (VHUov)
A Simple Plan
Let The Right One In
Troll Hunter
Grumpy Old Men
Rare Exports
Etc.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:23 PM (asXVI)
Scarface
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:24 PM (x3JSa)
Don't know how I missed that one.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:25 PM (KDPiq)
The President's Analyst -- James Coburn.
timely, Topical, and TERRIFYINGLY Satirical.
AI > The Phone Company
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 08:25 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I remember watching that the first time ever a few years ago. Campy and dumb, but the main actress was gorgeous, so I watched the whole thing. I realized once I looked up the film online, that I was watching Sharon Tate. What a beauty. Stupid California. Should have hung every member of the Charles Manson & 'family' when that could.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 08:25 PM (o4wD0)
Skip, thanks for the reminder of Battleground -- haven't watched that in who knows when. May have to fish that one out of the pile and revisit it soon.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 08:26 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:27 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: davidt at January 17, 2026 08:28 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:28 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:28 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:28 PM (bXbFr)
Best winter movie of course is Battleground
Posted by: Skip
It already has a place as my favorite war movie. The ending is awesome.
Posted by: Opinion fact
That’s for sure, that’s for dang sure!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 08:29 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: davidt at January 17, 2026 08:28 PM (Q+gd/)
Yes I forgot about that one.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:29 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 08:29 PM (pkeXY)
Heh !!
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:29 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:30 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:31 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: The Paolo at January 17, 2026 08:31 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Javems at January 17, 2026 08:23 PM (MC7q0)
Mrs. Meta has a music box she inherited from her Mom that plays Laura's Theme. It's haunting.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2026 08:32 PM (GTqXr)
o/~ Squeaky's in prison--I'm in misery
Squeaky's in prison and I'm in misery
That little red riding hood she really does it to me~\o
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:33 PM (asXVI)
I've not sat down yet and ranked his movies. Sounds like a fun project. Anyone have an immediate selection for #1?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:33 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: The Paolo at January 17, 2026 08:31 PM (Q+gd/)
Nuts!
Posted by: Gen. McAuliffe at January 17, 2026 08:33 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:33 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: The Paolo at January 17, 2026 08:31 PM (Q+gd/)
I would have expected you to say the Battle Of the Bulge is when your wife and girlfriend run into each other.
Come on, man!
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:34 PM (x3JSa)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:34 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:34 PM (bXbFr)
THE PLEDGE was a good movie. I liked it quite a bit. I like all of Edgerton's work recently. TRAIN DREAMS was nice, and from two years ago, THE STRANGER was brilliant.
It's been a while since I saw Zhivago, but it holds up, and the novel is excellent too. Both due for a rewatch/reread from me.
Just saw MATERIALISTS, too. A strange little film with Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal. It almost wants to make me write an essay on 'manipulation' and movies. That is, we are manipulated by anything we read or view but to what extent are certain manipulations good art or cynicism.
Posted by: Lex at January 17, 2026 08:34 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:34 PM (x3JSa)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2026 08:36 PM (GTqXr)
A Simple Plan
Let The Right One In
Troll Hunter
Grumpy Old Men
Rare Exports
Etc.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:23 PM (asXVI)
Scarface
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:24 PM (x3JSa)
Fargo.
Posted by: a.moron at January 17, 2026 08:36 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: Lex at January 17, 2026 08:34 PM (y4H1r)
Maybe it sounds paradoxical, but while a player can win or lose a game by himself, I don't think you can attribute a pattern of success or failure to any one player.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:37 PM (x3JSa)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2026 08:38 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:38 PM (x3JSa)
And another delightful winter movie -- A Christmas Story. Not only do we get tongues frozen to flagpoles, but we also get Kolchak vs the Furnace from Hell. What more could we want?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 08:39 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Idlan at January 17, 2026 08:39 PM (1LHvZ)
Posted by: a.moron at January 17, 2026 08:36 PM (X5Jzz)
Die Hard, obviously.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:38 PM (x3JSa)
Can't forget the OG - It's a Wonderful Life
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2026 08:40 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
He laid there like a slug. It was his only defense.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 08:40 PM (cYBz/)
I saw the remastered/restored/whatever of Lawrence when it came out in the 90s (?), at the Senator theater in Baltimore. Was perfect.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:41 PM (U/Byj)
I aways say its so.bad you have to see it
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 08:41 PM (Ia/+0)
A copy was sneaked out of the country, and into the hands of the CIA, which was instrumental in having the book published in the West, and then smuggled back into the Soviet Union. They didn't even allow the playing of the film in Russia until five years after the Berlin wall came down.
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 08:41 PM (dIske)
I've not sat down yet and ranked his movies. Sounds like a fun project. Anyone have an immediate selection for #1?
Posted by: Opinion fact
Ben Hur, already mentioned above.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 08:42 PM (o4wD0)
i can't stop watching it
Posted by: gKWVE at January 17, 2026 08:43 PM (gKWVE)
Have a good night everyone, and not too much popcorn
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 08:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj)
Now that football season is over, I have time for Dr. Zhivago.
Posted by: Accomack at January 17, 2026 08:43 PM (KQ27X)
Is it in the Criterion Collection yet, and if not, why?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 08:44 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2026 08:40 PM (GTqXr)
It's a Wonderful Life... the story of a man losing his sanity.
Suffering from massive hallucinations, the movie fades, the credits roll before the men in white jackets show up, and the theft of funds gets fully investigated.
Harvey is something of a sequel.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:45 PM (x3JSa)
Posted by: Lex at January 17, 2026 08:34 PM (y4H1r)
Maybe it sounds paradoxical, but while a player can win or lose a game by himself, I don't think you can attribute a pattern of success or failure to any one player.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:37 PM (x3JSa)
Yes they can...and Josh Allen did singlehandedly lose the game today. He will never win the big game. Lamar Jackson now has company in the AFC.
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:45 PM (tOcjL)
PG rated : https://youtu.be/WiWWa-T0EIY
Posted by: Javems at January 17, 2026 08:45 PM (MC7q0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 08:45 PM (PTsqM)
Posted by: a.moron at January 17, 2026 08:36 PM (X5Jzz)
Woodchipper FTW!
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I actually had Fargo but accidentally erased it. If you have "A Simple Plan," though, that's...Fargo-adjacent.
And the Woodchipper is great: The blood spraying out on to the snow. Snow is so great for blood. lol
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:45 PM (asXVI)
It is odd. It is the inverse of movies and real life then. That generation might have large and powerful emotive performances in movies, but often the stoic was more idealized in actual life. Where the ability to display your angst was frowned upon.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 08:46 PM (PTsqM)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj)
_________________________
Yeah, but Bronson. Charlie made it worth the watch.
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 08:46 PM (dIske)
In fact - going to ask the movie house in our little town to consider showing it as a free matinee. They do that sometimes with classics - and fill the coffers with concession stand revenue.
Posted by: Java Joe at January 17, 2026 08:47 PM (WaLgG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:47 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: fd at January 17, 2026 08:48 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:45 PM (tOcjL)
I didn't watch the game.
I'd still rather have Josh Allen than any other player in the league.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:48 PM (x3JSa)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 08:46 PM (PTsqM)
When he tries to be Superman, he loses. The 1st half ending showed Josh in all his glory today.
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:48 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:48 PM (bXbFr)
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I'll go you one better: revivalhub.com
Today you could have seen "The Greatest Story Ever Told," "Castle in the Sky," the LOTR movies, "The Phantom Menace," "The Rocketeer," "Brazil," "42nd Street"--
And they're all gonna be better than the movies in the theater. Maybe even "The Phantom Menace".
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:48 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:49 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:45 PM (tOcjL)
I didn't watch the game.
I'd still rather have Josh Allen than any other player in the league.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:48 PM (x3JSa)
Nah, I'd take a healthy Mahomes. Josh Allen can't beat him. Even when he's had the better team almost every time.
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:49 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:50 PM (bXbFr)
But - any LA classic theater suggestions?
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:50 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (tOcjL)
*dodges rock-filled snowballs from horde*
Posted by: skywch at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (uqhmb)
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Many such cases. What were the big hits of the Great Depression? Musicals. Frothy, silly, romantic, comedic gloriously opulent musicals.
Now we're too serious.
I think not for nothing did the post WWII movie era not have a lot of horror.
Now everything's all intense and grim and revolutionary because we're soft and fat and shallow and godless and...
What's that? Time for my medicine?
Hang on, errbody.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:49 PM (tOcjL)
I think Mahomes is done as an elite QB.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (x3JSa)
Ben Hur
Omega Man
Ten Commandments
El Cid
The War Lord
Last Hard Men
Planet of the Apes
Greatest Show
Soylent Green
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (KDPiq)
Is THE THING a winter movie or a South Pole movie?
Posted by: Lex at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:52 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:49 PM (tOcjL)
I think Mahomes is done as an elite QB.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (x3JSa)
After today, so's likely Josh...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:52 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:52 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:53 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Bristol Type 6 at January 17, 2026 08:53 PM (VLH5c)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:55 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:55 PM (U/Byj)
RevivalHub.com is a list of what repertory theaters in the L.A. area are showing on any given day. (There aren't any actual movies on the site, just listings.)
If you're asking for my personal favorites, there are few I don't like. Quentin Tarantino's "New Beverly" is a blast. I wrote about that when I reviewed Repo Man/Return of the Living dead. Great double-feature, real projector, loved it.
The Nuart is great. I've been going to midnight shows there since...the '80s at least.
The Egyptian is classic Hollywood, love it. The one we say "Mon Oncle" was kind of a knock-off, but also very good. Ticket takers, ushers, Art Deco on the inside.
The Gardena Cinema is a little rundown but they have such fun shows.
And I more or less live at the Laemmles.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 08:56 PM (asXVI)
Omega Man
Ten Commandments
El Cid
The War Lord
Last Hard Men
Planet of the Apes
Greatest Show
Soylent Green
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (KDPiq)
Hmmm, of those id say my favorites were
1) El Cid
2) Ben Hhr
3) Agony and the Ecstasy
I like the idea of Omega Man, but just do nkt like the movie. His performance is good, but the creatures are just damn dirty hippies. Man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:56 PM (bXbFr)
What happened to good film making with great stories and great, intelligent dialog and happy endings?
Hollywood sucks balls.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 08:56 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 17, 2026 08:57 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2026 08:57 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s)
And he got to machine gun them.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 08:57 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 08:51 PM (tOcjL)
I decided to let Prime recommend films for me. Went through a run of Hercule Peroit (sp? I don't care enough to look it up) films, and Marlow films with different actors in the role.
Takeaways: 1. Peroit movies are all one formula. The performances and scenery make them fun. 2. Actresses like Joan Collins, Charlotte Rampling, and Diana Rigg were scrumptious in their primes. And C. Prime is very good at finding the films after you give them a hint what you're looking for.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 08:57 PM (DxNuP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 08:58 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 07:30 PM (asXVI)
DH decided we needed to binge watch GOT. There are more dicks and tits in those videos than I have ever seen before. I guess now I know why it was so viral at the time. Add in the gratuitous violence and hell, you've got weeks worth of useless entertainment.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 17, 2026 08:58 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 17, 2026 08:59 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 08:58 PM (zZu0s)
So well written.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 17, 2026 09:00 PM (6Bc88)
Any up-votes for The Naked Jungle? Half Heston/mail-order bride soap opera, and the last half a decent adaptation of "Leiningen versus the Ants." Ninety minutes of screen time to fill, but only 45 minutes of material in the short story. But still fun.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 09:00 PM (q3u5l)
Well that's quite a menu to choose from. And your ratings are valuable.
If I do it I would be combining the movie with some good eatin' at a Mex or Thai restaurant, so a matinee would be best. Just a long day trip up from America's Finest City.
And will have to work in a stop at Hi-Time wines in Costa Mesa. Amazing rum selection and often incredible prices on cognac etc.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 09:00 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 09:00 PM (zZu0s)
Hollywood sucks balls.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 08:56 PM (BSdIE)
If you're looking for happy endings, try San Fernando.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:01 PM (i7BC6)
I'm with you that I prefer movies with happy endings or at least not depressively numbing endings.
That why I actually really like RomComs.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 09:02 PM (KDPiq)
Check out Two for the Road, with Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn. Delightful screenplay by Frederic Raphael, and one of Henry Mancini's best scores.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 09:03 PM (q3u5l)
Still a lot of very good Heston movies not in my top ten list.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 09:05 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 09:00 PM (zZu0s)
I heard it said recently, Martin may not want to finish the books, because he's made some sort of pact with... whomever, that as long as he doesn't finish, he won't die.
There's a lot of occult connections to Hollywood, big business, and our oligarchy to suggest, whether you believe it that stuff or not, the rich and powerful sure do.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:05 PM (i7BC6)
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Yeah, there was that whole thing, that fake commercial that was really dead-on.
"It's not porn, it's HBO!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUBiOOx0Pxw
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:06 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 09:00 PM (zZu0s)
I heard it said recently, Martin may not want to finish the books, because he's made some sort of pact with... whomever, that as long as he doesn't finish, he won't die.
There's a lot of occult connections to Hollywood, big business, and our oligarchy to suggest, whether you believe it that stuff or not, the rich and powerful sure do.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:05 PM (i7BC6)
Did the Tragical History of Dr Faustus with my boys to start Jan (the play then a college performance)...Marlowe didn't get enough respect vs Shakespeare...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 09:07 PM (tOcjL)
Enjoyed them both.
Solid popcorn action flicks.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2026 09:07 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 09:07 PM (KDPiq)
But it's probably just the paralyzing knowledge of failure.
And he's a quite capable writer, but he let this one get away from him. Fine, he has all the money in the world. And they'll hire Brandon Sanderson or someone to finish the books after he's gone.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:08 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 09:09 PM (q3u5l)
"It's not porn, it's HBO!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUBiOOx0Pxw
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:06 PM (asXVI)
That's cute.
Of course, GOT wasn't poopular because of dix and tiddies, it was poopular because people wanted a story.
That we all got suckered in the end, and they turned it into drivel isn't the fault of the audience.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:10 PM (i7BC6)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2026 09:11 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 08:58 PM (zZu0s)
So well written.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 17, 2026 09:00 PM (6Bc8
And nary an utterance of 'fcuk' in any of them.
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 09:11 PM (LHPAg)
I'm with you that I prefer movies with happy endings or at least not depressively numbing endings.
That why I actually really like RomComs.
Posted by: Opinion fact
>It's all about the boxoffice returns, the big haul instead of making quality art.
Are you an artist or are you a tool? Both work and pay the bills but something is lacking, and I find myself not willing to buy or pay for any of it unless it's streaming for free.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 09:11 PM (BSdIE)
BTW Klaus Kinski makes the absolute most out of his 30 seconds on camera. “Lickspittle!”, “Liar!”, and the worst insult of all: “Bureaucrat!”
Posted by: pikkumatti at January 17, 2026 09:13 PM (FY8nG)
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HBO has had a pretty consistent formula of using sex and violence to start their series, to grab interest, and then using it at climactic (heh) points to keep interest up.
Personally, I don't watch much TV precisely because I think the (American) system rewards big, sloppy, messy kitchen-sink openings that the writers have no idea how they're going to close.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:14 PM (asXVI)
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I believe you are confusing Lean with the (also great) Robert Wise.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:14 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 09:15 PM (bXbFr)
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Are you an artist or are you a tool? Both work and pay the bills but something is lacking, and I find myself not willing to buy or pay for any of it unless it's streaming for free.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 09:11 PM (BSdIE)
I'm sure much has been said and written, about how "art" has everywhere been turned into big business, and while entertainment was once the realm of providing... eh, entertainment, it's now about product.
Back in the day, writers, musicians, actors, ball players, hell, even producers and CEOs made decent money, but weren't being made insanely rich by providing entertainment.
More money = less quality.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:16 PM (i7BC6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUBiOOx0Pxw
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:06 PM (asXVI)
Fake but accurate.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2026 09:16 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj)
It’s been mentioned often, but Battleground (1949) is a great Battle of the Bulge movie, even though it was shot with only a fraction of the budget of the later effort.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 09:16 PM (m7iZ5)
An 80lb assassin girl
A Dragon lady queen
A smart vengeful evil queen
A lady ship captain
A princess who saves her brother from massacre
Same princess has dogs eat the evil guy
And so much more.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 09:17 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 09:17 PM (bXbFr)
Personally, I don't watch much TV precisely because I think the (American) system rewards big, sloppy, messy kitchen-sink openings that the writers have no idea how they're going to close.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:14 PM (asXVI)
Maybe so, but the GOT show got started, and followed almost precisely with the book. It started with a family, some wolf cubs, and the death of a king.
Sure, there were dix and tiddies and lopping off heads, but none of it was gratuitous. It was all integral to the story.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:18 PM (i7BC6)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:08 PM (asXVI)
I heard that he actually does NOT want anyone to finish the series (unlike say Jordan, who worked every moment until his coming death to finish AND arranged for someone to finish the books. Gave him all his notes, interviews where he could ask questions, everything.
I hate and shake my fist that that fat fuck Martin lives while Jordan died. Gods will, but it still kind of sucks.
Martin is just a BAD person. It oozes out of his writing (rape, character torture, all of it.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 09:18 PM (zZu0s)
And for epic (and like Lean's stuff 3-hour movies that don't feel like 3 hours), try Wise's film of The Sand Pebbles.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 09:19 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 09:16 PM (m7iZ5)
I think it was the BOTB movie, where they said the budget for the film was larger than the cost of the actual battle.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:20 PM (i7BC6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 09:20 PM (PTsqM)
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 09:11 PM (LHPAg)
And both RAGING alcoholics by today's standards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 09:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 09:22 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 09:23 PM (bXbFr)
It was popular because it "thwarted expectations"
Converting a book to television takes skill, no doubt. But the difference between good writing and good directing was made stark with the complete failure of Seasons 7 and 8. Without an actual story to anchor the TV script, GoT wandered around like a zombie begging to be put out of it's misery.
"Winter is coming", the coolest line of the series, was turned into a joke. Millions of men finally understood the disappointment of women in the bedroom asking "is it in yet?"
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 09:25 PM (ciYHQ)
Sure, there was definitely a story there. As I said, GRRM can write, when he feels like it. But what elements they show, how sexual, how violent, is very much a conscious, commercial decision.
I'm not suggesting that's bad, either. Just that it is. Kind of like how Spielberg started "The Color Purple" with the girls running through a field rather than, as the book, the lead character being raped by her father.
Apropos of the other conversation going on, there's nothing wrong with tailoring things to the now and doing (some) things to be successful. A beautiful work of art nobody appreciates may as well not exist.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:25 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 09:18 PM (zZu0s)
It does. I tried to read the first Game of Thrones book and tapped out after the "barbarian slowly seduces underage girl" scene.
It's a shame. I liked his Sandkings story, and even his weird rock band/supernatural/guy who is too proud of his Mazda book. He could have wound up in a much better place.
Posted by: Splunge at January 17, 2026 09:25 PM (7DKa5)
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 09:26 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Jen the original at January 17, 2026 09:26 PM (gP1XX)
I don't know about Martin personally. He seems rather nihilistic, what I've read, but so does Michael Moorcock, and--well, maybe he is, too, but he seems to have some admirable elements to him.
It also doesn't matter, I don't think, what he wants. When he's dead and there's money to be made, they'll give him the Tolkien treatment.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:28 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 09:20 PM (PTsqM)
Charlton Heston was the Brian Dennehy of his day. He could have played a water glass, and you'd know immediately just how full that water glass was supposed to be.
Posted by: Splunge at January 17, 2026 09:28 PM (7DKa5)
Posted by: Jen the original at January 17, 2026 09:28 PM (gP1XX)
The cliche about success ruining people exists for a reason.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:29 PM (asXVI)
157 147 Battle of the Bulge is technically a winter movie but I recall many scenes where the lack of any winter/snow was pretty jarring. A horrible movie in every respect, and of course on a subject that would lend itself to very good epic movie treatment.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 08:43 PM (U/Byj)
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I read that the movie was filmed in Spain to save money, and the producers were hoping for snow but didn't get any.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 17, 2026 09:30 PM (VWtfl)
I argue with those who say Stewart's WWII duty changed him, because he portrayed a seriously deranged relative in the second Thin Man, well before the war. Even at his "nicest," he always had that madman in his pocket.
If you remade Harvey today, Elwood P. would have a body count.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 17, 2026 09:31 PM (zdLoL)
Converting a book to television takes skill, no doubt. But the difference between good writing and good directing was made stark with the complete failure of Seasons 7 and 8. Without an actual story to anchor the TV script, GoT wandered around like a zombie begging to be put out of it's misery.
"Winter is coming", the coolest line of the series, was turned into a joke. Millions of men finally understood the disappointment of women in the bedroom asking "is it in yet?"
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 09:25 PM (ciYHQ)
The books end with Jon Snow laying in a pool of his own blood, Daenerys flying off on her dragon, and various other characters in states of turmoil.
From that point on the show was all downhill, racing toward its fatal disaster of an ending. Which I haven't seen.
I gave up on the show after, I think, one season past the end of the books.
Could Martin have written a better continuation/ending?
I think we will never know.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:31 PM (i7BC6)
Posted by: Jen the original at January 17, 2026 09:26 PM (gP1XX)
I took a European History class as one of my requisite classes. The course was centered around Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. The prof. was not a fan of the warmth of collectivism. How times have changed.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2026 09:33 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 09:33 PM (jc0TO)
Time to make something good to eat, and watch something bloody, with lots of tits and whatnot.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 09:34 PM (sLLLV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 09:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Splunge at January 17, 2026 09:28 PM
Perfect.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 09:35 PM (jc0TO)
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I believe you are confusing Lean with the (also great) Robert Wise.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:14 PM (asXVI)
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Argh, your right.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2026 09:37 PM (Vh9CX)
was an excellent movie about communist Russia.
And as per the discussion above- a great cold winter movie.
But, man has it been disappeared from the public's consciousness.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 09:37 PM (iJfKG)
I'm trying to see if I'm up for one more in my backlog.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 09:37 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 09:38 PM (q3u5l)
And of course I fell in love with Lara, and whenever Lara's Theme is played it is so romantic, dreamy and bittersweet.
Posted by: Joemarine at January 17, 2026 09:38 PM (y171U)
https://tinyurl.com/3usxv3jp
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 17, 2026 09:39 PM (cxFcK)
I think we will never know.
Posted by: BurtTC at January
You and I could have written a better ending, on a weekend drunk binge surrounded by sorority distractions on Spring Break. Dany wouldn't have "forgotten" about the Iron Fleet. Tyrion wouldn't have "forgotten" he was smart and hidden from the undead... in the crypt. Jamie wouldn't forgotten that he had a character arc to fulfill.
But I don't blame JRRRRR Whatever. I think he decided to cash in on the fame while it was still hot, instead of remaining a footnote in the credits.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 09:39 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 09:39 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 09:40 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 09:40 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 17, 2026 09:41 PM (JAn48)
was an excellent movie about communist Russia.
And as per the discussion above- a great cold winter movie.
But, man has it been disappeared from the public's consciousness.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 09:37 PM (iJfKG)
Read the book with my girls 2 years ago...it's definitely Russian Lit...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2026 09:41 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 09:43 PM (ZVgZ4)
Time to make something good to eat, and watch something bloody, with lots of tits and whatnot.
Posted by: BurtTC
>These things are good when you're in the mood for it. Hopefully there is some comedy aspect.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 09:45 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 09:46 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 17, 2026 09:47 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 09:47 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 17, 2026 09:48 PM (q3u5l)
So...have you ever had the misfortune to read "Jane Eyre"? (Those Bronte sisters have a lot to answer for!)
Well, if you have, then you'll recognize within the first 5-10 minutes that "The Housemaid" is essentially a DEI reclamation of the main plot of "Jane Eyre".
Crazy wife? Check, but is she really crazy?
Isolated room at the top of the stairs with a door that only locks from the outside.
Glamorous husband who loyally sticks with "crazy" wife.
Young, strong minded Housemaid who becomes the love interest of husband.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
"The Housemaid" flips the roles around to get to a revenge flick for modern women that weirdly brings "Saw" into the mix.
Well-made but predictable from practically the first frame. Good acting. Crisp direction. Had the ladies in the audience well-hooked.
Not my kind of thing, but if it sounds like you'd enjoy it, you will.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 09:49 PM (iJfKG)
He gave us the first(?) tragic anti-hero. Before there was a Batman, a Blade, a Dritz or a Raistlin Majere.
And if you haven't campaigned without a Stormbringer or a Mournblade in your party, you're amateur
It's not D&D without the sudden but inevitable betrayal leading to a party wipe. It's how I met The Simbul. No sht, there I was with Elfbane at my feet and...Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 09:50 PM (ciYHQ)
"Scott of The Antarctic" (John Mills, 194
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It will cool you right off. Pretty good score, too.
It has...penguins. And a pony! (Well, for a while).
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 17, 2026 09:52 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 09:53 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - believe it at January 17, 2026 09:57 PM (FMpsC)
|| Before there was a Batman
Moorcock was born in 1939, same year as Batman, so, I don't think so.
Good night everyone, thanks for coming by!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at January 17, 2026 09:57 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: mindful webworker - believe it
>I haven't seen a trans-movie yet, does it have a climactic implant uterus?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (BSdIE)
Anti-hero.
Batman wasn't written as the Dark Knight until the 80s
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:03 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 17, 2026 10:05 PM (xG4kz)
"While a conventional hero is typically courageous, morally upright, selfless, noble, honest, and admired by society, an anti-hero is flawed in major ways — often selfish, cynical, morally ambiguous, ruthless, or even unlikeable — yet we still root for them (at least to some degree)."
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:07 PM (ciYHQ)
My bad. I'm prejudiced against drow so...
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:14 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 17, 2026 10:15 PM (xG4kz)
"How you order your private life is a profoundly political act. Hell, in a world where everything is political, just living life on your own terms is a revolutionary act."
https://tinyurl.com/mt7smh7r
Posted by: Alex Holz at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (rbKtB)
Posted by: Roland Hirsch at January 17, 2026 10:55 PM (Imt38)
Perhaps roland jaffe and his opus dei treatment
Which is remarkably balanced
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at January 17, 2026 08:21 PM (bXbFr)"
And the greatest soundtrack of all time.
Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at January 17, 2026 11:33 PM (U/7CP)
I don't think I've seen 15 minutes of it.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 18, 2026 12:25 AM (gUs21)
"A Simple Plan" Recommended.
Posted by: gp at January 17, 2026 08:24 PM (N8ZBc)
Love that one. But dark as hell, so some folks might not like it. Personally, I like the darkness.
The book though.... the darkness is cranked up like a Manowar concert.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 18, 2026 01:18 AM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at January 18, 2026 06:29 AM (caMfM)
Hobby Thread - January 17, 2026 [TRex]
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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. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) a spin it landed on sea glass.
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Glass Beach on the island of Kauai has been a favorite spot of mine for the last ten years. When my youngest son was two months old, we flew to Hawaii to spend the last month of my maternity leave on the island, and I took him to this beach with me. The first time we went to Glass Beach, the sand was covered in tiny, worn down glass pieces; all I collected at the time was a small jar of sand.Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
A few years ago, my son had a hockey tournament in British Columbia. Per hockey coach rules, he had to be at the rink an hour before the first game of the day for warmups. I looked at a map of the nearby area and saw that there was a little beach and boardwalk in downtown Sidney, so I grabbed a cup of coffee and decided that I'd start my morning with a walk near the ocean at sunrise. The sunrise was breathtaking and once the sun was up, I was able to see glass on this little patch of sand to the right of the pier, which I later learned was called Glass Beach by locals.Prince William Sound, Alaska
While exploring the Prince William Sound in Southcentral Alaska, we've found pristine black sand beaches that rival anything Hawaii has to offer, beaches filled with dried starfish and shells, and a secret Glass Beach. My friend and I stumbled upon Glass Beach one day when we decided to explore an island we'd seen many times from the boat. Our starting point had thousands and thousands of shells littering the beach, and as we rounded the bend, we saw that the beach was stacked with sand dollars in all stages of their life cycle. Rounding the far corner or the island, we came to two rocky beaches that we felt were ripe for glass...and our intuition didn't fail us! This beach has given us glass in all shades of green, teal and blue, some large egg shapes, and a green glass "gumdrop."Others at the link, but where have you sought and found sea glass?
Optimal hobbies are not only inexpensive and low risk but can also be enjoyed into advanced age with friends, improving physical and mental health along the way. And if they provide other ancillary benefits such as networking, career advancement, or generational wealth, so much the better. Here are seven characteristics of healthy hobbies. 1- Low Cost
2 - Not High Risk
3 - Longevity
4 - Camaraderie
5 - Physical Health
6 - Intellectual Stimulation
7 - Relaxation
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).
If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute your own. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 05:31 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 05:32 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 05:33 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 17, 2026 05:34 PM (4b7CV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 05:32 PM (RIvkX)
You could try it yourself in the bay. Just go down and grab some of the glass from Alito's. I heard they knocked it down.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 05:34 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 17, 2026 05:40 PM (h/O4U)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 05:34 PM
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Unfortunately, picking up too many pieces makes the beach location less special for those that come after. The smaller pieces are all that remain but they're still very eye catching with the water and sunlight.
Part of the reason why I included the videos of people making their own.
Posted by: TRex - glassy dino, not gassy dino at January 17, 2026 05:40 PM (cCn4/)
I saw a little beach in Greenland that was entirely green. Sand was composed of olivine grains (aka Peridot), weathered out of basalt rock.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 05:42 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 05:43 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 05:44 PM (KDPiq)
My collection is very modest and nothing's been made with any of it. Lore has it that there are "rare" colors of sea glass. I'm familiar with red and orange, as I've found shards of those, but black is really rare.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 05:45 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Shepherd Lover at January 17, 2026 05:45 PM (es3e/)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 05:48 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Shepherd Lover at January 17, 2026 05:45 PM (es3e/)
I gathered lots of it near Mendocino.. That was years ago
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 05:49 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: HappyFun at January 17, 2026 05:51 PM (CoQfd)
Making sea glass with a rock tumbler looks interesting. I have one I use for cleaning brass cases to reload.
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 05:52 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 05:53 PM (IEV/x)
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 06:00 PM (yTvNw)
Lots of exotic properties that make it an unusual substance.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 06:01 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 06:03 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 06:03 PM (KDPiq)
What's the defining point when it stops being a shard of broken glass and can be classified as "sea glass?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 06:03 PM (ESVrU)
Best place I've found is on the beach below the Mohegan Bluffs on Block Island. I've found some on local beaches and down at Beavertail. Not Kauai but there's some.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 06:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 06:09 PM (QGaXH)
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Yes.
The stuff we've found off Monterey in CA was likely ground, polished and deposited over 20 - 30 years.
You can tell because you find glass that's not quite polished and worn enough (cloudy) and you can identify it as an old Michelob bottle, or Sky vodka bottle just by the color.
The "old" stuff could be almost anything.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 06:11 PM (U2OZr)
I like using fountain pens and dip pens. They slow me down (no deadlines to worry about anymore) and I can appreciate the feel of the pen gliding across the paper as I form my thoughts.
PS: There are several fountain pens with acrylic bodies designed to look like sea glass.
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 06:11 PM (yTvNw)
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That's it. That's the push I needed. I'm going to learn to roast coffee:
1. Low Cost (have you seen the cost at the store lately?...check)
2. Not High Risk (I will not be sticking my fingers in the roaster...check)
3. Longevity (If you're asking about the hobby, I won't stop once I get rolling. If you're asking about my personal longevity, coffee is medicinal. Everyone knows that....check)
4. Camaraderie (Camaraderie or parasites? Who cares. It's coffee...check)
5. Physical Health (You don't want to see me without a hot cup in the morning...especially if their sharp implements in the vicinity. So, I think it's better for everyone's health. Not just mine...check)
6. Intellectual Stimulation (see # 5 ...check)
7. Relaxation (Relaxation is overrated...I'll relax when I'm dead...check)
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 06:11 PM (dIske)
Yup. When my wife was dabbling with wire-wrapped jewelry. Thick colored glass like the bottom of wine bottles works well.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 17, 2026 06:12 PM (5HwML)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 06:12 PM (0KSrI)
1- Low Cost
3 - Longevity
4 - Camaraderie
5 - Physical Health
6 - Intellectual Stimulation
7 - Relaxation
The Paolo thinks that, how you say, six out of seven is not bad.
Posted by: Paolo at January 17, 2026 06:12 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 17, 2026 06:12 PM (WQDw6)
As said heard theory sharks teeth can be thousands of years onld, certainly glass hasn't been there that long but 10s to 50 years?
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 06:13 PM (QGaXH)
Discuss
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 06:13 PM (QGaXH)
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Sure, if you enjoy ingesting something that swims around in its own toilet. Enjoy. Heh.
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 06:15 PM (dIske)
You might want to get a separate canister for the glass since you'll be using silicon carbide abrasives and probably don't want to get it mixed in with your brass polishing media.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 17, 2026 06:16 PM (T/x12)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 06:12 PM
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Not naturally occurring, so needs a nearby supply like a coastline dump, factory that dumped refuse into the water, or shipwreck with glass cargo aboard.
Posted by: TRex - coastal dino at January 17, 2026 06:16 PM (cCn4/)
According to the interwebs, Barrington Town Beach is one of the best RI places to fine sea glass. Never went there. No need when Easton and Sachuest beaches were a few minutes away.
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 06:18 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Oddbob at January 17, 2026 06:18 PM (T/x12)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 05:45 PM
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In doing the prep for this post, I found a whole sub-world of rock tumbler enthusiasts on YouTube. Never knew it was a thing, but apparently lots of people are into tumbling rocks, glass, marbles, etc. Who knew?
Posted by: TRex - shaken, not stirred dino at January 17, 2026 06:19 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 17, 2026 06:19 PM (3ImbR)
"SeaFood" nearly got me kicked out of a restaurant in Avalon, NJ. I had to visit the restroom, so in case the waitress returned to take our order while I was gone, I told my friend to order for me. When she asked me what I wanted, I said "Not Seafood."
When I returned my friend looked mortified. She told me we almost were asked to leave. Of course, I asked why, and she said that when the waitress returned and she went to place my order she said, "My friend said, Not seafood. What do you recommend."
The waitress heard something different. "Nazi Food." But, it got cleared up.
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 06:22 PM (dIske)
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Shipping lanes. Cargo and/or trash dumped overboard either by accident or deliberately.
There are stories about certain cargo lost... like the unique color of Skyy Vodka bottles. Then... years later, all this blue sea glass appears along a couple beaches.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 06:22 PM (U2OZr)
Good thought. Protecting the brass cases is the first priority. Both because too much abrasive could weaken them (safety) and because I am too frugal to waste brass.
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 06:22 PM (yTvNw)
1- Low Cost
OK, I'm out.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 17, 2026 06:18 PM (T/x12)
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Yeah, if it's low cost you are probably doing it wrong. You gotta spend your excess cash on something, so it might as well be a hobby.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 06:24 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 17, 2026 06:24 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 06:25 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 06:27 PM (0KSrI)
Notsothoreau,
Never tried one of the snorkel style and none of my pens use a bladder, just converters. My one Sheaffer pen is a '7 Seas' series they made for Levenger's decades ago but discontinued. Too bad. It is a superb pen, on a par with Pelikan.
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 06:33 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 06:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 06:27 PM
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With the caveat that I know nothing about anything, the same undercurrents and tides that move shells around the ocean floor and pull and push them towards beaches are probably responsible. Those currents are influenced by topography of the ocean floor too.
Posted by: TRex - riptide dino at January 17, 2026 06:36 PM (cCn4/)
If we were a few years younger I'd show you. The bottom of the ocean is not always placid. There are currents on calm days and in times of storms even more extreme ocean movement, even at the bottom.
Not all the motion is on the surface.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 06:37 PM (viF8m)
The waitress heard something different. "Nazi Food." But, it got cleared up.
Good. Nazi food is the wurst.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 17, 2026 06:37 PM (PTB5U)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 06:37 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 17, 2026 06:24 PM (+mUZM)
I have one that I took apart and cleaned but I coudn't get the ink to flow. The suggestion I got was to boil the baffle thingy in the nib to get it to work right, and I haven't had the nerve to do that yet.
I use the cheap Chinese ones and Parker ink.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 06:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 06:25 PM (yTvNw)
Which would you rather find on the beach, an handful of beach glass or an intact bottle of Hendrick's Gin?
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 06:40 PM (LHPAg)
Well you were pretty spot on with that one.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 06:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 06:40 PM (0KSrI)
What could it be? Quartz? Diamond? A translucent teardrop.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 06:41 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Son of The Beach at January 17, 2026 06:42 PM (oftw2)
What could it be? Quartz? Diamond? A translucent teardrop.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 06:41 PM (BSdIE)
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Fossilized T-Rex booger?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 06:44 PM (ESVrU)
I'll assume I finished the contents before breaking up the bottle. Waste not, want not is my motto.
Posted by: JTB at January 17, 2026 06:44 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 05:34 PM (uQesX)
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I didn't know that. Old San Francisco is really gone. (Alioto's)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 06:45 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 17, 2026 06:46 PM (DK5Sh)
1- Low Cost: Not the first batch or when you switch to all grain.
2 - Not High Risk: Large amounts of boiling water and sweet wort
3 - Longevity: Depends on how much you brew and drink.
4 - Camaraderie: YES!
5 - Physical Health:see #4
6 - Intellectual Stimulation: absolutely
7 - Relaxation: yes except for moving 5 gallons at a time and all the grain.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 17, 2026 06:48 PM (zHVsH)
Posted by: Case at January 17, 2026 06:48 PM (4rWc3)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 17, 2026 06:49 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Son of The Beach. at January 17, 2026 06:49 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 06:45 PM (RIvkX)
Saw another Metal Leo today. Dang. I think we've eaten there a few times. Bet they'll take down Fisherman's Grotto soon, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 06:51 PM (uQesX)
You could purchase them, back in the day
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at January 17, 2026 06:53 PM (Ew3fm)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
>I've read some T-rex's posts where he's blubbering and gibbering, but this tear drop is clear white, not green.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 06:53 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Son of The Beach. at January 17, 2026 06:49 PM
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I've always found sea currents interesting. How long do things float around? Where does the message in a bottle go? People find "trash" from Japan on the west coast beaches. A cargo ship famously lost a cargo of rubber duckies and other plastic bath toys which were tracked for years.
Posted by: TRex - drifting dino at January 17, 2026 06:53 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 06:53 PM
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I might have blubbered, but never gibbered.
Posted by: TRex - dignified dino at January 17, 2026 06:56 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 06:51 PM (uQesX)
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Thanks for the reminder about Metal Leo was it you you suggested his recent video in the Embarcadero?
The Embarcadero was "Planet of the Apes"-style California brutalism, which I love. But now it is empty, lifeless, a zombie place.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 06:57 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 06:58 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: kelly at January 17, 2026 06:59 PM (8Uuhj)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 07:02 PM (cCn4/)
Bond looks so cool and that babe… moron a mia… that body is to die for. Tawny, sultry, supple, but also tight like a tiger.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2026 07:05 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 07:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 17, 2026 07:06 PM (Kt19C)
A place on my corner closed on 12/31. I thought they had been doing good business. The family has the place 50 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 07:07 PM (RIvkX)
The simple motions created by waves move vast amounts of sand and debris around. Onto shore. Or pulls it off. Just look at the aftermath of a hurricane. That's not all wind. It's the wind ginning up currents, gusts, in the ocean just like wind on land. But not. A three or four foot wave hitting a dock for hours on end will likely do serious damage. A 30 or 40 MPH wind is almost a nuisance.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 07:07 PM (U2OZr)
I've never found sea glass. Beachcombers in Oregon will sometimes find glass floats that were used on fishing nets back in the day, but I've never found one.
Posted by: PabloD at January 17, 2026 07:09 PM (pXTL4)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 07:09 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Son of The Beach.. at January 17, 2026 07:11 PM (oftw2)
Found lots of small glass floats (over time, of course) and a couple of large ones. Most still had their knotted rope covers, which I suppose helped protect them from breaking.
Don't know if we broke any laws doing that.
Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2026 07:12 PM (rdVOm)
>> Thomas Bender- for your use?
Yes, my den/office is full of movie memorabilia, a lot of movie posters and other paraphernalia.
The problem is I’m running out of wall space and I could hang these in the arcade but that’s got other stuff and it really wouldn’t mesh.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2026 07:12 PM (XV/Pl)
I picked up sea glass while hubs was stationed in Panama. The most interesting thing I found was an old glass syringe that had been tossed by the sea until it was no longer transparent. Just added it to a jar of shells and glass so I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 07:12 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 07:09 PM
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Neither does Metal Dino.
Posted by: TRex - rock and roll dino at January 17, 2026 07:13 PM (cCn4/)
Free, except for the gas to get there, all tools provided, so definitely low cost. Safety is always prioritized. Trails will always be around, so no worries about it becoming obsolete. You usually work in a crew of 2-20 people, so plenty of like mined trail people for the camaraderie. It's good outdoor physical activity at your own pace, so perfect for good health. Solving problems is often part of it - how are we going to move this rock or log, how do we fit these natural rocks together to build this wall, how can we turn this natural situation into something that looks like the various manuals published by the USFS, etc, so there's often plenty of intellectual stimulation to go with the physical side of things. Since its volunteer, there's no pressure - we'll get done what we get done, so its relaxing.
Bonus - getting to use the trails you've built or maintained.
Posted by: No Name Guy at January 17, 2026 07:14 PM (L1eRG)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 07:14 PM (0KSrI)
Water damage is usually the cause of most coastal damage in a hurricane not wind.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 07:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 07:14 PM
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Thank YOU and thank you all for being here. Appreciate everyone's input and experiences. Lots of random fun niches to investigate and share.
Posted by: TRex - jacques cousteau dino at January 17, 2026 07:19 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 17, 2026 07:20 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 07:21 PM (RIvkX)
I picked up sea glass while hubs was stationed in Panama.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 07:12 PM
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Interesting shells to be had in Panama?
Posted by: TRex - central america dino at January 17, 2026 07:21 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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I'm sure that is a treasured memory....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 07:22 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 07:22 PM (BSdIE)
Great game.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 07:23 PM (viF8m)
Don't forget to stop by Club ONT later tonight!
Posted by: TRex - gassy, not glassy dino at January 17, 2026 07:23 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Certainly is a great game...far better than the utterly stupid college hoops game I had to endure this afternoon...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 07:25 PM (cCn4/)
The next night I drank bourbon and water and got drunk.
The third night I drank vodka and water and got drunk.
Clearly, it's the water that makes you drunk.
Posted by: Walter Monk at January 17, 2026 07:28 PM (rbIOb)
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:30 PM (Ia/+0)
The Embarcadero was "Planet of the Apes"-style California brutalism, which I love. But now it is empty, lifeless, a zombie place.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 06:57 PM (RIvkX)
Yeah. It's amazing how many places are empty there. Ghirardelli's empty too? Union Square unsafe as well?
Nice thread, Rex. Next stop, ONT.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 07:32 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Eromero
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Curious minds are wondering about this...do you have many of these items? How long do they stay on your gate clicker ring? Etc, etc...
Please say hi to Mrs E from me...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 07:33 PM (cCn4/)
I am always so happy when I find unique gifts for friends and family and they end up loving what I give them. This was a very happy Christmas in that regard 😊♥️🎄
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 17, 2026 07:33 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.
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This was a very happy Christmas for many reasons
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 07:35 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 17, 2026 07:42 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Reforger at January 17, 2026 07:43 PM (lROFx)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 07:44 PM (cCn4/)
Please say hi to Mrs E from me...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 07:33 PM (
Just that one. Mrs. E says hi back.
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 07:45 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 17, 2026 07:49 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: IrishEi
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With all due respect, this is the Bills after all. But yes, I am pulling for Buffalo, too
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 07:51 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at January 17, 2026 07:51 PM (dyL4B)
Posted by: Reforger at January 17, 2026 07:43 PM
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Interesting. A big mechanical mass production type press or a manual small scale press or ??
Posted by: TRex - by the light of the silvery moon dino at January 17, 2026 07:51 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 08:02 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: TRex - by the light of the silvery moon dino at January 17, 2026 07:51 PM (cCn4/)
Huge press. Got about a six foot flywheel on it. The only cycle it once per coin but in operation it ran continiously. It made thousands and thousands of coins back in the late 1800.
I didn't even know it was going on today. I suspect from the line they could run it 7 days a week and never run out of customers. They still have most of the old dies too.
Posted by: Reforger at January 17, 2026 08:04 PM (v8m2L)
Posted by: Reforger at January 17, 2026 08:04 PM
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Coin Press No.1. Found it on the interweb. Definite steam engine vibes. Thanks for posting.
Posted by: TRex - dino has not cornered the silver market at January 17, 2026 08:09 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 08:10 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 08:14 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 08:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ronster at January 17, 2026 08:18 PM (6J32i)
The TRC-57 that had a dead VCO now has a live one. Still not working correctly, but at least now it can receive and transmit.
Starting pulling the corrosive glue out of a Cobra 148 GTL. Spent pretty much all day cleaning that crap out, and I still have more to do tomorrow. It ate two of the PLL pins, and is rotting a bunch of component leads. The component leads I can usually save by sanding and coating with solder, if they're long enough. The 10.240 MHz crystal that runs everything didn't have long enough leads so I had to raid another chassis for that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 17, 2026 08:36 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 17, 2026 08:43 PM (3ImbR)
I live in NorCal. Had a female visitor come up and ask about Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, and if we could go check it out. In my interest in impressing her, I replied Sure!
3 hours of windshield time, and we arrived.
Went to Glass Beach.
Nothing to be seen, anywhere!
“”pummeled into tiny bits, now.“”
Nope. Pilfered into non-existence now.
The only worn glass to be found was in the souvenir stores. Fake. (And gay, in keeping with our memes)
Letdown, with 6+ hours of round trip driving..
BUT! The Northcoast Brewing Co had Blue Star Ale on sale for $30 fora case, so there was some salvation!
Posted by: Gunslinger at January 17, 2026 08:47 PM (4pWEQ)
1- Low Cost -Not at all
2 - Not High Risk - Yes, it is
3 - Longevity - Not likely
4 - Camaraderie - 100%
5 - Physical Health - Um, yeah, until not so much
6 - Intellectual Stimulation - Very much
7 - Relaxation - Not really, we are pretty edgy
Posted by: Jim in Texas at January 17, 2026 09:34 PM (nGt2v)
Posted by: Pat* at January 17, 2026 09:54 PM (jc3nu)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at January 17, 2026 11:31 PM (///6J)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 17
Courtesy Michael Johnson
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.
Courtesy Terry Glenn
He saw an orange cat steal his pillow and decided to follow it. He discovered that it lived on the street and was a mother.
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) November 30, 2025
Then he rescued and adopted the whole family. ❤️❤️
I wish him a heavenly life on earth. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/I0OV0ip2g9
A fox enjoying the snow. pic.twitter.com/OJylJEhydl
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) January 6, 2026
I am a long time lurker on your site, Patriot in Charlston, S.C. Never get tired of reading your snarky clips. Here is a kitty. We are fostering who is named after Schrodinger‘s cat Irvin! I never thought I could like a black cat but this little guy is so affectionate and fun. It’s going to be hard to give him up.A charmer! Such a great kitty to foster!
Lily Beagle 2015-2026 She was a good dog with lots of quirks. She always wore a basket muzzle outside since she ate whatever came near her mouth. New Year's Day 2025 was a trip to the emergence vet since she ate a wad of thin wire. Not much of a cuddler until her last few days when she became very sick. Not much of a barker or howler even thought she was a blue tick beagle and our last beagle buddy Daisy howled at the drop of a hat. She will be sorely missed and the house is too damned quiet. I'm attaching her puppy picture and one from two weeks ago before her health got really bad. neverenoughcaffeineA wonderful tribute to Lily. Thanks for sharing her with us. What a darling pup!
Hi there! Mostly a lurker! Sometimes I leave a comment on threads as tb24601. Anywho! Here’s a Petmoron if there ever was one, my cat, Freddie. I’ve caught him drinking from the water feeder like this a few times. He’s a pistol!Freddie is an acrobat! Thanks for sending in this great photo!
Just to give you a quick chuckle. She was on her favorite hot rock with her head out. When my wife turned on the he sunlamps, she immediately backpedaled until she was fully covered. She’ll be asleep for the next week or two, since it’s still winter Coelacanth
Nayro sleeps!
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!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.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 10 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 03:14 PM (Ia/+0)
I have 2 dogs, George and Gracie, and George just had a growth removed.
I'm curious if anyone here has experience with mushroom powder for inflammation or can recommend a great food for allergic dogs as that it a potential cause of this.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 03:20 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 17, 2026 03:20 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 03:23 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 17, 2026 03:24 PM (EES2L)
I got them a pet stroller for Christmas and we started Stroller Training today.
Baby Steps (Paws).
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 17, 2026 03:24 PM (qIH9H)
Posted by: m at January 17, 2026 03:28 PM (SSiCQ)
Before, he would stand on my chest. Having 15 pounds concentrated into four small points is something the Inquisition should have invented.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 17, 2026 03:28 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 03:29 PM (LHPAg)
And of the cat hanging upside down to drink the water. Sorry about Lily Beagle, nev She was very cute, and I like the tail of the lizard hanging out from under the blanket,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 03:29 PM (Nx5jP)
Thanks, K.T.!
Posted by: m at January 17, 2026 03:31 PM (SSiCQ)
Before, he would stand on my chest. Having 15 pounds concentrated into four small points is something the Inquisition should have invented.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 17, 2026 03:28 PM (CHHv1)
Minnifer the cat weighs about 12 pounds and for some reason she stands on my no-no place.
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 03:32 PM (LHPAg)
Orange tabbies, considered (correctly) by many to be the best cats, are odd in that due to where the genes are located, the overwhelming majority of them are male.
That is not only a female orange tabby, the entire litter looks like orange tabbies (maybe one spotted cat, not sure). That cat family has *all* the recessives.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2026 03:38 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 03:29 PM (LHPAg)
Think long lizardy tail
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 03:38 PM (kJmLc)
Yesterday Ruby went critter hunting and found a mouse or a vole in the raspberry bushes. Flung it up in the air as she does, which attracted Piper to the hunt.
They are certainly winter dogs, those two.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 17, 2026 03:38 PM (6Bc88)
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Finding entertainment anywhere it's on offer!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2026 03:39 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 17, 2026 03:39 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 03:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2026 03:38 PM (GyQIQ)
Mimi was an orange tabby. But then, so was Hobbes. I expect there are plenty of female orange tabbies, and I likewise expect they don't care what their genes tell them they should be. Lol.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 17, 2026 03:41 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 17, 2026 03:41 PM (6Bc8
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Not impossible by any means, just unusual. If you see any orange tabby and bet on it being male, you're going to win much, much more often than not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2026 03:43 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 03:43 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at January 17, 2026 03:43 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 03:44 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 03:44 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 03:43 PM (qFwJc)
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This is the HQ. Power of "and" rules.
Rabbit soup with lump turtle!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2026 03:44 PM (GyQIQ)
If your Mom did not love you, how can you know that God loves you?
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 03:47 PM (qFwJc)
Great pet thread.
I love the way Freddie drinks.
Lily was a beautiful dog. Sorry for your loss neverenoughcaffeine.
Posted by: Joyenz at January 17, 2026 03:47 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 03:50 PM (KDPiq)
There were a couple of times I'd let the gate open so he could roam and shut the fuck. Nice little friendly doggie. Nobody played with him that I ever saw. Sad.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 03:53 PM (BSdIE)
Wife was very happy with the idea. My brother actually delivered her, even though it was a 500 mile drive.
Penny was so wonderful. Very protective of the family. My daughter, who Penny already knew was part of the pack, came to the home and Penny was barking and menacing, and when my daughter came in, she was ecstatic with happiness and kisses.
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 03:55 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: SciVo at January 17, 2026 03:55 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 17, 2026 03:58 PM (qIH9H)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 04:00 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Dino58 at January 17, 2026 04:01 PM (TfVp7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2026 04:03 PM (U/Eoe)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 17, 2026 04:04 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 17, 2026 04:04 PM (f0sNM)
I know this is a pet thread, but I'll just answer briefly. Because God is not a human mother or father. The Bible does talk about God as a mother hen in Matthew 24:37 and references that in Psalm 91:4. I haven't really researched it but there is an article on "How to overcome a distorted view of God as father" by Rachel Britton. . I am guessing the same sort of thinking can be applied to one's mother. I am very sorry your mother was lacking but God loves you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 04:09 PM (ix8EF)
"fully"
; )
Posted by: m
"Fully" means something else if you have body parts that serve as chaff. Is that one of the species of lizard that can drop its tail?
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 04:10 PM (VHUov)
I like how you name your beagles after flowers. It's very pretty. How did that come about?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 04:10 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 17, 2026 04:10 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 17, 2026 04:12 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 04:13 PM (ix8EF)
Great Danes, one of my favorite breed of dogs. We have had 5.
The last two we had were half sisters and we had them along with two Teacup Chihuahuas who were sisters.
The four of them were awesome together. Never a minutes trouble with them living together.
Posted by: four seasons at January 17, 2026 04:17 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 17, 2026 04:18 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 04:19 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 04:21 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 04:22 PM (qFwJc)
I'm not sure what that had to do with my comment about not feeling God loves us if we had a mother.
Who was lacking. But I'm not intending to get into an argument about it. God bless you
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 04:28 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 17, 2026 04:29 PM (PGm4S)
As we pray for the civil authorities to administer justice, I pray for the referees to do the same.
Just love you all.
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 04:31 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 04:49 PM (qFwJc)
That is not only a female orange tabby, the entire litter looks like orange tabbies (maybe one spotted cat, not sure). That cat family has *all* the recessives.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2026[/o]
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Afternoon, pet folken! A female orange tabby? Mrs. Wolfus No. 1's cat Mitzi was one. Looked very much like the one in the video. She was sweet, good-natured (though she once wanted to go out and fight a raccoon!), and average in smarts. Though she did have one trick. She knew how to stand on her hind legs, grasp a doorknob, and turn it enough to release the catch and let her go through the now-open door.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 04:56 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026
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Stirling's litter was all black -- four long-haired females and his own medium-coated self. They were all on the Vicksburg shelter's site. (The girls all got adopted, leaving him for me.) I suppose that means both his sire and dam were all black?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 04:59 PM (wzUl9)
Here's a link of the bit. It's clean. Brian always worked clean:
https://tinyurl.com/a4rkbuf3
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 05:01 PM (dIske)
A: He looks like a sleeker, shorter-haired version of my Stirling.
B: Black cats in my experience are usually the most easygoing and adaptable. "Adaptable" meaning in part, they usually get up to all kinds of hijinks and fun.
C: Why give him up?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 05:04 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 05:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Back to sleep. Makes for very low maintenance in the winter.
Posted by: Coelacanth at January 17, 2026 09:28 PM (vt7xw)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Jan 17
I hope you are doing well. Our first daffodil bloomed! Such a happy flower. NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker
Outside it’s cold and dreary. Inside the purple-red miniature Cattleya is blooming again. Don
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
Started a batch of naturally fermented kosher dill pickles, and a batch of fresh sauerkraut. Testing these to see if they will be good enough for the LA County Fair culinary competition. Pickles will be ready in about four days; sauerkraut maybe two weeks. I go by the name By-tor
From Israel, I'm sending a few shots of a wildflower, the common squill, taken at an archaeological site on the Golan Heights. The appearance of the squill signals the arrival of fall.
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday 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.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Reforger at January 17, 2026 01:22 PM (v8m2L)
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Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 01:23 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Reforger at January 17, 2026 01:22 PM (v8m2L)
They're still busy on the other thread gleefully plotting California's expulsion from the Union.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 01:24 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: KT at January 17, 2026 01:33 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 01:34 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 01:34 PM (uQesX)
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Well, after last night's unannounced snow storm, I'd have to dig down about a half of a foot to see. I'm not going to.
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 01:35 PM (dIske)
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Posted by: KT at January 17, 2026 01:40 PM (7vIsy)
Anything going on in your garden?
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Raises shade.....
Looks outside.......
Garden's still there....
Nope..nothin new, not a damn thing....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 01:43 PM (QGaXH)
The amaryllis has a 6th flower open - I cut off the withered 1st flower. Looks like a 2nd bud stem is starting!
We bottled some bourbon-barrel-aged stout, and some cardamom-infused stout. We set up a batch of Rauchbier. And we're dry-hopping a half-gallon test batch of hard cider.
Posted by: Pat* at January 17, 2026 01:46 PM (jc3nu)
Posted by: Reforger at January 17, 2026 01:46 PM (v8m2L)
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Posted by: Pat* at January 17, 2026 01:50 PM (jc3nu)
The grapes I find I am not hard-hearted enough to prune correctly for the weeds they are. If I were to take them off at ground level they would probably come up from the roots.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 01:55 PM (rbvCR)
The swallowtail caterpillars also like it and don't share very well.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 01:56 PM (FMtrg)
one of my orchids is blooming again, a real light lime green with magenta freckles, and the other 5 have set buds. By Valentine's Day I will likely have an orchid-ganza around here.
one of them though was struggling, even though it has set buds and new roots. Today I really examined in and saw some light fuzzy stuff that def doesn't look good.
So when I go home I'm going to treat the leaves and roots with some pest killing stuff.
I have learned despite their fragile and ethereal appearance, these are very tough plants. They would have to be to survive the mayhem I have put them through.
Posted by: kallisto at January 17, 2026 02:00 PM (dCxaZ)
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Posted by: KT at January 17, 2026 01:33 PM (7vIsy)
same same
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Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 02:46 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Pat*
We just get blizzard warnings here.
What do you do for an "air stagnation advisory?"
"Try not to breathe too much, so we don't run out of oxygen?"
Posted by: mikeski shovels the global warming at January 17, 2026 02:49 PM (VHUov)
Snow stopped and just above freezing
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 03:14 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pat* at January 17, 2026 09:41 PM (jc3nu)
People who keep us thinking past artificial intelligence
Scott Adams never lost the ability to surprise me with his ideas and observations. He could comment on the same event or situation everyone else was looking at and reveal a new angle or a whole new world. My brain grew every time I heard his voice. What a loss. What a figure.
Walter Kirn
You will see lots of fake news today describing how and why Scott Adams was canceled three years ago. If you want an accurate version of events you should read his obituary at @nypost. The context was crucial and was often misrepresented or omitted, deliberately, by his opponents https://t.co/srzSQD154B
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) January 13, 2026
R.I.P Scott Adams (1957-2026) –– creator of Dilbert
— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) January 14, 2026
As I write in @TheFP, I didn't always agree with Scott, but he did make me a better thinker.https://t.co/JNgAGomwJq
THOMAS SOWELL: My Experience With Artificial Intelligence. Another target of this particular AI fraud is military historian Victor Davis Hanson. In addition to his profound scholarly writings on military history, Prof. Hanson has also spoken out strongly on many current and controversial issues. Apparently those who do not agree with him cannot argue effectively against what he said. So they use AI to make him seem to be saying something different.It's easy enough for the legacy media to change the meaning of what people say WITHOUT AI. We're in for some new experiences.
Victor Davis Hanson: AI Is Hijacking My Image
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 29, 2025
Artificial intelligence is being used to steal voices, faces, and reputations. Victor Davis Hanson knows this firsthand.@VDHanson explains the growing problem of AI-generated deepfake videos that falsely use his image, voice, and… pic.twitter.com/2gRrE1fVsr
And here is an update on his successful surgery for a rare lung cancer. He did have a bleeding complication after the surgery, but seems to be on the road to recovery. Prayers may still be in order. Jack Fowler is keeping VDH's business going.
This week we said hello to a new heroine in Iran, and goodbye to a hero at home. But “The Crazy” marches on, both on the streets and in Supreme Court case arguments, where liberal justices continue to not disappoint, providing endless comic entertainment. Here’s a suggestion for the Wall Street swap market types: let’s swap Minnesota for Greenland and Alberta, and swap the Iranian cigarette girl for every AWFL in America.
Music Everybody's Talkin'
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2026 11:13 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 11:14 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:15 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: KT at January 17, 2026 11:16 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:19 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 11:19 AM (bss/y)
OpenAI to Start Testing Ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:19 AM (L/fGl)
Well, they have people using it, now comes to monetize the fuck out of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)
Rockstar Games Bans “Grand Theft Auto Online” Player-Created Missions Recreating Charlie Kirk Assassination
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 11:19 AM (bss/y)
Yes. And in only one direction. Some Muz politician in Belgium is demanding that everyone who does not agree with Islam leave Belgium. Conquest is nearly complete.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:21 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:23 AM (Ia/+0)
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Dude, you need to join SS Anonymous to rid you of your evil addiction.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 11:25 AM (ESVrU)
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
I recommend watching with the sound off.
https://is.gd/pcX4P3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Scott's career arc was:
Working for the phone company in San Francisco and living in worker bee housing.
Getting rich from Dilbert and getting fired by the phone company (his boss didn't like the portrayal of "the boss" in Dilbert).
Moving to Blackhawk, one of the wealthiest and most exclusive developments in the East Bay.
Since Scott was a minor celebrity, he got invited to a lot of parties in Blackhawk.
Now the people at these parties are wealthy people living in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have won at the game of life.
You'd think they would have nothing to complain about, and you would be wrong. They were constantly complaining, and Scott made a lengthy list of all the things they complained about.
It was hilarious.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2026 11:26 AM (n1OCj)
And this fat Asian gal next to him is clearly staring at him with bedroom eyes.
Like, it's clear she's deep in X-rated daydreams.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2026 11:27 AM (HXT0k)
I always liked Adams, though he could be a bit of a nut at times.
But at no time did I ever consider him remotely "conservative" and he certainly was not a "pundit." I don't know exactly what he was, but it's definitely not a pundit. They're all shills and tards, and he wasn't that.
Media people are so simplistic, and reductive, and shallow, and stupid. It's just amazing to watch these people "think."
"Hurr durrrrr, famous man is famous. Famous man mentions politics sometimes. Famous man is pundit. Famous pundit man says things my drunk idiot friends don't like. Famous pundit man is conservative pundit man duhhhh"
I'm surprised these people don't need assistance feeding themselves.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:29 AM (BI5O2)
And this fat Asian gal next to him is clearly staring at him with bedroom eyes.
Like, it's clear she's deep in X-rated daydreams.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2026 11:27 AM (HXT0k)
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No doubt she's imagining Mamdani as a minotaur studmuffin.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 11:29 AM (ESVrU)
Scott also eviscerated a lowly Marxist professor who tried to make a name for himself denouncing Dilbert.
The Dilbert comic strip, you see, implied that there was a lot of deadwood in large organizations.
This is completely wrong - every person in large organizations is absolutely necessary, and Scott was supporting mass unemployment or something by implying that you could reduce headcount and make these organizations more efficient.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2026 11:31 AM (n1OCj)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 11:34 AM (g47mK)
Sadly, moving to Blackhawk did mark the end of the best period of Dilbert.
Scott claimed that he could write about corporate bureaucracy just as well from his lovely redwood deck at his fancy house as he could from a cubicle, and it just wasn't the case - Dilbert definitely lost some of its edge.
At the time, I observed that Scott should pay some large bureaucracy to employ and abuse him, to keep his muse intact.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2026 11:35 AM (n1OCj)
It is forbidden even if what he said was common sense.
Only the privileged races can speak about race even if what the privileged races say is racist.
Posted by: Shut Up Honky at January 17, 2026 11:36 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 11:37 AM (5naI3)
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:38 AM (nTi7N)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 11:29 AM (ESVrU)
Probably helped him secure the female vote. THat stupid smile he has makes me sick
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:39 AM (kJmLc)
He was also incorrect. White people don't try to stay as far away as possible from black people generally - everybody (including affluent black people) tries to stay as far away as possible from the black underclass.
There is a difference.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2026 11:39 AM (n1OCj)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 11:39 AM (5naI3)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 11:37 AM (5naI3)
A man with $50M could have paid it himself.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:40 AM (kJmLc)
For More… https://bet2bright221.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:40 AM (eZWdu)
I think she said "peaceful" protesters. If they're "peaceful" why would ICE be using teargas or non-lethal munitions on them in the first place?
spoiler: they weren't
The "non-peaceful" protesters on the other hand....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:01 AM
Saw a meme the other day shared on X highlighting the fact that there is no protected right to protest in the U.S. Constitution. There is only the protected right to "peacefully assemble".
This has been forgotten by pretty much everyone (myself included). There is no right to protest. Only peacefully assemble. We need to start separating protesting from peacefully assembling. Protesting is not protected, peaceful assembly is.
X: https://bit.ly/3Lz7xH0
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 11:40 AM (P5BPp)
Are you living in heritage America? That's where it falls apart. The black people in my small city I've lived in the past few years are not racists. They work jobs, they go to church, and are nice to their white neighbors. A couple of blacks on my block are lesbos, but they're the rarest of birds - pleasant lesbos who don't annoy me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:43 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Wellness Check at January 17, 2026 11:43 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 11:39 AM (5naI3)
He did nothing of the sort
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:43 AM (kJmLc)
You have the right to stand there. You have the right to hold a sign. You have the right to assemble peacefully. Quite lawfully without trampling everyone else's rights.
The moment it becomes loud, destructive, coercive or threatening, it stops being protected and it becomes lawlessness."
X: https://bit.ly/3Lz7xH0
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 11:44 AM (P5BPp)
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That's been amended to "mostly peacefully assemble."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:45 AM (L/fGl)
https://x.com/i/status/1787769934833233959
Note, he's talking about the government and its lobbying strong arm, not Jews.
Posted by: MikeN at January 17, 2026 11:46 AM (Iutv3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:45 AM (L/fGl)
"Fiery but mostly peaceful" comes to mind
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:47 AM (kJmLc)
Trump intervened and got the Pluvicto treatment Adams wasn’t getting from Kaiser Permante.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:47 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: HALP! at January 17, 2026 11:48 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Iranian cigarette girl at January 17, 2026 11:49 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:50 AM (Ia/+0)
And this fat Asian gal next to him is clearly staring at him with bedroom eyes.
Like, it's clear she's deep in X-rated daydreams.
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I've seen a photo of Mamdani's "wife" or whatever she is.
I've no doubt she'd bite that chick's head off and eat it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (U2OZr)
Which is your favorite? Do you recall the context of your favorite?
I have used Dilbert comics at work for my entire career. One that hit home for me in my current engineering job is one where he comments on how management always wants "one-pagers". One PowerPoint slide which summarizes weeks or months of work and pages and pages of data for design proposals, etc.
So after discussing this with his manager, Dilbert comes to the meeting with one slide that is just one big black blotch. When asked, he says all the months of work and data is all stuffed in that one slide and that is the result of fitting it in there.
I hate one-pagers. There's never enough space and you can never sufficiently summarize the work with enough detail to give to management to understand everything. Inevitably there will be a question "What does this generic statement you have here mean?" and I'll want to say "well, you wanted me to summarize 50 slides worth of data and information into one sentence, of course it doesn't explain every single detail."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 11:25 AM (ESVrU)
My name is Miley and I'm a sudoku addict.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:47 AM (KDPiq)
Really?
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:52 AM (nTi7N)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (hhkIi)
Sad.
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:52 AM (nTi7N)
He had to start getting into the liquor early, his mom's last client stayed late this morning and she's always loud.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:54 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (hhkIi)
I'm liking BobbyK. The idea of pulling harmful additives from food, like Apeel, is a great idea and 50years overdue
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:54 AM (kJmLc)
The people who live in 99% white neighborhoods are the ones who got the most mad at Scott.
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:55 AM (nTi7N)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:54 AM (kJmLc)
I don't trust him.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (kJmLc)
Unless it was just a coincidence that Kaiser made the appointment afterwards. Adams said the intervention corrected the Kaiser red tape mistake that had caused the lack of scheduling the approved drug treatment.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:55 AM (nTi7N)
Of course. They have no experience with thugs as busses usually don't run in those hoods.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (kJmLc)
Doesn't this monomania EVER get boring?
Is it ever challenging? Like, does your dog ever poop on the floor, and you find yourself struggling to figure out how the Jews are mixed up in that crime?
Or is it just natural and effortless? "My dog is a German Shepherd. Mossad clearly poisoned his water bowl."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)
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And when that assembly becomes non-peaceful?
Local authorities are supposed to disperse the crowd. Failing that, they should arrest or at the minimum, detain those failing to disperse.
The Insurrection Act, as invoked by the President uses very specific language about this. And gives a timeline for the locals to take care of it.
Or the Feds will. And I believe all the requirements for the Act to be invoked have been met. Certainly in Minneapolis they have.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (hhkI
Trump replied to Adams plea for help with ‘ on it!’ RFK Jr replied also with ‘the President wants to help’
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:59 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew
I trust him more than any democrat HHS Secretary, and the fact that his family banned him from Tatiana's funeral, says that his tribe believes that he believes what he's saying.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:59 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)
Finally someone gets it!!!
- Candace
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:59 AM (nTi7N)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (hhkIi)
Scott had Trump's personal cell in his contacts.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 17, 2026 11:59 AM (w6EFb)
A couple weeks ago I got into a matching tiles game I'd had on my phone for a couple of years and same deal, I was starting to be compulsive about finishing a level and wasting too much time and decided I needed to just delete the game.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 12:00 PM (hhkIi)
~~~~~
Scott Adams thanked PDT and his team for intervening and getting him the treatment.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 17, 2026 12:00 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew
I don't trust anyone.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 17, 2026 12:00 PM (w6EFb)
@disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)
Some imbecile with a cell phone and dreams
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:02 PM (viF8m)
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And when that assembly becomes non-peaceful?
Local authorities are supposed to disperse the crowd. Failing that, they should arrest or at the minimum, detain those failing to disperse.
The Insurrection Act, as invoked by the President uses very specific language about this. And gives a timeline for the locals to take care of it.
Or the Feds will. And I believe all the requirements for the Act to be invoked have been met. Certainly in Minneapolis they have.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM
Absolutely.
I think the issue is that over the past 20 years or so, the right to peacefully assemble has been transformed into a "right to protest" and the definition of "protest" has been completely mangled to allow for breaking all sorts of laws (rioting, blocking roads, attacking people peacefully assembling supporting a different opinion, etc).
That needs to end. Laws should be enforced.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 12:03 PM (P5BPp)
@disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)
This ones a head scratcher
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:03 PM (VE6XX)
I liked the Dilbert comics. I had a co-worker whose wife worked for one of the ATT spinoffs and he said the comics were too true to life to be really funny to them. Our smaller workplace we had just a bit of that stuff and could really laugh at them.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
You know who else had a German Shepherd?
Posted by: Blondi at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM (oftw2)
@disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)
lol
Has Trump started tweeting about Denmark's sterilization of Greenlanders yet?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM (hG7ox)
https://tinyurl.com/ytzhzz7z
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2026 12:06 PM (U/Eoe)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 17, 2026 12:06 PM (Kt19C)
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)
So lets say they agree.. Doesn't Congress have to okay it?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:06 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM
I think every city or state over the past 20+ years which has not had their law enforcement disperse crowds who block streets and arrest each and every one of them who does not disperse has allowed for invocation of the Insurrection Act.
This stuff has been going on for decades now and has just gotten worse and worse and worse, because of the mangling of the "right to protest", which does not exist. Anything beyond peacefully assembling is breaking the law and should be met with arrest. Because it has not, domestic terrorism has been allowed to be considered "protesting".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 12:07 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (jc0TO)
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You've got to start in the morning if you want to drink all day.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (2Ez/1)
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That's been amended to "fiery, but mostly peacefully assemble."
fixt
Posted by: pray i don't alter it further at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (edU/H)
@disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)
But they're going to take on *both* Poo Tin and OrangeMadBad, and win.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Yep. Same playbook, Minneapolis is the problem, again. George Floyd 2.0. Trying to goad Trump into an appropriate response that can be recast by media liars and democrats as another Kent State or hurr durr dictator. In advance of a major election cycle, of course.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (umaaa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM
I would start my offer with six hams per year. Twice what they get from Denmark.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (jc0TO)
As I've been saying since Trump first started on his campaign to make a deal about Greenland it is easily explained if you look at a globe from the top instead of the side.
Greenland is the most strategic location in the western hemisphere when it comes to the Arctic region and national defense not to mention shipping. That why we have had a base in Greenland since the Nazis took Denmark in WWII.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (hhkIi)
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Probably to be left alone.
Or heat.
Greenland's not all that big. The typical maps we see use a certain "projection" that elongates Greenland. It's really about 1/3 the size of the US.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (jc0TO)
Today's comments have the whiff of raimongoloid.
All three are probably the same poorly medicated shut-in posting from mom's basement.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 17, 2026 12:10 PM (hG7ox)
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 12:10 PM (nTi7N)
Lefty politicians just giving taxpayer money to their cohorts.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:10 PM (KDPiq)
No, I meant the new tariffs...I understand the value of Greenland
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:11 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (jc0TO)
Hmmm. It is like deciding between a weeping sore on your ass or ureteral discharge...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:11 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM
All trolls are Average Joe.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:11 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Strategic. Arctic. Shipping. Things our chattering class can't grasp.
You know who does?
China. Russia. Trump.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:11 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (jc0TO)
ADL is a prime example of "every organization eventually becomes Communist". Starting to wonder about AIPAC, too, which spent millions on ads attacking Brandon Herrera the last time he ran. (The whole Unsubscribe crew is 100% pro-Israel).
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (QZThv)
https://tinyurl.com/mkp2fban
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (jc0TO)
Because European countries are trying to block Trump. Some are even saying this will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland.
Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM
Whenever I see "Greenlanders" I think of the great Netflix series "Vikings: Valhalla" with Leif Erickson and his Greenlanders being the main focus of the series.
Leif Erickson played by Sam Corlett. Harald Sigurdsson played by Leo Suter.
IMDb: https://imdb.to/4pN1b4R
This focus on Greenland is now making me want to re-watch the series again...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (2WIwB)
Doubt they care much
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (Ia/+0)
Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)
Yeah, I agree
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:13 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:13 PM (jc0TO)
==
Because European countries are trying to block Trump. Some are even saying this will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland.
Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)
Can they vote us out of the UN while they're at it?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 17, 2026 12:13 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (kJmLc)
Yes, Pluvicto is not "standard of care"
He also got Anktiva from Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong which is a T-cell booster that is in first human trials.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 12:14 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (V362x)
ADL is a prime example of "every organization eventually becomes Communist". Starting to wonder about AIPAC, too, which spent millions on ads attacking Brandon Herrera the last time he ran. (The whole Unsubscribe crew is 100% pro-Israel).
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (QZThv)
Was it Conquests law that said any organization not explicitly conservative will become infiltrated? Well, Boy Scouts got infiltrated and destroyed. Supposedly the Lincoln Project and Bulwark are conservative.
The people are what always matters.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Not sure. But I assume they just want to build knock-down furniture and nuke-powered saunas.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (mlg/3)
Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw
Throw in the end of the UN and we've got a deal!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 12:07 PM (P5BPp)
There may not be the express words "right to protest" but protesting is a Constitutionally protected activity under freedom of speech, assembly, and petition. It does not mean that you have carte blanche to do anything you want under the label of "protest," such as physically interfere with arrests, burn, loot, riot, steal, commit battery, block vehicles, ram cars, etc. This is where the line is crossed and those actions need to be dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.
Posted by: But be careful where that line is at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:16 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 12:16 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)
"Trump is funneling all the Venezuelan oil-money into Qatari banks" is a better one. What a maroon.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:17 PM (rbvCR)
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There may not be the express words "right to protest" but protesting is a Constitutionally protected activity under freedom of speech, assembly, and petition. It does not mean that you have carte blanche to do anything you want under the label of "protest," such as physically interfere with arrests, burn, loot, riot, steal, commit battery, block vehicles, ram cars, etc. This is where the line is crossed and those actions need to be dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.
Posted by: But be careful where that line is at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (TbWk/)
TbWk/ Johnson is right! We should *not* use the same terms the commies do. All the "physically interfere with arrests, burn, loot, riot, steal, commit battery, block vehicles, ram cars" things are NOT peaceable assembly, no matter how much the mockingbird media tries to tell us they are.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: JackStraw
No. Getting out of NATO is the cake. Greenland is the icing, literally.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (KDPiq)
Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)
NATO exists to counter a particular threat from a state of affairs that no longer exists. There is no Soviet Bloc anymore. If it's to continue it needs to be entirely retooled to deal with extant threats to civilized countries, or just abandoned altogether and willing countries can start over with a new structure. Or not.
Posted by: Cold War's over, Jack! at January 17, 2026 12:19 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 12:20 PM (g47mK)
Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)
Forget Europe.. it's lost.. Trump is right to concentrate on Our Hemisphere..
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:20 PM (VE6XX)
The meme showing a Risk board and saying he just needs Greenland and Kamchatka gets far closer to the truth than all of the "it's a joke/distraction" takes. If you look at a globe, Greenland is *extremely* strategically located.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:21 PM (QZThv)
He also got Anktiva from Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong which is a T-cell booster that is in first human trials.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:14 PM (rbvCR)
And I apologize, Pluvicto is standard of care.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 12:22 PM (nTi7N)
Call it an evening.
Deal?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:23 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:24 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR)
It was approved but for some reason Kaiser wouldn’t schedule the treatment. That’s when he asked for help.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:24 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 12:22 PM (nTi7N)
There is a complicated process for admitting new states, so the chances are that they will request being protectorates or territories first.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:24 PM (rbvCR)
But whatever gets us out of it is fine by me. Get Europe out from under our defense umbrella. Withdraw all our nuclear armaments, and perhaps use them to nuke up the Slavs. Destroy the rest. Tell them they can assist in the disarmament, or we can bomb their silos and leave a mess for them to clean up. And France needs to switch to dinosaur bones for their electricity.
Reciprocal+ tariffs on Western Europe from here on out. No aid, ever. Diplomatically isolate them and realign our interests to Eastern Europe, and a detente with Russia - no more provocations there, but give them Ukraine as a consolation prize.
Let the Arabs have what's left of Western Europe after it catastrophically fails to stand on its own.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (BI5O2)
You had to know that.
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Call it an evening.
Deal?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:23 PM (U2OZr)
I doubt that is how it will work. It is like the peace prize- they will deny it because he wants it no matter what he offers in return. They are explicit enemies now.
THAT is why NATO should be dissolved.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (bss/y)
The Puerto Ricans almost certainly wouldn't like that.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (QZThv)
Puerto Rico is a strategic asset in its own right.
You’ll take nothing and like it !!!
😀
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 12:26 PM (nTi7N)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (WHfpM)
Most people have zero clue about due process in general, and no understanding of what it means in civil v criminal v administrative proceedings. Immigration is its own animal with specific statutory and procedural rules that constitute all the "due process" to which immigrants are entitled. And it's very truncated and streamlined, especially when compared to, say, a citizen's rights to due process in a criminal proceeding. But they don't actually want to know what the law is, they just want to keep bitching, moaning, crying and boohooing.
Posted by: Derp process at January 17, 2026 12:26 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (hhkIi)
"NATO's explicit mission ended in 1991" is why it should have been dissolved 35 years ago. But "they're just a bunch of gay race Islamist commies now" is a perfectly serviceable second reason.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)
I want to live over on the alternate timeline where Thomas Sowell was the first black President of the United States.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Ripe For Conquest at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (3uBP9)
We on the right are careful. Don't wear a red MAGA hat in public. Do not put right leaning bumper stickers on your vehicle. Don't fly the American flag. Don't counter protest or we will run up and murder you in cold blood(as has happened). But yeah, we'll be careful where that line is and not inadvertently trample anyones rights.
Crossing any "line" at this point with these lunatics regarding their "rights"is a matter of self preservation.
They continually "cross the line" just ask Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: JROD at January 17, 2026 12:28 PM (IlL6s)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (3uBP9)
Worcestershire sauce is just good. But there is an absolute difference between generic kroger brand and Lea and Perrins. It just tastes wrong (Kroger.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:29 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)
So lets say they agree.. Doesn't Congress have to okay it?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:06 PM
congress delegated that authority to the president decades ago.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 17, 2026 12:30 PM (0N4FZ)
I want to live over on the alternate timeline where Thomas Sowell was the first black President of the United States.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (IG3/x
Booker T Washington would of worked also.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:30 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (U2OZr)
That's just MummyDummy's "cover wife".
His real wife says "baaaaa" and would probably taste good with mint jelly.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:31 PM (IG3/x)
I would try it if you cooked my sushi first.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:32 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:32 PM (BI5O2)
The Paolo, he knows this...
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: protest sign of the year at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (rbIOb)
Posted by: banana Dream
This is just evil. You have not just joined a cult, you've created one. I denounce with all my fervor.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)
I think it's made through fermentation too like soy sauce. I don't know how they differ exactly but I think they're close and it seemed to work well enough for grocery store sushi+sashimi.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: banana Dream
How could anyone ever run out of soy sauce? I thought everyone had a kitchen junk drawer filled with duck sauce and soy sauce packets going back to the 70s. It never goes bad.
Posted by: MSG For Thee And Me! at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (oftw2)
Some imbecile with a cell phone and dreams
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)
withered arm treatment?
Perhaps our friend TRex would be interested...?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)
My theory is some kind of childhood trauma. Like accidentally walking in on their mom being spitroasted by a couple of Jewish guys.
Or a cute Jewish girl laughing at their micropenis.
Or something like that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 12:35 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: JROD at January 17, 2026 12:28 PM (IlL6s)
You completely missed the point. I'm talking about reactionary unconstitutional abridgment of established rights under first amendment as an inappropriate (and unconstitutional) response to left wing scum using it as a pretext and shield for clearly criminal acts. I prefer not to go down the "you can't criticize the government" road but will not go down the "ramming ICE with your car is protected free speech" road either. Roll all those fuckers up and send them to prison.
Posted by: Hope that clears things up a bit at January 17, 2026 12:35 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Say Hey! at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (mlg/3)
The Great Old Ones are totally on my side bro.
Posted by: banana Dream - The Cthulhu Seal of Approval at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (3uBP9)
Soy sauce gets the umami flavor from fermented soybean proteins.
Wash-Your-Sister sauce (and several other world-wide sauces) gets it from fermented fish proteins.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:32 PM (BI5O2)
No, just smash it to smithereens. They deserve it. No secession.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:37 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:37 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: GWB at January 17, 2026 12:38 PM (YlgSU)
Posted by: MSG For Thee And Me! at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (oftw2)
I just cleaned out over the Christmas break. Chick-fil-a packets, arby's sauce, it was getting bad.
Posted by: banana Dream - The Cthulhu Seal of Approval at January 17, 2026 12:38 PM (3uBP9)
Someone mentioned this particular strip before but one of my favorites involved the Dept Secretary being told by her doctor to maybe cut down on caffeine..
Next frame - she switches office coffee to decaf....
Last frame shows everyone slumped in hallway - like on Star Trek TOS - and Wally saying..'must find antidote....'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:38 PM (QGaXH)
They can have Minneapolis. There's no way we're gonna give the Canucks all that valuable farm land.
Same deal for California, Oregon, Washington. The shithole cities can secede. The farm land and natural resources stay.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:39 PM (IG3/x)
Willie Mays Hayes?
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:37 PM (XuXeR)
'Hit like Mays, run like Hayes.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:39 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)
'Hit like Mays, run like Hayes.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Willie Mays led the National League in stolen bases four consecutive years, 1956-59. Had 339 total in his career. He could run, throw, hit.
Posted by: Say Hey Kid at January 17, 2026 12:45 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 12:45 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Say Hey Kid at January 17, 2026 12:45 PM (oftw2)
*sigh*
'Tis a sad thing when a Major League reference goes unnoticed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:49 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:50 PM (jc0TO)
Canada allows the ChiComs to have the PLA on their territory. We don't want them any closer to us than they already are.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:50 PM (QZThv)
@MsMelChen
Jan 16
Honestly this is a great premise for a sitcom:
In the icy wasteland of Greenland, a ragtag NATO detachment of 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit must "defend" the Arctic from... well, mostly boredom, polar bears, and each other's national stereotypes.
Stationed at a remote outpost in Nuuk, their biggest enemies are cabin fever, frozen plumbing, the Danes who keep forgetting they're there, and each other. They’re constantly prepping to counter the absurd threat of an American takeover with the total force smaller than a pub trivia team.
The show will have everything - petty national rivalries that project from history, offensive cultural stereotypes, frustration due to NATO bureaucracy, and because this is so European, the whole thing will be pretty gay.
Oh and a recurring theme is that they will constantly be picking on the lone Brit.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:50 PM (jc0TO)
And the truly hilarious thing: that was President Allstate from 24.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: banana Dream
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One kitchen drawer has years of accumulated cellophane-wrapped plastic utensils.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (1vknR)
But in the last decade, MN and CO have managed to join the ignominious club of hostile foreign governments in our midst. The mind virus spreads.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (BI5O2)
They've done enough to have their rights abridged by those that have had their rights abridged by these a-holes like having our speech (or just going about our daily living) suppressed by threats of violence or actual physical violence/death.
I guess I can just say I could give two shits about their rights when they don't observe mine and/or my children's right to exist.
Posted by: JROD at January 17, 2026 12:54 PM (IlL6s)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
"Sorry Boss. It's very technical. You are not capable of understanding it therefore I cannot explain it to you." has always worked for me.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 12:54 PM (/lPRQ)
They can have Minneapolis. There's no way we're gonna give the Canucks all that valuable farm land.
Same deal for California, Oregon, Washington. The shithole cities can secede. The farm land and natural resources stay.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:39 PM (IG3/x)
Starting from L.A. county and going north to Marin - just above S.F. should be peeled off and revert to territorial status. The rest stays as California.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:56 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:58 PM (1vknR)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:59 PM (1vknR)
Qualicide
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 17, 2026 01:00 PM (/HDaX)
With systems, you're always working, A-B testing and tweaking for incremental improvement.
Very perspicacious view on motivation and human nature.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 17, 2026 01:01 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 17, 2026 01:01 PM (+mUZM)
The show will have everything - petty national rivalries that project from history, offensive cultural stereotypes, frustration due to NATO bureaucracy, and because this is so European, the whole thing will be pretty gay.
Oh and a recurring theme is that they will constantly be picking on the lone Brit.
Posted by: Kindltot
Dad's Army 2026
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 01:01 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 17, 2026 01:00 PM (/HD
That was good. My favorite is the character Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, the guy from "Heck".
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:01 PM (kJmLc)
If I had the power to make constitutional amendments happen, that would be one: upon a vote of 50% of the states of the USA and specific cultural and economic conditions, a state may be reverted to territorial status.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:02 PM (PYyV9)
———
Here we go again. Protesters don’t get tear gassed. Words mean things. Don’t. accept leftist premise. You’re making their case, their argument, their rhetoric without even realizing it.
It was a Riot. Guaranteed.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2026 01:03 PM (lqKtE)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:02 PM (PYyV9)
NJ and PA are well on their way. Josh and Mikie are fully in favor of illegals
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:04 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2026 01:03 PM (lqKtE)
The left sees riots as legitimate protest, who can forget Chris Cuomo saying he doesn't believe that protests need to be peaceful.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:05 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: epador at January 17, 2026 01:06 PM (TRnzq)
Posted by: epador at January 17, 2026 01:06 PM (TRnzq)
Ditto Penn and Penn Medicine Hospitals.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:07 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: JROD at January 17, 2026 01:07 PM (IlL6s)
Buzzword: “We’re market driven.”
Meaning: “We blame customers for our lack of innovation.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 01:08 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:09 PM (kJmLc)
——-
Don’t be fooled, the chattering class understands this very well. They just pretend not to understand.
Everything they do, or don’t do, in the last 60 years or so is with an eye towards making the West weak and ineffectual, and dependent, and lacking the ability to protect itself. America is persona non grata in that regard.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2026 01:09 PM (lqKtE)
Pay people to settle it. Tax free. Let it be more or less self-governing and not subject to federal laws aside from those dictating its territorial disposition and military installations.
Give us a pressure valve to ventilate freedom loving young people into somewhere far away from all these CHUDs and their stupid bullshit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:09 PM (BI5O2)
“If there’s a loophole, someone’s going to drive a truck through it, and the people in the truck will get paid better than the people under it.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 01:10 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Old Fossil at January 17, 2026 01:11 PM (oftw2)
You can't hate these liars enough...
Posted by: Boswell at January 17, 2026 01:11 PM (BGfwC)
All we know is in the statement from VDH that Jack Fowler posted on X.
Posted by: Bigsmith at January 17, 2026 01:12 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 17, 2026 01:13 PM (+mUZM)
Also, put all the fucking data centers there. Plenty to keep them cool. Just build a couple nuke reactors to power them or use geothermal. I know... no nukes. Whatever.
There's a whole host of possibilities what could be done with Greenland that'd benefit the US.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 01:16 PM (U2OZr)
That needs to end. Laws should be enforced.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Belligerent is quite the opposite of peaceful even if it hasn't come to blows yet.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 01:18 PM (/lPRQ)
Democrats are openly stating that they will stack the supreme court, eliminate filibuster, and use the federal government to destroy their enemies. They are saying that straight up in interviews. They are warning people about what will happen when they get in power.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:22 PM (PYyV9)
But if I were 20 years old, and GWB said we're paying tax free stipends to young men and women to colonize it, and they won't have to be lorded over by our CHUDs and their legislators, I'd be a Greenlander today.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:25 PM (BI5O2)
Zactly. We got diarrhea of the thread on Scott’s illness complete with lying trolls and such, but Scott is gone. VDH is still here. He is valuable. While there is a thing such as HIPAA and I respect his privacy a major post op complication happened at a fairly prestigious center. There’s a news quality to that at least.
Posted by: epador at January 17, 2026 01:27 PM (TRnzq)
Of course their far-left Supreme Court can overturn this and almost certainly will.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:27 PM (PYyV9)
The bartender says ‘ So your the NATO guys that said something bad about Muslims ‘
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 01:28 PM (KDPiq)
In the icy wasteland of Greenland, a ragtag NATO detachment of 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit must "defend" the Arctic from... well, mostly boredom, polar bears, and each other's national stereotypes.
...
Oh and a recurring theme is that they will constantly be picking on the lone Brit.
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Blackadder season 5
Posted by: Methos at January 17, 2026 01:35 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:38 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 01:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (XeU6L)
Oh, I keep those too. But I have them in a cabinet I use for hobbies because those things are great for fashioning little tools out of, mixing paint, using as a spatula for spreading filler, but not in the kitchen.
Posted by: banana Dream - also great for making shivs at January 17, 2026 01:38 PM (3uBP9)
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Arrived on an American built, NATO C-130, to "defend" Greenland from the US.
The irony is so lost on them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 01:46 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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[recollects the Franklin expedition]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 01:50 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:03 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 17, 2026 02:03 PM (QWosr)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:06 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:03 PM (BI5O2)
I always thought you stayed in this thread so as to not bring politics or OT stuff into KT's garden thread. Tis a sign of respect.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 02:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:22 PM (PYyV9)
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Yes! The left's overreaction to Trump will be the end of America as we know it. And then there's the debt; $40 Trillion will look like a minor. speed bump as they rapidly spend the country into insolvency. Can you say Weimar Republic?
Wheelbarrows full of worthless dollars?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 17, 2026 02:12 PM (Q1aAI)
Jeb Bush just praised Trump tremendously in regard to his handling of Iran.
Pence has also praised Trump a few times relatively recently.
I know it's against aos policy to speak positively about some people but that's my position and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 02:17 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 17, 2026 02:22 PM (RM0zI)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:28 PM (BI5O2)
He says there are not enough senators to get secure voting passed.
Public needs to make their opinion known to those senators.
Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEagleman
Why does @LeaderJohnThune refuse to pass secure voting laws?
DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican
Replying to @elonmusk
A proper leader would strip Republicans of committee assignments and withhold funding until they got in line.
X: https://bit.ly/3LQRdBq
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 02:35 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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We observed Maduro's activities for months before making a move. Now, some of that time was due to operational considerations... prep work on a mockup of his bunker, then weather and so on.
If we're serious about "regime change" in Iran (no clue if we are) and not simply bombing shit there, then it makes sense to have all the contingencies covered. Especially wild-eyed Islamists left behind with access to weapons and a hard-on to kill.
Not to mention the thousands of ballistic missiles in storage, with various "non-conventional" warheads available to anyone with the proverbial keys to use them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 02:40 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 17, 2026 02:03 PM
Just came across this yesterday. Apparently there are women who for years have been scamming NBA players by getting them to Facetime them, then taking a snapshot of the NBA player. The women then use the snapshot to create a fake AI image of the NBA player with them and their kid to extort money from them.
YouTube (05:17): https://bit.ly/4sQMv7E
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 02:45 PM (P5BPp)
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Unfortunately, TDS really doesn't have anything to do with Trump.
After getting a communist in the White House for two terms, they became convinced of the whole right side of history nonsense and they cannot wrap their heads around being rejected. That will continue to be the case with any President that's committed to improving the country, since all of their desires are ruinous.
Posted by: Methos at January 17, 2026 02:47 PM (vSvIl)
Jeb Bush just praised Trump tremendously in regard to his handling of Iran.
Pence has also praised Trump a few times relatively recently.
I know it's against aos policy to speak positively about some people but that's my position and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 02:17 PM
The obvious question is what's their angle? They don't ever act in good faith.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 02:49 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 03:15 PM (Ia/+0)
Right off the bat, look at the last few Republican Presidents, every one was in the bulls eye of the Democrats Propaganda Ministry and Marxists. We will either get under ther thumbs or have to fight a way out.
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 03:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: cmeat at January 17, 2026 04:09 PM (R11M+)
Wow, that must have really sucked to be falsely accused of something so reprehensible.
I hope his own people stood up for him, defended him, let him defend himself. Because that would have sucked even worse if they didn't.
Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 05:32 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Old Man Adams at January 17, 2026 06:34 PM (oftw2)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
[Poetry H/T: Doof]
2) Be kind, be nice. And yes those are real banhammers.
3) Running with sharp objects will result in severe sanctions. Run accordingly.
4) And finally. Have a nice weekend!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 11/15 – Sponge posted an update on the “First lady”. She is doing OK from the surgery pain-wise, however it appears her compromised immune system from chemo is susceptible to viruses. She has been spiking a fever all weekend.
12/13 Update – The First lady is doing well. She is still on restrictions but things are progressing nicely. The last mammogram showed clean. They are grateful to all who have been praying for her.
1/7 Update – They send thanks for the thoughts and prayers over the past year. The latest visit with her urologist revealed blood in her urine. The Doc didn’t seem concerned, but there will be more scans of her bladder and kidneys to see if they find anything more serious.
1/14 Update – Sponge sent an update on the First Lady’s father – he passed away on 1/11. They have been busy making arrangements for the arrangements, writing the obituary, eulogy, notifying people, etc. Thank you all for the thoughts an prayers that you have been providing for a long time. 12/13 – Schnorflepuppy asked for prayers for his wife. She was diagnosed a few weeks back with inflammatory breast cancer and started chemo on 12/2. On 12/3 she spiked a 104 fever and had to be brought to the hospital, where they discovered pneumonia. She has been in ICU for most of the week, to get her enough oxygen and work on the pneumonia. She is improving, but slowly.
12/22 Update – Unfortunately, the improvement trend has reversed. She has spent the last 8 days on oxygen support. The doctors would like to wean her off the vent eventually, but they need to see more improvement in her condition and thus far, they haven’t.
12/26 Update – Schnorflepuppy’s wife got progressively worse on Christmas Day and started a rapid decline, despite the best efforts of the doctors and staff. She transitioned to palliative care on 12/26 and passed away in the afternoon. 12/20 – Morgan, longtime lurker, takes tango lessons from Sebastian, whose son, Matias, is recovering from brain surgery. The MRI was read on 12/19, and the surgeons did not remove the entire tumor. Even though the biopsy indicated the tumor was benign, the boy is probably facing several rounds of chemo. Please pray for the boy’s continued recovery in El Salvador.
1/10 Update – Matias will have surgery in 2 weeks to try and remove the rest of the tumor, and then he will receive radiation therapy. 12/27 – buzzion asked for prayers for a friend named Christina. Christina has struggled with a lot, including addiction and relapse. Buzzion has not heard from Christina in a while and hopes she is okay. Please pray that Christina finds her way and knows that people love and care for her and believe in her.
1/3 Update – Christina was arrested on 1/3. Please pray for this to be a final wake-up call for her. 12/27 – JB asked for prayers that he would gain peace about what God has planned for his job in 2026. Also, please pray for JB’s estranged son, that he and his household will be saved. 12/27 – San Franpsycho posted a praise report from a former colleague, who has defeated metastasized uterine cancer. 12/27 – BlackOrchid requested prayers for a Navy Veteran uncle who has been struggling with his health the last few weeks. The root cause is undetermined, but recurrent infection/sepsis keeps sending him back to the hospital. It seems to be worsening his dementia, which makes it harder for BlackOrchid’s aunt to handle him.
1/3 Update – BlackOrchid’s uncle (her “stand-in dad”is still not doing well. He will probably need to be put in a LTC facility although they are doing everything possible to avoid this. He is 86, and at the stage where his immune system can’t fight back well. 12/27 – pookysgirl posted that their unborn baby girl, Violet Marie, had passed away. 12/27 – free tibet posted about his diagnosis with Giant Cell Arteritis and subsequent vision loss in the right eye. This is a recurrence of the same from 5 years ago in the left eye. The treatment is not painful but regaining vision is “very iffy”. Thank you all for the prayers. 1/1 – L asked for prayers for her brother Ron, who is hospitalized. Ron has been in and out of the hospital for 6 months. He has a nasty infection in his knee, that will not clear, despite 5 rounds of antibiotics. L and her sister have been run ragged trying to help Ron. 1/3 – Legally Sufficient asked for prayers for the repose of the soul of a boss, who passed away suddenly early Sunday morning. Prayers are appreciated for strength, faith, and understanding for the boss’ wife and all who loved him. 1/6 – Diogenes requested prayers for his best friend since college, who was diagnosed with cancer. Within hours or hearing this, the friend’s son, a man that Diogenes has known since he was a baby, collapsed from what appears to be a brain tumor. The prognosis isn’t hopeful. Please pray for both of these fine men. 1/6 – Commissar of plenty and festive little hats sent prayers of thanks that it was not cancer, and asked for prayers for courage to even set a date to reverse the colostomy surgery. It was a lot to get over the first time! 1/7 - D sent an update on his wife Susan, and her battle with pancreatic cancer, as well as her recent infection. He sent his thanks to everyone for the prayers. They are helping and much appreciated. Susan’s infection finally has been healed, so she was able to resume chemo. It’s been really rough. 1/8 - Doof asked for prayers for his mother. She was hit hard by the flu. She couldn’t get out of bed the morning of 11/8 and was sent by ambulance to the hospital. She is alert and communicating but prayers are appreciated for her recovery. Prayers are also appreciated for Doof, as he absolutely despises hospitals. 1/10 – LA Sue asked for prayers for her brother, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September. They just learned it moved from stage 2 to stage 4. The chemo treatments and side infections from surgery have so debilitated him that he is considering stopping. Please pray for strength and that he opens his heart to God. 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.
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Making a pot of chili. It's gonna be another cold week.
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g'mornin' again, 'rons
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Hiya JT
Prayers for sponge's mom and rickb
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 07:59 AM (RIvkX)
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Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 17, 2026 07:59 AM (HTCU3)
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Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2026 08:03 AM (0U5gm)
Prayers for all on the list, and the rest of you, too.
Prayers for the good people of Iran, that evil is defeated and people can live in liberty. And that communist agitators are defeated in the US.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 17, 2026 08:06 AM (h7ZuX)
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Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 08:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Sponge - prayers to you and your family. You all still are having a tough road with First Lady, your FiL, and your mom. I hope things turn towards the better for you all.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 17, 2026 08:16 AM (7v6oI)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 17, 2026 08:17 AM (f0sNM)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:19 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 08:20 AM (U2OZr)
I knew they were coming but Girl F. and SiL were very surprised. The thing is, Neither Girl F. nor SiL very much like surprises.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)
I heard Depeche Mode's "Policy of Truth" at Busch's market yesterday. 🖤
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 17, 2026 08:21 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Inogame at January 17, 2026 08:22 AM (Ms6EF)
https://is.gd/XjMyMj
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 17, 2026 07:59 AM (HTCU3)
In both "Over The Hedge" and "Hoodwinked," desperate situations are solved by giving squirrel characters coffee.
Posted by: pookysgirl loves those scenes at January 17, 2026 08:22 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 08:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Still waiting to hear the Fugs Boobs A Lot (1965) at the Food Lion.
Posted by: Boobie Fan at January 17, 2026 08:25 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 17, 2026 08:27 AM (vV6n9)
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I forget which store it was in, but they played Foo Fighters' "Everlong." That was my jam from 1996 to 2006!
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 17, 2026 08:28 AM (f0sNM)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 17, 2026 08:29 AM (kpS4V)
>>I heard Depeche Mode's "Policy of Truth" at Busch's market yesterday.
Most public spaces are playing music that is anywhere from 20-50 years old with the majority being in a period from 1975 to 1995.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2026 08:30 AM (XV/Pl)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 17, 2026 08:21 AM (kpS4V)
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Muzak "Personal Jesus" would be a hoot.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Just Wondering at January 17, 2026 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen
St. Anthony of Egypt, pray for us.
I have prayed Rosaries and lit votive candles for the intentions, both stated and unstated, of the Horde.
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I do request prayers for the peaceful repose of the soul of the wife of a distant friend. Jaquelyn died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday.
May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 08:32 AM (pJWtt)
This is fun, true, and probably way too long:
Eywa, the world tree from Avatar is sanctified evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS8Gbv8I-Jg
Listen to the first couple of minutes and you'll get the point, listen to more if you wish elaboration.
A nice way to explode Avatards' heads.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 08:33 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: fd at January 17, 2026 08:34 AM (vFG9F)
Both those asked, and for those with unasked needs. May our prayers be answered as God wills.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 08:35 AM (u82oZ)
Iran? Time will tell.
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 08:35 AM (qFwJc)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 17, 2026 08:39 AM (kpS4V)
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Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 08:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 08:42 AM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 08:38 AM (U2OZr)
I'm all lost in the supermarket *shrugs*
Posted by: Joe Strummer at January 17, 2026 08:42 AM (GTqXr)
Wow. Good thoughts. Gonna need a big fire ant nest. Maybe some music from Yoko to help them with standards of behavior.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 08:42 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 08:42 AM (V4rQC)
Eywa, the world tree from Avatar is sanctified evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS8Gbv8I-Jg
Listen to the first couple of minutes and you'll get the point, listen to more if you wish elaboration.
A nice way to explode Avatards' heads.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 08:33 AM (iJfKG)
I've never watched any of the "Dancing With Smurfs" movies, but I did watch a bit of the video. I did notice that the laws given by Eywa are materialistic, not spiritual -- all to limit the technological growth of her blue slaves. Interesting take.
Contrast that to the 10 Commandments. 7 of the 10 govern man's relations with his fellow man. I heard a Catholic priest speculate on how much better we would be if everybody merely obeyed those Commandments: no theft, murder, bearing false witness, envy or adultery.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 08:43 AM (pJWtt)
How long can people go without water? I would expect a collapse of infrastructure. Then cholera and other diseases make a return.
We know the leaders and security personal only care about themselves. Sad.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fd at January 17, 2026 08:34 AM (vFG9F)
Sometimes I have a hard time reading between the lines with you fd.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at January 17, 2026 08:45 AM (o1cZX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 08:42 AM (hxusQ)
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They're completely boxed in. No one can help them. Their "allies" are on the ropes, just not as bad off as they are.
And the pay issue is key. I think Trump is (wisely) letting them twist in the wind, building the tension, making the pressure unbearable. Very much Sun Tzu thinking of allowing the enemy to suffer, fall apart on his own rather than rushing into battle.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:48 AM (ZOv7s)
It's not a "country" in the western sense. It's a loose conglomerate of tribes... and some will be fine, others won't. Attempting to resolve this as one would an existing nation state is a fool's errand...
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 08:48 AM (XuXeR)
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This approach has our official endorsement.
Posted by: Big Duct Tape at January 17, 2026 08:48 AM (JkO4W)
Cafe El Morro is in my cup with a touch of sweetener. I am cleaned, shaved, and dressed. What more d'ya want?!?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 08:48 AM (wzUl9)
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Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 08:50 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)
It is something else to watch. They think they can turn the entire country into a giant concentration camp, and somehow things will work out for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 08:50 AM (hxusQ)
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Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 08:42 AM (hxusQ)
Me so horny!
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Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 08:37 AM (u82oZ)
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I thought she was battling cancer
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 08:52 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 08:43 AM (pJWtt)
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I used to wonder why the Hebrew always rebelled against God in favor of what I thought at the time were imaginary beings. I very much bought into the worldview that God exists, none of the other gods did, and it was just stupid people being superstitious.
But I now understand the reality of fallen angels, and that Zeus, Baal, Aphrodite, etc. were real, and are real. They can offer things in exchange for worship, and their commandments are much more in accord with base desires than those give to us by God.
Heck, we are seeing this right before our eyes! Look at all the "Christian" denominations that claim sodomy is fine, marriage is whatever you want it to be. The German bishops are trying to turn the church there into the Church of England, with doctrine decided by a vote of the laity.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Eywa, the world tree from Avatar is sanctified evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS8Gbv8I-Jg
Listen to the first couple of minutes and you'll get the point, listen to more if you wish elaboration.
A nice way to explode Avatards' heads.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 08:33 AM (iJfKG)
I've never watched any of the "Dancing With Smurfs" movies,..
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 08:43 AM (pJWtt)
The thing that real makes this theory sing, at least to me, is the end of the third Avatar movie, wherein Squatty(or whatever his name is), the human wannabe-Navi boy and son of the Eeeeevil colonel-
is infected by Eywa and becomes one of her minions.
This is played in the movie like a glorious moment of victory and harmony with soaring music.
But, my reaction at the end was horror because it reminded so much of the end of the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (197
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 08:53 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 08:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:48 AM (ZOv7s)
It's painful to watch this happen, but it's the right course of action, I think. Trump has to serve his constituency, and Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of staying out of other countries' conflicts.
I believe this *is* our conflict, given the mullahs' sponsorship of terrorism in America and throughout the world, but I understand why he will wait so the regime is weak and more easily defeated.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 17, 2026 08:54 AM (h7ZuX)
I actually blocked him during COVID when he was being an idiot about it. I sort of regret that. then he went maybe too far the other way?
I certainly do NOT want to be right about the mRNA shots, because they hurt me. He almost seemed like he was saying we were celebrating being right? No one was. So even after his switch I wasn't back on board with him.
Anyway I did finally re-follow the guy and even watched his podcast and I'm glad I did. It's nice to change your mind on things every once in a while!
My uncle is hanging in there, and still at home. He's one tough nut! Love him!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 17, 2026 08:56 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Still waiting to hear the Fugs Boobs A Lot (1965) at the Food Lion.
Posted by: Boobie Fan at January 17, 2026
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Years ago I used to say the End Times would be a-comin' when elevator music included Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 08:56 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2026 08:57 AM (AuNgU)
May the fate of the leaders become a cautionary tale for those that abuse power over others. I want Biblical retribution, to clear the path for a better Iran.
Unsustainable repression? Maybe. But the fate of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance is an upper bound. 69% of the prewar population died, including up to 90% of the men.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 08:48 AM (XuXeR)
That describes Lebanon, Iran is a bit more tightly run than that. But even for those areas that aren’t in rebellion - how do they move from a mostly functional financial system to one with no banks and no money the next? They still have paper Rials, but their value against the Euro is now officially zero. How do simple things like food distribution take place now?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 08:57 AM (hxusQ)
There is something particularly evil and outrageous about stealing from the poor. This is no mere graft, it is outright theft of the poor box. Money meant for food, clothing, shelter and medical assistance was outright stolen, and no one is even guilty about it. No one shows the slightest shame, they just brazen it out, act as if it's a problem with paperwork that could happen to anyone.
I think about the homeless that rely on our local St. Vincent community and what they could do with a fraction of that money, and it makes my blood boil. Their total annual outlay is $40,000. That's it. No salaries, no benefits, all volunteer work, all money for clothes and direct support. What could a million dollars do?
Liberal Christians need to be called out on their silence.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)
honestly I feel for the Iranian people and was hot for us to "save them." but then I saw Miss Lindsey swanning around and had a Second Thought.
maybe PDJT did as well. he sees the info, we only see what algorithms show us.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 17, 2026 08:57 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 17, 2026 08:58 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 17, 2026 08:54 AM (h7ZuX)
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We must also understand that a great deal is happening that we do not see. Trump keeps his secrets. Leakers are systematically being found and personally ruined.
It is a mistake to conclude that nothing is happening simply because we don't see it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 08:56 AM (wzUl9)
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I bet Joan would be down with that.
I can't think of her without picturing Tess Turbo from "Bloom County", with Steve Dallas being one of her backup dancers.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 17, 2026 09:02 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Dude, I heard "She Drives Me Crazy" at Kroger's last week. We is old.
Posted by: Jeans Loop Pickard at January 17, 2026 09:02 AM (mlg/3)
Meanwhile, leakers are thwarted.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 17, 2026 09:03 AM (h7ZuX)
Use the left's framing to highlight their complicity with evil. "This money could have housed all the homeless in Minnesota. All of them."
I can say right now based on what my wife reports, that we could have bought clothes for every homeless person in all the missions and shelters in Lansing for a fraction of that money. Every one of them.
Probably built an apartment complex for them all as well. Billions of dollars! Every medium town in Michigan could have had a supervised halfway-house facility with staff to help recovering addicts. That's what they pissed away.
MAKE THEM OWN IT.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Makinac Island Liberation Front at January 17, 2026 09:04 AM (R86kT)
Trying to converse with him is like squeezing a golf ball through a sock.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 09:05 AM (RIvkX)
Or have their house searched, ala that Washington Post reporter.
Good. Operational plans are meant to be a secret from our enemies.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 17, 2026 09:03 AM (h7ZuX)
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I was talking with a fellow vet and we both agreed that while reenlisting isn't a viable option for us at this point, we would love to be part of the planning going on now.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 08:56 AM (wzUl9)
My personal markers were Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" and Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" being used in commercials.
As I recall, LfL was in a commercial for a cruise ship line.
https://genius.com/Iggy-pop-lust-for-life-lyrics
You bet.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 09:05 AM (IG3/x)
Barter and black markets work very well. Was in the old "eastern Europe "during the 90s, and I was surprised to see "western" goods available...
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 09:06 AM (XuXeR)
Heck, we are seeing this right before our eyes! Look at all the "Christian" denominations that claim sodomy is fine, marriage is whatever you want it to be. The German bishops are trying to turn the church there into the Church of England, with doctrine decided by a vote of the laity.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)
There are lots of things we never even think to change. We accept that this is the way they are. Force equals mass times acceleration. The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. The standard atomic weight of cobalt is 58.933. Maybe on rare occasions we treat with the value at the tenth decimal, but otherwise these are fixed.
So why do we treat things like sexual relations, or marriage and divorce, or theft, or envy as values that have to - have to! - move with the times? Especially considering that all the historical evidence affirms the importance of chastity, or fidelity, or continence, or treating vices as vices.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 09:07 AM (tgvbd)
Agreed
Also, whether I agree that all illegal Somali should be deported the bigger villains in this are the American politicians who set this up
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 09:07 AM (V4rQC)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 09:07 AM (V4rQC)
Germany in the spring of 1945 was dying, but still very deadly. I think that’s what we’re looking at.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 09:07 AM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Unforts, that's what RINOs do; back themselves into a rhetorical cul de sac and end up funding the left bullshit. No, shove the left's nonsense in their face and make them own it. Raping taxpayers will never end 'homelessness.' Again for those in the bleachers; the issue is never the issue. They want to kill you.
Posted by: Jeans Loop Pickard at January 17, 2026 09:09 AM (mlg/3)
Meh. We're $38 trillion in debt.
That's a lot of billions (avoiding actual maths there)
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)
Great thinking on this. And-
BONUS! It conforms exactly to the Saul Alinsky rule of Make the live-up to there own values.
Don't let them Left breathe. Smother them with guilt and guilt by association with thieves who stole money from starving children, and the aged grandparents, and the homeless, etc, etc, etc.
Break the back of their fake and false righteousness with the truth.
Really nice. I haven't seen this take.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 09:10 AM (iJfKG)
The fall of the USSR - the countries our CIA *didn't* "nation build" like Slovakia seemed to do better in the long run...
the mullah's scheme IS collapsing. there's wisdom in patience, even sometimes in wars. I love that he "thinks twice."
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 17, 2026 09:10 AM (emBoF)
Fat is flavor.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 17, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Meh. We're $38 trillion in debt.
That's a lot of billions (avoiding actual maths there)
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
So you're saying I'm gonna need to mint 38 $1 trillion coins, then.
Posted by: Bo Gritz at January 17, 2026 09:11 AM (IG3/x)
To the Left, charity is compelling you to give a dollar, giving a nickel (if that much) to the poor and keeping the rest for themselves.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 09:12 AM (tgvbd)
We observed Maduro for months, wholly documented his movements and built mockups of his bunker and the base it under. Then, when conditions presented themselves, snatched him in about 45 minutes... start to finish.
If the goal here is really to remove Iran's mullahs from power I would imagine "remove" is the operative term.
And I'm not specifically saying we'll snatch them off the street and spirit them off to be renditioned elsewhere.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 09:14 AM (U2OZr)
Unforts, that's what RINOs do; back themselves into a rhetorical cul de sac and end up funding the left bullshit. No, shove the left's nonsense in their face and make them own it. Raping taxpayers will never end 'homelessness.' Again for those in the bleachers; the issue is never the issue. They want to kill you.
Posted by: Jeans Loop Pickard at January 17, 2026 09:09 AM (mlg/3)
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RINOs never use the left's framing against it; they use it against conservatives. Always.
I live in a liberal college town and I can tell you that attacking the left FROM THE LEFT works. It's easy to do. And using their language amplifies the effectiveness.
Plus, it's true. For good or ill, that money was taxed and arguing that it shouldn't distracts from the central issue, which is corruption, not fiscal policy. That comes later.
After the Dems have been driven from power and humiliated, you can show that you can help the poor AND cut taxes while you do it just be eliminating corruption.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)
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Sin.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 17, 2026 09:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Meh. We're $38 trillion in debt.
That's a lot of billions (avoiding actual maths there)
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
38,000 billions. Or 38,000,000 millions.
Posted by: Maths are hard at January 17, 2026 09:17 AM (TbWk/)
Fat is flavor.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 17, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)
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Back in September I stopped using creamer in an effort to lower my blood glucose. It has worked. Today I started the ninth consecutive day of having my bg 100% within range. Before that I was at 90+%.
Anyway, I'm now the point where I'm thinking of going with heavy unsweetened cream.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants?
Posted by: Chuckles at January 17, 2026 09:18 AM (oftw2)
Trump took some questions yesterday as he was leaving the White House for Florida. He was asked why he didn't take out the entire leadership team in Venezuela and instead left people like Delcy Rodrigues in charge.
He answered by saying what many of us have been talking about. After Saddam was taken down the entire Iraqi government was also taken down. What we got instead was ISIS. Trump seems to have learned from previous nation building exercises. It's not our job to fix every country, we have enough trouble running our own. But there better be some plan to insure the place doesn't implode and we have a worse situation on our hands.
I'm sure there are a lot of phone calls going on with regional leaders and perhaps others to plan for after the mullahs. I feel for the people of Iran but going fast without a plan isn't necessarily a good thing for them or us in the long run.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 09:19 AM (viF8m)
To the Left, charity is compelling you to give a dollar, giving a nickel (if that much) to the poor and keeping the rest for themselves.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 09:12 AM (tgvbd)
Nah, that nickel goes to one of their connected non-profits or NGOs to further their political agenda.
Posted by: Now THAT'S left-wing charity at January 17, 2026 09:19 AM (TbWk/)
I (We) need prayer. We are on the verge of foreclosure. My husband recently began doing delivery driving and it looked like the extra income was going to help us fulfill our payment adjustment trial period so we wouldn't go into foreclosure.
Last weekend, a young driver with poor judgment caused an accident that totaled my husband's car. Our insurance will not cover it because he was using it to make deliveries. The delivery company only covers accidents caused by their drivers. Fortunately, it looks like the at-fault driver has insurance. But since we had a lien on the vehicle, all settlement money goes to our lender, we still owe them the rest of the loan amount, and my husband now doesn't have a car to make the extra money we need to pay the mortgage.
I am heavily discouraged. Fortunately, our church is helping but it's a small church. There are other contributing factors to the situation that I have felt aren't appropriate to share here because they involve our household dynamics. Let's just say the factors might make it difficult for our church family to keep up with our needs, which are our own personal responsibility anyway.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:19 AM (FMtrg)
The internet is notorious for people wanting to see immediate results to problems.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 09:19 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2026 09:20 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 09:21 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 09:10 AM (iJfKG)
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I was raised Democrat. It is my native language, and my "conversion" was the result of Bill Clinton being granted total absolution for abusing women. That's when I realized that all their moral postures were fake.
When I ran for the local school board I actually got the teachers' union to endorse me. I didn't win, but that was not my goal, it was to drive the idiot president out of office, which I did. I've thought about city council, but I've got too much on my plate. Plus running for office sucks, and if you win, then you have to deal with politicians. Not ideal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:23 AM (FMtrg)
Definitely there are times in life when everything just seems to hit at once, and it's overwhelming. Try to take it one day at a time.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 17, 2026 09:23 AM (emBoF)
MAKE THEM OWN IT.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)
It's not just stolen money, it's also stolen values. What I think of as the Normalization of Vices, promoted by the Left as being "liberating" or "non-judgmental". Promiscuous sex, alcoholism, drugs, divorce, decaying standards in education and manners.
It's a hard road to get yourself out of poverty. You need all the breaks to go your way. You can't afford the luxury of indulging in smoking pot, or having four baby daddies, or not going to school and not trying to learn if you do, or acting out in public. But these are the vices that the Left pushes and the fell effects fall on those who can least afford to indulge in them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 09:23 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:23 AM (FMtrg)
That all sucks bigly. Have you considered a GiveSendGo?
Posted by: Or other acceptable crowdfunding? at January 17, 2026 09:24 AM (TbWk/)
But I now understand the reality of fallen angels, and that Zeus, Baal, Aphrodite, etc. were real, and are real. They can offer things in exchange for worship, and their commandments are much more in accord with base desires than those give to us by God.
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)
I used to believe the same thing, but it's become pretty obvious to me that demonic beings exist in reality. The Desert Fathers (of whom St. Anthony of Egypt was one) taught that the pagan gods were the fallen angels.
Why did the other pagan gods require human sacrifice, but the God of the Hebrews (YHWH) only require sacrifices of animals and grain? The gods in the pagan myths are a pretty blood-thirsty bunch (in between the times they're boinking nubile girls).
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 09:24 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2026 09:25 AM (77rzZ)
Your hubby wasn't hurt in the accident though, right?
Will the other driver's insurance pay?
How about a give send go?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 09:25 AM (V4rQC)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:26 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 09:19 AM (viF8m)
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Trump turned Venezuela into a protectorate. It's a very smart play, old school statecraft at its best. We control it, but indirectly. Whoever takes over can only do so with our blessing. Plenty of people will be happy to rule the country, live their best life with modest requirements regarding staying on our good side.
It's also putting a vicious squeeze on China, which is now worse off than in 1989.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:26 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Raghead theocratic dictators are going scorched earth on their own .. to prove how benevolent their twisted take on religion is or something.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 09:27 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ)
Will pray that rough places are made smooth, and wisdom and strength.
I second the idea of a Give, Send Go.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 09:29 AM (odRhE)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:19 AM (FMtrg)
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Have you looked into bankruptcy? A friend of mine did it, and while its ongoing IIRC all debt collection is frozen. Creditors have to be sorted out and wait their turn to see who gets what.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 09:19 AM (viF8m)
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VZ didn't have the weapons caches Iran does either. There's a LOT of stuff floating around Iran that needs to be inventoried and secured.
Like thousands of ballistic missiles. Various warheads with gas, nerve agents, etc.
And, likely thousands of wild eyed Islamic fanatics with guns, grenades and an itching to kill.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 09:29 AM (U2OZr)
Dim and grey here this morning. Drinking a very satisfying cup of coffee and thinking about the Nespresso machine that was in the room of the hotel when I was away. At the time , the convenience was appreciated. In hindsight, the coffee was pretty awful.
Yikes. The grey has turned to sleet. Good thing I have plenty of reading material.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2026 09:30 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 09:30 AM (g47mK)
There is something particularly evil and outrageous about stealing from the poor. This is no mere graft, it is outright theft of the poor box. Money meant for food, clothing, shelter and medical assistance was outright stolen, and no one is even guilty about it. ...
I think about the homeless that rely on our local St. Vincent community and what they could do with a fraction of that money, and it makes my blood boil. Their total annual outlay is $40,000. That's it. .... What could a million dollars do?
Liberal Christians need to be called out on their silence.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)
This situation perfectly illustrates the wisdom of the Catholic Church's concept of subsidiarity. Rather than send money to a big NGO "to do good works", why not send your money to a local charity? I limit my charitable giving to my parish's Poor Box, and some missionary religious orders. I know that they're going to be much betters stewards of the money.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 09:31 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 09:24 AM (pJWtt)
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Their jealousy of man is why they degrade us with vice and murder, and convince us to kill each other for their amusement.
It's weird how once you start to see it, everything falls into place.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2026 09:31 AM (Y/Kum)
I've wondered about the implications for myself as a Christian who tries to view God as my provider. It seems inappropriate for someone with that view to "beg." But maybe it's not begging.
Also, I didn't stab a teenager or assault an ICE agent. Our particular stupidity is the type that doesn't garner much sympathy on those sites.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:32 AM (FMtrg)
Not even emergency resistance heating.
They are working on getting a tech now.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 09:32 AM (iMotb)
This was all part of the Soviet program for undermining the United States. Yuri Bezmenov tried to warn us. Also Skousen's "45 Communist Goals for America" which he published in 1961. We've been living right through it even though the Soviet Union is long since defunct.
Posted by: They're burying us from their own grave at January 17, 2026 09:32 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2026
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Slowly. I'm recovering from a small skin cancer surgery. But the realtor I talked to in Owensboro, KY, is sending me attractive listings. Some are too small -- one bedroom won't work for me -- and many have no garage. But some do.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9)
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Please join me in praying for the people of Iran.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 09:33 AM (RIvkX)
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I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: The Screwtape Letters at January 17, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 17, 2026 09:33 AM (wRA35)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2026 09:34 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 09:31 AM (pJWtt)
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Same here. I stopped doing the diocesan collection because part of it goes to "refugee resettlement." No thanks. We have a crushing problem of homelessness, so why add to it? Oh right, slush funds and empire building.
Consider direct in-kind contributions, like buying socks and underwear, or food donations to the pantry. We're doing more of that, and while you don't get the tax credit, you get better credit elsewhere.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Now why don't you just drop those pants....
Drop?
Take 'em right off...
Posted by: Zombie Ned Beatty at January 17, 2026 09:34 AM (R/m4+)
And the Latin King member has been arrested.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 09:35 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:36 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: The Screwtape Letters at January 17, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)
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Of course, I discovered them *after* I made the discovery.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)
I've wondered about the implications for myself as a Christian who tries to view God as my provider. It seems inappropriate for someone with that view to "beg." But maybe it's not begging.
Also, I didn't stab a teenager or assault an ICE agent. Our particular stupidity is the type that doesn't garner much sympathy on those sites.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:32 AM (FMtrg)
I think the degenerates prefer GoFundMe. I'm an apostate but I don't think asking for help in a time of need betrays any tenets of the Christian faith or general ethos that I'm aware of. And I'm not sure but I think there are privacy settings so only the people you want to see it can see it, if that's a concern for you.
Posted by: Bear one another's burdens, isn't that what it says? at January 17, 2026 09:38 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Only for about the last 25 years. I don't think a person can declare bankruptcy on an annual basis, though.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:39 AM (FMtrg)
If no attack comes, and this revolt fails, Trump will be blamed and shamed. Fair or not, that's the reality. He must know that.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 09:39 AM (WHfpM)
that's not really a good reason to do it, though.
and they attack him regardless
pretty sure most people appreciate that he's focusing on the USA and environs and our interests!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 17, 2026 09:40 AM (emBoF)
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Very tough. Calls for a special prayer for peace in your house.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 09:41 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at January 17, 2026 09:41 AM (FIwBs)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 09:42 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 09:32 AM
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Wait. This is the one that was holding the temperature at plus or minus one tenth of a degree between the root cellar and the attic while emanating the fresh scent of honeysuckle and playing classical music on demand just a few months ago?
No doubt a poorly soldered printed circuit board from Shanghai located in the far reaches of the air handler that will require removal of the entire unit for access.
Or a fuse.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 17, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)
Yesterday, The Big Dummy was Best of Breed, defeating 8 dogs. But all those dogs were owned by the same person, who got the major win they wanted. So she's left and for the rest of the weekend, TBD will be the only Borzoi competing.
Unfortunately, there are a number of Hound-breed specialties and some high rollers are there, so it's a question of whether he can get any group placements.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 09:43 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 09:39 AM (WHfpM)
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I am becoming more and more suspicious of the people advising him.
He didn't just do nothing. He actively encouraged people to put their lives at risk and they did by the thousands. For this he bears responsibility.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (RIvkX)
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THAT'S CHEATING!!
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (hxusQ)
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Sharp Objects
This prohibition's just as I expected
A whiff of despotism is detected
My lawyer says "Don't fear any
misanthropic tyrrany."
"It's illegal!" he sharply objected
Posted by: the guy who does limericks at January 17, 2026 09:45 AM (/iMjX)
Trump had said he wanted a decisive strike. I think the original plan had holes. There are more assets on their way to the area. When he does order the strike, I think it will be quick and deadly and will happen very soon. Iranians wee stupidity to taunt him.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2026 09:34 AM
dark of the moon in Tehran is tomorrow night
just sayin'
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 17, 2026 09:45 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:39 AM (FMtrg)
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I know that it might have seemed patronizing, but it's important to have as much information as possible when giving advice.
Many people have an irrational fear of it, and therefore let themselves get trapped by debt when there are ways to negotiate your way out of it, arrange settlements, etc. I got credit counseling many years ago and it really opened my eyes in how to prioritize payments.
It also brought to mind the famous saying: "If I owe a bank a million dollars, I have a problem. If owe the bank 100 million dollars, the bank has a problem." We sorted out the creditors, prioritized some, defaulted purposely on others and then arranged long-term payment plans and settlements. Often the problem is structural, which was the case back then. Change the structure, and things get better.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 09:48 AM (0KSrI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (RIvkX)
There was still hope at that time that the Iranian military might back off, that the regime members might flee.
But they have all apparently decided to go “Hitler in the Bunker” mode, and this is now going to be a difficult campaign.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 09:48 AM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (FMtrg)
Reading between the lines here - and correct me if I'm wrong - but it sounds like there's chronic overspending goign on?
Posted by: Trying to decrypt the cryptic at January 17, 2026 09:48 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2026 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
THAT'S CHEATING!!
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (g47mK)
Yes and no. There's no rule saying you can't build a major consisting only of your own dogs, but it's regarded as déclassé. The person who did it is a notorious lunatic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 09:49 AM (tgvbd)
Marriages with abuse, addiction, or adultery can and probably should be ended.
No spouse deserves that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 09:49 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (FMtrg)
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That clarifies things. We had a similar situation here and someone had to leave the house for a while (long-time readers of this thread will recall the story).
Upon returning, things were more calm, and it took the complete collapse of my health to shock people into the fact that this is not a game. If Dad croaks, you're all screwed. Act accordingly. And for the most part, they have.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 09:50 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2026 09:51 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 09:51 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Only for about the last 25 years. I don't think a person can declare bankruptcy on an annual basis, though.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:39 AM (FMtrg)
We had to declare bankruptcy almost 20 years ago after Mrs. Cop had a various serious, life-threatening illness. It allowed us to prioritize spending on medical bills, the house mortgage, and car payments. It let us tell credit card companies unwilling to work with us to fckv off.
Bankruptcy is not the end of the world. It exists precisely to help people preserve assets, such as a house, after a life-altering financial setback.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 09:52 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 09:52 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM (RIvkX)
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Part of the game is that talking heads have to set themselves up as telling Trump what to do, with the assumption that he is going to go full retard.
When Trump then does what he was always going to do on a timeline of his choosing rather than what the pundits need to fill out a news cycle, they will take credit for "moving" him.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
I am fairly certain that the Almighty doe NOT put His thumb on the scale of athletic competitions, as a general rule.
He may make the occasional exception. LOL
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 09:53 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Trying to decrypt the cryptic at January 17, 2026 09:48 AM (TbWk/)
No. The spending is not the problem. Neither is drugs, alcohol, or abuse, so I am safe from the usual concerns. I do not want to go into details because it would involve speaking ill of someone I care about.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:53 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 09:48 AM (0KSrI)
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That is fair, except one is a powerless figurehead and the other the American President.
I'm no expert and I am still hopeful, but I believe a brief demonstration would be enough to motivate the military to act. No one can afford to be on the losing side and they need to know this regime is over when all the dust clears.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 09:54 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 09:54 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 17, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 09:56 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 09:56 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 09:58 AM (g47mK)
Why yes.......that one.
When it works, it's fantastic.
When it works.
Except I wish I cold turn down the honeysuckle scene a tad bit.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 09:58 AM (iMotb)
But they have all apparently decided to go “Hitler in the Bunker” mode, and this is now going to be a difficult campaign.
That could be a fatal mistake on their part. I have little doubt that we know where all the facilities and leadership bunkers are, and can take them out if we so choose.
We don't need to take out everything, just enough to make them question the wisdom of continuing.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 09:58 AM (Riz8t)
Trump just happens to have at his disposal four and a half acres of US sovereign territory that can be anywhere on 70% of the planet.
In this case it takes about a week for those four and a half acres to get there. During which time the clock is ticking very loudly.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 17, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 17, 2026 09:59 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 09:54 AM (qFwJc)
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He's doing lots of things. He's building pressure, creating psyops and also staging stuff. His hope is that this is sufficient to force a collapse, and right now I'm sure they are wargaming various options and doing target selection for maximum impact.
Trump also likes to create ambiguity, which is only frustrating to critics too stupid to recognize a pattern that is now a decade old.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)
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THAT'S CHEATING!!
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 09:44 AM
Been different if a cat or two was competing. Meow?
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 09:59 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 09:59 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:53 AM (FMtrg)
Fair enough.
Posted by: Good luck at January 17, 2026 10:00 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 09:59 AM (LHPAg)
BIG CATS!
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:00 AM (g47mK)
This article on why we're seeing so many nutty women now (worldwide!)
seems on target:
https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/201222025450
4530043?s=20
Worth your time.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 10:00 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 17, 2026 10:00 AM (zHVsH)
Neither Obama nor Biden had to threaten to use the US military against its own citizens
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 10:01 AM (OiSjc)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:01 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:53 AM (FMtrg)
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By process of elimination, it sounds like someone can work but won't. The solution here was eviction.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 17, 2026 10:01 AM (0KSrI)
Hey. It's winter. I'm sitting right here on Amazon for $24.99.
Posted by: The Cedar Musk module. at January 17, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:02 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 10:02 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 10:03 AM (qFwJc)
*Recalls 10,000 National Guardsmen stationed in Washington DC behind concertina wire for the first 90 days of Biden's "term."*
Stupid troll.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:04 AM (g47mK)
Hello, my frens...
Posted by: CVN72 Strike Group at January 17, 2026 10:05 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 17, 2026 10:05 AM (zHVsH)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:02 AM (g47mK)
We could probably crash with family, which would provide a roof over our heads (and drive me insane.) Rent in our area is higher than our mortgage payments.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:05 AM (FMtrg)
When Trump then does what he was always going to do on a timeline of his choosing rather than what the pundits need to fill out a news cycle, they will take credit for "moving" him.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
After 5 years of Donald Trump being POTUS, I'm still amazed that so many people still do not grasp Pres. Trump's negotiating strategy. He wants "to make a deal" in which everybody gets something (but he ultimately attains his goal). He's going to move at his own speed.
Look at what happened to Maduro: assets were moved into position over a period of almost 2 months, weeks of rehearsals by the door-kickers using full-scale mock-ups, and even offers to allow Madoro to leave Venezuela with his ill-gotten loot.
Maduro rebuffed all offers. Well he got snatched in the middle of the night, AFTER we neutralized all of the toys that Russia and China gave him. Now he's going to end up a hated pauper, even if he avoids conviction. Oops.
Iran is a harder nut to crack.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:05 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 10:02 AM (qFwJc)
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Someone in my family was doing that, and when I found out I was pissed. "And now you can get your own insurance."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Caffiend at January 17, 2026 07:54 AM (oftw2)
Likewise here. Hard to beat at the price point.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:06 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 10:02 AM (qFwJc)
We learned our insurance doesn't offer that coverage. There are only a few companies that do.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:07 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 17, 2026 10:07 AM (h/O4U)
Stupid troll.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:03 AM
Fact. And if the left gets back in power we will see a lot of military control of conservatives. If the left needs more military they'll buy some from other countries, like maybe somalia. Oh, wait.....
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 10:07 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 10:02 AM (qFwJc)
It’s cheap too. A doordash/Uber policy add on is a couple of hundred dollars a year. Well worth the money.
Posted by: Insurance at January 17, 2026 10:07 AM (6Sz3L)
“November 6 was the day that I had to inform my daughter that I'd been given a prognosis of six months to live.
It came as one hell of a shock to me.
It's a long sordid tale of heart failure and sudden decline. The plan now is for me to move into the Mayo Clinic, next Wednesday, with no determination as to when I may leave.
The first step is to install an Impella heart pump to keep me alive until a heart becomes available. It could be a matter of weeks, it could be three months, it could be six months, and I will be in 24/7 residence in the transplant ward at Mayo until then.”
It looks like heart failure, with the hope of a heart transplant.
So I pray for God to guide her DRs in healing her and to give her strength during her stay.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 10:07 AM (fIo92)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:05 AM (pJWtt)
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Where'd the "TACO" people go? What a stupid slogan.
A US prison may be his best option. At some point Venezuela is going to want to put him on trial and/or the families of people he killed will take him out unless he's somewhere inaccessible.
Iran is not a tougher nut, but a different nut.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
So many examples of the lefty politicians threatening to use the military against citizens.
Of course retard doesn’t remember the nuke them comment or this air force is ours now. Retard also thinks it’s great to shoot woman who pose no threat but gets fainting spells when a woman is shot who hit a law enforce no officer with her car after illegally trying to impede them from doing their duties.
It’s all projection with these retards.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:08 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 10:08 AM (Ia/+0)
Not so much a gift as getting me out of the liability loop.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:10 AM (RIvkX)
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Fraudsters are taking advantage of SNAP aka "food stamps" by filing in 5 different states using dead people’s information and then selling the food stamps for money
@amuse @amuse
CORRUPTION: Some SNAP recipients have homes in five states and receive SNAP benefits in all five. Not only that, 200K DEAD people are receiving food benefits, and 500K people getting DOUBLE servings of food benefits. Democrats are suing to cover it up.
X video (0:46): https://bit.ly/4k4DF29
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 10:10 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:05 AM (FMtrg)
OK. At least something.
also , I found this, gov site, links to various assistance programs , etc : https://tinyurl.com/2p6up67k
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:11 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 10:03 AM (qFwJc)
Uber covers drivers from the point where they pick someone up to when they drop them off. But if driving to pickup that’s not covered.
And of course that assumes the driver is using legal documents and not a fake license/registration. In which case there is no insurance. Given how many drivers barely speak a word of English my guess is most of them are using fake documents and hence have no coverage.
Posted by: Insurance at January 17, 2026 10:11 AM (6Sz3L)
Jim Acosta: “[JD Vance is] the future of MAGA. It is a — a — it is a fascist, authoritarian, white nationalist MAGA.”
Jennifer Welch: “It’s worse than Trump.”
Acosta: “It is worse than Trump.”
Welch: “He’s worse.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:11 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:10 AM (RIvkX)
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They're not very active. Probably have pr()n open on all their tabs. Just collecting enough to cover Only Fans.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:11 AM (L/fGl)
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They're really going to push that, aren't they? Guy with multi-racial kids is a white nationalist? Okay, go with that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Jim Acosta: “[JD Vance is] the future of MAGA. It is a — a — it is a fascist, authoritarian, white nationalist MAGA.”
Jennifer Welch: “It’s worse than Trump.”
Acosta: “It is worse than Trump.”
Welch: “He’s worse.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:11 AM
Same playbook the left has been running for 26 years.
Bush was Hitler. Then McCain went from being a respected "maverick" against BusHitler to being worse than Bush and Hitler himself. Then Romney was Hitler. Then Donald Trump went from being a decades-long Democrat all the left loved to being Hitler.
And now it's on to J.D. Vance.
The stupidity of it all is the Nazis were socialists and today's American leftists are modern day Nazis.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 10:16 AM (P5BPp)
Pretends to forget.
It is what they feed on.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 10:16 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:17 AM (KDPiq)
also , I found this, gov site, links to various assistance programs , etc : https://tinyurl.com/2p6up67k
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:11 AM (g47mK)
Thank you. Yes, we are currently taking advantage of this assistance. In fact, we were allowed some additional months payment-free and the new agreement preserves our low interest rate and reduces our monthly mortgage payment. So that's good news.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:17 AM (FMtrg)
California is the big prize I'm waiting for. I've got a feeling Trump is saving Newsom for maximum pain in his 2028 run for POTUS.
California fraud is going to dwarf Minnesota.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 10:18 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:18 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 09:54 AM (qFwJc)
And surprise. An enemy military cannot sustain peak alertness when nothing happens over time.
It's why Venezuela was caught off guard. Plus, as some have alluded, Iran is a much bigger military fish than that of Venezuela. The lures must be just right to catch it.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2026 10:18 AM (g8Ew8)
A US prison may be his best option. ...
Iran is not a tougher nut, but a different nut.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
What I meant is that I don't think we're going to try snatch any of the Mullahs. Alive they have no value, dead they demonstrate the impotence of Allah.
What I would do is clandestinely send weapons into Iran and allow an armed insurgency grow organically. Turn about is fair-play, and the Mullahs did the same $h!t to us in Iraq.
Pres. Trump is putting pressure on the regime in Iran:
* He publicly told them that any executions would have dire consequences for the regime -- the regime groveled a bit and claimed that they never had such plans.
* He's imposed an extra 25% tariff on countries doing business with Iran -- that's going to put pressure on China particularly.
* A carrier group is being sent to take station off the coast of Iran -- we will have Iran surrounded on 3 sides for air-strikes.
I don't see us making a ground invasion of Iran. There's no need. The regime doesn't have any good options.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:19 AM (pJWtt)
Put the black pills away and clutch yer pearls instead.
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 17, 2026 10:20 AM (gHU/A)
seems on target:
https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/201222025450
4530043?s=20
It really was excellent. Agree or not, it raises many interesting questions and provokes thought. You know, among those who go in for that sort of thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:20 AM (L/fGl)
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Minnesota's level of fraud, while impressive, is going to be dwarfed by the levels in CA, NY, IL, NJ and so on. You simply do not generate $36trillion in debt without it.
I keep saying this; it's the largest theft of generational wealth in history. Our political betters and their enablers stole it from us. Then used it to try and enslave us.
That Minneapolis is currently the "only" hotspot boggles my mind. 200 million Americans, nationwide, ought to be in the streets stringing up politicians left and right.
I doubt the administration would lift a finger to quell that sort of insurrection.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 10:21 AM (U2OZr)
*Recalls 10,000 National Guardsmen stationed in Washington DC behind concertina wire for the first 90 days of Biden's "term."*
Stupid troll.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Of course one must secure the Capital as part of a Coup-Coup.
And the virtually police state lockdown with the entire country subject to house arrest in the otherwise bizarre Kung Flu Freakout.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 10:21 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: fd at January 17, 2026 10:21 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:21 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Most people at January 17, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Jim Acosta: “[JD Vance is] the future of MAGA. It is a — a — it is a fascist, authoritarian, white nationalist MAGA.”
Jennifer Welch: “It’s worse than Trump.”
I'm gobsmacked. Who knew Jim Acosta was still alive?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:22 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 09:19 AM (FMtrg)
Emmie, maybe a member of the Horde has an extra car lying around that is serviceable, but mostly unused. If that member could give you the car, the rest of us could kick in a few dollars to that Horde member to for compensation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:23 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Eromero at January 17, 2026 10:07 AM (LHPAg)
Importing fighting age men with nothing but hatred toward the citizenry does sound like the WEF plan going on in Europe with the UK chosen as the battleground.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 10:23 AM (kJmLc)
I sure hope our military has been investigating if the F-35 has any weaknesses.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:23 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 10:16 AM (P5BPp)
I think they are still just stupid commies who don’t know history. And think because commies and Nazis fought each other Nazis must be the opposite of them when in fact they are all part of the socialist family.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:24 AM (KDPiq)
Victor Vivanco-Reyes, a Mexican national convicted of drive-by shooting, accelerated his vehicle at ICE agents and intentionally collided head-on with one federal vehicle, striking another.
Leftist activists are praising the acquittal, saying no Seattle jury will convict subjects accused of targeting ICE agents. They are calling for more attacks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:25 AM (L/fGl)
That Minneapolis is currently the "only" hotspot boggles my mind. 200 million Americans, nationwide, ought to be in the streets stringing up politicians left and right.
I doubt the administration would lift a finger to quell that sort of insurrection.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 10:21 AM (U2OZr)
Sounds like you read Schwab, too. Then we will all be confined to our 15 minute ghettoes and have to get permission to buy anything.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 10:25 AM (kJmLc)
X video (0:46): https://bit.ly/4k4DF29
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Facilitated by just geicibg a plastic card and electronic banking to transfer the funds.
IOW - they don't have "homes" in five states.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 10:26 AM (/lPRQ)
I sure hope our military has been investigating if the F-35 has any weaknesses.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:23 AM (Riz8t)
bet that scared the ChiComs and the Russkies....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 10:26 AM (VE6XX)
*cleans glasses*
Glory be!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
**********
On Topic - a limerick
At the parish potluck one fine day
There were bugs in the kale, so they say.
"Dear Lord", said the nun
"What on earth can be done?"
Said the gardening priest, "Lettuce spray!"
Posted by: the guy who does limericks at January 17, 2026 10:26 AM (/iMjX)
Federal court or state court?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:26 AM (KDPiq)
Jennifer Welch: “It’s worse than Trump.”
Acosta: “It is worse than Trump.”
Welch: “He’s worse.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
One look at Vance's wife tells me he is not doing 'white nationalist' right. Zero for two.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 10:28 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:28 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:28 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 08:12 AM
Yes- backup ID in case my passport is stolen. I don't keep them in the same place on my person.
Posted by: Moonbeam at January 17, 2026 10:28 AM (rbKZ6)
Victor Vivanco-Reyes, a Mexican national convicted of drive-by shooting, accelerated his vehicle at ICE agents and intentionally collided head-on with one federal vehicle, striking another.
Leftist activists are praising the acquittal, saying no Seattle jury will convict subjects accused of targeting ICE agents. They are calling for more attacks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespear
Except More uary 17, 2026 10:25 AM (L/fG
Betterer at Jan
Couldn't they bring Federal charges ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 17, 2026 09:33 AM (wRA35)
Sorry, but I've got money on the Niners. And after Satan took out George Kittle, I have something special planned for today.
Is it too late for you to rescind your bet?
Posted by: The Lard, Yer Gawd at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (ooC9T)
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (g47mK)
As much as I want to see the mullahs fall I am even more excited to see the lefts domestic terror funding exposed. It's way past time we stopped living with the threat of constant, paid violence from the left thanks to scumbags like Soros.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at January 17, 2026 10:21 AM (vFG9F)
I wonder where the Danes think that they're to get spare parts for those F-35s? The Euroweenies are being so irrational over Greenland. It is such an obviously strategically import piece of real estate that Pres. Truman tried to purchase it from Denmark after WWII.
The Euroweenies would do nothing except cry if China or Russia were to land troops there. The European militaries are shadows of what they used to be. The only thing saving them is that China can't project force, and Russia is otherwise engaged in Ukraine.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Little Navy Joan at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 10:30 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:30 AM (FMtrg)
Bear breaks into Gatlinburg candy store for the fourth time since Christmas
https://is.gd/YwhypM
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Why did you break into the candy store?
Because that's where the candy is.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:30 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 17, 2026 10:32 AM (X4XpB)
Posted by: Most people at January 17, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)
$20, same as in.....
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 10:32 AM (ooC9T)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 10:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:33 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2026 10:34 AM (g8Ew8)
Victor Vivanco-Reyes, a Mexican national convicted of drive-by shooting, accelerated his vehicle at ICE agents and intentionally collided head-on with one federal vehicle, striking another.
Leftist activists are praising the acquittal, saying no Seattle jury will convict subjects accused of targeting ICE agents. They are calling for more attacks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:25 AM (L/fGl)
It's not the win the Lefties think it is. It's simply more evidence that the normal mechanisms are being circumvented intentionally by the allies of these illegal migrants. The same sort of actions didn't work out so well - long term - for the KKK types during the era of Jim Crow.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:34 AM (pJWtt)
Neither Obama nor Biden had to threaten to use the US military against its own citizens
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America is overwhelmingly united with Mr. Trump. That’s why he won in a landslide numbnuts. It is always interesting to hear the spin put on current events by congenital idiots. Thanks for that, I guess
Posted by: Kelloggs Heap Good Corn Flakes at January 17, 2026 10:34 AM (fij89)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 08:12 AM
Yes- backup ID in case my passport is stolen. I don't keep them in the same place on my person.
I also take pictures of my passport and everything in my wallet. Obviously you don't want to spread those around; perhaps give copies to your kids.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:3
We don't look kindly on car rustlers *tobacco spit* in these here parts.
Posted by: Dodge City Sheriff at January 17, 2026 10:34 AM (TbWk/)
Bear breaks into Gatlinburg candy store for the fourth time since Christmas
https://is.gd/YwhypM
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Why did you break into the candy store?
Because that's where the candy is.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:30 AM (L/fGl)
Damn those laws that let you steal up to $900. Or whatever.
This is why probation doesn't work.
Imagine if you get sent to the clink, and this guy is your celly.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 10:34 AM (ooC9T)
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The "show of force" that landed the other day (in a US built/designed C-130) numbered a whopping 40 people.
40 people. From, what, 3, 4 or 5 NATO countries?
Talk about theater of the absurd.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 10:35 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (pJWtt)
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This isn't about Greenland. It's about failing governments trying to play the patriotism card. "See, France stands strong against the hated Americans! Germany stands strong!"
That's all it is. Denmark and France combined cannot sustain even a 2-ship CAP for very long over Greenland, which is Trump's point.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:35 AM (Riz8t)
Tranny cheerleaders-check
Black national anthem -check
Gay pride night-check
Kneel during anthem-check
Anti American super bowl half time show-check
Woke end zone slogans- check
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:35 AM (KDPiq)
Appellate court rules Trudeau had no justification to freeze truckers' bank accounts
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:36 AM (L/fGl)
Victor Vivanco-Reyes, a Mexican national convicted of drive-by shooting, accelerated his vehicle at ICE agents and intentionally collided head-on with one federal vehicle, striking another.
Leftist activists are praising the acquittal, saying no Seattle jury will convict subjects accused of targeting ICE agents. They are calling for more attacks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespear
Except More uary 17, 2026 10:25 AM (L/fG
Betterer at Jan
Couldn't they bring Federal charges ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (VE6XX)
It may have been a Federal court trial. Jury nullification for and crucifixion of defendants is possible in a Fed trial. I have no idea if a Fed judge can do anything if he/she believes the jury was biased or went wacko.
Posted by: Gref at January 17, 2026 10:36 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:37 AM (Riz8t)
https://youtu.be/TS0NmR2yUsE
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 17, 2026 10:37 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Kelloggs Heap Good Corn Flakes at January 17, 2026 10:34 AM (fij89)
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Obama was the first president since Woodrow Wilson to win reelection with fewer votes. Hardly a uniter.
And the 2020 fraud is still being unwound. That's the big story that media is avoiding. Candidates now have standing to sue over election results. Discovery is going to be a bitch.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)
Prayers up for all of God's children this fine winter's day.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 10:37 AM (kB9dk)
I have some very nice china that I am considering selling. The very classic pattern was discontinued and replacements cost more than what I paid for them new and so maintaining or completing my set is impractical in my situation. I thought someone else might like to expand their set at a discount compared to Replacements.com. Win-win, maybe? It's Wedgwood White.
In the meantime, we'll eat from Corelle.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:37 AM (FMtrg)
Does this imply Permanent Record entries?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 17, 2026 10:39 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wisdom at January 17, 2026 10:40 AM (967/Q)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:40 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous!
Corelle is great stuff. Attractive, light, yet doesn't break easily at all. Don't know how they do it.
Posted by: China Nookie at January 17, 2026 10:40 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 10:40 AM (tgvbd)
They definitely stole Florida the second time around for Obama.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:41 AM (KDPiq)
Many moons ago I was in Bermuda. This was when you didn't even need a passport to go there but I had it anyway. I had it in a small day pack with my wallet and cash. Put it down in the airport as we were arriving for a minute and it was gone.
American Express was a godsend but getting back into the US still took some negotiating. Doubt it would even be possible today.
Lesson learned.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 10:41 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (pJWtt)
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This isn't about Greenland. It's about failing governments trying to play the patriotism card. "See, France stands strong against the hated Americans! Germany stands strong!"
That's all it is. Denmark and France combined cannot sustain even a 2-ship CAP for very long over Greenland, which is Trump's point.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)
Oh, I understand that. The Europeans are the ne'er-do-well relatives living in the basement.
It's easier to blame the United States than do a self-examination of conscience: Pres. Trump and Vice Pres. Vance have both warned the European governments that importing hordes of Muslims, and suppressing the political speech of their own native-born citizens will have bad consequences for them.
The Lefty leaders ARE being irrational in pursuing some nebulous "future Utopia" that they ignore current suffering.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:41 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:40 AM (L/fGl)
Okay. Then what's the plan?
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 10:41 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:23 AM (Riz8t)
It's long been rumored that exported F-35s have "kill switches" which render portions of critical war-fighting avionics useless. Nothing the pilots can do expect return harmlessly to base.
The Pentagon denies it, but the claim persists.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 17, 2026 10:42 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:37 AM (FMtrg)
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That's a great idea!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: one hour sober at January 17, 2026 10:43 AM (Y1sOo)
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Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:44 AM (L/fGl)
Then dribble it out in batches, like in MN, to make it look organic.
I will say this, the amount of fraud has to be off the charts for elected Dems to be hitting the panic "start a war" button.
Another thing to note is, despite all the "victories" at the district courts, Trump keeps grinding out wins.
And the deportations continue.
One study suggests that they've already deported 1 Electoral Vote from MN.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2026 10:45 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:40 AM (L/fGl)
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He's just egging them on, wanting them to escalate.
And they will escalate. He's probably monitoring their comms, gathering evidence of their next outrage.
The advantage of b.s. like "TACO" is that they believe it, and that Trump is now afraid of them. They'll start setting ICE cars on fire next.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)
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It’s longer than that. Thomas E. Dewey ran against Harry Truman in 1948, and they called him a Nazi, too. Really.
See Also: Articles of impeachment have been filed against every Republican president since Eisenhower.
The silly reindeer games & parlor tricks have lost much of their effectiveness. This is why they keep ratcheting up the rhetoric and invective. It’s sort of like deficit spending, more and more to try and achieve the same effect.
Their shit is weak. They are dangerous to he sure.
Posted by: Kelloggs Heap Good Corn Flakes at January 17, 2026 10:46 AM (fij89)
Tranny cheerleaders-check
Black national anthem -check
Gay pride night-check
Kneel during anthem-check
Anti American super bowl half time show-check
Woke end zone slogans- check
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:35 AM
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Don't forget about us.
Posted by: Vapid words on the back of player's jerseys at January 17, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 10:46 AM (Ia/+0)
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Dude, he'll give you the finger.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:48 AM (L/fGl)
It's easier to blame the United States than do a self-examination of conscience: Pres. Trump and Vice Pres. Vance have both warned the European governments that importing hordes of Muslims, and suppressing the political speech of their own native-born citizens will have bad consequences for them.
The Lefty leaders ARE being irrational in pursuing some nebulous "future Utopia" that they ignore current suffering.
Not to worry. I'm sure the utter collapse of their green fantasies will cause them to question all of their beliefs during bouts of intense, honest introspection and they will come to their senses.
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:49 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:40 AM (L/fGl)
Okay. Then what's the plan?
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 10:41 AM (WHfpM)
1) Gathering evidence of intentionally conspiring with the Somalis and others in steeling federal money.
B) Mapping the network of the Commies fighting in the streets.
iii) Mounting the public relations campaign to prepare the American people for the invocation of the Insurrection Act.
I'm confidant that an over-whelming majority of the American people are angry about the huge amounts of money that has been stolen, and they don't like seeing Commies fight Federal law enforcement to protect violent Aztecs. Pres. Trump and his administration keep offering off-ramps to Walz and Frey but those two turds keep on stirring-up their flying monkeys.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 17, 2026 10:49 AM (pJWtt)
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Whether this "kill switch" was implemented by the US for overseas export versions, or by the Chinese for any version has also been debated.
Because much of the tech required advanced chip manufacturing that (apparently) only China could provide. Allegedly.
Like I said... allegedly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 10:50 AM (U2OZr)
Born 1971 in Emporia, KS
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Nominated by Joseph R. Biden on September 20, 2021, to a seat vacated by Joan N. Ericksen. Confirmed by the Senate on December 18, 2021, and received commission on December 21, 2021.
Quelle surprise!
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2026 10:50 AM (Riz8t)
We'll just be sitting here in the cabinet.
Waiting.
Posted by: Chinet at January 17, 2026 10:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 17, 2026 10:52 AM (3ImbR)
bro, you are "threatening" a man who has faced political assassination via impeachment, bogus prosecutions, and who actually took a LITERAL bullet in front of the entire globe.
you are not addressing the unfortunate victims of your regime who cower at your very words
Posted by: kallisto at January 17, 2026 10:52 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:40 AM (L/fGl)
Okay. Then what's the plan?
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As I noted, he's grinding out wins. It ain't pretty. It ain't flashy. The white hat isn't walking away to soaring music. Etc.
But it is how most wars are won, especially between strong opponents: Attrition.
And the left keeps losing. And they know they are losing.
We are very, very close to their breaking: All-in w/ one throw or lose slowly.
Don't look at what the left is fighting, look at what Trump's goals are:
- deport illegals
- end vote fraud
- cut off the left's funding
- expose their network of activist and funders
This is why they are going to go all-in. Not b/c he killed some lesbo--because he's winning on those. Bigly.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2026 10:53 AM (HXT0k)
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You mean like ice cream? Cold Stone, here I come!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
It sounds beautiful Emmie.
Do you have pics on an image sharing site perchance?
Posted by: kallisto at January 17, 2026 10:54 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 17, 2026 10:54 AM (Cjt/F)
Pro tip: don't touch his ears.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 17, 2026 10:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Born 1971 in Emporia, KS
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Nominated by Joseph R. Biden on September 20, 2021, to a seat vacated by Joan N. Ericksen. Confirmed by the Senate on December 18, 2021, and received commission on December 21, 2021.
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And she looks exactly how you'd expect.
Cartel judge. Illegal order. They can't order the fed to not do that which is already illegal.
And she flat-out lied in her opinion.
Again: Cartel judge.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2026 10:55 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 10:29 AM (viF8m)
Someone here used to post about how antifa chose to use the word nazi because people don't care what happens to nazis. Do you happen to recall what book or source that came from?
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 10:55 AM (kJmLc)
Dudette. Do I strike you as the fanny pack type?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 10:55 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 10:46 AM (Ia/+0)
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Hmmm. So if federal officers cannot even defend themselves and local police refuse to do so...the Insurrection Act becomes a requirement.
Thanks, Judge!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 10:55 AM (kJmLc)
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"Inglourious Basterds" by Q. Tarentino.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:58 AM (ZOv7s)
We'll just be sitting here in the cabinet.
Waiting.
Posted by: Chinet at January 17, 2026 10:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Corelle is underrated and US made. By better half bought it when grandchildren came along and it's held up great. She has problems with letting them eat off anything made in China
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 10:58 AM (kJmLc)
See if this link works:
https://share.google/ZAeOfnliHNs8O8dAF
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 10:59 AM (FMtrg)
There was one prayer left...God, please take care of all the Morons. Heaven knows we need it.
Posted by: creeper at January 17, 2026 10:59 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 10:58 AM (ZOv7s)
Ah, a movie, should have known.
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:00 AM (kJmLc)
No, but I see similar sentiment being posted on X quite a bit. Makes perfect sense.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 11:00 AM (viF8m)
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I think she said "peaceful" protesters. If they're "peaceful" why would ICE be using teargas or non-lethal munitions on them in the first place?
spoiler: they weren't
The "non-peaceful" protesters on the other hand....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:01 AM (U2OZr)
“Arguably the most vile human on the planet is taking time away from facilitating the shooting, beating, blinding, and kidnapping of a populace to trash Star Trek. For reasons that are nakedly racist, misogynist, and intolerant.”
“Which means you should watch and support Star Trek,” [Bill Wolkoff] said.
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Yeah, no.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:02 AM (L/fGl)
which pieces are you selling and how much?
Posted by: kallisto at January 17, 2026 11:02 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:03 AM (kJmLc)
Leftists Melt Down at Actress Michelle Randolph After Her “Landman” Character Rejects Use of Woke Pronouns
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
spoiler: they weren't
The "non-peaceful" protesters on the other hand....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:01 AM (U2OZr)
What I'd like to know from the "judge" is, can they issue speeding tickets to drivers who aren't speeding?
No?
Thanks, "judge." Good tip.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 11:05 AM (gq7xv)
Leftists Melt Down at Actress Michelle Randolph After Her “Landman” Character Rejects Use of Woke Pronouns
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
Did they go after Sir Anthony Hopkins for eating human brains?
Hypocrites.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 17, 2026 11:06 AM (gq7xv)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 11:06 AM (FMtrg)
He also wants recorded communications where he outlines the problems identified to the governor and mayor going on for weeks about the situation and their non-responses.
And as I said, he knows the rioters will think they are winning, and keep pushing the envelope. The attack on a car and theft of a firearm was a milestone in establishing actual insurrection, as was local law enforcement's refusal to respond.
I bet there are also recordings of all their calls for assistance that were denied. Probably cops saying "we're not allowed to help you."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 17, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 17, 2026 11:09 AM (gm9Sb)
If “peaceful protesters” were under discussion, then there wouldn’t be any controversy in the first place.
Ya gotta admit Democrats throwing Americans under the bus in favor of criminals, foreign nationals, illegal aliens is quite the stretch, but they are embracing this with great enthusiasm. Clearly the elections have been queered for quite some time, among other things.
Posted by: Kelloggs Heap Good Corn Flakes at January 17, 2026 11:10 AM (sD+rY)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 17, 2026 11:11 AM (gm9Sb)
Victor Vivanco-Reyes, a Mexican national convicted of drive-by shooting, accelerated his vehicle at ICE agents and intentionally collided head-on with one federal vehicle, striking another.
Leftist activists are praising the acquittal, saying no Seattle jury will convict subjects accused of targeting ICE agents. They are calling for more attacks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 10:25 AM
And this just signaled it is open season on I.C.E. agents in Seattle.
Decisions like this have consequences. A conviction sends the message that these actions are not tolerated and come with consequences. The acquittal sends the message these actions have no consequences and thus it is encouragement to everyone to not only continue doing it, but do it more.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 11:12 AM (P5BPp)
If Homan is correct I think he is also waiting for proof that this is another paid op and not a spontaneous uprising. We've been gaslit for year with BLM, antifa, Chaz and all the other bullshit riots that are all paid for riots.
Plot the money flow and take out the paymasters.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 11:13 AM (viF8m)
They act the way they do for this reason, elections don’t matter a whit when they control the levers of power, and therefore can act with impunity, they don’t have to tack to the middle and compromise or anything like that. Let yer freak flag fly!
Posted by: Kelloggs Heap Good Corn Flakes at January 17, 2026 11:13 AM (sD+rY)
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Stupid and evil?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:13 AM (L/fGl)
And as long as they aren't spending our money, I don't see any compelling reason to interfere with Minneapolis. Seal the border and sign the territory over to Canada. We're better off without Minnesotans and Somalis.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:13 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2UnvF)
OpenAI to Start Testing Ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
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Dudette. Do I strike you as the fanny pack type?
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I think the Horde should vote on this.
Does "small day pack" sound suspiciously like "fanny pack?"
_X_ Yes
___No
Posted by: IrishEi at January 17, 2026 11:20 AM (3ImbR)
Disconnecting Minneapolis from the internet would break the wanna be warriors and victims participating in the riots.
If they didn't have the means to broadcast their miserable daily lives they'd stay home in a ny minute.
Posted by: old chick at January 17, 2026 11:23 AM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 11:25 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: The Great Poof at January 17, 2026 11:25 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: RJ at January 17, 2026 11:35 AM (EXETx)
They can’t see and won’t accept that Commies and Nazis are in the same socialist family.
I always like to point out that the Left and Nazis are the only ones that like and approve of terrible experiments on the human body.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:37 AM (KDPiq)
I think she said "peaceful" protesters. If they're "peaceful" why would ICE be using teargas or non-lethal munitions on them in the first place?
spoiler: they weren't
The "non-peaceful" protesters on the other hand....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:01 AM
Saw a meme the other day shared on X highlighting the fact that there is no protected right to protest in the U.S. Constitution. There is only the protected right to "peacefully assemble".
This has been forgotten by pretty much everyone (myself included). There is no right to protest. Only peacefully assemble. We need to start separating protesting from peacefully assembling. Protesting is not protected, peaceful assembly is.
X: https://bit.ly/3Lz7xH0
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 11:40 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Mick at January 17, 2026 12:02 PM (HFx9z)
Daily Tech News 17 January 2026
Top Story
- Taiwan has reached an agreement with the US for a $500 billion investment project in return for a tariff reduction from 20% to 15% and tariff waivers during the construction of new factories. (Tom's Hardware)
That amount includes $250 billion of direct investment and $250 billion of credit guarantees by Taiwan's government, but it also includes $100 billion of already-planned investment by TSMC.
If you're throwing literally hundreds of billions of dollars around for Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers setting up in the US, maybe earmark a few billion for Nanya to expand consumer DRAM production.
- Because Samsung sure ain't doing it. (WCCFTech)
Samsung is expecting a 5% increase in DRAM production in 2026 - and that's in the face of unprecedented shortages and a projected additional 30% increase in demand over the course of this year.
The Big Three are just begging for Taiwan or West Taiwan to eat their lunch.
Tech News
- AMD's long-awaited dual-vcache CPU was a no-show at CES but increasingly looks real. (WCCFTech)
Dubbed the 9950X3D2, it keeps leaking in benchmark results. It is exactly two 9850X3D CPU complexes in a single package - 16 cores and 192MB of cache running at up to 5.6GHz.
- If you're in the market for a four-port 400Gb Ethernet switch, Mikrotik has one. (Serve the Home)
$1295. And considering it has the same bandwidth as a 640-port 2.5Gb switch - if such a thing existed - that's pretty darn cheap.
- ChatGPT Go is now available at $8 per month. (Bleeping Computer)
With ads. But of course with ads, as OpenAI is bleeding cash like a US federal agency under a Democratic president's second term.
- OpenAI says its new ads won't influence answers. (Bleeping Computer)
It will lie to you exactly the same as the more expensive plans.
- TSMC says AI demand is endless, just like tulip bulbs. (Ars Technica)
But you can eat tulip bulbs.
- Naya Connect is a very keyboard. (Liliputing)
It has a fairly standard 85-key layout - a little cramped but it does include the Four Essential Keys - plus an optional 6-key macropad, plus an optional 24-key numeric keypad, plus an optional 24-key macropad with either blank keys or a assortment of 84 interchangeable icon keys to choose from, plus an optional trackball with four buttons and four macro keys, plus an optional trackpad with four macro keys, plus an optional haptic dial (that is, it gives programmable physical feedback) with an integrated trackpad and four macro keys, plus an optional 3D mouse with six degrees of freedom... With four macro keys.
With five choices of keyswitch, keycaps in either black or white, and the metal frame in either plain aluminium or black anodised aluminium.
The basic keyboard costs $119 (with your choice of colours and keyswitches), while the full setup costs... A lot. Well over $1000. They have an early-bird "All-in" bundle that isn't complete and that's already $917.
- Microplastics from washing clothes could be hurting your tomatoes. (Washington Post) (archive site)
You heard them. Stop putting tomatoes in with your laundry.
So, how solid is this study?"Sometimes microplastics can have a positive impact on soil or plant properties, and sometimes it could be negative," Djuric said.
So you're saying maybe I should put tomatoes in with my laundry?
- Fixing the HTTP rate limit header specification. (Dotat.at)
A 429 response means you're asking too many questions, go away. The new spec tries to tell you how long you should go away for, but at the moment it assumes that everyone involved is equally stupid. This is an attempt to fix that.
- Played some more Hytale today. It runs at 30fps on low settings on my laptop, which means it should run faster on just about anything else, since my laptop has a 2880x1620 screen and five year old integrated Vega 8 graphics and I habitually run it in silent mode (with the fan speed turned all the way down). It's a great system for doing work, lousy for playing games.
Also, in Hytale low graphics settings look basically the same as "epic" graphics. The main change there is the render distance, just as with Minecraft, so unless you spend all your time looking to the horizon it make little difference.
Disclaimer: There is a reason. Not a good one, true.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 04:05 AM (hybOl)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 17, 2026 04:10 AM (BLOW1)
I am beginning to believe that with the increased costs, building a home media server is slowly moving beyond my grasp.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 04:20 AM (iMotb)
Amazon Alexa devices are staying connected, and nothing else seems to be wandering off the network reservation.
I think we can call this upgrade a finished project.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 04:27 AM (iMotb)
Now they say pretty much anything on our side of I-95 will at most, see rain tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 04:29 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 17, 2026 04:29 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 17, 2026 04:36 AM (ZyiQS)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 04:38 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 17, 2026 04:38 AM (xG4kz)
One and one half day class completed and I am actually completed my class project -- a first for me. Two and one half days to go and three classes -- can the string continue?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 17, 2026 04:45 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 04:50 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2026 04:57 AM (eefky)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Any suggestions on a good crypto primer for my situation.
Posted by: WP at January 17, 2026 05:06 AM (+nF8W)
"OpenAI is bleeding cash like a US federal agency under a Democratic president's second term."
Don't use "Democratic"; use "Democrat". If they were truly democratic, they wouldn't steal elections. They are not democratic, but they are Democrats. So corrected:
"OpenAI is bleeding cash like a US federal agency under a Democrat president's second term."
Posted by: bradc at January 17, 2026 05:11 AM (BpRoJ)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 17, 2026 05:17 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 05:18 AM (Nx5jP)
Sounds like a very nice time, Skip! May everybody get there safely and back and enjoy being together.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 05:20 AM (Nx5jP)
Cover version of an old time hymn, "How great thou art":
https://tinyurl.com/398y33n2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 05:23 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 05:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 05:43 AM (wzUl9)
"OpenAI is bleeding cash like a US federal agency under a Democrat president's second term."
You misspelled "Demonic"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 17, 2026 05:56 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 05:42 AM (wzUl9)
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Helping out with food distribution at a local food pantry.
It's going to be cold, cold, cold...(wind chill around 0 or lower)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 06:04 AM (ESVrU)
https://tinyurl.com/yudyvr2s
Midwest Chick Meme Drop ( from Thursday ) :
https://tinyurl.com/5bcxs8ny
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 17, 2026 06:14 AM (6/iut)
The beginning of knowledge. Proverbs 1:7
https://tinyurl.com/a7vwrk9y
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 06:17 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 06:19 AM (Ia/+0)
The world is rapidly changing.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 06:20 AM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 06:32 AM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 06:35 AM (tgvbd)
Feeling a colony of fixed, strayed cats. Then going up to a very nice high end market through the lovely countryside near Trump's N.J. estate. Getting ready for service e tomorrow
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 06:35 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 06:36 AM (Ia/+0)
It's supposed to get a bit colder tonight, so I may or may not be able to exercise on Sunday am. I dislike going in the afternoon; there is usually more wind, more traffic between here and the park, etc. And I like having it over with before breakfast, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)
Not "feeling" They won't let us get that close. "Feeding"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 06:40 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026
***
We have a few feral cats around here, and at least one gray who apparently belongs to someone but loves to hit me up for some dry food.
There is a little black bushy-tailed feral who won't come close, but will eat if I leave something in a bowl and close the door. He might be a descendant of my late Wolf. Wolf had his time spreading his seed about before I rescued him from abandonment and had him altered in 2011; we've seen a lot of bushy-tailed ferals here. Could be some of his genes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 06:35 AM (tgvbd)
Good morning to you and everyone!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 06:42 AM (7RYym)
That's nice you look after them with food. My friend and her engineer husband ( who feed them most of the week) fixed up little boxes with doors for them behind a guys house. The boxes are filled with straw and warm clothes. Sometimes when we go over some of them startle us by shooting out if the boxes like a rocket.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 06:46 AM (7RYym)
All the overhead lights in the kennel decided to stop working. We had an electrician out to find out why and he concluded that rust and age had shorted out one of the recessed cans and he couldn't determine which of the ten or so lights it was.
So I purchased some plug-in light sockets and I'll be stringing them up today so I can see what I'm doing in there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 06:50 AM (tgvbd)
*eyeroll*
Posted by: fd at January 17, 2026 06:51 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 17, 2026 06:52 AM (6/iut)
Posted by: Skip
Thanks to this kidney stone, I've been up since 2:30 Central. Again.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2026 06:54 AM (eefky)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 06:57 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 07:03 AM (ZeH0U)
Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2026 07:10 AM (iJfKG)
Susanna Hoffs is now 67. And still a beauty
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 07:12 AM (r8eU0)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 07:29 AM (iMotb)
Ironic that a prominent article on gardenic would appear in The Washington Compost
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 17, 2026 07:29 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 07:30 AM (Ia/+0)
A bunch of Australians showed up at my door last night. Here for son in law's birthday party tomorrow.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 07:33 AM (2GVsD)
*bounds in brightly*
Good morning, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2026 06:35 AM (tgvbd)
* shoots dead *
* rolls over and goes back to sleep *
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at January 17, 2026 07:37 AM (JRP2U)
https://tinyurl.com/mrd3f2df
Crack IS the cheaper addiction nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 07:40 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 17, 2026 07:44 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: fd at January 17, 2026 07:45 AM (vFG9F)
https://tinyurl.com/mrd3f2df
Crack IS the cheaper addiction nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 07:40 AM (2GVsD)
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Hey, at least it's 6% off its previous listing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 07:45 AM (ESVrU)
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Day 1: Wednesday, Jan. 16
Desert Storm begins at 7 p.m. EST (3 a.m. Jan. 17 in Iraq) with massive air and missile attacks on targets in Iraq, Kuwait.
President Bush: "We will not fail."
Day 2: Thursday, Jan. 17
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares: "The great showdown has begun! The mother of all battles is under way.''
Iraqi Scud missiles strike Israel.
Scud fired at Saudi Arabia is downed by U.S. Patriot missile - first anti- missile missile fired in combat.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 07:45 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 07:46 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 17, 2026 07:49 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 17, 2026 07:50 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Tardy One at January 17, 2026 07:51 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 17, 2026 07:52 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 17, 2026 07:52 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: m at January 17, 2026 08:36 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: m at January 17, 2026 08:41 AM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Marooned at January 17, 2026 09:17 AM (kt8QE)
I guess he gets some sort of spiff for this. I've noticed this pattern 3 or 4 times.
A revealing user name: HOME PROFIT
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 03:19 PM (epPlm)
mornin yall. I asked my #1 son, who got a degree in Computer Science and works in IT "what is 61 in binary?" and he reached for his phone. I figured the answer myself before he could finish typing it in.
*eyeroll*
Posted by: fd
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Big endian or little endian?
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 03:50 PM (epPlm)
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King of battle
Sing along
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Tough week for the libs
I'm getting tired of waiting
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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 16, 2026
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BOO!
Suicide by cop
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 16, 2026
What a tangled web we weave...
Game to scare the kiddies
When you hit an oil slick in mid air
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) January 17, 2026
This is absolutely how these things always go
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Ents:
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 16, 2026 10:02 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: mindful webworker - and away we go at January 16, 2026 10:02 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 10:03 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 10:03 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: mindful webworker - and away we go at January 16, 2026 10:04 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:04 PM (nYv2H)
Our professor warned us though - he said something like, you can either photograph an event or experience it - never both.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 10:05 PM (cYBz/)
Without BC & SK.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's the maine thing at January 16, 2026 10:05 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:06 PM (nYv2H)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:07 PM (nYv2H)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 16, 2026 10:09 PM (n4Qav)
Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 10:09 PM (Q+gd/)
Shite. Reading content like a fooking newbie. Could have been #3.
*i read the content, and clicked the linkies*
Nice ONT Wierd Dave, thank you.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 10:10 PM (QVmho)
What if the problem is that you have run out of 155mm ammo?
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:07 PM (nYv2H)
Build AWFL trebuchets. We never seem to run out of AWFLs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 16, 2026 10:10 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: browndog on the Maid of the Mist at January 16, 2026 10:11 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 16, 2026 10:11 PM (hybOl)
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2026 10:12 PM (bOJ2I)
Of course, you can also set "Amazing Grace" and "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" to "House of the Rising Sun", so....
Confession: I was such a nerd that even as a young 'ette I used to look at the back of the Methodist Hymnal to see which hymns were set to the same tunes...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 10:14 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: mindful webworker - and now I did at January 16, 2026 10:14 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 16, 2026 10:15 PM (47diA)
Posted by: tankdemon
If you have already gone to direct fire and then have run out of shells, you have way bigger problems than just the shells.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 10:16 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2026 10:12 PM (bOJ2I)
Chicago Book of Style vs Associated Press?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 16, 2026 10:16 PM (n4Qav)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:17 PM (nYv2H)
Doesn't the AP style guide insist on they/them pronouns? And no Oxford commas?
🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - all the stuff I used to know at January 16, 2026 10:18 PM (FMpsC)
Enjoy your trip to Florida to see the manatees.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:19 PM (2WIwB)
I haven't done much fishin', but my thought was, that looks kinda small.
Then he threw it back. Maybe I ain't as unfisherman as I think I be?
Posted by: mindful webworker - good catch, though, at January 16, 2026 10:20 PM (FMpsC)
But I guess that means my sense of humor has room to grow.
This is good
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 10:21 PM (ciYHQ)
Ents?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2026 10:22 PM (QOikT)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 10:22 PM (SRRAx)
What if the problem is that you have run out of 155mm ammo?
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:07 PM (nYv2H)
Well then, you call the big boys. 8 inch howitzers when you want to send the very best.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:22 PM (2WIwB)
Without BC & SK.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's the maine thing
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Ad a little here, cut some slack over there, make Putri Rico a state and you've got DEMOCRACY.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 10:23 PM (3UR/I)
At my mother's former residence, there was a dock out back that I occasionally fished off of. Every so often we would have some manatees come by to visit while doing so. Very fun to see them float by.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:23 PM (nYv2H)
I did basic at Fort Sill. my buddies and I arrived at reception station to the sound of live fire, at 0100.
My MOS was 91A/B (medic). Yes. I am that old. Now it's 68 W or some shit.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 16, 2026 10:23 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Ladyl at January 16, 2026 10:23 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2026 10:24 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:07 PM (nYv2H)
* Warthog has entered the chat *
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 10:26 PM (ciYHQ)
The "Gilligans Island" theme fits in that mix as well. "Amazing grace" to the "Gilligans Island" theme is quite a hoot.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 16, 2026 10:26 PM (8JzZF)
I wonder if that bird was twirling madly on purpose. I'd like to see a few more seconds post-landing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 10:27 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:04 PM (nYv2H)
Sorry. When I saw on the internet that those were termites, not crabs, it became an emergency.
Posted by: Pinocchio at January 16, 2026 10:28 PM (w/O5Q)
I did basic at Fort Sill. my buddies and I arrived at reception station to the sound of live fire, at 0100.
My MOS was 91A/B (medic). Yes. I am that old. Now it's 68 W or some shit.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)
***
When I was commissioned, it was for a regular army slot in military intelligence. As part of the process back then, I did a year detail in field artillery so I did my OBC at Ft Sill. Artillery is just awesome!!! Loved every minute of it. Was able to spend half my career as the S2 or G2 of artillery units.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
There is unrest in the forest
Trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 10:28 PM (ciYHQ)
I never have been able to get into those books - then again, my knowledge of classic literature is pretty much non-existent. The year I would have gotten a good grounding in that the only times the class was offered at my high school were also the only times the 2 advanced science classes I wanted to take were offered.
So science it was. Engineering curriculum in college didn't require any literature courses, and after that I was busy studying and being a new bride.
I read, but just never got around to reading the classics.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 10:29 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 16, 2026 10:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.
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Yesterday's compliment is today's lawsuit.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 10:29 PM (3UR/I)
What if the problem is that you have run out of 155mm ammo?
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 10:07 PM (nYv2H)
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Well, if you have the USS Iowa offshore....
Posted by: clarence at January 16, 2026 10:29 PM (f2oT+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 10:32 PM (sS8Vs)
Thank you for ONT Weird Dave
Coupla questions:
What are ENTs? Maybe somebody has already asked and answered so no need to repeat if so.
Second - I don't get the Chicago vs AP pizza.
Be back later to read thru all comments as is my wont...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 16, 2026 10:32 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Ladyl at January 16, 2026 10:32 PM (D6+4s)
I wonder if that bird was twirling madly on purpose. I'd like to see a few more seconds post-landing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
It was a tumbler pigeon.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 16, 2026 10:33 PM (vzcgi)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 16, 2026 10:33 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at January 16, 2026 10:34 PM (pscAN)
What are ENTs? Maybe somebody has already asked and answered so no need to repeat if so.
Tree herders from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 16, 2026 10:34 PM (vzcgi)
FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter’s Home in Classified Leak Probe
In a statement posted on X, Patel said the FBI moved after uncovering evidence that a journalist had been receiving and publishing sensitive information from a Pentagon-linked government contractor, potentially endangering U.S. military operations abroad.
THAT IS TREASON
https://tinyurl.com/y3ntabce
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:35 PM (sui1r)
He is constantly edging with dudes.
Too much smoke there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 16, 2026 10:35 PM (xcxpd)
I've tried three times to start The Hobbit and quit somewhere around page 80. Just can't do it.
I do pick up various Lit stories from time to time though and enjoy them.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 10:35 PM (cYBz/)
Almost as rare as an honest dem.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 10:35 PM (cYBz/)
I'm gonna try to visit more often!
How are ya?
Posted by: Ladyl at January 16, 2026 10:36 PM (D6+4s)
FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter’s Home in Classified Leak Probe
In a statement posted on X, Patel said the FBI moved after uncovering evidence that a journalist had been receiving and publishing sensitive information from a Pentagon-linked government contractor, potentially endangering U.S. military operations abroad.
THAT IS TREASON
https://tinyurl.com/y3ntabce
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:35 PM (sui1r)
Well...WaPo reporter...they do this.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 16, 2026 10:36 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: browndog on the Maid of the Mist at January 16, 2026 10:11 PM (TTAGa)
I believe the proper Law Enforcement term is DRT. As in "Dead rat there!"
Posted by: Brewingfrog at January 16, 2026 10:37 PM (saXwr)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 10:38 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 10:14 PM (SRRAx)
In fairness though...
Amazing Grace - 1772
O Little Town of Bethlehem - 1868
House of the Rising Sun - 1930s
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 10:38 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:38 PM (RIvkX)
If I recall correctly, he raised three types. Homing pigeons, raised for longest trips back to the coop. Racers, raised for fastest trip back to the coop.
And Tumbler pigeons, who'd just do weird shit like in the video for no particular reason. Tumblers were my favorite.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2026 10:39 PM (sl73Y)
You know, we live on the edge down here!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 10:39 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Mario's Pizza at January 16, 2026 10:40 PM (oftw2)
Tree herders from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 16, 2026 10:34 PM (vzcgi)
Ents were, basically, giant sentient trees from Lord of the Rings. They acted as guardians of the forest.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 10:41 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mark in SC at January 16, 2026 10:41 PM (Vvo0d)
Posted by: The Ents at January 16, 2026 10:41 PM (w/O5Q)
When thousands have been murdered.
But at least Trump got to hang out with the Stanley Cup champs, and that's something we can all take pride in!
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 10:42 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 10:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)
Right? It was weird when I did not hear the whoomp and the thud.
It sucks that my duty station in Germany was LANCE missile. A lot of driving around in the Spessart and pretending to shoot stuff at the Fulda Gap. Did get to see a live fire in Crete.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 10:43 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 16, 2026 10:35 PM (xcxpd)
The theory is that chicks don't give up secrets for the promise of sex. O'Keefe would have to hand them stacks of cash to get them to give up the info.
DC Dudes, OTOH...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 10:43 PM (ExV1e)
Well, of course.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 10:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Case at January 16, 2026 10:44 PM (4rWc3)
You know, we live on the edge down here!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 10:39 PM (cYBz/)
Sounds grand to me!
Posted by: Ladyl at January 16, 2026 10:44 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 10:44 PM (ZxPkt)
Presumably any mutation that would increase your resistance to damage from radiation would dramatically increase your changes of survival...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 10:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Mario's Pizza
It is not good dough.
It is Bisquick.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2026 10:45 PM (/lPRQ)
I do pick up various Lit stories from time to time though and enjoy them.
Posted by: Diogenes
Tolkien wrote the Hobbit as a childrens book. The Lord of the Rings is not a kids book. That said , LOR is about 4 times as long as the Hobbit.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 16, 2026 10:46 PM (vzcgi)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 10:43 PM (0aYVJ)
I was at Herzo Base in Germany. Just two battalions there, an 8 inch (I was the S2) and a Lance Battalion. Also the 210th Group HQ.
A great assignment!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:46 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:46 PM (8zz6B)
Also, no thank you to lumping BC into the trade. It is lovely, but as liberal as can be
Posted by: 496 at January 16, 2026 10:46 PM (hdZBB)
When I was in college, there was an English class that covered Tolkien and some other classic fantasy authors. I saw no reason whatsoever to have gone to college to do the work involved in a course like that, but I was interested in the topic. So I just showed up at the class and didn’t do any of the work.
I didn’t completely think it through, though. The professor liked to have pop quizzes; whenever he announced that today was a quiz day, I would walk out, assuming that the fact that it was a giant pop-culture class with literally hundreds of students in an auditorium would hide me. It did not. The last time I walked out, he addressed me directly telling me I wasn’t going to pass the course if I didn’t take the tests.
Which of course wasn’t a problem, but it did threaten the anonymity I craved then and still do. I would’ve been that guy in 1776: The Musical who voted for independence just so that no one knew my name.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 16, 2026 10:47 PM (EXyHK)
THAT IS TREASON
https://tinyurl.com/y3ntabce
Posted by: rickb223
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I'm delighted to see Patel and Bondi are on it. I hope that reporter is quaking in her boots. Doubtless another Awful Liberal (I don't care about the race and sex -- they're all guilty) who thought no one would ever bother her for such a mere trifle as treason. "We always got away with it before! When did the rules change?"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 10:47 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: 496 at January 16, 2026 10:48 PM (FqCIy)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
When ICE started using real bullets. 😂😂😂
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:49 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 10:50 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:51 PM (hxusQ)
Enjoy your trip to Florida to see the manatees.
Posted by: Diogenes at
That's when you have to decide either to tell him, or to take it to the grave with you.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2026 10:51 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Archer at January 16, 2026 10:52 PM (7o/iC)
Aside from regular FTXs, our Arteps were at Wildflecken. Never got to experience Graff. Still, the artillery fire at Wildflecken was soothing. Like a thundershower on a summer night.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 10:52 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16,
If that doesn’t work you call on ole Davy Crockett
Posted by: Javems at January 16, 2026 10:52 PM (zFsEm)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 10:53 PM (0aYVJ)
I mean, I like James O'Keefe but have you ever noticed he never tries to honeypot chicks?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 16, 2026 10:35 PM (xcxpd)
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The women expose their disloyalty on social media, and in presentations to friendly audiences. O'Keefe chases them down the street asking them to comment.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2026 10:56 PM (XeO61)
I vaguely recall seeing his GF in some pictures of him and...she is a dime.
O'Keefe isn't the one flirting with gay lefties.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 10:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 10:52 PM (0aYVJ)
Being the S2 in an 8 inch battalion meant I was the defacto FO since we didn't have any organic ones. Best job to have and I spent every Graf trip on the OPs. Coldest I've ever been though. And lots of wild boar. My only break was for NRAS.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:57 PM (2WIwB)
----
Specifically, who is the contractor?
What company does he work for?
Who hired him?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 10:57 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 10:09 PM (Q+gd/)
It would be feasible to build a highway from northern Saskatchewan to link up with the Alcan Highway. But probably more practical to make the three main E/W highways (and railways) neutral territory insofar as the rights of way go. Treat them sort of like toll roads; an Alberta licence plate would let you enter/exit those highways at will, no stop required. Plate from any other province would be dinged for a fee for every entry and exit, save for highway rest stops and gas stations.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:58 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 10:59 PM (/F7JY)
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at January 16, 2026 11:01 PM (z3oKc)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 11:01 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 10:53 PM (0aYVJ)
Use a buffer on the floor.
Polish your boots.
Make some SOS for breakfast.
Have a bier.
It'll pass.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 11:01 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 11:02 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:03 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 11:03 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 11:03 PM (KDPiq)
I know it's a joke, but it's also possible.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 16, 2026 11:03 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Archer at January 16, 2026 10:52 PM (7o/iC)
Great idea!
I've met some ladies from Saskatchewan. Not everything is flat in Saskatchewan.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 11:03 PM (2WIwB)
A bitch judge in Minnesota says ICE can't retaliate against protesters or stop drivers.
The story is at Daily Mail.
Posted by: fourseasons at January 16, 2026 11:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 16, 2026 11:04 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 16, 2026 11:05 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16,
That's what she said.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 11:06 PM (KDPiq)
73 You know there was a reason that when we were more a serious country being gay was considered a serious security risk
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 10:42 PM (sKqQm)
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In the before time, the possibility of blackmail
was cited as justification for a ban. Now that the gays are out and proud, they betray secrets to be fabulous, and humiliate anybody who trusted them. It turns out that "gay" correlates with "character defects, and delusions." Who knew?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2026 11:06 PM (XeO61)
Canadian oil costs $60 a barrel to produce. Venezuelan oil costs $30 a barrel to produce.
Canada is fckd, eh?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 11:06 PM (Kl6OU)
Posted by: Sad! at January 16, 2026 11:07 PM (12gd1)
·
9h
REPORTER: "Did Arab and Israeli officials convince you to not strike Iran?"
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Nobody convinced me. I convinced myself.
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 11:08 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Sad! at January 16, 2026 11:07 PM (12gd1)
Can I be her boyfriend if I defend her?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 11:08 PM (KDPiq)
But the part in the denoument where the cult leader says "your Courts are civilized, aren't they, pig?" and then Stallone says "this is where the law stops, and I start!" and then hooks him up on a crucible is probably it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:10 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 16, 2026 11:10 PM (DK5Sh)
If you read any of his (unpublished during his lifetime) backgrounds, such as the Silmarillion, they are literally choirs of angels around God creating the world.
I’m currently reading volume 5 of Christopher Tolkien’s collection of his father’s writings and it’s fascinating.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 16, 2026 11:11 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16,
That's what she said.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 11:06 PM (KDPiq)
All artillery is 8 inches on the internet.
Posted by: Dog Posting Online at January 16, 2026 11:11 PM (FJl0E)
I convinced myself.
Posted by: Don Black
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Great. What DOES he intend to do? If anything?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 11:12 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 11:13 PM (BSdIE)
Last November, Elaine Miles, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon and an actress known for her roles in “Northern Exposure” and “The Last of Us,” said she was stopped by ICE officers in Washington state who told her that her tribal ID looked fake.
-AP
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Factoid -
The Hon-Dah Casino, on Tribal land, owned and operated by the White Mountain Apache Tribe, does not accept tribal ID as proof of age or residence at either the casino cashier or the bar.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 16, 2026 11:14 PM (epPlm)
Canada is fckd, eh?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 11:06 PM (Kl6OU)
Cost of production depends upon what kind of oil, and what you have to do to produce it. There is vast room for expansion of the oil sands resource at MacMurray. Economies of scale can kick in. The logical thing to do would be use nuclear power to run the mines, and the recovery process, and the upgrader. And just a couple hundred miles east, in Saskatchewan, are massive uranium mines already production. Room for expansion there, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:16 PM (8zz6B)
A sub off the coast of South America could radio fisher boat 1 (from where? out of nowhere) and tell him to prepare rescue for boat 2 and 3. Do the same with boat 4. Then sink boat 2,3,5 and 6.
Then go to the South China Sea and do the same thing and leave.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:16 PM (3UR/I)
It's not a retaliation, it's a response to escalation. Totally different, FO bitch.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 16, 2026 11:17 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
Definitely a candidate for entry into The Big Book of Hilarious Autoincorrects.
(Read the Lord of the Rings to find out what the landlord Rents charged Saruman.)
🤔
Posted by: mindful webworker - in a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit... at January 16, 2026 11:17 PM (FMpsC)
Or the motel shootout.
Or the hostage scenario in the grocery store at the beginning.
Every part of that movie kicks ass.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 16, 2026 11:18 PM (SEFV4)
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Sounds like a judge needs to be charged with impeding federal agents and locked up with the current haul of illegals overnight.
Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (sS8Vs)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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who knows
in the meantime, the massacres continue
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (ZxPkt)
Women in Iran are not allowed to do this kind of thing, but the daughters and granddaughters of religious leaders are
https://tinyurl.com/49hhey9p
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (3UR/I)
Last November, Elaine Miles, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon and an actress known for her roles in “Northern Exposure” and “The Last of Us,” said she was stopped by ICE officers in Washington state who told her that her tribal ID looked fake.
-AP
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Factoid -
The Hon-Dah Casino, on Tribal land, owned and operated by the White Mountain Apache Tribe, does not accept tribal ID as proof of age or residence at either the casino cashier or the bar.
Posted by: buddhaha
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It was hand-written on the backside of a Corn Pops cereal box top.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 11:22 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (KDPiq)
See? That's from the first five minutes of the movie, and it only keeps getting cooler from there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:23 PM (BI5O2)
https://tinyurl.com/49hhey9p
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (3UR/I)
I'm guessing the yacht was nowhere near Iran. Saudi women lose the veil as soon as the plane they are on leaves Saudi airspace, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:26 PM (8zz6B)
I'm sure there are a few other retarded states we can throw in to sweeten the deal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 11:26 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 11:12 PM (x4Mz/)
You could try asking a Washington Post reporter. They might know.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 11:26 PM (sS8Vs)
Which is not to say that we really need to recover a lot of areas from The Enemy Domestic.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and the land we belong to is graaaannd at January 16, 2026 11:28 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 10:41 PM (ExV1e)
Ents raised trees and became like them in form and pace and lifespan, and some of the trees likewise became like the ents in sentience and mobility. The entwives raised flowers, and no one has seen them in an age...
Posted by: SciVo at January 16, 2026 11:31 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 16, 2026 11:10 PM (DK5Sh)
And PT is volleyball, but once a year they have to complete 18 holes of golf WITHOUT using a cart.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 11:31 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 11:02 PM (KDPiq)
I recognized the video from the still. He and another cop had been talking to this guy about what was essentially a squatter situation for around 20 minutes IIRC. That it ended up in a shooting was avoidable on his part, I think the worst they were going to charge him with was breaking and entering (he hadn't taken the copper pipes off the property yet). Just sad.
Posted by: pookysgirl watches too many Donut Operator videos at January 16, 2026 11:32 PM (Wt5PA)
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Seriously, why?
We're in more danger from the enemy now than if we broke up and went at one another. In our current situation, they hold all the commanding heights.
In a fractured country trying to find its feet, with factions that hold territories and institutions against one another, we at least stand a fighting chance.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:33 PM (BI5O2)
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Sounds like a judge needs to be charged with impeding federal agents and locked up with the current haul of illegals overnight.
Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (vSvIl)
The lack of proper love for volcanoes is disturbing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 11:33 PM (snZF9)
Women in Iran are not allowed to do this kind of thing, but the daughters and granddaughters of religious leaders are
https://tinyurl.com/49hhey9p
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (3UR/I)
***
No wonder the Regime is working so hard to jam starlink.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 11:33 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 16, 2026 11:34 PM (DK5Sh)
The Democrats hired 87,000 IRS agents to go after YOU... sorry, I meant to "crack down on tax fraud". Then how did they miss the INSANE amount of fraud in Minnesota?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:34 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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It's published that IMF is positioning Iron Dome for Iranian attack.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:36 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 16, 2026 11:34 PM (DK5Sh)
Well, if some sort of air campaign against Iran is contemplated, it makes a great deal of sense to delay until all your assets are in theater. Also keeps the weirdbeards guessing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:38 PM (8zz6B)
A federal judge just FORCED the @USDA to CONTINUE sending SNAP administrative funds to Minnesota — even though they're refusing to help root out massive fraud!
This isn't protecting taxpayers or the families who truly need help; it's letting crooks game the system.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:38 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Sam Adams at January 16, 2026 11:39 PM (X+xvk)
Last November, Elaine Miles, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon and an actress known for her roles in “Northern Exposure” and “The Last of Us,” said she was stopped by ICE officers in Washington state who told her that her tribal ID looked fake.
-AP
--------
Factoid -
The Hon-Dah Casino, on Tribal land, owned and operated by the White Mountain Apache Tribe, does not accept tribal ID as proof of age or residence at either the casino cashier or the bar.
Posted by: buddhaha
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It was hand-written on the backside of a Corn Pops cereal box top.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2026 11:21 PM (/lPRQ)
***
Hey! That's Maize Pops to you white man!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 11:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 11:36 PM (3UR/I)
One would hope that the locations of all the fixed launchers are known, as well as where the mobile launchers are garaged. Destroy the missiles on the ground as much as is possible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:41 PM (8zz6B)
Of course. What else is new? And it's not a matter of letting anyone do anything, either. They aren't asking.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:42 PM (BI5O2)
Which is not to say that we really need to recover a lot of areas from The Enemy Domestic.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and the land we belong to is graaaannd at January 16, 2026 11:28 PM (FMpsC)
I wouldn't mind nudging (say) California and New York to secede, then immediately declaring war and conquering them, to be followed by martial law and reconstruction under American principles, with aggressive indoctrination imposed in school against their Secular Sins of transnationalism and bureaucratism.
Posted by: SciVo at January 16, 2026 11:46 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 16, 2026 11:46 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:49 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 11:50 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Joyenz at January 16, 2026 11:51 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: SciVo at January 16, 2026 11:46 PM (Sy6m/)
NYC would be easy. Cave the tunnels and blow the bridges. It becomes an isle of misery parked next to the US. Americans on the mainland can just hold up food and wave.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 11:52 PM (snZF9)
It's published that IMF is positioning Iron Dome for Iranian attack.
Good morning, Mister Phelps.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 11:53 PM (pkeXY)
That's the kicker; Canada and Venzuela produce the same type of crude oil; heavy and sour. The refineries best equipped to process this are on the Gulf Coast.
And what makes Canadian crude more expensive isn't just the technical challenges of extraction, there's also a high regulatory burden. An oilfield takes on average eight years to open in Canada and involves a lot of payoffs along the way. An oilfield in Venezuela or Guyana is just three years.
Now Canada could find a market for heavy sour crude in China... if the Government hadn't blocked construction of pipelines from Alberta to the Pacific.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 11:54 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Winner of the Gov DeSantis lookalike contest at January 16, 2026 11:55 PM (fKeBm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 16, 2026 11:55 PM (n4Qav)
They are pretty sensitive about the trees, though.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at January 16, 2026 11:56 PM (NZPfR)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 11:57 PM (sS8Vs)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 16, 2026 11:55 PM (n4Qav)
Well, I take your point, but I care far more about NYC and Minneapolis than Tehran. I don't wish any ill will toward these Persians, at least not on general principles.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:58 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 11:52 PM (snZF9)
Tell me more...
Posted by: Snake Plisken at January 16, 2026 11:59 PM (sS8Vs)
I enjoyed watching Trump answer questions about Canada making a deal with China. Having Venezuela as a partner has removed the only deal leverage Canada had with the US.
Canada is trading their biggest trade partner, by a huge amount, for a deal with China for a fraction of the amount. Brilliant.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:01 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 17, 2026 12:02 AM (f0sNM)
I once had a brother who played this album loudly several times a day the summer of 1971. Our bedrooms shared a wall and we'd compete with our stereos til one of us gave up and listened to what we agreed on. Funniest guy I have ever known. I assure you he was a Moron of the Highest Order.
I miss you, bro.
https://tinyurl.com/53mxhf5n
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 17, 2026 12:04 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 12:04 AM (u82oZ)
And what makes Canadian crude more expensive isn't just the technical challenges of extraction, there's also a high regulatory burden. An oilfield takes on average eight years to open in Canada and involves a lot of payoffs along the way. An oilfield in Venezuela or Guyana is just three years.
Now Canada could find a market for heavy sour crude in China... if the Government hadn't blocked construction of pipelines from Alberta to the Pacific.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 11:54 PM (f0sNM)
There is plenty of light, sweet crude in Alberta, too. The oil from the oil sands is put though an upgrader before it ever enters a pipeline. The upgrader hydrogenates the heavy oilsands crude, and makes a lighter, sweeter product that is what the buyers get. The upgrader is fueled by "stranded" natural gas that is produced from wells located on the far side of the oilands area, too far from markets to be sold directly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 12:04 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 17, 2026 12:05 AM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:06 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Braenyard
By looking the other way, or more likely, being in on the scam.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 12:06 AM (SEFV4)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
>MN and NYC need to handle their own shit. I'm convinced they can do that but what these states and cities are bringing to the kitchen table is nothing compared to what these other countries owe us. This is your global economic theory.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 12:06 AM (BSdIE)
Forget SF/mysteries/westerns.
Write AWFL women / Hunky ICE agent stories.
Not bodice rippers, sweatshirt rippers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 12:06 AM (u82oZ)
Separate note - thank you to those who explained the ENTs thingy. I read LoTR many many years ago - not sure if I could get through it again...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:07 AM (QGaXH)
‣The History Guy: The Bloody Russian Baron of Mongolia (15m) - he seems nice
https://youtu.be/NGTAVqOj4gg
‣Coca Colа is DOING WHAT?? Satаn is desperate yall (1m) - conspiracy or blasphemy?
https://youtu.be/19J-ZWyS_Ps
‣Ringo Starr's January 2026 Update - still kickin' (2:30)
https://youtu.be/0Sr-U0xZUEU
And thus endeth my AoS day. Prayers, plants, and pets tomorrow.
⁂ What's it all about? ⁂
https://youtu.be/xGxhECBbw08
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - rooms within rooms at January 17, 2026 12:07 AM (FMpsC)
One does not just “get through” The Lord of the Rings…
Posted by: Boromir, Son of Denethor, Steward of Gondor at January 17, 2026 12:10 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:58 PM (BI5O2)
Yes. It is unacceptable to have major cities controlled by the Commie/Islam alliance. The people who perpetrate this, and egg on the useful idiots, I hate with the power of a million suns.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 12:10 AM (n4Qav)
Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 10:09 PM (Q+gd/)
That is the most boring drive you could possibly imagine, at least until you start getting some mountains in western Alberta.
It makes the Dakotas and Kansas seem like exciting scenery by comparison.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:10 AM (IG3/x)
No.
She either committed suicide by cop (if she knew what she was doing) or won a Darwin Award (if she was too stupid to know what she was doing).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:12 AM (IG3/x)
The old alliances are broken. Going to be some interesting times.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 12:12 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Braenyard
By looking the other way, or more likely, being in on the scam.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Biden hired them to go after the right.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2026 12:12 AM (sui1r)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 12:14 AM (n4Qav)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 12:14 AM (pkeXY)
Oh, and no offense intended, AOP, but you gotta admit that MB, SK, and eastern AB are rather...monotonous.
Western AB makes up for a lot, though. Some nice scenery there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:15 AM (IG3/x)
Christy @177. The link doesn't work. But RIP for your brother
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Link works for me.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 12:16 AM (pkeXY)
My very first date, 9th grade, was with a football player in our class (girlfriends made me go out with him. I liked his best friend better). Nice guy. Drove an orange muscle car, I think a Dodge something.
Anyway, I was nervous as was he on the way to the stupid drive-in torture. So I could see what people did there and not approve.
On the way down our long driveway my brother jumped out of a ditch, on all fours, barking like a dog.
We pretended not to see him but I laughed anyway.
We did not date long. I had to "walk him off the football field" a few times. I honestly did not see the point but I did it. He was sweaty and dating a buffoon who'd rather stay home and he eventually gave up as I was hopeless.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 17, 2026 12:16 AM (WONhk)
One does not just “get through” The Lord of the Rings…
Posted by: Boromir, Son of Denethor, Steward of Gondor at January 17, 2026 12:10 AM (EXyHK)
Oh gawd.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:17 AM (QGaXH)
We are in luck that our enemies have to work much harder to avoid entropy.
Got some remedies for problems, but it takes will.
Oliver Cromwell is smiling at current events. He can fix things.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 12:18 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 12:14 AM (n4Qav)
Weird! Bell Bottom Blues by Derick and the Dominoes.
G'nite! Blows kisses!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 17, 2026 12:19 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 17, 2026 12:19 AM (vfct/)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 12:19 AM (u82oZ)
G'nite! Blows kisses!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 17, 2026 12:19 AM (WONhk)
Great song, Christy!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 12:19 AM (n4Qav)
The name of the band was supposed to be Eric and the Dynamos, but the announcer at an early gig screwed it up, and they decided they liked that name better.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:20 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 17, 2026 12:22 AM (u82oZ)
Western AB makes up for a lot, though. Some nice scenery there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:15 AM (IG3/x)
It's easier to build highways in "boring" country, you know. Don't have to go far off the Trans-Canada to see some neat stuff. Cypress Hills, on the AB-SK border is a small mountain ridge that remained unglaciated during the height of the last glacial period. Home to a unique and subtly different ecology. About 30 miles off the highway. And the Alberta badlands around Drumheller are about 30 miles north of the highway, further West. Many miles of quite spectacular scenery. And dinosaurs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 12:22 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:24 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 12:24 AM (n4Qav)
I do hope to see some more of Canada before taking my final dirt nap, but the way things are going, I'm not even going to see most of Alaska before then.
Still need to make it to the Arctic Ocean.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:25 AM (IG3/x)
149 Seriously (or as seriously as my late-night mind will bear), I cringe to read about kicking any state out of the USA. I don't think we should ever let go of one square mile of our territory.
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Seriously, why?
We're in more danger from the enemy now than if we broke up and went at one another. In our current situation, they hold all the commanding heights.
In a fractured country trying to find its feet, with factions that hold territories and institutions against one another, we at least stand a fighting chance.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:33 PM
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What is a state? There are people. There are territory, resources, infrastructure, history and tradition. If a faction of the human component choose to stop being loyal citizens, and become a waxy yellow buildup instead, discard the traitorous weasels, and keep everything else. They don't get
to take it with them. They'd just sell it off to the Chinese anyway. No. It's ours.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 17, 2026 12:26 AM (L78T1)
I miss you, bro.
https://tinyurl.com/53mxhf5n
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Always thought that was the Beatles.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 12:27 AM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 17, 2026 12:30 AM (xSYff)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
>Look at how vicious the Left is right now. Be prepared when the right decides to become vicious because conditions will change rapidly. They keep messing with the bull.
Trump should step in and put a halt to this escalation.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 12:30 AM (BSdIE)
Posted by: SmallTownGirl at January 17, 2026 12:31 AM (9DbxP)
My brother, in addition to being insane and brilliant, had great taste in music. We went to many concerts together from HS through college.
We would laugh til we cried even as adults. Could read each other's minds (I was 2yrs older). He made me humble & I never thought I was "all that" because of him.
The main thing we fought over was the remote control for the new color TV in 1965. For a decade we rarely brawled, then, whammo! Torture time! We'd get sent to our rooms upstairs & continue to argue over the groovy "intercom" of the new house (1964). My parents listened in the den.
I once catapulted him up the stairs during a brawl & he crashed on the landing loudly. I really got into trouble then, but totally worth it!
He could stop an argument by saying, "Don't you flare those nostrils at me!" (he called me Pig Nose). He knew it would make me laugh.
Defended me in HS when a guy I did not even kiss at a dance said he did all sorts of nasty things. I told him, oh, hell, no!
He was in our wedding & approved of my husband and we all had some crazy adventures when he visited out West. Will always miss him.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 17, 2026 12:31 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 12:27 AM (3UR/I)
It got confusing. Clapton played on on Beatles songs. And on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. And they shared Layla.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 12:32 AM (n4Qav)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:25 AM (IG3/x)
I think a boat trip down the Mackenize River from Yellowknife to the river mouth would be amazing. There is a boat tour, this year's rate is 30,000 dollarsper person. Shit, I could buy a good boat for less than that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 12:33 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
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When I "graduated" out of Ft Monmouth (long gone), my MOS was 187. Sometime in the next 15 months, it got redefined to 32E. It was only useful in locations where the military had their own long distance comms. No use in CONUS. So, when I separated, as a draftee, I was supposed to put in 3 more years active reserve (Reserve or NG) and then 1 year inactive reserve. No slots for that MOS in US, and the only cross train slot was for comm controller for an ASA units. I went to work for a.company in a small town in Ohio. Closest reserve ASA unit was in upstate NY. For the next 3 years, I filled out a form certifying my location. At the end of 6 years I got my discharge, with only 1 year, 11 months, and 27 days on active duty - early out returning from overseas. Never went to even one reserve meeting or 2 week summer camp.
So, my original mos was a WW2/Korean war number.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 17, 2026 12:34 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 12:27 AM (3UR/I)
Some of the guitar is similar to his friend, George Harrison. They sort of shared? Patti Boyd, who he wrote Layla for. She must have had something special!?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 17, 2026 12:34 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: keena at January 17, 2026 12:35 AM (4Aqsh)
May you not have an Arctic wind howling over the house.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Better than thru the house.
Just sayin'
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday . . . at January 17, 2026 12:35 AM (3ZUWJ)
to take it with them. They'd just sell it off to the Chinese anyway. No. It's ours.
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I view the Acela Corridor as a foreign occupying power.
If people like you want to absorb the Acelans into our country, fine.
But, I'd rather raffle them off them to foreigners. They aren't my countrymen. Their daughters can slave in foreign harems, under foreign flags, and foreign men, where they belong. They've already sold out to foreigners, and are foreigners, AFAIC.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:36 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: keena
When you format academic papers for thesis or publication, there are 2 distinct formatting styles: Chicago (University of) and AP.
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday . . . at January 17, 2026 12:37 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday . . . at January 17, 2026 12:37 AM (3ZUWJ)
Wow that’s obscure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2026 12:39 AM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Sock Monkey
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I read it to.my daughter when she was my 7 year old sweetheart (lets not talk about teenage years ). She picked up LOTR as an adult, and told me that she slipped into.Middle Earth like an old friend.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 17, 2026 12:42 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: Jeans Loop Pickard at January 17, 2026 12:44 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Braenyard
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You're obviously a.'murrican!
Posted by: buddhaha at January 17, 2026 12:46 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 12:47 AM (n4Qav)
Posted by: buddhaha at January 17, 2026 12:42 AM (epPlm)
Tolkien did a fantastic job of world-building. Really read like he was describing an actual place.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 12:47 AM (8zz6B)
So, like $27 USD? Totally doable.
I've been to NWT. Just grab the legs of a black fly and it'll cruse around giving you a nice areal tour or the territory.
Posted by: Weirddave at January 17, 2026 12:49 AM (Ffl2s)
Posted by: Tracknar at January 17, 2026 12:51 AM (J6fin)
Posted by: Weirddave at January 17, 2026 12:49 AM (Ffl2s)
The danger there is that it will fly back to the nest, and the big ones will take you away from him.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 12:51 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Weirddave at January 17, 2026 12:52 AM (Ffl2s)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:07 AM (QGaX
I definitely couldn't get through it again. Once was enough for me. If I wanted to read 300 pages of how the sun reflects on leaves I would have become a botanist.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2026 12:52 AM (snZF9)
Canada is fckd, eh?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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Where did you get those numbers? I've seen more like $45-50 and $35-40. They're both a PITA to refine so that's a wash.
They certainly aren't in the cat bird seat, but fsckd ? Not really. It's good practice to maintain at least at least 20% of your supply from a second source. From a defense/geopolitical pov, V oil is easily interdicted ( translation:sunk), whereas Alberta oil is comparatively safe.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 17, 2026 12:56 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 12:47 AM (8zz6B)
yeah, the only problem was he described it down to the atomic level. It took 30 pages for the hobbits to walk 100 yards. After 1000 pages of that shit I wanted hold the book in front of a .357 magnum.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2026 12:58 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:59 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Tracknar at January 17, 2026 12:51 AM (J6fin)
Unfortunately that part of BC is full of communists, even more communist than the communist on our West Coast.
Interior BC has some cool people, but I don't think we'd want the coastal regions.
California already has far too many electoral votes.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 01:01 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Do what you want as long as it remains under our jurisdiction.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 01:02 AM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Tracknar at January 17, 2026 01:02 AM (J6fin)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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I once saluted an AF LTC as we were passing on the sidewalk. It took him awhile to return it. He was walking with a couple of AF EMs and they were having a conversation. He seemed confused by the protocol, like it was unusual. I got the impression that the boys in blue don't do a lot of saluting.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 17, 2026 01:05 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2026 01:06 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:59 AM (BI5O2)
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Do we get compounded interest with the return of our $23 worth of beads?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 01:08 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 01:09 AM (n4Qav)
Posted by: mikeski, showing up late and quoting comment #2 at January 17, 2026 01:12 AM (VHUov)
Might as well get them off our books.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:13 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:59 AM (BI5O2)
It's got a pretty decent harbor (shared with Jersey) and a lot of other transportation infrastructure.
Its primary raison d'etre was as a financial capital, though, and that just doesn't make sense any more. Computers don't care if they're on Wall Street or Greasy Corners, Arkansas, as long as there's a good net connection, and Musk's Starlink is doing its best to make that a non-issue as well.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 01:14 AM (IG3/x)
Its primary raison d'etre was as a financial capital, though, and that just doesn't make sense any more. Computers don't care if they're on Wall Street or Greasy Corners, Arkansas, as long as there's a good net connection, and Musk's Starlink is doing its best to make that a non-issue as well.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 01:14 AM (IG3/x)
Especially after goat fucker gets done with it. In a few years it will looked like the cursed earth in Judge Dred, only inside the city.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2026 01:19 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: Nebraska - more corn than Iowa at January 17, 2026 01:23 AM (epPlm)
Assad went to college and had an education to fall back on after his playing days were over.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 17, 2026 01:23 AM (KAi1n)
humans are deuterostomes which means that when they develop in the womb, the anus forms before any other opening. Which basically means, at one point, you were nothing but an asshole. Some people never developed beyond this stage.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 17, 2026 01:24 AM (vzcgi)
He's probably cleverer than Khamenei for that. But that's still a pussy move.
Khamenei has three choices:
1. Run
2. Stand and fight, and win because Trump blinks
3. Stand and fight, and lose because he doesn't
If I'm these mullahs, I'm putting every nickel on #2. It's basically the only choice. It's a shitty choice, but it's all you've got.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:35 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 17, 2026 01:36 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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On a motorcycle. Right?
There a video on the Revzilla website about 2 guys who.took a new Trail.125 and an old CT90 up.the haul.road
Spoiler.... They sorta made it.
Posted by: Nebraska - more corn than Iowa at January 17, 2026 01:36 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 01:36 AM (3UR/I)
humans are deuterostomes which means that when they develop in the womb, the anus forms before any other opening. Which basically means, at one point, you were nothing but an asshole. Some people never developed beyond this stage.
Posted by: Sock Monkey
Correct!
1) you're a cell.
B) you're a ball of undifferentiated cells.
iii) you're a ball of undifferentiated cells with one hole in it..... that one.
The other fun fact: humans are female by default. If you're male, those hormones and that development don't begin until about week 12.
That's why men have nipples. They started developing before the blueprints showed up and the foreman said "hey, wait, we don't need those! Well, heck, leave the spigots on the outside o the house, we just won't run plumbing to them."
The foreman also had to deal with the pre-developed outer labia.
"There's no door here? Ok, glue 'em together and we'll call it a scrotum. Like a bay window, but wrinkly."
Which is why guys have a scar/seam (the scrotal rathe) down the middle of their sack.
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 01:40 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Kelloggs Heap Good Corn Flakes at January 17, 2026 01:44 AM (zocr6)
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday
Wow that’s obscure.
Posted by: Tom Servo
And AP is a lot more simplified/streamlined than Chicago style, since that pizza is half empty?
Posted by: mikeski might get the joke now at January 17, 2026 01:44 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 17, 2026 01:45 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:45 AM (BI5O2)
"There's cellphone tumors. I'm representing hundreds of people who have cellphone tumors behind the ear.
It's always on the ear that you favor with your cellphone...We have the science," Kennedy said in a 2023 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. "You should never put one next to your head... I put it on speakerphone or use earphones."
__ZH
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 01:47 AM (3UR/I)
"There's cellphone tumors. I'm representing hundreds of people who have cellphone tumors behind the ear.
It's always on the ear that you favor with your cellphone...We have the science," Kennedy said in a 2023 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. "You should never put one next to your head... I put it on speakerphone or use earphones."
__ZH
Posted by: Braenyard
"Leave it in your pocket. Testicular cancer is more survivable than brain cancer."
Posted by: The FDA, probably at January 17, 2026 01:48 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 01:52 AM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:56 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Braenyard
Neither gender has a cloaca, so yes. But more of it gets closed up on the males.
Posted by: mikeski, pedantically at January 17, 2026 01:56 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 17, 2026 02:01 AM (0nHVk)
No Ayatollah Left Behind should be his policy. Chase them to the last lonely bolt hole and kill them like dogs.
.
Or they'll come back, just like you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:02 AM (BI5O2)
Interior BC has some cool people, but I don't think we'd want the coastal regions.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Yet another issue with Vancouver and environs is the immigrant Chinese population. Canada.has very(!) good relations with China. Much of the support for that position is provided by the "overseas" Chinese in the west. Most of them got to Canada when the UK agreed to turn over Hong Kong to the tender mercies of the CCP. As citizens of a Commonwealth territory, they were allowed to.emigrate to any other Commonwealth country, irrespective over any immigration restrictions the receiving country may have. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, many moved family and fortune to Aus, Z and Canada. You'd think that they would know better, but cultural.ties are strong.
Having them in the US would add... unneeded complexity... to our relationship with Xi etc al.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 02:05 AM (epPlm)
The small islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix—specifically the “small Gibraltar,” St. Thomas—were considered vital to national security.
The American and Danish officials had reached an agreement to purchase St. Thomas and St. John for $7.5 million in gold coins. A plebiscite on the islands overwhelmingly approved the sale.
But American politics ended the purchasing process. [ ratification was refused]
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[Fast forward to the early twentieth century, ]Germans are on the march, and US Sec State
"made it clear that “the United States would be under the necessity of seizing and annexing [the islands].”
On Aug. 4, 1916, Lansing and Brun signed the treaty, which both sides ratified, and the purchase of the now-U.S. Virgin Islands
... Part of this agreement, however, confirmed Denmark’s rights to Greenland.
there's more to it https://tinyurl.com/5d9hpx87
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 02:10 AM (3UR/I)
No Ayatollah Left Behind should be his policy. Chase them to the last lonely bolt hole and kill them like dogs.
.
Or they'll come back, just like you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:02 AM (BI5O2)
The galaxy is too small to let any ayatollahs survive.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2026 02:12 AM (snZF9)
__ZH
Posted by: Braenyard
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Wired earphones, right. I mean, if you're concerned about close-in RF, why would you want a Bluetooth (2.4MHz, same freq as your microwave oven) transmitter IN your ear?
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 02:13 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at January 17, 2026 02:17 AM (lDkhm)
Would a dungeon soften him up before the hanging?
We should see.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 02:21 AM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2026 02:12 AM (snZF9
If your dad got deposed, and you sieze his glorious throne back from his perfidious usurpers, could you bring yourself to spare even one of their scalps?
I know I couldn't.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:23 AM (BI5O2)
I know I couldn't.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:23 AM (BI5O2)
My father never been there and don't have a throne and I would still burn them down to the last of them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2026 02:27 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 02:29 AM (3UR/I)
Posted by: buddha
The difference between "this signal goes 5 yards to a nearby bluetooth thingy" and "this signal goes 5 miles to a nearby cell tower?"
Posted by: mikeski sends magic smoke signals at January 17, 2026 02:32 AM (VHUov)
there's more to it https://tinyurl.com/5d9hpx87
Posted by: Braenyard
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Good info. Thanks
Some.people wonder about Trump's seeming.obsession with Greenland.
Look at what's going on with Diego Garcia. The UK is, over US objections, trying to.turn over the Chagos Islands, including that atoll and its strategic and secret US naval and air bases, to Mauritas, another island group. Which is A) more than a thousand miles away (what kind of territorial claim is that?) and B) very chummy with China.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 02:36 AM (epPlm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 02:40 AM (8zz6B)
They managed it in Russia and Germany and Japan, but those were longstanding social orders with a large degree of homogeneity.
This is a country with a lot of different religions and cultures that coexisted well once upon a time, but its balance got completely wrecked by Islam.
Everybody would have to side with each other against their fanatical Muslim neighbors, and also forgive their excesses and try to welcome them. It's not likely to happen.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 02:44 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Who are these neighbors? Iran seems to be pretty ethnically connected. The arab mercenaries aside, I'm not sure there's a set of anti-persian set inside of Iran.
Posted by: Jeans Loop Pickard at January 17, 2026 03:01 AM (mlg/3)
Can't quote, but his thesis was that Iran was more modern and literate that Europe at that time and listed some impressive examples.
There are many refugees who fled Iran and are ready to go back and help their homeland into the 21st century.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 03:06 AM (3UR/I)
Remembering the old ways and, say, having 'dress up' gatherings where the each have something of modernity to share.
The gathering ends; they put on their burkas and turbans when they head for home.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 03:13 AM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 03:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tracknar at January 17, 2026 12:51 AM (J6fin)
Not sure I want to have that sort of connection.
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Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:41 AM (eZWdu)
Posted by: OldManMike at January 17, 2026 11:57 AM (b0ILp)
we've got central euros around here that keep roller pigeons. some kind of genetic mutation makes them do that, often the whole coop in a giant circle at the same time. kinda like fainting goats.
Posted by: cmeat at January 17, 2026 03:02 PM (R11M+)
Fri-Yay! Cafe
Scottish highlands
via wandertravel
Puppy found a new friend in the mirror..🐶🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/BXP7o2Im2h
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 15, 2026
That's her bed now..🐶🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/wzWCV1m2wS
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 15, 2026
Friends come in all shapes and sizes..🐕🐾🦌😊❤️ pic.twitter.com/qjxQlCvoGK
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 16, 2026
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:13 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:13 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:14 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Henry at January 16, 2026 07:15 PM (tWkg3)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 07:16 PM (vFG9F)
The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents, an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's clash with Democratic leaders there, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
One of the sources, a U.S. official, said the investigation stems from statements that Walz and Frey have made about the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents deployed to the Minneapolis region in recent weeks.
A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.
https://tinyurl.com/3dep3rmh
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 07:16 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 07:18 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 07:19 PM (1U0OF)
Another Best of Breed win for The Big Dummy at today's Mississippi State KC show. Nothing in the Hound Group, but Her Majesty said there's a lot of high rollers there this weekend.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:21 PM (tgvbd)
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Pfft! Life with TWO cats? Please....
Try life with **FIVE** cats. Far more entertaining.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 07:21 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:21 PM (tgvbd)
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Congrats!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 07:23 PM (ESVrU)
The only extraordinary escalation is on Walz and Frey's part, openly calling to defy federal law. That's been settled since the Civil War.
Seems like to me criminal charges are trying to send a message without invoking the IA.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 07:24 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 07:24 PM (w6EFb)
Yeah, this. Focus is down to just these two assholes instead of declaring war on the state of Minnesota- which probably has no idea what it's leaders are actually doing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 07:26 PM (Q0yOR)
Another Best of Breed win for The Big Dummy at today's Mississippi State KC show. Nothing in the Hound Group, but Her Majesty said there's a lot of high rollers there this weekend.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:21 PM (tgvbd)
I have to imagine he's worth quite a lot as a stud with all of these wins.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 07:26 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:27 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 07:26 PM (Q0yOR)
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I have a ball with a bell in it attached to the door to my sunroom. Hexie has learned to "ring the bell" as a signal for me to let her out there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 07:29 PM (ESVrU)
>>You’re the only thing helping me recover!
How's recovery going?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)
I have to imagine he's worth quite a lot as a stud with all of these wins.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 07:26 PM (6ydKt)
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There's a lot that goes into the suitability of a dog for stud purposes. Success in the ring is a part of that and not even the most important part.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:30 PM (tgvbd)
He had social issues and would foam at the mouth like he had rabies with other dogs on walks. Bless his sweet heart.
His best friend was a squirrel who hung out on the roof of the pool screen. They had their games. When Shelby died the squirrel missed him.
Sweetest doggie ever and can't be replaced. We have grand-dogs now.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 07:30 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:30 PM (0KSrI)
A young penguin's body weight can be made up of over 75% poop. As it's primary diet consists of rotting regurgitated fish, a 100' radius "exclusion zone" is recommended for all observers.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 16, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: turambar
so, like how Tyler Robinson and his furry roommate's neighbors felt
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 07:31 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Here ya go lovely, don't be sad
https://tinyurl.com/3ru699ek
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 07:32 PM (ciYHQ)
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Weak sauce.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:32 PM (U2OZr)
Apparently my kid had a Martin Luther King assembly today at school. They had the kids chant inclusive affirmations. Nothing about MLK's mistresses, probably for the best.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:32 PM (gWBY1)
So, I signed up for a brand spanking new account, with all the same damned information, and it accepted that.
What in hell?
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 07:33 PM (HnIBa)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 07:33 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:30 PM (tgvbd)
If I wanted a Borzoi one of his pups would be at the top of the list.
His reputation precedes him, and I don't necessarily need a smart dog.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 07:34 PM (6ydKt)
I don't do FB, but that would be the end. Isn't possible that you may be better of without it?
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 07:35 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 07:35 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 07:36 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:36 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: garrett at January 16, 2026 07:38 PM (ZcsJV)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 07:38 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: LizLem"
You know who else did group chants?
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 07:38 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 07:33 PM (HnIBa)
Huh. I do not check Facebook all that often. I got community noted once for linking a Joe Rogan podcast that had that one anti-Vaxx lady, but that is about it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:39 PM (zZu0s)
The 'more' video is good instruction for The Horde.
Notice what the 'keeper' is wearing. He's prepared for the inevitable and mephitic copious cloacal eruption that is about to take place.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 07:40 PM (OWvU+)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 07:38 PM (vFG9F)
It is pretty creepy. Keep the praying to church and God related.
'Chanting or non-Chanting?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:41 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 07:33 PM (HnIBa)
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I'm no expert but that sounds funny, like spoofing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:41 PM (RIvkX)
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Great. Because the courts can be trusted to fix things.
Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 07:41 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 07:42 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 07:42 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:42 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Accomack at January 16, 2026 07:43 PM (KQ27X)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:41 PM (0KSrI)
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I am so emotionally overwrought about it and just don't know. I feel like I'm pregnant. How are you managing?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:43 PM (RIvkX)
Translation: DEI hires Patel and Bondi aren't going to do anything but by declaring an "investigation" they can duck questions and responsibility by saying "I can't comment on an active investigation"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 07:43 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)
To make you jump through hoops. Sounds like you're a victim of Profile Mining. Some leftist scrolled through your history and reported offense over something you posted ages ago without incident. And if you've identified as anything to the right of Hillary Clinton, the mods decided you're a subhuman who can be discarded without any sense of fairness.
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 07:44 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK
A brand new spanking account?
Please forward subscription details at once if you please!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 07:44 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:45 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 07:44 PM
Are you interested in being the spanker or the spankee?
Asking for The Horde.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 07:46 PM (OWvU+)
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Wasn't long before they became real.
Posted by: javems at January 16, 2026 07:47 PM (eOBvG)
via wandertravel
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Read last night that when the electrons were shut down in Iran all the chatter in Scotland about Independent Scotland stopped.
🍒funny thing
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 07:48 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 07:49 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 07:50 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:45 PM (0KSrI)
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This is my prayer
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:50 PM (RIvkX)
Big hug to the both of you.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:50 PM (0KSrI)
Rolls eyes and shakes head
For God's sake, Ace, throw the man a bat or something.
Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 07:54 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
In the plains of Timbuctoo,
I would eat a missionary,
Hat and coat and hymn-book, too.
https://shorturl.at/BN5sc
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 07:56 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:56 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:56 PM (0KSrI)
Hell enjoy. Its been a bit too chilly and me working too much to get him out to the dog park to run. Might have to go Sunday no matter what temp. He has too much energy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:59 PM (zZu0s)
Just use a text message?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 16, 2026 07:59 PM (XMwZJ)
Not unlike the body weight of the individuals who comprise the General Secretariat of the Union of Soviet Socialist Spheniscidaphobes.
Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 08:00 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:57 PM (77rzZ)
Or a big alien spider web with a victim laying in it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 08:00 PM (snZF9)
tanning hide
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 08:01 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:57 PM (77rzZ)
Or a big alien spider web with a victim laying in it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 08:00 PM (snZF9)
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*** Shelob has entered the chat. ***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 08:02 PM (ESVrU)
>>You’re the only thing helping me recover!
How's recovery going?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:29 PM (viF8m
It’s going well except I’m getting stir crazy. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but I was on oxy for a week and now it’s sore, but not excruciating. You aren’t supposed to take NSAIDs due to their retarding bone growth—I have a graft for eventual fusion L4-5.
Not even think of asking for an Oxy refill for fear they note my chart as a User and Abuser. I have used opioids for about 6 procedures in my life, never abused them. But regulators have the doc’s in a tizzy.
Can’t drive or work for three weeks, but over next three months, should be close to normal.
If you need a one level fusion, especially, go for it! It’s not that bad pain wise, just have to wait around to heal and do daily walking which is not bad.
Posted by: Henry at January 16, 2026 08:03 PM (tWkg3)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:03 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 08:04 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: The UK Navy at January 16, 2026 08:04 PM (IHr58)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:03 PM (OoFl2)
Pretty good.
'She put him out like the burning end of a midnight cigarette' is a good song lyric. Kind of gives that sense of cutting a puppets strings. Dousing a fire. Good stuff.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
We watched a friend's house while they were away 2 weeks.
They had a rat infestation. And every night around 8pm the rats from the west side of the house would meet the east side for playful skirmish. Yes, we videotaped it all and set it to the musical score. Funniest bit was a rat my wife named "Spider". He would inch up the door jam about a foot off the ground and hang there, waiting for an unsuspecting rodent to wander underneath
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 08:05 PM (ciYHQ)
The Voyage Home
I guess they could not afford the $$$$
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:06 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 08:07 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Japan at January 16, 2026 08:07 PM (gKWVE)
Honestly ? Watching it all fall to shit as I thought it would.
Posted by: Howdy at January 16, 2026 08:05 PM (REOC
I am reminded that God’s timeline is not always our timeline.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:08 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Henry at January 16, 2026 08:03 PM (tWkg3)
Wearing that donut around your neck for a month ain't no fun either.
Posted by: javems at January 16, 2026 08:08 PM (eOBvG)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:07
I am well, thank you! I woke up today, that is always a great place to start!
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:09 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:06 PM (gbOdA)
That would have changed the complexion (heh) of the movie a lot. Taken it more to overt comedy.
I don't think it would have worked as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 08:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 08:11 PM (ciYHQ)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 08:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Japan at January 16, 2026 08:07 PM
I'm interested in that, as well.
Posted by: Kyrsten S. at January 16, 2026 08:12 PM (OWvU+)
Posted by: Piper
Got through 2 med checks for relatives without 'incident,' so pretty good.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2026 08:12 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:12 PM (77rzZ)
I skipped 1 and went right to 2.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 08:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:03 PM (OoFl2)
Pretty good.
'She put him out like the burning end of a midnight cigarette' is a good song lyric. Kind of gives that sense of cutting a puppets strings. Dousing a fire. Good stuff.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16
I go back and forth on that song. Sometimes I think the lyrics are amazingly soul crushing, and then I think it’s a little over the top. Maybe because I am not really a big country music fan? In the alternative it could be because I am fickle.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:12 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 08:13 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2026 08:14 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January
Yay! That is good.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:14 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 16, 2026 08:14 PM (sn5xH)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 08:13 PM
Pon Farr. He experiences Pon Farr.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 16, 2026 08:15 PM (OWvU+)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:12 PM (OoFl2)
I think the video is the problem. The song by itself, you can have sympathy for both. Hell you can think it is about one dude and another lady (different relationship.)
The thing is, the video just makes the woman a straight up whore. Directed and starred(?) In by Ricky Schroeder, btw. And the video is so over the top I was thinking it was like Saw: Country Song edition.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 08:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Jeans Loop Pickard at January 16, 2026 08:17 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:18 PM (77rzZ)
At least the Klingons embraced their Stupid
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 08:19 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 08:20 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: javems at January 16, 2026 08:08 PM (eOBvG)
I needed a multilevel cervical fusion but the doc said not to do it, I was so bad, he had nothing to anchor the fused areas to!
Luckily, the pain subsided after about a year which I thought was strange. Apparently, if you can stop moving the neck and irritating the nerves, it can calm down. I got lucky. I was miserable for a year.
If anyone wants to know more about my experience, and there were some unpleasant surprises, that won’t be a problem longer term, feel free to email me in my nic.
Posted by: Henry at January 16, 2026 08:20 PM (tWkg3)
Posted by: javems at January 16, 2026 08:08 PM (eOBvG)
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Is it better or worse than the "cone of shame"?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 08:23 PM (ESVrU)
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Dry. Mostly warm. Playing "whack a cat" as they go in and out, in and out, in and out. It's cold and rainy, so they keep this up thinking it'll change on one of the "outs."
Spoiler:
It won't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:23 PM (U2OZr)
“It is not Logical. But it is very often True.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:23 PM (hxusQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 08:12 PM (viF8m)
I didn’t mean to imply multiple level fusion was bad, by the way. It’s just I only experienced a one level lumbar fusion.
How was yours? Did it heal up well?
I think I need to do some PT as well as walking.
Posted by: Henry at January 16, 2026 08:24 PM (tWkg3)
We appear to be orbiting around large pair of boobs belonging to the Sweeney System, Captain.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:24 PM (77rzZ)
Just got home. Took myself to Happy Hour on the waterfront. My boat ride home was gorgeous. Walked to the beach to see the sunset.
Tomorrow my oldest is taking me to the Seahawks game!!!!
GO HAWKS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 08:25 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:26 PM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:24 PM (77rzZ)
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Heh. That reminds me of the Bloom County comic strips where Cutter John and his crew would cruise around in his "Star Chair" the USS Enterpoop, looking for the naughty sorority girls of planet Playtex or whatever.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 08:27 PM (ESVrU)
Thats a thing.
But if that really is "just the thing" ? I don't feel any better that my ant farm might get shook.
Posted by: Howdy at January 16, 2026
Oh it could for sure, but God isn’t going to give us anything he can’t handle. We just have to do our part, to the best of our abilities.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 08:27 PM (Wmg4n)
The worst is that feminist anthem:
All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid
Nymph, then a virgin, nurse, then a servant
Just an appendage, live to attend him
So that he never lifts a finger
24/7 baby machine
So he can live out his picket-fence dreams
It's not an act of love if you make her
You make me do too much labour
It's just going to create yet another generation of bitter angry fat disgusting women. Men account for 90% of workplace deaths but you were expected to give emotional support, you poor dear. So oppressed. Vomit
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 08:29 PM (ciYHQ)
I think I need to do some PT as well as walking.
Yea, all good. Definitely do the PT. Stretching and walking make a big difference.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 08:19 PM (ciYHQ)
Even the Klingons are busy overthinking and being audacious by being calculating. And then chewing the scenery when they should have been shooting everyone in the face.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2026 08:31 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 08:32 PM (ciYHQ)
https://x.com/i/status/2012276863561871764
Posted by: MikeN
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Because Tucker's tie is longer than the presidents?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 08:33 PM (3UR/I)
https://x.com/i/status/2012276863561871764
Posted by: MikeN at January 16, 2026 08:27 PM (PsdqP)
The word is that Trump deposited all the money he got from the sale of the Venezuelan oil, so far, in the only banks where the courts won't seize it for application against Venezuela's massive overseas debts: Doha Qatar.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2026 08:34 PM (rbvCR)
Stonn is 100% Vulcan all the way and hung like a donkey.
Posted by: T'Pring, Needing A Big One at January 16, 2026 08:34 PM (R/m4+)
Happy people will be happy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 08:35 PM (3UR/I)
Taco Breath @troubadour210
Loomer absolutely losing her shit rn. Furiously pacing her apartment, leaving WH staff voicemails, throwing laptops against the wall. Full blown meltdown. Turning on notifications, this will be rich 🤣
Jan 16, 2026 · 9:36 PM UTC
Posted by: Japan at January 16, 2026 08:37 PM (gKWVE)
Much more fun than those constipated Klingons.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2026 08:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Good, they want money they can go get it. We're not handing over our hard (and they worked for it) earned (took a lot of investment) money.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 08:38 PM (3UR/I)
Yeah 'princess bride' was terrible and I'm sorry I watched as much of it as I did when I was a kid.
At least the headspace I've reserved for Mel Brooks and Python wasn't wasted.
Posted by: Japan at January 16, 2026 08:39 PM (gKWVE)
With my younger one, it's K-Pop Demon Hunters. I can tell I'm gonna be hearing these songs for years.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:39 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 16, 2026 08:40 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 16, 2026 08:42 PM (syz1S)
Short version: displacement of maternal instinct
https://tinyurl.com/yrr6a5jd
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 08:43 PM (ciYHQ)
They really are freaks, aren't they?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 16, 2026 08:45 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 08:38 PM (3UR/I)
I don't think Trump likes banks, and he has said his intention is that money is to be used to rebuild Venezuela. Mostly with US contractors and suppliers, but not at NGO or USAID pricing.
If the courts seize the money for debt then the road to renewal for Venezuela is impossibly long. And they aren't going to get debt forgiveness from the World Bank or the IMF because unlike Somalia, Venezuela still has resources and assets.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2026 08:46 PM (rbvCR)
They really are freaks, aren't they?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 16, 2026 08:45 PM (syz1S)
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Absolute proof that God has a sense of humor.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 08:47 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:39 PM (BI5O2)
In the West coast they are called "K-Soda Demon Hunters"
(In the deep south they get called K-Coke Demon Hunters)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2026 08:48 PM (rbvCR)
I am sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 07:19 PM (1U0OF)
Maybe this will cheer you up.
https://youtube.com/shorts/E7ITH2Se2g8
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 08:49 PM (nYv2H)
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at January 16, 2026 08:50 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Banks like raping and pillaging they just do it in a different way.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 08:51 PM (3UR/I)
That’s like an entire Miami Vice episode in 5 minutes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:53 PM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at January 16, 2026 08:53 PM (oftw2)
https://youtube.com/shorts/E7ITH2Se2g8
Posted by: tankdemon
Thank you!
She was preggers and defending her territory. Smelly surfers need to back off!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 08:57 PM (qDWYL)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2026 08:57 PM (rbvCR)
That little bit of morality goes back a lot further than boomers. But you are free to swing away, nobody is stopping you.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 08:58 PM (viF8m)
Not hitting women is not just a Boomer thing. It has long been a tenet of Western Civilization.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 16, 2026 08:58 PM (syz1S)
Happy people will be happy
Posted by: Braenyard
Witnessed it first-hand. Had a black NCO in my unit. Locked on and squared away. 4.8/4.9 pro/cons. Meritorious promotions.
Someone you would want on your 6 if you made contact with enemy. And then, in the space of 6 months, it all went to sht
I'm packing up his personal effects because he's going to Leavenworth and what do I find? All these black power magazines, angry black men on every cover, filled with poisonous propaganda about how he was oppressed by whites. Full of bitterness that ate away at him like a Cancer
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 09:00 PM (ciYHQ)
Mama and Papa penguin don't stuff their babies with eight fish at at time. That poor baby chick is obese.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 09:01 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 09:04 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 09:00 PM (ciYHQ)
There’s something to be said about being educated in the classics; somebody should have shown him Othello before it was too late.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 09:06 PM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
What does a Reverend know about the care and feeding of penguins? Stick to your lane, Rev!
Posted by: Plus-Sized Penguins Everywhere at January 16, 2026 09:08 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: JackStraw
And it's not just about women. It's why so many men are gentle giants - if a little soyboy is yapping and poking they're biggest fear is killing the twerp by accident. The proper use of force is part of Manhood 101. Women are being hit with disproportionate force because they've been abusing that principle, using it against good men who have had enough of that bs
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 09:12 PM (ciYHQ)
152 Not hitting women is not just a Boomer thing. It has long been a tenet of Western Civilization.”
It oft ‘‘twas a rule more observed in the breech”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 09:12 PM (hxusQ)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 16, 2026 09:13 PM (3ImbR)
Ouch. That's probably on me. I didn't know what to do. Leadership is hard.
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 09:14 PM (ciYHQ)
Ferpetessakes. We go to work and war and farming and all kinds of lame shit like that so women can prance around in sundresses and hang out in drawing rooms sipping tea, and then they want to also do street fighting, but without being hit back, either.
One or the other ladies. Sundresses and tea rooms, or street fights and early mortality. Your choice. Choose wisely.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 09:15 PM (BI5O2)
Check out DataRepublican's X feed. She's on the case of hose the Somali's get money out of the country. It's a Muzzie non-banking banking system called "hawala".
Because the transfers are usually only one-way, it means suitcases of cash have to be transferred out of the country. They did that. COvid fucked that, and turns out some banks started helping them.
You might think some of that might run afoul of banking laws and regulations. It likely does. And guess what? Some of those MN politicians helped get Biden admin to ease up on some of those regulations....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 09:15 PM (w6EFb)
#BringBackFatner
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2026 09:27 PM (kpS4V)
One or the other ladies. Sundresses and tea rooms, or street fights and early mortality. Your choice. Choose wisely.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Bill Burr called this Equal Rights Ala Carte.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 16, 2026 09:27 PM (sn5xH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 09:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 09:28 PM (zZu0s)
#BringBackFatner
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Eh, give the guy a break. He's 94 and still working in entertainment. Good for him!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 16, 2026 09:31 PM (hybOl)
Posted by: Yoda at January 16, 2026 09:32 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2026 09:37 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 09:37 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 09:37 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2026 09:40 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: nurse ratched
you'd think some men would have better uses for their balls and shaft
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 09:41 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:42 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Guys are just venting frustration at the AWFLs. Can't say I blame them, really. Those bishes *do* deserve a pounding IMO. I'd PPV to see them get it.
Me? Never got to do the "sundresses and tea room" thang, but that doesn't mean I want street fighting either. It's a sad fact that I had to become more of a man than half the "men" I worked with. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2026 09:43 PM (rdVOm)
So it’s ok to tee off on women now?
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 09:37 PM (IhIKR)
I'm guessing that for a sizeable number this has always been the case. Of course, the are all losers with very small penises. You are a nurse. Look around.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 09:46 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 09:46 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: nurse ratched
No, the argument is whether men should use disproportionate force in RESPONSE to violence from women. Most of us don't think so, but it's not unreasonable. If I pick a fight with someone like Larry Corriea, who plays an OpFor chew toy for SWAT for fun, I kinda have a beatdown coming. It's really up to him to be merciful.
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 09:50 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 09:52 PM (6Bc88)
Howdy gone bye.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2026 09:53 PM (krI25)
If a woman slaps DH, he is most likely to grab a wrist and make it clear that it is that last time that happens. Others might not show such restraint.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 09:54 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 09:56 PM (6Bc88)
*shrugs*
Got even with him-- let his GF have him.
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2026 09:56 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 09:56 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: mindful webworker - and away we go at January 16, 2026 09:57 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Speaking for myself I am considering my choices and I think I've decided on wearing a sundress in case a fight breaks out at the tearoom and my mortality becomes longer or shorter than I planned.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 09:58 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 10:01 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Agree.
Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2026 10:02 PM (rdVOm)
First they said my ads violated their policies. I never posted any ads, and I don't have a business account with them.
Then they said I had violated their community guidelines. I guess somebody didn't like my fondue recipe?
Fuckers.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 10:03 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Dave's not here at January 16, 2026 10:03 PM (FMpsC)
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 10:04 PM (6Bc88)
Not how it was in our coed leagues. You took care not to break the girls.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 10:05 PM (qoUKC)
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2026 10:05 PM (bOJ2I)
With power comes responsibility
Women cant even take responsibility for the reproductive choices they make before choosing to murder life.
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 10:07 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 09:56 PM (pkeXY)
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Yet one more IP Hollywood can ruin through a remake...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 10:13 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: RebeccaH at January 17, 2026 10:30 AM (VFung)
For More… https://bet2bright221.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:41 AM (eZWdu)
Trump Proposes Rule to Make Big Pharma Sell Its Drugs to Americans at Same Price They Sell It To Europeans, Reducing Drug Costs by Up to 90%
Plus: More Quick Hits
The era of big government is... continuing.
He also proposed some small-bore changes to Obamacare.
President Trump on Thursday rolled out what he's calling the Great Healthcare Plan, a sweeping proposal aimed at doing what Washington has failed to accomplish for decades: driving down healthcare costs by breaking the grip of insurers, drug companies, and middlemen while putting patients back in control. "I am thrilled to announce my plan to lower healthcare prices for all Americans and truly make healthcare affordable again," Trump said from the White House. "We're doing things that nobody's ever been able to do." At the center of the proposal is a call for Congress to codify Trump's Most-Favored-Nation drug pricing policy, which would require Americans to pay no more for prescription drugs than the lowest prices paid by other developed countries. Trump said the policy would lock in massive discounts already being achieved through voluntary negotiations with HHS and CMS, while grandfathering in those existing deals. He argued the policy would push drug prices down "80, 90% in some cases," adding that some medications would see reductions of "300, 400, even 500%," figures he said Americans have "never heard of before."
A major structural shift in the Great Healthcare Plan involves insurance subsidies. Instead of continuing to route billions of taxpayer dollars through insurance companies, Trump is proposing that eligible Americans receive that money directly, allowing them to purchase the health insurance of their choice. "The government is going to pay the money directly to you," Trump said. "The big insurance companies lose and the people of our country win." The plan would also fully fund the Cost Sharing Reduction program, which the administration says would save taxpayers at least $36 billion and reduce premiums on the most common Obamacare plans by more than 10%, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates. Trump did not shy away from attacking Obamacare itself, arguing it was "designed to make insurance companies rich." He pointed to billions in subsidies and what he described as skyrocketing stock prices for insurers while premiums climbed year after year for consumers. "I want to end this flagrant scam and put extra money straight into the healthcare savings account in your name," Trump said, arguing that consumer choice--not government mandates--should drive healthcare decisions. The proposal also takes direct aim at pharmacy benefit managers and large brokerage middlemen, pledging to end kickbacks that Trump says artificially inflate insurance costs.
Eh. I dislike the price discrimination, I like the potential of paying less, but I'm not in love with the government intervention into the economy. I'm also not animated about it. Big Pharma has revealed itself as mercenary and anti-freedom. Update:
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv 30m JUST IN - DOJ investigating Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for conspiracy to impede immigration agents -- CBS
Harvard is Super Elite you guys.
A "queer ethnography" professor who goes by the name "LaWhore Vagistan" when in drag has been invited to Harvard University to give a special lecture on Kamala Harris. Harvard last year hired Kareem Khubchandani, an associate professor of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University, as a visiting professor. Now, the wacko who spends his free time dressing up like a female caricature and performing gross sexual routines is back, not only to continue teaching classes, but to host a special and especially disgusting political lecture. The drag queen professor is still set to teach "Queer Ethnography" and "RuPaulitics Queer Ethnography" for Harvard's Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department. But on Feb. 10, he will host the 2025-2026 Matthiessen Lecture at the woke Ivy League university called "Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties." It is going to feature discussions of two high-profile Democrat politicians -- Zohran Mamdani and Kamala Harris.Kristen Sinema is accused of being a homewrecker, of carrying on an affair with her married Senate bodyguard.
The ex-wife of Kyrsten Sinema's bodyguard is suing the former Arizona senator for allegedly breaking up their marriage. Matthew and Heather Ammel had "a good and loving marriage" with "genuine love and affection" before Sinema pursued Matthew Ammel, despite knowing he was married, Heather Ammel alleged in her lawsuit against the former senator, according to the Associated Press. Sinema's head of security hired Ammel after he retired from the Army in 2022, according to the lawsuit, which also states he accompanied the then-senator on her travels to destinations such as Napa Valley, Calif., Las Vegas, and Saudi Arabia. Ammel's wife in 2024 discovered "romantic and lascivious" messages he had allegedly exchanged with Sinema over the Signal messaging app. Then, in the summer, he stopped wearing his wedding ring, and Sinema gave him a job as a national security fellow in her Senate office while he continued to work for her campaign as a bodyguard, the lawsuit alleges.Stop me if you heard this one before -- Hunter Biden is facing possible jailtime for failing to pay child support.
The mother of Hunter Biden daughter Navy Joan Roberts is asking a court to arrest him for failing to uphold his part of their child support agreement. Lunden Roberts, mother to the 7-year-old, urged an Arkansas judge on Tuesday to reopen the long-running child support case and arrest him until he complies with the agreement they settled on in 2023, according to court records, The New York Post reported. Biden has five children including three daughters. "[T]he defendant only tends to act in this case when he has to do so. As such, this court should motivate the defendant and incarcerate him in the Independence County Detention Center as a civil penalty until he purges his contempt by complying with this court's orders. In the alternative, this court should sanction the defendant as it deems appropriate and just," Roberts' motion reads.A DC transgender activist turns out to be, get this, a fraudster who thinks the world owes him a living.
A foreign fraudster stealing Americans' money? Well now I've heard everything.
DC transgender activist gets 3 years in prison, ordered to repay $956K for COVID relief fraud FBI agents arrested the activist, Ruby Corado, also the founder of the nonprofit Casa Ruby, in 2024 when Corado unexpectedly returned to the U.S. from native El Salvador.
The founder of a nonprofit that provided LGBTQ+ services in the Washington, D.C. area was sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $956,215 in restitution for diverting federal COVID-19 relief funds. The founder, transgender activist Ruby Corado, was also ordered to be under two years of supervised release after the prison sentence, if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn't move to deport Corado, Judge Trevor McFadden said in the sentencing hearing. McFadden in announcing the sentence said Corado "found an opportunity to defraud U.S. Americans," instead of helping them, according DCNewsNow.com.
BREAKING: HSI (a branch of ICE) is on the ground in Minneapolis conducting an investigation on childcare fraud.
— Jenny Beth Martin (@jennybethm) December 29, 2025
The Trump administration is acting swiftly.
We are about to see unprecedented arrests and deportations. pic.twitter.com/xunbLEZx3H
Whoa! @willcain showed how Ilhan Omar’s husband went from being worth $51,000 in 2023 to now more than $30 million.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) January 15, 2026
She claims to not be a millionaire… so we can probably guess where all that sweet Somali daycare money slides to…
pic.twitter.com/8RT3CwX657
All of a sudden the big, strong, independent women of the country are looking to their husbands for protection and leadership.
— One Bad Dude (@OneBadDude_) January 15, 2026
Imagine that.
The same people who degrade and blame men for everything are now looking for a hero to tell that that everything is going to be okay.… pic.twitter.com/r5MyK71ch6
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Someone been listenin' to the Smiths
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 06:13 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 06:14 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 06:15 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 06:16 PM (PFs9e)
They're murderers. It has something to do with that.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 06:16 PM (qoUKC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 06:16 PM (zZu0s)
I don't get offended that often, but how is that drag name not demeaning to women?
They LARP as obnoxious "women", making a cartoon of normal femineity, and then take on these disgusting names.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (LlV+5)
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I'm very, very glad that my job doesn't require me to design courses for this type of faculty.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (Iwv3U)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 16, 2026 06:18 PM (cxFcK)
What is she even talking about?
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 06:18 PM (qoUKC)
They collect premiums and make money by keeping as much of it they can. They deny benefits promised and/or make it so tedious that people give up.
It’s shameful.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 06:18 PM (kAzG3)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 06:19 PM (sDpug)
They LARP as obnoxious "women", making a cartoon of normal femineity, and then take on these disgusting names.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (LlV+5)
Sweetie, it is all misogyny. These are women-hating men, and they get off on dressing up as whores and claiming they are fabulous when they are actually miserable idiots.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 06:19 PM (HnIBa)
While native-born American blacks were content to passively cash their Pigford checks, Somali immigrant blacks were out there busting their humps creating fake childcare and transportation businesses.
Posted by: TITP at January 16, 2026 06:19 PM (6Q9y6)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 06:19 PM (X42T3)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (0KSrI)
70 yo protestors, wish it would show up on Hannity's show
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 06:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 06:20 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:20 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 06:20 PM (PFs9e)
They say that 10% of government spending is fraud.
Some say as much as 30%.
I say the real scandal isn't the fraud, it is the shit that's legal.
Most of the PPP spending was totally legal, and all of it is a scam. Most of SNAP, Section 8,....
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (D5z+u)
FBI agents arrested the activist, Ruby Corado
A transgender named Ruby? Is this the transginger we heard about at SCOTUS?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 16, 2026 06:18 PM (cxFcK)
Are these the folks that think men should only study Torah, and women should stay home caring for kids? So, no visible means of support unless the wife works out of the home as well, I believe. Not a very stable way to maintain a family without welfare.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (HnIBa)
Oof. Well, Only Fans is out, so…
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (egaJw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 06:16 PM (PFs9e)
Somalia gets no say in the matter. Strap a cheap-ass used parachute to her skank ass, and punt out the cargo door of a C117 at 25,000 feet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (8zz6B)
I am not saying to not have the reaction, they should get an axe handle across the face. They might learn manners before they ran out of teeth.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (zZu0s)
He's not implementing price controls and setting them arbitrarily.
He's demanding that US pay the same prices as Europeans.
So he's saying that the manufacturers have to find a middle ground of charging the EU more and the US less.
Makes total sense.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (lCHt6)
Posted by: huerfano at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (98kQX)
I'd also suggest washing your hair before filming, but that is not the point.
I have been married for almost 47yrs...known my husband for almost 50yrs...and have never asked him for help due to concern on what is going on with liberals. He does not need to protect me from MN. What are they worried about? Seriously? What? Lesbos? ICE? President Trump? I am trying to think of when he physically needed to protect me and I come up with nothing!
If I asked him to protect me from radical lesbians in MN or ICE he would take me to the ED for an evaluation.
Have a great weekend, y'all. Stuff to do and pretend to be productive!!!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (WONhk)
What is likely to happen is big drug companies will start pricing to Europe at higher rates and lower our rates slightly. So they are the same prices.
Like how Apple has the same worldwide prices.
This is how it should be.
Posted by: coba at January 16, 2026 06:22 PM (IuIym)
Only watched enough to hear she's still b#tching about men. Quelle surpise!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:22 PM (LlV+5)
It’s shameful.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 06:18 PM (kAzG3)
I'm not proposing that they be run as "non-profits" because we all know that scam, but I'm very uncomfortable with them being publicly traded. Because when you're publicly traded your very first priority is your shareholders (as it should be). I truly think that's the crux of the problem, along with the jaw-dropping slush being shoveled to them thanks to 404-care.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 06:22 PM (VyqMH)
While native-born American blacks were content to passively cash their Pigford checks, Somali immigrant blacks were out there busting their humps creating fake childcare and transportation businesses.
Posted by: TITP
THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!!!!
Posted by: American Criminals Union at January 16, 2026 06:23 PM (hybOl)
Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (lCHt6)
Yeah. 'You don't have to sell at a loss, but you can't force us to pay all of the burden.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 06:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 06:23 PM (KDZEA)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:23 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)
In my long life I think I've only know three jews. They were good eggs. I've just lived in places with very few jews. These in the video were the ones that wear funny hats and long top coats. Boy, are they touchy.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 16, 2026 06:24 PM (cxFcK)
In a word yes. But the Hasidic Community votes for Democrats so they look the other way. There are numerous counties just north of NYC where the fraud is rampant. They also do things like hide their marriages to collect double benefits. They are involved in every scam out there to the point that laces like Home Depot changes their polices to stop them.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 06:24 PM (egaJw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 06:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 16, 2026 06:18 PM
Not buying that. When I drove a truck I would make deliveries in Brooklyn which is the capital of the NYC hassidic Jewish population. They had hundreds of small shops, clothing shops, tailors and wholesale places all over that area where I delivered and they were all staffed by Jews. They were busting their
a$$es making a living for themselves.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 06:24 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 06:25 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 06:25 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: The_Hoser at January 16, 2026 06:26 PM (H4qGm)
Just a thought.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 06:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 06:26 PM (XeU6L)
Guess Signal isn't that secure after all, huh. On the plus side, good to know Sinema isn't a lesbo.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 16, 2026 06:26 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: TITP at January 16, 2026 06:26 PM (6Q9y6)
2) Other countries say, nice drug you have, but we'll only pay $10 a dose. Big Pharma needs $50 a dose to recoup and make a profit in 14 years. But $10 is > $0. So big pharma agrees.
3) Easy answer - they charge stupid Americans $300 a dose to make up the difference.
This has been going on for decades now. And more and more countries have gotten in on the scam - demand lower prices, big Pharma makes up the difference in the American market. And nobody says boo about it.
It's a big chunk of why drug prices have spiraled out of control in the U.S. - ALL the cost to create the drug is shifted to the U.S. Same is true for medical devices. The whole world forces you and I to pay for all medical advancements. Sad part is if every country paid a little more, we'd pay a ton less. We are 4% of population but pay 95% of the drug development costs.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:26 PM (tV890)
Yeah, just every now and then there's an obnoxious one like this really driving home the point.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:27 PM (LlV+5)
Ever been to Rockland or Orange County in NY? lol. Apparently not.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 06:27 PM (egaJw)
What is YOUR boyfriend/husband doing sweetie?
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 16, 2026 06:27 PM (ItWcy)
No sympathy for Hunter's whore. either.
Yeah, I know, she's turned her life around and is a good mom yadda yadda yadda
Posted by: Auspex at January 16, 2026 06:27 PM (RkMzg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 06:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 06:16 PM (PFs9e)
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At this point, don't we just OWN Somalia? I mean, what was it worth anyway, $1.98?
Posted by: The_Hoser at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (H4qGm)
The other thought is some cultures embrace it and others condemn it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (egaJw)
A stripper who got coked up and had unprotected sex with Hunter Biden?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (LlV+5)
And she was one of the few Ds with an ounce of integrity.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (tV890)
So he's saying that the manufacturers have to find a middle ground of charging the EU more and the US less.
Makes total sense.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (lCHt6)
Dont' they negotiate the drug prices with said countries? This is probably the same scam as CA unions negotiating with CA state politicians, it's paid with taxpayer funds? Nice racket.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 06:29 PM (X42T3)
Girl who got pregnant by a sailor. Also, Hunter was washed out of the Navy.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:29 PM (tV890)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 06:29 PM (zZu0s)
- Blue Jacketed F*ckeroffer
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:29 PM (L/fGl)
Going back to Hillary they were being investigated for illegal donations.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 06:29 PM (egaJw)
Posted by: Peaches
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The problem is that their only competitive pressure happens at the consumer level -- the public trying to save money by getting plans with less coverage. But Obamacare essentially outlawed that.
Or by people shopping around to reduce costs by using lower cost procedures or providers. This too has been made impossible.
Ideally, consumer would chose plans based on how much coverage they want and then still be able to reduce cost by not always defaulting to the most expensive drugs, most expensive tests, most expensive procedures.
I was in hospital in Japan and the Dr. actually asked me if I wanted an MRI. Said it wasn't really necessary, but for $70 we could check if anything else was wrong. (This was just at start of wuhan flu and hospital was mostly empty.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 06:30 PM (D5z+u)
That would be like buying a rundown mansion in Detroit for $1.98. More trouble than it's potential worth.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:30 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: Auspex
And she's a 1
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 16, 2026 06:30 PM (ItWcy)
The names just glide effortlessly.
Is LaWhore pronounced just like it's spelled, similar to La Jolla and Siobhan?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2026 06:30 PM (wVcYX)
Before my best friend died of cancer, his health insurance paid the cancer center $1 million for cancer treatment invented in the 70's. The industry is a scam.
Posted by: Brisco County Sr at January 16, 2026 06:31 PM (A/tlT)
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You know, Happy Hour.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:31 PM (L/fGl)
It's scary because their IQ is just a bit higher than the Somalis.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:31 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 06:31 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:31 PM (tV890)
Sweet little deal, that. And our politicians get a bit of that profit kicked back as campaign donations to keep that little scam going.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 06:32 PM (w6EFb)
And she was one of the few Ds with an ounce of integrity.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (tV890)
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Hmmm... might be a good post-retirement gig.
Posted by: Weasel at January 16, 2026 06:32 PM (leKdc)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 06:33 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 06:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 06:34 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 06:34 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 06:27 PM (ega
That was my territory. Insurance fraud also on the menu.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:35 PM (KDPiq)
Yeah, I know, she's turned her life around and is a good mom yadda yadda yadda
Posted by: Auspex
Makin' a livin' the old hard way
Takin' and givin' my day by day
I dig sun and rain and bright white snow
Workin' the pole (workin' the pole)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:35 PM (L/fGl)
This is "unequal division of emotional labor" being recycled.
That was a whinge that came about in the last 5-10 years where AWFLs piss and moan about how men just don't understand how women have to unequally shoulder the terrible burden of just caring so much about everything.
I.e., men might just buy a present and a card for a birthday. Women PLAN and MAKE LISTS and COMPARE and RESEARCH and SEEK FEEDBACK, and the man will just say "wow, this is really nice, thanks."
TikTok girl CARES, and if he is SUCH A MAN, then go get SHOT for her, for cripes sake!
Posted by: barbarausa at January 16, 2026 06:35 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 06:35 PM (0KSrI)
Someone described the pricing above and they are right. Other countries threaten to violate the patent , so drug companies sell there at lower cost (covering production, but not R&D)
So US says we need to allow imports to force uniform pricing.
So FDA says, "no way, we can't inspect those foreign facilities. they may be unsafe." (This is called regulatory capture.)
So then FDA say, "Oh, BTW, it is OK to import shit made in China and India where we have no effective oversight (but we do have offices for when someone wants a vaycay) and they usually come with major problems."
You see, all decisions by gov. is what is best for industry. It is all about kickbacks and setting up a retirement fund for gov. workers.
/rant
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 06:37 PM (D5z+u)
. . . but also, there's no difference between men and women, it's totally fluid, and a social construct!!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:37 PM (LlV+5)
Oddly, I am in a good mood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Oddly, Geo. Strait and 'Amarillo by Morning' were in my head upon waking this morning. Could be worse, but I've been trying to flush it out all day.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 06:37 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: barbarausa at January 16, 2026 06:38 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: coba at January 16, 2026 06:38 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:31 PM
I worry as well. There have already been multiple attempts on his life so far. Granted those attempts were by amateurs. At this point Trump is literally fvcking around with the entire world. NATO, europe, china, russia almost all of the arab states and now big pharma which controls almost 1/4 of the entire worlds economies. Sooner or later they are going to get pi$$ed off enough to send a pro or two.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 06:38 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Ben Had
Swallwell's wife is saying not only did he cheat massively on her, but he set up a couple dozen companies and saw to it they were all given fat government grants. To do nothing.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 16, 2026 06:38 PM (cxFcK)
And I am not even talking about with firearms. I suspect most of our 'ettes could take them in straight up hand-to-hand combat.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 16, 2026 06:39 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 06:39 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 06:39 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 06:40 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 06:41 PM (kgFPv)
Really?
I find it hard to believe Kristen Sinema broke up anybody's marriage.
She's a Discount Tires 5 at best.
The wife must be a beast.
'
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 06:41 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 06:20 PM (ESVrU)
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This is atrocious. I feel terrible for Americans like yourself who are forced to pick up the slack so the pharmaceuticals can make the ledger amounts look shiny. Horrible.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 06:41 PM (wcTwv)
"What would you say you DO here?"
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 06:42 PM (ciYHQ)
Oddly, I am in a good mood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Oddly, Geo. Strait and 'Amarillo by Morning' were in my head upon waking this morning. Could be worse, but I've been trying to flush it out all day.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 06:37 PM
I have taught all of my children that music is a powerful mood altering drug.
Further, it has much fewer negative side effects than all the rest of the drugs. The occasional earworm probably being the worst side effect.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 16, 2026 06:42 PM (HlyYF)
They can be regulated for a while.
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 06:42 PM (MUJd1)
I hate to break it to you Ace. Our government has already massively intervened in healthcare. Can you think of another sector more so (other than Defense)?
And it's been run to the disadvantage of those Americans who actually have to pay full-freight.
FFS, Luigi had a point!
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2026 06:42 PM (dtajH)
Sex, drugs and a deadbeat dad.
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 06:42 PM (UjdFS)
Wagner is the gateway drug to ptsd.
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 06:42 PM (MUJd1)
I pray for a shield of protection around him, VP Vance, their family, friends and cabinet. That any plan against them fail.
Every night.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 06:43 PM (WONhk)
I regard Loony AWFLs telling me it's my manly duty to protect them about as seriously as-
I regard Lame-ass Atheists telling me how to behave as a Christian.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 06:43 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 06:43 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 06:41 PM (kgFPv)
Bisexual but I think declared at one time she was just into the ladies at that particular point in time:
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:43 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 06:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 06:44 PM (kgFPv)
She's a Discount Tires 5 at best.
......
But when she wears those knee high boots and nothing else she's a 5.5
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 06:44 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (LlV+5)
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"Navy" is the woman who ha the sex with Biden. Her parents named HER Navy. Just crazy.
Posted by: The_Hoser at January 16, 2026 06:44 PM (H4qGm)
And she was one of the few Ds with an ounce of integrity.
Posted by: El Mariachi
I feel that way about George Santos. Least faggy R in the House.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 06:44 PM (gKWVE)
No Luigi did not have a point or rather he had 1/3d a point. He decided to shoot a CEO Ogabe made "sadly necessary" in everyone's lives. I notice not one of the Gen Tippy Cuppers has the intellectual honesty or moral courage to call out the democrats who are the other 1/2 of the mess. If we are not to have a free market on health and we are not I am sick and fucking tired of functionally the American taxpayers being Daddy Warbucks to Big Pharma's R and D to the gain of only one political ideology.
Fuck 'em.
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 06:45 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 06:45 PM (w6EFb)
A shame that controlling who's in our country is "unprecedented", but I'm still happy to see it.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 06:45 PM (qoUKC)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:30 PM (LlV+5)
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Nah, we move all the Afrikkaners to Somalia, ship the Somalis to SA and in 40-50 Somalia is a paradise.
You could also replace "Afrikkaners" with "Jews."
Posted by: The_Hoser at January 16, 2026 06:46 PM (H4qGm)
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 06:46 PM (UjdFS)
So she ducked around, whatevs.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 06:46 PM (kgFPv)
Wagner is the gateway drug to ptsd.
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 06:42 PM
I learned to love Ride of the Valkyries from Loony Tunes, back when the writers of our cartoons had a more expansive and diverse education compared to our current crop of Ivy League professors.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 16, 2026 06:46 PM (HlyYF)
Further, it has much fewer negative side effects than all the rest of the drugs. The occasional earworm probably being the worst side effect.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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I get you, but I just realized that I do not recall a purely instrumental piece ever implanting itself. Too bad, really, asthere are many,many that would be interesting/soothing. Hold it...I just remembered John Cages' 4′33″
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 06:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 06:47 PM (dIske)
God forbid you hold a door for one, though.
I am thankful I live in a place where people still do that for one another, smile, and say "thank you!"
Posted by: barbarausa at January 16, 2026 06:47 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:47 PM (KDPiq)
Between that and Kilgore I hear it whenever I am looking to raise hell or be motivated.....when I headed out into the box to harass RTU I would sometimes play it on a boombox.
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 06:47 PM (MUJd1)
https://is.gd/NDny4u
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
......
If she wore that to the tire shop she'd be a 6.
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 06:48 PM (UjdFS)
https://is.gd/NDny4u
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Holy pervert, Batman!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:48 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 06:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
Dude, it's called a flashback.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:50 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:50 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 06:50 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Senatrix Twoface at January 16, 2026 06:50 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 16, 2026 06:51 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 06:51 PM (r8eU0)
.......
on the bright side, in prison it will get free bottom surgery
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 06:53 PM (UjdFS)
Such a tease
"But first, we shall warn them again "
Warning #407
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 06:53 PM (ciYHQ)
https://is.gd/NDny4u
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Holy pervert, Batman!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer
>How is it possible she wasn't dragged off of the floor, drug tested and body searched?
Bitch be cray-cray!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 06:53 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 06:53 PM (3uBP9)
Eh she was not the least fuckable person on the hill, that said wear a full body condom and either earplugs or a ballgag for her...
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 06:54 PM (MUJd1)
And her swearing in with He Who Shall Not Be Named:
https://is.gd/DEFOXe
She could pull off the MILF porn star look pretty good.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 06:54 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2026 06:55 PM (dtajH)
The money is in ongoing customers, not outright conclusion. It pays better dividends to make an individual dependent upon medication to manage a medical condition, as opposed to outright curing. And, I'm not stupid. I understand for them to exist they have to cover the massive costs of their research and development (which are obscene, btw).
I think we should stop providing federal grants to pharmaceutical companies (who are the largest recipients) and focus on providing grants to medical research labs that are motivated by one thing, and one thing only....finding a cure to a particular disease.
The motivation for a Pharmaceutical company is financial. On a personal employee level it is stability. Finding a cure is about 7 or 8 down on the list.
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 06:55 PM (dIske)
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He's right about that...what does 300/400/500% reduction mean? Are they gonna pay me to.take the drug?
Posted by: Bigsmith at January 16, 2026 06:55 PM (1Au9i)
If boy name after me, GROK and if a girl after you "Crazy Whore"....
//A very Fetterman Xmas
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 06:56 PM (MUJd1)
You know what other Big P is mercenary and anti-Truth, Justice, and the American Way?
Posted by: Every swinging Richard at January 16, 2026 06:56 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 16, 2026 06:56 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 06:16 PM (PFs9e)
we can pay them to keep her there.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 06:56 PM (8avO+)
That Sinema is one horny beast. The transcript is like reading Penthouse Letters. She needed feeding constantly.
I'd do her.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at January 16, 2026 06:56 PM (och2J)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 06:57 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 06:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 06:57 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 06:58 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Zombie Rush Limbaugh at January 16, 2026 06:58 PM (R/m4+)
Eh she is at best if I am very very drunk .67 Palin
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 06:59 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 06:59 PM (r8eU0)
Daily Mail says Walz and Frey are under criminal investigation by the DOJ for impeding and obstructing federal law enforcement.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 06:59 PM (w6EFb)
Trump is proposing that eligible Americans receive that money directly, allowing them to purchase the health insurance of their choice. "The government is going to pay the money directly to you,"
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This is wrong.
This is wrong.
Change the rules that removes the costs. Change the rules that removes Byzantium. But no govt hand outs. No govt deciding who and how much.
Wrong think. Stinks of socialism.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 06:59 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 06:59 PM (Q0yOR)
https://is.gd/NDny4u
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Holy pervert, Batman!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer
>How is it possible she wasn't dragged off of the floor, drug tested and body searched?
Bitch be cray-cray!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 06:53 PM (BSdIE)
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Certainly advertising what she is, no mistaking that. On the flip side is Elizabeth Warren. Her stale attire just bugs the hell out of me.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 06:59 PM (wcTwv)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 06:59 PM (ciYHQ)
Your reading comprehension appears to be even worse than your sense of humor.
In any case, go fuck yourself.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)
He's not implementing price controls and setting them arbitrarily.
He's demanding that US pay the same prices as Europeans.
So he's saying that the manufacturers have to find a middle ground of charging the EU more and the US less.
Makes total sense.
Posted by: DudeAbiding
Better yet, buy wholesale in EU and resale in the US!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2026 07:00 PM (/lPRQ)
If a product is artificially orders of magnitude over production cost it is possible.
The markup % is what pisses people off more than even raw price.
Take an aspirin even before the crazy hospital markup the cost per pill in production in 90s dollars was IIRC from econ .6 cents per pill or something ridiculous like that....
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 07:00 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 07:02 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: pookysgirl gets her medication advice from her doctor at January 16, 2026 07:02 PM (Wt5PA)
Hi Sven J Olafson here, you might remember me from 20+ years of being a radical free marketeer here and other places and an old hand in DOOM! threads....
fuck these people in big business, they decided to deep throat the democrats while relying on us being the designated villains to the politically disinterested....
Big Pharma in particular is due some deep deep battery operated probe loving.
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 07:03 PM (MUJd1)
No idea why.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: washrivergal
>Plus, her stale personality and intellect are revolting.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 07:04 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 07:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Your reading comprehension appears to be even worse than your sense of humor.
In any case, go fuck yourself.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:00 PM (viF8m)
+++++
No kidding.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 07:04 PM (wcTwv)
If I asked him to protect me from radical lesbians in MN or ICE he would take me to the ED for an evaluation.
Have a great weekend, y'all. Stuff to do and pretend to be productive!!!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 06:21 PM (WONhk)
It is a biproduct of the victim culture and virtue signaling. If you are normal and curse at a news update and forget it, you need to give way to her INTENSE caring that is making her ill so that her husband has to go shoot the police. The fact that it is psychotic doesn't matter.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 07:05 PM (8avO+)
The markup % is what pisses people off more than even raw price.
Take an aspirin even before the crazy hospital markup the cost per pill in production in 90s dollars was IIRC from econ .6 cents per pill or something ridiculous like that....
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 07:00 PM (MUJd1)
You still can’t reduce the cost by more than 100% for the consumer.
If that aspirin costs $10 and you reduce the cost to $0 it’s a 100% reduction. Unless you start paying people to take the aspirin it’s mathematically impossible to see savings of 500% like the claim made.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 07:05 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 07:05 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 07:06 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip
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The Roger Stone treatment.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 07:07 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:07 PM (0KSrI)
>So it's the childs fault
Navy Biden is 7. The joke is about a woman.
Probably the woman who named her daughter.
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM (ciYHQ)
https://tinyurl.com/ysb9xmer
Posted by: Accomack at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM (AUlwe)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 06:41 PM (kgFPv)
She would have turned for me. Well me and every other guy on the block, apparently.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM (hxusQ)
Sure, but the govt calls taxes income even though it is grifted from you and swears that 5% increases are 25% cuts...
I have given up on reality based math when dealing with rhetoric...it helped keep me sane...well not sane but you know.
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 06:58 PM (kgFPv)
presumably the price now is 500 percent of the foreigner price. So the cost would drop by a factor of 5.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM (hxusQ)
Remember the gag in Airplane !! Where the guys are lined up down the aisle?
This also makes me think of Bonnie Blue.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 07:10 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Tim Walz, helping to redefine Thoroughly Modern Masculinity at January 16, 2026 07:11 PM (0sNs1)
Another example is when sales tax goes from 5 to 6 and people say it’s a 1% increase. No, it’s a 20% increase.
Rant off.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 07:11 PM (kgFPv)
I get it. But I am also terminally retarded when it comes to crazy women.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 07:12 PM (ciYHQ)
I have given up on reality based math when dealing with rhetoric...it helped keep me sane...well not sane but you know.
Posted by: sven
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I'm with you, 110%.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 07:12 PM (XeU6L)
I get it. But I am also terminally retarded when it comes to crazy women.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:11 PM (zZu0s
Bet your dating scene was muy loco!!
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 07:12 PM (pDt9x)
131 >>Who names a girl "Navy?"
Many many years ago, when many wife’s parents were young they had a black maid named Artillery. She would explain that they just thought it was a very nice sounding word, and they had no clue what it meant.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 07:13 PM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:13 PM (zZu0s)
if you rilly love her!
Her "caring", obsessing, fantasizing, acting out, etc besides being insane (as you noted) is an entirely self-imposed burden.
She CHOOSES to wallow in this crap, and what she's mad about is that he just...doesn't. (and I suspect told her to calm down about it. That always ends well!)
Posted by: barbarausa at January 16, 2026 07:13 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM
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She starts off pretty strong with her up talking, but isn't able to maintain it throughout: C. She seems to be just on the verge of using bird hands but hasn't yet mastered a proficiency: C-.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:14 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 07:14 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 07:14 PM (3UR/I)
Horny 6 > Cold 8
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 07:14 PM (kgFPv)
I'm with you, 110%.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 07:12 PM (XeU6L)
++++
LOL
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 07:14 PM (wcTwv)
I'd do her.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at January 16, 2026 06:56 PM (och2J)
So, she needs a new head of security?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 07:15 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 06:41 PM (kgFPv)
She would have turned for me. Well me and every other guy on the block, apparently.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM (hxusQ)
Sun Tzu dicatates the truly victorious would not only turn her, but convince her to bring a friend.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 07:15 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 07:14 PM (kgFPv)
I'd agree with this. Attitude can make up for a boatload.
But again, im retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 07:17 PM (zZu0s)
They LARP as obnoxious "women", making a cartoon of normal femineity, and then take on these disgusting names.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (LlV+5)
Exactly! Womanface. The whole trans agenda is just plain making fun of woman with their ridiculous makeup, clothes and mannerisms.
Posted by: bk-lurker at January 16, 2026 07:17 PM (u6787)
Rant off.
Posted by: Really??
>You math wizards need to tone it down. This is the HQ, and it's going into your permanent record.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 07:17 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:18 PM (0KSrI)
Better yet, buy wholesale in EU and resale in the US!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Drug boats from EU to USA
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 07:19 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 07:19 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 07:08 PM
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A good spanking with a ping pong paddle would straighten her out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 07:19 PM (3UR/I)
And regarding womanface, I wish everyone would call it that, and make it as unacceptable as bl*ckface.
Posted by: barbarausa at January 16, 2026 07:20 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 07:20 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 07:18 PM (0KSrI)
Yes.
We could have had the state of DC had some other Dem been there instead of her when Dems controlled everything.
Her along with Manchin saved us from a lot of pain.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 07:20 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 07:27 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: American Hawkman at January 16, 2026 07:29 PM (rM26B)
Europe uses single payer monopsony power to force prices lower and drug companies agree because they can "make it up charging Americans more"
This cannot keep going on.
Posted by: coba at January 16, 2026 07:29 PM (IuIym)
Good one.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 07:53 PM (tV890)
Posted by: coba at January 16, 2026 07:29 PM (IuIym)
Wrose - this has been blatant and obvious for decades. And the Euros demanded to be charged less, say they get a drug for $50, that we pay $100 for. Then they say, why stop at $50? $20. And we pay $150. And so on. Canada and Japan, hell, the whole world has been doing this.
It's how they can offer socialized medicine - by transferring as much of the cost as possible over to us. Drug companies, as much as I dislike them, are in a pinch - $20 is better than nothing. As long as they can make it up charging us, it all works out for them. So, they agree to the new prices. It's why drugs are radically cheaper in Mexico and Canada - they are selling the same damn drugs for less because they told the drug companies, they want the drugs for less. because the whole world is in on the scam, they might pay slightly more, but we'll pay a LOT less.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 07:59 PM (tV890)
It's not that they dress like women, but the most outrageous possible version of women. Catty, over sexualized, obnoxious screaming and crying and carrying on. A guy in blackface singing about mammy is somehow less insulting.
I don't understand how women tolerate it, much less approve of it. It's so embarrassing to watch.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 08:04 PM (tV890)
Let's say I sell a widget for $50 each. 10 customers. If 9 customers demand the widget for $20, and 1 says charge me whatever, the widget will cost $20 for 9 customers, and $320 to me. Parity pricing means they pay $30 more, and I pay $270 LESS.
The effect over the whole world is huge. Almost every country BUT the U.S. demands to pay less. So, all the costs shift to us.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 08:13 PM (tV890)
Posted by: Pooklord at January 16, 2026 08:21 PM (asU3w)
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Does not compute.
Nothing in DC isn't for profit. 2200% margins are normal for anyone running business in the beltway.
And every business provides LGBTQ+ "services." Paul Pelosi and Lindsay Graham aren't going to entertain themselves with mai-tais and amyl nitrate and hammers alone.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:29 PM (BI5O2)
So if I understand the situation, Hunter Biden on crack had sex with a stripper and now owes CH child support for the resulting child until age 18. So apparently this woman who does not practice birth control and does not believe in abortion is a victim. I don't have much sympathy for Hunter Biden, but this is BS.
Posted by: Frankly at January 16, 2026 08:30 PM (e4BhP)
Plenty of men in the same trap, of course they are not democrat princes eh comrade?
Posted by: sven at January 16, 2026 08:57 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 09:23 PM (ciYHQ)
https://x.com/Marooned_Maroon/status/2012358954097983638
Posted by: Marooned at January 16, 2026 10:00 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: Formerly known as Skeptic at January 17, 2026 09:04 AM (lZWC5)
1.) Eliminate the corporate tax deduction for health insurance. Give every taxpayer a similar tax break, with possibly a tax credit for the poor that don't qualify for Medicaid. This fixes the third-party payer problem, and allows people to buy insurance that’s “portable” as it’s no longer tied to their job. And, obviously, if one doesn’t have to change insurance plans repeatedly, there are a lot fewer “pre-existing conditions” to worry about. Your employer doesn’t pay for your car insurance—why in the world have we let this relic of Depression-era wage controls continue into the modern age?
2.) Allow nurses to write prescriptions. Many states allow this; legalize it in the others. Office visit prices drop substantially when this option exists. Consider allowing pharmacists to also dispense some drugs, which is the norm in many countries.
I recognize that this is a state licensing issue, and requires state-level action. But Congress can encourage it—how about threatening to cut off highway money and/or Medicaid funds to any state that hasn’t done this by July 1, 2010?
Posted by: Frank Nobody at January 17, 2026 10:54 AM (75cud)
4.) Drop all mandatory requirements in health insurance policies. They drive costs into the stratosphere. I don't need mental health coverage, infertility treatments, acupuncture, drug rehab coverage, baldness treatment, etc. But those are required coverage in many states.
This too requires state action. “Encourage” as above.
5.) Legalize the importation of medicine from other countries, to better balance drug prices worldwide. The drug companies give other countries huge discounts on medicine—and that’s fine. We aren't socialists—Genentech/Roche et al. can set their price in the U.S., and cut whatever sort of deal they want with the various foreign socialists. But why is it not a two-way street? I ought to be able to import those same drugs, and sell them at whatever price the market will bear. I recognize that the American consumer pays for most new drug development-- it's time to make the rest of the world pay their fair share.
Posted by: Frank Nobody at January 17, 2026 10:54 AM (75cud)
Moving along...
6.) Tort reform. Malpractice lawsuits (and malpractice insurance premiums) are one of the real drivers of cost increases. Fix this. Cap awards for punitive damages (not actual damages; tweak the rules there). State action may be “encouraged” as needed.
7.) Break the Medical Associations’ cartel. They control the number of medical schools, the number of students allowed in each class, and therefore the number of doctors. (Ever wonder why there are so many law schools, and so few medical schools? Wonder no more.) This is a dirty little secret, and it needs to be fixed. If ever there were a valid restraint-of-trade case, this is it.
Posted by: Frank Nobody at January 17, 2026 10:56 AM (75cud)
Posted by: Frank Nobody at January 17, 2026 10:57 AM (75cud)
. Who do you want deciding the best course of treatment for your cancer? Your oncologist, who reads the latest medical journals-- or a plodding bureaucracy? Higher quality of care and lower drug prices follow.
Posted by: Frank Nobody at January 17, 2026 10:57 AM (75cud)
Posted by: Frank Nobody at January 17, 2026 10:58 AM (75cud)
How hard is any of this? It's not. It's childishly simple.
Posted by: Frank Nobody at January 17, 2026 10:59 AM (75cud)
For More… https://bet2bright221.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:41 AM (eZWdu)
Quick Hits
In 2016, under Obama, CNN road along with an Obama propaganda effort to show he was really cracking down on illegal aliens. Because the political imperative at the time was to prove that Obama was the "Deporter in Chief" -- and that that was a good thing -- CNN filed a very positive report on DHS arresting illegals.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's controversial pick for tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, once admitted that pushing for rent control was just the "first step" in her plan to destroy the free housing market and move toward "full social housing."Candace Owens is going to spin another conspiracy theory to explain this away -- a family member of Tyler Robinson's gay furry lover admits that xir's gay boyfriend killed Charlie Kirk.
Advertisement Videos of Weaver's past statements have gone viral on social media since Mamdani chose the 37-year-old to lead the city's Office to Protect Tenants. "We decided that fighting for rent control was a strategic and critical first step in the fight for full social housing," she said in a newly surfaced clip. "So, a lot of times people ask, 'Why are we fighting for rent control when we have NYCHA? We should be fighting to save public housing.' We decided that through a program like rent control, we are able to directly challenge the logic of unfettered profit in the real estate market. Umm, and we are able to directly challenge housing as a wealth-building tool and, through regulation, strike a blow to the entire real estate industry at once." She continued, "And so, the beauty of rent stabilization and rent control is that it weakens the speculative value of the real estate asset. The value is no longer based on what the landlord is able to get, but rather it's based on a state public board deciding how much rent is going up. And yes, that board is controlled by the real estate industry, and yes, there could be a better way to regulate it. But the idea is that we could weaken the entire industry at once through a strong rent control campaign, and that would strengthen our ability to do things, like fight for social housing."
The assassination of Charlie Kirk in September has generated a lot of conspiracy theories from the left. They range from claiming that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, is a MAGA supporter, a far-right "Groyper," and even not the actual assassin, and he's being framed.No Egyptian planes, no Israeli assassins, no Mormon Bee Cultists, no betrayal by TPUSA staffers and Erika Kirk, scheming to murder her husband -- just the gay furry who left his fingerprints and DNA on the murder weapon. But, but, but -- Candace Owens told me she had a dream in which Charlie Kirk came to her and told her that his friend and business partner Andrew Kolvet had "betrayed" him. And of course the near-retard malignant narcissist Candace Owens' dreams are never wrong! The demonic hangar-nostriled narcissist is now using Erika Kirk pleading for her to stop accusing her of murdering her husband as a "funny" meme. Do you remember Soy Actor Timothy Busfield? You'll probably recognize him. He was one of those Soy-Based Life Forms Hollywood pushed on us in the early 80s, seeking the next Alan Alda-type Sensitive Man. I always despised him. I just don't like Soy. Never did. He was in Thirtsomething playing a character named, I assume, Cuck Softcock. Below, a picture from Field of Dreams, in which he played Professor "Stubby" Tinymeat. I mean, probably. I only saw it once and never got the big deal.
NewsNation's Brian Entin interviewed a family member of Lance Twiggs, Robinson's transgender identifying lover, and she put to rest one of the key conspiracy theories. She revealed quite a bit about the pair in the interview, but what stood out most was how quickly and confidently she shut down the swirling conspiracy theories. When asked directly whether police had the right suspect, she showed no hesitation at all. "100%. They, they have the right guy."
Earlier this week, I wrote about how actor-director Timothy Busfield is facing two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse, according to an arrest warrant issued by the Albuquerque Police Department (APD). He also appeared to be missing for a time, which led to the United States Marshals getting involved in the search. They initially went to the home in New York's Catskill Mountains that Busfield shares with his wife, Melissa Gilbert, and, of course, no one was there. People magazine reports that there were concerns that he may have "done something to himself." The Marshals also set up a team to watch in case Busfield returned. Now we know that the actor was actually on a little cross-country road trip to New Mexico, and he turned himself in to the police on Tuesday, claiming "I did not do anything to those little boys" and that he will "confront the lies." The "little boys" in question are 11-year-old child actors who appeared on the show The Cleaning Lady, which Busfield directed. Busfield and Gilbert reportedly grew super close with the boys and their parents, which the APD called part of his "grooming" process, and allegations range from "tickling" to lying in bed together watching TV to rubbing one of the boys' genitals. Busfield didn't deny being close with the boys and even confessed that he would often pick up a third little boy on the set and make him "giggle" to get ready for his scenes. However, he claims the twins' parents just wanted "revenge" because another child replaced them on the show at some point.Fake allegations do happen. But he's been accused before:
In 2001, he was accused of assaulting a 16-year-old girl. According to the girl's father, his daughter "was auditioning for Busfield at B Street Theatre -- a nonprofit the actor founded in Sacramento -- when the actor kissed her, put his hands down her pants and touched her private parts. Busfield later allegedly begged the family not to report the allegations as long as he received therapy."
Not in the headline.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) January 15, 2026
Not in the subhead.
Not in the first paragraph.
Not in the second paragraph.
But at the end of the third paragraph, @nytimes finally mentions that the illegal immigrant in this story (and two others) assaulted the federal agent who pulled the trigger. pic.twitter.com/IaRyAlCYiC
Legacy media banding together to bury that the illegal immigrant in Minnesota shot last night (and his friends/family) attacked the federal agent in question.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) January 15, 2026
Throwing a match onto a powder keg. Deeply biased and wantonly dangerous. pic.twitter.com/uk006rTc1b
Hunters stumble upon a completely unhinged Karen in the wild and it's something to behold pic.twitter.com/wxLqeKHPVT
— TaraBull (@TaraBull) January 16, 2026
Liberal woman says the Trump regime put her body through menopausepic.twitter.com/TyJDBKO7v6
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 16, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Kratwurst at January 16, 2026 05:01 PM (36bTp)
I read yesterday that people have 5 million weapons (guns).
Come on BITCH!!! Try to take my house away from me.
Posted by: four seasons at January 16, 2026 05:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 16, 2026 05:04 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 05:04 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 05:05 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:05 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Renee Good at January 16, 2026 05:06 PM (D5z+u)
I read yesterday that
Come on BITCH!!! Try to take my house away from me.
Posted by: four seasons at January 16, 2026 05:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 05:06 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (D5z+u)
Posted by: Timothy Busfield at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (0aYVJ)
“Or maybe the story is just that murder is cool now,” Gutman continued. “I don’t know. There are a million different angles on this one.”
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (0U5gm)
I can't help but notice you left out the TRUTH! He was assassinated by time traveling space Jews! Ace is part of the coverup!!!
Posted by: Candace Owens at January 16, 2026 05:08 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Assistant Vice Foreman Rube at January 16, 2026 05:08 PM (oftw2)
I think it was probably antipsychotic drugs and Twinkies. Mostly Twinkies.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 05:08 PM (AaEou)
I'm Softc*ck. Cuck Softc*ck. You should copyright that sh*t and sell it to Amazon.
Posted by: Nelly at January 16, 2026 05:08 PM (7gpcF)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 05:08 PM (dK+Kv)
"Those birds identified as dead already".
Snort.
Also, I really wanted to see how long she could keep screaming
"F*** off" before her voice failed.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 05:08 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 16, 2026 05:09 PM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 05:09 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
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Her repeated call of fuckoff! sounds like some kind of bird.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 05:09 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 05:09 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 05:10 PM (79IuU)
Exactly what the real killer would say to avoid suspicion on himself!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:10 PM (vGaW9)
Posted by: Diogenes
I think you’re good if it turns five before you finish
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 16, 2026 05:11 PM (36bTp)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (0aYVJ)
I thought it was an old Monty Python skit.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 05:11 PM (qwype)
Posted by: Dantes at January 16, 2026 05:11 PM (AhHA/)
Posted by: Little Darlings Cheer And Dance Academy at January 16, 2026 05:11 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 16, 2026 05:11 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 05:12 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 05:05 PM (pZEOD)
When the big brain is in a state of derangement, it would be foolish to expect the little one to remain sane.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:12 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Diogenes
Heh, the saying in Russia is that it is 10am somewhere.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:13 PM (0U5gm)
With that many firearms in the hands of citizens ..
Since most of the owners of firearms are pragmatic, if we were the problem the Left says we are, the few surviving Leftists would be grateful to be alive.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 05:13 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:13 PM (0U5gm)
And Butte, Montana.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 05:13 PM (0aYVJ)
He did do something to himself. To his dick. He was the faggot jackhammering his dick off at Plant Hollywood. He now has no dick.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:14 PM (vGaW9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 05:15 PM (uWKK8)
Come on BITCH!!! Try to take my house away from me.
Posted by: four seasons at January 16, 2026 05:03 PM
I may own half of them. The rest of you guys need to step up.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:15 PM (jc0TO)
When my brother was in Baumholder I visited and stayed in the barracks. Before formation, one of his brothers wakes up, grabs a beer from the “soda” machine. Drinks it and goes off to PT.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 05:15 PM (AaEou)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2026 05:15 PM (SYQOM)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
Dunno - but I do know this: One set of grandparents lived in a old stone farmhouse on top of a mountain within a Level 1 Radon zone for 70 years. It had a dirt basement floor with no, absolutely no, remediation. They both died of old age in their 90's. And grandpa smoked - so there!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 05:15 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:15 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:16 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 16, 2026 05:16 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 05:12 PM (ix8EF)
I wonder where that took place? Looks like it was on tidewater someplace.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:16 PM (8zz6B)
Nick talks to her, explains he's not ICE, he's investigating fraud, and then she just. . . kinda. . . shorts. . . out PZZZZZKTttch!
The dumb, truly NPC expression on her face is priceless.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 05:16 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: They identify as dead LOL at January 16, 2026 05:16 PM (TbWk/)
Always have to remember that Democrats never actually care about the issues they currently pretend to care about. That's why CNN could ride along Obama's propaganda and no one cared.
Posted by: 29Victor at January 16, 2026 05:16 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
“And those of you who wish harm on Thomas, you will not finish your glass”.
Those dudes are nuts
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (36bTp)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (BHrzb)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
It’s another grift. Radon “remediation specialists” charge $400 for a test and then thousands more to remediate what they find.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (SYQOM)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (0aYVJ)
I thought it was an old Monty Python skit.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 05:11 PM (qwype)
I was pretty sure it was staged - too perfect FuckOff! bird call - until she's throwing rocks at decoys and they tell her the birds identified as dead already. Well done, guys.
FWIW, antagonizing and interfering with hunters (and fisherman, IIRC) is illegal in my state.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (dK+Kv)
Sent it to my oldest.
He responded with “it’s missing a bullet hole.”
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (W2Pud)
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[New Zimbabwe's future. #Soon:]
"What did we have before caves?"
"Apartment buildings and houses."
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (jQtSL)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (BHrzb)
Would you want to be called Mrs Boxleitner?
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (BHrzb)
I'm guessing Bruce was sick of her shit.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (cd3eP)
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (VyqMH)
The 'Karen' throws like a girl. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (0sNs1)
Tell me Karen doesn't sound like Seann William Scott trying to lure out a dinosaur in the shopping mall by doing bird calls over the intercom system.
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 05:19 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Pete in Texas
Boxleitner smartened up?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 05:19 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:16 PM (8zz6B)
By the way, not a "lady". That term is reserved for women who are pleasant and well-behaved. That there was a deranged twat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:19 PM (8zz6B)
In Cheers, they had a new bartender and "the gang" conspire to get him to quit. They all show up asking for a "screaming viking" drink, which of course he does not know how to make since they made it up. One by one they show up and ask for a "screaming viking."
Eventually, the new bartender walks out ranting about "Screaming Viking." He does this just as Al walks in. Al is the king of the one line scene stealers -- he just says "Screaming viking, I haven't been called that since my honeymoon."
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 05:19 PM (D5z+u)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2026 05:19 PM (SYQOM)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (BHrzb)
He was poking a minbari. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (W2Pud)
Awesome. So very awesome!!
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (VyqMH)
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I loved that soundbite.... "they're decoys you retard."
And... "that one identifies as dead."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (XvL8K)
Apparently, he now directs tv episodes.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: four seasons at January 16, 2026 05:03 PM (3ek7K)
Forget where I saw it, but the new "official" estimate of the number of guns in the US has been bumped up from 400 million to 500 million. The 400 number had been around for something like 20 years, and had never been updated to reflect the millions of new guns per year that had been recorded by ATF.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:21 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 05:21 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (BHrzb)
She was involved with Rob Lowe before Bruce. Maybe she's working her way down the sex appeal scale?
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 16, 2026 05:21 PM (0bjKf)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 05:21 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 05:21 PM (AaEou)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (kgFPv)
Boxleitner is just a couple inches away from anal bleaching.
Posted by: Wait for it... at January 16, 2026 05:22 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:22 PM (vGaW9)
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She once had a dream where President Hillary Clinton chose her as the first mentally ill black female Secretary of State!
/And she's sure it's still not too late ...
HCWNBPOTUS
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:22 PM (jQtSL)
Now anyone who raises their head about AIPAC or Jonathan Pollard or Epstein's handlers will get slapped down as just another anti-Semitic conspiracy nut like Candace Owens.
It is almost too over-the-top at this point.
Posted by: TITP at January 16, 2026 05:22 PM (OUE/9)
And... "that one identifies as dead."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 05:20 PM (U2OZr)
And 10 seconds after she begins walking off they down another one.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (dK+Kv)
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This is why I come back day after day after day. Salut.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (vqA1l)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (8CIFn)
They were non-smokers who took good care of themselves and both died of lung cancer. It was blamed on radon. Of course, it could have been something else.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Tonypete
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It is a bit more complicated. It is supposedly not a problem in old homes, but became a problem in highly sealed energy efficient homes with central heat (no fireplace, so no draw.)
So it depends on house. theoretically.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (D5z+u)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (REq0p)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (Vvh2V)
I’m on the floor laughing at the Hunter Karen throwing stones at the decoys.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:15 PM (kgFPv)
"Oh no! You just killed that duck with a rock! See? It's not moving! You brute!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 05:24 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM (BHrzb)
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Boxleitner was her second husband. She's damaged goods.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:22 PM (vGaW9)
Meh, it's Hollywood. Let him defend the allegations in court.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 05:24 PM (dK+Kv)
Tell me Karen doesn't sound like Seann William Scott trying to lure out a dinosaur in the shopping mall by doing bird calls over the intercom system.
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 05:19 PM (dIske)
I think we've already established that "ca-caw ca-caw" and "tookie-tookie" don't work.
Posted by: Orlando Jones' character at January 16, 2026 05:24 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 16, 2026 05:24 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (jc0TO)
Not just rifles, he's directly responsible for my ownership of an awesome hand cannon.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 05:24 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: Pete in Texas
She probably got tired of having sex with a man.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:25 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:25 PM (jQtSL)
buddy of mine worked for Exxon and had to make a lot of trips to Russia...has several stories of drunk Russians. One was the remarkable surprises discovered in the first snow melt...things that were found: tools, billfolds, dead Russians that had passed out months earlier, keys...you know, typical stuff
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (8uzBS)
1) Support law and order. Support Trump using the Insurrection Act to go put down these idiot riots where they stand. Escalate, arrest, try, and imprison all of them. Shut off their sources of funding and roll them all up.
OR
2) Cut off every Federal dollar to these stupid places like Minnedishu and NYC. Tell these dumbshits to fend for themselves, and watch all of the blue shitholes descend into Mad Max-level chaos. Eat popcorn. You want to be governed at the local level by a Jew-hating Muslim Communist? Cool beans brah, not my circus, not my monkeys.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:22 PM (vGaW9)
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Pervs can be bi. I don't know why that's hard to believe.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (Q0yOR)
1) She walks up unannounced to a group of armed men, screaming at them.
2) She expects them to obey her.
3) She realizes she has zero power over them, then wanders off.
The best answer to these Karne's is mockery. Relentless mockery. Don't shout back, don't engage, just laugh in their faces.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 05:27 PM (tV890)
The two most dangerous specimens in America today
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
Here, in the hushed suburbs of America, two curious creatures quietly thrive: The suburban soyboy—slight, soft-spoken, oat-milk in hand—glides through craft-coffee zones and safe spaces. Slim tees, earnest eyes, a gentle hunch; he startles at microaggressions and whispers, “That’s problematic.”
Beside him, the AWFL—affluent white female liberal—rules the cul-de-sac with rainbow signs and righteous group-chat fury. She forages causes, declares “We must do better,” and leads the charge against any whiff of injustice, tote bag swinging.
Together they form a fragile symbiosis: he nods and affirms, she directs and outrages. Ever vigilant, ever virtuous, they patrol their manicured habitat—sensitive stewards convinced the world depends on their quiet sanctimony.
Nature’s strangest pair endures.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 05:27 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 05:27 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 16, 2026 05:27 PM (8JzZF)
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:25 PM (jQtSL)
Olds, Alberta actually has a Cow Palace, one of the facilities at Olds
College, which is an ag school, mainly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:28 PM (8zz6B)
She’s the way she is mostly because of marrying a limp noodled British aristocrat mimbo who I think has never had a real job in his life
She needs a real man to set her back on the path of righteousness, and if cucked thinrod britsoy can’t do it for her, well then ***sniffs, pulls down pants***
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 16, 2026 05:28 PM (REq0p)
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at January 16, 2026 05:28 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 05:27 PM (cYBz/)
Stupendous. Even better when read in David Attenborough's voice.
Posted by: Wild America at January 16, 2026 05:28 PM (TbWk/)
"Karen" used to be considered (and really still is) such a pretty name. A shame these creatures have ruined it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 16, 2026 05:28 PM (wzUl9)
I’m glad I never watched 30-Something… I remember the ads for it though being gay
That Karen in the wild is a thing to behold. She walks up to people holding weapons and acts like that? They think they can FA and not FO apparently. Good grief
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 05:28 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 16, 2026 05:29 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 16, 2026 05:23 PM (Vvh2V)
No, I'm still here in the shelter-in-place state. Both of the FOs are gone and it's fairly grim. If it weren't for Coors Light and Haagen Dazs coffee ice cream, I'd basically have no reason to live. But, I heard someone a while back talking about his dad, who had passed on at a ripe old age. His dad had told him that, while he wasn't afraid of dying, he really wanted to know what happens next. And, honestly, that's kind of where I am, total FOMO. How are you? Still in the murky semi-south?
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 05:29 PM (VyqMH)
OR
2) Cut off every Federal dollar to these stupid places like Minnedishu and NYC. Tell these dumbshits to fend for themselves, and watch all of the blue shitholes descend into Mad Max-level chaos. Eat popcorn. You want to be governed at the local level by a Jew-hating Muslim Communist? Cool beans brah, not my circus, not my monkeys. Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (5aZAZ)
I don't understand the OR. My preference is cutting funding. Funding is also "cooperation" and if they won't cooperate on illegals, the feds don't cooperate on everything else.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 05:29 PM (tV890)
https://tinyurl.com/mr2txwsj
Tell me you never worked a minimum wage job in HS or college without telling me you never worked a minimum wage job.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 05:29 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 05:18 PM (VyqMH)
+++++
At first I thought you were talking about the duck lady. I was going to say those hunters showed heroic and Herculean restraint with that screeching creature.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 05:30 PM (wcTwv)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:30 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 05:30 PM (guCHD)
Beside him, the AWFL—affluent white female liberal—rules the cul-de-sac with rainbow signs and righteous group-chat fury. She forages causes, declares “We must do better,” and leads the charge against any whiff of injustice, tote bag swinging.
Together they form a fragile symbiosis: he nods and affirms, she directs and outrages. Ever vigilant, ever virtuous, they patrol their manicured habitat—sensitive stewards convinced the world depends on their quiet sanctimony.
Nature’s strangest pair endures.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 05:27 PM (cYBz/)
That's quite the word picture.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 05:30 PM (FMtrg)
Not sure about illegal but screwing around with fisherman around here can be dangerous.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 05:30 PM (viF8m)
********
This was pure poetry
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 16, 2026 05:30 PM (REq0p)
1) She walks up unannounced to a group of armed men, screaming at them.
2) She expects them to obey her.
3) She realizes she has zero power over them, then wanders off.
The best answer to these Karne's is mockery. Relentless mockery. Don't shout back, don't engage, just laugh in their faces.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 05:27 PM (tV890)
I'm imagining what would have happened in mad max world.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (ZOv7s)
True bisexuals, as in like it both ways equally, are very rare. Pretty much non-existent. Males who claim to be bi are almost always homo and females who claim it are almost always hetero.
I'm betting Busfield is being set up here.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (0bjKf)
Come on BITCH!!! Try to take my house away from me.
Posted by: four seasons
Lefties on Reddit are now 100% for the second amendment, are encouraging everyone to go buy guns, and get ready for armed resistance to ICE and Trump.
Funnily enough, I never see them showing photos with their guns, just encouraging others to buy them. Just like all the keyboard warriors telling everyone to resist and fight ICE on the street that don't do so in person.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (0aYVJ)
First rule of screenwriting. Don't tell before you show.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (NYInA)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:22 PM (vGaW9)
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Pervs can be bi. I don't know why that's hard to believe.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (ZOv7s)
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Name one. Seriously. Name one perv who was a pedo for both prepubescent boys and post-pub girls. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s very very rare. It’s almost always one or the other.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (vGaW9)
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lmao
"These birds identified as dead already."
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (jQtSL)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (pZEOD)
Well!!!
*stomps foot*
Fine! Just...Fine!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 05:32 PM (2WIwB)
Shut down the blog.
Thank you commenters, you're dismissed. Your purpose has been served.
Goodbye all.
Posted by: There's no more content at January 16, 2026 05:32 PM (HJUJ8)
Will someone explain to me why Melissa Gilbert divorced Bruce Boxleitner and married Timothy Busfield?
She played Bruce's wife on Babylon 5.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 05:32 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 05:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:33 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:33 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 05:33 PM (XuXeR)
********
This was pure poetry
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
Thank you! *Removes cavalier hat and bows deeply*
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (cYBz/)
I'm betting Busfield is being set up here.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (0bjKf)
When it comes to raping pre-pubescent children, it's a power game, not a hetero/homo thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (8zz6B)
Gold Jerry, pure gold.
Who in their right mind approaches men with loaded shotguns and starts berating them?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (abIsI)
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Somalians -- lobbying for the Screaming Brother-Fucker -- hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (jQtSL)
And in his roommate's butt, but that's not important right now.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:30 PM (kgFPv)
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Eh just wait until she's 100 or so yards away and pepper the shit out of her with birdshot.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:35 PM (5aZAZ)
She seems nice.
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 05:35 PM (SSiCQ)
Maybe it was Gilbert who wanted the boys.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:35 PM (jc0TO)
Not sure about illegal but screwing around with fisherman around here can be dangerous.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 05:30 PM (viF8m)
I think most states have some form or other of hunter harassment law. Note that the well-armed bloodthirsty evil probably-MAGA-voting hunters didn't shoot the shrieking idiot bitch. If the roles were reversed and she and her ilk were the ones with the guns, they would've started blasting.
Posted by: All projection all the time at January 16, 2026 05:35 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:35 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (abIsI)
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I'd like to think that had there been no videos around, that Screaming Lesbian Karen's body would have inexplicably disappeared and never been found.
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:36 PM (jQtSL)
It's a bit gross.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:36 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (snZF9)
Her darkest fantasy would have been fulfilled.
Posted by: Maybe even a few times at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (TbWk/)
Dude gets off on snuff films, probably.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (DsA2n)
Apparently campaigning in a district was just too strenuous for her back pain. You know, getting out of a car, and standing in front of a microphone is taxing.
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (pZEOD)
h8er
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (SSiCQ)
I also don’t think Candace believes any of it. It’s a grift straight up.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:22 PM (vGaW9)
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Pervs can be bi. I don't know why that's hard to believe.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (ZOv7s)
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Name one. Seriously. Name one perv who was a pedo for both prepubescent boys and post-pub girls. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s very very rare. It’s almost always one or the other.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (vGaW9)
The ones who just need a thrill of being bad and getting away with it. Plus, perv males as they get older get less discriminating (see how many old men get in trouble this way)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (zZu0s)
They are too dumb to survive whatever event caused the Mad Max world.
"If Russia thinks they can bomb us without considering the environmental consequences?! Hon, pass me the purple ink marker so I can finish my sign. Hurry up, we're meeting Willow, Phil and Jenn at the vegan cafe by the state capital for the anti-nukes protest. Just TRY to stop us, Russia! I DARE YOU!!"
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (abIsI)
+++++
She defies all logic, explanation, or sanity. A lunatic lefty by definition.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (wcTwv)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 05:27 PM (tV890)
My mom died when I was a teen so she never had a chance to see me put this into practice, but she did tell me once the best way to make a woman angry was to ignore her.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (abIsI)
I think you've answered your own question right there.
Posted by: I know it's rhetorical but... at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (TbWk/)
The main reason he didn't, I suspect, is because he was being weird with girls at conventions.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 05:39 PM (gKWVE)
Mormon Bees?
Mormons who worship bees?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (zZu0s)
Mormons be wut
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 05:39 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:39 PM (abIsI)
She's the Disney b*tch right?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:35 PM (abIsI)
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Yep. President of Lucasfilm.
[Babylon Bee headline:] "Kathleen Kennedy Sad To Leave Lucasfilm Before She Got The Chance To Make A Trilogy About Rey’s First Period"
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:39 PM (jQtSL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:37 PM (kgFPv)
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Nah, a non-insane person doesn't just come up with "Charlie Kirk was Neo from The Matrix and the Agents have been hunting him his entire life because he was a time-traveler."
That's not grift, that's being a fucking lunatic.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:34 PM (abIsI)
+++++
She defies all logic, explanation, or sanity. A lunatic lefty by definition.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (wcTwv)
Yup, when you boil it down, there it is.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (snZF9)
NY Times article
https://tinyurl.com/yvxwracf
"None of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. It Has Become a Problem.
Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.
After winning the Democratic mayoral primary last year, Zohran Mamdani acknowledged that his victory came without much support from Black voters, and he pledged to do better.
Mr. Mamdani spent the next few months working to improve his relationship with Black leaders in New York City and vowed, from Black church pulpits around the city, that he would have a diverse administration representative of the city.
But in his rollout as mayor, Mr. Mamdani has appointed five deputy mayors, none of them Black; one was Latino."
Posted by: Gref at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (SSiCQ)
Name one. Seriously. Name one perv who was a pedo for both prepubescent boys and post-pub girls. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s very very rare. It’s almost always one or the other.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:31 PM (vGaW9)
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There are tons of men who get married, have kids, and then go on to diddle boys. Or come out as gay. Or use rent boys.
It's unusual that they do that while groping teen chicks because that's a great way to get caught.
It's hard to quantify because when a married dude with kids is busted with kiddie porn, it is not usually described in any kind of detail. An old prof of mine in college got busted looking at porn while doing office hours. He had a wife and son. They searched all his computers and found kiddie porn, no idea what the kink was. Pedos can "evolve" as their degeneracy worsens. This is known.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (vGaW9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:41 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
No evidence for this at all but perhaps she was passed around as a child actor. It's happened before.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 05:41 PM (cYBz/)
Generally one sees that pedos go for girls and then hit up boys too. Ian Watson, Jimmy Saville and probably most Brits.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 05:41 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 05:41 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:41 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026
***
Tearing up their vocal cords, too.
The Karen reminded me of the ill bird that parked itself on Miss Linda's front lawn a year or so ago and sat there staring at her whenever she went out. She knew better than to go near it, and it didn't approach her. But every so often it would let out a screech very much like this woman's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 16, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:42 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:36 PM (jQtSL)
Totally consumed by a flock of carnivorous ducks.
Death by a thousand bills.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:42 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 05:42 PM (2WIwB)
Better than Babylon Bee, and it looks real?
https://tinyurl.com/mr2txwsj
Tell me you never worked a minimum wage job in HS or college without telling me you never worked a minimum wage job.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 05:29 PM (LlV+5)
The fact that it's Starbucks they're freaking on just gives me warm fuzzies.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 05:43 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
It’s another grift. Radon “remediation specialists” charge $400 for a test and then thousands more to remediate what they find.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM
They never remediated anything when we lived in Navy housing. The housing people contracted a radon specialist company who came through putting up meters in the basements of all of the Navy housing in Great Lakes back in the 80s. Of course every single house turned out to be a radon bomb. They set up constant monitoring with the government for years. Eventually all of those units were taken out and never replaced. Nothing was changed with the houses. It was just a huge wasted of money.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 05:43 PM (0N4FZ)
The 5 O'clock line just constantly rotates around the planet, never ending. It's always there somewhere, either before or after where you are, depending on how you think about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 05:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:42 PM (jc0TO)
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Woodchipper.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:43 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (r8eU0)
Little House on the Prairie… Michael Landon played her dad and that was his pet name for daughter. That role is the only reason she’s famous… I don’t remember her in anything else.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 05:43 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Hooterville World Guardian at January 16, 2026 05:44 PM (oftw2)
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Utah isn't known as the "Beehive State" for nothin'! [Per Brave Search "AI:"]
Origin in the Book of Mormon: The term Deseret, meaning "honeybee" in the Jaredite language, appears in Ether 2:3, where the Jaredites are said to have carried bees with them during their migration to the Americas. This connection led to the adoption of the bee as a central symbol.
For early Mormon pioneers, the beehive represented industry, cooperation, and unity -- values essential for building a community in the harsh Utah desert. Brigham Young, upon arriving in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, chose the name Deseret for their new territory and adopted the beehive as its emblem.
The beehive became a symbol of the kingdom of God on earth, reflecting the organized, collective effort of the Saints. It appears on temples (e.g., Salt Lake Temple), historic buildings (like the Beehive House), church publications, and even Utah’s state flag and seal.
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:44 PM (jQtSL)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:42 PM (jc0TO)
I'm bent in that i am always fascinated with how people's minds work. I went down a 'true crime/serial killer' rabbit hole a couple decades before I decided: I do not need to fucking know and it is making me miserable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 05:44 PM (zZu0s)
JUST IN - DHS ASSISTANT SEC. MCLAUGHLIN: That MN vehicle ramming was domestic terrorism.
WOLF BLITZER: Calling that mother a domestic terrorist is outrageous!
MCLAUGHLIN: She was STALKING and HARASSING law enforcement, then used her car as a deadly weapon!
BLITZER: She was just driving by after dropping her boy at school!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 05:44 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 05:42 PM (2WIwB)
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IIRC this is law in all 50 states.
Game Wardens are the most powerful LEOs in Texas.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:44 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (2WIwB)
My mom was uh..a little more colorful. One day in a store she was looking at something on a shelf, and she hears a karen behind her say to her husband "Well I'm trying to get to it but THIS one is in my way". My mother looks at her and blows her a kiss. The karen says "what was that for?" Mom says "my mother taught me to do that in place of telling someone to go fuck themselves". lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:45 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 05:26 PM (Q0yOR)
Shows her to be completely ineffectual and powerless, in a snapshot metaphor of her life.
My two boys were accosted by two Karens who told them not to run - they were racing down the stairs. "Let them run," I surprised them, as they didn't know I was right around the corner.
"If they fall and hurt themselves, then they'll learn."
Karen's want to suck the joy out of every effing thing in their sphere. Dried up scrunts.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 05:45 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:45 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: steevy at January 16, 2026 05:45 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 05:40 PM (r8eU0)
On Little House on the Prairie.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 05:46 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
Every Karen protesting ICE across the nation?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 05:46 PM (ycI94)
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
Posted by: David Crosby at January 16, 2026 05:46 PM (nvKZ7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (zZu0s)
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I believe Mormon iconography features bees and hives in a reference to them being industrious and working together.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (s0JqF)
Seems like a wish against interests for a guy with a candy van.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (viF8m)
The 5 O'clock line just constantly rotates around the planet, never ending. It's always there somewhere, either before or after where you are, depending on how you think about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
If it wasn't for the villainous cabal that got the Concorde retired, we could be having 5 o'clock several times per day.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (0U5gm)
"Hand up, don't shoot!" amirite, Wolf?
There's video of her sitting in her car for 3 min blocking the road and honking her horn, doing he lil' protest dance. She was a member of ICE Watch that trained her on how to do this.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (LlV+5)
She played Helen Keller.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:45 PM (KDPiq)
Well she certainly is dead dumb and blind… metaphorically…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (xT8gx)
And I bet you found a large percentage of serial killers are homos .
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (KDPiq)
Bitch on the video saying they don't have money to buy new cloths.
This is a front of house job. I worked and had to wear white shirt, bowtie, black slacks.... this is typical for any restaurant. They all have dress codes. These people are unhinged.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (D5z+u)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
Obligatory:
https://tinyurl.com/srrmdkk8
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 05:38 PM (2WIwB)
My mom was uh..a little more colorful. One day in a store she was looking at something on a shelf, and she hears a karen behind her say to her husband "Well I'm trying to get to it but THIS one is in my way". My mother looks at her and blows her a kiss. The karen says "what was that for?" Mom says "my mother taught me to do that in place of telling someone to go fuck themselves". lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:45 PM (snZF9)
; )
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (SSiCQ)
She's Batgirl on the Batman animated series.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 05:48 PM (Yp6az)
Looking at her imdb, she has been in a lot of crap. The only thing I recognize was Babylon 5 where she played Sheridan's abducted wife Anna. She was married to Bruce Boxlightner at the time (who played Sheridan.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 05:48 PM (zZu0s)
I never wanted kids, even though I adore kids... and my instincts were spot on. I am just not a long term care-giver.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 16, 2026 05:48 PM (Vvh2V)
Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.
I don't think they understand how communism works.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 05:48 PM (pkeXY)
Generally one sees that pedos go for girls and then hit up boys too. Ian Watson, Jimmy Saville and probably most Brits.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 05:41 PM (gKWVE)
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I'd throw Jeffrey Jones (Mr. Rooney from Ferris Bueller) in that category as well. Apparently he didn't discriminate, all the while being married and having his own kids.
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 05:49 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 05:47 PM (s0JqF)
stunning beauty + scintillating personality
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 05:49 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Well, they cannot get a buzz from coffee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:49 PM (8zz6B)
She sounds like an alarmed hen chicken. That shit was funny. The hunters were cracking up.
you fukoffs, you fuckoffs
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 16, 2026 05:49 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 05:48 PM (pkeXY)
They certainly didn't in Cuba. Huge racists those Cuban commies.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:50 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 05:50 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026
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With Patty Duke, who had played Helen in the 1961 movie, as her teacher. Gilbert has had a long career.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 16, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:50 PM (vGaW9)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
She used to be married to Bruce Boxleitner, and she was in Season 5, I think, of Babylon 5. She looked really good then, by my recollection.
Posted by: Oedipus at January 16, 2026 05:50 PM (Z6vKV)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 05:43 PM (xT8gx)
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She was Boxleitner's character's dead wife in Babylon 5. That sounds weird, but she was supposedly killed, but then was fine and tried to get him to join with the Shadows.
They had to retcon her in, because another actress played the role earlier. She was very good at being evil.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (D5z+u)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (pDt9x)
Here's a neat detail photo of some doorknobs on the Salt Lake Temple that have beehive iconography.
http://tiny.cc/1crx001
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (g47mK)
EXACTLY
She should be happy there's no brightly colored polyester uniform.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (LlV+5)
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Naturally she's spinning it as her long-planned, totally self-directed, transition to producing and directing. Uh huh.
Posted by: Bigsmith at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (s0JqF)
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Wait until they see his plans for a new canal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:51 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 16, 2026 05:52 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 05:52 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 05:49 PM (8zz6B)
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Not hot coffee. I guess their President Prophet decided that the prohibition was on "hot drinks" not caffeine per se. This happened a few years ago.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 05:53 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: runner
Do you know who killed the Edsel? The stupid customers!
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:53 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
It’s another grift. Radon “remediation specialists” charge $400 for a test and then thousands more to remediate what they find.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 05:17 PM
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Yep. My first job as a software developer out of college was working for Computer Sciences Corp. on a feral contract with the EPA (in Las Vegas).
They spent who knows how many millions (if not billions over the years) collecting and mapping radon-level data all over the country.
I got the biggest kick out of producing a nationwide map showing relative radon level measurements -- with the highest level measured in the hometown of my young brothers and parents: Butte, Montana.
Probably because it was a big mining town known as "The Richest Hill On Earth" known for all kinds of ores and especially producing copper around the beginning of the 20th century -- especially during WWI.
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 05:53 PM (jQtSL)
Posted by: Oedipus at January 16, 2026 05:53 PM (Z6vKV)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 05:43 PM (xT8gx)
Not to be confused with The Best Little House On The Prairie.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 05:53 PM (2WIwB)
They sure are cracking a lot of grey-haired heads.
Footage on Tousi.tv stream.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 16, 2026 05:53 PM (yFLFB)
And Anne Bancroft played the teacher to Duke's Keller right?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:53 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:54 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Oedipus at January 16, 2026 05:50 PM (Z6vKV)
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Not Season 5. She was dead again by then. That season was awful, Tracey Scoggins was the replacement captain for the station.
I think she was there for the 3rd or 4th season. Kicked off the Shadow War.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)
I don't think they understand how communism works.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
They've progressed beyond "some animals are more equal than others" to "more equal animals can become equal again."
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (pDt9x)
Deseret means honeybee in the language of the Jaredites. The word is found in the book of Ether, which takes place primarily on the American continent, not the Middle East.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (Yp6az)
She's the Disney b*tch right?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 05:35 PM (abIsI)
It's as if a million Star Wars fans suddenly cried out it glee and were suddenly vindicated.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (dK+Kv)
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With her "hot take" on property ownership, I'd suspect she'll be a washed up, unidentified body along some lonely stretch of a NYC river by this time next year.
Landlords can be.... harsh.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Cuck Softcock at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (vqA1l)
Posted by: the moral of Field of Dreams at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (OHqxX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: ShainS
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Yet they refuse to map crime and migrant populations. Or Section 8 housing.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (D5z+u)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026
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Right. According to IMDb, Patty won an Oscar for the Keller role, and an Emmy for playing Annie Sullivan eighteen years later.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (pDt9x)
It was back in the day of wholesome family programming, and it was OK, moderately interesting.
Not enough gay homosexuals to be run today.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 05:56 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 05:50 PM (vGaW9)
Go to any big museum with Egyptian artifacts and you will see evidence of honey production. And there were honeybees in ancient Israel.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 05:56 PM (n9ltV)
Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion came roaring toward him. 6 The Spirit of the Lord [f]came upon him mightily, so that he tore him as one tears a young goat though he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father or mother what he had done. 7 So he went down and talked to the woman; and she [g]looked good to Samson. 8 When he returned later to take her, he turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion. 9 So he scraped [h]the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 05:56 PM (FMtrg)
They sure are cracking a lot of grey-haired heads.
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Londonistan mayor and Englanistan PM are protecting their favorite Ayatollahs. By beating up on 70 year olds.
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 05:56 PM (g47mK)
I think she was there for the 3rd or 4th season. Kicked off the Shadow War.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at
Right, I should have known that. Season 5, the "holy shit we unexpectedly got renewed for another season" season.
Posted by: Oedipus at January 16, 2026 05:56 PM (Z6vKV)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 05:57 PM (LlV+5)
She actually sounded like a big bird.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:41 PM (KDPiq)
I though for a moment she was a member of the Fuckahwe tribe.
Posted by: javems at January 16, 2026 05:57 PM (eOBvG)
Get close enough to the pole, and you could walk in a circle around the pole, and freeze 5 O'clock right with you.
That would be fun stunt for somebody to do down there at the South Pole.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 05:57 PM (w6EFb)
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Ah.This would explain the bird hand gestures.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 05:57 PM (XeU6L)
These are people whose most bitter complaint, the one I hear them voice most frequently, is about a lack of single-family homes they can afford.
And so they naturally vote for people who say "single family housing is muh white supremaciez. We will abolish it and convert it all to multi-family rentals."
If they said "we'll take YD's house and give it to you, Trigglypuff - and we'll make him foot the bill for your rascal-ramp and demo the wall in back to add room to the master bedroom for your American Kween-sized cattle mattress," I could get it.
But it's always the same with these NPCs. Their Party says "we'll squash YD to make him a huge loser like you, and you can rent quarters together, from us," and they love the sound of that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 05:58 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 05:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ShainS
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And found zero statistically valid correlation between radon levels and lung cancer rates. It's a scam.
Posted by: Bigsmith at January 16, 2026 05:58 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 16, 2026 05:58 PM (vzcgi)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:58 PM (KDPiq)
Will save a fair chunk as well.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 05:59 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 05:59 PM (g47mK)
I was trying to remember who it was that commented on one of those fraudsters in the news, his last name was Liao, and you made a joke about those damn CapCons.
**nerd fistbump**
Posted by: Oedipus at January 16, 2026 05:59 PM (Z6vKV)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 05:59 PM (g47mK)
Game Wardens are the most powerful LEOs in Texas.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:44 PM
You ain't kidding. In most cases they don't even need search warrants to come on your property and "investigate".
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 06:00 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:00 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: King Nebuchadnezzar at January 16, 2026 06:00 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 16, 2026 06:00 PM (xvV+O)
EXACTLY
She should be happy there's no brightly colored polyester uniform.
Posted by: Lizzy
What a chicken outfit!
https://t.ly/pvAYX
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 06:00 PM (pkeXY)
Only about 10 years too late.
Nobody cares about Star Wars anymore.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Disney flushed billions down the toilet with that hire. Destroyer of franchises because she hated men and their entertainment.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:00 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:54 PM
She hadn't heard of their evil.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 06:01 PM (jc0TO)
He ripped that beast, killed it dead
And the bees made honey in the lion's head
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 06:01 PM (viF8m)
Will save a fair chunk as well.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 05:59 PM (E4rtv)
We're rural. Fiber is highly improbable.
I was talking to some folks this week, Starlink is looking like a good replacement for Spectrum cable internet that we'll be looking into soon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 06:01 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Zombie Che Guevara, Communist Influencer at January 16, 2026 06:01 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 06:01 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 05:55 PM (pDt9x)
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I never watched it. I know it was pretty popular. I know my mother liked it. I don't think I've ever seen Melissa Gilbert act in anything, now that I think about it.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (wcTwv)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (/lPRQ)
She actually sounded like a big bird.
Posted by: Opinion fact
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Unless I am mistaken, she seemed to be giving the finger...while wearing mittens. Also, it would seem that she is throwing rocks to frighten away the decoys.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 05:58 PM (KDPiq)
Jeanne Tripplehorn was a cutey
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Oedipus at January 16, 2026 05:59 PM (Z6vKV)
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People of a certain age remember when the "live long and prosper" sign was like a secret handshake.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 06:03 PM (vGaW9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:03 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 06:03 PM (g47mK)
I believe there are fiber runs near me, but not currently to my house. If I were willing to spend several thousand dollars, they'd run a line.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 06:04 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026
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The union baristas going out on strike looked a lot bigger than does. Maybe StarMares.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 16, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2026 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (cd3eP)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 16, 2026
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Much more attractive to me than Sharon Stone.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (wcTwv)
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I remember the show being on, I saw the intro but then the channel was changed to something else.
A couple of years ago I finally streamed "Remington Steele" which was pretty good at first, and I knew the theme song well, because it meant bedtime.
Boxleitner was in the first season.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 16, 2026 06:00 PM (xvV+O)
I laughed at that
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (NtVYv)
Unless I am mistaken, she seemed to be giving the finger...while wearing mittens. Also, it would seem that she is throwing rocks to frighten away the decoys.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (XeU6L)
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She failed at that, too. They weren't even scared.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (wcTwv)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM
James Earl Jones got all the best lines.
"You're from the sixties, aren't you"
"Back, go back, there's no place for you here in the future!"
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (jc0TO)
I never watched it. I know it was pretty popular. I know my mother liked it. I don't think I've ever seen Melissa Gilbert act in anything, now that I think about it.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (wcTwv)
I don't remember it very well but I do remember I hated the blonde girl. My parents watched that and the Walton's but I don't remember that really either.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (X42T3)
I was talking to some folks this week, Starlink is looking like a good replacement for Spectrum cable internet that we'll be looking into soon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Cable kept getting more and more expensive and service kept getting crappier. Let me know how Starlink does for you if you decide to pivot.
I am getting about a little over 900 mb/s down and about the same uploading. No contract and about 70 bucks per month.
I was getting about half that with cable with frequent interruptions of service. All what I watch nowadays was streaming so the cable was solely for internet.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:06 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026
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The union baristas going out on strike looked a lot bigger than does. Maybe StarMares.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 16, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)
Starmammoths.
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 06:06 PM (cd3eP)
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Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (X42T3)
Nelly ? Or the blind sister ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 16, 2026 06:06 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (X42T3)
Nellie Oleson. Chuck Schumer reminds me of her.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 06:06 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 06:06 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 06:07 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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I think writer was confused. There were bees in Middle East,
Utah, OTOH,.... I am pretty sure there were no honeybees in New world until introduced.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 06:07 PM (D5z+u)
Speaking of tribes, this purports to be the first high quality video of one of those isolated Amazon tribes that have no contact with the outside world:
https://is.gd/7Ucge1
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 06:07 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026
Actually, yes. Rolls is updating the engines on the B-52 fleet.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (G0Uu2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: bonhomme
They finished the new line about one week ago. Signed me up on Wednesday evening, and installed on Friday. Waived the $99 install fee and cable is all underground where I live. Impressed. ATT may be getting a helluva lot more limber than I remember from DSL days.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 06:06 PM (FMtrg)
She was the ur-AWFL
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (0bjKf)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 06:07 PM (pDt9x)
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Yeah, I was surprised at how good it was.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (ZOv7s)
The Daily Beast
@thedailybeast
President Donald Trump suffered a stroke several months ago and has kept it from the public, a medical expert has claimed.
. . . .
“I think his stroke was on the left side of the brain, which controls the right side of the body,” Davidson told biographer Sidney Blumenthal and Princeton historian Sean Wilentz on their podcast, The Court of History.
“I think the stroke was six months ago or more, earlier in 2025,” he continued. “There are videos of him shuffling his feet, which is not what we’d seen previously when he was striding on the golf course. We’ve seen him holding his right hand cradled in his left. Earlier in 2025, he was garbling words, which he hadn’t done before and which he’s improved upon more recently.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (L/fGl)
Not familiar with the pedo's "body of work" but he would have wounds if he tried to mess with me as a 16yo redneck girl. Therapy for him would not be enough as he'd require stitches & some wound care to his nethers. Boys figured out from my aura that I was not going to put up with much. If lucky they got a kiss on the front porch.
Not super fond of gingers. I dated a guy for a few months in junior college. Nice guy. He had auburn hair, which is the closest I got to ginger. His nickname was Pecker from childhood. Supposedly "Woodpecker" due to his hair. Mother was horrified & asked for his real name, without explaining her horror,& I was clueless for years about this deal. My father? He never bothered to meet the few boys I dated til I was engaged. I am pretty sure he laughed about it but also did not discuss it with his only daughter. When Pecker got serious I ended it toot sweet.
I am glad the pedo was caught. I should feel a bit sorry for his wife yet I don't.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 06:09 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 06:09 PM (jc0TO)
Nellie Oleson. Chuck Schumer reminds me of her.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 06:06 PM (FMtrg)
That's the one, thank you. The jerks are more memorable.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 06:09 PM (X42T3)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (G0Uu2)
Ok after the refitting we cut ties 😀
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:09 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 06:04 PM (Yp6az)
AT&T shit the bed ON MY BIRTHDAY last summer and I got up, went out and got the T-Mobile home internet 5g thing, no fibers, no cables. Not only is it about 1/3 of what I was paying AT&T but it's been absolutely perfect. I don't do gaming and geographic location is probably a factor so your results may vary but I am one happy camper, should have done it years ago.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 06:10 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: turambar at January 16, 2026 06:10 PM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:06 PM (E4rtv)
Our main problem is the frequent outages, coupled with the high price. Price for Starlink is equivalent, speeds are reportedly decent, and no interruptions due to local, terrestrial problems like power outages, cut lines, and fires.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 06:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Oh, right -- pretty sure the actress who played Nelly has become an advocate for protecting child actors from sexual abuse. Interesting. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:10 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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You know I gotta ask for the Horde. How did you know that particular Pecker was serious?
You can always take the 5th!
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (L/fGl)
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Remember when it was unethical to offer a diagnosis from someone you haven't treated or examined?
Trump makes them burn up all their rules.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 16, 2026 06:11 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 06:07 PM (pDt9x)
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Richard Thomas makes me angry. I do not know why. I honestly do not. All I know he pisses me off. Might be a tonal quality of his voice, or that big mole on his face.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 06:11 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 06:09 PM (jc0TO)
I was a fan of Benson though he really couldn't act. I love the movie One on One.
Also my man card in jeopardy because I really like two figure skating movies.
Cutting Edge and the one Benson was in , Ice Castles.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:11 PM (KDPiq)
I don't think Utah's love for the beehive/honeybee comes from just one thing. Deseret, the land of milk and honey, and the recurring theme in the Book of Mormon that righteous people are industrious and wicked people are slothful probably all play a role.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 06:12 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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I had Direct TV for years after I moved to where I am today. Then cable offered a better deal and Direct TV got worse. I am curious to how well they improved Starlink on interference and from storms.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:12 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 06:10 PM (dK+Kv)
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What about extra-terrestrial problems?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 06:12 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 06:11 PM (0aYVJ)
The grandpa on the Waltons was a literal commie in real life.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 06:13 PM (KDPiq)
Hillary Clinton's pal Sid Blumenthal????
The idiot who exchanged emails w/classified info using an AOL account, getting hacked and triggering the Hillary email investigation -- that guy??
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 06:13 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: skywch at January 16, 2026 06:13 PM (uqhmb)
Posted by: Richard Thomas' Mole at January 16, 2026 06:13 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: toby928(c)
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I think he went into directing for like TV and cable shows.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:13 PM (E4rtv)
Well, I saw a clip earlier of RFKJ recounting how Dr. Oz reviewed Trump's medical records and was astonished that he had off-the-charts testosterone levels. Now ask me which of these two things I have ample reason to believe.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 06:13 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 06:09 PM (jc0TO)
He realized "City Limits" sucked, and he became an actuary.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 06:14 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 06:14 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Triple Axel at January 16, 2026 06:14 PM (oftw2)
I am glad the pedo was caught. I should feel a bit sorry for his wife yet I don't.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 06:09 PM (WONhk)
+++++
So friggin funny! I'm dying here.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 06:15 PM (wcTwv)
“If I needed it, I’d use it. I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it,” @POTUS
on using the Insurrection Act, which has been invoked by 48% of presidents.
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 06:15 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 06:11 PM (0aYVJ)
Why doesn't he get a rat to gnaw that off?
Posted by: Dr. Evil at January 16, 2026 06:16 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:12 PM (E4rtv)
The guy I talked with said absolutely not problems with moisture content of the air. The only issue he raised was potential for throttling due to oversold capacity, which may happen in peak times. He's not seen it, but he is more rural than me.
What about extra-terrestrial problems?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 06:12 PM (ESVrU)
Musk is flooding the zone with the mini-sats, and he has military backing for the network as Uncle Same is a prime customer. Not too worried.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 06:16 PM (dK+Kv)
Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.
I don't think they understand how communism works.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 05:48 PM (pkeXY)
They also don't understand active systemic racism in Europe, Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and many places in Central and South America. And where emigrants from those areas live. Not many white folx in those areas and enclaves.
Posted by: Gref at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (5rh/l)
Seared into their hippocampus.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 16, 2026 06:17 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Martin Tell at January 16, 2026 06:18 PM (sFNX2)
I'm with ace on not understanding all the love given to Field of Dreams. I'd rather watch Costner in Water World.
Posted by: Opinion fact
Two words.
Jeanne. Tripplehorn.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 06:19 PM (QVmho)
Richard Thomas makes me angry. I do not know why. I honestly do not. All I know he pisses me off. Might be a tonal quality of his voice, or that big mole on his face.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian
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Why doesn't he get a rat to gnaw that off?
Posted by: Dr. Evil
He had the perfect opportunity in ww1 with Earnest Borg-nein.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 06:22 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 06:23 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (0U5gm)
Here in the Northwest more than one Karen is a Scold of Karens.
Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 16, 2026 06:24 PM (vnzIL)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 06:25 PM (ZxPkt)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 06:28 PM (3UR/I)
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Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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You know I gotta ask for the Horde. How did you know that particular Pecker was serious?
You can always take the 5th!
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 06:10 PM (E4rtv)
Ha! It is not what you think!
He started talking about finishing college and marrying me. I thought, naw, I am not going to be here, dude. I knew I had to fly high and it was not going to be with him. He was polite and not a grabber, so he won sort of a record for a few months dating in my pitiful resume collection of mostly 1 date and done.
I just faded away into the sunset. There was no emotional stuff of breaking his heart. I was never mean to boys, just acted oblivious when they proposed to me. Like I didn't hear them somehow.
Y'all think I am joking about my Ellie Mae Clampett persona in college. I'm not. My bf/husband said I had an innocent face. Mostly due to being a dingbat and naturally spaced out and thinking of a thousand things at once. At a kegger, though, I shined and could outlast anyone and tell stories. I still can meet and talk to anyone, bless their hearts, and am sober and olde.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 06:30 PM (WONhk)
I am going to try to remember, but at least two Buddy's (juniors), two Sonny's (juniors), a Toot (I can guess why), a Turp (dunno), Cooter (dunno).
There are probably more, so the idea of Pecker was not shocking to me at all...until Mama freaked out and I had to ask him what his real name was to introduce them.
I hope he's not reading here. *waves*
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 06:36 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 05:05 PM (0U5gm)
Put in an exhaust fan. Problem solved.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 06:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Martin Tell at January 16, 2026 06:18 PM (sFNX2)
someone's ex wife.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 06:42 PM (8avO+)
Quite a life, lot to know about her, probably belongs on the Book Thread.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 16, 2026 06:43 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: washrivergal at January 16, 2026 06:02 PM (wcTwv)
I don't remember it very well but I do remember I hated the blonde girl. My parents watched that and the Walton's but I don't remember that really either.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (X42T3)
Nellie Olssen.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 06:43 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026
Actually, yes. Rolls is updating the engines on the B-52 fleet.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (G0Uu2)
In WWII they made the engine upgrade that made the Mustang fighter into the best plane in the world.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 06:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
Dunno - but I do know this: One set of grandparents lived in a old stone farmhouse on top of a mountain within a Level 1 Radon zone for 70 years. It had a dirt basement floor with no, absolutely no, remediation. They both died of old age in their 90's. And grandpa smoked - so there!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 05:15 PM (cYBz/)
Radon gas is an intermediate product of Uranium and Thorium decay and as a gas, can escape out into the air and get into the lungs, where the radiation can have max effect. so if your basement is in that sort of rock, it could conceivably build up and give a higher dosage.
There likely would be all sorts of ways to seal the gas in if every one wasn't in a tizzy. Or vent it out.
What they never mention is riding a plane, or living in the mountain adds all sort of radiation from cosmic rays and such that they never think of.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 06:52 PM (8avO+)
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Mortgate Rates Fall to Lowest Level In Three Years As CNN Grieves
Before that: Last week, Trump proposed banning large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes, which they've been doing for years, contributing to the high cost of home ownership.
You will own nothing and love it, they promised.Via Larry O'Connor, mortgage rates have fallen to a three-year low from the highs they reached under Biden, making buying houses affordable for many more people.
President Trump on Wednesday said he's "taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes," linking the move to housing affordability. Why it matters: Real estate investors -- including both large and small-scale operations -- bought about 1 in 3 single-family homes sold in the second quarter of 2025, according to a report by market intelligence firm C.J. Patrick using BatchData figures. "People live in homes, not corporations," Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social. The impact: Shares of home-owning companies fell sharply Wednesday after Trump's statement. OpenDoor, an online platform that buys and sells residential real estate, was trading down 11.5%. ... Friction point: Critics say the trend contributes to rising home prices and rent hikes.
DeVory Darkins
@devorydarkins CNN ADMITS Trump's housing affordability plan is working. "So let's just say you're buying a $500,000 home. You're putting 20% down. A year ago, your monthly payments were almost $2,700 for principal and interest. Now they're around $2,400. Now, that might not sound like that much. It's about $260 difference, but over the course of a year, you're talking about $3,000 less in interest over the course of a loan, it's over $90,000. So that's huge, right? That's less money going to the bank, more for everything else in life. Now, all of this comes after the White House has really started to focus more on this issue of housing affordability."
🚨 HOLY CRAP. Liberals are panicked after CNN was just forced to admit President Trump is PLUMMETING home prices, saving the middle class THOUSANDS of dollars already
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 16, 2026
"The White House has REALLY started to focus on housing affordability!" 🔥
The Experts are LOSING!
"A year… pic.twitter.com/9nagED5USp
For The Show!
— Dan Mandis (@DanMandisShow) January 16, 2026
CNN talks about falling mortgage rates- pic.twitter.com/DJHQhbbb5R
Mortgage rates fell to 6% it's 3-years low , with some lenders offering as low as 5.87% As January 12, 2025.
— Mmir (@m86742) January 12, 2026
This is important I bought my first single family house 🏠at the same rate:" The president's latest affordability push sent 15- and 30-year mortgage rates tumbling ". pic.twitter.com/kmtxmaszY4
NEC Director Kevin Hassett: "If you look at the last three quarters, it's 4% growth, 4% growth, and now, we're looking at something like 5% growth... there have been very, very few times in American economic history where things were as strong as they are." pic.twitter.com/mTNy6zA4mo
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 15, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (3AyDK)
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Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:53 PM (77rzZ)
We need to get Private Equity, start regulating AirBnB's, and stop all of this foreign ownership.
It's destroying starter homes for America. And the "market" is not going to fix itself.
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Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 03:53 PM (eIzlH)
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-San Franpsycho and Ebenezer Scrooge
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Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (XvL8K)
Lower interest rates are of course a big reason. (It's still insane to me that some on our side still seem to think the Fed should keep rates where they are.)
Another big reason is increased supply. We've kicked out a ton of illegal parasite smellies, which freed up housing. A lot of new housing development was delayed during covid, and only now is starting to come online.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)
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He means People Before Profits!
Now we know why Trump loves Mamdani.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (RIvkX)
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Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 03:55 PM (GUOwU)
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The galactic-level fraud numbers doesn't help, either.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 03:58 PM (rj6Yv)
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Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at January 16, 2026 03:58 PM (2Nfh9)
Well, if the damn kulaks wouldn't keep insisting on owning TWO cows, we'd stop hating them.
Nahhhhh.
Posted by: Communists at January 16, 2026 03:58 PM (Riz8t)
Mom! Mom! The WiFi is down again! Mom! I never know what she's doing up there...
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Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (KDPiq)
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I think its more likely the irresponsible pay cash.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:59 PM (RIvkX)
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Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:00 PM (KDPiq)
Yes, they are turning them into rentals. Removing a large number of available homes for sale and turning them into rental units drives up the price of houses available for sale.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 04:00 PM (viF8m)
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Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 04:01 PM (BSdIE)
Oh great. Now all those idiots with $80k incomes will cash out their 401ks in order to get into houses they can't afford, so they'll end up losing both the house and their retirement nest egg.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:01 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (KDPiq)
Why wouldn't the response be for card issuers to just not issue cards to people who they feel are too big a risk given the cap?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 04:01 PM (zUe/H)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 04:01 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (XvL8K)
They drive up prices, by buying up inventory in select markets. Ever gone into an area to buy a home, only to find that an entity paid CASH on the spot for a home? and you have to keep shopping and shopping and shopping? I had that happen NUMEROUS times in Florida; find a house, try to set up a purchase and loan and all that, only to find that a company bought it in an hour with cash. No contingencies no inspection nothing on their end.
Posted by: Mr Wolf at January 16, 2026 04:01 PM (5obJk)
Posted by: Mr Wolf at January 16, 2026 03:58 PM (5obJk)
That sounds like a good idea. Owning your own home is one of the best investments for your future you can make.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 04:01 PM (zZu0s)
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Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (KDPiq)
Maybe the credit card companies could, oh I don't know, consider adjusting the balance limits for people less likely to pay them back?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 04:02 PM (ULPxl)
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Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:59 PM (RIvkX)
I see the people who load up their CCs with the high rates thinking they can do it even more if the rates are capped lower.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:02 PM (KDPiq)
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Posted by: Mr Wolf at January 16, 2026 03:58 PM
That's what I wanted in 2008. Tax free penalty free withdrawals for home payoffs.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 04:03 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 03:55 PM (GUOwU)
There's always new scum to support.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 04:03 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (KDPiq)
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I think its more likely the irresponsible pay cash.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:59 PM (RIvkX)
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Credit card rates are an odd thing and I'm not sure the path forward.
The affluent don't pay high CC rates because they either (i) pay off the card every month or (ii) have good credit and can keep bouncing back and forth between all those "no interest for a year" promotions.
The poor don't pay the rates either, because they almost always end up defaulting and not paying the balance.
The only people really paying CC rates are the lower-to-middle classes, who are getting fucked because they are forced to subsidize all the defaults from the group described above.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 04:03 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:03 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Hence CNN crying in its artisanal quinoa at January 16, 2026 03:55 PM (TbWk/)
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And yet the stupid middle class Karens are their most useful foot soldiers. If they had any intelligence they would work out how Cambodia's middle class agitators ended up when they were no longer needed by the Kmer Rouge.
Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2026 04:03 PM (Z8jzG)
The republicans in congress are doing nothing to help by passing almost none of the MAGA agenda. But if we still hold out in the midterms, it will be despite them, and solely because Trump has turned things around.
My employer sent my W2 recently. Excited to see if the Trump changes mean we actually get back a little more of our money this year! Fingers crossed. New children tax credits will help.
Benefits from the tariffs and taxpayers seeing a fatter return this year will help.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:04 PM (gWBY1)
"So let's just say you're buying a $500,000 home. You're putting 20% down. A year ago, your monthly payments were almost $2,700 for principal and interest. Now they're around $2,400."
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"Peanuts." - N. Pelosi (Miss September, 1342)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 04:04 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (KDPiq)
Why wouldn't the response be for card issuers to just not issue cards to people who they feel are too big a risk given the cap?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls"
That's exactly what would happen. You wouldn't be able to get a credit card with less than a 700 credit score. Probably half the population.
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 04:04 PM (GUOwU)
I'm pretty sure the targeted tenants were to be Government-subsidized illegals and Somali-style fraudsters.
Oops! Oopsie!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 04:04 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 04:01 PM (zUe/H)
Ding ding ding
Posted by: blaster at January 16, 2026 04:04 PM (cD7Zt)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
My understanding is that most are converted into rentals.
However, if an institutional investor is willing to swoop in with cash and take a property at market value, that may prevent any natural mark-to-market that would occur with an increase in inventory.
Maybe it's like the banks holding properties to avoid realizing losses in the last housing bubble, but now institutions hold them and generate some rental income while keeping property values high? Just spitballing, really.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 16, 2026 04:04 PM (yFLFB)
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 04:05 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:05 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (XvL8K)
They are turning them into rentals. Single-family rental is the usual term for renting out stand-alone houses.
In the long-run it ought to balance out in areas that can continue to construct new houses, but in the short run it tends to cause pricing surges in localities. They're not much of existing housing supply but are driving a good chunk of new construction.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at January 16, 2026 04:05 PM (okun6)
Those steps were removing illegals and their funding. Corporations that bet big on continued Democrat rule will take it in the shorts. Their rental market- and the value of their rental property- will crash. Their mortgage will not.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 04:05 PM (qoUKC)
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 03:55 PM
OrangeMan Bad!
Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at January 16, 2026 04:05 PM (0sNs1)
YT sometimes serves up videos about "Never do these 10 things to your house". One of them was install ship lap. It is apparently a trend whose time has passed. Who knew?
And yes, I had to look up what ship lap was.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:06 PM (Riz8t)
Yes, they are turning them into rentals. Removing a large number of available homes for sale and turning them into rental units drives up the price of houses available for sale.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 04:00 PM
In our neighborhood they buy them up and leave them sitting there empty. There are two houses that were bought by corporations that have been updated and have been sitting empty for over a year. I have no idea what is going on. One of them was for sale after they did the upgrades but they pulled it from the market soon after it was listed. Every once in a while we see people there but nobody lives in them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 04:06 PM (0N4FZ)
If they're forced to suddenly offload all those homes, I hope they have to sell them at a loss and cut bait. Serves them right.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:06 PM (gWBY1)
When my neighborhood was being built, entire illegal families were roofing. Lots of reports of nail pops and leaking roofs.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 16, 2026 04:07 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 03:55 PM
I would run against the Do-Nothing Republican Congress, and the price of beef.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 04:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 04:01 PM (zUe/H)
Ding ding ding
Posted by: blaster at January 16, 2026 04:04 PM (cD7
So the higher risk get the lower cap rate?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:07 PM (KDPiq)
I thought Barney Frank The Fag from Massholeshushits fixed the housing problem for the poors with fannie and freddie mac when he wasn't sucking dick and playing with other men's assholes.
Posted by: GMAC Mortgage at January 16, 2026 04:07 PM (R/m4+)
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They increase buying demand which drives up prices and by sucking up all the houses, reduce inventory as well
My guess is they convert them into rentals, which takes the houses off the market (reducing inventory even more) OR flip them to sell at higher prices
Either way they can all get rhino fucked
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Homeless Ranger at January 16, 2026 04:07 PM (REq0p)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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The institutions have more money to pay and can outbid almost any private buyer. That drives up prices.
The institutions then turn the properties into rentals and a lot are basically run as commercial hotels (AirBNB, etc).
I question how significant this upward pricing pressure is in the total market, but clearly it has some.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 04:07 PM (iFTx/)
Oh no! Anyway...
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:08 PM (Riz8t)
As Executor, I had to sell the family home. Built in the 70s and on truly poor soil. The foundation was like gravel, and the cast iron plumbing needed replacement. it would cost 80k just to bring it to a saleable condition. It was also the low point in the housing retail due to Covid. No one was looking or buying in the city only out in the sticks because WFH was supposed to last forever.
After languishing on the market and being told by realtors that people were buying in the exurbs because Location Location Location lost so much value compared to New and Spacious.
The house needed love, and the young generation wants nothing to do with anything than move-in ready with zero maintenance.
So the institutional investor OpenDoor gave me cash and covered my mother's nursing home expenses. They flipped it to immigrants who don't know the first thing about maintenance and it shows.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 04:08 PM (BvPIe)
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 04:09 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 04:09 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:10 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 04:10 PM (Ia/+0)
YT sometimes serves up videos about "Never do these 10 things to your house". One of them was install ship lap. It is apparently a trend whose time has passed. Who knew?
And yes, I had to look up what ship lap was.
Posted by: Archimedes
*runs to get the cats paw nail remover*
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:10 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Opinion fact [/i
I was referring to interior walls.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:11 PM (abIsI)
There was a funny video on Crowder's show yesterday of a black guy waking and taking. He said his theory about why all these women are so mad and protesting is they are all feminine incels. They need a good healthy boink fest.
He said, white dudes, sorry to dump this on your shoulders, but you gotta step up and take one for the team. Get their rocks off so they get off our backs. It's your duty to your country.
I laughed. Lie back and think of MAGA...
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:11 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Mr Wolf at January 16, 2026 03:58 PM (5obJk)
What's to prevent people from doing that now? Once they get the distribution, aren't they free to spend it as they see fit?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)
What is a ship lap?l
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 04:12 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
The investors are putting down cash on barrel head offers and using Wallstreet financing to buy the homes, even entire subdivisions. These investors are not good neighbors either with failure to maintain their housing, numerous complaints about who they let rent the places (Sec. 8 and other welfare cases), and generally being assholes to renters. I live near a metro area and the complaints are coming in from all sides.
These companies are often inexperienced in property management, did not understand that single home maintenance and rentals are a different market than big apartment complexes, and their management skills frankly suck with high turnover of employees, illegal tactics, and strained relations with neighbors and local governments.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:12 PM (WDjG6)
The Left would sue and easily prevail over the Castrati in the Fe'ral Government's DOJ.
Something about First Amendment Right to Protest.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
You have the right to peaceably assemble. You do not have the right to protest. (Important distinction)
The very first thing that gets broken, your assembly is now a riot.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 04:12 PM (sui1r)
YT sometimes serves up videos about "Never do these 10 things to your house". One of them was install ship lap. It is apparently a trend whose time has passed. Who knew?
And yes, I had to look up what ship lap was.
Posted by: Archimedes
*runs to get the cats paw nail remover*
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:10 PM (abIsI)
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You definitely don't want to shit-wrap your home. Come on now, who does that?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 04:12 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)
Penalty for early withdrawal.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:03 PM (abIsI)
I think I'd prefer OG wood paneling or the knotty pine look, but then I am not a millennial.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 04:13 PM (zZu0s)
And yes, I had to look up what ship lap was.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I just painted my house Caribbean turquoise green against all expert advice. Everybody loves it.
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 04:13 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 04:13 PM (3AyDK)
a lot of would be sellers refuse to sell because they locked in a unprecedentedly low mortgage so no matter what they do if they sold and bought another house they'd have to opt into a new mortgage at a much higher rate
hence the fuckery we're in now
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Homeless Ranger at January 16, 2026 04:13 PM (REq0p)
Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2026 04:14 PM (Z8jzG)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)
Tax penalties.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 04:14 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 04:12 PM (8Xy/A)
As far as I can tell from looking it up, it's like wood paneling but wood painted a color like white.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 04:14 PM (zZu0s)
And yes, I had to look up what ship lap was.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Blame teh Chip Gaines and his wife on that ubiquity. Prominent HGTV hosts that now have their own network.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:14 PM (WDjG6)
White guys have been taking one for the team for years. We have been told we are the source of all evil and problems in the world.
The rest of you can carry the load for a while. We're just gonna have a beer and laugh.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: wth
Santorini white & blue.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 04:15 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 16, 2026 04:15 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)
There are penalties on early withdrawals that Trump wants to exempt if the funds are used for downpayments on principal residences. This is why financially savvy people have traditionally borrowed against it rather than do a withdrawal.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 04:15 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 04:15 PM (rj6Yv)
They're not. Many took advantage of quick rising prices, and the early ones made bank.
Rentals are another issue, and we can thank the lightbringer, and his focus on bringing the... er, less fortunate into better neighborhoods...
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 04:15 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:03 PM (abIsI)
And white interiors. The whole house is white. You basically toss a white paint grenade into the house, shut the door, and BLAMMO! everything is white now. I found an old butter dish up in a cabinet when we were moving in that someone forgot. It got painted white.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 04:15 PM (3uBP9)
I love those videos! They talk about all the trends developers put in their homes but nobody actually wants. Like millennial gray and white walls. And open cabinet shelves, so everything in your kitchen gets coated in dust and grease and is unsightly. Having actual cabinets in the kitchen is coming back.
They also say actually having divided rooms, and not knocking down all your walls to be open concept is coming back. We will see!
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Opinion fact
But what if they don't withdraw it early, and then use it to buy a home?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)
I just painted my house Caribbean turquoise green against all expert advice. Everybody loves it.
Posted by: wth
There's always one in the neighborhood.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (abIsI)
I have heard for years that tax structure discourages large inventory thus encouraging the brittle Just In Time model... and virtual market disruptions during the Kung Flu Freakout and Lockdown Pageant.
What happened to this tax structure where suddenly dumping shitloads of investment money into relately low return single family housing? Or they need they same tax structure most manufacturing retail where inventory is costly.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (/lPRQ)
a lot of would be sellers refuse to sell because they locked in a unprecedentedly low mortgage so no matter what they do if they sold and bought another house they'd have to opt into a new mortgage at a much higher rate
hence the fuckery we're in now
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Homeless Ranger at January 16, 2026 04:13 PM (REq0p)
Another thing they've been considering which would help with that is "portable mortgages".
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (okun6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Unlike wood paneling of yore which generally were large sheets, or wainscotting, ship lap is more like floor to ceiling horizontal lap siding brought indoors. Often using simulated distressed finishes, etc.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:57 PM (KDPiq)
Nope. The banks will simply cancel the cards of anyone who doesn't have great credit and the income to pay the card balances. They aren't stupid.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (n9ltV)
Fuel prices are down. That should have lowered distribution supply chain costs, which should translate to lower retail costs. BUT, it hasn't. Manufacturers have keep their prices up to make up for what they've lost through the Biden years presumably. They've doubled the problem by lowering net weight on a lot of products. And, while a handful of companies have reflected the current market status, a lot have not adjusted.
Retail markets outside of grocery have lowered costs, due to consumer confidence increasing demand, allowing them to increase supply. Retailers have passed this on in order to compete with competitors. That's not happening in Grocery stores because in a lot of locations customers are captive with limited choices to shop. Fix the food prices and everyone's happy....and CNN staff starts doing swan dives off the Atlanta HQ
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (dIske)
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (jQtSL)
It would take nothing more than a screwdriver to break through that wall.
I replaced it with hardy plank and plenty of nails.
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 04:17 PM (8uzBS)
You missed the discussion of goats on the last thread. I remember you once posted an epic rant on here about what asshoes they are.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 04:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:17 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 04:18 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 04:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:18 PM (gWBY1)
I have heard for years that tax structure discourages large inventory thus encouraging the brittle Just In Time model... and virtual market disruptions during the Kung Flu Freakout and Lockdown Pageant.
What happened to this tax structure where suddenly dumping shitloads of investment money into relately low return single family housing? Or they need they same tax structure most manufacturing retail where inventory is costly.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 16, 2026 04:16 PM (/lPRQ)
The rental properties can be depreciated. Funnily enough I don't think that'd be the case if it were a builder holding it for sale.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at January 16, 2026 04:19 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Rex B at January 16, 2026 04:19 PM (hpzqB)
They also say actually having divided rooms, and not knocking down all your walls to be open concept is coming back. We will see!
They'd better not say my sex dungeon and slave pit is out of fashion.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Riz8t)
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They've been on a consistent losing streak for more than a century.
Zombie Woodrow Wilson hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 04:20 PM (jQtSL)
I'm cool with it. It seems to make sense.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 04:20 PM (BI5O2)
10% is high. If your credit is so bad you are a bad bet at 10%, you can't handle credit. Some people are at 30% and that's insane.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Yp6az)
Another way to fix housing would be to create a sort of Quarters Act for illegals. If we can tie a liberal directly to a statement, verbal or written, that illegals deserve to stay in the U.S., the government puts four illegals in said liberal's house on their dime.
Posted by: The_Hoser
Wasn't this a large part of throwing the damned red coats out in 1716?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 04:20 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 04:15 PM (3uBP9)
Well, I get what you're saying but in my case, I was in LA and bought a house in flyover, over the internet (with a realtor). My first morning here, after sleeping on an air mattress with my cats, I took a shower and got out and was all, holy fuckballs, I have a lavender bathroom! The fuckin' kitchen is the gaggiest shade of mint green. I soldier on but would def have preferred all white, which it looked like in the pics.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 04:21 PM (VyqMH)
a lot of would be sellers refuse to sell because they locked in a unprecedentedly low mortgage so no matter what they do if they sold and bought another house they'd have to opt into a new mortgage at a much higher rate
hence the fuckery we're in now
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Homeless Ranger at January 16, 2026 04:13 PM (REq0p)
This would be us! In fact, we are working though how to manage J’s mom moving out of the Alpharetta home and closer to us. J has a really low interest rate - it’s hard for us to think about selling and buying something with a mother in law cottage on it. We have offered to buy the lot behind our house, our neighbor is considering it. But we will still need to build something on it. And by we I mean him, but the point remains.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 04:21 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 04:21 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 04:21 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: David Bromstad, Gay Realtor at January 16, 2026 04:21 PM (UjdFS)
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The judges would have also accepted John F'ing Kerry.
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 04:21 PM (jQtSL)
Posted by: Skip
The true stuff does, many of the replicas are basically pressboard with a finish and the joints are simulated. Back when wood was cheap, you would actually see house interior walls built with tongue and groove wood boards. Grandparent's house was built like that.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:21 PM (WDjG6)
I'm hoping the rates plummet further next year, and we can get it to drop even farther!
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:22 PM (gWBY1)
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The judges would have also accepted John F'ing Kerry.
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 04:21 PM (jQtSL)
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 04:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Usntakim at January 16, 2026 04:22 PM (Kwwen)
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Yp6az)
It's unsecured debt. It's a terrible investment for the banks unless they are making a ton of interest.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 04:22 PM (n9ltV)
I'm cool with it. It seems to make sense.
I might agree with you, except that you know damn well once people lose their houses and their retirement, the taxpayer will be expected to step up and make them whole.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:23 PM (Riz8t)
Well, they have here. Just back from local Krogers...
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 04:23 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 16, 2026 04:23 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:24 PM (abIsI)
10% is high. If your credit is so bad you are a bad bet at 10%, you can't handle credit. Some people are at 30% and that's insane.
Posted by: bonhomme
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States used to have usury laws until SD and Delaware made their states attractive to bank card issuers with no upper limit on interest. Joe Biden was involved in that and Hunter got a nepot VP of MNBA because of it back in the day. Eventually most all the issuers gravitated toward the highest interest states.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:24 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:20 PM (Riz8t)
If you converted your garage into another room and it's in there, yes. That was a bad home investment. Buyers still want garages.
One of my friends turned her garage into a personal gym and yoga studio. She sold it recently, and I never asked her if it messed with her resale value or buyer interest.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:25 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Usntakim at January 16, 2026 04:25 PM (Kwwen)
I pulled shiplap that was placed diagonally on the inside of one that was about to be torn down to use as a decorative wall on my new addition.
That little bungalow also had the same type of covering laid horizontal on the outside with asbestos shingles covering that. Talk about a solid structure!
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (KDPiq)
This. It was an easy target.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: The_Hoser at January 16, 2026 04:00 PM
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Wait whu?
Posted by: 3rd Amendment Scholar Hearing the 3rd Amendment Hot Line at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (Qr8uh)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Lady Who at January 16, 2026 04:27 PM (JCLJi)
Posted by: David Bromstad, Gay Realtor at January 16, 2026 04:27 PM (UjdFS)
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The judges would have also accepted John F'ing Kerry.
Posted by: ShainS
Or Sarah Jessica Parket
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 04:28 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 04:28 PM (n5tGW)
I get that. Financial institutions sometimes have to be saved from themselves. If the formula's telling the bank the customer needs to be greater than 10% to make financial sense for the bank, they can go without credit.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 04:28 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Opinion fact
That is part of the problem with large investors buying houses---they buy up the cheap ones so families can't get started. And the large investors are operating on low cost loans via Wall Street so can easily outbid and pay cash versus a seller having to wait for loan approval for family buyers.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:28 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (gWBY1)
How about the fire places in the middle of the room?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 04:28 PM (zZu0s)
A guy who used to work for me bought a house with one. He filled it with plastic balls, a la Chuckie Cheese. His kids liked it.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:28 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 04:28 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (gWBY1)
I don't get unnecessary stairs/changes in elevation in homes. "Yes, I enjoy comfort and safety. But trip/fall hazards add a little spice."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 04:29 PM (zUe/H)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (gWBY1)
This is where the shag carpeting can save lives.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 04:29 PM (VyqMH)
Really?
Makes your house look like a shotgun shack in Frog's Nipple, Louisiana.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 04:29 PM (iJfKG)
I love the waterfront. Nice spots. And it’s sunny.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 04:29 PM (W2Pud)
He paid a uxorious interest rate.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)
This post sounds suspiciously like math. But considering the amount of winning here, I'll allow it.
Just don't make it a habit, Wicket.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 04:29 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Skip
The true stuff does, many of the replicas are basically pressboard with a finish and the joints are simulated. Back when wood was cheap, you would actually see house interior walls built with tongue and groove wood boards. Grandparent's house was built like that.
Posted by: whig at January 16
I have real shiplap on either side of the fireplace over built ins. I wasn’t interested in the fake stuff, if we were doing it, it needed to be real. And then I painted it black fox, just like the brick on my fireplace and the island in my kitchen. 🤣. I made this entire house Greek Villa or Black Fox, except my foyer. I wallpapered the hades out of that room and it’s my favorite. I wonder about myself sometimes.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (OoFl2)
I'm pretty sure the targeted tenants were to be Government-subsidized illegals and Somali-style fraudsters.
Oops! Oopsie!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 04:04 PM (GjEvj)
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What will be interesting is that there has been a rush to build more rentals, because prices were so high. SO potentially the complex was built with a certain price point in mind, a price point no longer supported. They will have to lower rents to fill up.
Posted by: Black JEM at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 04:29 PM (zUe/H)
Personally, I think it was the drugs in the 70s.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (zZu0s)
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My mom and dad took us to look at some new homes back in the early - mid 70's. Saw that, and some other wildly 70's stuff. Like a phonebooth, in the den. Wallpaper murals. Weirdly shaped ceiling lights. Intercoms and trash compactors. And our first look at a skylight.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (Yp6az)
Crazy talk!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: naturalfake
There are a few places for sale in Stinking Creek near here.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 04:31 PM (cYBz/)
And rent them. Your government at work.
(Of course, said companies use flowery language to "address the concerns of the local community", but in reality it's section 8 in 2 5 seconds)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 04:31 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Lady Who at January 16, 2026 04:32 PM (JCLJi)
Mike Lee proposed freeing up some federal land in Utah for more housing. People freaked out like he was proposing we fill in Bryce Canyon or plug up Old Faithful or something.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 04:32 PM (Yp6az)
Nope. The banks will simply cancel the cards of anyone who doesn't have great credit and the income to pay the card balances. They aren't stupid.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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That's exactly what would happen.
Something like 70% of Credit cards would probably be cancelled overnight by the banks.
If you can get 5% interest "risk free" no way you lend 10% interest for unsecured debt unless it's a perfect borrower.
I'm hoping this is just boon bait for the uneducated voters out there that have a lot of cc interest, but it's very reminiscent of student loans being cancelled.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 04:32 PM (eIzlH)
Can't they just rent places in a Carnival Cruise liner? The ship wouldn't even have to come back to port.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:33 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: bonhomme
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The West has a serious problem where a lot of the land is federally owned. The East doesn't have that problem as much.
And the Federales have more land than they can actually afford to take care off in the West leading to them being bad neighbors often.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:34 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
We have a four car garage. A double wide and a single that's extra deep. Technically you could fit two cars stacked in the single bay. We have no superfluous clutter in the garage area. I use my double deep garage as a shop. Our neighbor basically has the same layout. All of their vehicles park in the driveway because the huge garage is stuffed with junk to the ceiling. They're liberals.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 04:34 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 04:34 PM (WQDw6)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (gWBY1)
This is where the shag carpeting can save lives.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 04:29 PM (VyqMH)
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Mary Tyler Peaches
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 04:34 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 04:34 PM (cYBz/)
Since the demand has been constantly increasing and the supply is limited that raises prices...and against consistently over time.
Rather then ban large corporations from buying homes, which might be tricky legally you could get a more direct effect by:
1) Deporting illegals
2) Stopping immigration
3) Reducing federal/state bureaucratic jobs in the big blue cities.
All three of these would lower demand and therefore price. It would also hurt companies with a large investment in houses/apartments in these areas.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)
How about a freeze on Wall Street/Private Equity owning single family housing?
How about having a code that doesn't reward Airbnb housing ?
This is low hanging fruit.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 04:36 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Usntakim at January 16, 2026 04:36 PM (Kwwen)
In Europe they are seizing farmland to build tenements for "new comers"
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)
CHD falls on January 19th every year. MLK is the closest Monday to Jan 19th. What a rip-off!!
Friday 1/19 creates the best kind of four day weekend.
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 04:36 PM (8uzBS)
Nah. It's the handouts. Our tax dollars at work. But hey, the diversity! (And the white women who say "everyone deserves a nice place to live")
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 04:36 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 04:36 PM (3uBP9)
1) Deporting illegals
2) Stopping immigration
3) Reducing federal/state bureaucratic jobs in the big blue cities.
All three of these would lower demand and therefore price. It would also hurt companies with a large investment in houses/apartments in these areas.
This is my preference. Most of the problems are government created. I don't want to give them another opportunity to screw things up.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)
a lot of would be sellers refuse to sell because they locked in a unprecedentedly low mortgage so no matter what they do if they sold and bought another house they'd have to opt into a new mortgage at a much higher rate
hence the fuckery we're in now
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Homeless Ranger
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This would be us!
Posted by: Piper
Us as well. 2.75%. 30 year note. We'll be paying it off ten years early.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 04:37 PM (QVmho)
This came up in my town and so I looked and...there is one rather sad AirBnB property. That isn't why prices doubled under the Junta - instead its demand (immigration) and inflation
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (gWBY1)
I have the half step down to my great room in my townhome...considered raising the floor to get rid of it when my mom was sick, but she passed before I went in on doing that for her...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2026 04:37 PM (tOcjL)
Yeah the government requires a certain amount of low income housing within the planned community area. The Woodlands in Texas has subsidized apartment complexes relatively near multi million dollar homes.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 04:37 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 04:38 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Piper
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Repainting is no big deal, removal of shiplap, slightly more if you have to replace the drywall behind it. Wallpaper is okay except when people don't size the drywall (if new and unpainted) before hanging the wall paper. Also people that keep applying new wallpaper over old or painting the old wallpaper.
Both are major PITA to remove. The first because it causes drywall damage to remove, the second because steamers and chemicals aren't designed to remove multiple layers of wall paper.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:39 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: 18-1
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All real estate is local.
This is very much an issue in large swaths of the US.
For some ridiculous reason, the tax code allows accelerated depreciation ONLY if you make it an AirBnB. Short term rentals.
These things are basically just hotel properties.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 04:40 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Electoral Fraud at January 16, 2026 04:40 PM (63An5)
hence the fuckery we're in now
There is that and then also the problem of taxes too. Do to the Junta's policies my house almost doubled in value. Now its gone down a little under Trump.
If I were to sell, I would first have to consider that my mortgage rate for a new house would be higher BUT also I don't want to sell it in a year where I am making a good salary since it will increase the taxes I have to pay...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 04:40 PM (5aZAZ)
*the most important part, for an orderr of magnitude of reasons.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 16, 2026 04:40 PM (Qr8uh)
Posted by: Usntakim at January
It hasn’t cooled much here, maybe a little in that things stay on the market just a bit longer. But the prices are honestly insane where I am and where Toby is. If you go out just a hair, it’s more reasonable. I am not willing to do that, however, and I guess no one else is either, hence the pricing.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 04:41 PM (OoFl2)
Yeah the government requires a certain amount of low income housing within the planned community area. The Woodlands in Texas has subsidized apartment complexes relatively near multi million dollar homes.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 04:37 PM
Double plus ungood in zombietimes.
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 04:41 PM (cd3eP)
Posted by: Usntakim at January 16, 2026 04:41 PM (Kwwen)
Posted by: 18-1
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You get the first $500k "tax free" of gains when you sell your home.
There's obviously a lot of people that have blown past this, but it's a pretty big cushion.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 04:42 PM (eIzlH)
People freaked out like he was proposing we fill in Bryce Canyon or plug up Old Faithful or something.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 04:32 PM (Yp6az)
Where else can old desiccated hippies pass you on the hiking trail and berate you for walking leisurely rather than adjutant walking? I used to get the same fucking hippie couple passing me clapping with big smiles of contempt as they barked "C'mon, pick up the pace!" as if they were "encouraging" me. Even though I was doing a 9 mile loop to the summit, and they were only doing a quick 1.5 to 2 miles. I swear, that's the only thing that wilderness land is good for to the hippies, as a means of expressing their contempt for lesser untermenschen.
They don't like it when you growl at them to mind their own goddam business.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 04:43 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 04:43 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 04:43 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
The small town I grew up in in SW Michigan was host to several sites on the Underground Railroad. The street that my house was on had a huge mansion on the corner. My older brother was friends with the kid whose family lived there, and he remembers their playing in secret compartments in the walls that were used to hide escaped slaves.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:43 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah the government requires a certain amount of low income housing within the planned community area. The Woodlands in Texas has subsidized apartment complexes relatively near multi million dollar homes.
Posted by: Opinion
This is exactly the kind of fuckery i want Trump to get rid of. I know not all of them are scum bag criminals, but if i wanted a house in a low income hood, i would have deliberately stolen one and killed off the gang bangers already there.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 04:44 PM (QVmho)
I've stayed in AirBnBs in touristy areas and there are certainly a lot more there.
But...if the AirBnBs weren't there some of that housing land would be formal hotels anyway wouldn't it?
And I mean when I compare areas that have been touristy for a long time with "new hotness" areas the primary difference is fewer hotels and more AirBnBs in those "new hotness" areas - but honestly it seems like a push. There is demand for temporary housing of one type or another.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 04:43 PM (y9nCu)
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If I had a buck for every time I got some dumbass comment from some old dipshit in a Patagonia vest and Teva sandals I'd buy a really nice fishing rod.
Those people are friggin terrible.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 04:44 PM (5aZAZ)
The Obama's garage is where Big Mike does her Pilates and yoga.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 04:45 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
You miss a perfect opportunity to deploy the bear spray.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 04:45 PM (cYBz/)
That's for married couples.
And yes I am over the single filer allotment.
I mean I'm not exactly complaining though it has exploded my taxes and I bought this house to live in not flip for a sales investment.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 04:46 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)
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Not without the land being A) sold to a developer and B) rezoned from Residential to Commercial by the local authority.
STRs are a fucking blight.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 04:47 PM (5aZAZ)
But...if the AirBnBs weren't there some of that housing land would be formal hotels anyway wouldn't it?
And I mean when I compare areas that have been touristy for a long time with "new hotness" areas the primary difference is fewer hotels and more AirBnBs in those "new hotness" areas - but honestly it seems like a push. There is demand for temporary housing of one type or another.
Posted by: 18-1
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The problem isn't space, it's taking supply off the market. If a new hotel goes up in a commercial part of town, it's not going to effect the american dream of home ownership.
Where do you live? You clearly dont live in an area where this is a thing.
There's entire blocks in my area that are just AirBnB houses.
I've had friends try and buy houses for to just live in and out of state AirBnb investors swoop in and outbid them.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 04:47 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 16, 2026 04:47 PM (FO06m)
222 Posted by: BifBewalski
Bwahahahaahaha! That last post was my Army MOS, i was a 222B, then a 222C.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 04:47 PM (QVmho)
I'm yelling at the TV, hey, HEY, can we just get on with the trial and convict this asshole?
No, we cannot. This "due process" shit will drag on and on and on, the left throwing any stone the can in the road, to sow doubt.
There is not a jurisdiction in this huge wide country that could impanel a jury free from at least one leftist juror.
This killer is going to strut out at the end of this joke of a trial, a free man, a hero of the left.
Posted by: M. Gaga at January 16, 2026 04:48 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04
And if you sell, you will be spending just as much on something else, and moving is a pain, so why bother.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 04:48 PM (OoFl2)
A lot of the same type are now mountaineering.
When I watch the shows on climbing Everest I’m usually cheering for the mountain.
Does that make me a bad person?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 04:48 PM (AaEou)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 16, 2026 04:49 PM (QEEX1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 16, 2026 04:49 PM (HTCU3)
Why is a house out in the boonies generally worth less? Well there is less demand right? If its not near jobs or scenery or weather a home owner might want fewer people want that house and therefore the price is lower.
Now, consider we've been importing 10s of millions of people. Doesn't matter legal, illegal, whatever, they have to live somewhere. And therefore they are going to raise the demand and therefore the cost...and especially in blue areas "friendly to immigrants". So Mr LIV you are directly voting to raise the cost of houses and apartments where you live. Now you tell me its a right, fine, then you have to accept this is the cost you are going to pay for that. Or...maybe you aren't so sure its a right considering how much it is costing you directly?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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One of the major components was to deengage from globalism by destroying the big sucking sound of American wealth that Wall Street firms relied upon to make bank.
That 20 percent drop in Chinese imports means more jobs here in the US and thus increased GDP.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:50 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis
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I'd support that, but just the federal tax code is absurd.
If you buy a home as a resident, you don't get to immediately "depreciate" that off your taxes. If you buy a rental property, you dont get this tax treatment either.
But if you buy a SHORT TERM rental property, you get this crazy amount of depreciation you can write off.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 04:50 PM (eIzlH)
Apparently it is in many places.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 04:51 PM (AaEou)
Posted by: M. Gaga
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I doubt it.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 04:51 PM (WDjG6)
Certainly priced way out the range of a single family.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 04:51 PM (BSdIE)
https://tinyurl.com/4ftnepkm
A local fire department shows up with a ladder truck to help ICE go up and detain illegals. Libs cry, betrayed by the fire dept lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 04:51 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 03:59 PM (0N4FZ)
When I moved a few years ago, very early 2021, I had to buy this house before selling the last house. I had no mortgage so it was doable. We borrowed around 280K, the rate was a little under 3%.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 04:52 PM (snZF9)
That 20 percent drop in Chinese imports means more jobs here in the US and thus increased GDP.
Posted by: whig
That has no impact on our economy at all.
Posted by: The diminutive, and ignorant, Robert Reich at January 16, 2026 04:52 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (f0sNM)
I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (n9ltV)
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THAT'S RAAAAAYYYYCIIIISSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (syu79)
Certainly priced way out the range of a single family.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Exactly, and to what benefit?
I'd rather young families be able to buy that housing than some private Equity group making a few extra bucks.
If you want to know why young people are gravitating towards socialism, it's this. The feel like they are serfs.
People get way more conservative when they own their own house.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 04:51 PM (AaEou)
Stick to your guns, Marcus. In my naivete I bought an all-electric place and I'd pretty much kill for gas (stove/furnace). I could do it for about 10 grand total but I'm too old to deal with the inconvenience of having that scope of work done.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (VyqMH)
Where do you live? You clearly dont live in an area where this is a thing.
Like I said, I'm not in a touristy area. But aren't those touristy areas just going to slowly move away from home ownership to temporary housing anyway whether its hotels or AirBnBs. Yes in the short term zoning is different but in the long term that doesn't matter - the money people are looking to spend will get the town to change that zoning eventually so if you do restrict one type of temporary housing you'll just get the other.
And to be clear I don't own any rental properties so I'm not trying to justify an investment I myself made.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 04:54 PM (dK+Kv)
Chinese and Korean I'd be at a loss.
German, Italian and Spanish I could tell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 04:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 04:54 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Peaches
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I'd probably pay the $10k to have the gas. Just for the grill alone.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 04:55 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (f0sNM)
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I can discern most of the ones you listed. I don't think I'd be able to discern any of the Nordic languages from one another, just because I've not been exposed to them. Japanese vs. Chinese is easy. Korean is a little more difficult. Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese are trickier for me.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 04:55 PM (5aZAZ)
So, demand filled. No problem, and frankly, they aren't starter homes, either.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 04:55 PM (XuXeR)
So you are saying you had to tune in Tokyo?
Posted by: Girls Just Want to Have Fun at January 16, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)
I love the look on a real estate agents face when I tell them this is required. Especially in Texas.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 04:56 PM (AaEou)
Euro languages? Sure. Asian languages, fuck no.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 04:56 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (f0sNM)
I do far better with European languages than I do the Eastern. Partly because I speak some German. French, German Spanish and Italian are very easy. Dutch sounds like an American trying to speak German. Portuguese will trip me up sometimes. Scandavhoovian, not really good. They all sound like icebacks to me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 16, 2026 04:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Wouldn't the bigger problem really be urbanization then? Which also tends to make people more leftwing
I've been arguing the right should have specific anti-urban policies for a while TBH - get people out of the cities and they'll be a lot less collectivist...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 04:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Peaches
One thing I refuse to have in a house is an electric stove and furnace. My first house as a 22 year old, I didn't know that, but learned quickly.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 04:58 PM (0U5gm)
Since I briefly studied Mandarin in college, I can usually discern it, or a related language.
And maybe Japanese, from words and phrases I picked up from guys in the Navy.
Korean? Not a clue, except in writing. It's writing is the one with the circles.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:58 PM (77rzZ)
If Ace doesn't have a Kathleen Kennedy post in the pipeline or about to post, then I don't know what to think about the world.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
Probably still dealing with a four hour problem. Pray for garrett and his croks.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 04:59 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (f0sNM)
Rosie O'Donnell can help with that:
https://youtu.be/0qINiw6ub5U
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 04:59 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 16, 2026 04:53 PM (f0sNM)
I would bet no for Korean / Japanese / Chinese and yes for French / German / Italian.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 05:00 PM (ULPxl)
Having summer visitors is great, even if they are FIP's, but it does create a wacky real estate market.
Fortunately, the Hoosiers don't stay the night. After a day on the beach spent emptying their mags at each other, they go home. Or to jail.
Posted by: Leo Dicaprio at January 16, 2026 05:00 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 04:37 PM
You keep your weed in there.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:00 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 04:59 PM (QVmho)
Ace rocked Garrett's crocs off?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 05:00 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 04:58 PM (77rzZ)
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Thai says hello.
But yeah the Hangul alphabet is super easy to differentiate from all the others.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:00 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: 18-1
I've always thought a tax rate based on the density of your living area would help. The more dense, the higher the rates. Although, sprawl does cost a lot more in terms of government services...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 05:00 PM (ycI94)
And get eastern European but never sure what, like Hungarian or not.
French, Geman and Italian are easy to tell
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 05:00 PM (Ia/+0)
I've been arguing the right should have specific anti-urban policies for a while TBH - get people out of the cities and they'll be a lot less collectivist...
Posted by: 18-1
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The short term rental issue is definitely effecting non-urban areas. Suburbs especially. Single family housing.
There's not a lot of single family housing in say NYC or other dense urban areas.
If anything, I think the huge cost increases might be pushing people into the cities and just renting apartments.
It used to be you went out to the suburbs and could afford a decent sized house.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 05:01 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 05:02 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 16, 2026 05:02 PM (36bTp)
Apparently it is in many places.
Posted by: Marcus T
Nothing wrong with septic unless you are raising elephants.
Posted by: If It Don't Flush, Don't Fuss, Call Us at January 16, 2026 05:02 PM (oftw2)
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I can discern most of the ones you listed. I don't think I'd be able to discern any of the Nordic languages from one another, just because I've not been exposed to them. Japanese vs. Chinese is easy. Korean is a little more difficult. Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese are trickier for me.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 04:55 PM (5aZAZ)
Aren't Swedish / Norwegian / Danish essentially the same with slight pronunciation and written language variations?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 05:03 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 05:03 PM (5aZAZ)
Our current house was all electric when we moved in. First thing I did was bring in gas. CenterPoint installed the meter for no charge.
"dang! free!?!"
yep. when your neighbors find out they'll want it too.
He was right, six years later they be getting gas all over the place. Might have been the generator that did it but now I have stove, tankless water heater and grill. Will add house heater and dryer when they get replaced.
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 05:03 PM (8uzBS)
Certainly priced way out the range of a single family.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 04:51 PM (BSdIE)
All the small, early 20th century homes in San Antonio near the Pearl and downtown are either deferred maintenance (because they knew they could sell to investors who would fix them up so why bother?) or short term rentals.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 16, 2026 05:04 PM (FO06m)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 05:07 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Leo Dicaprio at January 16, 2026 05:00 PM (8AONa)
More properly referred to as Indianimals.
Posted by: Peaches at January 16, 2026 05:08 PM (VyqMH)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 16, 2026 05:09 PM (vV6n9)
No insulation to speak of - so as we remodeled each room, we took the ship lap down, installed insulation batting, then put the ship lap back in place. Covered the walls with sheet rock and went from there.
One thing is for sure - our house isn't gonna fall down anytime soon!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 05:09 PM (79IuU)
Apparently it is in many places.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 04:51 PM (AaEou)
Its a big piss off with me. At one end of my street they got sewers, at my end we got septic. Up at the top of the street, 100 yards past me, they got gas lines. Again, we got squat, so I have oil. At the top of my street is an area between 2 different gas companies. The gas company that has jurisdiction says tough shit, no gas for you. The gas company right there at the line says no problem, we can run you gas, but the other company has to sign off on it, and they won't. The reason? Dickhead gas company says it would make them look bad for not running gas. My neighbor has been fighting for years to get gas. He filled me in on all this bullshit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 05:11 PM (snZF9)
A lot of the same type are now mountaineering.
When I watch the shows on climbing Everest I’m usually cheering for the mountain.
Does that make me a bad person?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 04:48 PM (AaEou)
Have you seen photos of the Everest base camps? The higher you go, the more they look like a city municipal dump, or a homeless camp under the interstate. Trash everywhere, because dumbass white environmentalists aren't fit enough to be able to pack out all their refuse.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 05:12 PM (y9nCu)
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For More… https://bet2bright221.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:42 AM (eZWdu)
Trump Again Warns Walz and Frey: Start Enforcing the Law, Or Federal Troops Are Coming
I don't hear Democrats taunting "Trump Always Chickens Out now.
"In Minnesota, the Troublemakers, Agitators, and Insurrectionists are, in many cases, highly paid professionals. The Governor and Mayor don't know what to do, they have totally lost control, and our currently being rendered, USELESS!" Trump posted on Truth Social. "If, and when, I am forced to act, it will be solved, QUICKLY and EFFECTIVELY!"
... The 1807 Insurrection Act allows the president to use the military to enforce civil law and disperse demonstrators "[w]henever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings."
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree Some fun facts: 1. The Insurrection Act has been invoked 30 times by 17 different presidents. 2. In fact, 37% of American presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act. 3. It was invoked to deal with rebellions and uprisings. What are rebellions and uprisings? Examples: - Armed groups openly defied federal law - State or local authorities could not or would not enforce federal law - Violence or organized resistance threatened the authority of the federal government - Courts were blocked, taxes couldn’t be collected, or officials were attacked Look I just described Minnesota.
🚨 BREAKING: Despite the screeching leftists following them everywhere, ICE is STILL being seen successfully making arrests around Minneapolis today
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 13, 2026
DON’T SLOW DOWN, GUYS! KEEP PUSHING! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/y7twOSqHaO
Luke
@LukeTaylorUSA Pause for a moment and notice something.. Look at this video from the perspective of "layers" Layer 1: you have frontline agitators who physically encroach but do nothing else aside from yell & hurl vulgarity Layer 2: Behind layer1 you have those I call grapplers. They will swoop in and shove or pull on an agent then fall back behind layer1. Layer 3: Noise & light obstructionists. They blow whistles, bullhorns, honk car horns, beat on drums or trash can lids.. maximum auditory infusion to make a scene appear to be chaotic. To appear to be out of control Layer 4: The "press people". These people have vests on and press badges but are not members of any press corps. They immediately move to capture images and video of any action by agents. They are constantly taking pictures of agents faces. Every image is scoured later for any and all ways to doxx or publicly ID law enforcement for obvious reasons Every bit of this is optics. Every bit of this is rehearsed & practiced. These people have training. These videos are a production so they can frame law enforcement with selectively edited video with one goal in mind... one end-state objective: To erode public support of Operarion At Large They need sound bites & slick video clips to run on the evening news cycle (the MSM are their allies in this end-state objective) That's what this is all about It's a play straight out of the psychological operations manual being used against law enforcement by a communist insurgency They have training. They have funding. They have singular purpose. This is an insurgency
🚨 BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) January 15, 2026
While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents. City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats.
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/pGpWbKynXN
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (iFTx/)
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Posted by: Kratwurst at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (zWGac)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (2uFUy)
Posted by: 496 at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (SSiCQ)
"To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
- Hakeem Jeffries
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (pkeXY)
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.
Also, the Middle East. For some values of "quiet reflection time".
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (2uFUy)
Posted by: kallisto at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (DDJSl)
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Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: steevy at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (YwEeS)
Well, a lot of them are Muslims- so…
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (0RGA5)
somewhere
maybe Keir Starmer's house
Posted by: kallisto at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 02:45 PM (pkeXY)
It it, the f-, it, flame, flames. Flames . . . on the side of my face . . . breathing- breathle-, heaving breaths.
--Madeline Kahn
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 02:45 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 02:45 PM (VE6XX)
Pause for a moment and notice something..
Look at this video from the perspective of "layers"
...
Every bit of this is optics. Every bit of this is rehearsed & practiced. These people have training. These videos are a production so they can frame law enforcement with selectively edited video with one goal in mind... one end-state objective:
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Yes, because far from being "just an idea,", Antifa is a well-organized system. It is, bear with me, an organization. As an organization, it engages in street-level violent action to cause fear and force compliance with its objectives.
If only there were a term for such an organization.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:45 PM (GyQIQ)
Where is PETA? I worry about those perverts getting anywhere near innocent baby goats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 02:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 02:46 PM (0RGA5)
While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents. City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats.
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.
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Sure, but it needn't be Minneapolis. It's actually surprising that this is Minneapolis.
Take out the references to who did it and why, and I would assume that it happened in Silicon Valley.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:46 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Moonbeam at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (rbKZ6)
You can't warn a child that has learned it can get away with anything.
You have to punish them, HARSHLY, and then the warnings work.
Stop warning and make an example.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (cuae1)
GDP hits 5.5%.
Meaning the American economy is now growing faster than China.
(Ed: and that assumes you believe the Chinese numbers, which nobody does)
- Productivity growth tripled
- Wages are growing 3.8%
- Layoffs are the lowest since 2022
- Inflation is just 1.7% per Truflation
https://is.gd/AEVlgZ
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (Riz8t)
Somalis, goats, some assembly not required please.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: I Do Have A Billy Goat Blower at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Doctor Strangelove at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (ClDUJ)
Posted by: Achmed, Baby Goat Fucker at January 16, 2026 02:48 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:45 PM (GyQIQ)
A vigorous application of hickory shampoo will go a long way toward eradicating the vermin.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 16, 2026 02:48 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (Riz8t)
a charisma void
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 02:48 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 02:48 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 02:49 PM (VE6XX)
Nobody alive likes baby goats more than DanMa'am. She wants me to pass by her goat friends at every chance so she can wave and say hi to the goats.
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 02:49 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (SSiCQ)
Better to send the Guard from a different state. Doesn't matter, if they're federalized, and you don't have to worry about potential divided loyalties.
Posted by: Doctor Strangelove at January 16, 2026 02:49 PM (IG3/x)
https://tinyurl.com/8nusctwt
Posted by: beckster at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (I7J98)
Yes, but as is explained, many of them are not journalists, they're participants cosplaying as journalists. Not that there's any difference in how they'll present what's happening.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: DanMan
I hear that goats are kinda asshoe when they're grown.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (cuae1)
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He *really* doesn't want to. Sending troops to invade American cities is a rubicon moment. We may have to cross that rubicon - and I think it would be fully justified if we do - but I am sure he would prefer not to. If he can bully them into compliance, that would be preferable to forcibly occupying an American city, imposing martial law, instituting curfews and searches, ramping up detainment, etc. I think he will do it if bullying fails, but it will be very hard to manage it in terms of "how it plays in Peoria" and may trigger massive actions in other Antifa stronghold cities.
It's a dangerous game all around. Better not to play it, but it's also a game where *all* players have to agree not to play. The hard left wants to play, and therefore everyone *has* to play.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (GyQIQ)
- Hakeem Jeffries
Shaddup and wait your turn.
- President Donald J. Trump
(Wishful thinking)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (M0V4/)
I've posted the relevant sections of the IA here before, and won't do it again, but here's a .pdf link to the full text:
https://tinyurl.com/45f7hy2r
Sec 331 is the "voluntary" section. That's when the governor of a state requests federal help. Sec. 332 and 333 are the involuntary provisions, where the president acts on his own. 332 is about enforcing federal law. 333 is about even enforcing state laws if the local authorities are unwilling or unable to do so -- it's sort of a total breakdown of law and order thing.
Posse Comitatus doesn't apply, and the full military can be used, regular forces.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (w6EFb)
Layer 1: you have frontline agitators. . . .
zombie described this years ago.
These are tried and true tactics the various Left rioters have used, because they are all funded and trained by the samepeople.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 02:51 PM (LlV+5)
Jamaicans make a wonderful dish called "Jamaican Goat Curry." Scotch bonnet peppers, coconut milk, ginger, fresh tomato sauce, potato chunks, and a curry marinated goat meat.
Good stuff...and if you're advocating for goats to improve my mood, this is the way to do it.
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 02:51 PM (dIske)
Aloha Snackbar!
Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at January 16, 2026 02:51 PM (0sNs1)
___
Would love to see the Mississippi National Guard roll in and crack some SmartGlasses.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 16, 2026 02:52 PM (bNf8H)
They have training. They have funding. They have singular purpose. This is an insurgency
-
Everyone involved is culpable, therefore maximum force against the entire crowd is the appropriate response.
Don't give them a martyr here or their to whine about. Wipe out the entire mass so that anyone thinking of joining them is afraid to, and no one in the future will be tempted to follow their path.
Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 02:52 PM (vSvIl)
They also climb trees, lol
https://tinyurl.com/32hnv6tw
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 02:52 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (SSiCQ)
Better to send the Guard from a different state. Doesn't matter, if they're federalized, and you don't have to worry about potential divided loyalties.
Posted by: Doctor Strangelove at January 16, 2026 02:49 PM (IG3/x)
That would be a tiny War Between the States, though--or immediately labeled as such. Full disclosure: I am completely ignorant on all of this. My thinking was: local, statewide, military, ready to go.
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (h/O4U)
Seems to me, you just arrest the whole crowd for interfering with law enforcement. Which of course takes man power, so yep, bring in the Natties. Even if you release them at 3 AM, you have their unmasked photos, fingerprints, etc to start dismantling the network.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (NpAcC)
Do B until they scream and cower then do it more. Do B so much that people even like me go to bed at night and worry, "have we gone to far?" and then slap me hard and yell, "NO PUSSY, WE HAVEN'T DONE B ENOUGH!" and then keep doing B. Do B until the B stick is worn and broken then buy a new B stick and keep doing B.
Posted by: banana Dream - while(true) do B at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (uEmCf)
Nobody alive likes baby goats more than DanMa'am. She wants me to pass by her goat friends at every chance so she can wave and say hi to the goats.
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 02:49 PM (8uzBS)
baby sharks
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (SSiCQ)
I hear that goats are kinda asshoe when they're grown.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM
They do eat poison oak but they eat it after they've eaten everything else first.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (ClDUJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (77rzZ)
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Yes. And they virtually cannot be contained. They climb. They jump. They run. They head-butt and attack for any reason or no reason at all.
Miserable creatures. Their best purpose is to be chained up in a highway median to act as lawnmowers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (GyQIQ)
they're edible at that stage...DanMa'am is a great cook
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (2L+MU)
1. The Insurrection Act has been invoked 30 times by 17 different presidents.
Some Presidents are more equal than others.
-Chief Justice John Roberts
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (M0V4/)
I've seen videos of ICE dealing with these cretins and whatever it takes to protect them and continue mass deportations.
If pink haired nostril ringed lesbians get caught up in the deportation, that's even better!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (uWKK8)
More to the point, though, I wonder what Trump's waiting for. If there's some trigger, or timeline, or critical mass of something or other metric that says "not yet."
IMO the threshold for the Insurrection Act passed a awhile ago, but I'm just some tough-talking Internet rando, not a serious person.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (/JT24)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (iFTx/)
Never been to a rave, why do they sell water? Is it because the x makes you thirsty?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (ClDUJ)
"Participation is entirely optional. There is no expectation to speak or actively participate - attendees are welcome to simply sit, listen, and be in community with each other."
That sounds an awful lot like a command performance. A threat.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (y9nCu)
Seems to me, you just arrest the whole crowd for interfering with law enforcement. Which of course takes man power, so yep, bring in the Natties. Even if you release them at 3 AM, you have their unmasked photos, fingerprints, etc to start dismantling the network.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (n5tGW)
Post their names and addresses, along with the names and addresses of their employers.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 16, 2026 02:56 PM (i0Hi3)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 02:56 PM (Ia/+0)
ICE needs to arrest obstructers, and definitely any that make physical obstructions.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 02:56 PM (vbXSk)
Miserable creatures. Their best purpose is to be chained up in a highway median to act as lawnmowers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
I think it was your brother who was ranting against them here sometime back. He was talking from personal experience.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
For instance, if you've squandered your money, lost Federal funding, and can't call up your National Guard because you can't pay them.
"Get ready", indeed.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 02:56 PM (hLZfT)
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Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (y9nCu)
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What is this in reference to? Is *attendance* mandatory, but "participation" is not?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (kpS4V)
It's like they're kindergarten teachers but their students are huge, violent angry toddlers.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (ClDUJ)
If the IA is invoked, then no half-measures. There needs to be overwhelming force, no pussy-footing around. Get it over and under control quickly before the left agit-prop gets up all sort of video and other "bad optics" of force being used.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (w6EFb)
I think that too was a choreographed event, with layers and documentation.
(He was the Patriot Prayer guy in Portland who was leaving a protest and got shot. They had blocking cars, cleanup crew, and people filming.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (D5z+u)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Come try our Goat Biryani.
Posted by: Your local Indian restaurant at January 16, 2026 02:58 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 02:58 PM (NpAcC)
30 > �healing circle� with �therapy goats.�
Or, as it's known in Somalia, "date night".
Posted by: Doctor Strangelove at January 16, 2026 02:47 PM (IG3/x)
You're killin' me over here! 🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 02:58 PM (7bVpJ)
Thus leading to the well-known phenomenon of Middle Eastern goat-trafficking rings.
Many years ago a relative of mine lived in an apartment building with some Middle Easterners upstairs.
She heard weird noises all the time, not like people walking around.
Then one day she looked up at their balcony and saw the goat on it.
Yep, they had a goat living in there.
The landlord was not amused.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 02:58 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: DanMa'am at January 16, 2026 02:58 PM (8uzBS)
1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 02:58 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 16, 2026 02:58 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (n5tGW)
It's fairly easy to walk thru a group and pick out the leaders. It would be fun to grab a couple of them for some neighborhood interrogation. It would be...revealing.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 02:59 PM (2WIwB)
they're edible at that stage...DanMa'am is a great cook
Posted by: DanMan at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (8uzBS)
MMMM...nuttin' like mutton!
Posted by: Lizzie Bordan's Old Man at January 16, 2026 02:59 PM (GTqXr)
They have been getting trained for years, and the feds refuse to investigate and treat it as a criminal conspiracy to roll up.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 02:59 PM (D5z+u)
What is this in reference to? Is *attendance* mandatory, but "participation" is not?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (GyQIQ)
The goat therapy post. I'm pretty sure it's a command to both attend and participate.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 02:59 PM (y9nCu)
She heard weird noises all the time, not like people walking around.
Then one day she looked up at their balcony and saw the goat on it.
Yep, they had a goat living in there.
The landlord was not amused.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Their pimp hand was strong.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 02:59 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 02:59 PM (y9nCu)
++++
LOL. Yeah, no.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:59 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (kpS4V)
I wonder if they have some sort of noise canceling ear protection that still allows them to hear spoke words.
Cause yeah some shit holding a bullhorn in my ear on squawk would get a nut punch for sure.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 16, 2026 02:59 PM (i0Hi3)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Yes, and some imbecile radio host on a supposedly conservative show and station parroted that like a timwalz. Oh, it was phrased as a question, but that made it clear the dude is a Kristol type.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 03:00 PM (ULPxl)
They need lists of all those that went through training on how to commit the criminal act of obstructing ICE. When they show up at an ICE location and begin obstruction, arrest them all, and prosecute them. Make these thugs pay.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 03:00 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 03:00 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Step 2 would be requiring everyone in the area to show up at federal office to pick up their benefits cheks.
Step 3 would be arresting anyone with food dye on them.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (D5z+u)
I think that too was a choreographed event, with layers and documentation.
(He was the Patriot Prayer guy in Portland who was leaving a protest and got shot. They had blocking cars, cleanup crew, and people filming.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (D5z+u)
I suspect there is FAR more organization than people realize, still.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: A Goat at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (2UnvF)
Note Sec 334, the proclamation to disperse. When POTUS invokes it, he must give a warning that the shit is getting real:
Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the armed forces under this chapter, he shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents or those obstructing the enforcement of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Diogenes
Snipe from a hide with suppressed weapons and subsonic ammo.
"Hey John! It's time to pass out the bullhorns. John? John! WTF???"
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, and Bob Lurtsema at January 16, 2026 03:02 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:02 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Nick Saban at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (jc0TO)
Maybe ICE need heavier duty vehicles, Stryker would be able to run past any civilian vehicle.
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 03:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Space Shuttle tractor
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (y9nCu)
THIS
Also helps that there are people on X who have been tracking these activists/antifa types who are already helping identify them, such as Andy Ngo.
The young independent jornos, such as Nick Sortor (https://x.com/nicksortor) and Cam Higby get video ate the protests, then the X researchers IS them. #Winning!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (LlV+5)
WHACK HIS PEE PEE!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: George Costanza at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (2Ez/1)
Also the left: So what if people assault ICE agents. They are angry and have a right to protest. And if they just stopped enforcing immigration law we could have peace again!
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Where would ice house the whole crowd if the local police force is not cooperating?
The small crowds of violent protesters have the upper-hand and they know it.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: A Goat at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (2UnvF)
Anyone getting paid to be there is a traitor.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 03:04 PM (2WIwB)
kumbaya
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:04 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 16, 2026 03:05 PM (TezPK)
I would use the proclamation to disperse to make a serious show of force. Have a few fighter jets scream overheard, maybe attack helicopters pop up over.
Let them know the shit has hit the fan, and POTUS ain't playin'. Disperse and retire to your "abodes" or time to see Jesus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 03:05 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 03:05 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 16, 2026 03:05 PM (y0ylk)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 03:05 PM (n5tGW)
Just like the story hours aren't for the kids, but for the queens.
(and the AWFLs who masturbate to both)
Posted by: barbarausa at January 16, 2026 03:05 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Where would ice house the whole crowd if the local police force is not cooperating?
The small crowds of violent protesters have the upper-hand and they know it.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (F3Dlr)
I have some ideas.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 03:06 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (iFTx/)
Never been to a rave, why do they sell water? Is it because the x makes you thirsty?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (ClDUJ)
_______
Yup. Very thirsty. You can usually tell who is really tripping by how many water bottles they have. Or. in the case of a hot girl, how many bottles the guys are carrying for her.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
They know who they are, who the leaders are, who is funding them, where and when they are trained. But they chose not to do anything about it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 03:06 PM (D5z+u)
The Babylon Bee gets scooped again by Democrat reality.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 03:07 PM (hLZfT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I bex you not to express yours.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:07 PM (77rzZ)
Anyone getting paid to be there is a traitor.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 03:04 PM (2WIwB)
Exactly! And start De-naturalization proceedings against them! Get them the fuck out of my country. I've had enough!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 16, 2026 03:07 PM (y0ylk)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (fA38o)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
Also, increased body temps.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (3AyDK)
Hey, her trip to the UK is off, so she's got the time.
Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (2L+MU)
They discuss it as if ICE is the Gestapo or something but from the gleam of their eyes I suspect they kind of want some burly ICE agent to put them in cuffs but not take them to the station...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)
A day or two ago, Mrs Cop was watching The Five. The lefty woman on The Five (the one with the "smart girl" over-sized glasses) was nattering about "ICE stopping U.S. citizens and demanding papers."
That's apparently the next thing being tested in real-time. So far, normie Americans are yawning over the fact that a bunch of violent Aztecs and thieving Somalis are getting rounded-up by ICE.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (pJWtt)
Anyone getting paid to be there is a traitor.
Posted by: Diogenes
Same as the J6'ers.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)
'House'? They're already dressed for winter, aren't they?
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 03:09 PM (hLZfT)
The small crowds of violent protesters have the upper-hand and they know it.
Posted by: old chick
The Vikings are out of the playoffs. Stadium is large enough.
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 16, 2026 03:09 PM (TezPK)
It's all fun and games until one of them drags a leashed goat thru the community parking, slits the screeching goat's throat and hangs it from the garage door to bleed out - in front of kids playing street hockey.
I'm sick and tired of respecting 3rd world customs.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:10 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
Also, increased body temps.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (iXqHn)
___
That too ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:10 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Skip
Bwahahahahahahaha! No, wait.
Bwahahahahahahaha! What maroons.
IT'S CALLED OBSTRUCTION.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 03:10 PM (sui1r)
And supposedly Karen Deathwheels and her lesbowife were told ICE doesn't carry live ammunition.
I suspect the midtier people in the left's protest org are trying to set the street thugs up for a little unexpected martyrdom/prison time...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:10 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Danimal28 at January 16, 2026 03:10 PM (mNOhh)
Yes there will be a build-up for an entire armed state to deal with the coordinated corruption and racketeering. A super metastasis of a huge investigative apparatus. A whole legal system for rolling up and destroying organizations. And all perfectly timed for release when the left takes over to suppress and end their enemies.
And all the current delay is in line with my intuition.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 03:10 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 03:10 PM (n5tGW)
Therapy Coordinator: The what?
Somali from City Attorney's Office: The rapey goats.
Therapy Coordinator: That's therapy goats.
Somali from City Attorney's Office: Ohhh. Nevermind then.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 16, 2026 03:11 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: The Sheep at January 16, 2026 03:11 PM (E24OL)
Seems some invasions of illegals is different than others.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 16, 2026 03:11 PM (fA38o)
Posted by: Octochicken at January 16, 2026 03:11 PM (oCS0o)
The Bureau of Land Management gets involved in shoot outs with protestors: Yawn
An ICE Agent shoots a woman trying to run him down: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 16, 2026 03:12 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 03:12 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
Also, increased body temps.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (iXqHn)
Nic checks out.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 03:12 PM (e2+im)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 03:12 PM (8Xy/A)
When people from that little OH town said they didn't want thousands of Haitians they were told to STFU and STFD - this is a federal issue and not up to them.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 16, 2026 03:13 PM (y0ylk)
I'm pretty sure they are laughing at us, though.
Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 03:13 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 03:13 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Napoleon at January 16, 2026 03:14 PM (jGJov)
Who will now save the baby goats?
I watched the film. I have to say the ICE agents are much more patient than I am. I'd push that whistle down that lesbo's throat for starters.
They need larger vehicles. Paddy wagons. Swoop them all in to do whatever inside, and then spray some xanax into the wagon for processing. Altho a waste of xanax. Maybe chloroform or mustard gas.
DEPORT THEM ALL! INCLUDING LESBOS!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 03:14 PM (WONhk)
They know it’s illegal. But their objective is conflict.
Most of these people don’t even know where the posts are coming from.
They are being used and don’t even realize it.
*baaah*
Posted by: The Sheep at January 16, 2026 03:14 PM (E24OL)
It comes down to the actual police unit in question. Some are leftist assholes, some are right leaning Chads and most just want to do their jobs with as little risk to their pensions as possible...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM (sKqQm)
----
Cool
Just like he warned Iran
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:12 PM
Suffolks will do anything for a pun.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM (0sNs1)
get the cannons
Posted by: Napoleon at January 16, 2026 03:14 PM (jGJov)
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To an artillerist, every problem can be solved with grapeshot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM (X4XpB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM (mlg/3)
...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (y9nCu)
++++
What is this in reference to? Is *attendance* mandatory, but "participation" is not?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (GyQIQ)
moar uptwinkles!
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 03:16 PM (0sNs1)
Minneapolis PD morale is very low again:
https://is.gd/eUg47i
Just as I suspected, they ain't onboard with the Walz and Frey agenda.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 03:16 PM (w6EFb)
They know who they are, who the leaders are, who is funding them, where and when they are trained. But they chose not to do anything about it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 03:06 PM (D5z+u)
I suspect that there's stuff going on in the background that we don't know. Evidence to support convictions for Domestic Terrorism needs to be gathered.
I don't think that the howling monkeys are the win that the Democrats think they are. Pres. Trump is giving Walz and Frey opportunities to de-escalate. They're not taking the hints: last night, Frey talked about the desire to "fight ICE" with the Minneapolis Police.
This is also a public-relations conflict.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 03:16 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
I think they use airburst shells now.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2026 03:17 PM (mlg/3)
Lotsa non-white faces under those ICE masks. If ICE is a white supremist Nazi gestapo, they are the suckiest white supremist Nazi gestapo evah.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM
When you miss, however, it's a whiff.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)
Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Winter's here and the time is right
Insurrection in the street
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 03:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 03:17 PM (VE6XX)
The small crowds of violent protesters have the upper-hand and they know it.
As long as you can get a local PD to assist, you cloward-piven the protest arrests.
This happened in DC a few times when I lived in the area. The local police chief would meet the leaders of each group that got a protest permit, gave them the guidelines (stay in your designated protest area, no destruction/violence), and warned them that if they did not comply, immediate arrests would happen. He always followed through on this warning. A few times they arrested a huge number of protesters, which resulted in each protester spending 12+ hours at the station being processed. They haaaated this, and complained. They expected a speedy, symbolic protest and then buh-bye.
Do it, and make it a bureaucratically tedious and lengthy process.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 03:18 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 03:18 PM (hhkIi)
Why are the email addresses blacked out in those exposes (the goat therapy invite)? They're government systems.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 03:18 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Just those of us with no sense of chamois.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 03:19 PM (BSdIE)
One thing that came out of the Rittenhouse trial was that the feds have drones over these riots and know exactly who is there. But as you point out even Trump has yet to do anything with that information...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)
Is that before or after the afternoon cannabis relaxation sessions?
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 03:19 PM (GUOwU)
It's all fake and ghey.
Posted by: Potentially lethal performatives for progressive putzes at January 16, 2026 03:20 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 03:18 PM (LlV+5)
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Does "bureaucratically tedious" cover thumbscrews?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 16, 2026 03:21 PM (X4XpB)
This is also a public-relations conflict.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 03:16 PM (pJWtt)
The problem is that we assume that most people are logical.
They are not.
They still go along with the Accepted Media Narrative more often than not.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:21 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Fen at January 16, 2026 03:21 PM (ciYHQ)
"Ask The Imam" was fantastic unintentional comedy.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 03:22 PM (2ocoG)
Did anyone see this?
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/
2011859986637275372
Basically, if Trump doesn't decisively smack the shit out of these people now, we'll have leftist violence in the streets for the next 10 years.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 03:22 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)
________
I can't say they aren't fun. They are. I wouldn't just drop moly in my living room, but in the noise and excitement of a rave they add an additional dimension, like you "feel" the music and beat in an unnaturally pleasurable way. It's euphoric. Time and place for everything, as they say.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)
After making them put on one of those "handmaid" costumes and get impregnated by a strong, powerful man, while lying on top of another woman.
The weird thing isn't that someone as kinky as Margaret Atwood exists, the weird thing is that so many women apparently share her fantasy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 03:23 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 03:23 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 03:23 PM (Kt19C)
Stop warning them and do it
Posted by: Fen
=============
Yes. They'll figure out that they can do this indefinitely.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 03:23 PM (x4Mz/)
When the donation envelope arrives, check the back on the envelope flap, the one I received said the fundraising org received 97 cents of every dollar contributed. To my embarrassment I had never read that small print until I had donated for 6+ years.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:23 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:24 PM (3AyDK)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE COMMONLY MARRY THEIR COUSINS, BUT DON'T WANT TO SHARE COMFORT GOATS.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 16, 2026 03:24 PM (LlV+5)
What city government has goats just wandering around? Oh wait ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Just relax and let it happen, kid at January 16, 2026 03:24 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM (X4XpB)
The thought of firing 32 pounds of grapeshot into a mob of communists...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 03:25 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: DMT at January 16, 2026 03:25 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 03:17 PM (VE6XX)
It took weeks of preparation to snatch Maduro.
An aircraft carrier has been ordered to take station off the coast of Iran. Obviously, that means Pres. Trump is going to do nothing.
After him being POTUS for 5 years, I would have thought people would have figured-out his negotiating style by now. He gives people plenty of opportunities to make a deal. They don't take the deal, he drops a hammer on their head. He doesn't reflexively resort to military action first.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 03:25 PM (pJWtt)
Wait, is that in the Handmaids tale?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:25 PM (zZu0s)
Maybe some garbage truck type affair with a scoop on the front.
Posted by: Uhura at January 16, 2026 03:25 PM (vFG9F)
get the cannons
Posted by: Napoleon
Just one dose of the nosebleed cannon we used in Venezuela, if real, would stop everything. And word would get out to all the other cells.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 03:26 PM (hLZfT)
They discuss it as if ICE is the Gestapo or something but from the gleam of their eyes I suspect they kind of want some burly ICE agent to put them in cuffs but not take them to the station...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)
__________
"This guy gets it!"
-- Cheesy Romance Novels
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:26 PM (iFTx/)
Just want the process to be the punishment, as Team Coup and then Biden's DOJ did with so many of Trump's team (e.g. Michale Flynn) and the J6 people.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 16, 2026 03:26 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: pawn at January 16, 2026 03:26 PM (rbIOb)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 16, 2026 03:15 PM (X4XpB)
The thought of firing 32 pounds of grapeshot into a mob of communists...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 03:25 PM (IG3/x)
One whiff only, Vasili.
Posted by: Capt. Marko Napoleonamus at January 16, 2026 03:26 PM (TbWk/)
Maybe some garbage truck type affair with a scoop on the front.
Posted by: Uhur
Soylent Red?
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 03:26 PM (hLZfT)
The small crowds of violent protesters have the upper-hand and they know it.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (F3Dlr)
Temporary gulags. Concertina wire and tents. Ya tear down your shelter, you freeze. Difficult decision for these retards I know.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 03:27 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 16, 2026 03:27 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:27 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:25 PM (zZu0s)
It sure is.
As I recall, a disease or something had made most women infertile, so the few remaining fertile women were forced to become "handmaids", to be impregnated by strong, powerful wealthy men, while the strong, powerful, wealthy man was (at least in theory) looking at his actual wife who was underneath the "handmaid".
The most far-fetched part of this Karen masturbation fantasy was the part where the United States had been taken over by a totalitarian religious dictatorship, but Canada was somehow still Just Fine.
YeahNo.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 03:28 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: The Crucible at January 16, 2026 03:28 PM (zu4CJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:28 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 03:28 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:27 PM (KDPiq)
Round them up, shoulder them into place.
Posted by: They skirt the law at January 16, 2026 03:28 PM (TbWk/)
Canister- is that like a prepackaged container of smaller balls but has the same effect, but makes it easier to load and fire?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
That, and it can make the most boring person alive seem interesting as they ramble on incessantly...
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:29 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Dave at January 16, 2026 03:29 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 16, 2026 03:29 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: The Crucible
I saw Pete Hegseth with the Devil!
And I saw Kristi Noem with the Devil!
And I saw Marco Rubio with the Devil!
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:28 PM (RIvkX)
Yeah.. I get that... I wouldn't expect him to tell the media what he's gonna do....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (VE6XX)
I remember reading some of Nancy Friday's books in college. It was eye opening about the sorts of fantasies some women have. Well, at the time I guess. A bit of research on the modern internet says she wasn't just making stuff up at least.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
I'd be fine with that. Winter storm like today or not. Unfortunately, agree or not, the optics of cages is not optimum for the Trump admin.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:29 PM (FpHTM)
Huh.
*makes note to always keep some Molly on hand*
Posted by: Hand it out to everyone I meet at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 03:28 PM (VE6XX)
Yeah, I saw a thumbnail on ewetub yesterday saying somwthing like 'Head of Proud Boys listed as an ICE agent in government records!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (zZu0s)
For example you always see them deploy shit around the new year, because in a new year (as it begins) the mind is more susceptible and ready to incorporate novel information. To believe things are "different", for example. Even though of course it's still just Tuesday.
So it's notable to me that they ramped up the rioting in the new year, which incidentally also squashed the Somali Fraud story, which might have been our own side's version of "novel information". Almost as if to "define" the year, which is now an election year too.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:31 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:29 PM (zZu0s)
Yep.
There was also chain shot, which consisted of two balls connected by a length of chain. It went through troop formations like a combine harvester goes through a field of wheat.
Nasty stuff.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 03:31 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 03:31 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Dave
I wonder if they found that goat that was loose in St. Louis yet.
Or the monkeys.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at January 16, 2026 03:31 PM (acpVa)
Posted by: epador at January 16, 2026 03:31 PM (TRnzq)
I never dreamed ICE would come looking for Ramon. Then they came….
-Karen Wallbridge
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 03:32 PM (cd3eP)
Also, I'm retarded.
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 16, 2026 03:32 PM (PPp1e)
Trump has been acting the exact same way for more than a decade now. It's surprising that some still don't seem to realize how he operates.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 03:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Qasem Soleimani at January 16, 2026 03:32 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 03:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 16, 2026 03:32 PM (4WpkP)
Seems some invasions of illegals is different than others.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
I just tell people, "cute daughter you have there. I hope an illegal doesn't rape & killer her like they did Laken Riley"
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 03:32 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 03:33 PM (EyfuW)
Canister- is that like a prepackaged container of smaller balls but has the same effect, but makes it easier to load and fire?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:29 PM (zZu0s)
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Grapeshot is about half-pound balls stacked on a wooden spindle and bound with linen.
Canister is about 500 musket balls in a light metal can.
Both can be loaded as quickly as a full-sized shot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 16, 2026 03:33 PM (X4XpB)
U.S.C. §§ 331-335 Sec 334
Proclamation to disperse
Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the armed forces under
this chapter, he shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents or those
obstructing the enforcement of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes
within a limited time.
Pull the damn pin already.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 03:33 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:33 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:33 PM (KDPiq)
Also the left: Melania did a risque photo shoot with another woman...BURN THE LESBIAN WITCH
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:33 PM (sKqQm)
Basically, J6 them.
Trump is still reluctant to do what needs to be done. I don't know why he winks at lawlessness on the Left.
He needs a war time consigliere , not a DEI hire in the FBI and a Green Room AG.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 03:34 PM (WCaCG)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 03:34 PM (k0PcD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 03:34 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 03:18 PM (LlV+5)
; )
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:34 PM (SSiCQ)
They did this effectively in the movie The Witch
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 03:34 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 03:35 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 16, 2026 03:08 PM (fA38o)
AoSHq stylesheet says "ghey"
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:35 PM (SSiCQ)
The Canadian economy is sinking. Communism to the rescue.
Get ready to assume the position, Canada.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 03:35 PM (zIokw)
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (vK/Ja)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 03:34 PM (k0PcD)
Uncastrated male goats can get pretty foul.
Females and castrated males don't smell much worse than any other farm animals. Their poop doesn't stink nearly as much as cows, or even horses. Pigs don't enter into it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 03:35 PM (EyfuW)
What did you say? You didnt say bl a zer did you?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s)
they're eating the pets
of the people
that live there
Posted by: brak at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (F3Dlr)
Put them in a stripped-down warehouse then. Feed them beans and water.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Dave
......
And the dogs. And the cats. And the ducks.
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 03:37 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:37 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 16, 2026 03:37 PM (nDXEV)
Posted by: Skip
Flavor the water with AG1. That shit will drive anyone away.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 03:37 PM (abIsI)
I remember reading some of Nancy Friday's books in college. It was eye opening about the sorts of fantasies some women have. Well, at the time I guess. A bit of research on the modern internet says she wasn't just making stuff up at least.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 03:30 PM (sKqQm)
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I've long thought that there is not nearly the difference b/t men and women in terms of sexuality and sexual appetites than we are led to believe. I think proper society has largely swept women's more ... errr ... unusual appetites under the rug for centuries. That's becoming increasingly hard to do.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
DEPORT THEM ALL! INCLUDING LESBOS!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 03:14 PM (WONhk)
Maybe a bulldozer/steam shovel and a dump truck. Just scoop them all up and plunk them in the bed of the truck.
Posted by: Octochicken at January 16, 2026 03:37 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)
This is also an excellent idea.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 03:38 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Skip
Move too slow & you'll stick to the streets. LOL
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 03:38 PM (sui1r)
Posted by: Skip
With orange dye so the prison warden doesn't have to issue a jumpsuit.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2026 03:38 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:38 PM (RIvkX)
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Right. For example sucking lots of dick.
Posted by: Barry Soetero at January 16, 2026 03:38 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 03:17 PM (VE6XX)
you know...if I was backing off a target... I would send two aircraft carriers to the theater, empty out nearby airbases and add a bunch of aerial-refueling tankers nearby
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 03:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (kpS4V)
Saw a video a while back 2016 election cycle where the layer one peeps were all shrieking Karen's, but layer two was more Burley types swinging padlocks on chains from behind the Karen's. If the Burley guy made contact with a victim he was encircled by layer three and rushed to a safe house and a new layer 2 thug stepped in. Vicious people.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (i0Hi3)
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The obvious solution is to go after the organizers and the ones providing funds for it.
Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (Z8jzG)
Maybe some garbage truck type affair with a scoop on the front.
Posted by: Uhur
Soylent Red?
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 03:26 PM (hLZfT)
Trouble with Soylent Red is there's always a shortage.
Posted by: It's people! at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (TbWk/)
BTW if you search that phrase online you'll be by every source that it was all "baseless" and a total hoax
Posted by: brak at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (EyfuW)
I've never had any erotic thoughts about either minotaurs or dinosaurs, I can tell you that much.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (Riz8t)
And they're succeeding.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (rj6Yv)
Woman can turn it off and on. I think that's a huge difference.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (KDPiq)
The Left would sue and easily prevail over the Castrati in the Fe'ral Government's DOJ.
Something about First Amendment Right to Protest.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 03:40 PM (KhyP1)
Posted by: Lizzy
Was it ICE that arrested the protesters in DC?
ICE has no cooperation from the city of Minneapolis, when they held some illegals in a hotel the protesters surrounded and almost made entry into the hotel with NO MPD intervening.
I don't think people understand how isolated ICE is in Minneapolis.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:40 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 03:18 PM (LlV+5)
All kinds of redundancy going on there.
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:40 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)
This is also an excellent idea.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 03:38 PM (g8Ew
Also think maybe every officer carries tire ripper chains to disable the vehicles on the spot.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 16, 2026 03:40 PM (i0Hi3)
Maybe some garbage truck type affair with a scoop on the front.
Posted by: Uhur
With those robot wars spinning buzzsaws on the front.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 03:41 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 03:41 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (KDPiq)
How do you get an Irish girl to stop having sex?
Marry her.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:41 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: The present progtard narrative at January 16, 2026 03:41 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 03:36 PM (BSdIE)
I kinda enjoy the old videos of the hickory shampoos employed by the Chicago cops in Grant Park in 68… we need more of that
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 03:41 PM (k0PcD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:35 PM (zZu0s)
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I admire his tenacity trying to use English.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:42 PM (RIvkX)
Remember when mis/disinformation was going to destroy our precious democracy and tyrants were going to send us all to camps so Social Media companies had to ban and censor people? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Posted by: Croaker at January 16, 2026 03:42 PM (+BcZI)
The Left would sue and easily prevail over the Castrati in the Fe'ral Government's DOJ.
Something about First Amendment Right to Protest.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 03:40 PM (KhyP1)
Pretty sure interfering with a policing action is not a protest.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 16, 2026 03:42 PM (i0Hi3)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (KDPiq)
It's certainly obvious in Minnesota, huh?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 03:42 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (KDPiq)
How do you get an Irish girl to stop having sex?
Marry her.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 03:41 PM (3AyDK)
Ain't just the Irish ones...
Posted by: Marriage - the ultimate scam at January 16, 2026 03:42 PM (TbWk/)
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Especially during winter. And, it's non-lethal unless the targets are especially stupid.
Oh, wait....
But seriously, it would make them absolutely miserable. And cold. But mostly miserable.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 03:43 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 03:41 PM (k0PcD)
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Grant Park? Yippies? It seems like it was just yesterday ...
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 03:43 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 03:43 PM (Riz8t)
BTW if you search that phrase online you'll be by every source that it was all "baseless" and a total hoax
Posted by: brak
......
Proof that AI has no sense of humor. And how do they explain the dramatic reduction in the duck population in Springfield?
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 03:43 PM (UjdFS)
And his sense of gustatory adventure.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 03:43 PM (Riz8t)
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And recycling.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 16, 2026 03:43 PM (X4XpB)
I've never had any erotic thoughts about either minotaurs or dinosaurs, I can tell you that much.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (Riz8t)
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Well no, but it's not the specific object that matters, only the fantasy about an object that's not human. I of course wouldn't fuck a minotaur. That's gay. But Cheetara? One of those hot elves? Kitsune? Any of the hot alien girls that Kirk banged? Yes, in a heartbeat.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
JFK invoked the IA against Henry Wallace way back in the Civil Rights era.
Wallace stood in front of the door at the University of Alabama to prevent black students from registering. A US Deputy AG told Wallace to step aside. He refused.
The a 2-star general walked out and told him to step aside. Wallace stepped aside.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (77rzZ)
Canada. Surrounded by the Lower 48, Alaska, and, soon, Orangeland (formerly Greenland). Heck of a bargaining postition.
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (qoUKC)
Posted by: Skip
Yeah, i heard that you can beat up IRS agents too and they can't do anything to you unless you're cheating on your taxes at the same time.
Me went to Joe Biden Online Law School and me is a lawyer now!
Posted by: Nelly at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (7gpcF)
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (1yT+S)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
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Yvonne Craig.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 16, 2026 03:39 PM (i0Hi3)
The Left has people willing to be human shields for their armed thugs.
We don't.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (abIsI)
These retards will make Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy a virtue.
Don't encourage them.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (c3sdc)
Wallace stood in front of the door at the University of Alabama to prevent black students from registering.
George Wallace?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Guilt Ridden White People Do Some Crazy Shit at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (R/m4+)
They were sucking up to Xi back when Biden was still in too. It's not because of Trump.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)
There was video last night of a vehicle driving slowly in front of the ice compound outside the fence spilling water out of the back, to create an ice hazard for any officers that approached the protesters.
We/ICE aren't on the same playing field.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 03:35 PM (zZu0s)
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I admire his tenacity trying to use English.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 03:42 PM (RIvkX)
tin assity
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:48 PM (SSiCQ)
Neither have I , and I only romance novels I have read are by Barbara Cartland and Georgette Heyer, neither of which are bodice rippers and the latter author in particular features Intelligent and witty men and women who match wits with each other.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 03:48 PM (PFs9e)
Yes, George! I don't where the hell Henry came form -- that was a VP under FDR I think, maybe ran for president himself one time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ian S.
Yeah, Justine gave them permission to station troops there, or something.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
Wallace stood in front of the door at the University of Alabama to prevent black students from registering.
George Wallace?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)
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William Wallace
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (uWKK8)
They're only willing until they stop believing that they're girlbosses and bullets will bounce off of them, just like they do off of Brie Larson's flat ass. If a few more Karens get ventilated that will stop.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Woody Gunthrie at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (4t1fl)
Posted by: publius
Stalin's stooge.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
It's a dangerous game all around. Better not to play it, but it's also a game where *all* players have to agree not to play. The hard left wants to play, and therefore everyone *has* to play.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (GyQIQ)
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The only option open then is to arrest Walz and Frey on corruption charges.
Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (Z8jzG)
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (qoUKC)
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The Sabaton-lite videos with the Danish Flags and Vikings are already going up on YT. 30+ Yoorup troops land in Greenland and they're comparing it to Ukraine.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (BSdIE)
These retards will make Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy a virtue.
Don't encourage them.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (c3sdc)
They already have with their 5-year-old "trans kids" and "gendering ceremonies" at unitarian universalist churches. They don't love or care about their kids as if they're real people - they're accessories that mommy uses to get attention and approval from her fucked-up social group.
Posted by: Look at my stunning and brave support of my trans child at January 16, 2026 03:50 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 03:50 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Guilt Ridden White People Do Some Crazy Shit at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (R/m4+)
ewwwww
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:50 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
Well, at least you've given Bob from the FBI something to work with.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:51 PM (iXqHn)
Wallace stood in front of the door at the University of Alabama to prevent black students from registering.
George Wallace?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)
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William Wallace
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (iFTx/)
Gromit
Wallace
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:51 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 03:50 PM (abIsI)
Would that make them all sooperghey or put them all the away around the bend to straight?
Posted by: Weird science at January 16, 2026 03:51 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 16, 2026 03:52 PM (wBaIH)
Canada's biggest bargaining chip with Trump was the oil sands in Alberta. That was made largely irrelevant by our new bestie Venezuela.
Xi, however, is on the other end of that equation.
There are always 2nd and 3rd level effects to any action in geopolitics.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rex B at January 16, 2026 03:52 PM (4t1fl)
Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 03:46 PM (qoUKC)
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Orangeland. Snort. Please let it be so.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 16, 2026 03:52 PM (i0Hi3)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (BSdIE)
spend a night in the box
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:52 PM (SSiCQ)
nood cnn haz a sad
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2026 03:53 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 03:50 PM (abIsI)
heh
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:53 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Weird science
Could lead to animal sodomy.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 03:53 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 03:50 PM (abIsI)
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That crowd smells like old gym socks and weed.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 03:53 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
Well, at least you've given Bob from the FBI something to work with.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 03:51 PM (iXqHn)
hahahaha
hahahahahahaha
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:53 PM (SSiCQ)
Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2026 03:54 PM (Z8jzG)
Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2026 03:54 PM (Z8jzG)
yep
Posted by: m at January 16, 2026 03:54 PM (SSiCQ)
Its because of the huge amount of money laundering taking place in Vancouver and British Columbia by the Chinese cartels.
The politicians get to dip their beaks then look away.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 03:55 PM (c3sdc)
Beat them down and leave them to fend for themselves. Let them take care of their own.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 03:55 PM (BSdIE)
Posted by: Ian S.
Yeah, Justine gave them permission to station troops there, or something.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
___________________________
This is off topic, and I hope we get a thread on this. Trump has been running the table setting up trade agreements worldwide and expanding previous agreements to include items that overlap what we trade with Canada (our second biggest trading partner next to Mexico). As a result, Trump's taking away Canada's negotiating leverage little by little until it's time to re-negotiate the USMCA (NAFTA)...which will be dissolved.
Canada doesn't have a leg to stand on, so they are cozying up to China, basically telling Trump, if you don't rub out backs, we'll go to China, and compromise security in the Western Hemisphere. China will need to fill the void (Venezuela and soon, Iran).
This summer's negotiations are going to be entertaining to say the least.
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 03:55 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 03:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 16, 2026 02:46 PM (w6EFb)
they just kill them like the puppies and kittens they get.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 04:09 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 16, 2026 04:22 PM (XMwZJ)
The small crowds of violent protesters have the upper-hand and they know it.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 03:03 PM (F3Dlr)
I have some ideas.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 03:06 PM (ULPxl)
Truck them out to a warehouse somewhere for storage.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 04:43 PM (8avO+)
Anyone arrested will claim "injury" or preexisting condition. They have individuals who are not medics in elaborate medic outfits, who are trained to rush up and interfere with the arresting officers under the guise of providing medical assistance. If you deny them, or arrest them, then you are a big meany, and they film that "cops won't allow doctor to see patient" sort of bullshit. If you do let them in they will delay and delay the arrest until the layer 2 grapplers can get into position to swoop in and free the arrestee or assault the officers. By the by, the "medics" are almost always obese women.
What I would do when these fake "medics" show is say in a loud voice "You're a medic? Then come with us to a secure location where you can treat this patient!" Take her with you, voluntarily. Then in private arrest her for interference. If she won't go, tell her to fuck off, or arrest her on the spot.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 05:49 PM (tV890)
If they won't move the car, damage it so badly it can't be moved. Have a tow truck haul it off. Send it to an impound yard where the charge is $2,000/hour for storage. Within a day the value of the car is negative. Can't pay, oh well, the car is then crushed. $25,000 down the drain. Plus, fine the owner $5k for services to move the car.
Make this shit hyper expensive - you basically forfeit your car.
Antifa doesn't realize - two can play this bullshit psych game. So much of their tactics rely on our normal reasonableness. You have to realize it is all a tactic.
Look, when a car is parked illegally in front of a hydrant, the fire fighters have been known to bust the windows and run the hose through the car. Could they run it around the car? Sure. But the point is maximum pain for the asshat in front of the hydrant. Spend a day towing every single fucking car. cost them $200k per day.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 05:59 PM (tV890)
Posted by: Kenneth King Neil at January 16, 2026 07:19 PM (/g9JB)
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Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:42 AM (eZWdu)
For Some Reason AP and ABC "News" Cannot Even Guess At, Overdose Deaths In the US Plummeted in 2025
I wonder what could have caused this.
US overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data reveals U.S. overdose deaths fell through the most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades NEW YORK -- U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades. Federal data released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths have been falling for more than two years -- the longest drop in decades -- but also that the decline was slowing. And the monthly death toll is still not back to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, let alone where it was before the current overdose epidemic struck decades ago, said Brandon Marshall, a Brown University researcher who studies overdose trends. "Overall I think this continues to be encouraging, especially since we're seeing declines almost across the nation," he said. Overdose deaths began steadily climbing in the 1990s with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, followed by waves of deaths from heroin and -- more recently -- illicit fentanyl. Deaths peaked nearly 110,000 in 2022, fell a little in 2023 and then plummeted 27% in 2024, to around 80,000. That was the largest one-year decline ever recorded.Apparently it's just impossible that stopping fentanyl imports and deporting Tren de Aragua drug-dealers contributed to the decline. It's not even worth a mention. By the way, note that overdoses shot up during Fauci's (and Tucker Carlson's) shutdowns. More deaths that can be laid at their feet.
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Researchers cannot yet say with confidence why deaths have gone down. Experts have offered multiple possible explanations: increased availability of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, expanded addiction treatment, shifts in how people use drugs, and the growing impact of billions of dollars in opioid lawsuit settlement money.
Oh, so it is possible that US government action is responsible for part of the decline -- but only those steps taken by Biden. Another mystery: Why did US serious crime rates fallen by unprecedented levels in 2025? Must be something Biden did.
Two other theories recently joined the list.... In a paper published last week in the journal Science, University of Maryland researchers point to the drug supply. They say regulatory changes in China a few years ago appear to have diminished the availability of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl. Their argument is based partly on information from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which last year reported that the purity -- and dangerous potency -- of fentanyl rose early in the COVID-19 pandemic but fell after 2022. It suggests it became harder to make fentanyl and its potency was diluted. One piece of evidence for that: More U.S.-based Reddit users reported a fentanyl "drought" in 2023. The authors connect that to signs that the Chinese government -- at the urging of U.S. officials -- took steps in 2023 to clamp down on the selling of substances used to make drugs. Information is limited on exactly what the Chinese government did, and the paper is a bit speculative, but "we thought we could make a case," said Peter Reuter, one of the authors.
The U.S. is on pace for the largest one-year drop in murders the nation has ever recorded, according to an analysis by crime stats expert Jeff Asher. The big picture: The decline in killings is part of a broader decrease in violent crime following the COVID-era spike. Mass killings in the U.S. also fell in 2025, reaching their lowest level since 2006. The Real-Time Crime Index, which compiles data from 570 law enforcement agencies, shows a nearly a 20% decline in murders this year compared with the same period in 2024.LOL, sure. Definitely cite the fake FBI crime figures -- which do not include most blue cities crimes, because they refuse to report them. And we know blue cities routinely cook their crime figures. Also note the deceptiveness of this statement. Crime didn't just decline in 2025 -- it plunged by 20%. So the fact that it's been (allegedly) merely "declining" for a few years does nothing to explain the huge fall we saw in one year, when Trump took office again. But Experts!
The database, which Asher used in his analysis, does not consider manslaughter, self-defense, negligence, or "accidental killings" for the statistics, according to its online glossary.
The database's statistics are currently available through October. The FBI will not release official 2025 violent crime data until sometime next year, though RTCI estimates have historically tracked closely with federal figures.
Other major crime categories measured by the index were also down nationwide and across locations of all population sizes, including motor vehicle thefts (23.2%), aggravated assaults (7.5%) and robbery (18.3%). By the numbers: New York City and Memphis recorded nearly a 20% drop in murders compared with 2024, and Chicago saw them fall almost 28%. New Orleans saw a decline of 7.5%, while Los Angeles County recorded murders dropping by nearly 19%. ... State of play: President Trump has prioritized cracking down on violent crime in his second term, though there is no clear evidence linking his policies to the decline. Crime rates have been declining since 2021, according to data from both the RTCI and FBI.
It’s incredible what happens when the government just starts blowing up drug cartels pic.twitter.com/4SQXckSYHM
— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) January 15, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:30 PM (dK+Kv)
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Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:30 PM
Drove your Chevy to the leveé, but the leveé was dry, eh?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)
To say nothing of the effects of compression. I mean, we're talking paninis here. Trump is a liar!!!
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Max Power at January 16, 2026 01:33 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (iFTx/)
Best to not do that in the well and mess up someone's water supply.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 01:33 PM (PFs9e)
And no they don't fact check anyone else like this
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)
Comrade Flounder, thou hast caused much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and potty-mouthing. Sad!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:34 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 01:34 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Denied.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:34 PM (FpHTM)
In a paper published last week in the journal Science, University of Maryland researchers point to the drug supply. They say regulatory changes in China a few years ago appear to have diminished the availability of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl.
That is actually plausible as a contributing factor. Personally, I think it's similar to what happened with crack. The younger brothers and sisters of all those people who OD'd decided that this was a lifestyle they didn't want.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:35 PM (Riz8t)
The FNM kept telling me, even in 2024, that Bidenflation was Trump's fault "with no clear evidence"
Of course they also claimed there was no Bidenflation at the same time
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 01:35 PM (2Ez/1)
Overdose deaths during Covid due to ? people turning to drugs during their misery? Or possibly due to the bad effects of The Fake Vax? ... Or because hospitals were "closed" to anything but Covid cases? idk
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 01:35 PM (vbXSk)
ICE is eating people in Minneapolis!!!!
Posted by: Shep Smith Comeback Tour at January 16, 2026 01:33 PM (0e5Te)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:35 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 01:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 01:36 PM (PFs9e)
Reagan had a bunch of them. Yeah, the Welfare Cadillac Queen was in Chicago not New York, and it was seven children not 10, but we know what he meant.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:36 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Sponge Blade at January 16, 2026 01:31 PM (C9oTe)
I am trying to eat salad! Don’t do this!
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 01:36 PM (OoFl2)
I think a lot of the overdoses started with normal people getting hooked on prescription opioids, thinking "my doctor keeps prescribing these for me, they must be OK." But they are highly addicting, and once you're on them it takes yuge will to get off.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
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Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:35 PM (gm9Sb)
OUTSTANDING!
Posted by: Shao Khan, Emperor of Outworld at January 16, 2026 01:36 PM (FpHTM)
And JugEars McFuckstick KNEW these were lies when he said them over and over and over.....
Posted by: jimnmartin@gmail.com at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (L/fGl)
"Will PBS, NPR shut down? What to know after CPB announces closure"
Winning!
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (rj6Yv)
Not good at all.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (XV/Pl)
Wait are we sure this isn't just the climax of one of those ICE Harlequin romance novels?
"I was afraid Agent Jones was going to take my freedom...but he ended up taking my heart...and my naught bits!"
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (3AyDK)
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Far from "stopped," but it may well be down quite a bit.
But it is probably more than that. There's more action against it at the street level, too. It's also normal for drugs to burn themselves out. Drugs have a season. It was heroin season and then cocaine season and then crack season and then meth season and then fentanyl season. Maybe there's a new season about to blossom forth as fentanyl finally starts to come under control.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (k5jIj)
The media's conversion to MiniTrue is complete.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Prediction Expert at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (oftw2)
Also the left: Just because the crime rate went down after we cracked down on crime, again, is not proof!
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (3AyDK)
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Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (vbXSk)
The days of The US being The Opium Den to The World are Over!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday . . . at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (3ZUWJ)
If you donate at the Contributor Level, you will receive a handy totebag.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (L/fGl)
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That passage was laughable. Why would Red China take any such action? What evidence is there that they did? Keeping this going is viewed by Red China as being in her own best interest.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Luke Fuchs' Daughter at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (0e5Te)
When a Democrat is in office all the bad things are the previous Republican’s fault. And when a Republican is in office all the good things are due to the previous Democrat’s time in office.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Ace at 01:30 PM
The FBI crime statistics are easily gamed by a city. I used to do studies for my police department. I found that our violent crime (i.e., Homicide, Rape and Robbery) rate was 300% greater than the average for Ohio.
You know how my city dealt with bit of news? We stopped providing our crime data to the FBI: no data, no problem.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (pJWtt)
"Will PBS, NPR shut down? What to know after CPB announces closure"
Winning!
It's amazing what a huge impact losing their self-proclaimed tiny amount (a rounding error, really) of taxpayer money has had on the whole ecosystem.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (3AyDK)
Well, Chuck Schumer certainly wasn't going to be able to properly cook a burger.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (GGatE)
But Experts!
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Experts know everything and there is nothing they can't do. All glory to the experts!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:40 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (pDt9x)
That's old hat.
It's Jenkem time!
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:40 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 01:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 01:40 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Crossing the streams at January 16, 2026 01:40 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (jc0TO)
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Is it a Nina Totenbergerbag ?
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:41 PM (rj6Yv)
Not good at all.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Only "both ends"caution I know is about burning candles, but I think your house has it worser.
Posted by: It's GO Time! at January 16, 2026 01:41 PM (oftw2)
Narrator: There's always a new season.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:41 PM (Riz8t)
Wine mom on a cul de sac
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:41 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: jimnmartin@gmail.com at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (MNCvZ)
I would say he doesn't know the truth from a hole in the wall but no, he's very familiar with those.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:41 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Fox Butterfield at January 16, 2026 01:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: huerfano at January 16, 2026 01:41 PM (98kQX)
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Far from "stopped," but it may well be down quite a bit.
But it is probably more than that. There's more action against it at the street level, too. It's also normal for drugs to burn themselves out. Drugs have a season. It was heroin season and then cocaine season and then crack season and then meth season and then fentanyl season. Maybe there's a new season about to blossom forth as fentanyl finally starts to come under control.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (GyQIQ)
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Already has, bro. The new drug of choice is K. It's now the drug for the cool club kids. It's already starting to move upwards in age and demographics. Hunter Biden will be ODing on it soon.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:42 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 01:40 PM (viF8m)
It's almost as if sinking those high-speed motor boats being used to ferry drugs into the U.S. would help Americans! Crazy idea!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:42 PM (pJWtt)
Not good at all.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (XV/Pl)
Just wait until you're doing both simultaneously.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:42 PM (FpHTM)
A dead junkie only dies once. I guess no one is following in that guy's footsteps.
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 01:43 PM (sDpug)
Not good at all.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 16, 2026 01:37 PM (XV/Pl)
The flu is awful, noro virus is also circulating. Neither are fun and I am so sorry if this is what is plaguing your home. If it has just hit, or has been less than 48 hours and it’s positive for flu, Xofluza is pretty good at lessening the time and symptoms, better than tamiflu, plus it’s only one dose.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 01:43 PM (Wmg4n)
San Francisco’s homicide rate in 2025 was a 70 year low. Total coincidence with closing the border and deporting criminal aliens I’m sure.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:43 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: jmel at January 16, 2026 01:43 PM (RWHIh)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (jc0TO)
I'll admit you had me right before the last word.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:43 PM (3AyDK)
Wine mom on a cul de sac
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:41 PM (gm9Sb)
No wonder they're taking to the streets!
Posted by: moki at January 16, 2026 01:43 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 16, 2026 01:43 PM (9cHSL)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:44 PM (jc0TO)
Whoa! Seriously? That's some next level stuff.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 01:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: steevy at January 16, 2026 01:44 PM (YwEeS)
Would really be nice if ICE or FBI started shutting down some of the Big Gangs Starts with the Latin Kings guy they caught stealing the rifle and ammo from an ICE vehicle, but that needs more focus on gangs, (which are surely full of illegals as they build their syndicates across America).
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 01:44 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
I watched a clip that showed 4 African American men incarcerated in Texas, all listed on the prison records as white. One example of manipulating crime data.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 01:46 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: jmel at January 16, 2026 01:43 PM (RWHIh)
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Their 'truths' are being challenged in ways beyond their expectations. When a president puts iron in his words, the soy left melts in confusion, frustration, and boo-hoo-whinin'-and-cryin'.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:46 PM (rj6Yv)
https://is.gd/w5xWrG
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (L/fGl)
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She's actually more articulate and sounds smarter than 90% of the retards in the democrap party. Not joking.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:46 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Not the Byrds at January 16, 2026 01:46 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Boss Moss
That's using White Supremacist Math ... not the My Feelings Count Math.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 01:46 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)
Difficult to call it 'new' when it was already a popular club drug 25 years ago, though.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:46 PM (FpHTM)
You're saying there's iron in Trump's words of death?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:47 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:47 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: A Livingstone at January 16, 2026 01:47 PM (KcDXb)
Posted by: MAC V SOG at January 16, 2026 01:47 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 01:47 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 16, 2026 01:48 PM (HvW4E)
Posted by: Robert
I saw the movie Synchronic. Didn't much care for it but it did have a phrase I liked, junkie monkeys
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:48 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:44 PM (jc0TO)
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 16, 2026 01:48 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: A Livingstone at January 16, 2026 01:47 PM (KcDXb)
It dovetails with their Malthusian Climate Doomerism.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:48 PM (dK+Kv)
The economic driver of the EU made a miscalculation.
Also, I thought there was no maths on this top tier military based blog?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 01:49 PM (abIsI)
As I was getting him he said he had to hug a friend first. So...he walked over to a girl with snot just dripping out of her nose on to the floor and before I could stop him he gave her a big hug.
And yes a little while later he had the same cold that girl must have had...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)
Difficult to call it 'new' when it was already a popular club drug 25 years ago, though.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:46 PM (FpHTM)
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Yea, but "new" was modifying "of choice." K was always on the scene but it was well behind coke and moly/E in terms of consumption. Not any more.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:50 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:50 PM (g47mK)
"Crime Rates Fall Despite Increase in Prison Population"
It was something like that, bafflement how locking up criminals could reduce crime.
But, it's faked confusion--they know damned good and well.
What they're doing is massaging the soft brains of their readers with "known facts" that criminals don't cause crime.
That imprisonment is merely a manifestation of racism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 01:50 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:50 PM (3AyDK)
A bunch of the left's oligarchs are heavily invested into AI now. And they need power, way more then "green energy" can provide.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:50 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (FpHTM)
UPDATE: California bear under man's house is finally removed, immediately takes up residence under nearby homes
https://is.gd/PSX3qL
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Well, at least he's an American.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 16, 2026 01:48 PM (HvW4E)
There are things you know you hate the media for.
Then there are things that you know that you don't know you should hate the media for.
Still, there are things you don't know that you don't know that you should be hating the media for.
Posted by: Zombie Donald Rumsfeld at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 01:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
I watched a clip that showed 4 African American men incarcerated in Texas, all listed on the prison records as white. One example of manipulating crime data.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 01:46 PM (F3Dlr)
That would be an easy thing to do. Just check the wrong box during intake processing.
I remember -- that was back in the late 1990s or early 2000s where there was some effort to get us to change our descriptor for "Black" to "African American." I ended that by asking how do I describe the race of a black person from Jamaica: "African Jamaican"?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:52 PM (pJWtt)
Spoiler: Hunter is a deadbeat who is not paying for his daughter's upkeep.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 16, 2026 01:52 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: NCKate
The Columbus PD has been underreporting all crime statistics for years if not decades.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 01:53 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (L/fGl)
Creatin' more jobs than the Mocha Messiah.
Posted by: Zombie Donald Rumsfeld at January 16, 2026 01:53 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 16, 2026 01:48 PM (HvW4E)
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It's a bidirectional expressway of hatred and contempt.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:53 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Bulg
Look, whatever two consenting adults do in the privacy of their pain room is none of my business.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 01:54 PM (cYBz/)
They think I can't hear them.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (FpHTM)
Now they're talking about the OJ trial.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (9cHSL)
They think I can't hear them.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (FpHTM)
Now they're talking about the OJ trial.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
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They must be bored.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
You're gonna go blind!
Posted by: Mama Bulg at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:44 PM (jc0TO)
First year married to wife(teacher) I've never been so sick in my life..21 years later, rarely sick at all.
Posted by: A dude in MI at January 16, 2026 01:56 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (L/fGl)
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Bear > Man. Full stop.
Posted by: TikTok Woman at January 16, 2026 01:56 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:56 PM (gm9Sb)
The economic driver of the EU made a miscalculation.
Also, I thought there was no maths on this top tier military based blog?
Who could have guessed? Oh yeah, everyone.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:56 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (o2ZRX)
Political power, by any means necessary.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:56 PM (dK+Kv)
They think I can't hear them.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:51 PM (FpHTM)
Now they're talking about the OJ trial.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
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They must be bored.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (GyQIQ)
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Nah, it's their foreplay ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/)
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Officials are registering him to vote at each one.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:57 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 16, 2026 01:57 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
lol, a news anchor in Canada once described a victim as an African American Canadian. Dual/triple citizen, I guess.
Posted by: old chick at January 16, 2026 01:57 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 01:57 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (L/fGl)
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Bear > Man. Full stop.
Posted by: TikTok Woman at January 16, 2026 01:56 PM (GyQIQ)
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[Makes "call me" gesture]
-- Minotaur
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 01:57 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:57 PM (iFTx/)
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Gross
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
Let me guess. Racism
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: NCKate at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 01:55 PM (o2ZRX)
That's because - being materialists - they deny the human personhood of their voters, they're merely "things" to be used to gain/maintain power.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:59 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: PaleRider
Good. The AoSHQ should be your only compulsively visited site.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 01:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (jc0TO)
I scoffed at the residents for leaving that much space open, then remembered I've had a couple groundhogs dig their own holes and damage my waterlines (I think their holes let cold air in, which froze and cracked the lines).
Actually two ground hogs, at two houses, in the same year. Weird.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (XvL8K)
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People oppressed by a patriarchal racial supremacist system that railroads people of color?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: NCKate at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 16, 2026 02:01 PM (9cHSL)
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 02:01 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 02:01 PM (gm9Sb)
You got to love the proverbial “researchers”, as if that denotes some type of rigid, agreed-to, professional, unquestionable authority. lol.
I guess drug dealers are outside of their research parameters. Here’s a simple equation, when less product is available, fewer people overdose. I know that a simple thesis, but it’s one people on the front lines learned along time ago.
By the way, availability of drugs is also a factor in addiction treatment. When people with an addiction don’t have the drugs they think the need, they either get dead or they get help. Jackasses.
But in the end, it’s Jesus.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 02:01 PM (rxwdW)
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 02:01 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (XvL8K)
Trump gets away with murder
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 02:01 PM (3AyDK)
I lurve this place. Nearly all top 20 comments are taking shots at Blade. Even Fen took an early shot!
Don't change. Any of you.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 16, 2026 02:01 PM (QVmho)
@MeghanEMurphy
I have determined that middle-upper class progressive millennial women are the worst of all demographics.
The combination of complete obsession with their own thoughts, trauma, mental illnesses, and very special uniqueness and a view of the world that centers on privilege/oppression has made them not only unable to deal with their own life problems effectively (I recommend stoicism and lifting weights) but also unable to see the world outside their own ideological/hyper-therapized framework.
They seem to think therapy language will resolve their own problems/relationship problems and ideological/political language will resolve the world's problems.
It's weird.
Probably uncoincidentally these are also the women who are all on anti-depressants, benzos for sleep, and anti-anxiety pills. And in therapy for life.
The 'my emotions are so very unique and special and need special pills and therapy to fix but actually none of it is fixable' thing combined with the 'I'm so empathetic and care so much about the oppressed of the world and oh gosh it's so upsetting how can anyone not be as empathetic and understanding as me' is probably the most annoying . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM (12/sY)
In a recent episode of her podcast, Candace Owens said Charlie Kirk told her he was a “time traveler” who was sent to “X-Men school,” and alleged he was monitored since childhood.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (hhkIi)
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Yea. It blends a bit of a "high" (increased heart and blood rate) like coke, but with euphoric, hallucinatory effects like molly/E. No wonder it's very popular with the club scene.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (vbXSk)
They must really have had a vendetta against you.
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 16, 2026 02:03 PM (Wt5PA)
Also they seem to make everything worse for themselves and everyone else.
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That's sexist!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 02:03 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (hhkIi)
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Yea. It blends a bit of a "high" (increased heart and blood rate) like coke, but with euphoric, hallucinatory effects like molly/E. No wonder it's very popular with the club scene.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM
Good for weight loss?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:03 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: SMOD
Candace, darling, seek medical help. Seriously.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:04 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Max Power at January 16, 2026 01:33 PM (SwyyQ)
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[Golf clap]
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:04 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 16, 2026 02:04 PM (9cHSL)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 02:00 PM (XvL8K)
Honestly no idea. They shut the door at one point, so I could only hear bits and pieces as they raised and lowered their voices.
From the parts I could gather, it sounded like one of them going on about how the Courts should do something about the Mean Orange Man black-bagging Maduro, which led the other one to start talking about court cases and segueing into OJ.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:04 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:04 PM (jc0TO)
mine did it automatically last night. They changed the look and some things, I wish they would have left it alone.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 02:05 PM (uWKK8)
That's easy. The individuals with police powers involved were told to allow the money through. And they were told that because the people above them in the Biden Junta and the Walz admin were getting some of it
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)
A
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 02:05 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (hhkIi)
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Yea. It blends a bit of a "high" (increased heart and blood rate) like coke, but with euphoric, hallucinatory effects like molly/E. No wonder it's very popular with the club scene.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM
Good for weight loss?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:03 PM (jc0TO)
________
[Perks up]
-- Amy Schumer
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:05 PM (iFTx/)
And the part they really, really don't want to acknowledge: much of our crime is committed by the same people, they keep doing things again and again and again until someone stops them. Soros DAs have made a point of *not*stopping them.
Deport a guy who has dozens of arrests, fewer prosecutions (thanks, Soros DAs), and you will prevent dozens of future crimes committed.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 02:05 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:04 PM (uEmCf)
I will take that win, thank you.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 02:05 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: pookysgirl
I did kill about three of them, so they got their revenge I guess. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 02:06 PM (vbXSk)
“The degradation of the office… that office belongs to the people!”
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Well, Joe and Kamala certainly didn't degrade the office.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 02:06 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (abIsI)
If I knew that I needed to shoot a bear, I'd use a big-bore rifle cartridge rather than a pistol cartridge. As powerful as the .454 Casull is, a bear could still rip your head off after you shot it. You need to use one the cartridges expressly intended for the large, dangerous game: at least the .378 Weatherby Magnum.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:06 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Tranq turns them into non-ambulatory zombies with incurable festering sores on their bodies. Stay there and fester so you can't come rob me.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 02:07 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: SMOD
Candace, darling, seek medical help. Seriously.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:03 PM (77rzZ)
I knew it! Was discussing on X on how you can tell what movies Candace liked because of where she rips off story lines for her fantasies. The Matrix and Inception are obvious favorites of hers, and I had noted that all this "sentinel" talk proved that she was a fan of X-Men comics back in the day. There it is!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 02:07 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: MAC V SOG
Saw a traffic stop bodycam video of a guy stopped who swallowed an unknown number of crack doses trying to conceal it from the cops. DRT on the curb while EMS was arriving. There's no Narcan for cocaine.
Posted by: It Happens at January 16, 2026 02:07 PM (oftw2)
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Because shut up, racist!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 02:08 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 16, 2026 02:04 PM (9cHSL)
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No, tranq is a different form of very powerful -- and very dangerous -- tranquilizer that was the cause of all the horrific skin-melting pics from a few years ago. You gotta be truly insane to take tranq. But it was a cheap, easy high so people did.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:08 PM (iFTx/)
Goode didn't hit the ICE agent with her car and therefore didn't have a reason to fire his weapon
and
Just because Good hit the ICE agent with her car didn't give him a reason to fire his weapon
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:08 PM (sKqQm)
A bunch of the left's oligarchs are heavily invested into AI now. And they need power, way more then "green energy" can provide.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:50 PM (sKqQm)
Green Energy can't heat homes in fairly mild Germany, much less run industry.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 02:09 PM (8avO+)
She's loonier than an Art Bell caller.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 02:09 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:09 PM (77rzZ)
http://tiny.cc/f4rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:09 PM (GyQIQ)
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Because shut up, racist!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 02:08 PM (L/fGl)
Buy the cops first.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 02:10 PM (8avO+)
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That's easy. The individuals with police powers involved were told to allow the money through. And they were told that because the people above them in the Biden Junta and the Walz admin were getting some of it
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)
I agree. With $9 billion in stolen cash available, I have no doubt that Democrat politicians were wetting their beaks, and state regulators were getting bribed.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:10 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: It Happens at January 16, 2026 02:07 PM (oftw2)
The guy who would scream his bloody head off, and then smile at the cops and say "Psych!", only to start screaming his head again off 10 seconds later?
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:10 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 02:10 PM (XvL8K)
One piece of evidence for that: More U.S.-based Reddit users reported a fentanyl "drought" in 2023.
That would explain why they're angry and delusional. Cold turkey withdrawals are rough.
Also, that ABC news references that as an important data point shows their level of journalism.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (zZu0s)
Deport a guy who has dozens of arrests, fewer prosecutions (thanks, Soros DAs), and you will prevent dozens of future crimes committed.
No, no that can't be it. It must be Trump and RACISM!!!
Posted by: An average AWFL at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (gm9Sb)
This, by the way, is one argument for the Fermi paradox.
The reason we aren't finding aliens is they are all high and/or in some version of The Matrix that they preferred to real life...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (abIsI)
If I knew that I needed to shoot a bear, I'd use a big-bore rifle cartridge rather than a pistol cartridge. As powerful as the .454 Casull is, a bear could still rip your head off after you shot it. You need to use one the cartridges expressly intended for the large, dangerous game: at least the .378 Weatherby Magnum.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer
Not a handgun. Expert say, one of the best handguns to stave off an agitated bear attack is a 10MM autoloader with at least 15 rounds. I disagree.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (abIsI)
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Maybe because they moved Joe to the fake studio set of the office?
Also, Bill Clinton's humidor might weigh in on this subject.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (Dv3i1)
http://tiny.cc/f4rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:09 PM (GyQIQ)
She looks like a Mii version of herself.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 02:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM
Word is the club scene is fading fast because the new generation of dudes won't buy women drinks.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 02:12 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: alanon at January 16, 2026 02:12 PM (OhUhe)
My memory is the data on this is stark - these people cycle in out of prison, so the more time they are on the street the more crimes they commit.
AND you can see them progress from lower crimes like vandalism and petty theft to more serious crimes throughout their teenaged years...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Marmot Benevolent Association at January 16, 2026 02:12 PM (oftw2)
Stek Oost, located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam, was sold to the Netherlands as the dream solution to the housing and refugee crisis.
A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to 'buddy up' so the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands more quickly.
But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and even claimed a gang rape had taken place.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:09 PM (77rzZ)
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I think that's yesterday's news. BS was truly nasty. I think fent moved it to take over almost all of that market.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)
http://tiny.cc/f4rx001
Overly broad hips throw off her waist to hip ratio.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM (Wnqw0)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 02:12 PM (8avO+)
Generally, those kind of clubs weren't selling alcohol to begin with.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM (uEmCf)
This, by the way, is one argument for the Fermi paradox.
The reason we aren't finding aliens is they are all high and/or in some version of The Matrix that they preferred to real life...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm)
They will just take it often enough to forget to eat and get physical effects that way.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:09 PM (77rzZ)
Junkies always go on the "next big thing." When I started as a cop in 1986, heroin was the narcotic of choice - cocaine was for the yuppies. When I retired in 2008, crack cocaine was the narcotic of choice. I've been out of the game for a long time, so it doesn't surprise me that they've found some other drug.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
"African American by way of Jwmaica."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 02:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 02:14 PM (dIske)
https://is.gd/w5xWrG
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:38 PM (L/fGl)
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She's actually more articulate and sounds smarter than 90% of the retards in the democrap party. Not joking.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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She's a giver, most Democrats are takers.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:14 PM (WDjG6)
Wy don't you see for yourself judge??!
Posted by: Rudy Russo at January 16, 2026 02:15 PM (jGJov)
If you were to ask a random group of 3rd world muslim men what they would do if shacked up with a bunch of Euro teen girls they'll TELL YOU that they'll sexually assault them - both because Islam tells them to AND because "obviously they want it"
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 01:58 PM (abIsI)
If I knew that I needed to shoot a bear, I'd use a big-bore rifle cartridge rather than a pistol cartridge. As powerful as the .454 Casull is, a bear could still rip your head off after you shot it. You need to use one the cartridges expressly intended for the large, dangerous game: at least the .378 Weatherby Magnum.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer
Not a handgun. Expert say, one of the best handguns to stave off an agitated bear attack is a 10MM autoloader with at least 15 rounds. I disagree.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (abIsI)
OK, I misunderstood. We seem to be in violent agreement!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:15 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM
Word is the club scene is fading fast because the new generation of dudes won't buy women drinks.
That's temporary. A few brave pioneers will see an untapped market, and garner more than their share of babes. Then the rest will follow them, and do their "we are two wild and crazy guys" thing.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 02:16 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ASPCA at January 16, 2026 02:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: SMOD
One of the students, who preferred to remain anonymous, stated "As unpleasant as anal rape is, not to mention the stabbing that almost cut my artery, I'd do it again. I'm no racist."
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 02:16 PM (Dv3i1)
OK, I misunderstood. We seem to be in violent agreement!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer
No worries. Any conversation that includes firearms is a good conversation.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 02:17 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:02 PM
Word is the club scene is fading fast because the new generation of dudes won't buy women drinks.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 16, 2026 02:12 PM (8avO+)
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Still lines around the block and strict rope policies at the high-end clubs. I don't know about the scene at the lesser clubs. But I think wherever there are girls, there will be guys looking to impress them.
Oddly, the lesbo scene is exactly as you describe: lesbians don't buy drinks for each other.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:17 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 02:17 PM (Dv3i1)
In our defense, we're not very smart.
--AP & ABC
Posted by: No Name Today at January 16, 2026 02:17 PM (8mulE)
http://tiny.cc/f4rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Call me Huey Lewis
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 16, 2026 02:17 PM (ItWcy)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
"African American by way of Jwmaica."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 02:14 PM (L/fGl)
LOL.
That reminds me some Olympic game Mrs. Cop was watching when one of the "talking heads" described some black African dude as "African American." LOL
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:18 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 02:18 PM (gm9Sb)
Aquachigger ?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 02:18 PM (abIsI)
Good, 37, suffered two gunshot wounds to the right side of her chest, one to her left forearm and one “with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient’s head,” according to the report by the Minneapolis Fire Department. Blood was also flowing from her left ear, the report said.
Initial reports indicated Good had been shot three times during the Jan. 7 incident.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:18 PM (RHGPo)
https://tinyurl.com/65mhsjfr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 02:18 PM (ZeH0U)
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What's longer, a mile of cars or a mile of burgers?
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (3AyDK)
http://tiny.cc/f4rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:09 PM (GyQIQ)
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I'll bet you any amount of money that girl can often be found in the company of rich guys with piles of drugs and she eagerly partakes ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (uEmCf)
My memory is the data on this is stark - these people cycle in out of prison, so the more time they are on the street the more crimes they commit.
AND you can see them progress from lower crimes like vandalism and petty theft to more serious crimes throughout their teenaged years...
Posted by: 18-1
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You would be correct. Prison often was just finishing school for criminals but to get there, almost always was a long line of more petty arrests, jail time, dropped charges, and a sealed juvie record.
The dirty secret in somewhere like Chicago, roughly 10000 criminals, usually in gangs, are responsible for most violent crime in the city and a big proportion of non violent crimes as well.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (WDjG6)
ABC News mascot, the fucking mongoloid.
Posted by: Marooned at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: SMOD"
Maybe it would be easier for the left to determine what a man is and then use that to declare all others as women. Or would they screw that up somehow?
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (GUOwU)
Oddly, the lesbo scene is exactly as you describe: lesbians don't buy drinks for each other.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
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At least in Vegas, the rope lines are all total bullshit designed to create the illusion of a packed house that everyone is still willing to wait hours to get into because it's just that Cool.
The reality is that anyone dumb enough to stand in the rope line basically never gets in unless they're a female and at least a 9 or 10. If you want to get in you buy bottle service or kiss the promoter's ass enough, and when you get inside you realize that the place is at 40% capacity.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Max Power at January 16, 2026 02:20 PM (OJQTQ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 02:20 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:20 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 02:20 PM (zUe/H)
I just hope Republicans arent a victim of their own success by solving the problem so much that the small amount of white women up for grabs now feel comfortable voting Progressive
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 02:21 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: ASPCA. at January 16, 2026 02:21 PM (oftw2)
My memory is the data on this is stark - these people cycle in out of prison, so the more time they are on the street the more crimes they commit.
AND you can see them progress from lower crimes like vandalism and petty theft to more serious crimes throughout their teenaged years...
Posted by: 18-1
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You would be correct. Prison often was just finishing school for criminals but to get there, almost always was a long line of more petty arrests, jail time, dropped charges, and a sealed juvie record.
The dirty secret in somewhere like Chicago, roughly 10000 criminals, usually in gangs, are responsible for most violent crime in the city and a big proportion of non violent crimes as well.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (WDjG6)
I've always said that the rule-of-thumb is that 10% of the population commits 90% of the crime. That does seem to need to be revised for the Somalis, however. That is a demographic that has a true passion for criminal activity.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:21 PM (pJWtt)
This new facility, which is bankrolled by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the very same agency that funded dangerous research in Wuhan, will import and breed exotic bats to experiment on them with deadly pathogens.
The facility is being touted by the university as a “critical resource” to study how bats carry viruses like Ebola, Nipah, and SARS-CoV-2 without getting sick.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 02:21 PM (eIzlH)
Same as it ever was. When things are bad, vote for Daddy to come home and beat people's asses.
When things feel safe again, vote for feel-good bullshit.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 02:20 PM
FESTIVAL!!
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (W2Pud)
Initial reports indicated Good had been shot three times during the Jan. 7 incident.
Posted by: SMOD
Sounds like she was already dead from the first shot through the windshield, that would have been the headshot. Protruding brain tissue, almost no chance for survival. A headshot with enough energy literally can cause an explosive effect on brain tissue from hydrostatics.
When a shot is noted on a forearm, that could be associated with the bullets in the side as well. ICE is certainly using barrier penetrative rounds like the Hornady Critical Duty so that desired penetration in glass, steel, and bodies obtains.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:23 PM (WDjG6)
This new facility, which is bankrolled by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the very same agency that funded dangerous research in Wuhan, will import and breed exotic bats to experiment on them with deadly pathogens.
The facility is being touted by the university as a “critical resource” to study how bats carry viruses like Ebola, Nipah, and SARS-CoV-2 without getting sick.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (RHGPo)
I did some land survey CAD work for that project at my last job. I called it Wuhan West. Glad I left.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 16, 2026 02:23 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Bulg
I don't know him. But seeing him interviewed he seems like an appropriately nice guy when he needs to be, and also smart and determined.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 02:23 PM (ZeH0U)
https://tinyurl.com/65mhsjfr
A Saint George's Cross tattoo? The guy better be careful about travelling to Britain.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 02:24 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: whig
Could have swore I read that if you locked up 1,400 peole,crime would drop 80%.
Posted by: Windbag City at January 16, 2026 02:24 PM (oftw2)
Oddly, the lesbo scene is exactly as you describe: lesbians don't buy drinks for each other.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
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At least in Vegas, the rope lines are all total bullshit designed to create the illusion of a packed house that everyone is still willing to wait hours to get into because it's just that Cool.
The reality is that anyone dumb enough to stand in the rope line basically never gets in unless they're a female and at least a 9 or 10. If you want to get in you buy bottle service or kiss the promoter's ass enough, and when you get inside you realize that the place is at 40% capacity.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 02:19 PM (5aZAZ)
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At 11 pm, yes. But at 2 am, no. These places don't get busy until very late, but they will all eventually reach capacity and then some. The popular ones anyway. Businesses can't survive at 40% capacity, and bars/clubs are a low-margin business as it is.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
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Euro land had problems with the Albanians and later Ukrainians for similar reasons and if you want to cause a Euro to foam at the mouth, ask them about gypsies in their country.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:24 PM (WDjG6)
I am still stuck on 'WHY DO YOU HAVE REAL BULLETS?!?!'
These retards were lambs to a slaughter.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:24 PM (zZu0s)
I think that's yesterday's news. BS was truly nasty. I think fent moved it to take over almost all of that market.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM
You are the AOS intrepid nightlife correspondent forevermore.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 02:25 PM (fszBn)
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The best gun to stave off a bear attack is the gun you are carrying at the time of the bear encounter.
Bob: "that bear is running right for us and he looks pissed"
Mike: "dammit, I only have my 9mm, what are we going to do"
Bob: "let's run to the truck and get the 50cal"
Bear [biting into Bob's head] "I love these things, crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside..."
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 16, 2026 02:25 PM (Wnqw0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (W2Pud)
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*Runs away serpentine*
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 16, 2026 02:25 PM (2UnvF)
Oh sure! But say you have a mile of cars and you end up in court!
Posted by: Luke Fuchs' Daughter at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (0e5Te)
Heh. I was just thinking about that movie.
Yellow primer...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 02:25 PM (y9nCu)
Is he back at HIAS?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 02:25 PM (LlV+5)
Leftist instructor: use your head
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 02:26 PM (r8eU0)
.. that's it .. no more land acknowledgements
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:26 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:13 PM
You are the AOS intrepid nightlife correspondent forevermore.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 16, 2026 02:25 PM (fszBn)
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Someone's gotta do it!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:26 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 02:27 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)
In my club days, most of the ones I went to weren't the "Meat Market" hook-up-and-drink nightclub style. They were pretty much all raver clubs that didn't sell booze (or anything except water, actually), heh.
And more than one got raided by the cops a few times.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:27 PM (uEmCf)
Damn, 4 shots 4 hits while moving, and target is in a moving vehicle?
That is some damn fine shootin.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2026 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Windbag City
I am referring to an older Univ. of Chicago study of Chiraq. I think the 1400 is more recent and refers to shooty type crimes but I could be wrong.
In every major metro city, the killers overwhelmingly had prior record of violence, and the deceased usually had criminal records as well.
That is because disputes over drug dealing and the resulting gang disputes are why urban areas are violent far beyond most other jurisdictions in the US.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:28 PM (WDjG6)
Leftist instructor: use your head
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 02:26 PM
What was the last thing that went through Renee's mind as she gunned the SUV?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Elric likes to boogie. So did I. In 1975.
Posted by: Club 802-Warm Beer-Lousy Food at January 16, 2026 02:28 PM (oftw2)
That is some damn fine shootin.
Posted by: Romeo13
And the ICE agent was wounded, kept his presence of mind, and stopped the assault. He was taken by surprise as well as he was doing a 360 videoing of the car for evidence when Ms. Karen Deathwheels decided to go YOLO.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:29 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)
In my club days, most of the ones I went to weren't the "Meat Market" hook-up-and-drink nightclub style. They were pretty much all raver clubs that didn't sell booze (or anything except water, actually), heh.
And more than one got raided by the cops a few times.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:27 PM (uEmCf)
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I've been to many raves. I can't say it wasn't fun. It was. A lot. You know why they sold water, right? LOL.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)
What was the last thing that went through Renee's mind as she gunned the SUV?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:28 PM (jc0TO)
135 grains of lead and gilding metal
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 02:29 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: toby928(c)
What is a bullet.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:29 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Club 802-Warm Beer-Lousy Food at January 16, 2026 02:28 PM
I had platform shoes tall as Kiss Destroyer boots, as was the style at the time.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:29 PM (jc0TO)
- reducing supply -- the demand will drive supply
- increasing consequences -- no we must provide narcan
- reducing dealers -- there are always more thugs to take their place
- higher user prison sentences to reduce demand -- they can't control themselves.
No, the only way to reduce drug use is to give free needles and coddle them with free cash. It's science!
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 02:30 PM (D5z+u)
And more than one got raided by the cops a few times.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:27 PM (uEmCf)
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Username checks out.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 02:30 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 02:30 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)
I do, but I'll act like I'm clueless and say I don't if it makes anyone feel better.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:30 PM (uEmCf)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 16, 2026 02:30 PM (D5z+u)
That's not compassion. That's a death sentence.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: SMOD
Sounds like she was already dead from the first shot through the windshield, that would have been the headshot. Protruding brain tissue, almost no chance for survival. A headshot with enough energy literally can cause an explosive effect on brain tissue from hydrostatics.
When a shot is noted on a forearm, that could be associated with the bullets in the side as well. ICE is certainly using barrier penetrative rounds like the Hornady Critical Duty so that desired penetration in glass, steel, and bodies obtains.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:23 PM (WDjG6)
That shot in the windshield punched right through. Frangible pistol projectiles often break up when hitting laminated windshields.
Good's death is regrettable in that, as a Christian, I believe that every human life has value, but she made every bad decision that led to her death. She progressed from Obstructing Law Enforcement, to Resisting Arrest, to Attempted Vehicular Homicide.
Whether she intended to strike the ICE officer or tried to flee in a blind panic is irrelevant.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (pJWtt)
CONGRATULATIONS ALL
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 02:29 PM (y9nCu)
9mm then? Weren't the feds trying to change over to .40 or is that dead?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (ZeH0U)
- reducing supply -- the demand will drive supply
- increasing consequences -- no we must provide narcan
- reducing dealers -- there are always more thugs to take their place
- higher user prison sentences to reduce demand -- they can't control themselves.
No, the only way to reduce drug use is to give free needles and coddle them with free cash. It's science!
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
It's that "solve everything easily" switch the "experts" swear up and down doesn't exist, but Trump keeps seeming to just accidentally hit with his elbow or something...a mystery, it is...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:29 PM (iFTx/)
I do, but I'll act like I'm clueless and say I don't if it makes anyone feel better.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:30 PM (uEmCf)
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[Listening in and taking notes]
-- Bob from NSA
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)
CONGRATULATIONS ALL
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM
Somebody isn't carrying their weight.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:32 PM (jc0TO)
Talcum X if he put on another 50 lbs?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 02:32 PM (sKqQm)
Not just free needles, but a safe space to shoot up, complete with narcan handy, so that they can OD, be revived, then repeat that cycle.
This is what they consider to be "caring." Keeping the dealer's customers alive longer, while never helping them stop using drugs.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 02:33 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 16, 2026 02:33 PM (9cHSL)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:34 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Moon Mullins at January 16, 2026 02:34 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 02:34 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 16, 2026 02:11 PM (abIsI)
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For handguns, the bullet composition is more important than the caliber. The preferred medicine for 10mm is something like the Underwood 200 grain solid (lead) cast cartridge.
If it was me, I'd carry a .45-70 short-barreled lever-action rifle.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 02:34 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 02:34 PM (3AyDK)
Fentanyl inflation goes negative saving Americans millions
Mainstream media ignores it !
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 16, 2026 02:34 PM (PPp1e)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 02:33 PM (LlV+5)
Why keep them alive when there's no more reliable Democrat voter than a dead person?
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 02:34 PM (uEmCf)
Damn, 4 shots 4 hits while moving, and target is in a moving vehicle?
That is some damn fine shootin.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2026 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)
The speed with which he cleared his holster with his sidearm was pretty impressive. It's obvious to me that he spends a lot practice time at the shooting range.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:34 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:35 PM (RHGPo)
Not only is it cruel to allow addicts to OD repeatedly, it creates a central location for dealers -- it becomes a huge draw, bringing in more dealers with more drugs to the area.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 02:35 PM (LlV+5)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 02:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Good's death is regrettable in that, as a Christian, I believe that every human life has value, but she made every bad decision that led to her death. She progressed from Obstructing Law Enforcement, to Resisting Arrest, to Attempted Vehicular Homicide.
Whether she intended to strike the ICE officer or tried to flee in a blind panic is irrelevant.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
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Critical Duty is bonded bullet with a polymer expander ball. Designed for deep penetration of car bodies and windshields in particular. There are some others out there but I personally prefer more expansion as I am NOT going to be shooting through barriers, walls, etc. as a citizen.
The 147 gr. 9mm have made a comeback as the bullet designs are far better at expanding nowadays except in micro compacts. Ironically perform somewhat better than the old FBI load in revolvers using a 158 +p lead SWC hollowpoint.
40 S&W and 45 ACP are still damn good rounds that both penetrate and expand a bit better in but require better recoil management or a heavier firearm.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:36 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 02:01 PM (Yp6az)
Two Americas, two sets of laws. One for us chumps, none for the approved criminal class.
Posted by: Makes me feel warm and tingly at January 16, 2026 02:37 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:37 PM (RHGPo)
Americans spent about 2.5 trillion on fentanyl. Even a 10% price drop would save Americans 250 billion!
Also, I'm retarded.
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 16, 2026 02:37 PM (PPp1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 16, 2026 02:33 PM (9cHSL)
I'd say double taps to the left side works in a pinch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:38 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 02:31 PM (ZeH0U)
Good's lesbian sexual partner is recorded as yelling, "Why did you have real bullets?" after the shooting. Other people have conjectured this means that during their "training" in ICE-Watch, Good and this other woman were told that ICE only had rubber bullets.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:39 PM (pJWtt)
Lol. I just had an image of him in that jacket the free government money guy used to wear. Lesko? Matthew?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (RHGPo)
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If we could learn that, it *could* in fact be important. If we know the mechanism, we may be able to adapt it and use it to conquer that kind of disease. The idea of researching it isn't insane, and the theoretical benefit is potentially quite large.
But I don't trust them to do it. They have demonstrated time and again that they are not only incompetent, but malevolent. If they don't fuck up and release some bad bug, they'll deliberately do it in the name of their experiment.
These people cannot be trusted. Not for any reason, not in any context, not ever. We must never pursue this kind of thing not because it is not worth pursuing (at least on paper), but because our scientific establishment has routinely, repeatedly and exclusively demonstrated that it cannot be trusted to be do sp.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:40 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 02:40 PM (77rzZ)
I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Mother of Hunter Biden’s child calls for his arrest after failing to uphold child support agreement.
Hunter Biden, who once drove a $200,000 Porsche and lived in a $20,000-a-month California mansion while his father was president, now not only fails to pay alimony but claims he is heavily in debt.
Cont. in link.
https://tinyurl.com/mph4w9x8
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (NpAcC)
"To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
- Hakeem Jeffries
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 02:22 PM (RHGPo)
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If we could learn that, it *could* in fact be important. If we know the mechanism, we may be able to adapt it and use it to conquer that kind of disease. The idea of researching it isn't insane, and the theoretical benefit is potentially quite large.
But I don't trust them to do it. They have demonstrated time and again that they are not only incompetent, but malevolent. If they don't fuck up and release some bad bug, they'll deliberately do it in the name of their experiment.
These people cannot be trusted. Not for any reason, not in any context, not ever. We must never pursue this kind of thing not because it is not worth pursuing (at least on paper), but because our scientific establishment has routinely, repeatedly and exclusively demonstrated that it cannot be trusted to be do sp.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:40 PM
Put the lab in Greenland.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (jc0TO)
That would be suicide
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (iFTx/)
Lol. I just had an image of him in that jacket the free government money guy used to wear. Lesko? Matthew?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
More like Dr. Quarters (from KotH).
https://youtu.be/d9AfRoXEm3M
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (yFLFB)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 02:42 PM (NpAcC)
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He probably is heavily in debt. I doubt that's a lie. He is absolutely the type to spend it all and then some and have nothing to show for it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop
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Critical Duty is bonded bullet with a polymer expander ball. Designed for deep penetration of car bodies and windshields in particular. There are some others out there but I personally prefer more expansion as I am NOT going to be shooting through barriers, walls, etc. as a citizen.
The 147 gr. 9mm have made a comeback as the bullet designs are far better at expanding nowadays except in micro compacts. Ironically perform somewhat better than the old FBI load in revolvers using a 158 +p lead SWC hollowpoint.
40 S&W and 45 ACP are still damn good rounds that both penetrate and expand a bit better in but require better recoil management or a heavier firearm.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 02:36 PM (WDjG6)
Thanks for the update. I've been out of the profession for almost 20 years. I carried the .45 ACP, myself. I know for a fact that that cartridge will take the fight of a bad guy, even with a less-than-lethal hit to the torso.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (DDJSl)
Posted by: Luke Fuchs' Daughter at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (0e5Te)
"Hey, look! A pair of tits!"
Posted by: Little boy watching car commercial at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (5xuJ/)
She had a full Karen smirk on her face when she stomped the gas pedal. Probably was still wearing it as she died.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (2ocoG)
WaPo Fact Check: Trump owns no cows and the WH has no pasture land for them to return to."
Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 02:48 PM (+Zbod)
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She had a full Karen smirk on her face when she stomped the gas pedal. Probably was still wearing it as she died.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 02:44 PM (2ocoG)
I personally think she intentionally drove her car to strike the ICE officer. However, her intent was irrelevant. Lethal force is justifiable if the officer fears death or serious physical harm.
A motor vehicle is considered to be a lethal weapon.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:49 PM (pJWtt)
Watch any time it snows. These retards do not understand momentum- let alone force. They really don't.
Its ok, they may not believe in Sir Isaac Newton but he still owns their asses.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (pJWtt)
You probably already know this, but John Moses Browning, Peace Be Upon Him, developed that round specifically for neutralizing crazed Muslims (during the Moro Rebellion in the Philippines).
I can't imagine it'd be any less effective on man-bunned sois who don't even know what sex they are.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
For a log time Hunter probably making 10-20 time a year in grift that most people make working. You would think he would have stashed a couple million for a rainy day. Or end of the gravy train
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (GUOwU)
2 plead guilty to $68M in daycare fraud in Brooklyn
Didn't anyone think after like $1M something wasn't right?
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 02:54 PM (Ia/+0)
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The Karens and AWFLs will die to make sure that causes of these deaths are not deported.
Posted by: Decaf at January 16, 2026 02:55 PM (Z8jzG)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:43 PM (pJWtt)
You probably already know this, but John Moses Browning, Peace Be Upon Him, developed that round specifically for neutralizing crazed Muslims (during the Moro Rebellion in the Philippines).
I can't imagine it'd be any less effective on man-bunned sois who don't even know what sex they are.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 02:53 PM (IG3/x)
Projectiles were also shot into the corpses of executed prisoners hanging on a pendulum during development of the cartridge. Got to measure that transferred energy somehow!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (pJWtt)
Why, I wonder, did COVID spike murder rates?
A more likely explanation, it was the open borders spike.
Trump has deported approximate 500,000 criminals and not let a single new criminal in illegally. But, no way, that could impact crime rates, no sir.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:05 PM (tV890)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:07 PM (tV890)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 16, 2026 06:08 PM (wGqjj)
So, it declined >19% in one year. To put it another way, about 5 more people are alive today because the murder rate decline. And Trump didn't start in DC till August 2025. If what he is doing had lasted the whole year, you'd see a 40% to 50% decline.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 06:12 PM (tV890)
If it weren't for the corrupt media, our country would be 100 times prosperous. Race relations would be at an all time high.
These assholes need to understand the damage they continue to do by any means necessary. I wouldn't give two shits if all their licenses got yanked and Trump wiped his ass with them.
Posted by: melodicmetal at January 16, 2026 10:48 PM (XLfSN)
Obviously, and just imagine what he could have done if he hadn't beaten his brain to a pulp falling down all the time!!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 16, 2026 10:56 PM (FpP3s)
For More… https://bet2bright221.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:42 AM (eZWdu)
Thwarted True Venezuelan President Presents Her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump
Trump finally receives his Peace Prize.
She had previously dedicated the Prize to Trump when she was awarded it.Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters on Thursday that she had presented her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump when the pair met at the White House. Machado dedicated the prize to Trump when she first received it. The U.S. president has long lobbied for the award and has received multiple nominations for his role in ending myriad global conflicts. "I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize," she told reporters. She further recounted a historical episode in which Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette presented Simon Bolivar with a medal bearing the face of Washington.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: RUReadingthis at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (aQ25I)
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (tV890)
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Of course they did...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (VE6XX)
'Iranian' protestors, sir!
Posted by: Patsy at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (OUMaO)
I wish Trump wouldn't lobby for a peace prize - I like him better when it is obvious he just doesn't care.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (tV890)
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That would be ... different.
Posted by: The Kurds at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (GyQIQ)
And his enemies whether for blindness or hubris or just no choice in the matter, still don't see it. Is there any stupider sentence in the English language than "We've got Trump THIS time!!"?
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Of course they did...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (VE6XX)
TRUMP IS A POOPY HEAD!!!!!!
-Nobel committee
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)
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LMAO, NOBEL is a Loan ???
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (g47mK)
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Then she can dare them to come and take it.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (vbXSk)
A time will come when elections are possible, and they will have to be monitored. But that time is not now. Machado would be killed quickly if she tried to go back now, and then where would we be?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (uWKK8)
TGIF
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (gBfG5)
I saw a news report stating that Trump felt "obligated" to come to the aid of the Iranian protesters after encouraging them to keep marching and "keep fighting." Someone, I think Bonchie from RedState, commented, "He is obligated after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting."
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Fucking yes. I remember when Bush I idiotically encouraged the Kurds to resist Saddam Hussein and then left them to shift as best they could. It was stupid of Bush in the first place because the Kurds had no strategic significance for us, but taking down the mullahcracy would be a huge contribution to world peace, regional stability, economic welfare, need I go on it's so obvious?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Then they mobilized the legendary 1st Nobel Division of the Ever Victorious Nobel Army to begin writing a scathing letter to Ms. Machado indicating their deep disappointment in her decision to be seen publicly with OMB.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: RandomDave at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (g47mK)
They handed the Peace Prize to the likes of Yassar Arafat, Al Gore and Barack Obama. They handed the Economics prize to the likes of Paul Krugman and Ben Bernanke.
It would be an insult to receive either, and accepting either would bring shame on your family.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (5aZAZ)
I supported that, but "protecting a side" in this skirmish is boots on the ground and ultimately nation building.
Just looks like Iraq 2.0
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
The butthurt feels so strong here.
When you get a pie in the face, wipe it off and laugh in good humor. But whatever you do, don't shake your fist and tell people you will not be made a fool of.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law
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It makes him look so thirsty.
It's usually a Leftist prize anyway, just move on.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (eIzlH)
Just a better look.
Posted by: No Name Today at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (8mulE)
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Of course they did...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (VE6XX)
If it wouldn't be so disrespectful to Machado, I'd love to see Trump on camera taking that Peace Prize and rubbing his bare ass on it while he grins.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: RandomDave at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (aJQbY)
Good point. They are adults, unlike so many of those EU types you point out.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (pDt9x)
Who cares if Machado gives Trump her fricking medal? Is she supposed to take it with her when she dies, too?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (x4Mz/)
Trump: Here is my answer.
The Nobel Committee: "What the hell does EABOD mean".
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)
That is prime among the reasons I am glad she did.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Then she can dare them to come and take it.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (iXqHn)
How many divisions does the Nobel Committee have?
Posted by: They probably can't even perform division at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
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It can be transferred if the recipient says it can.
It doesn't mean Trump suddenly becomes a Nobel Laureate. It means the recipient thought Trump deserved it. Nothing more, and everyone knows it.
The Nobel Committee must be *really* pissed. This is like when an angry girl makes a TikTok and says, "he said he didn't want to go out with me! Why does he think I'm ugly?!" He never said you were ugly, you're just furious and tail-spinning.
Nobody said this makes Trump a Peace Prize winner, but the Committee hates him so much they felt the need to set the record straight when absolutely nobody believed the thing they're refuting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (+Zbod)
As I've said here before, I questioned how serious the uprising was. Almost all the powerful images coming out were fake (those pretty defiant girls) or had a strong whiff of "Ghost of Keeeev" bullshit.
There would be no need for ops and propaganda if indeed there was a serious revolution under way. And after the endless bullshit coming out of Uke, I don't trust any foreign reporting any more.
Something was going on in Iran, but I don't know what. Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.
The moment seems to have passed. Even Trump seems to have backpedaled. I suspect he got real intel that confirmed what I suspected that this was mostly bullshit. We'll see in the coming days or weeks if I am correct or not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (3AyDK)
Gonna need a little more info here …
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (pDt9x)
Shrub provides an example of what not to do.
But I've argued endlessly that there are plenty of effective options that don't require sending 100K troops. Let's see if Trump is willing to use them because they are "mean"
And a couple of specific examples:
1) Assassinate the enemy leadership
2) Target infrastructure being used by the enemy leadership and his allies
3) Arm the opposition
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (GyQIQ)
I mean, you could always go up there and do the full Robert Smigel-as-Triumph act.
"Blah, blah, blah.... for me to poop on."
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (xT8gx)
That is prime among the reasons I am glad she did.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (HXT0k)
This. It sends them into fits of rage because they think so much of credentialism and giving each other awards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (eIzlH)
Nope. We can do a lot militarily without a physical presence in Iran. In fact, politically that is the best option.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (eIzlH)
No it doesn't, it makes him look like Trump. It also shows the prize for what it is, to a wider audience than just me and you.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (3AyDK)
As I've said here before, I questioned how serious the uprising was. Almost all the powerful images coming out were fake (those pretty defiant girls) or had a strong whiff of "Ghost of Keeeev" bullshit.
There would be no need for ops and propaganda if indeed there was a serious revolution under way. And after the endless bullshit coming out of Uke, I don't trust any foreign reporting any more.
Something was going on in Iran, but I don't know what. Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.
The moment seems to have passed. Even Trump seems to have backpedaled. I suspect he got real intel that confirmed what I suspected that this was mostly bullshit. We'll see in the coming days or weeks if I am correct or not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
That would be bad.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (3AyDK)
Which thingamabob?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)
"Blah, blah, blah.... for me to poop on."
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (iXqHn)
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I would go with dripping sarcasm, ending with rejection. Probably. I'll never find out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (NYInA)
The EU/NATO thing where they sent 34 people to defend Greenland against Trump is hilarious though. 34 people can't even defend something from Jason Statham, never mind if Trump sent any serious military that way.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (+Zbod)
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No way bro! Obama totally deserved it for [checks notes] being half-black and getting elected (and subsequently bombing more countries than any president since WWII).
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (5aZAZ)
He really isn't. The US has encouraged and abandoned in the past. This isn't a moral issue. All that matters is what serves our interests. I think it serves our interests to topple Iran, and I approve of us getting involved (probably to a degree others would not). But I don't want to hear a bunch of weepy "we owe them" talk. Because we don't. That's no basis for foreign policy or putting American lives in harm's way.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (zUe/H)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (kgFPv)
Machado's actions refute the left's statements about Trump and they can't attack her because they just gave her their top award.
No wonder they are so furious...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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So the Nobel Committee and Trump are equally silly over that prize. Really, Donald, it's a meaningless prize at this point.
caveat: I haven't closely read any of his statements on it except maybe some vague "I deserved it," which is true, so I don't know how much he actually _wants_ it. I've felt I deserved things that I didn't actually want.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
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Dunno. We'll see. I hope the mullahs fall, but I also know they have a history of not falling. They also have a history of 11th-hour salvation from Washington, but this time they don't and the Rial is at zero outside of Iran. That's a difference. Whether it's enough of a difference is well beyond my knowledge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (CWTWj)
Portland has a pilot program where it is giving $1600 to lucky people to help buy an "e-bike".
Well, they released the results of the pilot program, and the result is as expected:
Amazingly, giving away money is popular! The program sponsors were so worried that it wouldn't be.
And, because it's Portland:
The gender split between male and female was relatively even, with males receiving 80 rebates and females receiving 72. Non-binary people received 34 rebates.
The "full program", which will cost the city millions, rolls out in two months.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (u6/wt)
This.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Impotent Euro-weenies say what? LOL
Maria Machado can give that medal to whomever she pleases. The Nobel Commission is just pissed that she publicly humiliated them by given the Peace Prize Medal to Pres. Trump.
That's like the blustering of NATO concerning Greenland. The military contingent they sent there totaled 34 soldiers! Besides, the U.S. is not going to mount an invasion of Greenland, we already have a base there. Let's say a Brigade Combat Team is deployed there for an Arctic Warfare training exercise: what are the Europeans going to do except cry?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: The adult world is kindergarten at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (TbWk/)
Someone, I think Bonchie from RedState, commented, "He is obligated after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting."
He really isn't. The US has encouraged and abandoned in the past. This isn't a moral issue. All that matters is what serves our interests. I think it serves our interests to topple Iran, and I approve of us getting involved (probably to a degree others would not). But I don't want to hear a bunch of weepy "we owe them" talk. Because we don't. That's no basis for foreign policy or putting American lives in harm's way.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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It's the "after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting" part.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (NYInA)
Don't know.. I'm pretty sure we know what's going on there.. Israel and the US have people on the ground... Also.. The Mullahs have been shipping all their money out of the Country..
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (VE6XX)
I supported that, but "protecting a side" in this skirmish is boots on the ground and ultimately nation building.
Just looks like Iraq 2.0
Posted by: Leupold
We've bombed a lot more places than we were stupid enough to put boots on teh ground. Even then, we did not suffer near the casualties by taking out regimes that we did when trying to fix them.
Punitive expeditions require a cold hard heart and that the perfect is the enemy of the good enough.
In Iraq, it would have been decapitating the Hussein regime while leaving the Iraqi military to run it. In Afghanistan, blow the place up, let the Northern Alliance run the place including letting the Pushtun areas be autonomous and leave.
Punitive raids for the US go way back to the Barbary Pirates where the US Marines went to Tripoli and kicked pirate ass after they seized one of our frigates. We did not stay there obviously.
In these cases, casualties and even costs were not that much--it was the occupation that ran up the loss of blood and treasure.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (WDjG6)
However:
Academics, news outlets and the opposition provided strong evidence showing that González won the election by a wide margin with the opposition releasing copies of official tally sheets collected by poll watchers from a majority of polling centers showing a landslide victory for González.The National Electoral Council (CNE) announced falsified results
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)
The person that has been missing for a couple weeks. I didn't want to make it a thing. Just wanted to know if I missed a Banning because those are sometimes fun to go back and read.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (3AyDK)
I saw some people pointing out that the EU is pumping out a bunch of propaganda images now with tough looking white guys geared up but until just now all their "We are Europe!" memes were women or men from outside of Europe.
But the funniest response to one of these images was a guy noting that if the EUnicks really tried to kit out 7 operators at the same time they might have trouble finding that many kits...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (sKqQm)
Do we believe the reports by Bessent that the mullahs are spiriting their money out of Iran? I do, so I think the revolution will succeed.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)
Just looks like Iraq 2.0
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (eIzlH)
The reason for supporting, as much as we can, the overthrow of the Mullah's is that such a thing will truly change the world far more than even the collapse of the USSR in 1991 did. It'd take a page to explain all the things that will come crashing down with them.
(Start with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi, all cut loose with no support once the Mullahs are gone)
BUT because of recent US successes, too many people believe that it's possible to do this in a single strike, a single night. It isn't. It can be done, but I do not believe they're going to let go easily.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (uWKK8)
Snow back, Lukefisk-eating degenerates that they are. Remember this blog's position on the Scandi Menace
Posted by: imp at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (g6TN6)
Correction: the people of Iran's money.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (dK+Kv)
They made it illegal for Machado to be on the ballot. The USAID/CIA playbook is the same every place its run.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (2ocoG)
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
He should give it back to Machado so that she can melt it down and cast it as a big middle finger.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (+Zbod)
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No way bro! Obama totally deserved it for [checks notes] being half-black and getting elected (and subsequently bombing more countries than any president since WWII).
What about me?
Posted by: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Paul Krugman! at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (u6/wt)
Bessent doesn't strike me as someone that lies.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM
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Or what? What bell will they unring?
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (NYInA)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (3AyDK)
Hmmm. Trying to think of who you would mean. n caught a big ace banhammer to the face last week (earlier this week?)
I cannot think of anyone else in the past couple weeks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)
A time will come when elections are possible, and they will have to be monitored. But that time is not now.
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How is that working out for us when it comes to the federal government?
Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (vSvIl)
We are refinancing our mortgage with the intention of paying it off in 8 - 10 years.
Oh and we have no pest issues. Other than the cat. She is a bitchy little diva. And a pest.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (2J/Lj)
One addendum - the destruction of Tikrit via bombs/missiles as well. Killing Hussein and his spawn would send one message. Devastating his clan would send a far more serious one to the Arab world.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:42 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (u6/wt)
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Uhhhhh, that's not "fairly even."
80+72+34 = 186
34/186 = 0.1827
If a full 18.3% of your population is sex-confused, you don't have a city, you have an insane asylum.
The results of this "pilot program" mean either nothing because it is not representative, or they mean that Portland is approaching the conclusion of its death spiral.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:42 PM (GyQIQ)
But it does have a cost to it...so they would not do it lightly...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)
Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: Dumb & Dumber at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (47KAQ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (x4Mz/)
Yeah, and I don't think that makes any difference. We have done that and then not followed through before. Just like we've encouraged foreign powers to do something and then punished them for it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (zUe/H)
Posted by: ...
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n, aka yankee fifth, confederate fifth, etc. got banned by head Ewok himself but that is all I can recall like Aetius.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
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Dunno. We'll see. I hope the mullahs fall, but I also know they have a history of not falling. They also have a history of 11th-hour salvation from Washington, but this time they don't and the Rial is at zero outside of Iran. That's a difference. Whether it's enough of a difference is well beyond my knowledge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (GyQIQ)
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The Iran regime is weakened on the international stage, along with several of its main evil partners (Venezuela). The new sanctions should twist the knife deeper. That's all very good news, and great for American security and interests. Thank Trump for that.
As for the Iranians? Dunno. Long term, the mullahs may have no future. But even dying regimes can last a long time. I've been hearing about how the mullahs were on their way out for ... I dunno ... about 30 years now?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (pDt9x)
We didn't say what the "help" was...it could be as simple as support reorganizing underground while trying to topple the military from within...help that takes years, not days...
People took "help" to mean imminent bombs and boots on the ground - it doesn't have to be.
Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Bigfoot from the AOS Straight-Cryptid Alliance at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)
I'm fairly certain the left wanted to be sure to have a talking point ready if anyone said Trump won the Nobel Peace Prize. They wanted to be able to say, "Nuh uh, the Nobel Prize committee said the prize is non-transferrable, so there!"
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (Yp6az)
Notice how every major leftist has a closet full of such?
I don't think you could list all of the honorifics Hillary has been given on a single page.
Yet, anyone who does actual good, who actually is good, remains unrecognized.
Related: This is why they are throwing such a goofy tantrum over the Trump-Kennedy Center.
That was _their_ honor, that they controlled, the accomplishment of "playing at the Kennedy Center."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
This, Islam has been forced on them as their dominant religious force. Plus, that is where all the regime weapons are stored.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)
It's amusing, but we've done the same thing. The ads for the armed services no longer exclude straight white men and sound like a trailer for Starfleet Academy.
There was a picture of the Delta Team that took Maduro, but with their faces blacked out. As far as I could tell, every single one was a white male.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)
Also there were reports of large secondary explosions at several of the burning mosques. I really doubt the regime wanted that.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (2ocoG)
No matter, they can caddy or bellhop in the new Nuuk-a-lago resort opening later this year.
Posted by: Bedminster-el-Norte at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (oftw2)
Then they found out she was a Trump fan. It was epic... nearly as good as watching election night coverage in '16 and '24.
Posted by: Dennis the Peasant at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (IG3/x)
Just looks like Iraq 2.0
What makes you believe we’re not already there?
It will never be Iraq. We will continue asymmetric operations and probably at some point kinetic bombing operations to selectively take out offensive capabilities of the IRGC and various missile sites.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (T7fic)
Trump: Here is my answer.
The Nobel Committee: "What the hell does EABOD mean".
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)
*******
Heh.
Posted by: EFG at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (z6+HA)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (2WIwB)
Who knew?
Posted by: Dumb & Dumber at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (47KAQ)
They really liked Running Man. The fat opera character made them horny.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (Yp6az)
He's just poking holes in them. If he stays silent or says he doesn't care they write a narrative that sources say he secretly does and paint him as a "loser" with "sour grapes". They elevate themselves above him, in the skin suit of a "prize" attached to many famous names including scientists, writers, etc
This way by declaring it should rightfully be his, he writes the story and makes a mockery of it at the same time. He exposes the truth, and controls the direction and flow. Do people STILL not get how Trump works? He probably WOULD like the prize. It's big and shiny. Who wouldn't?
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (3AyDK)
I saw the remake of the Running Man.
Better FX, better action, and honestly better acting
but the script was not very good.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (pDt9x)
We didn't say what the "help" was...it could be as simple as support reorganizing underground while trying to topple the military from within...help that takes years, not days...
People took "help" to mean imminent bombs and boots on the ground - it doesn't have to be.
Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (tOcjL)
Fair enough. But it had better something more substantial than “ good luck”, we are behind you, over here, way way over here. Our reputation in the world is no small thing, and it has been sullied so much in the past.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
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So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
Better FX, better action, and honestly better acting
but the script was not very good.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
Points:
-no Arnold (and I like Glen Powell.)
-No Richard Dawson
-no hot chick?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (bss/y)
But the funniest response to one of these images was a guy noting that if the EUnicks really tried to kit out 7 operators at the same time they might have trouble finding that many kits...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (sKqQm)
It's been well over a year ago, but I read an article that alleged that Zero of Germany's 6 submarines were operational, only one-third of their Tornado fighter-bombers were flight-worthy and they had enough operational Leopard II tanks to equip One Panzer Brigade.
If we wanted to, the U.S. could invade Europe, eject the Muslims, and at least half of the population would greet us as liberators.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (pJWtt)
I saw the remake of the Running Man.
Better FX, better action, and honestly better acting
but the script was not very good.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
But no evil Richard Dawson. Two immediate strikes against.
Posted by: Got to have evil Richard Dawson at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (TbWk/)
The defeat of Iran is more meaningful than any average regional conquest. It could be a turning point in stopping the spread of Islam into the West.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (t/2Uw)
That takes a bit of time. And patience.
Like many, I presume we've got eyes on the situation and if there was a good chance that an op would result in a favorable outcome, we'd do it now. That does not appear to be the case, currently.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (U2OZr)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (jc0TO)
There's also a long-time rumor that Nobel didn't set up a prize for mathematics because a mathematician stole his girlfriend, but I think that's apocryphal.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (WDjG6)
O he did? I meant someone else, but n always walked a line. When was that??
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
That would be bad.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (pDt9x)
It's not that the moment passed; it's that everyone thought that a glitzy Internet revolution with a bunch of unarmed civvy's dancing in the street might work. Against a western government, maybe - against a Fanatical Regime of Evil as vicious as the 3rd Reich at its peak, no way would that work. And we love to think we could do a decapitation strike, but now that they're warned and in hiding, that's really not possible. They can be taken out, but it's going to take many such strikes, and it will involve ballistic missile retaliation by the Iranians both against US bases and against Tel Aviv, because that's what the Iranians have said they are going to do.
What has to be done can be done, but no one should think it will be easy, or brief.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (uWKK8)
I cannot think of anyone else in the past couple weeks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)
I go on vacation and miss all the fun. That'll learn me.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (dK+Kv)
I was on a lefty thread where they were complaining about urban stores locking products in those plastic things the employees have to unlock for you to get them. Someone posted a picture of even tins of Spam in this setup and asked "Do these store owners think people are stealing and selling...SPAM?!?"
So I jumped over to Ebay and...plenty of people selling SPAM below market prices...
Now, maybe they just were able to buy some overstock and figured Ebay was the best way to move it but I suspect a lot of Ebay products are stolen property as well...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)
I initially read that as imminent boobs and boots on the ground, because, ah hell, I don't need a reason.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (jc0TO)
Fortuitous situation for mosque burning times.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (pDt9x)
One addendum - the destruction of Tikrit via bombs/missiles as well. Killing Hussein and his spawn would send one message. Devastating his clan would send a far more serious one to the Arab world.
Posted by: 18-1
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Good point. And the Sunni faction that ran Iraq were probably willing to let that happen or even assist with information.
But we can't fix the Arab world, we did poorly in colonial governance in places like the PI after the Spanish American War, and Puerto Rico and other island dependencies have not flourished without Uncle Sam spending a bunch of bucks to prop up the existing places.
Brits and Netherlands did better at colonial governance because they essentially ignored moral questions of who should rule, what is just, etc. Elections and native government to them were not an option.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (WDjG6)
It does? The regime is literally Islamics that took over a largely non-Islamic country. Burning down mosques seems like Job 1 in that case, in much the same way that Europe's Muslims have been destroying all of the churches.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM
Poland could take Berlin in two weeks.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)
The first script was bad too.
Alonso, "Go ahead, make up some more lies about me!"
*shudder*
Arnold, "Here is Subzero, now plain zero!"
*cringe*
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (Yp6az)
trump pardons former tenn speaker and you listen
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (pJqZ+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)
Go time aka
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (3AyDK)
It looked much truer to the original Bachman / King story. Probably will see it at some point:
Posted by: Alien Collaborator at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (REOC8)
These supine European castrati wanted to get their cucked out, tucked under jollies by denying Trump his coveted medal, so one of its recipients obviated that catty silliness, and awarded it to him herself.
Suck it, icebacks. You can't stop the orangeman.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (BI5O2)
Trump deserves it and it's a big middle finger to the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (0KSrI)
Ever been there? Believe it. The greatest amount of their oppression has come from Islamic fanatics. Burning down mosques is a direct shot at their authority. The Persian people are very aware of their history and despise the Arab Islamists.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (T7fic)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)
"itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (8zz6B)
That takes a bit of time. And patience.
That's what Mossad is for. Division of labor, my friend.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)
And they have runaway mega-inflation. We sent from 1 million rials to the dollar to 1.5 million in 24 hours.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)
Josh Brolin wasn't bad as the newer villain. He probably acted the role better then Dawson but...again...the script made the character weaker however Brolin played it.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (3AyDK)
Week or so ago. He's crossed the line many a time but this is the first time I'm aware of that he got an ace-initiated banning. Not sure of any other recent banhammer activity.
Posted by: Stop. Hammer time! at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (TbWk/)
Now Trump will start collecting people's Nobel Peace Prizes like they're Infinity Stones. Sacha Baron Cohen needs to make The Dictator 2, a Bigger Dick
it should be given for actual accomplishments not just acknowledgement of a struggle (i.e. when given to opposition figures). Machado didn't seem much for peace at all.
It's almost like she didn't deserve it in the first place. she supports Trump even though he behaves like a pure dictator
From Norway, not stunned. Stopped being stunned about the world since Trump wasnt barred from becoming president.
None of this crap would have gone down with VZ if the Nobel committee had just awarded to Pope Leo or the girl trying to get aid to Gaza. in fact, the Nobel committee may be responsible for sparking WW3 for that boondoggle.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (kgG3s)
I saw some poll were almost 90% of americans are opposed to the idea. It's just so silly. We have a military base there and the idea this land is going to be pumping out resources like rare earths for us is silly. The local euroweenie population will not allow it. Even if you call them "americans".
Just try and sign a mining deal if that's the goal, but we don't need it. Something like Alaska is basically the same thing. Plenty of natural resources but it doesn't pencil out for any companies.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Night Lifted at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (kJmLc)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)
Help them overthrow the mullahs and then , as much as possible, stay out of the way. The Persians will set up a stable government. Eventually
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: ...
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Within this week. Bad form to talk tough to the head Ewok at his storefront.
The only other ban I can recall recently is Quora Steve whose nic I cannot remember. Guy inevitably gets up the nose of the cobs and then spazzes when they tell him to fix his shit.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (BI5O2)
Oh brother...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (g47mK)
They are severely out-numbered now.
Some smellie is driving by in a pickup blasting Tejano.
(go with Banda, loser, better beat you can dance to, since it's just a polka)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)
"itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (8zz6B)
OHHHHH I hadn't even noticed.
Posted by: Such keen powers of observation have I at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (TbWk/)
IIRC he crashed out and attacked CBD.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)
Did not start up with the Joo thing, did he?
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Just got here at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (2Ez/1)
Get the EU-niks and Karens wound up and then...don't really do anything
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
Yes, that certainly explains why you're in a death camp, or hiding in an attic shitting your pants every time someone knocks on the door.
Oh, wait: you're not. You're screeching like a retard on Reddit, with absolutely no fear that the secret police are going to show up and take you away.
These are fundamentally unserious people with mental illnesses. They need to be confined for their own safety and that of others.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (IG3/x)
Who knew?
Posted by: Dumb & Dumber at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (47KAQ)
It's funny because she played a freedom fighter in "McBain," as featured on Rifftrax.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
That would be bad.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (pDt9x)
It's not that the moment passed; it's that everyone thought that a glitzy Internet revolution with a bunch of unarmed civvy's dancing in the street might work. Against a western government, maybe - against a Fanatical Regime of Evil as vicious as the 3rd Reich at its peak, no way would that work. And we love to think we could do a decapitation strike, but now that they're warned and in hiding, that's really not possible.
What has to be done can be done, but no one should think it will be easy, or brief.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (uWKK
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I agree and that's kinda my point; that this was never "real" as a true revolution. But you can still see the Hopeium on display here. Maybe they are right. I hope they are. I don't think they are.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: DaveA at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (FhXTo)
Look at a globe. Putin and Xi have expressed interest in putting military hardware there. Relatively cheap Palestinian-type rockets on that real estate could cheaply reach NYC and Washington, DC. (And Ottawa and Toronto, but nobody cares about Canada).
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (T7fic)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I scrolled past him anyway and did not realize he got the ban hammer again.
I'll predict he will be back in time for the midterms under a shiny new nic .
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
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So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
You are apparently unaware that Persians historically practiced Zoroastrianism before being conquered by the Muslims. Also, there has been an increase of converts to Christianity. How many people in Iran are Zoroastrians or Christian is open to debate, but there's certainly a pool of people of other religions with little reason to love what the Mullahs have done to Iran.
There are reports that many mosques are empty. An abandoned mosque would be a pretty inviting target.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Captain Jack Sparrow at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (kgG3s)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
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So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
You missed a report that went out during the beginning of the street riots - that the Regime, much like Hamas, had constructed chambers underneath almost all the mosques where weapons stores for the Security forces were kept, and also special detention cells for their use. That's why so many were burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: McBane at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)
"itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (8zz6B)
OHHHHH I hadn't even noticed.
Posted by: Such keen powers of observation have I at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (TbWk/)
Huh. I did not see it if it happened. I thought I saw him yesterday or the day before.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (bss/y)
None of this crap would have gone down with VZ if the Nobel committee had just awarded to Pope Leo or the girl trying to get aid to Gaza. in fact, the Nobel committee may be responsible for sparking WW3 for that boondoggle.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (kgG3s)
Your mental fortitude is beyond impressive. To be able to descend into the depths of insane retardation and reemerge with your mind and psyche still intact is no small feat.
Posted by: Brains of steel at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (TbWk/)
Just watched this on Iran: https://tinyurl.com/yc3hktfp
And idiots claim the US is tyrannical for deporting illegal aliens. They have no idea.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (n5tGW)
Pedestal destroyed.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (cS1cw)
The only other ban I can recall recently is Quora Steve whose nic I cannot remember. Guy inevitably gets up the nose of the cobs and then spazzes when they tell him to fix his shit.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (WDjG6)
and then his stupid ass tried to rotate through VPN and kept coming back with his usual whining, baiting, and trolling some more; what a loser
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (g47mK)
Get the EU-niks and Karens wound up and then...don't really do anything
Posted by: 18-1
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I guess, but I actually think it does have a cost to Republicans and Trump domestically.
It just sort of negates legitimate foreign policy victories when you have lopsided majorities in agreement that it's a stupid idea.
Trump never ran on taking Greenland and frankly the last thing I want is "more Americans" to take care of. I'd gladly sell Puerto Rico off to the highest bidder.
The population of Greenland is basically just a free shit army, the same as Puerto Rico.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (eIzlH)
Also, since Popes are no longer catholic do bears still shit in the woods?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sKqQm)
Why do I miss all the good stuff
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (3AyDK)
Because life's not fair.
Posted by: Full circling at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (WDjG6)
Maybe shiny, maybe not. He generally maintains more than one at a time so when he comes "back" he doesn't seem new. It's a whole thing.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (3AyDK)
The Nobel Peace Prize committee is probably to the right of the Motion Picture Academy but not by much.
At least their prize doesn't double as a dildo like "Oscar".
Posted by: Auspex at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (D5naB)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
____
So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
You missed a report that went out during the beginning of the street riots - that the Regime, much like Hamas, had constructed chambers underneath almost all the mosques where weapons stores for the Security forces were kept, and also special detention cells for their use. That's why so many were burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (uWKK
Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (sDpug)
On 30 June 2023, the Comptroller General of the Republic of Venezuela [es] announced that former National Assembly member María Corina Machado was disqualified from holding public office for 15 years.
Nicolás Maduro faced off against Edmundo González
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (RHGPo)
Is it any surprise that the Iranian Regime would have done the same thing?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (eIzlH)
What? Alaska exported $3.3 billion in minerals in 2024.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (IG3/x)
Why do I miss all the good stuff
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (3AyDK)
The n one was fairly silly. n was being contrary (as he is wont to do.) ace took it personally (even though I do not think n was being contrary towards ace but towards someone else.) ace took his belt off and n is like 'hey...'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (y9ksN)
The organizers of the prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute, had already said that the prize “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred”.
Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said: “This is, above all, absurd. The peace prize cannot be given away.” Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, the leader of the Centre party, said: “Whoever has received the prize has received the prize. The fact that Trump accepted the medal says something about him as a type of person: a classic showoff who wants to adorn himself with other people’s honors and work."
Raymond Johansen, the Labour former governing mayor of Oslo who is now secretary general of Norwegian People’s Aid, said “This is unbelievably embarrassing and damaging to one of the world’s most recognized and important prizes. The awarding of the prize is now so politicized and potentially dangerous that it could easily legitimize an anti-peace prize development. I can’t believe she actually gave the prize to Trump. What on earth is the Nobel committee going to say?"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (3AyDK)
Saw a guy interviewing native Greenlanders.
One group was funny - the three agreed they didn't want to be part of the US or "sell" Greenland.
Then the interview asked if they would for $100K. And they all said yes. When chided as to why that was now different the answer was "Because that's a lot of money!"
Of course the funny part of that - if such a thing were to happen you'd see incredible local inflation. Yes it would still be a big payout but anyone still selling groceries or fixing cars there is going to be asking 10X what they were before
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
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So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
You missed a report that went out during the beginning of the street riots - that the Regime, much like Hamas, had constructed chambers underneath almost all the mosques where weapons stores for the Security forces were kept, and also special detention cells for their use. That's why so many were burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (uWKK
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I didn't miss the report. I don't believe it. Even if that were true, a largely weaponless revolution doesn't burn weapons, when the regime has an almost endless supply and can always get more. A weaponless revolution steals the weapons to use against the regime.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)
I'm overjoyed to hear of it - it saves us the criticism, when we do finally launch an attack, for having to bomb every mosque in the country (Like the Israelis have had to do in Gaza)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (BI5O2)
Well, if he did, I didn't notice, because I didn't ban him. Somebody else must have.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (n9ltV)
Jews, too, and probably some other weird stuff like Yazidis. Maybe even some tribal religions in the hinterlands.
All operating under deep cover.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (IG3/x)
"We've established what you are, now we are simply negotiating price."
Posted by: Churchillin' like a villain at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (jc0TO)
I remembered watching Pres. Trump's speech in Warsaw (?) during his first term. The Poles seemed pretty enthusiastic and liked what they heard.
If Pres. Trump had told them "Assemble the Pancerni! On to Berlin!" they would have done it.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (iFTx/)
A revolution does destroy opposition hardpoints though. You take everything you can carry and then destroy the rest to deny it to the enemy. Fairly standard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM
Harrumph.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:59 PM (jc0TO)
Where do you attack first?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM
Now that the annual AoSHQ Commenter Reviews are done, it's easy to slip back into old habits, but it's not wise to disappoint Ace.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM (0sNs1)
Hmm. The steve one sounds better.
I honestly don't know why yankee would suddenly decide to be contrary after all these years of open polite affability.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)
It really is marvelous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM
ISWYDT
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (jc0TO)
$100k per capita works out to around $5 billion total.
A pittance by federal government standards.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (eIzlH)
Except there's only 55,000 Greenlanders, less than the number of welfare queens in any blue city. And they sit on a metric fuckton of resources. Welfare queens just sit on their fat asses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
===
My meaning is that the state is basically empty and you could mine WAY more than we are currently. People don't understand just how big Alaska really is.
Greenland is just more of Alaska. Just because it's there doesn't automatically mean it makes financial sense to process.
Rare earth metals actually aren't all that rare in the Earth, its the refining process that's messy and expensive.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (0sNs1)
++++
The Peace Prize counts among its laureates terrorists, charlatans and warlords. It is recognized, but not important. It is not an honor.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)
It really is marvelous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM
I opened my windows.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (gm9Sb)
Jews, too, and probably some other weird stuff like Yazidis. Maybe even some tribal religions in the hinterlands.
All operating under deep cover.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (IG3/x)
The Mullahs want pretend that everybody is Iran is Muslim, but it's simply not so.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (pJWtt)
That's true with some religious leaders like the pope, who don't actually believe or care about their religion, but Khamenei has to at least pretend, because many of his supporters are zealots. Burning down mosques is a direct attack against the supreme religious leader.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (kgG3s)
Posted by: Night Lifted
I hope it is the missile that doesn't blow up, it cuts.
A rocket from a tiny jet would do the trick. Then
i want to direct the movie. That wonder woman girl has a part.
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (gxokI)
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM (3AyDK)
ROFLMAO.
He went from Stuart Smalley to Andrew Dice Clay so suddenly, I never noticed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)
It really is marvelous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (n9ltV)
Yes indeed, considering they are the club houses for the Cult from Hell.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (y9ksN)
I think the whole carrier business is a ruse. there are other things going on. they really don't need it to start, to eliminate the missile sites, or hit other targets for example. Israel did not need a carrier to bomb the crap out of the Islamic Republic just 6 months ago. Though I not a military planner....
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (g47mK)
Also the left: All the world's snow and ice will be gone within 12 years
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (iFTx/)
I think one thing we forget in the west is that in a radical Islamist country like Iran, there is *no* separation of Church and State. The Church IS the State, and the State IS the Church. Go back and look at how many Cathedrals were destroyed and ransacked during the Reformation and later, the English Civil Wars. Iran is now beginning to go through the same thing. It's very violent, very destructive, and unstoppable once it gets going.
We in the west learned to separate church and state by having to go through all of that 4 - 5 centuries ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: 18-1
Apparently not according to the Charmin commercials. Disgusting.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM
Harrumph.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:59 PM (jc0TO)
Vi må beskytte våre falske pølsejobber, herrene!
Posted by: Du bør passe deg at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)
IIRC, the George Washington task group is on the way and will take about a week to get there. I doubt this is by accident. It's basically a countdown clock for the mullahs. They can FA for a bit, but an imminent visit by an aircraft carrier concentrates the mind wonderfully.
"Do you want to be Maduro'd, because this is how you get Maduro'd."
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM
Harrumph.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:59 PM (jc0TO)
Vi ma beskytte vare falske polsejobber, herrene!
Posted by: Du bor passe deg at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)
I have always been a fan of tanlines.
They are wonderful.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM (bss/y)
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)
_________
TBWB
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:04 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mea culpa. In Norwegian. at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (3AyDK)
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
......
That's a good citizen.
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (qwype)
Wait a minute I thought it was 13
Posted by: THe 12th highest ranking Jew in the world at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Du b�r passe deg at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM
"Drikk mer ovaltin."
-- Lille foreldreløse Annie
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (XXNjE)
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon
But Sharon, having tucked your tootsies under the covers did you not do something?
I'm so confused.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM
Something even less meaningful than whatever the UN says?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (kgG3s)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)
No. We are incapable of enjoying the good things in life.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (3AyDK)
One of them is a coblogger and another is in an intimate personal relationship with ace.
Posted by: Don't know about the remaining nine at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (TbWk/)
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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I'm trying not to do my part, but people keep sending me emails asking me to do things.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (eIzlH)
That has far more to do with communists than it does with economics.
I know... I live here.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (dK+Kv)
This is why we can't have nice things.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Jaimo at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (BCuCF)
Their mission is specifically to die if the US invades to generate sympathy for the EUniks.
If they sent a few thousand one could argue the EUniks were trying to actually defend their colony with the limited resources they had.
But 34?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: 18-1
Ahh, bikini babes frolicking on Greenland's beaches. We definitely need to invade now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (L/fGl)
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......
sneaker wave on target
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (UjdFS)
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon
Get one of those no-show union jobs with the Teamsters.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (qwype)
The fact that anyone on Reddit can post that and still live is proof Trump isn't a dictator.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (GK5Hx)
Wait a minute I thought it was 13
Posted by: THe 12th highest ranking Jew in the world
That's what the 11 Jews who secretly run the world want you to think.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (Riz8t)
And we typically end up "owning" another million refugees from the unstable hell-hole /power vacuum/failed state we created.
Winning!
Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM
Can't you delegate them to your trusted Professional Pleasure Procurer Sciuridae?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: ...
One of them is a coblogger and another is in an intimate personal relationship with ace.
Posted by: Don't know about the remaining nine
That causes me to wonder - Are there any good Yiddish songs dumping on shiksas?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Wally at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (0e5Te)
We won Iraq. Twice. DoS and the civilians lost it, largely with their Baathist ban. And the CPA was the devils spawn
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (T7fic)
Rather like Vietnam. For all his many faults, Nixon bombed the N Viets back to the peace table and they were scared shitless of what would happen next, so they capitulated. The US got what it wanted, an end to hostilities, an independent S Vietnam and US troops out of the country. A messy, expensive victory but a victory nonetheless.
The North just waited until Nixon was gone and they rearmed to start another war with the South 2 years later, secure in the knowledge that their Donk commie cocksucker allies in the US Congress would prevent the US from aiding the South.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (y9nCu)
Donald Trump: "Speak VERY LOUDLY and carry FUTURISTIC RAY GUNS."
Joe Biden: "Babble incoherently and carry a limp noodle."
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (se8lQ)
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There are legit reasons to "want" Greenland. Almost every single one revolves around national security.
Russia and Chine understand its importance. I'm not sure Denmark does. Or cares.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (U2OZr)
Heck, that doesn't even reach Somali fraud standards.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
==
Why then are they not mining it currently? Why do you think an American flag changes all that? Who will work in these mines if the locals basically just get a UBI type check for being there?
Even if this country becomes part of America, there's going to be some level of local control from the population. So pretend you give every Greenlander a million dollars to "vote" to be part of the US, what will stop them from saying "no" to any strip mining after they cash the check?
If the goal is resources, just sign a mining deal like we do all the time. You could just mine federal lands in the US, way easier than adding a new country to the US.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM
Yes .. err .. hmm .. quite ..
Those bastards!
Posted by: Crab People at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (jc0TO)
Get the EU-niks and Karens wound up and then...don't really do anything
Posted by: 18-1
==
I guess, but I actually think it does have a cost to Republicans and Trump domestically.
It just sort of negates legitimate foreign policy victories when you have lopsided majorities in agreement that it's a stupid idea.
Trump never ran on taking Greenland and frankly the last thing I want is "more Americans" to take care of. I'd gladly sell Puerto Rico off to the highest bidder.
The population of Greenland is basically just a free shit army, the same as Puerto Rico.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (eIzlH)
Greenland is a strategic piece of real estate. I suppose you are unconcerned about Russia or China putting some IRBM there.
As is typical, many of the "America First! (tm)" folks put forth an incoherent argument that espouses isolationism, pacifism and a willingness to allow hostile nations to do whatever they want.
As far as the American people are concerned, I doubt that there is "lop-sided opposition" to protecting American interests. We're not invading Greenland.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM
###
Open your windows. Enjoy the aroma.
Posted by: Gwen Walz at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (2Ez/1)
Very true. And we've now pissed away almost all our domestic political appetite for foreign intervention on Venezuala and Iran.
Winning !
Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (5FPX4)
Trump: "Me and these 20 Army Rangers."
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (eIzlH)
The goal is military bases to keep the Rooskies and China commies under control.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (qwype)
It showed southern portions of the world become uninhabitable by certain dates and argued humans would have to move to the poles.
And there were a bunch of lefties telling him to knock it off because a certain someone could use it to justify seizing Greenland. It was hilarious.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (3AyDK)
LOL.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (kgG3s)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)
++++
LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (GyQIQ)
Khomeini, IRGC, and the murderous foreign mercenaries
Putin, China, Maduro are the same, but only some of them have nukes.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (se8lQ)
Amusingly this is one of the complaints the natives currently have with their colonial overlords.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (3AyDK)
One of them is a coblogger and another is in an intimate personal relationship with ace.
Posted by: Don't know about the remaining nine at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (TbWk/)
Garret is Jewish?
Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (Q+gd/)
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Florida Rep Maxwell Frost (D) posted this video alerting illegals about ICE activities and locations and how to evade ICE.
CHARGE HIM.
https://tinyurl.com/4enhny7u
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM
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My gosh, this man is in my head.
When I read about mosques being burned, I enjoyed the moment. Do I know what is actually happening in Iran? No.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2026 01:13 PM (aZm/F)
Posted by: King Leonidas at January 16, 2026 01:13 PM (0e5Te)
r Democrats will ban mining there. Like they ban mining or drilling for oil in Alaska.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (kgFPv)
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon
But Sharon, having tucked your tootsies under the covers did you not do something?
I'm so confused.
Posted by: Tonypete
......
She might be doing something under the covers but it's really none of our business.
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (UjdFS)
"🚨@Cloudflare has detected Iranian authorities targeting Instagram accounts with bulk data extraction tools."
(don't know about the account , but judge for yourselves)
https://tinyurl.com/3ff72yka
are they using North Korean resources ?
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (g47mK)
Winning !
Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (5FPX4)
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I've forgotten the identities but as WWI was hotting up, some big shot Brit asked some big shot Frenchmen how few Brits they could send to France that would help. The Frenchman answered, "One, and we'll make sure he is killed."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:15 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)
Probably because Denmark would play Maduro and take everything. Denmark needs hellacious infusions of cash to prop up their welfare state.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 01:15 PM (GK5Hx)
Thirteen is right out.
Posted by: A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20 at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)
Rule 34. They're signaling to the internet to make porn if them.
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (sDpug)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (pDt9x)
Raise your hand is you’re surprised. You know since this is what they did during their last reign.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (bd7Xf)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (Riz8t)
This bikini brunette with nice teeth hopes the mullahs fall:
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)
Well, she isn't British.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (pDt9x)
Snow is a resource technically.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (kgFPv)
Winning !
Posted by: Zek
North Koreans barely even know there is an outside world. They'd be afraid to cross the border into South Korea.
If Iran booted the Mullahs and went capitalist/democratic/free, I suspect millions of expat Iranians who fled in 1979 would return to Iran, rather than the other way around.
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (kgG3s)
Why would you say that Pope Leo XIV doesn't believe or care about the Roman Catholic Church? The man was an Augustinian monk, and was a missionary for almost 20 years. He's currently trying to restore traditions that Pope Francis saw fit to ignore.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (pJWtt)
Also now that they've confirmed they have Jewish Space Lasers it's a good idea not to annoy them.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (noPDf)
Probably because Denmark would play Maduro and take everything. Denmark needs hellacious infusions of cash to prop up their welfare state.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 01:15 PM (GK5Hx)
_____
Who works the Alaskan oil fields? It ain't natives or yeti. If the USA were ever to open up mines or other developments in GL, there would be no shortage of Americans to work them. Just like every other time new territory was opened up.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (kgFPv)
That's changed a lot.
Still a long way to go, but it's way better under Trump than it was before.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Where's my magic underwear? at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (2Ez/1)
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This is a message aimed at front line I.C.E. agents. Keep working there and we will fuck you up when we take power.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (kgFPv)
The idea that if we don't take it, Russia then puts ICBMs on it, seems a little ridiculous.
I have no issue with "let's expand our military base in Greenland" instead of "let's make Greenland part of the US"
It has nothing to do with the euroweenies complaining, just seems nutty.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: zombie
......
Yes, and build some nice casinos and golf courses!
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Confusion at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (se8lQ)
++++
Looks-based immigration policy is stupid, but way less stupid than what we do now. I say go for it. Give it a shot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (GyQIQ)
"Top Iran prayer leader who dubbed protesters 'Trump's soldiers' calls for executions amid ongoing unrest
Iran state radio broadcast sermon claiming 350 mosques, 400 hospitals damaged in protests"
"The cleric claimed 350 mosques, 126 prayer halls and 20 other holy places had sustained damage, the AP reported. Khatami also claimed that 400 hospitals, 106 ambulances, 71 fire department vehicles and another 50 emergency vehicles sustained damage."
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2vp2u8wh
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (rj6Yv)
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon
I didn't get where I am today by lying about with my feet tucked under the covers. One must get up, get out, seize the day.
Posted by: C.J., Head, Sunshine Desserts at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (UjdFS)
Just closing her eyes and thinking of England?
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (qwype)
Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (pDt9x)
I think the "Northern Sea Route" is the resource. Cut's China's travel to the west by about 3k nautical miles.
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (se8lQ)
The Alex Stein "Don't Deport The Big-Booty Latinas" protests have joined the chat.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (noPDf)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (r8eU0)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (g47mK)
"Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate."
Posted by: Al Czervik at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (Riz8t)
Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)
49,493.19 +50.75 (+0.10%)
As of 1:20:34 PM EST. Market Open.
Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (jc0TO)
They're gonna build a 4 story treatment and housing center, "The Villages of SF"
Under their slogan "Treatment not tents."
I wonder how many more $200k+ salaries will be needed to run that place?
And I bet the minimum cost is $100 million to build.
LOL, CA voters have to be the stupidest MFers on the planet.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: zombie
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Yes, and build some nice casinos and golf courses!
Posted by: wth
And the capital's just gotta be called Armstrong City.
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (g47mK)
As an interesting thought point - we are a country with a serious birth dirth brought on mostly by women in aggregate wanting to have fewer or no kids.
You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.
But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)
We know this or we hope this? And in the case of Venezuela? There is always potential upside, but I think history cautions that our ability to predict "the next phase" much less shape it is far less than the policy wonks think. Dearborn is Dearborn and Minnesota Somaliland because we broke half the Middle East. But lets keep f*cking that chicken because someday it may give birth to a Golden Retriever.
Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (HXT0k)
Uhm…
- Minnesota voters
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)
There are a fair number of people who actually live in Texas and commute.
Not kidding. A typical schedule is two weeks of "7-12s" (seven days a week, 12 hours a day) followed by two weeks off. You can afford the commute when you're raking in that sweet, sweet North Slope money.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (HXT0k)
Hold our beer.
Posted by: Delaware Voters at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:23 PM (pDt9x)
How many holy places does Islam have? Is this one of those "Mohammed slept here" things?
Posted by: Wally at January 16, 2026 01:23 PM (0e5Te)
But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose
The women who would make those spinoffs will be aging out and dying, so that's fine.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:23 PM (noPDf)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (kgFPv)
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I wouldn't limit that to ICE. He's threatening DOJ, DOD, and any agency that threatens the Dems' hold on power.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:23 PM (rj6Yv)
But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)
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You'd have applicants stacked twelve deep under these rules. After all, our divorce laws are globally famous...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: I gotta ask at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (2Ez/1)
The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Posted by: Doctor Strangelove at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (IG3/x)
Whoever was missing It's Go Time Donald, I think we've found him.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (noPDf)
As an interesting thought point - we are a country with a serious birth dirth brought on mostly by women in aggregate wanting to have fewer or no kids.
You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.
I bought a suit today, and while the salesman was an older gentleman of about 55, his internee was an absolutely smoking 6' model. Gad she was gorgeous. It's so sad that I'm 29.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)
Teeth are overrated.
Posted by: Winston Wolf at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (n9ltV)
Is that a lot?
Posted by: I gotta ask at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (2Ez/1)
A good start.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (pDt9x)
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That’s nuts. Especially for a job that demands a lot of physical work. By day 10 these people have to be walking zombies
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (noPDf)
I recently watched the season of Worst Cooks in America that he was on over a decade ago.
He was just as loud then as he is now.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (FpHTM)
The idea that if we don't take it, Russia then puts ICBMs on it, seems a little ridiculous.
I have no issue with "let's expand our military base in Greenland" instead of "let's make Greenland part of the US"
Posted by: Leupold
Making it US territory gives us control over ALL the ocean around it to a significant extent. That alone is of immense strategic value. Plus, our small military presence can be ordered out at any time. Not if the land is ours. Right now, if we want the land for security purposes, we have to play nice with Europe. If we take the land, we can tell the EU and NATO to go fuck themselves.
Posted by: Military Moron at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (kgG3s)
You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.
But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM
The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Posted by: Doctor Strangelove at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (jc0TO)
They're gonna build a 4 story treatment and housing center, "The Villages of SF"
Under their slogan "Treatment not tents."
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I have a somewhat different solution, work or starve. Mao had his Little Red Book. I have The Little Red Hen.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (se8lQ)
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Looks-based immigration policy is stupid, but way less stupid than what we do now. I say go for it. Give it a shot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (GyQIQ)
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We already have a looks-based immigration policy. It's just that the current policy favors mutations, malformations, abnormalities, and freaks. Will you look at the Somalis and hispanics we let in? These ain't Iman or weather girls.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
It has zero to do with anything that happened as a result of our Middle East policies other than it created groups they could import by subverting the immigration system.
Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (bd7Xf)
Posted by: zombie
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Yes, and build some nice casinos and golf courses!
Posted by: wth
318 I watched golf on the moon live.
Posted by: davidt
The first course will be called The Alan Shepard Country Club.
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (se8lQ)
---Someone
Posted by: Beverly at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (reMys)
Posted by: Granny Clampett at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:26 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (UjdFS)
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Geeze. How long would a Par 3 be on the friggin' *moon*?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:26 PM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:26 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)
There are a fair number of people who actually live in Texas and commute.
Not kidding. A typical schedule is two weeks of "7-12s" (seven days a week, 12 hours a day) followed by two weeks off. You can afford the commute when you're raking in that sweet, sweet North Slope money.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (IG3/x)
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Yup, I know. I've been to Alaska to ski and met some of the guys working the fields.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (kgG3s)
*******
Well, this will them off. lol
Machado had hundreds of rosaries given to her by the Venezuelans. When she fled the country she took 8 of them with her.
She met with Pope Leo and he blessed the rosaries.
Machado gave one of the blessed rosaries to Trump.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (NpAcC)
If I ever wanted to get banned I would make it unforgettable.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: davidt
The first course will be called The Alan Shepard Country Club.
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (se8lQ)
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I'm fore that!
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (rj6Yv)
They're gonna build a 4 story treatment and housing center, "The Villages of SF"
Under their slogan "Treatment not tents."
This would be what, Newscum's fifth failed attempt at eradicating homelessness?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (Q+gd/)
and a partridge in a pear tree.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:26 PM (jc0TO)
FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!!!!!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM
a blazer of glory, as it were.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (noPDf)
But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)
I am positive this will result in a shizzle ton of marriages based in love and respect, obviously rooted in biblical principles. It will absolutely not be a goldmine for divorce lawyers. 😂
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM
Pay retail?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM
a blazer of glory, as it were.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (jc0TO)
Better to die a hero than live a mewling quim.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (bss/y)
https://is.gd/hBNK5R
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)
I saw that last night. I told Mrs. Cop at the time that the Minneapolis Police Chief looked pretty subdued. He knows that "fighting ICE" is a really bad idea.
He should have interrupted the Mayor and just said that his police officers were not going to "fight ICE" as long as he's Chief. But he didn't, so he values his job more than his reputation.
Walz and Frey are stirring-up their flying monkeys because they both a deep trouble over the billions of dollars stolen by the Somalis.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (pJWtt)
I just don't get it. We keep giving away huge amounts of money with no metrics or deadlines, and the problem just keeps getting worse.
Posted by: Gavin Newsome at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bill Murray at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (2Ez/1)
If I ever wanted to get banned I would make it unforgettable.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (3AyDK)
Dangling participle?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: That Old Italian Pimp at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:30 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:30 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:31 PM (kgFPv)
And also we need a strategic place to launch aircraft for our war with the nuclear armed UK mullah regime in a few years.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Can't, not since they instituted the size limit for comments
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (3AyDK)
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THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM
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The Nobel Committee will also cite the transfer as a reason Trump is not eligible for the prize in the future, "in case you had any doubts about who and what we really are."
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (HLgI3)
Posted by: Shep Smith Comeback Tour at January 16, 2026 01:33 PM (0e5Te)
Whoever was missing It's Go Time Donald, I think we've found him.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (noPDf)
His stalkery hate boner for Fen will not be so easily circumscribed.
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 01:34 PM (sDpug)
Posted by: Max Power at January 16, 2026 01:34 PM (SwyyQ)
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
Of course they did...
Posted by: It's me donna
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Indian givers.
If they gave it to her it belongs to her. They cannot tell her what she can or cannot do with it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (3UR/I)
Posted by: Shep Smith Comeback Tour at January 16, 2026 01:33 PM (0e5Te)
I love you Morons!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (WONhk)
Which always surprises me that Trump wants it so badly. He deserves it, yes, but it seems to be less worthy of an award than in the distant past.
This lady should be the President of Venezuela, not that I know squat. But a very nice thing for her to do. She has to be better than Maduro's VP.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 02:52 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Severe Conservative at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (QSOcm)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 16, 2026 06:10 PM (wGqjj)
For More… https://bet2bright221.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:42 AM (eZWdu)
As SCOTUS Debates "Trans Women" Competing in Girls Sports, the World's 671st Ranked Male Tennis Player Easily Beats the Woman Ranked #1; also, Remembering Scott Adams and Dilbert
In preparation for two upcoming friendlies against Russia, the U.S. women’s national team played the FC Dallas U-15 boys academy team on Sunday and fell 5-2, according to FC Dallas’ official website.Circling back to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Ace documented this amazing question of hers from the bench this week, "Is treating someone transgender, but does not have, because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done, who does not have, uh, the same, uh, threat to physical competition and safety and all the reasons the state puts forward - that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same. And how do you respond to that?" Yes, how do you respond to that? KBJ is an orator for the ages. We may have to start referring to her as Ketanji Wendell Holmes.
Since Mr. Anderson’s hiring, several prominent executives have departed [General Motors], presumably because they don’t share his vision for prioritizing self-driving cars. As reported by CNBC a few weeks ago, Mr. Anderson “has consolidated power to oversee ‘the end-to-end product lifecycle’ of GM vehicles, including manufacturing, engineering, battery, software and services product management, and engineering teams, according to GM.” Despite the massive EV losses that GM has incurred, the company is apparently casting its lot with a tech executive whose profit-and-loss experience is with cash burn rather than cash flow.This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest at The American Spectator discusses how General Motors keeps getting distracted by shiny new objects. After its catastrophic losses on EVs, the mass-market auto manufacturer is again pivoting toward another boutique niche - autonomous vehicles.https://t.co/br4nimCGvG
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) January 16, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 11:02 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:04 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:05 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
You'd think that, of all things, Information Technology would be more or less fully automated by now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Short Bus Bobby at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (ULPxl)
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It isn't. What do you think "scientific consensus" means? It means "narrative-confirming."
"Scientific consensus" is not a thing. The scientific method is based on disproof. When "scientists" are all in agreement on something, it is an indicator of failure.
The "scientific consensus" told us that factories warm the planet. It wold us that COVID came from bats. It told us that boys can be girls. It told us the earth was the center of the universe. It told us lots of shit that is obviously untrue, and it kept telling us those same things for long, long after it became obvious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:07 AM (GyQIQ)
Means it's functionally secure, but unusable. Something I learned working for the US Army.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 11:07 AM (U2OZr)
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Why did she agree to the contest? I can see why he did. He's 600-something in the rankings and nobody knows his name. This was his chance to get his name his out there.
But her? Why did she?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (ppUit)
I have 416 online accounts with unique passwords. I spend prolly 10% of my online time logging into and out of shit. It got me thinking about all the other security stuff I have to do daily, like locking and unlocking car, house, garage, etc. It's burdensome, in a First-World-Problem sense.
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (N8ZBc)
The difference between men and women is obvious unless you're an ideologue. There was some woman professor who said there was no physiological difference between them after puberty. Ok, "expert" then we will only have one category for every sport, let the best person play
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (Oql3v)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
My favorite Dilbert character.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM
I'm a fan of Catbert, Evil HR Director.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (kgE5c)
- Science a few thousand years ago
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 11:09 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (GyQIQ)
Sponsorship money, maybe?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:09 AM (06Hmj)
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Did they claim it wasn't their first-string players and that they lost only because they were giving their other players a chance for some tough practice? That's the normal response.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:09 AM (GyQIQ)
You'd think that, of all things, Information Technology would be more or less fully automated by now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (06Hmj)
Don't you love working in a paperless office?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:09 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:09 AM (ULPxl)
My workplace isn't paperless, but I am.
I'm really, really good at losing papers.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:10 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 11:10 AM (gWBY1)
In addition to the smaller court on Sabalenka's side, the rules stipulated only one serve per point. In order words, the players didn't get the normal two serves to get a ball in play, but only one.
While that may appear not to favor either side, in reality it was designed to (and did) substantially limit the power of Kyrgios' serve. If he had two serves, the first would have been at full power -- far harder than any woman on the planet can serve -- and Sabalenka would have almost no chance to return it. But because he only had one, he had to basically just lob it over as if it was his normal second serve.
Also: Kyrgios was injured and not at 100%.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:10 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Al_the_competent at January 16, 2026 11:10 AM (lahVd)
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Self-driving cars - if they can be safely and reliably made at all - are a serious long-haul investment. The problem is already 85% solved. That last 15%, though, is *heavy* - like Everest on top of a mouse heavy. If GM is going down that road, it's betting the entire business on it - right after they bet the business on EVs. Dangerous.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:10 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 16, 2026 11:11 AM (X3dKC)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2026 11:12 AM (1Cdp9)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (GyQIQ)
If she is a traditional woman, and un-Woke, maybe she went into the match, expecting to lose, and to make the point that men and women are different.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:12 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 16, 2026 11:12 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Northernlurker
Som completely reasonable statement that he made about whites staying out of black neighborhoods that was instantly labelled "racist!".
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 16, 2026 11:14 AM (PSEDc)
Title IX has been construed to require equal numbers of men and women in varsity sports. But not all varsity sports are equal.
Colleges often use football for brand identity to attract students and to get money from alumni. Think Notre Dame. Women's field hockey doesn't quite do this.
This throws off the M/W ratio and the budget. So you see women getting recruited for crew who've never rowed.
Making Women's Rugby a varsity sport while keeping Men's a club is what many colleges do. It comes down to whether the Men's club can get good coaching or not. And travel money for national playoffs. Many good teams get shut out for not having the money.
But let's pretend that women are equal in all things.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2026 11:14 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:15 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
I have the complete collections of The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. I guess the complete Dilbert collection is next on my list, when it comes out.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:15 AM (77rzZ)
From the linked article:
Kyrgios, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up who has played only six tour-level matches in the past three years because of wrist and knee injuries, appeared to play within himself at times...
I don't understand. Was he jacking it under his shorts as he played? Based.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 16, 2026 11:15 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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As a parallel:
" 51 former intelligence officials coordinated with the Biden campaign to issue a letter discrediting the reporting that President Joseph R. Biden’s son had abandoned his laptop at a computer repair business."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 11:16 AM (XeU6L)
But her? Why did she?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
He's very well known in the tennis world.
He's coming off injuries.
Kyrgios currently ranks 671 and has been ranked as high as world No. 13 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 24 October 2016. He has won seven ATP Tour singles titles, including the 2019 and 2022 Washington Open, and reached eleven finals, most notably a major final at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships.
In doubles, Kyrgios has a career-high ranking of world No. 11, achieved on 7 November 2022, winning a major doubles title at the 2022 Australian Open while partnering with Thanasi Kokkinakis.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 11:16 AM (GK5Hx)
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Now, think about how much the military had to rig qualifications for women to enter combat arms line units.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 11:16 AM (g8Ew8)
That is completely insane!!!"
Just to create and spin up one single app in AWS, I had to create something like a dozen accounts and passwords to admin it. That was back in the bad old days; I don't know what it's like now.
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 11:16 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:15 AM (77rzZ)
I have those too, and Bloom County as well.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 16, 2026 11:16 AM (PSEDc)
They are basically two question cases:
Question 1: Do XX chromosomes make for a biological girl/woman and do an XY chromosome make for a biological boy/man?
Question 29 and related stuff): Should we be required by law to treat insane people in compliance with their insanity?
In other words, should we treat a man claiming to be Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Should we give him your seat on the Supreme Court and allow him to make legally binding decisions? If not, why not?
Or suppose a woman claims that she is a goat. Should we treat her as a goat in a legally binding manner and feed her hay and leave her outside to wander in the fields. If not, why not?
That this trannie silliness is even being discussed beyond confinement in a mental institution proves that Yes! The law is an ass.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 11:18 AM (iJfKG)
Scott Adams was quite a guy and Dilbert was one of the few great comics. People, including my wife, love Peanuts, but it really wasn't that funny, at least to me. The Wizard of Id was a "don't miss." Blondie was always the first strip in the comic section, and it was pretty good. The Far Side was great. Of course Calvin and Hobbes set the bar impossibly high and Bill Watterson is the favorite of everyone in Chagrin Falls and Northeast Ohio in general.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:18 AM (2ap+5)
We did full-contact tournaments. Master would have me spar with Soo-mi to help prepare her for her matches. The idea was for her to train against someone much bigger and stronger than she would face in the tournament.
Suffice to say that as good as she was, I could have literally killed her in the ring if I wanted to. She was very quick and landed some kicks to my face. They stung but didn't do any damage. By contrast, if I ever kicked her in the face with full power, she'd be KOed instantly. If not her neck broken. She could beat almost any female opponent, and she did. But she had 0% chance against a bigger, stronger man.
And yes: Soo-mi was a smokeshow. And yes, we dated for a while. "She was my first Asian."
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
Ah. Now I get it. I was thinking how weird it was that you would do that much online shopping...
Posted by: Brunnhilde at January 16, 2026 11:19 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 11:20 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 11:20 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 11:20 AM (Oql3v)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:21 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:12 AM (8zz6B)
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That would be the only good answer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:21 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Bobby Riggs was not a nameless loser. He had been a big deal at one time. He just threw the match to pay off his debts to the Mob.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
If you want to play sportsball against someone, go ahead, I couldn't care less who you complete against.
Just deduct zero dollars and zero cents from my wallet.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2026 11:22 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: banana
what happened ??
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 11:22 AM (g47mK)
From the linked article:
Kyrgios, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up who has played only six tour-level matches in the past three years because of wrist and knee injuries, appeared to play within himself at times...
I don't understand. Was he jacking it under his shorts as he played? Based.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
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* blink blink *
Dude.. jacking it!
The folks in the office are looking at me wondering why I'm laughing out loud and grabbing napkins to clean up my laptop.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at January 16, 2026 11:23 AM (VkY89)
Posted by: banana Dream
Boy has that guy ever been a disappointment.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:23 AM (77rzZ)
You'd think that, of all things, Information Technology would be more or less fully automated by now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (06Hmj)
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Too many factors fighting against it.
IT is seen as a cost, so measures are taken to lower the cost. Either getting rid of your veterans (who fought the IT wars, and know not only how it works, but WHY it works) for interns and foreign labor, or into the magic clouds. Former do not have the experience and knowledge, just a script. The latter have the same issues, except now you pray it doesn't storm because there's absolutely nothing you can do when it does.
The "Tower of Babel" situation. Even if two computer environments speak the same language, devs on either side mess it up by not understanding specifications... or not caring. So one or the other has to patch for the bad case, then patch for another bad case, until it's a tumor made up of band-aids. For an example - read about all the Windows hacks to keep apps running. Ye olde "SimCity", for instance, "freed memory"... then kept using it afterwards. So, a hack to let that game keep running, built right into Windows.
Posted by: Another Anon at January 16, 2026 11:23 AM (4h45B)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:21 AM (3uBP9)
Huh. I am assuming on twitter, where Iowahawk went to live forever about a decade ago.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:23 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: banana
what happened ??
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 11:22 AM (g47mK)
x.com/iowahawkblog/status/
2012196980747878717
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:24 AM (3uBP9)
About 35 years ago, my late uncle, who did a lot of tool making business with GM (in those days), predicted they would go bankrupt some day ( remember 2009?) because of their low productivity and ridiculous benefits package they had for their hourly workers.
Well, my opinion was they also had some lousy engineers and management people. As much as people like to crack on UAW employees, they don't design the cars, the assembly lines, the engines, etc.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 16, 2026 11:24 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)
Hey man, what lesbos do in their bedroom is none of my damn business.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2026 11:25 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
Bobby Riggs was not a nameless loser. He had been a big deal at one time. He just threw the match to pay off his debts to the Mob.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
Bobby Riggs would play with a frying pan and still beat guys who bet on trying to play tennis with him. He was also - what? - 55 years old and playing a 29 year old.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 11:25 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 11:25 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 16, 2026 11:25 AM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:26 AM (bss/y)
But they probably think they're too big to fail. All great failures do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:26 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:27 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Bobby Riggs was not a nameless loser. He had been a big deal at one time. He just threw the match to pay off his debts to the Mob.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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Yea, Riggs had earlier beat a much better female opponent than BJK. Riggs didn't train for the match, showed up drunk and out of shape, and kept missing easy shots. He threw the match or at least gave it the middle finger it deserved.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
The outcome was never in doubt. The complete destruction of trans rights and, by extension, trans people was always part of the agenda. There’s a whole section about it written down in Project 2025.
It's not a good feeling to see your country dedicate so much effort to making your life worse because they hate you and refuse to understand you. That's even worse when a child is on the receiving end of this.
Every time there's a post about trans issues, the iMa vErY liBrAl bUUUUt people come out of the wood work. Your position fails at the most basic level: how are you going to enforce it??? The only foolproof way is genital inspections (which I bet has always been the real goal for conservatives).
The general public are a bunch of slackjawed hicks. Consider how stupid the average American is. Half of them are dumber than that. conservatives think all trans women are fat hairy guys in dresses. They think they know someone’s gender by looking at them.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 11:27 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 11:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:28 AM (2ap+5)
Like I'm sure these state laws banning men in womens sports will be upheld, so basically if you live in a really conservative, red state you're fine. But live in a purple or blue state (which is most of America) and you're still subject to this nonsense.
A liberal court would find a way to mandate their policy to all 50 states. Look at gay marriage for example.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 11:28 AM (eIzlH)
And yes: Soo-mi was a smokeshow. And yes, we dated for a while. "She was my first Asian."
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
You should have kicked her in the face, pointed at her and shouted, So Soo Mi!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 11:28 AM (g8Ew8)
he is upset by nancy's face ? what a weirdo
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 11:29 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 16, 2026 11:29 AM (ZJfQw)
Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2026 11:25 AM (dGCAG)
^^^THIS
Posted by: Sinema's Security Guys at January 16, 2026 11:29 AM (3uBP9)
Collision between autonomous vehicles
*AI generated voices*
"Asshole!"
"Jerkoff!"
"What the F- did you think you were doing?"
*gunfire*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 11:29 AM (tgvbd)
But they probably think they're too big to fail. All great failures do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:26 AM (uWKK
Autonomous vehicles ought to be real easy to steal. Just trap them in traffic, pick them up with a forklift, and stuff them in the back of a box truck rigged as a Faraday cage. Part 'em out right in the truck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:29 AM (8zz6B)
In his 50s, he beat #1 Margaret Court in straight sets. With a lot of hype, this set-up the Big Match against #2 Billie Jean which he somehow, somehow managed to lose.
Later, he was a guest star on The Odd Couple where he hustled Felix and Oscar at ping pong, 2 on 1. After he was winning, he offered to play with a frying pan. The a frozen fish ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2026 11:29 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: banana
what happened ??
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 11:22 AM (g47mK)
x.com/iowahawkblog/status/
2012196980747878717
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:24 AM (3uBP9)
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I'm not sure that's supposed to be a dis
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 11:30 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (ZJfQw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:26 AM (bss/y)
Yeah, I can't get upset about that.
Though it's pretty lame-ass snark cuz it's not like JJ's claiming to be some great artist.
He's just trying to get a laugh or a reaction, and Big Brain Iowahawk fell into JJ's trap and gave him a (lame-ass) reaction.
Meh.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:26 AM (bss/y)
I love JJ's awful images! They make me laugh.
The morning report wouldn't be the same without them.
Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (JCLJi)
I'll bet you knew this already, but GM 'forgot cars' in the early 70's, and had already done their best to screw up automated I.T. well before they ever ventured into EV's.
They used to be really big. And could do a lot more damage.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (2ap+5)
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I love this take. I wonder if this person is hopelessly stupid enough to believe this, or if he's deliberately lying.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:32 AM (GyQIQ)
" Kyle Bass Jan 15
Time for a math problem : In the 2024 presidential election, 2,308,256 people in Oregon voted, representing a turnout rate of 75.4% among the state's 3,060,374 registered voters. 800,000 registered voters were ‘improperly registered’ voters. That means a WHOPPING 34% of votes were fraudulent. Kamala won Oregon by 321,000 votes….
Donald Trump received 919,480 votes. Kamala Harris had 1,240,600. "
Posted by: whig
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:32 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
That's a very funny thing to say.
Being an old codger (still working), you should see my desk. Papers piled everywhere.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 16, 2026 11:32 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 11:32 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 11:27 AM (JCZqz)
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This person, right here, is the very definition of charm and grace.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:33 AM (GyQIQ)
Easier to do what protesters already do: just have them come to the proverbial "dark ally" for a pick up.
Yeah, it's stupid. And requires a very high trust society. Good luck with that...
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 11:33 AM (XuXeR)
As if the physical required to participate in every high school sport didn't already include checking for hernias.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 16, 2026 11:33 AM (PMi3m)
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Huh? I'm not sure what point this retard is trying to make, but he's making our point. You can take one glance at these "women" (men) playing girl's sports and know "that's a man, baby!"
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:34 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 16, 2026 11:34 AM (ZJfQw)
The morning report wouldn't be the same without them.
Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (JCLJi)
Kinda my point.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:35 AM (bss/y)
Had almost the exact same experience, only with friend in college. White girl. Tall, athletic black belt. Lot of leverage, and could strike. Thing is, I was 100 pounds heavier and much stronger, and we both knew she could not hurt me enough before I got my hands on her, and then it was lights out. She knew, but some people gotta find out for themselves, I guess.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 16, 2026 11:36 AM (MZ+PY)
And yes: Soo-mi was a smokeshow. And yes, we dated for a while. "She was my first Asian."
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
You should have kicked her in the face, pointed at her and shouted, So Soo Mi!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 11:28 AM (g8Ew
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[Golf clap]
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:36 AM (iFTx/)
And Ben R's never around to explain them to me.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
A BILL
To prohibit the use of funds to provide benefits to refugees,
asylees, and illegal immigrants.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘End Welfare for Non-
citizens Act’’.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE BEN-
EFITS TO REFUGEES, ASYLEES, AND ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
shall be appropriated or otherwise made available to pro-
vide benefits under the temporary assistance for needy
families program established under part A of title IV of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), the Med-
icaid program under title XIX of that Act (42 U.S.C.
1396 et seq.), or the supplemental nutrition assistance
program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of
2008 (7 U.S.C. 2077 et seq.), or to provide any other Fed-
eral benefit (including cash and tax benefits), subsidy, or
service, to any refugee or asylee or any alien who is
present in the United States without legal status.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 11:36 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
That's a very funny thing to say.
Being an old codger (still working), you should see my desk. Papers piled everywhere.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 16, 2026 11:32 AM (vcOmj)
The problem is in the transition. From paper age to digital age. Those libraries of reports from the 50s, 60s, 70s what about them? You thought sending them to some salt mine company was going to preserve them? Have you tried getting those reports back lately? They said they'd scan them. Have you tried looking at the scans? No body cares about your reports but you. No one is going to make sure the digital scans are even useful but you.
And I guess by "you" I really mean some poor damned engineer like me that has to make use of it all. I love digital. But companies f-up the transition.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:37 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:37 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (2ap+5)
Well, granite countertops are kind of dumb. You drop a piece of glassware on it, the glass will break.
Zinc FTW.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:37 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: banana Dream
But what about the TPS Reports?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (77rzZ)
The morning report wouldn't be the same without them.
Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (JCLJi)
Kinda my point.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:35 AM (bss/y)
look at the upside - David Burge reads Morning Report!
I think he just likes to make fun of stuff. Like Joe Bob Briggs likes to make fun of drive in movies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (GyQIQ)
Why not?
Probably got paid? Maybe she doesn't think men should be in women's sports? In that case, win win. If she wins, she wins. If she loses, she wins.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (3AyDK)
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Well, there you go. I always thought I could tell a man from a woman, but being a slack-jawed yokel, I guess I was wrong about that, too.
My wife and I were in a bookstore in suburban Detroit one time years ago, and this "Trans" woman came in, and the "girls" (I think they were) made a big fuss over "his" hair, etc. My wife and I just looked at each other, rolled our eyes, and got out of there.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: LizLem"
If he is greeted by Pointy Haired Boss instead of St. Peter he is in trouble.
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (GUOwU)
I'd go somewhere else but there's nowhere else to go. People can't be reasoned with anymore. They are immune to reevaluating their position regardless of how much logic you use or how many facts you provide. I am sickened and dismayed at this state of affairs.
Posted by: Sliding toward despair at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 11:39 AM (qwype)
"I'm gonna write me a mini-van tonight!"
Posted by: Half Dozen at January 16, 2026 11:39 AM (arf0B)
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He, or probably she, maybe xi or even we, is talking about you.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (qwype)
Posted by: Half Dozen at January 16, 2026 11:39 AM (arf0B)
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You lack vision.
Go for the big 15-passenger van!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Leupold
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And that is the issue for conservatives versus the overall Right or even moderates. Conservatives seek to conserve what was or try to restore the past. The filibuster is an example as is this court case example you mentioned. The status quo was that states COULD ban trans males from female sports competitions. The left, had no f*cks to give as even getting to keep their blue states turning boys and girls into eunuchs is a win for their evil med programs and drug companies promoting this shit.
So even when the conservatives 'win', as you mention Leupold, the left still can do what it wants in blue states and bide their time to demand red states kneel in the future.
The same pattern keeps getting repeated.Tactical wins for the conservatives while losing strategically.
That is why Trump who is not a conservative and not bound by the old rules has been effective, even more so after the 'conservatives' tried to knife him in the back in his first term.
Trump does not always win but he at least fights.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 11:27 AM (JCZqz)
Looks like the Reddit Troons are finally ready to kick the Repressors out of their community.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (GUOwU)
Phil, the Prince of Poor Light.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (bss/y)
EFITS TO REFUGEES, ASYLEES, AND ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS.
Maybe I'm dumber than I thought but isn't this already the law?
Posted by: Maybe not. at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (uEmCf)
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Isn't that their default mode?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Make Believe Media at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (YRHWl)
Your point is correct but I believe inaccurate ... Tesla FSD is well into the "March of nines", but the tail is very long / always one more weird edge case.
One of the best videos I have seen is a sequence of a dozen or so clips of cars slamming on the brakes and swerving to avoid being hit by another vehicle running a red light (the green light ahead is usually clearly visible). Every one of those instances potentially save a life, or several.
Being accident free, I am probably a pretty safe driver, but having 8 eyes that never blink distributed around my head is not something I'm ever going to achieve.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (FpP3s)
Posted by: Lady Who Lurks at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (JCLJi)
Posted by: Bulg
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The Pete Rose of tennis. Better sideburns, although Pete's weren't bad in the 70s.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 11:42 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Sliding toward despair at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (TbWk/)
Look at the upside of having a retard on the Court trying to defend liberal dogma. The biggest problem for us with The Notorious (Justice) RBG was that she was an honestly sharp lawyer, and she could make very reasonable sounding constitutional arguments for far left dogma. Probably the last of the generation that produced the Warren Court.
Now, who do they left have to make their case? Some drooling imbecile who might as well have a bone through her nose and be chanting "oogah! oogah!" for all the sense she makes. This does NOT do the left any favors.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:31 AM (2ap+5)
Well, granite countertops are kind of dumb. You drop a piece of glassware on it, the glass will break.
Zinc FTW.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:37 AM (8zz6B)
I think the best solution is probably those swanky Japanese sake bars that serve sushi/sashimi atop nude gals. Looks nice, cleans up easily, you can swap in and out new settings, I think it works really well as a counter top.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 11:38 AM (GUOwU)
Phil, the Prince of Poor Light.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:40 AM (bss/y)
Insufficient light. Dork in a devil suit wielding a large spoon. I loved that villain.
Posted by: I darn you to heck! at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (TbWk/)
Laws? We don’t need no stinking laws!
Posted by: Democrats at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (YRHWl)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (JCZqz)
One of the best videos I have seen is a sequence of a dozen or so clips of cars slamming on the brakes and swerving to avoid being hit by another vehicle running a red light (the green light ahead is usually clearly visible). Every one of those instances potentially save a life, or several.
Being accident free, I am probably a pretty safe driver, but having 8 eyes that never blink distributed around my head is not something I'm ever going to achieve.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (FpP3s)
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The tail is *insanely* long, and that's just technology. The legal tail might be even longer.
And no, you don't have eight unblinking eyes - but you also don't see things that aren't there, or fail to see things that are. You don't have to assess every single cubic milimeter of your field of view 100% of the time, because you have a brain.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (qwype)
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It's amazing how much of leftardism is them making up a new chance whole cloth to feel smarter or better than someone else. 98%? 99?
"oh so you think you know someone's sex by *looking* at them??? Well once they spend 50 grand and mutilate themselves enough, and you're standing far away and their clothes are on, and they walk by you for 8 seconds, I guarantee you CAN'T."
Reminds me of the narcissists who feel superior to you because you trusted them.
It's like - "well that's me told. Lesson learned. You being a scumbag liar really makes you better than me."
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Sliding toward despair
If you find yourself discouraged, just remember the world has always been a mess. The only peace you can find is via finding G_d and realizing this world is a fallen world. So find joy where you can, do what you can to fight the good fight against evil, and realize that despair is a sin. There is good, there are good people, and the fight will never be permanently lost or won.
There is no predetermined history or end result, it is always the people in an era making a choice to submit or not to evil.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:44 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (GyQIQ)
No. REpressors. Not Opressors.
Repressors are Troons who weren't able to start injecting themselves with Questionable Bathtub Hormones when they were teens, and didn't Troon out until their mid-30s or later.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:44 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:44 AM (2ap+5)
We say the same thing here on a daily basis. The guy quoted on the masthead was famous for saying it and really meaning it. If Dems are saying it, they are suddenly good and scared.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 16, 2026 11:44 AM (zdLoL)
I have 85% solved the problem of Self-Levitation. All but the part about getting my feet off the ground without any other support.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (uWKK8)
Repressors are Troons who weren't able to start injecting themselves with Questionable Bathtub Hormones when they were teens, and didn't Troon out until their mid-30s or later.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:44 AM (uEmCf)
++++
Are they going "No True Scotsman?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Bulg
______
The Pete Rose of tennis. Better sideburns, although Pete's weren't bad in the 70s.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 11:42 AM (XvL8K)
I was actually disappointed to find out Henry Hill wasn't involved.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (qwype)
*AI generated voices*
"Asshole!"
"Jerkoff!"
"What the F- did you think you were doing?"
*gunfire*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
This robot died because we're too lazy to get our own food.
https://is.gd/I0R8b2
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 11:46 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (3uBP9)
But your beer glass topples over if she sneezes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:46 AM (8zz6B)
HMOs were along with Big Pharma to Trump's campaign costs.
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 16, 2026 11:46 AM (GFk41)
Reminds me of the narcissists who feel superior to you because you trusted them.
It's like - "well that's me told. Lesson learned. You being a scumbag liar really makes you better than me."
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (3AyDK)
Shit, if a man still has a full head of hair (and no beard) in his mid-60s, he's going to start looking like a butch lesbian of the same age, unless he's like 6'4"
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:46 AM (uEmCf)
Back in the day when the Williams sisters were the best female players in the world by a long shot, Karsten Braasch, then ranked ~200, crushed them 6-1 and 6-2, after playing a round of golf, having a couple beers, and smoking cigarettes in the middle of the match.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 16, 2026 11:46 AM (setIA)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 11:46 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)
When he was 55 freaking years old and she was in her prime playing age.
And she still barely won.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 11:47 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Tom Servo
=======
The left command of academia means its graduates for the last thirty years or so are unarmed in a battle of wits. Those critters got to that high post by compliance with the smart lefties, not by challenging them.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:47 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: whig
You offer very good spiritual observations, Whig, as you don in every other area. I hope you don't mind my asking, what is your religious background?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:47 AM (77rzZ)
And yes, even if (please god) the conservatives win this SCOTUS case it only allows sane states to ban trannies, it still allows blue hellholes to say mentally ill males can compete against and shower with the females.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (hhkIi)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (3uBP9)
But your beer glass topples over if she sneezes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:46 AM (8zz6B)
____
Be careful. Know the difference between "nyotaimori" and "nantaimori." Those two letters make a big difference, bruh.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (iFTx/)
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J.J.'s editorializing and the graphic he creates are sort of tied together. It's a perfect fit with the low tech layout of the site.
Whether Burge reads it or not....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (PFs9e)
When he was 55 freaking years old and she was in her prime playing age.
And she still barely won.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 11:47 AM (kgFPv)
BLK was strong. She was invincible. She was woman.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (qwype)
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (qwype)
Then there was the offshoring to Elbonia
Posted by: GDP of $20USD! at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (GyQIQ)
The young ones who are trying to be e-whores? Yeah.
Even the middle-aged political grifters like John Walker "Brianna Wu" Flynt are doing it.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:49 AM (uEmCf)
Isn't Dave Burge a fellow moron?
Posted by: Auspex at January 16, 2026 11:49 AM (vnmN0)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:46 AM (uEmCf)
=====
e.g., Crystal Palace FC coach Oliver Glasner
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:49 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 11:49 AM (qwype)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 11:49 AM (L/fGl)
She pointed out that she dedicated long hours to the client, went over and above every request, and had even donated blood to the client when he was in hospital.
Boss replied that the blood donation time was listed under 'attendance issues'.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 16, 2026 11:50 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 11:43 AM (JCZqz)
Ever think about how much of adult interaction (even before twitter and the internet) boiled down to 'I heard Bobby call Betty a slut! He said she blew him behind the Tasty Freeze last Saturday!'
It's all inuendo and people trying to start shit. It's High School- just older.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:50 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Make Believe Media
=======
Yet, the leftist people of pallor and cis lesbo don't seem to be motivating their POC comrade brigades much.
Sad.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:50 AM (WDjG6)
And yes, even if (please god) the conservatives win this SCOTUS case it only allows sane states to ban trannies, it still allows blue hellholes to say mentally ill males can compete against and shower with the females.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (hhkIi)
I guess the problem is, how do you keep Biological Men from having access to privately-funded Scholarships for women's athletics?
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:50 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 11:50 AM (3AyDK)
Then there was the offshoring to Elbonia
Posted by: GDP of $20USD! at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (TbWk/)
Trump says they have the best mud. Big, beautiful, gorgeous mud.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 11:50 AM (qwype)
We halped!
- puppies tied to his ankles.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (Kt19C)
It's all inuendo and people trying to start shit. It's High School- just older.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:50 AM (bss/y)
The biggest lie my father ever told me is that once you get out of high school, everyone will act like a serious, regimented adult with no time for stupid high school drama.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (gBfG5)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (iFTx/)
If one of those is sushi served on a naked guy I think that's a terrible idea. Who would even want that? I think I would make a good donut serving tray though, very classy.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 11:49 AM (L/fGl)
I almost posted this word for word then nixed it, then it popped up
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (3AyDK)
Make the national reserve the total possible taxing authority of a nation (this includes what currently isn't taxed) and/or a gold reserve, if you have it ... and convert it to Quatloos.
Now, simply divide the national reserve in Quatloos by the total number of dollars (printed or virtual) and you have the galactic value of a dollar.
From that simple calculation, you can easily see that printing or virtually creating more dollars devalues the value of the dollar.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 11:52 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Auspex
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He got TDS in Trump's first term, he may have gotten better but I really don't care. Like PJ O'Rourke, writers often lose the plot over time so savor their better moments and ignore their worst.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:52 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 16, 2026 11:52 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tom Servo
=======
The left command of academia means its graduates for the last thirty years or so are unarmed in a battle of wits. Those critters got to that high post by compliance with the smart lefties, not by challenging them.
Posted by: whig
I was listening to Jesse Waters on the raydio last night, and his comment was that DEI was meant to put less than competent but politically reliable people in positions of power that they did not earn. He specifically mentioned Kentanji Jackson, and that her intellectual prowess was not important, it was her reliable vote for Left Wing issues.
The end result is a society that will fall apart, losing trust between people and organizations and institutions. DEI is supposed to breakt things.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 16, 2026 11:53 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (GyQIQ)
More like "No Troon Scotsman"
Posted by: Amiright or amiright? at January 16, 2026 11:53 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:53 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (FpP3s)
++++
The tail is *insanely* long, and that's just technology. The legal tail might be even longer.
And no, you don't have eight unblinking eyes - but you also don't see things that aren't there, or fail to see things that are. You don't have to assess every single cubic milimeter of your field of view 100% of the time, because you have a brain.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
What's that car company that is doing the autonomous taxis? The one that blows by every stopped school bus with its lights flashing and stop sign out?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 11:54 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (uEmCf)
My dad told me everyone was an asshole and will continue to be for the rest of your life. Wise man
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 11:54 AM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Make Believe Media
=======
Yet, the leftist people of pallor and cis lesbo don't seem to be motivating their POC comrade brigades much.
Sad.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:50 AM (WDjG6)
_____
Just as The Blade predicted! The Blade knows things. Trust The Blade.
I wonder how much of this was ever true "motivation," as opposed to rent-boy astroturf. Back in the heady days of BLM and Saint George, the USAID trough was still open, and billions was flowing into these shady organizations. I always thought a very high percent of protestors/rioters were paid.
That money is mostly gone now, so there's no financial incentive for a lot of these scumbags to leave their mommy's basement. So they don't.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (uEmCf)
High school? More like middle school.
"When you get out into the adult world..."
Posted by: ...it's all the same bullshit at January 16, 2026 11:55 AM (TbWk/)
This to me seems really bizarre Why would you want food served on top of a nude woman? And what does she tell her parents when they ask what she does?- Possibly not "Oh , I'm a nude dining table at a sushi/ sashimi restaurant "
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 11:55 AM (PFs9e)
@TMZ
😳 Online users have discovered that typing "Nazis. us" into a web browser instantly flips to the official homepage of the U.S. government's Department of Homeland Security.
PoIiMath
@politicalmath
Online users also discovered that a Florida Democrat running for Congress bought this domain and made it redirect to DHS so that he could feed this story to journalists at TMZ who are too stupid to do a whois domain lookup (markdavisforcongress.com donate)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 11:55 AM (RHGPo)
Did your dad ever tell you anything true or useful?
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (hhkIi)
I guess the problem is, how do you keep Biological Men from having access to privately-funded Scholarships for women's athletics?
Posted by: XTC
The answer is not going to please trad cons--it is to do what Trump is trying to do via DOE, use Title IX to prevent those schools from getting federal money. For colleges, it means no student loans and grants--lefty schools would have to eat their endowment then to do it. For K12, you have reading programs, etc.
Ironically, the libs, outraged by the Grove City case, made schools receiving any federal funds rather than specific programs comply with federal restrictions.
Bypasses the 10th because states want the money so they have to comply. Reason why a few states were flirting with dropping federal funds entirely for k12 in places like TN under the Biden regime.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:56 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: tankdemon
Someone mentioned that, and the person responded that they never really played sports and were unaware of the routine examinations. It's still wrong though!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 11:56 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)
"Nobody gives a shit about you and you're on your own in the world".
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:57 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 11:55 AM (PFs9e)
"I'm a model."
Which is basically true.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:57 AM (8zz6B)
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Ok
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 11:57 AM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:58 AM (2ap+5)
Ironically, the libs, outraged by the Grove City case, made schools receiving any federal funds rather than specific programs comply with federal restrictions.
Bypasses the 10th because states want the money so they have to comply. Reason why a few states were flirting with dropping federal funds entirely for k12 in places like TN under the Biden regime.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:56 AM (WDjG6)
That's for PUBLIC scholarships, though. Not PRIVATE ones.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 11:58 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: XTC
Which is neither true, nor useful.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (uWKK
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The secret is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 11:58 AM (ESVrU)
http://tiny.cc/iyqx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (MZ+PY)
The end result is a society that will fall apart, losing trust between people and organizations and institutions. DEI is supposed to breakt things.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 16, 2026 11:53 AM (vcOmj)
That kind of thing was clear when there was an attempt to overthrow Gorbachev at the end of the USSR. The plotters were all Politically Reliable, but not a single one of them could think his way out of a paper bag.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (uWKK8)
@politicalmath
Online users also discovered that a Florida Democrat running for Congress bought this domain and made it redirect to DHS so that he could feed this story to journalists at TMZ who are too stupid to do a whois domain lookup (markdavisforcongress.com donate)
Posted by: SMOD
Someone should buy SnapBenefits.com and have it redirect to ICE HQ.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (GK5Hx)
Now most kids stay in school as long as possible, and don't work til they leave, so you end up with a workforce of nearly geriatric 12-year-olds.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (BI5O2)
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Told me life isn’t fair any time I said “but that’s not fair”.
I passed on this wisdom to my kids.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (kgFPv)
http://tiny.cc/iyqx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM
Nicely cushioned.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I have trouble even getting my butt off the couch.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 12:00 PM (77rzZ)
http://tiny.cc/iyqx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (GyQIQ)
I love bougainvillea.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:00 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 11:48 AM (iFTx/)
If one of those is sushi served on a naked guy I think that's a terrible idea. Who would even want that? I think I would make a good donut serving tray though, very classy.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 11:51 AM (3uBP9)
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Yea. "Nyotaimori" is the one with the nekkid girl. The other is ... a dick in your face. Japanese are weirdos. I think it's more about power and subjugation than any real sexual thrill, or else there would be no male version.
I've seen the girl version several times. No matter how hot the girl was, the thing was just so bizarre all I could process was there was a girl covered in raw fish. Not sexy to me at all.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 11:58 AM (2ap+5)
Forgetting to use the blinker won't happen at least.
Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 12:01 PM (qwype)
http://tiny.cc/iyqx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Her fingernails look like claws. Yikes!
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM
That was the theme of my daughter's Valedictorian address. And then she went to the liberal cult that is college.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:02 PM (jc0TO)
http://tiny.cc/iyqx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (GyQIQ)
Well, I don't have a self-driving car to give her, anyway...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 12:02 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (MZ+PY)
Days of Future Past. One of the best of the Singer character X-Men. But was also a crossover with the First Class continuity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:02 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Chicks with "innie" navels have the advantage for sopping up spills.
Posted by: Aspiring Restauranteur at January 16, 2026 12:02 PM (oftw2)
http://tiny.cc/iyqx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Her fingernails look like claws. Yikes!
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 12:01 PM (77rzZ)
______
I've got a nice car. I'll drive her around. Then back to my place. TBWB.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:03 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 11:55 AM (PFs9e)
It's Japanese, and no, I don't really understand it either. I have lots of hang ups when it comes to food prep and I have to consciously avoid thinking about people touching my food. I can't even handle sharing food with people generally except my own daughter which, I mean, at some point you've been sneezed on, thrown up on, spoon fed, and shared a plate so many times, any issue I had has been thoroughly broken by now.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 12:03 PM (3uBP9)
The end result is a society that will fall apart, losing trust between people and organizations and institutions. DEI is supposed to breakt things.
Posted by: A face in the crowd
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That only works when you have absolute command of the ballot box. Even in Detroit, after years of Democratic tomfoolery ended up with a white male mayor to clean up the mess.
From all accounts, he did a helluva lot of good things there and has just about ended getting rid of all the vacant decaying houses before his term ends.
Piven Cloward has disincentivized the poors from rioting/protesting by providing them comforts they don't want to risk losing.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:03 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 12:01 PM
If you don't end up bleeding, the sex wasn't that good.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:03 PM (jc0TO)
Which is almost always said by someone who welched on a promise or screwed you over in some way. Who is usually the same someone who inculcated principles of fairness into you from an early age, only for you to find out that what is "fair" depends entirely upon the relative position of authority of the person fucking you over.
Posted by: Another lie for the rubes at January 16, 2026 12:03 PM (TbWk/)
http://tiny.cc/iyqx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 11:59 AM (GyQIQ)
I love bougainvillea.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:00 PM (uWKK
Boobainvilleas are better.
Posted by: Firm and bouncy at January 16, 2026 12:04 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: no one at January 16, 2026 12:05 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Maybe not. at January 16, 2026 11:41 AM (TbWk/)
It doesn't appear to say that any state providing 'state' funding for illegals shall forfeit all federal funding.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:05 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 12:05 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 12:05 PM (Kt19C)
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I'm not sure what DIE hire SCOTUS justice Brown said. I'm not sure DIE hire SCOTUS justice Brown know what she just said.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 16, 2026 12:06 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Another lie for the rubes at January 16, 2026 12:03 PM (TbWk/)
You’re reading this too deeply.
Life will fuck you over. Point is just accept it and move on don’t ruminate on things you can’t change.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:06 PM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:06 PM
What of vengeance?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 12:05 PM (RHGPo)
I thought 'Baddies' were hot women (or ones with nice asses)?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:07 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: XTC
Nope. Under the subsequent revision of civil rights laws under Ted Kennedy after the Grove City case, if a school accepts one buck of public money, then they are bound to follow ALL requirements. Including private scholarships if the college coordinates the offering to the student.
Right now, DoE is going after a lot of these private scholarships that discriminate in such a way as to violate Title IX. And private non profits are also filing suits and winning.
DEI, aka positive discrimination (what the Brits called it) is decomposing as we speak with desperate attempts to hide the puck and failing.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:08 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 12:08 PM (GK5Hx)
Yeah, I know that that's not what the case is about, but doesn't anyone think that that might be influential on the decision?
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 16, 2026 12:09 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 16, 2026 12:09 PM (9jnD4)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 16, 2026 12:09 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:07 PM (bss/y)
Baddies was a pretty damned good high-energy British rock band in the 2010s, but they only released two albums before they broke up.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:10 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: MAC V SOG at January 16, 2026 12:10 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Is it us? Are we the baddies?
-- German soldier in that one bit
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 12:10 PM (77rzZ)
Life will fuck you over. Point is just accept it and move on don’t ruminate on things you can’t change.
Posted by: Really??
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There is a reason that the Good Book preaches forgiveness even when the target does not deserve it. It prevents someone on the receiving end of injustice from being in a destructive loop of their own creation of anger, depression, and feeling of betrayal.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:10 PM (WDjG6)
The confirmation vote took place on April 7, 2022, resulting in a 53–47 outcome. All 50 Democratic and Independent senators voted in favor, joined by these three Republicans. Collins, Murkowski, and Romney also supported Jackson during earlier Senate votes on her judicial nominations, including her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit Court. Their bipartisan support was widely noted, with President Joe Biden publicly thanking them for their votes. You may now continue.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 16, 2026 12:10 PM (jc0TO)
Why would they be told that? Well...easier to get martyrs if they don't know they might die isn't it?
Posted by: Megadeath at January 16, 2026 12:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)
Leave the girl. Take the fish.
Posted by: If Peter Clemenza was a penguin at January 16, 2026 12:11 PM (ZB0nS)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:11 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:07 PM (bss/y)
There was the british sketch comedy show where the two nazis were asking each other if they might be the 'Baddies'
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 12:11 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 12:12 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:10 PM (WDjG6)
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Maybe reading the Count of Monte Cristo can help sate the appetite for revenge.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 12:12 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Another lie for the rubes at January 16, 2026 12:03 PM (TbWk/)
You’re reading this too deeply.
Life will fuck you over. Point is just accept it and move on don’t ruminate on things you can’t change.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:06 PM (kgFPv)
Just speaking from experience. Your construction is one of general principle, and it is true that life is indeed unfair. However, my closest experience with the phrase generally is as I described - as an excuse used by people treating you badly and dishonestly.
Posted by: Theory vs application at January 16, 2026 12:12 PM (TbWk/)
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Fair is a festival on the edge of town with a Farris Wheel, cotton candy and carnival games.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:12 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 12:12 PM (2ap+5)
There was an anime version of that.
It was f***ing weird.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:13 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: The Whack Store at January 16, 2026 12:13 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: toby928(c)
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Hamlet is a good example where that might lead.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:11 PM
Word.
Posted by: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at January 16, 2026 12:13 PM (jc0TO)
Why would they be told that? Well...easier to get martyrs if they don't know they might die isn't it?
Posted by: Megadeath
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Pretty much stupidity. It is also possible these nitwits 'learned' from social media. My guess is both spent their life online to keep the outrage juices flowing.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:13 PM (WDjG6)
And the martyrs are stupid enough to believe this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 12:13 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)
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God: "NOOOOOO!! now all the fish will smell that way.
Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 16, 2026 12:13 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: We need answers! at January 16, 2026 12:14 PM (TbWk/)
Honestly, I never could get into the food/sex thing, but that is a separate thing all together.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)
http://tiny.cc/iyqx001
She already has her own air bags
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2026 12:14 PM (dtajH)
the correlation between government grants and scientific consensus is 100%.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:14 PM (HXT0k)
It was f***ing weird.
Posted by: XTC
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Anime works best in its native culture. Imagine a furry version of Dixieland trad jazz. Repellent it would be.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:14 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:15 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: GWB at January 16, 2026 12:15 PM (pVn4H)
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 12:12 PM (2ap+5)
One of the only things not good in the movie with James Caviezel: he gets his vengeance and... it has no real down side. Everything is just jake.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:15 PM (bss/y)
It was f***ing weird.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:13 PM (iXqHn)
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I'm far too old to know anything about anime, but when Edmund turns his back on Mercedes and leaves her to her fate ... that was cold.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 16, 2026 12:15 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 12:15 PM (OoFl2)
Also the left: Why would you claim that getting government grants for global warming would make a scientist falsely claim something?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:16 PM (sKqQm)
Why would they be told that? Well...easier to get martyrs if they don't know they might die isn't it?
Posted by: Megadeath
Same reason why muslim terrorists strap bomb vests to six-year-old kids with Downs syndrome.
Posted by: And they're probably smarter than MN woke lesbians at January 16, 2026 12:17 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: GWB at January 16, 2026 12:17 PM (pVn4H)
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 12:15 PM (OoFl2)
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Weird that he somehow ran out of money to pay child support after his withered husk of a father left the White House and there's no more influence to peddle.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 12:17 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Navy Joan at January 16, 2026 12:18 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 16, 2026 12:18 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 12:17 PM (5aZAZ)
Yeah, it is odd. He was a power broker star there. Makin deals. Bangin Hoes. It all stopped. Weird.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:19 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)
No bedroom fun with whipped cream?
Posted by: Flavored lube? at January 16, 2026 12:19 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Oglebay
Still working on it. One, not worth the 1000-page as it's a serialized work that was padded for publication in a magazine. I skip a lot of the dialog because of the florid prose. Two, It's not a clear cut revenge tale; one of his targets turns out to be so pathetic he forgives him and moves on.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 16, 2026 12:20 PM (mlg/3)
May I just say that whatever "finish" coat is being used on new cars these days is vomit-inducing?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 12:20 PM (SRRAx)
the correlation between government grants and scientific consensus is 100%.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Broader, he who pays dictates what the scientist will find. Expert witness testimony should clearly demonstrate that. Scientists, at the end of the day, work for the paycheck like the rest of us do unless they are independently wealthy.
So the siren call of money is always something that affects people wanting to keep their jobs.
Consensus in the scientific community is always overrated and part of what Kuhn calls normal science. Overton Windows gets at the same phenomenon. Those vested in normal science without a doubt then try to quash deviationist scientists that might disrupt existing scientific norms and theories. Often by calling those scientists rude names, attempt to censor them, etc.
Covid was a perfect example.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:20 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Chocolate and caramel syrup at January 16, 2026 12:20 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Flavored lube? at January 16, 2026 12:19 PM (TbWk/)
Nah, I'm OCD. I am not a fan at all of sticky. No maple or chocolate syrup. I'd have to wash the sheets about a million times.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:20 PM (bss/y)
But they aren't good together.
However a nice steak afterwards? Chef's kiss...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)
the correlation between government grants and scientific consensus is 100%.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:14 PM (HXT0k)
I got so downvoted on Cracked.com (back when it was kind of reddit lite) for saying that climate science follows the money that I had never seen anything so downvoted on there. Not one thing. It was like -200. It really torched their silly bones.
And the funny thing was I wasn't even trying to be controversial.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:21 PM (3AyDK)
But that's it.
Sometimes, your wife will be killed in a car accident. Sometimes a kid gets leukemia. Life just isn't fair. That's it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 12:21 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 16, 2026 12:20 PM (SRRAx)
What do you mean? Gloss or matte?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:21 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 12:21 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)
No bedroom fun with whipped cream?
Posted by: Flavored lube? at January 16, 2026 12:19 PM (TbWk/)
***
I've got one word for ya...
"Pop Rocks"
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 16, 2026 12:21 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 12:22 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 16, 2026 12:23 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:23 PM (3AyDK)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 12:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 16, 2026 12:23 PM (bNf8H)
It's had issues all morning.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 12:23 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Maraschino cherries at January 16, 2026 12:24 PM (2Ez/1)
Sometimes, your wife will be killed in a car accident. Sometimes a kid gets leukemia. Life just isn't fair. That's it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 12:21 PM (BI5O2)
I think they were talking less about nature's capriciousness, and more about "Well, you still need to follow all the rules while everybody you're competing against is cheating like a mother f***er".
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:24 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Book is about the same but because we are meant to identify with the hero, it has a relatively happy ending with the hero triumphing over a sordid collection of gits that benefitted from him going to prison. The movie added the hero reconciling with Mercedes and IIRC the stupid idea of the child of his mortal enemy being his.
In the book, the Count has another female slave of the Turks he rescued and reciprocates her love when the task is finished. The child of Mercedes and the faithless soldier went to join the army after disowning his inheritance and Mercedes went to a convent IIRC. Been awhile since I read the book or watched the movie.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:24 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:23 PM (3AyDK)
That is extremely shitty and I'm sorry that happened to you.
Posted by: For real. That leaves big scars. at January 16, 2026 12:24 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 12:23 PM (77rzZ)
Wouldn't it stick to their arm pit hairs ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:24 PM (VE6XX)
Hunter Biden has defaulted on his child support again. A motion has been filed to send him to jail until he pays up. Despite calling a few times, he has now stopped all communications with his daughter. Some people are just not worth the air they breathe.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 12:15 PM (OoFl2)
Maybe his baby mama will take a painting in trade...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 12:25 PM (y9nCu)
Appreciate that more than you know
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:26 PM (3AyDK)
Once again I want to thank the useless Republicans that voted to confirm KJB to the court.
Posted by: Darth Randall
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Even those "Black girl magic!" worshippers at the Strict Scrutiny podcast haven't uttered a word about that hearing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:26 PM (x4Mz/)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:24 PM (iXqHn)
This is much closer to the mark.
Posted by: Focus people! at January 16, 2026 12:26 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: XTC
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Book of Job in the Bible is a superb example of what Judaism calls wisdom literature (also see Proverbs and Ecclesiastes). Lot of philosophical reasoning in Job about the nature of good and evil and how it affects people. Uses dialogue between characters aka friends of Job and then the appearance of teh Almighty himself in dialogue with Job. Powerful stuff.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Every office has a Wally.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Navy Joan at January 16, 2026 12:18 PM (2Ez/1)
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You should, if only to point and laugh at him, Nelson Muntz-style: "HAH-ha!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (ESVrU)
Maybe his baby mama will take a painting in trade...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 12:25 PM (y9nCu)
He was supposed to give her some but didn't even do that.... real piece of work
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (3uBP9)
I like the idea of Hunter being broke too. But you've got to remember, this is a Biden we're talking about. He's a drug addicted, deadbeat liar. Just because he says he's broke doesn't mean he's broke.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (Yp6az)
DOJ lawyer comes back saying that there is a previous Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Congress has forbidden district court judges from issuing orders that impact deportation proceedings. It seems it is in the statue.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 16, 2026 12:18 PM (Bo9Yf)
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Never got into using food in the bedroom. The mess that results is just not worth whatever I or my partner got out of it.
Did a lot of body shots out of the bellybuttons of coeds in college though. That was fun. Good times, good times.
Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: ..."
The climate cult like to scream about how the oil companies are funding the anti- global warming hysteria. They may have funded a few studies but whatever it is it is outspent by at least 1000 to 1 by big govt. Probably more like 10,000 to 1
Posted by: Ripley at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: ...
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Becuz they f*cking love Science sexually until it tells them something they don't want to hear like XX and XY are not fixable traits in humans. Buggery is a good way to get diseases and various other 'unfair' observances like men like to look at pretty women.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Wenda at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (LXRyJ)
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (dIske)
Him being a drug addicted deadbeat is what makes him being broke seem likely though. That plus the news reports that the Bidens as a family are broke and nobody's donating.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:24 PM
It's better to be at the front of a group of disgraceful runners than at the back saying 'how disgraceful'.
Posted by: Sebastian Coe at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (jc0TO)
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If the video I saw a month ago is correct GM will be out of business in a couple years. GM basically gave the Chinese rights to the GM name in foreign markets and farmed out powertrain engineering to them.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (lWFU0)
DOJ lawyer comes back saying that there is a previous Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Congress has forbidden district court judges from issuing orders that impact deportation proceedings. It seems it is in the statue.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (RHGPo)
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Did the DOJ lawyer shoot the judge a bird and walked out saying, "take that bitch!"
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (lWFU0)
But I decided to give it some time. “Let’s see who starts screeching after a couple weeks” and I was not disappointed. All the right people were freaking out.
The”experts” assured us ANY Republican could beat Felonia Von Pantsuit, with the exception of Mr. Trump.
This was twaddle from the get go. It was clearly obvious ONLY Mr. Trump could prevail against TFW. Thank God.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (K0w3s)
This was twaddle from the get go. It was clearly obvious ONLY Mr. Trump could prevail against TFW. Thank God.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (K0w3s)
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I'm still convinced that during the primaries of that year, it was the Democrats and Fusion GPS type set-ups that sank Cruz's candidacy with all that nonsense about his infidelity. It was just too well orchestrated before the right primaries, and I didn't see the Trump team taking that route. You're right, they wanted Trump to win for a walk-over.
Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2026 12:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: jack simms at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (sSTp2)
RIP Scott
Posted by: Danimal28 at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (mNOhh)
Posted by: dagnabbit at January 16, 2026 01:31 PM (iDw6p)
Posted by: The Dark Lord at January 16, 2026 04:02 PM (YFjCg)
that could easily mean that some justices think men have a 4x times advantage and other judges think a 2x advantage ...
so there is wide agreement that the extent of the advantage is unclear ...
Posted by: The Dark Lord at January 16, 2026 04:05 PM (YFjCg)
For More… https://bet2bright221.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:42 AM (eZWdu)
of without difficulty know it, Thanks a lot.
Posted by: Apex auto glass at January 17, 2026 04:30 PM (UYVRC)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Carel Willink
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Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM
Good heavens, a Yale man!
Posted by: Thurston Howell, III at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (kgE5c)
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Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (sKqQm)
The skull belongs on a pike out front where the moose can't reach it.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (d4s+f)
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Posted by: Megadeath at January 16, 2026 09:36 AM (sKqQm)
The skull serves as a powerful symbol of mortality, while the artist's introspective gaze invites viewers to ponder their own existence.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC)
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Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 09:39 AM (Riz8t)
Hope he didn't kill that person
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 09:39 AM (1YNCp)
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Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 09:41 AM (VE6XX)
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Posted by: Donny Brook at January 16, 2026 09:41 AM (vmAac)
Posted by: Sophomore interior design student at January 16, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)
Go look out that window, bucko. Look straight through it, at eye level. What do you see? That's right, motherfucker. You see SKY. Nothing but air. Wanna know how I got up this high, in an office this big, with furniture this polished? Of course you do. Every single mewling little lying quim in this building wants to know. They think they can get it by being little bitches, playing little bitch-ass games and then collect their prizes.
But you're wrong. Deep in your heart, you know you're wrong. You wanna get this desk? You want this office? You see yourself parking your little pansy ass in MY chair? Well there's only one way to do it. Let me show you the guy who I took this office from.
Posted by: Business ain't for sissies at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (77rzZ)
Go figure.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (3uBP9)
Where's the plastic flower pot on his head?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (uEmCf)
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NEIN! VE ARE NOT LIKE KRAFTWERK! NOT ALL AVANT-GARDE GERMAN MUSIC IS KRAFTWERK!
Posted by: It's exactly like Kraftwerk at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (lJ0H4)
Carel Willink
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Self-portrait with Skull - a limerick
Carel Willink was a pretty cool cat
But his outfit was not quite "all that"
From his head down to his feet
His look us incomplete
It cries out for a ten-gallon hat!
Posted by: the guy who does limericks at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)
That's a sixhead.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (EyfuW)
Posted by: It's exactly like Kraftwerk at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (GyQIQ)
Sure, it could be Einsterzende Neubauten.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (uEmCf)
And I agree with the others, that's a fivehead, at least.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (p9rFX)
Posted by: Pencil-necked Geek at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (pDt9x)
Agreed. I like his skill.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good limerick at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 16, 2026 09:48 AM (0bjKf)
Posted by: Tuna
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What's your point?
Posted by: Leo Dicaprio at January 16, 2026 09:48 AM (8AONa)
Posted by: Tuna
Nice info, but more importantly, did he paint any of them naked?
Posted by: Booby Fan at January 16, 2026 09:49 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 09:49 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 09:49 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (pDt9x)
Agreed. I like his skill.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (n9ltV)
I get the feeling the artist has studied a lot of human internal anatomy, skeletal structure, musculature, circulatory systems, perhaps without the subjects consent.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 09:50 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good limerick at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Ponders the word buggery...
Posted by: Muldoon's Frontal Cortex at January 16, 2026 09:51 AM (GTqXr)
Some help cops.
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 09:51 AM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Silent men in tuxedos full of alcohol sitting in leather chairs with big brass rivets at January 16, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 09:52 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Tuna
Nice info, but more importantly, did he paint any of them naked?
Posted by: Booby Fan at January 16, 2026 09:49 AM (oftw2)
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You can always trust the Horde to get to the important questions in life.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:53 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Jonathan Gerlach at January 16, 2026 09:53 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Not pinched and weasely enough.
Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2026 09:54 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Marty Feldman at January 16, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (GyQIQ)
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This guy would be the founder of said club.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:55 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: one hour sober at January 16, 2026 09:55 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: no one at January 16, 2026 09:56 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good limerick
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Diggin' Up Bones - a limerick
Burke and Hare were known for their thuggery
For mugging and all sorts of buggery
But they got into trouble
At a grave with a shovel
Engaged in pernicious skull-duggery
Posted by: the guy who does limericks at January 16, 2026 09:56 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 09:56 AM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Chevy Chase at January 16, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)
The guy in the portrait listens to the most avant-gardeiest Krautrock song evah! Every! Single! Day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GRxvQmTTz5I&list=RDGRxvQmTTz5I&start_radi
o=1
(remove spaces)
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:57 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: one hour sober
I mean, it kinda depends, if it's unexpected it's one thing, but if you put out that hit a year and a half ago and someone's finally collecting on it, that's another thing entirely...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:57 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good limerick at January 16, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Jeez, it looks like a self portrait of Adolf Eichmann.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 09:56 AM (hxusQ
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Hmmm. Skull imagery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 09:58 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 09:59 AM (SSEhk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Heh. Holding Magda's skull, or maybe one of their children's, that she murdered.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 09:59 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (pDt9x)
Agreed. I like his skill.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (n9ltV)
I get the feeling the artist has studied a lot of human internal anatomy, skeletal structure, musculature, circulatory systems, perhaps without the subjects consent.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 09:50 AM (3uBP9)
Was that wrong?
Posted by: Hannibal Costanza at January 16, 2026 09:59 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 10:00 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 09:59 AM (SSEhk)
You know he has a few gallons of bleach, rolls of plastic sheeting and 100lbs of quicklime in the trunk of his car.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 16, 2026 10:00 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Paul Pelosi Opts For the Sunday Night Special at January 16, 2026 10:01 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:01 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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By the way, I recently saw the Nuremberg movie starring Russell Crowe. Really enjoyed it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Candygram.
Posted by: Chevy Chase
Delivered by the Candyman.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:02 AM (GK5Hx)
Guy looks worried to me, like he's thinking "Gee, I hope the other body parts don't start surfacing, too."
Wouldn't hang, but it is interesting. I guess this is what museums for - pictures you don't want to see every day, but once in a while it's nice to say 'hmmmmm. interesting."
Posted by: Persnickety at January 16, 2026 10:02 AM (NXsA/)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 10:03 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:03 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Persnickety at January 16, 2026 10:02 AM
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Which pretty much explains the popularity of The Art Thread.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:05 AM (3uBP9)
Translation says "Self-portrait with sheath." Sheath? Is that what the kids are cal
Posted by: mindful webworker - giving sheath at January 16, 2026 10:05 AM (FMpsC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)
"Check livestock, check pets, it's going to be across the border. I hate to say it, but it's inevitable."
Poison them Sid. That's your go to for everything. Poison them!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:06 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 16, 2026 10:07 AM (vV6n9)
Posted by: Tuna
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What's your point?
Posted by: Leo Dicaprio
Yawn
Posted by: Woody Allen at January 16, 2026 10:07 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:08 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I can't believe Goldie isn't on YouTube liveblogging right now.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:09 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
I'd use this for the cover of a Re-Animator compilation...
Posted by: American Hawkman at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (6nplM)
The regime continues its murderous rampage
He calls for outside help.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: the skull at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (GK5Hx)
Yes, ivermectin is effective against screwworms, particularly the larvae, and is authorized for use in livestock to combat infestations.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:12 AM (GK5Hx)
He calls for targeting IRGC command and control inside Iran
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:12 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (GK5Hx)
Looked it up. Yes, in the early stages, at least.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:13 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: one hour sober at January 16, 2026 10:14 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: I Blame His Parents at January 16, 2026 10:14 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:12 AM (RIvkX)
Mosques could be considered to be IRGC command and control, too. Do it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:15 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: The Predator at January 16, 2026 10:15 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 10:16 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)
youtube.com/watch?v=7A4vR1NFS_I
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:17 AM (N8ZBc)
This is insane. No person should be allowed to own that much land.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:18 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:18 AM (XeU6L)
True, there's also Rammstein. And David Hasselhoff.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (gWBY1)
BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents. City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats.
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (L/fGl)
'Clark' probably engineered the overthrow of Pahlavi.
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (N8ZBc)
This is insane. No person should be allowed to own that much land.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:18 AM (kgFPv)
"HE'S AN EEEEEEEEEEEEEEENOS!"
--Vince McMahon
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Kudos To The Art Curator at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:18 AM (kgFPv)
Now he gets to pay taxes on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (8zz6B)
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That's why I am calling them cartel judges now.
Lot's of thundering and purple prose in the opinion with bromides like "sacred right to vote" and "bled and died for the right to vote."
Which he then jumps the canyon to "and if the DOJ has that data, someone, somewhere, somehow might not vote."
If they weren't so stupid and bought, they might actually write a sound opinion.
As it is, they're just performing for their choir.
That is, they're so deranged, they don't even see there's no meat on their bone of an opinion.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (HXT0k)
When the left thinks healing, they think therapy goats and James Taylor. They are not sending their best.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (gWBY1)
- Cucker Tarlson
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Bristol Type 6 at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (OLJhz)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
I think I've read before that a good bit of the stereotype of the dumb poor white southerner in the early 20th century was really because of widespread screwworm infestation of the population, that they got from walking around barefoot. It can cause severe cognitive impairment.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (3uBP9)
downdetector says no problems reported.
Who am I to believe, downdetector or my own lying browser?
Posted by: mindful webworker - what the x? at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (FMpsC)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (gWBY1)
You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/W3q8Od5qJio?si=9oFqmhjvG0d_KRP_
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Heino Fan Club #52, Hamburg at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (L/fGl)
I'm with Sefton. Send battalions to Minnesota and squash this shit. It's already getting started in the Philly area with the child-sheriff of Bucks country (33) ending all cooperation with ice as it makes the illegals uncomfortable.
Posted by: night lifted at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (kJmLc)
Posted by: banana Dream
From what I've read, it was hookworm.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (8zz6B)
And environmental studies won't allow him to build, mine, or drill on it because it is the one valley where some stupid lizard lives.
Where did he find one million acres of land to buy in New Mexico?? Out west, land like that is either owned by a tribe or the federal government.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:23 AM (gWBY1)
While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents. City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats.
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (L/fGl)
When they are done with the therapy, they will have to sell the goats two villages away.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (3uBP9)
Timothy Busfield Faces New Sexual Abuse Claim by 16-Year-Old Girl, Whose Dad Says Actor 'Begged' for Therapy Instead of Police: DA
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: The Charmin Bears at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)
This is insane. No person should be allowed to own that much land.
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It's the reverse effect of a lot of Westerns. Big landowners buying up farms & ranches everywhere & keeping it for their own private use. Meanwhile the price of beef & pork stays high, but moneybags has a nice view. The long-term effects of letting the Leftists control public education have taken effect.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: banana Dream
Oh, yeah? Then how in tarnation did I become a sixth-grade graduate AND a Double-Naught Spy?
Posted by: Jethro Bodine at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Hadrian
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Arrow had a shirt, or collar, called 'Trump'.
pic: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256476876519
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:25 AM (XeU6L)
I'm getting 'Grok is under heavy usage right now. Please try again soon.' Skynet is aborning as we speak.
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:25 AM (N8ZBc)
Here's a third idea: seize all vehicles used to block ICE agents. Forfeit them as instrumentalities used in violation of federal law. And sell them."
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 10:25 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: night lifted at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (kJmLc)
Hardrian,
Had to laugh. That was my first thought. Maybe aimed at depressed northern Europeans.
Posted by: JTB at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
Ah, ... I just thought they were the same worms. I mean, hook, screw, they probably have rivetworms, stapleworms, could they please come up with different names to help dummies like me?
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (3uBP9)
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We have, how you say, "therapy goats" too in our culture.
Posted by: Somalian at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (Dv3i1)
"This Guy Just Saw the New Trailer For "The Bride!" The New Bonnie and Clyde, Girlboss Musical Version of The Bride of Frankenstein and Wants His Time Back...But, No. It Is Gone. Gone Forever."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgcUArO3Uo&t=144s
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (XuXeR)
downdetector says no problems reported.
Who am I to believe, downdetector or my own lying browser?
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If X gets any slower it's going to start generating images of rabbits.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (XjTSo)
No matter what the immediate result of the military situation is, the Iranian economy is in a state of total collapse. That will not change no matter what the current government does.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: night lifted at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (kJmLc)
Yeah it's down. I think some big things are probably afoot somewhere. Or not. Who knows.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (lFFaq)
Eyepatch Mccain has been very quiet lately. Someone must have pictures of him in bed with a dead girl and a live boy...
Posted by: Bristol Type 6 at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (OLJhz)
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We have, how you say, "therapy goats" too in our culture.
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Beat me to it!!
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: The Torx Head Fastener Worms at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (lFFaq)
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Looks like same for me. I tried to ask Grok if X.com is down:
"Grok was unable to reply.
Something went wrong, please refresh to reconnect or try again."
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (jQtSL)
When the left thinks healing, they think therapy goats and James Taylor. They are not sending their best.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (gWBY1)
Need candles? Call me
Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (/6GbT)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (Oql3v)
Have you seen these rigs? Food and trash everywhere, squealing drive belts, dents....
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: banana Dream
From what I've read, it was hookworm.
Posted by: Bulg
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Hookworms and illiteracy. New fangled IQ tests for WWI help cement the idea as 'scientific'.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
BAH! I hate that tearing sound!
Posted by: Morty Seinfeld at January 16, 2026 10:29 AM (PSEDc)
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Trump mentioned divesting the Feds of land they own, but do nothing with. Mostly vast swaths out west. Same thing with buildings they own, but don't need to.
No clue if he followed up on earlier musings about all that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 10:29 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Kt19C)
Assuming this is true... the best outcome that the regime could hope for is a protracted civil war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 10:29 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (+mUZM)
Try that at 0200 hours. It'll wake everyone
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Niles Crane, homosexual at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (n+1Zi)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (3uBP9)
Years ago, our city planted 'peace poles' in the bad neigborhoods to try to stop the violence. The thugs pulled up the poles and beat each other with them.
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (N8ZBc)
While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents. City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats.
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (L/fGl)
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"Therapy goats?"
That can't possibly be misinterpreted as something else....Especially if Somalis are involved.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (ESVrU)
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"Wait, I recognize that goat bending over -- it's Beta O'Rourke!"
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (jQtSL)
Eyepatch Mccain has been very quiet lately. Someone must have pictures of him in bed with a dead girl and a live boy...
Posted by: Bristol Type 6
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He picked a stupid fight with big youtuber Sean Ryan pissing off the online folks that like Sean. He pissed off his GOP colleagues by being a drunk on a foreign trip so he got a six month time out from such. His district has also been redrawn in the TX redistricting. Has competition in the primary.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (WDjG6)
The skull serves as a powerful symbol of mortality, while the artist's introspective gaze invites viewers to ponder their own existence.
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Ah, so that means the theme of the work is a thanatotopsis.
(Heh, I got to use that word for the first time in a few years.)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (XjTSo)
It's the meat packing industry, it's like a cartel and has a chokehold on the small farmers. I have friends with families that own small cattle farms, it's been a problem. If they would let ranchers and farmers do more of their own beef harvesting, we would have more in stores.
It has to get fixed and no one's doing it. And the meat packers are controlled by people trying to reduce our beef consumption.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (gWBY1)
No matter what the immediate result of the military situation is, the Iranian economy is in a state of total collapse. That will not change no matter what the current government does.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (uWKK
If you held rials, why even try to trade them at that rate. Hoard them, and later sell them on ebay as collectors' items, like Zimbabwe dollars and Confederate currency.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (8zz6B)
The unbalanced, Millennial "safe space" kids of the 2010's are now in the workplace and recreating the indulgent, unchallenging, and entitled environment they were provided throughout childhood and college.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (LlV+5)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:32 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Creepy Joe Biden at January 16, 2026 10:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Matthew "Stymie" Beard at January 16, 2026 10:32 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
https://youtu.be/F89McWFENTs
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (N8ZBc)
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* snort *
"Stakes Have No Home Here!"
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (jQtSL)
At this point, I welcome our new alien overlords. Couldn't be any worse.
Posted by: Alien Collaborator at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (REOC8)
Can't have that. It might lead to other things, like selling non processed milk...
/ your government at work
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (XuXeR)
Think you mean "defenestrated."
Yeah, that's it!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (LlV+5)
Posted by: Big Farma Marketing Department at January 16, 2026 10:34 AM (2Ez/1)
Stop digging. Put it back where you found it. Call a priest to bless the house.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 16, 2026 10:34 AM (yFLFB)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:34 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (+mUZM)
Yeah, thanks. That's the one. I've used her recipes a lot.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:34 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Kt19C)
Mostly once a day, but twice a day is not uncommon.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Alien Collaborator at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (REOC
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So .... exactly like Minnesota, then?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: The Wellness Company at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (oftw2)
Think you mean "defenestrated."
Yeah, that's it!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (LlV+5)
No shit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: banana Dream
Hookworms are not native to the US but brought over by trade with Africa in slavery times and became endemic in the Southern soil like fireants eventually did. Africans have some natural resistance to hookworms, whites did not so going unshod in the South is not a good idea.
Screwworms fly and the one that is a problem is a parasitic blowfly except it likes live instead of dead tissue.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (WDjG6)
He was part of an imaginary or magical realism movement: well drawn scenes with some incongruent elements. That's fine for sci-fi or fantasy paperback covers. But without the context of the story it just feels unimportant and isolated.
Posted by: JTB at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Kt19C)
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I would hope so! Regular troops are effective troops!
Posted by: Military Nutritionist at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (GyQIQ)
IQ testing for the government arose in part because of the idea of tailoring the Army’s needs with a soldier’s aptitude.
By world war two it was obvious then that the new fangled methods of instruction were terrible, and that nutrition during the Depression was awful as well. Vitamin deficiencies, things like Rickets had exploded
Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (2BdZb)
No matter what the immediate result of the military situation is, the Iranian economy is in a state of total collapse. That will not change no matter what the current government does.
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I do believe the revolutionaries are convinced that can change if they can get someone in power who knows more about governing than reading a holy book, ordering punishments, and giving piles of money to terrorists.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (LlV+5)
Posted by: Just the punchline at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: The Predator
I'll "mount" it. After adding a few more holes...
Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: GWB at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (pVn4H)
Don't take Thanatotopsis if you're allergic to it or any of it's ingredients.
"Side effects include nausea, upset stomach, diarrhea
Drowsiness, fatigue, dizziness dry mouth, changes in taste
Headache skin reactions like flushing or rash
Severe allergic reactions (swelling, difficulty breathing)
Chest pain or severe shortness of breath
Signs of internal bleeding (e.g., black, tarry stools with blood thinners)
Severe or persistent pain, swelling, or dysfunction
Changes in heart rate or rhythm "
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (XuXeR)
Therapy. Goats.
Great. The kids are in charge.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (kgE5c)
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Many years ago, there was a rumor that the Belgians had invented silent velcro for their military. I don't know what kept them from conquering the world.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (L/fGl)
The blocked and reported podcast hosts were complaining that Trump told her she should give it to him, and she's too nice a person to say no to the orange man. So apparently she did. But honestly, it's a great gesture. And she's openly credited him for doing more to help the Venezuelan people than anyone else. She knows what the gesture symbolizes to the woke press and the commies.
If the regime currently still running Venezuela doesn't get with the program, and implement a democracy, she needs to be put in charge. And I say that as someone that's been very non interventionist since we totally screwed up in Afghanistan.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: JTB at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)
Maybe it was a cover pic for Skull Fanciers Quarterly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:38 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Goodbury and Graves, Ltd... at January 16, 2026 10:38 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:39 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Prune juice and bran MREs at January 16, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Think you mean "defenestrated."
Yeah, that's it!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (LlV+5)
No shit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM
No.
Posted by: MREs at January 16, 2026 10:39 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 16, 2026 10:39 AM (DgMqy)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (XjTSo)
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And the revolutionaries are correct, but they will not be correct immediately.
The Rial has no formal value now. There is black-market trade as described, but there is no legitimate market for it at this point. The currency has no value. Amazing.
When this ends - whether with mullahs or without them - it is going to be a long path back. Absent communists, anyone who takes over from the mullahs - kings, democrats, military dictators, whatever - will do better than the mullahs, but it's going to be a long and difficult road. Coming back from "zero" is not going to happen quickly.
Which will make things harder, perhaps, for the mullahs. The game is effectively lost now, which means the "nothing to lose" group is growing by the minute.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:40 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: exdem13
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Don't forget the mullah's expertise in stealing from the state. Khameini and his family are most likely billionaires among other high officials.
The entire world is being run a kleptocracy with a few exceptions. Government to the ruling classes is simply a means to get filthy rich and not do a damn thing to earn it.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:40 AM (WDjG6)
Her merch is all over in the Walmart cooking section. She got in trouble a few years back for supposedly ripping the artwork for her merch off of other artists, and not compensating them. I suspect she paid a pretty penny to make that quietly go away.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:40 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (wVcYX)
Highlighted that. Did DDG search. Answer in 2 seconds:
The efficacy of ivermectin against larvae of the screw-worm fly (Chrysomya bezziana)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3840994/
Posted by: mindful webworker - what the x? at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (FMpsC)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (LlV+5)
The good news is Zoomers look at that and think it’s cringe as fuck. Millenails are basically a joke for anyone older and younger than them.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (kgFPv)
Reminds me of doing college tours with the kid. There was one that had posters all around informing students that mental health issues are not a stigma, help is available here blah blah blah, as well as a day where puppies would be brought in to relieve final exam stress. It was kind of oppressive, like, is everyone here a little crazy - or do they want them to feel that way?
Crossed that one off the list!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (LlV+5)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (uWKK
It was completely down a short while ago but it is back up now.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (3uBP9)
It has to get fixed and no one's doing it. And the meat packers are controlled by people trying to reduce our beef consumption.
Posted by: LizLem
If they work with a butcher, they can do direct sales to individuals.
You buy a half cow. Butcher cuts, trims & wraps meat. You pay the rancher for the 1/2 cow & pay the butcher for his expertise and wrapping.
Everyone wins because the meat packers are cut out of it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: Whig
Actually, there is a native American hookworm, Necator americanus, in addition to the introduced Old-World species.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)
Which will make things harder, perhaps, for the mullahs. The game is effectively lost now, which means the "nothing to lose" group is growing by the minute.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Not so sure. If Iran is no longer under sanctions, they can do pretty well with oil and natural gas sales pretty quickly. Like Venezuela or Russia, the oil industry has not been getting the maintenance and optimizations available and due to sanctions, get a lot less for their oil from places like China and India who pay below market rates for it.
Probably be a rough ten years or so.
Countries that do not have such abundance of wealth suffer a lot longer from currency collapse. From economic historians Rogoff and Carmines, those nations take about twenty years or a bit more to recover.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (uWKK
Good thing the HQ is protected by the impenetrable armor of Pixyware.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (8zz6B)
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Did they overlook AOC completely?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (L/fGl)
Yeah, the *subset* of Millennials that demanded safe spaces and trigger warnings has not aged well.
Sadly, Gen Z seems to be both extremes, though their safe space crew appears to be a lot more violent should you "trigger" them. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (LlV+5)
400,000 acres over four or five ranches.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (GK5Hx)
Would hang in my lab.
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM
Very nice. Let's have a look at Paul Allen's self-portrait.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:45 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Bulg
You consider yourself more of a "scaly"? What if the sexy snake GF is wearing a fuzzy sweater?
https://tinyurl.com/2chwhmsb
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 10:45 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:46 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:47 AM (LlV+5)
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Oddly specific. The goats. Therapy goats that is. Would have thought there'd be a drum circle too. Those seem to be popular with the leftist nutjobs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 10:47 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (Oql3v)
"What the text reads on the plaque
To President Donald J. Trump
In Gratitude for Your Extraordinary Leadership in Promoting Peace through Strength, Advancing Diplomacy, and Defending Liberty and Prosperity.
Presented as a Personal Symbol of Gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan People and in Recognition of President Trump's Principled and Decisive Action to Secure a Free Venezuela. The Courage of America, and its President Donald J. Trump, will Never Be Forgotten by the Venezuelan people."
It kind of feels like a participation trophy, I can't lie. But it's a gracious gesture. And I love that the libs' heads are exploding. "Trump stole an award from a Latina to feed his insatiable ego!" Not getting it's an act of nuanced diplomacy.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (gWBY1)
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All this talk of hookworms has me feeling good that as a diabetic I don't go outdoors barefoot. Admittedly I first stopped going outside barefoot after the bee sting. Dad was in an "organic lawn care" phase back in the Seventies & the clover was in bloom a lot between mowings. Then we got a dog.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (XjTSo)
400,000 acres over four or five ranches.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (GK5Hx)
Ah, yes, the back 40.
Posted by: King Ranch, Texas at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: JTB at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)
Maybe it was a cover pic for Skull Fanciers Quarterly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:38 AM (8zz6B)
Fifteen years ago, teens massed in Hot Topic stores, put skulls on everything.
Today, they go to work in offices, with "No Skulls" dress codes.
This is their sadz.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (RHGPo)
Everyone wins because the meat packers are cut out of it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM
*contemplates buying a half cow from my buddy in TX*
*contemplates shipping costs to MA*
F*ck.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (uWKK8)
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These are lawyers for cripesake.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (Dv3i1)
Yay diversity
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (Oql3v)
Trump said the "leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail..."
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (RHGPo)
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400,000 acres over four or five ranches.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (GK5Hx)
Really? That's almost half the size of the King Ranch.
(OK is ~45 million acres so while quite yuge, 400k would be less than 1%)
Posted by: Hannibal Costanza at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (ULPxl)
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Wifey is freaked out about reports that mRNA vaccines are being used in the US for pigs and chickens (although since those are eaten cooked and not raw, so less likely to cause harm to humans as would beef -- which she eats "rare" cooked -- and apparently IS being used in cattle in the UK).
Also, now many pet vaccines use mRNA -- and some are concerned about the literal "shedding" phenomenon that was apparently one way people who weren't jabbed during the Covid PsyOps were ultimately affected by the clot shot if they were frequently in contact with or around others who did get jabbed.
[Me? I don't know why you'd want to kill off your consumer base ... unless you were the GloboHomo WEF Death Cultists trying to "Save The Planet" by mandating cricket-only diets and reduce the human population by 90-100%, which is just crazy talk and (at least at one time) advertised right on their website.]
Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (jQtSL)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (ULPxl)
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These are lawyers for cripesake.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM
These are leftist lawyers. They litigate like fags and their briefs are retarded.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 10:47 AM (U2OZr)
And going out in the woods and communing with trees.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg
You are correct. The one that comes through the feet though is Ancylostoma duodenale.
Soil contaminated with feces is often the source for the native variety.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
F*ck. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (kgE5c)
Surely there are ranchers in MA you could buy from? Much cheaper. Or ask a local rancher to help you purchase a hobby cow, and they raise them and you split the cost of the cow or the meat or something. Everyone wins.
I keep wanting to do a "Good Ranchers" meat subscription box. I bet over time it's cheaper than steak in stores. But I don't know which ones are legit.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (2L+MU)
Posted by: pookysgirl in bad German at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (Wt5PA)
this feels like a cyberattack.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (uWKK
Yeah, it's currently in the chumbawamba, tubthumping phase.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (3uBP9)
You never know when your foot is gonna find that one stray Lego from your kid's childhood.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (Oql3v)
"To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
First photographed between William Bendix's moobs in "The Hairy Ape" (1944).
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I thought it first appeared in fan art of dubious value concerning Maid Marian & Cheetara. You guys know who you are.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (XjTSo)
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Fires Back >>>>>>> Claps Back
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (8zz6B)
Trees actually communicate through a fascinating network of fungal hyphae that somehow approximate the function of a working human brain.
Much like Jim Comey.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (06Hmj)
*contemplates shipping costs to MA*
F*ck.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (kgE5c)
Buy the half-cow in Texas, and drive it back to MA. "Git along little semi-dogie, git along."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (8zz6B)
Trump said the "leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail..."
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (RHGPo)
yes the name's been released. It's not the journalist, it's the government contractor who gave her the classified info.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (uWKK8)
What’s kind of strange is the particular strain was found in a patch of soil on a Japanese golf course and nowhere else since.
It is effective at such a wide range of diseases anyone who has spent a lot of time overseas in particular ought to take a couple rounds. 2 weeks apart. One of the big problems since WW II and subsequent adventures was “fevers of unknown origins”
Parasite infestations have a long cycle, and the symptoms are non specific and mimic a gazillion other things like the flu. But they are debilitating for years and cause all sorts of complications.
Ivermectin is very safe, inexpensive and highly effective and generally benign for most people.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (2BdZb)
Probably be a rough ten years or so. ...
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (WDjG6)
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A decade is a long time. Absent sanctions, they can start *fairly* quickly, but they aren't going to be absent sanctions. If we drop ours and Russia raises theirs, for example, it will still be difficult. Ours are probably the worst, but it wouldn't surprise me if Russia and much of Europe slap sanctions on a post-mullah regime if it shakes out as a post-mullah regime.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
"To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
1) Funny how OrangeManBad has the commies so Concerned about things they gave no shits about not so long ago
2) immivaders aren't American people, timwalz
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Common Tater
And you can't have it because it screws up the covid narrative.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (rj6Yv)
Check out the Minn/St Paul forecast over the next few days.
No one's outside communing w/shiite...
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
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Okay, Hakeem. If you make retribution the expected outcome, enjoy the consequences of it. I won't, because I don't want to be expropriated and murdered, but you do you. If you go down this road, fully expect the next guy to do the same thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (GyQIQ)
"To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
What exactly is the upshot of this missive here?
"Once Trump is gone, all you schmucks and noodniks pretending to be Governors and ginning up Civil War II: This Time As Farce will have free rein"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (2BdZb)
Posted by: Chumbawamba Tubthumpers local #408 at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (2BdZb)
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*AND* off-patent.
Which is why it's such a thorn in everyone's side.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (GyQIQ)
Yeah. We can't have that.
/phhhhizer
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (XuXeR)
There were apparently more deaths than births in France last year. First time since WW2.
Why people in power hate humans enough to kill off their consumers and their own fellow countryman, I don't know. Thats something to ask Satan, he's putting them up to it.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (gWBY1)
Parents Banned After Massive Brawl at Staten Island Catholic Youth Basketball Game
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)
Who celebrated that?
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Probably a whole bunch of globalist pawns who were getting very nervous about getting outed on Fox News.
wait a minute, the Clintons got subpeonaed, then the Leftard witches in Minneapolis went bonkers & one got shot in the face. Could it be a coincidence?
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (XjTSo)
Yeah. We can't have that.
/phhhhizer
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (XuXeR)
How do you expect us to meet analysts' expectations?!?!?!
Posted by: Pharma CEOs at January 16, 2026 10:58 AM (ULPxl)
I'm not a doctor. Don't try this.
Posted by: Reforger at January 16, 2026 10:58 AM (v8m2L)
Like the incitement to violently interpose oneself between ICE and a detainee? To physically intervene to effect escape? To drive your SUV at an agent when you have been detained and ordered out of the car? That kind of violence?
Posted by: All projection all the time at January 16, 2026 10:58 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (gWBY1)
Parents Banned After Massive Brawl at Staten Island Catholic Youth Basketball Game
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Here in Cincinnati we call that the Moeller & Roger Bacon game!
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (XjTSo)
Heh. Dumbass needs to understand there are lots of us old, fat, and well armed asses out here. We're not interested in the fun'n'games, but don't push us.
I'd probably not last long, but would cause a world of hurt...
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (XuXeR)
19 How is he holding the paintbrush, since he’s got both hands on the skull?
Posted by: Bulg
120 Looks like an Arrow Shirt model.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Posted by: mindful webworker - didn't say what? at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (FMpsC)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (kgFPv)
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Screw that. Just work through them. Every twenty four working days I get the whole day off. Paid MFers
Posted by: Non-Union Scabs 307 at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (2BdZb)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (gWBY1)
IIRC, Ivermectin can have some pretty severe side effects if you take it with a lot of very common heart medications. Not making a stand myself on the issue, but I think that's part of the non-retarded part of the rationale behind it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:00 AM (06Hmj)
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The only thoughts they can manage are projection.
Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 11:00 AM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Scranton Joe With Squirts at January 16, 2026 11:00 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Really?
If the Dems do regain power in 2028, the hot Civil War 2.0 is gonna break out.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (gWBY1)
I thought a few
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: A dude in MI at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (/6GbT)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (ULPxl)
They have, but not mine. Jealous!
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 11:02 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (kgFPv)
If the Insurrection Act is proclaimed in Minnesota, Jeffries and many others would be subject to arrest and trial for sedition.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:02 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (XeU6L)
Coming soon in Minneapolis: "Jacob Frey and the Men Who Stare at Goat's Asses."
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:03 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Homer Simpson at January 16, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)
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IIRC, Ivermectin can have some pretty severe side effects if you take it with a lot of very common heart medications. Not making a stand myself on the issue, but I think that's part of the non-retarded part of the rationale behind it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:00 AM (06Hmj)
I don't think it's heart medication in general, but I've read there's an issue for people taking blood thinners (anti-stroke meds). But I am Not A Doctor, and I don't even run a Quality Learing Center.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:03 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
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Jeffries, the Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, is calling federal authority and duty criminal incitement. And we are being put on notice that if our elected political leaders continue to enforce the laws of this country, exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY, then we can expect punishment for doing our duty.
Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 11:04 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
The same people who are giving business to AI outfits whose products are made by people like them, resulting in the output being even worse than if the lawyers did the work themselves.
It's stupid all the way down, lads.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 11:04 AM (OUMaO)
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Eh, they were gonna do that anyway. They were already doing that anyway. Disabuse yerself of the notion that playing nice will cause these clowns to play nice or re-think their strategy or whatever “Unconditional Surrender” has its downsides. Makes people fight harder, to the death.
Posted by: Non-Union Scabs 307 at January 16, 2026 11:04 AM (2BdZb)
I know plenty of people who head to the border to get lottery tickets in Idaho. Even some Mormon friends of mine do it for fun on occasion, like once a year in their birthday they'll get a scratch off. I guess I'll be the one person heading to a pharmacy and not a lottery machine.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (gWBY1)
Ivermectin is safer than the wuhan lung rot vaccine and leftist Democrats.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (2BdZb)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 16, 2026 11:19 AM (zdLoL)
" Kyle Bass Jan 15
Time for a math problem : In the 2024 presidential election, 2,308,256 people in Oregon voted, representing a turnout rate of 75.4% among the state's 3,060,374 registered voters. 800,000 registered voters were ‘improperly registered’ voters. That means a WHOPPING 34% of votes were fraudulent. Kamala won Oregon by 321,000 votes….
Donald Trump received 919,480 votes. Kamala Harris had 1,240,600. "
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:30 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Dr_No at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 16, 2026 02:36 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Ben Sears at January 16, 2026 04:26 PM (3M71d)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 16, 2026 06:12 PM (wGqjj)
The Morning Report — 1/16/26
. . .senior Iranian officials are funneling their money out of the country like "rats fleeing the ship," amid escalating protests and financial unrest inside the Islamic Republic."We are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship. Because we can see tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country—snuck out of the country—by the Iranian leadership. So they are abandoning ship," Bessent said Wednesday on Newsmax.
As long as we're contemplating military action against repressive violent tyrants,, I'd rather see a carrier battle group sail up the Mississippi and conduct operations against Minneapolis.
As Tim Walz Encourages Resistance, Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’ Declares ‘Time Is Ripe To Embrace Militancy’ — The "ICE Watch" group at the center of the unruly demonstrations gripping Minneapolis urged supporters to "embrace militancy" and escalate their demands "by any means necessary." Hours later, Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) also encouraged residents to resist ICE, accusing the agency of carrying out a "campaign of organized brutality." MN ICE Watch, which describes itself as an "autonomous collective documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes," shared an Instagram post on Wednesday teaching agitators how to relay "information on police and/or fascist" activity at demonstrations.Millions funneled out of the country. Compared to the Somalis, the Mullahs are penny-ante operators, since the former have grifted billions!
The Minnesota Department of Human Services or the Minnesota Department of Education could not have grown that fast on their own, but what they were really doing wasn’t offering new programs announced by Walz, but managing disbursements to politically connected nonprofits, like the ones involved in the scam, which were able to threaten their personnel with the wrath of Attorney General Keith X. Ellison and other local and state officials if they objected to anything.Hey, you don't have to be no William Allen White from Emporia KS to know that the aforementioned "ICE Watch" and probably every other crackpot anti-American commie front group is getting tons of taxpayer dough re mi in exchange for fomenting revolution and of course election thievery! Well you can't get the former without first getting the latter, nein?
While Gov. Tim Walz and other officials claimed that they were implementing ‘programs’, what they were actually doing was building political piggy banks for their allies. Fraud was baked in because the real purpose of outsourcing what were supposed to be government programs to third parties was to subsidize the ‘community groups’ that turn out voters for their campaigns.
The nationwide networks of community groups are really a voter outreach and turnout operation for the Democratic Party funded with taxpayer money. For an example of how that worked, consider the role that one single non-profit played in the political careers of Kamala Harris, the former vice president, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely presidential candidate.
“I think there are some reasonable members, but basically it will be cutting off again that, you know, constant flow of money that they’ve used to purchase votes through the years,” she told Marlow, “but the attention that the Minnesota fraud scandal has gotten has really given us legs once again. So it will put some of them in a very difficult position, but it’s absolutely necessary to do this.”
How much longer are we going to put up with this?!
A grinning anti-ICE agitator was arrested after she allegedly punched a Florida state trooper during a confrontation with federal agents — drawing a blunt warning from Gov. Ron DeSantis that the Sunshine State “is not Minneapolis.” Jennifer Cruz was arrested outside Mi Pueblo, a Mexican grocery store and meat market in Jacksonville, Tuesday morning after she allegedly jumped out of her car and punched a state trooper in the face while officers were working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a post on X. “Jennifer disagrees with immigration enforcement and decided to commit a few felonies by getting out of her car and punching a trooper in the face,” Uthmeier wrote.
Unlike the infamous Michael Brown of Hands Up Don't Shoot mythology, who slugged police officer Darren Wilson in the face while resisting arrest by attempting to take his gun and shoot the policeman rather than get arrested, and the rest as they say is history - - this filthy degenerate slag just cold-cocked a cop in the face because she knew she could get away with it, despite her fellow Democrat stormtrooper Renee Good getting ventilated last week. After that, law enforcement officers know that they face extermination if they dare do the unthinkable and defend themselves. It's gotten to the point where Leftists and their mediawhore propagandists are proclaiming that law enforcement doing its job is the real crime and cause of all the violence. I've had it. I won't be satisfied until Walz's pinhead is on a pike and the Democrat Party and its allies cease to exist or are otherwise removed from the national discourse. Andrew Breitbart may his memory be for a blessing when he declared "Fuck You, War!" Expressed it perfectly, except the Left have been waging war against us for decades and it is high time WE THE PEOPLE resist, fight back and Win absolute victory. Amen. Have a great weekend. And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- The Tina Peters case.
“The Court Cannot Punish Her For Her First Amendment Rights”
- Thus, the death of someone like Scott Adams is seen just as another opportunity to attack a political enemy for a supposed litany of -isms and phobias.
Why even death doesn’t halt the media attacks on Scott Adams
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- MN ICE Watch posts guide encouraging escalation ‘by any means necessary’
As Tim Walz Encourages Resistance, Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’ Declares ‘Time Is Ripe To Embrace Militancy’ - POTUS' warning comes just hours after a federal agent shot an illegal immigrant on Wednesday night.
Trump Threatens To Use Insurrection Act In Minnesota If ‘Professional Agitators’ Are Not Stopped
- Trump warned he may invoke the Insurrection Act if local authorities fail to address violent anti-ICE protests effectively.
Noem Confirms She Has Spoken With Trump About Invoking Insurrection Act. - If we’re going to keep pretending that what’s happening in Minneapolis right now is simply “unrest” rather than outright violent chaos threatening to hold this country hostage, President Trump might as well hand the rest of his term over to Gavin Newsom. There’s no point left.
Resisting Law Enforcement Is Violence And This Administration’s Job Is To Stop It At All Costs
- White privilege isn’t real and it won’t stop a bullet.
Renee Good Died Disproving White Privilege - The Black Panthers are back and threatening to "unalive" ICE agents in honor of the false narratives they worship, which enable them to commit more crimes. Ah, communism! Isn't it swell?
Black Panthers In Philly Threaten To *Pew, Pew* ICE Agents
* * * * * - In a late-December ruling, the Eighth Circuit set an example for challenging ideological bullying in public employment.
Drawing a Legal Line on DEI Coercion
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
- Jennifer Cruz was arrested outside Mi Pueblo, a Mexican grocery store and meat market in Jacksonville, Tuesday morning after she allegedly jumped out of her car and punched a state trooper in the face while officers were working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a post on X. “Jennifer disagrees with immigration enforcement and decided to commit a few felonies by getting out of her car and punching a trooper in the face,” Uthmeier wrote.
Grinning anti-ICE agitator arrested after allegedly punching Florida trooper as DeSantis warns: ‘This is not Minneapolis’ - The news comes after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis when she allegedly tried to use her vehicle as a weapon and run over officers, an incident which leftist groups used to mobilize protesters, whom Brandy Shufutinsky, director of the Education and National Security Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said are “stoking the grievance industry that they built.”
Democrats Propose Anti-ICE Bills to Obstruct Crackdown on Illegal Alien Crime
- It is demonstrative of how disconnected the Democrat Party is from reality at its top levels.
Democrats: ICE Is Just Like The Ayatollahs (If only they compared ICE to the Israeilis! - jjs) - ICE operations in Minnesota will continue, with Trump praising law enforcement efforts to ensure public safety.
Trump Is Praising a Biden Judge’s ICE Ruling, Here’s Why… - MeidasTouch’s actions leave federal agents at personal risk and undermine federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
Diddy/Epstein-Linked Network Tries to Dox ICE Agents LIVE on Camera. - You may not like it, but ICE enforcement is democracy in action.
Anti-ICE Activists’ Goal Isn’t Stopping Violence — It’s Ending All Immigration Enforcement* * * * * - “Birth was not enough. The American rule was no different. Contracts, by definition, are not entered into unilaterally. A lawful residence implies protection. An unlawful residence does not.Most aliens who came to the United States came to stay. Tribal members were excluded.“It was a violation of the law of nations to enter into another country illegally.”
True History of Birthright Citizenship - Perhaps the defund ICE message is playing well in solidly blue districts, but competitive district politics is a different animal.
Vulnerable Dems Throw Their Lot In With The ‘Abolish Immigration Law’ Crowd - Cui’s arrest highlights ongoing scrutiny around Chinese investment in U.S. territories and raises questions about immigration enforcement and visa policies.
ICE Just Detained This Chinese Billionaire. IRAN ON the BRINK?! - The Lincoln will substantially boost U.S. Central Command’s offensive capabilities in the Middle East, as President Trump warns the Iranian regime that he will intervene to prevent the killing of protesters.
WAR? Trump Redeploys Carrier Strike Group to Middle East.
- The Islamic Republic has killed upwards of 12,000 civilians since the popular uprising started at the end of December
Trump Admin Sanctions 'Architects of Iran’s Brutal Crackdown' in First Action Against Regime Since Protests Began
- "And we are seeing it come into banks and financial institutions all over the world. And what we do at Treasury is we follow the money, whether it is through the typical banking system or through digital assets. We are going to trace these assets, and they will not be able to keep them," he continued. (Now do Soros and whoever is bankrolling insurrection in MN - jjs)
‘Rats Fleeing the Ship’: Bessent Says Iranian Leadership Is Funneling Millions Out of Country - It is not just in the best interests of the region, but in the best interests of the world that the biggest terrorist government in the world should fall. But how can it be done?
Douglas Murray: Trump has a chance to end Khamenei’s reign of terror in Iran
- Fred Fleitz: Iran’s regime may endure for now, but its terror has shattered its legitimacy; with decisive U.S. support, this uprising can hasten the end and prepare a democratic future.
Irreversible Changes to Iran Caused by the Recent Protests and U.S. Interests
- “The president has gone further than any American president in history by being on the side of the Iranian people."
The Fog Of Trump: How Unpredictability Keeps Iran Guessing
- Islam has never served a nation well, and the Persian people have a glorious history to fall back upon. Or, put another way, anything but Islam...
New Iranian Rulers Must Embrace Their Pre-Islamic Past
- Islamic monsters inflict the worst of all possible injuries.
Iranian Security Forces Firing at the Eyes and Heads of Protesters (If only Joey Sponge-Bain/Shits-pants were there to insist they aim for the legs! - jjs)
- The ruthless slaughter of anti-government protesters in Iran appears to have stopped — but only because residents are being held hostage in their homes by machine gun-wielding security forces that have flooded the streets, sources told The Post Thursday. After weeks of anti-regime protests across Iran left thousands dead, the mass mobilization of security forces has suppressed the demonstrations, with many too afraid to step foot outside now. “There were tanks out — there’s tanks everywhere,” the source told The Post after speaking to family in Tehran about the current situation.
The disturbing reason Iran appears to have stopped slaughtering protesters THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE - “We saw rampant fraud there, where people were actually using when they had to submit their paperwork, their photo IDs, they actually had photos of Barbie dolls as the ID,” she revealed.
Exclusive – Sen. Ernst: Congress Must Cut Fraud Financing Democrat Vote-Buying - Notably, Generation Hope MN founder Abdirahman Warsame’s older brother, Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, was arrested in 2015 for alleged preparing to move to Syria to join ISIS, a terrorist organization.
Senators Urge DOJ To Probe ISIS-Linked Somali ‘Nonprofit’ After Bro-Fo Omar Tried To Earmark $1M For It DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - Lessons from the Somali fraud in Minnesota.
Stop Government Funding of Non-Profits WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - One student’s shawl stated in Arabic: “Jerusalem is Ours”.
Muslim Student Association Promotes Terror at School Cultural Fair THE ECONOMY, STUPID - Democrats and their media allies have been touting their “Affordability Agenda” strategy since their disastrous loss in November to Trump. The vague term helps paper over deep splits in the Democratic Party, such as elite support for the H-1B visa worker program that has damaged millions of Democratic-leaning college graduates.
Democrat Tom Suozzi Says Wage Gains Are Bad for ‘Affordability’
- The U.S. must build, baby.
50-Year Mortgages Were Never the Answer CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Former Kew Gardens resident Charles Foehner was locked up at the Eric M Taylor Center in the Bronx for his felony gun charges stemming from the May 31, 2023, shooting, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Wednesday. The then-65-year-old was returning to his Queens Avenue apartment at around 2 a.m. after buying a pack of cigarettes when he was confronted by a menacing Cody Gonzalez. (Melinda Katz is a vile lefty shit-whore - jjs)
Charles Foehner, NYC senior citizen who fatally shot would-be mugger, begins prison sentence for weapons possession - Rocking Horse Ranch’s license was suspended, and Russell faces second-degree murder charges, with additional charges expected.
Minnesota Daycare Worker Admits to Killing Infant for ‘Attention.’ FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Yeah, because you're a left-wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist, and it's so clear by the premise of your question. And you and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you're a journalist, you shouldn't even be sitting in that seat. But you're pretending like you're a journalist, but you're a left-wing activist. And the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias. You should be reporting on the facts.
MUST WATCH: Karoline Leavitt Destroys MSM 'Journalist' Over ICE Question POLITICS - The otherwise excellent JD Vance, with his stubborn loyalty to the openly pro-Islamist, antisemitic Tucker Carlson, is raising doubts about his own values.
It Will Be Marco Rubio In 2028
- Sheahan launched her campaign in a field that has many seeking the GOP nomination for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District. “I’m a Trump conservative running for Congress to protect American jobs, American paychecks and American values,” she said in a post on X. “No excuses. Let’s get this done,” Sheahan added.
ICE official resigns to challenge U.S. Rep. Kaptur of Ohio ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - “They want what everybody else in this world wants — just a good life."
Administration Official: “Hamas Wants Peace”(Hamas’ definition of “peace” and “the good life” is every Jew in Israel and on planet Earth dead. - jjs) - The decision could land Khalil back in immigration detention.
Federal Court Rules Against Mahmoud Khalil’s Release From ICE Detention FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - More than 20 councils, most of them Labour-controlled, are expected to ask the government for permission to cancel elections this year.
Starmer to cancel DOZENS of local elections, denying votes to millions of Britons
- Jenrick’s defection signals growing discontent within the Tory Party and bolsters Reform’s standing as a government-in-waiting.
The Biggest-Ever Defection to Farage’s Reform Party Has Been Confirmed. - The seizure marks the sixth sanctioned tanker intercepted in recent weeks.
Another Venezuelan-Linked Oil Tanker Seized As U.S. Enforces Trump Blockade
- we wish the never-Trumpers of the world could settle on the reason they think Donald Trump is an existential threat to the nation
And, Overnight, Trump Goes From ‘Dangerous Isolationalist’ To ‘Dangerous Imperialist’ HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - Leavitt outlined the president’s vision to reporters during Thursday’s White House press briefing. She stated that the first pillar is “permanently lowering prescription drug prices” by codifying Trump’s most-favored-nations deals with pharmaceutical companies.
White House Lays Out ‘Four Commonsense Pillars’ of ‘Great Healthcare Plan’ ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - Let me translate: We in Europe have found that our cooperative Soviet-style government-run projects with NASA (ISS, Mars Sample Return, and Lunar Gateway) are going away, and we need to find some other authoritarian nation we can partner with.
The European Space Agency and China hold the first joint meeting in almost a decade
- ...based on all the data MRO and other Mars orbiters have been gathering for the past decade, we are almost certainly looking at near-surface ice flowing downhill and past that peak.
Martian glacier flowing past small peak FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - “The campaign includes photos and videos of participants wearing exclusive merchandise designed by award-winning fashion designer and ACLU artist ambassador Willy Chavarria,” noted Variety. “The photos were captured by artist and fashion photographer Collier Schorr and videography captured by Sundance award-winning writer and director Alessandra Lacorazza.”
WATCH: Megan Rapinoe, Elliot Page, Naomi Watts, Appear in ACLU Ad Supporting Trans Youth (the Witches of Beast-schtick - jjs)
- Sen. Josh Hawley asked a simple question: "Can men get pregnant?"
Why The Left Can’t Let The Transgender Debate Go CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - Before Zohran Mamdani and the Democrat Socialists of America, there were Vito Marcantonio and the American Labor Party.
A Look Back at New York City’s First Flirtation with Socialism HITHER & YON - Christian Toto: TV classic's return reveals spotty track record for show revivals
This Reboot Makes the Least Sense of All
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:16 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 16, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2026 06:23 AM (tljrc)
The European Space Agency and China hold the first joint meeting in almost a decade
The European Space Agency is the Kaboom! of astronomical exploration.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:26 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:28 AM (vFG9F)
Sadly, JJ, you probably will never be satisfied then. Without a collapse of some sort, they'll never go away and the GOPe will certainly never help get rid of them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:30 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 06:32 AM (U2OZr)
I fear you are correct, but I said what I said and that's that.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:32 AM (x0n13)
So the Black Nationalist Marxists are now going to bat for the Latino and Asian illegals?
OK, I didn't have that on the 2026 Bingo card, but whatever.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 06:33 AM (6ydKt)
Actually, the European Space Agency is just like most European endeavors: mingy, undersized, struggling, yet pointed to by Europeans with unaccountable pride.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:33 AM (tgvbd)
I was wondering about that. If we see them moving money, we should just take it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:34 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:34 AM (GK5Hx)
I only heard a minute of Errorick Erroriickson's show two days ago because that's all I can stand, but he called PDT a bully. I get the feeling that Erroriickson spent a lot of time with his head in a toilet as a teen.
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:35 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:37 AM (vFG9F)
*tiredly leans forward, putting forearms on desk*
Is this a Minnesota problem or a Twin Cities problem? Trump lost the state by 4 percent in 2024. Which likely means he won an honest vote. I don't think everyone there went nuts at the same time.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:37 AM (tgvbd)
Black Panthers In Philly Threaten To *Pew, Pew* ICE Agents
The Black Panthers are just a glorified crew.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:38 AM (tgvbd)
So the Black Nationalist Marxists are now going to bat for the Latino and Asian illegals?
OK, I didn't have that on the 2026 Bingo card, but whatever.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 16, 2026 06:33 AM (6ydKt)
Who knew the Panthers were still around more than 60 years later?!!! Well, violent racialism pays even better than I thought.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:38 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:38 AM (x0n13)
Well, the Democrat party is still around after two hundred....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:40 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:34 AM (GK5Hx)
Oh no! Hope you get well and get on your way home soon!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 06:41 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: fd
Some kind of severe back spasm. Been 13 hours now.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:41 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 06:41 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: rickb223"
Ow. I hope you get some relief soon.
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)
Hope they see you soon and can do something for you, rickb.
Last year, my shoulder was hurting so badly that I left church even before Mass started and went to the ER. Luckily it was early Sunday morning and no one was waiting.
In the examining room, they commented on how I was dressed. I replied, "Doesn't everyone come to the ER in a coat and tie?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:44 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F)
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Sounds authentically communist.
Neville Roy Singham, an American born billionaire living in Singapore is one individual identified as funding the anti-ICE protests. The administration might want to black bag that fucker today. The Lincoln carrier strike group is in the area. Seems like an opportunity.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 06:44 AM (U2OZr)
"autonomous collective documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes,"
That's some genuine communist gibberish right there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:46 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:41 AM (GK5Hx)
Had same thing last month. Probably not as severe as you, but everyone once in a while I couldn't move. Urgent care gave me an anti-inflammatory and it went away in a few hours. Hopefully it's something that can be solved by that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 06:46 AM (uQesX)
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The firmest possible sign this 47 year nightmare is to be concluded soon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 06:46 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:48 AM (vFG9F)
But in the world of grants for "Muh Cumyoonity", that's effectively standard practice. The Community Development Project gets 3 million from USAID. They keep half a mil and give the rest to the Development Project for Communities, who then keep their half a mil and give the rest to the Development for Community-ing Projects, who keep their half mil, and give the rest to the Wave Some Signs And Commit All The Arson Fund.
What? Our government is funding the WSSACATA? That's crazy talk. You just hate Communities.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 06:50 AM (06Hmj)
Indeed. We live here and will gladly avoid the 3rd Amendment and house you ICE folks 40 miles out of town where things are Normal.
Posted by: Danimal28 at January 16, 2026 06:51 AM (mNOhh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 06:52 AM (RIvkX)
I don't know how things are these days, but when I lived in the world of academia, if you got a grant for a research project from NSF, DARPA, ARL, whoever, and you took the majority of that grant money and spent it on something else, you'd be in very, very big trouble with a capital F
How much do universities skim off as overhead and does that percentage really reflect the departmental burden on operations? Or is it mostly to fund useless programs?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:53 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 16, 2026 06:54 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: fd at January 16, 2026 06:54 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:54 AM (GK5Hx)
Turns out it was just the seat in my new truck wasn't adjusted well for my several hours a day I had to drive.
There's a chance your problems might just be ergonomic in nature. Car seat, office chair, anywhere you get stuck sitting in a bad position for hours on end, day after day.
Obviously not a diagnosis, just a thing to consider.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 06:56 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 16, 2026 06:56 AM (kmSxS)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:54 AM (GK5Hx)
OK, so it's not your chair then.
Unless your chair is made out of pure oxalic acid crystal.
And you nibble on it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 06:58 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 06:58 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 06:53 AM (tgvbd)
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It used to be about 50%. However, recent government regulations have reduced the cap to 15% can be skimmed off the top by the university for "administrative overhead."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 06:58 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 16, 2026 06:59 AM (x8PQF)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 06:59 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: Chrysler Corporation at January 16, 2026 07:00 AM (W8kN7)
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I worked with a bunch of scientists at a marine research lab. FedGov. They were always scamming educational facilities for grants by having grad-students sign on for a multi-year gig counting plankton or some such crap.
They'd take the money and go to "seminars" in far away places like China, Russia, obscure land-locked, third world shit holes. For discussions on marine life.
In a place 1000 miles from any ocean.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:00 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 16, 2026 07:00 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Just Wondering at January 16, 2026 07:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Unless your chair is made out of pure oxalic acid crystal.
And you nibble on it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
The nurse had just come in. But I hear you. It hit on the 2 hour drive home. Started right after I left work.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 07:01 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:02 AM (tgvbd)
He talks too much in any case. In this case his tongue will have cost innocent lives.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:05 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at January 16, 2026 07:05 AM (n+1Zi)
Kidney stones HURT like a MoFo.
Prayers for relief soon.
Sproinged my back two days ago helping a neighbor install a hanging garage rack, and then move some furniture for a church member.
Pain is beginning to subside, and I can stand up unassisted. But the transition from sitting to standing is painful.
Oh...and 21.9 degrees out.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 16, 2026 07:06 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 07:07 AM (WQDw6)
rickb hope your back issue gets attended to soon and it's got a boring cause and simple remedy.
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 16, 2026 07:08 AM (9AdGW)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 16, 2026 07:09 AM (iMotb)
*picks up baseball bat*
*takes aim at rickb's back*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Had that done in 93 on the left side.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 07:09 AM (GK5Hx)
That's a shame
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 07:07 AM (WQDw6)
"Why did you have real tear gas" they whine as their buddy collapses on the floor blind and choking for air.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 07:10 AM (06Hmj)
Ouch.
Posted by: Urethra Franklin at January 16, 2026 07:05 AM (n+1Zi)
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Especially if yours is narrow
Posted by: Hank Hill at January 16, 2026 07:11 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 16, 2026 07:11 AM (9AdGW)
That's a shame"
Oh no!!
Anyway......
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If it's the first use.... what took them so long?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:11 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo
Dilaudid. But not a lot.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 07:13 AM (GK5Hx)
He talks too much in any case. In this case his tongue will have cost innocent lives.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:05 AM (RIvkX)
I really think he's stuck trying to figure out how to help the situation without looking like he's helping the situation too much.
Any new government will be kneecapped by looking like an externally installed American puppet, so he can't come out swinging for anyone.
Any military action to support the situation directly is going to look like Regime Change Classic, which half of his base is violently allergic to.
Maralogology has rules just like Kremlinology. When Trump speaks definitively, you can usually believe it. When Trump speaks conditionally, going in circles, seeming to contradict what he's doing or says he wants to do, saying things that sound counterintuitive, it's because the world is full of newsface piranhas that he has to distract with nonsense so he can do his job.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 07:15 AM (06Hmj)
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A couple of things:
1. That's not "sneaking." You don't "sneak" away with lights on and sirens blaring. It *might* be "fleeing," but it ain't "sneaking." Sneaking would be unmarked planes with loads of cash and jewels in the hold and mullahs upstairs, flying out as any other flight.
2. Tens of millions of dollars is a lot at retail, but not at wholesale. Somali cash mules were moving this much per month through Minneapolis on their way to more exotic locales. "Tens of millions" is either a mopping up operation (getting the last bits, which are scattered around) or individual action. What's the normal transaction volume? Is the current rate of money movement higher or lower than the pre-crisis baseline, or the early-crisis baseline?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:17 AM (GyQIQ)
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I don't disagree with any of that either.
However, I hear things from the administration about Gaza, about Qatar, and about Iran that are based not on realpolitik but about "art of the deal."
Trump and his people think they can finesse the Arabs and they are wrong.
Posted by: Hank Hill at January 16, 2026 07:18 AM (RIvkX)
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Duh. This is SOP. It's all money laundering. The mistake was being so brazen and stupid about it. But what the writer here fails to realize is that this is what "implementing programs" *means.*
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:19 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:19 AM (RIvkX)
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Wife material, for sure. It must be just great being her kid.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:20 AM (GyQIQ)
ICE is using tear gas in Minneapolis.
That's a shame
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 07:07 AM
I voted for this
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2026 07:20 AM (tljrc)
That's a shame
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 16, 2026 07:07 AM (WQDw6)
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Pretty tame, given the rioting. We're *days* into this thing and they're just now getting to tear gas?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:22 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:22 AM (GyQIQ)
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Yeah! Where's that nosebleed ray they used in Caracas??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:23 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Mr. Freeze at January 16, 2026 07:26 AM (n+1Zi)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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I wondered about that @ #60.
I'm not sure if it was an ICE policy, DHS policy or what... regarding the use if tear gas.
IMO we're way, way past tear gas.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:27 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 07:29 AM (ExV1e)
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I like how “authorities” or the mayor will invoke a curfew usually several days after the mob has reduced the city center to a smoking ruin. Classic
Posted by: Chrysler Corporation at January 16, 2026 07:30 AM (W8kN7)
He needs to rot in a third-world shithole prison amongst his somali peers.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 07:30 AM (BSdIE)
ICE needs to get those water cannon trucks like the Dirty Frogs have. Pull up, hose down the marxists, watch them turn into a block of ice, drive off.
Posted by: Mr. Freeze at January 16, 2026 07:26 AM
endorsed
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 16, 2026 07:30 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Jame Gumb at January 16, 2026 07:33 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:33 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Chrysler Corporation at January 16, 2026 07:30 AM (W8kN7)
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The US has always been oddly tolerant of rioting. It's kind of our thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:34 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:33 AM (gWBY1)
Just a Bing search for Ice Capades
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 16, 2026 07:35 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Rip N Eead at January 16, 2026 07:35 AM (JUson)
I dunno.. seeing him tossed off of a Somali rooftop with the other 'undesirables' because he backed the wrong tribe with his graft would be deeply gratifying.
Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 07:35 AM (koFAO)
Posted by: Rip N Eead at January 16, 2026 07:36 AM (JUson)
"Democrats Dump Jasmine Crockett in Texas Senate Primary, Back Rival James Talarico Instead
Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D) has taken a clear lead over U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) in the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate, according to new polling released Thursday.
The Emerson College Polling / Nexstar Media Group survey shows Talarico ahead by nine points among likely Democrat primary voters, 47 percent to 38 percent, with 15 percent undecided. The winner will face Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in November."
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:36 AM (gWBY1)
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After the 1970s. Prior to that, definitely not.
Posted by: Chrysler Corporation at January 16, 2026 07:36 AM (W8kN7)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:37 AM (gWBY1)
Kudos for bravery in allowing Ben Shapiro to make a fool of you on your own show. Bravo.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)
From my limited research, it appears it has.
But I wonder if this is part of the reason the Act hasn't been implemented. At least not yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:39 AM (U2OZr)
Kudos for bravery in allowing Ben Shapiro to make a fool of you on your own show. Bravo.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)
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Any prominent or effective non-communist who grants an interview to any news organization in the country goes through more hostility and continuous twisting and lying, and does it at least once a week.
Amazing, eh? A communist letting a mainstream conservative podcaster interview him is big news because it's so rare. A non-communist entering the lion's den every day isn't even notable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:40 AM (GyQIQ)
To be fair, Newscum did most of the heavy lifting. Shapiro just pointed the way..
Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 07:40 AM (koFAO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 16, 2026 07:42 AM (HvW4E)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:43 AM (77rzZ)
It is highly agreeable on a cold day to put on clothes warm right out of the dryer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
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One of life's little joys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (GyQIQ)
They're making mid-term ads for the GOP right now. Trump will pull the plug when they have enough footage..
Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 07:46 AM (koFAO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 07:48 AM (k0PcD)
Posted by: the troll's jerksock at January 16, 2026 07:48 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: the troll's jerksock at January 16, 2026 07:48 AM (Q+gd/)
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LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (GyQIQ)
And everyone else including the globalists - emphasis on the republican establishment.
It is only unpredictability for globalists as Trump is openly retreating from the Empire and the establishment really does not like their grift being ripped from them. Take note Bank of England as you are being outfoxed by the minute.
Posted by: Danimal28 at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (mNOhh)
Can't believe Ben put on the kneepads and finally worshipped at the throne of Gav. Gavin dumpsters Ben in this. Like when Ben tried to bring up immigration and sanctuary cities, Newsom just wrecked him on a factual basis.
Newsom did great! He handled Israel and Trans Issues and California bashing very well. Im even more all in on him for President. Ben said "Secretary of Defense" and not "Secretary of War" lol
MF bending over backwards for a washed up pundit I could stuff in a locker. Shapiro is literally Kirk with slightly better decorum.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (ycI94)
"Walking through town is quite scary, It's not very sensible either, A friend of a friend he got beaten, He looked the wrong way at a policeman, Would never have happened to Smeaton, An Old Leodensian
La... la, la, la, la, la
Ah... la, la, la, la, la
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I tried to get to my taxi, The man in a tracksuit attacks me, He said that he saw it before me
And wants to get things a bit gory
Girls scrabble 'round with no clothes on, To borrow a pound for a condom, If it wasn't for chip fat they'd be frozen, They're not very sensible
La... la, la, la, la, la
Ah... la, la, la, la, la
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot
I predict a riot"
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:49 AM (viF8m)
By Matthew Tom,
Homepage editor
Jan 15, 2026.
A 24-year-old man was acquitted of murder in the death of "Grandpa Vicha" Ratanapakdee, who died after being attacked in San Francisco in 2021. Antoine Watson, who was also charged with elder abuse, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and assault. -SFGate
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This is what passes for "justice" in this sh*thole state.
Vicha was a Thai American elder who was killed after being forcefully tackled to the ground in a random daylight attack in San Francisco in 2021.
I used to enjoy walking by his house.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: AliasJonesJones at January 16, 2026 07:51 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at January 16, 2026 07:52 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 07:52 AM (ZkbES)
Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 07:54 AM (+Zbod)
When will the USA decide to think America First !
In last poll 75% of Americans polked against taking Greenland
Trump is a dictator he must be stopped at the mudterms
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Absolutely adorable!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)
Tom Homan was on with Ingraham last night. He was smiling like the Cheshire Cat describing how every arrest they were making was helping them plot the money and leadership flow of these fake riots. He claims they already have a very good idea who is behind all of this and they plan to take appropriate action.
I'm sure it won't be enough for every head on piker but he didn't sound like he was bluffing. I think he wants payback more than we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:54 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 07:55 AM (ZkbES)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (77rzZ)
From my limited research, it appears it has.
But I wonder if this is part of the reason the Act hasn't been implemented. At least not yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 07:39 AM
The democrats want Trump to invoke the act, they are salivating at the thought that he might just commit political suicide for republicans and give the dems a blue wave in november by invoking the act.
Think about it, Trump finally becomes the "imperial" president that they have been claiming he was.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (tgvbd)
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One of life's little joys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 07:45 AM (GyQIQ)
The episode where Kramer learned this joy and started cooking his clothes in Jerry’s oven to get the same effect LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (5MZNC)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 07:54 AM (viF8m)
Why let them know?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (uQesX)
Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 07:58 AM (ZkbES)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (77rzZ)
It will not be Rockford. It will not be fun. It will not be good.
It will show the intellectual barrenness of Hollywood.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 07:58 AM (uQesX)
Background here:
https://tinyurl.com/yc5szwmw
More here:
https://tinyurl.com/3kzm64ye
The second article (which is pro-Somali) says it's being facilitated by an unnamed bank in Minnesota. DataRepublican believes it's a bank that was created by the state, apparently around the time the Somalis started showing up. She can't prove it yet though.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 07:58 AM (UmGiD)
No way Newsome beats a Charlie Kirk, a Carolla, or Ben in a debate. Wonder why he's actually doing this. His ego can't take any pushback that he's not the greatest ever.
Crap, am I gonna have to watch his stupid podcast to see Ben fight him? I don't want to give him eyeballs and sponsor clicks.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:59 AM (gWBY1)
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Three names keep popping up with regards to funding the anti-ICE riots:
Neville Roy Singham
Soros
Reid Hoffman
I would presume the administration has more "than an idea" as to who's funding the riots.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:00 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (uQesX)
Because that's when mistakes are made - it's the panic that is the gift that keeps on giving
Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2026 08:00 AM (BGfwC)
Wholley Kau!
That the first 20 seconds or so of the new Star Trek preview clip made me laugh!
Fat, ugly lesbians, who aren't yet shot in the face by ICE, have you got a show designed for you!
Go watch morons. Just the first 20 seconds and start your day off with your day off with a good laugh.
You're welcome!
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 08:00 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 07:58 AM (UmGiD)
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Boy, I hope this turns out to be true. If Minnesota fraud operators couldn't even find a bank to launder their money and had to open their own to do it, that would speak volumes. If the same folks who hand out credit cards and bank accounts to Mr. No Name Given and facilitate massive remittances of drug money refused to operate Minnesota's scheme, that is pretty damning LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (GyQIQ)
Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.
Any day now one of them will start shrieking about how this never happened to Rey or She-Hulk and it's going to be amazing. The arresting officer may literally die laughing.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (UmGiD)
Trump would rather see his agents get beaten up and gunned down rather than do that. I really believe that Trump only wants to visit America's Wrath on its foreign enemies, and VERY targeted , scalpel vs broadsword.
He probably knows that giving the Left any optics of real seriousness will jeopardize the whole operation - like the GOP doing what they normally do in the face of an Alpha Male taking charge and getting things done - they will urinate in their panties and cling to the safety of the Left's shock troops.
The villain here is Kash Patel. Here he has at his disposal goons who could make arrests like they did to the J6 "rioters". He won't do it, because he doesn't want to do it. He would rather be their BFF than be a leader.
Trump needs a war time consigliere, what he has is a DEI hire in the FBI and a Green Room Queen in DOJ
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (a4flb)
Marco Rubio was a far, far, worse Senator for much longer than he' been a good SoS.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (ExV1e)
The episode where Kramer learned this joy and started cooking his clothes in Jerry’s oven to get the same effect LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM
Or a pizza oven:
https://youtu.be/f9H24AXrXRk
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dawnbringer
>Walz defrauding his constituency and the waterheads of Minnesota, I don't care about. But the American taxpayer on a federal level?
He needs to go down.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (BSdIE)
Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)
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Adam Carolla has been talking a lot about this lately. His theory is simple. Most women have not been socialized in using violence and so are unable to calibrate its use and their reaction to it. Most boys grow up with rough and tumble play, and know their capabilities, limits, and tolerances. Girls do not, and therefore women do not understand violence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)
Sometimes it's the little things that can make you happy Biden is gone.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (ZkbES)
Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2026 08:00 AM (BGfwC)
Your lower level maybe. Seems to me the big guys wouldn't panic, but try to lessen their exposure.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:03 AM (uQesX)
Yeah, no. I've seen this same "allegation" floating around, and just laugh. The hardcore SA gangsters + black panthers? That's a hollyweird fantasy. In real life, they'll be ventilating each other.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR)
They are uncovering billions of dollars of fraud not just in Minnesota but in other Democrat states as well and it appears to be connected. They are surging DOJ assets to MN, OH and other states following the money and building cases.
Do you really think they don't know already? Why do you think they are setting up these riots including having guys like Walz and Frey cheer them on?
The riots are a distraction to keep people from focusing on the corruption. The corruption didn't just funnel huge amounts of money to illegals and Democrat politicians it bought them votes to win elections they never would have won without it.
Biden didn't flood the US with millions of illegals out of compassion. It was all about money and power. This is a lot bigger than just sending Ahmed and Juan home.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 08:05 AM (viF8m)
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No. Just no.
I am sick of all these reboots and "reimaginings".
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 08:05 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 07:56 AM (77rzZ)
It’s so stupid; it won’t work for a whole myriad of reasons, chief among them they can’t get James Garner as the lead, nor Noah Beery Jr and Stuart Margolin as supporting cast. Those actors made the original
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:05 AM (5MZNC)
Also - it's tough to generate much sympathy for, well... chunky women. Who clearly aren't "starving" or "concerned about feeding the kidlets"
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:05 AM (XuXeR)
Hopefully Rockford will be a colored dwarf who is transitioning and living in a lean-to on the street where his dad, Rocky, helps out by panhandling on the corner when not giving blowjobs in the Family Dollar parking lot.
Posted by: TV Land, 2026 at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (n+1Zi)
If true, it would be a laugh riot, if not so serious, if the bank was FDIC insured.
It would be appropriate, having a corrupt and rogue bank being backed up like Silicon Valley Bank with tax payer money.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:03 AM (uQesX)
Also, there is nothing so sweet as the sweat generated from learning that those getting caught are singing like a canary - and that also keeps these folks from just getting out and returning to the criminal flock...
Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (BGfwC)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:01 AM (ExV1e)
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It might be that he found his place. I don't want Rubio as president. I don't think he'd be very good at it. I didn't think so when he ran the first time and as much as I like what Rubio has been doing - and I do, he's been great - I still think so.
I think Rubio is a spectacular SoS and general minister. I would love to see Rubio continue at State, or as a "minister without portfolio" for a pipe-swinging administration. Dude's a stud, but I don't think he'll make a great president. Or, at least, he will be nowhere near as good a president as he is at State and his other hats.
I think similarly, in some ways, of Bush 43. Had Bush 43 been at State instead of in the big chair, things might have worked out better. Bush was not a total retard on foreign policy. He had a perspective I no longer particularly like, but it was also a different time and he was well-suited to that milieu. He just shouldn't have been at the Resolute Desk.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (GyQIQ)
Trump AND you......all of us here at AOS are nazis, cultists, subhuman in the eyes of the left already, hence why they have no apprehension at calling for our deaths and killing some of us like Charlie Kirk. You do comprehend that, right?
Posted by: JROD at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (IlL6s)
I find it hard to imagine myself jumping out of my car and punching someone I didn't know about a policy I didn't like and then giggling about it. I hope I never get that deranged.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (ix8EF)
Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)
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Adam Carolla has been talking a lot about this lately. His theory is simple. Most women have not been socialized in using violence and so are unable to calibrate its use and their reaction to it. Most boys grow up with rough and tumble play, and know their capabilities, limits, and tolerances. Girls do not, and therefore women do not understand violence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)
I blame the prohibition against playing Dodgeball in elementary school. A girl gets nailed by a frozen rope thrown by an athletic boy and everybody notices.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2026 08:07 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 07:59 AM (gWBY1)
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The clip I posted is short and humorous
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)
Sorry, but this is just stupid. Trump's team has ALREADY figured out how it can be done, and has been in the process of doing it for months now. This is back seat driving, when the driver knows exactly where he's going, and you're already halfway there. How BLIND do you have to be not to see it?
Does anybody REALLY think it's some sort of COINCIDENCE that this is happening on Trump's watch, shortly after Trump took out Iran's nuclear facilities? Not to mention the goings-on in Venezuela and elsewhere?
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:07 AM (hOOi9)
Rubio owes Trump an incredible debt of gratitude for wrenching him away from the McCain wing, and washing the stink of it off of him in his first term.. Trump has an eye for talent, and Rubio has yet to disappoint so far.
Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 08:08 AM (koFAO)
I wonder if the regime is restoring order, or if that's just Western shitlib wishcasting.
*shrugs*
Who knows? Everything is fake and ghey.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:08 AM (BI5O2)
Seeing that picture of Walz I had a vision of Walz as the Vargas girl cover of Candy-O. Thx for that image
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (Oql3v)
This. Frankly, I'm amazed at how well Rubio worked out.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (XuXeR)
Neville Roy Singham
Soros
Reid Hoffman
>>I would presume the administration has more "than an idea" as to who's funding the riots.
We've known those names for years. But it wasn't just 3 guys, there are whole networks and a lot of that money came right out of the US Treasury. Soros' NGOs have been getting money from USAID and other sources for years. It's not all his money he's spending, it's ours. Singham gets money and direction from the CCP.
I'd rather they get the while cancer than just what we can see.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)
It's National Fig Newton Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:09 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Boswell at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (BGfwC)
Well, we'll see. I expect very little to happen right away. You can't let it continue without some response.
As for Ahmed and Juan, the man responsible must be punished. I don't care what condition he is in. He must pay. His former boss should receive a late night call telling him to get out of this country or else.
Won't happen, though.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (ix8EF)
But people like their cozy mysteries. The matlock reboot with Cathy bates is doing ok ratings wise.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (gWBY1)
My take on him to date.
His fingerprints look to be all over theory the and implementation of the Donroe Doctrine, making sure the EuroCommies understand they are the tip of the tail and and not the dog, backing our Middle Eastern allies to protect Israel and end the Mullah's reign of terror, and cause the Chicoms geopolitical pause. He is showing he knows how to wield power, is willing to use it and with confidence.
On the domestic front, his years in Congress gave him experience and skills to navigate the DC nonsense. His rhetorical style, while not the bombastic Trump way, is said with steel teeth. Plus he sees to have internalized the principles and exercise of an America First nation. That son of Cuban immigrants learned his lessons well.
During his first run, he wasn't baked yet and it showed. Today, in his current role, he has come to know everybody on the world stage and has demonstrated he gets results strategically and tactically. He is showing he can be a man of consequence whose possess a honed skill set that makes him the best person to carry forward Trump's MAGA revolution. I am becoming increasingly impressed.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (HTCU3)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (WnEm5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)
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"I don't know my strength and I have no way to gauge yours" is a thing. Another and likely bigger part, though, is that they don't know they need to because hitting girls is always considered bad behavior and they rarely - if ever - get an example of direct consequences. When girls hit, they get restrained and removed, not pummeled. The "if I hit you, I might get my ass knocked out and so maybe I should consider if that consequence is worth it" thing is not something they learn.
When girls get hit, it's usually at the hands of another girl and it's something approaching a "fair fight." She messes with her man, so the other woman intervenes. Etc. Not *that* uncommon. But women getting a straight beat-down is extremely rare. That consequence isn't real to them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:11 AM (GyQIQ)
Perhaps they're confused. After all, it works in all the girl boss movies.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)
I see it as a form of ritual human sacrifice. These women are intentionally being brainwashed to get themselves killed. There's probably even a number of virgins among them. Sick, sick, people behind this.
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:11 AM (hOOi9)
Posted by: Mr. Freeze at January 16, 2026 07:26 AM
Flechettes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:12 AM (WnEm5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZHpWH80rKc
My favorite line is "She took the L for the LGBs".
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (UmGiD)
While doing some design work on the computer, ran the pilot of the Rockford Files on another monitor.
A Pilot is supposed to be the episode that convinces the studio to green light a whole season.
• James Garner is Jim Rockford, there can be no other. Full Stop.
• Like anything from the 70s, it was so slow, every scene was dragged out as if they were trying to amortize the time of lugging tons of heavy film equipment to the scene and wanted more than a few quick seconds, but minutes of Los Angeles icon scenery.
• the villains were cartoonish, almost camp.
The nostalgia in every scene was the only thing that kept me interested. Still didn't finish watching the first episode. Too boring.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (a4flb)
Yes, Wrath of Khan was the best of the Star Trek movies. Glad Spouse and Son got some time to bond over that.
And my best wishes to you all for the new year. May it be spectacular.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (gWBY1)
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Even with them, "Murder, She Wrote" was borderline unwatchable. It was a bad show in its prime, but Lansbury made it work. In its own time, it wouldn't have worked without what she brought to it.
Today? With a bluezillion options of what to watch and a move in technology that obviates the entire formula (the Rockford reboot will suffer the same problem)? It's fishing the bottom for something to do. Hollywood is cooked.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:13 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (WnEm5)
I liked her car, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:14 AM (uQesX)
John 1:29
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (B5Sbl)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:11 AM (hOOi9)
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:: lays down $5 bill ::
I'll take the other side of that one. Unless it's a child dragged along by her mom.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (GyQIQ)
Or the oxalic acid!
Posted by: Chip Monck at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (oftw2)
Rubio is blossoming under a strong leader. Can he do that on his own? Don't know. But put him in charge of Cuba, and we can find out.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)
I'll take the other side of that one. Unless it's a child dragged along by her mom.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:15 AM (GyQIQ)
That's a sucker's bet. The kind of women doing this protesting definitely have at least a 2-digit body count.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:17 AM (UmGiD)
Half the citizen of Mogadishu MN will be eating the goats, the other half fucking them.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:17 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (ix8EF)
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Actually, its really missing something.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 16, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)
Well, we can tell you are not a cop.
Top on the call list is Domestic Violence. Far too many women are directly experienced with violence.
I'm glad that you were raised in a household and community where regular beat-downs by the Man Of The House was not featured.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (s0JqF)
*cries in Firebird*
"I liked her car, too."
Had one, too.
*misty eyed again*
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (XuXeR)
But people like their cozy mysteries. The matlock reboot with Cathy bates is doing ok ratings wise.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (gWBY1)
No doubt, most of these sorts of things are like Wicked. Attempts to re-write our culture the way the twisted satanists in Hollywood want it to be. Their puppet masters know what Brietbart knew - that politics is downstream from culture, so they are attempting to usurp American culture.
Note that in Wicked, all the good guys in the story are rewritten as bad guys, and the Wicked Witch - who is named that for a reason - is portrayed as the VICTIM. It became popular, I think, because of great music. The song about "Defying gravity" is clearly about overcoming seeming insurmountable obstacles in life - a great message. But in the movie, it's literally about the evil witch learning to fly her broomstick - as if that's a GOOD thing.
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:19 AM (hOOi9)
And lesbian domestic violence is literally off the charts.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:19 AM (UmGiD)
Half?! They'll ALL do both, it is traditional.. the question is in what order..
Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 16, 2026 08:20 AM (koFAO)
Especially during the supa bowl?
Heh
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:20 AM (XuXeR)
No doubt, most of these sorts of things are like Wicked. Attempts to re-write our culture the way the twisted satanists in Hollywood want it to be. Their puppet masters know what Brietbart knew - that politics is downstream from culture, so they are attempting to usurp American culture.
Note that in Wicked, all the good guys in the story are rewritten as bad guys, and the Wicked Witch - who is named that for a reason - is portrayed as the VICTIM. ...
Posted by: MrExcitement at January 16, 2026 08:19 AM (hOOi9)
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So does that mean Angel Martin will be the real brains of the rebooted show?
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 08:21 AM (s0JqF)
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There's still plenty of money being funneled to my family from the schemes run by my friends across the aisle. Let's not be hasty.
Posted by: GOP Congressman at January 16, 2026 08:21 AM (Dv3i1)
*recalls great theme music*
It's going to be bad. Very bad.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:22 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (77rzZ)
Because they need to hype up their big walkout on Tuesday.
Where students are going to shout "no one is illegal on stolen land!"
Which the media will explain in the way they do "from the river to the sea"
Anyway, there's this mythology, that nonviolent protests always win. That the exploitation of the morality ("you can't hit a woman!") of your opponents (while you have none) can't be countered.
It's going to be amusing when No Kings II fizzles eves sadder than the first ones.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (1EkgP)
Plus, I'd wager many of these women are angry... for whatever reason. Likely under or unemployed. Have no traditional home life.
They'd be drifters if they were male.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (2NHgQ)
It's Schroedinger's Feminism: women are both empowered and hapless victims and they decide which they are for a given situation. See also the movie that tries to explain that it's not Cruella deVille's fault that she likes to skin puppies.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (UmGiD)
I'm glad that you were raised in a household and community where regular beat-downs by the Man Of The House was not featured.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (a4flb)
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DV is also grossly over-reported and one of the most common false reports. Punching a wall - not the woman - is "DV." Yelling can be "DV." DV stats are so padded as to be worthless. And a scuffle or mutual combat - and mutual combat is the most common form - is is not a beat-down.
Which is not to say that it doesn't happen. It does. Wife-beaters exist and aren't all that rare, but they are by no means the norm or the typical experience. Women (in fact, everyone) shouldn't experience arbitrary severe violence, and thankfully most do not.
But even that is a different category. That isn't the case of a woman with no inkling of consequences picking fights with strangers in a street war. If there's one thing that describes all of this shit, it's "no inkling of consequences." There are a staggering number of people who have no clue that consequences exist at all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (GyQIQ)
Them's fighting words. I own the whole series on DVD. It's delightful. But I also have nostalgia of watching it with my mom every Sunday night when it was still on the air.
You have to ignore the idea that all those murders pop up in one little town, which is why I love the theory she's a secret serial killer. Also why they had to move her to NYC to teach, and do glitzy trips around the world, to make her finding a new murder of the week more plausible.
I will admit though, the few eps where they bring her books to life? My least fave. Her books were mid at best. But I adore Angela so I'll forgive them trying to play with the format of the show. Her book titles were great, though. "The corpse danced at midnight" is intriguing.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (PFs9e)
Soros
Reid Hoffman
Too Big to Jail.
Its easier to abduct the "President" of Venezuela than it is to touch any of these guys, given the current composition of the DOJ, the courts and today's sorry excuse for juries.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (b4LBp)
Forecast for Sat PM is... minus something.
Not much rioting goin on
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:25 AM (XuXeR)
*recalls great theme music*
It's going to be bad. Very bad.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:22 AM (XuXeR)
Jimmy! Jimmy! I need some geet, man. I got the perfect mark set up! — Angel
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:25 AM (P/Wjn)
I think it's finally starting to soak in to that miserable clump of neurons he calls a brain that it's just about all over for him.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:25 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 08:23 AM (2NHgQ)
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Never seen Matlock. MSW is not something I think you need to lament having missed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:06 AM (GyQIQ)
Ironic commentary given that, if memory serves, he ran on the idea that he'd basically ignore foreign policy and just do domestic stuff. Until 9/11.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)
They'd be drifters if they were male."
Camp followers...
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (XuXeR)
@JackPosobiec
In October, the Latin Kings put out a bounty on Commander Bovino in Chicago
Now a Latin Kings member was just arrested in MN for stealing FBI weapons
LKs are major partners of the Sinaloa Cartel in the US. They are now targeting the ICE raids. This is all connected
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (NpAcC)
There are basically no women with this kind of medical chart. They simply have no clue how savage fighting a boy or man can be. It's not in their frame of reference, and these NGOs, Soros prosecutors, and their pet policemen and mayors are setting them up in very risky situations they aren't equipped to evaluate rationally. It was only a matter of time til one got pasted.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (BI5O2)
She was killing them. Her accomplice, Karl Malden, was stealing their traveler's checks.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:27 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)
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Yup. And yet, he ended up pushing a fairly comprehensive foreign policy, anchored on the need to pivot away from Europe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:27 AM (GyQIQ)
As long as we're contemplating military action against repressive violent tyrants,, I'd rather see a carrier battle group sail up the Mississippi and conduct operations against Minneapolis.
me as well, but have you seen how low the river is between Memphis and New Orleans? Evidently is is draining itself into a massive aquifer and there isn't anything humans can do at all to stop it. should take about 250-300 years to fill it up.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 16, 2026 08:27 AM (XKSmi)
No. Boring ass rot TV that no one should have had to watch.
Did I ever tell you that Aunt Bee did butt stuff?
Posted by: Zombie Andy Griffith, liberal asshole at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM (n+1Zi)
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.
Hope you get to feeling bette. We have the technology today to help with that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM (u82oZ)
What, you don't see dead bodies around your hood?
Heh
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Enhance the warm glow by spreading Icy Hot in your drawers!
Posted by: Toasty Warm In NC at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (YCxFk)
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FIFY
Posted by: Hollyweird at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Fair point. Then again, he is spending his days in an ongoing master class - he cannot come out of it unchanged. He seems to be learning and internalizing all the right things. The future is unknowable but he seems to know what he is about and what needs to be done better than any other potential 2028 candidates; he sure seems to be two term material. His short coming, and this is true of all potential 2028 candidates, is he lacks Trump's economic mind and Trump's masterfully ruthless ability to manipulate events to achieve his goals. Maybe more to the point, does Rubio have Trump's single minded will power that may be deterred but never derailed?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (HTCU3)
LKs are major partners of the Sinaloa Cartel in the US. They are now targeting the ICE raids. This is all connected
Posted by: redridinghood
At some point we are going to have to start ending people. Our civilian court system isn't set up for this.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 08:30 AM (GK5Hx)
Posted by: Toasty Warm In NC at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (oftw2)
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Enhance the warm glow by putting transuranic elements in your pockets!
Posted by: Atomic Heat For The People, A 501(c)(3) at January 16, 2026 08:30 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)
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Watching Newsom in that clip I am reminded of what a slimeball he is. In his home state, supported as he is there by family and political connections stretching across generations, and wealthy donors like the Gettys, he can be governor, but outside of California I gotta believe he is unelectable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (ZkbES)
Posted by: Zombie Andy Griffith, liberal asshole at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM
***
And that Thelma Lou? What a floozy.
Posted by: Howard Sprague at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
LEOs love to train in Krav Maga. My instructor was the equivalent of a Black Belt in KM and was also a LEO in his real job.
Normally any LEOs in the class would pair up, and on the many occasions there was an odd number, I was the guest sparring opponent - because these guys bring to the floor the violence of the streets and few of the guys could go toe-to-toe with them for an hour.
So there was a mutual respect, and out came the stories, and there was a lot of DV - the real kind, not just punching walls. Maybe they all lied or embellished stories, but they were the most shocking.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Delurker at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (gtcuf)
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I translate this as "a fail guy got arrested after an FBI operation to arm Latin Kings was accidentally exposed."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (BI5O2)
I've seen videos where the woman is on the phone with the police saying that the guy is beating her and she's afraid for her life and he's recording the whole thing on his phone from the 2nd floor.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:24 AM (a4flb)
Absolutely. Singham, for example left this country when he started worrying that he might be called to account. Although his current residence is listed as Singapore, I’ve seen a report that he now spends most of his time in Shanghai, under the personal protection of Chairman Xi.
In case anyone had any doubts about who he is really working for.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:32 AM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
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I have the same reaction when we watch all those British detective shows my bride loves so much. The murder rates in these small villages and towns is through the roof.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (ZkbES)
Wasn't it the cast of The Brady Bunch where what took place between them off camera was far more entertaining than what was broadcast on TV?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (a4flb)
Our Justice system .. is not about Justice.
Two of the three branches of government are disconnected from functioning as designed.
Trump as Cromwell, the a restoration under Baron, first of his name, may be needed. No. No Kings.
But we do need to unleash DOGE and pare down the spending.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (b4LBp)
The two leads in the movies are about as weird as can be, very off putting.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (2NHgQ)
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The Latin Kings won't fizzle out, yo.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
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Why would they? They're salesmen. The salesman never says, "hey, my product is crap."
Posted by: Atomic Heat For The People, A 501(c)(3) at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:10 AM (ix8EF)
I loved the captain's chair on the Romulan bird of prey is upholstered in Fine Corinthian Leather™
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (ZkbES)
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MSW *is* a British detective show. Same concept, same formula. Different accents and a bit less hysterical shrieking.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:35 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:35 AM (YCxFk)
++++
For about 30 or 40 years, the Judiciary Committee has been the prime example of how retarded, venal, rude and sinister these people are.
Go watch Biden interrogating Thomas for retarded malice on full display. It is not better now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:35 AM
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Whippersnapper.
Posted by: The ghost of Strom Thurmond at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (XvL8K)
At some point we are going to have to start ending people. Our civilian court system isn't set up for this.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 08:30 AM (GK5Hx)
*****
Unfortunately, due to severe TDS this country is completely upside down.
Latin Kings member is just a Minnesota man. One of their neighbors.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM (a4flb)
The actor who played the father, Mike, was gay. The actor who played Greg was nailing both his on-screen mother, Carol, and his on-screen sister, Marsha.
Go Greg!
I believe Alice might've been a big ol' lesbo, too, but I'm not certain of that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (IG3/x)
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wait
I thought he had declared war on the Union
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (ZxPkt)
I have poor TV cultural knowledge as a result.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (Oql3v)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (77rzZ)
Soros
Reid Hoffman
Too Big to Jail.
Its easier to abduct the "President" of Venezuela than it is to touch any of these guys, given the current composition of the DOJ, the courts and today's sorry excuse for juries.
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If Singham's in his hometown of Singapore, the Lincoln carrier strike group will literally sail by his home on its way to the Persian Gulf. Probably easier to do a snatch 'n grab with him than Maduro.
It's an opportunity. Nothing more. And I don't really expect the administration to take advantage of it.
But, it's there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (U2OZr)
Lawsuit alleging Krysten Sinema was banging her security detail
I was under the impression she had Sapphic tendencies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (tgvbd)
https://tinyurl.com/4yp3ynyw
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM
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Was that wrong? Should she not have done that?
Posted by: George Costanza at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (ZkbES)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:18 AM (a4flb)
Those are for the children, not for the wife.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (GyQIQ)
Yup. You know you are not watching a British drama if you don't hear a woman screaming like she was being disemboweled with a trench tool, at the sight of a coffee ring on her table, or somesuch trifle.
The overacting by Brits is perplexing for me as an American viewer.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (PFs9e)
That's the way it used to be. Used to be. We know know Griffith was more like his character in A Face in the Crowd and Pray for the Wildcats than TAGS.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:38 AM (U2OZr)
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That would be hilarious. Just grab him en passant and keep moving.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (o2ZRX)
I'm still not entirely convinced that Bill Ayers didn't poison him.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (iXqHn)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (iXqHn)
Violent child abuse is almost always the woman.
Child sexual abuse is virtually always a "boyfriend". While it does happen, it's pretty rare for a biological father to sexually abuse his own kids.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (IG3/x)
They'll get along fine. Both are tribal, and the northern tribes tend to be pretty meek...
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (tgvbd)
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I was under the impression that a - ahem - lady like Sinema just has "tendencies."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 08:39 AM (tgvbd)
I always got the vibe that she was prettty...flexible...in that area.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:42 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:42 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:42 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (8CIFn)
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My namesake's brain would have mush in real life. Dude got knocked out routinely and shot semi-routinely. If the lead poisoning didn't get him, the CTE definitely would have.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (GyQIQ)
No, Ann B Davis, who played Alice on the Brady rich was not a lesbian. Just an unmarried woman and a devout Christian. And here's her testimony from "Faithpot" site:
https://tinyurl.com/2tza5en9
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (PFs9e)
https://tinyurl.com/4yp3ynyw
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM
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Sinema had a "security detail"? Do Senators have security details? Did not know.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (ZkbES)
TGIF
Sure JJ has the story I read this morning, Jeffers ( Marxist).has said he declares war against ICE
Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (12/sY)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (XuXeR)
What was even better was that Angela Lansbury knew and kept up with many people she had known when starting out, and many episodes have guest stars who were well known in Hollywood in the 40’s and 50’s, but who had been forgotten by the public. She delighted in calling them back, and they loved being able to give an encore to their old careers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (YCxFk)
https://tinyurl.com/4yp3ynyw
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (XvL8K)
Cullbrap! It's a woman claiming the senator was with her husband. We know she didn't go that way! Dismissed!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:44 AM (uQesX)
Child sexual abuse is virtually always a "boyfriend". While it does happen, it's pretty rare for a biological father to sexually abuse his own kids.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 08:41 AM (IG3/x)
Not in my case. My father hit me a whole hell of a lot more than he hit his wife. He kicked her out when I was 7 years old, though.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:44 AM (iXqHn)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 16, 2026 08:44 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:37 AM (YCxFk)
I liked Endeavor. My favorite I think was Foyle’s War
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 08:44 AM (OW907)
She saved our bacon
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:46 AM (YCxFk)
Such a huge loss.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (b4LBp)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
Mike Connors was his stage name.
His given name was Krekor Ohanian.
Posted by: Who names their kid Krekor? at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)
There used to be this thing on television called "Prime Time"
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (GyQIQ)
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Burial at sea, with full al Qaeda honors would be a good choice.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (ZkbES)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Thanks, Fen for setting the record straight. I was about to, but you beat me to it.
Posted by: She Was A Gentle Soul at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (RIvkX)
That is the talk of billionaires as leaders. Unfortunately, the entire Congress is staffed with grifters wanting to use their office and their access to money to be billionaires.
I would include We The People, but half are on the take in the form of entitlements, and many people who work are dependent on government graft either as employees or contractors, and a large segment who just pays into the system is buying Powerball tickets.
Hard to find decent Americans who are satisfied in their trades and the station in life God has granted them.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)
We barely ever fought. He did once staple my shirt to back pretty thoroughly, though, so I don't really recommend pissing him off.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Who names their kid Krekor? at January 16, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Try Mladen Sekulovich.
Posted by: Karl Malden at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: JROD at January 16, 2026 08:50 AM (IlL6s)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:50 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (hxusQ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Ad Infinitum at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:50 AM (77rzZ)
And her sister's name?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (uQesX)
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Akcshually it started with me.
Posted by: Aunt Bee who does you know what at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Marion Morrison at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
________
That reminds me of what Michael Gilbert said when asked why he usually used lawyers and detectives as his protagonists. "I always wondered how many murders it would take before hostesses stopped inviting Lord Peter Wimsey to their house parties."
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 08:52 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (NpAcC)
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I had to look away.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)
Even as a small child I knew that hula dancer had it goin' on.
Posted by: Marion Morrison at January 16, 2026 08:54 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (a4flb)
The illustration you chose to lead this morning's Thread with is not consonant with Mr. Walz being one of the exemplars of Modern Masculinity.
Please treat Mr. Walz, along with Mr. Emhoff and Mr. Hogg, as the paragons of Modern Masculinity they so richly are.
#BeBetter
Posted by: (D)emocrats at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (0sNs1)
Stanley Cup champs Florida Panthers visited the White House
they all wore their "Trump Suit", which is dark navy, white shirt, red tie
https://tinyurl.com/mr5dfnx2
goes to Fox
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:55 AM (Oql3v)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:57 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:57 AM (Exs4i)
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But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
Yes, I see.
By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs–
Be quiet!
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 08:58 AM (3AyDK)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (XuXeR)
When the elites start feeling uncertain about their future, the regime will fall. Too much pressure and the coalesce and fight the death. They need to believe they can survive and early quits are better than late.
It’s delicate.
Things to watch - money fleeing, US military power moving, judges and administrators slow walking orders to commit ‘crimes’, defections, disappearances that include family.
Posted by: MJ at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (PDegU)
Bet he gets a monument. Posthumously.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (U2OZr)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:57 AM (Exs4i)
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Nuke the whales! Nuke the whales!
-Antifa
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Yop at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (RKj5x)
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 08:58 AM (3AyDK)
There's some lovely filth over here.
Posted by: Dennis the Peasant at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (GyQIQ)
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Like what?
I am always looking to get cheap credit points suggesting new shows!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (Exs4i)
Posted by: Yop at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (RKj5x)
++++
Usually interchangeable during my adult life. Dunno about before that.
But "NGO" is the biggest misnomer in the history of language.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Zombie Andy Griffith, liberal asshole at January 16, 2026 08:28 AM
***
And that Thelma Lou? What a floozy.
Posted by: Howard Sprague at January 16, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
________
Twenty dollars. Same as in Mount Pilot.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (s0JqF)
Was it Mount Pilot? I always assumed it was Mount Pilate, and wondered why the hell they named a mountain after him.
Posted by: Dennis the Peasant at January 16, 2026 09:01 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 08:48 AM (a4flb)
I hated my job for 35 years but I went to it everyday trying to do my best because I was taught 'even if you are just a ditch digger be the best ditch digger you can be'.
That's the attitude of America that has changed IMO. We've largely become a 'good enough' and envious society at the same time.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ)
I know people who are convinced that Rush Limbaugh was given spiked cigars that gave him lung cancer.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)
Look… look away… I’m hideous! — Cosmo Kramer after a lifetime of smoking in one night
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (ZtAny)
I am always looking to get cheap credit points suggesting new shows!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:00 AM (Exs4i)
++++
I've seen a few episodes of "Doctor Blake" and it struck me as doing the British mystery thing better than most.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: JROD at January 16, 2026 09:03 AM (IlL6s)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 16, 2026 09:03 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 08:51 AM (GyQIQ)
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Not detective but Mr In Between was the best Australian show ever .
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:04 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 09:04 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:05 AM (77rzZ)
sounds like how my husband get a nice lil pacemaker when fairly young.
bradycardia is under diagnosed. low heart rate is good, right?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:05 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ...Juanita Down At The Diner at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (oftw2)
he also had a TV show
I think that was probably half of the training he needed sad to say!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (emBoF)
These are the people I want to be around. I love my gig and have adopted the same ethos as this blog's Ben Had that you will read of my retirement when you read my obituary.
There were gigs where I was NOT happy and left them on the idea that Life Is Too Short To Be Frustrated All The Time.
Most jobs have rough patches and looking at the reward rather than the effort helps push through to completion.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:07 AM (Exs4i)
Posted by: ...Juanita Down At The Diner"
Don't forget there's a little Cafe just the other side of the border...
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:07 AM (XuXeR)
I think that was probably half of the training he needed sad to say!
Why am I thinking of Ronald Reagan?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:07 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:08 AM (a4flb)
I think that was probably half of the training he needed sad to say!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:06 AM (emBoF)
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It is interesting how many people with TV experience are at high levels in the Trump administration.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:08 AM (Exs4i)
More importantly, she gave them needed checks and new acting jobs at a time their pensions or their bank accounts were drying up. She helped save them financially, and introduced them to a new generation. Angela was an absolute mensch of a woman.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 09:10 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:10 AM (b4LBp)
Half the citizen of Mogadishu MN will be eating the goats, the other half fucking them.
Posted by: r hennigantx
It's permissible to fuck goats and other animals, but only if they are immediately slaughtered after the act, and the meat sold to kuffar.
Posted by: Real Muslim Imam's Fatwa at January 16, 2026 09:11 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 16, 2026 08:17 AM (gbOdA)
++++
That's some Silicon Valley-level nonsense right there.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:10 AM (b4LBp)
Weird, isn't it?
Posted by: Las Vegas Golden Knights at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ)
You reminded me I might be due for a rewatch of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries!" Sexy and silly and fun. And I would die to own her house in Melbourne.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 09:13 AM (gWBY1)
The Right's celebrity politicians , - Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:13 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:14 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:15 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (a4flb)
No need for a conspiracy.
Rush was a heavy cigarette smoker for years.
Small cell carcinoma's right in line with that.
Cigars are more of a mouth, lip, and throat cancer kind of thing anyway.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG)
the only ice in Vegas is in the cocktails
Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 09:15 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 09:15 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:16 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 16, 2026 09:16 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Love Good News at January 16, 2026 09:16 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:16 AM (/pgyj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 09:17 AM (Oql3v)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:17 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (iJfKG)
Clown World
@ClownWorld
“I will be blind for life.”
A protester lost his vision after intervening in an ICE arrest.
Maybe trying to stop it wasn’t the right move
https://tinyurl.com/yc2rf8dv
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Oql3v)
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I have the same reaction when we watch all those British detective shows my bride loves so much. The murder rates in these small villages and towns is through the roof.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 08:33 AM
I know, right? Visit an English country house and you're pretty much f*cked.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 . 09:17 AM (Oql3v)
Need the guy there that laid out a half dozen protesters when they confronted him. That was an awesome video no matter what the subject was.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (KDPiq)
Bet he gets a monument. Posthumously.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
A men's urinal with a tampon dispenser next to it?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:19 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: OnPoint at January 16, 2026 09:19 AM (RK/h9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM (U2OZr)
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Probably. They can put it between Fauci's and Jarrett's.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:20 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:20 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 09:21 AM (FMtrg)
*looks at weather forecast*
Nope. Well, there will be ice.
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 09:21 AM (Oql3v)
Posted by: Things To Come at January 16, 2026 09:21 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Serious business that. I worked at a grocery warehouse back in the day where the anhydrous ammonia tanks for the frozen storage leaked. The evacuation was a clusterfuck, the route made no allowances for if, say, the wind was blowing the stuff right across the route...as it did that day.
The tanks were right above the offices. The warehouse folks were OK but several folks in payroll went to the hospital. Place was a bad joke on a number of grounds.
It ain't there anymore.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (NpAcC)
-Antifa
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 08:59 AM
Shave the whales.
- Dogbert
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (kgE5c)
According to Kennedy, these fans simply wanted “the same thing” and were impossible to satisfy if Lucasfilm chose to go in new creative directions.
“The lows are that you’ve got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations,” Kennedy said, adding that she wouldn’t change any of the creative decisions she made while running the studio.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)
https://tinyurl.com/3amdyfxp
(link goes to Legal Insurrection)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (dAH7n)
The tanks were right above the offices. The warehouse folks were OK but several folks in payroll went to the hospital. Place was a bad joke on a number of grounds.
It ain't there anymore.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (OUMaO)
++++
Ugh. What a rotten design that sounds like. Oy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:10 AM (b4LBp)
Weird, isn't it?
Posted by: Las Vegas Golden Knights at January 16, 2026 09:12 AM (uQesX)
Right?
- Anaheim Mighty Ducks
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:20 AM (kgFPv)
I'm flabbergasted that anyone would EVER consider Walz or Harris for national office. And yet I know people who voted for them who can tie their own shoes.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)
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Of course she wouldn't change a thing. She's a malignant narcissist incapable of learning from her mistakes. She's always, ALWAYS right. About everything.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (ESVrU)
Odd, the left tells me that J6 was a violent insurrection because protestors pushed cops. I guess it would be a super violent one if they punched cops?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (sKqQm)
Making an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) expressed his frustration that the Trump administration has failed to refer Anthony Fauci for criminal prosecution for lying to Congress. Paul told Rogan that he believes Fauci's blanket pardon—issued by former President Joe Biden during the waning hours of his presidency—should be challenged in court. Paul said he has provided Attorney General Pam Bondi with evidence that Fauci misled Congress about gain-of-function research and also instructed his deputies to destroy public records in order to stymie scrutiny.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Jonah at January 16, 2026 09:25 AM (YCxFk)
Every incident where "protesters" physically interfere with ICE, they need to arrest at least a few, as a message to the others. The trained "protesters" think they know they can get away with some criminal acts (blocking roads, pushing or shoving, whatever).
They need to be taught that any organized resistance is criminal, accomplished by hauling them off. Not sure, but I think that may be why they need the Insurrection Act in effect, so they can arrest without pleading with cops to stop the rioters.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 09:25 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (dAH7n)++++
"Unless we can undermine the institution of homeownership and seek to provide stability in other ways, I don't know--it's a really difficult organizing situation we find ourselves in."
Remarkably clear, actually. "We have a generally stable system here, but we don't like it because we're revolutionaries - but we acknowledge that stability is bad for the revolution business. The best approach for us is to destabilize the system through artificial external pressure from the top, so that we can re-stabilize it on terms we find more preferable at the expense of those who we destabilized."
Hideous. Evil. But clear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (77rzZ)
Shorter Kathleen Kennedy:
"You bastards wouldn't eat the Dead Rats and Broccoli in Turd Sauce that I cooked up for you!"
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (iJfKG)
Those people consume a very tightly curated narrative about politics. They likely haven't seen a full speech by either, have no idea what either have done in elected office, nor what policies they claimed to support during the election.
I mean you have to stop and consider that in 2020 Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist - which is one of the most serious sins to the left and yet she became his VP and Dems supported both of them...So which is it...is Kamala a liar or is Biden a racist?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (sKqQm)
Hideous. Evil. But clear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM
This guy? He gets it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (RHGPo)
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Prosecute the staffers who destroyed those records. Build the case the old fashioned way, and just start going up the chain.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (dAH7n)
Most people can go home and just tune out everything the left wants them to be upset about. And there is nothing the left can do abut it and it infuriates them
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)
Those people consume a very tightly curated narrative about politics. They likely haven't seen a full speech by either, have no idea what either have done in elected office, nor what policies they claimed to support during the election.
I mean you have to stop and consider that in 2020 Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist - which is one of the most serious sins to the left and yet she became his VP and Dems supported both of them...So which is it...is Kamala a liar or is Biden a racist?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (sKqQm)
________
And. Both are true.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (kgFPv)
"You bastards wouldn't eat the Dead Rats and Broccoli in Turd Sauce that I cooked up for you!"
Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM (iJfKG)
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Smother broccoli in honey-dipped bacon and it's still broccoli.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: SMOD
Leftists always double down. But her stinking reputation will be pointed at for decades as an example of turning an expensive asset into a giant radioactive turd. Which was of course her missions but she cannot say that in public.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM
Really, mon? Crazy, dat.
- Jamaican bobsled team
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)
++++
Nothing we can do about it, eh? You sure about that, bucko?
Posted by: Your County Clerk and Recorder, a revolutionary at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM (GyQIQ)
Somali Subpoenas: Congress moving quickly to investigate cash-in-luggage exodus from U.S. airports
Two powerful committee chairmen in Congress are moving quickly to investigate why Somali immigrant couriers were moving hundreds of millions of dollars out of U.S. airports in their luggage to overseas destinations the last few years, and whether there is any connection to a massive fraud scheme in Minnesota or terror groups in their native country in Africa. “We're going to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of this […] and it will mean subpoenaing these things,” Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Just the News in an interview Thursday.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
I mean yes...we have enough from Biden to establish he is a racist
But...
You can't be an "anti-racist liberal" and support both Harris and Biden. At least not if you believe in a damn thing you claim to...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:28 AM
Yes, but...it's smothered in honey-dipped bacon.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
+++++
The dissonance is loud here.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:26 AM
===============
She reminds me of characters Orwell would have written about.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (dAH7n)
Do they pay the "protestors" extra for extreme weather conditions?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (RHGPo)
"You bastards wouldn't eat the Dead Rats and Broccoli in Turd Sauce that I cooked up for you!"
Sorry Kathleen, I'm allergic to arsenic sauce.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (gWBY1)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)
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Of course she wouldn't change a thing. She's a malignant narcissist incapable of learning from her mistakes. She's always, ALWAYS right. About everything.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:24 AM (ESVrU)
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Like another incompetent woman whose name starts with "K".
Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (emBoF)
you are not wrong
this ICE thing is hell on lesbians apparently
they do already have self-destructive tendencies...
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (emBoF)
Always look for that word "organizing." It's the dead giveaway.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (b4LBp)
- Anaheim Mighty Ducks
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:23 AM (kgFPv)
The California Golden Seals and LA Kings joined the NHL in 1967, as part of the expansion that took the league from 6 teams to 12.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (uEmCf)
Clown World
@ClownWorld
“I will be blind for life.”
A protester lost his vision after intervening in an ICE arrest.
Maybe trying to stop it wasn’t the right move
https://tinyurl.com/yc2rf8dv
Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)
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1. This creep got slugged in the face at the gay bar when he tried to suck off the wrong guy
2. That’s a black eye. He’ll be fine.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (BFX4z)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (Dv3i1)
Always after me Lucky Tampons!
Posted by: Leprechaun-Looking "Guy" at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (dAH7n)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
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The dissonance is loud here.
Congress actually has plenty of power via "the purse" here if they actually did want to use it to get the decision makers fired and the people on the ground that were "just following orders" to have their pay docked...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)
This time the correct people will be in charge so it will be nothing like the last time
Posted by: What the left always says at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (sKqQm)
that's a female
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (emBoF)
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I think it’s male-to-female freak
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (BFX4z)
... trouble in BiPOC-land ?
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:30 AM (dAH7n)
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Orwell was more subtle than this.
She's more like an Ayn Rand villain.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (GyQIQ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Yet cries and breaksdown when her mommy's house is brought into the equation. These are people that rely on others to do the coercing.
Whatever you say about the old Bolshies, they had a core of stone cold killers and tough guys. The new Bolshies have trust funds and figure they will be on top of the lists for the new 'affordable' housing in a rent controlled apartment.
Same for the Chinese, the old hard asses that went on the Long March are about all gone, instead, you get the weakasses that got to the top by being their nepots and not suffering the violence and depredations that their ancestors did.
The new left are mainly people that sucked on the government tit for a long period of time or became fabulously rich via the tech revolution. These folks have to rent loyalty from the plebes which one can see in the MN protests. The POCs and poors aren't out there because no money in it.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (b4LBp)
How the fuck is any appellate court or scotus allowing this shit?
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (kgFPv)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (WDjG6)
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In fairness, this is why their parents fought. Nobody would play king games if they didn't get to hand the future to their kids. The good kings ensure their kids can both continue the work *and* still have a kingdom to rule.
The mediocre kings do one or the other. The bad kings do neither.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:36 AM (GyQIQ)
This time the correct people will be in charge so it will be nothing like the last time
Posted by: What the left always says
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And yet, the Left is a Potemkin village compared to what it used to be. There is no groundswell of the poor pushing revolution; Cloward Piven ironically deprived the left of its footsoldiers which is why they imported a new set abroad. Instead, it is a bunch of hothouse flowers from higher ed and wealth larping at being revolutionaries. And being thoroughly stupid about it.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:37 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Eromero at January 16, 2026 08:34 AM (o2ZRX)
I'm still not entirely convinced that Bill Ayers didn't poison him.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 08:40 AM (iXqHn)
He had heart issues, as did his dad. My wife's friend lost her brother to a heart attack at the age of 43. With no signs of previous heart issues. It does happen.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 16, 2026 09:38 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (WDjG6)
The Left may have overcalculated, their supposed Armies of Street Thugs are starting to see that there's nothing in it for them, no reason to go Gorilla Mode and kill for a bunch of rich white soy-infused trust fund nepots.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:38 AM (uEmCf)
It's just one eye, he should keep protesting. He only has one life to give for his "protest", but he has two eyes, toughen up.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 16, 2026 09:38 AM (5xuJ/)
Still, not long before he died, he made a big deal out of that whole "I won the auction to have dinner with Bill Ayers" thing...
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (uEmCf)
The mediocre kings do one or the other. The bad kings do neither.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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China effectively aborted its future with its one child policy and now they are beginning to pay the piper. And its ruling class is far more interested in stealing everything not nailed down and doing shakedowns of its private firms for additional grift.
The commies in the West are also hot house flowers because they don't understand the psychology of the proletariant anymore. The proletariat don't want to own nothing, instead they are as avaricious as a Wall Street banker. Pay them welfare and they frankly don't give much of a shit about street antics and cosplay revolutionaries. It is the young and educated, often pretty wealthy, that are the enraged footsoldiers of the left. These are people that have been educated beyond their competence and are filled with rage that they don't have positions that they think are commensurate with their bien pensant status.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:42 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:42 AM (WDjG6)
They want to know why they don't get invited to the Eyes Wide Shut Child Rape Orgies.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: XTC
There is a brief but illuminating scene in St. Elmo's Fire movie where one of the characters is a social worker.
A client woman comes in and the social worker is all abuzz about the female client signing up for this or that program to get out of poverty. The woman listens for a bit and then tells her, all I want is my check.
And as she was leaving, the client tells the social worker, something like you outta get out of here, marry a good looking guy, and then you would not have to be dealing with this shit.
Welfare classes are not revolutionary because they don't view life as some means to create ideological utopias. They just want to get paid so they can get back to their own lives in a bit of comfort.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (WDjG6)
Makes it easy for the Dark Police to use their heart attack gun, make it look "normal". But we will probably never know. Same for many others ... Rush, Mike Flynn, ummm I used to remember other names that died too young.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 09:48 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: XTC
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Something like that, they have enormous entitlement issues but they cannot seem to pay the rent, their schooling without massive debt, or for a car. And they think themselves as philosopher kings that should not worry about such mundane activities. That tendency increases as they climb the education scale in degrees. They hate hate hate the successful plumber, the electrician, the shop or factory owner, because they have as much if not more money than them despite not being 'smart'.
Teachers' pets gone wild.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 09:50 AM (WDjG6)
It's crap like this that needs to be punished but men and judges will never put these officials on trial or punish them for the theft of a country's wealth.
Posted by: Joe at January 16, 2026 09:57 AM (Uy/WF)
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 16, 2026 10:00 AM (b4LBp)
Posted by: JoshO at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (xL2KH)
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Friday’s action is being cast as a one-time emergency intervention into the PJM market, necessary because of the rapid rise in electricity prices in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The latest PJM auction for Pennsylvania came up 65 MW short so I have no idea how they will supply the three different data center proposals immediately surround the Limerick Nuclear Plant outside Philadelphia.
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:32 AM (RHGPo)
Bragging about $4.00-$5.00 gas when the national average is $2.84 is peak Newsom
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:46 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM
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And despite being frequently taken for granted by Barney, Thelma Lou seemed much more pleasant than Helen Crump who had a sour personality and was always kvetching about something. Maybe Aneta Corsaut was just pissed off that Andy cheated on his wives with her but never left them.
Posted by: Bigsmith at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (1Au9i)
Theodore Dalrymple ( https://archive.is/WBcUY ):
"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
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