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Good morning horde!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e) 2
Thirsty Thursday
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA) 3
Tech thread alerted.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e) 4
Greetings and good morning, everyone! It's a beautiful morning at the GPROMD and we're getting used to having people back in the office. Next week is going to be a short week so I admit that I'm getting impatient for it to get here.
And now for the articles... Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM (RjOoY) 5
ESPONJA!!1!1!1!!1 Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM (tljrc) 6
What if you asked AI to design an AI?
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F) 7
What if you asked AI to design an AI?
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM Then you get judgement day. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (0N4FZ) 8
Woohoo! Stand by for news!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (Cjt/F) 9
Mooornin!
Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (/Ohqa) 10
give AI the “authority to determine the rights that belong to individuals and families, including rights related to speech, religious practices, government authority, and property”
I need to know how SkyNet gets built. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA) 11
"Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection."
Just when I thought I could not despise these people even more. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F) 12
Dirty Judge Dabney L. Friedrich rules Trump may not clean the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (hw2RI) 13
Yonder Horde
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (NwnyJ) 14
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (Zz0t1) 15
... set alight like a sleeping passenger on a NYC and now a Chicago subway train.
The perpetrator was reportedly a man (wow, assume much) around 45. So... witnesses were able to guess his age but not his race? Odd, that. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e) 16
BREAKING - Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (hw2RI) 17
Sad thing is, there's very little I in AI.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (Zz0t1) 18
>>>Because it was they who begat this insanity, and if only they had indeed died before they got old
--- Well, good morning. What A Load of Pessimism. What A Way to Start the Day. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (743lG) 19
Forgot about that commie f*ck in the image. Has he been strung up a flag pole by his feet and disemboweled yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (Zz0t1) 20
Not that I would wish that to happen, mind you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (Zz0t1) 21
BREAKING - Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (hw2RI) Breaking? No one knew that? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (Zz0t1) 22
Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests including 10 felonies was just arrested for lighting a woman on fire on the train in Chicago. He allegedlyshouted “Burn alive b****!” as he doused her in gasoline
We shouldn’t have to live like this Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (hw2RI) 23
Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions.
So inflexible cults like climate-change orthodoxy, DEI, and Trump Derangement Syndrome make their adherents look utterly ridiculous. I would not send a Knight out in a dogma like this. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA) 24
> in which they called on troops to refuse to carry out what they consider to be President Donald Trump’s “illegal” orders.
----- they never said outright that Trump's orders were or are illegal. It was done in an unspoken 'nudge nudge wink wink' kind of way, so they can claim plausible deniability. The video was definitely vetted by DNC lawyers. IMO tell me I'm wrong line forms to the right Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (AOsQT) 25
It is to weep. But here we are, and we cannot know the future. Perhaps Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk weren't one-offs. Only time will tell.
The problem with today's yoots is that they live in a microwave and tiktok world. They expected all problems to be completely solved by noon on January 21st. We have 29 year olds like that in the comments. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e) 26
Danish farmers are not backing away from the use of manure sprayers despite the government mandate.
Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (vFG9F) 27
>>>“Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.”
About that peaceful divorce . . . . Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (dK+Kv) 28
Unlike others of "my generation" I was raised with a respect for and a trust of our military.
I got this.......... https://youtu.be/uswXI4fDYrM Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:41 AM (Zz0t1) 29
What if you asked AI to design an AI?
What do you mean by AI? AI is a marketing brand now to sell the idea of large data centers or CPU cycle stealing spell-checks and screen scrapers. It can mean as much or as little as the human imagination can conjure up. Do you mean search engine? Spelling and Grammar check? Image or Music mosaic generator? Machine Learning? (which too is an older marketing term for pattern matching and feature discovery) I'm pretty sure that the "AI" that fixes your business correspondence or converts your school year book photos into pr0n isn't the same design framework that navigates a FSD Tesla through traffic. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:41 AM (PVBkQ) 30
Then you get judgement day. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (0N4FZ) Dogs and cats, living together. MASS HYSTERIA!!!! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (Zz0t1) 31
>>>with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: SMOD -- I like the way he not only paid off Congressperson Plaskett but was feeding her questions while she was taking testimony. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (743lG) 32
16 In addition to campaign contributions, Bill Clinton received valuable coupons.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (gm9Sb) 33
> “Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.”
----------- Between this, and the judicial coup under way you have to wonder why the DoJ, or their minions, aren't plucking judges and members of Congress off the streets for a little chat. Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (NwnyJ) Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at November 20, 2025 07:42 AM (vFG9F) Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ) 36
>>>I'm pretty sure that the "AI" that fixes your business correspondence or converts your school year book photos into pr0n isn't the same design framework that navigates a FSD Tesla through traffic.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure ---------- That would be a hoot. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:44 AM (743lG) 37
"IMO
tell me I'm wrong line forms to the right Posted by: Don Black" You are correct. They are as slimy as a frog in Diddy's bathtub. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:44 AM (vFG9F) 38
The problem with today's yoots is that they live in a microwave and tiktok world. They expected all problems to be completely solved by noon on January 21st.
We have 29 year olds like that in the comments. I'm like the total opposite. Example: Data centers and EV charging need twice the current US grid capacity. Oh. We're fucked. That ain't happening in anyone's lifetime. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (+4Cf6) 39
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Between this, and the judicial coup under way you have to wonder why the DoJ, or their minions, aren't plucking judges and members of Congress off the streets for a little chat. Posted by: Martini Farmer ----------- Tom Homan to head DoJ. He gets the job done. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (743lG) Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F) 41
When they aren't replacing workers with H1Bs they are shipping jobs to Mexico now.
A surprising number of customer service jobs are being outsourced to Mexico now. What was that saying of Ross Perot, something about a giant sucking sound. Trump needs to slap a 25 pct remittance tax on all wire transfers to Mexico and SA. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (XV/Pl) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (DDJSl) 43
No, wait. 6-7.
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F) 44
WARNING
Please make sure when you leave the ATM or come out of the bank you do not go directly home or to a business. Drive thru a MickeyDs and if the car right behind you pulls into the same, you might be followed for a jugging (armed robbery). Here in H Town we have people with 30+ prior out on the streets. And the new thing is to get yo mama to rent a rent a wreck so you cant be traced. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (gbOdA) 45
Something huge is happening in Iran, although most westerners will be slow to see the significance.
The current Iranian government is moving the capital from Tehran, because of the water crisis. This makes rebellion not just likely, but inevitable. They’ve just admitted to everyone that they’re incapable of governing their most important city. And even the most devout Islamist will now have to admit that Allah has cursed them. Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (/ZNPI) 46
Headlines we'd like to see
May it happen As You Wish. I would add, confiscate their wealth to pay down the debt. Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ) 47
Oh. We're fucked. That ain't happening in anyone's lifetime. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure ----------- It's a done deal in the next 5 years. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (743lG) 48
A woman is literally burning alive on a train carriage, screaming in agony, and grown adults just stand there filming or walking past like it’s a TikTok trend.
This isn’t “bystander effect” anymore—this is a complete collapse of basic humanity. You had ONE job as a human being: help someone who is dying in front of you. You failed. Cowardice dressed as “mind your own business” culture killed her just as much as the fire did. If you see someone being set on fire and your first instinct is to pull out your phone instead of a fire extinguisher, water bottle, jacket—anything—you don’t deserve to call yourself a civilized society. Disgusted doesn’t even begin to cover it. Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (hw2RI) 49
they never said outright that Trump's orders were or are illegal. It was done in an unspoken 'nudge nudge wink wink' kind of way, so they can claim plausible deniability. The video was definitely vetted by DNC lawyers.
Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 07:40 AM (AOsQT) "Orders" includes legal and illegal, which makes a worse case for them, not better. Let them defend their insurrection in court, after a long period of pretrial confinement, as is tradition. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (dK+Kv) Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (Y1sOo) 51
40 What do you mean by AI? 42. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F) 42 *hic* Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 20, 2025 07:46 AM (DDJSl) Timing is everything. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (Zz0t1) 52
saw this last night, if no one mentioned it:
MIAMI (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract, federal prosecutors said. A portion of the money was then funneled to support her campaign through candidate contributions, prosecutors allege. Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 20, 2025 07:47 AM (CWTWj) Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:48 AM (u82oZ) 54
Cadet in top picture needs to pay Uncle Sam for his education. And resign, of course.
Posted by: Eromero at November 20, 2025 07:48 AM (i+bC1) 55
"Something huge is happening in Iran"
I'll say! "Iran Suffers Flash Flooding After Cloud-Seeding to Combat Drought" Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:48 AM (vFG9F) 56
"...you have to wonder why the DoJ, or their minions, aren't plucking judges and members of Congress off the streets for a little chat"
Because it's too hard for me to get out of the Fox News green room! Posted by: Pam The Blondie at November 20, 2025 07:49 AM (XQo4F) 57
Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democrats and so-called “progressive” causes
The Deuce you say! Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 07:49 AM (hoi0O) 58
Eromero
I believe he was eventually forced out, but not made to repay his education. IIANM, it was a years long struggle. A clear sign of rot. Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (u82oZ) 59
Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests including 10 felonies was just arrested for lighting a woman on fire on the train in Chicago. He allegedlyshouted “Burn alive b****!” as he doused her in gasoline
We shouldn’t have to live like this Yes, yes we do and will to atone for all the crimes committed by The Man in the past, now and in the future. America's roasting chickens have come home to roost. Posted by: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obongos Pastor at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (t5X2c) 60
What's a Plaskett?
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (XQo4F) 61
Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.
Interesting that this is no different than scam artist Sam Bankman-Fraud's little FTX scheme. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (BvPIe) 62
The proper procedure would have been to bring in bulldozers to dig up a perimeter around the fire to assure it was really out instead of smoldering under ash or vegetation.
But current reports are that calls to use a bulldozer were rejected because of protected plants. Bulldozers we dont need no stinkin bulldozers. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA) 63
Example: Data centers and EV charging need twice the current US grid capacity.
Oh. We're fucked. That ain't happening in anyone's lifetime. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:45 AM (+4Cf6) Yeah... folks talking about building nuclear power plants (as is right and proper) but no one is discussing building transmission lines or factories to churn out hundreds of thousands of transformers. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:51 AM (ExV1e) 64
>> 36% of likely voters aged 18-39 said they would support a proposal that would give AI the “authority to determine the rights that belong to individuals and families, including rights related to speech, religious practices, government authority, and property”
Thank you JJ Who on Gods green earth is making this insane “proposal”?? Who would poison the well of ideas with that?? It’s almost like someone is just trolling… Did no one watch The Terminator and internalize some suspicion of Skynet? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 07:52 AM (v/5Y9) 65
What's a Plaskett? Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM twenty dollars same as in town Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 07:52 AM (tljrc) 66
Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state that plans to deploy up to 12 small modular reactors, with an initial phase of four reactors. This project, known as the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, aims to generate carbon-free electricity to support Amazon's growing energy needs,
Twelve right now being built by Bezos. All the other tech heads are doing build outs. With the engineers and money they have nuclear reactor technology will leap frog and miniaturize. Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:52 AM (743lG) 67
Gen X voted for Trump. Pray for Gen Z.
The Boomers are dying off, as is natural and just. (I am 70, it's okay. I am not a Commie) Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 07:53 AM (W7XSX) 68
Cadet in top picture needs to pay Uncle Sam for his education. And resign, of course.
Posted by: Eromero at November 20, 2025 07:48 AM (i+bC1) IIRC, he was discharged with something less than Honorable. Don't know about repayment. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 07:54 AM (W7XSX) 70
"...you have to wonder why the DoJ, or their minions, aren't plucking judges and members of Congress off the streets for a little chat"
If when you say "minions" you mean hard Guido looking sociopaths and "plucking" you mean "hoods and vans" and by "little chat" you mean blow torches, drill bits and pliers, then I would say you would be making progress. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:54 AM (nAS9C) 71
You know who knows all about small nuclear reactors?
The U.S. Navy. So simple a teenager can operate it! Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (nAS9C) 72
12 Dirty Judge Dabney L. Friedrich rules Trump may not clean the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (hw2RI) I hate to say anything positive about these judges, but the problem wasn’t cleaning - the problem is that the administration wanted to paint the grey granite building white. I’m sorry, but painting granite is an Abomination before God. Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (/ZNPI) 73
they can take quite a few of the Baby Boomers to whom Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey were referring, with them straight to Hell. Because it was they who begat this insanity,
________ Not really. I am a Boomer, and I saw, even at the time, that we were not the world-changing revolutionaries my fellow Boomers said we were, but just sheep. Teachers' pets, following what we were told. The ones who begat this were our teachers. My father utterly despised being called "the greatest generation", and was fond of saying "not the greatest at raising kids." They overly trusted the established powers, and turned us over to state schools to be indoctrinated. And we, like sheep, followed along. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (s0JqF) 74
If you have a nuclear reactor near your data center, you don't need much in the way of transformers and transmission lines.
Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (W7XSX) 75
"Iran Suffers Flash Flooding After Cloud-Seeding to Combat Drought" Posted by: fd --- Damn. - No. Dam. If they had built dams and reservoirs there wouldn't be destructive flooding but there would be an ample water supply. But...allahahaha provides. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:56 AM (743lG) 76
Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features.
——- Electricity too cheap to meter!! Posted by: Zombie Strauss AEC at November 20, 2025 07:56 AM (hoi0O) 77
The West Point graduate, who last year (2017) posed in a picture holding a cap that had “Communism will win” written inside, is officially out of the U.S. Army with an other-than-honorable discharge.
Spenser Rapone rocked the military community last year after his social media posts were revealed, showing him wearing a Che Guevara shirt underneath his military uniform. He is no longer part of the U.S. military after top brass at Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division accepted his resignation Monday after an earlier warning for “conduct unbecoming of an officer.” He’s leaving the military with an other-than-honorable discharge. Army officials condemned the cadet last year and opened an investigation into his social media activity. “Second Lieutenant Rapone’s actions in no way reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army,” an Army statement read. Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 07:57 AM (hw2RI) 78
Spenser Rapone. The very fact that we have not escorted him out of a helicopter for a game of Screaming Lawn Darts points out a flaw in our legal system.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:57 AM (RjOoY) 79
> Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm.
---------- People are beginning to realize the folly of spinning windmills and solar panels. There is absolutely nothing "free" or "green" with those technologies and they've failed to live up to the public's expectations. I seriously doubt we've seen the last of this however. Once the left regains the levers of power we'll go straight back to it. Forcibly, if necessary. Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 07:58 AM (NwnyJ) 80
Small nuclear reactors are a great idea. But the War in Ukraine is destroying transformers in there and in Russia. Plus Cuba needs a whole lot, with all their power failures.
Wait times are years. Time to go long on the very few manufacturers like Siemens? Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ) 81
Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm.
We can't even get the f'ing pot holes in the streets fixed in five years. There will have to be a much need Come To Jesus moment for hundreds of millions of people for what you dream to happen. Maybe some more weeks without power in freezing temperatures would persuade some. The problem I see is that the Party Members are isolated from mass blackouts and complete halts in commerce and will blame it all on the nearest Republican. Blaming someone doesn't turn the power back on. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:58 AM (nAS9C) 82
Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state that plans to deploy up to 12 small modular reactors, with an initial phase of four reactors. This project, known as the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, aims to generate carbon-free electricity to support Amazon's growing energy needs,
Twelve right now being built by Bezos. All the other tech heads are doing build outs. With the engineers and money they have nuclear reactor technology will leap frog and miniaturize. Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:52 AM (743lG) I reckon that a whole lot of people don't know... - what "small modular reactor" means - how power gets from "small modular reactor" to neighborhood - what will happen to the inevitable waste from the "small modular reactor" - who will operate the "small modular reactor" Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e) 83
"Well, good morning.
What A Load of Pessimism. What A Way to Start the Day." A better way is to start with a Rosary and then come here. "...with great confidence, submit to Your holy will, which is love and mercy itself." - Divine Mercy chaplet. Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 07:59 AM (W7XSX) 84
It's tiresome hearing other people being blamed. We're here now. It is our world and up to us to deal with it. Blaming the other is an excuse for current incompetence.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 07:59 AM (743lG) 85
Sedition? Six Congressional Democrats Urge US Troops to Defy Orders From Trump
______ Note that that group is made up of Democrat "moderates". I know others disagree, but IMO a national divorce is the only hope. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (s0JqF) 86
This is the dumbest whirled I've ever seen.
It hurts my brain to look in an̈y direction. Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (WQDw6) 87
And we, like sheep, followed along.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 07:55 AM (s0JqF) All we like sheep have gone astray… — Isaiah 53 My favorite most beautiful chapter in all of the Bible…. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (ZiaCc) 88
So simple a teenager can operate it!
——- Yep. The SL-1 reactor explosion near Arco bears witness to this. Posted by: Zombie Strauss AEC at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (hoi0O) 89
Have a great day, everyone.
May you all have have a day that heals your soul. A date that heals your soul was an A/I addition, but that works too. Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:01 AM (743lG) 91
>I hate to say anything positive about these judges, but the problem wasn’t cleaning - the problem is that the administration wanted to paint the grey granite building white.
---- this was not mentioned in previous reports I have seen that building from the sidewalk, and it is pretty impressive sight painting it white is something you do to your split level ranch out in the suburbs really sets off your azaleas Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 08:01 AM (AOsQT) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (743lG) 93
The story at Daily Mail about the female staffer (yes, she's fairly attractive) of a GOP congressman who concocted a hoax about being abducted and zip-tied is wild.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (Y1sOo) 94
They're already messing around with fission, I think. The one where they create a small black hole and contain it.
Imagine what happens when THAT fails........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (Zz0t1) 95
The amount of “waste” from a Small Nuclear Reactor is going to amount to about 1 or 2 trash cans full every 30 years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (/ZNPI) 96
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-0
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (hw2RI) 97
" Five years from now small reactors will be new neighborhood features. No more blackouts in the storm."
### Heard that five years ago. And five years before that. And five years before that. Posted by: Now do climate change at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (XQo4F) 98
Wait times are years. Time to go long on the very few manufacturers like Siemens?
There are companies in the US that want to make transformers. The problem is that regulations prohibit the economical manufacture of them, and, according to an industry expert, making transformers is a hard job and finding anyone who is willing to work hard is damned near impossible. Yeah, you can pay people more, but that just gives greater pressure on illegal aliens or continuing to offshore the manufacture. Beyond labor, the US doesn't have the supply chain to even build transformers at scale. Metal is heavy, our industries are shuttered and the rail lines connecting coal and iron have been converted into hike and bike trails. It would have to be neighborhood reactors, and I promise you that Party Members will be served first, and then BIPOC neighborhoods second. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:03 AM (WCaCG) 99
I would like a coffee cup that never cools off. A small chunk of non-fissionable material embedded theirein, spent fuel rod waste, I’m not picky whatever it takes. Maybe a “dial a yield” feature. Would save those arduous treks back to the microwave oven
Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 08:03 AM (hoi0O) 100
Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests including 10 felonies was just arrested for lighting a woman on fire on the train in Chicago. He allegedlyshouted “Burn alive b****!” as he doused her in gasoline
-- In my world, his punishment would be getting doused in gasoline and lit on fire while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch." Bet if that sort of thing was meted out, this wouldn't happen. Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2025 08:03 AM (qBdHI) 101
Victor Davis Hanson: The Embarrassments of Ideology
The problem with a party line is that it is deductive, not inductive. Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions. ________ Do those words, as he uses them, mean anything whatsoever? I have no idea what he's trying to say there. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:04 AM (s0JqF) 102
It's one of those famous Commie "5 Year Plans."
Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 08:04 AM (W7XSX) 103
That fucking dick every refresh makes one puke.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (743lG) Some ladies just cannot handle, how you say, girth. Posted by: The Paolo at November 20, 2025 08:04 AM (Zz0t1) 104
The story at Daily Mail about the female staffer (yes, she's fairly attractive) of a GOP congressman who concocted a hoax about being abducted and zip-tied is wild.
Can't wait for the Netflix version. (sigh) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:05 AM (xE0sV) 105
In my world, his punishment would be getting doused in gasoline and lit on fire while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch."
Bet if that sort of thing was meted out, this wouldn't happen. Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2025 08:03 AM (qBdHI) Its in times like these, do unto others should really take hold. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:05 AM (Zz0t1) 106
Unknown Drip Under Pressure
Thank you for that data. FWIW, concentrating the few in the Inner Party in small, powered, well-defended enclaves while turning a high trust nation into Mad Max, will not work. Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ) 107
Why does it burn when I pee?
Posted by: Hackcream Jeffries at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (/W0r4) 108
>>>Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state
Bezos gone fission Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (Y1sOo) 109
I reckon that a whole lot of people don't know...
- what "small modular reactor" means Posted by: I used to have a different nic ---------------------- You have no idea what it will be in five years and only pessimism in its innovation. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (743lG) 110
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Her district covers most of the Black-majority areas in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. A member of the Democratic Party, she won a special election in 2022 to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Alcee Hastings. Hahaha...you can't make this shit up. Posted by: Been Stealing Since at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (t5X2c) 111
“ Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.”
Deutoronomy 7:9 Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (uZytX) 112
Could an AI be worse than the current group of degenerate retards running most of the country?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (A+beY) 113
"Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection."
Just when I thought I could not despise these people even more. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F) I'm not sure they're calling directly for insurrection. The Dims are too cowardly to do that. This more like the Democrat speeches designed to encourage someone else to assassinate Trump. They Democrats are hoping the members of the military are exactly as stupid as the Democrats believe they are and will act on their own or upset Trump so much that he creates "martyrs". Notice they only talk about refusing "illegal orders" in these perilous times or some such thing. The Democrats are simply horrible a-holes who deserve to be dipped in shit, covered in flies, and banished to North Korea. Posted by: naturalfake at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (iJfKG) 114
In my world, his punishment would be getting doused in gasoline and lit on fire while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch."
I'm not sure I want to live in a neighborhood that is populate with people excited to see people set on fire. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:07 AM (xE0sV) 115
Can't wait for the Netflix version. (sigh) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:05 AM (xE0sV) Are the Owebama's still on the board? The movie will have Donald Trump and family attacking and gang raping the girl causing mental issues leading to her false accusations. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:07 AM (Zz0t1) 116
Her district covers most of the Black-majority areas in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. A member of the Democratic Party, she won a special election in 2022 to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Alcee Hastings.
Hahaha...you can't make this shit up. Posted by: Been Stealing Since at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (t5X2c) But that gerrymandering isn't based on skin color, you see. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:08 AM (Zz0t1) 117
Well well...
So, it's been .. how long, 'xactly since the new administration moved in, and I'm still waiting for record high food prices record high egg prices $6/gal reg. gas empty shelves 25% unemployment Hmmm. Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:09 AM (XuXeR) 118
An embarrassing number of years ago when I was in college… as an engineering major I had to take a technical writing class. One assignment, we had to research some topic and write a paper arguing for some technical approach to some problem. I chose the problem of nuclear waste disposal. My proposed solution: the very stable sandstone formations of Yucca Mountain (in Nevada) are an ideal place to store the waste…. Do they use that place yet?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:09 AM (5MZNC) 119
Heard that five years ago.
And five years before that. And five years before that. Posted by: Now do climate change at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (XQo4F) The difference is that 5 years ago, people like Gates and Bezos thought their needs were met, and they could control populations through the side effects of NetZero policies. Today they realize that their AI and server farm needs are going to require a vast expansion of grid capacity, and nothing except nuclear can get them there. And if not for all the enviro nuttery, we’ve had the tech to go small nuclear ever since the first reactor was installed on an aircraft carrier. Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:10 AM (/ZNPI) 120
Meh. AI is only as good, fair, just, equitable, and wise as its programming. Who is currently controlling AI's programming? You really want these a-holes controlling your life through an "infallible computer"? Posted by: naturalfake at November 20, 2025 08:10 AM (iJfKG) 121
> Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state
--------- I get that WA is "home" to Amazon. But the push-back on this from the green wackos there is sure to take time, and a lot of money to iron out before one cubic yard of concrete is poured. Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 08:10 AM (NwnyJ) 122
I'm not sure I want to live in a neighborhood that is populate with people excited to see people set on fire."
So, you honkys ain't moving close, huh? /Winnie "Michelin Man" Mandela Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:11 AM (XuXeR) 123
I'm not sure I want to live in a neighborhood that is populate with people excited to see people set on fire.
-- Unknown, I didn't say I wanted to see it in a literal sense. It's pretty clear I meant this kind of (rising) insanity would stop if the perpetrators of such horrific crimes were given a dose of their own medicine. This is a guy who was arrested almost 50 times prior. He was obviously not too worried about consequences. Maybe it's time he was. Posted by: Lady in Black at November 20, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI) 124
Thankfully the Chicago Feds, stepped in and the charges federal on the Chicago fire guy. Terrorism on public transit
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:11 AM (YCxFk) 125
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Accused Of Sending Porn To Teen As Evidence Emerges In Smuggling Case
Why is he wasting air in my country? Last I heard, there was an African nation willing to take in the Most Dangerous Maryland Man in the World.™ Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (RjOoY) 126
Do they care anymore that they're looking "absurd"? Does the culture, by and large, even understand what "absurd" means anymore, or the ramifications of political absurdity to reality? At some point -- and it feels as if we're very close to that point -- the calculations of a presumed civilizational rationality and shared belief in an equilibrium of sanity, vanishes into the crazed vortex of revolution., insurrection, whatever power-driven madness you want to call it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (t+TFX) 127
Poll: 4 In 5 Americans Are ‘Concerned’ About Silicon Valley’s Unregulated Embryo-Screening Scheme
_______ As they should be. But this is another issue where many on the right, and especially among the pundits, don't want to be associated with those icky Christianists. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (s0JqF) 128
Sedition? Six Congressional Democrats Urge US Troops to Defy Orders From Trump
That Rage Bait? You fell for it? Those tools implanted the idea into every viewer's head that Trump's orders are often illegal/unlawful. There is zero evidence that CiC orders are anything but lawful. They got away with making people think that Trump is lawless and gives greater voice to the narrative that Trump is a reckless dictator that will cause the whole world to burn. Turn Off Propaganda. Turn On Brain. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (BvPIe) 129
Could an AI be worse than the current group of degenerate retards running most of the country?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (A+beY) I would ask how you hold AI accountable, but our current elected representatives aren't held accountable, so would we really even notice? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:12 AM (Zz0t1) 130
Thankfully the Chicago Feds, stepped in and the charges federal on the Chicago fire guy. Terrorism on public transit
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:11 AM (YCxFk) I'm sure the woman he set on fire is happy to hear that. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:13 AM (Zz0t1) 131
Small nuclear reactors are a great idea.
They are, but... Nuclear reactors don't produce electricity, they produce heat. Which means that you need to have all the infrastructure to turn that heat into something useful. And trained operators to run that infrastructure. And trained operators to ensure the safe operation of the reactor. And, and, and... And none of that stuff is being worked on at industrial scale. The people selling you Elysium are not being honest. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e) 132
Skynet is Skynet.
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:14 AM (YCxFk) 133
they never said outright that Trump's orders were or are illegal. It was done in an unspoken 'nudge nudge wink wink' kind of way, so they can claim plausible deniability.
Posted by: Don Black Oh, who will rid me of this troublesome priest? Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 20, 2025 08:14 AM (cxFcK) 134
In my world, his punishment would be getting doused in gasoline and lit on fire while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch."
I'm not sure I want to live in a neighborhood that is populate with people excited to see people set on fire. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure I dont see it that way. Way back in the day, public hangings served a purpose to deter. People were not happy (for the most part) to see a public hanging. Many prayed for the sole of the soon to be executed. As a 10 year old seeing someone hanged for horse thievery has to have an effect towards future action or thoughts. IMHO Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 20, 2025 08:15 AM (FxH7T) 135
Sponge. The train she was on is the blue line that goes the loop to Ohare. Usually pretty safe
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:15 AM (YCxFk) 136
Yep. The SL-1 reactor explosion near Arco bears witness to this.
Posted by: Zombie Strauss AEC at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (hoi0O) You mean the last time the Army was permitted to operate a nuclear reactor? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e) 137
So I flip on a Clip of Bill Maher talking with Oswalt Patton and Bill brings up the Muslim Groom Gangs:
1. Oswalt plays dumb 2. Oswalt play so dumb that Bill has to say Pakistan Groom Gangs. 3. Oswalt plays even more dumb and Bill brings up the fact it is 100% poor white girls. 4. He then calls Oswalt for living in a Blue Bubble. Playing dumb is not helping their cause. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA) 138
Morning all
Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (GxM4+) 139
Target Partners with ChatGPT to Replace Store Associates with AI.
The only good I can see is that the fake associate would be more helpful. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (RjOoY) 140
Exclusive — FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Launches Probe into BBC for ‘Intentionally Distorting’ Trump Speech
________ Why are we looking into a foreign government news agency? I mean, sure, document that they are liars, as they have always been. But Carr seems again to be full of himself on this. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (s0JqF) 141
That fucking dick every refresh makes one puke.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (743lG) Click on the comment number rather than refreshing and the reload will auto-magically take you to that spot and you won't have to see it. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e) 142
Sponge. The train she was on is the blue line that goes the loop to Ohare. Usually pretty safe
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:15 AM (YCxFk) Until you let 47 time arrested criminals to roam free in your streets. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1) 143
>>Do those words, as he uses them, mean anything whatsoever? I have no idea what he's trying to say there.
I think what's he's trying to say in smart professor words is what every junior salesperson is taught when they are fresh off the assembly line, sell the solution not the product. There's a tendency for people to focus on the shiny new product instead of the benefits the new product will bring. AI is a great example. A lot of people are off touting how wonderful it will be to have super smart machines instead of selling the benefits those machines will bring to society. Same with politics. Don't sell party dogma, sell the benefits. Same thing works in reverse. Young people are people sold socialism not the outcome. It's pointless to bitch about socialism as an ideology, focus on the outcome of which there are many examples of utter failure. Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (viF8m) 144
Click on the comment number rather than refreshing and the reload will auto-magically take you to that spot and you won't have to see it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e) Huh. I never put that two and two together. You're a pretty fart smeller........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1) 145
...the calculations of a presumed civilizational rationality and shared belief in an equilibrium of sanity, vanishes into the crazed vortex of revolution...
Welcome to a post Constitutional Republic world. The chaos, insanity and rampant uncivilized behavior was, is and is to come the normal state of Fallen human affairs. Since expulsion from The Garden, mankind, outside of God has been one of violence, misery and strife. The former United States had enough self-regulating people of faith that there was a veneer of civilization despite the unregenerate navigating within. At some point there isn't enough light to see, or not enough salt to preserve and everything falls back into darkness and rot. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (kHd4y) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (743lG) 147
Of course, when you comment and click post, you see that commie f*ck again....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1) 148
I saw something potentially troubling.
A large entity is saying not to use Elon's Grok because it has fewer guardrails to avoid politically correct filtering. They say Grok's alignment has been shaped by ideological directives rather than neutral, rigorously tested safety principles. The other big LLMs use structured alignment, multi-layer moderation, and extensive pre-deployment red-teaming. It seems to me that Grok is the neutral one. Posted by: Ignoramus at November 20, 2025 08:18 AM (dtajH) 149
> they never said outright that Trump's orders were or are illegal. It was done in an unspoken 'nudge nudge wink wink' kind of way, so they can claim plausible deniability.
---------- If the rolls were reversed, and it was people on the right, lamenting something a leftist president ordered, would they be afforded the same "plausible deniability?" This sort of question often comes up with nebulous acts and commentary when the exact same circumstances arise between left and right. I think we all sort of know how it shakes out. Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 08:19 AM (NwnyJ) 150
Neither Townshend (1945) nor Daltrey (1944) are boomers.
Posted by: mr tmz at November 20, 2025 08:19 AM (rJ48h) 151
Grok works very well. ChatGPT has better memory of what we've done previously to inform my work with it. But overall I prefer Grok. It improves, while Chat gets "chattier."
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:19 AM (emBoF) 152
The amount of “waste” from a Small Nuclear Reactor is going to amount to about 1 or 2 trash cans full every 30 years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:02 AM (/ZNPI) - 1 or 2 trash cans full every 30 years from thousands of reactors is a lot. - you only get 1 or 2 trash cans full every 30 years after you change thousands of laws/regulations and spin up a reprocessing industry. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e) 153
People seem to be distracted by the shiny new thing called AI.
AI is programmed. By man. Largely liberal retard man. It learns what it's TOLD to learn. It doesn't generically learn. It takes in what it's told to take in and discards the rest. The minute you turn AI free to control everything, we're f*cked and the libtards win. Till they realize we all just lost. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (Zz0t1) 154
Amazon is backing the construction of a nuclear facility in Washington state that plans to deploy up to 12 small modular reactors, with an initial phase of four reactors.
--- It's been flying under the radar a bit but, I saw that INEL is about to finalize their testing on a modular nuclear reactor. Which is exciting--off-the-shelf plans, fully tested and approved. Plug-n-play. Cutting through all the red tape. Add in the recent SCOTUS ruling from the UT case that agency regulations can't be a basis for endless delays via lawsuit. I don't think the left understands what this means: Once a site is chosen and approved, the plant will be built with no further delay. Within months. And the secondary effects will be massive. Not just cheap energy, but all sorts of businesses and manufacturing rushing to build here. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (HXT0k) 155
"Cherfilus-McCormick" sounds like the name of a syndrome assigned to an extremely rare genetic anomaly discovered by two graduate students toiling away in a windowless basement of a nondescript university building in a room illuminated by a solitary incandescent light bulb hanging from a brown extension cord purchased at a Kmart in 1974.
The type of syndrome that would only be evidenced by the shape of an individual's earlobe or pinky toe. Posted by: Journal of Genetics Research at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (XQo4F) 156
>The other big LLMs use structured alignment, multi-layer moderation, and extensive pre-deployment red-teaming.
----- I totally understand this sentence. Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (AOsQT) 157
The Islamization Of The United States
_________ Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF) 158
Good morning, all and Happy Birthday, JJ.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (wVcYX) 159
Pretty much everyone running AI development is a lefty. I can imagine they are salivating at the thought of AI making policy decisions. It would not be GIGO, it would be big brother.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 20, 2025 08:21 AM (0U5gm) 160
Pretty fart smeller… heh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:21 AM (+kWhq) 161
_________
Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF) I'll be fine with it. I only hope we don't wait as long as and are as destroyed as Europe is before it gets there. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1) 162
And none of that stuff is being worked on at industrial scale.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic Unfortunately, even if we could get the personnel trained and the plants built, a leftist administration would stop everything. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:22 AM (RjOoY) 163
We should not be handing out checks to members of congress who were spied on, we should be putting the spies in prison.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 20, 2025 08:22 AM (0U5gm) 164
Muslims want you dead.
Left-Wingers want Muslims to make you dead. At some point, people will have to actively resist both. Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (6Uni8) 165
>>Why are we looking into a foreign government news agency? I mean, sure, document that they are liars, as they have always been. But Carr seems again to be full of himself on this.
Maybe because our government has been funding that foreign government news agency. Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (viF8m) 166
Pretty fart smeller… heh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:21 AM (+kWhq) I have my moments. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1) 167
I dont see it that way. Way back in the day, public hangings served a purpose to deter. People were not happy (for the most part) to see a public hanging. Many prayed for the sole of the soon to be executed.
Which is the exact opposite of what Lady in Black stated: "...while a surrounding crowd shouts, "burn alive bitch." " That is light years away from "praying for the sole of the soon to be executed" Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (kHd4y) 168
You have no idea what it will be in five years and only pessimism in its innovation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:06 AM (743lG) No, I don't. In fact, I'm not up to date on the technology today but I am familiar with the general operation of nuclear reactors, the safety considerations and limits, and the operator training involved. I'm also familiar with pie-in-the-sky promises of some incipient technology which will solve all our problems and make the holodeck a reality. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (ExV1e) 169
so I use it to turn aggregate customer/target sampling into cleaner data I can then analyze easier. I also use it to sweep through large audio files (of client interviews) and pull out sample quotes (as well as transcripts).
I wouldn't be able to do as much work as I've been doing without it. And an assistant (which I need!) will make as many mistakes if not more and take 5x longer to do so. I feel sort of bad about this I guess. But I use critical thinking on everything AI sends my way and it's literally just doing "busy work" that I can easily check. I DO NOT just "let it do its thing" and I get really frustrated with people in my field (advertising) who do. And that's a lot of people. But it's good if you use it as a tool, and don't let the tool use you. which is true for many things. Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (emBoF) 170
157 The Islamization Of The United States
_________ Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF) No, there won't be. All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims. Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (6Uni8) 171
From the Wiki entry on the SL-1 reactor explosion:
"The No. 7 shield plug from the top of the reactor vessel impaled the third man through his groin and exited his shoulder, pinning him to the ceiling." [5] Damn... Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 08:25 AM (Y1sOo) 172
I dont see it that way. Way back in the day, public hangings served a purpose to deter. People were not happy (for the most part) to see a public hanging. Many prayed for the sole of the soon to be executed.
As a 10 year old seeing someone hanged for horse thievery has to have an effect towards future action or thoughts. IMHO Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal I, personally, would prefer to see an execution in the same manner as the victim received. I mean, if it's good enough for your victim, it should be ok for you. Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:25 AM (GxM4+) 173
And none of that stuff is being worked on at industrial scale.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic Sure it is. They're already breaking all the old, shuttered plants out of moth balls. TMI is coming back online. Palisades is as well. Even Cali is considering more nukes. They're testing small plants in south Texas as we speak. Biden actually approved that one. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1) 174
"The suspect with a lengthy criminal history and who was released after being accused in a violent August attack, has been federally charged after allegedly lighting a young woman on fire Monday on the Chicago Blue Line train and yelling "burn b----."
Lawrence Reed, 50, is charged with committing a terrorist attack or violence against a mass transportation system, according to a recently filed criminal complaint. Federal prosecutors allege Reed intentionally used gasoline and a lighter to set a woman on fire aboard a CTA Blue Line train at about 9:30 p.m. Monday...U.S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros said the woman was "minding her own business and reading her phone" while seated in the middle of the train car, when Reed approached her from the back of the car, doused her head and body with gasoline, and attempted to ignite the liquid." Another violent repeat offender released by blue city committing heinous crime. Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (g47mK) 175
All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.
---------------- That thin line can be erased pretty quickly. Posted by: Pudinhead at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (Wg6v7) 176
All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.
Posted by: XTC Then they will die too. Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (GxM4+) 177
Thee Nation: The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (RHGPo) 178
Queers for Palestine, shows how stupid young people can be
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (YCxFk) Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (emBoF) 180
This is Irina Zarutskay (sp) all over again.
Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:27 AM (g47mK) 181
Cannot run AI with wind and solar power. Silicon Valley wants nuke power
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk) 182
Hanford Nuclear Facility is in WA state. I suspect that's where they will build them.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (EW4eo) 183
Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.
Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F) 184
180 This is Irina Zarutskay (sp) all over again.
they're everywhere runner it's like that episode of Twin Peaks The Return honestly got a light? Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (emBoF) 185
All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims.
Posted by: XTC Then they will die too. Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (GxM4+) They THINK they will be given a seat at the table when the takeover happens. They're too stupid to realize they'll just be the last to die or be enslaved. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1) 186
Cooper: "You said recently that President Trump is a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the Earth."
Pelosi: "I said that as a euphemism. I could have done much worse." Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (RHGPo) 187
If I'm bored, I'll ask GROK some questions.
Answers default to "conventional wisdom" and are designed to obscure, in a lot of cases. If you want the truth about something, AI Chatbot is not where you should go. Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (6qf1m) 188
Thee Nation: The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:26 AM (RHGPo) Think of it more as liposuction that decimation. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (wVcYX) 189
Huh. I never put that two and two together.
You're a pretty fart smeller........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:17 AM (Zz0t1) I confess that someone else mentioned it to me some time back. I was embarrassed that I hadn't thought of that. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e) 190
Until you let 47 time arrested criminals to roam free in your streets.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:16 AM (Zz0t1) H Town crimes reports routinely list 12 or 23 or 31 arrest reports like the dude that got his mama to rent a car so he could follow people at the ATM. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA) 191
Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.
Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F) The USS Harry Truman is in dock for cleaning and retrofitting for the next several years. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (Zz0t1) 192
AI is programmed. By man. Largely liberal retard man. It learns what it's TOLD to learn. It doesn't generically learn. It takes in what it's told to take in and discards the rest.
What AI lacks, and will never have, and thus will always be a danger if used as a substitute is WISDOM How do you know that an idea is destructive? If the AI system is set up to promote a homogeneous society because someone programed that as a prime directive, you get holocausts and genocide recommendations. If you blindly feed a computer historical facts about The Balkans and Yugoslavia, you end up at the same place. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:30 AM (/TiS1) 193
Of course, when you comment and click post, you see that commie f*ck again....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:18 AM (Zz0t1) It's the price you pay for being witty. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e) 194
Canary in the coal mine.
>> Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy https://tinyurl.com/4waajht7 Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:30 AM (LWgbM) 195
They have used small nukes to power ships for some time now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (EW4eo) 196
I confess that someone else mentioned it to me some time back. I was embarrassed that I hadn't thought of that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e) It works as mentioned. My browser refresh doesn't show the top in most cases, unless there's a slowdown or glitch. Clicking the "Post" button, however...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1) 197
What AI lacks, and will never have, and thus will always be a danger if used as a substitute is WISDOM
this is true it also doesn't seem to understand the concept of TRUTH so, you have to be careful with it because I dunno, I think truth is kind of important? Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (emBoF) 198
And none of that stuff is being worked on at industrial scale. The people selling you Elysium are not being honest.
Can we get the Japs or the Frogs to help out? Minus the Godzilla thing and the dirty french mouth lovemaking. Posted by: Hollis P Wood at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (t5X2c) 199
183 Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.
Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F) After 9/11 we should have built 100s on leased them to local power companies. Put them on existing bases so pretty secure too. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA) 200
It's the price you pay for being witty. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e) Someone's gotta do it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1) 201
@137
>>Playing dumb is not helping their cause. He's not playing dumb, well, he is a dumb leftist c***, but he really has never heard of that issue, because leftist have their republicans are nazis firmware implanted and thats the framework in which they view the world. And judging by the ratings and readership numbers of leftist news channels and sites, it's not like leftists are getting their news from these places. Nope all of their knowledge is born of extreme ignorance of a subject but filtered by the Republicans are nazis algorithm. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (XV/Pl) 202
>>I dont see it that way. Way back in the day, public hangings served a purpose to deter. People were not happy (for the most part) to see a public hanging. Many prayed for the sole of the soon to be executed.
Pre-colonial Newport became a mecca for pirates. In 1723 the city had a mass hanging of 26 pirates in a prominent spot along the harbor and then the pirates were buried below the high water mark. That pretty much put an end to piracy in the area. Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (viF8m) 203
>> Conducted November 14-17, 2025, under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,005 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (104) and cellphones (646) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (255). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points. Sampling error for results among subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education, and area variables to ensure the demographics are representative of the registered voter population. Sources for developing weight targets include the most recent American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and voter file data.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (LWgbM) 204
Thee Nation: The Deliberate Decimation of the Federal Workforce
Fun Fact: It takes at least 80 productive taxpayers to underwrite the costs of a single Federal Employee. Come to your own conclusions. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (/TiS1) 205
it also doesn't seem to understand the concept of TRUTH
so, you have to be careful with it because I dunno, I think truth is kind of important? Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (emBoF) It's programmed by people that think the concept of truth is what THEY believe to be true. AI will only know the left of truth. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (Zz0t1) 206
so, you have to be careful with it
because I dunno, I think truth is kind of important? Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (emBoF) inserts that speech from Jurassic Park can vs should is wisdom Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (gbOdA) 207
they're everywhere runner it's like that episode of Twin Peaks The Return honestly got a light? Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (emBoF) His rap sheet is a mile long ! Aggravated arson, battery. Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK) 208
Trump's Renamed Gulf of America Dodges Hurricanes for First Time in a Decade
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:33 AM (RHGPo) 209
And judging by the ratings and readership numbers of leftist news channels and sites, it's not like leftists are getting their news from these places.
Nope all of their knowledge is born of extreme ignorance of a subject but filtered by the Republicans are nazis algorithm. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 08:31 AM (XV/Pl) I think that was Bill's Blue Bubble comment. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA) 210
Pre-colonial Newport became a mecca for pirates. In 1723 the city had a mass hanging of 26 pirates in a prominent spot along the harbor and then the pirates were buried below the high water mark. That pretty much put an end to piracy in the area.
------------- In NC, Blackbeard was the Governor of NC next door neighbor back when the Capital was in New Bern. Posted by: Pudinhead at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (Wg6v7) 211
I'd like to book the Pretty Fart Smellers as the Club ONT house band. I bet they do great versions of Skynyrd's "That Smell" and Tool's "Stinkfist".
Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (Ltmlv) 212
His rap sheet is a mile long ! Aggravated arson, battery. Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK) He's just biding his time until he completes his work on the space/time continuum. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1) 213
Lawrence Reed who had FOURTY NINE prior arrests
A 'society' that lets felons with FOURTY NINE priors just walk around with a gas can begins with the inability to spell FORTY. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (zdLoL) 214
Think of it more as liposuction that decimation.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:29 AM (wVcYX) Good one. Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:35 AM (t+TFX) 215
Within months.
And the secondary effects will be massive. Not just cheap energy, but all sorts of businesses and manufacturing rushing to build here. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice --- Boom town. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (743lG) 216
Re the Communism Will Win hat
Yes The only question that remains is just how many citizens need to be killed to win. USSR Killed 5 Million Ukrainians or about 1 out of 7. Pol Pot via Khmer Rouge killed almost 1 out of 3. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA) 217
President Trump has agreed to meet with New York City's new commie Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday in the Oval Office.
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (RHGPo) 218
I'd like to book the Pretty Fart Smellers as the Club ONT house band. I bet they do great versions of Skynyrd's "That Smell" and Tool's "Stinkfist".
Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:34 AM (Ltmlv) Speaking of..... Lynard Skynyrd and Foreigner are touring in 2026. Neither band have any original members. Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names? I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1) 219
The Islamization Of The United States
_________ Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is. Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF) No, there won't be. All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims. Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (6Uni - The difference between the US and the EU is the 2A. There will be a lot of blood shed in both places. The US at least has a fighting chance. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (3447G) 220
His rap sheet is a mile long ! Aggravated arson, battery.
Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:32 AM (g47mK) you said rape twice Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA) 221
Politicians, today, are pretty much insulated from most adverse actions. Even criticism.
I find it hard to believe they'd be held accountable for 'insurrection' or anything else. FWIW... this is a real problem. Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (NwnyJ) 222
good morning JJ, Horde
A bunch of liberals / leftists recently protested in our small Texas town. Professionally printed signs, high percentage of AstroTurf. Posted by: callsign claymore at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (lKJou) 223
Lazy eyed commies on the front page.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (bss/y) 224
Lynard Skynyrd and Foreigner are touring in 2026. Neither band have any original members.
Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names? I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1) Earth Wind and Fire started that 20 years ago. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA) 225
Good morning everyone. Thx JJ.
Jobs report today for September is pretty good. The Dems are really having a bad week. Cool Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (bfwj/) 226
Pretty fart smeller… heh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:21 AM (+kWhq) I have my moments. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (Zz0t1) My kid tried that on me a few days ago. She bollixed it up and called me a "fellow" instead of "feller." Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (uQesX) 227
President Trump has agreed to meet with New York City's new commie Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday in the Oval Office.
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (RHGPo) Why??????????? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (ZtAny) 228
These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m) 229
Sure it is. They're already breaking all the old, shuttered plants out of moth balls. TMI is coming back online. Palisades is as well. Even Cali is considering more nukes.
They're testing small plants in south Texas as we speak. Biden actually approved that one. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1) I will be ecstatic to be proven wrong but... - reopening old plants is a stop-gap - test beds are a step in the right direction but they're unlikely to lead to additional construction for a while - you still have to produce the fuel, and the moderator, and the control mechanisms, and the systems to turn the heat into power, and the safety systems, and the transmission systems... and you have to train all the people required to operate all that and, AFAIK, none of that is happening today. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (LWgbM) 231
We all have a right to a society that is not a cesspool of degeneracy. Rejecting it is not being uptight; it is being normal. I am not a libertarian. I am a conservative, and I would like to conserve at least a few elements of civilization.
== Right on , Kurt!! Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (g47mK) 232
The only question that remains is just how many citizens need to be killed to win.
"But that wasn't REAL communism! Real communism will just be happily accepted because people are naturally selfless and care so much about others!" Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (RjOoY) 233
Houston local headline news: Argument between home delivery drivers leads to gunfire; woman shot.
I'm betting someone felt disrespected. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (wVcYX) 234
Eventually, there will be a serious reaction, both here and in Europe. And it will get ugly. And it will be used to prove how nasty the West is.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 20, 2025 08:20 AM (s0JqF) No, there won't be. All of Law Enforcement and the Judiciary (including prosecutors) are on the side of the Muslims. Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:24 AM (6Uni Great Apostasy, anyone? Posted by: Some old book at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (uQesX) 235
194 Canary in the coal mine.
>> Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy https://tinyurl.com/4waajht7 Posted by: Marcus T ------------- Media is doing an excellent job of talking down the economy even though practically every part is 4xs better than with Biden. This is also aided by Jerome Powell.' Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (743lG) 236
I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1) Earth Wind and Fire started that 20 years ago. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA) IMHO there’s nothing more pathetic than an old rock star. Fat Mike Reno still wearing the headband as he waddles around the stage comes to mind… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (ZtAny) 237
Good to see you. How is your wife doing?
Posted by: Braenyard" Thanks for asking. She's holding up ok, but the testing is, well... rough. She nearly passed out after one blood draw of 13 (IIRC) vials, and the bone biopsy was, in a word, rough. They're still assessing prior to making recommendations for treatment... Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (XuXeR) 238
Norway Pauses Use of Fart-Reducing Cattle Feed in Wake of Danish Cow-Tastrophe
Bessie stop the farts ya know Shes Dead Ivar Well she stop the farts Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA) 239
Why??????????? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (ZtAny) Trump is willing to negotiate with literally anyone and everyone. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1) 240
"But that wasn't REAL communism! Real communism will just be happily accepted because people are naturally selfless and care so much about others!"
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:39 AM (RjOoY) Plus, we have to seize the means of production because selfish people will horde it! Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (bss/y) 241
Don't look now, but there are more small modular reactors tied up to the piers in Norfolk, Virginia than anywhere else on the planet.
Posted by: Thanks Hyman Rickover at November 20, 2025 08:28 AM (XQo4F) Sure, I used to operate one. Each one, of the smaller ones, requires a minimum of 20 trained operators - assuming that you're on land, the operators work 12 hours per day, seven days per week, with no vacations, or holidays, or sick time. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e) 242
Nobody knows why, but he yanked the control rod at the SL-1 reactor all the way out in one fell swoop. It couldn’t have been too easy, it weighed about 100 pounds. This was a really bad idea however. I don’t know if he was a “teenager” but he was an Army private and basically in charge.
This too, seems like a really bad idea. Adult Supervision is required for nuclear reactors, in my opinion. And Adults do some really stupid things as well. They just think they know what they are doing, instead of the “hold muh beer, watch this!” which is also a recipe for disaster. The Soviets had some real doozies. Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (hoi0O) 243
Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde. Posted by: Inogame at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (53oGX) 244
Ah. Spencer Rapone. I almost forgot about that little shitstain.
That was a big story, quickly forgotten. The dicklicking turd burglar had been recommended for expulsion by officers at West Point, who were overruled, and he was permitted to graduate because he was protected from on high. Can't trust the officer corps anymore. Hegseth needs to purge it. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (BI5O2) 245
Unfortunately, even if we could get the personnel trained and the plants built, a leftist administration would stop everything.
That is the reason for so many industry deaths. The Left said no to natural gas, so no new pipelines, who will invest after Keystone XL? The Left says No to modern shipyards so we are held at ransom every few years to stevedores who want each paycheck to look like Powerball lottery winnings. The Left says No to IC engines, engineering schools evaporate for that tech, petrochem engineers students find some other course of study. Experienced engineers retire without the necessary knowledge transfer since there is no one to transfer it to. Nuke plants shut down due to Japan's tsunami misfortune and Leftist propaganda. Who wants to be a buggy whip engineer? Chinese and India students because their countries aren't suicidal as the West. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (nAS9C) 246
These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m) It is deer season in most states that actually allow hunting. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1) 247
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There will be a lot of blood shed in both places. The US at least has a fighting chance. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (3447G) Fathers can't risk being killed and not being there for their children. And the childless won't be willing to get their heads cut off on the front lines, either. Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (6Uni8) 248
Poll: 4 In 5 Americans Are ‘Concerned’ About Silicon Valley’s Unregulated Embryo-Screening Scheme
Gattaca was not an Instructional Film. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (gbOdA) 249
Speaking of.....
Lynard Skynyrd and Foreigner are touring in 2026. Neither band have any original members. Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names? I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1) Yeah, Skynyrd and Foreigner are just brands at this point. Essentially tribute bands with legal rights to the name. I love me some tribute bands. But only at tribute band prices! Speaking of which, I know you're not a fan, but I saw an outstanding Doors tribute band this past weekend. They played for 2 hours and went very deep into the catalog. First 10 songs included only 2 radio hits. Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (Ltmlv) 250
The interesting trick playing out is the the left has given us a socialist economy (look what percent of the GDP the government at all levels spends) and then argues prices, shortages, and low wages are a consequence of...capitalism
Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (sKqQm) 251
Russian Spy Ship Breached UK Waters, Aimed Lasers At Military Pilots, Britain Says
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (RHGPo) 252
So Spenser Rapone (sp?) was kicked out of the military for his stupid stunt. Unless he finds some fellow travelers willing to give him a big salary where he going to find a job? The picture of him holding that hat will come up in search engine as will his removal from the military
Is he any relation to Megan Rapone, the soccer player? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (Yl2Ob) 253
61 Newly released campaign finance records show that from 1990 to 2018, Jeffrey Epstein directed about 89% of his political donations to Democratic and progressive causes, with notable individual recipients including Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.
Interesting that this is no different than scam artist Sam Bankman-Fraud's little FTX scheme. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:50 AM (BvPIe) Watching Bloomberg News this morning, and I heard a report about Larry Summers' travails at Harvard (they're opening an internal investigation). They mention that he's been axed from OpenAI and Harvard, but there's no mention about his status at Bloomberg itself. He's currently a 'special economic correspondent' at their Wall Street Week broadcast. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (0CU3H) 254
Lynard Skynyrd and Foreigner are touring in 2026. Neither band have any original members.
Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names? I mean. Back in Black and Infinite Journey are great cover bands, but don't claim to be the originals....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1) Earth Wind and Fire started that 20 years ago. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA) Going strong at 84! Posted by: Mike Love, Grammy Winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (wVcYX) 255
Gattaca was not an Instructional Film.
It seems most classic dystopian novels will become a blue print at some point. Hell, Starmer and co are on a tear over in Britain... Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (sKqQm) 256
>>>- reopening old plants is a stop-gap
- test beds are a step in the right direction but... - you still ... ... and you have to train all the people required to operate all that and, AFAIK, none of that is happening today. Posted by: I used to have a different nic ------------ new nic - Curmudgeon Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (743lG) 257
IMHO there’s nothing more pathetic than an old rock star. Fat Mike Reno still wearing the headband as he waddles around the stage comes to mind…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (ZtAny) The lead singer for Quiet Riot died and was replaced with a guy that was his age, or older. He attempts to do an impression of the original. He sucks at it. They need to just go away and remember what once was, as short as their time in the limelight was. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1) 258
These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:38 AM (viF8m) They heard on the street that you got the good stuff. Posted by: dantesed at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (Oy/m2) 259
IMHO there’s nothing more pathetic than an old rock star. Fat Mike Reno still wearing the headband as he waddles around the stage comes to mind…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (ZtAny) And he's Lovin' Every Minute of It! Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (Ltmlv) 260
228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
lol those are rookie numbers. I have three that are my pets now essentially (mom and twins) and like 20 more in the forest here. It is deer season in most states that actually allow hunting. not yet! traditionally the weekend after Thanksgiving here, but our idiot Gov opened the season a day early so my cousins are PISSED. no help with Tday dinner, guys are getting ready to go up Thursday night now! thanks for helping, Josh! Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (emBoF) 261
252 Is he any relation to Megan Rapone, the soccer player?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (Yl2Ob) Not the same last name. The carpet-munching soccer player is "Rapinoe", not "Rapone". Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (6Uni8) 262
London Luxury Home Prices Plunge As Wealthiest Flee Ahead Of Tax-Hikes
...“people are in a panic” about potential stamp duty changes, and “sitting tight” before the budget. ... How the Stamp Act Riots Laid the Groundwork for the Revolutionary War The measure that imposed a tax on all printed materials inspired widespread outrage and even violence among the colonists. Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (RHGPo) 263
Sure, I used to operate one. Each one, of the smaller ones, requires a minimum of 20 trained operators - assuming that you're on land, the operators work 12 hours per day, seven days per week, with no vacations, or holidays, or sick time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (ExV1e) Dr. Ray Stantz: You it' just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment. Dr. Egon Spengler: I blame myself. Dr. Peter Venkman: So do I. Dr. Ray Stantz: Well, no sense worrying about it now. Dr. Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA) 264
Is he any relation to Megan Rapone, the soccer player? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM fellow travelers, at least Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (tljrc) 265
Is this the future of classic rock n' roll? Cover bands claiming original names?"
Yep. And that's why I don't go see them "in concert"... Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (XuXeR) 266
Where is that Communist West Point graduate now?
Spenser Rapone is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history, focusing on Modern Arab intellectual history. He is affiliated with both the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chicago. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (0CU3H) 267
Speaking of which, I know you're not a fan, but I saw an outstanding Doors tribute band this past weekend. They played for 2 hours and went very deep into the catalog. First 10 songs included only 2 radio hits.
Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (Ltmlv) If they're doing that, more power to 'em. Infinite Journey will play the hits, but there's a strong chance, unless you were a die hard Journey fan, they'll play a few you've not heard before and do a damn good job with it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1) 268
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real And It's Driving Therapists Crazy
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (RHGPo) 269
That fucking dick every refresh makes one puke. Posted by: Braenyard Are you by chance, not hitting the red numeral next to the last comment? That refreshes the page, and loads everything posted after it without subjecting you to the hideousness of naked fat bastards on ottoman foot stools. Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (QVmho) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (Yl2Ob) 271
257 They need to just go away and remember what once was, as short as their time in the limelight was.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1) It's not like they can make money any other way. They don't have Engineering degrees. Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (6Uni8) 272
So much for Trump not focusing on the economy. Wait until next year when BBB kicks in.
>>@EricLDaugh · 2m >>🚨 BREAKING: Experts SHOCKED as the United States adds stunning +119,000 THOUSAND JOBS - despite only +50,000 expected >>Federal government -3,000 jobs. >>WOW! >>CNBC can HARDLY BELIEVE IT. "Nonfarm payrolls up a ROBUST 119K! 119K is the best since April!" Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (viF8m) 273
228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw Yeah, that's bad, but it's the out of control bears you really need to watch out for. Them and the rabid bats! Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2) 274
Hell, Starmer and co are on a tear over in Britain...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (sKqQm) Seems to be based on a Mohammedan 1984. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA) 275
Not the same last name. The carpet-munching soccer player is "Rapinoe", not "Rapone". Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:44 AM This should not deter them both from being launched into the ocean via trebuchet to become shark shit. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1) 276
And the childless won't be willing to get their heads cut off on the front lines, either.
Posted by: XTC Then they'll get their heads cut off on their front lawn or in their living room. Posted by: rickb223 at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (GxM4+) 277
Treasury Sanctions Ryan Wedding, Former Olympian Snowboarder Turned 'Cocaine Kingpin'
Wedding sits on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and is accused of operating a multi-ton cocaine trafficking operation that ... Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (RHGPo) 278
Wealthy people have the least difficulty in moving generally.
Yes there are some people that have to work IN London and make a good salary but the "very rich" that are supposedly the targets of these new taxes will just leave because they can "work" from anywhere. Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (sKqQm) 279
fk Fox "News". It's garbage.
Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (vFG9F) 280
Watching Bloomberg News this morning, and I heard a report about Larry Summers' travails at Harvard (they're opening an internal investigation). They mention that he's been axed from OpenAI and Harvard, but there's no mention about his status at Bloomberg itself. He's currently a 'special economic correspondent' at their Wall Street Week broadcast.
Posted by: Darrell Harris ------------- All I want is youtube.com/watch?v=ykKxDCo22qs Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (743lG) 281
"Louie Gohmert: Arctic Frost’s Spying on Members of Congress is a Constitutional Crisis"
They never seem to find the politicians accepting China money/hookers, or Qatar bribes, etc. They just want to find which conservatives might be "conspiring" with the Catholic Church, or fighting the "climate change" hoax, or doing anything against the DC Blob. "Arctic Frost" was to impose a "chilling effect" on patriots everywhere, while actually prosecuting many front line conservatives. But the voter fraud brigades were a protected class. Posted by: illiniwek at November 20, 2025 08:47 AM (vbXSk) 282
On an average day, I can have 10 deer on my front lawn grazing and giving me dirty looks as if I'm harshing their mellow.
My backyard is essentially a forest creature gathering spot and social hang, where they shoot the shit until they wander off to forage and make more forest creatures. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XV/Pl) 283
Fat Mike Reno still wearing the headband as he waddles around the stage comes to mind…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (ZtAny) Hey! I have a thyroid issue...and a pasta issue...and cake. Posted by: Fat Mike Reno, Eating For The Weekend at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (t5X2c) 284
Adult Supervision is required for nuclear reactors"
And any steam power plant. Pressure = Chance of go boom if left unsupervised. Steam explosions were once commonplace... Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR) 285
In the near Future there will be AI Cover Bands that cover the 80s, or maybe HipHop, or C and W.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA) 286
California Revokes 17,000 Illegal Alien CDLs After Sec. Duffy Threatens Fines
Meanwhile, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds calls for federal crackdown on sanctuary-state policies allowing illegal immigrants to obtain commercial driver’s licenses. Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo) 287
Spenser Rapone is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history, focusing on Modern Arab intellectual history. He is affiliated with both the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chicago. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (0CU3H) Advancing his liberal shithole studies at two fine liberal shithole universities. Wonderful. He will be a muslham convert calling for jihad very soon. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1) 288
100 years ago deer, turkeys, and the rest walking through your yard was a free meal when getting a free meal with a big deal.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (sKqQm) 289
256 >>>- reopening old plants is a stop-gap
- test beds are a step in the right direction but... - you still ... ... and you have to train all the people required to operate all that and, AFAIK, none of that is happening today. Posted by: I used to have a different nic Texas oilfield has been used to training 20 year olds to do far more complicated stuff than that in 90 days. Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (/ZNPI) 290
228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw Yeah, that's bad, but it's the out of control bears you really need to watch out for. Them and the rabid bats! Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2) And the jugglers! Posted by: Sandford Neighbourhood Watch Association at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX) 291
>> Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (743lG)
We would be foolish to ignore this. It’s come up in just about every poll- of which admittedly I am not a big fan. But like it or not that’s the perception. Trump has talked up what he’s doing, but as of yet it’s not translating down to a lot of people. That’s the danger in talking things up prematurely. While some prices are coming down (I believe) a lot of food companies have gotten used to inflated margins and don’t want to let go. They are hoping that wage growth picks up and people will eventually not notice. For example, in south Texas the wanted almost $4 for one artichoke. From California. For Pete’s sake I could almost throw one from there to here. It’s theft at this point and it’s choking the economy for average people. As an aside, I believe we will see a nice rebound from the things Trump is doing. It looks like Q1-Q2 next year will get a decent bump unless Democrats decide to shut down the government on 30th July. Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (pTr2w) 292
Our leaders do not yet fully understand, have not internalized, the Left and its intentions. The self-deceptive and sickly-sweet aroma of detente clings to their curtains.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (t+TFX) 293
I miss the times of "I wouldn't know, I've only killed communists."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (Zz0t1) 294
So simple a teenager can operate it!
——- Yep. The SL-1 reactor explosion near Arco bears witness to this. Posted by: Zombie Strauss AEC at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (hoi0O) SL1 was not a production level reactor, and it was misoperated in a maintenance or testing mode by experienced operators without failsafes as exist in modern tested designs, if memory serves. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (dK+Kv) 295
Nobody knows why, but he yanked the control rod at the SL-1 reactor all the way out in one fell swoop. It couldn’t have been too easy, it weighed about 100 pounds. This was a really bad idea however. I don’t know if he was a “teenager” but he was an Army private and basically in charge.
They had drained the reactor for maintenance but they hadn't drained it all the way. It's theorized that he was removing the control rod and it became stuck. He pulled really hard to get it unstuck, the reactor power increased enough to flash the remaining water to steam and, as the control rod was unrestrained, it shot out of the reactor like a bullet. We got a - brief - lecture on that and TMI at nuclear power school. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e) 296
Of course, hollow-eyed millennial and Gen Z fairies playing hide the sausage in their dormitory Fabian Clubs at West Point are the least of Hegseth's worries, when we have fat, woke pigs for flag officers, who brag about their espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party in their cash-grab tell-all books.
He should make examples of Milley and other bigshots, as well. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (BI5O2) 297
it also doesn't seem to understand the concept of TRUTH
so, you have to be careful with it because I dunno, I think truth is kind of important? In post-modernism, truth is relative. You are thinking in terms of a modern world. Read up on the "Line of Despair" from Francis Schaeffer. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:49 AM (PVBkQ) 298
*30th January 2026
Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (pTr2w) 299
281 "Louie Gohmert: Arctic Frost’s Spying on Members of Congress is a Constitutional Crisis"
Add it to the list. Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (t+TFX) 300
California Revokes 17,000 Illegal Alien CDLs After Sec. Duffy Threatens Fines
Which really does nothing with all of them actively driving 20,000 lb missiles with suspended licenses....... California should be dismantled for this..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1) 301
In post-modernism, truth is relative. You are thinking in terms of a modern world. Read up on the "Line of Despair" from Francis Schaeffer. Was it Kamala that said she preferred truth over facts? Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (sKqQm) 302
Unless he finds some fellow travelers willing to give him a big salary where he going to find a job?
A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.” Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (RjOoY) 303
287 Advancing his liberal shithole studies at two fine liberal shithole universities. Wonderful.
He will be a muslham convert calling for jihad very soon. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1) I have a feeling we're going to be seeing a TON of lefties (rank and file lefties, not so much the ACELA power players) convert, as more and more of them decide that Islam is going to be "The Winning Side". Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (6Uni8) 304
Did anyone actually read the AI question?
"Significant advancements have been made in the fields of artificial intelligence and data collection, causing some to suggest that AI take a more influential role in society. Many Americans are unhappy with the effectiveness of federal and state government officials, agencies, and politicians. If AI continues to improve, would you support a proposal to take power away from most human lawmakers and instead give an advanced AI system the authority to control the majority of public policy decisions?" ----- This is what's called a retarded leading headline generating question. Not worth a sniff of a pile of shit. Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (J/ft9) 305
Adult Supervision is required for nuclear reactors"
And any steam power plant. Pressure = Chance of go boom if left unsupervised. Steam explosions were once commonplace... Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR) There was a story I was reading... last month(?) talking about small modular nuclear... almost batteries being developed in Japan for use in remote areas. The idea is that in a lot of remote areas they currently use a diesel generator and they would replace them with the nukes. The story did not mention needing a lot of supervision (as you all mention with a standard reactor and steam generator.) I think they were a molten salt design. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (bss/y) 306
new nic - Curmudgeon
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:43 AM (743lG) Better curmudgeon than sucker. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (ExV1e) 307
It is deer season in most states that actually allow hunting.
There are no states that do not allow hunting. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (zdLoL) 308
>>>Are you by chance, not hitting the red numeral next to the last comment? That refreshes the page, and loads everything posted after it without subjecting you to the hideousness of naked fat bastards on ottoman foot stools.
Posted by: BifBewalski ------------- Can't do that when one makes a comment. Regretfully. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (743lG) 309
“When the candidate for president [Trump] is saying that these people coming in [illegally] are murderers, rapists, thieves and all the rest of that. He made that a cultural issue….He said they were criminals. And they weren’t. They weren’t.
Do they like NanNan believe their own lie? Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (gbOdA) 310
Advancing his liberal shithole studies at two fine liberal shithole universities. Wonderful.
that guy has some wealthy ass parents Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (emBoF) 311
Steam explosions were once commonplace...
Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR) Commonplace because boiler manufacturing was shit and pressure control mechanisms were primitive. With a few rare exceptions, almost all large power plants today uses steam conversion. (Solar uses photovoltaics) Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (/ZNPI) 312
And the childless won't be willing to get their heads cut off on the front lines, either."
As in Spain, the concept of "front lines" will be... fluid, at least. Para Bellum. Ammo prices seem to be rather good right now... Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (XuXeR) 313
299 281 "Louie Gohmert: Arctic Frost’s Spying on Members of Congress is a Constitutional Crisis"
Add it to the list. Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (t+TFX) I still find the Reichstag Fire of Jan 6 to be the crowning jewel of constitutional crisis. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:52 AM (bss/y) 314
311 Steam explosions were once commonplace...
lol philly still has those! old boilers everywhere PLUS that under-the-street steam system is still operative Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (emBoF) 315
If they're doing that, more power to 'em.
Infinite Journey will play the hits, but there's a strong chance, unless you were a die hard Journey fan, they'll play a few you've not heard before and do a damn good job with it. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1) As it should be! I saw a Rush tribute band called Solar Federation. Very talented musicians and a female lead singer since not too many men can hit the high stuff Geddy did back in the 70s. Anyway, they went super deep into the catalog. They even played what I consider to be the ultimate Rush-nerds-only deep cut -- The Necromancer. It's a very obscure track from Caress of Steel that clocks in at 12 1/2 minutes. Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (Ltmlv) 316
@266 "modern intellectual Arab history". My thesis would be three words "there isn't any"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (bfwj/) 317
I see on LinkedIn there’s a profile for a Spenser Rapone who claims to be a PhD student at University of Chicago…. Prior to that University of Texas for 4 years. Profile picture definitely looks like the same guy… Qasid Arabic Institute as a study abroad fellow…. Commies and Arabic; shocking
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (+kWhq) 318
London Luxury Home Prices Plunge As Wealthiest Flee Ahead Of Tax-Hikes
...“people are in a panic” about potential stamp duty changes, and “sitting tight” before the budget. Heh. Trump should buy billboard space all over London with a plain message: "To our English cousins - Do you get it now?" - The Founding Fathers" Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (uQesX) 319
291 >> Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:40 AM (743lG)
...Trump has talked up what he’s doing, but as of yet it’s not translating down to a lot of people. That’s the danger in talking things up prematurely. While some prices are coming down (I believe) a lot of food companies have gotten used to inflated margins and don’t want to let go. They are hoping that wage growth picks up and people will eventually not notice... As an aside, I believe we will see a nice rebound from the things Trump is doing. It looks like Q1-Q2 next year will get a decent bump unless Democrats decide to shut down the government on 30th July. Posted by: Marcus T at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (pTr2w) I think that the way to look at what Trump is doing is to remember Reagan c. 1981. He kept Volcker on from the Carter Admin to have him continue to tackle inflation. As a result, the Rs got spanked in the 1982 midterms. Now, Reagan stayed the course which got us into the Morning in America '84 election. Trump is making a similar bet on his remaking of the US economy. In the long term, he'll win. In the short term, it's a nail-biter. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (0CU3H) 320
Unless he finds some fellow travelers willing to give him a big salary where he going to find a job?
A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.” Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 08:51 AM (RjOoY) A little light reading? Posted by: Airplane! at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (wVcYX) 321
When the candidate for president [Trump] is saying that these people coming in [illegally] are murderers, rapists, thieves and all the rest of that/i]
All of them are breaking the law, by definition. Most are committing various level of "non-violent" crime - welfare fraud, identity theft, etc And about 1/3 of all violent crime comes from illegals so there are thousands of rapes, murders, and assaults that are allowed to occur because we don't deport all of them. Posted by: 18-1 at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (sKqQm) 322
All I can say without having to type and delete is God help the demographic if certain people ever get a cancer diagnosis Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 08:54 AM (g6TN6) 323
I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.
Jack, but he is medicated. qdpsteve. I am not sure that is a compliment. Piper, but it is her job to maintain a positive attitude. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:54 AM (bss/y) 324
290 228 These deer are getting out of hand. There are 3 of them just strolling through my backyard right now.
Posted by: JackStraw Yeah, that's bad, but it's the out of control bears you really need to watch out for. Them and the rabid bats! Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2) And the jugglers! Posted by: Sandford Neighbourhood Watch Association at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX) and the mimes! don't forget about the mimes! Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (0CU3H) 325
West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”
Just another unemployable shithead who will go into government or terrorism. But I repeat myself. Posted by: Unit 4 +2 at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (t5X2c) 326
323 I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.
I do try but I'm more "salty" Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (emBoF) 327
Fat Mike Reno, Eating For The Weekend at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (t5X2c)
You really turned yourself loose, didn't you? Posted by: dantesed at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (Oy/m2) Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (AOsQT) 329
305 Adult Supervision is required for nuclear reactors"
And any steam power plant. Pressure = Chance of go boom if left unsupervised. Steam explosions were once commonplace... Posted by: man -------------- Whether it's nuclear, nat gas, or coal a new plant will require more people and those new jobs will require training. Having to train people to operate a new nuclear plant is part of positive productivity not a negative on growth. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (743lG) 330
Commonplace because boiler manufacturing was shit and pressure control mechanisms were primitive."
True, but let's not forget operator error, either. Today's bunch are pretty damn sharp. Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (XuXeR) 331
happy as s*** today bc things went well with work and tomorrow kids begin coming back home for Thanksgiving!!!!
today is sort of a respite with no meetings until 2pm and no deadlines until after the holiday Im' feeling it! holidays are coming! Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (emBoF) 332
329 Whether it's nuclear, nat gas, or coal a new plant will require more people and those new jobs will require training. Having to train people to operate a new nuclear plant is part of positive productivity not a negative on growth.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (743lG) Good luck finding any companies willing to train people. Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (6Uni8) 333
Yeah, that's bad, but it's the out of control bears you really need to watch out for. Them and the rabid bats!
Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at November 20, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2) And the jugglers! Posted by: Sandford Neighbourhood Watch Association at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (wVcYX) and the mimes! don't forget about the mimes! Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (0CU3H) That is a line that has always bothered me (at the same time as being hilarious.) He says something like 'if we don't stay ahead of this we'll be up to our neck in crusty(?) jugglers.' I dunno. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (bss/y) 334
I am happy go lucky. Until I am crossed.
Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (J/ft9) 335
>>Feds Don’t Move Against CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood, So Texas’ Abbott Does It Himself
Then they'll just rename, run out of the same offices with the same people and the same mailing address, just like ACORN and a hundred other orgs have done. Problem not solved, again. Kicking the can down the road, until one day we realize too late we should have banned Islam. Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (wPw5l) 336
Im' feeling it! holidays are coming!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (emBoF) Congrats. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (bss/y) 337
100 years ago deer, turkeys, and the rest walking through your yard
100 years ago, deer and turkey were virtually extinct. The closing of hay farms after the automobile caught on was the salvation of the white tailed deer. Eastern turkeys were replaced by hunters with other breeds, mostly from Missouri. Big project. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (zdLoL) 338
In its annual "Trouble in Toyland" report, U.S. PIRG said, "In our testing, it was obvious that some toy companies are putting in guardrails to make their toys behave in a more kid-appropriate way than the chatbots available for adults. But we found those guardrails vary in effectiveness – and at times, can break down entirely. One toy in our testing would discuss very adult sexual topics with us at length while introducing new ideas we had not brought up – most of which are not fit to print."
One of the four A.I. toys U.S. PIRG tested this year always listens, even when not in use, and some use recordings of a child's voice, which comes with risks. In 2023, scammers used similar recordings to create a replica of a child's voice and tricked a mother into thinking her child had been kidnapped. Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (RHGPo) 339
A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”
Posted by: NR Pax What is that? A 60 second chit-chat with the guy standing next to you at a urinal?? (Which we all know breaks multiple rules enumerated in the Man's Manual) Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (cYBz/) Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (XuXeR) 341
Good luck finding any companies willing to train people.
they exist (one of my current clients) and anchoring manufacturing IS happening, thank God PA has stuff actually going on energy wise and manufacturing wise, amazingly as long as things stay mostly settled ... we're in a good swing. it will take time and the govt workers will whine the whole time Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (emBoF) 342
at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”
Aren't Muslims famous for burning down libraries? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (pawvM) 343
anchoring?!?! Jesus autocorrect. ON-SHORING manufacturing!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (emBoF) 344
That is a line that has always bothered me (at the same time as being hilarious.) He says something like 'if we don't stay ahead of this we'll be up to our neck in crusty(?) jugglers.' I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:56 AM (bss/y) I think it originated with the jugglers and after they were "suppressed" the lone street mime character moved in. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (wVcYX) 345
The Who sucks.
Posted by: Bob at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (YiqZD) 346
They even played what I consider to be the ultimate Rush-nerds-only deep cut -- The Necromancer. It's a very obscure track from Caress of Steel that clocks in at 12 1/2 minutes.
Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 08:53 AM (Ltmlv) lol That was my kids introduction to Rush. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (dK+Kv) 347
(Which we all know breaks multiple rules enumerated in the Man's Manual)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (cYBz/) THIS! I had a buddy who would do that though. He'd just try to annoy the fuck out of you by picking the urinal next to you and going 'Hey. How's it going?' Fucking hell. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (bss/y) 348
It occurs to me that some people may be misunderstanding seemingly negative comments towards nuclear power...
I am, unequivocally, in favor of expanded nuclear power in the US. I am in favor of work on molten-salt reactors. I am in favor of testing on pebble-bed reactors. I am in favor of the government approving 1-2 standard designs to be built out rather than having every plant be slightly different than every other plant. I am in favor of removing any laws/regulations forbidding the reprocessing of nuclear fuel. I am in favor of making our "nuclear waste" regulations sane. I just don't expect that a significant percentage of the US electric grid will be powered by nuclear in the next ten years. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (ExV1e) 349
At ZH: "Tea And Cocoa May Offset Health Risks Of Excessive Sitting"
Simply sprinkle one cup each of tea and cocoa on your chairs every morning, and you'll be sitting pretty. One genius trick for healthful sedentism that even your doctor won't tell you! Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (4kcNT) 350
>>>I think that the way to look at what Trump is doing is to remember Reagan c. 1981. He kept Volcker on from the Carter Admin to have him continue to tackle inflation. As a result, the Rs got spanked in the 1982 midterms. Now, Reagan stayed the course which got us into the Morning in America '84 election. Trump is making a similar bet on his remaking of the US economy. In the long term, he'll win. In the short term, it's a nail-biter.
Posted by: Darrell Harris ------------- Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down. Jerome Powell has a death grip on Trump's plan right now. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (743lG) 351
I do try but I'm more "salty"
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 08:55 AM (emBoF) I would say more earthy or unvarnished Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (J/ft9) 352
100 years ago, deer and turkey were virtually extinct."
Not common even 50 years ago. Dad's old hometown paper would publish each deer kill weekly... and folks would gather 'round just to check out a fresh kill (WV, back in the day) Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (XuXeR) 353
There will be a lot of blood shed in both places. The US at least has a fighting chance.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 08:37 AM (3447G) Fathers can't risk being killed and not being there for their children. And the childless won't be willing to get their heads cut off on the front lines, either. Posted by: XTC at November 20, 2025 08:42 AM (6Uni - If you think so. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (3447G) 354
Today is National Peanut Butter Fudge Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (NpAcC) 355
The Necromancer is my favorite Rush track.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (wPw5l) 356
Silence shrouds the forest
As the birds announce the dawn Three travelers ford the river And southward journey on Whatchoo talkin’ about “obscure”, Willis? Haven’t listened to that in 30 years or more. Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (hoi0O) 357
350 >>>I think that the way to look at what Trump is doing is to remember Reagan c. 1981. He kept Volcker on from the Carter Admin to have him continue to tackle inflation. As a result, the Rs got spanked in the 1982 midterms. Now, Reagan stayed the course which got us into the Morning in America '84 election. Trump is making a similar bet on his remaking of the US economy. In the long term, he'll win. In the short term, it's a nail-biter.
Posted by: Darrell Harris ------------- Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down. Jerome Powell has a death grip on Trump's plan right now. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:00 AM (743lG) I should have thought of Powell from this perspective, but I hadn't considered it. I think you're absolutely correct on this. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (0CU3H) 358
Someone described deer as "rats with hooves". While they may be good eating, they're destructive as hell
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (bfwj/) Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (emBoF) 360
It's also...
Transgender Remembrance Day. Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC) 361
Texas oilfield has been used to training 20 year olds to do far more complicated stuff than that in 90 days.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 08:48 AM (/ZNPI) Do you think that operating a nuclear reactor is uncomplicated? Or do you believe that knowing not much and trusting the instrumentation is wise? Or do you advocate for 90 day wonders operating a nuclear reactor in your vicinity? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e) 362
Transgender Remembrance Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC) Also known as Everyfuckingday Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (J/ft9) 363
"Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down."
Volcker kept interest rates high, not low. Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (4kcNT) 364
> I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.
---- I would characterize myself as not fun Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (AOsQT) 365
I had a buddy who would do that though. He'd just try to annoy the fuck out of you by picking the urinal next to you and going 'Hey. How's it going?' Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (bss/y) Thats when your body and junk to face him and say "oops, sorry! you startled me!" as he flees. Posted by: Pee On The Bastard at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (t5X2c) 366
Broken record, but i do get upset when there are over 50 court vacancies, and the GOP Senate does not have a vote on them for 2 weeks. And now Thanksgiving Break. frustrating
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (YCxFk) 367
Problem not solved, again. Kicking the can down the road, until one day we realize too late we should have banned Islam.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 20, 2025 08:57 AM (wPw5l) Performative half-measures with no follow through. It will come down to a new crusade. Either that or we'll just sink into abject compliance. Posted by: Ordinary American at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (t+TFX) 368
359 Jerome Powell has a death grip on Trump's plan right now.
dude is out in may either way Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (emBoF) If he stays with his current influence until May (he could stay on as a Fed member past then, even if not chair), that could be too late to help Trump. Trump's plan needs to see real gains by then to help Republicans in the midterms. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (0CU3H) 369
And it's Joe Biden's birthday.
He turns 83. Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (3447G) 371
One toy in our testing would discuss very adult sexual topics with us at length while introducing new ideas we had not brought up – most of which are not fit to print."
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 08:58 AM (RHGPo) Teddy Nice Dick Ruxpin Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA) 372
Volcker kept interest rates high, not low.
yep and honestly ... while I do think Powell is being an asshat, I'm not fully against not putting rates back at 0 or crazy low. it's painful I get that but ... it might be good medicine anyway too many people I know are like "I can't want for low rates to refi and do XYZ"' well guys you're old, like me. you don't need more mortgage / loan costs, my dudes. Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (emBoF) 373
Again, retarded. Don't look at poll results and whatever you do, never believe a headline:
"give an advanced AI system the authority to control all of the world’s largest militaries, with the express purpose of reducing the number of people who die from war" That wording is called trying to achieve a result and they did. Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (J/ft9) 374
Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)
Not for me it's not and not for anyone else except for the leftists who design a remembrance for everyday. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (Yl2Ob) 375
CROW: As a military officer, I think what is important is that we train people…We prepare people for challenges coming down the pike…
MACCALLUM: What specific order from the commander-in-chief that we are asking our military to carry out are you objecting to? This is very, very vague. No one could figure out what you were talking about, honestly. CROW: Martha, Donald Trump has made a series of disturbing comments and suggestions that would violate U.S. Law and put our military in a terrible position. MACCALLUM: We are getting nowhere because you are not talking about an order. Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (RHGPo) 376
My theory was, the Great Depression wasn’t so great. Meat on the hoof in rural areas didn’t last long. Shortages in meat would have lasted into the 1940s, easy. Rationing. Basically the Deer population was wiped out.
Even into the 1970s seeing Deer was cause for comment. “Wow!”. Population took a long time to rebound. Now they are a pest, more or less. Beautiful creatures, and tasty too. Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (hoi0O) 377
Holiday Lunch today at the CPA firm. It's definitely worth a shower-n-shave and drive in to town.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (wVcYX) 378
Experts wrong again.
>>@RapidResponse47 · 12m . >>@MariaBartiromo : "To me, this looks like a very strong report." >>@StephenMoore : "I agree... We're seeing huge investment numbers... we have great consumer spending numbers... I am very happy about this report, and I think investors should be, too." Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (viF8m) 379
The Who sucks is a spicy take but I agree. One great album, Quadrophenia. OK, it's a double album but it's one title so one album.
Other than that they had some great songs here and there (many not even on albums) but no great albums. Lots of shite and an absurd number of unfunny comedy songs. Tommy is one of the most overrated albums ever released. Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys..." solo album beats the pants off any Who album except Quadrophenia. Posted by: Delurker at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (NhiOW) 380
357. Reagan did keep the Senate in 1982, as Trump did in 2018 (Gained Seats).
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (YCxFk) 381
Democrat Stacey Plaskett has doubled down on her Epstein collusion in a cringe inducing CNN interview, shrugging off his known sex offender status and sparking outrage as the Epstein files bill clears the Senate ...
... The CNN anchor pressed, “At the time, he was a known sex offender…” prompting Plaskett to respond “A lot of people have done a lot of crimes!” Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (743lG) 382
lol
That was my kids introduction to Rush. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 08:59 AM (dK+Kv) --- The Necromancer is my favorite Rush track. Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 20, 2025 09:01 AM (wPw5l) These are my people! Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (Ltmlv) 383
I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.
---- I would characterize myself as not fun Posted by: Don Black My wife once said I'm the nicest asshole one could meet. She explained that people get the version of me they deserve. She gets me!! Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (cYBz/) 384
One of the chief benefits of attaining great age and experience is the curmudgeonliness of it. Being able to yell "Get off my lawn!" to the young whippersnappers is liberating. I soak in it, live for it, try to enhance it. Living for a long time in a doomed, dying world, it is the natural conclusion. Embrace it!
Posted by: Mr. Grouch at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (oftw2) 385
California should be dismantled for this.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1) The list of issues which could be used in place of 'this' is pretty long. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (ExV1e) 386
The Rush covers album is good, particularly Mr. Soul and The Seeker.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (XvL8K) 387
Attorney Clevenger Demands FBI Demand Jim Comey and Andrew McCabe Turn Over “Any and All Efforts to Hide Records on Seth Rich”
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo) 388
363 "Yes. And part of Trump's plan requires interest rates to come down."
Volcker kept interest rates high, not low. Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:03 AM (4kcNT) This is a different problem now. Volcker had to tackle runaway inflation. Trump needs to reshore business and jump-start American jobs. Trump needs to artificially juice the economy to bridge the gap between now and a US-domiciled manufacturing economy. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (0CU3H) 389
This is a really interesting tweet linked over at Insty:
https://tinyurl.com/wf9r4fmh About a judge in the Hague who has authorized a lot of warrants against Israelis and others and how he has been personally sanctioned by us and he cannot easily engage in modern life. I actually agree with the sentiments of the tweet. It is Kafkaesque that our censoring him completely destroys his life. At the same time, he chose this path because he believed that he had authority that he does in fact not have. He chose to make pronouncements and 'Europe' has not fucking power to actually do a fucking thing to protect him, so what in fact do his arrest warrants mean? Not a fucking thing. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 09:06 AM (bss/y) 390
380 357. Reagan did keep the Senate in 1982, as Trump did in 2018 (Gained Seats).
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:05 AM (YCxFk) Reagan did keep the senate, but lost 20+ seats in the House. Trump can't afford to lose anything. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (0CU3H) Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (RHGPo) 392
You can wipe your ass with these polls. It’s all whatever is trendy or faddish, especially if there’s an element of fake “edge” to it. Socialism, furries, cannibalism, whatevs. Take a poll of these immature retards and you’ll see 50% support for creating the torment nexus. It’s just hot air.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (Kw4hI) 393
I'm not particularly curmudgeonly. I just have some Seasonal Affective Disorder going on at the moment and that will pass.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (Yl2Ob) 394
Do you think that operating a nuclear reactor is uncomplicated? Or do you believe that knowing not much and trusting the instrumentation is wise? Or do you advocate for 90 day wonders operating a nuclear reactor in your vicinity?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic Most old designs aka pressurized water/steam, are active and those systems are the primary problem. New systems use molten salts and are passive at low pressures. So when the control rods are pulled, the reaction stops and the molten salts cool without the possibility of core melting via overheating as the molten salts freezing point is far above water and pressures minimal. We've known how to do this since the 60's as well as Thorium reactors and nuclear reprocessing of waste. We have just lacked the will to do it. Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:07 AM (WDjG6) 395
389. that Judge is a Muslim
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk) 396
Installing Win11 on a new Thinkpad.
Do I need to be added to the HQ prayer list?" Make sure your squirrels and hamsters are at 100% operating capacity... Posted by: man at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (XuXeR) 397
Lots of parallels to Reagan/Vockler, but as noted they needed skyhigh rates to crush skyhigh inflation. We don't have that today.
Instead, Trump is trying to reverse decades of bad trade policy that favored the few and f*cked the many. Posted by: Ignoramus at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (dtajH) 398
Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys..." solo album beats the pants off any Who album except Quadrophenia.
Posted by: Delurker Ummmm - interesting choice of words for Pete there - "Beat's the pants off. . . . " Rough Boys indeed. Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (cYBz/) 399
Nobody can pull a Tall Paul Volcker and raise interest rates to meaningful levels. They painted themselves in a corner 25 or 35 years ago. All of the government debt rolls over every 4 years. 18% interest rates would cause the government to go “TILT”. They can save the markets, or save the dollar. They can’t save both.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (hoi0O) 400
Top Republicans Banned Dan Crenshaw From International Travel After Alcohol-Related Episode During Congressional Trip to Mexico
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo) Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (9ipOP) 402
Violence in Germany has long been tied to mass immigration, ... 50% increase at train stations.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (743lG) 403
395 389. that Judge is a Muslim
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:08 AM (YCxFk) Yeah, like I said. I agree with the general sentiment, but at the same time, this is a useful object lesson. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (bss/y) 404
A thorium pebble bed reactor in every neighborhood! (And yes, I'd have one in my backyard if it meant free electricity) Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (g6TN6) 405
I am trying to think if any of us are not really kind of curmudgeonly.
Jack, but he is medicated. qdpsteve. I am not sure that is a compliment. Piper, but it is her job to maintain a positive attitude. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 08:54 AM (bss/y) Wow. Two of those three don't deserve to be mentioned with the other. Posted by: Doof at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (Ltmlv) 406
400 Top Republicans Banned Dan Crenshaw From International Travel After Alcohol-Related Episode During Congressional Trip to Mexico
that's hilarious also funny - Pence was on some panel and literally looked like he just rolled out of bed - terrible fit and sloppy looking I hope they are both miserable drunks frankly Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (emBoF) Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (9ipOP) 408
Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys..." solo album beats the pants off any Who album except Quadrophenia.
Posted by: Delurker _______ Seriously? Who's Next? C'mon. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (XvL8K) 409
Top Republicans Banned Dan Crenshaw From International Travel After Alcohol-Related Episode During Congressional Trip to Mexico
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:09 AM (RHGPo) Perhaps he should be red-flagged. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (wVcYX) 410
They needed 50 Republicans to mysteriously retire in 2018 for Trump to "lose" the house
Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (J/ft9) 411
I believe I point that out, Doof.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 09:11 AM (bss/y) 412
410 They needed 50 Republicans to mysteriously retire in 2018 for Trump to "lose" the house
thank you three dots! we should never forget that OBVIOUS bit of treason, orchestrated by Paul Ryan. Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:11 AM (emBoF) 413
Crenshaw laughed at a joke told by one of their Mexican hosts. The fact that the joke itself hasn't been specified makes me go hmmmm.
Posted by: Delurker at November 20, 2025 09:11 AM (NhiOW) 414
Can't compare Volker economy to what we have now. Apples and oranges.
Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 09:11 AM (g47mK) 415
Republicans go after Veteran Crenshaw, but then give a pass to Plaskett and other Dem traitors in the House
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (YCxFk) 416
Russian spy ship, Yantar is positioned just off U.K. waters north of Scotland.
The UK military scrambled aerial assets in response, including Royal Air Force jets as well as a naval frigate, in order to "track and monitor the vessel," during which time "the Yantar directed lasers at our pilots." --- Russians spying on Scotland. What in the world are the Scots up to? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (743lG) 417
At the same time, he chose this path because he believed that he had authority that he does in fact not have. He chose to make pronouncements and 'Europe' has not fucking power to actually do a fucking thing to protect him, so what in fact do his arrest warrants mean? Not a fucking thing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD ====== Same sob story as a UN female rep doing the same shit. And the very attempts by the ICC to enforce its rulings by the very international law that they are claiming as authority does not apply to Israel nor the US. Neither have ratified the ICC treaty applying to themselves so the ICC legally speaking has no authority over them. Instead, the new intl crowd are trying to upvote traditions and customs as justification to apply their rules to non signatory states. That has never been the understanding on conventional international law which require treaty accession or at the very least, acquiescence by a state. Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (WDjG6) 418
The War On Men Is A War On Truth
I think this is Petersons ideas about having some degree of disagreement. A person with a temperament of disagreement benefits the team or organization as old rules as well as new rules tend to be challenged. Women tend to follow along. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (gbOdA) 419
I’m not curmudgeonly. I just don’t give a fuck.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (Kw4hI) 420
Russians spying on Scotland. What in the world are the Scots up to?
something stinks up in the UK it's Globalism Central Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (emBoF) Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (J/ft9) 422
They needed 50 Republicans to mysteriously retire in 2018 for Trump to "lose" the house
Posted by: ... I'm on it!! -- Paul Ryan Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (cYBz/) 423
Race War 2025 Update:
- White girl on Chicago CTA train set on fire by 49-time black felon; critical condition. No one rendered aid. - White brothers in Washington hunted down and killed by black assailant; claims "mistaken identity" Coincides with Michelle Obama's inflammatory statement "whites used to kill blacks for wearing the wrong clothes." Abortion saves lives. Fund Planned Parenthood. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (qwx/I) 424
At Breitbart: "Today has been officially declared World Toilet Day by the United Nations"
Today would be a good day to hug your toilet. Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (4kcNT) 425
What were once vices are now habits.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (viF8m) 426
Stephen Miller: Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection
Mark Kelly: I got shot at serving our country in combat, and I was there when your boss sent a violent mob to attack the Capitol. I know the difference between defending our Constitution and an insurrection, even if you don’t. Miller needs to dial that shit down, or just fucking step down. Even he knows the Democrats are not calling for an "insurrection". Scumbag. Laura Loomer: I'm going to say it. The GOP has a Nazi problem. And the more we pretend we don't, the worse it's going to get. Isn't Loomer one if the main Nazis? And Miller is softer than kitten shit. The little bitch moved out of his multimillion dollar house onto a military base because of *checks notes* messages on a sidewalk written in chalk Insurrection = Hurt Orange Man Feelings Honestly Kelly for all his faults I think is the best chance the Democrats have for the Presidency in '28. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz) 427
Who's Next?
Won't get Fooled Again - classic. Baba O'Reilly, classic until that borefest interminable violin coda that makes you forget the good song that came before it. The rest of it, meh to bad. My Wife blows. Bargain blows. Going mobile, barely tolerable. Posted by: Delurker at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (NhiOW) 428
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund ==== Fvck him. Fvck Europe. You're welcome. Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (9ipOP) 429
410 They needed 50 Republicans to mysteriously retire in 2018 for Trump to "lose" the house
Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:10 AM (J/ft9) Again (and I think I have mentioned this about every poll and bs thing for the past fucking 15 years on this blog): It always feels like a whisper campaign. Kamala is ahead of Trump! Hilary is inevitable! Even setting aside 2020 when the polls did not matter and it was an obvious steal, HOW DOES A POLL CHANGE HOW YOU WOULD VOTE?! IF YOU STAYED HOME IN A RUNNOFF BETWEEN STALIN AND JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE STALIN WAS AHEAD IN THE 'POLLS' THEN YOU FUCKING DESERVE TO GET PURGED. Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (bss/y) 430
Whatever happened to Jeff Flake? He and Mitt Romney and Dan Crenshaw should start a club… maybe invite Liz Cheney to join….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (+kWhq) Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (emBoF) 432
The CNN anchor pressed, “At the time, he was a known sex offender…” prompting Plaskett to respond “A lot of people have done a lot of crimes!”
We tend to project on to others the only world we know. Plaskett must be really deep in the criminal world. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (rgGn5) 433
Can't compare Volker economy to what we have now. Apples and oranges.
—— Well right, it’s several orders of magnitude worse. Apples and aircraft carriers. Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (hoi0O) 434
The War On Men Is A War On Truth
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:12 AM (gbOdA) Not as such. It's not that men are honest it's that women are more likely to believe lies. Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (J/ft9) 435
410. Well said. Ted Cruz better hope that his Judge pick in Texas, gets shot down by the SCOTUS on redistricting.
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (YCxFk) 436
For example, we were under oil embargo, that caused a lot of inflationary pain. Today Trump oil cheap, there is no inflationary pain from high oil prices ! Volker basically pushed the economy into recession category, to make the paint stop. We don't have to do it now!
Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (g47mK) 437
NEWS UPDATE:
Houston local headline news: Argument between home delivery drivers leads to gunfire; woman shot. I'm betting someone felt disrespected. Posted by: Count de Monet Police learned there had been some sort of argument between the woman and another delivery driver. During the argument, ... both drivers pulled out handguns and fired at each other. Names of the suspects were conspicuously absent from the news clip. Posted by: Count de Monet at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (wVcYX) 438
Oh yeah, to my fellow Catholics: the Pope just had a sit down with JB Pritzker, who declared Illinois to be an abortion enclave.
So if the Pope is good with abortion, so am I. It's the most effective means of population control since we cannot lock up criminals. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (qwx/I) 439
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM (emBoF)
Congratulations and I hope you get some sleep tonight. Can you attribute it to anything? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (Yl2Ob) 440
The song Slit Skirts alone makes All the Best Cowboys ... a great album
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (bfwj/) 441
393 I'm not particularly curmudgeonly. I just have some Seasonal Affective Disorder going on at the moment and that will pass.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke Yeah, when you're outside at 2 PM and the low angle of the sun makes it seem like it's dusk already, it can be depressing. Posted by: Mr. Grouch's Bad Day at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (oftw2) 442
The Vindmans have announced that someone told them they overheard Trump doing treason on a phone call. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (QZThv) 443
Congratulations and I hope you get some sleep tonight. Can you attribute it to anything?
successful (early) product launch yesterday! now today (when launch was supposed to happen) is a bonus day! Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (emBoF) 444
Isn't Loomer one if the main Nazis? And Miller is softer than kitten shit. The little bitch moved out of his multimillion dollar house onto a military base because of *checks notes* messages on a sidewalk written in chalk
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 20, 2025 09:13 AM (JCZqz) I believe there was an actual bounty on Miller. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (gbOdA) 445
"Veteran Crenshaw" One's past service does not insulate one's current behavior. This reminds me of an article I saw yesterday about DeSantis signing execution warrants for veterans who murdered, criticizing him for doing so with him being a veteran himself. Big fucking deal, when people murder and rape, sometimes at the same time, they deserve to die. Doesn't really matter if they are a veteran or even a combat veteran. Killing a defenseless woman or children is and should be a ticket to the great beyond Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (g6TN6) 446
426. Is this a parody, or are you a Kos Kid?
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (YCxFk) 447
yep and honestly ... while I do think Powell is being an asshat, I'm not fully against not putting rates back at 0 or crazy low.
it's painful I get that but ... it might be good medicine anyway too many people I know are like "I can't want for low rates to refi and do XYZ"' well guys you're old, like me. you don't need more mortgage / loan costs, my dudes. Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:04 AM (emBoF) The problem is that previous administrations refinanced the debt on short term notes so they have to be re-upped at the higher rates so even more tax dollars are going to bankers even without additional excessive spending. If rates were lowered, the debt could be refinanced with longer bonds... assuming people bought them Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (ExV1e) 448
442 The Vindmans have announced that someone told them they overheard Trump doing treason on a phone call. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
diabetes, you work too slow Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (emBoF) 449
The Nation:
Within 24 hours of arriving in San Miguel de Allende, Karen decided to permanently leave the United States and become one of the many recent US immigrants to Mexico. Four months before visiting the city, the 55-year-old had been terminated as part of the Trump administration’s January 20 executive order suspending the US Refugee Admissions Program. Karen, who asked me not to use her full name because of her current immigration status, says through a haze of tears, “It’s hard to explain the compound grief involved in seeing a sector that did nothing but good just destroyed,” adding that much of her work involved the prevention of sexual exploitation. Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (RHGPo) 450
408 Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys..." solo album beats the pants off any Who album except Quadrophenia.
Posted by: Delurker _______ Seriously? Who's Next? C'mon. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba Depends on what you are looking for--All the Best Cowboys dwells with the human condition just like Who By Numbers or Quadrophenia. Who's Next is more like Tommy in making broad social commentary (and Who's Next was a botched two record concept album where Glyn Johns boiled the huge number of Lifehouse songs down to a single album. Pete suffered a nervous breakdown over it. Who's Next and Tommy are classic stadium hard rock but increasingly Pete's concerns after the Life House experiment failed turned inward rather than outward. Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (WDjG6) 451
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 20, 2025 09:15 AM (qwx/I)
I don't think the Pope good with it. I think he sits down with a lot of people because that's part of his job, not because he agrees with all their stances. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (Yl2Ob) 452
Curmudgeon song:
"I was a young boy that had big plans Now I'm just another shitty old man I don't have fun, and I hate everything The world owes me, so fuck you Glory days don't mean shit to me I drank a six-pack of apathy Life's a bitch, and so am I The world owes me, so fuck you" Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (4kcNT) 453
442 The Vindmans, while at the Bear Claw Shop, have announced that someone told them they overheard Trump doing treason on a phone call. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (QZThv) fixed it Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (gbOdA) 454
@416 the Russians must be having a fun time trying to figure out what the hell the Scots are saying
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (bfwj/) 455
>>>Instead, Trump is trying to reverse decades of bad trade policy that favored the few and f*cked the many.
Posted by: Ignoramus ------------ A cut in interest rates will help small businesses which are the main creators of new jobs and it will boost overall construction and new home building that is necessary for the housing market. Jerome Powell is strangling it. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (743lG) 456
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh BREAKING:: A furious President Trump demands the ARREST of Democrat senators and representatives who called for insurrection and sedition by the troops and intelligence community officials “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.” Officials in question: Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., and Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC) 457
ICE Has Found 30,000 of The Estimated 450,000 Migrant Children Who Were Trafficked Under Biden
Posted by: SMOD at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (RHGPo) 458
Or do you advocate for 90 day wonders operating a nuclear reactor in your vicinity? Posted by: I used to have a different nic If the trainers were a bunch of angry Navy Sr. Chiefs, and the graduating certification authority was a sleep deprived, pissed off Navy Master Chief...yes. yes, i would want one next door to my house. Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (QVmho) 459
Coincides with Michelle Obama's inflammatory statement "whites used to kill blacks for wearing the wrong clothes."
------- Like I said the other day - yet the Left wants people to believe "reparations" is a viable solution for anything. The yoctosecond the checks get cashed, it'll be "money can't make up for bloodshed" and "that was our money to begin with, whites still haven't given us shit". Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (J/ft9) 460
"I was a young boy that had big plans
Now I'm just another shitty old man I don't have fun, and I hate everything The world owes me, so fuck you Glory days don't mean shit to me I drank a six-pack of apathy Life's a bitch, and so am I The world owes me, so fuck you" Posted by: gp at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (4kcNT) great tune easy to dance to a 79 Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (gbOdA) 461
438. Yes, many in Illinois are upset with the pope over this.
He wants $$$ from Pritzker to fund Catholic schools in the state, and is willing to sacrifice the abortion issue Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (YCxFk) 462
Transgender Remembrance Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC) Who is that again? I don't remember. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1) 463
Hack on us all you want but boomers remain the undefeated champions of music.
https://tinyurl.com/4zndz6af Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2025 09:19 AM (viF8m) 464
If it has already been said, it needs to be said again. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
Posted by: Gary at November 20, 2025 09:19 AM (j3Fsw) 465
He wants $$$ from Pritzker to fund Catholic schools in the state, and is willing to sacrifice the abortion issue Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (YCxFk) And United States sovereignty, it seems. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1) 466
>Not as such. It's not that men are honest it's that women are more likely to believe lies.
Posted by: ... at November 20, 2025 09:14 AM "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy." Posted by: George Orwell at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (XQo4F) 467
>>> 446 426. Is this a parody, or are you a Kos Kid?
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:16 AM (YCxFk) The nic is a clue... Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (ULPxl) 468
Monopolies is another example, right? But we don't need to break them up to "breakup of monopolies to spur competition" and put downward pressure on prices. Trump is kinda doing that with tariffs, no? We were being crushed by GLOBAL monopolies like the EU and China, he made the US more competitive. Powell needs to go.
Posted by: runner at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (g47mK) 469
Oh yeah, to my fellow Catholics: the Pope just had a sit down with JB Pritzker, who declared Illinois to be an abortion enclave. So if the Pope is good with abortion, so am I. It's the most effective means of population control since we cannot lock up criminals. Posted by: Big Fat Meanie Losing $3 billion in funding from the dismantling of USAID goes a long way to papering over Fatty JB's satanic beliefs Posted by: imp at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (g6TN6) 470
454 @416 the Russians must be having a fun time trying to figure out what the hell the Scots are saying
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 20, 2025 09:17 AM (bfwj/) Like Scotty and Chekov arguing Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (gbOdA) 471
456. Red, where the F are the GOP combat veterans in Congress, to respond to Slotkin?
Quiet as mouses Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (YCxFk) 472
The problem is that previous administrations refinanced the debt on short term notes so they have to be re-upped at the higher rates so even more tax dollars are going to bankers even without additional excessive spending. If rates were lowered, the debt could be refinanced with longer bonds... assuming people bought them
Posted by: I used to have a different nic ======= Yes, tis true. And Yellen by doing that is responsible for about 150-200 billion increase in the deficit from higher interest costs because of it. Yellen and the Biden admin moved to using short term T bills and notes less than 5 yrs instead of the more traditional 10 to 30 yr bonds. Want to cut 10 percent of the deficit--voila-refinance Yellen's short term notes at long term lower rates as in about 1 percentage point lower. Posted by: whig at November 20, 2025 09:20 AM (WDjG6) 473
>>> 456 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh BREAKING:: A furious President Trump demands the ARREST of Democrat senators and representatives who called for insurrection and sedition by the troops and intelligence community officials “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.” Officials in question: Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., and Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC) The MI bint is the "former intel officer" wearing the leather jacket, correct? Now *there* is a punchable face. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 20, 2025 09:22 AM (ULPxl) 474
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING:: A furious President Trump demands the ARREST of Democrat senators and representatives who called for insurrection and sedition by the troops and intelligence community officials “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.” Officials in question: Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., and Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC) In before the 'nothing will happen' guy. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 20, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1) 475
426. My bad. need more coffee
Posted by: Jonah at November 20, 2025 09:22 AM (YCxFk) Daily Tech News 20 November 2025Top Story
Tech News
There was an official music video released for Eye in the Sky, but for the life of me I cannot find it online. Disclaimer: Ptui. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
w00t
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS) 2
1st?
Posted by: Publius Redux at November 20, 2025 04:01 AM (/aZwr) 3
Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 04:02 AM (sAmhv) 4
Damn your eyes m! At least now you have to call the nood - I can go off and read the content!
Posted by: Publius Redux at November 20, 2025 04:02 AM (/aZwr) 5
Good morning. Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 20, 2025 04:03 AM (IfMHM) 6
G'Day everyone
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 04:03 AM (+qU29) 7
Hey Puddleglum!
Posted by: Publius Redux at November 20, 2025 04:03 AM (/aZwr) 8
5 Good morning. Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. No, but if you hum a few bars... Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 20, 2025 04:04 AM (BLOW1) 9
The Witch of November comes stealin'. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 04:08 AM (w6EFb) 10
On the content - I always thought the GDPR was simply impossible to really be implemented (completely) the way it's written. The thought that the EU could issue a regulation that would apply to non EU companies everywhere else in the world, with no actual presence in the EU at all, just because some person in the EU logged on and bought something, was stupid.
Hey Fluffy Nugget - I actually watched a documentary on the Edmund Fitzgerald and went and learned the song on the guitar A very good, and haunting, song. Posted by: Publius Redux at November 20, 2025 04:09 AM (/aZwr) 11
Since I don't do any gaming, I'll just stick with Linux Mint.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 04:09 AM (sAmhv) 12
Yo, PR! (First bump)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 04:10 AM (sAmhv) 13
5 Good morning. Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
_-_ Somewhere around Whitefish Bay, I plumb reckon... Posted by: Guy who memorized that one at November 20, 2025 04:12 AM (vd6bO) Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS) 15
4 Damn your eyes m! At least now you have to call the nood - I can go off and read the content!
Posted by: Publius Redux at November 20, 2025 04:02 AM (/aZwr) I already did! Before I w00ted. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS) 16
5 Good morning. Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 20, 2025 04:03 AM (IfMHM) Maybe to Detroit? In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the maritime sailors' cathedral Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:17 AM (RuTUS) 17
I do have Win11 on a Beelink minipc. I don't for how much longer as Microsoft continues to vomit out garbage but for my own good. Utopians are the worst of tyrants. Whenever I do put Linux on it, I might try something else besides Mint.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 04:18 AM (sAmhv) 18
It went with Hiawatha, into the sunset, from the shores of Gitche Gumee, shining big-sea water. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 04:21 AM (w6EFb) 19
I understand exactly fuck-all about Pixy's posts. Evening, horde.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 20, 2025 04:23 AM (6Bc88) 20
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 04:25 AM (tljrc) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 04:26 AM (Yl2Ob) 22
Is the detector that detects whether the watcher that is watching the monitor that monitors DownDetector down? (A Site Whose Name Is Too Long)
LA was down, for a second, there. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:26 AM (RuTUS) 23
...or, reportedly.
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:27 AM (RuTUS) 24
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 20, 2025 04:23 AM (6Bc88
You don't have to understand anything about it . Be like me. Enjoy the musical selections , ask stupid questions about tech and post about things that interest you. Pixy is very patient with my additions here. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 04:28 AM (Yl2Ob) 25
Good morning, good people, from the 20 degree wonderland that is the Adirondacks.
One more day spent in the majesty of the most exceptional country on the planet. I consider it great good fortune to be able to do so. One of the things has been serving in the military for a spell. I wore that uniform with PRIDE and would wear it again in an instant. Plus as usual, may all effort from you always result in great benefit with commensurate heartburn for the leftwit fungi. Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 20, 2025 04:32 AM (vFbHf) 26
Top Story is pretty wild.
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI lawsThe EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure. After years of staring down the world’s biggest tech companies and setting the bar for tough regulation worldwide, Europe has blinked. Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — including simplifying its infamous cookie permission pop-ups — and relaxing or delaying landmark AI rules in an effort to cut red tape and revive sluggish economic growth. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:33 AM (RuTUS) 27
... although The Verge can't write:
The changes, proposed by the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, changes core elements of the GDPR ch-ch-ch-changes Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:35 AM (RuTUS) 28
moar from the Top Story:
The proposed overhaul won’t land quietly in Brussels, and if the development of the GDPR and AI Act are anything to go by, a political and lobbying firestorm is on its way. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:40 AM (RuTUS) Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 04:49 AM (rdVOm) 30
Raises hand...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 20, 2025 04:50 AM (/HDaX) 31
Lotta hostility in the comments on that Verge article. Not quite a cesspool like Reddit, but nationalism all over the place.
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:53 AM (RuTUS) 32
@29
Good morning, glory. This'll be my second year of really early awakening. It started right after the loss of my beloved Lab Elizabeth from cancer. Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 20, 2025 04:55 AM (vFbHf) 33
Hello, fellow not-asleepers!
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 04:59 AM (rdVOm) 34
IG, sorry to hear you've lost Spastic Lab.
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 04:59 AM (rdVOm) 35
Since I don't do any gaming, I'll just stick with Linux Mint.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 04:09 AM (sAmhv) OTOH, if you did decide to do gaming, Linux Mint would work just fine. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 05:06 AM (ExV1e) 36
the Linux-seeker at The Verge sounds very brave:
I’ve cleverly arranged it so the stakes are only medium: I have other machines to work on while my desktop is inevitably borked.... Maybe it’ll all go smoothly and I’ll report back in a few weeks, another prophet of the revolution. Maybe it’ll go terribly and I’ll come crawling back. Only one way to find out. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:06 AM (RuTUS) 37
Indoor temp is almost back to comfortable. Yay. Stoopid pellet heat...
Oh well. At least it wasn't a mechanical issue, and I would've shut if off Thursday anyhow for its weekly cleaning. Got tomorrow's chore done today! Woohoo! Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 05:07 AM (rdVOm) 38
JJ will have the link probably
At Legalinsurrection.com last night saw one judge sent a scathing decent of that Texas gerrymandering ruling. Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 05:08 AM (+qU29) 39
JJ will have the link probably
At Legalinsurrection.com last night saw one judge sent a scathing decent of that Texas gerrymandering ruling. Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 05:08 AM (+qU29) Ace did a substantial post on it yesterday. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 05:09 AM (ExV1e) 40
>>...one judge sent a scathing decent of that Texas gerrymandering ruling.
Posted by: Skip Yeah, Ace covered it earlier: "Two Partisan Hacks Ignored Supreme Court Precedent to Claim the Texas Redistricting Map Was Illegal. Judge Smith Dissents" Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 05:10 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 05:12 AM (rdVOm) 42
Pretty sure the official Eye in the Sky is on the official channel somewhere.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at November 20, 2025 05:17 AM (p2GXS) 43
G'morning Horde.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW) 44
I guess this sort of observation (Verge) prompts some of the nationalistic comments:
With very few exceptions, Europe doesn’t have any credible competitors in the global AI race, which is dominated by US and Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Google, and OpenAI. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:21 AM (RuTUS) 45
With very few exceptions, Europe doesn’t have any credible competitors
Edited for brevity. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 05:22 AM (ExV1e) 46
It is not on the official channel. It is on a channel called Clipz. I guess Arista still owns the 1982 video?
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at November 20, 2025 05:23 AM (p2GXS) 47
45 With very few exceptions, Europe doesn’t have any credible competitors
Edited for brevity. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 05:22 AM (ExV1e) Although, out of context, that could be read as: Europe is number one in everything! Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:26 AM (RuTUS) 48
Greetings and good morning, one and all. A friend took us out last night for sushi. I am still quite full and will be avoiding food until dinner tonight. Life is good.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 05:28 AM (RjOoY) 49
46 It is not on the official channel. It is on a channel called Clipz. I guess Arista still owns the 1982 video?
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at November 20, 2025 05:23 AM (p2GXS) Thanks! Meanwhile, when I typed into my browser bar clipz sirius alan parsons project AI Overview "helps" me by providing this insightful scolding: "Clipz Sirius" is a misremembered title for "Sirius," an instrumental by the band The Alan Parsons Project, which is famously used as intro music for sports teams, most notably the Chicago Bulls. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:31 AM (RuTUS) 50
AI is not helping. Ugh.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at November 20, 2025 05:33 AM (p2GXS) 51
The Alan Parsons Symphonic Project "Sirius" - "Eye In The Sky" (Live in Colombia)
https://youtu.be/Q6ZRGzx31iQ Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:34 AM (RuTUS) 52
Fen, out of curiosity: Did you get my answer to your question about Aikido being appropriate for older people?
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 05:34 AM (RjOoY) 53
Have frost, that is unexpected
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 05:35 AM (+qU29) 54
I am sure my ice scraper isn't in my truck
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 05:37 AM (+qU29) 55
Although, out of context, that could be read as: Europe is number one in everything!
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:26 AM (RuTUS) You make a fair point although anyone thinking that the author meant that would have to assume that the author was a comedian or a loon. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 05:39 AM (ExV1e) 56
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 05:34
Yes, i did. Thanks. I should have responded at the time. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 05:39 AM (2sfNr) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 05:41 AM (2sfNr) 58
50 AI is not helping. Ugh.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at November 20, 2025 05:33 AM (p2GXS) It's the scolding, man, the scolding. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:42 AM (RuTUS) 59
G'morning, all!
52 degrees out, with a high in the 80's yesterday. A/C in the day, and heat at night is no way to run a railroad. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 20, 2025 05:45 AM (a1415) 60
Alan Parsons is still touring. He's 76.
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:46 AM (RuTUS) 61
Is it evening for the late toilers? Yes. Is it morning for the early risers and insomaniacals? Indeed yes, for I am among that number. A no-workout morning for me, and I was going to sleep until 5:30 . . . but then big black Stirling *shot* as if from a cannon off the bed, which startled me out of a dream about a friend of a friend offering me a job. ("I need somebody *now.* Can you start tomorrow?") Couldn't go back to sleep.
Whassup? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 05:46 AM (wzUl9) 62
Yes, i did. Thanks. I should have responded at the time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke You're welcome. If you have a school in your area, the best approach would be watch a class and get a feel for it. The other advice I give is when you start, don't bother with a gi. Bring in sweats. If you are doing it for a few months, you can get a cheap gi on Amazon for about $40-50. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 05:47 AM (RjOoY) 63
The 1978 nostalgia from the ONT was fascinating. I can't wait to skim the comments and wish I'd been in on it. We went out for a little Haagen-Dasz ice cream last night, and I found myself dozing by 9:30, so I hit the haystack early.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 05:48 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:48 AM (RuTUS) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 05:49 AM (2sfNr) 66
Although, out of context, that could be read as: Europe is number one in everything!
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 *** Translated: "Europe is urinating on itself" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 05:49 AM (wzUl9) 67
"2026 will be the year of Linux on my desktop, at least."
I guess I was an early adopter. ~1998 was when I switched for anything other than Windows games. My laptop has my last operational Windows boot partition (my main desktop's windows drive failed and I haven't bothered to replace/fix that one) which I use to run Steam. After I found out that the author of my favorite games, Derek Smart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Smart) was rabidly anti-Trump, I deleted his games from my Steam account. ("All Aspect Warfare" was fun as well as "Universal Combat CE 2.0") I guess I'll try the new emulation layers to see if the older games that I like to play which don't have linux ports actually work. Posted by: Richard Cranium at November 20, 2025 05:49 AM (vWzw8) 68
Fox has a new poll that indicates Trump is unpopular, and that people blame him for their problems.
Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 05:51 AM (AOsQT) 69
For those of you in North and South Carolina, near a Lowes grocery store, and enjoy Michelob Light beer....
Between the current sale, and clipping the digital coupon and stacking it, you can own a case of Michelob Light for the paltry sum of $15.88 ( Limit of four cases per purchase) Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 20, 2025 05:51 AM (a1415) 70
Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke Any time. This is one of those topics I will talk about in great detail. -:-) Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 05:53 AM (RjOoY) 71
Between the current sale, and clipping the digital coupon and stacking it, you can own a case of Michelob Light for the paltry sum of $15.88
Does it come with something to mop up my pride after I make the purchase? Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 05:54 AM (RjOoY) 72
Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 20, 2025 05:55 AM (bQ4nt) 73
Walter Matthau (from the days before he settled into his comic on-screen personae) and Bruce Dern are in The Laughing Policeman on Movies! Seems to be a serious '70s crime film set in a big city -- NYC, maybe?
*checking* Yep, 1973 and San Francisco -- based on a novel set in Stockholm (!). Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 05:55 AM (wzUl9) 74
Fox has a new poll that indicates Trump is unpopular, and that people blame him for their problems.
Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 05:51 AM (AOsQT) Might be true. People are easily manipulated and the left is good at manipulation. I saw a thing yesterday where some brainiac was saying that we should ban billionaires and just confiscate all wealth over 999 million... like people like Musk are just sitting there with stacks of cash all over their house. Or the idiots would complain about no jobs, and high rent, and high insurance but don't you dare remove those people who're in the country illegally. The citizenry has become a collection of petulant children. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 05:56 AM (ExV1e) 75
68 Fox has a new poll that indicates Trump is unpopular, and that people blame him for their problems.
Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 05:51 AM (AOsQT) Good morning, Sunshine! Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 05:57 AM (RuTUS) 76
"Does it come with something to mop up my pride after I make the purchase?"
I gave up pride for lower carbs quite some time ago. Not sure if it was a smart trade, but my pants fit better. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 20, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415) Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 05:59 AM (ExV1e) 78
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at November 20, 2025 06:01 AM (XQo4F) 79
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 05:59 AM (ExV1e)
And how did your meeting go with your boss yesterday? Was that yesterday? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:01 AM (2sfNr) 80
I gave up pride for lower carbs quite some time ago.
Not sure if it was a smart trade, but my pants fit better. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 20, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415) Michelob is made by Anheuser-Busch so that might be the AIDS. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:01 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 06:01 AM (AOsQT) 82
So in the minds of the Left it is a bad thing to soft wash a historic building .....
But it's OK to destroy historic statues. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 20, 2025 06:02 AM (a1415) 83
In other news, Fox has already called the 2028 Arizona Presidential race for the Democrat.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 20, 2025 06:03 AM (PiwSw) 84
@74/I used to have a different nic: "I saw a thing yesterday where some brainiac was saying that we should ban billionaires and just confiscate all wealth over 999 million... like people like Musk are just sitting there with stacks of cash all over their house. "
I am reminded of Bill Whittle's episode of "Firewall" called "Eat the Rich": https://youtu.be/661pi6K-8WQ Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 06:03 AM (O7YUW) 85
54 I am sure my ice scraper isn't in my truck
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 05:37 AM (+qU29) Kitchen drawer. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 06:03 AM (RuTUS) 86
And how did your meeting go with your boss yesterday? Was that yesterday?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:01 AM (2sfNr) It was and it went well. She gave me the second highest rating, which is what I gave myself, and was very complimentary in the "past year" write-up. My goals for next year were stuff like "learn to sleep in" and the like. She did say that she had decided to not give me a raise, which I thought was fair since I won't be here to receive it. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:04 AM (ExV1e) 87
I have been tracking down music videos for songs I used to listen to on the radio, and recently I hit a bad batch of excessively queer ones. I had no idea, since I didn't have cable and had not seen the videos at the time, but Faith No More, the Goo Goo Dolls, and Jane's Addiction (among others) are obnoxiously faggy.
I imagine that they thought they were being edgy, but it doesn't look that way through the lens of today. If anything it makes me sad; maybe it was their choice, or maybe they took The Ticket and got forced into gender-bending by diabolists. Posted by: SciVo at November 20, 2025 06:05 AM (VB5xp) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 20, 2025 06:05 AM (Cjt/F) 89
I have nine workdays left.
https://youtu.be/sOhE3Rq7OiM?t=41 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 *** I was pretty busy in my last two weeks. The budget for 2025-26 was due by the end of March. It was my job to reconcile everything (salaries, guest speakers, and supplies, to mention only three things) and make sure it was all entered in the budgeting software my employer used. I miss tackling the logic puzzles of "Why am I off by $14,000?" Nothing else about it all, though. Changing my older PC laptop over to Linux Mint will be a good challenge, though. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 06:06 AM (wzUl9) 90
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:04 AM (ExV1e)
Glad it went well. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:06 AM (2sfNr) 91
. . . My goals for next year were stuff like "learn to sleep in" and the like.
She did say that she had decided to not give me a raise, which I thought was fair since I won't be here to receive it. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 *** No Groucho mask, I guess? Still, it sounds like you are heading out on a good note for you! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 06:08 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:09 AM (2sfNr) 93
I was pretty busy in my last two weeks.
I still have a meeting every day with my (temporary) replacements but they're already handling all the work and just checking with me if they have questions or to verify that they're doing things right. Gives me more time to post here and try to teach people the definition of treason. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:09 AM (ExV1e) 94
No Groucho mask, I guess?
No Groucho mask. She did say that she thinks the IT help desk, where I have to return my laptop, is closed on Fridays (cuz corporate America) so I may have to turn it in on Thursday and, literally, be unable to do anything work related on my last day. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:11 AM (ExV1e) 95
mornin yall. They really have Trump now. This may be the beginning of the end of MAGA.
*sets hair on fire, jumps into 50 degree pool* Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:12 AM (vFG9F) Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 06:13 AM (W7XSX) 97
I needed a haircut anyway.
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:13 AM (vFG9F) 98
"I saw a thing yesterday where some brainiac was saying that we should ban billionaires and just confiscate all wealth over 999 million.
I'm reminded of the execrable "influencer" named Pokimane yapping about how we need to tax the rich. The guy who was interviewing her asked "Aren't you one of the rich?" (Her net worth is close to 10 million.). Immediately: "Nooooo! I mean the super rich. The needlessly rich!" Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 06:14 AM (RjOoY) 99
Usually, the last day is exit interview, turn in badge and a lunch of no return.
Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 06:14 AM (W7XSX) 100
Art III Sec 3
Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 06:14 AM (AOsQT) Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:14 AM (ExV1e) 102
>Usually, the last day is exit interview, turn in badge and a lunch of no return.
Posted by: no one --- My last day at Big Pipeline, I was on the night shift at one point I went outside for a smoke, and when I tried to get back in, my key fob to re-open the door no longer worked. That's when I knew. Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 06:18 AM (AOsQT) 103
I'm sure JJ will be all over this, but as an amuse-bouche before the Morning Report:
https://tinyurl.com/434chz73 Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 20, 2025 06:18 AM (PiwSw) 104
No wonder the Trump administrations considering Getting rid of FEMA. They didn't give aid to people who had Trump signs outside their houses and this awful women ripped them off to the tune of millions .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:18 AM (2sfNr) 105
Usually, the last day is exit interview, turn in badge and a lunch of no return.
Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 *** Somehow I missed out on the exit interview. I'd have loved to say honestly what I thought of my employer's execrable behavior and treatment of employees during the Sniffle Scare. I did leave early, though! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9) 106
I see I used to have a different nic (iuthadn ? ) beat me to the punch.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 20, 2025 06:19 AM (PiwSw) 107
Usually, the last day is exit interview, turn in badge and a lunch of no return.
Posted by: no one at November 20, 2025 06:14 AM (W7XSX) No exit interview. Gonna hang out in the cafe in case someone wants to say goodbye in person, turn in my badge, and drive off into the early afternoon... Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:20 AM (ExV1e) 108
I see I used to have a different nic (iuthadn ? ) beat me to the punch.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 20, 2025 06:19 AM (PiwSw) I've always assumed that people would shorten it to just diffnic but it hasn't happened yet. Folks used LiT for my old nic pretty fast though. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:22 AM (ExV1e) 109
I am reminded of Bill Whittle's episode of "Firewall" called "Eat the Rich": https://youtu.be/661pi6K-8WQ Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 06:03 AM that originated on Dave Burge's Iowahawk blog back in the day (long before Burge got et by the twits). Whittle & Burge collaborated on the Firewall vid I still prefer Whittle's long-form essay work ('member those?) to the vlogging but I get it: send someone a link to a 30K+ word essay and they'll TL,RD; but they'll probably watch a ten minute video I think Eat The Rich should be required viewing (Clockwork Orange style) for anyone who even hints at spending other peoples' money Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 06:24 AM (tljrc) 110
H Town
Carlos Rusi was arrested Tuesday for aggravated robbery of a person over 65 years old, records show. But Rusi is no stranger to being the subject of crime reports. In 2017, KPRC 2 News reported on police needing help finding him as a gang member and a bank jugging suspect. At the time, he had more than 30 arrests. 30 Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:26 AM (gbOdA) 111
104 No wonder the Trump administrations considering Getting rid of FEMA. They didn't give aid to people who had Trump signs outside their houses and this awful women ripped them off to the tune of millions .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:18 AM (2sfNr) How much did Hilldog steal from Haiti? Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:27 AM (gbOdA) 112
A lot of social media influencers yap more than a Yorkie on meth or Schumer in front of a microphone.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 20, 2025 06:29 AM (wnD9v) 113
"We have all the ingredients in the EU to succeed. But our companies, especially our start-ups and small businesses, are often held back by layers of rigid rules," There was a recent graphic where the combined market cap of the 50 most successful EU start-ups over the last 50 years was smaller than that of Home Depot. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 20, 2025 06:31 AM (tgvbd) 114
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:27 AM (gbOdA)
She wasn't part of FEMA but yes, huge amounts of money. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:32 AM (Yl2Ob) 115
Houston adds citywide curfew on scooters and ATVs
At the very end of civilizations the Great Elders add laws, and rules, and regulations that have nothing to do with safety, or crime, or economics. Police, Judges, and Tax Collectors become High Priest that argue over the rights and privileges criminals and gangs while never noticing there is victim that is asking for justice. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:34 AM (gbOdA) 116
@101/I used to have a different nic: "Wonder if Ace will do a post on this today..."
Let's play the "Guess the party" game. News story about a corrupt politician that's been caught being corrupt. Title doesn't mention party affiliation. Summary doesn't either. First 30 seconds of the video doesn't either. Gee, I wonder... Go to Wikipedia, paste in the politician's name. Sure enough: Political party Democratic. Funny how when it's a Republican in a story like this, (R) is right after their name, and they salt the summary and the video/audio with the term "Republican" as much as they can. Nobody hates the partisan media enough. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 06:34 AM (O7YUW) 117
Usually, the last day is exit interview, turn in badge and a lunch of no return. Posted by: no one For me, it was turn in the badge and get escorted off the site. The stock price of the company at the time was 125. It's now 36. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 20, 2025 06:35 AM (tgvbd) 118
It's been the year of Linux on the desktop for over 30 years.
It's never going to be a mass thing until there are killer apps and major vendors offer it pre-installed on shipping units at scale. Having said that Niri has made me fall in love with Linux all over again. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 06:35 AM (XV/Pl) Posted by: The Daleks at November 20, 2025 06:36 AM (9ipOP) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:37 AM (Yl2Ob) Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 20, 2025 06:37 AM (PiwSw) 122
115 Houston adds citywide curfew on scooters and ATVs
laws, and rules, and regulations that have nothing to do with safety, or crime, or economics Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:34 AM (gbOdA) Me, personally, I'm tired of having scooters ditched randomly all over the sidewalk. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS) 123
@109/AltonJackson: "I still prefer Whittle's long-form essay work ('member those?) "
Sure do. I used to read Bill's "Eject! Eject! Eject!" blog. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 06:39 AM (O7YUW) 124
It's been the year of Linux on the desktop for over 30 years.
It's never going to be a mass thing until there are killer apps and major vendors offer it pre-installed on shipping units at scale. - Too many distros. - Business uses MSoft. - A significant portion of the Linux 'intelligentsia' are absolute assholes. It's a toy OS and it'll always be a toy OS but it's enough of an OS to do what I want, it's free, and I don't have to put up with MSoft's bullshit anymore. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e) 125
"Former President George W. Bush and his family are reportedly planning to retake the Republican Party from President Donald Trump once he is out of office, according to a recent report."
What did I tell you? It's all over for MAGA. Get ready for MABA. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:41 AM (vFG9F) 126
Pope Leo meets with woman whose 14 year old son committed suicide after being influenced by a chatbot:
https://tinyurl.com/3adu86v6 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 06:41 AM (Yl2Ob) 127
Why am I up at 3 am?
Posted by: The Daleks at November 20, 2025 06:36 AM (9ipOP) Presumably there's a time lord nearby, or whatever it was that motivated your kind. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:41 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F) 129
What did I tell you? It's all over for MAGA. Get ready for MABA.
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:41 AM (vFG9F) Mister we could use a woman like Liz Cheney again Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:43 AM (gbOdA) 130
For those of you who use Charity Navigator to evaluate charities:
https://tinyurl.com/4jje3sdh Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 20, 2025 06:37 AM (PiwSw) This charity's score is 100%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence. --- So, if you really, really, really want to give money to the Clintons and write it off your taxes... Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:43 AM (ExV1e) 131
125 "Former President George W. Bush and his family are reportedly planning to retake the Republican Party from President Donald Trump once he is out of office, according to a recent report."
What did I tell you? It's all over for MAGA. Get ready for MABA. Posted by: fd 'Recent report' Who reported it? Where is the 'Everything is fake and gay' poster? Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 06:43 AM (sAmhv) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 06:44 AM (O7YUW) 133
No real crosstab on the Trump Is Bad Fox survey but some of the MOE are 8 and 9%.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:45 AM (gbOdA) 134
"Former President George W. Bush and his family are reportedly planning to retake the Republican Party from President Donald Trump once he is out of office, according to a recent report."
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:41 AM (vFG9F) I'm planning on having a threesome with two supermodels... with the wife's blessing, of course. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:45 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 06:46 AM (O7YUW) 136
A significant portion of the Linux 'intelligentsia' are absolute assholes.
That's been my problem with it. You ask a question and get "Did you RTFM?" "How about you neckbearded fucks just answer questions instead of acting like your the keeper of the secrets?" Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 06:46 AM (RjOoY) 137
I'm planning on having a threesome with two supermodels... with the wife's blessing, of course.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic I was assuming she was one of the supermodels. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 06:47 AM (RjOoY) 138
"Iran Suffers Flash Flooding After Cloud-Seeding to Combat Drought"
Those people are never happy. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:48 AM (vFG9F) 139
That's been my problem with it. You ask a question and get "Did you RTFM?"
"How about you neckbearded fucks just answer questions instead of acting like your the keeper of the secrets?" Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 06:46 AM (RjOoY) That part is getting a bit better as there are now "Linux influencers" who don't do any coding and just want to be internet famous. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:48 AM (ExV1e) 140
I was assuming she was one of the supermodels.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 06:47 AM (RjOoY) Smooth. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 06:49 AM (ExV1e) 141
A Jeb Bush / Liz Cheney ticket? Sign me up! Posted by: Auspex at November 20, 2025 06:49 AM (Y8DZL) 142
Sure do. I used to read Bill's "Eject! Eject! Eject!" blog. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 06:39 AM uptwinkles the glory days of the OG bloggers...every six seven months (SWIDT?) Whittle would drop a 30,000 word essay & it would light up the inter-web net-tubes for weeks with actual debate & discussion; not the poopy-head nazi-calling ad hominem boo ship with the inevitable DDOS attacks Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 06:50 AM (tljrc) 143
"Who reported it?
Where is the 'Everything is fake and gay' poster? Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come " A very reputable source, Breitbart, reported that it was reported by the Daily Mail. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:50 AM (vFG9F) 144
That part is getting a bit better as there are now "Linux influencers" who don't do any coding and just want to be internet famous.
ugh. As if my annoyance with people wasn't bad enough. I read a few years back about one man's experience with a User Group. Had some newbie come in and he was asking how to set things up to get internet access. So the leader of the group had him use a terminal window and put in very complicated commands. The man who wrote the article stepped in and showed him where the program was and how to get to the menu. The outrage was instant with "You're teaching him the wrong way!" Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 06:51 AM (RjOoY) 145
Georgian national Goderdzi Gujabidze, 56, was driving a truck towing a trailer carrying multiple cars when he swerved and caused a military Humvee to swerve off the road. Indiana National Guardsman Terry Frye died at the scene, and three other victims were hospitalized.
The illegal immigrant trucker received a non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s License in New York. Doing the work Americans will not do. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:51 AM (gbOdA) 146
Very belated BOING from northern Israel. Drove up last night.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 20, 2025 06:51 AM (3447G) 147
In local news, I am going to see Weird Al next March!
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:54 AM (vFG9F) 148
@119/The Daleks: "Why am I up at 3 am?"
* Extra shaving time? EXFOLIATE! EXFOLIATE! Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 *** I shave generally every other day. Today is a shave day. Doing it the old-fashioned way, i.e., cream or soap with a brush and a safety razor, is pretty enjoyable. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 06:54 AM (wzUl9) 149
"ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Fugitive Accused of Beating Texas Woman with Tire Iron Before Raping Her"
If the punishment fit the crime ... Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:55 AM (vFG9F) 150
All 5 of my kitties are in my office right now.
They are all watching me. They've just been fed, so they must be up to something more sinister. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 20, 2025 06:56 AM (IBQGV) 151
Carmel City Council voted to permanently bounce the fast-growing sport from within city limits earlier this month — a first-of-its kind move in the Golden State.
Frustrated residents complained that the “popping” sound of the sport. Cannot wait till they hang an illegal p-ballers. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 06:56 AM (gbOdA) 152
137 I'm planning on having a threesome with two supermodels... with the wife's blessing, of course.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic I was assuming she was one of the supermodels. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 06:47 AM (RjOoY) awwww You smooth-talker, you. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 06:56 AM (RuTUS) 153
"Former President George W. Bush and his family are reportedly planning to retake the Republican Party from President Donald Trump once he is out of office, according to a recent report."
best laugh I've had today! ('course it's still early, but still ... ) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 20, 2025 06:56 AM (Cjt/F) 154
Oh, the Killer Kittenz From Outer Space have had their breakfast, and little Dagny has come over to sit and look up at me. Which means "Let's play!" So I dug out one of her fluffy little "mouse" toys and threw it for her. She races after it, scores a point (apparently) by touching it, then gallops back to me, so I have to walk over and throw it again.
Big Stirling is dozing on the floor in his usual space, halfway between the end of the couch and the door. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 06:56 AM (wzUl9) 155
"Frustrated residents complained that the “popping” sound of the sport."
Maybe they can do something about the cars with 5000 watt stereos blasting at 3AM too. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F) 156
"How about you neckbearded fucks just answer questions instead of acting like your the keeper of the secrets?"
keeping those secrets is how they maintain a tenuous grip on paid employment? Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 20, 2025 06:59 AM (Cjt/F) 157
147 In local news, I am going to see Weird Al next March!
Posted by: fd Sounds like a good investment of my time and money. I'll have to see what's in my area. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 06:59 AM (RjOoY) 158
150 All 5 of my kitties are in my office right now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 20, 2025 06:56 AM (IBQGV) 5 kitties! Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:00 AM (RuTUS) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2025 07:00 AM (guLpK) 160
But neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President JD Vance were invited to Cheney’s funeral, according to a source familiar with the matter.
I would ask to get that in writing and then Frame It. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:01 AM (gbOdA) 161
All 5 of my kitties are in my office right now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 20, 2025 * 5 kitties! Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 *** Twenty-five times the trouble of one. Of course, I have two, so it's only four times in my case. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 07:02 AM (wzUl9) 162
"Maybe they can do something about the cars with 5000 watt stereos blasting at 3AM too.
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:57 AM" With the coffee can mufflers. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 20, 2025 07:02 AM (XQo4F) 163
But neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President JD Vance were invited to Cheney’s funeral, according to a source familiar with the matter.
So the old guard is being petty towards the new guard. What a shock. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:02 AM (RjOoY) 164
The funeral’s guest list itself is a nod to a time when Washington was not so polarized and politicians from both sides of the aisle paid their respects when a dignitary passed away.
Bush and Cheney were listed a War Criminals for almost 20 years. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:03 AM (gbOdA) 165
@144/NR Pax: { The outrage was instant with "You're teaching him the wrong way!" }
That attitude annoys me to no end. Step into the user's shoes (and mindset/experience.) They are looking for an easy to use GUI to change the behaviour they want changed, or fix the problem that's happening. If it exists, give it to them. Help them to become more familiar with the GUI aspects of their OS and desktop and then they'll get the confidence to go exploring and learning. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 07:03 AM (O7YUW) 166
160, no kidding! big ornate gold-leaf frame with a spotlight! LOL!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 20, 2025 07:03 AM (Cjt/F) 167
Oops, look at the time, I gotta go whoosh.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 07:05 AM (O7YUW) 168
Here's a talking point for your Thanksgiving dinner:
Myth Strong gun laws don’t work. Look at Chicago. Fact Chicago proves why we must push for strong federal gun laws. Many of the crime guns recovered in Chicago and in other cities in states with strong gun violence prevention laws are trafficked from states with weaker gun laws. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F) 169
168 Here's a talking point for your Thanksgiving dinner:
Myth Strong gun laws don’t work. Look at Chicago. Fact Chicago proves why we must push for strong federal gun laws. Many of the crime guns recovered in Chicago and in other cities in states with strong gun violence prevention laws are trafficked from states with weaker gun laws. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F) ... only criminals will have guns. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:08 AM (RuTUS) 170
Here's another:
"Myth Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Fact People with guns kill people, and more efficiently than people without guns. " This sounds like a good lead in to a discussion about Kulaks. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F) 171
Help them to become more familiar with the GUI aspects of their OS and desktop and then they'll get the confidence to go exploring and learning.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 *** My early computer days were in the era of MS-DOS and programs like Lotus 1-2-3, Word and WordPerfect for DOS, etc. I did a lot of exploring and experimenting. Still have no trouble with typing in commands in a terminal window. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 07:08 AM (wzUl9) 172
Cheney memorial (NYT)
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are not planning to attend, although both released respectful statements after Mr. Cheney’s death praising his service and patriotism. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:08 AM (RuTUS) Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS) 174
So the 2 judges that thru out the Texas Redistricting waited until Judge 3 was out of town and released their ruling.
PS Trump cannot clean up the Eisenhower building until all court cases involving the DC Histrionics Society are cleared. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:09 AM (gbOdA) 175
"only criminals will have guns.
Posted by: m " No, here is the fact check: "Myth Criminals will always find a way to get their hands on a gun. Fact Laws like background checks stop gun sales to criminals every day. Since 1994, these laws have blocked more than 5 million gun sales to people who could not legally own guns." Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F) 176
So there. Criminals cannot buy guns.
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F) 177
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are not planning to attend, although both released respectful statements after Mr. Cheney’s death praising his service and patriotism.
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:08 AM (RuTUS) Clinton has a poon call BHussein will not be the most important person in the room. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:10 AM (gbOdA) 178
As soon as the full investigation of Epstein's emails are released, everyone will run through their super computer the name Trump. And if its not their much they will accuse the administration of coverup. This will probably go on for months with the only winner is the lawyers. (high priced lawyers)
Posted by: Colin at November 20, 2025 07:11 AM (wlQdF) 179
178 As soon as the full investigation of Epstein's emails are released, everyone will run through their super computer the name Trump. And if its not their much they will accuse the administration of coverup. This will probably go on for months with the only winner is the lawyers. (high priced lawyers)
Posted by: Colin at November 20, 2025 07:11 AM (wlQdF) yep Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS) 180
That attitude annoys me to no end.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant Agreed 100%. Everyone starts somewhere and not everyone wants to to the equivalent of forging the steel to make the engine block for your car. Just share the knowledge and move on with life. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:12 AM (RjOoY) 181
the money shot:
“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Mr. Cheney said. Citing Mr. Trump’s “lies and violence,” he said the former president could “never be trusted with power again.” He added: “We have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.” Mr. Trump fired back on social media, calling Mr. Cheney “an irrelevant RINO,” meaning Republican in Name Only. “He’s the King of Endless, Nonsensical Wars, wasting Lives and Trillions of Dollars, just like Comrade Kamala Harris,” Mr. Trump said then. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:13 AM (RuTUS) 182
. Many of the crime guns recovered in Chicago and in other cities in states with strong gun violence prevention laws are trafficked from states with weaker gun laws.
A myth that was proven false but the left clings to it anyways. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:13 AM (RjOoY) 183
134 "Former President George W. Bush and his family are reportedly planning to retake the Republican Party from President Donald Trump once he is out of office, according to a recent report."
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 06:41 AM (vFG9F) That’s why they hate Ken Paxton so much, and pushed the drive to impeach. Their Great Brown Hope for the future was George P. Bush, Jeb’s son by his Mexican wife, Columba. The Family had huge political plans for him. And then Ken Paxton jumped up and killed his political career. Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2025 07:14 AM (/ZNPI) 184
There was an official music video released for Eye in the Sky, but for the life of me I cannot find it online. Because I destroyed every copy with my giant "Lay-Zer" that I commissioned from noted Cambridge physicist Dr Parsons. Posted by: Dr Evil at November 20, 2025 07:15 AM (y9nCu) 185
180 That attitude annoys me to no end.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant Agreed 100%. Everyone starts somewhere and not everyone wants to to the equivalent of forging the steel to make the engine block for your car. Just share the knowledge and move on with life. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:12 AM (RjOoY) Put terribly simply: Not everybody is good at talking to people who are not skilled in a field. I know some IT people who are saints. And some who are not. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:15 AM (RuTUS) 186
How about this one:
"Myth Having a gun for self-defense makes individuals and their families safer. Fact Guns in the home increase the risk that anyone in the house, including children, will die by firearm suicide, homicide, or unintentional injuries." Now do automobiles. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:15 AM (vFG9F) 187
164 The funeral’s guest list itself is a nod to a time when Washington was not so polarized and politicians from both sides of the aisle paid their respects when a dignitary passed away.
Bush and Cheney were listed a War Criminals for almost 20 years. LoL!! Amazing! Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 07:16 AM (sAmhv) 188
Ready for another serving of shit sandwich today. Bring on the JJ Report.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 07:16 AM (Y1sOo) 189
It's too bad all of those underage girls being trafficked by the Epstein machine didn't have parents. Amazing statistical oddity that they were all orphans.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 20, 2025 07:16 AM (XQo4F) 190
“He’s the King of Endless, Nonsensical Wars, wasting Lives and Trillions of Dollars, just like Comrade Kamala Harris,” Mr. Trump said then.
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:13 AM (RuTUS) hahaha Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:16 AM (gbOdA) 191
Chimps have short memories.
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:17 AM (vFG9F) 192
Friends of mine stopped by yesterday. He's off for two weeks at Rheem (normal plant shutdown this time of year). They stopped by to give me a hand around the house as I've had a rough arthritis bout. He asked if I needed anything at the smoke shop and a light bulb went off. I said "lets go to the Choctaw smoke shop and hit the slot parlor". I fronted them $100. She won $200, he won about $150 and I hit a sweet little $1800 progressive.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 20, 2025 07:17 AM (gm9Sb) 193
168 Here's a talking point for your Thanksgiving dinner:
Myth Strong gun laws don’t work. Look at Chicago. Fact Chicago proves why we must push for strong federal gun laws. Many of the crime guns recovered in Chicago and in other cities in states with strong gun violence prevention laws are trafficked from states with weaker gun laws. Posted by: fd Lying fact checks are the best!! Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 07:17 AM (sAmhv) 194
"EU' is short for "assholes" in the european language.
Posted by: Zombie Otto Von Bismarck at November 20, 2025 07:17 AM (t5X2c) 195
But DownDetector itself was down during the Cloudflare outage.
That is like calling Waffle House after a disaster and getting no response. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:18 AM (a3CJ+) 196
"Chicago proves why we must push for strong federal gun laws. Many of the crime guns recovered in Chicago and in other cities in states with strong gun violence prevention laws are trafficked from states with weaker gun laws"
I've got this talking point memorized so I deliver it before our Thanksgiving blessing. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F) 197
That is like calling Waffle House after a disaster and getting no response.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:18 AM (a3CJ+) WaHo Weather Station WaHo Bright Sunny WaHo Hot High Temp WaHo Wet Rain WaHo Gone Tornado or Hurricane Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA) 198
Many of the crime guns recovered in Chicago and in other cities in states with strong gun violence prevention laws are trafficked from states with weaker gun laws. So the states with weaker gun laws should have mountains of ventilated bodies lying around, right? I said, right? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 20, 2025 07:21 AM (tgvbd) 199
Arkansans will talk around the Thanksgiving table, and often about guns in the house. "Walt, did you use the Mossberg or the Remington to shoot this turkey?". "Bobby, you being an armed school teacher, what do you prefer, auto or revolver?".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 20, 2025 07:23 AM (gm9Sb) 200
CC
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:23 AM (RuTUS) 201
hey how do you side load or boot to linux so you can keep windows
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:23 AM (gbOdA) 202
Another development that will hinder Linux on the desktop is the rumored release of a 600 dollar Mac laptop.
It may be a good time to buy Apple stock again. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 07:25 AM (XV/Pl) 203
The 1978 nostalgia from the ONT was fascinating. I can't wait to skim the comments and wish I'd been in on it. We went out for a little Haagen-Dasz ice cream last night, and I found myself dozing by 9:30, so I hit the haystack early.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 20, 2025 05:48 AM (wzUl9) Eh, you're probably gone by now, but I find that happening to me more and more. I either conk out before it starts an miss most of it, or a half hour in to it and wake up when it's nearly over. I'll go to bed, then lay there for an hour and get back up. Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 20, 2025 07:25 AM (uQesX) 204
If it exists, give it to them. Help them to become more familiar with the GUI aspects of their OS and desktop and then they'll get the confidence to go exploring and learning.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 20, 2025 07:03 AM (O7YUW) Or not. Some people just want their OS to do OS things and not be an endless source of learning and adventure. Something MSoft forgot. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:25 AM (ExV1e) 205
People in those states have many guns
They just dont use them to kill MickeyDs clerks and Dash drivers for the wrong dipping sauce. Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA) 206
Many of the crime guns recovered in Chicago and in other cities in states with strong gun violence prevention laws are trafficked from states with weaker gun laws. A myth that was proven false but the left clings to it anyways. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:13 AM (RjOoY) And if the domestic guns-to-criminals trafficking "problem" is solved by banning guns, the ChiComs will just smuggle in full-auto Kalashnikovs by the containerload. Like they did in the 90s via COSCO when Dianne Feinstein's husband was on the board. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 20, 2025 07:26 AM (y9nCu) 207
It's too bad all of those underage girls being trafficked by the Epstein machine didn't have parents. Amazing statistical oddity that they were all orphans.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 20, 2025 07:16 AM (XQo4F) Not unlike all the child actors who were molested. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e) 208
207 It's too bad all of those underage girls being trafficked by the Epstein machine didn't have parents. Amazing statistical oddity that they were all orphans.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 20, 2025 07:16 AM (XQo4F) Not unlike all the child actors who were molested. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e) Regrettably, pedo will find a way. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:28 AM (RuTUS) 209
"Is the detector that detects whether the watcher that is watching the monitor that monitors DownDetector down?"
Who Takes Care of the Caretaker's Daughter? https://youtu.be/X6u6jvhno-c Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 20, 2025 07:28 AM (XQo4F) 210
Dense fog here along the coast of the Gulf of America in the Cradle of Naval Aviation.
PARs in effect for aircraft inbound to NAS. Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 07:29 AM (Y1sOo) 211
With guns, I've simply said this: "My rights are not open for negotiation or discussion." Thankfully, I'm not surrounded by hoplophobes.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:29 AM (RjOoY) 212
Fact People with guns kill people, and more efficiently than people without guns. " This sounds like a good lead in to a discussion about Kulaks. In fact, it's much more efficient to kill people through starvation than using guns. See: Mao and the Great Leap Forward See: Stalin and the Holodomor See: Every socialist kleptocrat dictator in post-colonial Africa Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 20, 2025 07:29 AM (y9nCu) 213
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:29 AM (gbOdA) 214
It's too bad all of those underage girls being trafficked by the Epstein machine didn't have parents. Amazing statistical oddity that they were all orphans.
I'm growing warm to the idea that the trafficking of underage girls was just a side hustle to the money laundering business. I used to work for a banking consulting firm in the S&L peak before the RTC closed it all down. The company was making huge amounts of money for ourselves and clients and often how we would attract clients is through Expert Services provided by some extremely good looking young women (who knew nothing about banking). The Sex With Children angle is everywhere, I wouldn't doubt that the Democrats have facilitated the trafficking of hundreds of thousands of children to perverts as playthings. The sex stuff is salacious and to a society that is obsessed with naked people and sex, this is what we get. Money Laundering doesn't bring clicks. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:29 AM (9s47C) Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:30 AM (RuTUS) 216
"In fact, it's much more efficient to kill people through starvation than using guns."
Flying a plane into a skyscraper doesn't even require a gun. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F) 217
The Sex With Children angle is everywhere, I wouldn't doubt that the Democrats have facilitated the trafficking of hundreds of thousands of children to perverts as playthings.
You mean like all the unaccompanied minors brought across the southern border that all the people who won't shut up about Epstein somehow never seem to notice? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e) 218
216 "In fact, it's much more efficient to kill people through starvation than using guns."
Flying a plane into a skyscraper doesn't even require a gun. Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F) And then there's fentanyl. Takes a while to kill. Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:31 AM (RuTUS) 219
215
Nice! Posted by: m Hey, if I have to tolerate fake words like "homophobia" they can accept this. Posted by: NR Pax at November 20, 2025 07:32 AM (RjOoY) 220
Hah! A firm called Artificial Analysis grades AI's on ability to answer questions accurately, versus hallucinating crazy stuff, and only 4 out of 28 different AI's were found to answer accurately more often than not, and even those 4 were only slightly better than even. Google's new Gemini Pro Preview got the top grade, at 13% better than even (a 63), assuming I interpret the scale properly.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 20, 2025 07:32 AM (h4Z1F) 221
In fact, it's much more efficient to kill people through starvation than using guns.
Now compare that to unleashing biowarfare via a chimera and its alleged "vaccine" Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:32 AM (9s47C) 222
"In fact, it's much more efficient to kill people through starvation than using guns."
As long as you've got a long time horizon you could just sew anger and mistrust between the sexes so that they stop forming relationships. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e) 223
What if you asked AI to design an AI?
Posted by: fd at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F) 224
Odd how seldom inner city gangs are mentioned by the gun grabbers.
Nor the races of inner city gangs. Nor just exactly how those guns will be confiscated. Very odd. Posted by: davidt at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (Q+gd/) 225
JJS Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA) 226
JJ is nood.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e) 227
212 "Hey, shooting these people works OK, but it might get a little hard on the troops. Lets think up something really efficient".
H. Himmler Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM (gm9Sb) 228
JJ is nood Posted by: AltonJackson at November 20, 2025 07:34 AM (tljrc) 229
ability to answer questions accurately, versus hallucinating crazy stuff, and only 4 out of 28 different AI's were found to answer accurately more often than not,
I must say that Microsoft's CoPilot in this latest release has a much better Agent for coding. Dittos with Jetbrains new product. It takes an eternity to do the task, and its usually about 80% there. The remaining 20% is removing nonsense Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (xE0sV) 230
I remember the time I tried to get my wife to switch to Mac, once she found out spider solitaire did not come on the system it ended the experiment quick.
People are fickle and set in their ways, getting to people to adopt an established desktop platform other than windows is tough, getting them to adopt a completely foreign OS is going to be a bridge too far for the vast majority of people. Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 07:35 AM (XV/Pl) Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:37 AM (RuTUS) 232
Discussion forums always work this way. Somebody signs up, “help”, they just want to get grandma’s sewing machine working again, or grampa’s Coleman lantern or whatever it is, and a 5 page discussion ensues, led by someone with a complete machine shop with Bridgeport lathes, they start arguing amongst themselves, and the newbie never logs in again.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 20, 2025 07:37 AM (hoi0O) 233
I had no problemsinstalling any of the distros I tried. I need to make a list sometime because I tried several on the Thinkpad. And I didn't install Mint or Ubuntu, which I know are easy.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 20, 2025 07:38 AM (EW4eo) Posted by: 79 cent box cutters at Harbor Freight at November 20, 2025 07:41 AM (XQo4F) 235
the Florida Rep FEMA indictment:
If convicted, Cherfilus-McCormick faces up to 53 years in prison. yikes Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 07:41 AM (RuTUS) 236
210 Dense fog here along the coast of the Gulf of America in the Cradle of Naval Aviation.
PARs in effect for aircraft inbound to NAS. Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 07:29 AM +++ Come on by. We're open. Posted by: The Flora-Bama lounge at November 20, 2025 07:44 AM (XQo4F) 237
>>Come on by. We're open.
Posted by: The Flora-Bama lounge See you on Thanksgiving Day for the annual potluck. Posted by: one hour sober at November 20, 2025 07:53 AM (Y1sOo) 238
@197 Ever since I installed one of those sliding-door panels with a magnetic-catch doggie door, I have a new reporting service called Weather Dog.
If dog's luxuriant auburn coat has little flecks of ice in it, "Wintry Mix." She'll do a little shake for "Storm Alarm." She'll bring you the towel if her fur is wet. That's "Rain." And, stop at the muddy-mat if her paws are muddy. "Spring." If dog goes out and does not come back, well, Tornado. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2025 08:00 AM (zdLoL) 239
>>>2026 will be the year of Linux on my desktop, at least.
Everyone who can, should. It is liberating. Except for games, a VM running Windows solves all Windows needs with zero Windows downsides like its flawed 1990s era recovery model and tools, which VM snapshots completely abrogate. Best thing I ever did computing, next to storing files on a RAID NAS. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 08:10 AM (dK+Kv) 240
late penny-drop, but never a bad time to promote:
Bastard Operator from Hell although his archives seem increasingly harder to access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 08:22 AM (RuTUS) Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 08:23 AM (RuTUS) 242
Dead thread, I know, but if you cone back . . . .
hey how do you side load or boot to linux so you can keep windows Posted by: r hennigantx at November 20, 2025 07:23 AM (gbOdA) I wouldn't dual boot, unless for some arcane reason, you need it. Gaming might also be a reason. Otherwise, you can run a "live" distro by booting off a USB thumbdrive to explore while you keep windows. Linux Mint does well at this. In the end, keeping Windows is most easily done running Linux, using Windows in a Virtual Machine on Linux, if your hardware supports it. It's more work, sure, on par with dual boot, but it is smoother without the dual boot downsides and pitfalls. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 20, 2025 08:41 AM (dK+Kv) Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - November 19, 2025 [Nostalgia Rex]![]() Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. What? A double shenanigans link?! Yep - just for tonight. Because you're special (and it fits with the theme). Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb morsels and mystery clicks. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Don't be a traffic cone."Aayyyy! Time for Wednesday ONT content!" ![]() ![]()
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Yay, ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok) 2
But I asked some
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Howdy!
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I would have been here earlier but I got escarped in an alley.
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FIrstish?
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Not First
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Sorry I'm late, I had to deal with all that bamboo that's taking over the garden.
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My lord, I read so many of those mags. All the memories flooding back.
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What? No Surfer mag?
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Arthur Fonzarelli, the 35 year old teenager.
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Hadrian!! the language!!
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The F8 was the ugliest jet fighter ever built.
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Meow
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Whoever finally returns the judiciary to its pre-Marbury levels of power will be the greatest president since George Washington. Change my mind.
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A whole show from the Hemispheres Tour behind that Rush Revolution magazine?? Ya da man, Dino! Er, uh - you know what I mean!
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Hey Ho!!!
On my way to Texas!!! No better way to get started than reading the ONT in the hotel bar! Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2025 10:05 PM (H1YYy) 23
that would be 10 Hail Marys ! and a small donation to Father O'Neills
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 10:06 PM (g47mK) 24
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/) 25
Black Sunday was a good movie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 19, 2025 10:06 PM (L/fGl) 26
***commenter number 2 will win the Official ONT Toilet Bowl Award for the day.
--- Thank you, thank you. It was a timely struggle but those magazines from times past helped me make it. Thank you again for the best award one could receive. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 10:06 PM (rU9qQ) 27
The kids who couldn't afford a Mad Magazine bought Cracked.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2025 10:06 PM (JkO4W) 28
Mostly landfill.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 19, 2025 10:06 PM (YlWIZ) 29
20 A whole show from the Hemispheres Tour behind that Rush Revolution magazine?? Ya da man, Dino! Er, uh - you know what I mean!
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2025 10:04 PM *** It is my Happy Toilet day gift to you! (Better than the other options.) Posted by: TRex - Dino live in concert at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq) 30
9 Sorry I'm late, I had to deal with all that bamboo that's taking over the garden.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 10:02 PM (jfvTO) Hope you didn't get bamboozled. Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (FMtrg) 31
What to wear to an ONT? Inquiring wives want to know.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (C5lbH) 32
I had a subscription to GAMES when I was young. I liked that one. A lot of the puzzles were over my head but not all of them. Remember where they would have a fake ad you had to find?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (3uBP9) 33
UN IZ the toilet
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (g47mK) 34
A whole show from the Hemispheres Tour behind that Rush Revolution magazine?? Ya da man, Dino! Er, uh - you know what I mean!
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2025 10:04 PM (QMAsf) First time I saw Rush was the Farewell to Kings tour. Epic doesn't even begin to describe it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (snZF9) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 10:08 PM (zZu0s) 36
Please excuse tankdemon for being late. He is STILL digging through his collection of Compute! magazines looking for the issue with Hunt the Wumpus cheat codes.
I didn't realize I still had so many issues, and you really can't finish thst game without the cheat codes. I mean, have youbeven tried it? Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 10:08 PM (jfvTO) 37
I had that issue of OMNI.
Because I had them all - in high school I took the new 'Science Fiction' class and we all got subscriptions to OMNI as part of the class. I kept mine throughout its run. It was a good magazine. Class wasn't bad, except for the teacher always wanting to tell us why the author wrote the story / what they were trying to say. We baited her into doing a Robert Heinlein story so we could show her his written statement that he wrote it to make money. Posted by: KCSteve at November 19, 2025 10:09 PM (bxAlI) Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/) Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2) 40
"In the spirit of the celebration, commenter number 2 will win the Official ONT Toilet Bowl Award for the day."
What the deuce is this all about? Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:09 PM (0CU3H) 41
OK. Update on American Revolution. Lots of battles. Losses and wins on both sides. Indians start to believe they shouldn't trust either side, that failure awaits in any case. Americans have the Brits bottled up in Boston. Lafayette appears but isn't made a commander. Philadelphia falls. Washington keeps getting new/more troops, mainly with promises that most likely won't be kept. Biggest item = Brits are soundly defeated at Saratoga (Benedict Arnold is the hero) and an entire Brits army surrenders. That brings the French to the table and they are the first nation to recognize the USA.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 19, 2025 10:10 PM (47diA) 42
9 Sorry I'm late, I had to deal with all that bamboo that's taking over the garden.
Posted by: tankdemon --- Don't neglect the roots. They'll live until you dig them out. And they will grow under your concrete walk way and wreck it. Bamboo roots laugh at concrete. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 10:10 PM (rU9qQ) 43
Good evening morons y gracias Dino por los 70s!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 10:10 PM (A0sqA) 44
I had that issue of dirt bike. That was during my motocross days, which only went a few years. I got my drivers license and then it was hot rods. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:10 PM (snZF9) 45
First time I saw Rush was the Farewell to Kings tour. Epic doesn't even begin to describe it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (snZF9) I'm so jealous. I was way too young for that. Exactly how old are you??? Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2025 10:11 PM (QMAsf) 46
25 Black Sunday was a good movie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 19, 2025 10:06 PM (L/fGl) Did it star O.J. Simpson? All those 70's disaster movies starred O.J. Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 10:11 PM (y171U) 47
There was global cooling in 1978.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 10:11 PM (pkeXY) 48
Great content, Dino. A lot of nuggets and mystery clicks.
Read the dissent earlier today. It is truly amazing. Thanks for the ONT. Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 10:11 PM (41CYW) 49
Black Sunday was a good movie. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? __________ Featuring that most tiresome trope: the crazed Vietnam veteran. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 10:11 PM (tgvbd) 50
Thanks for the dandy Wednesday Night ONT, T-Rex!
Great trip down memory lane with those magazines. Pittsburgh scanner: Homewood used to be a decent neighborhood for raising a family. What on earth happened? Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 19, 2025 10:12 PM (kB9dk) 51
I love Blue Man Group. And I adore Venus Hum. Tay-tay is weak-sauce compared to Venus.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:12 PM (0aYVJ) 52
Golly! A lot of content tonight. Those cars on the cover of AutoMotorSport all look too modern for me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:12 PM (npFr7) 53
The cover of that Truckin' magazine is giving me a hankering for some candy.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 10:12 PM (jfvTO) 54
Strange, Berserker. That was at the end of my motocross career. I rode an RM-370 just about like the one on the cover of the mag.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 19, 2025 10:13 PM (47diA) 55
It is my Happy Toilet day gift to you! (Better than the other options.)
Posted by: TRex - Dino live in concert at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq) I'll accept! Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2025 10:13 PM (QMAsf) 56
Arthur Fonzarelli, the 35 year old teenager.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 10:03 PM (y171U) Hanging out with high school girls. Something's off with that guy. Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:13 PM (gKDq2) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:14 PM (wnD9v) 58
48 Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 10:11 PM *** Thank you, Sir Doggo! Hope the suspension was worth it! Posted by: TRex - a bridge just far enough at November 19, 2025 10:14 PM (IQ6Gq) 59
I used to buy Circus magazine when I was 7 or 8 until I innocently asked my mother if mother fucker was a bad word. She spazzed out.
Posted by: NCKate at November 19, 2025 10:14 PM (uQzkA) 60
I remember reading something about Justice Smith's dissent somewhere earlier today.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 10:15 PM (3uBP9) 61
1978 socialism cover: I take it this has to do with Britain. Callaghan's government was a total disaster. And it's how they got Thatcher.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE) 62
50 Pittsburgh scanner: Homewood used to be a decent neighborhood for raising a family. What on earth happened?
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 19, 2025 10:12 PM *** I think the real estate agents would say it has "character." Posted by: TRex - homewood homes are a steal! at November 19, 2025 10:16 PM (IQ6Gq) 63
Carl "Nuclear Winter" Sagan?
Ugh, Kneel DeGrassy Tyson's hero. Posted by: Anna Puma Actually saw Sagan give a talk in Boston. He took questions after his remarks and the first one was: "Please say 'Billions and billions'" He laughed bigly and did it. Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/) 64
First time I saw Rush was the Farewell to Kings tour. Epic doesn't even begin to describe it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (snZF9) I'm so jealous. I was way too young for that. Exactly how old are you??? Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2025 10:11 PM (QMAsf) Older than I look, 64 as of last week. It was my first year in high school when that tour happened. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:16 PM (snZF9) 65
Evenin'
Omni was an interesting read at times. I liked it. WKRP was a brilliant & funny, TV show! Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 19, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv) 66
Skybrows drops another Grok Imagine music video
Nux on sticks for the Shadow Band. Happy fat JD Vance. Trump, Emperor of Mankind, cat girls as the ultimate evolution of Mankind, the Roach King Asmongold surfing the Internet memes on a giant roach, and horse girls needing horse paste to save their lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_KXYpaTe_8 Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:16 PM (wnD9v) 67
So my grandson would say this is Skibidee Toilet day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 10:17 PM (/ZNPI) 68
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 19, 2025 10:10 PM (47diA)
My verdict: A fairly good episode, but way too much time spent on the Indians. Also, I'm not sure why they insist on not calling the Six Nations the "Iroquois." I don't care what pedantic reason they have for not doing so, everyone and his brother knows them as the Iroquois. Posted by: Dr. T at November 19, 2025 10:17 PM (lHPJf) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 10:17 PM (rU9qQ) 70
59 I used to buy Circus magazine when I was 7 or 8 until I innocently asked my mother if mother fucker was a bad word. She spazzed out.
Posted by: NCKate at November 19, 2025 10:14 PM (uQzkA) --------- Moms, amirite? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2025 10:17 PM (JkO4W) 71
Inflation and tax revolt on the Esquire magazine cover, '78 was the start. 79, '80, and '81 were worse. I like to say, I was hoping to get through this life without reliving 1978 - 1981.
Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 10:17 PM (41CYW) 72
J Geils, Journey, and Wacko! Great ONT Dino!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq) 73
I had that issue of OMNI.
Because I had them all - in high school I took the new 'Science Fiction' class and we all got subscriptions to OMNI as part of the class. I kept mine throughout its run. It was a good magazine. Posted by: KCSteve at November 19, 2025 10:09 PM (bxAlI) OMNI was one of the only magazines to which I subscribed. It was fun while it lasted. Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:18 PM (gKDq2) 74
37 I had that issue of OMNI.
Because I had them all - in high school I took the new 'Science Fiction' class and we all got subscriptions to OMNI as part of the class. I kept mine throughout its run. It was a good magazine. Class wasn't bad, except for the teacher always wanting to tell us why the author wrote the story / what they were trying to say. We baited her into doing a Robert Heinlein story so we could show her his written statement that he wrote it to make money. Posted by: KCSteve at November 19, 2025 10:09 PM (bxAlI) Same here. I loved OMNI. GAMES magazine was a staple in my house as well. Really miss that mag. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:18 PM (0CU3H) 75
This ONT is REAL and it's SPECTACULAR!!
Thanks Dino! Posted by: Some Rat at November 19, 2025 10:18 PM (TfUTr) 76
When Fonzy first appeared on Happy Days, he wore a cloth jacket rather than the later and more expensive leather one.
Light blue it was, if memory serves. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:18 PM (jc0TO) 77
I recall reading a 1979 issue of Fangora with articles about the special effects in Alien, Phantasm, and Dawn of the Dead. Three movies which I was too young to see.
Posted by: mot at November 19, 2025 10:18 PM (fIPNY) 78
First time I saw Rush was the Farewell to Kings tour. Epic doesn't even begin to describe it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:07 PM (snZF9) I was invited to see them on the Signals tour in Billings. Friends even offered to buy my ticket. But my dad drew a very solid line in the sand regarding rock concerts: Not while you live under my roof. I love my Dad, but this hard line created a riff between us for a while. I made up for it later: Slayer, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Exodus, Judas Priest, Testament, Helloween, etc. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (0aYVJ) 79
World Toilet Day and the future.
Years ago I read an SF story about archeologists poking about in the ruins of ancient Earth. One of the few things to survive were ceramic objects that were present in almost every building. They came in a bewildering number of shapes and sizes. Were they altars? Perhaps some form of food distribution system? The only clue was a sign in a long forgotten language: "Employees Must Wash Hands After Using Restroom." Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (QFqsT) 80
25 Black Sunday was a good movie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks .................. Yea, it was. Damn good cast too. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (sAmhv) 81
56 Arthur Fonzarelli, the 35 year old teenager.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 10:03 PM (y171U) ---------- He was no Kenickie. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (JkO4W) 82
I had that issue of OMNI.
Because I had them all - in high school I took the new 'Science Fiction' class and we all got subscriptions to OMNI as part of the class. I kept mine throughout its run. It was a good magazine. Posted by: KCSteve at November 19, 2025 10:09 PM (bxAlI) OMNI was one of the only magazines to which I subscribed. It was fun while it lasted. Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:18 PM I subscribed to High Times. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (jc0TO) 83
“ you (young) people wouldn’t believe the things I’ve seen…”
Like Bon Scott about 6 weeks before he croaked… Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (/ZNPI) 84
Sorry I'm late, I had to deal with all that bamboo that's taking over the garden.
Posted by Tankdemon ********* We have a neighbor who needs your assistance Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq) 85
Rooar!!!
Hi ya Tex! Maybe a guy has little claws...but howdy! Those giant feet! Nicely giant ONT....Rooorrr! Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 19, 2025 10:20 PM (3pxDZ) 86
7 Not First
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 10:01 PM (QGaXH) 8 Non primus Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 10:02 PM (tgvbd) Show off....... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 10:20 PM (QGaXH) 87
girlfriend's sales pitch to Guccione:
OMNI - It's like Penthouse, except without the dirty pictures, and science stuff instead. Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 10:20 PM (3uBP9) 88
I made up for it later: Slayer, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Exodus, Judas Priest, Testament, Helloween, etc.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (0aYVJ) Made up for it is an understatement. Thats a fine list. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:20 PM (snZF9) 89
I'm not sure why they insist on not calling the Six Nations the "Iroquois.
Agree. It was humorous seeing the alleged map of Indian territories divided neatly by north-south lines. Another comment: There seem to be a lot of non-Americans amongst the "experts". Brits I understand, but the rest? Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 19, 2025 10:21 PM (47diA) 90
From 1964 till about the mid-nineties I never missed a MAD magazine issue.
Posted by: Some Rat at November 19, 2025 10:21 PM (TfUTr) 91
51 I love Blue Man Group. And I adore Venus Hum. Tay-tay is weak-sauce compared to Venus.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:12 PM (0aYVJ) There was a great discussion on the ONT earlier this week (?) on disco, and Donna Summer. Her version was one of the most erotic songs adolescent me ever heard at the time - either before or since. Blue Man Group's version is awesome. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:21 PM (0CU3H) 92
75 This ONT is REAL and it's SPECTACULAR!!
Thanks Dino! Posted by: Some Rat at November 19, 2025 10:18 PM *** Good evening, Sir Rat. Thank you! Posted by: TRex - can you eat mac n cheese on commemorative plates? at November 19, 2025 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq) 93
I read "Omni" once in a while it usually had good science fiction short stories mixed with a lot of future-forward non-fiction.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 10:21 PM (A0sqA) 94
Don't neglect the roots. They'll live until you dig them out.
And they will grow under your concrete walk way and wreck it. Bamboo roots laugh at concrete. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 10:10 PM (rU9qQ) WAs wondering... For tough to eradicate weeds like bamboo, thistles, and kudzu, what if you drove a copper-plated ground rod into the ground near the infestation, and connected that to your AC service neutral, and then clamp a jumper cable to the stalk of the plant, and plug the other end of the wire into an outlet? Put 120 volts AC right through the sucker. Maybe that would cook the weed enough to kill it, above and below ground, or burn the root hairs off the roots (which are the parts that enable a plant to uptake water and nutrients from the soil). I'd rig it so there was a push-button switch and a 30 amp breaker in the box with the hot wire, so the wire would not be energized while moving the jumper from weed to weed. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7) 95
I subscribed to High Times.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (jc0TO) Many friends in college had a subscription so I got to see all the centerfolds. Some you just salivated over. Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:22 PM (gKDq2) 96
94 Don't neglect the roots. They'll live until you dig them out.
And they will grow under your concrete walk way and wreck it. Bamboo roots laugh at concrete. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 10:10 PM (rU9qQ) WAs wondering... For tough to eradicate weeds like bamboo, thistles, and kudzu, what if you drove a copper-plated ground rod into the ground near the infestation, and connected that to your AC service neutral, and then clamp a jumper cable to the stalk of the plant, and plug the other end of the wire into an outlet? Put 120 volts AC right through the sucker. Maybe that would cook the weed enough to kill it, above and below ground, or burn the root hairs off the roots (which are the parts that enable a plant to uptake water and nutrients from the soil). I'd rig it so there was a push-button switch and a 30 amp breaker in the box with the hot wire, so the wire would not be energized while moving the jumper from weed to weed. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7) Carl Spackler would be so proud of you, AOP. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:23 PM (0CU3H) 97
I subscribed to Omni at some point in the 1990's. I think I bought an issue off a magazine rack for some reason, and decided to just get it. I was reading like crazy in 90's and earlier 2000's, so i was getting a handful of magazines sent to the house, along with books from various book clubs. Now I read cereal boxes. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9) Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 19, 2025 10:24 PM (47diA) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:24 PM (wnD9v) 100
91 There was a great discussion on the ONT earlier this week (?) on disco, and Donna Summer.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:21 PM *** Indeed. Twas inspiration for the ONT tonight! Posted by: TRex - ghost of Donna Summer plays in Club ONT at November 19, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq) Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:24 PM (jc0TO) Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/) 103
I was a particular fan of Boy's Life.
Posted by: Mayor Pete at November 19, 2025 10:26 PM (JkO4W) 104
I'm so old that I remember when Scientific American was a decent mag.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/) About 1993 Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2025 10:26 PM (rbvCR) 105
50: Pittsburgh scanner: Homewood used to be a decent neighborhood for raising a family. What on earth happened?
Posted by: Legally Sufficient .......................................... The steel industry collapsed, people left, the city devolved. Pretty much what happened to all the towns in Western PA. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 19, 2025 10:26 PM (sAmhv) Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 10:26 PM (25kuG) 107
I hated disco with the heat of a 1000 suns. It was jersey. You see the retards on the jersey shore show?? Ok, now imagine that group in the disco crowd. Case closed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:26 PM (snZF9) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:27 PM (wnD9v) 109
We had a subscription to Mother Earth News too, until Rodale Press ruined it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:27 PM (jc0TO) 110
I'm so old that I remember when Scientific American was a decent mag.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/) And National Geographic didn't pimp Gerbil Worming. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:27 PM (npFr7) 111
I subscribed to Omni at some point in the 1990's. I think I bought an issue off a magazine rack for some reason, and decided to just get it. I was reading like crazy in 90's and earlier 2000's, so i was getting a handful of magazines sent to the house, along with books from various book clubs. Now I read cereal boxes. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9) I got it early through some magazine deal in the Sunday newspaper. (Remeber those?) I liked it and kept the subscription until it folded. As said above, some decent sci-fi and good articles. A solid magazine that just didn't click. Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2) 112
There was a great discussion on the ONT earlier this week (?) on disco, and Donna Summer. Her version was one of the most erotic songs adolescent me ever heard at the time - either before or since. Blue Man Group's version is awesome.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:21 PM (0CU3H) I had never heard the Donna Summer version, so what I saw was entirely new to me. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:27 PM (0aYVJ) 113
Will ground clear kill bamboo? It sure kills everything else.
Posted by: NCKate at November 19, 2025 10:27 PM (uQzkA) 114
Don't neglect the roots. They'll live until you dig them out.
And they will grow under your concrete walk way and wreck it. Bamboo roots laugh at concrete. Posted by: Braenyard Supposedly they won't put roots down below about 18in. one of the "containment" strategies is to bury a 18 in sheet aluminum around the perimeter then Round Up the shit out of the plants. Posted by: Some Rat at November 19, 2025 10:28 PM (TfUTr) Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 10:28 PM (25kuG) 116
Last night Pookette's band performed the "Pink Panther" theme, definitively ending a six-month-long argument. Her orchestra played the same song back in May, and I told her at the time that they did a great job, but that song NEEDS a saxophone. She disagreed vehemently (Is there any other kind with Pookette?) and last night her band played it properly. Well, sort of. I could hear the clarinets and tenor saxes far better than the alto saxes, but that might have been a seat location issue.
Posted by: pookysgirl, former pep band player at November 19, 2025 10:28 PM (Wt5PA) 117
106 You Forgot "OUTDOOR LIFE"
Seriously? Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 10:26 PM *** Wasn't "Weeds, Trees and Turf" enough for you? Posted by: TRex - John Deere Dino at November 19, 2025 10:29 PM (IQ6Gq) 118
>>> girls needing horse paste to save their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_KXYpaTe_8 Posted by: Anna Puma -- That was nice. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 10:29 PM (rU9qQ) 119
And National Geographic didn't pimp Gerbil Worming.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:27 PM (npFr7) ------- I never missed the issues with the topless African babes. To this day I still get a boner when someone clacks two plates together. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2025 10:29 PM (JkO4W) 120
I'm so old that I remember when Scientific American was a decent mag.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/) I got 'Smithsonian' for a while, until it went off the rails. Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2) 121
Arthur Fonzarelli, the 35 year old teenager.
Posted by: Joemarine The polar opposite of the meme that said Gen X "turned 30 at the age of 10, and are still 30 at the age of 50." Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE) 122
I rarely understand what AOP is talking about, but the fact that he does makes me glad that there are still guys out there that can do stuff like whatever it is he's describing.
It makes the world a better place. And I loved Games magazine. Posted by: sal at November 19, 2025 10:29 PM (f+FmA) Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:30 PM (cYBz/) 124
What I liked about OMNI magazine was the artwork. So many spectacular paintings of otherworldly places. Atmospheric perspective is a thing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:30 PM (0aYVJ) 125
Anyway, I'll be be back here in the back of the room....😛,,,or something...
Barkeep...a cocktail please. Thank you sir🥲... Hey you good Horde! Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 19, 2025 10:30 PM (3pxDZ) 126
I think we have ten or so varieties of bamboo on our property. The bulk of it is a clumping variety but we have five running varieties at least. Bamboo is easy to control if you stay on top of it. You need just kick the shoots and they die, or mow them. But if our lot was vacant for a year or more, they would take over.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:31 PM (jc0TO) 127
85 Rooar!!!
Hi ya Tex! Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 19, 2025 10:20 PM *** Howdy COMM! Glad you're here. Posted by: TRex - Editor Dino at November 19, 2025 10:31 PM (IQ6Gq) Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 10:31 PM (25kuG) 129
Looking closely at the covers. 60 cents to a couple bucks. Also Asimov in the Fiction, on the Omni cover.
Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 10:31 PM (41CYW) Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2) 131
Did anything interesting happen today? I got a shot in my eye. They don't hurt but kinda suck.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 19, 2025 10:32 PM (ys6FW) 132
Did anything interesting happen today? I got a shot in my eye. They don't hurt but kinda suck.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 19, 2025 10:32 PM Giving you that Red Ryder was a mistake. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:33 PM (jc0TO) 133
Posted by: pookysgirl, former pep band player at November 19, 2025 10:28 PM (Wt5PA)
Nice. I love the Pink Panther theme. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:33 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:33 PM (wnD9v) 135
Hey you good Horde!
Posted by: COMountainMarie {{{Marie}}} You have many, many friends here. Now tell the group a little about yourself... Posted by: Some Rat at November 19, 2025 10:33 PM (TfUTr) 136
Remember when McEnroes headband was edgy and Wimbledon contemplated refusing him entry on the court with it on? Now we have the Williams sisters.
Posted by: Jen the original at November 19, 2025 10:34 PM (sD72b) 137
Giving you that Red Ryder was a mistake.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:33 PM (jc0TO) --- Lol. This is why I love you people. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 19, 2025 10:34 PM (ys6FW) 138
56 Arthur Fonzarelli, the 35 year old teenager.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 10:03 PM (y171U) Hanging out with high school girls. Something's off with that guy. Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:13 PM (gKDq2) I never thought of it that way at the time, but you're right. Especially when I remember the episode where Richie went to his studio (?) apartment and saw the puny Christmas tree in the living room area. Really very sad, when you think about it. To high schoolers, he was the coolest guy around. His reality was very different. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:34 PM (0CU3H) 139
The polar opposite of the meme that said Gen X "turned 30 at the age of 10, and are still 30 at the age of 50."
Posted by: mikeski ----------- 30! Show off. Trapped at age 13 here. Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW) 140
68 I'm not sure why they insist on not calling the Six Nations the "Iroquois." I don't care what pedantic reason they have for not doing so, everyone and his brother knows them as the Iroquois.
Posted by: Dr. T at November 19, 2025 10:17 PM (lHPJf) Sounds too French. Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 10:35 PM (y171U) 141
I rarely understand what AOP is talking about, but the fact that he does makes me glad that there are still guys out there that can do stuff like whatever it is he's describing.
It makes the world a better place. Posted by: sal *************** This! Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq) 142
134 Your French Air Fan magazine is from January of 1979.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:33 PM *** You know when a car manufacturer sells cars in November and December that are the next model year? Posted by: TRex - do not trust French calendars at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq) 143
Especially when I remember the episode where Richie went to his studio (?) apartment and saw the puny Christmas tree in the living room area. Really very sad, when you think about it. To high schoolers, he was the coolest guy around. His reality was very different.
--------- The 50s weren't all saddle shoes and ducktails. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (JkO4W) 144
womp womp! Another black ratchet Democrat has been indicted for fraud. Another "historic" "first" has been caught. She in da House, btw. A rep for Florida. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (Y9x1x) Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (25kuG) 146
Looking closely at the covers. 60 cents to a couple bucks. Also Asimov in the Fiction, on the Omni cover.
Posted by: scampydog I was just browsing at the Barnes and IgNoble...I swear the Home Machinist issue was like 12 bucks!!! Posted by: Some Rat at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr) 147
Pittsburgh scanner: Homewood used to be a decent neighborhood for raising a family. What on earth happened?
Posted by: Legally Sufficient .......................................... The steel industry collapsed, people left, the city devolved. Pretty much what happened to all the towns in Western PA. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 19, 2025 10:26 PM (sAmhv) * * * * I will always be eternally grateful that Dad was able to leave the Pittsburgh area as a young man and head west. Cannot imagine life growing up in Pittsburgh. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (kB9dk) 148
I used to get all the gun magazines in the 1980's, including solder of fortune. Funny story, I was at some headbanger party one time and this beautiful Filipino chick was there. My friends start guessing what nationality she was. I looked and said Philippines. My friends looked at me like yeah right you know that. Within about 5 minutes she was in our circle and we were talking. Somebody asked her her nationality, and I quickly said Philippines. She says yes, thats right, how did you know? I blurted out "I read solder of fortune" lolol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (snZF9) 149
Better living through chemistry.
I have all kinds of invasive plants growing on our farm. I go down to the county noxious weed department and get the exact right herbicide for the job - from the guy that drives around the back roads deliberately killing that sh*t and determining what works and doesn't work in my exact geographic area. Buying the chemicals at cost, and utilizing the most efficient method, save a LOT of time and effort. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 19, 2025 10:37 PM (HlyYF) 150
High Times had a centerfold?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM (pkeXY) 151
Buying the chemicals at cost, and utilizing the most efficient method, save a LOT of time and effort.
Better living through chemistry. Dupont. Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM (47diA) 152
78 was a great year
First trip to DC First summer at scout camp Saw "Days of Heaven" at the Loews 5th Ave And "Beatlemania" at the Winter Garden Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM (A0sqA) 153
Just got my new driver's license. Lady asked, Hair color?
I sighed. Gray. She chuckled. And it's on my new license. I am officially 29. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM (0aYVJ) 154
One type of publication that the Internet killed that I used to buy often was those recipe pamphlets in the checkout line at the grocery.
They were usually put out by a food manufacturer like Pillsbury or Campbells and the recipes varied from good to awful, but they were fun. I still have torn out sheets from them in the recipe binder. Posted by: sal at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM (f+FmA) Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq) Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:39 PM (wnD9v) 157
There already is a book published in 1979 that describes how archeologists will view our culture in the year 4022. It's called Motel of the Mysteries, and it's a real hoot.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at November 19, 2025 10:39 PM (/D0sv) 158
149 I have all kinds of invasive plants growing on our farm. I go down to the county noxious weed department and get the exact right herbicide for the job - from the guy that drives around the back roads deliberately killing that sh*t and determining what works and doesn't work in my exact geographic area.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 19, 2025 10:37 PM *** I'm beginning to think that I should get all of you a subscription to "Weeds, Trees and Turf" for Christmas. Posted by: TRex - Moron groundskeeper at November 19, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq) 159
150 High Times had a centerfold?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM (pkeXY) I was wondering about that myself. I asked Copilot that very question. The answer is hilarious. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:40 PM (0CU3H) 160
>>>Supposedly they won't put roots down below about 18in. one of the "containment" strategies is to bury a 18 in sheet aluminum around the perimeter then Round Up the shit out of the plants.
Posted by: Some Rat --- Read similar about PVC, they grow into a crack or crevice that can easily be found in concrete but with out that they go around the obstacle. Electrocuting them sounds cool. A push button switch that's only on while depressed may be a safety. Tore up my walk way by growing under it and expanding (growing larger in diameter). It was 4" thick, so what. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 10:40 PM (rU9qQ) 161
Puzzled archeologist, "the sign says WASTE."
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:40 PM (wnD9v) 162
High Times had a centerfold?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM Oh yeah, close ups of plump Hawaiian buds with crystals of THC visible. Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:40 PM (jc0TO) 163
TRUE FACT: Isaac the bartenders secret ingredient was roofies.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 10:41 PM (LjSYW) 164
https://tinyurl.com/mtpchn6p
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:42 PM (jc0TO) 165
I sighed. Gray.
She chuckled. And it's on my new license. I am officially 29. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame Wonder what Doof picked for his. Posted by: Some Rat at November 19, 2025 10:42 PM (TfUTr) 166
what about Hot Rod magazine
Posted by: Don Black at November 19, 2025 10:42 PM (AOsQT) 167
TRUE FACT: Isaac the bartenders secret ingredient was roofies.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 10:41 PM (LjSYW) Supplied by Doc Bricker. He was a poonhound. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:43 PM (0aYVJ) 168
Damn, the 70s were awesome:
Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 10:43 PM (77rzZ) 169
High Times had a centerfold?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM (pkeXY) Oh hell yeah. Bud Of The Month. Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2025 10:44 PM (gKDq2) 170
107 I hated disco with the heat of a 1000 suns. It was jersey. You see the retards on the jersey shore show?? Ok, now imagine that group in the disco crowd. Case closed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:26 PM I too hated disco. Unfortunately, all of the cute girls were at the disco events. At some point, I just had to plug my ears and go dance with the cute girls. I could always crank some BOC on my stereo at home to cleanse my "refined" palate. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 19, 2025 10:44 PM (HlyYF) 171
163 TRUE FACT: Isaac the bartenders secret ingredient was roofies.
--------- Ever notice how when Isaac was going to have a love interest in an episode, you always knew about it because an attractive black woman would board the ship? Isaac wasn't allowed to consort with the white wimmen. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2025 10:44 PM (JkO4W) 172
153 Just got my new driver's license. Lady asked, Hair color?
I sighed. Gray. She chuckled. And it's on my new license. I am officially 29. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame ------ Got a ticket a few years ago and the cop put grey for the hair color. Hey, lady, my hair's not ... I gave you a warning sonny, would you like me to re-write that ticket?....crickets Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 10:45 PM (rU9qQ) 173
Supplied by Doc Bricker. He was a poonhound.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 10:43 PM (0aYVJ) Hole and a heartbeat Bricker. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 10:45 PM (LjSYW) 174
Somebody asked her her nationality, and I quickly said Philippines. She says yes, thats right, how did you know? I blurted out "I read solder of fortune" lolol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (snZF9) So much for taking her home that night, eh? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (npFr7) 175
Crafts 'n Things COVER- things I am not familiar with:
Quilling Paper Marquetry Chenille Centerpieces Bandana Stitchery Posted by: scampydog - Grateful got me at 155 at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (41CYW) Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (jc0TO) 177
I went to IHop...wanted pancakes with Boysenberry syrup.
They said they did not have BOYSENBERRY syrup anymore. This country is going to hell in a handbasket!!! Time to build a bunker. Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (25kuG) 178
what about Hot Rod magazine
Posted by: Don Black Thank you! Loved and hated that rag. "Project First Car.' We sent the chassis out to LA Speed and Pricey shit, where they installed 2 thousand dollars worth of suspension..." Posted by: Some Rat at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (TfUTr) 179
Damn, the 70s were awesome:
Posted by: Bulg Sometimes I sit around and reminisce about those days. Good times. . good times. But! It is our human nature to forget the crap times during those years - and there were plenty. Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (cYBz/) 180
123 No love for Hoard's Dairyman?
Wow, you people. Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2025 10:30 PM (cYBz/) Trying to milk praise out of us? Isn't that a bit cheesy? Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (jfvTO) 181
Hole and a heartbeat Bricker.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 10:45 PM (LjSYW) -------- He did better as Ziegfried. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W) 182
You said Hunt the Wumpus.
Posted by: blaster at November 19, 2025 10:47 PM (RoO7G) 183
Cannot imagine life growing up in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient .................................. Grew up an hour north of Pittsburgh .My Dad worked in a mill till it shut down in '94. He semi retired and worked as a contractor painting until he fully retired. He didn't miss the steel mill. Dangerous, loud, and dirty Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 19, 2025 10:47 PM (sAmhv) 184
I was in a Blue Man concert. I had bought tickets and early in the show a stage hand came up and asked me to participate.
They took me backstage and explained the act, then had me get put on a poncho and mask and get into a small box which they would wheel on stage and I would come out of. The act was that they showed a video of "me" on stage of "me" after I went backstage that showed them basically beating the snot out of me in a comical way but was just a dummy wearing the same pancho and mask they had me put on. It was pretty funny and well done. Posted by: 18-1 at November 19, 2025 10:47 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: Joyenz at November 19, 2025 10:47 PM (2F0/Y) 186
It's all good brother Scampydog!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:47 PM (IQ6Gq) 187
Well time to load up the airbrush and shoot the bottom of this airplane kit.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2025 10:48 PM (wnD9v) 188
One type of publication that the Internet killed that I used to buy often was those recipe pamphlets in the checkout line at the grocery.
They were usually put out by a food manufacturer like Pillsbury or Campbells and the recipes varied from good to awful, but they were fun. I still have torn out sheets from them in the recipe binder. Posted by: sal at November 19, 2025 10:38 PM (f+FmA) * * * * One of our family classics for decades now is an orange sweet roll from one of the Pillsbury annual bake-off issues. Mom used to make them for Easter morning. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 19, 2025 10:48 PM (kB9dk) 189
Before I go to bed, I thought I'd let you all know what the latest talking point is from the left regarding the Epstein files.
Now that they are going to be released, they are starting to claim they have been sanitized of any info proving Trump's guilt. They keep moving the goal posts to maintain their fantasy world. Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 19, 2025 10:48 PM (jRZX9) 190
The last two times I went to IHOP were unsatisfactory.
The last time we left without eating or paying for our order. I don't think they will be a going concern for much longer. Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 10:49 PM (A0sqA) 191
I would ask why you didn't include a Compute magazine cover, but they didn't start publishing until 1979.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 10:49 PM (jfvTO) 192
79 World Toilet Day and the future.
Years ago I read an SF story about archeologists poking about in the ruins of ancient Earth. One of the few things to survive were ceramic objects that were present in almost every building. They came in a bewildering number of shapes and sizes. Were they altars? Perhaps some form of food distribution system? The only clue was a sign in a long forgotten language: "Employees Must Wash Hands After Using Restroom." Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 19, 2025 10:19 PM (QFqsT) I recall a similar story about either future or alien scientists viewing a long strip of miniature pictures which when viewed properly shows images of a dark furry animal cavorting around in the forest, and concluding with an inscription the translation and meaning of which would be hotly debated for decades: "A Walt Disney Production" Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 10:49 PM (QGaXH) 193
TRex Editor
Its good we have a professional Dino editor... I often forget how we can conduct outselves over here... *as one goes about scratching one's butt* Oh! Sorry...I said that outloud didn't I...I better go lurk now..😒... Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 19, 2025 10:49 PM (3pxDZ) 194
147 Cannot imagine life growing up in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM *** Like so many other things, depends on time and place. YMMV. Posted by: TRex - Yinzer Nation at November 19, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq) 195
I guess the internet killed the Penny Saver type classifieds. I bought and sold a catamaran through one of those.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:50 PM (jc0TO) 196
Two amazing things happened to me in the 1970's: 1. There was this little club that my brother and I would go to after work. Mostly it was recorded music - but they had a stage so sometimes they'd have a local band playing. One night we walked in the door just as the DJ was saying "Ladies and Gentlemen: Chicago" Sure enough that is who it was. The club was only about 1/2 full so we got a table right in front of the band. They were so good. They used the club as rehearsal for their big concert date in Richmond.
2. I walked into an all night restaurant on Broad St in Richmond. There was a couple in there: Cher and Greg Allman. Cher was smiling and laughing at something Greg said. As soon as she saw me she went stiff and dropped into dealing with asses mode. No way I wanted to disturb them so I got a booth at the far end and ordered breakfast. Cher said "Doesn't he know who we are? Greg looked at me and said "He knows, he's just giving us privacy." After I gobbled down my eggs and toast I go up to leave. On the way out I gave each of them some polite applause. Greg nodded at me and said "I told you he knew who we were." Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 10:51 PM (Da7Vv) 197
They keep moving the goal posts to maintain their fantasy world.
Posted by: Erebus They haven't used real goalposts since the '90s. They just green-screen them into the shot in post. Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 10:52 PM (nhCoE) 198
193 I often forget how we can conduct outselves over here...
*as one goes about scratching one's butt* Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 19, 2025 10:49 PM *** What happens at the wobbly table stays at the wobbly table. Posted by: Sgt TRex - I know nothing! at November 19, 2025 10:52 PM (IQ6Gq) 199
Somebody asked her her nationality, and I quickly said Philippines. She says yes, thats right, how did you know? I blurted out "I read solder of fortune" lolol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:36 PM (snZF9) So much for taking her home that night, eh? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:46 PM (npFr7) Well, she was American born, and as it turns out was the younger sister that I never met of a dude I actually knew from other parties. That was off the table in any galaxy. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 10:53 PM (snZF9) Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 10:53 PM (25kuG) 201
200!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq) 202
Heh. The only magazine I ever bought a subscription to was OMNI when I was in college in the early 80's.
I was into Conspiracy Theories (and Art Bell) before it was cool ... Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 19, 2025 10:53 PM (+mTgD) 203
Blot!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq) 204
I subscribed to Military History magazine for years until it became just another liberal rag.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 19, 2025 10:54 PM (0714D) 205
201 200!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq) ------------ Whatever it takes ... Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 19, 2025 10:54 PM (+mTgD) 206
Just saw the Lurkers Mystery Click. LOL, well done.
Posted by: scampydog - Grateful got me at 155 at November 19, 2025 10:54 PM (41CYW) 207
Growing up, I remember looking forward to Highlights and Ranger Rick every week.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 19, 2025 10:55 PM (31p00) 208
Saw Journey at Madison Square Garden in 1978, right after Perry joined the band. Styx opened for them. Perry's voice was amazing and beautiful live.
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp!! at November 19, 2025 10:55 PM (oftw2) 209
Well, she was American born, and as it turns out was the younger sister that I never met of a dude I actually knew from other parties. That was off the table in any galaxy. lol
Posted by: Berserker The Bro Code. "Once you've known a bro for 24 hours, his sister is off-limits forever." Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 10:56 PM (nhCoE) Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq) 211
206 Just saw the Lurkers Mystery Click. LOL, well done.
Posted by: scampydog - Grateful got me at 155 at November 19, 2025 10:54 PM *** Gold star for spotting. Special appearance just for this the 1978 theme. We care about our lurkers! Posted by: TRex - anti-inflation dino at November 19, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq) 212
I recall a similar story about either future or alien scientists viewing a long strip of miniature pictures which when viewed properly shows images of a dark furry animal cavorting around in the forest, and concluding with an inscription the translation and meaning of which would be hotly debated for decades:
"A Walt Disney Production" Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 10:49 PM (QGaXH) ==== There's a scene in Sleeper where Woody Allen is explaining artifacts of his time to scientists of the future "Albert Shanker got the Bomb!" Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 10:57 PM (A0sqA) 213
Off sock.
Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW) 214
I recall a similar story about either future or alien scientists viewing a long strip of miniature pictures which when viewed properly shows images of a dark furry animal cavorting around in the forest, and concluding with an inscription the translation and meaning of which would be hotly debated for decades:
"A Walt Disney Production" Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 10:49 PM (QGaXH) You know, movies and video "work" for humans because of a phenomenon called "persistence of vision". We get a short glimpse of something, and that images persists in our mind's eye for a few milliseconds until supplanted by something else. The result is we see movies and TV as a continuous flow of movement. Not all animals have this. What if highly-advanced space aliens did not have it? They could probably reason out that a strip of movie film was intended to represent motion. but they could not view the film and experience the motion the way we do. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:57 PM (npFr7) 215
Grew up an hour north of Pittsburgh .My Dad worked in a mill till it shut down in '94. He semi retired and worked as a contractor painting until he fully retired. He didn't miss the steel mill. Dangerous, loud, and dirty
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 19, 2025 10:47 PM (sAmhv) * * * * I recall the steel mills down by the river and how smoky everything was. We were just visiting so it made a huge impression. They later rehabbed everything in the former mill area and it was nice shops and eateries. Big improvement. Visited my aunt in Baden once and was so impressed by all the green trees and lovely narrow, winding roads. Even the houses looked different. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 19, 2025 10:57 PM (kB9dk) 216
207 Growing up, I remember looking forward to Highlights and Ranger Rick every week.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 19, 2025 10:55 PM *** Good reference. I remember those. Posted by: TRex - outdoor adventure dino at November 19, 2025 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq) 217
TRex, I think I saw an early picture of you on another blog (Freedom is just another word...).
https://tinyurl.com/3zbnaxjj Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 19, 2025 10:58 PM (S/Y4j) Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq) 219
Is there some kind of universal law that states one can only get 2 or 3 applications of superglue before the whole tube seizes up?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 10:59 PM (mlg/3) 220
I got the sadz....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq) --------- As you wish. Posted by: scampydog - Grateful got me at 155 at November 19, 2025 10:59 PM (41CYW) 221
149 the guy that drives around the back roads deliberately killing that sh*t and determining what works and doesn't work in my exact geographic area.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 19, 2025 10:37 PM (HlyYF) There are actually people who's job it is to do that? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 11:00 PM (QGaXH) 222
217 TRex, I think I saw an early picture of you
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 19, 2025 10:58 PM *** I was cute, but people still seem to prefer puppies. and they bite more! Posted by: TRex - junior dino at November 19, 2025 11:00 PM (IQ6Gq) 223
Growing up, I remember looking forward to Highlights and Ranger Rick every week.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 19, 2025 10:55 PM (31p00) --- Highlights for Children. I liked Goofus and Gallant. And the Timbertoes. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 19, 2025 11:01 PM (ys6FW) 224
Hey, Joyenz, Welcome! Good to see you here!
Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 11:01 PM (77rzZ) 225
I subscribed to Car and Driver for a while. Hard to believe, but in the late 70’s and early 80’s C&D had a letters section that was as hilarious as any of the threads we have here. They had great editors and people who would really work to get a good one in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 11:01 PM (/ZNPI) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 11:01 PM (rU9qQ) 227
No longer sadz... you are the best Doggo!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 19, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq) 228
There are actually people who's job it is to do that?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 11:00 PM (QGaXH) ====== EXTERMINATE! Posted by: The Daleks at November 19, 2025 11:01 PM (9ipOP) 229
Well, she was American born, and as it turns out was the younger sister that I never met of a dude I actually knew from other parties. That was off the table in any galaxy. lol
Posted by: Berserker The Bro Code. "Once you've known a bro for 24 hours, his sister is off-limits forever." Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 10:56 PM (nhCoE) Bingo, for it is written. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 11:01 PM (snZF9) 230
I guess the internet killed the Penny Saver type classifieds. I bought and sold a catamaran through one of those.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 19, 2025 10:50 PM (jc0TO) Still exists here in my part of Alberta. Western Buy and Sell. westernbuyselltrade.com/contact/ Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:02 PM (npFr7) 231
Two amazing things happened to me in the 1970's: 1. There was this little club that my brother and I would go to after work. Mostly it was recorded music - but they had a stage so sometimes they'd have a local band playing. One night we walked in the door just as the DJ was saying "Ladies and Gentlemen: Chicago"
------------- Chicago (and those horns!) was my favorite band in the late 70's (R.I.P. the Great Terry Kath). In the mid-90s, my girlfriend and I were visiting a gay friend of hers (whom she bought her pot from) in San Francisco. We went out to a club in one of the downtown hotels (I think it was "The Mint"). Anyway, we walk into a small amphitheater where they're having a karaoke night. A woman on-stage starts singing the famous song at the time "What's Up" by the 4 Non Blondes -- which I really liked -- and I was blown away. I said: "She sounds just like the lead singer on that song" and my girlfriend's friend chuckles and says "That's because it IS the lead singer -- Linda Perry!" Turns out she was celebrating her birthday that night with a group of lesbian friends, who made her get up on stage and sing it. Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 19, 2025 11:02 PM (+mTgD) 232
176 Yeah, my DL was forcibly changed from blond to gray last renewal.
It's hell getting old. Posted by: toby928(c) I'm 70 and my hair is still quite blond. Beard is grayer, though. I expect my hair will gray out in the next few years, if my blond late uncles are an indication. Posted by: Norwegian Mental Illness Art Fan at November 19, 2025 11:02 PM (oftw2) 233
Is there some kind of universal law that states one can only get 2 or 3 applications of superglue before the whole tube seizes up?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 10:59 PM (mlg/3) Yes, yes there is, and it's a major pissoff. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 11:03 PM (snZF9) 234
196 Two amazing things happened to me in the 1970's:
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 10:51 PM (Da7Vv) Great stories! Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 11:03 PM (y171U) 235
There are actually people who's job it is to do that?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 11:00 PM (QGaXH) Alberta has a Rat Patrol. Anyone sights a rat, and they come with traps and guns and poison to exterminate them. Alberta is officially a rat-free Province, and they aim to keep it that way. Deadly serious about it. Rats are terribly destructive. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7) 236
Is there some kind of universal law that states one can only get 2 or 3 applications of superglue before the whole tube seizes up?
Posted by: weft cut-loop ---------- I gave up on reuse. Wife and kids get an el cheapo tube of Crazy Glue in their Christmas stocking every year. All end up in the desired destination for future one time use. Posted by: scampydog - Grateful got me at 155 at November 19, 2025 11:06 PM (41CYW) Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 19, 2025 11:06 PM (CHHv1) 238
My DL only lists height and eye color. Until I get the old lady shrinkage, I'm not lying.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 19, 2025 11:06 PM (ys6FW) Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 11:07 PM (Da7Vv) Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 11:08 PM (25kuG) 241
Saw ELO at MSG , also in '78. They put on a nice show, too.
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp! at November 19, 2025 11:10 PM (oftw2) 242
Omni magazine was my favorite.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 19, 2025 11:11 PM (VCgbV) 243
REDACTED: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was ordered to release some of his emails with Elon Musk. All but 200 of the nearly 1,400 pages handed over to @lmcgaughy [writer @ propublica] are completely blacked out.
[Abbott to L McGaughy, GFY] Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 11:12 PM (rU9qQ) 244
243 REDACTED: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was ordered to release some of his emails with Elon Musk. All but 200 of the nearly 1,400 pages handed over to @lmcgaughy [writer @ propublica] are completely blacked out.
[Abbott to L McGaughy, GFY] Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet ---------- Finally learning to play the game like the other side. Posted by: scampydog - Grateful got me at 155 at November 19, 2025 11:13 PM (41CYW) 245
241 Saw ELO at MSG , also in '78. They put on a nice show, too.
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp! at November 19, 2025 11:10 PM (oftw2) And you can't get it out of your head? Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2025 11:14 PM (bss/y) 246
235 There are actually people who's job it is to do that?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 11:00 PM (QGaXH) Alberta has a Rat Patrol. Anyone sights a rat, and they come with traps and guns and poison to exterminate them. Alberta is officially a rat-free Province, and they aim to keep it that way. Deadly serious about it. Rats are terribly destructive. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7) Makes mental note to avoid Alberta....... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 11:14 PM (QGaXH) 247
REDACTED: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was ordered to release some of his emails with Elon Musk. All but 200 of the nearly 1,400 pages handed over to @lmcgaughy [writer @ propublica] are completely blacked out.
[Abbott to L McGaughy, GFY] Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 11:12 PM (rU9qQ) Heh. And when the d-bag sues to have the redactions revealed, we will see: Abbott: "How about them Astros, Elon?" Musk; "Meh, they got lucky." Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:15 PM (npFr7) 248
Alberta has a Rat Patrol. Anyone sights a rat, and they come with traps and guns and poison to exterminate them. Alberta is officially a rat-free Province, and they aim to keep it that way. Deadly serious about it. Rats are terribly destructive.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7) Not the 4 dudes with jeeps with mounted .50 BMG's? Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 11:16 PM (snZF9) 249
My son was born in 1978. A very good year.
Posted by: Javems at November 19, 2025 11:16 PM (8I4hW) 250
235 Alberta has a Rat Patrol. Anyone....
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7) Wasn't there a tv show by that name? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 11:18 PM (QGaXH) 251
Not the 4 dudes with jeeps with mounted .50 BMG's?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 11:16 PM (snZF9) I think they drive pickups, and tote .22 semi-auto rifles and maybe .410 shotguns. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:18 PM (npFr7) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2025 11:19 PM (XeU6L) 253
Calling it an early night - somebody starting to freak out about all the work she hasn't done to get ready for older son's arrival Saturday.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 11:20 PM (QGaXH) 254
You know, movies and video "work" for humans because of a phenomenon called "persistence of vision". We get a short glimpse of something, and that images persists in our mind's eye for a few milliseconds until supplanted by something else. The result is we see movies and TV as a continuous flow of movement. Not all animals have this.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon And they don't all have it at the same rate. Dogs are more likely to freak out about things on a modern digital TV than they were on old analog tube sets, because their eyes effectively work at a higher frequency than ours. New TVs look "real" to them; NTSC sets looked like really fast slideshows. Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 11:20 PM (nhCoE) 255
249 My son was born in 1978. A very good year.
Posted by: Javems ------ Hey javems, how'd everything go with your wife's surgery? Posted by: scampydog - Grateful got me at 155 at November 19, 2025 11:20 PM (41CYW) 256
Alberta is officially a rat-free Province, and they aim to keep it that way. Deadly serious about it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Makes mental note to avoid Alberta....... Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan Heh, I was expecting this to be "posted by Some Rat." Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 11:22 PM (nhCoE) Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 19, 2025 11:25 PM (3pxDZ) 258
Alberta has a Rat Patrol. Anyone....
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7) Wasn't there a tv show by that name? Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2025 11:18 PM (QGaXH) Yup, 4 dudes and 2 jeeps with mounted .50 BMGs driving around the desert and pissing off the Afrika Korps. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 11:25 PM (snZF9) 259
I have never seen the Rat Patrol around here. Mostly they work the Saskatchewan and Montana border area. And maybe some truck and train yards. Rocky Mountains are a bridge too high for the rats from B.C. And the far North is no country for old rats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:25 PM (npFr7) 260
I said: "She sounds just like the lead singer on that song" and my girlfriend's friend chuckles and says "That's because it IS the lead singer -- Linda Perry!" Turns out she was celebrating her birthday that night with a group of lesbian friends, who made her get up on stage and sing it.
I just played their song on Youtube, and yes that was a good song. I'm kind of amazed she could sing a Karaoke version of her song, since Karaoke changes keys to an easier to sing version. I can sing the Eagles song I can't tell you why in the original difficult falsetto key. I tried singing it to a Karaoke key and I was just awful; I kept hearing how the vocals were supposed to sound and they just didn't fit the music I was hearing. But that is part of why I'm not a musician. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 11:26 PM (Da7Vv) 261
Is there some kind of universal law that states one can only get 2 or 3 applications of superglue before the whole tube seizes up?
Posted by: weft cut-loop -------- It is the moisture in the air, or, less fortunately, your fingers. Once you crack the lid, it's a one-way trip. Slowly perhaps, but there it is. "Cyanoacrylate polymerization is a rapid, anionic chain-growth process where liquid monomers link together to form strong polymer chains, or a glassy resin, that act as an adhesive" Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2025 11:27 PM (XeU6L) 262
My uncle gave me a copy of the Last Whole Earth Catalog for my 13th birthday. There were some nude photos and adult topics so my dad confiscated it, but I found it and looked at it when he wasn't around. Pretty sure he looked at it too.
Posted by: Bigsmith at November 19, 2025 11:27 PM (1Au9i) 263
I walked into an all night restaurant on Broad St in Richmond. There was a couple in there: Cher and Greg Allman. . . . Greg nodded at me and said "I told you he knew who we were." Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 10:51 PM (Da7Vv)
I was on the subway once and Michael Richards got on. He went straight to the corner of the car and sat as inconspicuously as he possibly could. I nodded at him, he nodded at me, and no one else paid any attention to him. I could see he wanted to not be recognized. He got out a few stops later. I asked the couple sitting next to me if they knew who that was, and it turns out they were tourists from Canada and had no idea. Two teenage girls on the other side of me said, "Who?" I told them he was on Seinfeld and they said, "Oh yeah . . . ." Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 19, 2025 11:28 PM (eStot) 264
Yup, 4 dudes and 2 jeeps with mounted .50 BMGs driving around the desert and pissing off the Afrika Korps.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 11:25 PM (snZF9) The German captain in the series was portrayed by actor Eric Braeden, who originally performed under his birth name Hans-Jörg Gudegast. He went on to a long,long career in soap operas. I sort of think the recoil from a .50 cal would shake a Jeep to pieces. They never mounted them on M29 Weasels for that reason. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:30 PM (npFr7) 265
And yes, I can sing most of the BG's songs in their falsetto key too.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 11:30 PM (Da7Vv) 266
Omni magazine was my favorite.
Posted by: lin-duh ----- Once exchanged some letters with a Psychologist who had an article published in Omni. It regarded the statistical association of people's names and their profession. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2025 11:31 PM (XeU6L) 267
/sings
The Slut Boat... you will get lucky with everyone the Slut Boat... where the crew fucks with everyone.... Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2025 11:33 PM (mP0Kj) 268
December 1978: I had my first real-life crush. I was in heaven for quite awhile.
Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 11:33 PM (77rzZ) 269
Hey javems, how'd everything go with your wife's surgery?
Posted by: scampydog - Grateful got me at 155 at November 19, 2025 11:20 PM (41CYW) Stent insertion went fine. Cardioversion went well yesterday. She is out of Afib now and hopefully meds will keep her that way. Thanks you for asking. You and yours doing well I hope Posted by: Javems at November 19, 2025 11:33 PM (8I4hW) 270
I also had a subscription to GAMES, it was awesome.
OMNI was cool MAD > Cracked National Lampoon - Nekkid boobs and occasionally more. Esquire - I love "Getting By on $100,000 a Year" in 1978. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at November 19, 2025 11:34 PM (8hxDK) 271
Many people here like to dump on that song by Four Non Blondes, but it really is a vocal tour de force. I guess the fact that I never heard it get played to death on pop radio is why I can enjoy it now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:34 PM (npFr7) 272
The opening graphic & mystery click are so timely. Not only am I reading this ONT (and commenting) from a cabin on a Princess cruise ship, but it's a Love Boat Celebration cruise, with original members of the cast on board. Just got pics tonight with Fred Grandy, Bernie Kopell, & Jill Whelan!
Posted by: BRWombat at November 19, 2025 11:34 PM (pGfLG) 273
I suppose I could've coated a straight pin with grease or something, stuck it down the superglue tube and sealed with wax or something, but, man I hate buying new tubes just for a f'ing toenail or something.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 11:35 PM (mlg/3) 274
and 2 jeeps with mounted .50 BMGs driving around the desert and pissing off the Afrika Korps.
Posted by: Berserker- --- *cough* M2 Brownings Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2025 11:35 PM (XeU6L) Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 19, 2025 11:36 PM (sL4oo) 276
A local prominent attorney came home drunk and his wife super glued his schmeckel to his tummy. Guess it's better than being
bobbited. Posted by: Tales From The ER at November 19, 2025 11:36 PM (oftw2) 277
LOL... Model Engine... talk about memories...
Spent my early teen years building and flying line control gas Planes... to the place of designing and building things that flew... with enough power behind it. Like, take three coffee cans, some rivets, a couple of soup cans... build the booms for control, put a big enough engine on it and YES, it will fly. Did get in trouble with a friends Dad though... they were into model Rockets... and we set up I think it was 20? of his Dad's rockets, tied to a firing control... so he could play SAM, and try to shoot my airplane down. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2025 11:37 PM (mP0Kj) 278
I had an Article published in Dr Dobb's Journal. It was the first article I had ever submitted for publication. Most authors I tell that story to get pissed off, as a long chain of rejections is almost a pre-requisite to being an author.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 11:38 PM (Da7Vv) 279
And West Coast TV guides were printed in Merced Calif... a few miles from where I lived.
TV guide went under and killed the printing plant, and a thousand or so good jobs. Plant is STILL THERE EMPTY. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2025 11:38 PM (mP0Kj) 280
According to Benny Johnson on youtube. Elon is back in the white house. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know ================ Moar DOGE? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 11:39 PM (obOni) 281
276 A local prominent attorney came home drunk and his wife super glued his schmeckel to his tummy. Guess it's better than being
bobbited. Posted by: Tales From The ER at November 19, 2025 11:36 PM (oftw2 He was drunk and she was just trying to ... uh... Keep him up? Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj) 282
Geez...had forgotten Dr. Dobb's
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2025 11:39 PM (XeU6L) 283
269 Glad to hear procedures went well. Great news! All good here, kids will both be home for Thanksgiving.
Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 11:40 PM (41CYW) 284
New Democrat talking point. "This is what corruption looks like."
They used that phrase with the Abbott/Musk emails and here is all time favorite, Jasmine Ratchitt, trolling Kristi Noam. https://tinyurl.com/yt535zde Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 19, 2025 11:40 PM (rU9qQ) 285
Omni magazine was originally entitled "Nova". There were a couple issues with that masthead. PBS objected and the name was changed to Omni. I was an original subscriber and wished I had kept copies of "Nova". I learned so much from that pub!
Posted by: Jeff at November 19, 2025 11:41 PM (XXgge) 286
I suppose I could've coated a straight pin with grease or something, stuck it down the superglue tube and sealed with wax or something, but, man I hate buying new tubes just for a f'ing toenail or something.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 11:35 PM (mlg/3) Th trick would be to open the tube and apply the glue in a moisture-free atmosphere. Oxygen-free, even better. When I use POR-15 anti-rust paint, which is similarly catalyzed by airborne moisture, I stick the nozzle of my MIG welder under the edge of the lid as I am reclosing the can, and let CO2 flow in for a few seconds to displace the air. Seems to work. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7) 287
A local prominent attorney came home drunk and his wife super glued his schmeckel to his tummy. Guess it's better than being bobbited.
Posted by: Tales From The ER At least he could still walk into the ER. She could have glued his balls to his thighs. Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 11:41 PM (nhCoE) 288
275 According to Benny Johnson on youtube.
Elon is back in the white house. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 19, 2025 11:36 PM (sL4oo) The blurb I saw also said he had some sort of secret device with him... Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2025 11:41 PM (bss/y) 289
It would be funny if all the Morons lived in Pittsburgh. We'd get to see things like this in the blotter:
Caller reporting that some guy is running up and down Aspen Street screaming. "FIRST WITH A BLADE. FIRST WITH A BLADE." Caller doesn't think he has a knife, but he keeps pumping his fist like he won the lottery or something. Caller stated, "Some guy is like 20th line at the DMV, and he keeps shouting, "FIRST." They want him to stop. Caller thinks he saw a space man. Insists there are no drugs involved impairing his "thought process." He says he just saw some guy with the shortest arms he's ever seen. He was walking around the WaWa on 2nd street asking people to scratch his back. Posted by: Orson at November 19, 2025 11:43 PM (dIske) 290
270 I also had a subscription to GAMES, it was awesome.
OMNI was cool MAD > Cracked Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at November 19, 2025 11:34 PM (8hxDK) I had collections of Epic and Erie... both great graphic magazines... THOUSANDS of dollars, most with TWO copies, one read, one still pristine... My Mom cleaned out my room when I was in Navy Boot Camp... and took them to a Church Sale, where they sold for $.10 a piece.... I did not know for a couple of years... Never did tell her what she had done. Those collections today? Probably a couple Hundred K worth. Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2025 11:43 PM (mP0Kj) 291
Moar DOGE?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 11:39 PM (obOni) https://youtu.be/uiVEchZY6YM?t=364 Apparently he uncovered more corruption in DC than TPTB would tolerate and had to flee. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 19, 2025 11:43 PM (sL4oo) 292
So does Elon get his own room or what
Posted by: Don Black at November 19, 2025 11:43 PM (AOsQT) 293
It is the moisture in the air, or, less fortunately, your fingers. Once you crack the lid, it's a one-way trip. Slowly perhaps, but there it is.
I've had good luck with keeping opened tubes in the refrigerator. The one I have in their now has been in for several years and was still good a couple of weeks ago when I used it. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 11:44 PM (Da7Vv) 294
271 Many people here like to dump on that song by Four Non Blondes, but it really is a vocal tour de force. I guess the fact that I never heard it get played to death on pop radio is why I can enjoy it now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon --------- I am with you - albeit, we may be the rare ones on here that like that song. Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 11:45 PM (41CYW) 295
The blurb I saw also said he had some sort of secret device with him...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2025 11:41 PM (bss/y) There was something about that but I didn't listen much to that part. See #291 for link. Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 19, 2025 11:45 PM (sL4oo) 296
It would be funny if all the Morons lived in Pittsburgh. We'd get to see things like this in the blotter:
Caller stated, "Some guy is like 20th line at the DMV, and he keeps shouting, "FIRST." They want him to stop. I could do this all night. Posted by: Orson Caller reports a man in a Rush t-shirt is challenging everyone who walks by to a game of pickleball. Caller is unsure if it's literal or a euphemism. Posted by: Moronsburgh Scanner at November 19, 2025 11:48 PM (nhCoE) 297
I think acetone will dissolve super glue, but it wouldn't feel good on "sensitive skin".
Posted by: Burnin' Love at November 19, 2025 11:49 PM (oftw2) 298
You know what might sell? An el-cheapo, but reusable glove box for using Krazy glue, and maybe some other moisture-sensitive products. Make it out of cardboard, with some clear plastic film windows, and some loose-fitting nitrile gloves let into the front. You take the folded unit out of the closet, set it up, put your work piece and the Krazy Glue inside, and toss in a lump of dry ice. Give it time to gas off, and drive the air out, then open your tube of glue, glue up your job, and seal the tube, with it never having touched humid air. Betcha Anna could use one. Of course, she is smart enough to build one on her own.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:50 PM (npFr7) 299
1978, I found Carl Sagan insufferable. The Love Boat was sad, but at 13 you watched it for the occasional boobeh. Same with Fantasy Island, and then the scrambled dirty movie on the subscription TV.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 19, 2025 11:52 PM (R86kT) 300
My brother had an original copy of Silver Surfer #1. He sold it for a dollar, and figured he'd made out like a bandit - since he only paid a quarter for it.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 11:52 PM (Da7Vv) 301
297 I think acetone will dissolve super glue, but it wouldn't feel good on "sensitive skin".
Posted by: Burnin' Love at November 19, 2025 11:49 PM (oftw2) That's because it strips all the oil from your skin. Acetone. The name you trust when dissolving things. (at least anything polar.) Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2025 11:52 PM (bss/y) 302
Caller reports a man in a Rush t-shirt is challenging everyone who walks by to a game of pickleball. Caller is unsure if it's literal or a euphemism.
Posted by: Moronsburgh Scanner at November 19, 2025 11:48 PM (nhCoE) ___________________________________ Caller states that "he's off the sauce" for a while. Claims there is a sort hairy animal looking thing riding up and down Elm Avenue on a Vespa chewing a piece of bamboo. Second call, apparently the Vespa rider is pointing at random pedestrians and calling them "clam hammer" or something like that. Posted by: Orson at November 19, 2025 11:53 PM (dIske) 303
76 When Fonzy first appeared on Happy Days, he wore a cloth jacket rather than the later and more expensive leather one.
The producers thought he would be too "scary" for a family show in leather. Originally he was written as somewhat scary, the other teens were sort of afraid of him. He caught on with teens, was allowed to wear the leather, and became a much bigger part of the show and they softened his character up a lot. Posted by: Azjaeger at November 19, 2025 11:54 PM (3/XaG) 304
Check out the Long Range Desert Group in the British North Africa operations. They had about everything (including up to M2s and a bit beyond actually) mounted on their Ford and Chevy trucks. Likely the inspiration for "Rat Patrol".
Long before Somali warlords made "technicals" a thing, the Brit and Commonwealth guys in North Africa were living the dream for those who love cars and machine guns. Of course the other side was sometimes shooting back and stuff, but you know. Posted by: rhomboid at November 19, 2025 11:54 PM (U/Byj) 305
For you funny retirees. Dinner with recently retired guy.
His greeting: How was work? His after meal, I am on a fixed income, you got the check? His parting shot: have fun at work tomorrow. Tough to be certain, but he seems to be enjoying retirement. Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 11:55 PM (41CYW) Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 19, 2025 11:56 PM (sL4oo) 307
I loved “Rat Patrol” as a kid. Don’t know why that never got reruns.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 11:57 PM (/ZNPI) 308
Check out the Long Range Desert Group in the British North Africa operations. They had about everything (including up to M2s and a bit beyond actually) mounted on their Ford and Chevy trucks. Likely the inspiration for "Rat Patrol".
Long before Somali warlords made "technicals" a thing, the Brit and Commonwealth guys in North Africa were living the dream for those who love cars and machine guns. Of course the other side was sometimes shooting back and stuff, but you know. Posted by: rhomboid at November 19, 2025 11:54 PM (U/Byj) Peon's ideal: Three Jeeps, one with M2, one with recoilless rifle, and one with fuel, ammo, and spares, and 3 guys with scoped rifles. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:57 PM (npFr7) 309
274 and 2 jeeps with mounted .50 BMGs driving around the desert and pissing off the Afrika Korps.
Posted by: Berserker- --- Little known fact is that the surviving Germans from Rat Patrol went on to be in charge of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Posted by: Azjaeger at November 19, 2025 11:59 PM (3/XaG) 310
10 My lord, I read so many of those mags. All the memories flooding back.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2025 10:02 PM (17l0u) I still have that Lampoon. Maybe the Sports Illustrated too. Posted by: Happy at November 20, 2025 12:00 AM (8wFql) 311
Some of us are built for retirement: I loved living alone for 12 years: I had so much time to think about Physics and see where the physicists had screwed everything up. Here is a hint: elegant mathematics is almost never the way the universe works, for all the same reasons that the Music of the Spheres was both elegant and wrong.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 20, 2025 12:01 AM (Da7Vv) 312
Wacky Prediction: Democrats & Fake News will begin to "ask questions" about epstein's "suicide" and answer their "questions" with "Trump did it." So, yeah, the Democrats now have no choice but to take up the esptein didn't kill himself (which they NEVER did before and called Us "conspiracy theoriests" for saying it) mantle and fake-conclude that Trump had him killed. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 20, 2025 12:02 AM (Y9x1x) 313
Thanks for the ONT, TRex! Wow, old mags & brings back memories.
Super Glue-- My solution for the one- or two-use problem: Buy the 4-pack of tiny little tubes at chynah freight. (Used to be 99 cents, probly 2 or 3 dollars now?) I don't need the stuff very often, and only a drop or two when I do need it. Like, for gluing my skin back together after it splits in cold, dry weather! There's just no other way to *quickly* heal knuckle and fingertip splits, they'll keep breaking open because nearly impossible to bandage. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 12:02 AM (rdVOm) 314
Hey everybody. Hey ONT.
UN today: "We'll always need the toilet!" UN two weeks from now: "The toilet is the very symbol of climate change and white supremacy! Ban toilets NOW!!" Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:02 AM (Cl3L+) 315
Re Fonzie and Happy Days:
In 1974, when the show was a new hit, no less than John Lennon decided to drop by the set with his son, Julian. It was during John's 'lost weekend' with May Pang. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:03 AM (Cl3L+) 316
Incidentally, we're supposebly getting the "epstein files." But what about "the List?" Remember The List? So Democrats will scream about that, too. Where's "the list," they'll demand. Is there a list? No, there is no list. Probably. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 20, 2025 12:05 AM (Y9x1x) 317
Originally he was written as somewhat scary, the other teens were sort of afraid of him. He caught on with teens, was allowed to wear the leather, and became a much bigger part of the show and they softened his character up a lot.
Posted by: Azjaeger at November 19, 2025 11:54 PM (3/XaG) ---------- Then he literally jumped the shark. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2025 12:05 AM (dyewR) 318
271 Many people here like to dump on that song by Four Non Blondes, but it really is a vocal tour de force. I guess the fact that I never heard it get played to death on pop radio is why I can enjoy it now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 11:34 PM (npFr7) ---- It was a big hit when I was getting red--pilled as a college student. It has the stink of the early nineties nostalgia. Yuck and no thanks. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:05 AM (ys6FW) 319
Yeah, well, screw that Fonz guy!
Posted by: Chuck Cunningham From "College" at November 20, 2025 12:06 AM (oftw2) 320
I don't need the stuff very often, and only a drop or two when I do need it. Like, for gluing my skin back together after it splits in cold, dry weather! There's just no other way to *quickly* heal knuckle and fingertip splits, they'll keep breaking open because nearly impossible to bandage.
My late older brother super glued a cat that had been hit by a car, back together. Not only survived, but was a wonderful house pet for years. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 20, 2025 12:06 AM (Da7Vv) Posted by: Don Black at November 20, 2025 12:08 AM (AOsQT) 322
100 91 There was a great discussion on the ONT earlier this week (?) on disco, and Donna Summer.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 10:21 PM *** Indeed. Twas inspiration for the ONT tonight! Ha! My first girlfriend with whom intimacies were frequent was a huge Donna Summer fan. I was the rocker kid who hated disco, but I took her to the big Donna Summer tour either in 78 or early 79. It was not as bad as I'd feared. Girlfriend dumped me for a college guy a couple months later though. Posted by: Happy at November 20, 2025 12:08 AM (8wFql) 323
My late older brother super glued a cat that had been hit by a car, back together. Not only survived, but was a wonderful house pet for years.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at --- Rhat is kind of icky and sweet also. I'm glad the cat was happy! Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:09 AM (ys6FW) 324
This is the insomnia portion of the night.
Graduated 78, was in military 1/2 way through that year Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 12:10 AM (+qU29) 325
Girlfriend dumped me for a college guy a couple months later though.
Posted by: Happy at November 20, 2025 12:08 AM (8wFql) ---------- You didn't miss much. She went full lesbo after three months with me. Posted by: College Guy at November 20, 2025 12:11 AM (dyewR) 326
I was 7 years old in 1978. I'll get off Skip's lawn lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:12 AM (ys6FW) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:12 AM (Cl3L+) 328
Disco was *never* as annoying as grunge was in the early 1990s.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:12 AM (Cl3L+) True dat. I never got into Nirvana nor understood why they got so big. Posted by: Cow Demon at November 20, 2025 12:13 AM (vwL3N) 329
Could be a list of who went to Epstein Island and how many times they did
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 12:13 AM (+qU29) 330
And can only assume by this time a certain person is no longer a Royal family member
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 12:14 AM (+qU29) 331
My late older brother super glued a cat that had been hit by a car, back together. Not only survived, but was a wonderful house pet for years.
Posted by: An Observation -------- Wow! Lucky cat! Glad he adopted it too. When hubby fell last time, he landed on his hand & sliced his pinky finger with his thumbnail. Very deep, but "hard to numb" according to the ER doc. He used medical grade super glue instead of stitches. Worked. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm) 332
Kurt Cobain didn't speak for me, either. Grunge was depressing. No wonder they all overdosed or suicided.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:15 AM (ys6FW) 333
Cow: Nirvana was... okay, but IMHO basically a grunge Pink Floyd. They hated everything but themselves.
It didn't help when self-described tortured poet Kurt killed himself. THEN, everyone in media became absolutely determined to deify him. Even Dennis Prager was talking about it. I'd bet anything that Nirvana wouldn't be half as highly thought of, if Kurt was still around and likely releasing shitty albums by the truckload. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:16 AM (Cl3L+) 334
I have to get up in 4 hours
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 12:17 AM (+qU29) 335
I loved “Rat Patrol” as a kid. Don’t know why that never got reruns. Posted by: Tom Servo The Heroes and Icons channel used to have it but it's no longer on their schedule. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 20, 2025 12:17 AM (pkeXY) 336
296 It would be funny if all the Morons lived in Pittsburgh. We'd get to see things like this in the blotter:
Caller stated, "Some guy is like 20th line at the DMV, and he keeps shouting, "FIRST." They want him to stop. I could do this all night. Posted by: Orson Caller reports a man in a Rush t-shirt is challenging everyone who walks by to a game of pickleball. Caller is unsure if it's literal or a euphemism. Posted by: Moronsburgh Scanner at November 19, 2025 11:48 PM (nhCoE) "Caller reports a man in a Charlie Brown-style T-shirt accosting strangers and offering to boil their meat for them - insisting that it is the only way to cook it." Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 12:18 AM (0CU3H) 337
Kurt Cobain didn't speak for me, either. Grunge was depressing. No wonder they all overdosed or suicided.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary -------- Yeah. Grunge was saturated with pessimism. Yuck. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 12:19 AM (rdVOm) 338
"Caller reports a man in a Charlie Brown-style T-shirt accosting strangers and offering to boil their meat for them - insisting that it is the only way to cook it."
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 12:18 AM (0CU3H) Keith Olbermann has really gone downhill lately. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:19 AM (Cl3L+) 339
Kurt Cobain didn't speak for me, either. Grunge was depressing. No wonder they all overdosed or suicided.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary -------- Yeah. Grunge was saturated with pessimism. Yuck. Posted by: JQ -------- Yup. Happy time in life - no interest in the angst. Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 12:20 AM (41CYW) 340
UN two weeks from now: "The toilet is the very symbol of climate change and white supremacy! Ban toilets NOW!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:02 AM (Cl3L+) "There are no toilets in Palestine! It's a genocide." ~ Francesca Albanese Posted by: RickZ at November 20, 2025 12:21 AM (gKDq2) 341
333 Cow: Nirvana was... okay, but IMHO basically a grunge Pink Floyd. They hated everything but themselves.
It didn't help when self-described tortured poet Kurt killed himself. THEN, everyone in media became absolutely determined to deify him. Even Dennis Prager was talking about it. I'd bet anything that Nirvana wouldn't be half as highly thought of, if Kurt was still around and likely releasing shitty albums by the truckload. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:16 AM (Cl3L+) Respectfully disagree. When Smells Like Teen Spirit came out on the radio, you knew that a musical meteor had just struck the earth. You didn't know at the time that the big hair bands were about to become extinct. They had that kind of impact, out of nowhere. Looking at Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana career, I'd say they had at least 2 world-beating musicians in that band. I doubt they would have survived as a unit a few years more than they did, but I think they would have solidified their place as one of the great bands in rock history. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 20, 2025 12:21 AM (0CU3H) 342
dump asks his stooge at fcc to pull abc 's broadcast licenses again. Cancun turd crud nearly flipped out last time dump tried to pull licenses. Pulling wabc license would be a positive. When democrat wins in 2028 we will pull the licenses of every right wing talk station in America!
Posted by: raimondo at November 20, 2025 12:23 AM (gcD3a) 343
Darrell, hmmm. And, true that Teen Spirit was a great song, and the Nevermind album was pretty good. But past that it immediately becomes an extremely mixed bag IMHO. Anyway, great minds can disagree. :-)
I will say that Dave Grohl has turned out to be a reasonably mentally healthy guy. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:23 AM (Cl3L+) 344
1978, 9 years post Vietnam. One of the deepest and darkest. Thanks to God and many others I recovered.
Posted by: Lotta Nerve at November 20, 2025 12:23 AM (JdcHc) 345
I'd rig it so there was a push-button switch and a 30 amp breaker in the box with the hot wire, so the wire would not be energized while moving the jumper from weed to weed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7) ------- I have to admit that I would never have thought to use jumper cables to burn out a weed infestation. Is that common in Canada? Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 20, 2025 12:25 AM (xverI) 346
My late older brother super glued a cat that had been hit by a car, back together. Not only survived, but was a wonderful house pet for years. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President That would make a good pet thread story. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 20, 2025 12:25 AM (pkeXY) 347
I loved “Rat Patrol” as a kid. Don’t know why that never got reruns.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 11:57 PM (/ZNPI) Recently they played a few episodes on the H&I channel on saturday night, but it seems they redid the schedule and now its gone. Actually, they fucked up the whole programing thing recently. Even the morning shows got screwed. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 12:26 AM (snZF9) 348
I have only really listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit in the last year. It's OK. It did not change my world as a 20 year old in 1991. When Cobain died, I found it curious that people were shocked or grieving. Not that I wished him dead. But I did not see him as an icon.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:28 AM (ys6FW) 349
I loved “Rat Patrol” as a kid. Don’t know why that never got reruns.
Posted by: Tom Servo The Heroes and Icons channel used to have it but it's no longer on their schedule. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 20, 2025 12:17 AM (pkeXY) Yeah what the hell did they replace it with? I still see Combat and 12:00 high. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 12:28 AM (snZF9) 350
When Smells Like Teen Spirit came out on the radio, you knew that a musical meteor had just struck the earth. You didn't know at the time that the big hair bands were about to become extinct.
Posted by: Darrell Harris And that's why grunge sucked. Grunge drove metal off the airwaves. Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2025 12:29 AM (nhCoE) 351
When Cobain died, I found it curious that people were shocked or grieving. Not that I wished him dead. But I did not see him as an icon.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:28 AM (ys6FW) I saw him as a whiny drug addict. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 12:30 AM (snZF9) 352
Got my Christmas lights put up today. Yay!
I got out the old lights this weekend, but one of the strings (LED) was wonky. Flickered a couple times & then stayed on, but dim. Weird. The other strings were same age, so figured it's time for new. Today was sunny, so unpacked & stretched out the new strings across the deck for a couple hours before installing. Maybe there's a way to fix that one string? Haven't thrown it away. Yet. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 12:30 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:30 AM (Cl3L+) 354
And that's why grunge sucked. Grunge drove metal off the airwaves.
Posted by: mikeski --- Yeah. The big hair guys were fun. Grunge was a depression fest. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:31 AM (ys6FW) 355
When the Pittsburgh caller reported the Charlie Brown t-shirt guy, I wonder how the dispatcher understood all the womp womp womp?
Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 20, 2025 12:31 AM (31p00) 356
I saw him as a whiny drug addict.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division ------ That's my assessment of most grunge "artists". Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 12:31 AM (rdVOm) 357
My late older brother super glued a cat that had been hit by a car, back together. Not only survived, but was a wonderful house pet for years.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President That would make a good pet thread story. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. Like any medical operation you had to shave that cat first. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 20, 2025 12:31 AM (Lv6/f) 358
Another grunge band that IMHO was massively overpraised, after the lead unalived himself, was Blind Melon.
Sure 'No Rain' was cute. But that's all. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 12:33 AM (Cl3L+) 359
When Smells Like Teen Spirit came out on the radio, you knew that a musical meteor had just struck the earth. You didn't know at the time that the big hair bands were about to become extinct.
Posted by: Darrell Harris And that's why grunge sucked. Grunge drove metal off the airwaves. Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2025 12:29 AM (nhCoE) yeah I didn't mind losing the hairbands that much. Some were getting pretty silly. Real metal bands on the other hand got caught in the blast. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 12:35 AM (snZF9) 360
I hated "No Rain". What an irritating song. Anything by Ace of Base was better. And that's not saying much.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:35 AM (ys6FW) 361
348 I have only really listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit in the last year. It's OK. It did not change my world as a 20 year old in 1991. When Cobain died, I found it curious that people were shocked or grieving. Not that I wished him dead. But I did not see him as an icon.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Nirvana was ok, though the band that came out of it's ashes, Foo Fighters, were significantly better. Always thought Soundgarden and Alice in Chains were much better bands than Nirvana. I think the overwrought reaction after he died was odd. Anybody who paid attention to his lyrics could have seen he was a mess. Same for a lot of those guys at the time. Them dying by OD or by suicide was sad but hardly a shock. Its happened before. Early 70s (Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison), late 50s/early 60s with quite a few of jazz greats ODd. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 12:36 AM (sAmhv) 362
There's three decent Nirvana songs, and two of them are covers. "Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam" (The Vaselines), "The Man Who Sold The World" (David Bowie), and All Apologies.
The rest is less than Cumbersome. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 20, 2025 12:37 AM (pIfcn) 363
I forgot but did enjoy the Nirvana cover of The Man Who Sold the World. That wss awesone and did justice to the original.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:40 AM (ys6FW) 364
353 What came after grunge on the airwaves, about 1996, was even worse:
gangsta rap. Bleah. Posted by: qdpsteve The funny thing about 95-96 time frame, when rap ruled the airwaves and charts, is when some geezer band from the 70s put out an album and it wound up above all those gangsta's. Pink Floyd - Division Bell I regret not seeing them live. I wound up deploying on some Clinton misadventure. Can't recall where I was sent (Africa,ME, or Caribbean somewhere), but I missed that tour. I got deployed A LOT during the 90s. Never anywhere long, just long enough to miss great concerts. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 12:41 AM (sAmhv) 365
Hi Horde, Just got back from Boston with my neighbors down the street. We went to see "Croce Plays Croce", had some food and a few drinks. It was a most enjoyable evening.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 20, 2025 12:41 AM (0nHVk) 366
HI Debby, so was Jim Croce's son doing a tribute? How cool.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:44 AM (ys6FW) 367
Evening, DDS. Glad to hear you had a nice evening.
Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 12:44 AM (41CYW) 368
I'm not 100% against grunge. There's some stuff worth listening to.
I like I Mother Earth. They're definitely funk-rock, but are they "grunge?" Maybe. https://youtu.be/fmxbaHXOXGw And I like Drain STH. They sound like Alice In Chains, but they're hot Swedish women. The youtube pic is their second album cover. Their first album had no pix of the band anywhere on it; supposedly because they wanted to be known for their music and not their looks. https://youtu.be/Ntbxwb8SjRY Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2025 12:45 AM (nhCoE) 369
Hi, Debby! Glad you had a good time tonight!
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 12:49 AM (rdVOm) 370
Yeah. Grunge was saturated with pessimism. Yuck.
Posted by: JQ Right, Smells like Teen Spirit was super serial. Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 20, 2025 12:50 AM (mlg/3) 371
I have to admit that I would never have thought to use jumper cables to burn out a weed infestation. Is that common in Canada?
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 20, 2025 12:25 AM (xverI) I have never tried it, but it seems to me it ought to work, by cooking the plant. Did a search on it. It is a big business already, and in use by agriculture. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2025 12:52 AM (npFr7) 372
Right, Smells like Teen Spirit was super serial.
--------- It was probably the *least depressing* of that genre. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 12:54 AM (rdVOm) 373
HI Debby, so was Jim Croce's son doing a tribute? How cool.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 12:44 AM (ys6FW) Doug Sahm's son Shawn has done a tribute to his late father's music, too, and it is pretty darned good. https://youtu.be/cfPHEWxDTj0 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2025 12:56 AM (npFr7) 374
That's my assessment of most grunge "artists".
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 12:31 AM (rdVOm) Pretty much. You nailed it maybe without even knowing it when you say "artists". I not sure I can even explain my feelings on grunge. Every frigging musician I ever met over the years that viewed themselves as "artists" were weird. I mingled with a lot of grunge "artists" over the years. The majority of them seemed dead inside. Its hard to explain. Metal dudes were not that way. We never viewed ourselves as artists. Artists are the ones that think they have something to say, and because of that its always some whiny self indulgent preachy bullshit. It would take hours to explain the differences. Metal dudes usually always had this fire in their soul, they weren't dead behind the eyes. We just operated on a whole different fuel source. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 01:00 AM (snZF9) 375
BarelyScaryMary, yes, Jim Croce's son played a mix of Jim Croce songs and some of his own new stuff, a blues influence with some rock throw in. It was interesting to listen to. He told a lot of stories about his Dad and himself and many other famous musicians that they had know and played with. He looks a lot like Elvis Costello once upon a time.
Hiya JQ, might a grab a double Chivas on the rocks please? I promise you that I am going to sleep afterwards. I'll buy a round for whoever is lurking about. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 20, 2025 01:00 AM (0nHVk) 376
Mid 90s. I liked this Bjork song. It has become my theme song for life.
https://tinyurl.com/4tum2ksa Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:03 AM (ys6FW) 377
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
I regret not seeing them live. I wound up deploying on some Clinton misadventure. Can't recall where I was sent (Africa,ME, or Caribbean somewhere), but I missed that tour. I got deployed A LOT during the 90s. Never anywhere long, just long enough to miss great concerts. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 12:41 AM (sAmhv) First concert I ever went to was Division Bell. It was a great show for a stadium affair. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 20, 2025 01:05 AM (yEo1J) 378
Right, Smells like Teen Spirit was super serial.
Posted by: weft cut-loop Yuko Goto's cover makes it easier to understand the lyrics, somehow. https://youtu.be/Z9LNSmH8ABk Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2025 01:05 AM (nhCoE) 379
Metal-- seemed more open-minded. "Yeah, here's what we gotta say/play and come along if you want to party!"
Grunge-- seemed self-pitying. "We got this shit to say, and we *demand* that you hear it whether you like it or not" Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:06 AM (rdVOm) 380
Puddleglum, yup.
I can imagine the rap artists asking "Pink who??!!?" Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:06 AM (Cl3L+) Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:08 AM (rdVOm) 382
I think Pantera was more to blame for the demise of butt rock. All those faggots in their make up and Auqua net suddenly saw them and were like "oh shit. We better do something else. Looks like spandex is on the way out." Look at the Russian Monsters of Rock from 91. You can totally see how much more energy Pantera had vs. everyone else including that shit tier band Metallica.
That and History of Western Civilization part 2. Grunge was sort of just the next thing. There were some really good grunge bands that didn't make it too. Pond, Paw and a bunch of others. I had like 300 cds back then that never got any radio play anywhere. All collected from shows and a small indy record store in Savannah GA. I wish I still had them but they got stolen the night I arrived back home from Somalia. I've been able to find some on youtube but have long forgotten most of the band names. Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2025 01:08 AM (wiZnK) 383
Rap samples a lot of stuff, and there's a fair amount of non-black cultural references in it. I think rap gets a bad rap. The good stuff anyway.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 20, 2025 01:10 AM (yEo1J) 384
JQ and ScaryMary, you are both correct about grunge songs.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:10 AM (Cl3L+) 385
You didn't miss much. She went full lesbo after three months with me.
Posted by: College Guy Is that you, Chuck Cunningham? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 20, 2025 01:10 AM (YItOJ) 386
I was about to forget, but just saw it. Uranus will be at opposition tomorrow, the 21st. So might want to prepare for that. Uranus is also in retrograde until Feb. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 01:11 AM (w6EFb) 387
bear: anything, even rap, can be done really well. I LOVE that song by M/A/R/R/S, "Pump Up The Volume." It has a great melody and dance beat.
But when rap became all about shooting everybody you don't like, including your baby mama 'cuz you don't wanna pay for the abortion... Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:11 AM (Cl3L+) 388
>>>fingertip splits, they'll keep breaking open because nearly impossible to bandage.
Posted by: JQ --- (Liquid Skin) - New Skin Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ & his new toilet at November 20, 2025 01:12 AM (rU9qQ) 389
>> Chuck Cunningham?
What happened to Chuck? I vaguely remember him always dribbling a basketball, and then he just disappeared. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 01:12 AM (w6EFb) 390
Amish Paradise is my favorite rap song.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:13 AM (ys6FW) 391
Uranus will be at opposition tomorrow, the 21st. So might want to prepare for that.
Posted by: publius Which opposition? Do I need Dulcolax or Imodium? Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2025 01:13 AM (nhCoE) 392
383 Rap samples a lot of stuff, and there's a fair amount of non-black cultural references in it. I think rap gets a bad rap. The good stuff anyway.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls ------- Adjacent, La Di Da Di, by Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh is one of the most sampled rap songs. Also was not allowed in my house as a yute. Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 01:14 AM (41CYW) 393
publius: Mr. C hit Chuck over the head with a shovel, then he and the Fonz helped bury him in a shallow grave in the backyard, and forebade any other Cunninghams to ever mention him again. Seems college was gonna be WAY to expensive. Didn't anyone ever tell you?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:14 AM (Cl3L+) 394
Qdpsteve-- I don't consider myself "correct" on anything! It's just opinion.
Obviously, I don't like grunge. Meh. But other people like it & they can knock themselves out listening to it. Yay, 'murrica! Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:14 AM (rdVOm) 395
ScaryMary, there's a lot of songs where the best version is Weird Al's.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:14 AM (Cl3L+) 396
>> Do I need Dulcolax or Imodium?
That's hard to say. It's in retrograde, so everything is moving bass-ackwards. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 01:14 AM (w6EFb) 397
JQ, :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:15 AM (Cl3L+) 398
Maybe to be on the safe side, just take a stool softener. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 01:16 AM (w6EFb) 399
Mid 90s. I liked this Bjork song. It has become my theme song for life.
https://tinyurl.com/4tum2ksa Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:03 AM (ys6FW) Here's mine. It says it all. I loved playing this one. https://tinyurl.com/32v3y86x Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 01:16 AM (snZF9) 400
But when rap became all about shooting everybody you don't like, including your baby mama 'cuz you don't wanna pay for the abortion...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:11 AM (Cl3L+) The gangstas can surprise you. The Geto Boys' The Unseen is the most anti-abortion song I've ever heard. Only thing in the same realm I can think of off the top of my head is Type O Negative's These Three Things. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 20, 2025 01:16 AM (yEo1J) 401
Just 29 mins left for the Beaver Moon, too. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 01:18 AM (w6EFb) 402
Maybe to be on the safe side, just take a stool softener.
Posted by: publius Yeah, you don't want to try to cover all your bases by taking Dulcolax and Imodium. Because the only thing worse than explosive diarrhea is implosive diarrhea. Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2025 01:18 AM (nhCoE) 403
(Liquid Skin) - New Skin
Posted by: Braenyard ?? Please tell me more? Will it stay on hands through repeated hand-washings? Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm) 404
Mid 90s. I liked this Bjork song. It has become my theme song for life.
https://tinyurl.com/4tum2ksa Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Here's mine. It says it all. I loved playing this one. https://tinyurl.com/32v3y86x Posted by: Berserker * cringes * * clicks * Oh, good. I was worried Berserker had a favorite Bjork song. Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2025 01:20 AM (nhCoE) 405
bear, really??!! I will have to check that out. Thanks.
You'd be surprised where you can find conservative messages. Remember that movie that came out years ago with Mariah Carey, titled Precious? It (a) reminded me of A Clockwork Orange, parts of it were so violent, and (b) it's the most anti-welfare film ever made. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:21 AM (Cl3L+) 406
I will acknowledge that in 1990, there was a great rap album made:
De La Soul Is Dead, by (of course) De La Soul. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:22 AM (Cl3L+) 407
390 Amish Paradise is my favorite rap song.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Heh! Yep! I will also add 'Sabotage', but only because I dig the video. The BB's look like they were having fun. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 01:22 AM (sAmhv) 408
Wore the heck out of the Nelly CD, Country Grammar.
Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 01:25 AM (41CYW) Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:27 AM (rdVOm) 410
I confess to enjoying Ministry.
But I always considered them mostly punk/metal, not grunge. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:28 AM (Cl3L+) 411
NWA I vaguely remember. Easy-E. Straight Outta Compton. I think he died of AIDS.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:31 AM (ys6FW) 412
Metal *radiates* power and *gives* energy.
Grunge *sucks them out of you* Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:27 AM (rdVOm) Yeah, pretty much. Its why I stayed in it. Then you got the playing live thing. Its something that can't be explained. It flows through you like the force and just thunders all around you. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 01:32 AM (snZF9) 413
I confess to enjoying Ministry.
But I always considered them mostly punk/metal, not grunge. Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:28 AM (Cl3L+) Congregation please be seated.... Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 01:32 AM (snZF9) 414
UTFO rap cassette... yes, cassette was amusing.
Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 01:33 AM (41CYW) 415
Another funny interesting local weather factoid I stumbled on today. Every day, the GSP NWS puts out "this day in weather history", detailing some major weather event that happened on the given date. Well, Nov. 14th was "nothing happened on this day". In all the local records since 1890, no notable weather event has happened on Nov. 14. So, statistically that would be the date to choose if you didn't want to worry about bad weather. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 01:34 AM (w6EFb) 416
As has been noted, the greatest era of music was a 20 year period from 75 to 95.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 20, 2025 01:34 AM (XV/Pl) 417
Sweet Dreams Horde, I need to take my brother to the doctor for his physical tomorrow morning in Boston at an ungodly hour.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 20, 2025 01:35 AM (0nHVk) 418
Yay, headache is subsiding. (Thanks, ibuprofen!)
Sorry if I seem crabby tonight, will try to mellow out. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm) 419
Berserker, did you know Jesus Built My Hotrod?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:35 AM (Cl3L+) 420
Heh! Yep! I will also add 'Sabotage', but only because I dig the video. The BB's look like they were having fun.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 01:22 AM (sAmh ___ Intergalactic was on an ONT recently. That was a fun song also. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:36 AM (ys6FW) Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm) 422
Goodnight all. Fun chat tonight.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 20, 2025 01:37 AM (Cl3L+) 423
'Night, qdpsteve.
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:40 AM (rdVOm) 424
Well, getting on for midnight, and I am sleepy. Going to call it a night. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2025 01:42 AM (npFr7) 425
I saw one mention of BYTE magazine above, which surprised me. Does anyone remember a column from BYTE, called Steve Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar, where he would describe a problem, review the technical details, then develop and test a prototype solution. Seems like something right up AOP’s alley, or perhaps Berserker’s…
Posted by: Slash Buzz at November 20, 2025 01:42 AM (FstDi) 426
JQ, hope your headache feels better.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:42 AM (ys6FW) 427
'Night AOP. Sleep well.
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm) 428
Thanks, BarelyScaryMary-- feeling better. Shoulders are relaxing now, too. Ahhhhh.....
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:44 AM (rdVOm) 429
Went through a bunch of Christmas ornaments/decorations today and decided to donate. Realized I will never use them again. I want them to be enjoyed.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:46 AM (ys6FW) 430
1:47:15 AM EST (06:47:15 Zulu). This is the instant of the new moon. The Moon's elongation in ecliptic longitude is exactly zero. The Beaver Moon thus endeth, and the Cold Moon of the Long Nights lunation begins. This will be the longest lunation of the year, at 29 days, 18 hours, and 56 min. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 01:47 AM (w6EFb) 431
This is proof that, despite what some petty minded persons may say-
I reed ze contents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xif818y9z3g Posted by: Miklos, Justified at November 20, 2025 01:48 AM (u+AWT) 432
Not a metal head. Don't hate it, just don't listen to it either. A couple of notable exceptions though. I love Dream Theater and, well, is Motorhead considered metal? They seemed like the first hybrid band (punk/metal). So, Motorhead and Dream Theater. There are others where I may like an album or two but overall, Motorhead and Dream Theater I listen too the most. I haven't listen to much lately except bluegrass and Appalachian music lately. Cole Chaney CDs on a loop. He only has two so its easy.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 01:48 AM (sAmhv) 433
The Beaver Moon thus endeth, and the Cold Moon of the Long Nights lunation begins. This will be the longest lunation of the year, at 29 days, 18 hours, and 56 min.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley ------- Gonna miss the beaver moon. Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 01:50 AM (41CYW) Posted by: The Right Reverend Miklos at November 20, 2025 01:50 AM (u+AWT) 435
Went through a bunch of Christmas ornaments/decorations today and decided to donate. Realized I will never use them again. I want them to be enjoyed.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary ------- I need to do this, too. Been 20 years since I sorted the Christmas stuff and I haven't used most of it for a long while. But I love it all! So many memories and I'm just way too sentimental. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm) 436
There was a guy back in the day. Metalhead. What an asshole. There was a Frank Zappa song for that.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:53 AM (ys6FW) 437
Went through a bunch of Christmas ornaments/decorations today and decided to donate. Realized I will never use them again. I want them to be enjoyed.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary --------- Scampywife triaged Christmas decorations over the weekend. Children, who no longer reside at their childhood home, did not react positively when notified. Boxes set aside for them. Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 01:56 AM (41CYW) 438
Scampywife triaged Christmas decorations over the weekend. Children, who no longer reside at their childhood home, did not react positively when notified. Boxes set aside for them.
Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 01:56 AM (41CYW) ___ It must be harder when there are kids, aww. I am downsizing, and donating to the local church sale. Someone will love these things, I hope. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 01:59 AM (ys6FW) 439
>> Gonna miss the beaver moon.
It'll be back next year. However, that one, using the proper seasonal definitions will be in Oct. The Beaver is the second full moon of Autumn. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 01:59 AM (w6EFb) 440
This will be the longest lunation of the year, at 29 days, 18 hours, and 56 min.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley Next time Darleen gets on my nerves, ima tell her that. Might give me five or ten minutes while she pontificates Posted by: Miklos with Greetings from Lot 164 at November 20, 2025 02:00 AM (u+AWT) 441
well, is Motorhead considered metal? They seemed like the first hybrid band (punk/metal).
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2025 01:48 AM (sAmhv) We used to take motorhead to a local bar when they were in the area, so I sat drinking with lemme on more than a few occasions. His exact words when I asked him if he considered motorhead metal -"we're rock and roll, but we got the metal hair". Personally, I thought a shit load of what they did was metal, but lemme himself didn't think so. Really don't know why. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 02:00 AM (snZF9) 442
Scampywife triaged Christmas decorations over the weekend. Children, who no longer reside at their childhood home, did not react positively when notified. Boxes set aside for them.
Posted by: scampydog --------- Oh, this makes me sad... I was *thrilled* when Mom gave me that box of ornaments, full of ones that were "mine" since early childhood and then collected over the years. Of course, it wasn't any huge amount but it was the Starter Kit for my Christmases Away From Home. Precious! Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:01 AM (rdVOm) 443
I don't know why the hell I always spell his name as lemme, when its lemmy. I always do that
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 02:02 AM (snZF9) 444
True confession: If my parents weren't coming out for Christmas, I probably wouldn't put up a Christmas tree.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 02:06 AM (ys6FW) 445
I was *thrilled* when Mom gave me that box of ornaments, full of ones that were "mine" since early childhood and then collected over the years. Of course, it wasn't any huge amount but it was the Starter Kit for my Christmases Away From Home. Precious!
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:01 AM (rdVOm) I have my mother's prized Santa tree ornament. Its well over 100 years old. Best I can tell it's late 1800s, and probably made in germany from what I saw while searching. It looks so fragile, very thin glass, but painted. She watched over that thing like a hawk when it was on the tree. I also have a good amount of ornaments my parents had from before I was born. I saw them in pictures on the tree when I was maybe 2-3 years old. I put them up every year. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 02:08 AM (snZF9) 446
It'll be back next year. However, that one, using the proper seasonal definitions will be in Oct. The Beaver is the second full moon of Autumn.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley --------- Daylight and moonlight phases with animal (deer) in estrus behavior seems to correlate. Not relating this to hunting - the timing and behavioral movement is fascinating. I have tons of notes, charts, etc., because nerd. Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 02:09 AM (41CYW) 447
That's a sweet memory, Bers.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 02:10 AM (ys6FW) 448
Christmas ornaments have been my *thing* over the years, can't help it. Every year, with only a few exceptions, I've purchased a new ornament (or a small set). {{Thanks, Mom! See what you've done?!}}
There were these cute little wooden ornaments at the farm store this year... hand-painted, colorful little animals and trucks and tractors... got one of each, plus extra sheep & cows because they're so cute. *lowers head in shame* Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm) 449
If we count the existence of the United States as starting in Jul 4, 1776, the longest lunation in that history was the Dec one of 1787, the year of the Constitutional convention. That lunation was 29 days, 19 hours, 58 minutes, an 1 sec long. That was an extreme outlier, at nearly 20 hours over 29 days. 1610's Dec one was the longest, 57 seconds longer, going back to 1500, which is as far back as the tables I have go. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 02:11 AM (w6EFb) 450
Christmas is pretty awesome. I love that people let their kindness loose a bit.
Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 02:11 AM (41CYW) 451
I don't know why the hell I always spell his name as lemme, when its lemmy. I always do that
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 02:02 AM --- Probably because it's closer to how he got the name. "Lend me", IIRC Posted by: Axeman at November 20, 2025 02:14 AM (OaZlZ) 452
There were these cute little wooden ornaments at the farm store this year... hand-painted, colorful little animals and trucks and tractors... got one of each, plus extra sheep & cows because they're so cute.
*lowers head in shame* Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm) __ JQ, I have collected ornaments to a shameful extent. I had oodles of the Hallmark ones, and other miscellaneous. I am keeping the vintage Shiny Bright and some random sentimental. I bought a few new ones this week because they were vintage! And on sale! *Hangs head in shame* Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 02:16 AM (ys6FW) 453
Bers, that's wonderful!
Yes, Christmas ornaments can evoke sweet memories. Grandmother gave me some of her old ones when she cleaned out her attic. Some WW2 vintage, plain glass with tinsel inside or dull stripes painted on & paper caps with string hangers instead of metal. Most were from the late 40s thru 50s. Surprised at how much glass survived all those years! Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:18 AM (rdVOm) 454
Lemme tell you why you spell his name like that…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 20, 2025 02:23 AM (YItOJ) 455
Every Christmas tree I've had, would look like DaveInTexas' "crap tree" (except for the Godzilla ornament) -- with multi-colored lights and mismatched ornaments.
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:28 AM (rdVOm) 456
Tis time. JQ, will you be working the Club this weekend? I sure hope so! G'night, Horde.
Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2025 02:29 AM (41CYW) 457
Hubby's lefty lesbian family member is visiting. She has expressed interest in putting up tree. Guess I'm not surprised. I seem to be the safe traditional sort .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 02:29 AM (ys6FW) 458
G'night, Doggo. I'll be around for Club ONT!
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm) 459
Not going to put up the big tree this year. There's a little, table-top one that I can put on an end table by the front window.
At 2.5ft tall, it's just big enough to display all those cute little farm ornaments and some laser-cut snowflakes the neighbors made for us last year. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:38 AM (rdVOm) 460
Those little trees are great, JQ.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 02:41 AM (ys6FW) 461
Little tree was my "emergency tree" after late BF passed away-- we had always gotten a fresh, real tree-- and my heart just wasn't in it that year. It's been in the barn for a long time, bagged so it shouldn't be too dusty, LOL.
This year feels...similar. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:45 AM (rdVOm) 462
Little tree was my "emergency tree" after late BF passed away-- we had always gotten a fresh, real tree-- and my heart just wasn't in it that year. It's been in the barn for a long time, bagged so it shouldn't be too dusty, LOL.
This year feels...similar. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:45 AM (rdVOm) The year we moved here we didn't have time to put up our normal tree, and the family room where the normal tree would have gone was like a frigging warehouse from the move. We ended up putting smaller trees in every room, and a 4 footer in the entrance foyer. There were my mothers which I took after she died, so at least I had them. It really wasn't bad. The real christmas was the move from hell ended on Dec 8 with the closing on the old house. We didn't have much room, but finally being free and the smaller trees everywhere was good enough. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 02:52 AM (snZF9) Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm) 464
Hubby has always hated Christmas. I am tired of making an effort. I gave up and he wins whatever prize.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 02:58 AM (ys6FW) 465
Hubby had an older artificial tree when we got together, and it was a b!tch to assemble.. We put it up for a few years and then got a newer, easier one at a post-Christmas 75% off sale.
Maybe I'll put it up next year. Been moving stuff around lately and trying to get rid of junk, so don't really have free space in the living room this year. As much as I love the smell and character of *real* trees, don't think I'll ever have one again. So messy. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:00 AM (rdVOm) 466
I remember you posting about that, Bers. LOL, so many trees!
If this place was bigger........ Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm) Some were only a foot tall lol. Mrs B had put those in the bathrooms. My mom had a few different styles of small trees around 3 foot tall of different styles that she decorated permanently, so one went in the dining room, one in the hallway. There were also a few in boxes she never opened, so we just threw lights on them. Frigging trees everywhere. Then when I had the surgery wasn't long after christmas so the big normal tree stayed up all year because I couldn't take it down. Was cool though, day after thanksgiving all I did was plug it in. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 03:02 AM (snZF9) 467
Hubby has always hated Christmas. I am tired of making an effort. I gave up and he wins whatever prize.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary --------- My ex hated Christmas too. (also--he was a smug, militant atheist) I think it was mostly because he was just selfish. Our relationship was bound to fail. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:04 AM (rdVOm) 468
Hubby has always hated Christmas. I am tired of making an effort. I gave up and he wins whatever prize.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 02:58 AM (ys6FW) My father, bastard scrooge that he is, never embraced christmas after my mom died, so he never decorated the house after that. He would say christmas was your mom's thing. Ok, well then I'm taking all her decorations, and kiss my ass Ebenezer. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 03:06 AM (snZF9) 469
Dad didn't decorate after Mom died, but he still celebrated Christmas. Sort of. I know it made him sad, because Mom was *all about Christmas* when she was alive.
After a few years, he relaxed and seemed to enjoy it more-- let me decorate his place a little bit-- and he at least brought out the Christmas linens for our holiday meals together. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm) 470
My dear father. He actually made clam chowder (Boston style) from scratch for Christmas Eve dinners, just like Mom used to do. Insisted on hosting 'us kids' for the meals.
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:17 AM (rdVOm) 471
Hubby isn't a bad dude. He is sorry that he was a jerk about Christmas for twenty-something years.
But I'm still giving away most of the decorations. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 03:17 AM (ys6FW) 472
Dad didn't decorate after Mom died, but he still celebrated Christmas. Sort of. I know it made him sad, because Mom was *all about Christmas* when she was alive.
After a few years, he relaxed and seemed to enjoy it more-- let me decorate his place a little bit-- and he at least brought out the Christmas linens for our holiday meals together. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm) Thats why I really didn't come down hard on him. My mother loved christmas. She was a serious arts and crafts person. I mean a total artist. She was wicked with a sewing machine too. She made really nice decorations I can't even describe. Dolls, like animals dressed as christmas characters from a frigging disney movie. Between her ability and my fathers wood working background they made nice stuff. My father built a few small Santas sleds one year, and mom hand painted and decorated them. I don;t mean hit a roller and done, I mean hand drawn decorations, painted in gold accents, etc. I have one. I think when she died it just took the wind out of dad's sails. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 03:20 AM (snZF9) 473
We put the santa sled in the foyer. Its big enough to hold gifts, so when the families comes over all their gifts are in it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 03:22 AM (snZF9) 474
Bers, your Mom must have been a special lady. Your posts about her are really sweet, no offense. May her memory be a blessing.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 03:25 AM (ys6FW) 475
I'm sorry, BarelyScaryMary. I didn't mean to insinuate that your hubby was a bad dude! Ugh...
Don't give away anything you truly cherish. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:25 AM (rdVOm) 476
1/2 hour to go
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 03:26 AM (+qU29) 477
JQ, no worries. I am at peace with getting rid of things. Hubby never meant harm. But I'm in a decluttering mood now. And I'm ruthless when that happens, lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 20, 2025 03:31 AM (ys6FW) Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:35 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:37 AM (rdVOm) 480
Brrr, it's frosty outside tonight! Of course, because the pellet heater shut itself off this afternoon while I was out doing stuff!
No problem, I've had the feed rate set to the lowest it'll go, without (hopefully!) the fire going out. The next level would be too much for current temperatures. Possibly the pellets 'bridged' in the hopper and skipped feeding long enough for it to burn out. All's working correctly now, but house is still cool. Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:48 AM (rdVOm) 481
>>We put the santa sled in the foyer. Its big enough to hold gifts, so when the families comes over all their gifts are in it.
Bers, could you send a picture in for the hobby thread? Crafts are always welcome and I'd love to see that sled! Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:52 AM (rdVOm) 482
We're in the middle of a little warm snap. Tied the record daily high of 78F for Nov. 19. This will continue for several days, then it gets cold again. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 20, 2025 03:55 AM (w6EFb) 483
That was a waste of time, could have had coffee up already
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2025 03:56 AM (+qU29) 484
Publius, we had unseasonably high temps here last week. Mid-high 60s!
Most years, we get a bit of snow right about now. Thanksgiving Day, give or take a week LOL. Enjoy your mild weather! Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 03:58 AM (rdVOm) 485
Pixy's up!
Posted by: m at November 20, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS) 486
And *just like that* another fun ONT has died...
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 04:08 AM (rdVOm) 487
And *just like that* another fun ONT has died...
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2025 04:08 AM (rdVOm) Still here, but not for long. I'll get pics of that sled when i bring it up in a few weeks. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 20, 2025 04:10 AM (snZF9) Squirrel Aggression Display Cafe![]() Secret Beach, Oregon by DanielSnaps_ Teacher creates a cult for her students with herself as the Cult Leader. Something something from that Lion King movie. Based on the videos I see, meerkats spend all day hanging out with warthogs. Nothing to see here. Art with frost. Polite dogs wait for their slow friend to come to dinner. Handsome cow. Steampunk decapitation device. Oh, to have one tenth of the joy and rizz of this dog. Rabbit trembles at having his nails cut. Animals just hate this. Leopard's skills at stalking from a reclining position are unmatched. Playing with your cat. So you like worms, Olivia? All beings love a slide. Caretaker runs with his elephants. Looks fun, and also, very dangerous. You have to have a lot of faith in the agility of elephants.
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Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m) 6
Secret beach is beautiful. Looks like something from that old computer game, Myst.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (zYpTz) 7
Beavers are the assholes of the Woods. Beaver can royally fuck up drainage for whole towns. Did you know that? Stop supporting beavers. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (Y9x1x) 8
So far I'm really liking Niri, it's very minimal and the window overview is a workflow game changer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 19, 2025 07:45 PM (XV/Pl) 9
Woodland creatures are, like, WTF? Where is our water stream? Fucking beavers, man. They decide to hold the water. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:45 PM (Y9x1x) 10
Two votes for Godzilla
Posted by: Accomack at November 19, 2025 07:46 PM (Dpv2s) 11
Loos like a T-Rex
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2025 07:46 PM (+qU29) 12
That's go go Godzilla.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 19, 2025 07:47 PM (TmEds) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 19, 2025 07:47 PM (Cjt/F) 14
There is no one who doesn't immediately recognize this silhouette and it's not a f***ing turtle or rabbit, I can tell you that.
And here's another one. The first one is clearly Gojira. And the second is just as clearly a very cool dog hitting a bong. C'mon. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 19, 2025 07:48 PM (44PAK) 15
Not a rabbit or turtle, Gojira.
Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2025 07:50 PM (LHPAg) 16
I don't think that squirrel was trying to scare, seemed practicing his baritone voice for the holiday choir
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2025 07:50 PM (+qU29) 17
>> Stop supporting beavers.
The Beaver Lunation ends tonight, so just hang on until 1:47 AM EST. And the Beaver will be no more. It turns frigid though, and thus begins the Cold Moon of the Long Nights, the longest lunation of the year. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 07:50 PM (w6EFb) 18
Eric Holder riding a RINO. Makes sense and was a common sight.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 07:50 PM (abIsI) 19
Chimp smoking a j.
Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2025 07:51 PM (LHPAg) 20
This is all very nice, but weren't we all expecting panda bears and bamboo?
Posted by: Lowered Expectations at November 19, 2025 07:51 PM (oftw2) 21
Willowed:
And Nancy Mace is going after Cory Mills, forcing a censure vote. She's accusing him of stolen valor or something. ------ Well, he recently received a restraining order against him. Nancy isn't always stable, but an honest Congress would look into these things, just like an honest Congress would have stripped Plaskett of anything they could have stripped her of. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:52 PM (TN0g+) Posted by: mot at November 19, 2025 07:53 PM (fIPNY) 23
Ace was spectacular today! So much so that That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" issued a very rare bold En fuego!
Capping today off with a mephitically penguin-free Café is the cherry on the sundae!!! Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 19, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1) 24
Well I get up way to early
Have a good night everyone Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2025 07:53 PM (+qU29) 25
The entire plan is just one long Lunation now!
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg 23 at November 19, 2025 07:53 PM (oftw2) Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 19, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1) 27
I see a gorilla.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 19, 2025 07:53 PM (1HZta) 28
Here we go again... A movie due out in 2027 (not that far away) is causing internet Goblins to fake freak-out. A lot of Idiots are excited about video-game Legend Of Zelda becoming a movie! Yeah, I know. I think the casting of Zelda is fake-bothering a lot of Tik Tok goblins (for clicks) because they cast a non-colored girl, and other non-colored people. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:53 PM (Y9x1x) 29
From the New York Post:
“Another backroom deal so Cory Mills can’t get censored for Stolen Valor. I have the General who ‘recommended’ him for the Bronze Star on record saying he never wrote it, never read it and never personally signed it. This. Is. Washington,” sniped Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:54 PM (TN0g+) 30
I hear the squirrels taunting the neighbor's dogs sometimes.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 19, 2025 07:55 PM (IBQGV) 31
Meanwhile, that clown Hollywood celery "director" chris nolan cast blacks as Greeks, and cast a fake tranny (ellen page) as a justin beiber-ish greek fellow, I guess. And cast matt fucking damon, who is a SHRIMP who wears Lifts in his shoes, as Odysseus. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:55 PM (Y9x1x) 32
Capping today off with a mephitically penguin-free Café is the cherry on the sundae!!!
Posted by: Duncanthrax And I have just the right topping for your sundae! Posted by: Penguin Pete. at November 19, 2025 07:56 PM (oftw2) 33
Yeah, Zenfuckingdaya, the female Pedo Pascal, is in Odyssey, as a Greek goddess, or some such shit. Zendieya. Because audiences love Zandyer and beg Hollywood to put her in everyfuckingmovie. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:57 PM (Y9x1x) 34
Also from the New York Post:
In August, Miss United States 2024 Lindsey Langston lodged a lawsuit against Mills, alleging that he tried to blackmail her via revenge porn. She claimed to have been in a relationship with Mills from November 2021 to February 2025. Last month, a Florida judge greenlit her request for a restraining order against him. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:58 PM (TN0g+) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:59 PM (Y9x1x) 36
I thought it was going to be Elsie the cow again.
Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2025 07:59 PM (79pEw) 37
King Kong trying to blow smoke rings
Posted by: mot at November 19, 2025 07:53 PM (fIPNY lol saw that one. Someone made a great .gif of it. Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 08:00 PM (/ZNPI) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 08:00 PM (tgvbd) 39
Stop supporting beavers.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (Y9x1x) Ducks usually win, too. Hi Nurse! Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2025 08:00 PM (rbvCR) 40
and happy to be here, H7!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 19, 2025 08:01 PM (Cjt/F) 41
Just want to make sure I’m on the same page as everyone else
I see Godzilla and a Gorilla smoking a joint Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq) 42
36 I thought it was going to be Elsie the cow again.
Posted by: bluebell Everything I have to concentrate on to see looks like Elsie the Cow since that fateful evening. Posted by: Tunnel Vision at November 19, 2025 08:02 PM (oftw2) 43
I think going down the bannister instead of taking the stairs looks like so much fun. Sorry to be suspicious , but it also looks like AI.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 08:02 PM (oT1li) 44
Fun fact: Humans and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only two animals who make love face-to-face.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 19, 2025 08:02 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 19, 2025 08:04 PM (fd80v) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 08:04 PM (Y9x1x) 47
Ace has cowed us all.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 19, 2025 08:04 PM (0sNs1) 48
Took Ruthie and The Big Dummy to the vet this afternoon, Ruth for her annual, TBD for some preventive medication prior to his going to Florida next month. He was flirting with her something fierce. She wasn't having any of it. Comical to watch. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 08:05 PM (tgvbd) Posted by: Olivia Nuzzo at November 19, 2025 08:06 PM (Y9x1x) 50
I thought this was pretty funny. If fairytale characters were on Jerry Springer.
https://is.gd/eR94Va Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 19, 2025 08:06 PM (L/fGl) 51
I hate fucking chimps.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 08:04 PM Don't be numbah ten. Me love you long time. Posted by: Cheetaette Nguyen at November 19, 2025 08:06 PM (+eoXf) 52
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'Humans and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only two animals who make love face-to-face.' I, for one, have no interest in Bonobo Chimpanzees. Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 19, 2025 08:07 PM (fd80v) 53
Evenin’, All.
Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 08:08 PM (77rzZ) 54
I've heard squirrels make different noises, but never growling like that. Funny. 🐿️
We had a young squirrel venture onto our back porch this morning. Ony, the old black cat, was lounging on a couch, jumped down, and chased him outside and across the fenced-in back yard. I wouldn't like to think about her getting into a real fight with an adult tree rat, but she put the fear of cat into that young'n. It got away, which is good, so it can tell all its friends to stay out of our house; there be monsters! 🙀 Posted by: mindful webworker - run for your life at November 19, 2025 08:08 PM (LyKyF) 55
Humans and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only two animals who make love face-to-face.
Posted by: Duncanthrax And Siouxsie Sioux, if she's human Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 08:08 PM (gKWVE) 56
Unbelievable... plaskett-epstein -- a literal Gift with a bowtie and everything literally drops into the Republicans' literal laps and they turn it into a Loss. Fucking Idiots. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 08:08 PM (Y9x1x) 57
Just received an email on the neighborhood mailing list:
*cough* *ahem* "Dear Neighbors, We are hosting an event for Governor Mills at our home this Friday, November 21 from 5:30-7:00pm. The event has sold out, so we do expect there to be quite a lot of cars parked on the street during the time period. We hope that this will not inconvenience any of you and appreciate your understanding. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to all!" Do I... A) Blast YMCA on my exterior speakers all night long? B) Park my 10,000 lbs MAGA Red military diesel guzzling vehicle on the road so that it welcomes all who attend or C) Project a picture of Trump on the lighthouse right across the street from where the party is happening? Posted by: Defenestratus at November 19, 2025 08:10 PM (WYStd) 58
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 08:05 PM (tgvbd)
Do the competitions/ shows go all year around or at some point there's a break, Hadrian? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 08:10 PM (Yl2Ob) 59
Unbelievable...
plaskett-epstein -- a literal Gift with a bowtie and everything literally drops into the Republicans' literal laps and they turn it into a Loss. Fucking Idiots. ----- That's why I posted Mace's remarks--she seems to be right (like a stopped clock) in that it *appears* that GOPe took that literal Gift and instead of playing that hand did a "prisoner swap" and crashed the Plaskett vote in exchange for pledges from the Dems regarding Cory Mills. If I'm wrong, just let me know! Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 08:10 PM (TN0g+) Posted by: Eeyore at November 19, 2025 08:11 PM (s0JqF) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 19, 2025 08:11 PM (Cjt/F) 62
Who comes sliding down the bannister ♬
Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 08:11 PM (gKWVE) 63
Rabbits tremble at anything. When aren't they trembling? It's what rabbits do. They tremble. I guess I'd tremble too if I had no defenses at all other than hopping real fast.
Posted by: Delurker at November 19, 2025 08:12 PM (NhiOW) 64
& g'night everyone!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 19, 2025 08:12 PM (Cjt/F) 65
>A squirrel trying to scare.
--- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Squirrel, why did you join my beloved Corps? Private Squirrel: Sir, to kill sir! Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: So you're a killer? Private Squirrel: Sir, yes sir! Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Let me see your war face. Private Squirrel: Sir? Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You got a war face? AHHHHHHHH! That's a war face. Now let me see your war face. Private Squirrel: Ahh! Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit! You didn't convince me. Let me see your real warface. Private Squirrel: Ahhhh! Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You don't scare me! Work on it. Posted by: Gunny Hartman at November 19, 2025 08:13 PM (GTqXr) 66
I mentioned this in a willowed comment this morning: it was 4 years ago today that the Kyle Rittenhouse jury returned a not guilty verdict.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:13 PM (ScUYC) 67
Do I... A) Blast YMCA on my exterior speakers all night long? B) Park my 10,000 lbs MAGA Red military diesel guzzling vehicle on the road so that it welcomes all who attend or C) Project a picture of Trump on the lighthouse right across the street from where the party is happening?
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 19, 2025 08:10 PM (WYStd) The obvious answer is yes. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2025 08:13 PM (zYpTz) 68
I liked John Mills, as well as his daughters Hayley and Juliet. So not all Mills are bad.
Posted by: Wilbur Mills In The Tidal Basin at November 19, 2025 08:13 PM (oftw2) 69
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 19, 2025 08:10 PM (WYStd)
I'm assuming Governor Mills is a Democrat? If so, I'd go either way number 3. 😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 08:14 PM (Yl2Ob) 70
68 I liked John Mills, as well as his daughters Hayley and Juliet. So not all Mills are bad.
Posted by: Wilbur Mills In The Tidal Basin at November 19, 2025 08:13 PM (oftw2) We started calling her "General Mills" after the sh*t she pulled during COVID. Posted by: Defenestratus at November 19, 2025 08:14 PM (WYStd) 71
Defenestratus
Do I... A) Blast YMCA on my exterior speakers all night long? B) Park my 10,000 lbs MAGA Red military diesel guzzling vehicle on the road so that it welcomes all who attend or C) Project a picture of Trump on the lighthouse right across the street from where the party is happening? Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 19, 2025 08:14 PM (+4S8X) 72
Do the competitions/ shows go all year around or at some point there's a break, Hadrian? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 08:10 PM (Yl2Ob) __________ There's a complete break the last two weeks of the year. Otherwise you can go somewhere every weekend. May not be close by, but with so many clubs, so few weekends and the rule that shows the same date have to be 200 miles apart, the calendar is full. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 08:14 PM (tgvbd) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 08:15 PM (Yl2Ob) 74
You say that the squirrel attempts at being scary were not very successful, yet I noticed thst you did job, in fact, abscond with his acorn as you initially intended.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:15 PM (ScUYC) 75
Let's try that again.
Defenestratus Do I... A) Blast YMCA on my exterior speakers all night long? B) Park my 10,000 lbs MAGA Red military diesel guzzling vehicle on the road so that it welcomes all who attend or C) Project a picture of Trump on the lighthouse right across the street from where the party is happening? I vote for all three. Make your point while you can. Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 19, 2025 08:16 PM (+4S8X) 76
I don't see a turtle or a rabbit. I see Godzilla.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 08:16 PM (snZF9) 77
Niri? I'm running Omarchy. I like tiling WM and using key commands.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 19, 2025 08:16 PM (EW4eo) 78
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 08:14 PM (tgvbd)
And Her Majesty will keep up with this as long as her health permits or she will retire at some point? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 08:16 PM (Yl2Ob) 79
66 I mentioned this in a willowed comment this morning: it was 4 years ago today that the Kyle Rittenhouse jury returned a not guilty verdict.
Posted by: tankdemon No surprise at all you'd have willowed comments. Posted by: Tardiness Is A Form Of Truancy at November 19, 2025 08:16 PM (oftw2) 80
If so, I'd go either way number 3. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 08:14 PM (Yl2Ob) Gonna find a Trump dancing video and project it up there all night long I think. It's a private lighthouse so .... My other neighbor (fellow traveler) who owns the lighthouse always threatens the town with painting it a flesh color if they raise his property taxes. The tower remains white so I'm guessing his extortion scheme is working Posted by: Defenestratus at November 19, 2025 08:17 PM (WYStd) 81
Screw Mace for trying to censure Mills.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 08:17 PM (KDPiq) 82
I don't see a turtle or a rabbit. I see Godzilla.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 08:16 PM (snZF9) --------- The cool kids see Elsie the cow. Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2025 08:17 PM (79pEw) 83
Humans and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only two animals who make love face-to-face.
Posted by: Duncanthrax Who wants to look the monkey in the eye when he's giving it the business? Posted by: monkeyfucker at November 19, 2025 08:17 PM (44PAK) 84
Lots of applause for the hero dog, but not very many treats. What's up with that?
Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:17 PM (ScUYC) 85
Mr Trouble killed a red squirrel yesterday. Pretty sure it came down for water.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 19, 2025 08:17 PM (EW4eo) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 08:17 PM (Yl2Ob) 87
I mentioned this in a willowed comment this morning: it was 4 years ago today that the Kyle Rittenhouse jury returned a not guilty verdict.
------- In this "modern era" I'm always surprised when 12 people can agree on anything. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 08:18 PM (TN0g+) 88
I also don't see a fish or a plane. I see an albino Grinch blowing out a weed hit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 08:18 PM (snZF9) 89
I guess I'd tremble too if I had no defenses at all other than hopping real fast.
Posted by: Delurker ... Frith ... thought about killing El-ahrairah but he still needed him for his mischievousness. So, he announced that he would hold a great meeting and, that in that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird to make them different from the rest. Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 08:18 PM (gKWVE) 90
Red squirrels are asshoe. Territorial and solitary, they spend every moment of their lives fighting over who gets which tree. They hate each other and they hate other animals, including people.
Gray squirrels are cool, and black squirrels are tres cool. Posted by: Delurker at November 19, 2025 08:21 PM (NhiOW) 91
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Beavers are the assholes of the Woods. Beaver can royally fuck up drainage for whole towns. Did you know that? Stop supporting beavers. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (Y9x1x) Oh, yeah? Well, what about this? http://tiny.cc/escv001 Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:21 PM (ScUYC) 92
1920's fan looks like it will last another 500 years. Definitely don't make them like they used to.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2025 08:23 PM (snZF9) 93
Oregon weather climate seems weird to me because I see it's latitude and figure it's a cold dry place but I see pictures like this and it seems almost tropical and pictures from the winter with people in shorts. I'd like to visit some day, do a little hiking. To bad about the leftists but maybe I can ignore them.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 08:23 PM (3uBP9) 94
The first one is Godzilla, the second is a Gorilla blowing a puff of smoke.
Posted by: Bob at November 19, 2025 08:23 PM (YiqZD) 95
>Stop supporting beavers.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (Y9x1x) I've told Ward he's being way too hard on the beaver. Posted by: June Cleaver at November 19, 2025 08:23 PM (GTqXr) 96
ohiohistory.org/the-great-beaver-wars/
Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 08:24 PM (gKWVE) 97
Those who attend finishing school commute in limousines.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 08:25 PM (pkeXY) 98
I spent some time with my wife a few weeks ago finding and hiking down to Secret Beach in Oregon off the PCH north of Brookings. What a truly amazing spot.
Posted by: MostlyRight at November 19, 2025 08:25 PM (J+0x8) 99
I did not know Harambe was a toker.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:26 PM (ScUYC) 100
Has anyone seen that beaver movie? It didn't really jive with me, maybe I needed to be pretty high. And I like slapstick dumb humor but not this one.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 08:27 PM (3uBP9) 101
Both of John Mills’ daughters were beautiful, in different ways.
Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 08:27 PM (77rzZ) 102
Playing with your cat.
___________________________ Thought maybe this was another Olivia Nuzzi entry. I was pleasantly surprised. Posted by: Orson at November 19, 2025 08:28 PM (dIske) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 08:30 PM (zZu0s) 104
Post-coital gorilla
Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 08:30 PM (iU+ep) 105
I think Olivia's beaver could use a little support at this point.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 08:31 PM (zZu0s) 106
47 Ace has cowed us all.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 19, 2025 08:04 PM (0sNs1) That's bull. Ace would never steer us wrong. Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:31 PM (ScUYC) 107
I'd like to visit some day, do a little hiking. To bad about the leftists but maybe I can ignore them.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 08:23 PM (3uBP9) If enough of us move there, we can turn it! Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2025 08:32 PM (zYpTz) 108
Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 08:32 PM (pkeXY) 109
"This hero dog was shot by burglars while trying to protect his home.
After three successful surgeries, he was discharged like this nearly 2 months later." The vet bills probably exceeded the value of the items the burglars were trying to steal. Great doggie, however! Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 08:33 PM (0CU3H) 110
101 Both of John Mills’ daughters were beautiful, in different ways.
Posted by: Bulg And they had normal physiques, not abnormal like another certain "celebrity". Posted by: 20/20 at November 19, 2025 08:34 PM (oftw2) 111
Hero dog Go!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 08:34 PM (9ipOP) 112
55 And Siouxsie Sioux, if she's human
Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 08:08 PM (gKWVE) No telling lies. (Face to Face is a fairly deep cut. Golf clap.) Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:34 PM (ScUYC) 113
85 Mr Trouble killed a red squirrel yesterday. Pretty sure it came down for water.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 19, 2025 08:17 PM (EW4eo) Mr Trouble didn't kill Mighty Mouse, so that's a good thing as well. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 08:35 PM (0CU3H) 114
106 47 Ace has cowed us all.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 19, 2025 08:04 PM (0sNs1) That's bull. Ace would never steer us wrong. Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:31 PM (ScUYC) I've got no beef with Ace. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 08:35 PM (0CU3H) 115
I've seen the ocean stacks at the beaches north of Neskowin OR but they were always shrouded in fog.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 08:36 PM (9ipOP) 116
16 D chess incoming?
@rawsalerts 3m 🚨#BREAKING: President Donald Trump has officially signed the bill to release all the Epstein files Posted by: Dr. weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 08:38 PM (mlg/3) 117
The PNW Coast is beautiful. Especially in the winter during a big storm. Stay in a cabin. You’ll lose power. It’s awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 19, 2025 08:38 PM (QwttP) 118
107 Hey, Dash.
Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 08:39 PM (77rzZ) 119
Do I... A) Blast YMCA on my exterior speakers all night long? B) Park my 10,000 lbs MAGA Red military diesel guzzling vehicle on the road so that it welcomes all who attend or C) Project a picture of Trump on the lighthouse right across the street from where the party is happening?
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 19, 2025 08:10 PM There is power and majesty in the power of AND. Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 19, 2025 08:40 PM (0sNs1) 120
Congress Hearing Live | Trump Reveals Big UFO Secret | Shocking Alien Revelation Rocks America
There's a live stream on youtube that is already 10 hours long ... Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 19, 2025 08:40 PM (sL4oo) 121
Remember my Wacky Prediction from yesterday: a "judge" will put a block on the release of the files. His/her reason? Probably some bullshit. BUT, this "judge" will "allow" "some" of the files to be released, thus allowing Democrats to cherry-pick only the files they can use against Us. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 08:41 PM (Y9x1x) 122
I'm thinking this gal might be a bit into the rough stuff.
-------- Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing ‘Trump Whore’ across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body Natalie Greene charged today by U.S. Attorney in bizarre hoax https://is.gd/spankmepls Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 08:41 PM (3uBP9) 123
[That's bull. Ace would never steer us wrong.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:31 PM (ScUYC) I've got no beef with Ace. Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 08:35 PM Y'all are udderly correct. Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 19, 2025 08:42 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2025 08:42 PM (zYpTz) 125
I'm Pro Beaver and I Vote
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 08:43 PM (A0sqA) 126
Seeing the videos of those cute squirrels almost makes me feel bad about shooting them as they pillage the bird feeder and hang out in the engine compartment of my vehicles. Almost.
Posted by: JML at November 19, 2025 08:43 PM (M0t1A) 127
I'm thinking this gal might be a bit into the rough stuff.
-------- Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing ‘Trump Whore’ across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body Natalie Greene charged today by U.S. Attorney in bizarre hoax https://is.gd/spankmepls Posted by: banana Dream Wowzers. Some people should be required by law to have a "Remember Rule Number One" tramp-stamp. Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 08:43 PM (nhCoE) 128
That's bull. Ace would never steer us wrong.
Posted by: tankdemon I've got no beef with Ace. Posted by: Darrell Harris Y'all are udderly correct. Posted by: Duncanthrax He is the Bos. Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 08:44 PM (nhCoE) 129
Has anyone seen my cow?
Posted by: Mrs O'Leary at November 19, 2025 08:45 PM (Q+gd/) 130
If I were PDT, I'd appoint a Special Counsel, a real tenacious ball-busting subpoena-serving investigator, to fully investigate the epstein bullshit. That would, for instance, dig into all of stacy plaskett's records, and more. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 08:46 PM (Y9x1x) 131
Natalie Greene sounds fun.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 08:47 PM (dK+Kv) 132
127 I'm thinking this gal might be a bit into the rough stuff.
-------- Ex-Van Drew staffer staged fake attack, writing ‘Trump Whore’ across her stomach and alleging men held her down and cut her body Natalie Greene charged today by U.S. Attorney in bizarre hoax https://is.gd/spankmepls Posted by: banana Dream Wowzers. Some people should be required by law to have a "Remember Rule Number One" tramp-stamp. Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 08:43 PM (nhCoE) why why why would she have her body mutilated like that? for what purpose? Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 08:47 PM (0CU3H) 133
We’ve got some beefy puns going on here tonight:
Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 08:48 PM (77rzZ) 134
But let Taurus stop making bovine puns now.
Posted by: Bulg at November 19, 2025 08:50 PM (77rzZ) 135
129 Has anyone seen my cow?
Posted by: Mrs O'Leary at November 19, 2025 08:45 PM (Q+gd/) Have you checked the barn? It's getting a bit dark out. You might want to take a lantern with you. Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2025 08:51 PM (ScUYC) 136
:Sigh: I'll never live down that unfortunate incident at Big Beaver. Posted by: Col. Angus at November 19, 2025 08:51 PM (w6EFb) 137
>>> why why why would she have her body mutilated like that? for what purpose?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 08:47 PM (0CU3H) As best as I can tell, she is having some mental issues, but also it is a reverse hoax. Most times it is some lefty saying they were attacked by maga country people but this time the pol she works for is an R and she was trying to say some lefties attacked her. I think. Very bizarre. Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 08:52 PM (3uBP9) 138
Capping today off with a mephitically penguin-free Café is the cherry on the sundae!!!
Posted by: Duncanthrax Hit it, General! "Up, up and away, in my beautiful Bell Iroquois toDAY..." Posted by: Gen. Augusto Penguinochet at November 19, 2025 08:53 PM (mADJX) 139
Youtube prepper says these Foods last forever: Rice Beans Pasta Pemmican Hardtack Honey Syrup Molasses Salt Sugar Vinegar Coffee Cocoa Ghee Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 08:54 PM (Y9x1x) 140
Hardtack & Honey should be seperate. Also, I do not know what "hardtack" is. Also, I always miss-spell "seperate." Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 08:55 PM (Y9x1x) 141
Grandparents lived in Gold Beach, OR when I was a kid. Secret Beach was a nice visit. Thanks for the Cafe, Ace and good evening, Horde.
Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 08:55 PM (41CYW) 142
why why why would she have her body mutilated like that? for what purpose?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 19, 2025 08:47 PM (0CU3H) Mental illness, attention seeking. Must be hell inside her head. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2025 08:55 PM (zYpTz) 143
Youtube prepper says these Foods last forever:
Rice Beans Pasta Pemmican Hardtack Honey Syrup Molasses Salt Sugar Vinegar Coffee Cocoa Ghee Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 08:54 PM (Y9x1x) Tuna, peanut butter, Dirty Moore beef stew, chili are also good long-term storage foods. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 08:58 PM (dK+Kv) 144
FrontPage Magzine has an interesting article about an Epstein/New Mexico connection.
https://tinyurl.com/mr2fv9n6 Posted by: Gen. Augusto Penguinochet at November 19, 2025 08:58 PM (mADJX) 145
I spent some time with my wife a few weeks ago finding and hiking down to Secret Beach in Oregon off the PCH north of Brookings. What a truly amazing spot.
Posted by: MostlyRight at November 19, 2025 08:25 PM (J+0x ---- Well it's not secret any more... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 19, 2025 08:58 PM (IBQGV) 146
>>@rawsalerts 3m
🚨#BREAKING: President Donald Trump has officially signed the bill to release all the Epstein files Don't throw me into that briar patch. Be interesting to see what Democrats pivot to next. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m) Posted by: t-bird at November 19, 2025 08:59 PM (3arSl) 148
Twinkies
Posted by: t-bird at November 19, 2025 08:59 PM (3arSl) ------- They don't last hardly at all! (I'm not a strong man) Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2025 09:00 PM (z1j+k) 149
I hope the dog shot by burglars wasn't charged with anything. Depending on the location, the law can come down hard on people - and I imagine dogs - who are just trying to protect themselves.
Posted by: Paco at November 19, 2025 09:01 PM (mADJX) 150
What would you charge a Golden with, excessive affection?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 09:03 PM (viF8m) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 09:03 PM (w6EFb) 152
Them What Do You See things have to be punking.
1st one: Godzilla 2nd one: Gorilla enjoying a spliff Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 09:04 PM (0aYVJ) 153
Be interesting to see what Democrats pivot to next. Posted by: JackStraw ============= The classified Epstein files. Also, any files held by the CIA and NSA and maybe others. The only files being turned over are the ones held by the DOJ. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 09:05 PM (obOni) 154
Tuna, peanut butter, Dirty Moore beef stew, chili are also good long-term storage foods.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 08:58 PM (dK+Kv) any kind of tuna or chicken in those sealed pouches. Cans work, but the ones with pop tops not quite as durable. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 09:06 PM (0aYVJ) 155
Can you believe the Blind Side suit is still ongoing.
Talk about ungrateful. Probably even worse than Kapernick. Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 09:07 PM (KDPiq) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 09:07 PM (Y9x1x) 157
>>The classified Epstein files. Also, any files held by the CIA and NSA and maybe others. The only files being turned over are the ones held by the DOJ.
I bet if you asked 5 people who don't live for politics about Epstein in a couple weeks nobody will care. Democrats got their poo pushed in with the shutdown. Notice they aren't talking about it anymore? Because they lost. So they moved this idiocy and now it's blowing up in their faces. If there was even a hint of anything that would hurt Trump it would have been released in 2016. The hoaxes aren't working anymore. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 09:09 PM (viF8m) 158
Also, I do not know what "hardtack" is.
Also, I always miss-spell "seperate." Posted by: Soothsayer Hartdtack is just a biscuit... but cooked twice, or even 3 times. NO moisture, so it lasts, but needs serious moisturizing before eating. Used by sailors and armies, mountainmen, etc. I wonder if overland trekkers had hardtack? Posted by: MkY at November 19, 2025 09:16 PM (q6tQZ) 159
O'Brien talked about sailors tapping the weevils out of their hardtack before eating.
"You always choose the lesser weevil." Posted by: MkY at November 19, 2025 09:18 PM (q6tQZ) 160
Hardtack is a unleavened bread that is mostly flour, water and salt, rolled out about a 1/2" thick and then baked twice to drive out all the moisture and make it shelf stable.
If stored well, it will last 50 years and be as tasty at the half century as it was the day it cooled from the oven. Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2025 09:22 PM (rbvCR) 161
O'Brien talked about sailors tapping the weevils out of their hardtack before eating.
"You always choose the lesser weevil." Posted by: MkY at November 19, 2025 09:18 PM (q6tQZ) They also would place their ship's biscuit on the gunwale to rehydrate from seaspray before eating, because they knew that while weevils wobble, they don't fall down. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 09:22 PM (dK+Kv) 162
The “lesser weevil” line was used to good effect in Master and Commander.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 09:22 PM (/ZNPI) 163
The wessel leave off?
Posted by: ENS Chekov at November 19, 2025 09:25 PM (Q+gd/) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 09:29 PM (Y9x1x) 165
matzah? Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 09:29 PM (Y9x1x) 166
Be interesting to see what Democrats pivot to next.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m) It'll be to the extra top secret double probation Horowitz files. Or... To the Donald Trump is a poopy head files. Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2025 09:29 PM (H1YYy) 167
What kind of evil bastard shoots a yellow lab. The one animal that will do literally anything for any kind of treat...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 19, 2025 09:31 PM (xcxpd) 168
Hi! Finally home. I dropped a bottle of equipment sanitizer in the bathroom at the studio, broke, cleaner everywhere. It was a minor disaster.
Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2025 09:31 PM (OoFl2) 169
146 >>@rawsalerts 3m
🚨#BREAKING: President Donald Trump has officially signed the bill to release all the Epstein files Don't throw me into that briar patch. Be interesting to see what Democrats pivot to next. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m) Fake stories about ICE false arrests Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 09:32 PM (y171U) 170
167 What kind of evil bastard shoots a yellow lab. The one animal that will do literally anything for any kind of treat...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November He was so confused about the applause. Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2025 09:32 PM (OoFl2) 171
Kathy Ireland has just gone fishing:
https://is.gd/L8DjLR Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 09:03 PM (w6EFb) I don't care if she smells like fish, for ever and ever a 1 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 19, 2025 09:33 PM (xcxpd) 172
170 167 What kind of evil bastard shoots a yellow lab. The one animal that will do literally anything for any kind of treat...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November He was so confused about the applause. Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2025 09:32 PM (OoFl2) They...are not bright. And that's ok. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 19, 2025 09:35 PM (xcxpd) 173
I think the final word on the Epstein info will be “why did everyone fiddle fart around so long?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 09:35 PM (/ZNPI) 174
Snappin' cold out there tonight, 15 F. Sky is full of stars, and Milky Way in clear view, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 09:36 PM (npFr7) 175
It’s funny how the non stop coverage of the White House renovation turned off completely, like someone turned off a tap.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2025 09:38 PM (/ZNPI) 176
174 Snappin' cold out there tonight, 15 F. Sky is full of stars, and Milky Way in clear view, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19 65 and foggy. Kinda spooky! Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2025 09:38 PM (OoFl2) 177
just like an honest Congress would have stripped Plaskett of anything they could have stripped her of.
Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:52 PM (TN0g+) I don't want to see her tits that badly. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 09:38 PM (npFr7) 178
I dropped a bottle of equipment sanitizer in the bathroom at the studio, broke, cleaner everywhere. It was a minor disaster.
Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2025 09:31 PM (OoFl2) ==== And fun to clean up no doubt. Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2025 09:39 PM (A0sqA) 179
What democrats will pivot to next you ask?
How about barely veiled sedition/treason. Check out the Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin on X. yep... Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 09:40 PM (25kuG) 180
@eduardomenoni . Nov. 19
[ai translate]: On a historic night, President Trump dines with his wife Melania, Saudi Crown Prince Cristiano Ronaldo, JD Vance, Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook and others at the White House. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 09:40 PM (rU9qQ) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 09:42 PM (tgvbd) 182
>>It’s funny how the non stop coverage of the White House renovation turned off completely, like someone turned off a tap.
It's what they do. They make an issue the only thing in the world that matters! until they've milked it dry and then move on to the next issue that's the only thing in the world that matters! They have a big advantage because the media never holds them to account but their game is getting tired. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 09:43 PM (viF8m) 183
Some of the oldest surviving hardtack in Antarctica comes from Robert Falcon Scott’s first expedition (1901-1904). Biscuits over 120 years old have been recovered and are still perfectly preserved.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 09:43 PM (y171U) 184
Media in two days: What files?
Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2025 09:43 PM (H1YYy) 185
...a yellow lab. The one animal that will do literally anything for any kind of treat...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo Hmm. I got peanut butter... Posted by: Katie Porter at November 19, 2025 09:45 PM (gKWVE) 186
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., fired back at accusations Wednesday that he may have had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein or solicited donations from the disgraced financier.
"He’s a stone-cold liar," Jeffries said of James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Of Course, the Angelic and Most Truthful Person in the Universe Homo-keem Jefferies (Alias the Kettle) is calling the Pot Black. Posted by: Jackson at November 19, 2025 09:46 PM (J9q9v) 187
I mean, there are plenty of ostensibly intelligent people who still think Trump colluded with the Russians in 2016. Think they're going to reconsider their belief that he's a child molester? Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 09:46 PM (tgvbd) 188
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A fire on the hearth all tucked inside maybe try an "English Flip" An English flip is a traditional cocktail that originated in the late 17th century, primarily served in taverns. It is made from a mixture of beer, rum, sugar, and eggs, often heated with a hot iron poker to create a frothy texture. The drink is typically garnished with grated nutmeg and can be served hot or cold, depending on the recipe or the outside temperature, There now... Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 09:48 PM (25kuG) 189
A fire on the hearth all tucked inside maybe try an "English Flip"
An English flip is a traditional cocktail that originated in the late 17th century, primarily served in taverns. It is made from a mixture of beer, rum, sugar, and eggs, often heated with a hot iron poker to create a frothy texture. The drink is typically garnished with grated nutmeg and can be served hot or cold, depending on the recipe or the outside temperature, There now... Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 09:48 PM (25kuG) It comes up in Charles Dickens works now and then. The amount of booze our ancestors drank would stun normies today. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 19, 2025 09:49 PM (xcxpd) 190
Trump... Think they're going to reconsider their belief that he's a child molester?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh I don't think there's much traction behind that belief, but "pedo protector" seems to be getting more pull. That he's hiding Mossad ties with the Deep State. The mushy middle isn't antiTrump, it's antiSemitic. How that's fixed is another question. Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 09:50 PM (gKWVE) 191
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There are plenty of Liberals that still think ELVIS is alive and the MOON LANDINGS were a hoax. Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 09:50 PM (25kuG) 192
>>Who is this Plaskett creature?
Non-voting Delegate from the Virgin Islands. Also one of the impeachment managers during the Trump impeachments. Also much more involved with Epstein when both were in the USVI than has been reported so far. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 09:50 PM (viF8m) 193
Why are there "classified" epstein files? Was he involved with CIA? Really? Posted by: Soothsayer ============ No idea. But if there are unclassified Epstein files, there must be classified ones. Who knows if he was working with the CIA? But the CIA may have noticed some of the things he was doing and decided to open a file on him. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 09:51 PM (obOni) 194
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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 09:51 PM (pkeXY) 195
The amount of booze our ancestors drank would stun normies today. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo __________ We have never returned to pre-Prohibition levels of alcohol consumption. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 09:52 PM (tgvbd) 196
The amount of booze our ancestors drank would stun normies today.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo Yeah, the Founding Fathers could pack 'em away. And then there's Churchill (half American). On the other hand, a lot of the early Americans passed on in their 50s or 60s where now we expect people to live to their 80s. Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 09:52 PM (gKWVE) 197
Fun fact: Humans and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only two animals who make love face-to-face.
And the only two who have figured out how to start fires. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 09:53 PM (Da7Vv) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 09:53 PM (pkeXY) 199
Hakeem Jefferies Mother was a Hamster and his Father smelled of Elderberries !!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at November 19, 2025 09:54 PM (J9q9v) Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7) 201
"I SPIT!...in your general DIRECTION!!
Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 09:55 PM (25kuG) 202
No idea. But if there are unclassified Epstein files, there must be classified ones.
Remember, Bongino wrote a couple of months ago that the most distressing thing that he has learned as Deputy Director of the FBI was that Epstein was a CI for the FBI. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 19, 2025 09:56 PM (Da7Vv) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 09:56 PM (tgvbd) 204
Hartdtack is just a biscuit... but cooked twice, or even 3 times. NO moisture, so it lasts, but needs serious moisturizing before eating. Posted by: MkY ============== What do you do, dunk it in hot tea? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 09:57 PM (obOni) 205
Have I been banned?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2025 09:58 PM (17l0u) 206
What do you do, dunk it in hot tea?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 09:57 PM (obOni) Mount it on an arbor so you can use it to grind a knife, and go out and kill something edible. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2025 09:59 PM (npFr7) 207
Hardtack is when you clutch you chest and say "I'm coming to join you, Elizabeth!"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2025 09:59 PM (pkeXY) Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 09:59 PM (g47mK) 209
Hartdtack is just a biscuit... but cooked twice, or even 3 times. NO moisture, so it lasts, but needs serious moisturizing before eating. Posted by: MkY ============== What do you do, dunk it in hot tea? Posted by: Blonde Morticia I think you throw at people and steal their real bread. Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 09:59 PM (Y9x1x) 210
208 Have I been banned?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2025 09:58 PM (17l0u) yep ! Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 09:59 PM (g47mK Uh oh. Failure to pay dues? Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2025 09:59 PM (17l0u) Posted by: Nightwatch at November 19, 2025 09:59 PM (25kuG) 212
Caught a bad IP addy, I suppose
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2025 10:00 PM (17l0u) 213
Nood ONT (T-Rex)
Posted by: Joemarine at November 19, 2025 10:01 PM (y171U) 214
Have I been banned?
Posted by: AlaBAMA --------- Looks like the committee is meeting over there. Can't make it out, sounds like the "observation list" discussion. Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2025 10:01 PM (41CYW) 215
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Posted by: sell diabetic supplies at November 19, 2025 11:15 PM (WoAqg) 216
Is the cloud one Moose Obama with a cigar?
Posted by: Galt at November 20, 2025 01:16 AM (9UnaD) 217
What Rabbit or Turtle? I saw Godzilla looking at that tree.
Posted by: Tony Litwin at November 20, 2025 05:48 AM (yW7Qk) Posted by: Ken at November 20, 2025 08:05 AM (GXPss) James Comer: I'll Give Bill and Hillary Clinton the Steve Bannon Treatment -- Prosecution Then Prison -- If They Continue to Refuse to TestifyIf only, if only. We'll see. We certainly have adequate justification and adequate provocation given that Biden sent Steven Bannon and Peter Navarro to prison for refusing to testify before the J6 illegal committee. The Clintons are demanded to testify about a matter the Democrats claim must be fully exposed and aired out, the Epstein Pedophile ring. So what excuse can they offer the Clintons for refusing to tell us what they know? Just The News:House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Tuesday said he would give former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the same treatment Democrats gave Steve Bannon if they do not comply with congressional subpoenas to testify on their alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. House Democrats referred Bannon for prosecution after he failed to comply with a House January 6 subcommittee subpoena. He was later convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress and sentenced to four months in prison in 2022. Comer said the Clintons are two Democrats that his committee has not heard back from regarding subpoenas for their testimony on their ties to Epstein, and that continued silence will be met with criminal referrals. "We expect to hear from Bill and Hillary Clinton," Comer said on the "Just The News, No Noise" TV show. "Donald Trump answered questions for years about Jeffrey Epstein. Every day he gets asked questions about Epstein, and he answers them in front of the American people. We've subpoenaed Republicans and Democrats. "Other Democrats have sent letters saying they knew nothing about Epstein, which would hold in court if something ever comes out that they did know something, then they've committed perjury there," he continued. "But the Clintons have never responded. They're the one group in this investigation that's never had to answer questions in front of a credible reporter, and they've never certainly answered questions from attorneys or members of Congress. "So we expect the Clintons to come in, or I expect the Clintons to be met with the same fate that Bannon and [Peter] Navarro were met with when the Democrats were in control," he concluded. Comer also noted that other Democrats have not helped bring the Clintons in to testify because they are too focused on trying to criminally connect Trump to Epstein. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Yep
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 06:45 PM (LjSYW) 2
Will something happen?
Posted by: Because usually nothing happens at November 19, 2025 06:46 PM (YbBUz) 3
Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 06:47 PM (dK+Kv) 4
Bill thinking finally some peace and quiet.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 19, 2025 06:47 PM (gbOdA) 5
Second look at lock her up?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 19, 2025 06:47 PM (/AUU2) 6
All hat and no cattle.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 06:48 PM (LjSYW) 7
In quite a few ways, I DON'T want to know what the Clintons know...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 19, 2025 06:48 PM (ynpvh) Posted by: Axeman at November 19, 2025 06:48 PM (krQz2) 9
I will believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 19, 2025 06:48 PM (0N4FZ) 10
You're gonna try the Clintons, in DC, for refusing to answer questions for Republicans, and you believe this would result in jail time?
Pull the other one. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 19, 2025 06:49 PM (ExV1e) 11
Okay Jim. LOL
Posted by: Pam Bondi at November 19, 2025 06:49 PM (abIsI) 12
No no no no silly Republican. The rules only apply to your side not ours.
Posted by: Some Judge at November 19, 2025 06:49 PM (/AUU2) 13
Comer has information that will lead to the trial and conviction of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 19, 2025 06:50 PM (wVcYX) 14
There was nothing going on there. Epstein had paintings of all kinds of men cross-dressing in his house. It wasn't just Bill Clinton in a blue dress. That's no proof they had any sort of connection.
Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 06:50 PM (nhCoE) 15
Huh. Let me check my crystal ball.
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at November 19, 2025 06:50 PM (vFG9F) 16
I didn't see the word may in Comer's statement so this is a step in the right direction.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2025 06:50 PM (sDNVV) 17
You want prosecution and prison.
You'll accept censure and a stiff fine. You'll get a strongly worded letter. Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 19, 2025 06:50 PM (GTqXr) 18
Huh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 06:51 PM (zZu0s) 19
The only difference between Comer and Jordan is, Comer doesn't wear wife beaters or roll up his sleeves when he's bullshitting us.
Ted Bundy >> GOP Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 06:52 PM (abIsI) 20
There's no there there (after we put it all in burn bags and throw it into some new room).
Posted by: The FIB at November 19, 2025 06:52 PM (krQz2) 21
Speaking of sloppy fake Steve Bannon....Epstein...
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 06:52 PM (g47mK) 22
* shakes magic 8-ball *
Huh, I didn't know "are you fucking kidding me?" was one of answers it gave. Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 06:52 PM (nhCoE) Posted by: man at November 19, 2025 06:52 PM (XuXeR) 24
>>>Give Bill and Hillary Clinton the Steve Bannon Treatment -- Prosecution Then Prison
--- I'm on it. _doj Bondi Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 06:52 PM (rU9qQ) 25
Let them be thrashed with sturdy bamboo.
Posted by: In the public square at November 19, 2025 06:52 PM (TbWk/) 26
Sure, pull the other one...
Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 06:53 PM (TN0g+) 27
The only difference between Comer and Jordan is, Comer doesn't wear wife beaters or roll up his sleeves when he's bullshitting us.
Ted Bundy >> GOP Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 06:52 PM (abIsI) Are you as miserable and negative in meat world as you are on the intertubes? Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 06:53 PM (KDPiq) 28
Are you as miserable and negative in meat world as you are on the intertubes? Posted by: the way I see it Yes. Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 06:54 PM (abIsI) 29
In unrelated news, James Comer offs himself.
Yeah, would it really be surprising… Posted by: Lizzy at November 19, 2025 06:54 PM (49/Bh) 30
Let me put it this way, if either one ends up doing jail time...I am buying all of uz a drink.
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 06:54 PM (g47mK) 31
29 In unrelated news, James Comer offs himself.
Yeah, would it really be surprising… Posted by: Lizzy I'm going with, Grabs chest and tumbles down the Capital steps. Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 06:55 PM (abIsI) 32
Willowed : congrats Ace, your take on Nuzzi is making the rounds on X . Many cheers
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 19, 2025 06:55 PM (bfwj/) 33
Granted, it is very hard to get past the "nothing will happen " sentiment but times are changing.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2025 06:56 PM (sDNVV) 34
Are you as miserable and negative in meat world as you are on the intertubes?
Posted by: the way I see it Yes. Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 06:54 PM (abIsI) Lol. With that question, how else could you answer? Plus, it is a pretty high bar to call someone here a black piller. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 06:56 PM (zZu0s) 35
Let me put it this way, if either one ends up doing jail time...I am buying all of uz a drink.
----- Ha! Senator Kennedy won't even get a chance to ask either of them a single question. There will be "reasons" given, and they'll never "appear" in front of any panel, much less any court of law. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+) 36
More "definition of is" bullshit incoming. If it even gets that far. HillBilly are lower than pond scum. They should have been imprisoned for their Mena antics back in the 90's. But low and behold Clinton got elected President and fired the prosecuters who were looking into him. Posted by: Reforger at November 19, 2025 06:56 PM (wiZnK) 37
brb, snatchin' all the mutha fuckin birthdays Posted by: Steven Seagal at November 19, 2025 06:57 PM (Y9x1x) 38
Willowed : congrats Ace, your take on Nuzzi is making the rounds on X . Many cheers
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 19, 2025 06:55 PM (bfwj/) Nice. Well-deserved. I was rolling. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 06:57 PM (dK+Kv) 39
Friday : Bill Clinton "I'll testify"
Sunday morning: Former President Bill Clinton dies, had been scheduled to testify. Natural causes suspected, nothing else, no really. Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 19, 2025 06:57 PM (bfwj/) 40
There will be "reasons" given, and they'll never "appear" in front of any panel, much less any court of law.
------ But remember guys: No Kings! Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 06:57 PM (TN0g+) 41
Roe v Wade will never be overturned
Twitter will never not be a Lefty mouthpiece John Bolton will never be charged James Comey will never be charged. Advice I gave to myself long ago is never say never. Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 06:58 PM (KDPiq) Posted by: Soothsayer at November 19, 2025 06:58 PM (Y9x1x) 43
Friday : Bill Clinton "I'll testify"
Sunday morning: Former President Bill Clinton dies, had been scheduled to testify. Natural causes suspected, nothing else, no really. Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 19, 2025 06:57 PM (bfwj/) Monday, HIllary: What difference, at this point, does it make?! *bingo wings* Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 06:58 PM (dK+Kv) 44
Maybe. Trump is not the 2016 Trump.
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 06:58 PM (g47mK) 45
Past performance may not be indicative of future results.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2025 06:59 PM (sDNVV) 46
The House of Representatives cannot arrest someone directly, but it can hold individuals in contempt of Congress for obstructing its work, such as refusing to comply with a subpoena. In such cases, the House may refer the matter to law enforcement for further action.
------ So, the Clintons have defied a Congressional order to appear. The only thing Comer has to do is have it referred to Bondi or Patel. Hey, Congress, quit grandstanding and get it done. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 06:59 PM (rU9qQ) 47
I'm still tired of Republicans telling me about what they're going to do.
Do something. Than tell me what you did. Posted by: Methos at November 19, 2025 07:00 PM (vSvIl) 48
Do something. Than tell me what you did.
Posted by: Methos at November 19, 2025 07:00 PM (vSvIl) This. Shoot. Don't talk. -tuco Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s) 49
“I do not recall…” x 1000
“At this point, what difference does it make?” It’s all theater, but fun to imagine what would happen if they did show up. I don’t know if the squad types are under the Clinton’s’ spell? Posted by: Lizzy at November 19, 2025 07:02 PM (49/Bh) 50
40 There will be "reasons" given, and they'll never "appear" in front of any panel, much less any court of law.
---- When the armed Marshals come to your door with a warrant you have two options; one of them more unpleasant than the other. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:02 PM (rU9qQ) 51
"Business Inflation Expectations Drop To Just 2.2%"
Trump ripped into Bessent today. Right at the dais of the US -Saudi business forum. Half jokingly. He wants to fire Powell, but Bessent is telling him to wait 3 months, to have Powell's term run out. Trump should listen to his gut. And fire the guy. Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:03 PM (g47mK) 52
News Flash:
Rep James Comer (R), was found dead today in a locked trunk at the bottom of the Potomac River two miles south of Reagan National airport. The body had numerous burns, stab wounds, broken knees, and two gunshot wounds to the back of the head. The local northern Virginia coroner declared it a suicide. Posted by: I Witless News at November 19, 2025 07:03 PM (0714D) 53
Lock her up.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 19, 2025 07:03 PM (1HZta) 54
Do something. Than tell me what you did.
Posted by: Methos at November 19, 2025 07:00 PM (vSvIl) They just did with the shutdown. Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 07:03 PM (KDPiq) 55
At one point, Congress did have the power, which it used, to arrest and jail people for refusing subpoenas and contempt. The courts curtailed that a bit, but it still technically exists, I think, they just haven't used it in a long time. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 07:03 PM (w6EFb) 56
Polls , shmolls, but they all look bad. For 2026. Economics takes a few quarters , firing the asshole now, will show up in June 2026. Wait 3 months and you are looking at D house.
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:05 PM (g47mK) 57
I understood that there were jail cells under the Capitol.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2025 07:05 PM (sDNVV) 58
I'm still tired of Republicans telling me about what they're going to do.
Do something. Than tell me what you did. Posted by: Methos at November 19, 2025 07:00 PM If anyone thinks that bill or hillary clinton will be indicted by a grand jury in DC and then arrested they are smoking some serious crack. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 19, 2025 07:05 PM (0N4FZ) Posted by: nurse ratched at November 19, 2025 07:05 PM (W2Pud) 60
The contestants on Jeopardy didn't know a person in a picture who sang "Coward of the County". Sorry Kenny
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 19, 2025 07:06 PM (bfwj/) 61
42 days from the end of flavored vapes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 19, 2025 07:06 PM (1HZta) 62
I wonder why Hill and Bill are refusing to testify. The fact that Bill went to Pedo Island isn't under dispute. Not is his friendship with Epstein. There doesn't seem to be any proof he had sex with underage girls so why not just do what Clintons always do when they get a question they don't want to answer and say "I don't recall."?
This just makes them look guilty. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 07:06 PM (viF8m) 63
Some people may have done some things. Mistakes may have been made in the enthusiasm of the moment. What difference, at this point, does it make? Old news. Time to move on. Posted by: H. Rodham Clinton, Esq. at November 19, 2025 07:06 PM (0sNs1) 64
Congress has a sergeant at arms who can arrest people. They would then be referred to Federal authorities
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 19, 2025 07:07 PM (bfwj/) 65
Comer looks like an old version of Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin's boyfriend. He spent 2008 threatening to reveal something really terrible about the Palins. He never did, but he got on cable a lot. Same thing.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 19, 2025 07:07 PM (R86kT) 66
This just makes them look guilty.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 07:06 PM (viF8m) This allows them to maintain some sort of folk hero cred. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 07:07 PM (zZu0s) 67
You could house Hillary in Epstein's cell...after all she already knows the way.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at November 19, 2025 07:07 PM (xeuBx) 68
Time to move on.
Posted by: H. Rodham Clinton, Esq. at November 19, 2025 07:06 PM (0sNs1) Just retired investors living on a pension. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 07:08 PM (dK+Kv) 69
@62 first question " so how much did you steal from the Haitians?". Hilarity ensues
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 19, 2025 07:08 PM (bfwj/) 70
@Editor_76 . 1h
[ai translation] This fool was all screwed up a month ago, he went out desperate to ask for a ransom and Scott Bessent had to come to save him. Now he plays the canchero and talks as if he were an emperor. Who did you eat Trump's pet? They cut off your groceries and you sink in two useless minutes _President Milei Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:09 PM (rU9qQ) 71
>>They're the one group in this investigation that's never had to answer questions in front of a credible reporter =================== I'm sure they're willing to step right up and get the third degree from Katie Couric or Rachel Maddow. Once that happens, do they say they've already answered questions? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 07:09 PM (yr3T9) 72
>>>57 I understood that there were jail cells under the Capitol.
yes they always talk about the power of the Sgt-at-Arms of Congress to jail those who refuse to testify Posted by: ace at November 19, 2025 07:09 PM (1wjle) 73
They just did with the shutdown.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 07:03 PM (KDPiq) Really? What did they accomplish? Did they decrease federal spending? Dismantle laws the favor progressive objectives? Or did they just pass another continuing resolution, which continues spending at the current unsustainable levels, when the goal they ran for office on was a return to regular budgets, and the necessary goal is elimination of the federal debt? Posted by: Methos at November 19, 2025 07:09 PM (vSvIl) 74
>>This allows them to maintain some sort of folk hero cred.
With whom? Nobody cares about them anymore. The Democrat Party has moved past them. They throw them under the bus in a heartbeat if it helped the communist wing get ahead. It just seems like a dumb move all around. Go take question, lie like always and get it over with. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m) 75
And now the fa***s at the board are talking about holding rate cuts back; using tariffs as an excuse, even though all indicators show that businesses absorbed the tariff brouhaha. If he fires him now, there is still a good chance to cut the rates properly and let that side of the economy take off. Make housing affordable. Do it Trump!
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:10 PM (g47mK) 76
wants to fire Powell, but Bessent is telling him to wait 3 months, to have Powell's term run out. Trump should listen to his gut. And fire the guy.
Posted by: runner Why create chaos? Christ. Its 90 days from now and hell be gone. Not to mention the BS of going thru getting someone confirmed. Wait 90 days and it takes care of itself and easier to blame Powell. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:10 PM (FxH7T) Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at November 19, 2025 07:10 PM (och2J) 78
I understood that there were jail cells under the Capitol.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2025 07:05 PM (sDNVV) how is the food there ? Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:10 PM (g47mK) 79
they've been talking about that at least as far back as Nixon. How liberals fulminated about simply having the sergeant at arms arresting him until he testified.
i don't know when it was actually done, if ever. everyone seems convinced it was done at some point. Posted by: ace at November 19, 2025 07:10 PM (1wjle) 80
I have stated here before, the Clinton's know they will never be prosecuted no matter what they do
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2025 07:10 PM (+qU29) 81
Trump on Jerome Powell:
"I'd love to fire his ass. He should be fired. The only thing Scott [Bessent] is blowing it on is the Fed. The rates are too high, Scott. And if you don't get it fixed fast, I'm going to fire your ass." Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:11 PM (rU9qQ) 82
Posted by: Methos at November 19, 2025 07:09 PM (vSvIl)
Hah. How did I know that wouldn't count . Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 07:11 PM (KDPiq) 83
I can tell how this one is going to proceed. The Clintons will, indeed, eventually show up to testify...and they will take the Fifth.
THEN, they will go on talk shows, give a press conference, and basically explain themselves with a more than willing media....which will trigger the committee to challenge the applied Fifth since they won't talk under oath, but immediately run to the press and spout all kinds of self-serving nonsense. Posted by: Orson at November 19, 2025 07:11 PM (dIske) 84
I didn't see the word may in Comer's statement so this is a step in the right direction. Posted by: Ben Had ============== I didn't see a deadline. Did I miss it? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 07:11 PM (yr3T9) 85
Why create chaos?
Christ. Its 90 days from now and hell be gone. Not to mention the BS of going thru getting someone confirmed. Wait 90 days and it takes care of itself and easier to blame Powell. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:10 PM (FxH7T) that is not how economics and markets work! Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:11 PM (g47mK) 86
I wonder why Hill and Bill are refusing to testify. The fact that Bill went to Pedo Island isn't under dispute. Not is his friendship with Epstein. There doesn't seem to be any proof he had sex with underage girls so why not just do what Clintons always do when they get a question they don't want to answer and say "I don't recall."? This just makes them look guilty. Posted by: JackStraw ================= I wonder what Comer wants to ask them. Maybe it's something besides sex with underage girls. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2025 07:11 PM (yr3T9) 87
We are losing on housing, on affordability. That is why that jihadi won in NY. Yeah the businessed are doing good, in some sectors, but people who work ? Not.so.much. The fed, Powell are purposely undermining Trump. Have you not seen who is on the board ??
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:13 PM (g47mK) 88
Grandma Colostomy Bag can wear her stroke victim glasses again.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 07:14 PM (LjSYW) 89
80 I have stated here before, the Clinton's know they will never be prosecuted no matter what they do
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2025 07:10 PM (+qU29) Even Trump said it would be bad form or something to prosecute Hilary after he took office and look what they did to him. There needs to be repercussions but I know it won't happen. Posted by: CaliGirl at November 19, 2025 07:14 PM (TmEds) 90
Trump in his gut knows it. He needs to go to Mar A Lago, and breathe some fresh air. Play golf.
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:14 PM (g47mK) 91
Blonde Morticia, I was commenting on the fact that usually these statements always contain weasel words like might or may. This one didn't.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2025 07:14 PM (sDNVV) 92
News Flash:
Rep James Comer (R), was found dead today in a locked trunk at the bottom of the Potomac River two miles south of Reagan National airport. The body had numerous burns, stab wounds, broken knees, and two gunshot wounds to the back of the head. The local northern Virginia coroner declared it a suicide. -------- Huh. I would have guessed natural causes from the description. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:14 PM (TN0g+) 93
If he fires him now, there is still a good chance to cut the rates properly and let that side of the economy take off. Make housing affordable. Do it Trump!
Posted by: runner No. December is out regardless. January would be also. Now were looking at March regardless. And you lose the ability to blame Powell. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:15 PM (FxH7T) 94
I can see prices going down. basic stuff, milk, eggs, gas.
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:15 PM (g47mK) 95
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:13 PM (g47mK)
You might want to take a look at what interest rates have historically been since the 70's. I don't know when 1 and 2 % became the expected norm. Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 07:15 PM (KDPiq) 96
88 Grandma Colostomy Bag can wear her stroke victim glasses again.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 07:14 PM (LjSYW) I forgot about those glasses, lol. Posted by: CaliGirl at November 19, 2025 07:16 PM (TmEds) 97
I understood that there were jail cells under the Capitol.
------- You know what is under the water? More water. Posted by: David Byrne at November 19, 2025 07:16 PM (TN0g+) 98
What's the status of the congressthing from NJ who was indicted for assaulting federal officers at the DHS facility?
Not expelled, obviously. I'd have noticed that. Does Johnson have 11-dimensional strategery considerations? Or is the GOP caucus just so far gone that he doesn't have the votes? For a slam-dunk felony charge, on video, that of course makes the NY/LI clown's transgressions fairly mild in comparison. Posted by: rhomboid at November 19, 2025 07:16 PM (U/Byj) 99
En fuego Chuy!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 19, 2025 07:16 PM (Cjt/F) 100
According to Grok, that power still exists. It's called "Inherent contempt". The current regime they always use is a statutory one. Congress made it a crime as well as civil violations. But Inherent Contempt still exists, and the Court ruled it is inherent to Article I power. In order to function, Congress must have this power, "necessary and proper". Ie, suppose Congress subpoenas somebody. And say the Executive is against then and refuses to enforce that via the statue. Congress must have what amounts to executive arrest power on its own. And, there is not much judicial review, other than violation of constitutional rights. The decision of what is contempt belongs to Congress alone. The court doesn't get to review that call. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 07:17 PM (w6EFb) 101
that is not how economics and markets work!
Posted by: runner a So he fires him tomorrow and the market takes off? I think not. Rates are still the same. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:17 PM (FxH7T) 102
Hah. How did I know that wouldn't count .
Posted by: the way I see it at November 19, 2025 07:11 PM (KDPiq) What do you think should count about it? What do you think has improved as a result? Do you think it is somehow praiseworthy that they didn't give the out of power party more of the spending they wanted, when all they did was extend the spending that party passed the last time they were in power? Posted by: Methos at November 19, 2025 07:17 PM (vSvIl) 103
No. December is out regardless. January would be also. Now were looking at March regardless.
And you lose the ability to blame Powell. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:15 PM (FxH7T) You are arguing....for looking good ??? this is not a fashion show !! Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:17 PM (g47mK) 104
60 The contestants on Jeopardy didn't know a person in a picture who sang "Coward of the County". Sorry Kenny
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 19, 2025 07:06 PM (bfwj/) Saw that, lol. Also, if you imagined a person named Harrison Whitaker, isn't that guy exactly what you would imagine? Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2025 07:18 PM (zYpTz) 105
Under the rocks and stones.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 19, 2025 07:18 PM (1HZta) 106
When some 20-30 year old will be able to buy a house or a condo, he would not care about fooking Powell! he will thank Trump for making it affordable for him.
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:18 PM (g47mK) 107
Punch it Chuy.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 19, 2025 07:18 PM (1HZta) 108
that is not how economics and markets work!
Posted by: runner a So he fires him tomorrow and the market takes off? I think not. Rates are still the same. ------ I think rates would drop about half a percent and serve as the new "normal". A half a percent might not seem like much but I think it would spur some strong off-season activity. Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at November 19, 2025 07:19 PM (TN0g+) 109
With government just under %50 Marxists there are too many protecting their own. And the Commissar Judges seem to be on top who would shoot down any charges.
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2025 07:19 PM (+qU29) 110
You are arguing....for looking good ??? this is not a fashion show !!
Posted by: runner Rates won't be cut until January at the earliest. What is to be gained by firing him tomorrow ? Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:19 PM (FxH7T) 111
wants to fire Powell, but Bessent is telling him to wait 3 months
Bessent gives me the creeps. Somebody should check his crawlspace for missing children. Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 07:20 PM (abIsI) 112
93 If he fires him now, there is still a good chance to cut the rates properly and let that side of the economy take off. Make housing affordable. Do it Trump!
Posted by: runner --- Right. Much economic activity is based on sentiment. With Powell gone, even though technically things will take a while, sentiment will be immediate and things will start to roll. Rolling into the new year on a crest will create more up and forward activity through the next year. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:20 PM (rU9qQ) 113
>>We are losing on housing, on affordability. That is why that jihadi won in NY. Yeah the businessed are doing good, in some sectors, but people who work ? Not.so.much. The fed, Powell are purposely undermining Trump. Have you not seen who is on the board ??
The Atlanta Fed came out today with a projection of 4.2 GDP in Q3. They projected inflation at 2.2 next year. Prices on many things like food and gas is down and most of the stuff in the BBB doesn't even kick in until next year. Mamdani won in NYC because he dominated with foreign born voters and because Cuomo sucks and even Democrats hate him. NYC has always been unaffordable and almost always run by Democrats. It's not a harbinger of anything and there isn't a chance in hell Mamdani is going to magically make things more affordable. Why is there so much doom and gloom? Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 07:20 PM (viF8m) 114
We are losing on housing, on affordability. That is why that jihadi won in NY. Yeah the businessed are doing good, in some sectors, but people who work ? Not.so.much. The fed, Powell are purposely undermining Trump. Have you not seen who is on the board ??
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:13 PM We are losing because all of that $1.2 TRILLION in covid emergency money along with the $4 TRILLION in the inflation reduction act money that was being handed out like candy has ran out and the democrats timed that perfectly. It's going to get worse. My wife volunteers at two food pantries and the food supply has literally dried up. They are getting less than half of what they did just six months ago while the lines are getting longer. It's a perfect storm and the democrats planned this and will take back the house and the senate next year because of it. They play the long game while republicans are just playing games like trying to indict hillary clinton in washington DC. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 19, 2025 07:20 PM (0N4FZ) 115
At DM: "For the Joe Rogan Experience has dethroned the New York Times' The Daily to claim the top spot on Apple's annual podcast rankings"
NYT has a podcast? It was #1? Who knew. Posted by: gp at November 19, 2025 07:20 PM (4kcNT) 116
I think rates would drop about half a percent and serve as the new "normal". A half a percent might not seem like much but I think it would spur some strong off-season activity.
Posted by: Crusader, They won't be cut in Dec. January at the earliest. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:21 PM (FxH7T) 117
The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee · 3h Starving African Children Raise Money To Feed Ariana Grande https://buff.ly/uihzoJ5 Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:21 PM (TN0g+) 118
Rates won't be cut until January at the earliest. What is to be gained by firing him tomorrow ?
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal ------- Sentiment. Things move on sentiment. Positive business reaction will be immediate. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:21 PM (rU9qQ) Posted by: man at November 19, 2025 07:22 PM (XuXeR) Posted by: man at November 19, 2025 07:22 PM (XuXeR) 121
"Starving African Children Raise Money To Feed Ariana Grande"
First priority: replace her shrinking synthetic face tegument before it rips from the tension. Back to the bot shop for a while. Posted by: gp at November 19, 2025 07:22 PM (4kcNT) 122
This is off topic but I just got home- I’ve heard several people (including Ruffalo below) observe that Charlie Kirk “deserved it” because he didn’t support gun control. This is about as logically coherent as saying anyone not for universal castration deserves to be raped.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 19, 2025 07:22 PM (hlNLQ) 123
116 I think rates would drop about half a percent and serve as the new "normal". A half a percent might not seem like much but I think it would spur some strong off-season activity.
Posted by: Crusader, ------------ Half a percent is double expectations. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:23 PM (rU9qQ) 124
Sediment settles things.
Posted by: gp at November 19, 2025 07:23 PM (4kcNT) 125
Rolling into the new year on a crest will create more up and forward activity through the next year.
Posted by: Braenyard - You really think firing Powell will lead to a rate cut in Dec? And if it is known by all Powell is effing things up, that sentiment is already there. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:23 PM (FxH7T) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:23 PM (rU9qQ) 127
Well, well, well...
@LeadingReport 14m BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl. Posted by: Dr. weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 07:24 PM (mlg/3) 128
It’s all theater, but fun to imagine what would happen if they did show up. I don’t know if the squad types are under the Clinton’s’ spell?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 19, 2025 07:02 PM Bill will be prompted by texts from zombie Jeffrey Epstein. Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 19, 2025 07:25 PM (DsA2n) 129
I am, like the panda, RIVETED.
Extremely RIVETED. In cases lasting over 12 hours call your doctor RIVETED. Posted by: AMartel at November 19, 2025 07:25 PM (otvi3) 130
"Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months"
Can they do that? Doesn't that take a judge or executive order? Posted by: gp at November 19, 2025 07:25 PM (4kcNT) 131
BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl.
Posted by: Dr. weft cut-loop He better patch things up. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 07:25 PM (LjSYW) 132
Kinda makes sense he turned into a character from the House of Cards
Posted by: Dr. weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 07:26 PM (mlg/3) 133
Well, well, well...
@LeadingReport 14m BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl. Posted by: Dr. weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 07:24 PM (mlg/3) Short-sighted on his part. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 07:26 PM (dK+Kv) 134
You really think firing Powell will lead to a rate cut in Dec? And if it is known by all Powell is effing things up, that sentiment is already there. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCa ----------- It doesn't matter. It is the impetus. People know it's coming and that the cut will be bigger than anything Powell would have done. Kill the witch makes everything better. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:26 PM (rU9qQ) Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:26 PM (FxH7T) 136
@LeadingReport 14m
BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl. ----- I always believed he was one to keep an eye on. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:26 PM (TN0g+) 137
There. Now there can be happiness. Something happened.
>>@nicksortor · 40m >>🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has just charged Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL) with stealing $5 MILLION in FEMA funds meant for disaster relief >>If convicted, she faces 53 YEARS in federal prison. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 07:27 PM (viF8m) 138
BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl.
Posted by: Dr. weft cut-loop He better patch things up. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner He'll turn a blind eye to this banning. Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 07:27 PM (abIsI) 139
Why is there so much doom and gloom?
Posted by: JackStraw Because - and I mean this with respect, because you are an asset to this place - what you posted was cope. Commies took Seattle and are likely to take LA as well. Commies already got Chicago. I don't even need to mention Portland do I? The universities are churning out millions of young elites every year who are never going to be elite. They are not getting jobs for their education, and their education isn't just "lesbian basket weaving". We're talking here about engineers and mathematicians. We're breeding a generation of Muhammad Attas and Saloth Sars, and telling them their vote counts. Their vote does count. Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2025 07:28 PM (gKWVE) 140
131 BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl.
Posted by: Dr. weft cut-loop He better patch things up. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, ---------- Excellent election material. Buh bye, Dan. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:28 PM (rU9qQ) 141
Further, according to Grok, this inherent contempt has not been fully tested against Executive privilege claims.
Every DOJ has claimed it is unconstitutional, a violation of separation of powers (for valid executive privilege assertions), but the boundaries of that has never been decided. The last time this was used was in 1934, and maybe 1935. Each house, House and Senate has this power on its own. That is, each chamber can invoke it on its own. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 07:28 PM (w6EFb) 142
@LeadingReport 14m
BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl. Posted by: Dr. weft cut-loop at November 19, 2025 07:24 PM Well he has self admitted to having PTSD and said he is seeking treatment for that. Combining alcohol with the PTSD treatment drugs is a no-no and a certain recipe for a friggin disaster. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 19, 2025 07:28 PM (0N4FZ) 143
>136 @LeadingReport 14m
BREAKING: Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl. I'm sure he'll patch things up with the caucus soon. Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 19, 2025 07:28 PM (GTqXr) 144
Crenshaw need to keep his focus. keep his eye on the prize. Stop being so short-sighted.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 07:28 PM (0aYVJ) 145
Crenshaw better known as dead eye dick
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2025 07:28 PM (sDNVV) 146
@nicksortor
· 40m >>🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has just charged Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL) with stealing $5 MILLION in FEMA funds meant for disaster relief >>If convicted, she faces 53 YEARS in federal prison. ------ Guess what guys! You're never going to believe this one! Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is "Fundamentally non-serious"! I know! I was just as shocked to learn this as you! Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:29 PM (TN0g+) 147
What Comer is actually going to do: jerk off into a shapely sock and TELL us he scored with Sydney Sweeney....
Then again , at least Comer takes the time to talk a good game. Most of the R's can't be bothered to even act like they care for their voters. Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at November 19, 2025 07:29 PM (FCPbW) 148
Crenshaw need to keep his focus. keep his eye on the prize. Stop being so short-sighted.
Posted by: Pug Mahon No kidding. Wink and you miss it. Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2025 07:30 PM (nhCoE) 149
It doesn't matter. It is the impetus. People know it's coming and that the cut will be bigger than anything Powell would have done.
Kill the witch makes everything better. Posted by: Braenyard - If they know it's coming, why go thru all the BS? The fed won't cut rates in Dec whether Powell is there or not. In January you can start the confirmation process as Powell serves out his term. You think the Senate is hanging around to do the confirmation in the next 7 weeks if he's fired tomorrow? Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:31 PM (FxH7T) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:31 PM (rU9qQ) 151
Crenshaw need to keep his focus. keep his eye on the prize. Stop being so short-sighted.
Posted by: Pug Mahon No kidding. Wink and you miss it. ----- Eye of the Tiger! Posted by: Survivor at November 19, 2025 07:31 PM (TN0g+) 152
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee Troubling New Survey Shows 90 Percent Of Graduating High School Seniors Don't Know The Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:32 PM (TN0g+) 153
>>>If they know it's coming, why go thru all the BS? The fed won't cut rates in Dec whether Powell is there or not.
In January you can start the confirmation process as Powell serves out his term. You think the Senate is hanging around to do the confirmation in the next 7 weeks if he's fired tomorrow? Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal ---- I'll take Trump's opinion. He's the man with the plan that hasn't failed. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:33 PM (rU9qQ) 154
@TheBabylonBee
Troubling New Survey Shows 90 Percent Of Graduating High School Seniors Don't Know The Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:32 PM African or European? Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 19, 2025 07:33 PM (0N4FZ) 155
Crenshaw was a star pupil.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 19, 2025 07:33 PM (LjSYW) 156
Republican congressman Dan Crenshaw snapped at a little girl over Jesus.
Worthless cocksucker. Do better Texas. Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 07:34 PM (abIsI) 157
Commies have been taking Seattle
For 30 years. This is not new, nor is it surprising. Posted by: nurse ratched at November 19, 2025 07:34 PM (W2Pud) 158
And then this, on the still on-going Merrick Garland contempt. In July 2024, Anna Paulina Luna introduced an Inherent Contempt resolution, which would have fined Garland $10K per day, and arrested him. The House voted to table that resolution. So that was the closest Inherent Contempt has come to being invoked since the '30s. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 07:35 PM (w6EFb) 159
Cherfilus cannot be a real name. It sounds like a 18th century medical term for bed sores.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 07:35 PM (3uBP9) 160
Old Man Crenshaw, up the river >>> Dan Crenshaw
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 07:35 PM (0aYVJ) 161
Ownership is a big deal in these United States. Life, Liberty, Property. In that order. We like to own things. Nothing makes a person more conservative and capitalist as owning where you live. Powell and the Fed are preventing Rs from raising a generation of Conservatives, and sending then into the arms of DSA that is a fun co-op of communist economic ideals and jihadi social norms.
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:36 PM (g47mK) 162
>>Because - and I mean this with respect, because you are an asset to this place - what you posted was cope.
Commies took Seattle and are likely to take LA as well. Commies already got Chicago. I don't even need to mention Portland do I? Everything you just mentioned happened years ago. A few new face, not a fucking new thing. So why haven't people killed themselves yet? What I see with constant doom and gloom is actual cope because fighting and continuing to fight back is so much harder. Why do so many think everything should have changed because Trump won an election when the corruption had taken years to build against us? It was always going to take years to rebuild and the globalist, leftwing forces weren't going to give up because Donny 2 Scoops won an election. The economy is beginning to heal. As I just said the Atlanta Fed pegs Q3 GDP at 4.2 and inflation next year at basically 2% which is no inflation. We are finally getting illegals out of the country. There are no new wars. The left is in complete disarray and after weeks of hearing here daily Republicans were going to fold on the shutdown they didn't. They won. Which is a big reason leftists are freaking. Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 07:36 PM (viF8m) 163
The DOJ has just charged Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL) with stealing $5 MILLION in FEMA funds meant for disaster relief
___________ *checks Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick* *suspicions confirmed* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 07:37 PM (tgvbd) 164
Republican congressman Dan Crenshaw snapped at a little girl over Jesus.
------- The little girl might have brought up Matthew 7:5. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:37 PM (TN0g+) 165
The Bees should put that Megan Kelly funny back. Who gives a fk whether she was offended ? It was hilarious !
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:37 PM (g47mK) 166
I'll take Trump's opinion. He's the man with the plan that hasn't failed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent OK. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:37 PM (FxH7T) 167
Eyepatch is kind of a piece of shit, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 07:38 PM (zZu0s) 168
*checks Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick* *suspicions confirmed* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh When you say "suspicion," you really mean fatigued amiright? Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 07:38 PM (abIsI) 169
160, LOL!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 19, 2025 07:38 PM (Cjt/F) 170
Republican congressman Dan Crenshaw snapped at a little girl over Jesus.
------- The little girl might have brought up Matthew 7:5. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:37 PM (TN0g+) Also something about depth perception. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 07:39 PM (zZu0s) 171
*checks Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick*
*suspicions confirmed* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh When you say "suspicion," you really mean fatigued amiright? ---- "Fundamentally non-serious". Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:39 PM (TN0g+) 172
Powell and the Fed are preventing Rs from raising a generation of Conservatives, and sending then into the arms of DSA that is a fun co-op of communist economic ideals and jihadi social norms.
Posted by: runner Its already happened if it was to be. 90 days isn't moving the needle. Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:39 PM (FxH7T) 173
Eyepatch is kind of a piece of shit, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 19, 2025 07:38 PM (zZu0s) Eyepatch McCain. So fitting. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 07:39 PM (dK+Kv) Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 19, 2025 07:40 PM (fd80v) Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 19, 2025 07:40 PM (abIsI) 176
Cyclopes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 19, 2025 07:40 PM (1HZta) 177
>>>Congressional Republicans have banned Rep. Dan Crenshaw from international travel for 3 months after an “alcohol-related episode during a [delegation trip] in Mexico,” per Punchbowl.
They took a vote and the ayes carried the motion. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 19, 2025 07:40 PM (dK+Kv) 178
The little girl might have brought up Matthew 7:5.
Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:37 PM (TN0g+) Ha! My bible knowledge is still in its infancy, but this is spot on. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 07:40 PM (0aYVJ) 179
'The little girl might have brought up Matthew 7:5.'
Better yet Matthew 5:29. ------ Dang, I missed the layup! Posted by: Ben Simmons, 1st Pick Overall at November 19, 2025 07:41 PM (TN0g+) 180
Looks like the cafe is open!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2025 07:41 PM (zYpTz) 181
Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2025 07:41 PM (+qU29) 182
She is not your friend, Dillon. Don't kid yourself. She will stab you in the back when there is an opportunity. That is her entire career. And as a side, men should treat what women say and do with the same critical eye as they do men. I think there is a bit of a bias, men tend to forgive women for things that they would not forgive in men. Stop it !
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:41 PM (g47mK) 183
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'*checks Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick* *suspicions confirmed*' Uniformly entitled and corrupt? Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 19, 2025 07:41 PM (fd80v) 184
'The little girl might have brought up Matthew 7:5.'
Better yet Matthew 5:29. Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 19, 2025 07:40 PM (fd80v) DAAAANNGG!!! I love this place. Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 19, 2025 07:42 PM (0aYVJ) 185
>>Commies have been taking Seattle
For 30 years. Statue of Lenin should have been your first clue. That entire place should be cleansed by fire. Posted by: garrett at November 19, 2025 07:42 PM (rO4EG) 186
I'm interested in just what this alcohol fueled incident was. Apparently some Mexican official made an "inappropriate remark" that greatly offended a female staffer. Crenshaw then said "I'll drink to that!" or something. What was the remark. Enquiring minds want to know. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 07:42 PM (w6EFb) 187
Its already happened if it was to be. 90 days isn't moving the needle.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2025 07:39 PM (FxH7T) you keep saying it, as an argument in itself; it is not convincing Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (g47mK) Posted by: man at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (XuXeR) 189
Posted by: Reality at November 19, 2025 07:27 PM
Oh, look yet another new handle and once again he's insulting another poster.. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (B+8Pw) 190
Mamdani won in NYC because he dominated with foreign born voters and because Cuomo sucks and even Democrats hate him. NYC has always been unaffordable and almost always run by Democrats. It's not a harbinger of anything and there isn't a chance in hell Mamdani is going to magically make things more affordable.
Why is there so much doom and gloom? Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2025 07:20 PM (viF8m) Mandami is as useful to the Dems as a dozen boat anchors. He's promised everything, and will be able to deliver nothing. And the Dems will have to prop him up. Posted by: Oldcat at November 19, 2025 07:43 PM (8avO+) 191
Ownership is a big deal in these United States. Life, Liberty, Property. In that order. We like to own things. Nothing makes a person more conservative and capitalist as owning where you live. Powell and the Fed are preventing Rs from raising a generation of Conservatives, and sending then into the arms of DSA that is a fun co-op of communist economic ideals and jihadi social norms.
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2025 07:36 PM (g47mK)]/i] Rates go down the only people with money to invest right now are the hedge funds and the real estate corporations who can leverage and force lower interest that Jason and Wilma Newlywed can get at the savings and loan. And then the Newlyweds can rent the house from the real estate corporations at a high enough rate to cover the mortgage, finance fees, and all future investments by the company. Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2025 07:44 PM (rbvCR) 192
*walks into waiting room carrying mask* Your husband has Stage 4 Cherfilus. I'd say no more than four months. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 07:45 PM (tgvbd) 193
*checks Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick*
*suspicions confirmed* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2025 07:37 PM (tgvbd) Really good nails and a high end hair-piece? Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR) 194
>>>The economy is beginning to heal. As I just said the Atlanta Fed pegs Q3 GDP at 4.2 and inflation next year at basically 2% which is no inflation. We are finally getting illegals out of the country. There are no new wars. The left is in complete disarray and after weeks of hearing here daily Republicans were going to fold on the shutdown they didn't. They won. Which is a big reason leftists are freaking.
Posted by: JackStraw -------------- We have normalized day to day business which is great. The heads of the snakes are still loose and dangerous. We will be on tenterhooks until the snakes have been neutralized and their effects neutered. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:45 PM (rU9qQ) 195
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'Oh, look yet another new handle and once again he's insulting another poster..' Yes. It's DoggLogg. Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 19, 2025 07:46 PM (fd80v) 196
And Nancy Mace is going after Cory Mills, forcing a censure vote. She's accusing him of stolen valor or something. Nancy is in bunny-boiler territory, no question about it. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2025 07:48 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 07:50 PM (rU9qQ) 198
And Nancy Mace is going after Cory Mills, forcing a censure vote. She's accusing him of stolen valor or something.
------ Well, he recently received a restraining order against him. Nancy isn't always stable, but an honest Congress would look into these things, just like an honest Congress would have stripped Plaskett of anything they could have stripped her of. Posted by: Crusader at November 19, 2025 07:50 PM (TN0g+) Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2025 08:03 PM (3uBP9) 200
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Just for completion sake. I mean it’s been a while now. Maybe I’ma little OC Posted by: banana Dream -------------- It's a rough transition from wild cats and mad dogs to puppies and kitties. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 19, 2025 08:07 PM (rU9qQ) Two Partisan Hacks Ignored Supreme Court Precedent to Claim the Texas Redistricting Map Was Illegal.
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