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Saturday Night "Club ONT" December 20, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
Joe passed away; His will provided $30,000 for an elaborate funeral. As the last guests departed the affair, his wife, Helen, turned to her oldest friend. "Well, I'm sure Joe would be pleased," she said. "I'm sure you're right," replied Jody, who lowered her voice and leaned in close. "How much did this really cost?" "All of it," said Helen. "Thirty thousand." "No!" Jody exclaimed. "I mean, it was very nice, but $30,000?" Helen answered. "The funeral was $6,500. I donated $500 to the church. The wake, food and drinks were another $500. The rest went for the memorial stone." Jody computed quickly. "$22,500 for a memorial stone? My God, how big is it?!" "Two and a half carats."
Ingredients
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened 1 stick
1 cup sugar, dark brown
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups hot water
3/4 cup dark rum
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
cinnamon sticks for garnish Instructions In a large bowl, beat the butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed for about 5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add the cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, salt, and vanilla extract to the bowl and mix until well combined. Transfer the spiced butter mixture to an airtight container and store in the fridge or freezer until ready to use. To make the hot buttered rum, add 2 tablespoons of the spiced butter mixture to a mug. Pour in 2 ounces of dark rum and top with 1 cup of hot water.
Stir until the spiced butter mixture is dissolved and the drink is smooth.
Garnish with a cinnamon stick or whipped cream, if desired.
----- For Our Patrons Who No Do Not Partake CBD is right, these recipe links are out of hand with the nonsense and scrolling required to get to what you want. Recipe below is going off memory and spitballin'. Your memory jokes are not that funny. Grasshopper. Non-alcoholic style.
3 TBS Crème de menthe syrup (non-alcoholic, green mint syrup)
1 TBS Crème de cacao syrup (non-alcoholic, clear chocolate-flavored syrup)
Whipped Cream. Because whipped cream.
Maraschino cherry (fancy pants garnish) Chuck all ingredients into blender (press the button - this is an important step)
Blend until you get that smooth, rolling thing going on with ingredients
Pour into most convenient glass in the cupboard and top with Maraschino cherry
Glance in mirror and raise your glass as you walk by
A Romanian murderer who sued God for "fraud" and "betrayal of trust" for failing to answer his prayers has had his case dismissed in court, a newspaper has reported. The daily Evenimentul Zilei says 40-year-old Mircea Pavel brought charges against "the defendant God, who lives in the heavens and is represented in Romania by the Orthodox Church" for failing to free him from evil. Mr Pavel, who is serving 20 years in jail for murder, accused God of "fraud, betrayal of trust, corruption and influence peddling." "At my christening, I made a deal with the defendant aimed at freeing me from evil," he wrote. "But the latter has not respected that agreement until now, although he received from me various assets and numerous prayers." The court in Timisoara, in western Romania, dismissed the case, ruling that "God is not subject to law and does not have an address."Service of process doesn't work well for the devil either. A 1971 case in Pennsylvania titled "Mayo v. Satan and His Staff" involved a prisoner in Pennsylvania. The judge described the claim as alleging that "Satan has on numerous occasions caused plaintiff misery and unwarranted threats, against the will of plaintiff, that Satan has placed deliberate obstacles in his path and has caused plaintiff's downfall. Plaintiff alleges that by reason of these acts Satan has deprived him of his constitutional rights."
"We question whether plaintiff may obtain personal jurisdiction over the defendant in this judicial district. The complaint contains no allegation of residence in this district. We note that the plaintiff has failed to include with his complaint the required form of instructions for the United States Marshal for directions as to service of process." Case dismissed.
Club ONT Department of History Hubcaps. Jewelry for cars, clock faces, oil drip pans, animal feeders, and more. There were some pretty cool ones in the day.
Cadillac Eldorado Fleetwood Biarritz SevilleLinks are like beer. If one is good, two are usually better. Historical summary.
Price: $7,000
Year: 1959 – 1960 Even though two of these Cadillac hubcaps were repolished, they still command a high value because of their brand and design. It uses the spring-loaded retention famed for its extra protection capacity.
1680: First used on Newton Reaction Carriages***
Pre-1915: Mostly made of nickel-plated brass
1920s: Mostly made of aluminum
1927: First snap-on center caps for wire wheels
1930s: Spring-loaded retention clip used
1938: Full wheel covers introduced
1940: Hubcaps expanded in size for function
1940s: Dog dish hubcaps featured on base model vehicles
1950s: Lack of hubcaps represented in drag racing
1960s: Stainless steel full-spoke wheel covers introduced
1970s: Plastic wheel covers introduced
1980s: ABS wheel covers replaced steel hubcaps on all cars
Trains. And a very sleek, art deco style one.
Here is a rundown of Christmas train rides in the United States. Any done a Christmas train adventure?Probably the coolest train you will see today: The Mercury (1940s) pic.twitter.com/VM13E1vxe6
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) December 18, 2025
Sip a cup of hot cocoa and nibble a warm sugar cookie when you hop aboard the 1880 Train‘s one-hour Holiday Express journey with Santa and Mrs. Claus. These holiday train rides depart from Hill City in the heart of the Black Hills, near some of the state’s biggest attractions, including Custer State Park, Crazy Horse Memorial, and Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Adults may purchase a spiked ticket and enjoy their hot drink enriched with a potent potable served in a keepsake mug.
A new game at Buc-ees.
— RWB_American (@RWB_American) December 18, 2025
Giddy up. pic.twitter.com/FYFASIvzXo
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: M. Gaga at December 20, 2025 10:01 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 10:01 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 20, 2025 10:02 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 10:03 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 20, 2025 10:05 PM (lUFok)
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The problem with suing God is service of process.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 10:05 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 10:06 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 10:07 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 20, 2025 10:07 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 20, 2025 10:08 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 10:08 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 10:10 PM (ESVrU)
So the best film I've seen this year, by far, is Strange Darling.
It came out in 2023, so it's not on anyone else's end of year lists, but it's at the top of mine.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 10:05 PM (mNhIh)
If you want to watch quality gay scenery in a mainstream film, I would highly recommend "Honey Don't."
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 10:00 PM (mNhIh)
I'll be back a bit later, to see if there's movement on it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 10:10 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/)
I was gonna bitch about the ingredients list for the buttered rum (stacked up), but when I selected the comments button, they reset themselves to sensibility!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 20, 2025 10:10 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 10:10 PM (JkO4W)
I'm on strike from any new movies until DEI disappears. I won't see any movies henceforth no matter how persuasive the appeal. It could be a biography of me and I'm still skipping it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Well, yeah, that's an easy skip. You already know what's gonna happen.
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 10:11 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 10:10 PM
***
We are everywhere.
Posted by: TRex - feliz navi dino at December 20, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 20, 2025 10:11 PM (47diA)
Oh fuuuuuuuuudge!
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 20, 2025 10:11 PM (Lo97M)
That hot buttered rum should be ready momentarily...
Great Saturday Night jokes!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 20, 2025 10:12 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 10:13 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 10:13 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 20, 2025 10:13 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Cicero
Erection of the Festivus pole must take place before the airing of grievances. Which precedes the Feats of Strength of course.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2025 10:13 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 20, 2025 10:13 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Pete Buttgigger at December 20, 2025 10:14 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 10:14 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 10:14 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
You do know when you quit feeding them, sooner or later, they will stop showing up.
It's coal again in the ole Christmas stocking for me again. Right?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2025 10:15 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 10:15 PM (JkO4W)
So is there an aftermarket for restoom tokens?
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 20, 2025 10:15 PM (47diA)
Ira 'Ike' Schab who was stationed aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbins on the Day of Infamy has passed away.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:15 PM (2GVsD)
Why sue Stan? You'll never win. He's got all the best lawyers.
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 10:16 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Cicero
Don't ask for the Lady Fingers. Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Cicero
We don't get it.
Posted by: buffalo wings at December 20, 2025 10:17 PM (nhCoE)
Having said that, I could murder a pitcher of tater tot’s.
Right now, I’ll just have to settle for this pitcher of Gimlets.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 10:17 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2025 10:18 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 10:08 PM (ESVrU)
Lightly?
(shakes head)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Cicero
And since they are in the family of Hashbrownius Repulsivus, they are right out.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 20, 2025 10:19 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 10:19 PM (XV/Pl)
Lead actor was in another favorite, "Dinner in America".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 10:20 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 20, 2025 10:20 PM (dl47i)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 20, 2025 10:21 PM (47diA)
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2025 10:22 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Listen to him, people. He's an expert.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 10:22 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 20, 2025 10:23 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 10:23 PM (/lPRQ)
Basically the same thing as their honey-mustard salad dressing, no?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 10:24 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:24 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 20, 2025 10:24 PM (NWwW8)
Posted by: Barack at December 20, 2025 10:24 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Disco biscuits for me.
Posted by: Lemmon 714 at December 20, 2025 10:25 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 10:23 PM (/lPRQ)
No illegals to build them.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:25 PM (gKDq2)
We have a launch in about 2 hours.
Rocket Lab - Electron - The Wisdom God Guides
LC 1 - Mähia, NZ - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: December 21, 2025
Launch Time: 1:12 a.m. EST (19:12 NZST)
https://youtu.be/3oIxo3bLkfQ
Posted by: Joyenz at December 20, 2025 10:25 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 10:25 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Barack at December 20, 2025 10:25 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 10:26 PM (XV/Pl)
He also made the very best hamburgers. Same skillet.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 20, 2025 10:26 PM (kB9dk)
Thus, crinkle cut are the best fries.
Posted by: mikeski
Was I supposed to explain my reasoning, too? Okay.
They're uniform in width so they cook evenly, but have more surface area for crispyness and salt than the straight-sided varieties do. And the crinkles help hold ketchup or other sauces you might want to dip them in.
Waffle fries suck because they're frequently more than one bite, and that leads to double-dipping. Curly fries suck because you can't get the big loopy ones and the tight coil-spring ones both cooked right. You know the one in the top-left of the pic is a greasy gummy mess.
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 10:26 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 20, 2025 10:23 PM (47diA)
There was a Belgian french fry place I went to once. They served mayo. Yuck.
Another strike against the Belgians.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)
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Absolutely. And I still wonder. Before Rudolph the notorious suck-up took over the lead on Santa's sleigh, who was the lead reindeer? Since Dasher is mentioned first in the Clement Moore poem, maybe he, or she, was the top set of antlers?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:27 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Oddbob
Yup, that's what happens when the Pringles people make french fries.
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 10:27 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 10:28 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 20, 2025 10:30 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
You need an odd number of reindeer to have one in the lead in front of the other four pairs. So if Rudolph took someone's place on that dark foggy night, the original lead reindeer must have been Olive.
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 10:30 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2025
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Hey, I played straight man for Snowball Headed for Hell. That should be worth *somethin'*.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:30 PM (wzUl9)
Steak
Curly
Wedges
To be honest, I’ll eat any of them as long as they aren’t sweet potato.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 10:31 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 20, 2025 10:31 PM (dl47i)
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2025 10:31 PM (Epuwl)
If there's no baked to be had, I'll go with mashed as a poor substitute.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:32 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:27 PM (wzUl9)
I dunno who's the real suck up. The reindeer hated Rudolph until Santa asked him to guide the sleigh, then "all the reindeer loved him," I'd add, "because they're a bunch of suckups."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025 10:32 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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You need an odd number of reindeer to have one in the lead in front of the other four pairs. So if Rudolph took someone's place on that dark foggy night, the original lead reindeer must have been Olive.
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025
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Right, four pairs. It's not like an Alaskan sled with a single line of dogs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:32 PM (wzUl9)
Do NOT put the maraschino cherry in the blender. Ahem.
Posted by: GWB at December 20, 2025 10:32 PM (OCSMI)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Made sure to get the puller for the fuse type - ATM. $6. And doesn't work. It won't fit in the channels that Honda put these fuses in.
Gah.
So I 3d printed a fuse puller that will fit - took 25 minutes to print. Less time than it took to go to the store and back. And it cost maybe a penny.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 10:33 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 10:33 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025
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My reaction as a grownup was, "No, the other reindeer wouldn't love him. They'd short-sheet his bed and put Ex-Lax in his Reindeer Chow."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:34 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Barack at December 20, 2025 10:25 PM (XMwZJ)
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SECURITY, WE GOT A BOMB THROWER HERE!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 10:34 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2025 10:35 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at December 20, 2025 10:35 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 20, 2025 10:35 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)
I don't know about the Ex-Lax. Rudolph was in the lead.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:35 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 10:35 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Disco biscuits for me.
Posted by: Lemmon 714 at December 20, 2025 10:25 PM (oftw2)
My brothers!
Posted by: Disco Doof at December 20, 2025 10:36 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 10:31 PM (6ydKt)
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Sweet potatoes are to fries what plantains are to bananas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 10:36 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:36 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:36 PM (wzUl9)
What. Is. This. World. Coming. To?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 10:37 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025
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I don't know about the Ex-Lax. Rudolph was in the lead.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025
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They'd wait until after 12/26.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2025 10:38 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:32 PM (2GVsD)
Tonya Harding = would.
I said what I said.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2025 10:38 PM (QMAsf)
So, go to Hell is insufficient direction. Noted.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 10:38 PM (jc0TO)
Ira 'Ike' Schab who was stationed aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbins on the Day of Infamy has passed away.
Posted by: Anna Puma
They'll have expand soon and include those that were at the various other installations that were attacked.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (/lPRQ)
So I 3d printed a fuse puller that will fit - took 25 minutes to print. Less time than it took to go to the store and back. And it cost maybe a penny.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat
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Did it work?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Case at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (G1OIb)
They are like steak fries, but curly. The TapIt here has them (they are now an upcharge - thanks, Biden, and FU) and I get them every time.
Posted by: GWB at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (OCSMI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (2GVsD)
I think it’s the other way around. Sweet potatoes are to fries what bananas are to plantains.
Love a good sweet potato fry, although they’re heavier than potatoes. And plantains are awesome both as chips and at South American restaurants.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (EXyHK)
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Do tell.
Posted by: Richard Pryor at December 20, 2025 10:40 PM (JkO4W)
So, go to Hell is insufficient direction. Noted.
Posted by: toby928(c)
* golf clap *
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 10:42 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 20, 2025 10:42 PM (aOFxk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 10:43 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (2GVsD)
____________________________
Man, if I had a neighbor that did that, I think I'd set up lawn chairs to watch the show.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2025 10:43 PM (dIske)
And honestly, turkey and gravy and odd veggies in a pie crust is good for a cold rainy night.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 10:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (EXyHK)
You get two things from plantains: Platanos and maduros. I hate platanos but I love maduros.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025 10:44 PM (DhVp1)
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I hate Maduro.
Posted by: Donald Trump at December 20, 2025 10:44 PM (JkO4W)
You know it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 10:44 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 10:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (BaQcj)
YES!
3D print is even better than same day delivery
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 10:46 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9
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You who loved bananas?
Koko the gorilla.
I'll bet you were thinking it was Hitler.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 10:47 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025
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Detoured by a detachment of dingos in the ditch!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:47 PM (wzUl9)
Koko the gorilla.
I'll bet you were thinking it was Hitler.
I always get them confused.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 10:48 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:43 PM (gKDq2)
Wanna buy a boat?
Posted by: Fatty Maduro at December 20, 2025 10:48 PM (uQesX)
So I sent them that his location is the Presidential Palace, Caracas Venezuela.
I'M GOING TO BE RICH!
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 10:48 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2025 10:49 PM (+PhDp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)
Plantains, chips or just pressed and fried, remind me of food one feeds to animals. Same with yuca. Horrible stuff.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:50 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 10:50 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 20, 2025 10:50 PM (VCgbV)
If we don't hear from you again we'll know what it means.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 10:50 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:50 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:48 PM (2GVsD)
Poor neighbor's cat. Found it on the side of the road today.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025 10:50 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 10:36 PM (JkO4W)
Sweet potatoes fries are pretty much tempura. You might as well fry up the broccoli and the mushrooms too while you are at it.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: bung mustard at December 20, 2025 10:51 PM (aVC53)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 10:51 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Don Black at December 20, 2025 10:53 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025
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Being compromised by said cavalcade is the *worst*.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:53 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 10:51 PM (XV/Pl)
Hey, watch your language. This is a Family Blog, . . . sort of. A family of curmudgeons but still a family.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:54 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 10:39 PM (EXyHK)
I really liked fried cassava (Yuca or manioc) more than fried plantain
This is yet another food that does not get served here.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 10:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 20, 2025 10:55 PM (Oicmn)
This is yet another food that does not get served here.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 10:54 PM (rbvCR)
Thank you, Lord.
Posted by: RickZ at December 20, 2025 10:56 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 10:47 PM (JkO4W)
Hitler liked spaetzle.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 10:57 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 20, 2025 10:57 PM (Oicmn)
Grocery store deli alternates sidewinders and wedges daily. Wedges (locally known as "Jo-Jos") are best of the two, imo.
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 10:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Daughter loves mofongo.
Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2025 10:58 PM (+PhDp)
It was him.
Now - what was going on? Seems like he had a 30 year grudge against the MIT Professor. Shooter = fat balding loser who thinks he is a super physicist, MIT Prof handsome with family, is a super physicist. They went to school together in Portugal.
Unknown (but someone knows this) - shooter came to Brown and failed out in 2001. I THINK he went back to Portugal, came back to US 2017. MIT Prof came to US/MIT 2017. Did they have interaction back in Portugal? I suspect someone in the classroom at Brown had some connection to the prof. Shooter was trying to hurt the prof not be random.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 10:59 PM (RoO7G)
Hello, House! I'm trying an experiment and just letting swipe have is easy with my phone keyboard.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 20, 2025 11:00 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Javems at December 20, 2025 11:01 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Case at December 20, 2025 11:01 PM (G1OIb)
"Can you smell what I did?"
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2025 11:01 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Zombie Perry Como at December 20, 2025 11:02 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 11:02 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Case at December 20, 2025 11:01 PM (G1OIb)
I know right!
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 11:04 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: JQ
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Someone needs to get him a world atlas not an alternate world, atlas but a real world atlas.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:04 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:05 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Orson
Isn't that where it was? The truck at 0:56 said "Linden, CA."
With all the pyro after the first song, I wonder what happens when his fire insurance company sees it.
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 11:05 PM (nhCoE)
3D print is even better than same day delivery
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat
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And there I am with carbon, baking soda and super glue. Sheesh.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:06 PM (BaQcj)
I'm scared of plantains and green tomatoes and fifa that look of. But I like goats milk yogurt. It was a big deal for me to try it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 20, 2025 11:06 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat
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Pretty soon, Maduro chips are going to fly.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:07 PM (BaQcj)
I’ve had yuca (in Miami) and liked that too.
There is (or was) a nice Peruvian, I think, restaurant in San Diego that had good fried plantains. It was in the Linda Vista area and I can’t find it now.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 11:07 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 20, 2025 11:08 PM (aOFxk)
But youtube has a whole "History for Sleep" thing. Multiple channels of it. 2 hour plus documentaries narrrated by a soft spoken person usually with an English accent.
Some are actually kind of a good history show. Some, I am sure, are AI slop. But they put me to sleep.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 11:08 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:09 PM (BaQcj)
3D print is even better than same day delivery
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat
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Glad it was a success!
Now, patent that thing and start production...
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 11:09 PM (rdVOm)
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Yes, its "best practice". But in truth, any of them are ok if they're cooked to be crisp.
With all of that said, crinkle-cut fries just seem to never work out. Something about that type of fry just seems to lure restaurants into under-cooking them.
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 11:10 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
Did they have the guinea pig on a stick?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:10 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:11 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 11:11 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Case at December 20, 2025 11:01 PM (G1OIb)
Ditto. But pussy.
Posted by: Barack Obama at December 20, 2025 11:11 PM (1t1nQ)
Posted by: light show guy's next-door neighbor at December 20, 2025 11:11 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:47 PM (wzUl9)
Well, so much for tomorrow's excuse.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025 11:12 PM (DhVp1)
Glad it was a success!
Now, patent that thing and start production...
Posted by: JQ
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Do you work for Trump?
You could work for Trump.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:13 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 11:13 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2025 11:13 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2025 10:48 PM (2GVsD)
But not as good as a gathering of gormless goats in a graveyard.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025 11:15 PM (DhVp1)
You could work for Trump.
Posted by: Braenyard
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LOL. No, but if came up with a simple & useful thing that I could manufacture on my own for practically nothing-- I'd sure be checking out ways of making money off it!
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 11:15 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:17 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:17 PM (fBbkm)
Yes and they are FAB. U. LOUS.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 11:19 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat
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In the era of the cassette there were sleep tapes, settling tapes. A man with a mellow voice* would lead your mind down a comfortable then sleepy trail.
Haven't found anything as good on the tube. Everyone is fos and full of themselves they don't have the concept.
*A professional talker
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:19 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 20, 2025 10:57 PM (Oicmn)
moronhobbies at protonmail dot com
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025 11:19 PM (DhVp1)
A man with a mellow voice would lead your mind down a comfortable then sleepy trail.
Be still and know
Posted by: Zombie Roy Masters at December 20, 2025 11:21 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:22 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 11:24 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025 11:26 PM (DhVp1)
Posted by: Barack Obama at December 20, 2025 11:11 PM (1t1nQ)
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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE NEVER HAS HAD ANY SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH WOMEN.
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at December 20, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025
Detoured by a detachment of dingos in the ditch!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Well that is better than a cavalcade of caterwauling cats.
Posted by: Anna Puma
Quelled into quiescence by a quorum of quokka queueing by the quicksand.
Posted by: miqesqi at December 20, 2025 11:29 PM (nhCoE)
Efefefef
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 11:29 PM (6U1c2)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 11:29 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:30 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:30 PM (ZOv7s)
No, they were slightly upscale. Although nowadays who knows what that means. Eric Raymond had a pretty good rant about that several weeks ago.
…not every cuisine item in the world should be cordon-bleu'd to death, optimized for refined palates. A Philly steak shouldn't leave you feeling like a connoisseur, but like you re ready to strap on a tool belt for a long afternoon of fitting steam pipes at the old Navy Yard. Steak sandwiches. Barbecue. Thai street food. Truck-stop breakfasts. Like vernacular architecture, these will not be improved by anybody who studied "design" and wants to fix them.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 11:31 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 11:31 PM (6U1c2)
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has dismissed the concept of traditional savings accounts—including the newly proposed “Trump Accounts” initiative—as ultimately unnecessary, arguing that artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will soon render money irrelevant.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 11:31 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:30 PM (jc0TO)
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Turtle definitely tasted like greasy chicken.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:31 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:32 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 11:31 PM (pkeXY)
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Okay, Elon. You go first.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 11:31 PM
A better bet would be inventing replicators.
And fusion power.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:32 PM (jc0TO)
I swear those were real things whrn I was growing up.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 11:33 PM (6U1c2)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 20, 2025 11:33 PM (rghSL)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 20, 2025 11:33 PM (aw1te)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:33 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:32 PM
Yeah, his negotiating a trillion dollar pay package sort of belies his suggestion.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 11:34 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 11:34 PM (6U1c2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
So why have you collected more moneys than anyone else on the planet, then?
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 11:34 PM (nhCoE)
Going to make that potential SpaceX IPO proposal awkward.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 11:34 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:35 PM (jc0TO)
I swear those were real things whrn I was growing up.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 11:33 PM (6U1c2)
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Old post Chernobyl joke: What clucks and glows in the dark? Chicken Kiev.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 20, 2025 11:35 PM (rghSL)
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Oh, like in Fallout
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 11:35 PM (6U1c2)
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A la KING
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
Good choice. The chicken a la ling is actually panda.
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 11:36 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:35 PM (jc0TO)
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Three words that show that Roddenberry's fantasy was stupid, and also wrecked myriad storylines.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat
I discovered Tetrapod Zoology podcast would put me to sleep.
Covid pretty much killed it, but they have a fair number of episodes before then, and they are remarkably placid
https://tinyurl.com/tetzoopod
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 11:37 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:37 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 11:38 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: miqesqi at December 20, 2025 11:29 PM (nhCoE)
You win.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025 11:38 PM (DhVp1)
Also, he who dies with the most toys, wins.
Posted by: Captain James Caligula Kirk at December 20, 2025 11:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 11:39 PM (nWPIJ)
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And they discontinued their pot stickers!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 11:39 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 11:31 PM (pkeXY)
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Things that can only be said by somebody who knows they will never want for money again.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:40 PM (/lPRQ)
And fusion power.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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That's part of what's going to make money yer elephant.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:40 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: blaster
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What might these two things have in common?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 11:40 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:40 PM (/lPRQ)
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The guy made his fortune as a money changer (Paypal).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:41 PM (jc0TO)
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Yeah. No shit. Must be nice.
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 11:41 PM (rdVOm)
Democrats have decided that they need to have their own version of Turning Point USA in order to appeal to young voters and what they have come up with is the most Democrat thing ever.
It’s called the ‘DNC National Youth Coordinated Table’.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 11:41 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:42 PM (fBbkm)
Actually, we tried to avoid all MRE'S, but that one was especially disdained.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025 11:43 PM (DhVp1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:36 PM (ZOv7s)[/i[
George O Smith had a universe where the main characters tried to develop a transporter device and realized that they had made a duplicator instead. They destroyed the solar system's economy until they discovered a material that couldn't be duplicated by their device.
In a universe with matter replicators you either have to find a commodity that can't be replicated, or base the economy on the one thing that can't be duplicated until it is valueless will be individuals' attention.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 11:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
How many of these magical non-monitary "credits" did it take to get the best of the best at the sex tourist planets?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:41 PM (jc0TO)disdain.
The answer is 42.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 20, 2025 11:43 PM (DhVp1)
Posted by: SciVo at December 20, 2025 11:44 PM (Sy6m/)
Because I am not concise or what it takes. Berserker saved the night and gave me a thrill!
I was coming here to yell about a Christmas card that offended me. From the ghey uncle of my husband's. I guess everyone has one? He was a "brother" before he married and had kids. Then met a guy (altho Jewish) with the same GROSS desires. I had accepted him up to a point and am polite. He and partner even came to one of our son's weddings.I think to mock my redneck family, who fooled them by being charming and funny and he really liked them. I got over that,too.
This card has a black "Mary" and some crap about if Mary would let the shepherd's hold her baby. I am no genius but pretty sure it is some sort of affront to all us sinners who don't like illegals. First of all, you senile dip, Mary and Joseph were not illegal. No, I have not wondered if Mary would let a shepherd hold her baby, nor would I if he wandered in with good intentions. Because I am a mother, something you could never be.
He is a cafeteria Catholic.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 11:44 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:44 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:45 PM (jc0TO)
It’s called the ‘DNC National Youth Coordinated Table’.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 11:41 PM (pkeXY)
Run by two trannies, a lez, and a cripple.
Posted by: James What? at December 20, 2025 11:46 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 20, 2025 11:41 PM (jc0TO)
I'm not sure, but whoever smelted, delted.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025 11:47 PM (uQesX)
Big family party tonight so just gonna lurk in the shadows.
Gonna lurk here too!
Enjoyed the ornaments on the hobby thread today and enjoyed participating.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 11:47 PM (w1kx/)
Posted by: SciVo at December 20, 2025 11:44 PM (Sy6m/)
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Sir, you are a veritable Doctor of the Spud Sciences.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 11:47 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Run by two trannies, a lez, and a cripple.
Posted by: James What?
One going each way, or one pre and one post?
Posted by: mikeski at December 20, 2025 11:47 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 20, 2025 11:48 PM (rghSL)
Hubcap article seems to be an AI product. Full of errors. The original screw-on hubcaps were essentially dust covers for the wheel bearings. I have never heard of wheel covers intended to cover the spokes of true wire wheels. You paid extra for wire wheels, and wanted the proles to admire them. In the 50's, 60's, and 70's, "hub caps" were the dog dish style, and wheel covers were the full size ones. "Beauty rings" were stainless steel bands that attach in the same way as wheel covers, but covered only the tire rim portion of the wheel, leaving most of the disc exposed. Usually used in conjunction with dog dish hubcaps. And the writers did not seem to clue in on the fact that the hole near the rim of the wheel cover was for the valve stem.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 11:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:48 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 10:10 PM
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We are everywhere.
Posted by: TRex - feliz navi dino at December 20, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
Even manger scenes......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 11:51 PM (w1kx/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:51 PM (Lvwqi)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 20, 2025 11:52 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:53 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 20, 2025 11:35 PM
How to make Chicken Kiev...in true Slav way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFgOC2AHn_8
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2025 11:53 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:43 PM (/lPRQ)
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Well, in Hollywood it was the same as in town. Ask the moose out front.
Speculative sci-fi writing can be interesting and challenging, but sometimes it comes down to stupid shit like "what if people had sex organs on their foreheads?" and people seriously dig into a monumentally stupid subject.
To be fair to Gene, there was a legitimate debate about "The Problem of Abundance", but the solution wasn't universal affluence. Was Ensign Chekov paid the same as Captain Kirk? Were their cabins the same size? Why not?
Roddenberry was a vet, and understood hierarchy, which exists no matter what you call the currency.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:53 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 10:14 PM (3nLb4)
There are several vendors who tour the major swap meets, and sell nothing but hub caps and a few related parts like chrome lug nuts. "Hubcap Annie" one such. I have a pretty fair collection of Studebaker hubcaps and wheel covers, and a few oddballs, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 11:53 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:40 PM (/lPRQ)
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The guy made his fortune as a money changer (Paypal).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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So, he knows money and he's got a plan.
Same as Trump working the economy. All of the parts (f'ing Powell) must operate as planed or it become elliptical.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:54 PM (Lvwqi)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 11:44 PM (WONhk)
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Guy never heard of the Black Madonna?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:55 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:48 PM (fBbkm)
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LIES!!!
Posted by: Big Potato at December 20, 2025 11:56 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 11:55 PM (fBbkm)
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Better yet, why was the show canceled?!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:57 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 20, 2025 11:57 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 10:26 PM (XV/Pl)
Agreed. It's a very Canuck thing to serve white vinegar with fries. Some places will provide malt vinegar if you request it, but white vinegar is always on hand.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 11:58 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:43 PM (/lPRQ)
In the book The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson, matter replicators were mostly free, the basic catalog of goods were free for replication though the actual production had a charge - and the charge was reversable if you broke it down for recycling again.
Prestige objects either were still under patent or available under lease, bespoke for replication, or handmade.
the energy to produce the goods was "too cheap to meter"
In the Chinese coastal enclave there was a basic living allowance for apartments, and basic food. Anything beyond that required working for credits to buy higher status goods and attain protection from the various gangs, including the local police.
ST:NG Latinum would be required for a non-integrated economic system; I can imagine that the Federation's system could be more of a shared ledger system like a blockchain crypto.
I doubt it was ever figured out ahead of time, it probably set up as a maguffin and then expanded.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 11:58 PM (rbvCR)
You have bigger problems and sins to solve than your psychological dig at my politics. Go simper off and wail at the moon or to your poor children who had to accept you after their mother died and you came out of the closet. I note super convenient to do after your brother (a priest) and parents passed away.
There! All done! I am a sinner as well, but not to the extent of you and your politics! Your card is in the garbage bin.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 11:59 PM (WONhk)
But the successor shows were pretty bad. They only get worse with each iteration.
Frankly, Babylon 5 looks pretty good because the scope wasn't as utopian (actually quite pessimistic) but the thing ran out of money and so it stays the way it ended, without gay and retarded reboots.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2025 12:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:00 AM (fBbkm)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 11:08 PM (RoO7G)
Sleepy time TV? Try "How It's Made" on Roku. Light Industrial Jazz for the background music, and a amiable baritone narrator. I generally get to the second iteration of "The technician spreads the glue on the back of the panel" before I doze off.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 12:00 AM (dl47i)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 11:51 PM (Lvwqi)
You play pinochle?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 12:00 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 12:02 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:02 AM (fBbkm)
Stop eating potatoes for 3 years. Start back. They no longer taste edible.
Posted by: Boss Moss
That's because we're addicted to spuds.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 12:02 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 11:59 PM (WONhk)
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This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Your funny uncle Barry O. at December 21, 2025 12:02 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:03 AM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:03 AM (fBbkm)
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Fencing?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 12:04 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:02 AM (fBbkm)
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Since all right-thinking people want Youtube to die, I don't have a problem with this.
They could filter it out, but they're arrogant and stupid.
"They bought their ticket, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2025 12:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:05 AM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:05 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 12:06 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:06 AM (rghSL)
So there. James Cameron is really, really, macho. I mean, those empty platitudes above it, right?
Right?
Posted by: Crusader at December 21, 2025 12:07 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 12:00 AM (dl47i)
Why not the original?
Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at December 21, 2025 12:07 AM (uQesX)
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
You know you're going to have to face it, you're addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds
Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:08 AM (fBbkm)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 12:06 AM (Epuwl)
Do you mean Cabbage, or Monotony, dahlink?
Posted by: Zombie Lisa Douglas at December 21, 2025 12:09 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Crusader at December 21, 2025 12:09 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 12:09 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 21, 2025 12:10 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:11 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:11 AM (fBbkm)
We were visiting NYC in 1999 and he and his wealthy Jewish landlord had a penthouse on the Hudson and near the WTC. Sons were in HS and we went up an elevator of the building. A ghey swish guy got on the elevator with his poodle (seriously) and our youngest son almost climbed up me he was so freaked out. I am unsure if you had to be gay to live there as we did not want to know.
Uncle Mo told us we could use the penthouse anytime. My first thought was that I could not sleep in that bed and would need to autoclave the bedding.
It had 3 sides over the Hudson. It was also during Fleet Week, which I also found a bit bizarre, but it was wut it was. We never took him up on the offer and were trying to be open minded by having lunch with him.
Therefore, Morons, at times I can be nice. Not about this card, however. I'm sending him a super religious one and had it already in the envelope. Now I want to add the entire Catholic Catechism, but will save on postage.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 12:11 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 12:11 AM (Epuwl)
There are things people are willing to buy, things people are willing to sell.
Sometime sale is out of the question. Sometimes negotiable.
Really cheap energy cannot explain away the fact the most basic simple things have a cost and all the energy and magic in the universe won't get you a grain of sand if the owner of that grain says "no sale".
That is why aliens just steal it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:12 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 11:48 PM (npFr7)
There is a fundamental philosophical difference in your order, which is seeking the best, as opposed to avoiding the worst. If I were making them myself, then I would order them similarly; but wedges and steak-cut are the worst for getting served soggy.
Posted by: SciVo at December 21, 2025 12:12 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 12:13 AM (Lvwqi)
BLOWS SUPERMODEL KISSES TO ALL THE BOYS,SOME OF MY JEWELS TO THE 'ETTES!!! XOXO
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 12:14 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 12:15 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:16 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 12:15 AM (pkeXY)
zero point energy. You will need some element 115 too, I think.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 12:16 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: SciVo
Then shoe string fries would be the best - crunchy hollow overcooked potato straws... Hollow but crisp.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:16 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:16 AM (rghSL)
My wife adores that game. I am learning pinochle
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 12:16 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:18 AM (fBbkm)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 11:59 PM (WONhk)
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This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Your funny uncle Barry O. at December 21, 2025 12:02 AM (ZOv7s)
THIS IS WHY I AM HERE! I LOVE MORONS!
If my husband ever reads these messages he will wonder about me! Of course he already does almost daily...
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 12:18 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: SciVo at December 21, 2025 12:12 AM (Sy6m/)
Well, you see, if they are cut too thin they get crisp all the way through, which is sub-optimal. All you get is grease and scorched potato. Thick-cut fries and wedges get nice and crispy on the outside, but the inside is hot and has the texture of a baked potato. And wedges can be breaded on the outside, which adds character, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 12:19 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 12:21 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:22 AM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:22 AM (fBbkm)
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Oh, like in Fallout
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
Exactly! What could go wrong!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2025 12:23 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 12:23 AM (nljXp)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Yes Yes Yes! It is! *BUT*, my family found a way to play it that is ever MORE FUN!
We changed the rules! When its your turn, you can literally play EVERY.SINGLE.DOMINO in your hand! Which typically will take you down to 2-5 dominoes left. And then its the next person's turn. And so on. By allowing the player to play EVERY domino they can, it speeds the game up tremendously, but almost nobody goes out in their first or second turn! Its a blast this way, and allows people with shorter attention spans to enjoy the game as well.
Posted by: Crusader at December 21, 2025 12:24 AM (Cjcf6)
Steak cut is a bit too thick though (that's what she said.)
Never understood the whooha about curly fries.
Straight cut or waffle cut is probably my favorite.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 21, 2025 12:24 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:24 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 21, 2025 12:24 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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That one is pretty fun.
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 12:26 AM (+PhDp)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:22 AM (fBbkm)
Lamb-Weston is a potato processing company in Oregon. It used to be a local company, then it was bought by Con-Agra, and now it is part of a multinational.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 12:26 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 12:27 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Crusader at December 21, 2025 12:24 AM (Cjcf6)
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. That sounds like a good way to play.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:28 AM (rghSL)
A mean girl in the college dorm told me the wrong rules to Spades, so I have to be told every time how to play.
I still strike fear into his heart when I announce that I am going to sew something. I do much better than when I was newlymarried and threw a dress across the room (still attached to the sewing machine). The new modern machines are easier for me to deal with. He says he can tell it is going well if he does not hear cussing from the sewing room.
I will tell him tomorrow I want to learn pinocle just to hear what he'll say. I doubt he knows how, either.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 12:29 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: pookysgirl needs ketchup for most of those at December 21, 2025 12:31 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:32 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
If it's not hard I will look into this one.
I think I am going to spend more time shooting pool in the basement, so I can whip our sons again in the future. I used to be very good in bars with my guy friends in college. They'd fool others into thinking I was just a dumb blond, then I'd help beat the others.
I should go to bed as someone is giving me the bat signal.
Goodnight you sweeties.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 12:32 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 12:33 AM (npFr7)
It uses a modified deck that has A 10 K Q J 9, and the only cards that count are A 10 K.
If you ever try to play solitaire with a pinochle deck you are guaranteed minutes of fun.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 12:34 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 12:34 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:34 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at December 21, 2025 12:34 AM (VoMie)
Posted by: n at December 21, 2025 12:36 AM (Iwjf/)
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 12:37 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 12:38 AM (ZxPkt)
Andrew McCarthy just posted this much more detailed image of 3I/ATLAS he got on the 19th. This is processed and stacked and such:
https://is.gd/PWpeGN
Note he got all the colors. Coma is green, tail is blue, and anti-tail is brownish-orange.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2025 12:39 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:39 AM (fBbkm)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 12:39 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:41 AM (fBbkm)
It blows my mind to think, looking at that, we're looking at something that's likely 7 billion years old. Far older than the Erf, and the whole solar system.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2025 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2025 12:23 AM (AdHga)
It will be like Windows ME. It will suck and we will be forced to use it. All important decisions eventually will be based on AI algos, and since no one knows what went into them, no one in charge will have a clue that they don't work.
It will be the final element of the Drake equation: not war, pestilence, or sex bots; what will destroy us will be AI slop stamping on a human face— forever.
Here, Grok worked up neat image of it, let me give you a link!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 12:43 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:44 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Grumpy Old Men is a documentary when it comes to winter in ND/SD/MN/WI.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 12:47 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 12:47 AM (nhCoE)
I always loved that movie. Dad's buddy was from Minnesota. He sent some wild pics. They did not compute for a southern kid.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 12:51 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 12:51 AM (npFr7)
Exact moment of solstice will be 15:03:05Z, or
10:03:05 AM EST. Astronomical winter begins at that moment.
Apparent Autumn 2025 thus clocks in at 89 days, 20 hours, and 44 mins. Too lazy to run Stellarium (using DE440) to get the equinox to the second.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)
Maybe we'll get a little "hit & melt" snow over the next few days.
January/February usually bring the worst weather here.
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 12:54 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 21, 2025 12:56 AM (fBbkm)
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 12:56 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2025 12:57 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: pookysgirl needs ketchup
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Yes. Potato is a vehicle for thick flaky chicken fried batter or baked and bathed in butter. On its on it has not reason to exsist.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 12:58 AM (Lvwqi)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 01:00 AM (rghSL)
Why do people feel like they have to get cute with the fries?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2025 01:01 AM (BI5O2)
*Sad trombone.*
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 01:04 AM (rghSL)
March can be an ugly bitch, not THAT cold but just nasty.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 01:09 AM (Lvwqi)
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 01:11 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Hello winter my old friend
Ain't seen you since I don't know when
Goin' up to 85 Christmas day.
Make sure that HVAC is working.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 01:13 AM (Lvwqi)
March can be an ugly bitch, not THAT cold but just nasty.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 01:09 AM (Lvwqi)
Well, it's friggin' cold here right now, 4 below zero F. Wasn't much wind today, though, and it was sunny. I was able to work outside on the vehicle for brief periods, then trot into the heated shop, and spend time warming up, hands, mostly.
I have to put a trailer connector on the rear of the Suburban tomorrow. I will back it up the ramp into the big, unheated shop, with the rear wheels on the shop floor, and the front ones on the ramp. That will get the ass end of the rig up in the air a bit, and I should be able to put a mat on the floor, and lie on that while I make the connections. The wires should all be within reach.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:16 AM (npFr7)
I was on Twatter, which is a horrendous awful place, and it's so interesting watching EU politicians wave their tiny little dicks around trying to act like big shots and fine every American website they can think of. It's hilarious.
What's sad is all the panty sniffing reflexive anti-Americans who try to justify and defend the EU's *spit* iron-fisted totalitarian neo-imperialism. What a sad fucking bunch.
I think Elon should write that fat check to the EU but then Trump should take it, slap it on the Resolute Desk and post on Twatter, "Come and take it!"
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 21, 2025 01:16 AM (lyDVI)
Every time you hear "shmuck" or "putz"--- drink! LOL
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 01:11 AM (rdVOm)
This is like the Bad Santa drinking game and f-bombs. If I drank every time, I'd end up in a coma or posting on the ONT, lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 01:16 AM (rghSL)
Can't find one of the Mercury.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 01:16 AM (Lvwqi)
Killed my weeping cherry tree and froze off all the walnut flowers. Timing was *perfect* and there wasn't one single walnut on my tree or any nearby. LOVED that! Made up for it this year, though. Damned walnuts.
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Hoping the best that you get everything worked out so you can come on down.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 01:20 AM (Lvwqi)
Get your batshit crazy, drug addict son good and drunk, give him a knife, and try to evade him. Don't lose.
Posted by: Fleeing Charlie at December 21, 2025 01:21 AM (0ZYe2)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 01:21 AM (rghSL)
Can't find one of the Mercury.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 01:16 AM (Lvwqi)
160 km/hr is about 100 miles per hour.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:21 AM (npFr7)
Trump/Adm under the new NSS should deploy, now is the time, perfect timing to subvert the media cycle after the Jeffmas cycle dies down, as will Z/UKR and VZ+Gaza/IranRamp up.
Why ask why? when HOW is so much more fun?
"Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997)...... In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.” -- Bill Clinton'05 at a time when he was still celebrating with Jeffmas-prime.
Who's really the Deplorable? and by what measure?
LIB's what Price their Vision?
We can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... --Arch-traitor Bill Clinton'93
This is where the FUN begins! -- ctHILLARY'07
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 21, 2025 01:23 AM (RroCn)
Get your batshit crazy, drug addict son good and drunk, give him a knife, and try to evade him. Don't lose.
Posted by: Fleeing Charlie
That seems current and Hollywood.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 21, 2025 01:23 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 01:20 AM (Lvwqi)
Well, if all goes well, I could leave Monday or Tuesday. I can arrive Christmas Eve OK. If I don't get away Tuesday, I will leave on the 26th.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:24 AM (npFr7)
They've got us forecast for 74F on Christmas Day. I welcome it, as Dec. has been a cold one this year, average temp 40.5, which the average for the coldest couple of weeks in Jan.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2025 01:24 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 21, 2025 01:27 AM (6Bc88)
A House Of DEI [Lex]
The Netflix original film A House of Dynamite will likely contend for Academy Award nominations and victories. The movie is directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who won a Best Director Oscar in 2010 for The Hurt Locker.
Bigelow has directed several near-classics (or camp, depending to whom you are speaking) such as Zero Dark Thirty, Point Break and Blue Steel. From The Hurt Locker forward, however, she has become the go to filmmaker for military dramas and thrillers, and thus we arrive at 2025’s A House of Dynamite.A House of Dynamite is another entry into what can only be called the nuclear holocaust sub-genre of war pictures. From Dr. Strangelove to Fail Safe to War Games to By Dawn’s Early Light (and on TV The Day After), the countdown to nuclear war and –sometimes— its aftermath never seems to get old. How could it really? The end of the world is inherently terrifying and addictive to think about. In Bigelow’s latest rendering, we follow the detection of a missile launch from somewhere in Asia as the rocket travels toward the United States. The movie takes a novel approach to the topic, dividing into three, nearly real-time parts from different perspectives.
The first point of view belongs to a team at a remote military post in Alaska which detects the launch, tracks it, and fires counter measures. The second is from the national security bunker beneath the White House, as assembled personnel coordinate diplomatic efforts between foreign governments, cabinet secretaries, and the President himself— while also reviewing response scenarios. The third is from the President of the United States, as he is informed of the danger and considers counter attack scenarios that could engender Armageddon.
A House of Dynamite is well-scripted and well-paced. Some will not like the structure and the switches in point of view, but it mainly works. Yet here is the rub: in all her years of capturing warfare and military ops on film, I am not sure Bigelow was ready for an enemy as crafty and lethal (a movie killer) as DEI. One can make any picture one likes, but nominations and awards by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences for Best Picture of the year now come with a catch. In order to be considered for the top Oscar, a movie must allot a certain percentage of roles and work to minorities and/or underprivileged classes. Formally, it is called the ‘Representation and Inclusion Standards’. You can follow the link to see the full set of requirements. Don’t meet the standards and you can forget about a Best Picture nomination. The rules are as decipherable as instructions on how to put a desk from IKEA together. Or to be more literary, they are Byzantine. There are probably bean counters somewhere who help studios figure out if they are complying. What does it add up to? It makes many movies worse than they should be and possibly some great pictures average. In the case of A House of Dynamite, DEI detracted from the tension and fluidity the film worked hard to establish. How? Allow me to explain. As mentioned, A House of Dynamite depicts a presumed nuclear missile launch from a foreign adversary (North Korea most likely). Whether it is the Norks or not what becomes certain is the missile will hit a target in the United States in twenty minutes. An alphabet soup of agencies and departments are scrambled to assess the situation and strategize a response as well as fallout. Interspersed through each sequence, we follow the storyline of a top FEMA agent who is charged with readying a plan should the missile attack destroy a major American city (Chicago is the projected landfall). This FEMA agent is a black woman.Her thread of the movie bears no weight on anything that happens. She is not in any kind of chain of command that would be necessary to shooting the missile down or planning a counter attack against the aggressor. Some might think it is interesting to see how FEMA prepares, but in the context of this narrative, these glimpses contribute nothing dramatic. They are entirely extraneous, and had they been excised it would not have affected the story in the least. The second instance of DEI is not just mundane, it is ridiculous. It occurs only in the second sequence, when government officials are attempting to ascertain the source of the missile launch. The entire intelligence apparatus appears befuddled, so the deputy national security advisor calls the one person alone who can validate or invalidate the North Korea theory: some woman (presumably of Korean or Asian ancestry) who is attending a Gettysburg battlefield re-enactment. I am sure experts can point out details A House of Dynamite gets wrong in terms of who is in charge of what and how certain rooms look or operate. But it takes no technical familiarity to see it is that the two-minute appearance of this character is anything more than a DEI concoction. I doubt DEI requirements affect every movie’s story in the negative, and perhaps sometimes the quotas are met off screen (in the crew and staff), but in A House of Dynamite, it was obvious to me DEI hobbled the script in these two very distinct sequences. If I am being charitable, I might say these are simply bad choices—unrelated to DEI— but I do not think a veteran storyteller such as Bigelow would be this clumsy if her hand was not being forced. The dumbest aspect to all of this is the President—in A House of Dynamite—is a black man (played by Idris Elba), and the person in charge of the subterranean, White House ops team is a woman (Rebecca Ferguson). Plenty of supporting roles are filled by minorities and women. Were these not enough to meet the quotas? In storytelling, it has long been advised to “kill your darlings.” That is, as a writer or director, you often fall in love with a piece of dialogue or a scene, and because you are emotionally attached to it you cannot see it should be cut. But if you work up the gumption to kill that darling, you end up with a better result.
Now, the Academy is telling filmmakers not only to preserve darlings but also insert certain darlings, no matter what the narrative consequences. What an abysmal way to guide creators. Furthermore, why exactly do we need DEI guidance for movies (or anywhere)? It is 2025. Has the work of Spike Lee, Jordan Peele, Oprah, Tyler Perry (ugh) and many others been stopped from appearing or succeeding? As concerns, A House of Dynamite, once you exclude the two sequences I mentioned, the conservative argument against affirmative action had already won. The best people for the roles (Elba and Ferguson) got them and played them well. The movie did not need anything tacked on, unless it was to soothe the ideological egos of DEI loons. In fact, let’s call DEI in the movies (or anywhere else) what it is: classic Marxism. In trying to right inequities and level the playing field, it destroys everything saving the technocratic class which adopted the rules and self-congratulates itself astride the ruins. And just as Marxism discourages work and gain, I wonder if DEI standards will discourage filmmakers from making movies that have traditionally earned nominations. Many top tier filmmakers will refuse to be hamstrung by arbitrary rules, and poetasters will be the only ones left making pictures eligible for Academy Awards. If one believes the quality of Hollywood’s best films have been declining the past two decades, that slide will become a freefall—all made possible by a faulty and pernicious house of DEI.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2025 08:52 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:53 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 08:55 PM (4gq9k)
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I've just come to accept that all movie Presidents going forward with be:
A. Black
B. Gay
C. Female
or 4. All the above
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:56 PM (mNhIh)
The Oscars "finally" added Best Stunt Man (they probably say "person" or "actor," though), but here's the Real Stupid Part: It doesn't go into effect until, like, 2028. Why?? Why not this year?
Anyway, the first "winner" of Best Stunt Man will, no doubt, be a black woman. Historic!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 08:58 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 08:59 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 09:00 PM (AdHga)
Didn't Joe Bob Briggs used to have a ratings system based on teets (boobage?)
I propose a new movie/show ratings system based on Levels of Fatigue.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:01 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:01 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:02 PM (KDPiq)
Didn't Joe Bob Briggs used to have a ratings system based on teets (boobage?)
I propose a new movie/show ratings system based on Levels of Fatigue.
Posted by: Soothsayer
I think he did. Didn't he also add 'lesbofu' as a rating system?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 09:03 PM (AdHga)
Speaking of Kathryn Bigelow, her ex-husband, the most arrogant egostistical director who ever lived, released his 3rd dumb "Avatar" movie. All spectacle, no substance, say the reviewers I/we trust.
Cameron said his Avatar movies are "saving" "the planet," and is fake-upset the President isn't scaremongering The People with the global warming Hoax.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:04 PM (4gq9k)
Now, for those who haven't seen it, don't bother. That fight was shite. Paul of course, is an internet personality, and Joshua is the former heavyweight champ of the world.
To say that boxing has deteriorated from what it used to be, would make it similar to the rest of the entertainment world, including the rest of sportsball.
However, it doesn't mean there isn't good stuff still out there. And interestingly enough, two of the undercard fights last night were terrific, including the female fight!
Those ladies were tough as hell, and there was an American Olympian fighting only his second pro fight. He was going against an undefeated fella from Columbia, and I think the Columbian is a quality fighter. He was just completely dominated by the other guy, named Jahmal Harvey. The kid looks like a superstar in the making, but I don't know enough to say for sure if he will be.
The point is, entertainment can be had. You just have to dig below the big splashy headliners to find it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:04 PM (mNhIh)
meathead reiner spent all his time "saving" "democracy" from Trump & Us.
James CaMoron is "saving" the "planet" from Us & Trump & the Weather. I wonder what Cameron's fate will be? Does he have any deranged children?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:06 PM (4gq9k)
Speaking of Kathryn Bigelow, her ex-husband, the most arrogant egostistical director who ever lived, released his 3rd dumb "Avatar" movie. All spectacle, no substance, say the reviewers I/we trust.
Cameron said his Avatar movies are "saving" "the planet," and is fake-upset the President isn't scaremongering The People with the global warming Hoax.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Being married to James Cameron would be difficult, with him constantly french kissing his image in the mirror.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 09:07 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:08 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2025 09:08 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:08 PM (KDPiq)
I have no interesting in Dances with Wolves with 100X the budget but I guess some people do?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2025 09:10 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 09:07 PM (AdHga)
Just imagine the cost of replacing doorways all the time, as he tries to fit his massive head through them.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:10 PM (mNhIh)
Since a bunch of the people that run the left are heavily invested in AI they can't keep arguing against energy production and demanding more energy production.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2025 09:11 PM (sKqQm)
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He released a statement a few days ago scorching Trump for not believing in global warming. So Trump doesn't believe imaginary blue nine foot aliens from an imaginary alien moon and now we're all going to die!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:11 PM (L/fGl)
Compared to that, "The Humanoid" (an Italian-made blatant Star Wars rip-off) was an absolute masterpiece!
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 20, 2025 09:12 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:11 PM (L/fGl)
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No one ever questions Cameron on how much global warmening his dumb movie caused.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 09:12 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:08 PM (KDPiq)
Jake ran around the ring most of the time, threw very few punches. Joshua looked like a tin man that needed his oil can through the first five rounds.
By the time he started throwing some punches in the sixth, and none of them were particularly sharp or overwhelmingly powereful, Paul folded like a cheap suitcase.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:12 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:12 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: J.J. at December 20, 2025 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: pookysgirl, just chillin at December 20, 2025 09:14 PM (Wt5PA)
The Avatar movies keep making $$$ and having no impact whatsoever on the culture. It is the oddest thing.
Posted by: 18-1
A Youtuber, Chris Gore, asked a bunch of Avatar "fans' to name 1 charater. They couldn't
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:14 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:15 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:11 PM (L/fGl)
Cameron better hope one of his kids doesn't slit his throat in the near future.
If he does, and Trump takes to social media to comment on it, that's when the real violence occurs.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:15 PM (mNhIh)
The basic rule is, There must be a black face somewhere on screen at all times, otherwise the fabric of DEI space/time will start to unravel.
I'm also now cognizant of how many British actors are speaking Yankee because every damn movie is filmed in Canada or the UK.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:15 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:12 PM (mNhIh)
He took some good punches . He’s no Jerry Quarry but he doesn’t have a glass jaw.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:16 PM (KDPiq)
btw, if anyone is interested in a movie to watch tonight about govt Spooks and Ops...
I recommend: Mile 22.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:16 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: pookysgirl, just chillin at December 20, 2025 09:14 PM (Wt5PA)
A new corollary to the famous Andy Warhol quote will be: Every black actor in Hollywood will play the President of the United States for at least 15 minutes.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:17 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:17 PM (kpS4V)
They have some Chinese guy - somebody Chan? Playing the wise master teacher.
Took me out of the movie, really.
Actually pretty good. Predictable but fun and nostalgic and inoffensive.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:18 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: pookysgirl, just chillin at December 20, 2025 09:14 PM (Wt5PA)
DWayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:19 PM (KDPiq)
I'm on strike from any new movies until DEI disappears. I won't see any movies henceforth no matter how persuasive the appeal. It could be a biography of me and I'm still skipping it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:19 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:16 PM (KDPiq)
He took some punches, sure. I don't know if they were all that good.
Given how many times he fell down, and grabbed Joshua's legs, the takeaway from it, as far as I'm concerned, is that no one should consider him a legit boxer.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:19 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:19 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:15 PM (kpS4V)
Who was the exception to the "Only UK actors" rule in the early Harry Potter films? I can't think of it right now.
Posted by: pookysgirl blames pregnancy brain at December 20, 2025 09:20 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:19 PM (fd80v)
Even if Denzel Washington plays you?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:20 PM (KDPiq)
.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:20 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:19 PM (KDPiq)
Best. President. Ever.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:21 PM (RoO7G)
nice going, dummy
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:21 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:21 PM (kpS4V)
Anyone watch the newest Nick Cage b-movie?
Gunslingers, it's called.
I have to watch Willy's Wonderland, first, tho.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:21 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 09:22 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:22 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:19 PM (fd80v)
If they make a bio of me, I'm gonna have to insist on casting couching all the actresses who want to play teh wimminz in the story.
Even the one they have to play my mom.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:22 PM (mNhIh)
The Colour Out of Space was freaky.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:23 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:24 PM (RoO7G)
https://is.gd/bxYdDi
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:24 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 09:22 PM (q3u5l)
I got to the part where the white people attacked the colored people's World Tree Center.
That was it for me.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:24 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Bert G at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:22 PM (mNhIh)
That's far out, man! I really dig it!
Posted by: Barry Williams at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (RoO7G)
The Colour Out of Space was freaky.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Wacky shit. But you people said it was written that way by Lovecraft.
How about Dream Scenario?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (kpS4V)
NOTHING I watched in 2025 was worse than The Lobster, with Colin Farell.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:26 PM (4gq9k)
The Colour Out of Space was freaky.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:23 PM (kpS4V)
Family Man is my favorite Christmas movie.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:26 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:24 PM (L/fGl)
Is there a picture of him in his underwear, on Epstein Island, getting a massage from an underaged girl?
That might be worth reading.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:26 PM (mNhIh)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2025 09:27 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 20, 2025 09:27 PM (O6icp)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (BI5O2)
I never would have expected you to be a Swifty, but now it all makes sense.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:28 PM (mNhIh)
I'm not sure I made it that far. I can't remember a freakin' thing about what little of that movie I saw.
And Jeez -- Cameron. Disappointment upon disappointment, and that after Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss (YMMV).
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 09:28 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Bert G at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (VARTN)
It does have excellent casting. Characters I really believed. A story I did not.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:28 PM (RoO7G)
Just got back from a great excursion. Horseback riding with my wife in the ocean. It was awesome enough when the horses were chest deep, but when they were over their heads and swimming was unreal.
Posted by: Lincolntf
And your wife was Christy Brinkley, and she drove a red Ferrari.
Because this was a dream, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:28 PM (4gq9k)
In my humble opinion Bigelow's best movie was , I believe, her first , Near Dark. Good vampire flick. Bill Paxton, Lance Hendrickson etc.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:29 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
I have never gotten through the first 10 minutes of that movie. The writing was so bad. Horrible. Then, I thought Titanic was overrated slop. Except for Kate Winslet's boobs. They were amazing.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 09:29 PM (AdHga)
The Colour Out of Space was freaky.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:23 PM (kpS4V)
Two very different... and I mean VERY different recent Nick Cage flicks: Pig and Mandy. Both great films.
Unmitigatingly great films.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:29 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2025 09:27 PM (Q+gd/)
I watched that a few weeks ago.
Werner Herzog!
Nick Cage!
Val Kilmer!
GatorCam!
IguanaCam!
It was glorious.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 20, 2025 09:29 PM (dl47i)
'Even the one they have to play my mom.'
I hear they have a slightly younger and more alive version of Ethel Kennedy lined up.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:30 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:31 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 20, 2025 09:31 PM (O6icp)
I'm not sure I made it that far. I can't remember a freakin' thing about what little of that movie I saw.
And Jeez -- Cameron. Disappointment upon disappointment, and that after Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss (YMMV).
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 09:28 PM (q3u5l)
It's basically all I remember about it. I think up to that point, there was some kid who was injured, so they decided to put him in a blue body, and I don't even remember how that worked.
I just know they started firing missiles at the big tree, and it went down dramatically, in a way that is impossible NOT to see as a recreation of the WTC on 9/11.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:31 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:32 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2025 09:32 PM (Q+gd/)
Unmitigatingly great films.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:29 PM (mNhIh)
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Yes! I loved them both.
"Fuck Seattle!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:32 PM (kpS4V)
'It could be a biography of me and I'm still skipping it.
Even if Denzel Washington plays you?'
Tempting. But he'd probably play a better me than me.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:32 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 09:32 PM (q3u5l)
So an already overly long show with no guard rails will be completely unfettered.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 09:32 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:30 PM (fd80v)
Back when her husband was still alive, and AFTER she gave birth to 8 kids, she was a hottie.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:33 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 09:35 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 09:14 PM (4gq9k
Hefty Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Gargamel
How hard is it?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 20, 2025 09:35 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 20, 2025 09:35 PM (O6icp)
Don't judge me!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:35 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:36 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:33 PM (mNhIh)
There was an old lady that lived in a shoe she had so many kids
Her uterus fell out
OOOWWWW
Posted by: A D Clay at December 20, 2025 09:36 PM (gbOdA)
Tempting. But he'd probably play a better me than me.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:32 PM (fd80v)
I'm a sucker for the Equalizer movies.
Denzel playing action is sorta like what they used to say about Elvis. In the earlier films, Elvis was dancing all around the set, but the older he got, the more he just stood there, while dancers twirled and bounced around him.
That's Denzel in his action scenes: Here, come run into my punch!
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:36 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 20, 2025 09:36 PM (Lhaco)
I don't mean to derail the Movie Thread, but the Sunday Morning Book Thread has some real treats for y'all tomorrow. You don't want to miss it!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 09:37 PM (ESVrU)
Pretty good entertainment, and not a spec of DEI in either.
Can Hollywood recover? I don't think so.
We'll go with the visiting family during the holiday week to see the ping pong movie with Timothe Chalomette. We liked him in The King, and in A Complete Unknown. There's bound to be DEI in it, but I hope I can ignore it.
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 20, 2025 09:37 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Lincolntf
A Clive Cussler book: Raise the Titanic.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 09:37 PM (AdHga)
Unlike NC, she shouldn't have to concern herself with inadvertently helping MAGA folks, or looking for signs.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 09:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:38 PM (kpS4V)
Just seeing this went up now. I'll try to review the comments and respond to what I can.
-Lex
Posted by: Lex at December 20, 2025 09:39 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 09:39 PM (q3u5l)
The Talented Mr Rippley was a really good serial killer movie. I think Damon’s best acted movie.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:40 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:33 PM (mNhIh)
lieutenant that take boat off ship rescues 2 steerage passengers.
In NY they become trouple that redecorate million dollar lofts.
Posted by: A D Clay at December 20, 2025 09:40 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: A D Clay at December 20, 2025 09:40 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 09:37 PM (ESVrU)
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Star Trek? Tolkien? CAT VIDEOS?!?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:40 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:36 PM (kpS4V)
I'm gonna try it at some point. I liked the first one, the second one came off as lazy (and yes, too DEI).
Ed Norton should be considered one of the modern era's greatest actors, but it was clear he was just phoning it in.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:40 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:36 PM (kpS4V)
Just this weekend I saw a trailer for upcoming "The Sheep Detectives" movie. It's about some literal sheep who try to solve the murder mystery of who killed their shepherd. My first instinct was to make some joke about the movie probably being a better mystery than Knives Out.....But I can't do that in good faith, because I've never seen any Knives Out movies. Nor do I want to.
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 20, 2025 09:40 PM (Lhaco)
'That's Denzel in his action scenes: Here, come run into my punch!'
Fights aren't really like that? I watched Denzel fight and thought, "Damn. Even I could be a badass Equalizer."
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:41 PM (fd80v)
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I've just come to accept that all movie Presidents going forward with be:
A. Black
B. Gay
C. Female
or 4. All the above
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:56 PM (mNhIh)
Morgan Freeman was Always In Charge before Angry Black Woman hit the the movie industry.
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 09:41 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Texican ette at December 20, 2025 09:42 PM (SNf74)
Which in fact is even dumber than the original version.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 09:43 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:43 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:43 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:43 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
I have never gotten through the first 10 minutes of that movie. The writing was so bad. Horrible. Then, I thought Titanic was overrated slop.
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I read a review of Titanic shortly after it came out that I wish I could quote. The essence was that Cameron's typewriter should be taken away and he should never be allowed to be within 100 yards of another.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:44 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:43 PM (mNhIh)
You say that like its a bad thing.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:44 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Lex at December 20, 2025 09:44 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 09:41 PM (fd80v)
The "Nobody" films are hella fun, in large part because of how much effort Odenkirk put into his fight scenes.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:45 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:40 PM (kpS4V)
The holodeck does LOTR with cats. "Fur Frodo!"
Posted by: pookysgirl has been hanging around Pookette too much at December 20, 2025 09:45 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:44 PM (RoO7G)
Oh no. No no no no no.
In fact, I'm gonna figure out how to use one of those AI thingies, and command it to play the film, but skip everything other than the scenes where she's in a bikini.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:47 PM (mNhIh)
It almost happened.
Tim Burton was set to direct Superman Lives with Cage starring in the late 90s, but it never came to be.
Here’s Cage trying on Superman costumes for the role:
https://youtu.be/h7j7hMg5BcI
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 09:47 PM (6ydKt)
Ploding high drama socialist conscious two hour movie -> 90 minutes of no fluff.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 09:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Lex at December 20, 2025 09:44 PM (y4H1r)
Last I heard, Del Taco's "Frahnkenshteen" was supposed to get a bunch of noms, including Best Pic.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:49 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (BI5O2)
You gotta let it breath, Man...
Posted by: Eddie Wilson at December 20, 2025 09:49 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: BurtTC
And speaking of dumb, did Edward Norton nail that role or what? Those malapropisms were hilarious particularly because everyone was trying to suck up to him and pretended not to notice.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:50 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: 18-1
A Youtuber, Chris Gore, asked a bunch of Avatar "fans' to name 1 charater. They couldn't
Posted by: Soothsayer
They got stoned.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 09:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:50 PM (L/fGl)
I suppose, but I was so put off by how transparent it was he was supposed to be Elon Musk.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:51 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Case at December 20, 2025 09:51 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Lex at December 20, 2025 09:52 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2025 09:25 PM (BI5O2)
You gotta let it breath, Man...
Posted by: Eddie Wilson at December 20, 2025 09:49 PM (mP0Kj)
I led you here....
Posted by: Guy Patterson at December 20, 2025 09:52 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:40 PM (kpS4V)
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*sigh*
Am I getting too predictable?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 09:52 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:52 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Soothsayer
They got stoned.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 09:51 PM (/lPRQ)
I don't know if Chris Gore did it or not, I haven't seen it, but years ago Jacksfilms did a bit where he went out in public, offered money to anyone who could recall a single character's name.
Nobody could, and I think he claimed he didn't edit it to cut out anyone who did.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:53 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 20, 2025 09:53 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 09:54 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Lex at December 20, 2025 09:52 PM (y4H1r)
That's just it, I think I grade on a curve, in my head these days.
Given the rest of the crep they release, it's high above most everything else.
I thought Sinners fits that description too, as does Weapons.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:55 PM (mNhIh)
If it's a story about Gay Life, I won't watch it because I'm just not entertained by that lifestyle..
If they insert a Gay into a movie without any real reason except they need a Gay scene? I'll probably turn it off because it just irritates me.
Homophobia would mean I was SCARED of Gays... no, I just don't find their lifestyle entertaining enough to waste my time on watching it.
Posted by: Guy Patterson at December 20, 2025 09:55 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025
***
I've only seen the first, and I thought it was very well done in the classic mystery mold. The clues were all fairly planted, and you understood how Craig's detective figured things out.
I have to see if the second one is at the library.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 09:55 PM (wzUl9)
Evening, all. We all know that Sydney Sweeney is in an upcoming movie, but Amanda Seyfried, who trashed Charlie Kirk and then doubled down on what a fascist he was, is also in it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 20, 2025 09:56 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:52 PM (MoRvC)
Cameron was such a douche, for coming out and saying he didn't think streaming released movies should be considered for awards.
Fine. You go ahead and release your film in theaters. We'll stay home and wait.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 09:56 PM (mNhIh)
My nominations for the Worsties:
Star Trek: Section 31
Mickey 17
The Long Walk
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:57 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 09:57 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 09:58 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: JB1000 at December 20, 2025 09:59 PM (tLjC6)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 10:00 PM (mNhIh)
1. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
2. SINNERS
3. MARTY SUPREME
4. NO OTHER CHOICE
5. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
6. SENTIMENTAL VALUE
7. WEAPONS
8. HAMNET
9. THE SECRET AGENT
10. TRAIN DREAMS
My top ten were...
1. TRAIN DREAMS
2. WARFARE
3. NOUVELLE VAGUE
4. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
5. THE PLAGUE
6. DEAD MAN'S WIRE
7. SENTIMENTAL VALUE
8. NO OTHER CHOICE
9. BUGONIA
10. THE SECRET AGENT
Posted by: Lex at December 20, 2025 10:00 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: undocumented commenter at December 20, 2025 10:00 PM (ET8aG)
Lex, thanks for the thread.
See some of you tomorrow in the book thread, for about an hour and a half anyway.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 20, 2025 10:00 PM (q3u5l)
To see the nuke-shot handled nicely with an ensemble cast, watch Kevin Pollak as the president in Deterrence (1999), a sort of Fail Safe in a Bus Stop, with a shocking surprise ending. But I'm afraid you might have to see A Minority in that one, too.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 20, 2025 10:01 PM (zdLoL)
So the best film I've seen this year, by far, is Strange Darling.
It came out in 2023, so it's not on anyone else's end of year lists, but it's at the top of mine.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 10:05 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 10:05 PM (RoO7G)
'If you want to watch quality gay scenery in a mainstream film,...'
Oh yeah. More than anything.
I assume you have an exhaustive list of that type of film.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 10:05 PM (fd80v)
I assume you have an exhaustive list of that type of film.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 10:05 PM (fd80v)
My list is two:
1. Honey Don't
2. Black Swan
Very similar scenes.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 10:08 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Texican ette
Thought he was Norwegian...
Mother Swedish at least?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 10:12 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 10:16 PM (fd80v)
Hobby Thread - December 20, 2025 [Ornamental Rex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. As previewed, the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on Christmas Ornaments, Part 2.
Last week, the call went out for Horde Christmas ornament submissions. Are you thinking "I'm a grinch that did not submit an ornament, but I am eager to see what others submitted. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy. [Top Photo: The Official Club ONT Restroom token Christmas ornament.]This beautiful angel means so much to me. Every time I look at it, I smile, not just because it's lovely (it truly is), but because it reminds me of the extraordinary way paths cross. Who would have thought that a little corner of the internet - a blog, of all places - would bring together people who would become such genuine, wonderful friends? But that is what happened. Not only this, but my mom collected angels, which made this even more special - and exactly what I needed. This Angel came with a message that I still read to bring me encouragement during tougher days. I wish everyone a Christmas filled with warmth, peace, and the same kind of unexpected joy this angel has brought to me.
The Rocking Horse Baby's First Christmas was from our first child. A special Christmas in many ways.
The bird is from my parents tree and dates back to at least the 1950's. I hope he doesn't poop on my favorite car below it!
Last is the manger scene showing the possibly apocryphal fourth Magi on the far right. Little is known of him except that he arrived late bearing no gifts because his tiny arms were too weak to carry anything. Some sources say he ate one of the sheep but this cannot be confirmed.
Neurosurgeon next door devoted himself to woodcarving after retirement. Every Christmas he gifted us a unique piece. You can see he was active in Kiwanis (with my dad). These occupy a place of honor on our shelves each Christmas.
I've had this wreath since my first truck, a 1985 GMC Jimmy - which tRusty #2 now calls his own. But it looks really good here, on my '52 Hornet.
My brother made a dozen reindeer ornaments out of wine corks for my tree before he passed away in 2019. They are precious to me. Merry Christmas to all!
These and dozens more were hand painted by me, some by my wife decades ago. Not sure where we got them every year. Pottery Barn maybe? Found a few not painted first.
We had a lot of homemade clothes and homemade ornaments when I was growing up. I still have a few of them. We each had a cloth horse head ornament meant to hold a candy cane, which was ours to take on either on Christmas Eve, or on Christmas morning before everyone was awake - we couldn't open our gifts until everyone was at the tree. I'm somewhat ashamed to say that as I got older I was often the one who slept in longest. However, on Christmas Eve there was one small gift we were allowed to open and on Christmas morning we could open our stockings. The combination kept us happily busy while waiting for the whole family to appear. I don't remember when the horse head candy canes were fair game, but probably in the morning since they constituted a decoration and I doubt we were allowed to raid the tree itself until Christmas arrived. I posted this photo to our family chat last week and discovered that the colors on this ornament are the school colors one town over, where my dad grew up. Each ornament had different colors, so now I'm wondering if they all had some significance known only to mom! (More likely they had significance that mom thought was obvious and which I was completely oblivious to.)
A couple of pix from handmade Christmas decor for next week. The first one is a nativity scene I made in first grade in 1968. It was intact until 2023 when I broke off the tip of the pine tree and lost one of the sheep. Also, Mary lost her head, which I was able to superglue on. It will never be packed away again.
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The second one is a die cut wooden scene the youngest painted a couple of years ago.
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This is my beloved Blow Mold Santa. My grandparents had one like him when I was little and I loved him. This one I scored at a thrift store. He's a little beat up but jolly and reminds me of happy times with family.
The one on the left is one of a set passed down in the family for generations. I think it is German. The other is a very energetic (and heavy) enamel dragon. All supported by my *fully home-grown tree*!
These are three of my favorite ornaments from recent years. Many years these end up being some of my less-complicated embroidery because by the time I finish making embroidered Christmas cards, I am all Christmas-embroideried out, but I do always make something different, so that each one can remind us of that particular Christmas.
These are icicle ornaments I make from flat wire. The twist is done with a jig my husband, IS ROTH, made for me. The shepherd's crook at the top is freehand, and helps make it more of a Christmas ornament instead of just a winter ornament. The ones I make for other people are uniform, but mine are varied, ostensibly under the theory that being varied makes them more real-looking as a group, but also because I experimented with different twist-rates before settling on one, and IS ROTH would have been more inquisitive about how much the experiments were adding up to if I had not had a use for them.
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, seek professional help. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025 05:30 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 05:31 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 05:32 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 05:40 PM (Nx5jP)
Or about 25 cents.
Got one for change at a drive through a few weeks back.
Had to look it up. They had some weird pennies in 1944. Some. Like a few dozen.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 05:40 PM (/lPRQ)
I don't know if I'm the first to do it but I find it to be pretty neat adding another of the senses when viewing a painting.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 05:41 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 20, 2025 05:41 PM (31p00)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 05:42 PM (+HNx/)
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Damn. I really wanted to lay into those damned heretics who aren't toeing the line on the filioque controversy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 05:46 PM (+HNx/)
I love finding old coins in change. Amazing that this bit of metal has been going from hand to hand for sixty, seventy, even eighty years. Mind you, I do collect them when I find them, but I have a dream that they’ll suddenly go back into circulation when I die for someone else to discover.
I am easily amused and prone to fantasy.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 05:47 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 05:46 PM
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I'll allow it if you can express your sentiments in the form of a Christmas tree ornament.
Posted by: TRex - theological dino at December 20, 2025 05:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 05:52 PM (pkeXY)
Love seeing the offerings from the Horde. Thank you all for sharing these little pieces of your Christmas magic.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2025 05:53 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2025 05:54 PM (ZdaMQ)
Grandma had a ceramic Santa Claus-head punch bowl with Santa Claus-head mugs set.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 05:55 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2025 05:54 PM
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Send photos!
Posted by: TRex - gingerbread architect dino at December 20, 2025 05:56 PM (IQ6Gq)
My other gramma made a little ceramic Christmas tree that would light up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 05:57 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2025 05:57 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 20, 2025 05:58 PM (1FEc1)
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 05:58 PM (yTvNw)
Thought it should be 100% edible
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Thought it should be 100% edible
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)
The ones you find in kit form are too hard to eat.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025 06:02 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 20, 2025 06:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
So great to see the Horde's ornaments. Treasures, one and all!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 20, 2025 06:04 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 20, 2025 06:04 PM (31p00)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 06:04 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2025 06:05 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 06:12 PM (Kt19C)
I still think about those ornaments and what they meant to my mother.
Posted by: RetSgtRN at December 20, 2025 06:12 PM (9vymN)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 06:12 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 06:13 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 06:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 06:19 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:20 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: RetSgtRN at December 20, 2025 06:12 PM
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Sad trombone.
Posted by: TRex - vintage dino at December 20, 2025 06:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 06:22 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 20, 2025 05:58 PM
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I wish I could think of a more clever response, but I'll just applaud commitment to the cause.
Posted by: TRex - private pooping dino at December 20, 2025 06:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:22 PM (wzUl9)
Hi Ben Had,
Many thanks and no hurry. Rebuilding hand strength will take a while or I'll injure the damn thing again.
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 06:26 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 06:26 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 06:22 PM
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The curly tree pictured above in the content (we call them "shaving trees") was made by his daughter - the woman in the video. She made it while we watched and we took it home with us. Mesmerizing to watch.
Posted by: TRex - crafty dino at December 20, 2025 06:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:22 PM (wzUl9)
Then there's that missing piece at the end.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025 06:27 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:27 PM (wzUl9)
My sister gav rd one to my mom abd dad but my mom doid most of it in the summer. Oddest puzzle I ever saw the pieces duplicated like every 4th one. So the piece would fit in a wrong spot yet color wasn't right.
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 06:28 PM (Ia/+0)
Firestone Christmas albums
https://t.ly/1kUOv
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I read "Flintstone" and said oh nice!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 06:31 PM (4gq9k)
My sister gav rd one to my mom abd dad but my mom doid most of it in the summer. Oddest puzzle I ever saw the pieces duplicated like every 4th one. So the piece would fit in a wrong spot yet color wasn't right.
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025
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I think that's what Linda is doing, sorting by the colors.
My view from plastic model-building days would be to put together each animal and set each aside, then put them (piece by piece) into place according to the box picture. This would require more room than she has. Fortunately she has no cats to mess things up.
Speaking of models: I've seen the Lego Enterprise 1701-D kit at my local store. The warp nacelles look a little short, and the saucer is much more of an ellipse than a disc, but it looks very impressive overall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:35 PM (wzUl9)
It is so amazing some of y’all have hundred year old ornaments! How fun!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 06:36 PM (uns/F)
The Horde came through in magnificent style. Thank you.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 06:36 PM (sDNVV)
Thanks for any help.
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 06:37 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:27 PM (wzUl9)
I never looked at it that way. Just a die cut piece of wood for the kid to paint.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 20, 2025 06:37 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 06:36 PM
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Persist. I know the guy that assembles content each week for the Hobby Thread, so space will be available when the technology cooperates.
Posted by: TRex - rustic church enthusiast dino at December 20, 2025 06:39 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 06:43 PM (sDNVV)
I had to thread a 3-wire harness through the firewall on #3 Suburban in order to wire up my trailer brake controller. Surrounding the steering column where it passes through the firewall is a corrugated rubber boot. So I heated the end of a long steel rod red hot, and forced in through the boot from the engine bay side. Made a nice clean hole, and I was able to fish the cable through, and hook everything up. And the cable is a nice tight fit in the hole, so cold drafts cannot come in there. Sure beats trying to drill a new hole in an awkward place to reach.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 06:46 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 06:47 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 06:46 PM (npFr7)
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The Paolo, the endorses this principle, how do you say, with the whole of his heart.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 20, 2025 06:49 PM (lCxV1)
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at December 20, 2025 06:50 PM (YZJEf)
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at December 20, 2025 06:50 PM
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Excellent. Enjoy your evening and see you later.
Posted by: TRex - professional singer(ish) dino at December 20, 2025 06:52 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 06:56 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 06:59 PM (vFG9F)
If you like aged Virginia blends check out the GL Pease Silver Anniversary release. It combines 25 year old red Virginia tobacco with dark fired Kentucky. Very pleasant if smoked slowly. The subtle sweetness really comes through.
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 06:59 PM (yTvNw)
I remember my folks having had several strings of Noma bubble lights just like that. They were series string lights, and if one burned out, the whole string went dark. The regular series string bulbs could be substituted to keep the string lit. I think eventually we just strung empty sockets on the tree, and screwed in regular bulbs or bubble lights as seemed appropriate for the location.
I think if it fell to me to rehab a set of those, I would use some sort of 12 volt automotive bulb, like the ones used in side marker lamps, for instance, and rewire the string as a parallel string using speaker wire, and power it off a 12 volt wall wart. A lot safer, and if one went dead, the balance of the string would stay lit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 07:03 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 07:03 PM (AdHga)
Fun one. I made a 4x12 four inches thick pad out of Portland cement and ground paper. Still hiding up 10 years later.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:04 PM (sDNVV)
I figured out a way to make a nice little bench without pulling any nails. Except the one in the way of the saw.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:06 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 06:59 PM
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Pallets are legos for adults.
Posted by: TRex - builder dino at December 20, 2025 07:07 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:08 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 06:59 PM (vFG9F)
You need to see that dude on you tube, Epic Upcycling. The dude is a madman. He builds everything you can imagine from pallets, and its amazing stuff. The only thing that kills me is the vast amount of time he spends making seriously epic things...from crap. I couldn't bring myself to spend that kind of time on shit that wasn't made from maple, mahogany, cherry, or maple. I guess thats part of the charm, free wood.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 07:08 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 06:56 PM (vFG9F)
I sure did. It's 4 below zero outside here right now. The hot iron was quick and easy. Drilling a hole and installing a grommet would have been a lot of work. I think the trailer brake controller will work OK. The decimal point on the display lights up when I apply the brakes. Have yet to install the trailer connector at the rear, but it looks like all the wires are accounted for. GM built the truck with provision for trailer towing, and a harness with a blue wire for trailer brakes, and an orange wire, for 12 volt accessory trailer power, was hanging there right below the brake booster. The other end of the orange and blue wires should be in a taped-up cluster at the rear of the frame.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 07:08 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 07:03 PM
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Great story!
Posted by: TRex - bob the dino at December 20, 2025 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Is must be sturdy enough for regular foot traffic too if it works as a pad. What is is used for Ben Had?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 07:13 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:14 PM (sDNVV)
Thanks for any help.
Posted by: JTB
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You are absolutely correct, printed ones are the way to start. Once your confidence grows, if you want, you can move to counted cross stitch. I know that Hobby Lobby has the printed pattern ones complete with the threads. After Christmas I'll be happy to look thru my stash to see if I have any you can have. Otherwise, if you buy online, make sure to look for kits where the pattern is printed.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 20, 2025 07:15 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:15 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 07:08 PM (snZF9)
Some of that pallet wood is real tough stuff. And some is crap. If I were into saving pallet boards, and I'm not, I would invest in a good 3/8" hole saw, and make a guide to fit the O.D. of the saw. Center the hole in the guide over a nail head, drill right through the board with the hole saw, repeat for all the other nails. The glue in plugs made from 3/8 hardwood dowels, and sand smooth.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 07:17 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 07:08 PM (npFr7)
C or F?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 07:18 PM (b8EuQ)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)
When I had the roof and siding done on the house this past spring everything was delivered on a 10ft long pallet. I thought oooh I can make another bench top for the wood shop. I spent hours pulling that sucker apart. They used screw nails to build it. It was a bitch getting it apart. I ended up scraping it all anyway. I wasn't sure if anything was living in it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 07:19 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:20 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:14 PM (sDNVV)
I had a brother that did that, and another one who tried the pallets. Trust me - stick to brick.
Posted by: The 3rd Little Pig at December 20, 2025 07:20 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 07:03 PM
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Great story!
Posted by: TRex - bob the dino
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Of course you think that, you do the exact same thing. Even with people!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 20, 2025 07:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
See y'all in Club ONT later!
Posted by: TRex - replay referee dino at December 20, 2025 07:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:23 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:10 PM (vFG9F)
Ah, you don't pull the nails to get the pallet apart. you support the top slats that make the deck of the pallet on some scrap wood and then give the 2x4 runner a smart blow with a hammer to drive it off the nails tying it and the upper slats together
the main trick is to make sure that your support is not sitting on the bottom slats of the pallet because that makes it harder.
Does this make sense?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 07:24 PM (rbvCR)
Old motorcycle campground owner built a house like structure.
Never saw inside. New Cuyama?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 07:25 PM (Kt19C)
Building I would do concrete walls 4 inces apart and the space filled with ground plastic for insulation.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:25 PM (sDNVV)
All my friends are bastards.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 07:26 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: fd
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Back when we attended a 24hour car race in the German Eiffel mountains, 250,000 Germans camped in the area around the track. They brought tons of pallets, and used them to build scaffolding and furniture. The last evening/day, everything was taken apart and burned. Glorious bonfires!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 20, 2025 07:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 07:27 PM (snZF9)
Nope. Not doing that either. Life is too short to spend disassembling pallets.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:27 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:14 PM (sDNVV)
"Recycling" idea I would like to try:
Have you ever seen a "chopper gun" used for fast build-up of fiberglass/resin products? It has a feed off a roll of fiberglass untwisted yarn. And an air feed. and a feed for resin and catalyst. The gun contains a knife that chops off short strands of glass fiber, and the air flow carries fiber, resin, and catalyst, and deposits it onto the mold. I think usually the mold will have the gelcoat and a layer or two of mat, or cloth placed in it first, and the chop mix is used to to bulk out the thickness.
Well I would like to try the same principle, with a gun that shoots chopped-up straw, with the binding resin made by melting down scrap polyethylene bottles. Melted poly plastic is basically hot glue. So take something like an old parachute, or a purpose-made cloth tent, inflate with air, and blow a foot or two of the straw/resin mix all over it. Should be self supporting, good insulator, and nearly rodent proof. Exterior could be stuccoed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 07:28 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:29 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 07:18 PM (b8EuQ)
F, unfortunately. Bitterly cold. No wind to speak of, or I would not have been out in it at all. As it was, I could work out there for may be 5 minutes, then come inside the heated shop, and warm my hands. I was wearing an old, but very warm parka.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 07:32 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 07:33 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:27 PM (vFG9F)
Pretty sure there is a dedicated pallet-breaker tool on the market.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 07:33 PM (npFr7)
*AoS PSA*
Do Not Buy or Eat Those "Danish Butter Cookies" that come in the round blue metal tin. They are made in India in filthy conditions by filthy people.
It's a viral video.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 07:34 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon "
I'm not liking the sound of that.
Posted by: The Big Bad Wolf at December 20, 2025 07:34 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Javems at December 20, 2025 07:36 PM (8I4hW)
I have seen a few hay barns with collapses because the bales were stacked wrong, so I would be a bit concerned about that as well.
In Sardinia there are these ancient drystone towers that have lasted for thousands of years, they are called Nuragic towers, and there was just recently a study published on them. The conclusion is that the interior "corbelled dome" is stabilized by the infill of rubble between the dome and the exterior wall, made of cyclopean blocks for weight.
I don't think this is something that can be transferred to building a bale house though
https://tinyurl.com/nuragic
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 07:36 PM (rbvCR)
The Grateful,
Thanks for the perspective and advice. I'll be going by a Hobby Lobby on Monday. I have one kit coming from Amazon, printed on the fabric. Michaels carries some but they are almost all online only and I would like to see the kit first. (This is something Michaels is doing more and more and it's annoying.) We have a set of hoops and needles. The 'fun' aspect will be trying to separate the floss/thread into individual strands with my gorilla fingers. I suspect hilarity, and inventive language, may ensue.
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 07:37 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Javems
*****
Wow..the doggos are the best, aren't they?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 20, 2025 07:37 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 07:37 PM (sDNVV)
Thanks for the perspective and advice. I'll be going by a Hobby Lobby on Monday. I have one kit coming from Amazon, printed on the fabric. Michaels carries some but they are almost all online only and I would like to see the kit first. (This is something Michaels is doing more and more and it's annoying.) We have a set of hoops and needles. The 'fun' aspect will be trying to separate the floss/thread into individual strands with my gorilla fingers. I suspect hilarity, and inventive language, may ensue.
Posted by: JTB
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Not only is Michaels doing that more, their items are twice the price of the same items at HL. Good luck with the printed pattern, you know where to find me if you have any questions...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 20, 2025 07:39 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2025 07:39 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 07:33 PM (KDPiq)
Pour a slab. Say the length of a container, and width of 4. Put your sewer/drain pipes in the slab. Spot a container on each side of the slab, and bolt them down to J-bolts cast into the slab. Steel trusses to span both containers, and provide eaves. Weld the trusses to the container roof. Maybe bolts, too. Steel purlins on trusses, then standing-rib steel roofing.
Do it right, should be fireproof, vermin-proof, and hurricane proof. Might not withstand a tornado, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 07:42 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 07:44 PM (ZxYC6)
Especially if one lives if Brown outs might occur
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)
We are sitting here in the dark debating whether to go over to our rich lib cousin's house. They have power. Of course.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
What's the ETA until power comes back?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 07:50 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 07:51 PM (ZxYC6)
Posted by: Piper at December 20, 2025 07:52 PM (OoFl2)
Especially if one lives if Brown outs might occur
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)
You can have cats. Or you can have candles.
You can't have both.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 07:52 PM (lH8E4)
But these are the people that blow up entire neighborhoods and go "oopsie"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 07:53 PM (ZxYC6)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 07:53 PM (RoO7G)
I guess thats part of the charm, free wood.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
FREE WOOD!
Posted by: Skinny Leonard at December 20, 2025 07:54 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 07:53 PM (RoO7G)
There's a fair bit of rump in it, too.
Posted by: Pete Bootygag at December 20, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
put.the.candle.BACK.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 07:55 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 07:53 PM (RoO7G)
Rum is vile and disgusting.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 07:55 PM (2bgLI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 07:57 PM (ZxYC6)
Especially if one lives if Brown outs might occur
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)
You can have cats. Or you can have candles.
You can't have both.
Posted by: BurtTC
Get some cheap azz solar yard lights from Wally.
After last hurricane virtually all flashlights and batteries were sold out.
Got a dozen for like ten bucks.
Did not assemble. Just used the 'pucks' to give a little light in each room. Recharged outside during the day.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 07:58 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 07:58 PM (ZxYC6)
Massive deluge in Washington and it wasn't a big story becasue Fake News was too busy pretending to be outraged about a tweet about a meathead.
Really. Most of Us on the East Coast didn't know the extent of the flooding until we saw video on podcasts.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 07:58 PM (4gq9k)
Do it right, should be fireproof, vermin-proof, and hurricane proof. Might not withstand a tornado, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Saw that, only mounted on pipe columns.
Covered parking below.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 07:58 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 07:55 PM (2bgLI)
Well. I never!
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 07:58 PM (RoO7G)
After last hurricane virtually all flashlights and batteries were sold out.
Got a dozen for like ten bucks.
Did not assemble. Just used the 'pucks' to give a little light in each room. Recharged outside during the day.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 07:58 PM (/lPRQ)
Most of those solar yard lights run off a rechargeable AA battery. So you can also use them to recharge AA batteries as well
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 07:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 07:57 PM (ZxYC6)
The high-speed rail will be down, too, then. As a former Secretary of Transport, I have inside knowledge of such things.
Posted by: Pete Bootygag at December 20, 2025 07:59 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 08:00 PM (Kt19C)
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Please to assure the high speed rail will not be up. Not now not ever.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:02 PM (ZxYC6)
The locals who live in them call them "micro-ondas" or "microwave ovens" because they get really hot in the tropic sun.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 08:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 08:00 PM (Kt19C)
Do you also speak jive?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:04 PM (ZxYC6)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 07:55 PM (2bgLI)
Well. I never!
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 07:58 PM (RoO7G)
I was an army guy, we never went in for all that rum, sodomy, and the lash business.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:04 PM (04220)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2025 08:04 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 08:04 PM (npFr7)
Squeeze some lime into it and have a Cuba Libre
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:04 PM (rbvCR)
The locals who live in them call them "micro-ondas" or "microwave ovens" because they get really hot in the tropic sun.
Posted by: Kindltot
Just stack some haybales around the outside... Plaster... Nevermind
Just dig a hole in a hillside.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 08:05 PM (/lPRQ)
You be in dahk foah houa!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 08:05 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 08:06 PM (BaQcj)
US military shipping needs to Vietnam spurred standardization of container specs and sizes. Lots more to the story though.
Posted by: TRex - historical dino at December 20, 2025 08:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 08:06 PM (BaQcj)
I don't want to take over Coooba. I'd rather give them Puerto Rico.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:07 PM (04220)
Just dig a hole in a hillside.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 08:05 PM (/lPRQ)
It is Cuba, dude. "En cada barrio, disastre"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BurtTC
You must really hate Cuba.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 08:09 PM (/lPRQ)
The locals who live in them call them "micro-ondas" or "microwave ovens" because they get really hot in the tropic sun.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:02 PM (rbvCR)
I once saw a house similar to what I described at a beach in Nicaragua. It had a pitched roof. The roof keeps the Sun off the tops of the seacans. Glue some styrofoam panels to the exterior walls, and stucco or metal siding over that, and the exterior walls are protected from direct Sun, too.
A bare container pierced for doors and windows does not a house make. But it can be a fine sturdy structural element to make a space into a house.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 08:09 PM (npFr7)
US military shipping needs to Vietnam spurred standardization of container specs and sizes. Lots more to the story though.
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Fascinating
There is a beer garden park in downtown Vegas we like that is made of them also stacked two high.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:09 PM (ZxYC6)
Posted by: BurtTC
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You're not with the hemispherical dominance program, I see.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 08:11 PM (BaQcj)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:04 PM (04220)
If you can't drink rum without worrying that you are going to do some sodomy, best you go with another beverage.
Also Army.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 08:12 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:09 PM (xH7XB)
Dude, I want to go "fishing" with you. Your bass boat must have 8 150 HP Mercury outboards on its ass end, because the VZ "fishing" boats have 4 of them, and surely your boat would be faster, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 08:13 PM (npFr7)
I did like the idea of a shipping container for a shed / camping cabin. They do lock up nice, and they do keep the rain off. The ones the shop I worked at that were the secure parts storage would get like ovens in the summer.
The cool thing about one was that it had forklift damage and a hole in the side so that when the door shut it would act as a giant camera obscura
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 08:11 PM
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Does the water swirl clockwise or counterclockwise in Cuba? Not sure if they're in the western or eastern hemisphere.
Posted by: TRex - scientific dino at December 20, 2025 08:14 PM (IQ6Gq)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 08:16 PM (Ia/+0)
Unfortunately, they are mostly things with toilet paper rolls and construction paper. So I don't get too excited about doing them
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:18 PM (rbvCR)
Either that, or someone really really hates McDonalds filet-o-fish sammiches.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:19 PM (mNhIh)
Venezuela trans-ships the precursors to Mexico and other places where precursors become cursors.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 20, 2025 08:21 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 08:21 PM (MoRvC)
Unfortunately, they are mostly things with toilet paper rolls and construction paper. So I don't get too excited about doing them
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:18 PM (rbvCR)
My love-hate relationship with the Christmas season started with my first wife's death. Over 20 years ago.
My daughter HATES Christmas music.
I just keep my head down, and get through it. Mostly.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:22 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:22 PM (mNhIh)
My mom died on my birthday about 20 years ago. I am sorry to hear about your wife. It really makes that "special" day everyone celebrates a sad day too.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:24 PM (rbvCR)
Anyone watching the AM-FEST convention thing?
America First, put on by Toilet Paper the USA.
It's half shit-show, and half good, from what I can tell.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2025 08:25 PM (4gq9k)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:09 PM (ZxYC6)
This something that the Trump administration could facilitate. Add some wording to the National Building Code to the effect that non-traditional or experimental construction techniques will be permitted as long as it seems reasonably assured that the proposed construction method will accomplish the goals of the National Building Code (like not having the roof fall on your head, etc.) And pressure States and counties to allow the construction of such experimental structures in some designated areas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 08:26 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 08:24 PM (rbvCR)
I've had a couple decades (and one failed marriage) since we lost her, but this year, for those who are aware, was especially harsh, with the loss of my son, and then my mother.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:27 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 08:29 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:27 PM
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Tough year indeed.
Posted by: TRex - prayerful dino at December 20, 2025 08:30 PM (IQ6Gq)
'but this year, for those who are aware, was especially harsh, with the loss of my son, and then my mother.'
Sorry, man. One day at a time.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 08:30 PM (fd80v)
Waiting for the show to begin. Daughter is rehearsal director, whipping the cast of a hundred to hit their marks. Quite a production.
Nice big crowd this year for a small city.
Whoa, lights down. Time to turn off the cell.
🐁
Posted by: mindful webworker at the theatre at December 20, 2025 08:32 PM (x5C7l)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 08:30 PM (fd80v)
Always. For those who suffer such deep losses, the only suggestion I can offer is to face it. Don't try to deflect or defer it, just walk into it. And experience it as fully as you can, when you're in it.
Life is precious, and I intend to have more of it, for as long as I'm allowed, but I'm not going to put on a mask and do all the holly jolly season stuff. Or resent those who do.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:34 PM (mNhIh)
Life is precious, and I intend to have more of it, for as long as I'm allowed, but I'm not going to put on a mask and do all the holly jolly season stuff. Or resent those who do.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Amen. Face the pain (and I have done far too many times), embrace their legacy, and vow to live to honor their memory. If that means skipping one or more holiday seasons, so be it.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 20, 2025 08:37 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 20, 2025 08:37 PM (IQ6Gq)
Gratitude is a tool. A sword we can take out and wield when needed. It's also nearly unbreakable.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:39 PM (mNhIh)
I think that is the best possible attitude for you to have.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 08:44 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Dirk Manley at December 20, 2025 08:45 PM (9nZO5)
You don't have to put them up.
You don't have to take them down.
You don't have to maintain them.
You don't have to store them.
You just have to drive or walk by and enjoy them.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 08:45 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dirk Manley at December 20, 2025 08:45 PM
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We love Captiva. Stop by the Mucky Duck too!
Posted by: TRex - ducky dino at December 20, 2025 08:47 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Dirk Manley at December 20, 2025 08:45 PM (9nZO5)
You know how, when you were a kid, there were all those restaurants that would advertise the fun stuff, games and lights and characters dressed up like animals or burgers or whatever?
Generally, the food sucked.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:47 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 08:48 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 08:45 PM (2Ez/1)
Same thing with strippers.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 08:48 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 08:48 PM (LHPAg)
You don't have to put them up.
You don't have to take them down.
You don't have to maintain them.
You don't have to store them.
You just have to drive or walk by and enjoy them.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 08:45 PM (2Ez/1)
Yeah, some of these places are done up on a level I have no desire, time, or money to replicate. I'll just enjoys theirs.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 08:49 PM (snZF9)
Don't remember name but Alan Hale Jr had a seafood restaurant. He came over to greet the table and was plastered. Good times little buddy. My folks never returned.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 08:51 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Skinny Leonard at December 20, 2025 08:52 PM (pkeXY)
He’s not perfect, but he knows the drill.
Posted by: TRex - dad joke dino at December 20, 2025 08:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
'Don't remember name but Alan Hale Jr had a seafood restaurant. He came over to greet the table and was plastered.'
Hell. No wonder he wrecked the ship.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 08:58 PM (fd80v)
I remember a place in Phoenix called Green Gables that, while it wasn’t like Medieval Times it still had this medieval theme to it. When you came up the front drive a man in shiny armor on a pure white horse would ride out to greet you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 09:01 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 09:04 PM (2Ez/1)
BART and Muni stations downtown closed
Started at substation fire in SOMA
PG&E workers were on site just as I suspected
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 09:07 PM (ZxYC6)
Posted by: Ronster at December 20, 2025 09:13 PM (4GQNV)
BART and Muni stations downtown closed
Started at substation fire in SOMA
PG&E workers were on site just as I suspected
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 09:07 PM (ZxYC6)
That post should have a Mystery Click that leads to “We gotta get out of this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 09:23 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Javems at December 20, 2025 09:47 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Skinny Leonard
1944 had some odd-balls get through somehow - steel, bronce, double struck, and two different mints.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 20
Planning on doing a little local shopping? Respect the resident cats.
Courtesy Hrothgar😂🤣😂🤣🥰🥰🥰 pic.twitter.com/NC4Jaezxf3
— Original Spike1962 (@Spike19621) December 17, 2025
Beware of what your cat gives you for Christmas… pic.twitter.com/9hyO2R7KgG
— Jan Hawn (@JanHawn) December 9, 2025
Hi KT: I wasn't sure if anyone had updated AofS people who had donated to Shep's Place in honor of Jewells (Julie McGuire). I was in contact with Shep's Place, and wanted everyone to know that the donation goal for naming a room for Jewells at their new facility had been met. Shep's Place asked that their thanks be extended to everyone at Ace of Spades who donated in Jewells' name. Well done all!Thanks to all in the Horde who donated. We so loved to read Jewells' updates on the special pups at Shep's Place.
These photos are from 2010 when we had two Abyssinian kittens in the house, but they were interested in the Hannukah menorah upstairs and the Christmas "tree" downstairs. That year we set up the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree and had to practically weld the lone ornament to it or it would have been batted all around the living room; couldn't leave the menorah attended for a second while the candles were burning, either! Use whichever pictures you feel work best. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours, and thanks for running the wonderful Pet Thread! -- TankascribeThose kitties present a challenge for decorators! Thanks for sending in the photos!
Please see attached pictures of my Christmas elves!! Camilla is the small girl --a terrier mix--who used to help my contractor as a pup. She loves walks, treats and Christmas sweaters. Alexis is the Australian Sheppard mix that was dumped on the road in rural central Texas. Unbelievable anyone could abandon such a sweet, smart girl who LOVES to herd cattle, chase cats and chew on EVERYTHING!! We want you to know how much we love the Pet Thread (and all of Ace of Spades) all of the time and we want to wish everyone a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!. NIC: OzzieWhat adorable elves!
Longtime reader and semi-professional lurker here, but I’ve got some Christmas-themed cat pictures for you. They feature the youngest amongst our set, who found their way to Nogglestead a couple years back. One kitten showed up in my below-grade office window, and when I went out to find him, I heard meowing from our windbreak about thirty yards away. I thought it was a fast kitten, but it turns out there were two kittens: One in the window, and one clinging like a koala bear about four feet up the trunk of a tree. We eventually adopted them and named them Nico (Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli) and Cisco (Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastián d'Anconia—I know, I know, in the book the nickname was Frisco, but…There are some cats who know how to appreciate Christmas!
Goodtime Christmas Charlie BoswellEveryone must love Charlie!
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 13 Related:
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 03:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 20, 2025 03:45 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 03:46 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 20, 2025 03:51 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at December 20, 2025 03:51 PM (YZJEf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 03:58 PM (fBbkm)
Its current favorite activities are wandering around its container when I'm not looking, and rolling over in its nest when I am.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 20, 2025 03:59 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 04:00 PM (Kt19C)
As for Meow'Dib: Is he the Hissatz Caterach?
I'll show myself out.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2025 04:03 PM (7xrfc)
The animals are great.
Anyone rather have a live mouse than a dead mouse? I think that having a cat helps keep the mice away.
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:03 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:05 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2025 04:07 PM (O7YUW)
Our neighbor's cat has been visiting lately, and this week came over and batted Mr. Bar-the-Door on the foot, said "feed me now" and when he came out with food she had two kittens on each side.
She is now coming in the house for more food and we are working on socializing the kittens. We think the daddies may belong to other neighbors.
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:10 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 04:11 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2025 04:12 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 04:12 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 20, 2025 04:13 PM (nljXp)
Monday, but I got more accomplished than I thought I would, so here I am. Great pictures of all the pets! Thanks for sending them in and to KT for posting them
Pynchon the black cat wants to go out right after he eats. I should be timing these outdoor visits because he is not a cold weather cat. I barely turned around before he was back in the house
again. It's kind of comical .
And here's a nice story about a man and his sweet dog:
https://tinyurl.com/5n7pu6a5
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 04:14 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 04:15 PM (bQ4nt)
Nico and his friends are very handsome! They sound like a super-handful. Not even Marie-Antoinette ever learned how to open screen doors. Her successor Tatiana the Wonder Siberian learned how to open a kitchen cabinet and a kitchen drawer, and pull out things she wanted to play with. Dagny La Siberienne currently opens the same cabinet, which is where I keep the kitty treats, but she doesn't pull anything out.
The Abyssinians sound like extra handfuls as well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:19 PM (wzUl9)
I've been very sick for six days and ended up in the ER Thursday morning. Because of this, I haven't done any cat blog updates about the other cats. The house is too quiet since we let Oscar go on Wednesday.
Posted by: Joyenz at December 20, 2025 04:21 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 04:24 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 04:25 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 20, 2025 04:27 PM (sAmhv)
haha!
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 04:28 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at December 20, 2025 04:30 PM (FAhum)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:30 PM (wzUl9)
Thanks. Thankfully they didn't have to admit me into the hospital for a stay. The ER doctor found the problem and has given me medications that hopefully will fix me up.
Posted by: Joyenz at December 20, 2025 04:31 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 20, 2025 04:32 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:32 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 04:34 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 20, 2025 04:36 PM (sAmhv)
Each one of my cats -- while still being clearly a cat -- has had a unique personality unlike any of the others.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:37 PM (wzUl9)
This is the worst time of the year for him, with so many people coming onto the porch. The other neighborhood dogs don't seem to like it, either.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2025 04:37 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:38 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:40 PM (7vIsy)
Me: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
Posted by: Boswell at December 20, 2025 04:40 PM (BGfwC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 04:42 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025
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Abyssinians, I understand, are long and rangy, even as kittens. But I still call my two "kittens" even at over age three, so I can imagine Tankascribe is doing the same.
Come to think of it: We were watching the "Data's Day" episode of ST:TNG where Data's cat "Spot" was introduced. He looked like the long-haired version of the Abyssinian, the Somali. Later they used a shorthaired red tabby in Spot's scenes. Maybe that one was easier to train.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:44 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:40 PM (7vIsy)
He was definitely grumpy when my daughter put those antlers on him...but he always is up for snuggles...and treats, lots and lots of treats...
Posted by: Boswell at December 20, 2025 04:44 PM (BGfwC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 04:45 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 04:46 PM (Kt19C)
Me: "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"
Posted by: Boswell at December 20, 2025
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I'll have to remember that for when Linda pipes up with "Your cats need new toys!" (I don't begrudge them the toys, not really; just the store prices. But they have an entire basket of toys. They still pull one out from time to time. And if I take one out that they haven't seen in some time, it's as if it's brand new.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:46 PM (wzUl9)
SOMALI?! what deviltry is this?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025
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A better form of deviltry than is found with the two-legged variety.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:47 PM (wzUl9)
I didn't know Scrooge was "Scroogy" about pet gifts as well😉 I've gotten some fancier toys for the cat.. He'd just as soon bat around little jingly balls that cost about two dollars and the other day he was fascinated by a pair of balled socks spouse had taken off by the couch ,and which cat grabbed and threw up in the air.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 04:48 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 20, 2025 04:49 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 04:49 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:49 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 04:48 PM (Nx5jP)
You're lucky, Fen! You won't get off so cheap with Christmas Charlie - he likes his expensive toys...I guess he's just a kept dog.
Posted by: Boswell at December 20, 2025 04:52 PM (BGfwC)
Just saw this and I guarantee it will make you laugh
https://tinyurl.com/4rfk3kys
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 04:53 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: LASue at December 20, 2025 04:54 PM (UwBs6)
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at December 20, 2025 04:54 PM (FIwBs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 04:57 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: LASue at December 20, 2025
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Litter box. She may be using the outdoors, but what if it's snowing or very cold?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 04:57 PM (wzUl9)
I’ve found flea collars to be kinda nasty on the kitty fur. I’ve had better luck with the drops behind the neck. Will he let you handle him?
The cat distribution system seems to be working well in your neck of the woods!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 04:57 PM (IhIKR)
Just saw this and I guarantee it will make you laugh
https://tinyurl.com/4rfk3kys
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 04:53 PM (t/2Uw)
Ha - that video is just sooo true!
Posted by: Boswell at December 20, 2025 04:58 PM (BGfwC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 04:59 PM (PFs9e)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 05:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 05:02 PM (viF8m)
Plus one on flea drops over collars.
Posted by: lin-duh at December 20, 2025 05:03 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 20, 2025 05:03 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 05:00 PM (viF8m)
Unless your Elvis is tiny and the hawk was hungry...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 20, 2025 05:04 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 05:04 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 20, 2025 05:06 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 05:08 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 20, 2025 05:09 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 20, 2025 05:09 PM (NtoJk)
I have a scratching post for my kittehs. It's called my brand new dining room chairs. My fault because I should have known and not bought the cloth backed chairs. I'll wait until they are destroyed enough to replace with non-cloth chair backs.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 05:13 PM (KDPiq)
That pup on the bed up top looks like it might be a Malinois. I was just telling how when we got Daisy, she quickly learned we didn't want her on the guest bed or the couch. Which lasted until Daughter's and Son's dogs visited and jumped on both freely; we gave up on that.
Daisy still knows not to get up on our bed, though, so there's that.
Happy critterday, pet people.
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't bite the hand that pets you at December 20, 2025 05:19 PM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 20, 2025 05:27 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 20, 2025 05:27 PM (y171U)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 20, 2025 05:29 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 20, 2025 05:29 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 20, 2025 05:31 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Joemarine
He hasn't been around for a very long time. Kind of worried about him.
Posted by: Tuna at December 20, 2025 05:31 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: KT
And that's a pretty nice fireplace!
Posted by: mindful webworker - up the chimney she went at December 20, 2025 05:32 PM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 20, 2025 05:33 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: tankascribe
Why not try fostering?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 05:39 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:12 PM (wzUl9)
Cisco: Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastián d'Anconia
1. I guess we were just asking for it by naming him Nico.
2. I know, I know: in the book, the nickname is Frisco, but the kitten is more of a Cisco.
Posted by: BJN at December 20, 2025 06:16 PM (EC3O9)
Cisco: Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastián d'Anconia
1. I guess we were just asking for it by naming him Nico.
2. I know, I know: in the book, the nickname is Frisco, but the kitten is more of a Cisco.
Posted by: BJN at December 20, 2025
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What book is it from, though?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: LASue at December 20, 2025 06:44 PM (lCppi)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Dec 20
Photos were only allowed in a small part of the Creche Exhibit, where organizations put up displays.
The evening fog looking more northward from outside our front door. We are in the fog during the day as it raises from the valley. Then settles back down there in the evening. NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker
Notice the sun. It won't get higher than that until the end of January.
Katy, shalom, I've been sitting on a bunch of photos for some time now, hoping there would be something wow! in the garden, but things have just continued on in a fairly routine manner. So I've decided to stop delaying and send on what I have in hand. First, something historical: Back in July we visited Montenegro. As the name indicates, much of the country is covered by mountains, and we did a lot of driving on crazy, zigzagging roads. The country is also very well watered, and at least part of the forest cover qualifies as rain forest. We took a jeep ride up a mountain, and reached areas above the tree line where plant life was confined to grass and low scrub. There were some nice, but very small, wildflowers there, which I tried to photograph. The size of the flowers pictured ranges from about a dime to quarter.
Hi KT, One of my coworkers gave me this little Christmas cactus last year. Never expected it to bloom again as I was supposed to move it outside when the temperatures changed to under 50 degrees ambient didn't get warmer than 60 degrees. Here it is, blooming in time for Christmas, looking all pretty.
BifBewalski
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 01:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 01:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Didn't get the memo to fly south yet
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 01:45 PM (Ia/+0)
180g butter; 70 g sugar; 1 egg; 1 tsp vanilla; 300g flour; 40-45 shelled hazelnuts, ground fine; 1-½ tsp cocoa powder; pinch of salt.
Cream butter and sugar well. Beat in egg. Stir in vanilla. Stir together the flour, hazelnuts, cocoa, and salt and stir into dough. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 350° for about fifteen minutes. Three dozen cookies.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 01:46 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 01:53 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 01:56 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 20, 2025 01:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 01:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Pretty tundra flowers!
Thank you KT, and Merry Christmas to all!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2025 01:58 PM (kfTpm)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 20, 2025 01:59 PM (w6EFb)
I love hazelnuts, but they’re not designed to be easily eaten by humans. Even harder to crack than Brazil nuts in those assorted bags.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 20, 2025 02:01 PM (EXyHK)
Notice the sun. It won't get higher than that until the end of January.
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Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell." -- Bob Service
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 02:02 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 02:04 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 02:07 PM (Ia/+0)
What time of day was that taken? 'High' Noon?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 02:08 PM (b8EuQ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 01:53 PM (Kt19C)
Where in Calif, Commissar?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 02:09 PM (b8EuQ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 02:13 PM (Kt19C)
Robins;I’m starting to see a couple here in East Texas. Although they should keep going south, we always have a few that hang around here all winter. I put out seed for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 02:14 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 02:14 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: GWB at December 20, 2025 02:15 PM (6dwpD)
Someone's about to have a very shocking holiday.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2025 02:16 PM (O7YUW)
Sunrise at 7:55 am and sunset at 4:20.
Currently precipitating lightly.
Go Aggies!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 02:18 PM (IhIKR)
Go to Alaska.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 02:21 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2025 02:23 PM (3Ope8)
Tjey are here for Christmas but haven't seen them yet
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 02:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 02:24 PM (IhIKR)
Love the little wildflowers. How many do you recognize? Some are also garden flowers.
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 02:26 PM (7vIsy)
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell." -- Bob Service
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 02:02 PM (XeU6L)
We used to recite a lot of Robert Service around the dinner table.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2025 02:27 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 02:29 PM (Ia/+0)
What time of day was that taken? 'High' Noon?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 02:08 PM (b8EuQ)
Yes. It is 10:30 now and the sun is just thinking of coming up.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2025 02:30 PM (6Bc88)
I usually start plants in water, but these are in soil because it's different than my usual method. (And all of my other Christmas cacti have died, so whatever I *was* doing...was wrong. LOL.)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 02:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 02:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Come up in July. Summer is why we live here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2025 02:31 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 02:32 PM (yTvNw)
We've had some rain already, and we're due for a soggy week, so today, Husband did some pruning on the lilac row, and I raked leaves out of the drains along the street.
We still have some Johnny Jump-Ups blooming by the shed. And in the bed where I grew broccolini last year, the seed that decided to sprout in the fall - is still growing!
A Joyous Yule - Hannukah - Christmas (your pick) to all who celebrate!
(PS: In the "We wish you a Merry ONTmas" thread, I live in zone 1 - I am immediately defecting to zone 2.)
Posted by: Pat* at December 20, 2025 02:32 PM (W5PEE)
Posted by: tcn in AK
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That's great! Every time his name comes up, I mention that at one time I could recite The Shooting of Dan McGrew.
The best we got here is Carl Sandberg. Singing 'Eating Goober Peas' never elicits much positive response.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 02:34 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 02:35 PM (Ia/+0)
When you bring a military age man to your country and give him citizenship, you're hoping you get a monomaniacal, Commie-hunting human Terminator like Lauri Torni.
You'd settle for a guy like my grandfather, who was a good soldier in the old country, and then served Britain & America, and then moved here, and loved it.
You'll get Aztec poison peddlers, and Mahometan assassins, and Oriental spies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2025 02:35 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 01:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Nor here. Sunny and 73F is forecast.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 20, 2025 02:35 PM (w6EFb)
The best we got here is Carl Sandberg. Singing 'Eating Goober Peas' never elicits much positive response.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 02:34 PM (XeU6L)
One of the high schools in Anchorage is named for him.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2025 02:35 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tcn
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*!*
He once lived two doors down the street.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 02:36 PM (XeU6L)
Allie the Calico Kitty Cat (the *Other* Cutest Little Cat of Them All) is curled up in my lap, taking a siesta.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 02:38 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: JTB at December 20, 2025 02:39 PM (yTvNw)
One of the high schools in Anchorage is named for him.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 20, 2025 02:35 PM (6Bc8
LoL, you reminded of a comical Agatha Christie movie from the 60’s, “Murder most Foul” where Margaret Rutherford to impress a theater director by reciting that one.
My favorite is the Cremation of Sam McGee.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 02:45 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 20, 2025 02:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 20, 2025 02:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2025 02:57 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2025 02:57 PM (BI5O2)
Penciling you in for later...
Signed 'the barrel'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 03:04 PM (b8EuQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 20, 2025 03:06 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 02:13 PM (Kt19C)
Didn't realize you were so close - I'm in O. C.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 03:07 PM (b8EuQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 03:22 PM (9ipOP)
There are utilities buried
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 03:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 03:32 PM (fBbkm)
I've got perfectly healthy snapdragons growing out between the bricks in my patio, and blooming. Not sure what they hope to accomplish by doing so, since it's too cold for anything to pollinate them...
And we got dandelion gone to seed. Third crop this year.
If I weren't doing other things, and had gravel on hand, it would almost be warm enough to lay more path in the back yard.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 20, 2025 03:32 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 20, 2025 03:34 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 03:35 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 20, 2025 03:34 PM (C0Nlv)
Anybody have any fun solstice plans?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 03:35 PM (b8EuQ)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2025 03:37 PM (fBbkm)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 03:37 PM (Kt19C)
Of course I only live 6 blocks from the hospital with CareFlight service, so that’s not very unusual.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 03:40 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 03:41 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 03:44 PM (Ia/+0)
I can identify some of the Montenegro flowers, top to bottom:
1) scabiosa
2) oleander
3) I don't know
4) some type of thistle?
5) dianthus? or coreopsis?
6) bluebell is probably a type of Spanish bluebell...I grow them in the spring from bulbs
There is one clematis that looks like the bluebell, altho it is a vine (Stand by me)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 04:08 PM (WONhk)
so many things are called bluebells. I think it might be a bellflower.
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:19 PM (7vIsy)
The Spanish bluebells I have, altho a paler blue, bloom with spring bulbs or shortly after. I could be wrong. The photo initially reminded me of the clematis I mentioned.
Regardless, to find all of this blooming wildly is very cool. Probably from the wind seeding from very old gardens in the area.
I only plant perennials mostly, as they return and give me more for my buck. Or reseed. This past year I was bust for bachelor buttons and need to start those again. I like English type gardens.
My flowers, under my David Austin rose monsters, are wild and free like a cottage garden. Mostly because once it gets hot they are on their own.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 04:31 PM (WONhk)
I must remain Secret at all times.
I honestly could not tell you why, but it is a long established habit based on the computer science nerds and wizards that are my family.
My grandmother was a master gardener in the Deep South, and taught me flowers from her knee.
Without flowers, music, art and grandchildren I would find my life quite dull!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 04:35 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 04:36 PM (WONhk)
There are some creeping campanulas. I think some are even invasive.
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:43 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: KT at December 20, 2025 04:44 PM (7vIsy)
Getting what you ask for before Christmas, or not
What an incredible accomplishment to make this Epstein stuff seem like the height of elite decadence. While a thousand Caligulas party on.
Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn talk about Jeffrey Epstein texting Stacey Plaskett questions to ask Michael Cohen during a February 2019 House hearing with the goal to sink Donald Trump. The wheels are about to completely come off the bus.I haven't really checked into what has been found in the redacted grand jury files. Anybody seen anything interesting?
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 19, 2025
Weekend The Week in Pictures: Return of the King Edition
Okay, John Hinderaker went and did it last week! He has abused his stewardship of TWiP and went full Die Hard Christmas Movie Denialist! As the Dude says in The Big Lebowski, this aggression will not stand, man! To restore proper balance in the universe, I am staging a coup d’tat, and am taking over this week’s TWiP. To mix movie references further, John has done a Denethor-level job as Steward of TWiP; time for the Return of the (TWiP) King! Actually, like the Gaza and (prospective) Ukraine ceasefires, we’re going to share power, and alternate TWiP each week. And so as the great John McClain would say on basic cable Christmas season reruns, “Yippie-ki-yay, melon-farmer!” P.S. Good to see John back covering beauty pageants as straight news (which fits as Melania Trump’s cause as First Lady should be “Make America Straight Again!”
The story about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writing the poem in both despair and hope as he heard the bells.In 1861, two years before writing this poem, Longfellow's personal peace was shaken when his second wife of 18 years, to whom he was very devoted, was fatally burned in an accidental fire. Then in 1863, during the American Civil War, Longfellow's oldest son, Charles Appleton Longfellow, joined the Union Army without his father's blessing. Longfellow was informed by a letter dated March 14, 1863, after Charles had left. "I have tried hard to resist the temptation of going without your leave but I cannot any longer", he wrote. "I feel it to be my first duty to do what I can for my country and I would willingly lay down my life for it if it would be of any good." Charles was soon appointed as a lieutenant but, in November, he was severely wounded in the Battle of Mine Run. Charles eventually recovered, but his time as a soldier was finished.
Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2025 11:23 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 11:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 20, 2025 11:23 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2025 11:23 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 20, 2025 11:26 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 11:29 AM (Ia/+0)
The GOP never learns that there is no end to fighting the left. The only "end" is when the Democrat party as it is today is neutered and useless.
Like the GOP.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 11:31 AM (NwnyJ)
It amazes me that anyone pays the least bit of attention to Bernie. Been a leftist politician for years and accomplished nothing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 11:31 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 11:31 AM (MoRvC)
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Well, those lake houses aren't going to pay for themselves!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2025 11:32 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 11:33 AM (udlma)
Posted by: Die Bernie Die at December 20, 2025 11:33 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 20, 2025 11:34 AM (R86kT)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 11:36 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 11:36 AM (Ia/+0)
My family and I are at AmericaFest as invited guests.
The people I have met are truly incredible, but the speakers... ...I'm just really disappointed.
A Leftist ass*ssinated Charlie Kirk in front of the world and all conservatives can do is yell at each other on stage.
Charlie is gone. Not “canceled.” Not “deplatformed.” Dead.
And yet somehow a bunch of people have managed to turn the aftermath into a talent show for who can land the sharpest jab on a fellow conservative.
If we can’t pause the ego wars after that… what exactly are we conserving here?
It feels like a lot of these famous podcasters are eating the conservative movement for engagement.
I'm genuinely grossed out by it.
X: https://bit.ly/4j9S6kL
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 11:37 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:37 AM (2Ez/1)
It's gross watching people who claim to love America act like the real enemy is the person sitting two seats to their right.
Charlie built a movement by arguing, persuading, recruiting, showing up on campuses, and pulling people INTO the movement.
And now people on a stage, who clearly despise each other, are yelling at each other and dunking on each other.
Can we just sit with the absurdity of that?
Meanwhile, the people who want us dead aren’t arguing about which one of them is the purest.
They’re organized. They’re disciplined. They’re watching the Right turn the microphone on each other.
There’s a difference between iron sharpening iron... ...and stabbing your teammate in the back because it sounds bold and gets claps.
X: https://bit.ly/4j9S6kL
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 11:38 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 11:39 AM (udlma)
https://tinyurl.com/mta3wwdn
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2025 11:39 AM (5xuJ/)
I’m new to the conservative movement. I didn’t grow up in this world. I’m not “conservative royalty.” I’m not a strategist. I’m not a speaker.
I’m not even close to deserving an invited seat at something like this, and I'm grateful to be here. I have massive imposter syndrome. I’m the guy who got red-pilled late, who showed up late, and probably still has blind spots I’m probably not even aware of yet.
So I’m not saying this as someone who thinks he has the authority to lecture anyone, I don't. I'm nobody.
I’m saying this as someone who’s standing here with his family, looking around at people I respect... and just feeling sad.
Sad that a moment that should have made all of us a little more sober, somehow turned into fighting like this.
X: https://bit.ly/4j9S6kL
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 11:40 AM (P5BPp)
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Is this about me?
- Little Ben Shapiro
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 11:40 AM (udlma)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 11:26 AM (0sNs1)
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"Bible scholars" are the only profession built around discrediting their alleged subject. They regularly demand impossible standards of proof that standard historians would consider laughable.
Accounts of Nicea are fragmentary, and since we have no parliamentary record-style journal, we don't know what they thought was important. What we do know is that the vast majority of records from that period were lost. We also know that some likely survived and then were lost years, even centuries later.
This is why discounting documents from later on is unwarranted. They may have had access to books we don't even know about.
When one considers how many "established facts" rely on fragmentary records, it's always amusing to me that "Bible scholars" demand the equivalent of their subjects holding up the day's newspaper in a photograph to give credence to ancient writings.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Maybe I’m naive. Maybe I’m expecting too much. But I remember what it felt like when I started waking up for the first time... The insane excitement, the hope, for the FIRST TIME understanding truth...
So I'm BEGGING you, as a newcomer to this movement... DON'T LET THAT DIE.
I know I don’t have the resume to demand anything from this movement. But I do have eyes. I can see the difference between leadership and clout-chasing. And I can see how easy it would be for people...
GOOD PEOPLE... ...to watch us devour each other and just go: “Yeah… I’m out.”
So if I’m wrong... fine. I'll take the heat, I'm still learning and I know very little.
But I feel like the least we can do is not make Charlie's legacy a backdrop for petty infighting and instead act like we are movement worth joining without fear of being excommunicated for getting it wrong.
X: https://bit.ly/4j9S6kL
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 11:42 AM (P5BPp)
Truth be told, mostly they just lounged around chugging beer and arguing over whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 11:43 AM (8ty7h)
That's the "tell." There is zero documentation of this alleged great conqueror who set the world aflame. The Greeks were famously curious about everyone and everything, and loved to write about their adversaries. We have first-hand accounts of people meeting and having dinner with just about every major figure, including the enigmatic Atilla the Hun. Why didn't anyone write about Mohammed's table manners for 150 years?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:43 AM (ZOv7s)
We do have grifters on our side who are in it only for themselves and will attack people on our side to get engagement. Many such cases. But the bigger problem is the people on our side who are simply clueless about how politics works. All fire should always be directed at the other side. The left never attacks its own. Eric Swalwell, Ilhan Omar, that loon that was running for Congress from Nashville and said she hated everything about it, Mamdani. They don't care. Blue no matter who! Between the grifters, the controlled opposition, and the self-directed fire, it is a wonder the right ever wins.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 20, 2025 11:43 AM (R86kT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 20, 2025 11:43 AM (8ty7h)
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That view prevailed at Nicea, but was overturned at Chalcedon.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Oh yeah I remember that article
Bernie is like every other Marxists slacker
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 11:44 AM (Ia/+0)
There’s America First which is what Trump purported to be but really has t been.
And then there’s the pretend to be America First but really it’s about globalism like always movement.
One side is calling the other side Nazis. Which is very original, nobody has ever called a conservative a Nazi before. Very fresh and bold ideas guys.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 11:44 AM (udlma)
Technically they were drinking mead, but yeah...
There were also a number of sidebar discussions as to whether Home Alone was, in fact, a Christian movie.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:45 AM (2Ez/1)
To Scott's overall point, Bernie does indeed embody the Dem principle of "somebody somewhere is not suffering enough and we must fix that." I do not understand why that is so attractive to so many people. I guess they think martyrdom makes people good, when in fact a person is a martyr when they were already good and then made to suffer for it.
Anyway, there are some people I wish I could shake some sense into.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 20, 2025 11:46 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 20, 2025 11:46 AM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 20, 2025 11:43 AM (R86kT)
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Ace hammering Candace is just like his frequent mentions of David French and Jonah Goldberg - a lifeline to her fading influence. Nick Fuentes' entire audience is built on being hated. Take that away, ignore him, dismiss him as "Who?" and he loses his cache.
Conservatives keep doing this. It's a form of retardation. When the left brings up David Duke, WE MUST DENOUNCE HIM, rather than saying: "What are you talking about? Is he even alive? Get bent, loser."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:46 AM (ZOv7s)
There were also a number of sidebar discussions as to whether Home Alone was, in fact, a Christian movie.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:45 AM (2Ez/1)
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They would have had wine. There's an actual line between where grapes can and can't be grown. On one side, everyone drinks wine, on the other, it's beer and mead.
Most (if not all) of the area around the Mediterranean is wine territory.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: The Young Turks at December 20, 2025 11:49 AM (2Ez/1)
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We’re back to NF is a nobody now? lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 11:49 AM (udlma)
Wine is for the upper class because it had to be imported at considerable expense. Farage frequently quaffing a beer makes him a man of the people.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer a Christmas movie?
Seems to me it's a story about homosexual acceptance. Santa is just a minor character, and in a strange way he's a foreshadowing of the coming of AIDS.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 11:50 AM (aSexO)
Most (if not all) of the area around the Mediterranean is wine territory."
It was hard for me not to read that and hear it in a Cliff Clavin voice.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)
When one considers how many "established facts" rely on fragmentary records, it's always amusing to me that "Bible scholars" demand the equivalent of their subjects holding up the day's newspaper in a photograph to give credence to ancient writings.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Thank you for expressing that. Some "Biblical scholarship" drives me batty because of that attitude.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 20, 2025 11:51 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 11:49 AM (udlma)
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He is to me. I think all the effort is wasted and silly.
And yes, I've had liberals try to gotcha me, and it's really demoralizing to them when you say "I don't know anything about that, but if it is as you say, than that's bad. But I have no idea and don't care."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 20, 2025 11:52 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Have a holly jolly existential crisis at December 20, 2025 11:53 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Honestly, it is probably better to not know how politics works. The more my eyes have been opened to how politics works in this country, the more cynical and pessimistic and black-pilled I have become. The 2006 Amnesty push was my first awakening into the BS that is American politics. And the 2020 Plandemic, summer of BLM, stolen election, January 6th government op and the forced "vax" black-pilled me. I'll never be optimistic about anything to do with government again.
Between the grifters, the controlled opposition, and the self-directed fire, it is a wonder the right ever wins.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 20, 2025 11:43 AM
Looking over my lifetime (1976), there have not been many wins for the right. Reagan from 1980-1988, Congress for a few years under Clinton in the 1990s and then Trump in 2016 and 2024.
And I remember when the right couldn't even support Rush Limbaugh when the left would attack him, taking him out of context. The right has never been united.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 11:54 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)
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I should have prefaced it with "Aktually," for the full effect.
I had two nicknames in Army Basic. The drill sergeants dubbed me "Cliffie," but my fellow soldiers (most of whom were too young to watch "Cheers" called me "Frasier."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:54 AM (ZOv7s)
Seems to me it's a story about homosexual acceptance. Santa is just a minor character, and in a strange way he's a foreshadowing of the coming of AIDS.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 11:50 AM (aSexO)
Fucking Burl Ives, man.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at December 20, 2025 11:54 AM (P7vXf)
Angela McArdle, the former LP National Chair noticed this is the situation with the Libertarian party as well -- and I will add this was a feature of the middle period Tea Party as well, before it was taken over by the neo-cons and smothered.
McArdle has said that part of the problem is how the LP was structured in that it was unable to focus on long term issues, and has noted that they kept finding Feds showing up in important positions where they caused a lot of dissension and drama. At the moment the LP has been taken by the Prog-commies and is done as a movement. Smothered like the T-Party
TPUSA may well have the same future as those two other political orgs
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 11:55 AM (rbvCR)
'Thank you for expressing that. Some "Biblical scholarship" drives me batty because of that attitude.'
I'm not saying the Biblical scholars are right but I can see why they are so picky. If some outside the mainstream 'fact' from the early church is accepted as true, it gets rolled into some people's Christian creed.
And if the fact is wrong, you produce a heresy.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 11:57 AM (fd80v)
*(most of whom were too young to watch "Cheers" called me "Frasier.")*
Here's a classic Frasier and Niles moment:
https://youtu.be/gZAUXVw_TW4
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
And likely never will be as we are capable of independent thought - unlike some other groups. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2025 11:57 AM (cYBz/)
2019, eh?
Who was nominally in power then, and when was Epstein suicided?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:58 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at December 20, 2025 11:54 AM (P7vXf)
No thanks.
Now Clarice... she's kinda hot.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 11:58 AM (L21rV)
The left and fake right, like Ben Shapiro and the entire National Review crew who is now tsk tsking Nick, actually created Nick. They’re the ones who were all for globalism and mass immigration cuz free markets man!! And so what if tens of millions of white men are thrown to the side. We’re saving 3 cents on tomatoes, totally worth it.
Sorry boys and girls you created the monster. Now it’s going to eat you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 11:59 AM (udlma)
And if the fact is wrong, you produce a heresy.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 11:57 AM (fd80v)
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You have it backwards. "Biblical scholars" regularly fall over themselves praising transparent hoaxes that almost immediately fall apart. Meanwhile, established facts and traditions are constantly undercut and attacked.
That's all they do, really. They usually time these assaults with Easter, trying to inflict maximum damage on the faith.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:59 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2025 11:39 AM (5xuJ/)
Nice save!
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 20, 2025 12:00 PM (FMtrg)
Almost ran over my tomato soup
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: So-called Biblical Scholars at December 20, 2025 12:01 PM (2Ez/1)
Wine is for the upper class because it had to be imported at considerable expense. Farage frequently quaffing a beer makes him a man of the people.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:50 AM (ZOv7s)
The mead I have here is 3x the price of an average bottle of wine. That was slightly annoying.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 12:01 PM (snZF9)
Eeh ...no
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 20, 2025 11:52 AM (dtajH)
600k Chinese students, millions of H1Bs. Totally America First!!!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:01 PM (udlma)
Who was nominally in power then, and when was Epstein suicided?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:58 AM (/lPRQ)
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Crooked Bill Barr oversaw that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 12:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2025 11:57 AM
Yeah, it's both our greatest strength and greatest weakness, it seems. At least when it comes to politics where you have to be united to succeed.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 12:02 PM (P5BPp)
'"Biblical scholars" regularly fall over themselves praising transparent hoaxes that almost immediately fall apart. Meanwhile, established facts and traditions are constantly undercut and attacked.'
A double standard. Sounds a bit like... the left.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:03 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:01 PM (udlma)
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This is what I was talking about on the other thread. The man is literally doing more to stop immigration than anyone thought possible, being thwarted at every turn by rogue judges, but to you, he's doing nothing. Fake! Not MAGA!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 12:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: True MAGA Guy at December 20, 2025 12:04 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 12:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 12:05 PM (/lPRQ)
'This is what I was talking about on the other thread. '
I was wondering if that was an example of what you meant.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:06 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 11:55 AM (rbvCR)
It certainly appears that some of the folks who are high up in the organization are quite shady.
Corruption was rampant BEFORE Charlie was killed, and it looks like Charlie was just getting wind of it, and starting to address it just before he was shot.
Coincidence?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:06 PM (L21rV)
Technically they were drinking mead, but yeah...
so... you're saying it's a meadyocre episode?
Posted by: anachronda at December 20, 2025 12:07 PM (edU/H)
The left and fake right, like Ben Shapiro and the entire National Review crew who is now tsk tsking Nick, actually created Nick. They’re the ones who were all for globalism and mass immigration cuz free markets man!! And so what if tens of millions of white men are thrown to the side. We’re saving 3 cents on tomatoes, totally worth it.
Sorry boys and girls you created the monster. Now it’s going to eat you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 11:59 AM
Seems like a similar situation happened with the rise of Andrew Tate. The UK is especially concerned with him and the "rise of misogyny". Every politician and media member and institution leader there is pushing the propaganda that he is the problem, while completely ignoring and promoting the actual problem, which is illegal aliens and mass migration of Muslims and Indians who are not civilized cultures.
Paul Joseph Watson talked about this in his latest: Everyone is Sick of It
YouTube: https://bit.ly/48MxY
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 12:07 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:58 AM (/lPRQ)
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Crooked Bill Barr oversaw that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Hence "nominal".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 12:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 12:03 PM (
A judge forced him to import 600k Chinese students? A judge forced him to tell Laura Ingraham that there is no talent in the country and we need H1Bs to do complex technical work?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:09 PM (udlma)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:09 PM (rj6Yv)
We’re saving 3 cents on tomatoes, totally worth it.
Sorry boys and girls you created the monster. Now it’s going to eat you.
Attack of the killer tomatoes!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 12:09 PM (pkeXY)
You have it backwards. "Biblical scholars" regularly fall over themselves praising transparent hoaxes that almost immediately fall apart.
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Jesus was the bridegroom at Cana! We have the dinner menu!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 12:10 PM (RvZHk)
If you have to deal with totally inauthentic people, at least find the ones that are entertaining, instead of the ones with an axe to grind.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 12:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:09 PM (rj6Yv)
Good thing no humans live there.
Weather here is kinda boring. Highs in the 60s every day. Yesterday I think it hit 70. Sunshine every day.
Ho hum.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:11 PM (L21rV)
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I love how people think shit like 'Fan Drool' was ever created for a purpose OTHER THAN screwing people out of every cent they managed (so far) to have kept in their moth-eaten 'po'-pipples' pants pockets … 'FD' and other apps like it are specifically designed to create a LOSER class, not a WINNER class. Film at 11.
Posted by: Dr_No at December 20, 2025 12:11 PM (ayRl+)
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Absolutely. Anyone who looks around sees reality and speaks about it is “dangerous”. Tate, Fuentes, etc.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:11 PM (udlma)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:11 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:15 PM (udlma)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 20, 2025 12:11 PM (ayRl+)
I think it's hilarious that the sportsball world has just decided to fully embrace gambling, and now we're seeing the first trickling of players and coaches getting caught up in scandals.
Well, actually the first trickling was when one of MLB's biggest stars was caught gambling, and they decided to blame it on his interpreter.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:15 PM (L21rV)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:11 PM (rj6Yv)
It is so boring, and so useless, hardly worth looking at them you know.
THE REDACTIONS ARE HIDING TRUMP'S CRIMES! WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL HE IS EXPOSED!
Posted by: Paid Influencers and NPC Bots at December 20, 2025 12:16 PM (rbvCR)
All - and I mean all - the talk about crooked referees and rigged games comes from degenerate gamblers. Nonsense like Fan Duel will be the death of sports. It's beginning to corrupt the players with stupid stuff like spot bets.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 12:17 PM (RvZHk)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:18 PM (fd80v)
THE REDACTIONS ARE HIDING TRUMP'S CRIMES! WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL HE IS EXPOSED!
Posted by: Paid Influencers and NPC Bots at December 20, 2025 12:16 PM (rbvCR)
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Nothing can ever satisfy conspiracy theorists that they're wrong.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 12:19 PM (RvZHk)
'"Biblical scholars" regularly fall over themselves praising transparent hoaxes that almost immediately fall apart. Meanwhile, established facts and traditions are constantly undercut and attacked.'
A double standard. Sounds a bit like... the left.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:03 PM (fd80v)
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Very strange. JC was publicly scourged and mocked. The mobs demanded His immediate execution. He was crucified amongst criminals and buried in another man's tomb. His body disappeared after three days and His followers claimed He rose from the dead.
After all of that, He's still the greatest clickbait on the planet.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:19 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 20, 2025 12:19 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:11 PM (rj6Yv)
The op continues to hide the truth.
Show pictures of Clinton in a pool with some chix, and everyone can cluck all day and night about it.
Meanwhile, the people and the purpose behind the Epstein op keep doing what they do: Blackmail politicians, CEOs, media moguls, celebrities, and university "scholars" to do the bidding of the "intelligence" organizations.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:20 PM (L21rV)
'Nonsense like Fan Duel will be the death of sports.'
Is there any chance Fan Duel is a product of organized crime?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:20 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 12:20 PM (Kt19C)
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... you have to be united to succeed.
Wrong! you need a deep magazine of Nepo-LIBs ready to spend it all, to burn the world, *AND* secretly reaping ROI on the chaos they sew; to deploy them like so many luftwaffe appearing over horizon during the battle of Britain while their LIB parents wail and bemoan judge upon their determined, dilligently applied, desperate evil.
Is it any coincidence the family foundations reap billions by "Taking things from YOU in the name of the Common Good" only to deploy the next raft of Nepo-Libs and their horrors on the innocent, the Unknowing and the APATHETIC.
Release, indeed, FREE AND SPONSOR! the HUNTER BIDEN's, the NICK REINER's, the ever now, and future present Epstein's, Clinton's, Soros', the John Walker/American Taliban's, the James Fergie Chambers (Cox Heir and professional revolutionaries) who will proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries.
"I am not a great man, I am a failure – and you have made me one." -- Clinton'01, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 20, 2025 12:20 PM (8nWsk)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 20, 2025 11:34 AM (R86kT)
Yes, I doubt that he's deep in. But, he's a semi-regular guest on Gutfeld!, and I could picture Greg taking him out partying after the show once or thrice. And, it actually makes Walter's point stronger if it would only take a few times dropping in on the scene to see vastly more decadence than what the Epstein Files show.
Posted by: SciVo at December 20, 2025 12:21 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:09 PM (rj6Yv)
-12 F here in southern Alberta. Sunny, no wind, which is a blessing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 12:21 PM (npFr7)
Some of of that is because 24 was an election year and interest always spikes in those years. But holy shit that’s a yuuugely bigly yuuuge drop nonetheless.
Nobody is really buying his bullshit anymore.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:21 PM (udlma)
One of the downsides of the internet and the world of constant engagement is the rise of the "influencer" class that says outrageous and often stupid things for clicks.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 12:22 PM (viF8m)
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We’re back to NF is a nobody now? lol.
Sounds like we're back to "NF would be a nobody if everybody ignored him." Which is pretty much a tautology.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 12:22 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 20, 2025 12:22 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 20, 2025 12:23 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:20 PM (fd80v)
If by organized crime you mean Wall Street and Private Equity, yes.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:23 PM (udlma)
The left and fake right, like Ben Shapiro and the entire National Review crew who is now tsk tsking Nick, actually created Nick. They’re the ones who were all for globalism and mass immigration cuz free markets man!! And so what if tens of millions of white men are thrown to the side. We’re saving 3 cents on tomatoes, totally worth it.
Sorry boys and girls you created the monster. Now it’s going to eat you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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You scurry in here every Saturday and do your "Nick Fuentes is an icon for the *children*" because you know Ace isn't around on weekends and he doesn't put up with such bullshit during the week. "Young people" aren't pushing for Fuentes--foreign influencers and bots are virtually the only "support" he has. If you want to peddle this nonsense, have the balls to do it during the week.
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:23 PM (TN0g+)
‘ Nobody is really buying his bullshit anymore.’
They’re buying Nick Fuentes’ bullshit now.
He’s literally better than Trump!
Posted by: AliasMooMoo at December 20, 2025 12:24 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:09 PM (rj6Yv)
-12 F here in southern Alberta. Sunny, no wind, which is a blessing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 12:21 PM (npFr7)
Going to be 79 F here in Hereford AZ today. Should I turn the AC back on?
The struggle is real.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 20, 2025 12:25 PM (b9CCz)
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Ahhh the report from ncri, the company with ties to Soros and Liz Cheney which sees “white supremacy” around every corner.
Very reliable.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:25 PM (udlma)
Nah, they're just the kind with a good PR machine.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 12:25 PM (3nLb4)
Most (if not all) of the area around the Mediterranean is wine territory.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Nobody talks about Boonesfarm Strawberry Hill or Apple, Pear, etc.
I assume that vineyards were relatively very productive vs other fruit crops. And you get either red or white. Other fruit crops you get a lot more varieties and usually call it something else like cider. While beer anywhere is beer.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 12:25 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 12:22 PM (3nLb4)
Every internet forum I've ever been on has trolls, and every time a troll shows up, half the comments are arguing with the troll while the other half tells everyone to ignore the troll.
So now, you either accept that we live in the age of trolls, or you complain about how many trolls there are, and wish we could go back to a magical time, before the trolls.
Humans are fun.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:26 PM (L21rV)
So now, you either accept that we live in the age of trolls, or you complain about how many trolls there are, and wish we could go back to a magical time, before the trolls.
Humans are fun.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:26 PM (L21rV)
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The real horror is that we're still far away from peak AI trollling.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:28 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:23 PM (TN0g+)
I love how NF is a nobody while the entire internet is talking about him.
Again the “foreign influencer” thing was a bullshit report by NCRI? A far left group with ties to Soros, which has Liz Cheney on its board and sees white supremacy everywhere. It’s like SPLC. But OK go ahead and believe them.
Stick your head in the sand if you wish and think we still live in 2003 where a tax cut for the ricin and a fighting “them Over there” is still a winning strategy. But that shit is over.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:28 PM (udlma)
The struggle is real.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 20, 2025 12:25 PM (b9CCz)
Never heard of Hereford, had to look it up...
Oh my! I hope you speak Mexican.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:30 PM (VBfme)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:30 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:31 PM (udlma)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:28 PM (rj6Yv)
Yeah, some of the trolls we get here look like they could be bots, but I genuinely appreciate that we still have old timers who just come around to stir up shite because they seem to live miserable lives, and need to occasionally get beaten up in comments sections.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:31 PM (VBfme)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:32 PM (udlma)
Going to be 79 F here in Hereford AZ today. Should I turn the AC back on?
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Is that where hurricanes hardly happen?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 12:32 PM (RvZHk)
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Where's your courage man? Ace literally toasted Fuentes a week ago Friday and you didn't utter a word in response. But you made sure to scamper in the next morning and start yanking Fuentes again because you know Ace isn't around on weekends. NF is a creation of foreign influences. NF doesn't have a "economic policy", and you're full of it for pretending that what young people want is somehow the purview of nazi trash like him.
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:32 PM (TN0g+)
The DOJ is or will be suing all of the Blue States that have refused to turn over their Federal assistance rolls for verification. I have little doubt that most Blue States will have fraudulent activity matching or even surpassing the astounding amounts of corruption SO FAR revealed in Minnesota.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:33 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 12:32 PM (RvZHk)
We do get tropical storms and remnants of hurricanes that come up the Baja.
But hurricanes hardly happen.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 20, 2025 12:35 PM (b9CCz)
Posted by: Unkaren at December 20, 2025 12:36 PM (BrLWF)
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhatYouKnowIsWRONG
Joker Burning Money: man of my word
His quote to 2Face: The thing about Chaos? It's Fair.
No it isn't, its simply arbitrary, and when good men do absolutely nothing it gives license to shameless retail politico congressMONSTERS to gun you down and set fire to your children -- when terrorists have a more consistent message, and integrity of openly brandishing their weapons in a display of courage that inspires the next raft, and generation of sponsorship? What could possibly go wrong?
The truely Evil are enabled by the Venal and the Weak; those who pretend that any compromise between food and poison results in anything BUT death -- viz. the Clinton Global Catastrophe, Green Energy, CO2
Pitting Man against other men until we exist no more and laughing all the way to the bank because they know any collaboration with Evil benefits nought but the evil -- until the more consistent prevails.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 20, 2025 12:36 PM (jzAid)
Is that where hurricanes hardly happen?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 12:32 PM (RvZHk)
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Hampshire's been pretty quiet.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:36 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 20, 2025 12:36 PM (CCOXM)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:09 PM (rj6Yv)
Fed.Gov.Mil would frequently advertise jobs in Anchorage.
A couple weeks they'd contact you, "Congrats, you got the job in... (whispers) Fairbanks...."
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
You fell for their propaganda. All otters are thieves and a goodly portion are sex offenders. They have powerful friends who cover up their misdeeds, especially in the PNW.
Posted by: Manatee-Penguin Alliance at December 20, 2025 12:37 PM (oftw2)
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NF is neither republican nor conservative. He's an op, nothing more. The left created him and is attempting to staple him to "our" side when he's already stated he's not one of "us".
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:38 PM (TN0g+)
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I went back to check the archives didn’t see anything about NF on 12/12. At least not in the title. What post is it? I’m pretty sure I would have commented on it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:38 PM (udlma)
Posted by: Rex B at December 20, 2025 12:38 PM (H3AP2)
Posted by: BurtTC
I don't trust the bastards.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 20, 2025 12:36 PM (CCOXM)
No, of course not.
My momma told me not to play with my food, but I just can't resist.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:38 PM (VBfme)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 12:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: BurtTC
This is why Real Strong Men set up at least three overlapping State Security machines - to take each other out if need be.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 12:40 PM (/lPRQ)
Is that where hurricanes hardly happen?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
By Jove, I believe you've got it!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 12:40 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 12:40 PM (Ia/+0)
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The 2028 campaign is going to be something.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:41 PM (rj6Yv)
A couple weeks they'd contact you, "Congrats, you got the job in... (whispers) Fairbanks...."
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)
When I was shopping around for a job, I would go to the fedgov website, and look at all the places in the country I might want to live.
Not sure if I ever applied for a job in Al Aksa, but when I looked at housing prices, I thought "You people live in conditions unfit for humans, and you have the nerve to prices your houses THIS high?"
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:41 PM (VBfme)
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:38 PM (TN0g+)
This is so much cope dude. He was “created” 10 years ago. In that time, he’s been banned by everyone and everything. Elon let him back on X and that’s when he started getting some mainstream traction. He was even in the no fly list for a while. Banks refused to allow him to open an account. He was persona non grata.
But he’s an op?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 20, 2025 12:42 PM (udlma)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 20, 2025 12:42 PM (CCOXM)
Makes me remember a record my dad would sometimes play at Christmastime that has a song he called "Japanese Jingle Bells" (no idea what it was actually called), that had verses sung in Japanese and some in English, and some in both languages at the same time...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 20, 2025 12:42 PM (ynpvh)
Petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of our minds.
Posted by: Smooth Brained Americans at December 20, 2025 12:43 PM (R/m4+)
Trump can build a big, beautiful gulag and put NF and Hasan Piker in it.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 20, 2025 12:43 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:09 PM (rj6Yv)
-12 F here in southern Alberta. Sunny, no wind, which is a blessing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 12:21 PM (npFr7)
Going to be 79 F here in Hereford AZ today. Should I turn the AC back on?
The struggle is real.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 20, 2025 12:25 PM (b9CCz)
Eh, I just open the windows...79°F is lovely if not humid.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 20, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 12:40 PM (/lPRQ)
My assumption is the REAL oligarchy (not the ones everyone talks about, but the real money and power people) all engage in egregious behaviors that "normal" humans tend to recoil at the thought of.
They don't do it to blackmail each other, not in the same way they do it to the nominal heads of organizations.
No, the real rich and powerful do it because they can, and the pact they form with each other is more of a blood oath (literally and figuratively), in that they all know what each other have in their proverbial closets, and it sets them apart from the rest of us.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:45 PM (VBfme)
Makes me remember a record my dad would sometimes play at Christmastime that has a song he called "Japanese Jingle Bells" (no idea what it was actually called), that had verses sung in Japanese and some in English, and some in both languages at the same time...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 20, 2025 12:42 PM (ynpvh)
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Mongolian Christmas parades should feature falconry and girls performing archery with their feet.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 20, 2025 12:45 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 12:45 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Ian S
Mar-a-Gulago.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 20, 2025 12:46 PM (CCOXM)
Come Now, the Nations’ Savior
12:35:09
Come Now, Ye Shepherds
12:36:49
Beside Thy Manger Here I Stand
12:38:37
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
12:44:10
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
https://www.fbcradio.org/
I just open another tab and play it softly in the background. Keeps me in mind of the season. There will be an occasional sermonett, which depending on your inclination, you can simply silence.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 12:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Case at December 20, 2025 12:47 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 20, 2025 12:42 PM (CCOXM)
To paraphrase another great man, Epstein is an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:48 PM (Q/0pn)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 20, 2025 12:46 PM (CCOXM)
LOL! That's a keeper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 12:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Case at December 20, 2025 12:47 PM (G1OIb)
If they're run by dems, nothing, usually. And they usually are.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 20, 2025 12:49 PM (ynpvh)
TORA TORA TORA
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 12:45 PM (Kt19C)
I didn't know they were Jewish.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:49 PM (Q/0pn)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at December 20, 2025 12:46 PM (CCOXM)
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That reminds me ...
I recently saw an image of DJT mingling with guests in the Mar a Lago ballroom/dining room and it struck me how closely it resembled the artist's conception of the new WH ballroom. Amazing!
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:49 PM (rj6Yv)
It's about -29F in this waiting room. Her Majesty is here for an exam, they've screwed up their staffing today and there's a big backlog of patients freezing to death.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 12:50 PM (RvZHk)
when, for example, would you see the headline "D.C. Police Chief Yells “F YOU!” to Her “Haters” as She Resigns in Disgrace" under Barky or Slo-Joe?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 12:51 PM (rbvCR)
Not long after his death, a small but very well financed and organized group attempted to stage an ideological and organizational takeover. The public faces of this attempt were Candace, Carlson, and Fuentes, but they had many allies.
But the effort is burning itself out, and Erica Kirk has maintained control. The reason for the infighting now is that all of those who supported the attempted takeover need to be booted out of TPUSA, and out of the so-called conservative movement for good, just as Bill Kristol and Rick Wilson and the other never Trumpers have been. That process is still playing out, and will in part depend on if Erica has the skills and nerve needed to run a tight ship. I’m optimistic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 12:51 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 12:50 PM (RvZHk)
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Keep a stiff upper lip. Chin chin!
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:51 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 20, 2025 12:45 PM (36PRH)
Go on.
Posted by: Rex Ryan at December 20, 2025 12:51 PM (Q/0pn)
I was miserable at the job although I liked several of my colleagues and I felt surprisingly sentimental at the end of the day yesterday, but management were Not nice people.
But it's such a phase shift that I think it will take me a few months to process it.
Posted by: Beverly at December 20, 2025 12:52 PM (reMys)
TORA TORA TORA
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 12:45 PM (Kt19C)
I didn't know they were Jewish.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:49 PM (Q/0pn)
There were Jews in China about a 1000 years ago...Look up Jews and Kaifeng or Kaifengfu...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 20, 2025 12:53 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Beverly at December 20, 2025 12:54 PM (reMys)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2025 12:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
You should be happy. Frigid temps keep the bacteria down. They do the same for operating rooms.
Posted by: Cold Storage at December 20, 2025 12:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
You should be happy. Frigid temps keep the bacteria down. They do the same for operating rooms.
Posted by: Cold Storage at December 20, 2025 12:54 PM (oftw2)
Natural outdoor freezer. Even the bears won't bother you this time of year...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 20, 2025 12:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:56 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 20, 2025 12:53 PM (ynpvh)
Are they the ones who built all those ancient structures Graham Hancock is always talking about?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2025 12:56 PM (Q/0pn)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 12:56 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 12:56 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Beverly at December 20, 2025 12:52 PM (reMys)
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Results may vary, but I noticed that as I approached the age of 65, my mail volume increased exponentially when the Medicare enrollment season approached.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 12:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Beverly
Congrats. I last worked for money August 20, 2007. Enjoyed every minute since. You will grow into it.
Posted by: Loafer In A Bakery at December 20, 2025 12:57 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 12:57 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Dagwood at December 20, 2025 12:58 PM (CC0N1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 12:58 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 12:58 PM (Ia/+0)
'Natural outdoor freezer. Even the bears won't bother you this time of year...'
Except polar bears. Fortunately, the closest one is at the zoo.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 12:59 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 12:59 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 01:00 PM (W7XSX)
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No, the real rich and powerful do it because they can
YES! At Long Last... a new dawn breaks.
They do it because they can, and WORSE, because they are truly not only Bored, but BORING and unimaginative -- the only real challenge and reward for them is the humble brag they can re-tell to their frenemies.
LUKE search your feelings, you know this is true.
"Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory" -- Shameless Politico THUG, Nancy Pelosi'09 in Red China.
They smile, and dare you to stop them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpyiN_8TeIs
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 20, 2025 01:01 PM (5GuuL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 01:01 PM (MoRvC)
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Assuming that you have the time, put in some voluteer time with an organization that you respect. My perspective is that I must be here to help others, I can think of no other reason...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 01:02 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Case at December 20, 2025 12:47 PM (G1OIb)
I don't believe that the federal statutes exclude states and state agencies in their scope. They may claim so, and it might go to the Supremes. Bernie Madoff got 150 years for 11 counts and he did not steal 9 Billion.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 01:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: mrp
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Spam calls. Deluged.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 01:03 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 01:03 PM (9ipOP)
The Week in Pictures at Powerline Blog
Not to be confused with TWiB, This Week in Baseball, with Mel Allen.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 20, 2025 01:04 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 01:05 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Beverly at December 20, 2025 12:52 PM (reMys)
Dad always said the guys that cleaned out their garage and had no other goals generally die within 2 years, so you better find something to do that engages you as much as your work did.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 20, 2025 01:05 PM (rbvCR)
I had just turned 5 years old and was walking towards a building I was informed held something called kindergarten. I had been there previously and what not impressed with the experience. For one thing, there were other kids there, and two they wanted to group me with those kids, screaming snotty kids. But at least there were parents to smack the kids around and I thought that would help. But as I approached the kindergarten fear set in, there were no parents, just hoards of screaming kids and a scant few tired adults. And so it began.
They were animals, could not read, could hardly talk, did not know about numbers, peed and pooped themselves. Oh, the smell! And their digestive systems were put in wrong because they couldn't keep from puking. I think there was a kid puking every five minutes. But the worst thing was these other kids were under the illusion that they were allowed to touch me. Which they tried to do all day long. Dirty pawing animals.
(cont.)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2025 01:07 PM (3uBP9)
I may not align with their beliefs (I did not annoy them by wishing them a Merry Christmas), but I do admire their evangelical enthusiasm. I took a Watchtower.
Good morning. Still drinking coffee.
Posted by: mindful webworker - warts and rumors of warts at December 20, 2025 01:07 PM (WB0Mb)
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Be very careful with what you spend your precious time doing, because you are probably going to get good at it.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 20, 2025 01:07 PM (0yLoC)
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Make keeping and improving your health a priority. Some physical activity every day even if it's just walking.
List all the things you wished you had more time to do when you were working and start doing the ones that appeal most to you now.
If the list includes travel, don't wait too long to start doing that.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 20, 2025 01:07 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 01:00 PM (W7XSX)
The Week in Pictures at the Power Line blog: https://tinyurl.com/mtxpsyyh
Posted by: SciVo at December 20, 2025 01:07 PM (Sy6m/)
But the day was finally over and after walking home I informed my mom that it was horrible and that I wouldn't be able to go back. And that was when I informed that life was about going to terrible places that you didn't want to be to hang around people you didn't want to be with. And I knew that day that I would have to do everything I could to retire from that.
Turns out I really suck at retiring. But someday when I'm 150 or so I think, it should be nice.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2025 01:09 PM (3uBP9)
Not to be That Guy, but if you study it a bit, it wasn't filmed in a single take. The person wearing a Santa costume moves to different places around the fire an the flames in the fire itself vary quite a bit. But it's quite enjoyable and has been masterfully edited.
Posted by: That Guy at December 20, 2025 01:09 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 20, 2025 01:09 PM (3YSNW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 01:01 PM (MoRvC)
AH Lloyd alluded to this earlier today. Simply put, the core problem with authoritarian dictatorships is that by banning all free speech and all criticism of authority, you allow all the constant corruptions and thieving and misrule to go unchecked, until it leads to the collapse of virtually everything. That’s a thumbnail sketch of what ended the Soviet Union.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 01:09 PM (0anTZ)
They'll fall apart before they invade Taiwan
Posted by: Smell the Glove
In alternate universe Taiwan invades you!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 01:10 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 01:01 PM (MoRvC)
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I've been watching laowhy86 and serpentza for many years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 01:11 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 01:12 PM (fd80v)
Donate time somewhere on a schedule
Do serious hobby stuff
Take time to see stuff even local you never saw before
Of course I am still working on my retirement, but hopefully will get to live to the not having to do something
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 01:12 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 01:12 PM (0anTZ)
Prayer request for my friend T. He is having some unrelenting (probably cancer treatment related) pain and needs comfort both physically and spiritually.
Pray hard. He’s in a bad place right now.
Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 01:12 PM (IhIKR)
(cont.)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2025 01:07 PM (3uBP9)
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Tell ... tell them about the "rug mats" and sleeping on the cold floor during "nap time". I stared at the tiles just inches from my face, knowing that, at any time, an adult, a stranger to my family, would bark an order that I had to obey or face the unspeakable consequences.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 01:13 PM (rj6Yv)
It's the only fair thing to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Chuck Shumer at December 20, 2025 01:14 PM (J9q9v)
As much as I would like to write that Sander's murder would be okay, no. This is the path to civil war.
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 01:14 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 01:12 PM (fd80v)
What makes you think the ASS troll isn't NF? They are both wretched faggots.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 01:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Fa-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra at December 20, 2025 01:16 PM (oftw2)
'What makes you think the ASS troll isn't NF? They are both wretched faggots.'
Then his reply will be telling.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 01:17 PM (fd80v)
So, in my case, I got it before Christmas. I gave Publius a new wallet a week ago. His old one tore after about 75 years. j/k, maybe 20.
Mama's going to wait until Christmas Eve. I bought a big wicker basket with a high arching handle, and I'm filling it with various goodies, imported Italian cookies and pastries, some things to keep her warm and the first three novels in another detective series for her to fall in love with, I hope. She's sucked the juices out of Donna Leon.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 20, 2025 01:18 PM (w6EFb)
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Bewbs bouncing > Checks bouncing
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 01:18 PM (WGeqj)
The sin and its remedy.
If you lose your faith, pray for it. If you despair, pray for hope. I you are joyless, pray for joy.
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 01:19 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Look, Fat, you grow up a poor coal miner's kid in Scranton, you get your sustenance any way you can.
Posted by: Paste-eating Joe at December 20, 2025 01:19 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 01:21 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 01:21 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 01:22 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Wenda at December 20, 2025 01:22 PM (cRhQI)
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Bewbs bouncing > Checks bouncing
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 01:18 PM (WGeqj)
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Back in the day, the AoSHQ meme generator was cranking out trampoline bouncing as a hot topic.
Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2025 01:23 PM (rj6Yv)
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I've gotten t-shirts, mugs, glassware, etc. from the guy who owns the liquor store I frequent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 01:23 PM (NwnyJ)
"Shirt" is street lingo for weed. It's called a mule drop...
Posted by: Sgt. Stedanko at December 20, 2025 01:24 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Fa-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra at December 20, 2025 01:16 PM (oftw2)
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Going to Hunan Palace for Christmas dinner was a blast when I was a kid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 01:24 PM (WGeqj)
'Just read in the NY Post that the Brown president makes $3.1m a year. Cut all student aid and that crap stops real quickly'
You don't feel that she's worth that much?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 01:24 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: olddog
He’s OUR friend. Horde. Please hold him tight.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 01:24 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Joe from DE at December 20, 2025 01:25 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 01:25 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: olddog
He’s OUR friend. Horde. Please hold him tight.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 01:24 PM (IhIKR)
Prayers
Posted by: It's me donna at December 20, 2025 01:26 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 20, 2025 01:24 PM (fd80v)
If leftists were paid what they are worth, most would starve to death.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 01:26 PM (npFr7)
It will be called "BBQing with Uncle Chucky".
Posted by: Chuck Schumer at December 20, 2025 01:27 PM (YnF8s)
Mule? Pretty sure they use real beef.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 01:28 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
And you don't find this worrisome at all?
Posted by: Friend of Bill at December 20, 2025 01:28 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Wenda at December 20, 2025 01:22 PM (cRhQI)
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Hoo boy I can tell what raising him must have been like.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 01:29 PM (IC093)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 01:31 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 20, 2025 01:34 PM (3/XaG)
The sin and its remedy.
If you lose your faith, pray for it. If you despair, pray for hope. I you are joyless, pray for joy.
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 01:19 PM (W7XSX)
This sounds like cope. Which rhymes with hope. Deny reality? I say nope.
Posted by: Pessimistic verse at December 20, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Wenda at December 20, 2025 01:37 PM (cRhQI)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 01:40 PM (Ia/+0)
"President Bernie Sanders". Has a nice ring to it.
Posted by: Bernie Sanders, Professional Layabout at December 20, 2025 01:40 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2025 01:41 PM (+mUZM)
Pray hard. He’s in a bad place right now.
Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 20, 2025 01:12 PM (IhIKR)
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A prayer for complete and immediate healing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 01:49 PM (A6iMD)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 20, 2025 01:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 20, 2025 01:56 PM (XeU6L)
Australia announces crackdown on “hate speech”
They’re about to start arresting people for memes like the UK
RIP…
X video: https://bit.ly/4jbHHoP
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 01:57 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)
This is why I don't believe in any of these content creators, because they have to put out BS like this to get attention. Also, how does this square with all the "polls" out there showing the young generation are supporting socialism. Are churches now leading young people to socialism? Considering many churches push illegal immigration and global warming and other nonsense, it wouldn't surprise me.
Fox News @FoxNews
“Right now in America, we are witnessing a miracle. This generation — young generation — believes in God and is going to church at higher rates than their parents.”
“That’s never happened before in the history of all civilization. That is incredible.” - @bennyjohnson
X video: https://bit.ly/45lY10m
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 02:19 PM (P5BPp)
And what did the military use in the strike? Well, among other things, they rolled out the A-10. The vengeance machine.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2025 02:32 PM (/cpaV)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 03:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 04:58 PM (viF8m)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
[H/T Sharon (Willow's Apprentice)]
2) Be kind, be nice. He's checking his list twice or something like that.
3) No running with sharp objects. None. Nada. Zilch.
4) The Fabulous and I wish you a Merry Christmas from the Frozen Tundra.
5) Have a great weekend!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 11/6 - D sent an update on his wife Susan, and her battle with cancer. He sent his thanks to everyone for the prayers. They are helping and much appreciated. Susan had an infection which is being treated, but her sodium levels are bad again. She will be sent home soon, but is on restrictive fluids until this is cleared up. The good news is that she has gained some weight back and her voice is much stronger now. Thank you, and please keep up the prayers. They appreciate everyone!
11/20 Update – Susan is out of the hospital, after 2 weeks. For the first time in months, she doesn’t have any drainage tubes. Chemo is on hold for the next 2 weeks, to give her time to rest, recover, and gain some weight back. Thank you, everyone, for your prayers – please continue them!
12/18 Update – Susan has been receiving IV antibiotics at home for the last few weeks. Thankfully her white count is back to normal, and she was able to start chemo again. Some of that cancer did come back, in the meantime, but they think it will be knocked back down now. She has been having abdominal pains. Thank you, everybody, for your prayers. 11/15 – Smell the Glove asked for prayers for an 81 year-old aunt who has colon cancer. She is stopping chemo, since it’s not working and it’s tiring her out. Doctors will determine if any other treatment is proper.
11/29 Update – Thank you all for the prayers. The good Lord had another plan and the aunt passed away. She had taught at a Catholic school for over 20 years, raised 3 daughters and had 8 grandchildren. She also babysat Smell the Glove the first couple of years of life. 11/15 – Sponge posted an update on the “First lady”. She is doing OK from the surgery pain-wise, however it appears her compromised immune system from chemo is susceptible to viruses. She has been spiking a fever all weekend.
12/13 Update – The First lady is doing well. She is still on restrictions but things are progressing nicely. The last mammogram showed clean. They are grateful to all who have been praying for her. 11/20 - Bluebell sent an update on grammie winger - good news! At her appointment, the doctor said her bloodwork is nearly perfect and her cancer cell count is dropping. She is in minimal pain. The chemo is working, thanks be to God! She will go back in 3 weeks for another round of chemo and then they will do a CT scan to see if she can have surgery to clean out the rest of the tumors. She is convinced – CONVINCED – that this is due in no small part to the treasured prayers of friends and family! They gave her weeks, and now she is looking at possible remission.
12/17 Update – Bluebell sent along another update from grammie winger. She has had 4 rounds of chemo, which have fried her short term memory (her words) and caused great fatigue. She was scheduled for surgery this week, but the doctor decided she was too weak, so she will continue with chemo until she is stronger. She apologized for not being around much because she can’t follow conversations, but is praying that will get better once her chemo is over. In the meantime, she wishes to share her Christmas greetings with the “motley crew”, and she appreciates every prayer. 11/22 – Duke Lowell posted an update. He said that he is gradually starting to feel normal again, two months after his surgery. The main problem is that the effects of anesthesia are still suppressing his appetite. 11/22 – Commissar Hrothgar posted prayers for President Trump, to keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught. 11/22 – Oddbob requested prayers. He found out that his job is going away the end of December. They are a one-income family. He also requested prayers for another co-worker, who is in the same situation. 11/22 – Cosda sent an update on his wife’s condition. She started a year of immunotherapy in June for cancer. She is doing well with her treatments every three weeks, but her follow up dermatology scan found another mole with melanoma and 2 other abnormal and suspicious spots. She will be having more tissue removed from those areas for lab tests. Prayers are appreciated. 11/22 – The Walking Dude sent an update. We prayed for his mom in August, when she fell and broke her hip. She is 90 years old. She is still in the hospital but has been transferred to a better rehab run by the Masons. They are unsure if she will ever get out. Please pray for her recovery and return home. 11/24 – Bulg requested prayers for a neighbor who has cancer, and also prayers for his son and two of his friends, who are moving into a rental house in Arlington, VA on 11/28. Prayers for the 3 of them, that they may live together contentedly, and prayers for Bulg and his wife as they adjust to their son’s absence.
11/26 Update – The neighbor passed away on 11/24. Prayers are needed for the neighbor’s husband, Steve, as he grieves. They had no children. 11/29 – From about That Time asked for prayers after a lymphoma diagnosis. From about That Time has already begun chemo, and the kids and granddaughter had fun cutting off a ponytail and shaving hair in preparation.
12/13 Update – The first week of chemo was “like buttah”, but the second week was spent in the hospital, dealing with side effects. 12/1 – P received news that her 24 year old daughter has changed her name to a male name and had “top surgery”. P needs wisdom as to how to speak to her, and also how to speak with P’s other children, in a loving but honest way. Also, that God will use this to turn all their hearts back to Him. 12/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She had an MRI on 12/3, and will meet with the oncologist on 12/4, the surgeon on 12/8, and the surgery on 12/11. This is a good thing, because it looks like more tumors are starting to crop up in her liver. It doesn’t appear to have spread beyond there yet, thank goodness.
12/12 Update – Teresa’s liver is still intact, and she will be going home with a HAI pump inside her liver, which will provide medication in a more targeted attack against the cancer.
12/13 Update – Teresa is up and around, recovering fairly quickly from surgery.
12/18 Update – Teresa will have a “pump fill” on Friday, then head out of town. (The fill is just Heparin and saline to keep the pump flowing for the next 2 weeks.) After they are back, the pump will have the new chemo medication. The best Christmas present is, if this pump works, she could go 2-3 YEARS before worrying about the cancer coming back. It is truly a Christmas miracle. She wrote that they are blessed to have such stellar medical care nearby and so many people saying prayers on their behalf. 12/4 – E asked for prayers as she will be having surgery in two weeks. She is nervous, but everyone she has spoken with has nothing but good things to say about the surgeon, and she is looking forward to being on the other side of it. Please pray that all will go according to God’s will and that His name will be glorified. 12/6 – M requested prayers for Ron and Sherri. Ron has late stage Parkinson’s/dementia, and he recently fell and shattered his hip. He also requested prayers for Al, who fell through a railing and then down 12 feet, and broke seven ribs. He also punctured his lung. He is home now, recovering. 12/6 – Comrade Flounder asked for prayers for his FIL, who went to the hospital for AFIB, congestive heart, and received two stents. FIL is home now, still short of breath, and has a long road ahead. He is a kind-hearted man and a loving father. Comrade Flounder’s wife lost her mother a few years back to brain cancer, so having this go on is even more difficult during the holidays. 12/6 – neverenoughcaffeine asked for prayers for Tim, an acquaintance through church. He has prostate cancer and begins 28 days straight of radiation. 12/6 – pawn asked for prayers for a dear friend named Julia, who was told by her doctors that she has very little time to live. Julia has an incredible mind and drive. She was a Naval officer, a college professor, a competitive sailor, and a mother. She went to the hospital with pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and left with a terminal illness diagnosis. Please pray to God to give her the strength she needs in these last few days, and the peace that comes from acceptance. 12/12 – Bulg requested prayers for his wife’s brother’s wife, whose dementia has taken a turn for the worse. This week she entered a memory care facility. He asks for prayers for her, Bulg’s brother-in-law, and their two grown daughters. Bulg also asked for prayers for a woman from church who has cancer, and the woman’s granddaughter, who lives with her. 12/13 – Our Country is Screwed asked for prayers for a dear friend’s 3 week old granddaughter who is battling meningitis. They are waiting on results from and MRI. Another friend’s wife is having kidney issues. She has only one kidney, and it isn’t functioning well. 12/13 – San Franpsycho requested prayers for Mrs. F, who sprained her foot due to a fall on 12/12. 12/13 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for retired organist Jessie, for strength and for her to feel God’s love. In the past month Jessie’s daughter has died from cancer, as have her two closest friends from church, whom she had known about 85 years. 12/13 – Schnorflepuppy asked for prayers for his wife. She was diagnosed a few weeks back with inflammatory breast cancer and started chemo on 12/2. On 12/3 she spiked a 104 fever and had to be brought to the hospital, where they discovered pneumonia. She has been in ICU for most of the week, to get her enough oxygen and work on the pneumonia. She is improving, but slowly. 12/16 – Jim in Kalifornia sent an update that surgery went well, and his thanks for the prayers. 12/16 – Banana Dream asked for prayers for his wife, who is having surgery on 12/17 to remove pins, steel, hardware, etc. that was put in a year ago after a really bad break of her ankle. The hardware has caused various nerve issues and inflammation over the last year, so the surgeons will be removing it.
12/17 Update – Banana Dream sent his thanks to everyone who offered prayers for his wife’s surgery. It went well. The surgeon removed most of the hardware. There was one part that was too fused with the bone, so it had to stay in. She is doing well. In about 2 weeks, she should be able to walk and then in 6-8 weeks she should be fine. 12/17 – Annie’s Stew sends thanks to God for notsothoreau, who sends many, many prayer requests from the various comments and postings. Notsothoreau is so diligent and such a sweet person! 12/17 – Weird Dave requested prayers. His parents have realized they need to move to assisted living, but they are 1500 miles from Weird Dave. Prayers for clarity on how to make the necessary changes as efficiently as possible, as well as to find the best place for his parents, that will also work for the entire family. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 07:11 AM (W7XSX)
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Posted by: Lincolntf at December 20, 2025 07:16 AM (O6icp)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2025 07:16 AM (tljrc)
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Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:18 AM (Ia/+0)
I didn't realize the Coffee Thread started so early; I thought it was not for another hour. Fine by me!
I'm on my third small cup of the Cafe El Morro espresso-type Aldi sells. $3.25 for 8.8 oz, so $7.50 nets you more than a pound. I try always to have a brick in reserve in the cabinet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 07:18 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 20, 2025
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Keep an eye out for that partial statue with the torch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 07:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 20, 2025 07:20 AM (Cjt/F)
And Weirddave, good luck with your parents' move. From what I know based on my experience and that of my friends, the hardest thing is convincing the parents that they need to move and accept help. After that it's a lot of hard work, but worth it.
Posted by: bluebell at December 20, 2025 07:20 AM (79pEw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 07:21 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2025 07:22 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 07:22 AM (NwnyJ)
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 07:26 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 20, 2025
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Tell us about it.
Posted by: Donner et al, sweating along with Santa at December 20, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 20, 2025 07:32 AM (MolB1)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:33 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tuna at December 20, 2025 07:33 AM (lJ0H4)
I loved the line in Fatman with Mel Gibson. When one of the reindeer nips a visitor to the stable, Kris says, "Be glad it wasn't Donner. She'd rip your package right off."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 07:34 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2025 07:36 AM (u82oZ)
A catch 22
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:37 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: bluebell at December 20, 2025 07:39 AM (79pEw)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)
https://youtu.be/R9T2H8QJjlw
Reveillez-Vous
Peter White
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2025 07:41 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2025 07:43 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: bluebell at December 20, 2025 07:46 AM (79pEw)
Annie's Stew helps make this smart military blog, filled with outsized opinions, good people, and deep knowledge, an exceptional tribe.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
On dancer, on prancer, on donner and vixen, time to get santa back to the prison...
Posted by: Ghetto Santa at December 20, 2025 07:47 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: No Math But at December 20, 2025 07:50 AM (nK972)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2025 07:50 AM (u82oZ)
Haven't been here in a great while. I started by reading through the prayer list. Prayers up for all listed, and for those who have not asked.
Grammie, chemo-brain is a real thing! I didn't think it was real until it happened to me. Couldn't concentrate enough to read books or at it's worst, watch TV. Total attention-deficit like behavior!
Rest assured, it does fade away and get back to normal.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 20, 2025 07:50 AM (WE0m7)
Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2025 07:51 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 07:51 AM (bQ4nt)
Amen.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 20, 2025 07:51 AM (7v6oI)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:53 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 07:54 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 20, 2025 07:55 AM (WE0m7)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 07:55 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 20, 2025 07:55 AM (WE0m7)
Arts and crafts for a very small miniature game for day after Christmas
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:56 AM (Ia/+0)
I know this one - Merry Christmas Peace on Earth to Men of Goodwill
Posted by: Is that right? at December 20, 2025 07:58 AM (nK972)
Posted by: Tuna at December 20, 2025 07:33 AM (lJ0H4)
Thanks for the reminder- "Remember" is one of my favorites as well! Highly recommended.
Prayers up for all. You are a blessing to so many.
I'll add my thanks to Annie's Stew and NST.
Posted by: sal at December 20, 2025 07:58 AM (f+FmA)
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I can only imagine how different it feels without her there. But she is there with you! I'm a firm believer in that. And she's probably laughing at your decorating skills.
Much love to you as you navigate Christmas without her.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2025 07:58 AM (qBdHI)
Lily Beagle is in hospital with pancreatitis, it's mighty quiet around here without her. Hoping they spring her from hospital tomorrow.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2025 08:00 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Caffiend at December 20, 2025 08:01 AM (oftw2)
Prayers to all who need them and to all who need them and don't know it. God is the great healer.
Merry Christmas to each of you. May it be a time of fond remembrance if needed and a time of joy for all!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 20, 2025 08:02 AM (47diA)
Same, Skip! I've officially joined the 65 year-old club, but not quite ready to hang up the job title. Maybe a couple more years, God-willing!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 20, 2025 08:02 AM (WE0m7)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 08:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Prayers said for all of you.
Special mentions:
E, I hope your surgery went as hoped and you can give us a positive update this morning. Prayers continue.
Schnorflepuppy, prayers continue for your wife--I hope she's feeling better this week.
And, Hiya, JT.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2025 08:07 AM (h7ZuX)
The town is going to get an earful.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2025 08:09 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2025 08:12 AM (+mUZM)
Lord Willing Peace for all.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2025 08:14 AM (gbOdA)
Prayers for all the horde in need
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 08:15 AM (znREB)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Ok by me if I don't have to drive in or shovel the snow!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 20, 2025 08:16 AM (WE0m7)
My first Christmas without my wife, as well. She did all the decorating, too. I haven't done anything. Maybe next year.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 08:18 AM (Y1sOo)
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 08:18 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Mick at December 20, 2025 08:22 AM (HFx9z)
You get to drive or walk around and enjoy them, but you don't have to put them up, take them down, maintain, or store them.
Kinda like boats.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)
Always assume the mic is hot.
"While you’re down there, would you mind blowing me?"
Funny, though.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 08:23 AM (Y1sOo)
I'm only home on weekends because I stay with Mom, and neither I nor Mr. Dmlw! wanted to go through it this year. It will be Christmas, regardless.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2025 08:24 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 20, 2025 08:25 AM (wtPTj)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 08:04 AM (Ia/+0)
I've been working in IT for over 40 years. In a little over 2 years, I'll be 62 and I'm hanging my hat up. All done with computers. Thoughts are that I go get my CDL and drive a bus or do OTR for a couple of years then find a comfie chair, sit on the porch and watch the world go by.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 20, 2025 08:27 AM (7v6oI)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)
Pools fit in this category
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 20, 2025 08:28 AM (/6GbT)
It's a bit subdued here. My wife and I are both struggling a little with health related issues, nothing serious, but it's kept us from doing much decorating inside.
Daughter and family will be here sometime in the afternoon on Christmas Day. It'll be wild.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 08:28 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2025 08:12 AM (+mUZM)
It's a great thing that you do!
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 08:31 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 08:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2025 08:32 AM (98kQX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2025 08:24 AM (h7ZuX)
True.
Haven't decorated in many years. I do miss it, though. Used to go crazy with a tree in every room. Kids thought it was fun.
Now I hold the decorations from my childhood that are stored here since mom passed...this will be the 3rd Christmas she's gone. Time really flies. Anyway, my goal is to be more organized and decorate for next year's Christmas.
Bless you Dmlw for taking care of your mom
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 20, 2025 08:33 AM (WE0m7)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 20, 2025 08:35 AM (WE0m7)
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$6.50 would like a word with you too
Posted by: No Math But at December 20, 2025
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Ah! Even better.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 08:36 AM (wzUl9)
Well, technically that's not entirely true. We have a small, artificial tree with lights for "ambiance" in the den. It has every White House Christmas ornament from Trump's first administration, and this years on it. Plus some gold ornaments. Looks like you'd expect a "Trump tree" to look.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 08:37 AM (NwnyJ)
b"h Mrs. F. is healing well and almost back to 100%
{grammie}
Hiya JT
Also, iirc Sponge's FiL had a fall with injury this week.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:37 AM (9ipOP)
Hmmm, in a 25 year career involving working in several different facets of my profession, I've had a few days where I thought I did something pretty cool or interesting. Most days I pray for God to send his Holy Asteroid before I reach the parking lot. I've probably got a long road to go before I retire, assuming I last that long, but if I had the money today I could walk away and not miss it for a second. I've got about a billion other things that interest me to keep my brain and body active.
Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2025 08:39 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 07:54 AM (bQ4nt)
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Mazel tov!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:39 AM (9ipOP)
1. The money.
2. Daytime television.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)
LOL
Kill your tv!
*afore it kills you
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2025 08:39 AM (h7ZuX)
"Your Light will come, Jerusalem,
the Lord will dawn on you in radiant beauty."
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 08:39 AM (tcsrY)
Posted by: pookysgirl, still a bit nervous at December 20, 2025 08:40 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Skip
You’re very lucky. What I like to do doesn’t pay me but makes me pay them.
35 years of hating every minute of my job before I retired. But I’m glad I had it and learned a lot that benefited me outside the workplace.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 08:41 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2025 08:42 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:42 AM (9ipOP)
Mostly reason to keep working, besides money, is I like doing what I do.
I still work, for certain definitions of "work". I have a little LLC (great for burying things for tax purposes) and do contract work searching patents for a firm on the West Coast. It keeps my brain active and earns some pin money.
I've been working for the last month on the worst job I've ever had. Four searches on some patent applications from the client with first claims so broad that just about anything can fit in them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 08:43 AM (tgvbd)
Please know that all your prayers, and the prayers of others, are what has sustained me. God listens and has extended His grace upon me. Thank you ever so much.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 08:45 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 08:46 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 20, 2025 08:47 AM (UONii)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 08:47 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 07:54 AM (bQ4nt)
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May God continue to bless you. Congratulations!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 08:47 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, still a bit nervous at December 20, 2025 08:40 AM (Wt5PA)
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Fabulous news!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:47 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 08:48 AM (SfhV1)
Please know that all your prayers, and the prayers of others, are what has sustained me. God listens and has extended His grace upon me. Thank you ever so much.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 08:45 AM (SfhV1)
Can't say I've got much influence Upstairs, but it can't hurt any.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 08:48 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Billy Jeff at December 20, 2025 08:48 AM (2fEfy)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 20, 2025 08:48 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 08:49 AM (RuTUS)
Rules to remember at any public event
1) Always assume the mic is live
2) Always assume the camera is on you
In the twilight of my life, my last ambition is not to "go viral".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 08:50 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Rural Fellow at December 20, 2025 08:50 AM (UZlJN)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:50 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: The Huge Manatee!! at December 20, 2025 08:51 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 08:51 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 08:52 AM (kOluj)
*smooths down cowlick*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:50 AM (9ipOP)
*hands grammie a milkshake*
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 08:52 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 20, 2025 08:52 AM (UONii)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 08:53 AM (9ipOP)
pookysgirl, congratulations on the pending lil pooky.
Hadrian, have any of your pups had pancreatitis? So far 2 different vet offices haven't given me a solid reason for her condition. That said, she's allergic to many foods and we just changed her dry food since her former food company went out of business. One vet suspects the food change.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2025 08:54 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 08:54 AM (DoBxX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 20, 2025 08:54 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Shabbos Goy at December 20, 2025 08:54 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2025 08:55 AM (V73VQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 08:56 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 08:56 AM (znREB)
Posted by: Lyrics to ponder at December 20, 2025 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)
In 2009 my mom passed away on Dec14th. That's Hubbymayhem birthday. I didn't give a damn about Christmas that year and just wanted it over. Mom loved Christmas and decorated everything! Hubbymayhem and the kids said "we have to decorate! Mom would be disappoint if we didn't!". I agreed to putting up the tree but that's all! and went upstairs to avoid the hoopla. They did all of the decorations! Not just the tree, everything. I spent every day hating the decorations and wanting to burn them. The next year was better.
Time heals the heart.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 08:56 AM (2J/Lj)
“Gross National Product” can make a return as well. “Domestic” sounds faggy and vaguely commie, which was probably the point anyhow
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2025 08:57 AM (V73VQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 08:57 AM (MoRvC)
"Yes. She was a magnificent beast."
-- TE Lawrence to his editor, about his camel's name.
You start with these languages with no vowels, and pretty soon...
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 20, 2025 08:58 AM (zdLoL)
Isaiah 7:14
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2025 08:58 AM (zfkPG)
I forgot how much I love it there. Will miss the coffee! every morning a nice ceramic mug of traditional coffee
saw many pretty fishes - more than the last time we were down there. the reefs look better!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2025 09:00 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2025 09:00 AM (zfkPG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 09:01 AM (9ipOP)
One of very few left I remember from my earliest times here. And one of, if not thee best.
You gave us "...in the history of things happening" and **drum roll**
BALL ONE!!! CUBS WIN!!!
And brought faith in our Lord and Savior!!!
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2025 09:01 AM (T08Hw)
God With Us. What mercy and grace we have been given.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:01 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:01 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:01 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 09:02 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Shabbos Goy at December 20, 2025 08:54 AM (oftw2)
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A literal transliteration would be Chanukah
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 09:03 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 09:04 AM (2J/Lj)
I'm not watching as fast as I can.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 09:04 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:04 AM (SfhV1)
For those games when there are more stadium workers than fans in attendance.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 20, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 09:05 AM (tcsrY)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 20, 2025 09:05 AM (cS1cw)
So I gave them the background: It’s because Rick Wilson 10 years ago thought he was going to be some Big Swinging Dick in conservative organizations. Then he went all Never Trump and joined up with Bill Kristol and the other losers, and now nobody even remembers who Wilson is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 09:05 AM (0anTZ)
oh yes!
do the eagles play? I'm wayyyyy out of the loop
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2025 09:06 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 09:06 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Mick at December 20, 2025 09:07 AM (HFx9z)
“ Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”
Isaiah 46:4
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2025 09:07 AM (zfkPG)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 20, 2025 09:06 AM (emBoF)
I'm not sure. I know they usually start Saturday games towards the end of the season leading into the plaayoffs.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:07 AM (SfhV1)
A game just before the MLB players strike was my last MLB game I ever watched.
The game just prior to NFL players kneeling was the last NFL game I ever watched.
Fortunately I didn't wait for an WNBA strike.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 20, 2025 09:07 AM (a4flb)
The management is quite inept whoever it is.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 20, 2025 09:07 AM (cS1cw)
Posted by: WNBA stadium workers at December 20, 2025 09:07 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2025 09:08 AM (T08Hw)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 09:08 AM (viF8m)
Trump Directs NASA to Return Astronauts to the Moon by 2028
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:08 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: pookysgirl, still a bit nervous at December 20, 2025 08:40 AM (Wt5PA)
Pookysgirl -
In a world filled with darkness and bad news, this is such great news! Congratulations. The world needs more junior Morons.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 20, 2025 09:09 AM (7v6oI)
He got himself confused with his wife's bull.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 20, 2025 09:09 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Auspex at December 20, 2025 09:09 AM (4Uno2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 09:03 AM (9ipOP)
On the Enterprise they celebrate KHAAAANNN! -ukah.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 09:09 AM (0anTZ)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 20, 2025 09:09 AM (cS1cw)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:10 AM (SfhV1)
The local college had their own radio station too, but insisted on pre-empting everything for football and basketball. Why don’t their broadcast their stuff on their stuff? I suspect money might have changed hands somewhere in this arrangement.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2025 09:10 AM (V73VQ)
I would listen.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:12 AM (SfhV1)
Prayers for all. Maybe for those who remember, I should tack on...
LEOFB
Posted by: TeeJ at December 20, 2025 09:12 AM (T08Hw)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 09:12 AM (0anTZ)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:04 AM
{{{{{{grammie}}}}} !!! It's great to see you!
Are you so excited you're breaking out Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk soup for halftime?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 09:12 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:12 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 20, 2025 09:13 AM (cS1cw)
Note well that he didn’t mention anything about “.. and returned safely to Earth”.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2025 09:13 AM (V73VQ)
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at December 20, 2025 09:13 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 09:12 AM (0sNs1)
End of first quarter.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:13 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 09:13 AM (9ipOP)
*Imagine siding with Bill Krystol.*
Hey, Rick Wilson, don't be a schnook. It's not how you feel, it's HOW YOU LOOK!
And you look mahvalus dahling!
Posted by: Oh, wait. That's Billy Crystal. at December 20, 2025 09:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:14 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 09:09 AM (0anTZ)
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On the door they hang a Wreath of Khan.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 09:15 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 20, 2025 09:16 AM (cS1cw)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at December 20, 2025 09:16 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2025 09:13 AM (V73VQ)
I think along these lines every time I see that China is fired up about sending someone to the moon. I’m sure they could get them there, but I wonder if they realize that getting them back is the really hard part.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 09:17 AM (0anTZ)
Japan to Begin Importing U.S.-Made Toyotas Following Talks With Trump
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:17 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2025 09:10 AM (V73VQ)
That reminded me of the covid bullshit when ESPN was scraping the bottom of the barrel for some "sport" event to broadcast. I never watch that network outside of the local Mexican restaurant. We were having dinner there and ESPN was on and broadcasting a corn hole tournament, A belly flop competition, and some competition involving rolling a marble through an obstacle course to see which marble gets the farthest and fastest. It was literally the most entertaining thing ESPN has ever broadcast!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 09:17 AM (2J/Lj)
That happens once the college football regular season is complete.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 09:18 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:19 AM (KDPiq)
“Gross National Product” can make a return as well. “Domestic” sounds faggy and vaguely commie, which was probably the point anyhow.
Posted by: Common Tater
Interesting. I thought it had always been gdp, but it chamged in '91.
GNP vs. GDP: What’s the Difference?
The shift was essentially a change in focus from "Who is producing?" to "Where is it being produced?"
That sounds like they wanted to hide all the off shoring the MBAs had foisted on us.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 09:19 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Soy Boy at December 20, 2025 09:19 AM (oftw2)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)
Note well that he didn’t mention anything about “.. and returned safely to Earth”.
Posted by: Common Tater
________
That's because Katy Perry and Gayle King are slated for that one.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2025 09:20 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:20 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 09:02 AM
$20 same as under the bleachers.
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 09:21 AM (yPhso)
Never give up hope, for He is with us always.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2025 09:21 AM (zfkPG)
Posted by: Soy Boy
What the fuck is Indiana Fever? I've lived in Indiana my whole life and have never heard of this... whatever it is.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 09:21 AM (2J/Lj)
"The Toyota Hilux is set to launch in the U.S. for the 2026 model year, featuring a 201-horsepower turbo-diesel engine and a starting price of $32,000. This marks the first time the Hilux will be available in the American market, where it is expected to compete with other midsize trucks."
(That's from some generic AI search engine.)
That sound you hear is guys everywhere rejoicing.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 09:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2025 09:22 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 09:22 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 09:21 AM (2J/Lj)
Like Montezuma's Revenge but from White People foods.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2025 09:23 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:23 AM (KDPiq)
I also just realized how ignored the WNBA is. When I type in any other pro league they are automatically capitalized by the keyboard. The WNBA is not.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:25 AM (MoRvC)
I can't post it here and maintain opsec.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Proton.me or gmx.com create a free throw away account, use your nic here as the user name.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 09:26 AM (QVmho)
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Walzing Minnesota, Walzing Minnesota
"You'll come a Walzing Minnesota0 with me!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:27 AM (L/fGl)
"The Toyota Hilux is set to launch in the U.S. for the 2026 model year, featuring a 201-horsepower turbo-diesel engine and a starting price of $32,000
Finally. Hopefully 4WD, as the Good Lord intended.
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 09:28 AM (yPhso)
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I read a post a couple days ago that seemed to imply some of the Artemis flights, maybe not that one, would be "optionally manned."
Wiggle room in case the 'experts' are not sure about its safety.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 09:29 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 09:23 KAM (KDPiq)
Let's not be silly here! We can't use reliable, proven technology that was developed by white men who smoked and had wives!!! We have to build all new stuff so women and minorities and lgbtxyz freaks can feel "seen" while they ignore it all!
Anywho... Serious question here...
How long can the astronauts live on the moon? Has that ever been determined?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2025 09:30 AM (2J/Lj)
The WNBA gets nothing! Entitled lesbians are so cliche.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 20, 2025 09:30 AM (cS1cw)
1. He's like a Swiss Army knife...
2. He has a chance to play on Sundays...
3. Get it to third down and manageable...
4. He leads the team in TFL's...
5. His motor is always running...
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 09:31 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:31 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 09:19 AM (QVmho)
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Yes, I was in college when the shift happened and it was because "national" economic output was increasingly taking place outside the nation.
As a measure of national economic output/strength, having your overseas subsidiaries make stuff doesn't really say much about what the actual country can do.
Also: academics like to change terminology regularly to make themselves feel elite. "Oh, you still use that measurement? You're old."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 09:31 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 20, 2025 09:30 AM (cS1cw)
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If they stop playing, their ratings won't change.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 09:32 AM (A0sqA)
Vegas has Dems 3 to 1 favs on retaking the House
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 20, 2025 09:33 AM (3YSNW)
Prayers up for all who need or want. I'm turning over, tucking in, and grabbing five minutes more.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 20, 2025 09:33 AM (sl73Y)
1. He's like a Swiss Army knife...
2. He has a chance to play on Sundays...
3. Get it to third down and manageable...
4. He leads the team in TFL's...
5. His motor is always running...
Posted by: muldoon
Flyers Suspend Radio Play-By-Play Announcer Tim Saunders for Inappropriate Remark on Hot Mic
The remark in question.
https://is.gd/tqNuT4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:34 AM (L/fGl)
So, the wonderful and exploratory Mrs naturalfake decided she wanted to try out one of the little laser projectors with preloaded Christmas iconography to project on your house.
Since they only cost a buck fiddy* thru Amazon...sure! Why not?
I didn't expect much but ackshuallee, it's kinda and bright and goes with the season.
The downside? It's rather small with a shortish (9ft) cord, so unless you buy several (probably 4-6 then extension cords) you can't cover the whole front of your house. Still nice enough if you're just looking for something to fill in that "blank" patch.
BEWARE: This is some kind of LED laser and is VERY BRIGHT. I found this out when I plugged it in and found it was aimed at my face.
Be careful or you'll be blind for Christmas.
FUN FACT: "I'm Going Blind For Christmas" is the worst Christmas carol ever!!!
*Weelllll, it's a bit more than a buck fiddy. Just a bit over two buck fiddy. 😀
Posted by: naturalfake at December 20, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 09:36 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 09:36 AM (yPhso)
Australia Starts Mandatory Hanukkah Menorah Buyback Program
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2025 09:39 AM (L/fGl)
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"Because I'm foreign enough, I'm dishonest enough, and Gosh Darn it, people dislike me."
Daily Affirmations with Stuart Somali.
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 09:39 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2025 09:40 AM (Wnv9h)
Playing from "behind the chains" enters the chat
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 09:40 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 09:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Blessings on all of God's children this Saturday before Christmas.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 20, 2025 09:41 AM (kB9dk)
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You are correct, sir! Added.
6. Tush push and all variations (Brotherly Shove, etc.)
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 09:41 AM (/iMjX)
So many cows.
Posted by: GKWVE at December 20, 2025 09:42 AM (rES6C)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 09:42 AM (Ia/+0)
Reiner made great and funny movies, but it is often the case that beloved artists have a darker side, and while engaging on screen or in writing, are vicious in person. It is also true that people can be kind to strangers and friends, but merciless on their family. My paternal grandfather was outwardly a pious, generous man, attended Mass every day, and his financial success was turned to building up his parish. He doted on his grandkids and had tons of friends. But his kids loathed him.
Let this be a lesson to us all. It's fun to comment on events, but we need to retain a sense of joy and gratitude lest we become the very thing we mock.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 20, 2025 09:43 AM (kB9dk)
Also: academics like to change terminology regularly to make themselves feel elite. "Oh, you still use that measurement? You're old."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)
___________
*Purchasing Power Parity has entered the chat*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 09:43 AM (tgvbd)
Yes, I was in college when the shift happened and it was because "national" economic output was increasingly taking place outside the nation.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I wasn't able to start college until '92, and didn't get any finance or business admin type of classes until grad school in mid '96. That's why it kind of surprised me. Someone is always trying to rewrtie history to position themselves over others i guess.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 09:43 AM (QVmho)
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The “Recreate ‘68” mission was scheduled for 2017, but the module has s fooked.
I mentioned this before, but one of the big problems they had in ‘64 was overheating of thrusters, swelling of teflon seals, and obstruction of the thrusters. It is very difficult to test, because the vacuum of space is much different. The Apollo Oral History project with a Marquardt contractor engineer talks about this.
You’ll never guess what the failure is now, 60 years later. Fucking verbatim. Overheating of thrusters. Swelling of teflon seals, and obstruction of the thrusters. Plus they probably outlawed asbestos.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2025 09:43 AM (dgu/T)
Playing from "behind the chains" enters the chat
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 09:40 AM
Well, the ‘announcers’ don’t have much else to offer, except bullshirt.
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 09:44 AM (yPhso)
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7. behind the chains
8. leveraging on the boundary
9. dialing up the heat
10. Good "no-call"
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX)
I prefer the weekend threads precisely because the temperature is lower and we talk about things rather than snipe at people or events.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 09:45 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
No problem, brother. The Horde takes care of its family better than any other I've ever experienced with a singular exception.
Infantry squads.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 09:46 AM (QVmho)
Thanks Howard, I didn't think they were going to dig a tunnel.
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 09:47 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 09:31 AM
All. All of them. Muzzle the sportsball announcers.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2025 09:47 AM (kgE5c)
I will add that one of the reasons why I limit my time on the weekly threads is that I recognize this weakness in myself.
I prefer the weekend threads precisely because the temperature is lower and we talk about things rather than snipe at people or events.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I could benefit from this, i admire your discipline. I'll try to be better.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 09:47 AM (QVmho)
Also helps to hide the decline by changing the definitions it makes any comparisons to the past far more subjective as all kinds of chicanery goes into the shims to make an old model somehow comparable to a new one.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 20, 2025 09:47 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2025 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 09:48 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 09:48 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 09:49 AM (Ia/+0)
How cool is that? The last time I did that was on a date with my then-future wife nearly 40 years ago. It probably wouldn't be so much fun now, or at least the day after wouldn't be.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 09:49 AM (3nLb4)
Seeing as how I haven't watched any 'sports' in about a decade.
I may have to put a football game up on the TV today, as background noise just to listen.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 09:50 AM (NwnyJ)
I still haven't driven up to the Tecovas store about eighty miles away. If I don't see anything I like here, maybe I'll run up after Christmas.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 09:50 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 09:50 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:50 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 20, 2025 09:51 AM (xNHSX)
Fortunately, at Rancho naturalfake this year, all the kiddos can make it home.
Though we have different views politically, we drop that aspect of conversation, so that we all have a fun, friendly, loving get together with those we love most.
It makes for a Merry Christmas.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 20, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 09:43 AM (QVmho)
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I went to school at Michigan State and we had a visiting prof from Berkely and were going over the rise of offshoring and she did a riff on how stupid people who wanted to "buy American" were because so many part were already made overseas, and chuckled at their ignorance. The only people who laughed along with her were from out of state. The rest gave her a death stare. She looked confused. I slowly raised my hand and she nodded.
"The reason we ask people to buy American is that most of us have family working in the auto industry and we want to preserve the jobs we sill have left." She blinked, and looked around the room.
"How many people have family working in the auto industry?" Every in-state student raised a hand including me. Shocked face. She only stayed for one semester.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:52 AM (MoRvC)
"The previous play is under further review."
No, it's not. It's under review. If it were under further review, that would mean that it was reviewed once and is now being reviewed again.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 09:53 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 09:48 AM (/iMjX)
LOL.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 20, 2025 09:53 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 09:54 AM (Ia/+0)
How about the pre-game commentary from the "experts" who actually have nothing to say.
"I tell ya Bob, the key to this game will be execution.. The team that can control the ball and execute their plan will have the best chance of coming out on top."
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 09:54 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025
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If I were in the market for a different car, that sounds like a good deal. 268 hp would be fine for everyday driving.
If something were to happen to the Buick, I have a feeling -- since most American makers have gone the "Sedan? What's a sedan?" route -- I'd need to look at Toyota or Lexus, or maybe Hyundai's Genesis.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 09:55 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 09:47 AM (QVmho)
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Having a job helps. Get home, have dinner, and then debate on getting out the laptop and going online vs painting minis or reading. That's why I'm usually on the cafe if I go here at all.
I think Ace would solve his weight problem if he had more Jesus in his life.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:56 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
We're in a kinetic war with the third-world and you want nice?
Posted by: Gutter Snipe at December 20, 2025 09:56 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 09:57 AM (MoRvC)
The date of the last manned moon mission (1972) is closer to WWII than to today.
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 09:48 AM (/iMjX)
But, hey! We were able to use that money here on Earth and build the finest graft and corruption filled giveaway that made several Democrat politicians rich beyond their wildest dreams, and create welfare dependency throughout the land.
Money well spent!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 20, 2025 09:57 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 09:57 AM (kOluj)
I don't think it's raining hard in the mountains or else the overflow channel would be ripping by now - fwiw -it usually rains twice as hard in the sierra vs the valley.
Posted by: 13times at December 20, 2025 09:58 AM (fnZRl)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 09:58 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 09:58 AM (viF8m)
Thanks to April Whateverhernameis, the WNBA brought us the word "mebound". She's the John Henry of bricklayers.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 20, 2025 09:59 AM (0Ti3E)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2025 09:54 AM (3nLb4)
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Sports announcing is about being able to talk at length while thinking of other things. It's sort of organic AI when you think about it, and requires years of training to be that bland.
Play by play is harder, but related. Finding an actual color commentary guy who provides insight is hard. Jim Miller (formerly of the Bears, and before that MSU) was awesome in that respect. One of the best color guys out there, getting into the weeds of how the QB sees the game, and it was no surprise that we lost him to covering the Bears.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)
They have always had problems, they did good work during the “Good War”, I suppose that’s one reason the left felt compelled to divide Americans up so strongly.
Leslie Groves and Julius Oppenheimer for example were not a likely pair, but they worked together well. After 1970 though, “visiting” anybody from Berkley should have been keel-hauled to serve as a warning to to the others.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 20, 2025 09:59 AM (dgu/T)
And Stefanik said she didn’t want to fight a contested primary, so she’ll that other guy who just announced have it. And there is probably another personal reason we don’t know and don’t need to.
She leaves on good terms with everyone and can probably get an appointment to whatever she wants, if anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 10:00 AM (0anTZ)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 10:00 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 10:01 AM (A0sqA)
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Cadillac. AT-6 Blackwing with supercharged V-8 and a manual 6 speed.
Technically, a sedan. But a bit on the pricey side.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 10:02 AM (NwnyJ)
In Cheesehead Country, an exceptional player gives a "hunnert ten percent".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 20, 2025 10:02 AM (0Ti3E)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 10:02 AM (NwnyJ)
Whoa, he has trouble with the snap!
And the ball is free!
It’s picked up by Michigan State’s Jalen Watts-Jackson!
And he scores!
On the last play of the game!
Unbelievable!
~ Sean McDonough
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 10:08 AM (Ia/+0)
And the ball is free!
It’s picked up by Michigan State’s Jalen Watts-Jackson!
And he scores!
On the last play of the game!
Unbelievable!
~ Sean McDonough
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)
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The MSU Radio tape is hilarious. You can hear the coaches in the booth going "Oh my God!" Color guy Jason Strayhorn lost his mind, shouting "Ball! Ball!" There's a supercut on Youtube with it from every angle and various audio. It brings me joy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:08 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)
We were laughing this week at the memory of Fred Willard in Best of Show, Best color commentator ever!
Funniest thing I learned about his part is that he almost was sued by Joe Garagiola’s family for - well they couldn’t figure out what for, so they didn’t, but they were still mad.
Late in life, Joe Garagiola took a lot of work as an announcer at all kinds of events he knew nothing about, including dog shows. He would still talk nonstop, even when he had no idea what was going on.
People who’d seen him doing it said Fred Willard’s announcer was a spot on impersonation of old Joe in his prime. (Which to me makes the part even funnier!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 10:08 AM (0anTZ)
Technically, a sedan. But a bit on the pricey side.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025
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Yes, one of the Cadillacs -- ATS? XTS? I don't know which is larger; I like a big sedan -- with the 300 hp engine would be sharp.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 10:09 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 09:57 AM (kOluj)
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Lots of black-pilling, which obscures the very real wins we are racking up, wins we never even dreamed of, wins that if we think about he, we have not known before. Yet rather than offering praise and gratitude to God, we piss and moan about the stuff we don't have RIGHT NOW.
I just can't be a part of that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Have those stranded Chinese astronauts in their damaged spacecraft returned to Earth?
Returned alive, that is.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 20, 2025 10:10 AM (0Ti3E)
Posted by: dantesed at December 20, 2025 10:10 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 20, 2025 10:12 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2025 10:13 AM (MoRvC)
Two years ago we trembled at what the future would bring, and I openly predicted full-on civil war. I knew they would try to kill Trump and that if that happened, all hell would break loose.
We need to get back to that attitude, and remember that God is love and God always wins. Maybe we need to lose here and there to keep us honest or because now is not yet the time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
My book on China, however, is aging very well indeed. All sorts of cracks in the facade indicating that the CCP is just like any other faltering dynasty.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Good to see that none of you are worse for wear and that most are hanging in there. So good to see positive news even though things are still tough.
Hannukah party in the rear view window and I am going to be away for Christmas so not feeling the holiday spirit. Maybe it's MD but it just seems decorations are half hearted and all I get are desperate ads trying to get me to buy more stuff.
What is it like where you all are?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 10:17 AM (t/2Uw)
CTV-5 Blackwing. 6.2 liter V-8 with 668 HP.
want
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 10:18 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 10:19 AM (W7XSX)
Apparently it takes 6 ex-jocks or coaches moderated by either a woman or a jock-sniffing 98 lb. weakling to fill an hour or five before kickoff.
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:20 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 10:21 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 10:21 AM (Kt19C)
This is a perfect time for prayers and coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2025 10:22 AM (2WIwB)
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Tried talking my wife into one. Take her 2020 Explorer ST with a twin-turbo V-6 @ 400HP and pretty much all the bells and whistles as a trade.
No joy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 10:23 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Sharon
*********
Peaceful.
"For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:24 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2025 10:24 AM (XvL8K)
This is a perfect time for prayers and coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes
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No scratching this morning?
Dermatitis better?
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:25 AM (/iMjX)
Wow, we're having a real Texas Christmas/Winter this week.
Temps in the mid 60s to mid 70s all week long!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 20, 2025 10:25 AM (iJfKG)
The display stuff is used for parades and demonstrations with state media and is of excellent quality. The stuff given out is junk, full of defects and cheaply made. The contractors know that the soldiers can't complain because it would cause a scandal and undermine claims of China's quality arms production, so the soldiers just suck it up. There are videos that circulate showing boots that wear through the toes quickly, super-thin fabric, etc., but this is officially suppressed.
Sun Tzu comes to mind here: the PLA won't allow itself to know itself, and so it will lose.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:26 AM (ZOv7s)
Prayers for all Hordian intentions - those requested and those known but to God.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2025 10:27 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: The supporting cast of A Christmas Story at December 20, 2025 10:27 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 10:28 AM (t/2Uw)
Dermatitis better?
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:25 AM (/iMjX)
It seems to clear up on the weekends.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2025 10:29 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Part of my nightly prayers is: "Father, bless me with your presence. Renew my faith and fill me with hope for tomorrow. I trust you and I surrender all my fears and worries to you." Amen
It's hard to fully achieve that lack of worry, but we can try.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2025 10:29 AM (cYBz/)
Translation: "I'm a big football fan and I'm stuck out here on the field working during the big game, so you all just sit there for five minutes while I go find a TV and watch the plays I missed. And grab some nachos."
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:30 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 10:21 AM (W7XSX)
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May Mrs. no one's memory be a blessing
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 10:30 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 10:17 AM
Apparently rutting season is still on, since I saw three bucks (two fork horns and a six-point (for the 'rons) togged out in their winter taupe (for the 'ettes)) chasing does this morning whilst out and about walking one of the dogs.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 10:31 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 20, 2025 10:31 AM (jrgJz)
I watched a video review by Road & Track or one of the magazines. The reviewer was talking about equipping it for winter driving. He concluded his bit by saying "Don't drive this car in winter.".
A rear wheel drive V-8 with nearly 700 HP that gets about 12 mpg. There's no way to rationalize this car. Still want one.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 10:31 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ottoman Umpire at December 20, 2025 10:33 AM (oftw2)
Dermatitis better?
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:25 AM
It could be lupus.
Posted by: Gregory House, M.D. at December 20, 2025 10:33 AM (0sNs1)
I wound up getting my son some Tecovas too. I told him I'd spilt the cost with him. He loves them!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 20, 2025 10:33 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 10:34 AM (t/2Uw)
In five-line rhyming fragments.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 20, 2025 10:34 AM (zdLoL)
I hate when that happens. Do you use the Gol Gotha bombers?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 20, 2025 10:38 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 10:34 AM
Haven't seen any wild turkeys around for a week or so. The coyotes have been noisy the last two nights. One of our small dogs listens intently, and then announces she's not happy.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 10:40 AM (0sNs1)
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She'll amuse you
And abuse you
She's got beady Davos eyes...
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:41 AM (/iMjX)
Harley Earl would NEVER have allowed something that boring to come out of his design studio.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 10:41 AM (0anTZ)
And abuse you
She's got beady Davos eyes...
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:41 AM
HOW DARE YOU?!!!!????!
Posted by: Greta, the future Mrs. Thunberg-Hogg at December 20, 2025 10:42 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 10:42 AM (yPhso)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 10:44 AM (Ia/+0)
Admit many of my prayers are like letters to Santa.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 10:44 AM (Kt19C)
I admit the rear is not my favorite. Which is too bad because that's the view most people will get.
I kind of like that it's a bit understated. Better that than the Boy Racer look.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 10:46 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 10:46 AM
Join us.
Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at December 20, 2025 10:48 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 20, 2025 10:44 AM (Kt19C)
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Simply pausing amidst the noise of the world and contemplating your needs and desires (and blessings) is helpful. I thought it was interesting that 20 years ago psychologists taught that telling depressed people to "count their blessings" was the worst thing ever, and now it's coming back because maybe you should actually have a sense of gratitude for the good things you have.
It got warm and then snapped back cold here, and the wind chill is something else. Whatever is going on, it still beats being homeless with an empty stomach right now.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2025 10:24 AM (XvL8K)
Gets paid in WNBA gear and occasional green doldos.
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 10:49 AM (yPhso)
Lord, grant me patience.
Because if you give me strength
I'm going to need a lot of bail money.
Posted by: Wenda at December 20, 2025 10:49 AM (cRhQI)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 10:46 AM (viF8m)
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Especially if you drive it in the snow and it goes into the ditch.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Arius and Santa Claus!
One claims a time when the Son was not;
One says that's a heretical thought.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Who's gonna go?
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Who's gonna go?
Off with a right hook, good St. Nick;
Down goes the dirty heretic!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 10:49 AM
The name coming soon to a U.S. dollar bill near you.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 10:50 AM (0sNs1)
Arius and Santa Claus!
One claims a time when the Son was not;
One says that's a heretical thought.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Who's gonna go?
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Who's gonna go?
Off with a right hook, good St. Nick;
Down goes the dirty heretic!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:50 AM
I have been informed recently that the good Bishop wasn't even at Nicea. Sad!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 10:52 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Jartavious made a nice interception
Off a teammate's fingertip deflection
As he reached the end zone
He heard the crowd groan
He returned it the wrong damn direction!
Posted by: muldoon at December 20, 2025 10:52 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2025 10:52 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 10:52 AM (0sNs1)
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By whom?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2025 10:24 AM
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Gets paid in WNBA gear and occasional green doldos.
Posted by: Eromero
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He's still overpaid.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2025 10:58 AM (XvL8K)
a spectacle to see,
mama swole up with pride,
like daddy, except he died.
I’m rollin’ in doldos by golly!
- Jartavious
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 10:59 AM (yPhso)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:53 AM (ZOv7s)
It’s just Krampus, don’t listen to him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 11:00 AM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 11:01 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 10:53 AM
Ann Barnhardt had a post about it recently, and at least of the commenters mentioned this. I haven't had time to research it, though.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 11:03 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2025 11:04 AM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Horizontally Opposed VW Man at December 20, 2025 11:05 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 10:34 AM
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Those are some pretty spiritual doves - they've turned their mourning into prancing.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 20, 2025 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Lord, grant me patience.
Because if you give me strength
I'm going to need a lot of bail money.
Posted by: Wenda at December 20, 2025 10:49 AM (cRhQI)
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Shall we dub this "The Horde's Prayer"?
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 20, 2025 11:06 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Every pre-game sideline interview ever at December 20, 2025 11:07 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 20, 2025 11:09 AM (MolB1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 11:03 AM (0sNs1)
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My search turned up a Sedevacantist, so I don't care what she says.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2025 11:10 AM (XvL8K)
My search turned up a Sedevacantist, so I don't care what she says.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Sedagive?
-Dr. Victor Frankenstein
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 20, 2025 11:16 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 20, 2025 11:17 AM (t/2Uw)
My search turned up a Sedevacantist, so I don't care what she says.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)
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The problem with the term "Traditional Catholic" is that despite the fact that almost all are loyal to Rome, it's a short drive to Nut City.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 11:17 AM (RvZHk)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 11:18 AM (yPhso)
Ask you doctor if Sedevacantis is right for you.
Posted by: Big Farma Marketing Department at December 20, 2025 11:21 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip
She KNOWS she will be one of the few in charge when the glorious revolution comes.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2025 11:21 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 20, 2025 11:23 AM (2UnvF)
FRIDAY NIGHT THOUGHTS
Many critics have correctly noticed I've worked closely with the Chinese.
I've been an atheist most of my adult life. But for the most part I've been sympathetic with the right wing. And at a point in time, that brought me close to the "China is awesome" wing.
When I traveled to Beijing in 2008, even then, I was amazed at how everything just ... worked. There was no homeless. Society was extremely high trust. China just ... worked. And every visit since confirmed that.
My father, who traveled all over the world for the military, confirmed the same. China ... just works.
Except ... on the last day of the visit wherein I was ready to move to China, which @data_republican can asset to, we got sequestered in a hotel room and we were told to not to peek out out blindfolds. So we did anyway, and saw a very scary military parade of China's missile capability and all that. We witnessed this at the threat of being prisoned for even peeking behind window blinds.
What's the point of this story?
X: https://bit.ly/4jaS50b
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 11:24 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Etsy at December 20, 2025 11:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wenda at December 20, 2025 11:25 AM (cRhQI)
Fast foward to 2020: my husband and I were constrained from the government in everything, in the COVID-19 era.
We had young, restless children. We went to the local playground, which was closed down.
What did we do? We tore off the tape. That's all we did.
In China, we would have been shot on the spot. That is the price of trading safety for freedom.
When I hear others speak of Qatar in this way, it hurts at a visceral level.
Qatar is a slave state. Qatar trades freedom for safety.
Anyone who says Qatar is "good" simply hasn't stayed long enough to see that trade-off.
America is flawed for sure. But America is still the best country in the world.
The only way to center your morality is not in a country, or in an authority. You have to center it in God. There's no other option that solves the cognitive dissonance the world hands to you.
X: https://bit.ly/4jaS50b
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2025 11:25 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 10:21 AM (W7XSX)
*****
I feel ya, brother.
My wife passed on August 18 after a brief illness. Since then, I've endured her birthday, her favorite holiday (Thanksgiving) and our anniversary. Soon, Christmas.
To steal from a song lyric, I'd trade all of my tomorrows for just one yesterday.
Anywho, back to the housework.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 20, 2025 11:26 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 20, 2025 11:09 AM
*She* didn't say it, one or more of the commenters did.
*getting off my duff and beginning research*
From Wikipedia (yes, I know): "An early list makes him an attendee at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, but he is never mentioned in any writings by people who were at the council. Late, unsubstantiated legends claim that he was temporarily defrocked and imprisoned during the council for slapping the heretic Arius."
I cannot (so far) find an "early list" that lists him, the Bishop of Myra, as a Niceae attendee. And if he slapped Arius, it likely would have been mentioned. I am continuing to search.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2025 11:26 AM (0sNs1)
It will be called "BBQing with Uncle Chucky".
Posted by: Chuck Shumer at December 20, 2025 01:23 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 20, 2025 02:52 PM (hm5s4)
*bang*
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 20, 2025 02:57 PM (hm5s4)
Daily Tech News 20 December 2025
Top Story
- A couple of weeks ago I found a mini-PC that was priced - in Australia at least - at just 20% more than the cost of the RAM it includes. It uses regular laptop DIMMs so even if the PC doesn't turn out ideal it's a decent price and lets me upgrade any laptop I buy during the memory drought.
Right after I bought it the price went up and I thought I'd ordered just in time, but then the price came back down.
And a week ago memory prices had climbed to match the price of the whole computer, so I bought another one. I have them both set up and they seem to work well.
And now as memory prices continue to climb, the memory alone is 20% more than the cost of the entire computer, so, yeah, you know it. I think I'm set for computers for a while.
I tried out Ethernet-over-Thunderbolt networking today. Plugged in the cable between the two PCs and got instant 20Gb Ethernet. Magic.
It's not a perfect system - the Ryzen 7 255 lacks an NPU, and it only has one rear USB-A port and that port is USB 2.0 - and it's not one I can recommend to most readers because it costs60%70% more in the US than in Australia. But it's pretty good for my needs given the destruction that AI buildouts are wreaking on affordability right now.
- Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package, previously set aside by the corrupt Chancery Court in Delaware in an action that led to the company shifting its registration to Texas, has been restored by the Delaware Supreme Court. (Tech Crunch)
Though given the increase in Tesla's share price over the intervening years, it is now a $140 billion pay package.
So nice going, guys.
Tech News
- LG is allowing customers to delete the Microsoft Copilot app it forced onto their televisions. (Tom's Hardware)
Or will do at some point.
- How a botched firewall update at Australia phone company Optus blocked emergency calls for 14 hours and contributed to the deaths of two people. (The Register)
Layer upon layer of incompetence.
- Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to compete - poorly - with other AI companies over the next five to ten years. (Business Insider)
Or you could not do that.
- Yann Lecun, until recently the chief AI scientist at Meta, has founded a startup to work on AI systems that aren't hot garbage and is looking to raise funds at a $5 billion valuation. (Tech Crunch)
Key to the new system is building an AI that knows things, rather than just going by statistical language patterns. That is, it has a world model as well as a language model, and the world model is definitive.
This is one of the four steps absolutely required to build a generally useful AI.
ChatGPT scores zero out of four.
- Airbus is migrating its apps and data from US-run cloud services to European ones that don't exist. (The Register)
Brilliant.
Musical Interlude
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: clarence at December 20, 2025 04:02 AM (JUmo3)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 04:05 AM (cHNrw)
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 04:07 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 04:08 AM (Ia/+0)
Beware the drop bear!
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 20, 2025 04:17 AM (lCMio)
https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/
1872844028728967408
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 04:19 AM (RuTUS)
And all to protect the diversity Marxism
Posted by: Skip
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An article posits that they were protecting pass that Trump gave them on a DEI hit like the one's he's been giving other schools.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 04:21 AM (4Q/U3)
More Epstein file pics. Mick Jagger and Richard Branson. And more Brit politicians showing up.
Michael Jackson and Diana Ross also showing up the photos.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 04:34 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 20, 2025 04:36 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2025 04:43 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 04:56 AM (cHNrw)
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 05:07 AM (RuTUS)
It took me a while but them I remembered Yoko Ono screeching some song.
Yes. That would be the "music."
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 05:09 AM (W7XSX)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2025 05:15 AM (tljrc)
Michael Jackson and Diana Ross also showing up the photos.
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Did you also see where someone posted a picture of Trump and they blacked out the faces of all the women? Then someone else posted the real picture which was Trump hosting glamour contestants years before he met Epstein.
Posted by: clarence at December 20, 2025 05:16 AM (JUmo3)
Michael Jackson and Diana Ross also showing up the photos.
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Did you also see where someone posted a picture of Trump and they blacked out the faces of all the women? Then someone else posted the real picture which was Trump hosting glamour contestants years before he met Epstein.
Posted by: clarence at December 20, 2025 05:16 AM (JUmo3)
Thanks for this.
This is all gonna be so wild.
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: clarence at December 20, 2025 05:18 AM (JUmo3)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:21 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/yt7ewadn
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 05:24 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 05:09 AM (W7XSX)
How about "Our House is a Very, Very, Very Fine House"?
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 05:24 AM (RuTUS)
When I was a kid, the BBC was held out as some distinguished news organization. Today, it looks like a crappy version of TMZ. Was it always bad, and I didnt know it, or has it gone to shit, like all government agencies eventually do?
Posted by: The FBI at December 20, 2025 05:25 AM (XaT2C)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 05:25 AM (6ydKt)
https://tinyurl.com/4ma8vpk3
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 05:28 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 05:31 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: fluffy at December 20, 2025 05:33 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 05:35 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 05:36 AM (W7XSX)
This can be interjected into conversation like "IYou don't say", "Well, then" or "Harumph".
Posted by: fluffy at December 20, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2025 05:38 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 05:39 AM (6ydKt)
Our House is torture after a couple choruses.
Posted by: fluffy at December 20, 2025 05:41 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 05:09 AM (W7XSX)
24 Queen's "Another one bites the dust".
Posted by: clarence at December 20, 2025 05:18 AM (JUmo3)
25 The obvious choice would have been Bad Boys
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:21 AM (Ia/+0)
27 How about "Our House is a Very, Very, Very Fine House"?
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 05:24 AM (RuTUS)
29 Baby Shark repeated 10 times followed by Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell, then Jailhouse Rock
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 05:25 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 05:44 AM (RuTUS)
One is of him in a jacuzzi with a girl.
The other is in a pool with more girls.
The one of him on the plane with a blonde girl sitting on his lap has been around for awhile.
The rest I’ve seen look like typical wealthy party shots with some celebrities (Jagger, Jackson, Ross) here and there.
I am pretty sure one pic I saw was of Walter Cronkite (nothing is captioned) sitting on a couch talking to two other men on a different couch.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 05:46 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 20, 2025 05:51 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2025 05:53 AM (Ytdv9)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:51 AM (Ia/+0)
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Welp. There went my appetite for breakfast...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 05:56 AM (ESVrU)
Dexter, the Wonder Dog is growing into a fine young 40 pound dog, with good behavior habits, and fun to have with us.
The cats are not too sure about this intruder, but they are not out of their minds with fear.
Let's see how this plays out.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2025 05:56 AM (Ytdv9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2025 05:59 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 20, 2025 06:00 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 20, 2025 06:06 AM (qbLEp)
Still trying to find the scripture that she was quoting from during the goodbye speech.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2025 06:07 AM (Ytdv9)
Must be one of those modern translations into the way people speak today.
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 06:09 AM (W7XSX)
"Optus" sounds like a Marvel villain, or a code name for a nefarious Thrush project. (Weren't they all nefarious, though?) Or a Thrush agent whose real identity no one knows.
In 1990, when ST:TNG had its big confrontation with the Borg and Picard was turned into one of them, I referred to the episodes as "The Borg Are Back in Town."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:10 AM (wzUl9)
I’m thinking she may have made that up, just like the DC crime statistics.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 20, 2025 06:10 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2025 06:07 AM (Ytdv9)
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Something about smiting the Egyptians?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 20, 2025 06:10 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 06:10 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 06:09 AM (W7XSX)
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"Jesus be cool, yo."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 20, 2025 06:11 AM (qbLEp)
Actually slept until 4:45 this morning, having gone to bed at 10:45.
Her Majesty goes in to the gastrointestinal clinic for an exam this morning at 10:00. No food, no coffee, not even water until then. It's going to be a long and dangerous morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 06:15 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 06:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 20, 2025 06:16 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025
***
Might depend on the dosage, Skip. Mine are 5 mg. If I take one at 9:30 pm along with a generic Unisom, I'm ready to sleep by a little after 10:00. The melatonin alone takes a little longer to work -- it mildly relaxes me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
WaPo describes it as a "fiery farewell speech". Ohhhh, so your girlfriend is no longer crazy, she's now "fiery", right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 06:20 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 06:21 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025
***
I have a blood draw on Monday morning at 8:00. Same regimen, except I'm allowed some water. I plan to pack an energy bar in the car and have it as soon as I leave the doctor's office, to hold me until I have some real breakfast. You could stash one in the console and hand it to her when you leave the clinic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:24 AM (wzUl9)
Yesterday's root canal procedure went very smooth. Barely felt a thing.
As Wolfus suggested, I asked for the GOOD drugs and they delivered.
Now I have to get the permanent filling/crown on Tuesday. Might get the filling, but may have to wait for the crown.
All in all, can't complain too much.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 06:26 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025
***
Wow. I didn't know they came in that caliber!
I keep mine in the bathroom medicine cabinet along with my Rxs. The magnesium/zinc/Vitamin D is in a kitchen cabinet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:28 AM (wzUl9)
Outstanding police work on this case. Give those guys and gals a medal and a plaque.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 06:29 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Wally at December 20, 2025 06:30 AM (XaT2C)
Did DC chief have the usual phalanx of flunkies behind her while she delivered her "fiery farewell speech"? Were they rolling their eyes and look like they wished they were somewhere else or were they all "Amen! Go sister!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 06:31 AM (tgvbd)
mornin yall
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025
***
If I wanted to drive the trapped burglars insane, a continuous loop of "The Chipmunk Song." If I wanted to make them apprehensive, a loop of Holst's The Planets, esp. "Mars, the Bringer of War."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 06:32 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Brown University Police at December 20, 2025 06:32 AM (XaT2C)
Still trying to find the scripture that she was quoting from during the goodbye speech.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2025 06:07
Maybe it was from Michele's bible. I think it has an oppressed black woman addendum.
Posted by: Farmer at December 20, 2025 06:33 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 05:51 AM (Ia/+0)
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Welp. There went my appetite for breakfast...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2025 05:56 AM (ESVrU)
Bill sympathizes with you on that.
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 06:33 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 05:09 AM (W7XSX)
I am deeply appreciative that I have not been mentioned.
Posted by: Rick Astley at December 20, 2025 06:35 AM (U/EOd)
Posted by: Mariah Carey at December 20, 2025 06:36 AM (XaT2C)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 05:09 AM (W7XSX)
I am deeply appreciative that I have not been mentioned.
Posted by: Rick Astley at December 20, 2025 06:35 AM (U/EOd)
75 Ditto
Posted by: Mariah Carey at December 20, 2025 06:36 AM (XaT2C)
; )
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS)
That's real dedication. A ma'am, a plan, BLAM!
The sheriff says "We believe this was premeditated. She knew what she was doing, it was planned and she came here to kill her ex-husband."
Outstanding police work on this case. Give those guys and gals a medal and a plaque.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 06:41 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 06:44 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 20, 2025 06:45 AM (Ytdv9)
I gotta say, DC's Police Chief's resignation does little to diminish the 'Angry Black Woman' stereotype that is so prevalent nowadays.
Auctioneers and hockey announcers have nothing on speed-talking compared to wound-up Angry Black Women.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2025 06:45 AM (tgvbd)
Their is a McD's right next do so I go and get pancakes and sausage right after. For some reason I like McD's pancakes, the syrup is of course corn syrup colored brown. McD's coffee is a bargain since Starbucks is also right their and they put my name on the cup for and extra 2 dollars.
Posted by: colin at December 20, 2025 06:45 AM (wlQdF)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 06:46 AM (Ia/+0)
She seems nice.
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 06:44
Ya think so? Well I'm inviting her over for Christmas, you can have her. lol
Posted by: Farmer at December 20, 2025 06:47 AM (55Qr6)
Hoping someone will fix this. Trying to read on the phone is a pain.
Posted by: Dandalo at December 20, 2025 06:47 AM (3QsZU)
Posted by: undocumented commenter at December 20, 2025 06:49 AM (XIkjV)
Posted by: colin at December 20, 2025 06:45 AM (wlQdF)
It's so great when they can do that.
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 06:51 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 20, 2025 06:59 AM (RuTUS)
Their is a McD's right next do so I go and get pancakes and sausage right after. For some reason I like McD's pancakes, the syrup is of course corn syrup colored brown. McD's coffee is a bargain since Starbucks is also right their and they put my name on the cup for and extra 2 dollars.
Posted by: colin at December 20, 2025
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Oddly for being so near a college, my doctor's office has a dearth of breakfast places close by. I'm going to have to drive a ways back toward home to visit one I know and like. Hence the energy bar to be stashed in the car.
I'll try staying up until 11:30 or midnight on Sunday, so maybe I can sleep until 5 or 5:30 am and will have less time to sit around without food or coffee.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 07:01 AM (wzUl9)
What a relief. Now I can buy that GT3 I've been putting off until I'm 90.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:02 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2025 07:06 AM (O7YUW)
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So, your coffee is strong enough to kill the spiders?
Posted by: clarence at December 20, 2025 07:07 AM (JUmo3)
The Killer Kittenz have eaten. Stirling is settled atop the back of the couch, and Dagny is off somewhere, meditating.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 07:08 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 20, 2025 07:08 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 20, 2025 07:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 20, 2025 07:09 AM (wzUl9)
What a relief. Now I can buy that GT3 I've been putting off until I'm 90.
Posted by: fd
AI decides the human race needs to be eliminated. Saving money isn't necessary when were dead!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 20, 2025 07:10 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 07:11 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Just Wondering"
The column broke in half and I fixed it with JB Weld. Still holding.
The spot where it broke had a piece of plastic embedded in it, like it was used for filler. They don't even make birdbaths like they used to.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: no one at December 20, 2025 07:11 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Dandalo at December 20, 2025 07:12 AM (3QsZU)
Posted by: fluffy at December 20, 2025 07:12 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 20, 2025 07:15 AM (Cjt/F)
- and -
Musk says Trump savings accounts a "Nice Gesture’ but Says AI Will Eliminate the Need to Save Money.
If the biggest brains (and budgets) are just starting to toy around with a world model, it has a longer way to go to have reasoning and planning functions. Key to that is recognizing when it doesn't have enough information or needs clarification or even more important knowing when what it knows is incorrect.
But before that, the thing that should be in the minds of would-be-regulators to avoid having to send someone back in time, will be Alignment / Value Specification - that is, the ability to steer the outcome and objectives within safety, ethics and law.
Given the generally wicked and depraved nature of mankind when given this kind of power, I'm not hopeful that this goal is practically achievable.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 20, 2025 07:28 AM (a4flb)
https://tinyurl.com/5bdztszb
Bleeping Computer: "New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock"
So if you've got a PCIe device plugged in that has direct memory access, and it is configured to copy a particular bit of malware to a section of the main memory the instant that power is applied to the board and the memory, there's a good chance it'll be able to do so prior to the UEFI getting the firewall erected around the system memory.
But basically, if the hardware isn't trustworthy, the software running on it or any part connected to it can't be.
House. Of. Cards.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2025 07:49 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2025 07:50 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: David at December 20, 2025 07:50 AM (+hFhi)
SNAP: Soda, Nachos, Almond Joys and Pies.
Posted by: LOL at December 20, 2025 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Eromero at December 20, 2025 09:01 AM (yPhso)
Posted by: Ray at December 20, 2025 09:41 AM (XAq8B)
We are one step away from someone calling 911 because their house is on fire, getting the control system for the local nuclear power plant instead, and inadvertently causing a meltdown. And the guy's house on fire will be a minor detail in the end.
Also, disappoint that music wasn't a Holo-something doing The Boys Are Back In Town.
Posted by: GWB at December 20, 2025 11:29 AM (ZiSlk)
“These errors appear to be caused by a lack of attention to the matter by the firewall network engineers,” the report states, finding that “Some network engineers failed to attend these project meetings to assess the impact of the planned work.”
Nokia offshores engineering to Indian companies HCL and Tata. I'm sure this is just a coincidence.
Posted by: Steve at December 20, 2025 12:41 PM (aFtqG)
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Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 19, 2025 10:11 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:11 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: huerfano at December 19, 2025 10:13 PM (98kQX)
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In college we did a Disney salute halftime show and had to play that damned tune. As soon as we saw the music, everyone groaned. The band director cackled with glee. Sadistic bastard.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:14 PM (/TlUl)
I do feel like we once had it all. But somebody or somebodies just couldn't let that be.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 10:15 PM (poCn6)
Yeah... not really proud of my Navy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 19, 2025 10:15 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:16 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 10:17 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 10:17 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Rob Reiner at December 19, 2025 10:17 PM (pIfcn)
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Don't care who wins. I just want to see what incredibly asinine stunt the "Florida Man" tries to pull that turns into a catastrophic failure involving alligators, super glue, prostitutes and lawn darts. So, I'll be watching region 8, at least for the first few minutes until they're all gone. I don't expect them to survive the start of the contest.
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 10:17 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Toggle Bolt Tommy at December 19, 2025 10:18 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2)
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Yeah, and the the afterglow lasted a long time.
I look back at the 90s and think of them the way Churchill recalled the Edwardian age: "The Old World in its sunset was fair to see."
But we have a chance at something even better. Not for us, but for our kids and grandkids. They can have the word we were denied, if we just fight for it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:18 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 19, 2025 10:18 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 10:19 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 10:19 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:19 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)
Yeah... not really proud of my Navy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
When they let the ships turn into rust buckets, that doesn't help with longevity.
I grew up around Norfolk and all its bases. Didn't see ships then look like recent pictures of ships I've seen.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (gbOdA)
I guess the song in my locked house with a thief would be, "Who Let the Dogs Out, Who, who, who, who."
Or Mariah singing "All I want for Christmas is you, you, you, you."
In reality, anything by The Who. Like Pinball Wizard. My husband knows not to play The Who in the car with me. Almost anything else. I have him well trained.
Starting tomorrow I will mail my Christmas cards! I realize they will be late but figure there are 12 Days of Christmas and a Happy New Year as well!
Also, without snow, my life is depleted like a sad trombone, so my ho, ho, ho has been slow out of the starting gate of Thanksgiving. But it's there and we have lovely grandchildren who will bring great joy, as they do every day.
[But you still want snow, don't you?] Shut up!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (31p00)
Damn. That's just mean.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
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The Navy was really screwed under Obama. Got super-woke because the Secretary was next-level crazy. Wanted to abolish the term "seamen" because it was sexist.
The Air Force lucked out, because the chick Obama planted actually liked the service, and when she was asked about getting rid of "Airmen" said "Oh hell no. I'm proud to be an Airman. Fuck off."
Charlie Brown then screwed us hard.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:21 PM (ZOv7s)
They did improve the avionics though, and we have 5th gen F-22's and F-35's. And hopefully a few million drones and laser weapons.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2025 10:21 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Socratease at December 19, 2025 10:21 PM (YgfoU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 10:22 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:19 PM (/TlUl)
"They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)
saw the Missouri at Pearl two weeks ago and paid my respects at the Arizona Memorial Dec. 8th. Dec. 7th was completely booked.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:23 PM (25kuG)
When they let the ships turn into rust buckets, that doesn't help with longevity.
I grew up around Norfolk and all its bases. Didn't see ships then look like recent pictures of ships I've seen.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (gKDq2)
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Can't use tin in ship paint anymore. Wonder if that has something to do with it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 10:23 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (L/fGl)
I grew up around Norfolk and all its bases. Didn't see ships then look like recent pictures of ships I've seen.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (gKDq2)
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That was Biden's madness at work. Ships couldn't be repainted at sea to save the fisheses. So they had to rust, and of course the damage to the hull and morale was part of the point.
They're now getting fresh paint.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Yeah... not really proud of my Navy."
But we have/had Woke Women and trannies in charge, crashing them together. But WOKE and DEI is the most important thang, more important than retaining liberty.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:19 PM (/TlUl)
That inane doop-a-dooooo pa-doop a-doop a-doooo song they play on every animal vid. It’s the worst
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (WONhk)
You might as well just send out Elvis Day cards now. Plenty of time for them to arrive before January 8. (Don't forget to stock up on peanut butter and bananas before then.)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:25 PM (/TlUl)
The stores were not completely empty of shoppers, but not crowded. The aisles were often full of staffers -- but they were restocking the shelves, not pulling stuff off for people too lazy to heave their fat rumps out of their cars and waddle inside the store.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2025 10:26 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
But I love that song. You just put an incentive for me to break into your home.
On the other hand I probably wouldn't do that to you in the first place, so you're not aiming for my demographic.
The clear answer is this immortal Lou Reed classic
youtu.be/PB1cEyy0fKs
Ensuring you have soundproofing of course.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2025 10:26 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (vbXSk)
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We need to put up a DEI monument in DC, a bronze sculpture of two women in Navy uniforms, one turning her back on the other and engraved on a marble plinth: "No, I don't want a radar plot from that bitch."
And then the names of the casualties.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: PabloD at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025
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American Indians, perhaps, and self-identified mixes of two or more races. I doubt there are enough Australoids (Australian aborigines) in America worth counting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (wzUl9)
Remember, it's the Friday night ONT, last chance to say something witty enough to be featured in the top tennish comments of the week. I expect the entire commentariot to be at the top of their game (or the bottom of the gutter.)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025
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"Oy with the poodles already!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (wzUl9)
Damn. That's just mean."
"One eight seven seven kars for kids"
*flounces back out*
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 10:28 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 19, 2025 10:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025 10:29 PM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (2WIwB)
Almost as if training is more important than DEI!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 10:29 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 10:29 PM (poCn6)
Went to Wally's because I like their Sparkle paper towels. Bought a pair of Wrangler work pants (on sale). They had other brands with good material for half the price but the pockets, the POCKETS were so small and the Wrangler's were generous.
Be still my beating heart, first time in 3 years FRUITCAKE the little rectangles and bigger whole, full size, cakes. Bought three small one's. Going to freeze two and wrap the other one in Jack Daniels.
yea hoo.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 10:29 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 10:29 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 10:29 PM (n5tGW)
Just what are the single mothers who are not Asian, white, black, or Hispanic? Poodles?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025
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Lithuanian
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 10:30 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (wzUl9)
Pacific Islanders, Eskimos, Indo (dot, not feather).
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 10:30 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)
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Meijer - a Michigan-based chain - was open 24/7, 364 days a year (closed on Christmas). Now it's open 6 a.m. to midnight, but I didn't realize it, and from the amused look of the manager, a lot of people didn't get the memo.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)
And put a man on the Moon. I was just looking. Dec. 15 was the 60th anniversary of the first orbital rendezvous, Gemini 6 and 7. That was 1965. Neil Armstrong took that first small step in 1969, less than 4 years after that.
Alan Shephard first American in space in 61, Gemini does the first rendezvous 4 years later, and in another 4 years, we're on the Moon. In less than 10 years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 10:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025
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"Oy with the poodles already!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (wzUl9)
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So. What you got groggier style?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:31 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 10:31 PM (/lPRQ)
Can't believe I'm alive to see this.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 19, 2025 10:31 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 10:32 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: PabloD at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (Epuwl)
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Region 7 has abundant food, energy, and water.
It also has a nice coastline for international trade.
Though it is prone to tornadoes and hurricanes.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 10:32 PM (ESVrU)
I suggested it might be Mentholly retarded...
...and, I'm still alive!
Good wife choice.
Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2025 10:32 PM (NRGJj)
Posted by: Gimme, Gimme Shock Treatment at December 19, 2025 10:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025
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So. What you got groggier style?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025
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It's got "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" beat all hollow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:33 PM (25kuG)
Damn. That's just mean."
"One eight seven seven kars for kids"
*flounces back out*
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 10:28 PM (XuXeR)
Oh. Well played.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:33 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Dale at December 19, 2025 10:33 PM (f45WX)
Posted by: Rob Reiner at December 19, 2025 10:17 PM (pIfcn)
Never too soon with Morons!
Also, I sort of like "Maneater" by Hall and Oates. I like to think the song was about me in my prime. Altho NOT literally, you jerks. Great song to dance to. Plus it's got a cool saxophone, which I love. One son was a college kid who went by the tag, Saxman, for gigs. He is a very good musician now engineer vs the subway busker we feared.
In reality I was sadly a doofus girl who liked to party and did not care about money or cars. As evident by who I dated and later married (his ride to court me was a '62 white Lancer with an aqua hood and bent coathanger for an antenna).
The Jaguar driver (anesthesiologist) had an eye for any pretty girl who crossed his path, and I said no to him because of this. I ain't stupid, and once I saw that trait I was a no for two years. His regret for many years afterwards. Pity.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 10:34 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: PabloD at December 19, 2025 10:34 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 10:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 19, 2025 10:34 PM (/Q9t5)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:31 PM (2WIwB)
*sips scotch*
I hate this phone.
Doggie. Doggie style.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 10:35 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 10:35 PM (L/fGl)
The 1952 one doesn't have near the payloads the 2025 does. In terms of variety, and the 2025 one can carry ALCMs under its wings.
Posted by: GWB at December 19, 2025 10:35 PM (pgCpV)
youtu.be/PB1cEyy0fKs
Ensuring you have soundproofing of course.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2025 10:26 PM (gKWVE)
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Everything Lou Reed does is the worst.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 10:35 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 10:36 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)
A childrens' choir singing "Carol of the Drum".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 10:36 PM (npFr7)
I fought the Law, and the LAW won...
Posted by: Romeo13 at
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Yes! You beat me to it! Bobby Fuller died at just 23 under suspicious circumstances.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 19, 2025 10:37 PM (RkMzg)
Posted by: NASA at December 19, 2025 10:37 PM (3arSl)
Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter at December 19, 2025 10:37 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: PabloD at December 19, 2025 10:27 PM (Epuwl)
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Region 3 wins easily because the Somali jihadist knifes everyone at the meet and greet.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Burglar torture music? Rats and Monkeys by Art Bears. I'd mention IBM by Throbbing Gristle but I find that one soothing.
"Jo Jo Dancer" is a pretty good film. Richard Pryor might have made a great directorial career.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 10:38 PM (CHHv1)
President Trump seems to find the weakest points in the Democrats and totally exploits them on social media.
Sometimes, he just goes FULL MONTEY and in their face as if to say...
"I remember 2016 bitches...oh yes I remember!!
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:38 PM (25kuG)
We are in Zone 2 and might have a chance. Or just drive Mad Maxx style to Region 7 and the farm. Yehaw!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 10:38 PM (WONhk)
1) I Love You, from Barney
2) Jailhouse Rock, by Elvis
3) Tiptoe Through the Tulips, by Tiny Tim
If I choose a song clip to repeat, it's Vincent Price's laugh from the end of Thriller, by Michael Jackson
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 19, 2025 10:38 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 10:36 PM (npFr7)
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All versions of "Last Christmas"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: mindful webworker - all serious in the comments at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (2WIwB)
Almost as if training is more important than DEI!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 10:29 PM (n9ltV)
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Exactly.
When you are sending America's men and women out the door of an aircraft while in flight, there is no room for the DEI bullshit. It's life and death.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (DsA2n)
Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (NRGJj)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:38 PM (25kuG)
Trump remembers 2016 "to infinity and beyond."
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)
It's locking him inside *with you.*
The police are on the way.
You have the length of one song to play during whatever happens between now and when they arrive.
https://youtu.be/h1XG2-3epfs?si=WkdbZ9qyszy1GJ-4
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)
I clipped this for a ring tone; I use it for text messages.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 19, 2025 10:41 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 10:41 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Your store doesn't have those motorized wheelchairs for people who are too fat to walk? The ones that take up so much of the aisle that you can't get past them. So, you have to go back out of the aisle and come in at the other side of fatass.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)
3) Tiptoe Through the Tulips, by Tiny Tim
If I choose a song clip to repeat, it's Vincent Price's laugh from the end of Thriller, by Michael Jackson
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 19, 2025 10:38 PM (S/Y4j)
If you ever watched the Elvis movie by that name, the choreography for the song-and-dance number of Jailhouse Rock is really brilliant. Huge fun.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 10:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Dale at December 19, 2025 10:33 PM (f45WX)
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I like this sone, but if I heard it more than three times in a row I would lose my mind.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 10:41 PM (A0sqA)
Yup.
100 years.
Perfect killing machine.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (NwnyJ)
Screwed is what they are.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (lUFok)
The whole thing reads like a movie script. But it happened.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (NRGJj)
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No, younger. Try 5th or 6th.
I once asked my father why he was always late to my middle school band concerts. "That was by design. It was bad enough to hear you play, but the part where you tried to get in tune was just too much."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:43 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
They also did away with enlisted ratings for a (very) short time. Assholes.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2025 10:43 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (DsA2n)
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Too obvious.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 10:43 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 10:43 PM (d9i2R)
Yup.
100 years.
Perfect killing machine.
Posted by: Mar
think hood battleship
Posted by: n at December 19, 2025 10:43 PM (CTC7H)
Bob Zimmerman of BehindTheBlack web site wrote a book about Apollo 8, called Genesis. Fascinating, and he does a great job of putting it into the context of the times.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 19, 2025 10:43 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:43 PM (25kuG)
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Atonal droning is not my cup of tea.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 10:44 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025
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You misspelled "Shoplifting by feral yoots."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)
In fairness, "the bitch" probably used her mascara without asking.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 10:45 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:46 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
It's like those obese women complaining about having to pay for two seats on an airplane.
'Bitch, you're spilling over into the third seat!'
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 10:46 PM (gKDq2)
Music-wise, I'd go with "7th grade band concert."
Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (NRGJj)
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Stepdaughter's band did "American in Paris" for halftime. Now I can't stand "American in Paris".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 10:46 PM (tgvbd)
youtu.be/t2nfMXqYlDA
Posted by: pookysgirl does not want to be YOUR princess at December 19, 2025 10:47 PM (Wt5PA)
I clipped this for a ring tone; I use it for text messages.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 19, 2025 10:41 PM (EXyHK)
I use it for a family member's call tone. If I hear it, someone's in the ER or dead - that's when he would call.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 19, 2025 10:47 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 19, 2025 10:47 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025
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Oh, yeah, Walmart especially, and Target has them too. Admittedly I had to use them in 2017 when I cracked a foot bone and had to get around on crutches for a couple of months. Made me feel weirdly like I was eight again -- surrounded by people who towered over me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 10:47 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 10:48 PM (77rzZ)
Perfect killing machine.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (NwnyJ)
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We may have hit a plateau, similar to that which started in the 1690s and ran to the 1840s. Warships, artillery, firearms, all of them were pretty much the same, and you get some really old weapons in those days that just get new locks, new stocks, but remain in service because why not? A muzzle-loading smoothbore doesn't really wear out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)
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Maybe in 2525 too. If man is still alive.
Posted by: Zager & Evans at December 19, 2025 10:49 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Piercello at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (NRGJj)
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No, younger. Try 5th or 6th.
I once asked my father why he was always late to my middle school band concerts. "That was by design. It was bad enough to hear you play, but the part where you tried to get in tune was just too much."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (
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Painfully bad in junior high. Our youngest son played trumpet and, man, that was brutal as he learned. Our Golden shared a room with him and would flee at the sight of it. We often wanted to flee, too.
He went to FSU, one of the best musical programs (or was?) in the country. He tried out for the Marching Chiefs and made it, but found out how much time he would have to practice and said no to a full scholarship. He considered a minor with engineering but nope. The head professor wrote him an email that we howled with laughter reading, as no way, Jose, did we think he'd nail it. He sent it to his private teacher who also laughed. Poor kid. He was good by then and HS, and horrific in 7th grade.
We had fun for many years being band nerd parents.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 10:49 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 19, 2025 10:40 PM (DsA2n)
Some things are just too cruel. Even for Somali pirates and cockroaches.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:50 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: I still can't think of anything at December 19, 2025 10:50 PM (kGphH)
Fu*k your games.
Everyone in NorCal and the east sides of WA and OR are going to kick some urban ass.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)
I don't hate obese people, but if you're so wide that people can't get past you in the grocery store aisle, maybe you should lose a few.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
________
Almost all handicapped plates are legit.
Almost all handicapped placards are counterfeit.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 10:51 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 19, 2025 10:51 PM (/Q9t5)
Yes, Apollo 8. And the Earthrise photo.
The Artemis II mission, which may launch in Feb -- may, mind you -- will be just a repeat of Apollo 8. And they won't even enter lunar orbit, just take a wide figure 8 free return trajectory back to earth. They will set the record for the greatest distance of human from earth, beating Apollo 13's record.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 10:52 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 10:52 PM (7yt4l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 10:53 PM (7yt4l)
Screwed is what they are.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 19, 2025 10:42 PM (lUFok)
That is how they became mothers.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 10:53 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:53 PM (25kuG)
She started listening to that fine fine music.
https://tinyurl.com/3p68v3e7
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 10:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 10:52 PM (7yt4l)
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They no longer have to drop the bombs out of the pilot's window.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 19, 2025 10:53 PM (nWPIJ)
There was the option to "volunteer as tribute". The inner zones tended to do this. Usually they won.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2025 10:54 PM (gKWVE)
Artemis II will also break the manned speed record. Previous one was set by Apollo 10, 24,816 mph. The Artemis II Orion will get over 25,000 mph according to the mission plan.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 10:54 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Fine...we'll put bomb racks on the Wright Bros. plane.
Posted by: Your airforce at December 19, 2025 10:55 PM (TfUTr)
How bout "Traffic" Low Spark of High Heeled Boys?
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:53 PM (25kuG
There's not a dang thing wrong with any song by Traffic. Thems fighting words.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 10:56 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: n at December 19, 2025 10:56 PM (CTC7H)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 10:49 PM (WONhk)
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I started out on French Horn, and played it from grade school through my senior year of high school. After marching season was done, I switched to tuba. For years afterwards I liked to tell co-eds that my lips had mastered the smallest mouthpiece and the largest. Sometimes it even worked.
I half-assed it all the way, though, but busted my ass on the audition to get into Michigan State's band, but as chance (or fate) had it, my year was the only one in recent memory where they had a surplus of French Horns. Strangely, they were short of trumpets. Would I consider switching? I desperately wanted in, so bought a used horn, and placed 43rd out of 64 after a week of practice.
The rest, as they say, is history. I do enjoy Alumni Band. I had to skip it this fall for various health and family reasons, but hope to attend next year.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 10:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 10:56 PM (9ipOP)
Isn't SLS set to die an unceremonious death though? Before it takes some astronauts with it
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2025 10:57 PM (gKWVE)
Don't know the title. Neighbor was telling me about it after they'd gotten home, laughing so hard she was crying: "Oh JQ, it was so terrible we couldn't tell *what* they were playing!"
Posted by: JQ at December 19, 2025 10:57 PM (rdVOm)
Can't use tin in ship paint anymore. Wonder if that has something to do with it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Scientists discover lead in paint is not that harmful.
Scientists discover that toddlers hate the taste of leaded paint.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 10:58 PM (LEuDt)
SoCal will just push all of them into the Pacific.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:58 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 19, 2025 11:00 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: JQ
Having attended 3 generations of "recorder" concerts....well, they are rather uniform in their unrecognizability.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:00 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: I still can't think of anything at December 19, 2025 10:50 PM
I'm an old woman. I don't read that crap. I read other crap, written for adults.
Posted by: huerfano at December 19, 2025 11:01 PM (98kQX)
Probably get me sued for a human rights violation, though.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 19, 2025 11:01 PM (lUFok)
Yeah, no.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 11:02 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:00 PM (TfUTr)
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There's a reason why H.P. Lovecraft's notion of horror was Elder Gods serenaded by idiot flute players.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 11:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:03 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Scientists discover lead in paint is not that harmful.
Scientists discover that toddlers hate the taste of leaded paint.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Copper Sulfate bottom paint was the best. Ones bottom was protected from fouling.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:03 PM (TfUTr)
Seriously. If anyone in my family was acting,well, off a bit, I would not trot him out to a party. What on earth? On top of the rest of that loco story. I read the kid did not finish grade school. Something ain't right with them.
They truly do live in an alternate universe. I read that Rob wanted to bring him to "keep an eye on him." Worked well! Then reading that O'Brien kept someone from calling 911 cause it was his party is the icing on the cake.
I feel badly for the daughter (who also got stoned at a young age because I have seen photos and am not dumb). The older son seems to be normal and left for Texas to escape, so maybe she will go with him and be sort of normal after the horror.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:03 PM (WONhk)
Probably get me sued for a human rights violation, though.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 19, 2025 11:01 PM (lUFok)
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The lead singer needs some decongestant. Seriously.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 11:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Anyway, if you're going to post on your phone or play games, please don't choose an aisle that is heavily trafficked and stand in the middle oblivious. All of us will hate you and hope you lose (whatever it is you might lose).
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 11:04 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: I still can't think of anything at December 19, 2025 11:04 PM (kGphH)
Scientists discover that toddlers hate the taste of leaded paint.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 10:58 PM (LEuDt)
But, but, but... everything awful that happened in the inner cities was blamed on yutes eating paint chips. If that wasn't true...
Badthink! Badthink!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 19, 2025 11:04 PM (dl47i)
She started listening to that fine fine music.
https://tinyurl.com/3p68v3e7
Posted by: JackStraw
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everybody getting high tonight
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 11:04 PM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 19, 2025 11:04 PM (t/66j)
Guess where Cthulhu came from.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 11:05 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 11:05 PM (0Htd1)
Drowning Pool..."Let the Bodies Hit the Floor"
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 11:05 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 10:24 PM (L/fGl)
Probably American Indians. They are rife with dysfunction for a lot of different reasons.
Posted by: Raging alcoholics too at December 19, 2025 11:06 PM (TbWk/)
it was a more innocent time
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2025 11:06 PM (gKWVE)
Isaacman made some noises about cancelling it (and that had Ted Cruz mad at him, and he was responsible for some of the anti-Isaacman stuff), but he's said he's going to follow through with the current plans.
The Big Beautiful Bill locked in funding for it, and he's said he's going to honor that. They are getting worried about the Chicoms beating us back to the Moon, and continuing with the SLS and lunar gateway plans is seen as the only way to be sure.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:00 PM (TfUTr)
This reminds me! I have known a lovely co-worker for decades. She and her husband play with a group! It always makes me laugh to think about.
I am positive she does not read here, being liberal, or would recognize herself. Her Christmas letter (yes, one of those for each month of the year vs me saying, welp, I got the tree decorated over one week. In May I grew roses, etc)...they ride thousands of miles across states and Europe.
I could write that I flew across some states and have avoided Europe since 2017.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)
Burgler songs, lots of strong contenders here, how about the *ahem* pawn shop song from Pulp Fiction?
And the Polish potato dispenser could be made better by adding a potato squeezin's vending machine. Just to cover the bases.
Posted by: I still can't think of anything at December 19, 2025 11:07 PM (kGphH)
The Chicoms have plans to put a Chicom on the Moon in 2030. Now, whether than can realistically do that, I don't know.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:07 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 11:08 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Archer at December 19, 2025 11:08 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 11:09 PM (7yt4l)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:03 PM (WONhk)
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Trump wasn't wrong. Hating all the time twists your soul. Pointing that out was an act of charity for everyone else, a fraternal correction. You can't spit venom six days a week and then produce pure, wholesome honey on the seventh.
I get that Reiner had some great films, I'm absolutely of "The Princess Bride" generation, but personally he was a failure. It happens. My father's father was a humble man, didn't achieve fame or greatness, but in his sphere was venerated by everyone who knew him. My mother's father was wealthy, high-flying ad executive and his kids hated him.
Choose wisely.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 11:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:09 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Archer at December 19, 2025 11:10 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2025 11:10 PM (snZF9)
Cost me $20.000 to remove in my house.
No insurance covered...no county programs...no state programs.
JUST..."YOU WILL DO THIS OR WE WILL TAKE YOUR HOME,"
You understand now...
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 11:10 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Hollywood Hystery at December 19, 2025 11:11 PM (oftw2)
Almost all handicapped placards are counterfeit.
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Half of the people using the electric carts in big box stores belong to a group that comprises 13.5 percent of the population.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 11:13 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
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Given their shitshow with the first "orbital grill," I'd have a hefty life insurance policy if I were on that mission.
"We got to the Moon a half century after America!" is not much of an own.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 11:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Region 7 survives. We have Cajuns, hillbillies, rednecks, fishermen, farmers, ranchers, hunters, native Americans, people who cook soul food, some artists, for flair, and me.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:07 PM (OoFl2)
__________
And Germans
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 11:13 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:14 PM (viF8m)
One of our grandkids has a friend whose parents never married. After the first kid and a set of twins (which the Baby Daddy said he was tricked into). Well, sir. Now they are sort of "divorced" but never married.It is getting very ugly.
I am not Audrey Hepburn, right out of the convent, but I have never heard of this mess. Had I gotten pregnant there would have been some sort of wedding, even a shotgun type with my Daddy and brothers, but there is no way my kid would go through this. The kids are too little to know how effed up this is. Someday they will.
Ah nevah! I also am not crazy about hanging out near her at basketball games or Christmas pagents for fear he will roar in and kill us all as he finds her. It seems dicey to me and I am going to ask our son of a photo of him so I can be on high alert.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:14 PM (WONhk)
Region 7 survives. We have Cajuns, hillbillies, rednecks, fishermen, farmers, ranchers, hunters, native Americans, people who cook soul food, some artists, for flair, and me.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:07 PM (OoFl2)
REBEL YELL!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:15 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: L - No nic,
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Screw thingys are not applicable for safety bars.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 11:15 PM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 11:16 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:15 PM (WONhk)
A cheap, but effective whiskey.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 11:16 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: L - No nic,
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Screw thingys are not applicable for safety bars.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Or ANYTHING in drywall.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:16 PM (TfUTr)
Wiley online library
ORGANOTIN ANTIFOULING PAINTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT — DRYDOCK PHASE
CARL M. ADEMA, PAUL SCHATZBERG
First published: May 1984
Fuel savings v. Environmental concerns
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 11:17 PM (NFX2v)
We had 100mph winds last night in western South Dakota.
Posted by: Archer at December 19, 2025 11:08 PM (YGRGv)
Yeah, it was bad here too. I would say Zone 2 or 3 for the Hunger Games: We're tough people but we also know how to make cities work in that environment.
Except for my city, apparently. We doubled the amount of roads but not the plowing capability. Dummkopfs!
Posted by: pookysgirl has some other choice German words at December 19, 2025 11:17 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 11:16 PM (ZOv7s)
The way this night is going, some of us will need it.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 11:17 PM (2WIwB)
Second sentence true especially amongst the thieving Eastern European scum in their high-end Mercedes and BMW's.
They should be the next to be exposed.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 11:18 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025
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They might be able to put one there. The question is, like Laika the dog: Can they bring him back again? (More to the point, will they bother?)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 11:18 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 11:18 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Or ANYTHING in drywall.
Posted by: Some Rat
Oh, F!! Thanks!!
Plan B, hire someone who should know better.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 11:19 PM (NFX2v)
We had 100mph winds last night in western South Dakota.
Posted by: Archer at December 19, 2025 11:08 PM (YGRGv)
Yeah, it was bad here too. I would say Zone 2 or 3 for the Hunger Games: We're tough people but we also know how to make cities work in that environment.
Except for my city, apparently. We doubled the amount of roads but not the plowing capability. Dummkopfs!
Posted by: pookysgirl has some other choice German words
Combine eastern zone 1 with zone 2.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:19 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 11:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Yep! I chose well. As it turns out he has similar traits to my father (which I did not know til later as he's blond and my father was brunette and ick on the oedipal deal). I chose very well. I was very picky since the HS drive in wrestling matches. No one needs their dang ear licked! I was done!
Both my father and the husband of my youth are/were Christian, loyal, hard working, very funny, kind, and put their wife and kids first before them.
Both should get a medal from dealing with me, Daddy for the first 22yrs, my husband since 1979. I guess I am their trophy!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:21 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 11:21 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:21 PM (XuXeR)
https://tinyurl.com/45e978ad
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:14 PM (viF8m)
Yup!
Best music.
Best cars.
Best clothes.
Stone cold foxes.
Liberty
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 11:21 PM (2WIwB)
One of our grandkids has a friend whose parents never married. After the first kid and a set of twins (which the Baby Daddy said he was tricked into). Well, sir. Now they are sort of "divorced" but never married.It is getting very ugly.
I am not Audrey Hepburn, right out of the convent, but I have never heard of this mess. Had I gotten pregnant there would have been some sort of wedding, even a shotgun type with my Daddy and brothers, but there is no way my kid would go through this. The kids are too little to know how effed up this is. Someday they will.
Ah nevah! I also am not crazy about hanging out near her at basketball games or Christmas pagents for fear he will roar in and kill us all as he finds her. It seems dicey to me and I am going to ask our son of a photo of him so I can be on high alert.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTh
so how have you never heard "babymomma" or "babydaddy", or seen youtube?
Posted by: n at December 19, 2025 11:21 PM (BMu5x)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2025 11:10 PM (snZF9)
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Hell yeah! *fist bump*
Would also accept "Bodies" by Drowning Pool
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 19, 2025 11:22 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 11:22 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 11:22 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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It's not who gets there first it's who occupies it.
If a .223 is fired at a 5° elevation will the projectile fly into space?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 11:22 PM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
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Given their shitshow with the first "orbital grill," I'd have a hefty life insurance policy if I were on that mission.
"We got to the Moon a half century after America!" is not much of an own.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 11:13 PM (ZOv7s)
The only reason they are going up there is to copy the electric car we left up there...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:22 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 11:18 PM (CHHv1)
This.
I've met a couple.
Nice!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 11:24 PM (2WIwB)
Wiley online library
ORGANOTIN ANTIFOULING PAINTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT — DRYDOCK PHASE
CARL M. ADEMA, PAUL SCHATZBERG
First published: May 1984
Fuel savings v. Environmental concerns
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day
And one of the main reasons why US Navy ships are so rusty looks now.
Posted by: Archer at December 19, 2025 11:24 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: L - No nic,
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Screw thingys are not applicable for safety bars.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Or ANYTHING in drywall.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:16 PM (TfUTr)
You want the ones with the wing things that pop out and grab a large area, and then they are ok for light duty shit. Anything more than that is a gamble.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2025 11:24 PM (snZF9)
https://tinyurl.com/45e978ad
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:14 PM (viF8m)
Yup!
Best music.
Best cars.
Best clothes.
Stone cold foxes.
Liberty
Posted by: Diogenes
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Rub it in
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 11:24 PM (4Q/U3)
Wisdom.
Set 2x8s in between studs. Works great.
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:25 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 11:25 PM (0Htd1)
Good night and all sleep well. Blessings.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:25 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: toddg at December 19, 2025 11:26 PM (aGKc9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 11:27 PM (4Q/U3)
https://tinyurl.com/45e978ad
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:14 PM (viF8m)
Yup!
Best music.
Best cars.
Best clothes.
Stone cold foxes.
Liberty
Posted by: Diogenes
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Rub it in
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 11:24 PM (4Q/U3)
Well, you are not as old as dirt like some of us,so there's that! Of course, I don't age at all (in my head). xxxx
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:27 PM (WONhk)
https://tinyurl.com/45e978ad
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:14 PM (viF8m)
Yup!
Best music.
Best cars.
Best clothes.
Stone cold foxes.
Liberty
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 11:21 PM (2WIwB)
And WAY less Racist...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:28 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:28 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:27 PM (WONhk)
That's why I hate mirrors.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:29 PM (gKDq2)
President Trump seems to find the weakest points in the Democrats and totally exploits them on social media.
I haven't been watching the news or social media. What did he do recently?
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 11:29 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:30 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:27 PM (WONhk)
my 34 year old Son.... listens to Music from the 70's and 80's, and very little stuff from today.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 19, 2025 11:31 PM (2F0/Y)
A lot of sexual abuse, I think. I mean, look at Chaz Bono!
On top of letting kids smoke pot young, which screws them up, but it's cool! No, it's really not, Pop. It exacerbates schizophrenia and here we are!
My cousin was schizophrenic and it typically blooms in the early 20's and his surely did. He had the same eyes, though, that Nick did as a young kid in photos. My brothers and I just thought he was weird til he was really weird and freaked out our friends and everyone else.
As a RN I saw two cases of this and these kids had clean drug screens but were hallucinating so badly they did not know their parents.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:31 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 11:29 PM (0Htd1)
He took the time to go after a dead guy (Rob Reiner).
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)
Pretty close. Surface orbital speed on the Moon is only 3700 mph, just a little faster than .223 and similar rifle bullets.
It would be possible, on the Moon to hit any point on the surface with artillery. You could almost do it with a pure ballistic trajectory, but the mascons and surface irregularities would mean you'd need a little maneuvering capability for the projectile, but not much.
In short, on the Moon, it's would be almost possible to fire a rifle and have it come back and hit you from the other side. Almost. The mountains and all would get in the way for standing right on the surface, but you'd be pretty close to doing that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:32 PM (w6EFb)
How she can drink more than a few swallows of those flavored coffees is beyond me. Vanilla or chocolate or king cake is fine at first, but it gets cloying after a few sips.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 11:32 PM (wzUl9)
youtu.be/UpF1xtMKkzE
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2025 11:32 PM (gKWVE)
Best music.
Best cars.
Best clothes.
Stone cold foxes.
Liberty
Not meant to be patronizing at all. I honestly feel bad for the x, z whatever alphabet generations that came behind us. We had so much fun it seemed like our birthright. It was.
I'd like to get it as much of that spirit back as possible for the generations to come.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 11:33 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: n at December 19, 2025 11:33 PM (BMu5x)
Posted by: Hot Cross Buns at December 19, 2025 11:33 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day
And one of the main reasons why US Navy ships are so rusty looks now.
Posted by: Archer at December 19, 2025 11:24 PM (YGRGv)
Yup, so the ship's now rust out, and what do we do with them??? oh... we sink them in the Ocean...
So, the tradeoff for the environment, between a little paint, and an entire SHIP, seems to be ignored.
It's right back to the stupid Paper or Plastic Grocery bag stuff. Virtue signaling doing long term damage to the environment.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:34 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:34 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:27 PM (WONhk)
That's why I hate mirrors.
Posted by: RickZ
And stairs.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:34 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 11:34 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Well, there's a key word in there: Music.
"I've got blisters on me bloody fingers!" wasn't just a song line. The bands the greats played in. I was spoiled. Like everything else, I thought it would go on forever.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:35 PM (gKDq2)
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With zero malice, I find the case of Chastity Bono to be one of the craziest things I've ever watched. Of all of the things that should have never happened, this one just strikes me as crazy on stilts.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 11:35 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:36 PM (XuXeR)
Wisdom.
Set 2x8s in between studs. Works great.
Posted by: man
So before tiling bathroom walls? Darn. So if tile is already up, is there a way to drill through and strongly attach a grab bar to ?
I don't mean to be obtuse. I thought it a relatively easy process, though a grab bar should be able to support a decent amount of weight.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 11:36 PM (NFX2v)
my 34 year old Son.... listens to Music from the 70's and 80's, and very little stuff from today.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Raised right! That's all ours heard at home and in cars.
Our son (age 40) is the same. Now our grands know Foreigner! In Honolulu a year ago he had our 3yr old granddaughter belting out, "I want to know what love is!" Hysterical. She's my mini me and I am so proud. The new baby girl looks more like her mother at 3mo., like her big brother.
It is so much fun! I get so excited to see them every week and am as just as goofy on Christmas!!!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:36 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025
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How long would such a rifle bullet take to circumnavigate the Moon, presuming it hit no mountains or similar obstructions? The Moon is, what, 6500 miles around at the equator?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 11:36 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: RickZ
And stairs.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:34 PM (TfUTr)
Them, too.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:36 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 11:37 PM (pkeXY)
"I've got blisters on me bloody fingers!" wasn't just a song line. The bands the greats played in. I was spoiled. Like everything else, I thought it would go on forever.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:35 PM (gKDq2)
Talent, soul, and no auto tune.
But back then there was live music everywhere. Most half decent bars had bands. Now? Pretty much nada, it's all DJs... so that pipeline of talent is no longer there...
Except maybe online... which does not get a local following for your band to use to get gigs.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: JQ at December 19, 2025 11:37 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 11:33 PM (CHHv1)
Why? Should you be somebody else?
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:38 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day
Stud finder. Fasten the grab bar to the studs you find.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:39 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 11:33 PM (CHHv1)
Why? Should you be somebody else?
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:38 PM (gKDq2)
If yer gonna be someone else... it's BATMAN....
Cause if you say Napoleon? They'll lock ya up.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:40 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
I've known two families where their sons, who were in their early twenties, committed suicide. In both cases they had had behavior problems, but I don't know if there was mental illness or substance abuse.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 11:40 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:35 PM (gKDq2)
Amen, my friend. It was so abundant we could not think it would end. Man, I had fun.
Wish I could post some photos of how much fun I had. So much in one photo my husband said, you were wasted. I was smiling bigly at my student nurse friend, who is now a landscape photographer.
Indeed I was! Huge, huge party and rite of passage for the colleges here after surviving spring semester. A gang of us, mostly boys, and I was dating none of them, but they loved me and took care of me and hauled me to concerts, too.
Rock on, Morons!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:40 PM (WONhk)
If you can hit a stud, then there are ways. When I redid ours, I popped out the row of tiles and filled in with mosaic...
Otherwise, use the suction cup ones. OK, as long as you realize they can't support body weight. And I've seen them pull out a tile...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:41 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day
Stud finder. Fasten the grab bar to the studs you find.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:39 PM (TfUTr)
Yeah, I'm goin to hell for this one... but...
Once had a live in Girl Friend who had a female friend, who was constantly bitching that she could not find a man...
So, for her birthday? Yeah... bought her a Stud Finder.
She was not amused.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:41 PM (mP0Kj)
Stud finder. Fasten the grab bar to the studs you find.
Posted by: Some Rat
Got it! Thank you very much.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 11:41 PM (NFX2v)
Instead of the Epstein files, they should be called the Bill Clinton files.
Dec 19, 2025 · 10:45 PM UTC
The pic of Bill in that hot tub with the little girl *barf*
Posted by: gKWVE at December 19, 2025 11:42 PM (gKWVE)
Yeah... not really proud of my Navy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Salt water is a lot more corrosive than the stratosphere.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 19, 2025 11:42 PM (taapK)
Posted by: Beckonin
don't ever toss that out there, that's mean , there's so much to work with with a statement such as that but out of an abundance of caution, the holidays, kindness (maybe) have to sit here staring at the words not watching everything unsaid go by
Posted by: n at December 19, 2025 11:42 PM (Z7hSe)
Pretty close. Surface orbital speed on the Moon is only 3700 mph, just a little faster than .223 and similar rifle bullets.
It would be possible, on the Moon to hit any point on the surface with artillery.
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As small as the moon is and so little resistance it seems that heavy artillery could alter its rotation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 11:42 PM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 19, 2025 11:42 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 11:43 PM (pkeXY)
Orbital period at the surface would be about 2 hours. The Moon is rotating, slowly, so you'd get a little advantage firing in a prograde direction. This is fascinating....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:43 PM (w6EFb)
Please. Region 7 would be speaking Spanish if it weren't for Region 8 sending Volunteers down to run off the Messicans.
And once Region 8ers left that damn place has started filling up with Messicans again.
Region 7 aren't complete bitches, but they are still Region 8's little bitch.
Posted by: Rural Fellow at December 19, 2025 11:43 PM (UZlJN)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:43 PM (XuXeR)
She was not amused.
Posted by: Romeo13
Former Mrs Rat waved mine in front of me and "This thing doesn't seem to work."
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:44 PM (TfUTr)
Cause if you say Napoleon? They'll lock ya up.
Posted by: Romeo13
How about Josephine?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 11:43 PM (pkeXY)
Depends on how ya dress, and whether yer Urban or Rural... Urban? They'll say yer womanz of the Year.
Rural? Yeah... lock up.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 11:45 PM (mP0Kj)
For 50 years now, nearly all the R&D money has gone into computers. I believe its because the elite dream is to have AI replace all the peasants so the elite can have everything
Posted by: Azjaeger
The Brain Center at Whipple's
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 11:45 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Some Rat
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...and that's when the fight started, Your Honor....
Posted by: JQ at December 19, 2025 11:46 PM (rdVOm)
Buddy and I were buying some crap and "hey stud finder on sale"
Two good looking womenfolk in earshot, and one said "looks like they work"
Me, being married, demurred. Unmarried buddy...partook....
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:47 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:40 PM (WONhk)
I went to so many all-day outdoor concerts. Saw tons of bands with lots of A-Listers.
For example, I went to Philly in '82 for an all-day one. Madonna opened early in the afternoon. The Kinks were second banana as Foreigner had top billing. I remember Teddy Pendergrass (in a wheelchair shortly after he was paralyzed in an accident; Philly favorite son) and Huey Lewis and the News in between.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:49 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 19, 2025 11:50 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 19, 2025 11:40 PM (0Htd1)
How sad. Of course drugs, especially illegal and/or mixed with legal, mess them up if there is a psych reason.
I cannot imagine. Don't want to imagine. The ED docs laughed at me when we sent our sons to UF and FSU. Two party schools. They said, "No way."
I looked sons in the eye and told them if they could tell me they did not drink til 21 I would pay for a ski trip. They waited til 20yrs and told me they had a beer. (And, yes, I was sometimes swigging but not drinking heavily before legal age 18yrs, so a hypocrite but they did not ask!). I was elected the strictest mother in the neighborhood and told them, good! The other kids did not turn out as well.
They were also sort of scared of us, but in a good way. I heard them talking once:"Mom is not very good at the little stuff, but is cool with the big stuff." Indeed. Eldest had 2 car accidents in 6wks his senior year...neither his fault, and I was thankful they were alive. His car was totaled on his 18th birthday for the finale of that car.
But talk back to me, boys, and look out! Mama activated!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:50 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 11:43 PM (pkeXY)
Only if you were originally Joseph.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:50 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025
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How long would such a rifle bullet take to circumnavigate the Moon, presuming it hit no mountains or similar obstructions? The Moon is, what, 6500 miles around at the equator?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 11:36 PM (wzUl9)
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There's an animated cartoon somewhere in that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 11:51 PM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 19, 2025 11:53 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 19, 2025 11:53 PM (R86kT)
Glad you spelled 'figgy' right.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 11:54 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 11:35 PM (Cjcf6)
Incredibly sad for that once little girl. No telling what she went through with Sonny, Cher and who knows coming in and out of that house.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 11:54 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Providence chief of policia at December 19, 2025 11:55 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:32 PM (w6EFb)
There was a science fiction short story, don't remember the author, in which humans and aliens were in a shooting war on the Moon. Human astronaut takes a shot at an alien, but misses. Something happens, alien gets in distress, and indicates surrender. Communication is attempted, progress is made. Then the missed shot, having circled the Moon, kills the alien dead.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 11:56 PM (npFr7)
And a .223 isn't as close to orbital speed I was thinking. In my mind I was conflating fps with mph. In mph, the .223 speed is around 2000 - 2500 mph, compared to 3700 mph orbital velocity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:59 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I haven't read that one, but Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in the universe
youtu.be/hLpgxry542M
Posted by: gKWVE at December 20, 2025 12:00 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 12:03 AM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 20, 2025 12:04 AM (gKWVE)
Had grok run some numbers. I choose a .223 with a conservative muzzle velocity of 0.95 km/s. Fire it at a 45 degree angle. Great circle range would be 10,000 km. Nearly a full lap. If Grok is correct, and I'm not sure.
Grok can mess up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 12:04 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 11:59 PM (w6EFb)
The above-mentioned story did mention a very high-velocity rifle, maybe .220 Swift? And the confrontation took place in high Lunar mountains, so the bullet's flight would have been unimpeded by lesser mountains. I don't know if mascons had been discovered at the time of writing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 12:05 AM (npFr7)
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I think even admirers of the Kinks probably don't get how *huge* they were at one point. Its my raw guess that during the '70s the only bands in the UK that outdrew them were Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The Who, Black Sabbath, and Paul McCartney & Wings (the Beatles were done at that point).
Also, there's a TON of their songs that were covered by other bands.
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:06 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: pookysgirl has never had figgy pudding at December 20, 2025 12:07 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 12:09 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
@&(1/-67!?!^%#}{!!!
Fu*king earthlings! Die!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2025 12:10 AM (2WIwB)
https://tinyurl.com/yexxayyk
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m)
ALRIGHT!
I will never not love Lynyrd Skynyrd til the day I die.
Wish I had seen them live. They were either in MS and I was out West in college, or vice versa. BUMMER.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 12:10 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Windstorms, sheesh. Ain't we got fun?!
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 12:11 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 12:13 AM (rdVOm)
I will never not love Lynyrd Skynyrd til the day I die.
Wish I had seen them live. They were either in MS and I was out West in college, or vice versa. BUMMER.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Saw them open for The Who on their Quadrophenia tour.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2025 12:14 AM (pkeXY)
I'm pretty sure Grok fucked that up, and I'm trying to figure out where it went astray.
It's funny how the vaunted "AI" can get all screwed up in it's "thinking".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 12:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
My storm door must not have been latched today. A gust caught it just right, slammed the door open LOUDLY. Thought the glass was broken. It wasn't, but bent the steel rod on the closer something fierce. Had to remove it. Buy one in town tomorrow.
Posted by: When The Wind Blows at December 20, 2025 12:14 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 12:15 AM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 11:33 PM (CHHv1)
If you are still here (as I am supposed to be in bed)...I love you right back.
Never, ever apologize for being you. God made you and we love you!
I think you are great. All Morons are great and you are one. Remember that. Don't mess with me about this. xxxx
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 12:16 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: man
Say what? No, I'm kidding, I think.
Everything in the space of the shower, waterproof. 👍
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 20, 2025 12:17 AM (NFX2v)
I'd like to get it as much of that spirit back as possible for the generations to come.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:32 PM (viF8m)
God willing, I intend to ensure the grandchildren of Diogenes understand great music, muscle cars, Christian love, accurate shooting, having fun, and know when to laugh at bullshit.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2025 12:18 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: pookysgirl has never had figgy pudding at December 20, 2025 12:07 AM (Wt5PA)
I think it's the same as steamed plum pudding, darlin. Which is really good with a bourbon cream sauce my grandmother used to make.
I'll tell you the ONLY good food to come from the British Isles, in this case, Ireland: Sticky Toffee Pudding. I pretty much lived on that, cheese, and wine in Ireland. My husband and son ate blood puddings and Haggis and bleah, nope!
I am not cultural and lose weight on trips.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 12:20 AM (WONhk)
They're coming to take The Beatles away ha haaaa
https://youtu.be/w0k5FUuMfvc
Fun historical factoid: the B side of the original 45 was the first backward recording. I once had that 45.
ah ah yawa em ekat ot gnimoc er'yehT
Posted by: mindful webworker - with trees and flowers and chirping birds at December 20, 2025 12:24 AM (WB0Mb)
Rolling Stone, Larry Magid of Philadelphia’s Electric Factory Concerts says it takes either a package of big-name groups, one supergroup like the Rolling Stones or something very unusual to sell out a show in a place the size of Philly’s 90,000-seat JFK Stadium. His plans for JFK this summer include a $15.75-per-ticket extravaganza with Foreigner, the Kinks, Loverboy, Joan Jett and Huey Lewis and the News on June 19th. He will put on three other concerts at JFK, one of which will feature black artists and be headlined by Rick James.
A great year for concerts.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 20, 2025 12:25 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2025 12:27 AM (viF8m)
That photo on top reminds me so much of a guy I almost dated before I met my guy.
A friend, but there was something in the mix. Had a motorcycle and took me for a ride (he did give me a helmet but did not ask me to change from daisy dukes and a halter top...so I could have left most of myself on the pavement if we crashed). Idiot! Guardian angels were exhausted.
I also did not stuff my very long hair in the helmet, which was a later deal I had to fix.
AND he did not tell me the thing on the left was super hot when we stopped. I burned a silver dollar size, 2nd degree, hideous burn on my left calf.
He had that same expression on the top photo almost. I mean, no empathy at all. No offer to help, a bandage, rub some dirt...nothing.
I felt this was weird and never went out with him, altho tolerated him at parties. No empathy and probably was a serial killer.
I figured if he really liked me he would have given a hoot that I left part of my leg on his motorcycle exhaust or whatever that was. It did not scar. What a jerk, eh?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 12:28 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025
___________________________
I don't want to come across as petty. But, I wouldn't be too terribly upset if the US timed a moon mission to occur days after the ChiComs, landing in the same area, and taking down any flag they put up.
Posted by: Orson at December 20, 2025 12:32 AM (dIske)
Yeah, Grok was way off, and, with some sanity check prodding, I got him to find his error. The range is much shorter. Now, for a surface shot, again using 0.95 km/s muzzle velocity ( this is sort of a mean of the common FMJ velocities, I think, why not use 1 km/s? Well,Grok came up with 0.95 as a reasonable rough speed).
Now, using a flat plane uniform g, we know the max horizontal range is with a launch angle of 45 degrees. Turns out that's not too far off using an actual orbit. It actually depends on the firing height and projectile speed a bit but it's still close. It's 39.6 degrees for this .95 km/s .223, and the range there would be 665 km, or 413 miles.
The 45 degree flat plane parabola range for the Moon's gravity would be 552 km.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 12:37 AM (w6EFb)
We were driving today on our way to our annual family Christmas gathering, and about an hour and a half into the drive, the thought popped into my head that a year ago at this same time, we honestly didn't know if I would ever make this trip again.
We are definitely going to cherish this Christmas.
And we are looking forward to seeing our grandbabies tomorrow!
God bless us, every one 💕💕💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 20, 2025 12:37 AM (RPbWK)
Posted by: raimondo at December 20, 2025 12:38 AM (2Cj+/)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2025 12:40 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 12:41 AM (GhIJO)
You may have to hit the think harder button because he does not devote unlimited resources to every question.
Posted by: n at December 20, 2025 12:44 AM (+04jR)
And Iiiiiiii will always love youuuuu
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 12:47 AM (dE3DB)
We are definitely going to cherish this Christmas.
And we are looking forward to seeing our grandbabies tomorrow!
God bless us, every one 💕💕💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 20, 2025 12:37 AM (RPbWK)
YAY! Blessings, indeed, Teresa!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 12:47 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: raimondo at December 20, 2025 12:47 AM (2Cj+/)
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Uh, without "all hoops" we have no certainty that the vote itself was cast by a registered voter, within the allowable time period, for any of the candidates on the official ballot (if a mark isn't clearly within the boundry of a check-box for a candidate, why should it count?), etc. Paid election officials should be held accountable for any lack of supervision that they demonstrate.
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:48 AM (Cjcf6)
Oh yeah, Grok got it now. Basically, our optimal firing elevation angle varies with muzzle velocity pretty strongly. For very low speeds, it's just 45 degrees, as that flat uniform g is close enough. As speed increases, the firing angle decreases, slowly at first, then gets to 0, horizontal as muzzle velocity approaches orbital speed.
At 1.2 km/s, angle is 35 degrees, range is 950 km. For 1.5, angle is 20 degrees, range is 3500 km. 1.68 km/s is orbital speed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 12:49 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: raimondo at December 20, 2025 12:52 AM (2Cj+/)
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Have you read the recent economic reports? Also, have you read of the number of illegals who were deported or who chose to self-deport? Do you have any guesses for what those results afford "Black dump supporters"?
By the way, "rethugliKKKans"? What, are you about 15 years old?
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:53 AM (Cjcf6)
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Go ahead, tell us all how such "suppression" happens?
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:55 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 12:13 AM (rdVOm)
It was a miracle it didn't hit anything. there is a parking area to the left of the driveway. My pickup is backed in, and a friend of mine has his hot rod backed in next to the pickup because I'm helping him build it. Those cars are facing our regular cars parked in front of the garage. The tree fell and was laying right across the front of my pickup and friends car, like 1-2 feet away, and it's parallel to my normal car. 5 cars and it didn't hit one. I was looking at that tree a few weeks ago and was thinking you know, its leaning a little, I should remove that tree. Well I got my wish.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 12:56 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:55 AM (Cjcf6)
You know, when the repubs make sure there is never enough ballots for the dems...oh wait, its the dem run states that always do that to the republican areas.
Oh I got it. You know when mechanical issues mysteriously shut down voting precincts in dem areas...oh shit, thats right, its the dem states that always have these breakdowns.. only in republican areas. Fuck it, I got nothing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 01:04 AM (snZF9)
The hits keep on a comin' and I keep standing back up for more, bleh.
Today: was going to drive truck down to dad's & clean up a bit around that fallen tree. No start. It was mid-afternoon already (after lunch with hubby) so just jump-started from the car. That battery was *dead* and I just bought it this Spring! Only been 3 weeks since I drove truck, so maybe got electrical problem. Check engine light came on.. codes were iffy, likely due to battery issue/charging, so I cleared them.
Let it run for a while, then drove truck around for 10-15 minutes while there was still daylight. Used up all my daylight and didn't get any work done at dad's.
At least the codes didn't reappear, so there's that. Yay.
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 01:07 AM (rdVOm)
That's interesting, the dependence on muzzle velocity. Even at 90% of orbital speed, the max range is still only 1/3 of the circumference. You've got to get really close to orbital speed to get a significant fraction of going all the way around.
With the real Moon, however, the mascons and the strong deviation from inverse square g field would mess all that up big time, and the actual solution would be a complicated mess. They've got the Moon's gravity mapped out pretty good now, but it would be one hell of a complicated calculation.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 01:07 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Berserker
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Heh. We don't need to worry about our 'iffy' trees falling anymore, do we?
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: pawn at December 20, 2025 01:13 AM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Shepherd Lover at December 20, 2025 01:14 AM (EmOFw)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
And Iiiiiiii will always love youuuuu
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 12:47 AM (dE3DB)
When one of my brothers was in college, his roommate played this on a loop. Little bro said he nearly went bonkers. Heh.
I always remember then, too, he got food poisoning but ate at so many fast food places that day they could not figure out where he got it. A super strange combo of meals, too.
Basically all of my life I have been surrounded by crazy guys starting with my brothers.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 20, 2025 01:17 AM (WONhk)
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Lol! I have an unpopular opinion about Whitney: she was leaning into a drug addiction from the moment she became popular. Whether that was or wasn't her own fault is a topic for another day. But to pretend it was entirely the fault of her husband seems a little shallow.
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 01:19 AM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
10 years ago I had 9 Trees on my 1/4 acre lot... that were all mature... some 50 years old.
Now? 2 smaller trees are left. Why? Solar panels
Every house in town has WAY less trees now, then when I was growing up... Green is now the anti Green.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2025 01:19 AM (mP0Kj)
And Iiiiiiii will always love youuuuu
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 20, 2025 12:47 AM (dE3DB)
Laaaast Christmas I gave you my heart...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 20, 2025 01:22 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 01:23 AM (Cjcf6)
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Uh, without "all hoops" we have no certainty that the vote itself was cast by a registered voter, within the allowable time period, for any of the candidates on the official ballot (if a mark isn't clearly within the boundry of a check-box for a candidate, why should it count?), etc. Paid election officials should be held accountable for any lack of supervision that they demonstrate.
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 12:48 AM (Cjcf6)
For a mail in ballot to be legal in Calif, they are supposed to look at the signature on the outside of the envelope, and then compare it with the signature you have on file either through DMV, or your Voter Reg Card.
They literally do not have the time, nor bandwidth to do that. It is a technical impossibility, yet that is the ONLY verification on ballots.
So they just ignore the law.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2025 01:23 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 01:19 AM (Cjcf6)
But, didn't ex Secret Service guy Kevin Costner save her???? It must be true, saw it on TV!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2025 01:25 AM (mP0Kj)
Just looking at that. That has a muzzle velocity of 4000 fps, which gets us to 1.2 km/s, still not a high enough fraction of orbital velocity. It's 70%, but that only gets us 950 km range (590 miles).
Now, for mountain heights. Height does affect that but to be significant it has to be a significant fraction of the Moon's radius. Highest elevation on the Moon is about 8 km above the mean, and that's not enough to change the range much at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 01:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 01:32 AM (4Q/U3)
Now, for mountain heights. Height does affect that but to be significant it has to be a significant fraction of the Moon's radius. Highest elevation on the Moon is about 8 km above the mean, and that's not enough to change the range much at all.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 01:31 AM (w6EFb)
Well, the story is fiction, after all. And I may have misremembered just what model rifle was used. And another consideration is that a gun fired in a vacuum might have a higher muzzle velocity because the bullet isn't pushing a column of air out of the barrel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 01:39 AM (npFr7)
Trees around the house bring strange animals and icky bugz.
_Watermelon R. Treehugger
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 01:43 AM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 01:44 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Deep math
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 01:44 AM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 01:45 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 01:46 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Crusader at December 20, 2025 01:46 AM (Cjcf6)
The progress from 1900 to 1960 dwarfs the progress from 1960 to now.
Yes I can order Thai food at 3 AM and have it delivered to my door in 30 minutes and people in the 60s couldn't. But...I could live in 1960 technologically and feel fine. 1900? Much harder. No cars. No electricity. No novocaine. And on and on...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2025 01:48 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: pawn at December 20, 2025 01:13 AM (EMg+d)
I think that’s a Dolly Parton written song IIRC.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 01:48 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 20, 2025 01:50 AM (cHNrw)
I really liked the movie Midnight in Paris mainly because of that thought game, people wanting to live in a different time period.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 20, 2025 01:51 AM (KDPiq)
Another big difference is no drag at all. When the bullet got back to the surface it would still be moving at essentially muzzle velocity. So even at the 500 mile range, it would still be packing the full punch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 01:52 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2025 01:48 AM (sKqQm)
Well, there probably weren't any Thai restaurants in North America in 1960. But you likely could order a pizza at 3:00 A.M. and have it delivered in 30 minutes just by picking up the phone. And there were cars in 1900. Crude, slow, and few and far between, but they certainly existed. And there was laudanum.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 01:55 AM (npFr7)
youtube.com/watch?v=RCXjEIQANes
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 02:03 AM (4Q/U3)
https://youtu.be/cn60BY_E77Q
MiladyJo notes that was just four months before her mother was born.
https://youtu.be/3kGO4iAuGac
G'nite, y'all. See you on the prayer and coffee thread, or the pets at least.
Posted by: mindful webworker - with trees and flowers and chirping birds at December 20, 2025 02:03 AM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 02:12 AM (4Q/U3)
I got interested in how much firing in vacuum vs air would increase muzzle velocity. The easy way to ballpark that is to consider the pressure difference. Chamber pressure for a .223 is around 55 kpsi, call it, vs 14.7 psi standard atm pressure. So very little difference.
However, in the barrel, the air can't move fast enough, and compresses, raising back pressure. The limit of that is just to imagine having to accelerate the air column to the same speed as the bullet, and the difference there is just the ratio of the mass of the air column to the bullet mass.
So, at most, being generous you won't get more than 1% increase in muzzle velocity, probably 0.1%.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 02:15 AM (w6EFb)
Now, turns out the high speed tank guns do have muzzle velocities that get to and exceed lunar orbital velocity. So, you could go all the way around the Moon with that. In practice, you'd just take the shorter great circle route and never have to go for more than half of the circumference to minimize flight time.
So, a tank could indeed do it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 02:23 AM (w6EFb)
Publius - fascinating discussion regarding firing a bullet around the moon.
BC - Hang in there! Don't give up!
Looking forward to tomorrow's hobby thread to see if my ornament submissions made the cut.
Tomorrow is a major all day party with the wife's family but I plan to be around.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 02:26 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
You and me both. I have no clue what type of trees I have. They are really tall, but thin. At most maybe 12-15inches across at the trunk. No branches until you get way up there. Kinda like retarded looking palm trees without the palm looking tops. the one that fell was probably 40ft tall but at best maybe 10-12 inches near the bottom. I would like to clear the whole area along the wooded side of the driveway. A small bulldozer would probably knock them down like twigs.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 02:29 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 02:29 AM (snZF9)
Conifers, or deciduous trees? Lombardy poplars were popular for windbreaks. Very slender-looking trees; branches hugging close to trunk all the way up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 02:34 AM (npFr7)
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Bers, I'm an amateur at tree identification, but I know for a fact that Dad's tree is a douglas fir. Notorious for shallow (no taproot) roots. Lucky indeed, that it didn't fall onto the house & into the living room! It was close.
Cleanup will be a sticky, sappy mess. Smells *wonderful* though... like Christmas!
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)
Doug fir boughs make a nice mattress for camping, too. Soft needles. And the wood makes very fine lumber.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 02:39 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 02:34 AM (npFr7)
uh..tree. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 02:43 AM (snZF9)
Already told the neighbors to come by & clip if they wanted some fresh greenery for decorating.
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 02:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 02:43 AM (snZF9)
Conifers are evergreens, like Christmas trees. Don't shed their leaves. Pine, spruce, fir, cedar. Larch is the odd man out, Has needles but they turn gold in fall, and slowly shed all winter, sprout new green ones in Spring.
Deciduous trees change color, and drop their leaves in Fall. Oak, maple, nut trees, fruit trees.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 02:47 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 02:47 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 02:52 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 02:47 AM (snZF9)
Are the leaves long and slender? Might be some sort of willow. Or maybe Mountain Ash? I'm really not familiar with trees of the Eastern Seabord. Growing up in Vancouver, there were a host of "exotic" trees to be found in home gardens. Even monkey-puzzle trees. They are amazing, every leaf is a spine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 02:56 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 02:52 AM (rdVOm)
I can't answer some of the questions. Things like are the leaves staggered or are they across from each other? The fuck do I know, the branches are 30 feet up, do I look like a frigging squirrel? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 02:56 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 02:58 AM (snZF9)
Well, I learnt something I did not know, or had forgotten the physics. 1.8 km/s is about the practical limit for muzzle velocity of a gunpowder projectile. Any faster, and you've got barrel wear, pressure limits, and gas expansion problems.
Now here' the interesting thing. The limit of projectile velocity being pushed by an expanding gas is *twice* the speed of sound in said gas. Deriving that is a complex mess, but you can think of it this. It's a pressure wave that travels through the medium. When it hits something, the projectile being accelerated, you get a return wave that bounces back. The difference between the forward and reverse waves is twice the speed of sound, and it comes about from that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 02:59 AM (w6EFb)
Trees around the house bring strange animals and icky bugz.
_Watermelon R. Treehugger
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 01:4
I LOLed Braen...
But that is very true, esp around historic homes. Besides pests trees and shrub can hold moisture causing more problems.
On a different note..You gotta love Jimmy Joe. He just quickly mentioned Tim Walz was bitching about the ballroom..he said Walz shoudn't worry about it since he won't need it!
Posted by: Farmer at December 20, 2025 03:00 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 02:56 AM (npFr7)
Not that long, maybe 3 inches at most, maybe almond shape. Not round. They are yellow in fall. I never really examined them up close.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 03:00 AM (snZF9)
I scrolled through many of the comments, Beckoning Chasm, don't you dare apologize for being you, we like you just fine.
Teresa, have a most wonderful Christmas with your family, well done!
JQ and Bers, we still have the windstorm going on here, I am scared of another tree falling on the house, yikes!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 20, 2025 03:03 AM (0nHVk)
So, if you want to increase the maximum velocity, you've got increase the speed of sound. Light gases like helium can do it. There's something they call "gas guns" that pressurize helium and hydrogen gas to enormous pressures and those give you very high speed of sound.
They can hit 10 km/s muzzle velocity, and 12 km/s is about the max they've done. But these things are huge laboratory set ups. They use this for testing orbital velocity impacts and similar.
Rail guns do not suffer that speed of sound limitation.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 03:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 20, 2025 02:59 AM (w6EFb)
And as the gas expands, the pressure drops, and so does the speed of sound in it. I was thinking, a few nights ago, how guns are far superior to bows and trebuchets, and such, in that with all of those, part of the weapon itself has to accelerate to the speed at which the projectile is thrown, and then decelerate to a stop to be recocked. With a gun, the weapon itself remains stationary (neglecting recoil), and only the powder gases and the bullet get any speed to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 03:06 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 20, 2025 03:00 AM (snZF9)
Well, I will say "willow" for now. There's a reason that "willowy" is a synonym for "slender", after all. But there are probably plenty of other trees that could fit the description.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 03:10 AM (npFr7)
I sure hope you don't get *another* tree through your roof! That would be just too much for any one person...
God was looking out for Bers and me-- so blessed to not have major damage.
Today was a struggle. Think I'll call it quits & try to sleep.
See ya all at ClubONT tomorrow, I hope! <3
Posted by: JQ at December 20, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 03:12 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 20, 2025 03:15 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 20, 2025 03:17 AM (4Q/U3)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 20, 2025 03:19 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2025 03:12
Nite AOP, stay warm. W are over the below 0 stuff for now ,hope it is done but I'll bet there's more this winter.
When you headed south? First trip without Pogo must be tough.
Posted by: Farmer at December 20, 2025 03:23 AM (55Qr6)
Don't ever apologize for being you.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 11:37
Now JackS, I hope you wouldn't say that to the idiopids that ran the Providence pressers. They need to apologize for being themselves.
Posted by: Farmer at December 20, 2025 03:42 AM (55Qr6)
Winds calmed dowm overnight at least
Posted by: Skip at December 20, 2025 03:44 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 20, 2025 03:51 AM (rQwsY)
And all to protect the diversity Marxism
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The D model is the superior version.
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Frustration Be Gone Cafe
Baby elephant playing with his food. Three year old girl helps put Reggie the Wombat to bed. Adoption day. I think there are two dogs here because people often bring their current dog to meet the potential adopted dog, to make sure they get along. Mini-chainsaws: Not just for bayonets any longer. The true warrior must accept every challenge he's offered. This seal is a player. (Or is it a sea lion? I don't know animals.)
Fun with Nature's Comedians.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Hi ace!
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 19, 2025 07:36 PM (kpS4V)
Mr. Finn went to the vet today for a follow-up. Doc was delighted with how well he's doing. He'll still be on antibiotics for a couple of weeks, but he's no longer coughing up blood and has a good appetite.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 07:37 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 07:38 PM (3ek7K)
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passwords is secret code for pornz
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 19, 2025 07:38 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Case at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (G1OIb)
Ace, this scenario is one of the exact reasons you write them on a sticky, and put it under your keyboard.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (A0sqA)
Otariids are "eared seals" or sea lions. Phocids are true seals.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (dAOkg)
no i have a cheap old computer for anything like that. this is as clean as it gets.
Posted by: ace at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (YHhYo)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 07:40 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 07:40 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM
And phoque is French for seal.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
no i have a cheap old computer for anything like that. this is as clean as it gets.
Posted by: ace
Shouldn't the good computer be for the prawn?
Better graphics, bigger monitor, ruggedized, etc.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 07:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Use a password manager nowadays. Encrypting the harddrive works for laptop theft but makes it a pita for recovery if something goes wrong, particularly Bitlocker from Microsux.
Proton and Bitwarden make some good password managers that also hold the newer passkeys you should be using. Otherwise, a Yubi security USB key is probably the ultimate at keeping passwords safe as long as you don't lose it. Most people keep several of those in duplicate if you go that route.
Proton and Bitwarden don't have that issue but they do have cloud storage, albeit heavily encrypted for your passwords/passkeys backup. Proton also has a free authenticator app for websites where you can use those.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:42 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2025 07:43 PM (cYBz/)
On the boat now. It’s nice and warm. And the sky
Cleared up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2025 07:43 PM (PjIB0)
Posted by: Tuna at December 19, 2025 07:44 PM (lJ0H4)
Penguins are for Christmas.
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at December 19, 2025 07:44 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
However, "enfocarse" does not mean "turn oneself into a seal" in Spanish
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR)
Adoption day: I wish I'd taken video of the day we met Stirling at the shelter. He acted as if he'd rehearsed his moment on stage, purring, rolling on his side for petting, etc. And then he walked right into the carrier we'd brought. If I didn't know better, I'd think his mother schooled him: "Here's how to pass your audition with the humans. . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 07:46 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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I can tell you work for the NSA.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:46 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board. at December 19, 2025 07:46 PM (oftw2)
i thought that but I thought the trigger handles added plausibility. also, the video being backwards, which is a trick people use to not get copyright-claimed. I thought that lent more credibility.
but yeah I was thinking AI too and you may be right.
Posted by: ace at December 19, 2025 07:47 PM (YHhYo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 07:47 PM (pkeXY)
no i have a cheap old computer for anything like that. this is as clean as it gets.
Posted by: ace at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (YHhYo)
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Smart... separating business from pleasure
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Posted by: Tonypete
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You have us confused with someone else I think. Try down the hall or so.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:47 PM (WDjG6)
Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs
A 15-year-old programmed his home’s Star Wars–themed Christmas light show, and it’s incredible
X video: https://bit.ly/3YDBJn6
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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 19, 2025 07:48 PM (Wnv9h)
No matter how bad the hand you're dealt, at least you're not a superhero who's power is to shape change into a guinea pig
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 07:48 PM (qChqh)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
The last year I was working at MEGA WORLDWIDE FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM, they would selectively pick one of their buildings now and then and audit the cubes within for passwords written on notes and stickies and such.
Our building? Something like 25% on a stickie beneath the keyboard. A further 20% under the mouse pad. 10% right out in the open. The big guys were NOT happy.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2025 07:49 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Uncle Pervy at December 19, 2025 07:49 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Apparently, Sterling gold was from the same litter as our Little Ball of Hate, who was the very model of affection when we met her at the shelter.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 19, 2025 07:49 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025
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After all the years I spent studying Spanish, I still had to look that up: "To focus oneself."
(I'd like it better the other way)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 07:50 PM (wzUl9)
___________________________
That's a "watch this" guy. They likely know him by his first name in the E/R.
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 07:51 PM (dIske)
Posted by: MkY at December 19, 2025 07:51 PM (q6tQZ)
Open Threads were great. We loved them.
That's what we should have on Saturdays & Sundays, like the good ol' days.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:51 PM (dbEXM)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 07:51 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025 07:52 PM (Hpgos)
Now I want to see the four-hour versions of "1900" and "Heaven's Gate" and the six-hour miniseries of "Das Boot".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 19, 2025 07:52 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2025 07:52 PM (PjIB0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 07:53 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: No Coma Art Fan at December 19, 2025 07:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: BAD BRAINS w/ H. ROLLINS at December 19, 2025 07:54 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 07:54 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 19, 2025 07:38 PM (PWcY+)
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no i have a cheap old computer for anything like that. this is as clean as it gets.
Posted by: ace at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (YHhYo)
So that's why you don't read the comments: "A cheap old computer."
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 07:55 PM (gKDq2)
And I fell for it. Arizona grew from a fuzzball into a flowing-furred longhaired cat, like a feline collie, and was with me 16.5 years, his entire life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 07:55 PM (wzUl9)
Don't you worry, Ace, we'll take care of him if he tries anything funny. Now, go find us some more busty lesbian porn. The boys here love it.
Posted by: Bob@NSA at December 19, 2025 07:56 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 07:37 PM (tgvbd)
The power of prayer.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 19, 2025 07:56 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 19, 2025
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Stirling is still affectionate and good-natured. He just likes to play rougher than Dagny likes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 07:57 PM (wzUl9)
And most I have you need 2 boxes to fill in, not just 1 word
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Again, for general security on computers, PC Mag has a pretty good rundown on current topics like passkeys and security keys along with authentication.
2 factor text authentication for websites is on the way out with passkeys and software authenticator apps being the next step adopted. Passkeys though can be compromised if your computer is but it can also be biometric which is harder to crack if your computer has a fingerprint or eye scanner. Some people feel uncomfortable with that.
Security keys like Yubi are encrypted containers for security tokens identifying exactly who you are where either biometrics or a master password upon insertion unlocks them.
No security key present, then a hacker cannot access those websites with your credentials because it generates the encrypted one time codes for those websites only when the key is present and inserted. Authenticator and passkey in one along with password storage for less sophisticated websites.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:58 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Four hours of 'Heaven's Gate' is just longer roller skating scenes.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025 07:58 PM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 19, 2025 07:58 PM (URO9T)
From last thread, I now have Schoolhouse Rock's "My Hero Zero" as an earworm.
Original version:
https://is.gd/UNCkSR
Lemonheads cover:
https://is.gd/8ELLFy
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 07:59 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 07:55 PM (wzUl9)
Hey, I have a question. My two kittens (7-9 mo) got their first distemper shot yesterday and took more than a day to shake it off, with fever and lethargy and no appetite. Is that normal in your experience?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 07:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025 07:58 PM (Hpgos)
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Longer ROLLERFIDDLING scenes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 19, 2025 08:00 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 08:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 08:00 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Google had that problem and went to security keys which ended the issue. I think Google still sells those as products but they aren't as widespread in use as Yubikey. (They do, I checked, look for Titan Security Key).
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 08:01 PM (WDjG6)
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When I was a senior in high school, on a spring day, my friend and I ditched class to smoke some organic substances. We went to a cliff overlooking a river and the ice was breaking up. A beaver was playing among the ice flows as they floated away down river.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 08:01 PM (L/fGl)
My two kittens (7-9 mo) got their first distemper shot yesterday and took more than a day to shake it off, with fever and lethargy and no appetite. Is that normal in your experience?
Posted by: Kindltot
Did they eat today?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 08:02 PM (dbEXM)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025
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I seem to recall that happening without incident years ago with some of my cats, but not recently. Chekov D. Siberian was under the weather a bit, and Marie-Antoinette too. But that was some years ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 08:03 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 08:03 PM (qChqh)
80's Mystery Lyrics!
All of my life I've been waitin' in the rain
I've been waitin' for a feelin'
That never ever came
It feels so close
But always disappears
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 08:03 PM (dbEXM)
Posted by: Skip
That's not hyperbole, it actually howled! One big ash so far and another tree I haven't found yet.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 08:04 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 19, 2025 08:04 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 08:05 PM (a+4eV)
By the end you stink of diesel and sweat while sporting a full beard. Plus, you will look pale and emaciated.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 08:05 PM (2GVsD)
Remember a couple years ago I axed how many Songs With A Saxophone you can think of?
The above Mystery Lyrics has a saxophone.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 08:06 PM (dbEXM)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025 08:06 PM (Hpgos)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 08:07 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 08:02 PM (dbEXM)
They skipped breakfast but ate dinner just now.
The girl is coming out of it, but she decided to stay in all day. I don't remember such a reaction for the other cats when they were kittens.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 08:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 07:59 PM (rbvCR)
It can happen with shots to a cat. If they shake it off as you say, its no big deal.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 08:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025
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What was so terrible about it? Was it slow and dull, poorly acted, or what?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 08:08 PM (wzUl9)
I got high in high school once.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 08:09 PM (viF8m)
Pitch Black Velvet & Tia Maria
Posted by: kactus at December 19, 2025 08:09 PM (twS2i)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 08:03 PM (qChqh)
Or Maybe Donaldus Maximus is going to do something big, really big, and three days without the bureaucrats being at their desks is a key part of it. He as to do it for the whole of Civil Service, because saying, "Hey, FBI, take next week off" might give it away.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 19, 2025 08:10 PM (lLEcp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 08:10 PM (2GVsD)
As good as use as any for those little 162's. But the Zamboni driver is going to run you over if he catches you.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 08:10 PM (iFEms)
The above Mystery Lyrics has a saxophone.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 08:06 PM (dbEXM)
How many with bagpipes?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 08:11 PM (KDPiq)
Many of my cats over the years have had similar reactions to various shots. The two here now had similar when they were kittens.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 08:11 PM (w6EFb)
Like the top pic
Posted by: kactus at December 19, 2025 08:11 PM (twS2i)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025
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What was so terrible about it? Was it slow and dull, poorly acted, or what?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 08:08 PM (wzUl9)
the book I read said that mostly it was just a nothing burger of a movie. The issue was the money spent. the genius director had an entire town set rebuilt to make the road wider (instead of tearing down just one side and moving it).
That and someone estimated half the cost was cocaine for everyone on set.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 08:12 PM (8avO+)
I, for one, prefer security methods that don't incentivize dismemberment of the person whose computer the bad actors wish to hack.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 08:12 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 08:12 PM (qChqh)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025
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What was so terrible about it? Was it slow and dull, poorly acted, or what?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
Bad writing. Acting was held back by a clunky script. Damn good actors were in it (Kristofferson, Walken, Watterson, Hurt, and some others that I'm blanking out on). Needed editing badly. Some scenes just went on and on and on.... Again, there was a story to tell, Director excess killed it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025 08:13 PM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025 08:06 PM (Hpgos)
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Oh, it was a trainwreck. But beautiful visuals, from the bits I've seen.
"An entire tree was cut down, moved in pieces, and relocated to the courtyard in Oxford, England, where the Harvard 1870 graduation scene was shot. Cimino had an irrigation system built under the land where the major battlefield scene would unfold so that it would remain vividly green."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 19, 2025 08:13 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 08:13 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 08:12 PM (a+4eV)
mythbusters broke a fingerprint reader using a print xeroxed and colored in with a marker.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 08:14 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
*Clears throat Cliff Claven style*
It's a little known fact that some prototype ATMs using hand vein pattern recognition as the key could tell if the proffered hand was chopped off of the donor's body.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2025 08:15 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 08:12 PM (qChqh)
its what all the cool mass murderers do, so they do it.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 08:15 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 08:16 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Yes, yes, and yes, and then the bad guys win. I love the score, though. A masterpiece of less is more.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 08:16 PM (L/fGl)
They can take the rest of their careers off as paid vacation and we'd probably save money, what with nobody left to operate the sluices of graft.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 08:16 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 19, 2025 08:17 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 08:17 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Oldcat
No doubt saving many fingers of future computer theft victims.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 08:18 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 08:05 PM (2GVsD)
That guy always looks emaciated. Dammit, what's his name...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 08:19 PM (zZu0s)
So what turned out to be the problem? Was it gremlins?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 08:19 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 08:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 19, 2025 08:20 PM (Hpgos)
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And it just happen to be his property that that the irrigation system was built on.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 08:20 PM (L/fGl)
Why yes. Yes I am going to watch the Jake Paul v. Anthony Joshua boxing match.
I want to see if boxing is 100% fake and gay or just 99% (or less) fake and gay.
How will we know? We'll know. We will know.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 08:21 PM (HXd99)
U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to bring back a scourge of the high seas banished from Atlantic and Pacific waters since the age of sail: privateers, authorized by government-issued letters of marque to ply the trade of piracy in service of their country by targeting enemy ships.
These modern day privateers, under a bill introduced Thursday by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), would receive authorization from U.S. President Donald Trump as private individuals to seize foreign vessels from anyone who “is a member of a cartel, a member of a cartel-linked organization, or a conspirator associated with a cartel or a cartel-linked organization.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 08:21 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Which means there is a lab in remote Russia working on a device that continues circulation in a severed hand.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 19, 2025 08:22 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 08:22 PM (Ia/+0)
If you don’t write a manifesto you only get half credit, and it’s just not worth it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 08:22 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 08:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 08:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Being meth heads didn't help.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 08:23 PM (KDPiq)
I do have to hand it to the guy, though. He absolutely refused to take any payment, since he couldn't fix it. That would NEVER have happened in New York.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 19, 2025 08:25 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 08:23 PM (KDPiq)
Heh. Co plex design choices for equipment wasn't due to just being German, but also the engineers tweaking like hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 08:25 PM (zZu0s)
.45ACP or 9mm bullet points?
And are you ready to win the $1.5 billion Powerball annuity?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 08:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 08:12 PM (a+4eV)
That was one of the plot points in the rather underappreciated Schwarzenegger movie, "The Sixth Day"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 08:26 PM (rbvCR)
If Anthony Joshua doesn't win decisively it was fixed.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 08:26 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 08:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Accomack at December 19, 2025 08:26 PM (IG7T0)
If Anthony Joshua doesn't win decisively it was fixed.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 08:26 PM (KDPiq)
The prelims have started. I guess I'll go watch those.
Yeah, it shouldn't last long, but I guess we will see.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 08:28 PM (HXd99)
The sympathy by the media is all on the side of the "poor people being targeted by Immigration." Never do they show footage of anyone speaking up for ICE, who are merely doing their necessary job. Well, folks, they wouldn't be "targeted" if THEY WEREN'T TRESPASSING.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 08:28 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 08:28 PM (LHPAg)
Now he tells us. After how many years of doing the Cafe...
*chef's kiss*
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 19, 2025 08:29 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 08:30 PM (qChqh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 08:21 PM (pkeXY)
That’s the kind of idea that would be a hell of a lot of fun even though I know it’s a really, really bad idea.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 08:30 PM (0anTZ)
U-boat War Patrol: The Hidden Photographic Diary of U 564 by Lawrence Patterson.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 08:30 PM (2GVsD)
Don't forget the stealing.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 08:30 PM (iFEms)
Not to mention discovering your nude shelfie pics.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 08:32 PM (vxVX0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 08:21 PM (pkeXY)
LFG!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 08:33 PM (vxVX0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 08:33 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: epador at December 19, 2025 08:34 PM (TRnzq)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 08:34 PM (Cjt/F)
Steven Miller. 🤗
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 08:35 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Fen
That damn Hegseth!
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth@SecWar
Earlier today, U.S. forces commenced OPERATION HAWKEYE STRIKE in Syria to eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites in direct response to the attack on U.S. forces that occurred on December 13th in Palmyra, Syria.
This is not the beginning of a war — it is a it is a declaration of vengeance. The United States of America, under President Trump’s leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people.
As we said directly following the savage attack, if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.
Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 08:37 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 08:38 PM (aaVhS)
Nah. Pretty sure that was an NSA guy upgrading their Spyware.
They already have your passwords so...
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 08:39 PM (qChqh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 08:40 PM (npFr7)
Powdered eggs and peanut butter for the win.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 08:41 PM (KDPiq)
Civis Romanus sum. Nice. I definitely voted for this.
I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 08:43 PM (qChqh)
8:43:20 EST (01:43:20Z), the instant of the new Moon. Thus ends the Cold Moon lunation, the longest of the year, and begins the Wolf Moon lunation, the first full Moon of astronomical winter.
If you want to howl at the Moon, this is the one to do it at.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 08:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 19, 2025 08:43 PM (+mUZM)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 08:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 08:43 PM (w6EFb)
Since it’s a new moon I guess I gotta howl at not-the-moon.
But I think Sirius is up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 08:45 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 08:45 PM (Cjt/F)
Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue.
I love this attitude. For far too many years we've allowed people to talk smack about Americans and treat us like shit while we also played world police and protected them.
No more world police. Take care of your own shit. But don't ever fuck around with an American citizen or we will hit back much harder. We're living in a pretty good timeline.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 08:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 08:46 PM (LHPAg)
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In the 1990s, I rented a house with two other guys and the computer (tower, of course) was a collaborative effort, and we took turns as people do who grew up with a single television in the household.
One of the amusing pursuits - especially after drinking - was to go through the cache, and see who forgot to clear it.
I hope you cleared yours, Ace, or there's going to be lots of Ewok pr()n jokes the next time you bring it in for service.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 08:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 08:37 PM (L/fGl)
Cue pissing and moaning by Rand Paul and Sen. Kelly. 5, 4, 3, 2….
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 08:47 PM (0anTZ)
Everybody was dancin’ in the moon light
Dancin’ in the moon light!
Posted by: Gallery at December 19, 2025 08:48 PM (aaVhS)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 08:45 PM (viF8m)
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What we should have done in 2001 was wreck Afghanistan, back one or more warlords, and leave.
Same with Iraq. Punitive expeditions work. Nation building doesn't.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 08:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tuna
It's not fattening them up for a banquet in Peru?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 08:49 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 08:46 PM (LHPAg)
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Canuck yacht rock.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 08:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 08:50 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: King Harvest at December 19, 2025 08:51 PM (aaVhS)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 08:38 PM (aaVhS)
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That's why you can get fat eating MRIs in garrison - not enough calories being burned.
They came up with "diet" ones (TOTMs I think) for that reason.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 08:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 19, 2025 08:53 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 08:53 PM (zZu0s)
Nothing’s too good for our boys.
SPAM and powdered eggs was often the last meal for thousands of troops during the 2nd world war.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 08:55 PM (aaVhS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 08:30 PM (0anTZ)
Listen to "Last of Barrett's Privateers" by Stan Rogers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 08:56 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 08:53 PM (zZu0s)
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You save that part for last.
Of course I was referring to MREs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 08:56 PM (ZOv7s)
No more world police. Take care of your own shit. But don't ever fuck around with an American citizen or we will hit back much harder. We're living in a pretty good timeline.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 08:45 PM (viF8m)
The best part about being a superpower is slapping the shit out of pissant countries that get out of line. As a nation, we've forgotten that, and it's about time we had a President and Secretary of War who haven't.
Colin Powell's bullshit "you broke it, you bought it" doctrine can go piss up a rope. I only regret that he didn't live to see himself humiliated by better men who don't take any shit from foreign busybodies and savages.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 08:58 PM (y9nCu)
Nothing’s too good for our boys.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 08:55 PM (aaVhS)
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When we'd get issued MREs, I'd get fast food (like everyone else) and take the home. The kids loved it! So exciting to open them and see what we got. Everything was a surprise, and if had any empty plastic bottles, I'd make bombs out of the heater.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 08:58 PM (ZOv7s)
It never made any sense that we could enforce cultural change on an entire country. And I don't want to spend a nickel trying.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)
irrelevant side note: 1977, maybe; Uptown Theater, Chicago, the only time in all recorded history that the Grateful Dead played "Werewolf in London" for an encore.
I was there!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 08:59 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 08:59 PM (aaVhS)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 09:00 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 09:01 PM (Cjt/F)
I assume Beef jerky was a favorite in care packages.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 09:01 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 08:59 PM (aaVhS)
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Yes, the grunts I knew talked about stripping them down, but the purpose of the thing was for the long haul, where food stocks will matter and presumably ammo stocks are in the position you're going to defend, not what you are carrying with you.
We learned a lot of skills that will be useless in a peer-to-peer fight.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Stretch That Hole at December 19, 2025 09:05 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)
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Once you realize the war direction was quickly taken over by theater kids and generals who were looking at comfy careers as contractors for the next 20 years, it all makes sense.
No one wanted to "win" the war, just keep it going at a sustainable level - and call anyone who wanted to get out a coward and unpatriotic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)
The Army looks at the troop loadout like a Christmas tree. “One more ornament won’t hurt!” Uh-huh
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 09:07 PM (aaVhS)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 19, 2025 09:07 PM (gm9Sb)
Just got back from Supper. Yep Sirius is just up (well, for those in the east certainly). Jupiter is just coming up as well.
Now that the leaves are gone on the trees mostly on the back side of the house, which is north, I can see Polaris now from the back porch.
I hope to get as good as a cousin of mine who can tell sidereal time to 15 minutes just by looking at the "clock hands" of the stars around Polaris. Knowing what day of the year, you then know mean solar time at night.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 09:08 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2025 09:09 PM (b4o9z)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 09:11 PM (aaVhS)
Also, tomorrow evening, if nothing obstructs your horizon to the west, it can be fun to see how "young" of a Moon you can see, just how thing a crescent you can see right at sunset.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 09:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 09:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 09:07 PM (aaVhS)
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Hence the origin of the nickname "grunts," from the sound they made when they stood up with all their gear.
It's pretty well proven that throughout history, no matter what tech, the loadout is always close the most one can carry unless there's a deliberate need for speed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:12 PM (ZOv7s)
So they tend to lose weight quickly. 24 hour days and expending 3000 to 5000 calories will do that to a feller.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 08:38 PM (aaVhS)
Merrill's Marauders. The Army jungle ration that was found to be sufficient for their operations had been discontinued, so Vinegar Joe Stillwell (one of the shittiest US Army generals) decided that a single K ration per day would work for them. Less than 3000 calories, and so monotonous and awful that soldiers would toss some of the components to save weight on the march.
The Marauders practically starved to death, not to mention the tropical diseases. Even then, they slaughtered the Japs in huge numbers.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 09:12 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 09:13 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
MidwayUSA has 12 MRE's for $69.95
The best were the Warnick beef stew from the late 80's in the dark brown packaging.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 09:14 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 09:12 PM (KDPiq)
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I think you mean hours. Bush I was a pussy, didn't want to remove Saddam, but then tried to get the Iraqis to do it, and then let Saddam put them down.
Total asshole. Also: vicious and cruel adulterer. Almost drove his wife to suicide. I like to remind Con Inc. of the fact that he was far sleazier than The Donald, who has never pretended to be something other than what he is.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:14 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Fen
It's not uncommon when Christmas is on a Thursday.
Common Patterns (Examples):
If Christmas is on a Tuesday: The Monday before might be granted off.
If Christmas is on a Thursday (like 2025): Both the Wednesday (Christmas Eve) and Friday (Dec 26) are often given off.
If Christmas is on a Friday/Wednesday: Half-days were common, but Presidents sometimes grant full days.
It's lovely to have a 5 day long weekend!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 09:15 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 09:15 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 09:12 PM (KDPiq)
Given that two out of three things cited in the Al Qaeda declaration of war were US troops in Saudi and the suffering of the Iraqi people. i.e. the containment policy, possibly.
I'm not really a fan meeting demands like a shopping list, but the containment policy was worse than deposing Saddam would have been, and that's 100% hindsight granted.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:18 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 09:12 PM (y9nCu)
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Stilwell should have understood China, but was too much of a dick to get it. Chiang Kai-shek knew that after the Japanese, he had to fight the Communists, and saw no point in using good quality troops to clear Burma for the British.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:18 PM (ZOv7s)
The best were the Warnick beef stew from the late 80's in the dark brown packaging.
Posted by: rickb223
Really enjoyed the chicken a la king. Totally not trolling, it was my favorite.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 09:18 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 09:19 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 19, 2025 09:20 PM (gm9Sb)
Just looked it up, not a chance to see the thin crescent tomorrow for me, it'll still be less than 1%.
The record naked eye young moon sighting was in May of 1990, seen 15 hours and 32 minutes after the new Moon. A dubious claim by two British house maids back in 1926 claimed 14 hours and 45 minutes, but that is considered pretty dubious.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 09:21 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:18 PM (pIfcn)
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The whole point was to make the US a colonial power in the Middle East. Without that, we would have closed more bases in Europe and further drawn down the Army.
We needed the threat of war to keep the Military Industrial Complex happy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Four Fingers of Death, cold.
Best ever!
Posted by: Said No One Ever at December 19, 2025 09:23 PM (R/m4+)
and who has survived a decade of nonstop forensic colonoscopy, untouched.
squarest, most honest President in the past century, at very least.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 09:24 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 19, 2025 09:24 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:25 PM (pIfcn)
Nice thing about MREs is they will bind you up. By design.
Posted by: Stretch That Hole at December 19, 2025 09:05 PM (R/m4+)
The unspoken reason for that is frankly rather gruesome. Infantrymen are basically covered in filth, which contaminates their food, no matter how hard you work at keeping clean. Not to mention that you're always around dead, rotting flesh. There are accounts going back for centuries of even high ranking generals cutting out the bottom of their uniform pants so that they could easily hop off their horse and quickly cop a squat by the side of the road.
Dysentery has historically been a more prolific killer in war than machine guns and artillery.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 09:25 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 09:26 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 09:27 PM (iKvcM)
The best part about being a superpower is slapping the shit out of pissant countries that get out of line.
But that's "punching down!"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 09:27 PM (pkeXY)
Well, hell. There's pictures of Walter Cronkite with Epstein....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 09:27 PM (w6EFb)
Dysentery has historically been a more prolific killer in war than machine guns and artillery.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 09:25 PM (y9nCu)
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Louis IX of France (subsequently canonized) suffered from this during his crusade in Egypt, and cut the seat out of his pants.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:28 PM (ZOv7s)
?? Why would you want to?
Posted by: The CIA at December 19, 2025 09:28 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: Socratease at December 19, 2025 09:28 PM (YgfoU)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 09:27 PM (iKvcM)
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I think the beef stew was a hardy perennial favorite. In Army Basic, when we went into the field I was the squad leader, so high-graded my pick. Later on in the Air Force, we rarely used them, but when we did, I always volunteered to pick them up - so I could high grade them.
The kids liked the spaghetti.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 09:30 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 19, 2025 09:30 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 09:31 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 09:31 PM (0anTZ)
Then there must be boxfuls of pictures of him with Les Wexner.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 09:33 PM (poCn6)
Four Fingers of Death, cold.
Best ever!
Posted by: Said No One Ever at December 19, 2025 09:23 PM (R/m4+)
I rather enjoyed chicken a la thing, which marked me as a total weirdo. The ham slice was my favorite. Reminded me of SPAM, I spent my elementary school years in Hawaii so SPAM was the shiznit.
But yeah, the Four Fingers were pretty awful.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 09:33 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 09:31 PM (0anTZ)
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This is why Trump is so much better. He'll bomb the shit out of anyone. Smash the Iraqis, and then smash Iran. Who wants some? He's got plenty for everyone!
That is how a true superpower acts, and it actually increases respect. Muslims universally think mercy for one's enemies is a sign of weakness.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:34 PM (ZOv7s)
These fuckers and their word games.
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 09:34 PM (Q+gd/)
No sweat Ace.
We got ya covered.
Hitting the tip jar.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 09:35 PM (2WIwB)
Then there must be boxfuls of pictures of him with Les Wexner.
Posted by: t-bird
The Limited Edition.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 09:35 PM (pkeXY)
Yeah, Trump said please don't throw me in that Epstein briar patch, Democrats.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 09:35 PM (w6EFb)
Folks still thank me for my service. I humbly thank them, but I think of my brothers who did so much more.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 19, 2025 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)
That had to sting.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:35 PM (ZOv7s)
I need a ruling. I think, as best I can tell, we funded Massoud and the Saudis matched us funding Bin Laden. Maybe I've just seen Charlie Wilson's War too many times. What actually happened?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:35 PM (pIfcn)
And nice photos of Dave Copperfield in a bathrobe with frolicking with Ghislaine.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 09:37 PM (w6EFb)
It's like taking your car to a mechanic.
You just want to get down on your knees and pray he doesn't fuck it up worse and that he doesn't over charge too much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 09:38 PM (LEuDt)
I need a ruling. I think, as best I can tell, we funded Massoud and the Saudis matched us funding Bin Laden. Maybe I've just seen Charlie Wilson's War too many times. What actually happened?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls
I always thought we funded ISIS, which was Bin Laden, against the Soviets.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 09:38 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 19, 2025 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)
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Yeah, it happens. I got 21 years in and never went to the sandbox or anywhere close to the "real" war. Did the oil spill in the Gulf, went to Germany 3 times, but always missed the Big Show. I was supposed to be part of the Libya thing, but got dropped at the last minute.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 09:39 PM (Q+gd/)
It's like taking your car to a mechanic.
You just want to get down on your knees and pray he doesn't fuck it up worse and that he doesn't over charge too much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 09:38 PM (LEuDt)
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I never do it. I buy the cheapest computers, back up things I need, and when one dies, just get another and load the save.
Cheaper than seeing a tech.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Same with Iraq. Punitive expeditions work. Nation building doesn't.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
++++
Mullah Omar was not popular when the locals found he was living like a debauched king.
After allying with another warlord we could have left at point.
Should have permantlu taken Iraqs port (Basra?) and blockaded the rest of Iraq indefinitely.
BUT
They put State in charge (Bremmer?).
Thanks W. Right up there with flooding the country with muslims.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 09:40 PM (/lPRQ)
The spooks did supply the folks fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Maybe even Stinger anti-aircraft missiles? Just more stupid shit piled on stupid shit.
Supposedly that’s why Ambassador Stevens was over there getting kilt in Libya, trying to round up “missing” weapons that ended up somewhere that would make you know who look bad.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 09:42 PM (dY3L3)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 09:38 PM (QVmho)
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No. We funded the Afghans, which included Al Qaeda among others. The Saudis also did their Wahabi thing.
ISIS was created to overthrow Assad by CIA, and then we toppled Gaddafi and used Libya as a transit point, which is why Benghazi was hushed up.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Powell went to his grave knowing that he could have been president, but instead Barry Sotero, a featherweight homosexual, got to be the first black man to get the job.
That had to sting.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Even worse, if the rumors are true, Powell's wife talked him out of running because that racist slag thought that Colon would get whacked out by some Southern Klan gunman wearing farmer's overalls. Like she hadn't spent decades as a soldier's wife.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 09:43 PM (y9nCu)
No. We funded the Afghans, which included Al Qaeda among others. The Saudis also did their Wahabi thing.
ISIS was created to overthrow Assad by CIA, and then we toppled Gaddafi and used Libya as a transit point, which is why Benghazi was hushed up.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I can't keep it all straight, thanks. We funded baddies. They bohica'd us later.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 09:44 PM (QVmho)
I always thought we funded ISIS, which was Bin Laden, against the Soviets.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 09:38 PM (QVmho)
There was a named Ahmad Shah Massoud who was a major anti Soviet guy. Tajik, not Arab. He was assassinated by a team of suicide bombers on Sept. 9th. He Was the guy we would have backed to get Bin Laden. And here's where I may be leaping to conclusions, because we already had a relationship with him.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:44 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 09:42 PM (dY3L3)
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Saddam was a Soviet client. We backed the Shah. When the Shah fell, we were at a loss. Saddam also hated Israel, was building WMD tech, but he also hated Iran.
So we began to shift to Saddam's side, but our aid was insignificant next to what the Soviets gave him. Our big thing was keeping the oil tankers going during the Tanker War, and on the balance we were far less pro-Saddam than anti-Iran.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)
?? Why would you want to?
Posted by: The CIA at December 19, 2025 09:28 PM (iFEms)
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Last 24 hours of the war I was standing in the intel center for VII Corps having this very conversation. We were making plans to move deep into Iraq. I was the G2 for the Corps artillery. The bosses knew I had lived in the region and knew a bit of the culture. When asked about moving on Baghdad, I simple told the CG, "Yeah, we could do it. But we won't be met with cheering crowds. And it would be an occupation, not liberation."
Boss gave me a really weird look. Never asked him later what he was thinking.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 09:45 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 09:48 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:44 PM (pIfcn)
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No, you have it right. We backed the Northern Alliance, which was the last resistance remaining to the Taliban.
That being said, other strongmen were available, and giving them a mercenary air force, arms and some training would have kept the Taliban busy indefinately.
But we needed to build schools. That was where the Soviets failed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: you got to have freeeens at December 19, 2025 09:50 PM (TbWk/)
I was in A-Stan when the Russians were there. I was stunned by how many of our people didn't understand the battery issue. Friggin' hilarious.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 09:51 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 09:53 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:44 PM (pIfcn)
A SF dude I knew who was over there at the time when the soviets were there was one of the dudes that was part of a group that became friendly with massoud and his group. The SF dude basically told me the people in Astan that fought the soviets ranked from good afghani (massoud), to less than good, to nasty, to downright evil. Many times fighting among themselves. Basically warlord shit. There were groups that were US friendly, groups that weren't, and groups that hated everybody.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2025 09:53 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:49 PM (ZOv7s)
If I had a dollar for every dollar we spent trying make Pride Week in Kandahar as big as Eid, I'd be a very wealthy Moron. We would eat Kaboom! with exotic milks, like water buffalo or 1%.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:54 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 09:54 PM (pIfcn)
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The irony is that they did tons of gay shit, but it was all to little boys, and we're not supposed to talk about that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 10:00 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 10:00 PM (pIfcn)
Think of it as if we dumped a shitload of cash onto mexico to get rid of china if they were there. How much would end up in the cartel's hands? yeah, shit like that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2025 10:02 PM (snZF9)
In many ways, 9/11 was just another battle in a Saudi Civil War. Al Qaeda vs the House of Saud. I think there's a case to be made that AQ and Bin Ladin didn't really gave a shit about the US, it was just a way to show that they were the strong horse, compared to the ruling family. At the time, there were virtually no US troops in Saudi Arabia other than at a couple of air bases in the middle of the desert, hundreds of miles away from most Saudi cities and holy sites. And they were only there to enforce the Iraqi no fly zone.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 10:02 PM (y9nCu)
My son said he pulled his side weapon on some low life Afgan Officer who raped an 11 year old boy (They do that and goats).
Set the groundwork for him not being allowed to re- enlist after his 5th combat tour.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:04 PM (25kuG)
Not amused.
Or...angry but loving.
She also ate the paper wrapped around the muffin.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 19, 2025 10:05 PM (xcxpd)
ISLAM as well as all the Commie/Socialists within our country are PUSHING HARD now.
They think they can kill the REPUBLIC now.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 19, 2025 10:07 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2025 09:53 PM (snZF9)
250 But we needed to build schools. That was where the Soviets failed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 19, 2025 09:49 PM (ZOv7s)
If I had a dollar for every dollar we spent trying make Pride Week in Kandahar as big as Eid, ...
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls,
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If anything - rule of law - nothing more.
Every thing flows from that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 10:15 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Socratease at December 19, 2025 10:17 PM (YgfoU)
...
The named and sanctioned individuals in the Treasury release include Eloisa Flores de Malpica, Malpica Flores’ mother and the sister of Cilia Flores; Carlos Evelio Malpica Torrealba, his father; Iriamni Malpica Flores, his sister; Damaris del Carmen Hurtado Perez, his wife; and Erica Patricia Malpica Hurtado, his adult daughter.
...
Faggot's nipping at his heels. He better watch out
faggotts can be mean little bitches. - ask Musk.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 10:20 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Fat Black Screeching Cunt at December 20, 2025 02:41 AM (o+Dmu)
In Fulton County, Georgia -- Big Fani's Home County -- 315,000 "Votes" Were Counted Despite Missing the Necessary Signatures
No big deal. Don't bother checking IDs, don't bother checking if the necessary poll worker signatures are attached to the "votes."
And then prosecute Trump. He's the bad guy here.
Fulton County: 'We Don't Dispute' 315,000 Votes Lacking Poll Workers' Signatures Were Counted In 2020
Fulton County admits 2020 election did not follow rules
'When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.'
Brianna Lyman Earlier this month, Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election. The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. Cross filed a challenge with the SEB in March 2022. Cross alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia statute in the handling of advanced voting ahead of the November 2020 election, counting hundreds of thousands of votes even though polling workers failed to sign off on the vote tabulation "tapes" critical to the certification process. And Fulton County admitted to it. Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, told the SEB in the hearing that while she has "not seen the tapes" herself, the county does "not dispute that the tapes were not signed." Brumbaugh continued, "It was a violation of the rule. We, since 2020, again, we have new leadership and a new building and a new board and a new standard operating procedures. And since then the training has been enhanced. ... But ... we don't dispute the allegation from the 2020 election." Georgia's Secretary of State Office investigated the alleged failure to sign tabluation tapes and "substantiated" the findings that Fulton County "violated Official Election Record Document Processes when it was discovered that thirty-six (36) out of thirty-seven (37) Advanced Voting Precincts in Fulton County, Georgia failed to sign the Tabulation Tapes as required [by statute]," according to a 2024 investigation summary. In addition to probing the unsigned tabulation tapes, the investigation also found that officials at 32 polling sites failed to verify their zero tapes. Georgia law requires that election officials have each ballot scanner print three closing tapes at the end of each voting day. Poll workers must sign these tapes or include a documented reason for refusal. Voting laws also require poll workers to begin each day of voting by printing and signing a "zero tape" showing that voting machines are starting at zero votes. If there is no record of whether the tabulator was set at zero at the start of polling, there is no way of telling whether ballots from a previous election (or ballots from a test run) were left on the memory card and might later be counted. Notably, this happened in Montana, where officials discovered more votes than were cast and believe the votes were leftover sample data that had not been cleared. "These signed tapes are the sole legal certification that the reported totals are authentic," Cross told the SEB at the Dec. 9 hearing. "Fulton County produced zero signed tabulator tapes in early voting."
🚨 VIDEO: Fulton County Board of Elections Attorney Ann Brumbaugh admits that 315K early votes were illegally certified during the 2020 election.
— Mike Collins War Room (@TeamOverhaulGA) December 19, 2025
Jon Ossoff became a Senator on a fluke.
Georgia voters will remind him of that next year. https://t.co/GqXD3tboAH pic.twitter.com/OHjKj6Hxwf
Crazy story here. I detailed just SOME of the problems in Fulton County in my best-seller Rigged. There were 5 -- FIVE! -- serious reasons why two of the five Fulton County officials voted not to certify the troubled county's results. All three Democrats overruled them. https://t.co/skSm4lPnHD
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 19, 2025
I mean this is… really bad. We genuinely can’t say with confidence who won Georgia in 2020.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) December 19, 2025
Brad Raffensperger got a lot of plaudits for standing up to Trump, but boy, does he suck at his job. https://t.co/fdArUM9MlH
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 06:35 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:36 PM (eSMm5)
For Christmas, I Want...
the President of the United States to declare the Democrat party a terrorist organization.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:36 PM (eSMm5)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 06:36 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Immigration laws, too! at December 19, 2025 06:37 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:38 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 06:38 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:39 PM (g47mK)
Its like, at 45, they somehow stole some of my innocence away and I want them to fucking pay for that. All of them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 19, 2025 06:39 PM (cuae1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:39 PM (eSMm5)
They'll settle for a kingdom run by a king.
The best they were able to do under Obama and Biden is a country...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 06:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 06:40 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 06:40 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:41 PM (eSMm5)
BTW, I took my annual Medicaid online health survey today. There were a few points where I was not allowed to advance until I had checked off a box even though I'd answered "no" to the previous paired question. The one I remember most was near the end, and it was something like "In the last year, have you ever been unable to find the following when you needed it: Food, money, shelter, medical care, etc." There was no "None of the above" or "N/A" option, I *had* to pick one. So I put "dental care" because no local dentist will accept adults on Medicaid. The kicker? No comment box at the end so I could voice my concerns.
So the next time you see "70% of Medicaid recipients struggled to find food" as a headline, this is why.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to stay honest at December 19, 2025 06:35 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 19, 2025 06:41 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 06:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Kate fucking Hobbs STOLE her own election.
Kari Lake had TWO elections stolen from her.
That idiot R Senator replacement, I forget her stupid name, she had her election stolen.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:42 PM (eSMm5)
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 06:42 PM (Q+gd/)
You must have zero tolerance for their attacks.
You must attack back MORE for their attacks than how they attacked you.
This has worked through history dealing with them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 19, 2025 06:33 PM
I dunno. We struck back at the terrorists after 09/11 and that didn't do a damn thing. 24 years later, where are we? Afghanistan and Iraq are even worse now, as is every nation in the West.
Granted, at the same time, the West collectively bent over for Islam and invited them into every Western nation to conquer them.
I think we still have not learned the lesson 2+ decades on. Terrorists do not care about tough talk or wars. They want war. They want death.
The lesson that has yet to be learned is the problem is not terrorists, but Islam and Muslims. Until Trump and every other Western leader are speaking and acting on that, this is the same shit, different day as far as dealing with Islamic terrorists.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:43 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 06:43 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 06:43 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:41 PM (eSMm5)
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Get in bitch, we're next! After Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Wisconsin and its 2am ballot dump at December 19, 2025 06:44 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 06:44 PM (1vqcm)
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec
Promise Made. Promise Kept.
Under President Trump, if you kill American troops, you will pay.
(Trump post announcing Syria action)
X: https://bit.ly/4jd1eFy
"All terrorists who are evil enough to attack American are hereby warned - YOU WILL BE HIT HARDER THAN YOU HAVE EVER BEEN HIT BEFORE IF YOU, IN ANY WAY, ATTACK OR THREATEN THE U.S.A."
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So...Karoline Leavitt posts here as Ben Rothlisberger!
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 06:44 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Nathan Wade on VRBO at December 19, 2025 06:44 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 06:45 PM (gKDq2)
The lesson that has yet to be learned is the problem is not terrorists, but Islam and Muslims. Until Trump and every other Western leader are speaking and acting on that, this is the same shit, different day as far as dealing with Islamic terrorists.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:43 PM
The depressing thing is... if 09/11 in the U.S.A. and 07/07 in the UK were not enough to wake up the West to Islam, that means it is going to take a mass death event even larger than those two events to finally wake people up.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:45 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Nathan Wade on VRBO at December 19, 2025 06:44 PM
What do you need a cabin for? You only sleep eight hours a week.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 06:45 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 06:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 06:46 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 06:43 PM (E0p3T)
Those were just fascists fighting for their Fuhrer.
Nevermind the large number of vets.
Posted by: Nose ringed and purple haired bints at December 19, 2025 06:46 PM (Hx0tZ)
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I disagree, we got our deterrence back. Which is huge. And now they know we will not hesitate. Even under obama, we will go after them.
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 06:47 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:45 PM (P5BPp)
No I think it means there is no siren loud enough
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 06:47 PM (E0p3T)
In one of the various murder trials I was on a jury for this one guy shot the victim dozens of times. Over a mile. Walk walk bang bang bang… reload crawl crawl crawl bang bang… At one point he was unloading into the guy beside a parked city bus full of Savannah people. Guess how many witnesses there were? It’s a non negative integer less than one.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 06:47 PM (3uBP9)
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Posted by: Snoop Doggy Dogg at December 19, 2025 06:48 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Fox News at December 19, 2025 06:48 PM (cHOHf)
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 06:45 PM
Yep. We've been reading about the massive corruption and scandals and everything else the Democrats / Left / media have been doing for decades now. No one ever gets punished, so it keeps happening.
And it will keep happening until there are actually consequences. I won't be holding my breath for that happening in my lifetime.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:48 PM (P5BPp)
If there is no consequence then what the hell is the point, let's just fight it out in the streets.
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 06:49 PM (8uzBS)
They could have just fabricated the numbers Detroit does.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 06:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Or they wealthy islamists are quiet happy with subverting the Western countries to the point where an attack would be superfluous.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 06:49 PM (mlg/3)
"In the last year, have you ever been unable to find the following when you needed it: Food, money, shelter, medical care, etc."
_________
We're out of chocolate ice cream.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:49 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 06:47 PM (3uBP9)
Sincere maths question: Is zero considered an integer?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:49 PM (xT8gx)
Whoopsie!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 06:50 PM (dE3DB)
Posted by: Pam Bondi at December 19, 2025 06:50 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 06:51 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 06:51 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:51 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: toby928(c)
Yeah, but Lawd knows Fani need her beauty sleep.
Posted by: Nathan Wade, Esq. at December 19, 2025 06:51 PM (oftw2)
We, since 2020, again, we have new leadership and a new building and a new board and a new standard operating procedures. And since then the training has been enhanced. ... But ... we don't dispute the allegation from the 2020 election."
Some people did some things. Move along you damned MAGA rethuglicans.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 06:53 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:48 PM (P5BPp)
Accountability is sorely needed and very lacking on multiple issues. Acceptable lawlessness will lead to mumblemumble eventually.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 19, 2025 06:53 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 06:53 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:49 PM (xT8gx)
Yup. All whole numbers both positive and negative. I think it is considered a whole number.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 06:54 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 06:51 PM (viF8m)
~~~~~
Good.
Kill Americans and you'll pay dearly.
God bless Trump.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 19, 2025 06:54 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 06:47 PM (E0p3T)
What? Did something happen? Huh?
Posted by: Idiot American With Ear Buds On at December 19, 2025 06:54 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 06:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: How many are real? at December 19, 2025 06:55 PM (Hx0tZ)
*yawn*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 06:55 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 06:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 19, 2025 06:55 PM (V362x)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:49 PM (xT8gx)
Brave’s ai says yes. I try to power down all my math systems during Christmas to make more room for nog so I wouldn’t know.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 06:56 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 06:56 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Jim Harbaugh at December 19, 2025 06:56 PM (8AONa)
Its a start
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 06:56 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 06:57 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:45 PM (P5BPp)
No I think it means there is no siren loud enough
Posted by: ...
Exactly. These are some dumb fucking people.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 19, 2025 06:57 PM (N/gmR)
Posted by: George Costanza at December 19, 2025 06:58 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 06:51 PM (viF8m)
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Once again, millions of American boys are being sacrificed in service to a "foreign power" IFYKWIMIKTYD wink wink nudge nudge say no more.
-Tucker Carlson.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 06:58 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 06:58 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 06:59 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 06:54 PM (n9ltV)
I think I remember that now. It’s interesting because it took awhile for people to even understand the concept of zero as a number. It’s certainly a unique whole number
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:59 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Jim Harbaugh
Pfffftttttt....
Posted by: Bill Beliichek at December 19, 2025 06:59 PM (N/gmR)
No motor voter registration
Absentee ballots for active mitary only
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 06:59 PM (sDNVV)
Ok, Stefanik can quit the gov race in NY, but why is she quitting CONgress. Are the Rs trying to lose the House??
https://tinyurl.com/354ztycf
Is her seat safely R?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 19, 2025 06:59 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 07:00 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 07:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 07:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:00 PM (dbEXM)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 07:01 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Barack at December 19, 2025 07:01 PM (XMwZJ)
Nerds.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:00 PM (dbEXM)
Science and math, bitches!!
Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at December 19, 2025 07:02 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Like, Wow Man! at December 19, 2025 07:02 PM (wHaGM)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 07:02 PM (sDNVV)
Trillions of dollars isn't money, it's a motive with a universal adapter.
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 07:03 PM (Q+gd/)
Some people may have done some things.
In the enthusiasm of the moment, mistakes may have been made.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Old news.
Time to move on.
Posted by: (D)emocrats and The MSM at December 19, 2025 07:03 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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The national GOP was in on it. Remember the entire impeachment part deux for Trump which was patently unconstitutional. So much so that even Chief Justice Roberts refused to take the chair for it.
The big corporate donors wanted Trump out so the spice would flow under Biden whether in pointless defense spending (Ukraine), AID color revolutions to kill more people abroad, or in domestic grift like the Green Nude Eel.
Trump was almost friendless in DC at the end of his first term as were his peeps who were hounded in the next 4 years in all sorts of ways while the GOP and some of its supposedly leading candidates for 2024 averted their eyes and ignored the suffering.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:03 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 07:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 06:51 PM (8uzBS)
Like the saying about banks and losing money:
If a dozen people are caught in a criminal conspiracy they are in trouble. If many thousand’s are caught that’s our problem now.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 07:04 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Barack
Both, those workers were part of Rev. Clyburn's election fraud network in urban cities.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:04 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Rev. Al S. at December 19, 2025 07:04 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Jim Harbaugh at December 19, 2025 06:56 PM (8AONa)
I won!
Posted by: Zombie Rosie Ruiz, Subway Rider at December 19, 2025 07:05 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 07:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 07:06 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:49 PM (xT8gx)
Yup. All whole numbers both positive and negative. I think it is considered a whole number.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 06:54 PM
I thought zero was the absence of numbers.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 07:07 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 07:02 PM (sDNVV)
Or Jim Sunk New Dawn.
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at December 19, 2025 07:07 PM (Wt5PA)
https://tinyurl.com/354ztycf
Is her seat safely R?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Usually a sudden withdrawal either indicates a scandal or a serious health issue. Stefanik supporters were bitching about Trump not endorsing her yet in the primary just last week so mebbe he knew something we don't.
He had said both of Stefanik and her primary competitor (some Long Island GOP local type) were both good candidates just this week.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:07 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Jim Harbaugh at December 19, 2025 06:56 PM (8AONa)
Rock ribbed Michigan Man… Sherrone Moore
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 07:08 PM (sBt/s)
Can you believe the stupid shit we went through in the first term?
Do you remember how it started?
Jeff Cuck Sessions gets confirmed by the Senate, and then Immediately recuses himself from being Attorney General. Fucking dunce.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:09 PM (dbEXM)
Zero is classified as an integer because it is a whole number that can be written without a fractional component. Integers include positive numbers, negative numbers, and zero itself.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 19, 2025 07:09 PM (0sNs1)
No motor voter registration
Absentee ballots for active mitary only
Posted by: Ben Had
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It will take breaking the filibuster to do nation wide. But if teh GOP doesn't do it, it may be dead anyway.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:09 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:07 PM (WDjG6)
I read that in the story. You're idea seems more plausible. Maybe a scandal brewing, or just deciding to make way for an uncontested primary. But why quit congress? That's the important question. Trump likes both. Has to be something we don't know about. Either way, if she's a safe R district, oh well.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 19, 2025 07:11 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Fulton County at December 19, 2025 07:11 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 07:11 PM (v0R5T)
No motor voter registration
Absentee ballots for active mitary only
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 06:59 PM (sDNVV)
The bare minimum is having to have an ID to vote nationwide. It's crazy that we're one of a lonely few who don't use an ID to vote. One of those 'Real IDs', too. Not some scam CDL.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 07:13 PM (gKDq2)
All these R's would think twice about leaving the House if you put a 20-year ban on Lobbying for all former Congressman and Federal employees.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:13 PM (dbEXM)
(Smurfing is criminal money laundering into political campaigns.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:13 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 19, 2025 07:09 PM (0sNs1)
I disagree!! Wesley Crusher is evil!
Posted by: Sheldon Cooper at December 19, 2025 07:14 PM (xT8gx)
I'm going with d) those tabulation tapes were never given to them to sign. They weren't in that room.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 07:14 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Trump's first term was filled with traitors--the generals, the Sec of Defenses, State Dept, CIA (Haspel was Station Chief in London while the whole dirty deal went down and Pompeo covered for her ass on the Russia Russia bullshit), GOP in House and Senate (Ryan and McConnell with a bunch of their colleagues), and Rod Rosenstein the Rat who helped cover up for Hillary and sicced a senile Mueller on Trump and Sleepy Jeff Sessions who did not even have the courtesy to tell Trump he was recusing himself from a frameup on Trump's Gen. Flynn as NSA.
And then we have Judas Pence who was the epicenter of a lot of scumbaggery and backstabbing via his peeps going on in the Trump admin.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:15 PM (WDjG6)
slutkin stole her Senate seat
Also, Ace should do a post on all the D corruption in Michigan perpetrated by all the Democrat Dykes & Whitmer, who is probably a dyke too.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:15 PM (dbEXM)
Kari Lake had TWO elections stolen from her.
That idiot R Senator replacement, I forget her stupid name, she had her election stolen.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:42 PM (eSMm5)
This can't be true, I distinctly remember posters here telling me it was just because Lake was a bad candidate that rubbed people the wrong way, and was really just LARPing being a valid candidate like Palin did.
You and the news report must be mistaken
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 07:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 07:16 PM (xT8gx)
(Smurfing is criminal money laundering into political campaigns.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
And Kelly and a bunch of other Democrats. But I would not be surprised that WinRed was doing some of the same shit which is also why I suspect that the GOP ignored the Biden cheat in 2020. They had been doing it too in primary elections to keep out the populists.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:16 PM (WDjG6)
The important thing was not President Trump and cleaning up washington dc, the important thing was making sure the federal government could take this or that with forfeiture. I may be a hillbilly, but I sure ain't stupid. Shucks almighty, I don't even know what recuse means.
Posted by: Jeff Sessions, Alabama Hillbilly at December 19, 2025 07:16 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:15 PM (WDjG6)
He thinks he still has some chance of being anything in the Trump party. Sorry, Race. You sold out. You stay out.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 19, 2025 07:16 PM (uQesX)
But yeah, the Michigan AG is a nasty, corrupt dyke who was just held in Contempt by the MI House. The AG & the Sec State are both corrupt dykes, and they got caught.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:17 PM (dbEXM)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 19, 2025 07:17 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sheldon Cooper at December 19, 2025 07:14 PM
You're saying he's a minion of Big Penguin??
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:17 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 07:16 PM (xT8gx)
The perils of scrolling too fast. I thought you posted something about Elisha Cook.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 19, 2025 07:17 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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She is not running for reelection so the story goes, not quitting like MTG. That is why I think it might be health like the Big C or something with her or her family.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM (dbEXM)
And then we have Judas Pence who was the epicenter of a lot of scumbaggery and backstabbing via his peeps going on in the Trump admin.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:15 PM
Trump's first term was a disaster because even he did not think he was going to win. He admitted that 3 days before the election and just assumed he was going to lose. He was shocked when he did win.
Once he won he was scrambling to put together a team and he was ill advised by some of the people closest to him. The gop(e) had way too much input on his cabinet picks.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:44 PM (g47mK)
Rob Reiner spent every day of his piss filled life for the last decade spewing hate about Donald Trump.
It is nice to see you, Runner, plan to follow that same, boring, path.
Good luck on that.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 07:19 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM (WDjG6)
Must have just found out, then. Could have not even run for gov. Hope it's nothing bad.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 19, 2025 07:19 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:16 PM
Nay, nay! The Turtle winning the two most blue counties in KY was totes legit!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 07:20 PM (sDNVV)
Those two Ga Democrats Senators should be removed from office and immediate replacement elections held.
If Trump won Georgia, would he have won the election ???
Posted by: Jackson at December 19, 2025 07:21 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM
Ummm, quit engaging in intimate relations with them, then?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had
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He was good friendz with McConnell. I also hear scuttlebutt about a Lil Jeffie Sessions exists like ole Strom had a black daughter that was an open secret in SC.
Sessions was either a traitor or a coward--you don't accept the position and then recuse without telling Trump before you did it. You resign office if you cannot fulfill it.
That meant Trump would have had legal jeopardy had he fired Sessions and then Rod the Rat.
Sessions would have never been AG in the first place had not Rudy turned it down apparently. Rudy wanted to be Sec. of State which would have been contentious to get through the Senate.
Rudy, having been in the DoJ formerly, knew where the bodies were buried there but would have been out at sea as Sec of State.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:22 PM (WDjG6)
Fulton County admits 2020 election did not follow rules
'When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.'
Pick the three highest individuals involved and execute them on the spot. That'll stop that shit in it's tracks.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 07:22 PM (dAOkg)
+++++
He believed the fake Hillary polls they were putting out near the end of the season.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 07:23 PM (/lPRQ)
I HAVE HAD FUCKING ENOUGH!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 19, 2025 07:23 PM (dbZNM)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 07:20 PM
Hey! Remember Orca?
No? Good.
Posted by: Rinsed Pubis at December 19, 2025 07:23 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM
Ummm, quit engaging in intimate relations with them, then?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)
^^^ this
Posted by: monkeys at December 19, 2025 07:24 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:24 PM (dbEXM)
There was that but it shouldn't be forgotten that very few people wanted to work for Trump in 2016. He was the consummate outsider in a city that hates outsiders. And he was being slimed as a Russia stooge.
Working for Trump meant you had crossed a line and were willing to work against permanent DC. Not talk, do it. Very small talent pool fit that model in 2016.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 07:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM
Ummm, quit engaging in intimate relations with them, then?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)
^^^ this
Posted by: monkeys
Hush. You enjoy it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 07:25 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM (sDNVV)
Then instead of recusing himself and being an anchor, have Trump move him to DHS and appoint another head.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 07:25 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM (WDjG6)
No,,it's the same as the retirements in 2018. More to come.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 07:25 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 07:27 PM (qChqh)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 07:27 PM (E0p3T)
Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming will not seek reelection in 2026 citing the energy required.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 07:27 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Look up 2018 where Kemp beat Abrams and ordered the servers wiped after the election. Last one with the Diebold equipment. Next, a big no bid contract to Dominion with a former Kemp SoS aide brokering the deal and getting generationally wealthy from it.
Kemp is dirty along with Ratshitburger and Chris Carr the AG. Chris got his office originally when Dirty Nathan Deal wanted to keep a state RFRA act from being passed so he arranged for the existing AG to be appointed to a college presidency and then filled the office with a nobody (Carr). Nobody then won reelection in 2018 while doing nothing and has served since then doing nothing. Now, Mr. Carr, having done nothing for 10 years as AG is running for governor in GA along with Ratshitburger whose main accomplishment was to hide the cheat in 2020 and refuse to clean it up in 2022 and 2024.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:27 PM (WDjG6)
Backstabber, fraud, & bungler.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:24 PM (dbEXM)
Scuttlebutt around the beltway is he is also a lover of the man meat. Just saying. I mean just look at him. I think he has a beard now but people know.
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 19, 2025 07:28 PM (R/m4+)
The Brown University shooter was dead for days before law enforcement found his body, according to the New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner.
Neves-Valente died by suicide after a single gunshot wound to the head, according to the autopsy.
The medical examiner believes Neves-Valente likely died on Tuesday – just one day after he murdered the MIT professor.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 07:29 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 07:29 PM (1vqcm)
Backstabber, fraud, & bungler.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Yep. Also Mattis (and Henry the K too) was one of the backers of that big medical fraud corporation ran by the woman who tried to look like Steve Jobs. Some sort of fraudulent medical testing crap.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:29 PM (WDjG6)
1) The government is corrupt and full of crooks from top to bottom.
2) Trump is the outsider messing up all the crooked scams and schemes.
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (OXYBr)
A party that can’t recruit replacements has no excuse for existing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (dAOkg)
Raffensperger is doing his job: it just isn’t the job you thought he was supposed to do.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (taapK)
++++++
The best part of the RUSSIA!!1!!1 frame-up was that Hillary, carrying suitcases of Russian payola, was behind it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Jim Harbaugh
Pfffftttttt....
Posted by: Bill Beliichek
Piffle.
Posted by: Houston Astros Trashcan Alliance at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 07:31 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM
Pffffff. Barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: Washington Generals at December 19, 2025 07:32 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 07:31 PM (1vqcm)
Can't imagine one of those winning in NY
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 07:32 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 07:29 PM (TN0g+)
+/- 1 day
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 07:32 PM (OXYBr)
Or cognitively impaired. Like Mueller.
Sessions was a huge disappointment. Recruited as an all ster who seemed to be asleep most the time. I think he simply went senile in office.
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 07:33 PM (qChqh)
Posted by: Jim Harbaugh
Pfffftttttt....
Posted by: Bill Beliichek
Piffle.
Posted by: Houston Astros Trashcan Alliance
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Don't you think there are a lot of Major League Baseball players who are wondering in retrospect why they didn't walk out of their dugout and into the Astros dugout with bats of their own and engage in hand-to-hand dances? Because it seems so blatantly obvious what was going on. Nobody thought it strange at the time?
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 07:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Speak For Yourself at December 19, 2025 07:33 PM (NBNnb)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Stefanik was a good soldier for Trump after her UN job was cancelled and returned to the House. Johnson refused to let Stefanik back into the House leadership as that would have required demoting someone so her House career was stalled but that left her with the governor's race. She had a pretty good chance against Holchul unless that surprise poll showing Holchul above 50 percent made her throw in the towel on that race as well.
If no health crisis or scandal, she will probably get a Trump executive position if she wants it.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:34 PM (WDjG6)
Not that I usually comment on A♠ threads anyway…
😶
Posted by: mindful webworker - drawing a blank at December 19, 2025 07:34 PM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 07:27 PM (3ek7K)
Since this is the first time I’ve ever even heard of her, I can’t imagine that she has ever put too much energy into the job.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 07:34 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Barack at December 19, 2025 07:01 PM (XMwZJ)
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d. those votes showed in the back of a van after the polls were closed.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 19, 2025 07:34 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 07:30 PM (/lPRQ)
The joy of the Clintons is that she was apparently carrying suitcases of payola from everyone.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 07:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: mindful webworker - I miss willow at December 19, 2025 07:35 PM (WB0Mb)
Wasn’t to the back of the head, right? Just checking.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 19, 2025 07:35 PM (taapK)
Posted by: Fen
No, he did a few things like prosecuting traffickers of kids but since the Russia Russia thing and day to day management was left to Rod, he had little to do which is why his resignation was accepted after 2018 midterms when Bagpipe Billy came aboard.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 07:35 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: whig
And Billy's mission was to sweep it all under the rug.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 07:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 07:18 PM
In my experience, they are really enthusiastic and extremely happy to get some dick.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 07:38 PM (W23D2)
ThePersistence @ScottPresler
I Have Bad News
Just got off the phone with Washington State.
The voter ID initiative is likely to fail.
Not enough people are turning in their petitions.
I did my best to help Washington State.
Democrats are going to be thrilled.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 07:39 PM (P5BPp)
Having to struggle with homicidal urges myself, to the point that I've put myself in therapy as a precaution to protect the stolen valor perps, I'll wager the shooter had a medical sentence - 6 months to live, etc and decided to settle his grudges on the way out. Even the Secret Service admits they can't stop a suicide attack. He probably didn't expect to survive the Brown shooting.
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 07:40 PM (qChqh)
Posted by: Fen
++++
He had a short list.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 07:43 PM (/lPRQ)
She has represented Georgia's 14th District, located in Northwest Georgia, which includes Paulding County and others. BUT the family business, of which she reportedly owns 51%, is in Alpharetta (Fulton County).
Philadelphia Inquirer Politics
@PoliticsINQ
Marjorie Taylor Greene says ‘dam is breaking’ within GOP against Trump
Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News regarding mid-terms, etc.
4:01 PM · Dec 17, 2025 905 Views
Reportedly, her involvement in politics began around the time of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. She was not politically active or a voter in earlier elections.
Cassidy Hutchinson, Liz Cheney like. She'll also be back.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 07:57 PM (NFX2v)
ThePersistence @ScottPresler
I Have Bad News
Just got off the phone with Washington State.
The voter ID initiative is likely to fail.
Not enough people are turning in their petitions.
I did my best to help Washington State.
Democrats are going to be thrilled.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
He works so hard but it looks like for naught again.
Trump gets to fix it, while the Rs tiptoe out the door, and the Ds get ready to have fun breaking stuff - all again. imo.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 08:08 PM (NFX2v)
With that kind of lead, he should have been in Tierra Del Fuego by now, kicking it on the beach with a mai-tai and a bunch of penguins.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2025 10:11 PM (BI5O2)
The poll workers may not have been able to read the instructions.
I don't even have another better-known city with which to compare the incompetence (and corruption) of Fulton County.
Well, I'd compare it to Dekalb County (Hank Johnson, Cynthia McKinnney)... only to say it's "even worse than Dekalb". Stay out of both.
Posted by: Frank Noboday at December 20, 2025 09:55 AM (75cud)
Feds Discover Another $9 Billion in Medicaid Fraud... All in Tim Walz's Pirate Paradise of Minnesota
I'm able to connect through my phone now, but still not through my wifi. I guess that's something.
Nice.Feds are also looking into Minnesota foreign pirates scamming the unemployment system.
US Attorney's Office: 'Half or more' of $18B billed through state programs tied to fraud As the U.S. Attorney's Office announced a new batch of charges related to suspected fraudulent billing in Minnesota's government services, officials painted a dire portrait of just how extensive the problem might be. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson on Thursday said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pulled claims for 14 programs identified by Minnesota officials as being particularly vulnerable to fraud and found $18 billion in Medicaid billing since 2018. While not all of those payments were illegitimate, Thompson estimated "half or more" of the $18 billion was received through fraudulent means, though he said prosecutors are still working to find the exact number. "The magnitude of fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated. It's staggering amounts of money that's been lost," Thompson said.
The Department of Labor announced on Monday it is sending staff to Minnesota to investigate concerns about fraud in the state's Unemployment Insurance Program. The department's decision to authorize an "on-site specialized UI strike team" in Minnesota makes it the latest of several federal agencies deploying agents to investigate reports of widespread fraud in the state's welfare programs, including those from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"I am appalled at what we are hearing about potential fraud coming from numerous benefits programs in Minnesota," Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement. "If there has been any related abuse of our UI systems, it will not be tolerated, and I trust our specialized strike team to get to the bottom of this and report their findings directly to me," she continued. "Our mission to protect American workers remains unchanged, and I will not allow malicious actors to destroy the integrity of this trusted program."
This didn't age well. https://t.co/YXTA2EVljw pic.twitter.com/61Y4uyYDJR
— Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) December 18, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: South Park at December 19, 2025 05:43 PM (W23D2)
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Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2025 05:43 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:43 PM (VE6XX)
The screaming at the universities would be delicious.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 05:44 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 05:44 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:44 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2025 05:43 PM (vbXSk)
And Immigration fraud
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:44 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 05:44 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:44 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (7OV38)
You know what, I don’t want to know.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 05:46 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 05:46 PM (pu+nZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (7OV3
With a D after his name ? 0.0%
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (XV/Pl)
You know what, I don’t want to know.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 05:46 PM (OoFl2)
Anyone got the web number for this program?
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (dK+Kv)
The Star Of The North...You Betcha!
Posted by: Uff Da at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2025 05:48 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 05:48 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 05:49 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 05:49 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 05:49 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: buzzion at December 19, 2025 05:50 PM (3tZV2)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 05:50 PM (EyfuW)
I am so sick of them being immune to any consequences.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:50 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 19, 2025 05:50 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 05:50 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at December 19, 2025 05:50 PM (w6EFb)
What's a few more or a few less teapots?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:51 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (pu+nZ)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (vFG9F)
Multiply that fraud over every state, and folks, I believe that is close to a Trillion Sambucks.
Posted by: MkY at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (7OV3
With a D after his name ? 0.0%
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)
Last person who cooperated with the Feds there was shot in her home in an 'unrelated incident'
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)
Congress can pass laws that undue statute of limitations (apparently -- NY did it for Trump) and to allow asset stripping (apparently, they do it for drug offenses)
So I want to see that up and down the chain of culpability -- from the Governor to the maid in Nigeria hired by these thieves with stolen money.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:53 PM (u9Aw1)
That means the magnitude is no greater than 'gargantuan'.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 05:53 PM (iFEms)
that why we need to pass no statute of limitations on government corruption involving any level of government employed participation
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 05:53 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 05:53 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 05:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (xT8gx)
And yet 2020.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2025 05:53 PM (x0n13)
So, Ukraine war over by 2028?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (xT8gx)
Doubtful. Democrats set fire to the state house in PA because he was in it IIRC. One of those random things.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)
What I want is some necktie parties.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 05:48 PM (sDNVV)
Keep paprika far away . . . .
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 19, 2025 05:55 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 05:55 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 05:55 PM (nljXp)
I am so sick of them being immune to any consequences.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:50 PM (u9Aw1)
I have a plan.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler at December 19, 2025 05:56 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (7OV3
With a D after his name ? 0.0%
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)
Last person who cooperated with the Feds there was shot in her home in an 'unrelated incident'
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)
is Bob Menendez still on the loose?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2025 05:56 PM (x0n13)
People see this and feel like suckers for following rules, working hard, and being honest.
This path leads to the kind of society you get in the third world.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:56 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (0N4FZ)
That's gonna be a blip compared to Ukraine War money since 2010 or so.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:57 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 05:57 PM (g47mK)
I've mentioned this before, Adam Housley used to be a reporter with Fox. Pretty down the middle reporter, not a fan of either party. He quit because he got sick of the state of the media.
He lives in northern California and still keeps up with his sources. During and after the lockdown he was reporting on X what he was hearing about the money flowing to California. If he is correct the money stolen from just that program in California dwarfs anything that happened in Minnesota.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 05:57 PM (viF8m)
If the head of the state government is a bug-eyed low-IQ pedophile, and the main recipients of welfare in the state are triangle-headed space aliens who are the product of a hundred generations with criminal tendencies, then appearances are not deceiving.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 19, 2025 05:57 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 05:58 PM (pu+nZ)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 05:58 PM (EyfuW)
There seems to be a push to make this sound like "one isolated state," but it isn't. It isn't just the Democrat states either
It also isn't just Somalians and Haitians -- they are probably to brash and stupid so they made it obvious, but I understood that our gov. systems were overrun with fraud in the 90s. And the middle easterners are probably all just as bad -- it is in their blood and religion.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:59 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2025 05:53 PM (x0n13)
So true. I naively believe that 2020 was a perfect storm of cheating enabled by covid hysteria and St George hysteria…. They always cheat but those circumstances enabled a uniquely brazen and monstrous cheat. I mean a clogged toilet in Fulton County stops counting in 6 states??? Ludicrous….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:00 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 06:00 PM (NwnyJ)
More than that was likely stolen just in California.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 06:00 PM (viF8m)
And Minnesota is just one state. Looking at NY and IL would be fascinating.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:00 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 19, 2025 06:00 PM (s/0Zp)
Kind of like being falsely accused of stolen valor by Sarah Hoyt.
Posted by: Fen at December 19, 2025 06:00 PM (pu+nZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 05:57 PM (viF8m)
CA also has lots of in-state scams and schemes that cost billions for nothing. When you can't manage to keep the hydrants working in your richest constituents' area due to corruption, you are very very far gone.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 06:01 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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What's your point?
Posted by: Those Who Wish 3rd World Status on The Jesus People at December 19, 2025 06:01 PM (8AONa)
Just ask the Retard!
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 19, 2025 06:02 PM (/ZkOF)
We can steal from the dealers in international waters,
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 06:02 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Fen
Go take your meds. You're fixating again.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 06:02 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 19, 2025 06:02 PM (s/0Zp)
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 06:02 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 19, 2025 06:03 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:00 PM (tgvbd)
Pretty easy to track. Just look at the expenditures for these sorts of programs versus 2019, say. Assume all growth is 100 pct fraud.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:03 PM (8avO+)
I saw a big jump during the post 9/11 grants to the states for increased security -- heck, even the Gov. on NJ was caught in that fraud scam and he never paid any consequences, in fact, they hired him at a state college so he could get a fat pension.
Think about that -- the governor of the state was caught in fraud and got rewarded. How do you like that, suckers.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 06:03 PM (u9Aw1)
A 21 year old is sitting on a bench in the loss prevention office next to his fat 23 year old accomplice. LP agent and a cop are wandering around not paying him much attention. The guy leans close to the bench to conceal his draw, then points the gun at the cop and tries to fire. Nothing happens. It looks like he tries again. LP agent intervenes and the cop does a killer knee strike to the attempted murderer's upper chest.
http://tiny.cc/fjnw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 06:03 PM (Yp6az)
I like names of military operations now. I guess Hegseth fired the guy whose job was to find the very gayest names. Good.
MISSION: SORRY ABOUT ALL YOUR MISSING BALLS MF’ER!
DID I F’ING STUTTER?, ASSAULT
OPERATION SORRY I CAN’T HEAR YOU DIE LIKE A LITTLE BITCH BECAUSE I’M TOO BUSY PILE DRIVING YOUR MOM
I may need to work on brevity.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 06:04 PM (3uBP9)
@SecWar
48m
Earlier today, U.S. forces commenced OPERATION HAWKEYE STRIKE in Syria to eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites in direct response to the attack on U.S. forces that occurred on December 13th in Palmyra, Syria.
This is not the beginning of a war — it is a declaration of vengeance. The United States of America, under President Trump’s leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people.
As we said directly following the savage attack, if you target Americans — anywhere in the world — you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.
Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue."
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 06:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 06:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 06:04 PM (3ek7K)
"Now, they're going to take the TV time-out. We'll take it as well. Seven [minutes] gone in the third [period]. It's 3-2 Buffalo on the Philadelphia Flyers Broadcast Network," Saunders said, thinking he would then be off the air.
After a few seconds, the announcer is heard humming a tune to himself before more dead air, as muffled audio of in-arena promotions are heard in the background.
It was nearly 20 seconds after the start of a would-be commercial break when Saunders said, "While you're down there, would you mind blowing me?"
Following a few more seconds of silence, broadcast partner and former NHL player Todd Fedoruk inserted, "I think we're still on the air, Tim."
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 06:05 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 06:05 PM (Ia/+0)
We can steal from the dealers in international waters,
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 06:02 PM
I once tried to pretend to steal a wallet from Jerry Seinfeld's parents in order to get into the Van Buren Boys gang.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:05 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: banana Dream
Who needs brevity when we have acronyms ...
Posted by: Adriane the Technologically Challenged Critic . . . at December 19, 2025 06:05 PM (3ZUWJ)
My guess...San Diego. San Diego already has about 15,000 to 20,000 Somalis. Which means they are already set up and milking the system. Easier than starting from scratch.
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 06:05 PM (dIske)
48m
Earlier today, U.S. forces commenced OPERATION HAWKEYE STRIKE in Syria to eliminate ISIS
Alan Alda weeps.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 06:06 PM (iFEms)
Hadrian, did you get a package?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 06:01 PM (sDNVV)
______
Madame, I did! Thank you so much!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:06 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Non Compos Mentis at December 19, 2025 06:06 PM (oftw2)
Fuuuuuuck. I thought WE were masters of graft.
Posted by: Tammany Hall at December 19, 2025 06:06 PM (y9nCu)
I come away feeling the state expects NOTHING of the Somali community - that they are lay about retards. So, the fact half their kids are autistic meets their expectations. The fact none of them can find a job seems normal. That very one needs food assistance is normal.
I say cut the entire Somali community off from every fucking government program. I mean, why not?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 19, 2025 06:06 PM (s/0Zp)
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 06:05 PM (dIske)
And thus started the Somali / Mexican Cartel Wars....
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 06:07 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:07 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Tuna at December 19, 2025 06:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Starship troopers.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 19, 2025 06:08 PM (s/0Zp)
I come away feeling the state expects NOTHING of the Somali community - that they are lay about retards. So, the fact half their kids are autistic meets their expectations. The fact none of them can find a job seems normal. That very one needs food assistance is normal.
I say cut the entire Somali community off from every fucking government program. I mean, why not?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 19, 2025 06:06 PM (s/0Zp)
I'd cut anyone working in Minnesota government these last 10 years off first. You don't think the Somalis made these plans and got sent here by themselves. It's an op.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 19, 2025 06:08 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:08 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Barack at December 19, 2025 06:08 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 06:02 PM
I once tried to pretend to steal a wallet from Jerry Seinfeld's parents in order to get into the Van Buren Boys gang.
Posted by: George Costanza at December 19, 2025 06:09 PM (P5BPp)
The National Guardsmen who were killed were from Iowa. Hawkeye State.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:07 PM (g47mK)
We are at war with the last 2 Syrian regimes at least for many years.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:09 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 19, 2025 06:10 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 06:10 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 06:10 PM (mlg/3)
Jail is too good for them.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 19, 2025 06:10 PM (s/0Zp)
Who needs a ride to the train station?
Posted by: Rip Wheeler at December 19, 2025 06:10 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)
Who?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 06:11 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 06:11 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 06:11 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:11 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (xT8gx)
Never happen - antisemitism is a huge part of the D party.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 19, 2025 06:11 PM (s/0Zp)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 06:12 PM (3ek7K)
The only possible reason for NGOs and politicians to import Haitans and Somalians is the opportunity for graft and if I'm being charitable a thought that America can afford the costs to give them welfare for life here. If I'm being cynical its that they want to ruin the USA.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2025 06:12 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:13 PM (eSMm5)
Posted by: GWB at December 19, 2025 06:13 PM (mot4u)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)
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Yep. We have flags flying at half staff here.
Sadly, it seems we have them flying more often at half staff than not these days.
Posted by: Turn 2 at December 19, 2025 06:13 PM (CyFyf)
Posted by: The person who always says that at December 19, 2025 06:14 PM (LaiZQ)
My guess... San Diego. San Diego already has about 15,000 to 20,000 Somalis. Which means they are already set up and milking the system. Easier than starting from scratch.
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 06:05 PM
Per Grok, top US cities with most Somalis are Minneapolis (MN), Columbus (OH), Seattle/Tacoma (WA), San Diego (CA), Portland/Lewiston (ME), Clarkston/Atlanta (GA), Northern Virginia (near D.C.).
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:14 PM (P5BPp)
Jail is too good for them.
Posted by: El Mariachi
No, jail them in Zimbabwe.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 06:14 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)
Who?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 06:11 PM (tcsrY)
Wiki -
Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was shot and killed in her home on June 14, 2025, during a targeted attack that also injured state senator John Hoffman and his wife. The shooter, Vance Boelter, was later arrested and charged with multiple counts, including murder and attempted murder.
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The shooter had some unfollowed-up ties to Gov Walz. The woman had cast a tie breaking vote that favored some GOP measure.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:14 PM (8avO+)
The opportunities for graft now is the main draw. The fact that it will cause a Cloward-Piven style collapse is just a bonus.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 19, 2025 06:14 PM (lUFok)
It appears the bureaucrats were afraid of being called racists just like in the UK
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 06:11 PM (n5tGW)
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More likely they were wetting their beaks.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:15 PM (tgvbd)
He might be a smart lawyer but that's a special kind of dumb.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 06:15 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Non Compos Mentis
>Lumpy Jack would prefer that you not disparage his constituency.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 06:15 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:15 PM (xT8gx)
Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was shot and killed in her home on June 14, 2025, during a targeted attack that also injured state senator John Hoffman and his wife. The shooter, Vance Boelter, was later arrested and charged with multiple counts, including murder and attempted murder.
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The shooter had some unfollowed-up ties to Gov Walz. The woman had cast a tie breaking vote that favored some GOP measure.
She was the only Democrat to vote for cutting off healthcare bennies to illegals.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 19, 2025 06:16 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: KennyM at December 19, 2025 06:17 PM (ovp2h)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:15 PM (xT8gx)
Our current house of cards has a good chunk of something real in it that keeps it barely afloat. Your method would have nothing and have runaway inflation until a quick collapse.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:17 PM (8avO+)
Blows kissesxxxx
Deport all from Somolia including the turban Omar!
I will now cook dinner (beef/spinach cheddar pie) for my beloved husband who goes through the wood chipper daily dealing with me. But comes back for more, bless his sweet heart. Once a Southern supermodel captures your heart it is all over!
Blessings to you all. Cheers!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 06:17 PM (WONhk)
If a real audit were to be done on Wisconsin,Minnesota,Pennsylvania,Oregon, California, Washington, New York, New Jersey the amount of fraud and missing money would be staggering.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 19, 2025 06:17 PM (IifOV)
Linus,
You are not retarded. There is some politically correct word now. Do your research, you can soak the government for free money.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 06:18 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 06:18 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 19, 2025 06:19 PM (s0JqF)
Dr.Anthony (no space) Jefferson (waddell.jefferson) aka
Anthony Waddell Jefferson
Facebook post, Good Life Christian University, Sep. 23, 2024
Welcome Dr. Anthony Jefferson PhD. to the GLCU family!
In part, "Our new President has been making waves as the founder and CEO of Chozer Runner, providing innovative housing for homeless in Minnesota."
Mercy!!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 06:19 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 19, 2025 06:17 PM (IifOV)
hell, add TX and FL and I bet you find a lot, and they are probably pretty clean relatively.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:19 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Case at December 19, 2025 06:20 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 19, 2025 06:19 PM (s0JqF)
The big guy gets ten percent.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 06:20 PM (Ia/+0)
It just occurred to me in this context that I’m economically illiterate. Since the government can and does print money… why do we even have to pay taxes???
_______
To remind you who's boss.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:20 PM (tgvbd)
We also need to make "retarded" and "gay" accepted pejoratives again.
Posted by: Martin and Meitrodt are gay and retarded at December 19, 2025 06:21 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 06:21 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 19, 2025 06:21 PM (i5Bem)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 06:21 PM (zZu0s)
If a real audit were to be done on Wisconsin,Minnesota,Pennsylvania,Oregon, California, Washington, New York, New Jersey the amount of fraud and missing money would be staggering.
Posted by: Frank Barone
Learned at the knee of D.C. and Puerto Rico.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 06:21 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 06:21 PM (3ek7K)
The fact none of them can find a job seems normal.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 19, 2025 06:06 PM (s/0Zp)
Except the support staff at every decent-sized airport in the US. It started about a year after 9/11. I was flying a lot back then for work and it was noticeable. Barely literate skinnies and hijab-clad women replacing normal rural Southern government employee black folks in the terminals.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 06:22 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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MMT aka Modern Monetary Theory does not work. Part of the reason that the US got away with something like it for so long is that we are the world's reserve currency used for trading between other nations (dollars never reach US consumers) but that also means that the globohomo crowd are aware that if the US does NOT run huge trade deficits, essentially most of the world's economy has a severe shortage of bucks for trades.
Once the US loses reserve currency status for something else, then essentially you get a soft default where our trade inflows and outflows have to generate enough surplus to pay interest on our enormous debt.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 06:23 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Case at December 19, 2025 06:20 PM (G1OIb)
This close to Kwanza? Are you MAD?? Its time for the traditional Kwanzan cruller recipes to be made and flung at water buffalos near the water hole as has been done since time began.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:23 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Eeyore
........
He's so stupid I bet he didn't get a cut. And i bet the Somalis think he's a joke.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 19, 2025 06:23 PM (mYPZj)
The amount of athleticism needed to do this is insane
(Volleyball but with kicking instead of hitting)
X video: https://bit.ly/48MeUUe
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:23 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 06:22 PM (y9nCu)
My guess is the job they are doing has another purpose than safe air travel.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:24 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 19, 2025 06:26 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 06:27 PM (sDNVV)
THIS is the kind of fraud that needs to be found in every state ASAP
Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2025 06:27 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 06:27 PM (1vqcm)
It just occurred to me in this context that I’m economically illiterate. Since the government can and does print money… why do we even have to pay taxes???
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To remind you who's boss.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:20 PM (tgvbd)
Nailed it. It's all about compliance and feeling ourselves subdued.
Posted by: They seek to rule, not govern at December 19, 2025 06:28 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Skip
Don't just watch. Like, comment, subscribe.
Posted by: The Whole Magilla at December 19, 2025 06:29 PM (oftw2)
TSA is now allowing non-ticketed people to enter secure areas in airports now. Supposedly they have to be scanned somehow.
Feel safe? Nope.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 06:30 PM (3ek7K)
Promise Made. Promise Kept.
Under President Trump, if you kill American troops, you will pay.
(Trump post announcing Syria action)
X: https://bit.ly/4jd1eFy
"All terrorists who are evil enough to attack American are hereby warned - YOU WILL BE HIT HARDER THAN YOU HAVE EVER BEEN HIT BEFORE IF YOU, IN ANY WAY, ATTACK OR THREATEN THE U.S.A."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:30 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 06:23 PM (WDjG6)
Thanks Whig! Maybe this explains why the deep staters hate Trump’s tariffs…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 06:30 PM (xT8gx)
My guess is the job they are doing has another purpose than safe air travel.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:24 PM (8avO+)
I get the feeling that was why they were installed in the airports, but the Skinnies decided that there was too much easy money to be made so screw that jihadi suicide shit.
As for the Bush cronies turning the other cheek, I haven't decided if they were just interested in cheap labor or if they facilitated Somali immigration to teach those middle-lower class rednecks whose votes we need how to be civilized.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 06:30 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 19, 2025 06:31 PM (ynpvh)
Welcome Home, jim
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:32 PM (eSMm5)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 19, 2025 06:32 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 06:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Skip
Fraud and waste is easily hundreds of billions per year out our total budget. Let's say something like 10 percent of the US budget--which would be (minus the interest payments made out of about 5 trillion or so) about 500-600 billion per year. Take that over the Biden era until now (5 years, that would be about 2.75-3 trillion. Add in compounded interest, about 3.6 trillion. Add in the Obama years 2010-2012 and the first Trump term, probably 6 trillion there. Add the Bush decade with two years of Obama, probably another 3-4 trillion. So out of 38 trillion, I would guess about more than 1/3 of our current debt from the last 25 years is fraud, waste, and abuse.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 06:33 PM (WDjG6)
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_
BREAKING: A confidential CAIR memo reveals CAIR helped fend off USDA investigations of rampant Somali food-stamp fraud in Minnesota b/c they were causing "enormous harm to the Somali community." CAIR advised Somalis not to speak to FBI agents investigating terror money laundering
X: https://bit.ly/44Yi0SX
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:33 PM (P5BPp)
For Christmas, I Want...
the President of the United States to declare the Democrat party a terrorist organization.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:33 PM (eSMm5)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:30 PM (P5BPp)
It truly is the only thing they understand.
You must be more powerful than them
You must have zero tolerance for their attacks.
You must attack back MORE for their attacks than how they attacked you.
This has worked through history dealing with them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 19, 2025 06:33 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at December 19, 2025 06:33 PM (4c2RO)
NOOOd
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 06:34 PM (eSMm5)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 19, 2025 06:31 PM (ynpvh)
Get some rest, brother. Glad you're home.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 19, 2025 06:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Great news. Rest up. Good to hear you are home.
Posted by: Excelsior! On To Greenland! at December 19, 2025 06:34 PM (oftw2)
So the next time you see "70% of Medicaid recipients struggled to find food" as a headline, this is why.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to stay honest at December 19, 2025 06:35 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Eeyore
........
He's so stupid I bet he didn't get a cut. And i bet the Somalis think he's a joke.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 19, 2025 06:23 PM (mYPZj)
I gave Mornay double his lands in Scotland, with matching title and estates in England. Walz turned for much less.
Posted by: King Edward Somalishanks at December 19, 2025 06:35 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: davidt at December 19, 2025 06:35 PM (Q+gd/)
We're up to $18 billion in fraud in Minnesota. So far. What's the total nation-wide? $200 billion? $500 billion?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 19, 2025 06:35 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)
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As a Christian, I am appalled at the targeting of muslim community! I mean, what are you doing ?!
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Yep. It was literally hoovering money out of the US so that foreign countries could buy shit from China and buy US assets like real estate, corporations, etc. Started after Bretton Woods broke down as the US no longer had enough gold to make the balance of payments work. Midpoint in the 70's the US began to run a trade deficit that never even approached zero (even eventually with sales of services, etc.).
Same thing happened with the Brits after the Edwardian age ended and was part of the reason that their Empire was not sustainable after paying for two world wars.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 06:38 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: MN Angry at December 19, 2025 06:39 PM (qVwFu)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:52 PM (xT8gx)
Doubtful. Democrats set fire to the state house in PA because he was in it IIRC. One of those random things.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)
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No way would the average modern D voter pull the lever for an evil Jooooooo. They'd have lost Minnesota in addition to everything else, and it would have suppressed their "young D" turnout by probably half. Diverse Intifada Globalizers don't go for that.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 19, 2025 06:39 PM (QdGJh)
You must have zero tolerance for their attacks.
You must attack back MORE for their attacks than how they attacked you.
This has worked through history dealing with them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 19, 2025 06:33 PM
I dunno. We struck back at the terrorists after 09/11 and that didn't do a damn thing. 24 years later, where are we?
Granted, at the same time, the West collectively bent over for Islam and invited them into every Western nation to conquer them.
I think we still have not learned the lesson 2+ decades on. Terrorists do not care about tough talk or wars. They want war. They want death.
The lesson that has yet to be learned is the problem is not terrorists, but Islam and Muslims. Until Trump and every other Western leader and speaking and acting on that, this is the same shit, different day as far as dealing with Islamic terrorists.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 06:41 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
I would honestly say it is somewhere about 400-500 billion per year at a minimum from the last 5 years. That includes crap like the Green Nude Eel where companies simply vanished after taking mega bux subsidies. Like the movie The Producers, the intent was never to make a profit but to simply take the gubmint money and let the corporate corpse collapse like any con artist would.
But the major fraud waste and abuse is clearly in the medical area. That is the area where the more we dig into medicare, medicaid, obamacare, etc, the more fraud we find. Easily 150-200 billion alone in fraud, waste, and abuse in health care and it is about 1.6 trillion or so of the budget--just medicare and medicaid, more if you include items like Indian Health Care, Tricare, and VA.
Next big pot is the military procurement. Out of a trillion dollar budget with all of its contingency spending, etc., add mebbe another 100 billion, much of it to fatcat defense contractors on the make.
Social security, easily another 50-100 billion.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 06:45 PM (WDjG6)
"The British government has taken decisive steps to unlock £2.5 billion (US$3.3 billion) generated from the sale of Chelsea Football Club, directing the pressure on sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich to release the funds for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine.
The move represents the UK’s most forceful intervention yet in a dispute that has stretched on for nearly three years as European debates over using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s survival and eventual reconstruction."
first, the UK decided to force a Russian oligarch to sell the football club he owned because he was Russian.
Then they forced him to agree to give up all his profit from the sale to provide funds to rebuild Ukraine and Russian areas. Then the UK decided they got all the money because Abrhamovic was Russian. AND THEN the UK decided all the funds would be used for Ukraine.
This is not theft or expropriation because the Brits don't steal like that.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 06:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot
We are heading to a world where the Treaty of Westphalia is shredded. Who can force whatever on whomever is what is going to call the tune as the total debt of the EU and UK becomes unpayable.
UK is probably over 100 pct debt to gdp nowadays and they are probably at the tipping point where tax increases bring in less and less revenue but hurt economic growth more and more.
France is in worse shape and Germany is heading to the abyss as well. At some point, the sane Eastern bloc countries will realize they are handcuffed to a corpse which would drown them if they don't take the cuffs off.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 06:52 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 19, 2025 06:38 PM (g47mK)
wait, is Qatar pro Somali or anti Somali today?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 06:53 PM (8avO+)
Except the support staff at every decent-sized airport in the US. It started about a year after 9/11. I was flying a lot back then for work and it was noticeable. Barely literate skinnies and hijab-clad women replacing normal rural Southern government employee black folks in the terminals.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 06:22 PM (y9nCu)
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I noticed Somalis in airport jobs in Minneapolis and Boston circa 1998-1999, including obvious trainees at a luggage x-ray scanner. It was jarring. After 9/11, I wondered if they'd assisted certain items getting through screening.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 19, 2025 06:54 PM (VWtfl)
France is in worse shape and Germany is heading to the abyss as well. At some point, the sane Eastern bloc countries will realize they are handcuffed to a corpse which would drown them if they don't take the cuffs off.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 06:52 PM (WDjG6)
Brussels pretended they were only taking the "interest" of the billions of Russian assets they had, and were arguing recently they should take the principle, however since they spent the principle and can't admit it, they decided to raise the money by bonds taken on the taxpayers of the EU.
1) if the EU can take your money on a whim, who is going to invest there?
2) if the EU can violate agreements, at what point will anyone take their paper or their trade deals without payment up front
3) The EU is broke. Everyone is broke there. Eventually the Chinese will be doing their belt and road initiatives there.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 07:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 19, 2025 06:31 PM (ynpvh)
Glad to hear you're home Jim. Get as much rest as you need and take it easy.
Posted by: Retired, thank God at December 19, 2025 07:01 PM (va0Yo)
Medicaid is highly state-specific; it's a joint federal-state program where each state runs its own version within federal guidelines, meaning eligibility rules, covered services (like dental, vision, prescriptions), and even program names differ significantly from state to state, and you can't transfer coverage across state lines.
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A really neat program: kff dot org/interactive/medicaid-state-fact-sheets
Medicaid State Fact Sheets
Published: May 20, 2025
Medicaid provides health and long-term care coverage to 83 million low-income children and adults in the United States. Medicaid is administered by states within broad federal rules and jointly funded by states and the federal government through a federal matching program...
Click on a state to download a two-page fact sheet that provides a snapshot of key data for Medicaid in every state.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 07:06 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 07:07 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Do you want to discuss COVID too?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 07:07 PM (rbvCR)
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If you print money even a small amount everybody gets a pay cut even if it is negligible. If you print trillions of dollars everyone will feel it because prices will start to go up even though wages don't. The real value of the dollar is basically the gross domestic product divided by the number of dollars.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 19, 2025 07:16 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 19, 2025 07:17 PM (5xuJ/)
Sending the Department of Labor to investigate now should also be quite interesting.
During & immediately prior to the tenure of Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor - March 2021 to March 2023 - it was found to have massive improper payments within the expanded federal-state Unemployment Insurance (UI) program implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic!
>waysandmeans house gov/2021/06/10
Brady: $400 Billion in Stolen Unemployment Benefits Is Greatest Theft of American Tax Dollars in History
$400 billion is more than…
The entire 2021 budgets of the Army and Navy combined
The entire economy of the state of Colorado
The combined economies of eight American states
Five times what the federal government collected in Unemployment Insurance taxes
Walsh left his Secretary of Labor role mid-March 2023 to become the Executive Director of the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA).
In Feb. 2024, Biden nominated him to the USPS Board of Governors.
Now he's a member of the board of directors for the organization established to raise money, etc. for Biden Presidential Library.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 07:26 PM (NFX2v)
When you pay with a check, the money is subtracted from your account, but it doesn't go into some treasury account, it simply vanishes into the same thin air it came from when it was printed.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 19, 2025 07:31 PM (Da7Vv)
There.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 07:32 PM (NFX2v)
We know Massachussets and Illinois have issues. Ditto for California and NY.
This could be a cultural breakwater.
Posted by: Augusto Perez at December 19, 2025 07:40 PM (LngQO)
Posted by: Chicago Vota at December 19, 2025 11:51 PM (baPXJ)
You are one of Pixy's favorites, why didn't you call him right off the bat? Jesus man.
Posted by: wickedpinto at December 20, 2025 01:05 AM (2a0yj)
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 20, 2025 07:21 AM (3tGF8)
Posted by: Matthew Proctor at December 20, 2025 10:52 PM (OdsgZ)
Open Thread
still down.
Comments
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Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 04:30 PM (dAOkg)
What's the best product?
The bagless ones are just vile, seems really unsanitary. Hate. Hate.
Posted by: Derak at December 19, 2025 04:30 PM (JUYGW)
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John Kerry couldn't be reached for comment.
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Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 04:30 PM (0U5gm)
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The irrational prejudice against Red Rider and his rifle?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: The Paolo at December 19, 2025 04:31 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Meathead at December 19, 2025 04:31 PM (+Tpk4)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 04:32 PM (lLg3a)
Millions more in SNAP fraud uncovered in Massachusetts.
Tens of billions of our tax dollars are being stolen annually.
Blue states are robbing us blind.
X video: https://bit.ly/4pQscVQ
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:32 PM (P5BPp)
"You would not believe how bad the bathroom smells after that chick..."
-the dude sick of Sydney Sweeney's shit
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
My brother-in-law once attended an event for Senator John Warner of Virginia when Warner was married to Liz Taylor. BiL used the same PortaPotty that Liz had just used right before him.
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:32 PM (77rzZ)
%^&*() howling pipes in the wall.
Lemme take a vise grips to the cable modem.
Posted by: DaveA at December 19, 2025 04:32 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: The person who always says that at December 19, 2025 04:32 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 19, 2025 04:33 PM (wtvvX)
Walz says CDLs, Transportation funding, you name it - it could ALL be pulled!
"The entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota!"
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Geez! You steal $10, $15, $18 billion and, right away, Trump’s all pissed off!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 04:33 PM (L/fGl)
More SNAP fraud exposed in Massachusetts. This time it’s Haitian migrants who reportedly stole around $7 million from taxpayers.
They ran fake stores to turn SNAP benefits into cash & earned up to $480K per MONTH.
My gosh. The fraud is worse than we thought.
X video: https://bit.ly/49m7JCg
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:33 PM (P5BPp)
I'm down. (I'm really down.)
I'm down. (Down on the ground.)
I'm down. (I'm really down.)
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
How can you laugh know I'm down?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:33 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Guy who never reads the content at December 19, 2025 04:34 PM (vFG9F)
More SNAP fraud exposed in Massachusetts. This time it’s Haitian migrants who reportedly stole around $7 million from taxpayers.
They ran fake stores to turn SNAP benefits into cash & earned up to $480K per MONTH.
My gosh. The fraud is worse than we thought.
X video: https://bit.ly/49m7JCg
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:33 PM (P5BPp)
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Does this get added to the reparations paid column or nah?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at December 19, 2025 04:34 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: DBCooper at December 19, 2025 04:35 PM (+daAW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 04:35 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Ace at 04:27 PM
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The vultures circling around over the last thread were a clue.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (1vqcm)
/Wouldn't you know it ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (NNq22)
Tens of billions of our tax dollars are being stolen annually.
Blue states are robbing us blind.
_______
That's terrible!
- Mike DeWine Gov. (pay no attention to the Columbus Somalians)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (Dv3i1)
There you have it. Choose sides.
Sky News @SkyNews
BREAKING: The Islamic State has called the Bondi shooting a "source of pride"
X video: https://bit.ly/4qneSIs
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Guy who never reads the content
No, thread's closed. Moose outside should have told you.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)
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I posted my Ernst Lubitsch video which talks a decent bit about The Shop Around the Corner.
Like and subscribe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wnBxEUMERQ
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
Since I'm in Florida so I will put the top down on the Jeep and enjoy the ride. You northern suckers please stay up north.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 19, 2025 04:37 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 19, 2025 04:37 PM (P7Iz+)
Like and subscribe!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
What's the cost to subscribe?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:37 PM (77rzZ)
And Walz goes on to claim Trump is weaponizing the government to oppress Minnesomalians. Funny, he didn't mention fraud at all.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (cxFcK)
Walz says CDLs, Transportation funding, you name it - it could ALL be pulled!
"The entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota!"
-
Geez! You steal $10, $15, $18 billion and, right away, Trump’s all pissed off!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 04:33 PM (L/fGl)
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I'd like to see a poster with the amount of fraud stolen from the US taxpayers in bold script, with a big blow-up of Governor Jazz Hands. "YOU VOTED FOR THIS!"
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:37 PM (77rzZ)
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One MILLION dollars!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)
King Harv!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (2WIwB)
Luckily, it's down to about 23 - 25 mph. I know, nothing for where many of you live but postage stamp sized lawns here.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (NFX2v)
Remember when 14,000 Haitians showed up at the border and the Biden Administration attacked the Border Patrol agent who tried to stop one?
Then they let them all in the country.
Breaking911 @Breaking911
Federal prosecutors have charged Haitian migrants in Massachusetts in a $7 million SNAP fraud scheme, involving fake retail stores that reportedly generated up to $480,000 per month.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:39 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: The Center Cannot Hold! at December 19, 2025 04:39 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:39 PM (WDjG6)
/Wouldn't you know it ...
Posted by: ShainS
All those words... lost like tears...*choke* in the rain...
( VANGELIS SCORE GOES HERE )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 04:39 PM (mlg/3)
Millions more in SNAP fraud uncovered in Massachusetts.
Tens of billions of our tax dollars are being stolen annually.
Blue states are robbing us blind.
X video: https://bit.ly/4pQscVQ
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:32 PM (P5BPp)
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During the Bullshit Covid PsyOps, prisoners in Califzuela used prison computers and identity theft to steal and defraud Califzuela's EDD (Employment Development Department) out of an estimated $20-$32 billion.
What's that I've heard since about it? * crickets *
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:39 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 04:40 PM (vFG9F)
Know that we have always been down, down
If I ever did a thing to you, you
Then just let me do it now (now)
Keep my feet on the ground
Keep my head in the clouds
Electrified by the sound
That comes from the down
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4pMYLnB
Posted by: 311 at December 19, 2025 04:40 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2025 04:40 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Bulg
____
I once used a guest bathroom in a private home right after Keira Knightley. Man, that toilet seat tasted like Lysol.
Posted by: Creepy Pete at December 19, 2025 04:40 PM (qUkBO)
Blue states are robbing us blind.
X video: https://bit.ly/4pQscVQ
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Dems claim red states suck off the teats of blue states.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 04:41 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:41 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:41 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 04:41 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Creepy Pete at December 19, 2025 04:40 PM (qUkBO)
lol
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:41 PM (xcxpd)
X video: https://bit.ly/4qneSIs
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Someone explain to me like I'm five years old why it should be a source of pride for the Islamic State if they (allegedly) had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:41 PM (W23D2)
Not going to hate on him for that.
Loverboy and Foreigner are underrated.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (xcxpd)
Switch to cialis and you won't have to time it to reboots vs. cold start, etc.
Posted by: DaveA at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 19, 2025
***
This evening? Feeding the cats, sharing a pizza with Miss Linda, maybe watching Trek episodes or reading while they're on . . . very much the same as most evenings.
Tomorrow, a run to the grocery/Walmart for supplies before the rush starts, and hitting the library. Sunday, a solid morning workout, and a bath for the car. Monday I'll have blood drawn early in the morning, so no food or coffee when I get up, and I dread that . . . but I'll have a good breakfast on the way back home.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd
True.
But no stake in the heart means the vampires can & will return again and again.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (NFX2v)
Powered by a Potato.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (W23D2)
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Oh, shit...
AoSHQ is actually GLaDOS?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM
Never did that with me.
Posted by: Doctor Lilith Sternin at December 19, 2025 04:43 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:43 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 04:44 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Derak at December 19, 2025 04:30 PM (JUYGW)
I have a Bissell pet one that seems to work fairly well and did not burn out after 2-3 cleanings of Ajax's hair (that is how I measure vacuums.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 04:44 PM (zZu0s)
AoSHQ is actually GLaDOS?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
That would explain a lot...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 04:44 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: weew at December 19, 2025 04:44 PM (S4IL1)
Hey, Garrett. How's the pinball rehabbing going?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:44 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Down the Tubes at December 19, 2025 04:45 PM (oftw2)
X video: https://bit.ly/4pQscVQ
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
That SALT deduction wasn't even the tip of it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 19, 2025 04:45 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:45 PM (wzUl9)
King Harv!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM (2WIwB)
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"You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want Harv on that wall. You need Harv on that wall."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:45 PM (NNq22)
X video: https://bit.ly/4pQscVQ
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
That SALT deduction wasn't even the tip of it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)
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Assertion:
States should fully fund their own welfare programs. The federal government should have no involvement at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ordinary American
Yeah, what a disappointment he turned out to be.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Somalians in your City at December 19, 2025 04:46 PM (Dv3i1)
X video: https://bit.ly/4qneSIs
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Someone explain to me like I'm five years old why it should be a source of pride for the Islamic State if they (allegedly) had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (a+4eV)
Because they are running a bluff with their populace to avoid being hung by the neck until dead. Pretending they are more powerful than they are right now.
Even if the dudes or cell are Iran backed, right now they are running on autopilot.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 04:46 PM (8avO+)
Loverboy and Foreigner are underrated.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
________
What's the case for Loverboy being underrated?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2025 04:46 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:38 PM
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Never did that with me.
Posted by: Doctor Lilith Sternin at December 19, 2025
***
I'd guess he didn't want to chance frostbite from those icicles.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:47 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (a+4eV)
They could very well have been backing it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:47 PM (77rzZ)
Been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn't bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all~\o
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 19, 2025 04:47 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Down the Tubes
Ha, ha, ha! 🤣
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 04:47 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 19, 2025 04:47 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2025 04:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:48 PM (wzUl9)
States should fully fund their own welfare programs. The federal government should have no involvement at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:45
No they shouldn’t, but they trashed the X Amendment.
Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 04:48 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:37 PM
Twenty bucks. Same as in town.
Posted by: Geez, people at December 19, 2025 04:48 PM (LaiZQ)
X video: https://bit.ly/4qneSIs
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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And the response from Australian Government? More gun control.
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Down the Tubes
***
Tell us about it.
Posted by: Passenger Pigeons at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM (wzUl9)
Shapiro won this round IMO
BUT… the whole thing was a grubby spectacle… Charlie Kirk buried 3 months ago and his signature event descending to internecine squabbling. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Ordinary American
Yeah, what a disappointment he turned out to be.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)
Don't know much about him, but being an agent for a long time doesn't mean you can administer the entire force well, much less root out all the problems. I'd have trusted one of Elon's detached info diggers in that position more to find the problems. How to fix once you know the problem is a different issue.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 04:44 PM (sDNVV)
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Time to set up a Give Send Go for Ace?
/I might have to double my annual donation ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM (3ek7K)
Think of how it feels to be a co-founder! Gotta call JB and Hillary. Shame No-Name couldn't join us.
Posted by: Barack Hussein at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM (/8phG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
"The stories I could tell you people about this guy!
-- Stirling's thought bubble
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)
Loverboy and Foreigner are underrated.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
________
What's the case for Loverboy being underrated?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2025 04:46 PM (XvL8K)
Turn Me Loose
Loving Every Minute of It
Working for the Weekend
The Kid is Hot Tonight
HOT....girls in love.
That's some solid 80's music right there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 04:46 PM
"Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall. And, a very small man can cast a very large shadow."
Posted by: Varys at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (YlWIZ)
Yo Bulg -
Most of my machines are running well.
Got a 1979 Bally Star Trek a few weeks back that will be getting overhauled next. It's in ok shape as it stands. A few stuck switches...but, I think I located them all.
Trying to locate a NOS Playfield for that one. Once I get my hands on one, I will tear it down completely and rebuild it.
Cabinet and Glass are in really nice shape. So, likely won't strip it down to re-stencil it...unless I find someone who insists on a repaint to buy it.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (2FECf)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 19, 2025 04:51 PM (NtVYv)
BUT… the whole thing was a grubby spectacle… Charlie Kirk buried 3 months ago and his signature event descending to internecine squabbling. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM (xT8gx)
Only way to shake out the grifters. Wasn't impressed with his org's performance these last years either.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 04:51 PM (8avO+)
Wait until they dig into the railroad to nowhere.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 04:51 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Oldcat
Speaking of which, I wonder how Big Balls is doing.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 19, 2025 04:51 PM (YlWIZ)
Got a 1979 Bally Star Trek a few weeks back that will be getting overhauled next. It's in ok shape as it stands. A few stuck switches...but, I think I located them all.
Trying to locate a NOS Playfield for that one. Once I get my hands on one, I will tear it down completely and rebuild it.
Cabinet and Glass are in really nice shape. So, likely won't strip it down to re-stencil it...unless I find someone who insists on a repaint to buy it.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (W23D2)
Hey Garret, do you list your rebuilds for sale somewhere ?
I'm kind of a pinball nut
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 19, 2025 04:52 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:41 PM (W23D2)
Not going to hate on him for that.
Loverboy and Foreigner are underrated.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
Air Supply
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:52 PM (/lPRQ)
Loving Every Minute of It
Working for the Weekend
The Kid is Hot Tonight
HOT....girls in love.
That's some solid 80's music right there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (xcxpd)
100%… Loverboy is involved with some of my best HS memories. However caveat…. Mike Reno should never appear in public again until he loses about 150 pounds….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:52 PM (xT8gx)
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Isn't it time to add an H to "LGBTQIA+PEDO" for Homicidal Pride?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:52 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 19, 2025 04:52 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2025 04:53 PM (XeU6L)
Like and subscribe!
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
Shop Around the Corner is on TCM tonight.
Posted by: Tuna at December 19, 2025 04:53 PM (lJ0H4)
X video: https://bit.ly/4qneSIs
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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And the response from Australian Government? More gun control.
Posted by: mrp
They have to protect their replacement population from the citizens.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 04:53 PM (0U5gm)
Wait until they dig into the railroad to nowhere.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 04:51 PM (cxFcK)
Well the death count is likely smaller than Chicago's Deep Tunnel project. Lets build a tunnel in a swamp by a lake for ... reasons.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 04:53 PM (8avO+)
Most of my machines are running well.
Got a 1979 Bally Star Trek a few weeks back that will be getting overhauled next. It's in ok shape as it stands. A few stuck switches...but, I think I located them all.
Trying to locate a NOS Playfield for that one. Once I get my hands on one, I will tear it down completely and rebuild it.
Cabinet and Glass are in really nice shape. So, likely won't strip it down to re-stencil it...unless I find someone who insists on a repaint to buy it.
Posted by: garrett
Cool! I would love to see you at work. Have you considered doing a YouTube channel on pinball restoration?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tuna at December 19, 2025 04:53 PM (lJ0H4)
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Well, that's fortuitous.
Go, algorithm, go!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: A. Bunker at December 19, 2025 04:54 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Ace
Maybe try some Viagra?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:31 PM (77rzZ)
FridayPlans.com.
I mean, you know, . . .
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 04:54 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Zombie Carl Panzram at December 19, 2025 04:55 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:55 PM (KDPiq)
Like and subscribe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wnBxEUMERQ
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
Shop Around the Corner is on TCM tonight.
Posted by: Tuna at December 19, 2025 04:53 PM (lJ0H4)
Shop around the corner? You mean “You’ve Got Mail” right?? Meg Ryan such a cutie in that one!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:55 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:55 PM (Ia/+0)
"Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall. And, a very small man can cast a very large shadow."
Posted by: Varys
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This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Napoleon at December 19, 2025 04:55 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:55 PM (xT8gx)
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I even include clips from You've Got Mail in the video!
like and subscribe
Do it. Do it now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
Loving Every Minute of It
Working for the Weekend
The Kid is Hot Tonight
HOT....girls in love.
That's some solid 80's music right there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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I like me some bad 80s music. But that's just a bridge too far. They suck. Even by Canadian standards.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (XvL8K)
X video: https://bit.ly/4qneSIs
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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And the response from Australian Government? More gun control.
Posted by: mrp
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Moar Targets !!!
- Islamics Everywhere
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:49 PM
Yep. Which is why I don't believe any of the people / content creators on "the right" are worth a damn. Seems like all of them have some sort of schtick to drum up drama of something or another about someone or another every month or so. I assume it's to get attention, since their entire income depends on attention (clicks, views, likes, people buying their books, people buying tickets to watch them give speeches).
Far cry from the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Far cry from the Benjamin Franklin Silence Dogood Letters. Far cry from the Ronald Reagan articles and speeches he gave after his awakening and then transition from entertainer to politician.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (YlWIZ)
I'm kind of a pinball nut
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 19, 2025 04:52 PM (NtVYv)
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When wifey and I met in '02, a local K-Mart had a "Theater of Magic" pinball game that we frequented and enjoyed playing.
Nothing better than "MULTI-BALL!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (NNq22)
Got as close as I could get with the options available.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (NNq22)
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That's what she said.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:50 PM (KDPiq)
He should just move to Minnesota where there's a tampon in every men's bathroom.
Never thought I would see the purpose of tampons in the men's bathroom but live and learn.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Tuna at December 19, 2025
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One of my favorite films. I love the '90s remake, You've Got Mail, which I saw first. Both are great in part because of the casting, the tone and dialogue are pleasant in their humor -- and because, for once, the *guy* in the romantic pairing is not clueless and is responsible for the leads getting together by fadeout.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:55 PM (KDPiq)
OOh, Ahh
I know that one
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (wzUl9)
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Well, it's certainly better than Sleepless in Seattle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at
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who is "CO"?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (cHOHf)
Posted by: Ordinary American
My guess is, he finally annoyed somebody enough that they dropped a copy of his "file" on his desk, with a not-so-subtle suggestion that he needed to go back to the private sector.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (CSQvy)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (u9Aw1)
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It's a commanding officer in the army, but that's not important right now.
What we need to know is if you can land this plane!
(real answer: Candace Owens)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (nbLIj
Thank you, been a long time for me.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Varys
I was in the pool!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (3+aF+)
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Just in the past few days (I'm a talk radio junkie as I drive several hours/day for work) I've started hearing numerous references to the grifters as part of and participating in "The Attention Economy."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (P5BPp)
100%… I shouldn’t be this cynical at my young age of 29…. But I am
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 04:59 PM (cxFcK)
I don't see anything on the intertubes. I know one of Brown's dead victim was a Muslim.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:59 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)
X video: https://bit.ly/4qneSIs
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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And the response from Australian Government? More gun control.
Posted by: mrp
They have to protect their replacement population from the citizens.
Lest they be tempted to put another Shiite on the barby.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 04:59 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 04:59 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: Ben Had
I think it was a choice between having a backup and upgrading from 1200 baud.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 04:59 PM (iFEms)
Posted by: Napoleon at December 19, 2025 04:59 PM (XeU6L)
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who is "CO"?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (u9Aw1)
Crazy Candace Owens (Crazy CO)… TJM already answered
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:00 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2025 05:00 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Tuna at December 19, 2025
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Shop around the corner? You mean “You’ve Got Mail” right?? Meg Ryan such a cutie in that one!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025
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The scene where the hero (Stewart/Hanks) is outside the cafe/coffee shop, realizes the girl he's been clashing with is his romantic pen pal, and goes in to talk with her and she insults him, is identical in motivational "beats" in both films. The dialog is very different, but the effect is the same.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:00 PM (wzUl9)
My guess is, he finally annoyed somebody enough that they dropped a copy of his "file" on his desk, with a not-so-subtle suggestion that he needed to go back to the private sector.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (CSQvy)
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"... and nice family & home you got there; be a shame if anything happened to them."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:00 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)
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* snort *
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:01 PM (NNq22)
They never thought they would lose.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 05:01 PM (iFEms)
Was not a fan before he ever took the job. His song and dance gets old real quick.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 05:01 PM (SlJND)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:58 PM (NNq22)
Deny them your essence.
Or, garbage in, garbage out.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:01 PM (3+aF+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025
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I'm not sure I've ever seen that one all the way through. Maybe it's not on my radar because the kid, Hanks's son, is the prime mover in getting the leads together (?). Kinda cutesy, I guess, like The Parent Trap (which I also have never seen all of).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:03 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:03 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: ShainS
Phooey. Presumably his family was had input into his decision, and was a factor in his decision to join the administration.
You don't wanna put your family in jeopardy? Fine, perfectly understandable. Then don't become a public figure and don't join a presidential administration.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:03 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (u9Aw1)
The conservative version of Jasmine Crockett, except even crazier and stupider.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:03 PM (uWKK8)
Its just the talk radio model democratized. Gather followers until your following has some kind of value all to its own. The Rush Limbaugh model.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 05:03 PM (SlJND)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:04 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: quality control at December 19, 2025 05:04 PM (XDIMQ)
Posted by: NCKate at December 19, 2025 05:04 PM (uQzkA)
Yeah, I've been waiting for my Sunday girl, now
Will you follow me down now, down now
Will you follow me down now, down now
Will you follow me down
YouTube: https://bit.ly/455EEso
Posted by: Stone Temple Pilots at December 19, 2025 05:04 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (wzUl9)
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Well, it's certainly better than Sleepless in Seattle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)
We need to discuss that. I don't think so.
Sleepless is very solid, despite Rob Reiner.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 05:05 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)
You raised in the South?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 05:06 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:06 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)
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* fistbump *
The best scene in the movie is when Hanks and Reiner are talking about guy movies like the Dirty Dozen. And the rest of the film you realize this movie ain't for you.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:06 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 05:07 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:06 PM (u9Aw1)
Same. Only reason I know she's still around is because of the threads here about her.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:08 PM (3+aF+)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:08 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 05:08 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 05:08 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 05:08 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)
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Was his hovercraft full of eels?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:08 PM (krQz2)
Charlie Kirk buried 3 months ago and his signature event descending to internecine squabbling. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Doesn't that often happen to organizations held together by one person?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 05:09 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (0U5gm)
It felt like watching a monkey in a little hat dancing for an organ grinder who was just off stage, smiling. It was pathetic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Opinion fact
It's a shame that he, and not I, got to hang out with Meg Ryan in that volcano movie.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (77rzZ)
Its just the talk radio model democratized. Gather followers until your following has some kind of value all to its own. The Rush Limbaugh model.
Posted by: Snowball Headed
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This is the whole "helicopter" ben Bernanke and even Greenspan logic that somehow waste makes us wealthy. Morons.
But the Obama admin is the one that ran with it. Bastiat weeps.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (cxFcK)
>I'm kind of a pinball nut
Occasionally on PinSide. But they usually sell to someone local, for the most part. And I tend to keep the real good ones.
If you have a short list of Pins you might be interested in, let me know. I am always looking to mix up my lineup and I have access to a couple pretty big collections whose owners do the same.
>>I want an 8 Ball pinball machine but they ain't cheap.
8 Ball ... or, 8 Ball Deluxe?
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Opinion fact
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Where did he play a ladies' man?
(Now, you got me thinking about Tim Meadows.)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (uWKK
For reals? And I thought people were joking about him being bought by Qatar.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (3+aF+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025
I'm not sure I've ever seen that one all the way through. Maybe it's not on my radar because the kid, Hanks's son, is the prime mover in getting the leads together (?). Kinda cutesy, I guess, like The Parent Trap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:03 PM
I liked that movie when it came out when I was younger and still a hopeless romantic and a sap. Plus I always liked Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in their movies together.
But rewatching it decades later as an older, cynical person, I see how awful a movie plot it is. Where Meg Ryan hires a private investigator to stalk him and then lies to her fiance and flies across the country to stalk Tom Hanks herself.
And in the end, she breaks it off with her fiance because of "magic" that she determines she does not have with him but might possibly have with some single dad widower she's never met and only knows what he's talked about on a late night radio show.
Nothing like the Parent Trap. A movie I do love. The 1961 version.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (P5BPp)
https://tinyurl.com/fyrcuvpn
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Doesn't that often happen to organizations held together by one person?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 05:09 PM (pkeXY)
I disagree that it's descending into squabbling - more like there was a really nasty element hiding inside it that tried to make their move and take over as soon as Charlie died. Now, it's painful, but that element is slowly getting the boot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: ComradeArthur at December 19, 2025 05:13 PM (0MX78)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (77rzZ)
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My money was on the volcano.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:13 PM (krQz2)
That is a beautiful machine.
>>I like me some bad 80s music. But that's just a bridge too far. They suck. Even by Canadian standards.
Ban this Man.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 05:13 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Bulg
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I always hated Hanks. From his first TV show (which I don't think I saw more than the adds for) to his bad remake of Mr. Blandings. He is just annoying to me to watch.
He was tolerable in that fedex movie because he mostly didn't use that whiny voice.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:13 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:10 PM (uWKK
Tom — See my 81 and 108 above. I didn’t have quite the same reaction as you (though my reaction was negative). I did not hear him talk about Islam…. But agree it was kinda sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:13 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025
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There's a similar running gag in You've Got Mail about how men so often use The Godfather as a source of metaphors or quote it all the time.
Nora Ephron did both screenplays. Unlike recent major feministas, though, her humor was much more gentle toward men, and she did not paint all men as monsters or total doofuses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:13 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (3+aF+)
It almost sounds like a joke, but he really did just buy a house in Qatar.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Doesn't that often happen to organizations held together by one person?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 05:09 PM
Now apply this to President Trump and the USA.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (P5BPp)
What a relief! Go, Ace!
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 05:08 PM (KDPiq)
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Nor Grace Jones.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:59 PM (KDPiq)
You can't expect the shooter to have known that, though. In any case, by their twisted logic, he automatically becomes a martyr to islam.
Posted by: Coastal Florida State Wimmenz Bridge Building Team at December 19, 2025 05:15 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 05:15 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 05:12 PM (P5BPp)
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It was only in reading your post that all the things I really disliked about the movie came back to me.
It almost presages the Christmas movie genre.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:15 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
Hayley Mills was a cutie. Also, the very beautiful Maureen O'Hara plays the mother.
Posted by: Tuna at December 19, 2025 05:16 PM (lJ0H4)
Well, it's certainly better than Sleepless in Seattle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)
The one about the chick stalking Tom Hanks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_eHbF9umrY
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 05:16 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:16 PM (xT8gx)
But rewatching it decades later as an older, cynical person, I see how awful a movie plot it is. Where Meg Ryan hires a private investigator to stalk him and then lies to her fiance and flies across the country to stalk Tom Hanks herself.
And in the end, she breaks it off with her fiance because of "magic" that she determines she does not have with him but might possibly have with some single dad widower she's never met and only knows what he's talked about on a late night radio show.
Nothing like the Parent Trap. A movie I do love. The 1961 version.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025
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Then I know I haven't seen SinS all the way through. None of that is familiar to me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:16 PM (wzUl9)
Plus red hair. So I'm definitely a fan now.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (/lPRQ)
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Loss of structure leads to chaos.
A microcosm demonstration of the intentional end result of Democrat-Islamunist anarcho-tyranny ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:17 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: NCKate at December 19, 2025 05:17 PM (uQzkA)
Like Arabic?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:17 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 05:17 PM (cxFcK)
Don't you hate when that happens? It happens to me a lot. Cocoa should be savored.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:17 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:16 PM (wzUl9)
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I have been disparaging that movie in the abstract so long I forgot the particulars of it until that post.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:18 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:13 PM (xT8gx)
it starts about 2 minutes into a clip that can be found at the daily beast. He said it's disgusting the way people are "attacking" muslims in America right now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:18 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 05:18 PM (EyfuW)
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Rubio basically endorsed Vance for '28. Maybe DeSantis will get on board with the Beard.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (0U5gm)
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"Come to Califzuela!"
/Governor Gruesome Newscum
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 05:17 PM (cxFcK)
That’s the best description I’ve ever seen of her hair… ramen noodle, heh. Bravo
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Tuna
Check out the adult Hayley in that penguin movie with John Hurt. Hubba hubba.
Also, her sister, Juliet, (Nanny in "Nanny and the Professor") was quite lovely back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (77rzZ)
Not sure you have to subscribe to watch, I have but wach lots that don't have
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: LASue at December 19, 2025 05:20 PM (nKjbR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (uWKK
He's going to become a Qatarsnipe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 05:20 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Yes, he was good in that.
However -- (I should start a curmudgeon's review channel.) I hated the movie mostly because with so many great and heroic stories during the war, they had to make up that bullshit? That bothered me a lot. My least favorite genre is "historical" fiction.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:20 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Ace at 04:27 PM
Nothing wrong wit'gettin' down.
https://youtu.be/h4Bq69HfR0Y
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 05:20 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 05:20 PM (krQz2)
I mean, if you want to be pick, John Cusak is 'Say Anything' is creepy AF.
You either know what that kind of love and need is or you don't. Just like some pains have to be experienced to be understood.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 05:21 PM (xcxpd)
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Rubio basically endorsed Vance for '28. Maybe DeSantis will get on board with the Beard.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (Dv3i1)
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Erika Kirk (and my extension, Turning Point USA, obviously) also endorsed Vance for '28 at the AmericaFest convention.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:21 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 05:22 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 05:18 PM (uWKK
Thank you… I probably missed it because I was multitasking at work and kinda ignored the intro (and therefore the first few minutes). The most depressing thing about it to me is the one thing that got him the most worked up was “murdering children in Gaza” which is just so dishonest and simpleton type thinking it’s just annoying…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:22 PM (xT8gx)
https://tinyurl.com/fyrcuvpn
Posted by: toby928(c)
The 9.3×57mm is still fairly popular among moose hunters in Scandinavia (among hunters in Sweden it is affectionately known as "potatiskastaren", the spud gun, because of the slow and heavy bullet).
-wiki
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:22 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 05:14 PM (0U5gm)
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"Come to Califzuela!"
/Governor Gruesome Newscum
Posted by: ShainS
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I read that some are moving closer to the gas fields -- into Russia.
Good grief.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:22 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 05:21 PM (xcxpd)
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Truth.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:22 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:23 PM (wzUl9)
Don't you hate when that happens? It happens to me a lot. Cocoa should be savored.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:17 PM (u9Aw1)
My favorite hot cocoa recipe- heat 6 to 8bounces of milk. Break up one Hershey bar into heated milk. Stir until chocolate is fully dissolved. You may add about ⅛ teaspoon of vanilla extract if you so desire. I prefer whipped cream to marshmallows as a topper.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 05:24 PM (/TlUl)
ACES SHELVES ARE DOWN
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (HYKHz)
Sarah Hoyt's shocked face could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 05:24 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 05:20 PM (npFr7)
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* golf clap *
And stolen.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:25 PM (NNq22)
Daily Mail...
Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton get cozy with Epstein as hot tub and swimming pool photos emerge in newly released files.
Puking here.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 05:25 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 05:25 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 04:30 PM (0U5gm)
I still.prefer cinnamon.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 05:25 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:20 PM (u9Aw1)
Yes I understand the annoyance. My overall takeaway is the heroism displayed by those young men under incredibly difficult conditions was absolutely representative of reality so it helped me understand better the sacrifices involved in defeating the Nazis. I got misty eyed at the end
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:26 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 05:26 PM (3BwY8)
Still no motive?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 19, 2025 05:26 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 05:21 PM (xcxpd)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 05:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Thought was pretty god when first released. Got it on DVD. Re watched a couple times
... Then a long gap. Recently rewatched it and thought,
Damn! They did a lot of really stupid shit!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:26 PM (/lPRQ)
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Yeah, and that year the Hollywood f*ggots decided that Shakespeare in Love was the best movie of the year.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 19, 2025 05:27 PM (bNf8H)
However -- (I should start a curmudgeon's review channel.) I hated the movie mostly because with so many great and heroic stories during the war, they had to make up that bullshit? That bothered me a lot. My least favorite genre is "historical" fiction.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 05:20 PM (u9Aw1)
Or telling the true stories with fictional characters. Thinking "Fury" retelling Audie Murphy's MoH action fighting a gazillion Nazis by himself using a few hand weapons and a Ma Deuce mounted to a burning tank destroyer.
As I recall, in the movie "To Hell and Back", the producers made the screenwriter massively tone down his badassery because they didn't think that the audience would believe the true story.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 05:27 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025
***
Juliet Mills guest-starred on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in '65, in a fun little episode called "The Adriatic Express Affair," set on New Year's Eve aboard a European passenger train.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:27 PM (wzUl9)
Weird Dick Stew
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 05:27 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 19, 2025 05:28 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Tuna
Check out the adult Hayley in that penguin movie with John Hurt. Hubba hubba.
Also, her sister, Juliet, (Nanny in "Nanny and the Professor") was quite lovely back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM
Hayley Mills also started out as a teacher, Miss Bliss, in the early seasons of "Saved by the Bell" (when it was called Good Morning, Miss Bliss) in the late 1980s (1987-1989). I was age 11-13 at the time. Weird to have a crush on her in the late 80s for both her 1961 movie role and in her role as a teacher 20+ years later.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 05:28 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 05:28 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:28 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 05:28 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 05:29 PM (W23D2)
>>Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton get cozy with Epstein as hot tub and swimming pool photos emerge in newly released files.
Between being hired by Bill Barrs dad to being murdered in a prison run by Bill Barr, there’s a lot of story to the Epstein story, enough story that you could probably make a good Spotlight type movie.
And a sequel.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 05:29 PM (XV/Pl)
*sulks*
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 05:29 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 05:28 PM
Grayhound was not bad, though pretty flat.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:30 PM (jc0TO)
*sulks*
These are the Wages of being an All-Star Commenter.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 05:30 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 05:30 PM (1vqcm)
*sulks*
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport "
There is no reason you can't post it again. In fact, I insist.
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 05:31 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: ShainS
"natural sleep aids" - you mean booze doncha
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 05:31 PM (GhIJO)
Rhode Island Attorney General Says Brown University Shooter Might Have Made “Barking Noise” Before Opening Fire
Again with the negative waves!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 05:31 PM (pkeXY)
*sulks*
These are the Wages of being an All-Star Commenter.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 05:30 PM
Stop onto this plastic sheeting. We are having the painters over.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 19, 2025 05:31 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (wzUl9)
... Then a long gap. Recently rewatched it and thought,
Damn! They did a lot of really stupid shit!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:26 PM (/lPRQ)
When I watched it for the first time I was bemused by the big shift from the 'you are there' to the basic 60s war movie after the first few minutes. I was thinking 'will they have the "Kid from Brooklyn" and instantly there was a kid from Brooklyn.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (8avO+)
I do like me some Alistair Maclean. Guy could write action.
Couldn't write romance at all, but he knew how to write action!
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (/ZkOF)
The U.S. is conducting airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria in what appears to be retaliation for the attack that killed two American soldiers and a U.S. interpreter on Saturday, multiple sources tell CBS News.
One of the officials said the U.S. began striking dozens of targets at multiple locations across central Syria using fighter aircraft, attack helicopters and artillery.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (pkeXY)
NY Rep Stefanik is pulling the plug on her political career.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 05:33 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025
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It was the shelter's name for Stirling's litter -- perhaps they had named his mother that, and her kittens were the "Bubbles" litter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:33 PM (wzUl9)
Like Arabic?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:17 PM
Ah that explains it. Now we can figure out what he said before he started barking:
"Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs."
ARFAllahu ARFckbar!
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 05:33 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: fd
Alas, the moment has passed
* puts hand to brow dramatically and sinks languidly onto chaise lounge *
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 05:33 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 05:34 PM (sDNVV)
NY Rep Stefanik is pulling the plug on her political career.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (IifOV)
Saw that... Not running for Gov. or her House seat.. Something's up there....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:34 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 05:27 PM (y9nCu)
Similar thing happened in "Glory". The colonel died inside the fort leading his men when a counterattack killed him. The Movie decided that was too Hollywood and had him die outside the fort on the glacis.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)
ACES SHELVES ARE DOWN
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (HYKHz)
People! We are at ShelfCon 1 here!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:35 PM (dK+Kv)
>> NY Rep Stefanik is pulling the plug on her political career.
Politics is a rough game and some people aren’t toe taggers.
Hopefully we can hold on to her congressional seat.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 05:35 PM (XV/Pl)
I wonder if this'll break into the Reddit bubble. The Reddit hivemind all think Michael Jackson was horribly mistreated and everyone who accused him of being a pedo was a gold digging liar.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 05:36 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 05:31 PM (GhIJO)
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You've been spying on me!
/That frequently is my go-to ... especially after waking up from night terrors in the middle of the night.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:36 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (GhIJO)
Well the girls were safe from Jackson but if there were any young boys.....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (IifOV)
Saw that... Not running for Gov. or her House seat.. Something's up there....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:34 PM (VE6XX)
Deep State Death Threats?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)
I wonder if this'll break into the Reddit bubble. The Reddit hivemind all think Michael Jackson was horribly mistreated and everyone who accused him of being a pedo was a gold digging liar.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 05:36 PM
Well, he sure could dance.
Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (8Xy/A)
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How do you scream "Allahu Akbar" in goatese?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (NNq22)
I wonder if this'll break into the Reddit bubble. The Reddit hivemind all think Michael Jackson was horribly mistreated and everyone who accused him of being a pedo was a gold digging liar.
Posted by: bonhomme
Imagine Bill and Michael sharing a ...
Ewww,
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:38 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 05:38 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (8Xy/A)
I'd say yes
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:38 PM (VE6XX)
The very major detail of requiring DNA evidence to demonstrate lineage is barely mentioned.
Our media continues to shovel bullshit.
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 05:38 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Undoubtedly. Especially if you have an Android
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 05:38 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (8Xy/A)
Yes. Don’t do it, Fen
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:38 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (77rzZ)
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I had a massive crush on Juliet Mills when Nanny was in first run. I was 10. Sigh.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (1Au9i)
You probably just need to re-calibrate the camera.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Download and install the 'fix'!
Seriously, it has to be a racket.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ranger Bob at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (x5WKH)
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (1Au9i)
Her X post made it sound like trouble on the home front.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 05:40 PM (viF8m)
Have you tried bedtime prayers, like asking your guardian angel to guard your sleep?
Or listen to Te Lucis Ante Terminum
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 05:40 PM (GhIJO)
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Rubio basically endorsed Vance for '28. Maybe DeSantis will get on board with the Beard.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 05:19 PM (Dv3i1)
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Erika Kirk (and my extension, Turning Point USA, obviously) also endorsed Vance for '28 at the AmericaFest convention.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:21 PM (NNq22)
One thing for sure about DeSantis, he has executive experience. Either fix another state or get that into fixing the deep state somehow.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 19, 2025 05:40 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM
Over Austria or the Netherlands?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 05:40 PM (jc0TO)
One of the officials said the U.S. began striking dozens of targets at multiple locations across central Syria using fighter aircraft, attack helicopters and artillery.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (pkeXY)
Blow up a few mosques. They are all filled with enemy combatants.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 05:40 PM (npFr7)
Get an iPhone7, hardly any app works but it does still work as a phone. Nobody is going to hack a phone that old,
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (8uzBS)
Her X post made it sound like trouble on the home front.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 05:40 PM (viF8m)
Okay... I guess it could be hard if you have young kids...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (VE6XX)
That concludes this interruption and we take you back to your regularly scheduled broadcast….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (b8EuQ)
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Bondi's replacement?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)
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"Phooey!"
/see Bulg @ 181
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (3ek7K)
BRB, gotta puke again.
Posted by: fourseasons
Just run the chlorine a bit high.
And clean the filter daily.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:41 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (vFG9F)
If Trump says he gonna do something he does it
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (vFG9F)
ShellyLiz @FreespeechShell
After sharing this video, I've had another local mother reach out to me
"My child had an appointment at the Doctors Hub last Saturday at 4.30 and as I drove round to park up this is what I saw. I was too scared to walk to the hub with just me and my child so I drove away and cancelled the appointment.
For me, the risk was too much!"
Women too scared to take their children to appointments now!!!!!!!
X video: https://bit.ly/4ja7q0Q
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (1vqcm)
Couldn't write romance at all, but he knew how to write action!
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 19, 2025 05:32 PM (/ZkOF)
The romance scenes between Richard Burton and Mary Ure in Where Eagles Dare were pretty good, at least to my eyes. Although I suspect that had a lot more to do with Burton and Ure having fun with the premise than it did with the script.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (OoFl2)
If they are not passing out rifles and mustering regularly, then they can safely dismiss such as globo homo agit prop.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:43 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 05:40 PM (npFr7)
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As someone (Elric?) said here a couple days ago: the response to 9/11 should have been to vaporize Mecca and Medina.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 05:43 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 05:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 05:43 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (OoFl2)
Russia has better things to do with drones than buzz the Dutch. Its scaremongering or an op. The EU plan to swipe Russia's held assets also failed today, so they have some fake EU bond to send Ukraine a years worth of money.
But yes, the EU elites have been talking up needing to be ready for war like WWII for some weeks now as the US support for NATO and Ukraine is waning. They only have one game to play, but they have nothing to play it with.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:44 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 19, 2025 05:44 PM (ZA93d)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (y9nCu)
Were they in the original book at all? In Navarone there was a lady scout that turned out to be the traitor, which also was not in the book.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:45 PM (8avO+)
>Rumor has it that Big Mike was also there, but her cock was bigger than theirs so she was ejected from the tub.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 05:46 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (OoFl2)
The Battleship Potemkin weighs anchor at Murmansk, bound for Rotterdam...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 05:42 PM (1vqcm)
The Brits have been sinking Russian cargo ships in Turkish waters for some time now. Somebody seems to be tired of it.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 05:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 19, 2025 05:48 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 05:48 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:57 PM (wzUl9)
Love that version as well. The ending always triggers my allergies. Maybe I should watch the DVD tonight.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 19, 2025 05:54 PM (5xuJ/)
It's basically the comedic relief in the book. But that was removed entirely from the movie, and Clint's character totally changed from a lighthearted American cowboy to a cold blooded killer type. I would have preferred the comedic character.
Posted by: SimoHayha at December 19, 2025 05:58 PM (/ZkOF)
Kies vor betrouwbare bronnen voor eeen discrete ervaring.
Posted by: BUY VIAGRA ONLINE at December 21, 2025 01:01 AM (xPyhX)
Open thread
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White supremacy.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 03:24 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 19, 2025 03:24 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 19, 2025 03:24 PM (TezPK)
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I feel like Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom, deserves more discussion than that, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (UnA8+)
Spouse wants socks and underwear. Son wants a French Press and I don't want anything, so it's fairly uncomplicated .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Guys everywhere at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:26 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (cxFcK)
20% of citizens. 100% of the 70 Million or so Illegals.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:26 PM (UnA8+)
I went away for an hour and there is only one single additional open thresd?!
And not even a CBD-stomped post.
Posted by: Axeman
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It takes Ace that long to macrame a thread together without internet access. Pixy's rules.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (zZu0s)
NO.
Posted by: everyone in the entire fcking universe at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Best little airport ever at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (LaiZQ)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (iD+t2)
Per capita, a few years ago it was one of the most mobbed up cities in the US.
Then the mob got rolled up and their partners in the Democrat Party took over.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:26 PM (Nx5jP)
Brian Wilson's cousin?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (3wBQK)
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:26 PM (Nx5jP)
He's an asshole, Fen. Scum of the earth piece of shit. Trump damaged his rice bowl and he is mortally offended.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day
Ugh no.
I've been procrastinating on candying nuts for Grandma and sister - and given the prices of nuts and chocolate those aren't cheap presents - and I still need to get something for Mom, Sister in Law and the Niece and Nephew.
Stepdad and Brother are easy - they like cigars.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Have you ever seen him? He couldn't get laid in a whore house. I'm no Gavin McLeod, but he's the friggin' elephant man.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (cxFcK)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (iD+t2)
Sports after the break!
Posted by: Dr. T at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (ylQTz)
Posted by: The fish at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (LaiZQ)
in many ways this is the story of every thread past comment #100
Posted by: Narrator at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at December 19, 2025 03:28 PM (zL/eJ)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (TH+5o)
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Has anyone considered...American copyright law?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (iD+t2)
He was a gop consultant on the first rubio campaign (the one with the pudding)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:26 PM (Nx5jP)
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John Galt's alias?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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One of the nasty political consultants from teh Bush era where he was named Friend of the Blog. Political times changed threatening his breadbowl and like the Lincoln project former McCain GOP consultants, he went to the left for money and to get on TV occasionally.
And promptly dumped on his former friendz.
There is a reason that as bad as politicians may be at being human, campaign consultants often are far scummier in doing anything to make a buck. They are mostly animated by money whoever can pay them.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
Open Thread come back, all is forgiven
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (iD+t2)
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I have started learning Japanese.
isha desu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
Were you the poster who went to see "Hamnet"? It was a very intense film. I think the woman deserves an Oscar. I did find it a bit implausible that Shakespeare would be married to a witch like woman when there is so much religious references in his plays. I particularly liked the ending.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Slater at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Way out here at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (TH+5o)
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Star Trek it is, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ...
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Oh, so like Disqus comment section on an Instapundit article or the traffic wreck comment sections on Breitbart or GWP.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (WDjG6)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent
Posted by: Chuck C at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM
But which one, Spock, which ... one ..
Posted by: JT Kirk at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (WW1aj)
Posted by: Overworked Seamstress at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (dIske)
isha desu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
You're all good until you hit 'kamikaze' and 'seppuku'
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (zL/eJ)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Oh, no... at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM (LaiZQ)
Right on cue all of Congress is screaming, as their personal payments from drug companies diminish.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM (iD+t2)
This went up just a bit ago.
Incas, Mayan and, um that other group. Where did they come from and when? This guy has been doing incredible work the last few years using genetics tracing Y chromosomes to track human people group movements going way back.
About 12.5 minutes. Hopefully enough here to get some to check out his other work.
https://tinyurl.com/mucd9dxk
Posted by: TeeJ at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM (T08Hw)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM (rbvCR)
https://tinyurl.com/jtr9drca
Oh, you said 'learning' Japanese. NVM
But Miss Kirsten is always a crowd pleaser.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (thfHj)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
Fen. Maybe coffee though.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (cxFcK)
Also, which one has its own official languages?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM (rbvCR)
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Are we talking influence in geopolitics, or average waist size?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)
There is a reason that as bad as politicians may be at being human, campaign consultants often are far scummier in doing anything to make a buck. They are mostly animated by money whoever can pay them.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (WDjG6)
“Resume builders” are as bad, and happily looked upon by Americans who see the key to getting hired anywhere as “knowing people”, “networking”, and making strategic friends.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix
I can't feel any effect under 50. Doesn't get strong until close to 100. Between the two, i play guitar for awhile then end up recording thoughts on legal issues i'm working on. I find it quite stimulating when the issues are cutting edge, like the boundary between petitioning and non-petitioning conduct in landlord-tenant relations in the anti-SLAPP context.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (uwFF/)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (D0HYP)
It's more durable.
Posted by: no one
Yes, but how do you clean the French people out of it?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (mlg/3)
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The original and its related movies are amazing.
The Next Generation begins the decent into mediocrity. They spend way too much time battling germs and way too little battling Klingons and Romulans. The moment they introduced the Ferengi it became gay.
And ALL of the Star Trek vehicles that came out after The Next Generation were gay/feminist and worthless.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 03:34 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM
But which one, Spock, which ... one ..
Posted by: JT Kirk
Damn it Jim! I'm a doctor, not a detective!
Posted by: Bones
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 03:34 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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And doctors, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, health insurance companies, other countries, etc.
Big Pharma was paying a lot of folks to keep defending the indefensible in ripping off people with insurance to spread the wealth around.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:34 PM (WDjG6)
isha desu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto
Which eventually leads to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGy9uomagO4
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 19, 2025 03:34 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (TH+5o)
Why you gotta go there, bro?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (dK+Kv)
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Or the history of Queensrhyche?
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+)
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They started out in Seattle as the Mob, Geoff Tate was in a competing band called, Myth, I believe.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: The fish
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No thanks. I always flounder when I try to make up a pun.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (GSe6k)
Also, which one has its own official languages?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM
It's a trick question. They're both fictional.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
Jay Guevara. We'd talk chemistry and stuff.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (Riz8t)
Which eventually leads to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGy9uomagO4
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 19, 2025 03:34 PM (TezPK)
lol I knew it before I clicked it!
still great.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (uWKK8)
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The moment I click the "Post" button I'll realize I overlooked somebody. But for now I'd say TJM or whig, because when I ask them a straight question they simply answer it rather than making me feel stupid for asking it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
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Roddenberry was at his best when he let the Sci Fi writers handle the stories.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: The fish
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No thanks. I always flounder when I try to make up a pun.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM
No need to clam up.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Blutarski
You are essentially correct.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (0U5gm)
isha desu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
You bray like an ass! You are not to speak unless spoken to!
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (TH+5o)
It's more durable.
Posted by: no one
Yes, but how do you clean the French people out of it?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (mlg/3)
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Ex-press them.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (krQz2)
Thanks. I was told that by the time out of college I would like beer. . I didn't . I do drink others things , however , so you wouldn't have to feel like you were at an AA meeting unless you only drink beer.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: XTC
There was a true crime show on ID about a father who allegedly left when his son was 18 months. A bunch of weird shit happened and 60 years later his son found his father's body well and truly buried in the basement. It seems his dad invited an ex-con to live with them and help him remodel the house. His mom and the ex-con had an affair and murdered dad, they later married, and he sexually assaulted the daughters. Son had given up finding dad until his sister convinced him to go to a psychic, eventhough he didn't believe, and the psychic told him his father was buried in the basement near a target that used to be in the basement decades earlier.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM
Actually, yes, Aquidneck Island, among others.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Slater at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
Sit on my face.
Posted by: Uhura's chair at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (v0R5T)
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Maybe we can post links to stuff we like.
I like Ancient Architects, the guy has a strange speaking voice but he has great videos on Gobelki Tepe and other pre-pottery neolithic stuff.
https://youtu.be/Vzm0HbSCsxU?si=xvKCy4Gf8OuQZA7c
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
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Well, that's just stupid!
/jk
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
Jay Guevara. We'd talk chemistry and stuff.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (Riz8t)
I miss him.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (ldc40)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
That's a tough one. There are so many good folks to choose from here.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (TH+5o)
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Dolley?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Plus we need snow and now this! I am unsure how I will go on today.
Plus, on a need to know basis, I need to know more about the chubby Portuguese shooter. Nothing yet from Miami.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (WONhk)
There will be NO VACCINE!
Posted by: ST:TNG Space Wakandans at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (z7/Fg)
Posted by: The fish
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No thanks. I always flounder when I try to make up a pun.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM
No need to clam up.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (jc0TO)
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I'll bring some mussel in here and shut this down.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (dK+Kv)
Mostly self-loathing
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (TH+5o)
The insurance companies did very well indeed.
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: doug at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (Hy+R4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (zZu0s)
You misspelled 'get hit by a dump truck'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Slater
And i packed a fat bowl for him every evening.
Posted by: Martha at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (uwFF/)
It's more durable.
Posted by: no one
Yes, but how do you clean the French people out of it?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 03:33 PM (mlg/3)
Easy. Declare war against them.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Edna Mode at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (jc0TO)
I’ve been slowly rewatching the series, and I’m pretty sure that by the second season they were just putting these in for primitive fan service. Some of them were very out of nowhere.
“I’m a doctor, not a mechanic.”
Yeah, and nobody asked you to be a mechanic either.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 19, 2025 03:38 PM (EXyHK)
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he's a horrible horrible person
radical lunatic, writes for some online site
he's not above wishing actual physical harm or death on people he sees as his political enemies
if I had a gun with two bullets, and was in a room with Hitler, bin Laden and Wilson, I would shoot Wilson twice
Posted by: Don Black at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (iD+t2)
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I have started learning Japanese.
isha desu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
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Remember The Blade's line from when he lived in Japan:
Anata wa kireidesu. Anata wa kekkon shite imasu ka?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)
It's more durable.
Posted by: no one
French Presses are like French tanks. Four gears, all Reverse.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Groan at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (TH+5o)
*nods at the righteousness of it*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (dK+Kv)
Indeed.
I was on the Newport Bridge this morning with gusts hitting mid 50s. The Bay had 3 foot whitecaps.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (viF8m)
That was very sad. I believe he had kids too, right?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (iD+t2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
Hmmm, might be a bit boring, but how about... giant tits?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (L/fGl)
Anata wa kireidesu. Anata wa kekkon shite imasu ka?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)
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I recall a vague memory of a recollection of the translation.
I think I'm far from that. Duolingo's main purpose is Italian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
Hmmm, might be a bit boring, but how about... giant tits?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (zZu0s)
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How are the jiggle physics?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (Dv3i1)
isha desu
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto
KONNICHIWA BITCHES!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Twas always thus. Courtiers around the King's courts were always screwing up shit. Classic example is when Israel was split from Judah by a new king (Rehoboam) that preferred the counsel of his friendz rather than the wise old ones his father picked for him.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:41 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Fat backstabbing cuck simp for leftwing grift
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)
The insurance companies did very well indeed.
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:37 PM (W7XSX)
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Pretty easy went the government shoves them about $12k per person on the ACA and a third to half never even use the insurance.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:41 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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More than a mouthful is a waste.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (WDjG6)
https://is.gd/B9ZlEM
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (L/fGl)
They needed $1.2bn worth of AI computing and 20 years of losing every battle to get there.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (bNf8H)
Axeman. He likes to think about stuff and I like talking to people like that.
Also the guy that's always on here arguing with and insulting everyone. Scratch him and you find a very interesting dude. Might kill everybody someday but he's interesting. No point in having a beer with someone dull.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
That's a tough one. There are so many good folks to choose from here.
Posted by: Bulg
Yeah. I'd like it to be like the Tx MoMe where I got to meet and have a beer/drink with a bunch of people. I can't just pick one over another.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: The fish
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No thanks. I always flounder when I try to make up a pun.
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There's a ray of hope, providing we don't skate out of our responsibilities.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (0yLoC)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (iD+t2)
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Good on you!
Once you learn bridge, you will never play other card games again. It is the king. But yeah, it takes a little to learn the language.
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (/xmMU)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
......
Drink Like Vikings
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (v0R5T)
Night 6 (Fri, Dec 19): 6 candles + shamash (before sunset)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 03:43 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
I mean, thats essentially what the resident evil games have turned into: ads for jiggle physics.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 19, 2025 03:43 PM (Kt19C)
https://is.gd/B9ZlEM
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Hilarious! The right will adopt this and make it our own.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (zZu0s)
https://is.gd/dpov67
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)
I was on the Newport Bridge this morning with gusts hitting mid 50s. The Bay had 3 foot whitecaps.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM
Windy as hell up here, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 19, 2025 03:43 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Build That Wall at December 19, 2025 03:43 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (WDjG6)
You misspelled a bountiful stream of possibilities.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:43 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
Does Heather Graham post here?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
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Ha ha ha ha ha! What a stupid answer!
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (bNf8H)
I'd feel horrible subjecting any of the Horde to my physical presence, unless they could either teach me a marketable skill or get me a better-paying job than my current one.
Otherwise, it's best none of you be made to gaze upon the horrors of my appearance.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (UnA8+)
That's a tough one. There are so many good folks to choose from here.
Posted by: Bulg
Yeah. I'd like it to be like the Tx MoMe where I got to meet and have a beer/drink with a bunch of people. I can't just pick one over another.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (dAOkg)
These are nice ways of saying "Not Sponge."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 19, 2025 03:31 PM (bNf8H)
Yeah, so many.... we've also lost a bunch along the way....
One who comes to mind, Otaku (sp)- told funny stories, and had a rapier wit...
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (zL/eJ)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (WDjG6)
Whig, you ignorant, poor commie slut.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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Or like ballots cast in Dem cities, insurance for non existent people in the first place. Nothing ensures not spending a penny of insurance money on care than when the client literally does not exist except to get the govt subsidy.
I think our entire gubmint system is littered with ghost employees, ghost voters, ghost companies, ghost products, ghost students, ghost clients, etc. etc. etc. all so that some unscrupulous thieves can grab generational weath for them and theirs.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (WDjG6)
(Chuck, Shazam, American Underdog, voice in Tangled)
Coming up at 4:00pm EST.
X: https://bit.ly/44Bebmr
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (P5BPp)
I once walked around Epcot a bit with DaveInFla.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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More than a mouthful is a waste.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025
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No; like the thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean, it's only a good start.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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You'll need to be more specific
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Bulg
Not really for men, we can just grunt.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (mlg/3)
https://tinyurl.com/4n6byp2u
Posted by: IrishEi at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (dAOkg)
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I'd like to do one in Asheville.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Sponge
You wouldn't stop moving long enough.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (dAOkg)
Anata wa kireidesu. Anata wa kekkon shite imasu ka?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)
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I recall a vague memory of a recollection of the translation.
I think I'm far from that. Duolingo's main purpose is Italian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
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"You're beautiful. Are you married?"
As a married man, you would not be using that line. But it served me well as a great opening conversation starter when I was a young lion living in Tokyo.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
You are a Big Capitalist trodding on the proletariat with hobnailed boots. There should be equality in breast size so that no one has too little and no one has too much.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)
There is a distinctive difference between male and female Japanese speakers.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Bulg
ISWYDT.
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: doug
If you deposit it in a bank with compound interest for a few years, you will make money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
Duolingo is pretty garbage for Japanese.
You really should be able to write all the kana before you start on any vocab.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (UnA8+)
We are by gum fucking Americans, not commies to bitch about 'waste.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I believe he referenced a daughter once. He never talked much about his family, except for his sister Taylor.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 03:47 PM (77rzZ)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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Yippie-yi-o
Yippie-yi-yay
Four riders in the sky
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:47 PM (L/fGl)
You really should be able to write all the kana before you start on any vocab.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (UnA8+)
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Yeah, I try to focus on the Japanese characters, but really the only ones I can easily recognize are the once that make up sushi.
Still, it's more about just trying my hand at a completely different language more than actually learning it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Throw in black robed judges and you gotta deal!!!
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:47 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by:
at December 19, 2025 03:47 PM (N64sK)
There is a distinctive difference between male and female Japanese speakers.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (KDPiq)
"Comprehensible Japanese" audio content done by female speakers have so much of a soft hiss that you will get damned near every syllable wrong.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:48 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:44 PM (WDjG6)
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I agree with that
We were told millions will die when USAID was shut down. I haven't seen it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:48 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 03:48 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Well, are you grading on a curve?
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:48 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:40 PM
Third-order differential equations, man. Third-order differential equations.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 03:48 PM (0sNs1)
We're only about 6 months out from the next NoVaMoMe. Just saying.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 19, 2025 03:48 PM (Wnv9h)
You wouldn't stop moving long enough.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM (dAOkg)
A moving target is harder to hit down range.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Blutarski
As much as I detest Obama he was genuinely popular.
If only the UniParty statists could acknowledge Trump is too....
Anyway, one of best memes and evidence of massive vote fraud in 2020 is the side-by-side comparison on Obama, Trump, and Mushbrain crowds and bellweathers.
Nobody liked Mushbrain or the Kumdumpster.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 03:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Once you learn bridge, you will never play other card games again. It is the king. But yeah, it takes a little to learn the language.
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 19, 2025 03:42 PM (/xmMU)
Learned to play bridge in college. Never played it again. Parents played pinochle, along with other card games. I prefer cribbage for my card game.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 03:49 PM (gKDq2)
First choice would be an attempt that rarely comments. Have had good phone convos in the past.
I'd mention the 'ron but coming from me, well, he's got a good rep here. Wouldn't want to ruin that.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 19, 2025 03:49 PM (T08Hw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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More than a mouthful is a waste.
Posted by: whig
Fun fact:
The Romans didn't measure breasts in the way [i[we think of breasts, i.e. we think of them as extending outward from the ribcage. Instead, the Romans thought of the outer top surface of the breasts as the surface of the chest, and breasts were described by how "deep" they were, not by how "big" they were. Thus, a woman with what we would call "big" tits were to the Romans "deep" breasts, whereas a woman with what we would call "small" tits had "shallow" breasts.
The Romans had not yet invented internal combustion engines, but apparently they really liked motorboating.
Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2025 03:49 PM (oraVG)
Still, it's more about just trying my hand at a completely different language more than actually learning it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)
I gave up because I was screwing up too much.
I was proving to be the "Low IQ Gorilla N-Word" that Groypers and KiwiFarms members would assume that I am.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:49 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)
Better dead than red. Men of the Horde, we are not meek nancy boys to tolerate insults on our beautiful, bountiful ladies!
*pokes Sponge to start waving flag*
We are Americans. We look at a D cup and wonder what she'd look like with a DD or F!
Why, because if a Man is not sacrosanct and safe in his own thoughts than what is he?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:49 PM (zZu0s)
We were told millions will die when USAID was shut down. I haven't seen it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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They must have all lived in China's ghost cities.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:50 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:48 PM
Nah, they just die tired.
Posted by: The Art Thread Sniper at December 19, 2025 03:50 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 03:50 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Southern Man at December 19, 2025 03:50 PM (9F4WG)
Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2025 03:49 PM (oraVG)
And people wonder why they capture our imagination 2000 years later.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (zZu0s)
Why, because if a Man is not sacrosanct and safe in his own thoughts than what is he?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Wait until the Red Guard equalizes penis size. Equity uber alles.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (WDjG6)
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There was a true crime show on ID about a father who allegedly left when his son was 18 months. A bunch of weird shit happened and 60 years later his son found his father's body well and truly buried in the basement. It seems his dad invited an ex-con to live with them and help him remodel the house. His mom and the ex-con had an affair and murdered dad, they later married, and he sexually assaulted the daughters. Son had given up finding dad until his sister convinced him to go to a psychic, eventhough he didn't believe, and the psychic told him his father was buried in the basement near a target that used to be in the basement decades earlier.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:36 PM (L/fGl)
Sheit, you don't need a psychic to tell you that. You just need common sense.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (O3X8v)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
Dang. Gonna need to get a keg.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (2WIwB)
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The Romans knew a lot about building roads, aqueducts, military tactics and logistics, how to manage an empire, but didn't know about cup sizes? I find that hard to believe.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
Dang. Gonna need to get a keg.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (2WIwB)
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A keg? Just to think over the question?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
When I last used it, it was garbage for Italian, too. Its saving grace were the comments, which provided context and/or corrections for the Duolingo answer. When they got rid of the comments, I stopped using it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: zombie
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This is the sort of useful scholarship we can aspire to here.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:52 PM (WDjG6)
Ungrateful Muslim immigrants refuse council house because it doesn’t have parking.
There are British people desperate for council houses and are made to wait because immigrants lied to get in the country, and lied to jump the queue for housing.
It all has to stop!
X: https://bit.ly/3LdppqB
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 03:52 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Seems different totally different than Rush back in the day; he got rich but he believed stuff with deep conviction. I’d say the same for Dennis Prager…. The new crop I don’t trust ‘em
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 03:52 PM (sBt/s)
Also, which one has its own official languages?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 03:32 PM
________________________
Liechtenstein is an enigma within the EU. Residency requirements state that you have to live there at least 6 months and show proof of legitimate funds, health insurance, living quarters, and options for work/ employment. Failure on any of these sends you packing. To become a citizen you have to live there between 10 and 30 years, a local vote among residence in your town, and marriage to a citizen. It gets even more stringent for non-EU members.
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 03:52 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Used to play cribbage with my Dad on Saturday afternoons when I was a kid. Great game.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 03:50 PM (n5tGW)
Along with backgammon, I made beer money from cribbage in college. Betting certainly changes those games, as it does with most games.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 03:53 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Chicago Vota at December 19, 2025 03:53 PM (baPXJ)
The Australian government is robbing its own people to pay for the polygamist harems of Muslim wives and their herds of children. Multiple benefits for the same family while Christian families struggle to pay for a single family household.
Nearly every Western country’s leaders are prostrating themselves at the feet of Islam. . . national suicide.
X video: https://bit.ly/44EBifT
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 03:53 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:53 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 03:53 PM (gKDq2)
Did you attend an Ivy League college?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 03:54 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (WDjG6)
All common workers will be fairly set at 2 inches. Nomenclature will start at 8 and the General secretary will have 12.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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They invented the Underwire Bra and L'eggs hosiery. Romans were great engineers figuring out how to support structures.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at December 19, 2025 03:54 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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The redistribution will be a little tricky.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 03:54 PM (sBt/s)
Posted by: zombie
The Romans used electric galleys. This is known.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)
Stepdad and Brother are easy - they like cigars.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
The prices of good candy and nuts are quite costly. But, you're right, they're excellent gifts for Grandma and sister and probably anyone else on your gift list.
AoSHq also has a number of cigar connoisseurs who would happily provide suggestions, if you need any.
You'll get it all done. 👍 I think I will too.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (NFX2v)
There is a distinctive difference between male and female Japanese speakers.
Posted by: Opinion fact
While browsing a bookstore in Honolulu I came across a book titled,
How to Make Out in Japanese.
Just full of pick up lines and simple questions like,
Can I take your blouse off?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (KDPiq)
Someone here can/will correct me, but .....
Wasn't one of the major reasons for the whole electoral college thinggy, and especially congressional certification, to provide a safeguard against the Georgias of the union? Meaning safeguard against non-reliable or non-credible election processes in individual states?
Pretty sure that's the case. But as the civic culture has waned and then collapsed (many wheels turning in that picture), the electorate has defaulted to a very lazy and uninterested and uninformed "oh the elections are secure enough, signatures and stuff". And so not certifying an election has become unthinkable to the political class. Witness the pathetic Senate GOP performance in 2020.
There is a system (of systems). It's not "broken", it's just being operated with an electorate and political class unable to operate it properly, and unworthy of it.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (2WIwB)
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A keg? Just to think over the question?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19
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You make it sound like a bad thing.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:56 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (2WIwB)
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I'm mostly just impressed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
Swisher Sweets have been discussed on the Gub Thread from time to time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 03:56 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 03:57 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
Can't choose just one. I'd propose a beer summit with Scogg Dog and Fenelon Spoke.
Posted by: good times, good times at December 19, 2025 03:57 PM (YqTTN)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 03:57 PM (dAOkg)
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Drop in 30 Somalian refugees and within 10 years, Liechtenstein is finished.
*Cliff Clavin voice*
Liechtenstein's national anthem - "Oben am jungen Rhein"
translates to "High on the Young Rhine"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 03:57 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Yes, tis a really big club and we ain't in it.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:57 PM (WDjG6)
Nope. State university.
Two, three cents a point in cribbage. Same for backgammon (with the doubling cube), maybe a nickel a pip. Adds up. Especially when a six-pack of Old Milwaukee was $1.29.
Posted by: RickZ at December 19, 2025 03:57 PM (gKDq2)
How to Make Out in Japanese.
Just full of pick up lines and simple questions like,
Can I take your blouse off?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (/lPRQ)
20 yen.
Same as in town.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 03:58 PM (2WIwB)
Report: San Francisco police arrest Christian woman for sidewalk counseling outside abortion clinic
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:58 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)
But change it to attempt? Some people's children.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 19, 2025 03:59 PM (T08Hw)
Also, the money will go towards the build out necessary to fly Starship to the moon or Mars every hour or so.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:59 PM (coFoR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 03:59 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)
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But outside all that, what have the Romans ever done for us?!
Posted by: Judean Peoples' Front at December 19, 2025 03:59 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: The fish
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There's a ray of hope, providing we don't skate out of our responsibilities.
......
OK, that's it! I've had it with the puns, and I'm tunaing out.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 19, 2025 03:59 PM (GSe6k)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 03:59 PM (KDPiq)
Seems different totally different than Rush back in the day; he got rich but he believed stuff with deep conviction. I’d say the same for Dennis Prager…. The new crop I don’t trust ‘em
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 03:52 PM
I feel have felt this way about every person / "influencer" / content creator on "the right". I don't believe any of them to actually be conservative or care about making a difference in the nation to save it from the left and Islam. I think they are just using the ideology to grift and make money.
One blatant example of this is the right-wing e-girls drama highlighted by hoe_math. Talking about sleeping around at TPUSA events with married MAGA men and everything else under the sun.
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4rWlkaR
Seems like all that the majority of these content creators do anymore is complain and bitch about each other, instead of talking about ideas and things that matter to save the country.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM (P5BPp)
Yeah I haven't followed any talking media personas in a very long time. Rush was the last one.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM (6qf1m)
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The Romans knew a lot about building roads, aqueducts, military tactics and logistics, how to manage an empire, but didn't know about cup sizes? I find that hard to believe.
Posted by: Chuck Marte
Brassieres weren't invented until around the 14th century AD. Before that, in (for example) ancient Greece and Rome, they wore what were essentially "breast bands" -- strips of cloth around the midsection, sort of like a tube top. But these strips didn't have cups, and thus no cup sizes. The concept of the bra "cup" took another 1400 years to evolve.
* Roman old ladies and pregnant women sometimes wore support-bands more similar to the modern bra, but the average woman did not.
Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: good times, good times at December 19, 2025 03:57 PM (YqTTN)
Scogg would be like buying one of those dolls they plays back a recording when you pull its string.
"I'M THE GREATEST SOCIOPATH IN THE WORLD, B'GAWWWWWK!"
"I CAN MANIPULATE ANYONE INTO DOING ANYTHING I WANT, B'GAWWWWK!"
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025
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Thank'ee kindly, sirrah!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM (wzUl9)
But that he even made it to the Senate, much less wasn't laughed out any presidential ideas, is an unambiguous if redundant confirmation of how degraded the populace is. Across the political board.
Of course McCain being a nominee was surreal and ridiculous, but for dramatically different reasons.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Opinion fact
I'm positive I've heard that before.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM (dAOkg)
Same as in town.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 03:58 PM (2WIwB)
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12 cents? Sign me up right the hell now!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM (coFoR)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (cxFcK)
I once ran the largest cattle ranch i. The entire state of Rhode Island, until the condo association said I couldn't keep a cow in the courtyard any longer.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 04:02 PM (/TlUl)
How to Make Out in Japanese.
Just full of pick up lines and simple questions like,
Can I take your blouse off?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Was it at all useful? Did you make it with any Japanese chicks?
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 19, 2025 04:02 PM (IKUYK)
Posted by: rhomboid
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The EV system was derived from how the Holy Roman Emperors were selected (Electors). The convention did not want Congress to select the president because then it would hurt the separation of powers, no one wanted the people to elect the executive directly at the Convention so raw democracy via votes was out, and since the small states wanted some guarantees that large states could not dominate them, you get state by state slates picked by the closest thing to the people that Convention attenders thought prudent. Like the ratifying convention itself, they left it to electors picked and chosen by state legislatures.
No one intended for the party system to take over as it did which made the awkward and ahistoric EV being wagged by the extraconstitutional parties rather than picking individuals of note to select the president.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Opinion fact
I'm positive I've heard that before.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM
Did the bartender charge for that counseling?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 04:02 PM (0sNs1)
Swisher Sweets have been discussed on the Gub Thread from time to time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 03:56 PM (0sNs1)
Discussed, and swiftly dismissed.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:03 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:03 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 04:03 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Opinion fact
I'm positive I've heard that before.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM (dAOkg)
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You sound pro-ton.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:03 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 04:03 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (TH+5o)
Great food.
Posted by: It's true at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (LaiZQ)
Swisher Sweets have been discussed on the Gub Thread from time to time.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025
***
JTB and I seem to be the main proponents here of the tobacco pipe and what to put in it.
I bought some English leaf today. Smoky stuff, like a campfire. I try to fire it up only when the weather cooperates, i.e., suggests England at its worst (rainy and/or cold).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (wzUl9)
I was just reading that. Meathead brought the lunatic son to that party because he was afraid to leave him alone. He was acting like a lunatic. Something about some weird thing with Bill Hader, which set off Nick. And then he got in a loud shouting match with Meathead, and they were about to call the cops, but Conan said no, it's my house, and I'll decide whether to call the cops or not.
Hell, if they had got the cops there and arrested the lunatic, Meathead would probably be alive.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (w6EFb)
* Roman old ladies and pregnant women sometimes wore support-bands more similar to the modern bra, but the average woman did not.
Posted by: zombie
The Minoan women wore those cool gowns that left the breasts exposed.
Young Bulg noted that when he checked out "Everyday Life in the Ancient World" from the school library.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (0U5gm)
No wonder their civilization collapsed.
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (L/fGl)
An electron walk into a bar. Bartender says "Why so negative?"
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (krQz2)
I made money in College building Grow Rooms for people.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:05 PM (W23D2)
You and Epstein.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM (Kt19C)
I was going to post 'phrasing' but didn't want to even snark about it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:05 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 04:03 PM (jc0TO)
I'd be making a list of people to bite.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:05 PM (2WIwB)
No wonder their civilization collapsed.
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (v0R5T)
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More like sagged evermore.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:05 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 04:01 PM (dAOkg)
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You sound pro-ton.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:03 PM
It's hard to hear way out here...
Posted by: On the valence layer at December 19, 2025 04:05 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 19, 2025 04:05 PM (+mUZM)
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4rWlkaR
Seems like all that the majority of these content creators do anymore is complain and bitch about each other, instead of talking about ideas and things that matter to save the country.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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Other than a few old academics who were and are on the right, most of our influencers today have credentials but the actual intellectual depth of a puddle.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:06 PM (WDjG6)
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...
Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at December 19, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)
Young Bulg noted that when he checked out "Everyday Life in the Ancient World" from the school library.
Posted by: Bulg
There has been advancement since those days to contribute to human flourishing. But some things were lost along the way.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 04:06 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 19, 2025 04:06 PM (W23D2)
No wonder their civilization collapsed.
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025
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It held up firmly for a long time, but eventually it sagged.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:06 PM (wzUl9)
Young Bulg noted that when he checked out "Everyday Life in the Ancient World" from the school library.
Posted by: Bulg
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I'll bet you read National Geographic for the articles too.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:06 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: From about That Time at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM (sl73Y)
I read that. It was a very ghastly and weird story.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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It was an uphill battle against gravity.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bulg
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I'll bet you read National Geographic for the articles too.
Posted by: whig
Ha! "Everyday Life in the Ancient World" was published by National Geographic.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: jwest at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM (lnMN4)
MI probably hasn't had a state-wide election at a Zimbabwean level of integrity for 2 generations (ditto Cook County + several other jurisdictions).
Dream world: GOP announces they will not vote to certify any presidential election results from any states using mail-in ballots, and not having fully complied with all federal laws (and consent decrees) mandating voter rolls being cleaned up. Oh, and voter ID. F**k performance are bills or EOs that will never get the job done.
Of course that's extremely improbable in a an unserious country with effectively corrupted blocs and parties.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (Ia/+0)
You and Epstein.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM (Kt19C)
I was going to post 'phrasing' but didn't want to even snark about it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:05 PM (KDPiq)
***
I've got a 15 year old Irish sitting my desk.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (2WIwB)
@WSJ
After buying a “plain vanilla” box, a Chicago trio [of
https://is.gd/nTOI8T
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (L/fGl)
That is my next big thing but for men like me who have grown flabby and have large hooters that they play with in they spare time. I call it the Gates Gown For Men.
Yeah! O Yeah!
Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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We are in the not so great era of Flouncing and Mincing, not flourishing.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (U/Byj)
No wonder their civilization collapsed.
Posted by: wth
Actually, breasts were considered the ultimate taboo, in ancient Rome.
A prostitute would let you screw her, do it in the butt, give you a blow job, etc, etc. -- but no way in a million years would she let you touch her naked breasts. Off limits!
As far as anyone can tell, only married couples got fully naked.
Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (oraVG)
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...
Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at December 19, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)
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Oh really?
Posted by: Harvey Weinstein's Roomba at December 19, 2025 04:09 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM (mlg/3)
He was on Timcast a few weeks ago.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:09 PM (UnA8+)
Yeah I haven't followed any talking media personas in a very long time. Rush was the last one.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 19, 2025 04:00 PM
Same. I follow plenty of content creators on X and YouTube and read AoSHQ of course. But I don't fully trust anyone on the right is actually a person of principle. I follow them to keep up with the news and current events and that's about it.
These are people who for about 2 decades now have been saying "if we don't do X, the country is lost!!!11ty!!!" Or... "the country is going end if Y happens. We have to prevent it or it's all over!!!"
Just like global warming, when the country doesn't end even after we didn't do X or prevent Y, they come up with a new X and new Y to go crazy about. Same grifting nonsense.
Rush was entertaining, but also was educational and informational, albeit a bit overromanticizing of the country and its history.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:09 PM (P5BPp)
Anyway
Buck Throckmorton hates Ford, a lot of people do.
Henry was an independent man like all of the barons
too bad they diluted that blood.
However, the other Two of the Big 3 pale in comarason to Ford. Chrysler is a fiat American company and GM sucks Unlce Sams dick, forever.
Looking forward to getting back soon.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 04:10 PM (UPlzn)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:10 PM (krQz2)
No wonder their civilization collapsed.
Posted by: wth
Actually, breasts were considered the ultimate taboo, in ancient Rome.
A prostitute would let you screw her, do it in the butt, give you a blow job, etc, etc. -- but no way in a million years would she let you touch her naked breasts. Off limits!
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As far as anyone can tell, only married couples got fully naked.
Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (oraVG)
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Good to know their whores had *some* standards.
Roman prostitutes >>> Democratic politicians
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 04:10 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 04:07 PM
Yep:
176 Friday Night Tights (FNT) will have Zachary Levi as weekly guest.
(Chuck, Shazam, American Underdog, voice in Tangled)
Coming up at 4:00pm EST.
X: https://bit.ly/44Bebmr
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 03:45 PM
Links to the YouTube and Rumble live streams at the link.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:10 PM (P5BPp)
Would seem hard to avoid. Doggy must have been the go to position.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:10 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:10 PM (krQz2)
Gary from Nerdrotic's stream, I think.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:11 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 04:11 PM (UPlzn)
Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at December 19, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)
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Oh really?
Posted by: Harvey Weinstein's Roomba
That deserves to be a permanent nic.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 04:11 PM (0U5gm)
Dude. We're talking about Italians.
Long Arms.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:11 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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One, supposed to be a shepard, wandered aimlessly around the stage during an entire Christmas pageant to the great annoyance of the father but the amusement of the audience.
Distant in ages, once in awhile they'd all lie on the living floor together and play Legos, dominoes, and/or handheld games and sing songs with all of the words therein from MTV.
They were all much better behaved than my siblings & I. Most of the time.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 04:11 PM (NFX2v)
Of course that's extremely improbable in a an unserious country with effectively corrupted blocs and parties.
Posted by: rhomboid
Scotus has a case up for oral argument as to whether accepting mail in ballots after Election Day is constitutional. From Mississippi. The actual day in the Constitution is fixed in the text for federal elections which would suggest that counting ballots not received by Election Day or at least postmarked (as was the issue in several states) might be unconstitutional .
Such a ruling is going to affect the cheat by mail states most of all.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:11 PM (WDjG6)
Another spectacular warm sunny day, will burn a big Perdomo Bourbon Barrel Aged stick after defiling the environment.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 04:12 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:10 PM
YouTube content creators Nerdrotic and Geeks and Gamers and a bunch of other content creators who mostly talk about entertainment and gaming and comic book topics. All of them are also pretty conservative, even those from UK and Australia.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:12 PM (P5BPp)
That Nerdrotic dude has some pretty retarded beliefs re. Egypt.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:12 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:08 PM (2WIwB)
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Actually, No Irish.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus
Found Korean easier.
Forgot almost all of it in the last thirty years though.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (/lPRQ)
Roman prostitutes >>> Democratic politicians
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
GOP is between those two in standards. They have them but consistently figure out a reason why they do not apply to themselves personally.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (YobFY)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (rbvCR)
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BTW, and none of our business, but (wondering if this is you?):
Wifey (EllenS) recently interacted with someone having your nic -- who'd commented on the "A Midwestern Doctor" SubStack -- recommending an essay at the "Lies Are Unbekoming" SubStack regarding Alzheimer's natural prevention and treatments.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:14 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (rbvCR)
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"Upon further review, it was 9 items. It was a Target. And the person wasn't Trump."
-paragraph 32
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
One year, for Thanksgiving, we met my wife's parents in Williamsburg. Our son ate hardly anything of the dinner, just chocolate ice cream for dessert. Afterwards, he had chocolate stains all over his face and the blue blazer he was wearing we went outside, and he wanted to skip down the main street. So we did.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (77rzZ)
Sort of obviously intuitively should, which means there's a 10% chance the august SCOTUS will rule "duh, yeah, can't do 'election seasons', guys, sorry". "Doctrines", mediocrity, tiny tiny character, cowardice will rule the day. Sad!
Will have to check back later for any answer.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (YobFY)
Youtube pushed all the ones I used to watch (Tim Pool, The Quartering, Greg Foreman, Sean Fitzgerald) out of my algorithm, and honestly, I kind of don't miss them at all.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (KDPiq)
Were you the poster who went to see "Hamnet"? It was a very intense film. I think the woman deserves an Oscar. I did find it a bit implausible that Shakespeare would be married to a witch like woman when there is so much religious references in his plays. I particularly liked the ending.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I wasn't but you've made it sound interesting. I think it's going on my list 👍
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025
***
I have a couple Ashton Connecticut-wrapper Cigarillos still in the box. Usually I smoke them only outside; I don't think even Febreze can wipe away that aroma.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
......
When she told her Mom she wanted to come and live with me.
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 04:16 PM (v0R5T)
Given the ease of faking postmarks, even postmarked late ballots shouldn’t be counted. Yet another reason mail-in ballots are a very, very bad idea except for very limited, tightly-defined reasons.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 19, 2025 04:16 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 19, 2025 04:16 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (rbvCR)
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If they had this kind of evidence, they would impeach him.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (1vqcm)
Gives new meaning to 'The Seven Hills of Rome'
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at December 19, 2025 04:17 PM (zL/eJ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
I like the LotusEaters; they have intellectual conversations about the state of the world, especially Europe. But, given they are in the UK, it can be depressing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 04:17 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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We were all driving back from a soft game one Saturday afternoon. My youngest daughter told me her first joke. I was so surprised and I laughed. Older daughter wasn't paying attention and asked what we were doing. I told her I was sharing a moment with her sister.
Silence. I see her pouting in the rear view mirror. Then in a quiet voice she says , "I want to share a moment too."
Very cute.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Sadly, you get to see one Messalina boob in the BBC's I, Claudius.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:13 PM (YobFY)
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I think he should have been appointed Director of The Secret Service (and I don't trust the dude whom Trump did appoint).
Am curious to hear what he has to say about the experience ... but yeah, it's gonna take a lot of time to win back a lot of trust.
It can take you years to gain a customer, and seconds to lose them (and low odds of ever winning them back).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:17 PM (NNq22)
If he’d done this, he would deserve it!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 19, 2025 04:17 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Conan will be telling that story for years...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (UnA8+)
Nobody could miss Tim Pool. It's physically impossible. If he produced an affidavit from his mother swearing that she loved him, I'd insist on deposing her.
Posted by: zombie lionel hutz at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (YqTTN)
Kids. In Christmas pageant can be very funny. One year I got to say jokingly about the church preschool he went to, My son is a star" because he really was . They had several kids playing stars-the ones in the galaxy, not the other kind.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (Nx5jP)
How would you define intellectual depth?
Because I come across a lot of folks that "know" a lot but, as Reagan said...
Posted by: TeeJ at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (T08Hw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
We took our kids to Disneyland (Anaheim) regularly when they were 7-12 years old. Precious memories. Long time ago but it seems like yesterday
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (sBt/s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (Oasjp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (Nx5jP)
That Nerdrotic dude has some pretty retarded beliefs re. Egypt.
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:12 PM
It's a fair copt.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (jc0TO)
He most definitely will not be as prominent as he once was.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: zombie lionel hutz at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (YqTTN)
His mother is a math teacher.
She's incapable of love.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus
Found Korean easier.
Forgot almost all of it in the last thirty years though.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025
***
Korean and Japanese girls are some of the loveliest on Earth. I'm sure what I'm seeing on video is only the best 10-15%, of course, but those are amazing. Yunjin Kim of Lost was one the most beautiful women I've ever seen.
I knew a lot of Chinese female graduate students at my former work, and they were terrific too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (iD+t2)
My rule of thumb on card games is to skip any that use the term : Trump. People take those too seriously.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
My Dad liked going to school presentations like that precisely to see the wacky antics and screw-ups the kids would make.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
He most definitely will not be as prominent as he once was.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (XV/Pl)
He has been tested and his quality is now known.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (xcxpd)
@RichSementa
·
6m
BREAKING: Elise Stefanik suddenly drops NY governor bid, won’t seek re-election to Congress
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (mlg/3)
-paragraph 32
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)
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"It eventually turned out to be a tranny "female" who looked suspiciously like Michael Obama and punched out a little old lady on Aisle 7 who asked the big black dude if he could grab an item on the top shelf for her."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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One, supposed to be a shepard, wandered aimlessly around the stage during an entire Christmas pageant to the great annoyance of the father but the amusement of the audience.
Distant in ages, once in awhile they'd all lie on the living floor together and play Legos, dominoes, and/or handheld games and sing songs with all of the words therein from MTV.
They were all much better behaved than my siblings & I. Most of the time.
Posted by: L - No nic
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 19, 2025 04:10 PM
Chrysler is part of FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), which is part of Stellantis. Stellantis is a European company, which means that FCA is now European.
Trust me, I've worked there since 2011. When the merger happened between FCA and PSA (Peugeot SA ("Groupe PSA)), the company stopped being American and became European. All our standards became "harmonized" and the majority of them shifted to the lackadaisical European standards.
Our training has all been from Europe as well. Including and especially the EV training, where they spread propaganda about "global warming" and the need to switch to EVs.
They finally fired that asshole Taveras, but he was doing the bidding of the European and woke board. The new CEO seems to be saying the right words, but not so sure about actions yet. We still have too many outsourced retard Indians in engineering and product development. 75% of my department remains outsourced to India.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:21 PM (P5BPp)
I knew a lot of Chinese female graduate students at my former work, and they were terrific too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (wzUl9)
Modern Korean girls, well... they're all stuck on the Plastic Surgery Hell Train.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:21 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: garrett
I don't think he actually believe the woo-woo stuff. He just finds it fun. I have zero tolerance for it, but I understand how some find it entertaining.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 04:21 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:15 PM (UnA8+)
Nobody could miss Tim Pool. It's physically impossible. If he produced an affidavit from his mother swearing that she loved him, I'd insist on deposing her.
Posted by: zombie lionel hutz at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (YqTTN)
He's meh, but I only trusted him on the media itself back in the day since he used to be in it. With time he's less able to do that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 04:21 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (mlg/3)
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The 2026 walkaway is under way.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 04:18 PM (Oasjp)
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COVID is a helluva disease.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM (ESVrU)
>>He has been tested and his quality is now known.
What can he possibly talk about where he will be taken seriously ever again?
I fought the deep state and lost but If I was in a position of authority here's what I would do?
The guys a laughing stock.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM (L/fGl)
I knew a lot of Chinese female graduate students at my former work, and they were terrific too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I knew a lot of guys in the Navy with Korean wives or ex-wives. They had stories.
Simply put: You do NOT want to piss off a Korean woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (xcxpd)
Unfortunately, nobody is enough of a hardass to strongarm the machine.
That's no excuse for Bongino's fecklessness and failure, but there isn't anyone with the mettle to do what needs to be done.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 04:19 PM (Nx5jP)
Yup.
Definitely an awwww moment.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:23 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025
*
Modern Korean girls, well... they're all stuck on the Plastic Surgery Hell Train.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025
***
That might be the ones I'm basing my judgment on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:24 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Kindltot
Dumb asses.
The six pack of Coke counts as one item.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:24 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 04:25 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM
Especially at a nail salon:
https://youtu.be/mzNwduqNVpM
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at December 19, 2025 04:25 PM (LaiZQ)
Simply put: You do NOT want to piss off a Korean woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025
***
I'm sure they were, and are, tough. "Polite" does not equal "submissive."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:25 PM (XV/Pl)
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money." - W. C. Fields
Posted by: Chuck C at December 19, 2025 04:26 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 04:25 PM (XV/Pl)
========
"You would not believe how bad the bathroom smells after that chick..."
-the dude sick of Sydney Sweeney's shit
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 04:14 PM (NNq22)
====
300,000 subscribers and he is pushing DMSO. That really takes me back.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 19, 2025 04:26 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Don't watch the New Spartacus series they made him Black and Female.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 19, 2025 04:27 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 04:27 PM (A0sqA)
"It is better to live on a corner of a roof Than in a house shared with a contentious woman."
Posted by: Proverbs 21:9 at December 19, 2025 04:27 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 04:12 PM
I think there is a planned Friday Night Tights trip planned to Egypt soon.
Gary and Quarter Black Garrett have another streaming show Forbidden Frontier where they talk about a lot of weird stuff.
I think this is their most recent episode:
Secrets, Lies, Cover-ups | Age of Disclosure REVIEW | Forbidden Frontier #125
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4jaruAe
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2025 04:27 PM (P5BPp)
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He was lamenting the amount of time he was away from his family. And they're local to the capitol city too.
I think the demands on his time were grossly underestimated. I also think he realized the Bureau is FUBAR'd so bad that there's no fixing it.
And I doubt he was thrilled with the effort the current AG was putting in to rectify all that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 04:04 PM (TH+5o)
Their 898 used to be my go-to. Partagas was a quality stick in any size and blend. Then Ramon Cifuentes died and the bean counters did what bean counters always do. I understand it's better now, but I'm wary.
Cohiba Red, Blue, and Platinum are very good medium body sticks and have never disappointed. Alec Bradley Pensado, Retreat, and Tempus are a bit bolder, but never bitter. Onyx, if you care for a rich, unapologetic smoking experience...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (nbLIj)
*
You've never been to Brazil.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025
***
Well, no, and I've never been to Seoul or Tokyo either.
I knew one Brazilian lady grad student from Sao Paolo in the early 2000s: fair-skinned, dark-haired tall, zaftig without being fat in the least; looked something like Jennifer Connelly. And super smart, plus nice too. Very much my type.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
Faking and or tampering with mail in ballots is easy peasy.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
========
Sudden announcements out of the blue usually come from a) health issues or b) impending scandal.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:20 PM (xcxpd)
Unfortunately, nobody is enough of a hardass to strongarm the machine.
That's no excuse for Bongino's fecklessness and failure, but there isn't anyone with the mettle to do what needs to be done.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 04:22 PM (UnA8+)
He could stick it out and make some small corner of the room clean.
Or play dirty and make some real changes.
Any Democratic operative in that role would have made an impact. It was just hard work and not easy money like podcasting.
I have similar beef with a lot of the guntubers who were throwing their dicks around, especially the ex-SF guys, pre-2020 election about oathkeeping.
They were also weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 04:28 PM (cxFcK)
Is it an open thread?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 04:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: DaveA at December 19, 2025 04:29 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 04:29 PM (wzUl9)
Very complicated. Too much math for you guys.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 04:29 PM (EyfuW)
-the dude sick of Sydney Sweeney's shit
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
My brother-in-law once attended an event for Senator John Warner of Virginia when Warner was married to Liz Taylor. BiL used the same PortaPotty that Liz had just used right before him.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 04:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I loved those crazy pageants even way back. Just the madness of trying to organize a lot of young kids into any kind of formation to sing and recite lines was a skill requiring great patience. (Unfortunately not a skill I had unless threats were permitted.)
I caught the end of one from the back of the Church last week & was in tears from the memories. Good times.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 04:30 PM (NFX2v)
Walz says CDLs, Transportation funding, you name it - it could ALL be pulled!
"The entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota!"
-
Geez! You steal $10, $15, $18 billion and, right away, Trump’s all pissed off!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 04:31 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:29 PM (iD+t2)
Worked for us!
Posted by: Coastal Florida State Wimmenz Bridge Building Team at December 19, 2025 04:31 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 04:34 PM (EyfuW)
The six pack of Coke counts as one item.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 04:24 PM (/lPRQ)
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That's how you know it's a fail. Doesn't President Trump prefer Diet Coke?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 04:34 PM (ESVrU)
How would you define intellectual depth?
Because I come across a lot of folks that "know" a lot but, as Reagan said...
Posted by: TeeJ
========
Read something like teh National Review in the 70's or 80's, you would have an interesting mix of well educated editors, a few academics, some politicians with a guest column or two, and the conversational level was on par with the salons of Paris back prior to the French Revolution.
Ditto for even center left publications like the New Republic, the news periodicals, etc.
People actually aspired to being a bit conversant in the classics, knowledgeable about literature, history, and civics, etc.
So you had the ability to converse with each other using a common framework. By Lowry's editorship, like the Shrub administration, it was all glitz and discussing dogs rather than serious matters. And that is because the donor base changed, it was no longer the readers through subscriptions but behind the scenes donors that pulled Lowry's strings.
Michael Anton, one of the Claremont school graduates, is someone that should be listened to. The late great Angelo Codevilla and the current Victor Hanson academics, also good.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (WDjG6)
How to Make Out in Japanese.
Just full of pick up lines and simple questions like,
Can I take your blouse off?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 03:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Was it at all useful? Did you make it with any Japanese chicks?
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 19, 2025 04:02 PM (IKUYK)
I once asked a Japanese lady out on a date. I'd waited until the end of the semester and figured I'd might as well go for it, but she turned me down. Later, I realized it was December 7th. So, I've personally been shot down by a Japanese on Pearl Harbor Day.
Ended up dating one of her friends a year or so later.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 19, 2025 04:39 PM (QdGJh)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 04:36 PM (WDjG6)
My school adviser for college in Ohio was rabid at advertising for those schools. Wanted me to apply to Harvey Mudd. Had to have been taking money. No way was I going all the way to CA back then.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)
Ace needs to give us a topic or I fear the thread will devolve into arguing about pointless shit, not listening to each other, only responding to someone when you either agree totally or think they're a complete idiot, making wisecracks, repeating tired ridiculous memes that are so far past their sell by date that King Tut is like "damn get some new material for fuck's sake" and Amy Schumer is like "yeah", and insulting politicians.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:27 PM (TH+5o)
So.... Tuesday.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 04:42 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 04:45 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 05:46 PM (8uzBS)
Open thread
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Stepped on a COB again.
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This has been uneventful
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Posted by: President Trump at December 19, 2025 02:23 PM (UKj38)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 02:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Watch the livestream
Look at the broad in the Red Blouse behind President --
She's going for the World Record for Best Posture
https://is.gd/4lV5cO
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:23 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:23 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:24 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Is that comet here yet? at December 19, 2025 02:25 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: The FBI at December 19, 2025 02:26 PM (65cLN)
Enstompified, the Coloring Book
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
One of us! One of us!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2025 02:28 PM (g8Ew8)
Are You seeing this??
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (+wReq)
That's not real. It's AI. It's gotta be.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:28 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (tgvbd)
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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 02:29 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:29 PM (+wReq)
Federal regulators have directed the nation’s largest regional electricity transmission organization to link, or “co-locate,” data centers and other industrial users with existing or new power-generating plants in order to speed development, trim infrastructure costs, and require large-load users to pay for expanding the grid.
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:29 PM (RHGPo)
And pot smoking on the street. Why do I have to smell skunk shit?
I can't walk down the street and drink a Budweiser. But these pot-smoking fuckfaces can smoke up a storm on the corner of Main & Elm.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (+wReq)
"Foreign aid should be used for the purpose of furthering the national interest. That doesn't mean we don't care about human rights. That doesn't mean we don't care about starvation. That doesn't mean we don't care about hunger. That doesn't mean we don't care about humanitarian need."
"What it does mean, however, is that even foreign aid, which is NOT charity - it is an act of the US taxpayer."
"The United States' and the taxpayer money should be spent in furtherance of OUR foreign policy, should be spent in places and on things that further OUR foreign policy. And even that is not unlimited."
"We have a limited amount of money that we can dedicate to foreign aid and humanitarian assistance. And that has to be applied in a way that furthers our national interest. And that's what we have sought to do as well."
AMAZING! Greatest Secretary of State in history! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (RHGPo)
Watch the livestream
Look at the broad in the Red Blouse behind President --
She's going for the World Record for Best Posture
https://is.gd/4lV5cO
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:23 PM
almost guarantee she owns a skin tight black leather jump suit & a whip
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Homeless Guy In Providence at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (gb3qv)
Watch the livestream
Look at the broad in the Red Blouse behind President --
She's going for the World Record for Best Posture
https://is.gd/4lV5cO
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:23 PM
almost guarantee she owns a skin tight black leather jump suit & a whip
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (tljrc)
*perks up*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 02:32 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:32 PM (dAOkg)
Look at the broad in the Red Blouse behind President --
She's going for the World Record for Best Posture
https://is.gd/4lV5cO
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:23 PM (+wReq)
She's advertising for a date to the New Year's Gala.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:32 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2025 02:33 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:33 PM (RHGPo)
You know what? I feel bad, now. I think she has a medical condition, and is probably in a lot of pain.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:33 PM (+wReq)
... is this the banjo thread or the guitar thread ?
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:28 PM (RHGPo)
Go to the other thread to stir up the pot heads and then come back in peace and marvel about posture chick.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:34 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (tljrc)
She looks the part. That 1980something hairdo is seriously cringe. Bet she slicks it back in the dungeon.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2025 02:34 PM (2J/Lj)
I know severe back pain quite well. If she's suffering, she has my empathy.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:34 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:33 PM (+wReq)
I'm thinking former military. Standing at attention when the boss speaks.
And they sure look like they are.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
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She 100% should have been fired. What she did was not only really stupid (she actually uploaded the video), calling into question her competence, but she's a nurse. She cannot be trusted to give good care to patients with political views she doesn't like. Hell, I'll bet any amount of money she'd be urinating in this old lady's saline, if not sabotaging her care outright.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 02:35 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 02:36 PM (o2ZRX)
Hey - how are you doing Miss Madame? Did the tests go okay?
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:36 PM (TH+5o)
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 02:36 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (tljrc)
Leather is passé.
It's going to be some form of rubber. Either latex or silicone.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:36 PM (UnA8+)
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Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:32 PM (dAOkg)
I had a 6 AM town hall meeting, so my day will be ending shortly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Powers That Be at December 19, 2025 02:36 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: scampydog at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (2bFN5)
How are all these drug prices being cut without someone losing money somewhere? I'm not one of these Big Pharma haters. Some drugs are very cool.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (n7rxJ)
Since that thread is gone, here's the link again to the Walmart Shoplifter Pulling A Gun on Police WHILE he's Detained:
https://is.gd/rvwOWL
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:36 PM (W7XSX)
Don't bogart that thread, my friend.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (vgB0v)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (Dv3i1)
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Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (Dv3i1)
Texas legalized it already and it should be available over the counter.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
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She 100% should have been fired. What she did was not only really stupid (she actually uploaded the video), calling into question her competence, but she's a nurse. She cannot be trusted to give good care to patients with political views she doesn't like. Hell, I'll bet any amount of money she'd be urinating in this old lady's saline, if not sabotaging her care outright.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 02:35
I didn’t realize was nurse. Named Rached?
Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (udlma)
Posted by: Reforger at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (lROFx)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
__
She 100% should have been fired. What she did was not only really stupid (she actually uploaded the video), calling into question her competence, but she's a nurse. She cannot be trusted to give good care to patients with political views she doesn't like. Hell, I'll bet any amount of money she'd be urinating in this old lady's saline, if not sabotaging her care outright.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 02:35 PM (iFTx/)
***
Just got back from Target a bit ago. Wore my Charlie Kirk shirt.
I got one sneer, one "nice shirt" and one "thank you for your service" (was wearing my Veteran's hat).
I call it a win.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (2WIwB)
https://instapundit.com/763618/
In Ace's world, deleting the post is much like Tapscott's triple white flag update
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (vgB0v)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Sponge
When & where?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Shots Fired at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (hJlBj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (wVcYX)
The coup has been quashed. CBD is now being held at an "undisclosed location".
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Technically, most of us are posting from an "undisclosed location"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (TH+5o)
almost guarantee she owns a skin tight black leather jump suit & a whip
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (tljrc)
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https://youtu.be/YZEg4gYX9mg
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (tgvbd)
You hear that?
President said we'll have "almost 100%" of our drugs made in the USA "soon."
No more china poison? No more Indian SHIT in our drugs??
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (+wReq)
Ditto. I still have to "work" next Monday and Tuesday but since nobody will be checking in any code, there won't be anything for me to test.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
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She 100% should have been fired. What she did was not only really stupid (she actually uploaded the video), calling into question her competence, but she's a nurse. She cannot be trusted to give good care to patients with political views she doesn't like. Hell, I'll bet any amount of money she'd be urinating in this old lady's saline, if not sabotaging her care outright.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 02:35
I didn’t realize was nurse. Named Rached?
Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (o2ZRX)
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Yea. Maybe not RN but she worked in medical care.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)
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I demand that he be released immediately the Pot thread re-opened.
Posted by: Judge Boasberg at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (EyfuW)
The killer made a barking noise. He was a would be furry
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Woof woof Ackbar
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (1FEc1)
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (rj6Yv)
Heh
Heh
Heh
Top billing!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (3DQAj)
I got one sneer, one "nice shirt" and one "thank you for your service" (was wearing my Veteran's hat).
I call it a win.
Posted by: Diogenes
I need to get one. First sneer I get I go from concealed carry to open carry in the flip of a shirt.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (dAOkg)
I can't walk down the street and drink a Budweiser. But these pot-smoking fuckfaces can smoke up a storm on the corner of Main & Elm.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:31 PM (+wReq)
Or you are driving in traffic, and get a huge whiff of skunk from a passing car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (npFr7)
When & where?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (dAOkg)
House Bill 25, written by Joanne Schofner (R-Nacogdoches), was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott at the end of August. Abbott had made it one of his priorities for the special sessions, saying, "Texans should have increased access to the benefits of Ivermectin."
The bill went into effect Thursday, Dec. 4, making the drug available at pharmacies and drug stores without requiring a prescription.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)
Keep the THC, just don't smoke it. Gummy that shit.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (ttU59)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (1vqcm)
And the reports of him yelling Allah Ackbar are suddenly gone? OK then...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
Good. Could you imagine if some old lady went into HER place of work and berated her for being a democrat voting libtard who is destroying this country while she should be home taking care of her husband and children instead of wasting her life working as a nurse for poor compensation and dust in her vagina.
Fuck her.
Posted by: Turnabout Is Fair Play at December 19, 2025 02:42 PM (R/m4+)
I was out running some errands this morning and was listening to the news. Doctor being interviewed on this topic said there is a malaria drug on the market that sells for something $25,000 per dose in the US and sells for $8 per dose in Congo.
That's the problem. The US has been subsidizing other countries for years. We pay huge amounts of money for the exact same drugs available in other countries for peanuts.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 02:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:43 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:43 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:33 PM (RHGPo)
Allahu ackbark?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:43 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:40 PM
Nurse: This is cruel. He needs to be put out of his misery.
Doctor: He's just here for his tonsils.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:43 PM (jc0TO)
I got one sneer, one "nice shirt" and one "thank you for your service" (was wearing my Veteran's hat).
I call it a win.
Posted by: Diogenes
I need to get one. First sneer I get I go from concealed carry to open carry in the flip of a shirt.
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I know you jest, but in some jurisdictions that could lead to a charge of assault or some other "menacing" complaint.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:36 PM (TH+5o)
Lung scan came back okay. Repeat in a year. Being a former long term smoker and over 50 yrs old means checking that regularly. Meh. It took longer to walk from the waiting room to the room where they did the scan than it took to do the scan. Didn't have to do the hospital garb or anything. The scanner talks and has a nice female voice with a British accent.
But my blood sugar is running a bit high and I'm supposed to cut carbs and get more exercise, ( she said, while eating a homemade chocolate chip cookie and drinking a coke with real cane sugar, eyeing the pan full of homemade peanut butter fudge, and contemplating a nap).
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2025 02:43 PM (2J/Lj)
Get some, bro!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 02:44 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 02:44 PM (pkeXY)
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She has just been promoted to "Influencer".
Posted by: RM at December 19, 2025 02:44 PM (n/1Oj)
Bobby Kennedy is trying to explain to Fake News in the room that this is a big fucking deal.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:44 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: Oddbob
Same. Home on Monday. Office on Tuesday. Home on Friday. At least they already said they are buying breakfast for those in the office on Tuesday.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:44 PM (dAOkg)
Oh nos
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 02:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Rallah Rrrakbar - raheee he hehee heehee
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:44 PM (TH+5o)
Proven and safe.
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (ttU59)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:41 PM (dAOkg)
The trouble with that is you need to know your state laws. Here that would be brandishing, and one would get arrested. Even in an open carry state. The sneerer needs to make an overt act to sneeree first.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (2WIwB)
I know you jest, but in some jurisdictions that could lead to a charge of assault or some other "menacing" complaint.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)
Brandishing a weapon can be considered a felony in several states.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Today, TODAY I heard Bloomberg Fake News on the radio say the President "alleges" Drug prices are more here than in other countries.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (+wReq)
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I know you jest, but in some jurisdictions that could lead to a charge of assault or some other "menacing" complaint.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 02:43 PM (TN0g+)
Just brandish your middle finger with a cheerful GFY, Karen.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
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She 100% should have been fired. What she did was not only really stupid (she actually uploaded the video), calling into question her competence, but she's a nurse. She cannot be trusted to give good care to patients with political views she doesn't like. Hell, I'll bet any amount of money she'd be urinating in this old lady's saline, if not sabotaging her care outright.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 02:35 PM (iFTx/)
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Just got back from Target a bit ago. Wore my Charlie Kirk shirt.
I got one sneer, one "nice shirt" and one "thank you for your service" (was wearing my Veteran's hat).
I call it a win.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (2WIwB)
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You're a better man than me. I stay politically inert in public. My mom has some MAGA shirts and hats, though. She's an older lady and don't give no fucks.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 19, 2025 02:46 PM (WTWWW)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
Good. Could you imagine if some old lady went into HER place of work and berated her for being a democrat voting libtard who is destroying this country while she should be home taking care of her husband and children instead of wasting her life working as a nurse for poor compensation and dust in her vagina.
Fuck her.
Posted by: Turnabout Is Fair Play at December 19, 2025 02:42 PM (R/m4+)
All we are is dust in vagenes.
Posted by: Count de Dust Motes at December 19, 2025 02:46 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 19, 2025 02:46 PM (ayRl+)
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Added bonus, can be used as a rape whistle when being assaulted by a person of cultural diversity.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 02:46 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 02:44 PM (pkeXY)
No way. Those weed vape cartridges have no quality control.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Sponge
Awesome. Because that pony paste sucks.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (dAOkg)
But don't take away our alcohol !!!
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (4svSc)
Bobby Kennedy is trying to explain to Fake News in the room that lowering drug prices a big fucking deal.
Hawaiian Judge orders President Trump and Secretary HHS to keep drug prices high to help the Democrats in the Mid Term Elections....
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (J9q9v)
The vase behind her gives her cat ears.
NTTAWWT
Posted by: DaveA at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (FhXTo)
My perhaps controversial take. I don't care what you do while walking the street or driving if no one is harmed.
I would rather see us move toward more freedom and less "we must make everyone safe by controlling their every move.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (igoLh)
Fake News & Democrats also almost made asses of themselves today by pretending outrage over President Trump declaring Christmas Eve a federal holiday, but caught themselves quickly when they found out it's been done before...a lot.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 02:48 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:48 PM (W7XSX)
My thoughts on weed are these:
1) hate the fucking smell.
2) unlike alcohol, if I stop drinking i start getting sober- not so with weed. Not for me.
3) it's amazing how laid back and out of it weed guys will act and encourage and play into that stereotype- until you even vaguely criticize weed. Then they turn into blue eyed zealots. They come off like Muslims if you insulted the Prophet (BTW fuck Mohammed and fuck your weed.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:48 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: pawn at December 19, 2025 02:48 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 02:45 PM (iFTx/)
Naa.
Not better.
I wear my MAGA hat when I want to be political.
I wear the Kirk shirt when I want to bear witness as a Christian. Of course, when I do that I have to put out the cigar and hide the scotch.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:49 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Bloomberg News might want to check the pages in the Bloomberg News for confirmation on whether this allegation is correct.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Watch the livestream
Look at the broad in the Red Blouse behind President --
She's going for the World Record for Best Posture
https://is.gd/4lV5cO
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:23 PM
She is the CEO of GSK Pharmaceuticals, Emma Walmsley. I think she is a Brit. She is also wearing a neckless with a huge cross on it (nice to see).
Posted by: Joemarine at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (y171U)
My perhaps controversial take. I don't care what you do while walking the street or driving if no one is harmed.
I would rather see us move toward more freedom and less "we must make everyone safe by controlling their every move.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (igoLh)
As president, I will assign every American, regardless of age, their own personal Marine Drill Sergeant.
He has free reign to do whatever he wants, to whip their charge, regardless of age, into shape, in both physicality and responsibility.
Including beating the shit out of them. The only thing he's not allowed to do is murder his charge.
(Sarcasm, unless you agree with it.)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)
If true this is an insane development.
Posted by: pawn
Impossible, unless the shooter used two guns or there was two shooters.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
You're not paranoid. Because we ARE out to get you, potheads.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (dK+Kv)
If true this is an insane development.
Posted by: pawn at December 19, 2025 02:48 PM (EMg+d)
Brown case? Picture I saw online of the shooter really did not match the earlier picture I'd seen.
Earlier pic had way more gut... later picture was wearing glasses... and yer not gonna put on glasses if you are going to shoot someone?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:52 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
It truly is a nasty smell.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:52 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: dagny at December 19, 2025 02:52 PM (ILGo9)
Posted by: pawn at December 19, 2025 02:52 PM (EMg+d)
Watch the livestream
Look at the broad in the Red Blouse behind President --
She's going for the World Record for Best Posture
https://is.gd/4lV5cO
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Bet'cher ass that's a black LEATHER skirt, too … and prolly a nipple-less bra … HEY! A boy can dream, right … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at December 19, 2025 02:52 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)
Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
Those of us who are addicts for his content would very much be grateful for it.
I'll hit up the tip jar.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (WYStd)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)
Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (zZu0s)
x2
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (W7XSX)
Pretty much everyone turns Full Fascist about the things they feel strongly about. Just how it is.
What makes a full Fascist ? The quantity of things they feel strongly about.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (4svSc)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)
I say give them the St. Stephen treatment.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)
Don't make JackStraw angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (W7XSX)
The white patriarchy.
- MSM
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (W7XSX)
Is it the same one who framed Roger Rabbit?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Including beating the shit out of them. The only thing he's not allowed to do is murder his charge.
(Sarcasm, unless you agree with it.)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (UnA8+)
That used to be called Your Dad.
Then moms started to get all uppity.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (QDJ2U)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 02:52 PM (W7XSX)
I thought this would be one of those: 'im a thoracic heart surgeon- I do my best work when I smell like I fucked a skunk, unwilling. You can't do THAT while drunk!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: no one
I tried that once, a long time ago. Everything was in really slow motion. Including my driving, I had to constantly check to make sure I was fast enough to be reasonably close to the speed limit of 25mph. It was enough for me to say, maybe ok the one time, but definitely not worth it to do it again.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: midget Senor Wences & fag "mayor" at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (+wReq)
I guess the coup is finished.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)
Is that Theodore Roosevelt on that horse?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Looks like Teddy.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (y171U)
That's Emma Walmsley, DBE you commoners!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (2WIwB)
(Sarcasm, unless you agree with it.)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (UnA8+)
That used to be called Your Dad.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (QDJ2U)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (zZu0s)
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Know what's even MORE amazing ? That there are 5 times as many people that use it than the ones you think are "weed guys" that you have no idea about.
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (vgB0v)
If true this is an insane development.
Posted by: pawn
Impossible, unless the shooter used two guns or there was two shooters.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 02:51 PM (dAOkg)
You don't suppose there were two shooters, working together, and the one shooting was intended as a diversion for the other? As to the shouting of "allahu ackbar", why not? Either to muddy the waters, or because the shooter was a zealous convert. Wouldn't be the first time some disaffected loser with a grudge had been hoovered up by muzzie recruiters. They gain a lot of converts in prisons, after all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (4svSc)
What makes a full Fascist ? The quantity of things they feel strongly about.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (4svSc)
Yeah, no. I am of the Kestrel/Aetius mind. I am all for more freedom, less government power, but stop preaching at me about your miracle poison already.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (ttU59)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
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LOL!!! Please quit while you're already miles behind. So completely untrue.
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (vgB0v)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (ayRl+)
It's a great experience and I'm not going to give it up.
While high I enjoy watching movies (almost always an improvement), videos on history or other science, just listening to music or playing games with my kids. I'm normally introverted but when I'm high I can hold a good conversation for hours.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)
Take a shot at the king, you best not miss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Darth Aceder at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (dK+Kv)
I'm pretty sure Everyone thinks they function normally after getting a little high.
But that's not really possible -- when it comes to split-second reaction time.
Posted by: midget Senor Wences & fag at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (+wReq)
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Living the life, Madame 😉
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)
Take a shot at the king, you best not miss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (zZu0s)
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Remember a few months back when ace suddenly went on vacation?
And I blogged alone for a whole day?
Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (EyfuW)
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Good for you. Now, what is your drug of choice ? Shall we "fuck that" as well, or nah ?
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (vgB0v)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 02:55 PM (Dv3i1)
My experience, also, back in my college days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (npFr7)
Real converts?
Or Farrakhanverts?
Because Farrakhan's shit isn't actually Islam. It's just Scientology with a Crescent.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (UnA8+)
LOL!!! Please quit while you're already miles behind. So completely untrue.
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (vgB0v)
You just keep thinking that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (UnA8+)
https://tinyurl.com/5n9ymrva
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 02:59 PM (/TlUl)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (ttU59)
You should try gravity.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:59 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (vgB0v)
The Horde's drug of choice is Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)
Yes, the Trump Admin really wants that newly-drawn District in NC.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (+wReq)
https://instapundit.com/763618/
In Ace's world, deleting the post is much like Tapscott's triple white flag update
Posted by: deadrody
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Tapscott is a symbol of what is wrong with Capitol Hill GOP reach arounds. Everything to them is how it plays with Democrats that they work with on a daily basis, not content nor actual facts.
And his increasingly brain dead posts resemble one poster that no longer cares to post on Instapundit much--Law Prof Bernstein. Same with Glenn floating Althouse posts anymore.
No one cares what they think and most of the shit they say is irrelevant of any present day context.
Their time has passed as has any wisdom they care to share with us. Thanks to them not fighting Obama and later Biden becuz racists, we are all Timmy in the well trying to drag ourselves out of it along with Trump.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 19, 2025 02:56 PM (ttU59)
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I take up to 60mg D8, it turns into a great psychedelic experience after a few hours. I put on some space ambient music and just be.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (vgB0v)
You are sure wound up tight. Maybe you need to chill out, and smoke a bowl.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (npFr7)
Then moms started to get all uppity.
Posted by: Tom Servo
My dad was a very easy going, laid back guy. Very little could cause him to correct one of his three kids. Mom never used the phrase "just wait until your father gets home". She just handled it herself because she knew that no matter how bad it was, Dad would just say, " stop doing that, you're annoying your mom ".
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (TH+5o)
The Horde's drug of choice is Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)
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If I could fucking find it.
I settle with Tin Cup. It's cheap and decent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (vgB0v)
The Horde's drug of choice is Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)
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The tears of my enemies
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 03:01 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:01 PM (W7XSX)
The Horde's drug of choice is Buffalo Trace.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)
that's the last thing I remember having on my birthday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
Oh noez
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 03:01 PM (tG1pe)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:02 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 02:27 PM (RHGPo)
Oh noez
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 03:01 PM (tG1pe)
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She'll be running for office soon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
Or Farrakhanverts?
Because Farrakhan's shit isn't actually Islam. It's just Scientology with a Crescent.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (UnA8+)
Both kinds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 03:02 PM (npFr7)
I mean, that's what I've heard. From a friend.
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 19, 2025 03:02 PM (xNHSX)
And I blogged alone for a whole day?
Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The TJM show at Ace was cancelled due to low ratings. He didn't get it.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:50 PM (UnA8+)
157 Behead those who say that stoners aren't peaceful!
Posted by: toby928(c) at
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Youse guys are funny
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 02:58 PM (vgB0v)
You really do miss my point St Woody Harrelson the Evangelist, I don't give a shit that you do it, but quit blowing smoke up my ass about Weed Nirvana. You love it, great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (2J/Lj)
Dad had a temper and was high strung at times. He usually didn't know much of what went on as mom just whooped our asses.
Then, dad saw the bruises..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)
No questions!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (2J/Lj)
My grandfather beat the shit out of my father, but not his brother nor sister (who were both younger than him).
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
I worry about that with cigars. I'm considering acquiring a smoking coat.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (a+4eV)
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Prolly the same dude who says he's the 'Cowboy of Love' … ain't his name 'Maurice' or something … ?
Posted by: Dr_No at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:02 PM (WDjG6)
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Blogs are dead.
The real money is in YouTube.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
Fake News was gonna ask "epstein" questions, anyway. So fuck 'em.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (Vh9CX)
Check out Eloy, Metromania and Time to Turn.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:04 PM (Ia/+0)
But that's not really possible -- when it comes to split-second reaction time.
Posted by: midget Senor Wences & fag at December 19, 2025 02:57 PM (+wReq)
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Agree, that's why I don't drive while high.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:04 PM (Vh9CX)
But I don't set up my lawn chair outside the store at 5 am, either...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 19, 2025 03:04 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (UnA8+)
Snoop Dog?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 03:04 PM (wVcYX)
If somebody forces you to partake let me know. As for the preaching ? The greatness of the MJ - my duty to society as defined by others - I tire of them all equally.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 03:05 PM (4svSc)
I worry about that with cigars. I'm considering acquiring a smoking coat.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (a+4eV)
I worked with a guy that was convinced his wife didn't know he was still smoking cigarettes because he wore a golf glove on his cig hand.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 03:05 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (UnA8+)
Snoop Dog?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 03:04 PM (wVcYX)
Willie f*cking Nelson.
Geez.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Fake News shits don't understand "no questions."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:05 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 03:06 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 19, 2025 03:06 PM (d3v2W)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
I worry about that with cigars. I'm considering acquiring a smoking coat.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (a+4eV)
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Just get a cheap nylon or poly jacket that zips up. That's what I use. I'm a cigar fan but hate the smell and filth of the smoke. So I never smoke indoors or while wearing clothes I can't easily wash. I have long hair so I usually put it up into a hat. And as soon as I'm done smoking, I wash my hands.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (dK+Kv)
Never heard of them but I'll give them a listen to.
Dreamstate Logic is really good.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:06 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (UnA8+)
Snoop Dog?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 03:04 PM (wVcYX)
Do we have to start referring to him as "Snoop Dogg (Weed Be Upon Him)"?
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:06 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (a+4eV)
No one ever complained of someone smelling like pipe tobacco is all im saying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: SMOD
Well, maybe she can become a professional wrestler.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (L/fGl)
My former +1 used to make me strip down in the garage when I got home from the cigar lounge and put my clothes in a plastic bag, and didn't like me cuddling with the dog till after a shower. She could smell cigar smoke like a Great White smelling a drop of blood in the ocean.
I live alone now.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (JQE/n)
LOL you are not as secret as you think you are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:06 PM (Vh9CX)
I'll check 'em out. You're in for a trip.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (dK+Kv)
There are youtube channels out there that just stream space ambient stuff 24/7.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 03:05 PM (4svSc)
Hey we can have our little spats about things now and again but don't you dare impugn His Airness himself, Michael Jordan.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:02 PM (WDjG6)
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Blogs are dead.
The real money is in YouTube.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
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Amateur. It's in OF.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (iFTx/)
*considers introducing the subject of psychedelics*
*reconsiders introducing the subject of psychedelics*
*decides against introducing the subject of psychedelics*
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: pawn at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (iFTx/)
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Wake me when Candace has an OF.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (zZu0s)
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Roof deck, but basically yea
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (TH+5o)
They'll carve "BH Team" into everything they can get their hands on.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (TH+5o)
It's like Crossfit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: ..
They immediately flinch when you point out the cops?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (Dv3i1)
Are You Peephole aware of this?
Did You Know the Democrats are doing a 2024 "recount" stunt in a New York county?
Tik Tok Goblins are pretending this will spark a nationwide recount and reverse the '24 election.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (a+4eV)
No one ever complained of someone smelling like pipe tobacco is all im saying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (zZu0s)
*hat tip*
Posted by: Borkum Riff at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
I need a pizza and spaghetti eating coat.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (L/fGl)
The real money is in YouTube.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
The real real money is AI slop videos where current content is ripped off from human content without attribution. Like the Chicom Chinesium crap on Amazon, you can't escape the shit because they just keep changing names, filing off serial numbers and reposting the same shit even if YT takes the original down.
Yet they get paid.
Rick Beato and Phil of Wings of Pegasus note all the fake music videos and their marketing. But it is far bigger than that. Even in the last year, I think about 50-70 percent of YT is now AI slop feeds through algorithms.
Rule of thumb, if they actually have an identifiable talking person or panel discussing the subject like you (and the audio syncs), then it is less likely to be AI crap for now.
Lots of folks have YT only as teasers for paid Patreon or Rumble videos now.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 02:54 PM (UnA8+)
Snoop Dog?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 03:04 PM
Would that make him the only prophet with his own College Football Bowl Game?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (iFTx/)
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Wake me when Candace has an OF.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
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Over-under? 10 years.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (W7XSX)
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I think the Carolinas have a distribution issue where restaurants effectively own the distributors and take all the quality bourbons before they ever get to liquor stores. I know it was the case in South Carolina, and I assume it's the same in North since I still can't find any of the remotely rarer things.
So, the limited market is suddenly even more limited.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Alexander Haig at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
This is something to consider.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)
Democrat activists claim they found "anomalies" in New York county voting in '24.
Yeah, this is the beginning of the End of the Trump presidency.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (4svSc)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:03 PM (dK+Kv)
There are youtube channels out there that just stream space ambient stuff 24/7.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)
Space ambient is not really my thing, but some of the 70s and 80s stuff incorporating some of that audio "imagery" is pretty good.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 19, 2025 03:11 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (WDjG6)
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I assume that badly AI'd videos of Wikipedia articles do bang busters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)
What was in the mid 5ps? The thresd?
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:11 PM (TH+5o)
Know what's even MOAR MORE amazing? That there are "weed guys" that think they are so in control of themselves that the rest of us don't know they are "weed guys"
We know.
Posted by: Billy Silly at December 19, 2025 03:11 PM (Vu7A1)
That's the problem. The US has been subsidizing other countries for years. We pay huge amounts of money for the exact same drugs available in other countries for peanuts.
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This. The initial price of new US-developed drugs may need to be relatively high to recover R&D costs in a reasonable timeframe, but this shouldn't continue indefinitely. Once a drug is being sold overseas for peanuts the R&D has been recovered and the the US price should be much lower.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 19, 2025 03:11 PM (1Au9i)
So, the limited market is suddenly even more limited.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
They have an extremely limited distribution apparatus for the Northeast.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:11 PM (UnA8+)
https://youtu.be/XKq0R-HVsGo
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 19, 2025 03:12 PM (5iABs)
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 19, 2025 03:11 PM (1Au9i)
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It's my understanding that their processes also suck which drives up the costs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (L/fGl)
RealTree needs to market a "spilled food" camo shirt. I'd buy a case. Make it a pocket Tee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 03:12 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)
https://is.gd/4lV5cO
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:22 PM (+wReq)
Thanks.
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 03:12 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (TH+5o)
From the sermons.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 03:09 PM (npFr7)
Crossfit and Vegans.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 03:10 PM (4svSc)
There it is but I see (of course) flounder already beat me to it
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (TH+5o)
You can't put the atmosphere back in the container.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (6qf1m)
https://youtu.be/XKq0R-HVsGo
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 19, 2025 03:12 PM (5iABs)
Sargon and Dev (Short Fat Otaku, a former Sargon orbiter who now tries to bait him into debates) need to have their duel to the death already.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (zZu0s)
This is oddly true. I smoke me pipe on break at work in my jeep. People walk by all the time and ask what that awesome smell is. First time was the COO of the company and I was all "shit, I'm getting fired for not being in the smoking area." Then nobody said shit so I continued and it's happened a lot since. This is OHM Red Turkish blend. $19 a pound. Lasts about a month and a half vs. $400 for cigs in the same timeframe.
Posted by: Reforger at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (VF6cf)
Related: Democrat jihadists on the Internet are Big Mad the DNC cancelled their promised "2024 Election Autopsy," a gimmick created to placate their paranoid base who refuse to accept President Trump won again.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (W7XSX)
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Must have been a Charleston thing. I knew a guy who had worked with the distributors, and he told me the story.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Eeeww. You can tell when a dog or horse is stressed because you see their sclera of their eyes as they roll them about. Candace Ovens strikes me that way.
Plus the likelihood of her being an intel influence op, given the Limey she married is in an old monied Brit that is royalty adjacent, is pretty high.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 03:14 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:08 PM (TH+5o)
They're yelling at you how harmless weed is and you drink alcohol so you're a hypocrite.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 03:14 PM (1vqcm)
Related: Democrat jihadists on the Internet are Big Mad the DNC cancelled their promised "2024 Election Autopsy," a gimmick created to placate their paranoid base who refuse to accept President Trump won again.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (+wReq)
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It was probably, "All of our issues are unpopular, displacing Biden was a terrible idea, and Kamala repelled men."
You release that if you're trying to prevent a Kamala campaign. You bury it if you realize it's definitely happening and she's probably going to win the nomination anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Now I'm wondering if you could just burn it like incense
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 03:15 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 19, 2025 03:15 PM (sl7a6)
Two things can be true - weed is not harmless and you are a hypocrite.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (4svSc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 03:14 PM (1vqcm)
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Thune cuts like a knife!
Seriously, how he put 95% of what the parliamentarian objected to just back into the OBBB on the final amendment and got it passed was...amazing. It's what Mitch would have done for things Democrats wanted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)
Two things can be true - weed is not harmless and you are a hypocrite.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (4svSc)
And you could be wrong on one part.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Impossible, unless the shooter used two guns or there was two shooters.
Posted by: rickb223
Grassy Noel
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: doug at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (Hy+R4)
Posted by: Barry Soetoro at December 19, 2025 03:17 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 19, 2025 03:00 PM (2J/Lj)
; )
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 03:17 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:17 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Depends on the topic. And the bots/algorithm boosting or deboosting it.
Doesn't help that YT is busy enshittifying the channel by very lengthy streams of ads if you don't employ some sort of ad blocking strategy.
Amazon is doing the same thing with its buying search engine by charging vendors out the wazoo for placing their product in the top couple of hits.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:17 PM (WDjG6)
As I said the thing that always bothered me about her had nothing to do with anything she ever said - it was that 10 light year stare whenever she was talking to someone.
When you are in a conversation you shouldn't look like you are solving differential equations and trying to figure out if maybe the other person is an alien trying to trick your ass. It's offputting.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:17 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Those of us who are addicts for his content would very much be grateful for it.
I'll hit up the tip jar.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 19, 2025 02:53 PM (WYStd)
Or develop the AI driven ACE-0-SPADES 3000 with a specially developed Cruelty Engine.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 03:18 PM (8avO+)
Yes, I know that's irresponsible.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:18 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 03:13 PM (W7XSX)
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We're talking the small-batch, limited run stuff. I've lived in NC so long, I remember the days when you had to BYO hootch in a brown bag to the restaurant/club and purchase a set-up. The alternative was to rent a private booze locker on the premises.
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 03:18 PM (rj6Yv)
Good time to legalize and normalize gambling and weed. Great.
Posted by: brak at December 19, 2025 03:18 PM (jGJov)
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Caucasian Christian who is proud of their country? Actually I can see how they are a threat to those who want to destroy our country.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 03:19 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 03:19 PM (igoLh)
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The people Britain wants to send to die in Ukraine?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 02:38 PM (bXbFr)
Does the bullet that killed him match any of his guns?
Have the Providence and RI authorities reported how many times he shot himself in the back of the head?
Posted by: Gref at December 19, 2025 03:19 PM (5rh/l)
My grandfather beat the shit out of my father, but not his brother nor sister (who were both younger than him).
Posted by: XTC
Middle kid. Mom beat the shit out of me, but not my older sister, or younger brother. When we had Junior-ette, she admonished me not to spank her. My response (just to troll her)...
"You beat the shit out of me from as early as I can remember until I got big enough to take the damed belt away from you. I turned out okay where bro and sis didn't. So I'm gonna beat the shit of of her so she turns out okay too."
Never once needed to smack the kid. She was always good, kind, and very concious of her surroundings (probably hid her misdeeds).
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 03:19 PM (QVmho)
Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:19 PM (iD+t2)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 19, 2025 03:19 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: CrossFit vegan atheist at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (LaiZQ)
Two things can be true - weed is not harmless and you are a hypocrite.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (4svSc)
Problem with this logic is that the liver regenerates and your lungs do not. God himself arranged that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)
Rick Wilson on Trump: “My better angels when he dies are going to be on vacation. He deserves nothing but our hatred. Donald Trump’s grave will reek of ammonia for a million years. He is the most hated president in our lifetimes. As you pass down into the gates of hell, the last sound you’ll hear is the laughter and cheering of Americans as you disappear from this fucking world”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (Nx5jP)
When you are in a conversation you shouldn't look like you are solving differential equations and trying to figure out if maybe the other person is an alien trying to trick your ass. It's offputting.
Posted by: ...
The Fixx's One Thing Leads to Another fits Candace Ovens to the T.
"The deception with tact
Just what are you trying to say?
You got a blank face, which irritates
Communicate, pull out your party piece
You see dimensions in two
State your case with black or white
But when one little cross leads to shots, grit your teeth
You run for cover, so discreet"
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Slater at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (wVcYX)
Rick Wilson on Trump: “My better angels when he dies are going to be on vacation. He deserves nothing but our hatred. Donald Trump’s grave will reek of ammonia for a million years. He is the most hated president in our lifetimes. As you pass down into the gates of hell, the last sound you’ll hear is the laughter and cheering of Americans as you disappear from this fucking world”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (L/fGl)
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His hatred of the guy leading the diminishment of the federal workforce is really something for a small government conservative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (L/fGl)
Pure projection.
Rick, how's that Rebel Flag cooler?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (Nx5jP)
Ignore the machine elves, it is just teh MDMA
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (rbvCR)
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Currently in Montana. Weird weather here too. Lots of wind, rain, warm temps that comes in waves. Unusual.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (igoLh)
Two things can be true - weed is not harmless and you are a hypocrite.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (4svSc)
Amen.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (TH+5o)
Love The Fixx. Saw them last year. They were great, of course.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (6qf1m)
Posted by: scampydog at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (2bFN5)
Go move to Ukraine
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 03:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Most MAN shop in any mall.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 03:22 PM (zZu0s)
Even Bob Marley didn't smoke enough weed to damage his lungs. It's not like most people are putting away the equivalent of a pack or two of cigarettes per day.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 03:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (Nx5jP)
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Some guy with a Confederate flag on his cooler.
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 03:23 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It is actually debate about Bob Dylan's Hypothesis:
"Everybody must get stoned....."
The null hypothesis of course is nobody should get stoned, the alternative hypothesis is whether marijuana or booze is the chosen way to get stoned.
What they don't know is that a sample of gray boxers will have be be vivisected in order to test these hypotheses.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:23 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 03:23 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 03:22 PM (viF8m)
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*laughing like a retard*
-Seth Rogan
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: scampydog at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (2bFN5)
December 19, 2025
Open thread
—Ace
Posted by Ace at 03:20 PM Comments
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 03:23 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 03:24 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 03:24 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: it's a wonder drug, alright at December 19, 2025 03:24 PM (hJlBj)
Trenchant
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (TH+5o)
353 "The Fixx's One Thing Leads to Another"
Love The Fixx. Saw them last year. They were great, of course.
Posted by: Bad Andrew
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Great band and can pull off what they put on vinyl decades ago.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (Nx5jP)
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He is a former small government conservative who went full Democrat. He bought himself a Confederate flag, and he bought himself a group of willing young men to "intern" for the new Democrat organization he helped establish.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (iD+t2)
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (RuTUS)
Have you thought about changing up to Linux?
Posted by: Blanco at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (q83gU)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 1 9, 2025 03:24 PM (0U5gm)
Yeah, mine has done that. Lucky for me I only have one bookmark to replace. The rest appear naturally.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)
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I don't know what those are, but I like the way you are dealing with it.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 03:26 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 03:20 PM (Nx5jP)
Ignore the machine elves, it is just teh MDMA
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 03:21 PM (rbvCR)
Fen's right. This thread needs more boobs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 03:26 PM (dK+Kv)
What they don't know is that a sample of gray boxers will have be be vivisected in order to test these hypotheses.
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😊 Always enjoy your comments whig.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)
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Jedi Master is good. There is also a channel called Tape Stuff that a lot of old tape recording upload that has some great soundscapes.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 03:30 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: XTC
There was a true crime show on ID about a father who allegedly left when his son was 18 months. A bunch of weird shit happened and 60 years later his son found his father's body well and truly buried in the basement. It seems his dad invited an ex-con to live with them and help him remodel the house. His mom and the ex-con had an affair and murdered dad, they later married, and he sexually assaulted the daughters. Son had given up finding dad until his sister convinced him to go to a psychic, eventhough he didn't believe, and the psychic told him his father was buried in the basement near a target that used to be in the basement decades earlier.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 03:34 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 19, 2025 05:37 PM (wGqjj)
315,000 Possibly Fraudulent Ballots? Eh...It's Business-As-Usual In Georgia!
Nothing shocking, except for the admission that they are either fantastically bad at their jobs, or are subverting the Constitution.
Or both! 'We Don't Dispute' It: Georgia 315k Vote Bombshell Blows a Big Hole in 2020's 'Most Secure Election' LieA Georgia State Election Board investigation substantiated that Fulton County violated election rules in 2020 by failing to have poll workers sign required tabulation tapes for early votes in 36 out of 37 advanced voting precincts, affecting approximately 315,000 ballots. These unsigned tapes broke the chain-of-custody and certification requirements under Georgia law, which mandates signed tapes as the sole legal proof of authentic vote totals. During a board meeting on December 9th, Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, contends that Fulton County does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.”
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (5IH8V)
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Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)
My mistake.. Ace is still in the Barrel
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (Wg6v7)
Assuming they want to win future elections
Posted by: Maroon at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (wP3Cr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (HUco/)
Basically, 'yeah, we violated the law. So what?'
Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (lCHt6)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (VE6XX)
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Ace has become the Barrel.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 01:08 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Billy Silly at December 19, 2025 01:10 PM (Vu7A1)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 01:10 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)
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*checks rulebook*
Yup, any lack of acceptance of dominant narratives from The New York Times makes you racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (1vqcm)
Unstated: "Whatcha gonna do about it?"
Posted by: Oddbob at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Blue Georgia at December 19, 2025 01:12 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 19, 2025 01:12 PM (4mFFH)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 19, 2025 01:12 PM (AaY6N)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (1vqcm)
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I'm not that enamored of any state level GOP org, but the GA state GOP seems...particularly unpleasant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)
And Kemp is right behind him - either engaged in the fraud coverup or just a complete retard.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 19, 2025 01:13 PM (zdYK9)
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 01:16 PM (RuTUS)
Assuming they want to win future elections
Posted by: Maroon at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (wP3Cr)
A Constitutional amendment that
-Restricts voting to U.S. citizens
-Restricts the census to counting U.S. citizens only
-Prohibits elections by mail
would be nice.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:16 PM (rQwsY)
Warm milk and graham crackers after that.
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:16 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 01:17 PM (W23D2)
Old news
Asked and answered
No controlling legal authority
Why are you obsessed by this?
Let's move on
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 01:17 PM (tgvbd)
A Constitutional amendment that
-Restricts voting to U.S. citizens
-Restricts the census to counting U.S. citizens only
-Prohibits elections by mail
would be nice.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:16 PM (rQwsY)
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But first, a constitutional amendment for the copyright clause.
"What part of Life+70 is 'limited term' dumbasses?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
Warm milk and graham crackers after that.
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:16 PM (/iMjX)
Wheat Thins and beer (h/t, S.O.D.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: The person who always says that at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Indy Bill at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (Oe2Ms)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2025 01:19 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Indy Bill at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (Oe2Ms)
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It's long been accepted that the federal government can tell states how to run elections for federal elections. The VRA is entirely built on that premise.
Anyone telling you that the feds can't do it are dumb.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
"What part of Life+70 is 'limited term' dumbasses?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
It is. I think your problem with copyright is the tendency of corporations to abuse it. Correct me if I am wrong of course…
I see no problems with copyright. ©️ 2025 Cow Demon, All Rights Deserved.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
But first, a constitutional amendment for the copyright clause.
"What part of Life+70 is 'limited term' dumbasses?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
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Patents
Invent something
Pay on filing
Pay on issuance
Pay at 4th year
Pay more at 7th year
Pay even more at 12th year
Expiration 20 years after filing
Copyright
Write something
Skate for 95 years
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Advo at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (4q/mG)
Weren't there some US Senators running as well?
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (4q/mG)
Both! And both entered a runoff.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (tgvbd)
???? The outrage of "voter fraud" stopped after no court foubd it valid
Italian satalittes changing electronic voting machines? Really ?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (lYvO3)
I see no problems with copyright. ©️ 2025 Cow Demon, All Rights Deserved.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)
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Originally, copyright was 14 years with an option for an extra 14.
40 years later, it became 28 years plus an extra 28.
Then, in 1976, it became Life+50 because of corporate pressure. Then Life+70 in the 90s because Sonny Bono was one of history's greatest monsters.
Corporations should not own copyrights. Copyrights should be a limited term and saying, "Well, 1,000,000 years is a limited term because there's a limit to the term" is bullshit, history before corporations decided that they needed to own IP forever belies that.
The problem isn't that Disney owns Mickey Mouse forever, it's that the protection of Mickey Mouse forces everything else to hide behind copyright for nearly a hundred years even though no one can exploit 99% of what's out there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
Show some class.
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (/iMjX)
I only wish it had gone full discovery before Willis imploded professionally.
Posted by: Advo at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (jO4mz)
_________
"Is it not true, Mr. Raffensperger - is! it! not! true! - that 315,00 ballots were unverified?"
"Uh, I dunno. Yes."
*court spectators gasp*
"No more questions."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 01:25 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2025 01:25 PM (YwEeS)
Originally, copyright was 14 years with an option for an extra 14.
40 years later, it became 28 years plus an extra 28.
Then, in 1976, it became Life+50 because of corporate pressure. Then Life+70 in the 90s because Sonny Bono was one of history's greatest monsters.
Corporations should not own copyrights. Copyrights should be a limited term and saying, "Well, 1,000,000 years is a limited term because there's a limit to the term" is bullshit, history before corporations decided that they needed to own IP forever belies that.
The problem isn't that Disney owns Mickey Mouse forever, it's that the protection of Mickey Mouse forces everything else to hide behind copyright for nearly a hundred years even though no one can exploit 99% of what's out there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
Should copyright be changed to something like “life +75 and then for damn sure you enter public domain, no ifs ands or buts”? Sure, but scrap copyright altogether? Bad idea. I’m good with where it was set by the Copyright Law of 1978, but perpetual copyrights? No.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:26 PM (rQwsY)
It limits my freedom to create new things just because someone else came up with it first. It is a government created right, not a natural right, that flies in the face of my own liberty.
Copyright didn't exist until 1710 with Anne's Law in England. Shakespeare, Mozart, and Cervantes all worked without copyright.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
Who is this guy? Is he new around here?
Posted by: Max Power at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (Hucnr)
Home of CNN world headquarters
Home of Fani Willis
Home of 315,000 fraudulent votes
Time to look at nuking it from space?
I mean, once we move Coca Cola and The Varsity out of there.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (ttU59)
Show some class.
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (/iMjX)
When the cat’s away the mice will play.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (rQwsY)
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
We are caught, dead to rights, but there is no way on earth we will acknowledge that you knuckle draggers were right, or recognize any common ground.
Tribalism is a helluva drug.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (qeMzd)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 01:28 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Jonah at December 19, 2025 01:28 PM (gwrBY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (YWyyk)
Should copyright be changed to something like “life +75 and then for damn sure you enter public domain, no ifs ands or buts”? Sure, but scrap copyright altogether? Bad idea. I’m good with where it was set by the Copyright Law of 1978, but perpetual copyrights? No.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:26 PM (rQwsY)
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14+14.
If I'm being generous, 28+28.
And copyrights must be registered like before 1976.
Without the Copyright Act of 1976, works from 1998 would be entering the public domain on January 1. Those that didn't have applications for extensions.
All works before 1960 would be in the public domain.
How many people who worked on movies, wrote books, or music from 1959 are still alive and getting residuals?
Dick Van Dyke, and who else?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)
Show some class.
Have you never heard "To thine own self be true"?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (Riz8t)
During a board meeting on December 9th, Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, contends that Fulton County does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.”
Posted by: CBD at 01:07 PM
And, nothing will happen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
People who want everything to be Public Domain are really going to regret it when every IP gets turned into gay-ass Fujoshit.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (UnA8+)
It limits my freedom to create new things just because someone else came up with it first. It is a government created right, not a natural right, that flies in the face of my own liberty.
Copyright didn't exist until 1710 with Anne's Law in England. Shakespeare, Mozart, and Cervantes all worked without copyright.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
Isn’t the idea to encourage creativity? Also, Shakespeare, Mozart and Cervantes were not in a fledgling country of four million people scattered up and down a coast.
It’s will for corporations to hold copyrights but individuals? Why not?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:30 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:30 PM (/iMjX)
Show some class.
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (/iMjX)
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Obligatory Key and Peele sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 01:31 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (rQwsY)
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Originally, copyright was 14 years with an option for an extra 14.
40 years later, it became 28 years plus an extra 28.
Then, in 1976, it became Life+50 because of corporate pressure. Then Life+70 in the 90s because Sonny Bono was one of history's greatest monsters.
Corporations should not own copyrights. Copyrights should be a limited term and saying, "Well, 1,000,000 years is a limited term because there's a limit to the term" is bullshit, history before corporations decided that they needed to own IP forever belies that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Copyright is complete bullshit that serves mainly to enrich people who had no hand in creating the work in the first place. Yes, works should have some limited protection for the authors. 20 years seems right to me.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 01:31 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 01:31 PM (Dv3i1)
It’s will for corporations to hold copyrights but individuals? Why not?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:30 PM (rQwsY)
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That's the idea, yes. And I'm not a libertarian, so I'm largely okay with copyright. I'm not okay with the current copyright regime, though. It's total bullshit.
Corporations don't create things. People create things. Choose one person to hold the copyright, or release without copyright.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Paladin at December 19, 2025 01:31 PM (Io6eo)
Note state SOS and elections guys didn't find this or reveal this, but it came out with one of the shoe string lawsuits and the county lawyers sort of slipped it in...
Its lovely that they wait years to admit fault, and the GOP SOS and his elections lackey Gabe Sterling couldn't find this out and report.
Posted by: coba at December 19, 2025 01:32 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Paladin
Spoiler alert: the devil wins in this song.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 01:32 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (Wg6v7)
But first, a constitutional amendment for the copyright clause.
"What part of Life+70 is 'limited term' dumbasses?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
Ah yes. The Death to Mickey Amendment
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (y9nCu)
Show some class.
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (/iMjX)
I gotta go to the can, man.......
Hey....HEY ELEPHANT!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Dubby at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (I0aWN)
Posted by: muldoon
Welcome! BTW, you'll have to choose another name. We already have a muldoon.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (3nLb4)
Careful. Keep it up and you'll be dangerously close to suggesting the GOP is not an opposition party.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (YWyyk)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (Wg6v7)
Nah...it's just that Ace doesn't read his own blog...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (n9ltV)
But first, a constitutional amendment for the copyright clause.
"What part of Life+70 is 'limited term' dumbasses?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
Ah yes. The Death to Mickey Amendment
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (y9nCu)
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It's not like Disney couldn't use Mickey Mouse after 1980 or so when the copyright was originally going to expire. He could still be all over Disney World. Disney could still produce cartoons.
It was just that Fox could suddenly start making Mickey Mouse cartoons.
And you know what? Mickey Mouse is not sacred. He's a talking rat. He's not worth special protection.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (/WHak)
Old and busted: OK there was some fraud, but there was no widescale fraud
New and hot: old news, lets MoveOn.org
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (3Amc7)
I’d like both. The Dems would lose by 30 points in places thought to be blue.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Case at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (G1OIb)
The devil went down to Georgia. He was lookin' for an election to steal.
Posted by: Paladin at December 19, 2025 01:31 PM (Io6eo)
And walked away empty handed because someone even more evil beat him to the punch. And The Devil doesn't fuck with the Democrat Party.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 01:36 PM (y9nCu)
Old and busted: OK there was some fraud, but there was no widescale fraud
There was no
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 01:36 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oddbob
*********
He's retired and living on a Caribbean island.
I am the new Dread Poet Muldoon.
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:36 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 01:36 PM (y9nCu)
A house divided against itself cannot stand, after all
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Case at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (G1OIb)
Nuts and bolts.
Nuts and bolts.
we got screwed......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December
Please wait until I get home on the 27th. And preferably once we move J’s mom and sell the house. 😊
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (WsJuq)
The fact they don't should answer the question for itself.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (dGCAG)
24: 75M
20: 81M
16: 69M
12: 66M
08: 69M
I think its pretty clear the fraud was amped to max in 20, and then still significant in 24.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
Well, OK, but he's dreamy like a cartoon character and he goes to church !!!
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (YWyyk)
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM
****raspberry*****
****makes fart noises with armpit****
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (ftw01)
Is America enjoying a fraudulently elected senator?
Posted by: 29Victor at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: muldoon at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (/iMjX)
The argument nominally motivating the Democrats to remove any and all election security is that it disenfranchises millions of voters. But...in the 24 years since the '00 election when this because their rallying cry they have found exactly 0 such voters stopped from voting by any election security measures.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
Cervantes wound up having to write the second book of Don Quixote because of so much piracy on his initial work. The character complained about people "stealing his name" poorly.
I have a pirated travelogue of Rudyard Kipling where he mentions that he is in the United States specifically to deal with pirated copies of his books being printed in the US.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 01:39 PM (rbvCR)
****makes fart noises with armpit****
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
If everyone would just remember the time as a child when you first saw this happen and then learned how to recreate it........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)
How are you doing?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (RQ8Pa)
Now, the bad seeds run the joint.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: muldoon
Tighten loose nut behind wheel.
Posted by: Ford Manual Page ONe at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (oftw2)
I have a pirated travelogue of Rudyard Kipling where he mentions that he is in the United States specifically to deal with pirated copies of his books being printed in the US.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 01:39 PM (rbvCR)
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I love the second half of Don Quixote.
It's a meta-commentary about people who abused Quixote in works not written by Cervantes, and it's wonderfully touching.
That Terry Gilliam brought it over for his movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, was one of the things that made me happiest about that movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: coba at December 19, 2025 01:32 PM (IuIym)
To be fair, they are government workers. CYA is job one.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (dK+Kv)
That's the argument they made with the 10K 120 year or older voters in WI in 2020. I mean...the nominal difference was 20k.
Left unsaid if 10K were clearly fake how many of the 100-120 year olds were fake votes too? Or hell the 18-100?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: XTC
... you say that as thought the corporate copyright owners aren't already doing that.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (VE6XX)
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Ace has become the Barrel.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (ESVrU)
If Ace made the barrel he'd be out in no time...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (pcMiE)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
If someone is paying some hack author by page to write stuff then whoever paid for the page should own it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (/lPRQ)
It was just that Fox could suddenly start making Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)
Sure. I mean, the Palestinian savages make their own Mickey cartoons for their little suicide-bombers-in-training
*squeeky voice*
Death to the Joos!!!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: XTC
... you say that as thought the corporate copyright owners aren't already doing that.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (a+4eV)
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Actually, it would be a good thing.
Imagine Star Wars being in the public domain and let's say Universal decided, "We can appeal to the fans better than Disney."
Competition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (y9nCu)
I wonder if Mickey et al could be classified as "trademarks"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 01:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
If someone is paying some hack author by page to write stuff then whoever paid for the page should own it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (/lPRQ)
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Yeah, it's usually the producer who owns the copyright on movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)
More then enough time to cash in so people will still make stuff, but not the ridiculous crap we are seeing with Disney
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 01:43 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (y9nCu)
I wonder if Mickey et al could be classified as "trademarks"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 01:42 PM (rbvCR)
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Disney's trying that. They changed their Disney Animation logo to be Steamboat Willie about ten years ago because they knew they weren't getting another copyright extension.
There have been some lawsuits over the past two years since the original cartoon entered the public domain, and the results are mixed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)
Slowly everything is already being made fake and gay.
No copyright would mean we'd get globohomo and non-globohomo versions of everything
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:43 PM (sKqQm)
Reconnected, guts are churning out what they're supposed to. Hoping I'll be released today.
How are you doing?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (pcMiE)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:39 PM (sKqQm)
True story: I moved the week before the '24 election, and since I'd already updated my address with the Post Office, the poll workers had that address.
Which didn't match my drivers license. So they were only going to let me cast a "provisional ballot." Which to me seems like another way of saying they'd toss it in the trash.
Thankfully, I had my "mail in" ballot at home, I went back, filled it out, and dropped it in the drop box at the courthouse.
I was pissed, but I guess they were just doing their job.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Pam Bondi at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (SdwpW)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (Wg6v7)
I, for one, welcome our new CBD overlord..
(ACE RULES!!)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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You have no idea how bad it is.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (WDjG6)
Jenna Ellis
Rudolph Giuliani
Sydney Powell
Ray Smith.
Sooooo....what happens to those convictions? I can't imagine Sydney Powell keeping her rather vociferous mouth shut about this "revelation."
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (dIske)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (RQ8Pa)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:43 PM (sKqQm)
so, what you are predicting is "no change" but at a cheaper price in regulations?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (rbvCR)
Reconnected, guts are churning out what they're supposed to. Hoping I'll be released today.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (pcMiE)
Congrats, man. That's awesome news.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (Riz8t)
I will never understand why boys, even small ones, can do this but girls can't.
Posted by: pookysgirl's son loves making weird noises at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:46 PM (TH+5o)
24: 75M
20: 81M
16: 69M
12: 66M
08: 69M
I think its pretty clear the fraud was amped to max in 20, and then still significant in 24.
Posted by: 18-1
There was proven fraud in 2016.
It was deemed not significant because Hillary still lost.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 01:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Sooooo....what happens to those convictions? I can't imagine Sydney Powell keeping her rather vociferous mouth shut about this "revelation."
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (dIske)
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: pookysgirl's son loves making weird noises at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (Wt5PA)
It’s a gene carried on the Y chromosome.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2025 01:47 PM (RQ8Pa)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
I don't wanna go down to the basement.
There's something down there.
Posted by: Joey And Dee Dee at December 19, 2025 01:47 PM (oftw2)
No copyright would mean a significant reduction in new IP since you'd have to have a way to immediately cash in.
But a shorter copyright window is the best of both worlds IMO.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (krQz2)
But a shorter copyright window is the best of both worlds IMO.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)
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Interesting factoid that I recently learned:
Before 1976, one had to apply for copyrights, and they had to be registered at the Copyright Office in DC.
The number of books that actually applied for copyright was less than 1%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (viF8m)
'
Who's gonna volunteer to go look under the bridges to see which one he's giving handies under to ask him?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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You have no idea how bad it is.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 01:44 PM (WDjG6)
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The GA state GOP is what's left in the bedsheets after a dumpster fire rapes a clusterfuck in the ass
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 01:49 PM (iFTx/)
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Your assertion amounts to 30/30/30.
My belief is 30/30/75.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 01:49 PM (TN0g+)
20: 81M
I think its pretty clear the fraud was amped to max in 20, and then still significant in 24.
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I think you can make the argument that the fraud might have been the same or worse in 24, Kamala having worse popularity than even Biden
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 01:49 PM (Dv3i1)
I will never understand why boys, even small ones, can do this but girls can't.
Posted by: pookysgirl's son loves making weird noises at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (Wt5PA)
Wait....what?
I swear there's been some point in my life where I've seen a girl do this.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)
There was proven fraud in 2016.
It was deemed not significant because Hillary still lost.
That's an important point too. There was a certain level of fraud before 2020 so what happened in 2020 wasn't something new - but it was a massive increase.
And the amusing part, the left claims with a straight face Joe Biden got more votes then the "historic first black guy/woman/indian woman" candidates.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (viF8m)
Probably not.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Mike at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (fK08g)
But a shorter copyright window is the best of both worlds IMO.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)
Industry watchers are predicting that AI is going to destroy what is left of the music industry, leaving only live performances.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (sKqQm)
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He got more black votes than them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (kpS4V)
It limits my freedom to create new things just because someone else came up with it first. It is a government created right, not a natural right, that flies in the face of my own liberty.
Copyright didn't exist until 1710 with Anne's Law in England. Shakespeare, Mozart, and Cervantes all worked without copyright.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
It doesn't limit your freedom to come up with new things. It limits your freedom to parasitize some other person' work for your own benefit. Copyright merely extends the protections we enjoy for physical property to intellectual property.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (npFr7)
Any person of any age including minors who entered the country illegally at any time including those amnestied:
A) Can not vote nor hold public office
B) is automatically counted as a republican vote
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (RQ8Pa)
Pretty soon folks will be saying, "If it's Brown flush it down"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 19, 2025 01:52 PM (ftw01)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (npFr7)
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Me drawing Mickey Mouse doesn't take anything away from Disney. I've stolen nothing.
Disney using the government to fine me because I drew Mickey Mouse is an infringement of my rights.
Disney using the government to fine me because I sold a drawing I made of Mickey Mouse is an infringement on my rights.
Copyright is a government created right, not a natural right, and libertarians should oppose it as a matter of principle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:52 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)
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I will never understand why boys, even small ones, can do this but girls can't.
Now I'm wondering if trannies can. I hate this timeline.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (3nLb4)
The immigrant ones we have had have been atrocious by any reasonable reading - they govern exactly like the kleptocrats in their home countries
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm)
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Windows did this to me. Reinstall older network card driver. Worked.
Posted by: JSpicy at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (C7Yya)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (krQz2)
This is a thing now isn't it
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (TH+5o)
- this comment is copyrighted and trademarked, don't violate federal law or you go to the barrel.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:52 PM (RHGPo)
I would like to say that anyone taking them up on this earns what's coming to them, but some might think that makes me out to be a bad person.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (euUz/)
- this comment is copyrighted and trademarked, don't violate federal law or you go to the barrel.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (n5tGW)
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That's the regime post-1976.
Copyright became assumed on new works (and those under copyright at the time in 1976). It became beholden on those creating new works to prove that they weren't copying someone else's instead of the other way around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
I think this is a pretty common thing. But not necessarily plants instead bought off.
So the left finds some theoretically right leaning racist guy and gives him money to make him a media figure.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 01:55 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 01:55 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 01:55 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (krQz2)
This is a thing now isn't it
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (TH+5o)
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop! . . . ever . . . until you are 100 comment thread ruled!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:56 PM (dK+Kv)
I think this is a pretty common thing. But not necessarily plants instead bought off.
So the left finds some theoretically right leaning racist guy and gives him money to make him a media figure.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:54 PM (sKqQm)
He was a left wing nobody shilling for Kumswala Harris right up to the point Trump won. Now he's suddenly this right wing spokesperson who happens to love Hitler and thinks Stalin is groovy.
Yeah.....strange.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 01:56 PM (n5tGW)
Written on trucks- "If It Don't Go Down, Call Brown".
Posted by: Honey Wagon at December 19, 2025 01:56 PM (oftw2)
It was deemed not significant because Hillary still lost.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 01:46 PM (/lPRQ)
There is always fraud every year in every state, so that the cities in the state can overawe the suburban and rural areas.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 01:56 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (ix8EF)
Yeah.....strange.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well, the NYT calls him right wing and a bunch of Pakistanis watch his podcast, so we have to take him seriously or the entire Republican Party will collapse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
Disney using the government to fine me because I drew Mickey Mouse is an infringement of my rights.
Disney using the government to fine me because I sold a drawing I made of Mickey Mouse is an infringement on my rights.
Copyright is a government created right, not a natural right, and libertarians should oppose it as a matter of principle.
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You've just about convinced me (no sarcasm intended). But what about somebody deciding that what a network needs is a live-action Mickey Mouse hour-long show every Wednesday in a primetime slot. I'm still not sure why Disney shouldn't have some sort of claim if somebody else used their character and created a huge cash-flow off of it?
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (TN0g+)
Whichever moron said he ranted about the benefits of Islam? I missed that whole part I guess.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (vL0rw)
.. isn't Dick retiring ?
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Sydney Powell at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (LaiZQ)
Not being funny but isn't that most things now? I cannot watch practically anything made since like 2015 and I'm not just being an emo hipster I literally can't do it. Character, Theme, and Story have become Agenda, Agenda and Agenda.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (RQ8Pa)
Apparently the guy is a near-genius. Probably also more than a little coo-coo, too. It happens.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (npFr7)
Cheap printing presses changed that.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (/lPRQ)
So CBD has taken power at AoSHQ? Ace, who said 90% of us Morons must be prisoners, is now a prisoner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (ix8EF)
So the left finds some theoretically right leaning racist guy and gives him money to make him a media figure.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2025 01:54 PM (sKqQm)
In Nick's case, it's why the FBI let him off the hook for J6.
He spent all of 2024 advocating for Commie-La.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (UnA8+)
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I think this is a pretty common thing. But not necessarily plants instead bought off.
So the left finds some theoretically right leaning racist guy and gives him money to make him a media figure.
Posted by: 18-1
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Not money, clicks. The clicks create monetization money.
Remember that cell phone farm the Chinese had on the East coast? What do you do with tens of thousands of cell phones flooding the networks. The news said maybe to do a DNS attack. I think they have dozens of them all over the country to control the exposure of negative influencers.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (u9Aw1)
.. nobody is above the law (except the Clintons ...)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (RHGPo)
https://tinyurl.com/pyx6dcnf
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 01:55 PM (ix8EF)
WOW!
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:56 PM (dK+Kv)
thresd, but yes
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:59 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (g47mK)
.. nobody is above the law (except the Clintons ...)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (RHGPo)
She will be back behind a bench within 6 months.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jackson at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (TN0g+)
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They have it now...under certain versions of Mickey Mouse.
(Don't put gloves on Steamboat Willie!)
But, it would probably be a court battle that leads to Disney losing, but no one does it because Mickey Mouse is worthless outside of Disney's use and no one wants the trouble anyway.
My problem, though, isn't with the big copyright holders holding onto things. I don't care about that because the big copyright holders do generally take care of their big copyrights.
My problem is everything below that. The Fox library that Disney is hoarding and won't let anyone use. The books that no one even knows are under copyright or not. The vast majority of works that no one can or will do anything with because publishers and other content providers will just assume they're under copyright
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sydney Powell at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (LaiZQ)
Kraken would be a good name for a plumbing business.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (g47mK)
"Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (viF8m)
.. nobody is above the law (except the Clintons ...)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (RHGPo)
So the reasoning is her ushering the dude through her personal chambers to escape isn't hiding because it was too stupid to be considered such.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 02:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Alexander Haig at December 19, 2025 02:01 PM (bNf8H)
https://tinyurl.com/pyx6dcnf
"The overcredentialed admins don't actually have any practical skills to do their jobs — so just invent a bunch of busywork for themselves and others, demand six figures, and out of an inflated sense of importance, hire a bunch of assistants to do busywork for them."
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There's a new cover sheet for the TPS reports.
Posted by: Lundberg at December 19, 2025 02:01 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (dK+Kv)
So would Kamala.
"where clearing your pipes is as simple as a golf ball through a garden hose"
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:02 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (W2Pud)
Me, too. I wouldn't recommend it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Unclezeb at December 19, 2025 02:02 PM (M37qU)
*farfour the mouse has entered the chat*
Posted by: anachronda at December 19, 2025 02:02 PM (edU/H)
He spent all of 2024 advocating for Commie-La.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 01:58 PM (UnA8+)
No wonder he's so good at debating the drones from network TV. He's trained himself up doing the impossible verbally for years.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2025 02:03 PM (8avO+)
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There's a new cover sheet for the TPS reports.
Posted by: Lundberg at December 19, 2025 02:01 PM (LaiZQ)
*teachers enter the chat*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:03 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Let me know next time you're going so I can take your advice and not be there.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:03 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 02:03 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Sydney Powell at December 19, 2025 01:57 PM (LaiZQ)
I thing SOMEBODY would be very turned on by that...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia, in Hospital) at December 19, 2025 02:04 PM (MAbvX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (W2Pud)
Me, too. I wouldn't recommend it.
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The 25-year old me crashed a frat party there back in the day when I was in town to examine a bank--had a blast!
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 19, 2025 02:04 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (W2Pud)
Me, too. I wouldn't recommend it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:02 PM
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Is this about me?
Posted by: Winslow, Arizona at December 19, 2025 02:04 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 02:03 PM (n5tGW)
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I don't oppose copyright.
I oppose Life+70 copyright rules. They're ridiculous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Let me know next time you're going so I can take your advice and not be there.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:03 PM (TH+5o)
You're safe for the rest of my life.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 02:05 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM
It's good when CBD seizes control. Good.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:08 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side. at December 19, 2025 02:08 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Winslow, Arizona at December 19, 2025 02:04 PM (LaiZQ)
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Take it easy.
Posted by: Glen Frey at December 19, 2025 02:08 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:09 PM (zZu0s)
I've been to Chesaw, WA. Wouldn't recommended it. On the plus side it does have a bar.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 19, 2025 02:09 PM (HTCU3)
Cheap printing presses changed that.
The same kind of seismic change has taken place in the internet age: copyright does not work like it used to and has to be rebuilt.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 02:09 PM (3Amc7)
https://tinyurl.com/pyx6dcnf
"The overcredentialed admins don't actually have any practical skills to do their jobs — so just invent a bunch of busywork for themselves and others, demand six figures, and out of an inflated sense of importance, hire a bunch of assistants to do busywork for them."
So, like 99% of corporate America then.
Posted by: Not THAT much different from the private sector at December 19, 2025 02:09 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Dear Liza at December 19, 2025 02:09 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 02:10 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:05 PM (GBKbO)
Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn.
Copyright, however long it may endure, does not impinge upon my freedom at all. There is a metric fuckton of stupid shit that government does to restrict my freedom, and yours, and that shit is more worthy of being fought.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:10 PM (npFr7)
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ISWYDT.
Alternatively, he could call in on Kim Komando's syndicated radio show!
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 02:11 PM (TN0g+)
Tesla died penniless because Edison stole some of his inventions.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 02:03 PM (n5tGW)
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I think it's more accurate to say that Tesla died penniless because Tesla was a very bad businessman.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 02:11 PM (tgvbd)
Copyright, however long it may endure, does not impinge upon my freedom at all. There is a metric fuckton of stupid shit that government does to restrict my freedom, and yours, and that shit is more worthy of being fought.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:10 PM (npFr7)
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It absolutely does infringe on people's rights. Just because you don't want to reprint a book that's been out of print since 1950 and no one even knows if its under copyright doesn't mean that other people don't want to.
And I'm sorry that I'm talking about a minor government infringement instead of the major ones. Are you the police about which things we're allowed to complain about?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 19, 2025 02:09 PM (HTCU3)
Visited a mine site there, many years ago. And had a beer in the bar.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:12 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:12 PM (+wReq)
Alternatively, he could call in on Kim Komando's syndicated radio show!
Posted by: Crusader
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Thank you!
I didn't think anyone would get it. I use that joke a lot, especially when a crane falls over. No one ever gets it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 02:13 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Fulton County at December 19, 2025 02:13 PM (gb3qv)
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I believe Sparta, WI may hold the title for most bars per capita in the US.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 02:13 PM (TN0g+)
You can smell Greeley. Specially, the cows in Greeley.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2025 02:13 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 02:13 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:13 PM (+wReq)
I believe Sparta, WI may hold the title for most bars per capita in the US.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 02:13 PM (TN0g+)
It was Green Bay at one point.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 02:14 PM (n5tGW)
If they had successfully cheated enough on early voting they would not have needed to resort to creating a water line issue, and the multiple counting of ballots that they did in the wee hours.
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Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 02:13 PM (TN0g+)
It was Green Bay at one point.
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I believe it. Wisconsin probably holds the state title for bars per capita.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 02:15 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 02:14 PM (n5tGW)
You either sold them your idea or they would bury you in legal bullshit till you went bankrupt.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)
And I'm sorry that I'm talking about a minor government infringement instead of the major ones. Are you the police about which things we're allowed to complain about?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
Go ahead and print the book, and see what happens. And if you want to keep flogging that poor dead horse, by all means carry on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 02:15 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2025 02:15 PM (zZu0s)
Did You See This??
Yesterday at a Wal-Mart, a Shoplifter PULLS GUN and points while being Detained by Police:
https://is.gd/hJ74SN
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:16 PM (+wReq)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 19, 2025 02:16 PM (5IH8V)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 02:16 PM (u9Aw1)
We all had the munchies.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 19, 2025 02:17 PM (n5tGW)
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Apple stole the desktop computer from Xerox.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 02:17 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 19, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)
It was more important to denounce Candice Owens a traitor and insane. I am sure everyone will get around to it.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 02:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 02:16 PM (u9Aw1)
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And Ace open nood.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 02:18 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Keep On the Sunny Side
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The bodies have been hidden.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2025 02:24 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2025 02:25 PM (XeU6L)
https://is.gd/hJ74SN
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:16 PM (+wReq)
Holy crap!! Not the sharpest tack in the box.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 19, 2025 02:35 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 02:37 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 02:16 PM (+wReq)
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What I wrote in the now vaporized stoner nood,
Wow, Mr. High and tight saved his life -- the cop was ready to ventilate him if he could get a clear shot.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 02:39 PM (u9Aw1)
The fraud is probably upstream of that, in the 10,000 ballots that got run through the tabulation machine 5 times to make 50,000. Now, there's a question whether the election workers who ran the ballots through the machines 5 times were told not to sign the tape and they couldn't get prosecuted.
Next step is to get those suspect early ballots from storage and do a recount. I'm betting they've been destroyed and can't be replicated.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 19, 2025 02:47 PM (eStot)
Posted by: Meathead at December 19, 2025 03:04 PM (I2y5H)
Now tell us how those 315,THOUSAND votes were "cast."
Posted by: Marooned at December 19, 2025 03:16 PM (kt8QE)
Wikipedia, Fani Taifa Willis[1] (née Floyd; /fɑːniː/, FAH-nee;[1] born October 27, 1971)[2][3] is an American attorney. She is the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, which contains most of Atlanta, serving since 2021.[4] She is the first woman to hold the office in Fulton County.[5]
If you step back & examine, the amount of strategic planning that went into the entire process is fascinating.
Insurance.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 03:39 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: crypto king at December 19, 2025 04:23 PM (s8WNT)
I once saw an op-ed by Mark Helprin, the novelist and one-time Bush supporter, advocating that copyright should be perpetual - as in, forever. Helprin is a great novelist, and also something of a nut; but the absurdity of that should be obvious even to him. Can you imagine the court battles over the royalties for the plays of William Shakespeare?
Posted by: Nemo at December 19, 2025 05:30 PM (4RPgu)
Open thread
I'm taking the computer in to a repair shop. Unfortunately I'll only be posting open threads from the phone. Now my computer doesn't even show a network ability at all
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Drunken hampsters.
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You will receive one complimentary comment for your troubles.
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You will receive one complimentary comment for your troubles.
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But only for Dust-bunny membership and above.
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Cackle.............. Cackle............ Cackle........
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)
What I really want is for Orlando airport to be renamed for Trump. Think of it:
MCO becomes DJT (with apologies to COL McCoy) but then every foreigner who comes to the US thru Orlando is reminded of our greatest president.
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Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (cI94r)
"Sir, we've corrected the ID-10T errors. That will be $487, please."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Ace at 01:06 PM
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Could mean a new motherboard, then.
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (rj6Yv)
Yes.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (Riz8t)
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Wait another 100 comments...
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (krQz2)
Technician opens the back of the computer case and retrieves a small, startled raccoon.
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Uh oh....we're not going to survive this, are we.......
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But only for Dust-bunny membership and above.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (krQz2)
Now we will find out who the real high-rollers are.
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Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 19, 2025 01:12 PM (HTCU3)
Will you make the cut, and be assigned "Exceeds Expectations"?
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Downtime is unacceptable!
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Uh oh....we're not going to survive this, are we.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Somebody had it covered - and all of our wonderful tech advice got lost in the ether - but I suspect they were nooding for CBD's undernood.
It's all FUBAR, man.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:13 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 19, 2025 01:13 PM (UqhGk)
........
a little keyboard cleaner
fluid checks
rotate the USB ports
Voila!
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 01:13 PM (v0R5T)
Uh oh....we're not going to survive this, are we.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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OMG, they're all trapped there: an alternate universe split off from our own.
So lucky I got out it in time.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 01:14 PM (1Nv0l)
And the airport in East St. Louis will be renamed the Ace of Spades HQ International Airport and Book Case Shelves Emporium.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 19, 2025 01:14 PM (cI94r)
I know, its very easy for me to spend someone elses money...
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No clue what hardware we're talking about...
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Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 01:15 PM (bXbFr)
Somebody had it covered - and all of our wonderful tech advice got lost in the ether - but I suspect they were nooding for CBD's undernood.
It's all FUBAR, man.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:13 PM (dK+Kv)
Now I know how the mom in Poltergeist felt.
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good luck Ace
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Skill issue
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Speaking of grammie… she been around recently? Last I heard she had received relatively good medical news which I hope still holds
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Where's she been?
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Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 19, 2025 01:12 PM (HTCU3)
It is the only viable option, since nobody is going to pay for hours of IT work to diagnose how Apple or Microsoft borked your computer and to apply the ultimate corrections.
I have spent days manually undoing botched MS updates on a machine I really needed to get the data off of (not mine), and nobody except Hunter spending China/Ukraine cash is going to pay that kind of money.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:17 PM (dK+Kv)
Oh, okay. I see my advice is on some other thread. Well, it was useless anyway.
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Anybody can be out anywhere for the right price.
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Meanwhile, I see we're finally getting a picture of that Portuguese killer. Why did that take so long?
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they had to find just the right patsy to cover for the muslham terrorist Biden let in to murder Americans.
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Posted by: Hunter B. at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (UKj38)
This is holiday season in NYC (millions of tourists) with heavy rain. The cost of private rides like Uber should be through the roof. But they were actually less than usual, with plenty of cars available.
How is this possible? Possibly, I got lucky in terms of timing and location. But more likely, the surge model worked, in that it enticed more drivers to go out searching for riders, which increased the supply of cars That put downward pressure on prices, to the point where they were actually less than usual (at least in my circumstances).
Interesting, if nothing else.
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Posted by: Corrupt Umpire at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (dB13k)
Does Sept. 1, 2022, ring a bell? Has he really forgotten Joe Biden’s “Battle for the Soul of the Nation” speech (AKA the "red speech") at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall?
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 19, 2025 01:19 PM (TezPK)
If it stops working properly, it's time to transfer whatever files you need, and get a new one.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 01:19 PM (dGCAG)
Back in 2020 I said Trump won in a landslide. I stand by that today.
I said biden likely got 65 million "legit" votes.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 01:19 PM (KDEC8)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 19, 2025 01:19 PM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (RHGPo)
Every day is Day Zero for the Party.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:19 PM (TH+5o)
Does Sept. 1, 2022, ring a bell? Has he really forgotten Joe Biden’s “Battle for the Soul of the Nation” speech (AKA the "red speech") at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall?
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (RHGPo)
To be fair, Johnathan Karl is a hyper partisan asshole, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Restart, computer reinstalls drivers.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (dfeba)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (4q/mG)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Ace
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Have you tried dropping it off a 10-story building? Try dropping it off a 10-story building.
Posted by: Don Black at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (1Nv0l)
What's that?
Posted by: High Occupancy Toll Lanes at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (LaiZQ)
... something went wrongPosted by: Bad Andrew at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (6qf1m)
... does Newsom really think we want to be like California ?
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 01:12 PM (3Amc7)
Dude, you've got a long memory.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (Hx0tZ)
-Jonathan Karl probably
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (TH+5o)
No clue what hardware we're talking about...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 01:15 PM (NwnyJ)
When ethernet first came onto the scene, Network Interface Cards (NICs) were an add-on item that you plugged into an open motherboard slot. They still exist. As the tech matured, the networking chips were just integrated onto the motherboard, freeing up expansion slots or allowing for smaller computers/laptops. If your onboard NIC fails, there is always the option of adding an addon card or a USB to WiFi or a USB to ethernet dongle. They're dirt cheap, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (npFr7)
I can hear the chimes
Ringing for you and me
(It's time for the world to hear)
I can see your eyes
(Your hands joining with me)
Neue Regel is here!
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (krQz2)
--DOJ has until midnight to release the epstein bullshit
-- DOJ already said there's so many files all won't be released by the fake "deadline"
-- President Trump makes another address tonight at 9pm
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (KDEC8)
Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (IifOV)
Comment of the week candidate?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: runner at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (g47mK)
Restart, computer reinstalls drivers.
That's bit like asking ace to write a PID function in assembler.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (jNK17)
Kangarooing everywhere.
Kajagoogoo
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (HUco/)
I thought you were going for a haiku.
Posted by: Corrupt Umpire at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (dB13k)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (OUMaO)
BTDT, and I hope that Ace has this exact problem and has to come back to the horde explaining such after all the hilarious advice offered earlier.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)
It's almost never "my fault."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:21 PM (npFr7)
Funny how ASS misses the poor lady that pointed out the fraud in Colorado and has been a political prisoner ever since and isn't even being released after a Presidential Pardon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (1Nv0l)
2 causes: Dems gives them a -6 pt net approval(!), & they're at -61 pts with indies!
The effect? Dems lead on the generic ballot is less than half of what it was at this pt in the 06 & 18 cycles.
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (KDEC8)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (dB13k)
Posted by: runner
That was before he had to fix Ace's laptop. Poor guy has to do everything himself.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Just got here at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (LaiZQ)
Brown turned all the cameras off for Antifa and it took a while to find the guy who could turn them back on.
More seriously, the MIT professor is also Portuguese so it’s probably some weird blood feud.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (IifOV)
Comment of the week candidate?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (npFr7)
Also, don't bang your dead brother's wife.
Or shower with your granddaughter.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (dGCAG)
BTDT, and I hope that Ace has this exact problem and has to come back to the horde explaining such after all the hilarious advice offered earlier.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)
There actually used to be a Function key that would give the user the ability to turn the WiFi on and off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Oh, I'd only waste it anyway.
Posted by: Hans Moleman at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (hAWPK)
hyper partisan
because when just partisan isn't fucking partisan enough for partisan Fake News
FUCKING IRONIC, LOOK IT UP DISNEY Cocksucker
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (KDEC8)
FUCK YOU DISNEY "News"
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (KDEC
It means a Republican said something.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (TH+5o)
Also, don't bang your dead brother's wife.
Or shower with your granddaughter.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (dGCAG)
To be fair, he was banging his brother's wife while the brother was still alive as he texted him about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: hamitchell at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (kE/nb)
You will receive one complimentary comment for your troubles.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)
I was hoping for Club ONT bathroom tokens.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 01:25 PM (dB13k)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)
I never know how low they sank. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 01:26 PM (dGCAG)
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Homeless guy in the basement couldn't get an Internet connection.
Posted by: The IT Department at December 19, 2025 01:26 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:26 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 01:26 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: hamitchell at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (kE/nb)
You will receive one complimentary comment for your troubles.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)
I was hoping for Club ONT bathroom tokens.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 01:25 PM (dB13k)
Just so long as it's not a membership in the Jelly of the Month Club.
Posted by: Clark W. Griswold at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (wVcYX)
Hunter probably also banged DOCTOR JILL. She’s his stepmom so apparently that’s totally cool as long as she’s stuck in a dryer or something.
At least that’s what I heard.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)
I have that on some laptops and got momentarily confuzelled by it, them LMAOd at myself.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (dK+Kv)
... does Newsom really think we want to be like California ?
Posted by: SMOD
.....
Newsom doesn't care what you think.
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 01:27 PM (v0R5T)
@RepJamesComer
🚨@RobertGarcia and Oversight Democrats cherry-picked Epstein Estate records and searched for a single word: “Trump.”
All while claiming to be seeking justice for Epstein’s survivors.
This was never about the survivors for Democrats. They’re using them to achieve their agenda.
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:28 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 01:28 PM (wVcYX)
The technician slid his thumb across the top of the screen to open the privacy shade. Which I swear I didn't close on purpose.
Fortunately, he didn't charge me for the service.
While he helped me, I assisted a young woman who had an equally simple problem to solve in a tool that I actually knew something about.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 01:28 PM (ESVrU)
Bestbuy has the 14" Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook on sale for $129.00
https://is.gd/6uSC6x
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 19, 2025 01:28 PM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Classy.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD
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You could've knocked me over with a fender.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: TeeJ at December 19, 2025 01:29 PM (T08Hw)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)
DJT should send in Federal Marshals to extricate her. Tell the prison warden to hand her over or be shot where he stands.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:30 PM (npFr7)
https://is.gd/6uSC6x
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 19, 2025 01:28 PM (HTCU3)
I have a few gen old Samsung tablet. With BT keyboard and mouse, it is a totally solid go anywhere backup device, at least for text based work.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:30 PM (dK+Kv)
... glad I didn't go to a school that graduates homeless
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:31 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Hunter To Beau at December 19, 2025 01:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 19, 2025 01:19 PM (ZTJjv)
Thank you.
You may now go back into hibernation.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 01:32 PM (dB13k)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 01:18 PM (HUco/)
It's never lupus.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (dB13k)
Ringing for you and me
(It's time for the world to hear)
I can see your eyes
(Your hands joining with me)
Neue Regel is here!
------
A Surgical Strike
We've taught them not to feel
performance is their task
A Surgical Strike
Its time is arriving now for you
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (TN0g+)
The New York Times has found no evidence implicating Mr. Trump in Mr. Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of minors."
Posted by: SMOD
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THAT's how well he hides it!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)
From who?
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (TH+5o)
Brown is run by nearly 4000 administrators (not professors!) who might work in ResLife yet have a PhD in obscure fields (because many of these folks are failed academics who still want to work in academia).
The overcredentialed admins don't actually have any practical skills to do their jobs — so just invent a bunch of busywork for themselves and others, demand six figures, and out of an inflated sense of importance, hire a bunch of assistants to do busywork for them.
This results in a lot of overhead — salaries are the biggest expense category at Brown — and not so much money left for facilities (no security cameras), dorms (lots of flooding and lead paint), or food (poorly regarded).
But at the end of the day, it usually doesn't matter! Unlike other schools, Brown doesn't need safe facilities, nice dorms, or tasty food to attract students because everybody goes to Brown for the Ivy League brand.
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (RHGPo)
Don't Do it!
Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (IifOV)
HHAAHAHHAHAHHAHAH
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (RuTUS)
... and that $360k handshake
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)
From who?
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (TH+5o)
Shame you wasted yours.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Driven By Hard Numbers at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (oftw2)
She should be turned into a gimp and giver to a gas station owner in Qatar.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (dK+Kv)
LMAO did you expect anything else
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:34 PM (dK+Kv)
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That doesn't sound very complimentary.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:36 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:35 PM (TH+5o)
It's Christmas. It's the time of miracles.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:36 PM (krQz2)
This is getting hit on the head lessons.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 19, 2025 01:33 PM (n7rxJ)
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The telltale sign that the CIA is stealing all my belongings and replacing them with exact duplicates, is that they are exact duplicates!
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:39 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: SMOD
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two points.
1. Schools generally don't like people with real jobs, like security, because they tend to be rational and not progressive loons.
2. There is a lot of talk about them turning off video to prevent prosecution of pali jew-haters when they riot. Also it endangers illegals preying on students.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 01:39 PM (u9Aw1)
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Homeless guy in the basement couldn't get an Internet connection.
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Yeah, he could only post from his phone...
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Damn
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Kosmo at December 19, 2025 01:40 PM (LaiZQ)
There's a reason I have two computers.
Three.
Well, sixteen, but who's counting?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (KDEC8)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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I still have some PCMCIA network and modem cards for a circa early 90's laptop. Plus one double decker one with a hard drive in it.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 01:42 PM (WDjG6)
It soft-bricked two of my computers. I had to do a System Restore and rollback about a week.
Posted by: Schoolbus Vegabond at December 19, 2025 01:43 PM (rRnR3)
Posted by: Jim Rose at December 19, 2025 01:45 PM (miqrx)
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2025 01:46 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 01:42 PM (WDjG6)
Oh crap. I do, too, I just couldn't remember what they were called to be able to talk about them. A little Intel PCMCIA NIC, when Intel NICs use to be the gold standard. Before Broadcom, I believe.
Gather around, children, as Grampa and I discuss the joys of ISA and assigning IRQs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:46 PM (dK+Kv)
It was like 10 or 20 men full time to do a job at 1/100 efficiency.
It made me so angry. I worked my ass off for tuition. I told one random dean that they needed to itemize and send a letter to each student telling them where their tuition went.
"Thank you for your $xxx. We used that money to pay to trim the hedge around the Alumni building very very slowly."
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 01:46 PM (u9Aw1)
It soft-bricked two of my computers. I had to do a System Restore and rollback about a week.
Posted by: Schoolbus Vegabond at December 19, 2025 01:43 PM (rRnR3)
Thanks for that tip. I don't VPN from Windows (other than native Remote Desktop), but I have a few VMs that I'll be sure to make a snapshot for before I update them.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:47 PM (dK+Kv)
... glad I didn't go to a school that graduates homeless
Posted by: SMOD
Apparently, he's brilliant and snapped at some point. There are reports he does some janitorial work at the school & the school & neighborhood treat him ok.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 19, 2025 01:20 PM (OUMaO)
What a great story.
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 01:48 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: JSpicy at December 19, 2025 01:50 PM (C7Yya)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (EyfuW)
I thought "man, this guy really screwed up -- you become homeless so that you don't have to deal with appointments. He has the worst of both worlds, no home, and stress."
Honestly, it made me very sad and stuck with me all these decades later.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 19, 2025 01:53 PM (u9Aw1)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 01:54 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 01:56 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 01:54 PM (bXbFr)
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Lazlo Hollyfeld
No matter what role Jon Gries plays, my wife and I always call him "Lazlo".
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 02:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 02:04 PM (bXbFr)
________________________________________________
Don't take it to the one Hunter took his to, 'kay …
Posted by: Dr_No at December 19, 2025 02:08 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Ralph at December 19, 2025 02:11 PM (8WZD4)
Plus we still have very little snow in the Intermountain West and it is impacting my happiness.I will continue to pray for tons of snow. Many feet of snow. The midwest and northeast don't need it like we do for water in the summer.
My husband, a weather nerd from when I met him decades ago, claims it might get better in a week. We'll see. The wind is blowing madly since last night and I pray for snow to follow (which is normal til now).
I see there is no news yet from Miami about the Portuguese narcissist killer. I want to know more about what he did after he left Brown (no doubt in a hissy fit and something maybe happened in the auditorium where he went nuts). Is he ghey or married? Religion? Politics? What was his job? Why was he not legal after this many years on a green card?
I think it is grand that Brown University, with an $8 billion endowment, uses a homeless guy, living in the basement of the building, for security. No secure doors for passkey or ID to accesss the building. No cameras. Just John in the basement.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 19, 2025 02:11 PM (WONhk)
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Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 19, 2025 03:41 PM (3tGF8)
Open Thresd
Major computer problems. Cannot connect to internet no matter if I use my home wifi or my phone hotspot, any ideas? I've rebooted and turned the wifi on and off a dozen times
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2025 12:23 PM (jbnUc)
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‘ New one: Ace's computer is mort.
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Too much colester all?’
It fell off the shelf.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (jbnUc)
Have you tried slapping a hot iron to your router?
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Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (pDt9x)
My guess is a localized ISP internet outage if your phone can still reach its LTE networks.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (shXPd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)
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Unrelated, I'm sure:
PornHub was hacked yesterday.
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Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:28 PM (XuXeR)
Lololol
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
If I was not in the office working I would be home with a hot chocolate reading a book.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (WsJuq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Tandy.
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All I've got is go to Starbucks.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (n7rxJ)
Lean out and yell "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Chris at December 19, 2025 12:26 PM (Po98o)
#metoo
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (RuTUS)
Not sure. None of your passwords have changed. Camera still works (thru the tape you put over it)...
Looks fine from here.
Posted by: Bob@NSA at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (shXPd)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Minx 0.8 at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (+hevz)
Major computer problems. Cannot connect to internet no matter if I use my home wifi or my phone hotspot, any ideas? I've rebooted and turned the wifi on and off a dozen times
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HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elon Musk at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (WpR7m)
Posted by: Next2Nothing at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (tA1/w)
Posted by: Long time douchebag at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (IRPUu)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (WsJuq)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (4mFFH)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (Wg6v7)
But he posted here. My brain can't wrap around this.
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Next2Nothing at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (tA1/w)
*replaces tape over camera*
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (2WIwB)
Can you connect to your router via wired connection instead of wirelessly? If you can and you still have troubles, it's not the wifi.
In cmd prompt, you can do a ipconfig /flushdns
Then do a ipconfig /renew
If that doesn't fix it, you can try
ipconfig
find the "Default gateway" ip address
ping 192.168.1.1 (or whatever the address is)
if you get a reply for the pings, then try
ping google.com
if you get a reply, it's not the network
We can do more if none of that helps.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (t0Out)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Then it isn't your router.
I had an issue a few years back where my wifi was just disabled
Did you have a MS update recently? (If you're not running a Mac, that is)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Ironically, despite being the running joke in IT crowd, it often does solve a fair number of problems with computers.
One key thing to remember, wait at least 30 seconds to a minute before restarting to clear caches, etc.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (ilHZO)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (WsJuq)
Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (4mFFH)
Note: don't do that, seriously. Don't.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (y9nCu)
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We used to have this saying. "When in doubt, format c:\"
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (krQz2)
Can you connect to your router via wired connection instead of wirelessly? If you can and you still have troubles, it's not the wifi.
In cmd prompt, you can do a ipconfig /flushdns
Then do a ipconfig /renew
If that doesn't fix it, you can try
ipconfig
find the "Default gateway" ip address
ping 192.168.1.1 (or whatever the address is)
if you get a reply for the pings, then try
ping google.com
if you get a reply, it's not the network
We can do more if none of that helps.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (Yp6az)
You lost me at ISP.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (dfgzq)
Ironically, despite being the running joke in IT crowd, it often does solve a fair number of problems with computers.
One key thing to remember, wait at least 30 seconds to a minute before restarting to clear caches, etc.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (WDjG6)
You too can be a
Microsoft
Certified
Reboot
Technician
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (WPL6O)
You might be right, but ace is not a techy and this is not written for a non-techy.
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (mlg/3)
During this time you will experience service outages. The enhancement will allow us to provide the ultragigabyte speeds you have requested, especially for the Big Boobs sites you seem to like the most.
Thank you for being a customer!
Posted by: Your Internet Provider at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (r3hkP)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (t0Out)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (XuXeR)
Watch a video about Ernst Lubitsch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wnBxEUMERQ
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)
What is happening right now?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)
thresd, Sponge
thresd
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: A Somalian at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (oSFyF)
J/K
Apple is known to bork devices to force OS upgrades.
Otherwise, if wired LAN works, then suspect the computer's wifi card going tits up, after some of the other suggestions.
Do you have another computer you can use to narrow it down to just thst one machine?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: A Somalian at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (oSFyF)
You forgot to ask for his SSN.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (t0Out)
Posted by: Clay at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (zLw18)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: A Somalian at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (oSFyF)
You forgot to ask for his SSN.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (t0Out)
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Why? That shit's already out in the wild.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)
Looks fine from here.
Posted by: Bob@NSA at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (shXPd)
You have a tough job, Bob. I don't envy you. Not everyone has six pack abs like I do.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: TOGA, TOGA, TOGA at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (BZF07)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (WDjG6)
Great Wesley impression
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (TH+5o)
Run the Network Adapter Troubleshooter: Go to Settings > System > Troubleshoot > Other troubleshooters > Network Adapter and click "Run".
1
Posted by: Chuck C at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Count Vinny Barbarino de Monet at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (nljXp)
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Ace says that's not his bag, baby.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (krQz2)
Send me your bank account number, ATM Card Number and PIN. Guaranteed that works.
Posted by: A Somalian at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM
You guys always make me laugh.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (e1rsl)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (nljXp)
Do people still not know about hands-free penis pumps?
Sad.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (dK+Kv)
The aptly named Providence Mayor Brett Smiley might be able to rescue Saturday Night Live from its doldrums. Brown President Christina Paxson could play Smiley’s clueless foil. Providence Police Chief Colonel Oscar Perez, Jr. seemed like a throwback to Garrett Morris’s Chico Escueala in the glory days of SNL.
-Scott Johnson
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Cruel and accurate.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (9ipOP)
Can you connect to your router via wired connection instead of wirelessly? If you can and you still have troubles, it's not the wifi.
In cmd prompt, you can do a ipconfig /flushdns
Then do a ipconfig /renew
If that doesn't fix it, you can try
ipconfig
find the "Default gateway" ip address
ping 192.168.1.1 (or whatever the address is)
if you get a reply for the pings, then try
ping google.com
if you get a reply, it's not the network
We can do more if none of that helps.
Posted by: bonhomme
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What bonhomme says. Usual problem is DNS in accessing network, I have rarely seen, other than a driver issue on update, wifi chips stop working.
Usually either an ISP issue or software issue on the device.
I don't even think I have had a router or a modem fail but then again, I buy new ones on a 2 year basis due to increased security technology and higher throughput.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)
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We got you ! Not so clever now, smartypants !
Posted by: Groypers' Revenge at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (g47mK)
Idl'd ask if you could construct a rudimentary lathe, but bad tech crap is too annoying to be a wiseass about
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (1vqcm)
Posted by: E Buzz at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (UxsaJ)
Well, that, and it is a tactful way of saying "I know you claim you have it turned on and plugged in, but let's double check that"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (3Amc7)
Time to buy a new computer!
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (t0Out)
It's time to buy ale!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: TOGA, TOGA, TOGA at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (BZF07)
I'll bring my guitar.
Posted by: Stephen Bishop at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (+hevz)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: A Somalian at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (oSFyF)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ripley at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:28 PM (XuXeR)
I get this reference. +1
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (dGCAG)
Ace's computer has information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Maduro at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ...
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Eeeek. A TNG Trekkie hidden slur.
Well played my man.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (BZF07)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (TH+5o)
79 67 Check your ISP's outage map.
Can you connect to your router via wired connection instead of wirelessly? If you can and you still have troubles, it's not the wifi.
In cmd prompt, you can do a ipconfig /flushdns
Then do a ipconfig /renew
If that doesn't fix it, you can try
ipconfig
find the "Default gateway" ip address
ping 192.168.1.1 (or whatever the address is)
if you get a reply for the pings, then try
ping google.com
if you get a reply, it's not the network
We can do more if none of that helps
I know you think you're helping, but you're really not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Case at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (ttU59)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (6qf1m)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 12:35 PM (dGCAG)
Ace's computer has information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (TH+5o)
It criticized Israel!
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: mrp
ATT crews doing fiber optic extensions cut off my water by breaking the water main lines in my area. Not amused.
At least they avoided the gas lines producing a kaboom.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (TH+5o)
*had
Posted by: Clillary Hinton at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (XV/Pl)
Well, that, and it is a tactful way of saying "I know you claim you have it turned on and plugged in, but let's double check that"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (3Amc7)
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Unfortunately, the more complete way to completely shut down your computer and restart it is.... restart.
Ironically, the "shut down" option, just saves your RAM to disk and turns off the power. And then when you turn back on the power, the OS notices that it was shut down and just loads the image back into memory.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:28 PM (XuXeR)
Show it to the children when they misbehave?
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (nljXp)
That certainly didn't keep the dolts at Brown from celebrating last night. I hope the family of the MIT Professor sues Brown University and those responsible are sued in the personal capacity.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (TN0g+)
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First, you bang with wrench. Then, check bunker oil. If bunker oil is low, add bunker oil. Steal some.
If bunker oil is dirty, pretend to change bunker oil. Steal more bunker oil.
If refueling doesn't work, tear the machine down and raffle off the parts to your neighbors.
Posted by: SOWJET AI TECHNICAL SUPPORTCHIK at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (uWKK8)
I probably should have just called my provider to determine if it was a wide outage, instead of gorging on crullers and bad coffee. ;D
Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tubal
Sorry, Pixy's asleep right now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (BLOW1)
Pixy!
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: whig
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It happens. And in this case may be the more likely explanation, since his phone hotspot is unlikely to be using the same DNS server as his home wifi.
And he was able to post these threads.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: DaveA at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (FhXTo)
That certainly didn't keep the dolts at Brown from celebrating last night. I hope the family of the MIT Professor sues Brown University and those responsible are sued in the personal capacity.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (TN0g+)
I agree
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (Oasjp)
Posted by: Beartooth at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (GGatE)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Pretty cool, but what am I looking at? Sure seems to be a lot of 100% packet loss around a reputed high-tech country.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (gnUjt)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (krQz2)
I know you aren't serious because you forgot the jar of vaseline.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (TH+5o)
Mr money bags over here
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (Yp6az)
Get a macbook air or pro.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (XV/Pl)
He didn't specifically say, but people usually want good ideas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (dK+Kv)
Is this an open thread equivalent to 'someone hacked my twitter and posted gay pr0n'?
Posted by: ghbucky at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (/xDbx)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (pDt9x)
Get a macbook air or pro.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (XV/Pl)
Or throw your good, hard earned money into a shredder, pull the remnants out and put them in a fire pit and light on fire. At least that way you'll get good use out of the cash.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (iFTx/)
My BS sniffer is suspicious
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (sBt/s)
And he was able to post these threads.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (1Nv0l)
From his phone
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (TH+5o)
The ISP drops are concentrated in the morning hours Tues - Thurs. Afternoons and weekends are drop-free.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (dK+Kv)
The ISP drops are concentrated in the morning hours Tues - Thurs. Afternoons and weekends are drop-free.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (wVcYX)
Isn't Arris owned by Carlos Slim?
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (1Nv0l)
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Thresds.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (Oasjp)
I'm a grumpy old man.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (1Nv0l)
Don't analyze the instructions, just follow them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)
?
Just a little joke. Most people's eyes, mine included, glaze over when someone starts in with the "just check" or "just do this", assuming everyone has any idea wth those things are and where they are to be found. No insult intended.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (1Nv0l)
From his phone
Posted by: ...
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which is using the same DNS as does his phone hotspot, which is not working from his laptop.
Hence why I am skeptical that it is DNS.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (1Nv0l)
posted by: ghbucky:
He's probably using the WiFi at McDonalds like all those poor black kids had to do during covid to do their homework.
Posted by: Ripley at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)
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More importantly, type them.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (3uBP9)
I prescribe more Spyro Gyra.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Bay Area Relaxation Influencer at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (+hevz)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)
That's what SHE said.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (dGCAG)
This frees up billions Ford can waste on some other useless quest.
At least they haven't gone BK but stawk goes nowhere.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (WufTh)
posted by: ghbucky:
I wonder if he reached the end of the internet and just has to turn around.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 12:48 PM (gnUjt)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (1Nv0l)
I didn't realize what you were answering mostly because I'm kind of dumb.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:48 PM (TH+5o)
can you access the internet?
It's your home router. Call the company, or try rebooting the router.
If you can't connect, you've reached the end of the internet and life as you know it has ended.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)
This frees up billions Ford can waste on some other useless quest.
At least they haven't gone BK but stawk goes nowhere.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (WufTh)
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Still nothing compared to Zuck's efforts to get us to live in pods with Meta.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:48 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: PabloD at December 19, 2025 12:48 PM (1yZeG)
Nevertheless, Hubby will be their first customer in our subdivision when it goes live next month. The only things I miss in Florida over NYS are beautiful summers, natural gas ("coming soon" for five years now) and Verizon FIOS.
Posted by: Ann at December 19, 2025 12:49 PM (w9jrX)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:47 PM (UnA8+)
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A lot more is written in C/C++ than in Rust.
Although, nushell is written in Rust.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:49 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2025 12:49 PM (WufTh)
I'm a grumpy old man.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (3uBP9)
Windows pisses me off. I never joined the Apple "culture" after seeing the zealots. I have been pleasantly surprised at the liberation and ability to do stuff that free software enables.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 12:49 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (jNK17)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (Oasjp)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (TH+5o)
"The app doesn't work. -VIP user'
Dear VIP user,
Can you provide more specifics? What exactly is not working?
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Ghosted
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hwy is this sev1 VIP ticket still open?!!?!?!?!?!
Posted by: ghbucky at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (/xDbx)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (p4NUW)
Oh, no. The cardiologist just places stents and has a list of meds to provide, the naturopath passed me to her DO who normally does Rx and the like, and he doesn't read charts.
As for the rest, yes I do all that stuff on my own, also Nattokinase and Bromelain seem to help in some cases but I don't have any direct imaging to help figure out if it is working in my case, and it is definitely not "standard of care".
Standard of care is statins and future stents.
Piper, metabolic syndrome is a complex of issues, and it is starting to be recognized that they are interconnected, and no MD I have dealt with seems to care about any of it. Liver, Pancreas, lipidemia, arteriosclerosis and being overweight are all involved, but arteriosclerosis may be more to do with high blood pressure and damage to the epithelial cells, and of course scarring due to stents. I am told that a zero cholesterol diet may help in about 8 -12 months once my body scavenges it all to protect my nerve sheathes, but it seems as wise as reducing scarring by going on a zero vitamin C diet and hoping the scurvy doesn't kill me first.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (rbvCR)
Pure engagement farming. Ace is probably getting paid by the comment by pixy or something.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (RoO7G)
posted by: ghbucky:
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Most likely with his phone.
He probably, like many of us, works from his laptop.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:46 PM (UnA8+)
I don't know. I only know I wasn't going to rent a damn internet gateway from Xfinity when a purchased one hits breakeven in under a year.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (wVcYX)
Isn't that what we always do?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (Riz8t)
Although, nushell is written in Rust.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:49 PM (krQz2)
I can't code _at all_, but I figure I'm not smart enough for Linux until I can.
Again, have to do things "The Right Way".
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)
I nooded. It wss kind of sn imbedded nood.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (3uBP9)
If it's Linux, beware: the Linux foundation is getting corrupt (maybe doesn’t apply to all releases but definitely eyes-open when considering an update or upgrade).
x.com/i/status/
2001875764845908393
[Pull Quote #1:] Artificial Intelligence is “the future of The Linux Foundation”.
That is according to The Linux Foundation’s 2025 annual report.
AI is mentioned over 150 times in the 59 page report, with AI being, by far, the most common theme and topic — with nearly every section discussing AI.
Pull Quote #2:] Have you been enjoying the chaos of Trans Activism within Open Source?
Good. Because The Linux Foundation has been awarding “hundreds” of scholarships to DEI style organizations… including “TransTech Social Enterprises”.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (B5Gjr)
posted by: ghbucky:
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Most likely with his phone.
He probably, like many of us, works from his laptop.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (krQz2)
He specifically said his hotspot can't reach the internet, Hence his phone has no internet, either. Or at least, that's what he WANTS us to think.
Posted by: ghbucky at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (/xDbx)
Some of us have phones that can post on the internet.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 12:52 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Infidel De Manahatta at December 19, 2025 12:52 PM (hUaEC)
Really? That's guaranteed to get engagement right there.
PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!
Probably the cob Christmas bonuses put acecorp cashflow in the red
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 19, 2025 12:52 PM (RoO7G)
Isn't that what we always do?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (Riz8t)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (B5Gjr)
"Linux" and "Trans" in the same sentence.
This is now a Hector Martin thread.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: German Shepherd at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (6CWpO)
Posted by: Pinky at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (u9Aw1)
Clash eh? You mean government employees once again refuse to do what their boss tells them. Time for another round of layoffs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (udlma)
Posted by: Always worth a try at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: bsnsns Dresm at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (Riz8t)
He doesn't always give us a topic.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Lahore Tech Support at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Pinky at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (u9Aw1)
I didn't know they were Swedish.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)
___
Concur. If they had figured out and publicly released the shooter's name within 48 hours, the MIT Professor undoubtedly would have heard, recognized the name, and taken precautions. I assume the MIT Professor had reason to know the shooter might come after him.
Posted by: University of Color at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (qUkBO)
The ISP drops are concentrated in the morning hours Tues - Thurs. Afternoons and weekends are drop-free.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Have you blown out the dust in the modem using compressed air recently? Heat is an electronic killer over time and dust on components acts an insulator not allowing heat to escape from capacitors, etc.
Same reason ROKU boxes, and other fanless electronic devices fail over time as well.
Before they fail, they often work intermittently where when the heat gets too much, they shut down. Eventually the components get fried.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (WDjG6)
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They were briefly "big" (sorta) during the early 80s. I think I'd rather pick up trash from the side of a highway for 2 hours rather than time-travel and sit thru one of their shows.
* Although to spend 2 hours in the 80s again might be cool.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 12:52 PM (Yp6az)
Ooh well aren't we hoity toity? Bet that phone is made out of gold and diamonds, isn't it?
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Case at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (Riz8t)
He doesn't always give us a topic.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (TH+5o)
We haven’t “ disappointed” him in some time now.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: ...
BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ghbucky at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (/xDbx)
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That's not what he said. He said that the ways he's tried "connecting" is through his Wifi and by hotspotting his phone.
He didn't specifically say that his phone can't reach the internet. Just that he can't reach the internet by hotspotting his phone.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (krQz2)
Fannie Mae employees are not federal employees; Fannie Mae is a Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) that is privately owned but operates under federal conservatorship by the FHFA (Federal Housing Finance Agency), meaning its workers are private sector, not government employees, though the FHFA employees overseeing them are federal
. While Fannie Mae serves a public mission and has government ties (like being in conservatorship), it's structured as a private company, distinct from a federal agency
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ghbucky at December 19, 2025 12:51 PM (/xDbx)
He definitely did not say that.
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (TH+5o)
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
If the problem was a corrupt routing table, commonly the result of switching between two different network adapters (such as wired and wireless connections) on the same Windows computer, then that will fix it without having to reinstall drivers.
Posted by: SciVo at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Linda Richman at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (7Q0e+)
Posted by: 1970s Dad at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (Oasjp)
Is the internet functional?
If yes, home internet is down.
If no, you're proper f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Clash eh? You mean government employees once again refuse to do what their boss tells them. Time for another round of layoffs.
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Clash eh? You mean government employees once again refuse to do what their boss tells them. Send in the Marines! Or the Federal Marshalls if you want to do it the boring way.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (TN0g+)
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How much sports betting could you get in in 2 hours?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Linda Richman
Sturdy Buryat women rub their hands in glee.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (77rzZ)
$100 billions for Ukraine and the dems/media love it.
A few bucks for the troops and now it's all about fiscal responsibility.
You can't hate them enough.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (2WIwB)
Headline (New York Post):
"Brown University shooter 'made a barking noise' as he gunned down students in classroom, witnesses told cops"
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Like Oddball in "Kelly's Heroes"? Although that was a "woof!" more than a bark.
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 12:57 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 19, 2025 12:57 PM (LaiZQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 19, 2025 12:57 PM (nljXp)
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… Is there anybody listening?
Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?
What's behind the words images
They know will please us?
I'll take what's real
Bring up the lights
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 12:57 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 12:57 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (TN0g+)
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How much sports betting could you get in in 2 hours?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (krQz2)
80’s was pre internet, pre cellphones. 80% of our populace would wither away.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: 1970s Dad
Yeah, but entirely in pennies. Sometimes that pisses people off.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Linda Richman at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (7Q0e+)
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Yes, we have no supervision today.
* takes off running with scissors *
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (krQz2)
Also show bobs and vagene and DO NOT REDEEM!
Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (QZThv)
Same reason ROKU boxes, and other fanless electronic devices fail over time as well.
Before they fail, they often work intermittently where when the heat gets too much, they shut down. Eventually the components get fried.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:54 PM (WDjG6)
(Johnny Carson voice): I did not know that!
I don't have a can of air lying around a la President Skroob, i can run the vacuum cleaner brush extension over the vents and see if that helps any.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (/iXAp)
Posted by: 1970s Dad at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (1Nv0l)
And he was able to post these threads.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:43 PM (1Nv0l)
From his phone
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (TH+5o)
>>>Cannot connect to internet no matter if I use my home wifi or my phone hotspot
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (ewjUl)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: bsnsns Dresm at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (3uBP9)
They'll force the upgrade which then borks your device anyway.
Posted by: Either way you're totally borked at December 19, 2025 12:59 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 12:59 PM (WPL6O)
* takes off running with scissors *
Posted by: Axeman
Pants or no pants?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (RuTUS)
If the phone is connected to the home wifi and the home wifi internet is down, this will be the case.
Turn off the wifi on the phone and see if internet is accessible then.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: m
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Which is why it's probably his computer wifi.
If his phone can connect, but his computer cannot through the phone hotspot...
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:59 PM (1Nv0l)
* takes off running with scissors *
Posted by: Axeman
Pants or no pants?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)
That’s oike frying bacon while naked.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: bsnsns Dresm at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (3uBP9)
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Looks like someone swiped your "a" key when you weren't looking.
You are all set to bang out a lippogrammatical novel.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Ripley at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (GUOwU)
“More broadly, Pulte announced layoffs of “not core” employees, including staffers responsible for diversity efforts and ethics enforcement, according to public records and statements by Pulte. ”
Oh no Sh’aiqu’a and DeShawn won’t have make believe jobs anymore. Boo fucking hoo.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (udlma)
Internet existed but you had to be at a major college and web sites didn’t exist, everything was text.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 01:01 PM (1Nv0l)
.......
The future of AI.
Posted by: wth at December 19, 2025 01:01 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2025 01:01 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 01:01 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (TH+5o)
>>>Cannot connect to internet no matter if I use my home wifi or my phone hotspot
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (RuTUS)
When using a phone as a hotspot, you are not posting from it. You are posting from some other computer over wi-fi.
Posted by: SciVo at December 19, 2025 01:01 PM (Sy6m/)
My guess is a localized ISP internet outage if your phone can still reach its LTE networks.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (WDjG6)"
It is almost certainly this. In my area, we have outages where internet and cell phone service, both calls and wifi, go down, so we are completely cut off from the outside world.
Posted by: Doodad at December 19, 2025 01:01 PM (XuiFR)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 12:56 PM (EyfuW)
Try: Finger Butthole
Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2025 12:57 PM (W23D2)
I can imagine Ace going back later and reading this thread and chuckling. Not now, though. Now, rage.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (Da7Vv)
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Silver dimes!
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (1Nv0l)
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A friend of mine from back in the day came home from work one day and announced they took away his Wang. Much hilarity ensued.
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (TN0g+)
Turn off the wifi on the phone and see if internet is accessible then.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Tha computer's connected to de *clap* router box
Tha router box connected to de *clap* modem box
The modem box connected to de *clap* internet
Now hear de word of da Lawd!
Posted by: Dem tech dem tech dem dry tech at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (jokB+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (HUco/)
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (RuTUS)
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I have a little more respect for Ace than to believe he would try to hotspot a phone that already can't connect to the internet.
Phones don't have to hotspot in order to connect to the internet, so if the phone was not connecting, why would you take the extra step of hotspotting?
It reminds me of the Kids in the Hall skit where Bruce McCulloch plays a guy whose car won't start and knows nothing about car mechanics, and goes around doing things like lifting the wipers and repeatedly says "Try it now".
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (krQz2)
This is to notify that Qatar has purchased the Ace of Spades HQ website and is in the process of relocating it to Qatar.
We have a beautiful city and are a major US ally that hosts the largest American military base in the Middle East.
We believe an American and a free man such as Mr. Ace will find Qatar to be a comfortable home.
Salam Alaykum
Posted by: Qatar at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (UKj38)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (/iXAp)
Do you also have a mind that is is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives?
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (krQz2)
"rem *.*"
Posted by: GWB at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (5tsvC)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (jNK17)
Don't ask about something when this is free information.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (EyfuW)
They actually don’t but people are at a cargo cult level with computers so the first thing at hand that isn’t PEBKAC always gets blamed.
Developer betas do sometime bork Bluetooth but that’s not appreciably different from the normal state of Bluetooth. And normies definitely shouldn’t run those.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (QZThv)
Seems to work in Star Trek.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (HUco/)
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Also cross-circuiting to B seems to be a favorite on many shows.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ZOMBIE AL HAIG at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: m at December 19
He can use his phone, just not as a hotspot for his computer.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (HUco/)
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It works better if you just stuff grandma inside the station wagon and hit the highway.
Posted by: Clark Griswold at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Linda Richman at December 19, 2025 12:55 PM (7Q0e+)
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Yes, we have no supervision today.
* takes off running with scissors *
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (krQz2)
*mimics new elephant just discovering his trunk*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (dK+Kv)
That would be helpful to know. And probably indicate the issue is with the PC, it's network interface, or its configuration is borked.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (NwnyJ)
Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?
What's behind the words images
They know will please us?
I'll take what's real
Bring up the lights"
Amen
P.S. I helped tear down for Queensryche one night on the Promised Land tour. I had to tell several groupies I wasn't in the band. OK.. so the last sentence was a lie. lol
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (6qf1m)
* takes off running with scissors *
Posted by: Axeman
Pants or no pants?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)
I'm gonna call everyone Glowies.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (lYvO3)
In what world not involving massive government subsidies did they think they were going to recoup those expenditures, much less make a profit?
A first year marketing student, or accounting student, could do a rudimentary 5 minute google search and find that demand would never be there.
I'd truly like to feel bad for corporations that knuckle under to the pressure from the feds, but at some point they've earned this loss.
Idiots
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (dK+Kv)
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Sometimes?? Always!
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (5IH8V)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 19, 2025 01:02 PM (Kt19C)
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Was the family's last name "Griswold" by any chance?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Ripley at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (GUOwU)
Somebody is making a fortune perpetuating the grey market in weed. It should have been resolved years ago, even if it meant prohibition, pick a damn side.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (pkeXY)
Idiots
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 19, 2025 01:05 PM (Hx0tZ)
They are well past that point, with everyone and their brother screaming we don't want it, they chose willful ignorance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Is there anyone who smiles without a mask?
What's behind the words images
They know will please us?
I'll take what's real
Bring up the lights"
Amen
P.S. I helped tear down for Queensryche one night on the Promised Land tour. I had to tell several groupies I wasn't in the band. OK.. so the last sentence was a lie. lol
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I'm jealous! I'm a HUGE Queensryche fan!
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Better than nothing. The cans of compressed air can be found at Walmart in the TV section, office supply, etc. Or if you have an oilless air pump for cars, etc. lying around.
Hard to safely clean electronics other than vacuuming or compressed air. Risk of static electricity.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: William Devane who bought only gold at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (dGCAG)
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You know, I thought we had something special.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (pDt9x)
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Done it shirtless, though.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 01:07 PM (krQz2)
P.S. I helped tear down for Queensryche one night on the Promised Land tour. I had to tell several groupies I wasn't in the band. OK.. so the last sentence was a lie. lol
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I'm jealous! I'm a HUGE Queensryche fan!
Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2025 01:06 PM (TN0g+)
*assumes fetal position*
*shudders*
*pees*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)
I don’t need a fucking “better experience”, I’m just trying to read the news, or order something. Just like 25 years ago. Ya fuckheads
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 01:08 PM (qdur7)
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (TH+5o)
>>>Cannot connect to internet no matter if I use my home wifi or my phone hotspot
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 12:58 PM (RuTUS)
When using a phone as a hotspot, you are not posting from it. You are posting from some other computer over wi-fi.
Posted by: SciVo at December 19, 2025 01:01 PM (Sy6m/)
Oh. Thanks! Nicely put, so that non-techies could follow it.
Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 01:08 PM (RuTUS)
You'd be surprised.
Posted by: Chuck Mangione at Mega Lo Mart at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 01:04 PM (dK+Kv)
Hahahahaha
WAIT A MINUTE
Posted by: ... at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (TH+5o)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 19, 2025 01:09 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 01:12 PM (3Amc7)
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Major computer problems. Cannot connect to internet no matter if I use my home wifi or my phone hotspot, any ideas?
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But nevertheless TGIF!
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And fapping. But mostly fapping.
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Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:22 PM (NNq22)
Australia has turned into a country of obedient cowards.
I blame the unending consumption of Vagemite.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:22 PM (abIsI)
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Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 12:21 PM (udlma)
***
And take a massive dump in their terlet...
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 19, 2025 12:23 PM (Bo9Yf)
I had some internet difficulties a couple of weeks ago. I thought my wireless router had failed. Called my ISP for assistance.
Disconnecting everything and then reconnecting it all back the way it was seemed to work, though not sure why.
It's possible I just had a funky cable connection due to one of my cats constantly bumping my tech around.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 12:23 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 12:23 PM (kACBq)
Since his net worth is only about $300 million, it is safe for him to do so.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (xTIDn)
It might be your provider too.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (t0Out)
Posted by: Ace at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (1wjle)
Relax. Pour yourself a warm beverage, watch an episode of either I Love Lucy, Green Acres or Gilligan's Island and try again later.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (QGaXH)
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Thanks for the reminder! It's due tomorrow, but I better pay it today, as tomorrow is a Saturday.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (ESVrU)
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Posted by: 1970s Dad at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (3uBP9)
If you're phone can reach the Internet via WiFi (not cellular) it is likely your computer. Presuming it's WiFi too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 12:26 PM (NwnyJ)
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Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 12:26 PM (/iXAp)
Windows 10 is no longer supported by Microsoft since last October.
Costco has good deals if you're interested.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (t0Out)
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Posted by: Truck Monkey
When I was kid, we would hit the bottom of the TV with a hockey stick when it was acting up. Usually did the trick.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 19, 2025 12:26 PM (Bo9Yf)
Tuning in Tokyo, can you hear me Tokyo?
Posted by: banana Dream - First Sydney Sweeney related comment of the day at December 19, 2025 12:28 PM (3uBP9)
To the Moon Alice. To the Moon.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (abIsI)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (Oasjp)
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What the hell is he supposed to do with an orphan?
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (Bo9Yf)
No internet at all, or just no connection to the HQ? I often forget to turn off my VPN when connecting to the HQ and it chokes. My fastest VPN server from PIA is apparently on the HQ naughty VPN list.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (y9nCu)
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Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 19, 2025 12:26 PM (Bo9Yf)
Remember when Alan Harper decided to try to adjust the satellite dish on the roof to fix the picture because he was annoyed at the notion of always having to call “the guy”? He ended up with a neck brace and casts on his hands…. Heh the guy, just call the guy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (/iXAp)
Posted by: NCKate at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (uQzkA)
When Gavin Newsom wins in 2028, this judge should be the first person he pardons. Judge Dugan is a civil rights hero.
The whole prosecution was political in nature and had nothing to do with the law. The prosecutor's tongue can’t be removed from Trump’s ass so the argument that this isn’t political or trying to set an example is so laughably false that he should be disbarred
Trump has obstructed justice on actual serious crimes like a dozen times. MAGA has ruined America and the entire legal system. We need to completely replace SCOTUS.
Hey MAGA, what are you going to do when the broken political and legal system comes for you?
Unfortunately those jurors are now collaborators with an illegitimate regime attempting to destroy America
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Posted by: Tuna
Yep. I knew it. In his attorneys' defense, though, it's really all they've got.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (77rzZ)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (Oasjp)
And now he wants the court to show leniency....
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Posted by: Bulg
Those were the days. Can't do that with a flat screen,
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Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:31 PM (Oasjp)
To the Moon Alice. To the Moon.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (abIsI)
Can we pick who we send? Because I actually have a list.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (3uBP9)
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Why?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (udlma)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (Bo9Yf)
Fry it up with some onions and bell peppers. Maybe some shiitake mushrooms.
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Posted by: Maj. Healey
Return? We were never there to begin with.
-- Candace Owens
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Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (Bo9Yf)
Fry it up with some onions and bell peppers. Maybe some shiitake mushrooms.
Posted by: XTC
What kind of oil?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (77rzZ)
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When? Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (udlma)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:32 PM (3uBP9)
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We need to consult the Femalestranauts Gaule Kind and Katy Perry
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (Bo9Yf)
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Why?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Workin' on that legacy I suppose. Just like JFK!
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (abIsI)
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Posted by: Ace at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (1wjle)
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Delete the network connection and try to create a new one?
[As someone above hinted at, has your OS -- presumably Windows? -- been recently updated, and if so can you roll it back to the prior version?]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (NNq22)
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Posted by: SpeakingOf
This seems like a reasonable place to start. Plus they are reasonably inexpensive when embracing the "fix it" by swapping out parts technique.
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ace at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (1wjle)
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Delete the network connection and try to create a new one?
[As someone above hinted at, has your OS -- presumably Windows? -- been recently updated, and if so can you roll it back to the prior version?]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (NNq22)
You do not have to delete it. You can reset it. Run the diagnostic. Right click the network connection down in the bottom right. Expand the stuff if you have to first. Select run diagnostics. It will probably attempt to rest it. If that doesn't work you can bring up a system restore from a few days ago before this all happened.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
That between his ears?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 12:36 PM (HTCU3)
There are _super_ cheap USB wi-fi antennae out there.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:34 PM (abIsI)
If he said let’s go to Mars that’d be legacy. Moon landing? Eh. Been there done that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (udlma)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
As I said above, I think this is part of the effort to go to Mars.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: NCKate at December 19, 2025 12:33 PM (uQzkA)
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So Elon can eventually give multi-millionaires rides there and back?
It's a clever indirect way to "Tax The Rich" -- especially once Trump imposes 10,000% tariffs on travel to and from ...
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Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (NNq22)
To the Moon Alice. To the Moon.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (abIsI)
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Can we send the Somalians there first? I mean, they're so amazing at building a civilization from nothing, it should be a piece of cake for them, right?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 12:40 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (Oasjp)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:37 PM (77rzZ)
Would it? I really don’t know. But the distance to Mars from erf or from the moon is basically the same thing. It’s kinda like doing a cross country trip and saying you’ll start from Riverside, CA instead of Los Angeles.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 12:41 PM (udlma)
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Posted by: banana Dream at December 19, 2025 12:42 PM (3uBP9)
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You can tell it's been several years since I used Windows (we're on Linux now) and those damn "diagnostics" never worked for me back in the day.
More useless back then than "Clippy" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:44 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Yeah, but it seems like it would be better to have a support base for Mars in space rather than on Earth. So the Moon would be a good choice for that.
(Mind you, I have almost no knowledge of this subject, just speculating off the top of my bald head.)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)
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Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 12:50 PM (udlma)
Clash eh? You mean government employees once again refuse to do what their boss tells them. Time for another round of layoffs.
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THE MORNING RANT: After $32B in Losses, Ford Throws in the Towel on EVs – There Will Not Be a Full-Size Electric Pickup Truck
This $20 billion write down is above and beyond the $10 billion+ that the EV debacle has already cost Ford. It’s great news that Ford is finally giving up on the EV folly, but this costly disaster didn’t have to happen. Toyota & Honda wisely showed restraint during peak EV hype.
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) December 15, 2025
“Ford to convert EV battery plants to make battery storage for data centers” [Elektrek – 12/15/2025]
Ford is jumping into the battery energy storage business, betting that booming demand from data centers and the electric grid can absorb the EV battery capacity it says it’s not using. To achieve this, Ford plans to repurpose its existing EV battery manufacturing capacity in Glendale, Kentucky, into a dedicated hub for manufacturing battery energy storage systems. Ford says it will invest about $2 billion over the next two years to scale the new business.Ford getting involved in battery storage systems makes as much sense as when Exxon decided to manufacture and sell office machinery. But I understand in part why Ford is doing this. Specifically, without the BESS announcement, Ford would have to own up to another multi-billion-dollar write-off for the zombie Kentucky battery plant. Plus, with this BESS project, Bill Ford can still feel proud that the company is engaging in a form of green, save-the-world posturing. For those of us Tennessee taxpayers who kicked in almost a billion dollars toward Ford’s new electric truck plant (“Blue Oval City”
, there may be some good news. Concurrent with these other major changes in direction, Ford has announced that the never-used, Memphis-area plant will be repurposed toward the manufacture of gasoline powered pickup trucks - but not until 2029. That would be great, but again, I fear that this is really just a stalling tactic to avoid yet another multi-billion dollar write-off. So long as Ford keeps promising production out of that plant at some date in the far-away future, the state of Tennessee can’t claw back the bad investment it made, and Ford keeps the massive loss off of its books – at least for a few more years.
Even though Ford still has a long way to go to fully extricate itself from its negligent EV commitment, killing off its flagship EV and promising that there will never be an all-electric full-size pickup truck is a monumental milestone.
From me at The American Spectator: “Banks Are Racially Profiling Mortgage Applicants - The Government Requires It”
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) December 17, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 11:00 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 11:00 AM (QVmho)
They suck at their jobs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 19, 2025 11:02 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 19, 2025 11:02 AM (Kt19C)
Just barley made it.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 11:02 AM (QVmho)
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) December 15, 2025
Honda, at one point, declared they were going ALL EV by 2035 or some such, I believe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 11:03 AM (iJa5t)
They all truly believed that the US Government was going to force things to where they had a winning position.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:04 AM (uWKK8)
GLENDALE, Ky. (WDRB) — Kentucky invested $250 million in taxpayer money to bring BlueOval SK to the state.
This week, every worker at the Glendale electric vehicle battery plant was laid off.. The shutdown affects all 1,600 employees at the facility and comes after a series of delays, including the decision never to open a second plant known as “Kentucky 2.”
The layoffs also come just four months after production began at Kentucky 1.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:04 AM (udlma)
Hybrids could be compelling but for what ever reason that was not the big push.
I guess the commies weren't interested in boiling the frog slowly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 11:04 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 11:04 AM (Wg6v7)
- Cosmo Kramer, Economist
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:04 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)
Ford is the dumb.
People said we want the Ranger back. Ford said okay, here's "a" new "Ranger," but it's the size of a 1986 F-150.
Then people said no no no, we want a *small* pickup truck like the old Ranger. Ford said okay, and built the "Maverick," a 4-door Ford Escape with a very short pickup bed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (BTBWt)
Posted by: Rural Fellow at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (UZlJN)
It's always "pivoting", never "we're going to try to extricate ourselves from the colossal f***up we pushed on you, the shareholders and customers.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (Riz8t)
Let me be second.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 19, 2025 11:06 AM (P7Iz+)
They suck at their jobs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:01 AM
Whoa! Let's not spread that contagion!!
Posted by: NRA Board of Directors at December 19, 2025 11:06 AM (0sNs1)
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They've been telling us fat is bad for generations. They've been trying to kill us all along, it seems.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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Saw this article that says that all the studies they did on alcohol killing the liver did not isolate for other things.
Saturated fats show signs of actually healing an alcoholic rat's liver.
The combination of alcohol and seed oils is what really desiccates the liver. Much less sign of liver damage to alcoholic mice that consumed only saturated fats.
Seed oils are worse than cigarettes. Seed oils are worse than alcohol. Get them out of our food.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:06 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge
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I think the flat Japanese economy and Honda having to rely on foreign markets like Europe and US drove that comment. Toyota has the most successful hybrid program which satisfies most of the market that EV's would plus eliminating range anxiety which EVs can't. Honda and the rest like Hyundai/Kia, Nissan, etc. simply did not have the ability to go toe to toe in hybrids so they pivoted toward full EV planning.
The ironic thing is that Ford had probably the best of the dwinding Big Three in hybrid tech and threw it away to go after the EV market.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:06 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Tom Carvel, Creator of Cookie-Puss at December 19, 2025 11:07 AM (oftw2)
Anything that far in the future is just a way to pretend you're going to do something, knowing full well you never will. See also "spending cuts" in 10 years.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
Hollywood’s James Cameron is Big Mad at Trump for Not Buying the Climate Crisis Narrative
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If you can't trust imaginary nine foot blue space aliens, who can you trust?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
People said we want the Ranger back. Ford said okay, here's "a" new "Ranger," but it's the size of a 1986 F-150.
Then people said no no no, we want a *small* pickup truck like the old Ranger. Ford said okay, and built the "Maverick," a 4-door Ford Escape with a very short pickup bed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM
Hopefully we're on our way to the USA!
Posted by: Toyota HiLux at December 19, 2025 11:07 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Axeman
How about peanut oil? Is that a seed oil?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Our ruling looting class is in a hurry to get generational wealth before it all collapses. So the grifting is in hyperdrive in all fields before the lights go out.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (WDjG6)
They all truly believed that the US Government was going to force things to where they had a winning position.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:04 AM (uWKK
Were they one of the companies that took a bailout from King Barry, First of his Shame?
If so, they may not have had a choice.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (iJa5t)
>>Then people said no no no, we want a *small* pickup truck like the old Ranger. Ford said okay, and built the "Maverick," a 4-door Ford Escape with a very short pickup bed.
A truck that was supposed to be sub-20k that is now sub-30k and trying to find base trims is nigh impossible, so the cheap truck is going to cost you just as much as a Ranger, Colorado or Tacoma.
Or the new Auto manufacturer mantra, pay more, get less.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:07 AM
In return for pork today! Done deal!
Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy (D-Everywhere)_ at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
Yes. It's the least bad of the seed oils, but it's still a seed oil.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (UnA8+)
In a museum.
Posted by: Internally combusted at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: red speck at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (Ve/HL)
I'd buy one, but not for $75,000.
Posted by: Rural Fellow at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (UZlJN)
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The heavier you make a vehicle, the more power it takes to push it forward. The more power you need on an EV the more the vehicle weighs. But you would have needed to pay for a gigantic battery, is my understanding.
I have nothing, in general against "green energy". I just wish that it worked.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (VE6XX)
Then people said no no no, we want a *small* pickup truck like the old Ranger. Ford said okay, and built the "Maverick," a 4-door Ford Escape with a very short pickup bed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM
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Car companies aren't legally allowed to build trucks the size of the old Ranger or S-10 anymore. Safety standards and all the ancillary BS they're required to tack onto a truck makes the F-150 size about the smallest a real truck can be.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (3BwY8)
The well-being of alcoholic rats hasn't come into my mind until just now.
Posted by: Ratso Rizzo at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (oftw2)
I use olive oil, avocado oil, and butter almost exclusively now.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 11:10 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 11:10 AM (NwnyJ)
People said we want the Ranger back. Ford said okay, here's "a" new "Ranger," but it's the size of a 1986 F-150.
Then people said no no no, we want a *small* pickup truck like the old Ranger. Ford said okay, and built the "Maverick," a 4-door Ford Escape with a very short pickup bed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (BTBWt)
I was saying this the other day. If Ford wasn't being retarded, they would've released what they're calling the Ranger currently, the F-100, keeping in line with the actual naming convention for their line of trucks, then call what they've named the Maverick, which was a mid sized 4-door SEDAN, the Ranger.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Alcoholic rat's liver at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (iJa5t)
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In almost everyway the Democratic party is soo much better at fascism than the "right".
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (BZF07)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Paolo at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (krQz2)
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The Rocket Problem.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (3BwY8)
Posted by: XTC
So, the only good oils that I know of are olive oil and avocado oil. Any others?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
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That's about as much as the current known Minnesomalia fraud loss amounts. Huge.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (BZF07)
You're welcome.
Posted by: Top Gear at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (GPa4z)
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Not that they're evil or anything.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)
They can make & sell MINIs but they can't make small pickups? Come on.
btw, I think Piper drives a MINI.
So needle her about it tonight.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (BTBWt)
Posted by: PaleRider
CAFE penalties are set at zero right now but Zeldin (and Trump) has his hands tied on some of it due to congressional statute and refusal of the GOP Senate to get rid of the filibuster or limit it severely.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 11:12 AM (sDNVV)
Until it does, I'll keep looking for rust-free F-100s between 1967 and 1972 to keep running.
Posted by: red speck at December 19, 2025 11:12 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM
You know who else was good at fascism?
Posted by: That Guy who always asks "You know who else" at December 19, 2025 11:12 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg
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Animal fats.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:12 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Change my mind at December 19, 2025 11:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 11:12 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Beef tallow
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2025 11:12 AM (VE6XX)
Other things ford consumers don't want? That damned auto start stop button.
My 2021 F150 came with it.
My sister's 2024 F250 didn't come with that button. Ford finally listened to the customer.
The 4D Tech auto start/stop eliminator is engineered to safely and reliably memorize your preference, and turn off this functionality on each start, automatically.
https://tinyurl.com/2cuu4kzv
Couldn't have been easier to install & I couldn't be happier.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:13 AM (dAOkg)
Our ruling looting class is in a hurry to get generational wealth before it all collapses. So the grifting is in hyperdrive in all fields before the lights go out.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (WDjG6)
I just can't grok this. 'generational wealth' isn't going to mean much if everything collapses and the local strong man who arises in their area just seizes what they have instead of being bribable. But the ruling class as a group are quite stupid.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2025 11:13 AM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:13 AM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Toyota Hilux at December 19, 2025 11:13 AM (2Ez/1)
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My son-in-law has a 80's vintage S-10. Minimal. 5-speed with a 4 banger. I have a 2016 Colorado. It's what the S-10 "evolved" into. It's roughly 1/2 again as big as his truck. The current Colorados are (again) almost 1/2 larger than mine.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 11:13 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)
Me too. Makes food taste so much better. A also use grape seed oil sometimes.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg
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Animal fats.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:12 AM (WDjG6)
Tallow and Lard. They're even going to play halftime at the Super Bowl instead of that rabbit dude.
Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (BZF07)
Car companies aren't legally allowed to build trucks the size of the old Ranger or S-10 anymore. Safety standards and all the ancillary BS they're required to tack onto a truck makes the F-150 size about the smallest a real truck can be.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (3BwY
The Maverick, which isn't as small as my 96 Ranger, is NOT the size of an F-150.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (GPa4z)
Are you fat enough to pass for Samoan?
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (GPa4z)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (WDjG6)
I just can't grok this. 'generational wealth' isn't going to mean much if everything collapses and the local strong man who arises in their area just seizes what they have instead of being bribable. But the ruling class as a group are quite stupid.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2025 11:13 AM
The laws of gravity and thermodynamics don't apply to us, duh!
Posted by: Your Ruling Class at December 19, 2025 11:15 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 19, 2025 11:15 AM (Y1sOo)
Just barley made it.
Posted by: BifBewalski
What a rye comment.
Posted by: Bulg
Really didn't want to be squeezin the corn-y puns, i'll accept the accidental typo though.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 11:15 AM (QVmho)
Then people said no no no, we want a *small* pickup truck like the old Ranger. Ford said okay, and built the "Maverick," a 4-door Ford Escape with a very short pickup bed.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Also known as, the Ford Courier.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:15 AM (dAOkg)
‘ Just barley made it.
Posted by: BifBewalski
What a rye comment’
There’s a grain of truth here.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2025 11:15 AM (jbnUc)
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It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at December 19, 2025 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM
What are we, chopped liver?
Posted by: Tongans at December 19, 2025 11:16 AM (0sNs1)
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Who knew MBA stood for Must Bankrupt Assets?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 11:16 AM (NNq22)
In 1940, the CEO of GM (then the biggest most important company in the world) got a phone call out of the blue from the president of the US. He asked the CEO to leave his top job on the planet (umm, no disastrous boondoggles on his resume) and begin organizing US industry for war production.
The guy (an immigrant who had worked as a stevedore, and been a boxer) said yes, right then. No "let me get back to you", no week of reflection, no PowerPoint presentation. Just - yeah, I'll do it.
Compare this story to the lurid idiocy of the Farley case (and many many others).
Sad!
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:16 AM (U/Byj)
Car companies aren't legally allowed to build trucks the size of the old Ranger or S-10 anymore. Safety standards and all the ancillary BS they're required to tack onto a truck makes the F-150 size about the smallest a real truck can be.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (3BwY
The Maverick, which isn't as small as my 96 Ranger, is NOT the size of an F-150.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
I drive a 23 Tacoma. Best truck I’ve ever owned. Not a big truck but really suitable for my needs. V6.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:16 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Need A Cushion at December 19, 2025 11:17 AM (oftw2)
Study Suggests TikTok and Instagram Reels May Harm Cognitive and Mental Health
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Axeman
How about peanut oil? Is that a seed oil?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
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It really depends on the extraction process. If they have to super-heat it, put it through a chemical process, bleach it, or something along those lines, then it's bad.
You can get "expeller-pressed sunflower oil" which my understanding is that it is not nearly as bad as the chemically-extracted stuff.
For plant-based oils, it's best to stick with olive, avocado (although there are no quality constraints on avocado oil) and coconut.
The problem with saturated--natural--fats, is that they have a low smoke-point. I think, Gee has the highest smoke point of animal fats.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:17 AM (krQz2)
I'm actually intrigued by this. Though a diesel engine would be better paired with the generator - but we all know how the left feels about diesel.
With a properly sized generator/engine, there is enormous torque available via electric motors. So this might work.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 19, 2025 11:17 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: A kernel of truth at December 19, 2025 11:17 AM (2Ez/1)
Otherwise, it's generally my preferred cooking fat.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (UnA8+)
You can get a base Ranger with real 4x4 and the tow package for 2500 more.
Sadly the Ranger is not offered in Orange, the blue is nice though.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (XV/Pl)
None of the proponents paused to see the magical thinking inherent in that assumption; that something new and magical will show up just because you want it to.
So lithium batteries showed up and all the cheerleaders and promoters jumped up and down and said "yes! This is all that we needed, it's all good now!" Except that they weren't that much better, and they had a host of new problems that came with them, but no one committed to the new system could afford to say the truth. So they all, for various reasons, committed to trying to ram a Big Lie down the publics throat.
and now it's all falling apart. Because all lies do, eventually.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (uWKK8)
The type of fellow that is forming out $70-90k on a truck needs it for the trucks abilities, hauling and towing and such. And EVs just underperform at those tasks, they aren't practical as an industrial work truck.
The people that would buy electric trucks for which the truck's abilities are suitable are rural folks that need a truck bed for hauling feed, taking trash to the dump, getting a load of mulch, throw the weedeater in, etc.
But those folks won't fork out $75k for a farm truck. They'll just buy an old gas truck for $5k somewhere.
The power tool and garden tool industry have really done a very good job of assessing the market for battery powered tools, hence the success in those markets. But EV makers have just been stuck in some kind of ideological mindset rather than a pragmatic one.
Tesla's success in the car market has been that, relative to competition, it's not egregiously overpriced for a midsize sedan.
Posted by: Rural Fellow at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (UZlJN)
Posted by: Axeman
My wife told me that avocado oil has a high smoke point.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Fucking Idiots
I think it's really dumb to jump out of planes for "fun." But these people are the dumbest and deserve to plummet to their ends. Of fucking course you're going to hit the plane when you jump you jackasses:
https://is.gd/ThKUo8
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (BTBWt)
I'm so old I remember when the food Nazis told us all to avoid movie theater popcorn because it was made with coconut oil.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (Riz8t)
Otherwise, it's generally my preferred cooking fat.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (UnA8+)
Make ghee and use that.
Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (BZF07)
Posted by: Bulg
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We know appallingly little of how fats are actually used by bodies and old traditional sources of fat before all the massive processing are probably the healthier ones.
Basically government and industry have teamed up with Big Med in an unwholy fashion to produce such specious nonsense as the Food Pyramid, whitewashing sugar, vilifying eggs becuz cholesterol is bad, and so on.
Now our natural experiment on industrializing food products by processing is showing massive increases in obesity, diabetes, and ancillary heart, immune system, and cancer damages.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:18 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 11:19 AM (iJa5t)
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Worst part is they won't make it up in volume.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:19 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:19 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 11:20 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:20 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Fuck up, move up, get filthy rich at December 19, 2025 11:20 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:21 AM (WDjG6)
Airborne, Airborne, have you heard?
We're gonna jump from a big@ssed bird!
Posted by: Jump School trainees at December 19, 2025 11:21 AM (0sNs1)
These battery storage centers use lithium iin batteries. There are other batteries under development for this purpise, but lithium iin is the default.
Battery storage centers are periodically shut down by battery fires. They catch fire like electric cars do, and the fires are almost impossible to extinguish.
A mad rush to do something stupid.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 19, 2025 11:21 AM (azNOR)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2025 11:21 AM (XV/Pl)
https://tinyurl.com/mpb75f5w
Oil/Fat Quality Temp
Avocado oil Refined 520 °F
Safflower oil Refined 510 °F
Sunflower oil Neutralized, dewaxed, bleached & deodorized 486–489 °F
Avocado oil Unrefined 482 °F
Butter/Ghee Clarified 482 °F
Beef tallow 480 °F
Mustard oil 480 °F
Pecan oil 470 °F
Palm oil Fractionated 455 °F
Soybean oil 453 °F
Peanut oil Refined 450 °F
Rice bran oil Refined 450 °F
Sesame oil Semirefined 450 °F
Sunflower oil Semirefined 450 °F
Sunflower oil, high oleic Refined 450 °F
Corn oil 446–460 °F
Peanut oil 441–445 °F
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:22 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 11:22 AM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (GPa4z)
You're an American Indian, just tell them about your great grandmothers historical prairie crab recipe.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:22 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:22 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Bulg
Coconut oil. Makes popcorn great again.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 11:23 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: And butt ugly at December 19, 2025 11:23 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 19, 2025 11:20 AM (0U5gm)
Mine is six-speed manual, 2013 Nissan Frontier. About as bare-bones as you can get these days. Hand-crank windows, no electric locks. Suits me very well.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 19, 2025 11:23 AM (PSEDc)
You're an American Indian, just tell them about your great grandmothers historical prairie crab recipe.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:22 AM
"Of COURSE I'm native American. Why, I've got my copy of Pow-Wow Chow right here!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)
They finally discovered that cutting your cock and balls off and fucking yourself in the suppurating crotch hole 3-4 times a week just wasn't a recipe for long term happiness or success.
Posted by: Crazy isn't it at December 19, 2025 11:23 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: rhomboid
Brownell's or Numrich Arms.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:23 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:09 AM (krQz2)
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The Rocket Problem.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (3BwY
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And also, you have to think that a car is expected to carry the weight of itself + passengers + some luggage. A truck is expected to carry significant extra weight. It's gonna tow things, it's going to haul large things in the bed.
The more weight it can tow or haul--weight that does not at all contribute to the power of the vehicle--like battery does--the more you can hype your truck's power. So, again, you need to add more weight to your vehicle in order to give it a chance to tow something significant.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:24 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Taxi Squad at December 19, 2025 11:24 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Older guns are more easily fixed because a really good gunsmith can even fabricate or engineer most of them if needed.
Modern cars are a complex mix of computer, sensors, electrical system, and mechanical parts nowadays.
And like the farm machinery industry, due to slowing unit sales, the automakers are relying on proprietary codes, making frequent changes to prevent used parts from being used successfully, and other means to ensure that their dealers and company have a steady income stream from repairs and parts instead of selling vehicles.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6)
114 - Where does bacon fat fall?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2025 11:25 AM (XvL8K)
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A Nazi plane I hadn't previously heard of. The propeller is immediately behind the cockpit so if you bail out, you get sliced and diced.
https://is.gd/8gN2AF
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
They finally discovered that cutting your cock and balls off and fucking yourself in the suppurating crotch hole 3-4 times a week just wasn't a recipe for long term happiness or success.
Posted by: Crazy
There's a reason I still have my twig and berries.
Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at December 19, 2025 11:25 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Tom Carvel, Creator of Cookie-Puss
Ford itself doesn't qualify?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 19, 2025 11:25 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: BifBewalski
What a rye comment.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)
The puns are chaffing us.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 19, 2025 11:26 AM (GPa4z)
My wife is a firm believer that Crisco is evil. Doing most of the cooking, I can sneak it into things. Just can't do it to often.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 19, 2025 11:26 AM (NcvvS)
"This Country Is Going To Hell
I mean c'mon man, Campbell's chicken noodle soup using 3D printed chickens?
How in the hell are we going to get rid of a cold now?
My grandma made the best chicken noodle soup.
She used a fatty chicken, made her own noodles, it's all I wanted to eat when we visited for holidays."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 11:27 AM (0sNs1)
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There's another thing that temperature list represents.
How hard it is for humans to break those substances down as well. For example, we can't digest corn at all.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:27 AM (krQz2)
A big thing that makes them work (I have some, like most of us now) is that it's relatively cheap to have a 2nd battery that you keep in the charger, and when the first runs out you just pop the 2nd one in, no time wasted at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:27 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:27 AM (dAOkg)
How hard it is for humans to break those substances down as well. For example, we can't digest corn at all.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:27 AM (krQz2)
But I can digest moonshine just fine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 11:28 AM (0sNs1)
If only the cliff they drove off had been higher. They'd still be in the air.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 11:28 AM (kACBq)
A big thing that makes them work (I have some, like most of us now) is that it's relatively cheap to have a 2nd battery that you keep in the charger, and when the first runs out you just pop the 2nd one in, no time wasted at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:27 AM
My plug-in saws-all never stops.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)
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TBF, Exxon did eventually fire the DEI Marketing Director MBA who floated the idea of a Valdez line of Chemical Fasteners.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (NNq22)
Some dealers opted out of selling any EV's because of that.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (0N4FZ)
I think it's really dumb to jump out of planes for "fun." But these people are the dumbest and deserve to plummet to their ends.
In spite of his best efforts the jumper in the video survived.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (jbnUc)
Can we say that "Real free markets hasn't really been tried (in a long while)?"
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (krQz2)
I remember that slogan. I also remember saying "what a load of horses***!".
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)
These battery storage centers use lithium iin batteries. There are other batteries under development for this purpise, but lithium iin is the default.
Battery storage centers are periodically shut down by battery fires. They catch fire like electric cars do, and the fires are almost impossible to extinguish.
A mad rush to do something stupid.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Sodium ion batteries have just rollled out in the market. Musk is trying to decide between sodium ion and aluminum ion batteries for a cheaper EV. You trade off a bit of energy density by the best lithium ion types which means more weight for a given storage requirement but in return you get greater longevity, much less problems with runaway fires so faster charging, and much cheaper materials as in mebbe 10-20 percent of lithium ion at scale.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
'Twas good. Drank too much, tho, so was useless yesterday.
Good times were had by all, nonetheless.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Nazdar
Crisco - Estrogen oil, aka, soybean oil.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (dAOkg)
Now our natural experiment on industrializing food products by processing is showing massive increases in obesity, diabetes, and ancillary heart, immune system, and cancer damages.
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If your ancestors have been eating it for generations, its probably good.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 19, 2025 11:30 AM (sX1BW)
Caroline Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried’s Partner in FTX Crime, Released Early From Prison
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)
C
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 11:31 AM (sDNVV)
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Someone who needs that is getting the bare bones version because it will be beaten up. The $90k truck is spending its life in a suburban driveway commuting to work, and will probably never tow or haul anything.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:31 AM (udlma)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 19, 2025 11:31 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2025 11:25 AM (XvL8K)
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Into my collection jar.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:31 AM (krQz2)
And whig I am aware of several of the guys who specialize in fixing Colts and older stuff, just don't want the hassle. Everything I get is for shooting, not collecting. Kind of academic, haven't bought anything for a while, don't shoot what I have nearly enough.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:31 AM (U/Byj)
I will only eat all-natural, organic Cheetohs.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: SH
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Most likely.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:31 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Mustang II, Boredom- Zero!
Posted by: Penguin and Manatee Alliance at December 19, 2025 11:32 AM (oftw2)
I remember that slogan. I also remember saying "what a load of horses***!".
Posted by: Archimedes
🎵 Look for the union label 🎶
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:32 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:32 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at December 19, 2025 11:32 AM (zdYK9)
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 11:34 AM (W7XSX)
I guess impecunity is the only thing worse than not genuflecting to the climate gods among the worthless Davos parasites.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:34 AM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:34 AM (BTBWt)
I will only eat all-natural, organic Cheetohs.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025
Oh my gosh, I know you are going to laugh at this, but I buy Hippeas cheese puffs. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:34 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Penguin and Manatee Alliance at December 19, 2025 11:32 AM (oftw2)
there is a really bad Rifftrax movie out there, Alien Outlaw. The chick drove a Mustang II, but the" II" had been pried off the car. As an aside, the chick was smokin' hawt.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 19, 2025 11:35 AM (PSEDc)
Stellantis has kicked the Jeep Gladiator EV to the curb for the same reason, they were losing tons of money on each sale.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 11:35 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: rhomboid
Fair enough. I used to do a lot of the gunsmithing myself as you can actually fit small parts pretty well with nothing more than files and stones.
Colt double action revolvers though before they went to coil spring actions in the 70's are like working on Swiss watches and had a lot of experienced Colt technicians hand fitting at the factory on key parts like the pawl and hand.
OTOH, old Smith and Wessons are pretty easy for anyone with mechanical aptitude to work on.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:35 AM (WDjG6)
"Pivoting" seems to be the focus-tested, PR-approved euphemism that all auto makers are using to describe their running from EV dumpster fires like they're being chased by Pepe le Pew.
It's not just Ford using it. Another euphemism is "realignment."
It would be nice if just once one of these slimy bastards would just say "we done fucked the pig, we're sorry, and here's our plan to get back on track ...."
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: SH
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Most likely.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:31 AM (WDjG6)
Unless you're Somali, and your ancestors have been grinding cow dung into their food since Solomon was King.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:35 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:36 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
Thanks, rickb223. Went to check, and it's soybean oil and a couple of palm oils.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 19, 2025 11:36 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:32 AM (p4NUW)
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I thought it was things processed from soy, not direct soy products themselves. So edamame is fine and I also read somewhere that real brewed soy sauce is fine too.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:36 AM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 19, 2025 11:37 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: SH
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Most likely.
Posted by: whig
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Except they're all dead. Statistics don't lie.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:37 AM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Next time look up the allowable FDA amount for processed food to include rat/mice droppings, bugs, etc. Hell, some people love and pay big bucks for civet cat coffee.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:37 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:37 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:37 AM (U/Byj)
C
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 11:31
I bet this is amazing. Clearly not something I am going to suggest eating every day of your life, but I will happily come eat this with you in moderation! I am free tomorrow. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:38 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 11:38 AM (sDNVV)
Unbelievable. “I don’t think a lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened,” Brown University President Christina Paxson said. It took authorities 6 days to find the shooter and police said they literally relied on a homeless man and his Reddit post to help crack this case since there was no clear image of the shooter entering the building.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (dAOkg)
They used to make it from cottonseed oil, but soybean oil is a lot cheaper!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Post-Modernist at December 19, 2025 11:38 AM (n9ltV)
Oh and the battery manufacturing facility that was supposed to go at the old IBM facility in the same town is done as the Canadian company fell apart. Much grift in the industry
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (1vqcm)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
How is a homeless guy posting on Reddit?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FORD at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (C9oTe)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (udlma)
Posted by: tubal
It's quite good on door hinges.
Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (kACBq)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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It's all corporate sanitization. Same as they never have problems, it's always "challenges".
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:40 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:29 AM (dAOkg)
They used to make it from cottonseed oil, but soybean oil is a lot cheaper!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Post-Modernist at December 19, 2025 11:38 AM (n9ltV)
I use it occasionally, CBD, and have not transitioned last time I looked.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:40 AM (pDt9x)
Horowitz Answers With Truth: "Because he is a Communist sympathetic to Islamists"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 11:40 AM (ETIdo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)
A lot of homeless people have cell phones, weirdly enough.
Some manage to make enough money e-begging on livestreams to pay for the monthly phone bill, too.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:40 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:40 AM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:41 AM (udlma)
It would be nice if just once one of these slimy bastards would just say "we done fucked the pig, we're sorry, and here's our plan to get back on track ...."
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
You know why--shareholder lawsuits galore. Ford and others ignored clear forseeable consequences from their actions in order to please the Davos crowd, not their customers. Twas always going to end badly when the pain from the stupid Net Zero eco policies exceeded governments being willing to engage in fantasy.
I think this is also why our elites are enamored of China where the CCP simply crams the shit du jour down the peoples' throats. EU is longingly desiring to be that type of government and its member states are well along that road as well.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:41 AM (WDjG6)
And like the farm machinery industry, due to slowing unit sales, the automakers are relying on proprietary codes, making frequent changes to prevent used parts from being used successfully, and other means to ensure that their dealers and company have a steady income stream from repairs and parts instead of selling vehicles.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6)
You're implying that automakers using their market power to choke off competitors in the aftermarket is somehow not a good thing and in perfect keeping with free market capitalism? Marxist commie.
Posted by: More tongue in cheek at December 19, 2025 11:41 AM (TbWk/)
Profoundly stupid ideas. Maybe worth trying - as in, show everyone that they actually work in the cold. As far as I can tell that has never even demonstrated, never mind at scale.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 11:41 AM (IejsB)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:32 AM (p4NUW)
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I thought it was things processed from soy, not direct soy products themselves. So edamame is fine and I also read somewhere that real brewed soy sauce is fine too.
Posted by: ballistic at December
Tofu, soy milk, all of is fine and doesn’t affect testosterone.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:41 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Sponge
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Obama phones still exist like his pernicious anti health care law.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:42 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Better question - how was a homeless guy regularly sleeping in the basement of one of the Brown U. buildings without a passkey or anything?
Although I can't be very critical of him, he did more work to solve this case than the entire Brown Security team, the Providence Police Force, and the FBI put together.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:42 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2025 11:14 AM (BZF07)
Duck fat FTW!
I use avocado oil if I am searing something on very high heat. Doesn't bring a lot of flavor to the party.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 11:42 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 11:42 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)
I have seen "homeless" in London use credit card swipers when they beg.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM (n9ltV)
That's why you should only consume it when you're in your bunk.
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
They brought it back after hearing about it for a few months and immediately got preorders for 50,000 units.
The Ford CFO broad comes out a week or so later stating that "People don't care what's under the hood. They care about the technology inside the cabin."
Uh........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
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That's my understanding as well.
They were developed to replace petroleum oil as a lubricant. Just were never stable enough.
In WWII they were given a temporary use grant to be used in foods. (Oleo, etc.) because the US was short on butter.
.... Government-style temporary...
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM (krQz2)
A few companies were smart enough to see the handwriting on the wall and jerked off anti-gas regulators with promises of future EVs that they never really intended to produce:
-- Mazda
-- BMW/Mini (although they did roll out EVs, they were considered laggards)
-- Lamborghini (jerked off regulators with the Lanzador concept that was pretty much vaporware)
-- Toyota and Honda as mentioned above.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (pDt9x)
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[The root cause of the 2008 Financial Meltdown:]
Although later weaponized by DogEater (Making NINJA Loans Great Again!), this crap started with the Clinton Administration back in 1993, announcing plans to crack down on financial institutions to uncover racial discrimination in mortgage lending
The administration also made changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to make mortgages more accessible to lower- and lower-middle-income families.
Furthermore, they threatened to subject mortgage companies to CRA regulations if they didn't "voluntarily" increase lending to low-income borrowers and minorities, making compliance more attractive to avoid public scrutiny.
HUD Secretary Fredo "The Elder" Cuomo pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy $2 trillion in "affordable" mortgages, effectively encouraging lenders to expand credit to minority and low-income borrowers.
Banks that failed to meet CRA obligations risked having their expansion plans blocked, creating strong incentives to increase lending in minority neighborhoods.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (NNq22)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 11:42 AM (GTqXr)
YES!
I love duck, but harvesting a pint or so of duck fat when I roast one is definitely a reason I like duck!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (n9ltV)
The butter was actually very good in its intended use. Fresh. There were some merits to the antiquated non-industrialized food systems in the USSR. But variety, fuggetaboutit.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (U/Byj)
You know they'll do it.
They're reverse everything Trump put in place, good or bad because Trump. It's who they are.
Manufacturers around the globe bent the knee to the climate crisis church... they'll do it again.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (NwnyJ)
No, they believed they could get part of the trillion plus that was pushing towards EVs... the anticipated volume of cash to be extracted from the future is.... well, remember that one trillion is a thousand billions.... 20 billion is chump change.
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (XuXeR)
Duck fat FTW!
I use avocado oil if I am searing something on very high heat. Doesn't bring a lot of flavor to the party.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 11:42 AM (GTqXr)
Wish I could remember who it was that coined "Dick fat" on accident........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Problem is school buses are the cheapest buses around. There's no room in anyone's budget to lard on expensive EV stuff.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (1Nv0l)
Surely this will make people worried about their immigration status show up to their court dates. /s There needs to be the ability for people to appear via video call for these things. It's outrageous that they have to turn up in person, especially in these circumstances.
Well they got their first jury to support the Nazi court prosecutors. The judges dropped the ball here. As a matter of law her conviction is wrongful, and the judge should have thrown it out well before it go to the jury.
Can't wait for the inevitably successful appeal. Why would they decide no on the lesser charge for concealment but convict on the greater charge that is barely any different?
is this a law board? I just checked the sub name and it appears to be so. a jury heard the facts and applied it to the law and made a decision. Happens every day.
If your jury is full of cult members, you are screwed, and the law doesn't seem to matter.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:06 AM (krQz2)
I like some seed oils. Why not just put whatever information out there and let people choose for themselves. Isn't that part of our American freedom too?
And beside, in another year or two there will be a study that shows seed oils are essential for good health.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Yes, it is a comment on our over credentialed DEI society where a homeless guy would probably be a better campus police chief than who they have at Brown.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 11:46 AM (VrPVr)
I have seen "homeless" in London use credit card swipers when they beg.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM (n9ltV)
Seemingly a must have with everyone abandoning cash nowadays.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:39 AM (udlma)
Homeless people have nicer cellphones than you or I do.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 19, 2025 11:46 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 11:42 AM (GTqXr)
YES!
I love duck, but harvesting a pint or so of duck fat when I roast one is definitely a reason I like duck!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (n9ltV)
I buy my ostrich burgers with duck fat mixed in. Outstanding!
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:46 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 11:46 AM (sDNVV)
Problem is school buses are the cheapest buses around. There's no room in anyone's budget to lard on expensive EV stuff.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (1Nv0l)
IF you can keep them from lighting ablaze and killing your children.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (1vqcm)
Worst: Cupcakes, Snoballs and Zingers
Best: Fruit Pies, Streusel Coffee Cakes and Lemon Drizzle Baby Bundts.
I've never even seen the Baby Bundts, but those Coffee Cakes are pretty damn good.
https://tinyurl.com/jjcc5bfh
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Bulg at December
Prior to this, the development of cottonseed oil was to replace whale fat in oil lamps.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (p4NUW)
Like Fulton County has a mouth. WHO illegally certified 315,000 ballots?
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (vFG9F)
My wife tells me that seed oils were originally developed as lubricants for equipment.
Posted by: Bulg
I was watching an old b/w documentary on the Elgin pocket watch factory. Evidently the oil they used for specific parts during assembly was a simple swipe of the side of the worker's nose the onto the part. No over oiling, and the human based oil seemed to not collect debris and dust as much as a petroleum based oils did.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (QVmho)
One of the trends that is easy to see if you know to look, “temporary” emergency wartime expedients become longstanding & permanent ersatz replacements. This holds true with everything.
Hydrogenated fats were invented because of blockades, shortages, and rationing. Fats were critical for explosive manufacturing - glycerine or nitroglycerin. Your grocer would pay you a nickel a pound for bacon fat. Gotta kill more Japs, you see. Buy Another Bond!
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 11:48 AM (IejsB)
When it comes to antisemitism, Wilkinson believes responsibility lies with the courts and police, not politicians. “Thinking about antisemitism in my community is hard when I can’t afford to live in my community,” he says. “That’s why I’ll be voting Labor again this year.”
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How’s that working out for ya buddy?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:48 AM (udlma)
I went to Hobby Lobby to buy a small accent table when a minivan pulled into the spot next to me. A young family stepped out, and as the father tended to their newborn, I noticed a firearm strapped to his waist. I froze with fear — especially in light of the recent shooting in Rhode Island. It made me wonder how we're supposed to tell who is a threat and who is simply going about their lives.
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Who knew what that gun was going to do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
https://is.gd/L2qx31
Meanwhile, VDH, notes the passing of three refineries in California and the catastrophic impact this going to have on the state's economy. Of course this is all self-inflicted Communist green madness. The solution? Import gasoline form Asia - you can't make this up. For extra credit this is going to whack Nevada and Arizona too. Plus $8.00 per gallon gas in 2026.
https://youtu.be/SBbXJ5trgKg
Meanwhile the Phillips shutting down their refinery in CA has had a knock on effect in Washington State with the closing of their Ferndale refinery. This should not only create gasoline shortages in Washington State but also in Oregon as it is 100% dependent on Washington State for gasoline.
Communists are gonna do what Communists do. Let them walk.
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 11:48 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 19, 2025 11:48 AM (6qf1m)
Smart wife. Yes, Rudolph Diesel used veg oils...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:48 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:49 AM (dAOkg)
Public libraries are now de facto homeless daycare. Libraries have computers.
Plenty of permanently homeless people have cell phones.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 11:49 AM (Yp6az)
All of these brands originally partnered with Western car makers (VW, etc) to develop EV cars and tech. The Chinese stole the tech, copied the business models to the letter, and then kicked out their Western partners. Same as it ever was.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 11:49 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 11:49 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 11:50 AM (vFG9F)
I went to Hobby Lobby to buy a small accent table when a minivan pulled into the spot next to me. A young family stepped out, and as the father tended to their newborn, I noticed a firearm strapped to his waist. I froze with fear — especially in light of the recent shooting in Rhode Island. It made me wonder how we're supposed to tell who is a threat and who is simply going about their lives.
Lock yourself in your home. Order everything for delivery.
Never go out in the evil public again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (g8Ew
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Depends on the quality of the study. There are really crappy studies that got us into this whole thing in the first place.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:50 AM (krQz2)
You know they'll do it.
They're reverse everything Trump put in place, good or bad because Trump. It's who they are.
Manufacturers around the globe bent the knee to the climate crisis church... they'll do it again.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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I think we are on the way to a breakup if that happens. But the Democrats are weaker than they appear from polling because a lot of their votes, as seen in Fulton Cty, are non existent bullshit ballots, not actual voters.
If WA, CO, AZ, OR, and CA got rid of mail in ballots as an election method, I guarantee you that Democrats would not be doing nearly as well in elections.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:50 AM (WDjG6)
I went to Hobby Lobby to buy a small accent table when a minivan pulled into the spot next to me. A young family stepped out, and as the father tended to their newborn, I noticed a firearm strapped to his waist. I froze with fear — especially in light of the recent shooting in Rhode Island. It made me wonder how we're supposed to tell who is a threat and who is simply going about their lives.
Lock yourself in your home. Order everything for delivery.
Never go out in the evil public again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)
She froze, with Fear. The Horror!!
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (udlma)
Isn't that just a gas version of the diesel electric thing they use in cargo trains?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (a+4eV)
Public libraries are now de facto homeless daycare. Libraries have computers.
Plenty of permanently homeless people have cell phones.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 11:49 AM (Yp6az)
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Plenty of homeless have girlfriends. There's an ass for every seat.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Doesn't matter who's on your board, our votes are worth more.
Posted by: Reality and his good friend Physics at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (CLARQ)
https://is.gd/L2qx31
Meanwhile, VDH, notes the passing of three refineries in California and the catastrophic impact this going to have on the state's economy. Of course this is all self-inflicted Communist green madness. The solution? Import gasoline form Asia - you can't make this up. For extra credit this is going to whack Nevada and Arizona too. Plus $8.00 per gallon gas in 2026.
https://youtu.be/SBbXJ5trgKg
Meanwhile the Phillips shutting down their refinery in CA has had a knock on effect in Washington State with the closing of their Ferndale refinery. This should not only create gasoline shortages in Washington State but also in Oregon as it is 100% dependent on Washington State for gasoline.
Communists are gonna do what Communists do. Let them walk.
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 11:48 AM (HTCU3)
Communism done right is like food and fuel.
Not everyine gets it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (wVcYX)
Obama Pho
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:49 AM (dAOkg)
When he start opening Vietnamese restaurants?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:50 AM (krQz2)
"Studies" will have whatever outcome the person funding them wants them to.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (BTBWt)
A pickup with a 4' bed might as well be a Tonka truck. You have to have at least 6' to get anything hauled.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 11:52 AM (rbvCR)
You know they'll do it."
I hope that will be quite a while, because that will be when the country breaks up into 4 or 5 successor states. But with any luck, we've got 40 or 50 years til we get there.
the 2030 census is going to wipe out the Dems on the federal level for a generation, at least.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:52 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 19, 2025 11:52 AM (D0HYP)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM (n9ltV)
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Pikers!
Willie Brown proposed that as Mayor of San Fransicko back in the early 2000's IIRC.
He also wanted to hire gang-bangers as "security" for "Muni" (MTA) buses and trains. What could go wrong?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 11:52 AM (NNq22)
Logistics raises a hand... so, how does one recharge 100 busses simultaneously? Or do you pay people to shuffle thru some number at a time? And when the band is going to a football game in another county....
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (XuXeR)
It's feasible in-principle. But it's never going to be cheap. It will never pay for itself.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM
Both toyota and honda never jumped on the all EV train. They did double down on the hybrid side of the tracks and are cashing in on that every day.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM
The Paolo, he smiles.
Posted by: Paolo at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)
In Commiefornia, the homeless get paid generous monthly stipends.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (8uzBS)
At the time it was relatively minor as everything was different, but was the basis on which the entire superstructure of non-market irrational oligopolistic subsidized cost-shifting "health insurance" finance evolved.
Many noxious wheels turning in this picture but it all started there. Companies were constrained by wage controls, labor was short, so various marginal incentives were pursued to attract bodies.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)
I never get cash in the UK. Why bother...literally everywhere I have ever frequented uses CCs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (n9ltV)
I love duck, but harvesting a pint or so of duck fat when I roast one is definitely a reason I like duck!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (n9ltV)
My chilluns always request duck breasts for Christmas dinner - which means I'll be flush with duck fat for a few weeks. Nothing is as sublime as duck fat fried potatoes.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (GTqXr)
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It’s a thing in San Francisco too. Venmo as well.
It’s probably everywhere. The homeless are tech savvy I guess lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (udlma)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:50 AM (krQz2)
I don't care. Just give me the freedom to choose. Stop with the hysterical mandate bullshit.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (L/fGl)
Problem is school buses are the cheapest buses around. There's no room in anyone's budget to lard on expensive EV stuff.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (1Nv0l)
Plus maintenance is a big issue: School districts that took beaucoup Federal bucks to buy EV buses, with the accompanying fanfare, discover that maintaining them costs money that has to come from somewhere else. As in, from them. The EV buses then get quietly put away.
Posted by: Vendette at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (pJK38)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:43 AM (n9ltV)
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Pikers!
Willie Brown proposed that as Mayor of San Fransicko back in the early 2000's IIRC.
He also wanted to hire gang-bangers as "security" for "Muni" (MTA) buses and trains. What could go wrong?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 11:52 AM (NNq22)
We have insights on that.
Posted by: The Rolling Stones at Altamont at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (wVcYX)
Both toyota and honda never jumped on the all EV train. They did double down on the hybrid side of the tracks and are cashing in on that every day.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (0N4FZ)
Honda did declare they were going all EV in the 2030's at one point.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (QVmho)
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Back when my grandfather taught me how to fly fish, he showed me how to rub the ferrule of a two-piece rod on your nose before you put the rod together, and the oil from your nose would keep the pieces from seizing together and also not make an oily mess.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (3BwY8)
It makes me slightly nauseous or ill even when fresh. I have always enjoyed potato chips with a good sammich, but they don’t taste quite] right with Canola.
There’s no telling what you’ll actually get, as it’s “May Contain One Or More Of The Following:” but Canola or Soybean oil is likely as they are the cheapest.
I’m no foodie snob, far from it. But I simply can’t eat that shit any longer, tears my innards up badly.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (15vO0)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (g8Ew
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Depends on the quality of the study. There are really crappy studies that got us into this whole thing in the first place.
Posted by: Axeman
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Industry funded studies are part of the problem dating back to the sixties and fats instead of sugar being blamed for bad health. Eggs were blamed by LBJ for cholesterol simply because egg prices were high and LBJ did not want to get blamed.
Next look at the vaxx studies and the serious lack of studies for old drugs like Ivermectin etc. that are out of patent.
Scientists are NOT objective by and large if they want to last in the field. They have to scamble for funding from wherever they can scrounge it and that means playing ball to study what the 'consensus' wants studied or what some Sugar Daddy is willing to pay for.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (1vqcm)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Agree.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:55 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 19, 2025 11:55 AM (wGerL)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:44 AM (pDt9x)
Simple test on what to eat: Would my great-grandmother have recognized this as food?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 11:55 AM (rbvCR)
Government mandates tend to do such things...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:55 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Dogs everywhere at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (1Nv0l)
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I've heard that you're lucky to get your money back before a battery reaches end of life--which they do. And then you've got all that lithium ion that has to be disposed ... where??
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (krQz2)
Logistics raises a hand... so, how does one recharge 100 busses simultaneously? Or do you pay people to shuffle thru some number at a time? And when the band is going to a football game in another county....
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (XuXeR)
The funny part is the Rechargeable School Bus business has turned out to be one of the most catastrophic failures of the entire EV craze. School districts are having to scrap them within a year or two of purchase and going back to all diesel or gas buses.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2025 11:05 AM (BTBWt)
A pickup with a 4' bed might as well be a Tonka truck. You have to have at least 6' to get anything hauled.
Posted by: Kindltot
*cough cough 8 ft bed cough cough*
Plywood and 2x4's laying flat.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (g8Ew
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Depends on the quality of the study. There are really crappy studies that got us into this whole thing in the first place.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11
Those studies exist now, and there is some truth to them in terms of cholesterol- but again, the thing to remember here is moderation, it’s fine. You aren’t out there drinking seed oils to get enough linoleic acid to affect inflammation. Use the oil that tastes good for your purpose, whether plant or animal based.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (p4NUW)
Someone was smart enough to realize that it was going to be tough sledding selling RAPESEED oil to housewives, so they made up a new name.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (0N4FZ)
Ford is FUBAR. They bet the farm on an electrified pick up. Killed all sedans and just axed their best selling ICE SUV. Best of luck selling overpriced pick-up trucks.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (GTqXr)
Like Fulton County has a mouth. WHO illegally certified 315,000 ballots?
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (vFG9F)
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https://tinyurl.com/petwsxkd
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (L7ZUk)
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Having driven 85,000 miles/year for work over the past 13 years in Arizona, looks like I picked the right year to retire (sometime in 2026).
Ugh.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (NNq22)
Logistics raises a hand... so, how does one recharge 100 busses simultaneously? Or do you pay people to shuffle thru some number at a time? And when the band is going to a football game in another county....
Posted by: man
The obvious solution to keeping the fleet running is to have 2x times more buses. That allows 1/2 the fleet to recharge while the other 1/2 is being used. QED. EVs are so so dreamy.
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: tuba
Is fantastic. We've also used bacon grease for the crust, if the filling of the pie would be savory.
It does give a different texture than just butter for your crust, but you can always go half butter and half lard and get the best of both worlds
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (a+4eV)
Government mandates tend to do such things...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:55 AM (XuXeR)
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Europe is multi-party fascist.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)
Logistics raises a hand... so, how does one recharge 100 busses simultaneously?
All schools and football stadiums must be built next to submarine pens.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM (GTqXr)
Oh yes. Amazing stuff.
Have you had deep fried in duck fat? That's completely over the top and incredible.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2025 11:54 AM
You don't need choices, Comrade.
Posted by: Comrade Sanders at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
Believe me, homeless dudes offer up plenty of ass!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (JCZqz)
LOL, no. Replacing saturated fats with PUFAs from seed oils lowers LDL and reduces CVD risk. Many many reviews have confirmed this.
The biggest argument against seed oil is that it causes inflammation and oxidative stress. This isn't supported in any of the recent reviews.
Reviews of seed oils among diabetic and dyslipidemic
patients found seed oils improve lipid profiles, glycemic control, and reduce oxidative stress markers.
Most of the bullshit about seed oils come from old re-analyzed experiments from 50-60 years ago and supposition that's been proved over and over to be false.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (udlma)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:57 AM (p4NUW)
Saw that movie, Chariots of Lard. Great flick.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (pDt9x)
One of the most amusing delusional commenters who just breezily asserted EVs were clearly the wave of the near and distant future, acceptance was growing, performance was improving, blah blah blah.
Hardly the only topic on which one can see this, but the disconnect between reality and ideology/wishcasting/emotion that now ravages society was never more clearly illustrated.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2025 11:45 AM (g8Ew
In Canada they are toying with the idea of bringing back the concept of "laudable pus" due to the cost of things like antiseptics and single use surgical tools under the state health service
(Ok, maybe I made that up)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)
Well, the actual press release was that they "could" be all EV in the US and Canada by 2040...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (XuXeR)
Not at all. Costco carried some really good chickpea Cheetohs for awhile, but alas, they are no longer available.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (Riz8t)
Like Fulton County has a mouth. WHO illegally certified 315,000 ballots?
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (vFG9F)
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https://tinyurl.com/petwsxkd
Posted by: Huck Follywood"
"The Federalist inquired with the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office as to who was responsible for accepting Fulton County’s tabulator tapes despite there being no signatures at all. The office did not return a request for comment at the time of publication."
Yeah.
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (vFG9F)
Someone was smart enough to realize that it was going to be tough sledding selling RAPESEED oil to housewives, so they made up a new name.
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (3BwY
They also knew Canuck oil wasn't going to cut it.
Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (BZF07)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (p4NUW)
Don't tell the Steroid Bros out there.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2025 11:53 AM (0N4FZ)
Ford is FUBAR. They bet the farm on an electrified pick up. Killed all sedans and just axed their best selling ICE SUV. Best of luck selling overpriced pick-up trucks.
Posted by: Heavy Metal
Apparently the F-150 EV plan now is to build a truck that has a gasoline engine whose only purpose is to act as an electric generator for the battery. What is this, a comedy routine?
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (HTCU3)
Government mandates tend to do such things...
But European's are douchebags that drive maybe 10 miles a day, if that. When they travel longer distances they usually take mass transit. Again, Euro's are douchebags.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (abIsI)
Best: Fruit Pies, Streusel Coffee Cakes and Lemon Drizzle Baby Bundts.
I've never even seen the Baby Bundts, but those Coffee Cakes are pretty damn good.
https://tinyurl.com/jjcc5bfh
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2025 11:47 AM (XvL8K)
Blasphemy. Snoballs and Zingers are great.
Posted by: Pure snobbery! Snobbery I say! at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (TbWk/)
I read an interesting piece on that, as part of a Grateful Dead book,
The Hell’s Angels claim that is just pretty much short of complete nonsense. They weren’t hired to do much of anything, and they don’t play cops. There was an informal agreement to keep an eye on the generators. When asked how they wanted to be paid, they said “We like beer”, and that was about. They did beat the shit out of a bunch of people, and kill somebody who was rushing the stage with a pistol.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (15vO0)
Posted by: Kindltot
Not necessarily a great test, if your great-grandma was poor enough.
"Food" might include things like squirrels or chitlins.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (Da7Vv)
Government mandates tend to do such things...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:55 AM (XuXeR)
Actually it isn't. Government has managed to force people to stop buying gas powered cars, mostly, but overall automobile purchases are cratering, and the Euro car companies are still losing large amounts of money and shutting down factories.
Europe is heading towards a future where there will be almost no European car manufacturing left, and all cars worldwide will be built in China, India, Japan, and the US (with a handful of other smaller players like Korea)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)
There used to be a bar around here that sold duck fat potato chips as one of their sides.
I didn't like them that much.
Posted by: XTC at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: anachronda at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (edU/H)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: ballistic
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Unless it's 3 men simultaneously...
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (1Nv0l)
Well, the actual press release was that they "could" be all EV in the US and Canada by 2040...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 11:59 AM (XuXeR)
I was going by the commercials they were running on TV where they said they'd be going all EV by 2036 or so.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Have you had deep fried in duck fat? That's completely over the top and incredible.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)
There is a bistro nearby that serves a veal Milanese fried in duck fat. It is stupid good.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (Yp6az)
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Then explain how I got the best lab numbers in my life having given up seed oils and sticking mainly to saturated fats? All my cholesterol numbers were optimal.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 11:50 AM (WDjG6)
If Trump follows the EO setting Fentanyl as a WMD to the extreme conclusion, I expect quite a number of people currently and formerly in the executive branches in these states to wind up in Gitmo.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (rbvCR)
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There's another thing that temperature list represents.
How hard it is for humans to break those substances down as well. For example, we can't digest corn at all.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:27 AM (krQz2)
Apparently it has to be processed with lye (?) in order for us to be able to process the niacin it contains, which is not an issue with wheat.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:02 PM (a+4eV)
"Food" might include things like squirrels or chitlins.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
Squirrel - Chicken of the Trees
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 12:02 PM (dAOkg)
Scientists are NOT objective by and large if they want to last in the field. They have to scamble for funding from wherever they can scrounge it and that means playing ball to study what the 'consensus' wants studied or what some Sugar Daddy is willing to pay for.
Posted by: whig at December
When you go to nutritionist school, you get to study all these changes and the whys behind them. It cracks me up because in the end, you get the same answer - moderation. We can save a lot of money and just go there. lol. I am kidding, of course, there are definitely nutrients we need and better ways than others to get them, but surprisingly often, this is the answer.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:02 PM (p4NUW)
Have you had deep fried in duck fat? That's completely over the top and incredible.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 11:58 AM (n9ltV)
There is a bistro nearby that serves a veal Milanese fried in duck fat. It is stupid good.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (GTqXr)
Real poutine uses fresh cut fries, duck confit and fresh cheese curds. Duck confit is the trick.
Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2025 12:02 PM (BZF07)
Posted by: Kindltot
Not necessarily a great test, if your great-grandma was poor enough.
"Food" might include things like squirrels or chitlins.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (a+4eV)
Have eaten both. Squirrel, si. Chitlins hell no.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:02 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:02 PM (abIsI)
So they have to bleach it, and then they have to chemically process it to extract the bleach they eliminated the smell with.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 19, 2025 12:01 PM (GTqXr)
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (n9ltV)
Note to self: 2026 is a couple weeks away and I can count the number of EVs I see driving around Las Cruces on any given day on one hand. Not gonna happen.
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (HTCU3)
Posted by: tubal
Is that the one where ancient astronauts taught the Easter Islanders how to make sawmill gravy?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
One of the most amusing delusional commenters who just breezily asserted EVs were clearly the wave of the near and distant future, acceptance was growing, performance was improving, blah blah blah.
Hardly the only topic on which one can see this, but the disconnect between reality and ideology/wishcasting/emotion that now ravages society was never more clearly illustrated.
Posted by: rhomboid
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It is fairly easy to tell who reads/watches the mainstream media and who does not.
I like tech but much of the reporting on it is always laudatory to the point of shiling for this or that product.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19,
Was this the only change you made?
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (vFG9F)
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Spatula was dispatched at the Coliseum.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (Wg6v7)
Shhhhh. Don't look, but that's how large scale EV batteries actually work. Ever wonder why the blurbs are "80% recharge in 20 minutes "? It's to maintain battery life... and it works, but you're always toting around 20% + of uncharged battery...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (XuXeR)
It sounds great, but I've been through more than enough battery (and other) hype cycles to remain skeptical. I hope it is all that they say it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Count de Monet
I worked with a guy in '82 who had a CNG converter on his pickup truck.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:02 PM (abIsI)
He can power a neighborhood? Really, for how long? Does that neighborhood include a|g0re's house?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: tubal
Did it have an absolutely awful title song as well?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (eStot)
Posted by: tubal
Is that the one where ancient astronauts taught the Easter Islanders how to make sawmill gravy?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
That’s the one! They used bacon grease, or duck fat.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (pDt9x)
could work if they added a bit of maple syrup
Posted by: anachronda at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (edU/H)
Ford has also announced that it is getting into the industrial-scale battery electric storage systems business, also knowns as “BESS.” Let me be the first to confidently predict that there will be a multi-billion-dollar write-off for Ford’s BESS distraction in coming years.
They'd have probably been better off going into the BESS business from the start. Every cellular telephone site, switching center, cable TV hub, landline telephone facility etc has backup batteries. In many cases it's mandated by FCC that these sites have x number of hours of battery backup capacity, over and above their backup diesel generators.
But of course, they went EV not just because they wanted to save the planet, but to chase down those sweet, sweet government subsidy dollars.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:05 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: man
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Keep a few diesel buses around.
It makes sense. Just like plugin hybrids make a lot of sense. I'd rather charge at home than go to the gas station for the 90% of trips I do that can be comfortably all-electric.
What doesn't make sense and never will is all-EV mandates.
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 19, 2025 12:05 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Piper
..not like they had better options, back then...
I keep saying, that's one of the miracles of petroleum refining: it enabled people to stop using edible fats for things other than eating.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:05 PM (a+4eV)
my old Chevy truck used whale oil in the differential
Posted by: DanMan at December 19, 2025 12:05 PM (8uzBS)
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It is fairly easy to tell who reads/watches the mainstream media and who does not.
I like tech but much of the reporting on it is always laudatory to the point of shiling for this or that product.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (WDjG6)
AI will increase coders' productivity by 10x!!!
Posted by: AI marketers at December 19, 2025 12:05 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at December 19, 2025 12:06 PM (lYvO3)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19,
Was this the only change you made?
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:03 PM (p4NUW)
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Some supplements as needed, and minimal sugars. Trying to eat as clean as I could, with minimal preservatives.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:07 PM (krQz2)
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith
Sure!
The people "verifying" the signatures don't follow those rules.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:07 PM (a+4eV)
I know a warehouse where they use electric forklift-type applications. They have 3 sets of batteries: One in the vehicle, one cooling, and one charging. They swap them out every 8 hours. Plain old lead-acid batteries, by the way.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 19, 2025 12:07 PM (eStot)
And if you can't take the word of the Hell's Angels, whose can you take?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 19, 2025 12:07 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (3pkwM)
Posted by: bonhomme at December
You speak truth, I love how our messaging is different styles, though. But this is spot on.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (p4NUW)
As a mechanical engineer for 30 years I have been astounded every day since the 2000s when they have purposely stolen our tax money to fund the environmental cartels who choose to know nothing about physics. Theft. All of it.
Google Map Chisago county in MN and zoom in on the southern end where all of our fertile farmland has been covered by toxic solar panels made by our enemy in China.
Disgusting.
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (mNOhh)
Plywood and 2x4's laying flat.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (dAOkg)
Oh, I agree, if you are going to have a real pickup, you need an 8'6" bed, 4' between the wheel wells. However, for running around town and picking up a couple totes or a quarter yard of sand, a light pickup is your friend.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Is this Intercepted Reddit Transmissions?
Tesla has paid to Musk more than it has ever earned. Tesla stock runs purely on whatever the next Musk BS story is. Tesla doesn't make any money.
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (1Nv0l)
Who is John Galt ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (23/y9)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon
That's the heavy way to do it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Common Tater
How about carrots? Maple syrup?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)
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Yes, this is the point I neglected to mention.
Over Mick Jagger?
Hell yes.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 12:09 PM (3pkwM)
Posted by: Common Tater
How about carrots? Maple syrup?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:09 PM (77rzZ)
Sawdust is a great cornbread extender for the budget minded.
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:09 PM (pDt9x)
It sounds great, but I've been through more than enough battery (and other) hype cycles to remain skeptical. I hope it is all that they say it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (Riz8t)
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I'll believe it when I see it. Plus, the comment above isn't accurate about what their capabilities are. It's "up to" 600 miles, which isn't far off from current (bullshit) claims about range. Same with charging. If you have access to one of those super-fast (and expensive) charging stations, and an 800 volt architecture, you can charge in maybe 10-15 minutes. So these new batteries don't move the game on that much further.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12
Yay! I love this answer. Guess why your numbers are better?
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:10 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: ballistic at December 19, 2025 12:10 PM (3BwY8)
The Democrats go down to the courthouse and sue and say people are being disenfranchised and a Democrat judge says the votes have to be counted, then the ballots are mixed in with the other ballots so there's no way to know which ones didn't follow the rules. THIS JUST HAPPENED.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 19, 2025 12:10 PM (eStot)
Actually, it's the opposite: Exxon's 1980s office venture (word processors/typewriters) flopped amid fierce competition from Xerox/IBM, costing billions.
Ford is smartly repurposing EV battery plants for large-scale LFP container systems (>5MWh) to power grids/data centers—stabilizing renewables, regulating frequency, providing backup amid AI-driven demand. This booming market (Tesla's Megapacks are highly profitable) aligns perfectly with Ford's expertise.
LFP is exceptionally safe: higher thermal stability, lower fire risk than alternatives, ideal for stationary use. Strategic pivot to high-margin growth. This is not new, you are (as always) behind the curve (Google "AES deploys 20 MW of storage in the Dominican Republic")
Posted by: DominicanVoices at December 19, 2025 12:10 PM (9IJFs)
'Lecticity, how does it work?
FWIW, there just isn't any "new battery technology"... it's just nibbling around the edges of charging times, packaging, and manufacturing.
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:10 PM (XuXeR)
I've never even seen the Baby Bundts, but those Coffee Cakes are pretty damn good.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Those things are GREAT!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2025 12:10 PM (pkeXY)
White men urged to report DEI-related discrimination to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Trump admin
https://is.gd/9k2CMR
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Which is fine for a forklift, since they have ballast anyway. Just make part of it the batteries.
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 19, 2025 12:11 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Common Tater
How about carrots? Maple syrup?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19
If you put anything sweet in your cornbread, we cannot be on speaking terms. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:11 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 19, 2025 12:12 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Trying to summarize at December 19, 2025 12:12 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:12 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Trying to summarize
ChatGPT couldn't have said it any better
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:12 PM (a+4eV)
*shrug*
That's not data. You probably changed more than one variable.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 12:12 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:11 PM (p4NUW)
Jalapeno, cheddar, and bacon.
It is known.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 12:12 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Piper
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I used to do big empirical studies and a lot of the statistical methods necessary for certain tasks were first pioneered in medical statistics. The problem with most studies is a) we cannot feed people Purina Human Chow switching out key ingredients for decades to get a decent fix on optimal human food, b) impossible to separate out environmental effects like air pollution, chemicals in water and food, medicines, genetics, etc., and c) cost of panel studies running for decades is enormous and you have to have a much bigger panel at first because of attrition from people dropping out of studies. We have added d) where a lot of 'answers' are simply unacceptable socially so we muddle messages (salt intake for one).
We have multiplied the number of variables to the extent that generalities like moderation are about the easiest solution to very complex interactions among relevant variables.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:13 PM (WDjG6)
Whales would have gone extinct 100 years ago.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 19, 2025 12:13 PM (eStot)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 19, 2025 12:02 PM (dAOkg)
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Heh.
Now I've got an earworm:
"Ask any squirrel you happen to see ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:13 PM (NNq22)
It all has to do with funding the Left and it's sources: most of the 'green energy' corps were all left-leaning and funding those causes. Vice the 'oiligarchy' companies we're more familiar with. They are far more conservative (although they do donate to Dems) than the EV crowd, and by mandating a move off of gas vehicles, it would help fund more of the left's people. Plain and simple.
Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 19, 2025 12:13 PM (SOGBX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 19, 2025 12:13 PM (gm9Sb)
Meanwhile, the MSM seems to be tastefully averting their eyes from AOC's threats, brave stances, and fist-pumping declarations on climate change.
"THIS is our generation's MOON SHOT!" she said.
I wonder if she's still standing by it for that matter.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 19, 2025 12:13 PM (n7rxJ)
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I have a recipe book with recipes from an older, black southern woman who used to run a restaurant. Her cornbread recipe uses melted butter in the batter and is the absolute best cornbread I've ever eaten.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 19, 2025 12:13 PM (qBdHI)
Well it's about time.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 12:14 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:11 PM (p4NUW)
are you saying it's wrong to use the Jiffy Cornbread mix from the store? Cuz' if Jiffy Cornbread is wrong, I don't wanna be right!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2025 12:14 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:05 PM (a+4eV)
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Right, so it created a standard of lubrication that no other substance has been able to equal.
In the early 20th century they tried to manufacture a synthetic oil out of chemically extracted plant oils, but they failed to meet that standard. But investors put so much money into this enterprise that they wanted to find some use for the technology.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:14 PM (krQz2)
... I have an idea for what to do with all the homeless druggies once we succeed in institutionalizing them again.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:14 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Christopher B at December 19, 2025 12:14 PM (FUa6R)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2025 12:12 PM (Yp6az)
Or it worked for him. Which means absolutely nothing, other than, "it worked for him!"
I always rely on studies with an "N" of 1.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2025 12:14 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: That guy who makes everything sexual at December 19, 2025 12:14 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Trying to summarize
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Seed oil frying is the only way to properly season the Lithium ion batteries so that a runaway reaction occurs which burns all the evidence of election fraud.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2025 12:15 PM (pDt9x)
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Subjugation of a highly mobile society is difficult.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 12:15 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:11 PM (p4NUW)
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Who hasn't been tempted to make and eat chocolate chip cornbread?
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Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:15 PM (NNq22)
But the vast majority of plug-ins rarely if ever get plugged in.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2025 12:16 PM (sDNVV)
Ancel Keys. At the time, of the debates in the 1950s, more than one old line doctor testified he’d never even seen a heart attack until hydrogenated oils came along.
I also find it oddly coincidental that eggs, dairy, & meat and cholesterol came under fire for health reasons right about the time the US dollar shit the bed, and Americans couldn’t afford it.
Margarine was healthier than Butter, the Food Pyramid soon followed, Cholesterol was the great driver of heart disease, Eggs were unhealthy, and Low Fat dieting became the rage.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 12:16 PM (Pp3EP)
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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They might do okay eating pet food if the ingredients don't come from China.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:16 PM (WDjG6)
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Cuz the Northeast and Midwest say so. They really hate heating oil (diesel) and natural gas. Evidently, Consolidated Edison is heavily consolidated.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 12:16 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Christopher B
You have clearly demonstrated how government ensures market forces function correctly.
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 12:16 PM (HTCU3)
Martha White's better,
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 19, 2025 12:16 PM (eStot)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 19, 2025 12:17 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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That's one more than the factual basis of most people's opinions.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 19, 2025 12:17 PM (1Nv0l)
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Subjugation of a highly mobile society is difficult.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2025 12:15 PM (NwnyJ)
This
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2025 12:17 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Trying to summarize
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Seed oil frying is the only way to properly season the Lithium ion batteries so that a runaway reaction occurs which burns all the evidence of election fraud.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)
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Nominated for "Comments of The Week" suggestions.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:17 PM (NNq22)
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I have a recipe book with recipes from an older, black southern woman who used to run a restaurant. Her cornbread recipe uses melted butter in the batter and is the absolute best cornbread I've ever eaten.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 19, 2025 12:13 PM (qBdHI)
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The secret to many a restaurant is ... butter, butter, and more butter.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 12:17 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
What does "N" stand for?
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12
Yay! I love this answer. Guess why your numbers are better?
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 12:10 PM (p4NUW)
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But cholesterol is supposed to have more to do with fats, does it not?
I got better numbers while increasing the intake of saturated fats.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (krQz2)
It all has to do with funding the Left and it's sources: "
We have a winner.
And I add diced chipotles w/a bit of adobo drizzled in along with crumbled bacon to cornbread...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
What does "N" stand for?
Now you've done it.
Posted by: Fani Willis at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2025 11:56 AM (p4NUW)
I have a stent and got told I would have another blockage eventually. THIS IS EVEN WITHS STATINS. Also the main lipid that appears indicative of future plaques is not tested for since, and I quote the MD, "we don't have any way to affect it"
There is now a huge controversy about the diet-heart hypothesis that has been the main theory for 60 years, and amazingly enough, after 60 years of trying to prevent heart attacks by diet modification has resulted in more heart attacks.
I am reassured that science is slow, but accurate, and it advances one funeral at a time, but it would be nice to have some hope that one of those funerals would not be mine.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (rbvCR)
Because it made a lot of influential people piles and piles of money
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 19, 2025 12:17 PM (iFTx/)
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Butter = fat
Fat = flavor
Therefore Butter = Flavor
It's basic culinary mathematics.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (ESVrU)
I'm going to press x to doubt on that one.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (a+4eV)
Martha White's better,
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Corn Casserole is Heaven.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 12:19 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 12:19 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Ecological fallacy works both ways. What is true for the system is not necessarily true for the individual and vice versa.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:19 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 19, 2025 12:20 PM (Oasjp)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2025 12:20 PM (Riz8t)
Government mandates tend to do such things...
Posted by: man
Yurupeans drive much less than US Americans. Cities closer together.
Posted by: Frequent Rider at December 19, 2025 12:20 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (a+4eV)
One was from Sothern Scotland, and the other was raised on a farm way out in the middle of nowhere. You are absolutely correct.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 12:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 19, 2025 12:22 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2025 12:22 PM (snZF9)
I got better numbers while increasing the intake of saturated fats.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:18 PM (krQz2)
Cholesterol is largely endogenous. Something like 85% is produced by your own body. You can make some changes at the margins with diet, but people with hyperlipidemia frequently have a genetic component to where their liver is just going absolutely ham producing the stuff, even if they're eating dry toast and plain tuna for breakfast lunch and dinner. Basically the only way for those folks to improve their lab values is with statins.
Posted by: Livers are overrated at December 19, 2025 12:23 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant and GayFontoPhobe at December 19, 2025 12:23 PM (NNq22)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 12:23 PM (npFr7)
Apparently the F-150 EV plan now is to build a truck that has a gasoline engine whose only purpose is to act as an electric generator for the battery. What is this, a comedy routine?
Posted by: Gauloises and Gitanes at December 19, 2025 12:00 PM (HTCU3)
Using a gasoline engine in this application is stupid. Diesel engines are much more efficient as the generator in diesel-electric systems. A diesel engine is REALLY happy at steady RPMs for power generation. Gas engines tend to be better for variable RPM use, as in cars that need quick power application.
The choice of gasoline has nothing to do with performance, it has everything to do with logistics. The gasoline supply network is built out with an existing focus on the average consumer. The diesel network is built with a focus on commercial use.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (y9nCu)
Government mandates tend to do such things...
Posted by: man
Yurupeans drive much less than US Americans. Cities closer together.
Posted by: Frequent Rider
European society, as a whole is much poorer than in the US, population density and subsidies means greater access to mass transit like trains and busses, and China is now eating the European automakers lunch with low priced EVs that were originally destined for the US. BVD is even setting up assembly plants in the EU for Chicom components.
EU rejected the US as an equal trading partner and decided like Russia to dance with China for consumer goods. Twon't end well for EU industry.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Well, here's the thing. I'm the only N that can do anything from my take on the message "Don't eat saturated fats." Or "Eat more saturated fats." So, it is significant to me if I cut out--to the degree possible--seed oils, increase saturated fats and get good lab numbers.
It makes sense that way, does it not? The goal of such a message is to cause *me* to worry, and *me* to change my habits. But I'm never going to have proof of either without numbers.
So if I have the best cholesterol numbers I've ever had in my life--you don't have to believe me--I could care less--but if I have the best numbers, how do I subscribe to "Oh, yeah, eat more seed oils because they're 'lighter' than saturated fats".
When is the ill-effects to trading in the opposite direction to the advice supposed to catch up with me?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (krQz2)
One vendor collected that data (yes, your plug in hybrid records when it's plugged in) during a software update service advisory.
Fewer than five percent had ever been plugged in, and about 2.5 percent were regularly plugged in...
Posted by: man at December 19, 2025 12:24 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2025 12:04 PM (y9nCu)
The total fleet mileage requirement under CAFE had more to do with that, though. They had to have "zero emission" rigs to offset the vehicles they made that would sell.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2025 12:25 PM (rbvCR)
Definitely a program that must be ended
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2025 12:26 PM (3Amc7)
An elderly neighbor with walking issues is slowly switching to online orders and store pickup over in-store shopping because she can't always get a charged buggy to ride on.
She bemoans the frequent substitutions on her orders and lack of opportunistic pickups of Clearance items and in-store only Manager Specials.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 19, 2025 12:27 PM (wVcYX)
Lordstown Motors. Was that a legit attempt to start an EV truck company or was it just a subsidy rent-seeking operation? I could never decide.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 19, 2025 12:29 PM (eStot)
Posted by: Bulg at December 19, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Olives and avocados are both seeds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 12:30 PM (npFr7)
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Fact.
Don’t take my word for it, though. Learn for yourself. A dear departed member here named Ciampano posted an excellent treatise on the subject. A book entitled The Oiling of America ; it mentions this.
You may be also shocked to learn that large corporations had an outsized effect on lobbying. Corn interests and cereal for example.
Read and learn. You don’t have to accept it, or agree with it. But the Cholesterol = Heart disease was not and is not without serious controversy.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 12:48 PM (Fn30I)
Coconut oil is excellent for frying, popping corn, etc and doesn’t seem to cause gut issues either. At least with me. I would use 90 wt gear oil if it tasted OK and the price was right.
Sometimes you’ll hear “use a neutral tasting oil”, this doesn’t really make any sense either. Fat is flavor, no way around it.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2025 12:53 PM (Fn30I)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (rQwsY)
It's clear that the future is EV for cars and trucks. Only one company, Tesla, makes EVs at a profit.
Ford hired some ex-Tesla guys and they are heading a "skunkworks" project to build EVs that can actually make a profit. Expect this to be big news when it's unveiled. I expect their first EV to be a small car, not a truck.
Building an EV truck with an onboard generator isn't completely stupid. Stellantis is planning to sell a truck like that too. But IMHO it's better to have a pure ICE truck or a pure EV truck... instead of hauling a generator around, just run on gas or else put extra batteries in the truck. But since Ford can't build EVs at a profit yet, the hybrid EV truck looks good to them.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 19, 2025 01:00 PM (LNPSJ)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 19, 2025 01:03 PM (lYvO3)
It really depends on the extraction process. If they have to super-heat it, put it through a chemical process, bleach it, or something along those lines, then it's bad.
You can get "expeller-pressed sunflower oil" which my understanding is that it is not nearly as bad as the chemically-extracted stuff.
For vegetarian oils, it's best to stick with olive, avocado (although there are no quality constraints on avocado oil) and coconut.
The problem with saturated--natural--fats, is that they have a low smoke-point. I think, Gee has the highest smoke point of animal fats.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2025 11:17 AM (krQz2)
People who never eat oils of any kind die.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 19, 2025 01:08 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 19, 2025 12:08 PM (a+4eV)
Heavy batteries are a distinct advantage in a forklift, acting as a counterweight to the load.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2025 01:11 PM (npFr7)
"Subjugation of a highly mobile society is difficult."
If I was a dictator in charge of the federal goverment it would have been easier for me to inmobilize you if you drive a gas vehicle instead of an EV. Just close the refineries, blow away the pipelines and good luck fueling your vehicle.
If you have an EV, there are many ways to get the energy to "fuel it" that are out of my reach. There are 132 refineries in the USA according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Meanwhile, there were as of 2022 12,538 utility-scale electric power plants in the USA as per the same source.
Posted by: DominicanVoices at December 19, 2025 01:37 PM (9IJFs)
"Ev cars are where battery power tools were 40 years ago. Shiny, new, and totally impractical. They took hours and hours to charge, and lasted 20 minutes if you were lucky."
Tell me you don't know anything about EVs without telling me that you don't know anything about EVs. It takes seconds to charge an EV. You just plug it in when you arrive at your home, office or wherever. Go on and do your business and when you come back your "tank" is full.
Posted by: DominicanVoices at December 19, 2025 01:41 PM (9IJFs)
There are even more EV "fuel" sources if you count houses with solar panels. My house can charge my car most months of the year. (I live at a northern latitude and December/January are not good months for solar production.)
I think few of the people who read this blog have an oil well plus refinery in their home. This is an advantage for EVs.
My car could be remotely disabled, but if I was really worried about that I could disable the cellular antenna and never hook the car up to WiFi. An EV with remote access disabled is the most dictator-safe vehicle you could get.
In fact there are portable solar panels that you could carry in your EV. They would take days to recharge the car, but you totally could be off-grid and moving around from place to place.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 19, 2025 01:47 PM (LNPSJ)
"Ford's problem with EVs is that they don't know how to make them for a profit. It's clear that the future is EV for cars and trucks. Only one company, Tesla, makes EVs at a profit."
Correct. My concern with the author of this piece and others covering EVs in conservative media is their reluctance to ground opinions in facts. Claims that EVs are neither practical nor profitable must address Tesla's success: a viable business with $97.69 billion in revenue in 2024, $7.1 billion in GAAP net income, and 1.789 million vehicles delivered. Millions of Tesla vehicles are on roads globally.
Tesla (and Elon Musk specifically) shares some responsibility due to limited traditional advertising of vehicles and EV benefits. As evident in comments here, much public 'knowledge' about EVs stems from persistent myths.
Posted by: DominicanVoices at December 19, 2025 01:52 PM (9IJFs)
I have an EV as my daily driver. I hook it up to my home charger when I need to charge. It takes less time to charge than I take to sleep so overnight charging seems "instant".
On long road trips I need to stop at a fast charger. The car takes a similar amount of time to charge as I would want to stop for a meal anyway.
On very long road trips, like coast to coast, the charging would annoy me. But I never do that, and at least I would be saving some money vs. paying for gasoline.
My longest trip was down the west coast, to visit family in California. I would totally do that trip again in my EV.
When I have to rent a gasoline car, I'm always shocked again by how much worse the car is compared to my EV.
To those of you who prefer gas: good for you, keep driving gas cars. However, please don't try to tell me what EVs are like.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 19, 2025 01:54 PM (LNPSJ)
Something that I ask critics of EVs is if they ever count the numbers of cars on the side of the road when on long trips and see how many of them are EVs. I honestly can't recall ever seeing one. Not that it never happens, but not as often as regular vehicles. This is important because how often critics claims that they might get stuck on the side of the road with an empty battery.
Posted by: DominicanVoices at December 19, 2025 02:10 PM (9IJFs)
Well shit. If'n we cain't have Ferd EVs, at least we have Trump Communication Czar, Devin Nooners hookin' up Trump's wagon to fusion power. Tardnation.
Posted by: Marooned at December 19, 2025 03:22 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 19, 2025 05:39 PM (wGqjj)
This is something that Akio Toyoda (Chairman, BoD, Toyota) recognized when the whole EV surge began. Although Toyota (the car company) built some EV's and plugin hybrids, they really went hard on the "fully" hybrid market. This was SMART!
There are advantages to direct drive electric motors to the wheels. Torque, HP, even regen braking. But for MILEAGE and REFUELING, there is NOTHING that beats an ICE.
If Ford had introduced a HYBRID F150 instead of fully electric, I "might" have considered one. Instead I opted for a 5.0L V8 (and even considered their 6.2L).
Only IDIOTS buy fully electric EVs!!!!
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 19, 2025 06:22 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Sergeant Major at December 19, 2025 07:02 PM (st9l0)
Separately, Biden's DOE, aka Jenny Granholm, gave PG&E $15 Billion in 11/24 just for keeping electricity prices high. Clearly, Ford made a bad trade.
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Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)