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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 11/22/2025
Alexander Mackendrick
No, you probably don't know Alexander Mackenrick's name, but I assure you that you know at least one of his movies, the original The Ladykillers. And behind that layer of anonymity lies one of the most technically accomplished and intelligent directors to come out of the WWII era of British filmmaking. Only separated by seven years for his first feature compared with David Lean (Lean's first was in 1942, Mackendrick's was in 1949), Mackendrick actually started directing cinema commercials in the late 30s for a marketing firm before being hired by the Ministry of Information to make propaganda films through the duration of the war.
I bring up Lean because the two men had very obviously similar views on the role of the film director. Rising up through the industry as a screenwriter and production designer (Lean's rise was through the role of editor), Mackendrick saw the film director's job as requiring intimate understanding of every aspect of a production. A film director should be able to essentially do any job on a film set at the same level as any craftsman given the more minor tasks could. He should be screenwriter, production designer, set dresser, cinematographer, and actor all in one, able to understand the craft of everyone involved in order to appropriately assemble the vision at the center of the film. A film director is both artist and craftsman, and that overall ethos was something he shared with Lean. It must have been something in the water in Britain in the 40s.
What really differentiates Mackendrick from Lean is twofold. The first is that Mackendrick's feature film directing career started at Ealing Studios, the small production company mostly known for comedies (one of his early films there, Mandy, is an outright drama, though), and the second reason is that Mackendrick...gave up on making movies. After the 1967 bomb Don't Make Waves, which is mostly notable for being Sharon Tate's feature film debut, Mackendrick decided that he didn't have the skillset necessary to schmooze producers for film jobs, so he retired from filmmaking and became the first dean of the film school at CalArts, stepping down after a decade and teaching for the rest of his professional life. His most prominent student would probably end up being James Mangold, director of Ford v. Ferrari, Logan, and A Complete Unknown.
So, why would someone like Mackendrick give up on filmmaking to just teach?
Ealing Studios
Mackendrick got his first directing job through several years of working as a screenwriter at Ealing. Whisky Galore! was supposed to be directed by Ronold Neame, but he turned the assignment down, opening it up to those who wanted their shot at the directing job. Mackendrick showed up on location (an unusual setup for an Ealing film, necessary in this instance because all of their studio space was being used up), threw out the script completely, and worked with his pair of writers to come up with something new, using the same basic bones as the original script. It was a success, a sort of based on real life tale of a small island community, cut off from all booze during rationing in the middle of the war, suddenly being granted great bounty in the form of a cargo ship crashing just off shore, full of whisky.
And Mackendrick's time at Ealing was largely managing these kinds of productions to different degrees of success. The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers both feature very different performances from Alec Guinness in his prime (the second film is an inspired Alistair Sim impression), but the common hand across all of these accomplished films, which include the lesser but entertaining works of Mandy, the story of a deaf girl, and The Maggie, a farce with a more serious minded ending about a cargo ship not up for the task it gets, is Mackendrick's. They're all well-made, with strong scripts, and show a young director with a strong eye, a hand for comedy, good relationships with actors, and command of narrative.
And then, he went to America.
Hecht-Hill-Lancaster
One of the most important independent producing partnerships in the 50s, the final years of the studio era, was the company formed by Harold Hecht, James Hill, and Burt Lancaster, and they snatched up the promising young director from Scotland (actually, Mackendrick was born in Boston, just raised on Glasgow) to direct the adaptation of Ernest Lehman's novelette Tell Me About It Tomorrow!. Lehman was hired originally as the screenwriter, but had to leave the production with about a month left in pre-production. HHL hired Clifford Odets to do the final rewrites, which everyone assumed would be a quick job, but encouraged by Mackendrick, the rewrite process went all the way through the entire production.
And that's indicative of a major problem Mackendrick had when it came to his production approach. He wanted to take his time. Time always equals money, and when you spend $1 million on the production of Sweet Smell of Success, a major investment for an independent production company, and that film actually loses $400,000 upon its original release, it's going to cause friction with those producers. Which it did.
When I do these surveys of a filmmaker's work, I tend to avoid biography as I go through the films. I want to figure out the films, and I don't usually care that much about the people themselves. However, there's a six year gap between Sweet Smell of Success and his next film, Sammy Going South, and it's important.
HHL wasn't done with Mackendrick after the financial disappointment of Sweet Smell of Success. They had little but good things to say about the exacting filmmaker, and they greenlit his next film, The Devil's Disciple, a project that originally attracted Mackendrick to work with HHL. However, HHL fired Mackendrick from the adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play (replaced with Guy Hamilton) after a month of production. That's a setback, but it wasn't the only one.
He was also the original director of The Guns of Navarone, but was fired a week before production started in 1960.
He spent the next three years in the wilderness until one of the original producers from Ealing, Hal Mason, hired him to direct an adaptation of the W.H. Canaway novel, Sammy Going South, a story about a ten year old boy walking from the Suez Canal to South Africa after his parents are killed in a bomb attack. I genuinely think this movie is really good, but it also represented a setback for Mackendrick. The American distributors recut and cut down the film so much, taking out so much of the running time that they had to commission a new score to fit the film while retitling it A Boy Ten Feet Tall (I'll be honest, I prefer the American title).
If I were Mackendrick, I'd be exhausted and frustrated at this point.
Final Films
Mackendrick didn't quite give up after Sammy Going South. He made two more films. The first, A High Wind in Jamaica has many elements that make it look like, on the surface, a live-action Disney film from the era. Six kids in the late 19th century get kidnapped by pirates and must warm their icy hearts. Except, Mackendrick, working from the novel by Richard Hughes, goes darker with more child danger than the implied genre connection would indicate. The film is pretty good with a near-manic performance by Anthony Quinn and a noteworthy early performance from James Coburn.
However, you can just feel that he's lost with his final film, Don't Make Waves, an anti-beach party movie that reunited him with his Sweet Smell of Success star Tony Curtis. Curtis plays a man who arrives in California with nothing, gets wooed by two women (one of whom is Claudia Cardinale) while lusting after a third (the aforementioned Sharon Tate). It's supposed to be a comedy, but it's weirdly...not funny from the guy who made The Ladykillers, and it ends with a big special effects sequence where the underlying dramatic point is that the materialistic beach life is empty and without meaning.
I mean...no wonder it didn't make much money at the box office and people haven't rushed to defend it over the years. And the reality of the production, which Tate called not particularly pleasurable, was enough to just get Mackendrick to stop making films altogether.
Themes
All this is fine and good, but did he actually, you know, inject something personal into his films? Did he just make generic entertainments that anyone could have made with his skill, or did he have some unique perspective that seeped into everything?
It's the latter. He was a filmmaker who, in his own small way, pulled productions towards his own thematic concerns. And that really centers on the ideas of corruption of authority contrasted with portraits of innocence with really interesting variations. The first is his first film, Whisky Galore! where he's on record as actually feeling more akin to the antagonist of the film, the very Scottish authority figure out to ruin everyone's fun by getting them to turn over the whisky they took from a shipwreck. In The Ladykillers, the innocent Mrs. Wilberforce gets to face the group of thieves taking up temporary residence in her house. In The Maggie, the powerful magnate who tries to buy everyone ends up learning the value of a smaller existence through the pratfalls of the boating crew he accidentally hires.
He's one of those filmmakers that doesn't have a very distinct visual flair (he filmed very handsomely and very classically), but actually did bend films to what he wanted to say. The problem is that he just...stopped making movies, so his body of work is so small and so much is in comedy, which no one really takes seriously, so he never really had the time to develop the ideas and people are dismissive of his comedies as just comedies not worthy of actual serious consideration.
In Retrospect
I know enough about the filmmaking process to understand that the management of a filmset is difficult and draining. That it takes, often, 16-hour days to manage departments, film scenes, deal with actors and problems on set, and that's after you've secured funding to get everyone in place. The schmoozing with studio heads, producers, and independent money sources just to get that set together in the first place is a whole other set of skills. A modern example to point to would be Terry Gilliam who spends years between productions, traveling around Europe begging for people for money. And that's simply a different skillset.
And a guy who runs off to academia in order to not deal with it obviously doesn't want to exercise that skillset. To bring in another modern example, I think of Peter Weir, the Australian filmmaker who simply gave up filmmaker a few years after the release of his final movie, The Way Back, when he grew tired of dealing with producers and actors who demanded things from him (Ethan Hawke knows the particular actor that ticked off Weir, but he's not sayin' who).
So, Mackendrick retreated to a safe space where he could think about the craft, help people with their own craft, and still affect things for decades more. Don't Make Waves was released in 1967, and he kept teaching at CalArts until his death in 1991 of emphysema.
It's easy to sit on the sidelines, decades after his death, never having dealt with his professional troubles myself, and demand that he pick himself up, rub some dirt on it, and go back to entertaining me. So, I'm not going to shake my fist at a dead man. Instead, I will thank him. His was a consummate craftsman who understood moviemaking at a level that I never will. If he had made 10-20 more films, he'd be much more widely recognized as a master of the form, but his limited output also limits his appeal to a certain degree. He doesn't have the visual distinctiveness of a Stanley Kubrick to get him over that hump, either.
Plus, you know, most of his well-known films are comedies, and no one respects that.
But I do. Mackendrick was a master at the form, and he should be celebrated more.
Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
Wicked For Good
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
Wisky Galore! (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It's a solid directorial debut. [Library]
The Man in the White Suit (Rating 4/4) Review "Mackendrick had a writing credit on this, and he shepherded a completely new script once on location on the former film, so it's safe to say that he's putting himself into these films, and I'm seeing the beginnings of something...interesting. And surprisingly dark considering the comic nature of his first two films." [Library]
Mandy (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Handsome, well-acted, and really surprisingly involving, Mandy is very much worthwhile." [Library]
The Maggie (Rating 3/4) Full Review "This is not some grand piece of cinema, but it's a nice bit of populist cinema that is worthy of discovery." [Amazon Prime]
The Ladykillers (Rating 4/4) Full Review "It's a treasure, a gem of British comedy. It might be Mackendrick's best film, but I've seen so little of what comes that it's just hard to imagine him topping this." [Personal Collection]
Sweet Smell of Success (Rating 3/4) Full Review "And Mackendrick manages everything with real skill and intelligence, creating this propulsive narrative dripping with tension without losing sight of humanity at the same time. It's a real triumph of filmmaking. [Personal Collection]
Sammy Going South (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "IThat the American version (retitled A Boy Ten Feet Tall, a title actually much prefer) cut out a bunch doesn't really surprise me, but I don't think I'd want to cut much. This is very good as it is." [Youtube]
High Wind in Jamaica (Rating 3/4) Full Review "II do think a two-hour and ten-minute long version of this would probably work better than the one-hour and forty-minute version, but the abbreviated cut we have is a solid little entertainment that demonstrates Mackendrick's skill." [Youtube]
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:45 PM (+qU29)
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Wes Chatham (Amos from the expanse); Team leader
Alan Tudyk Voices an alien (Wash from firefly)
DJ Qualls; science nerd
Tracy Spiridakos; mandatory eye candy
Mine:
Team Leader: Wes Chatham is a great choice. I would consider Kyle Soller if he were unavailable.
Alien/Teal'c equivalent: Vidyut Jammwal. Going for an alien that's more brains than muscle, but still exotic.
Zack Gilford; nerd, Daniel Jackson equivalent. Kyle Soller would also work, especially paired with Wes Chatham as the new team lead.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 07:55 PM (vKEG1)
Didn’t really like Man in the White Suit because it just was infused with too much Socialist boilerplate to be enjoyable.
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Yes. See tomorrow's Sunday Morning Book Thread for details...
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Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 07:55 PM (vKEG1)
Nathan Fillion as Shephard Book
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 07:59 PM (rbvCR)
Love that film, like I love "Ninotchka". The TUC went nuts after Clement Atlee took the reins, and this film's take on the assault on British innovation and RandD is sublime and very funny.
Posted by: mrp at November 22, 2025 07:59 PM (rj6Yv)
Who has the charm and wit of richard dean anderson
Not cheatham then again who though anderson would replace russell
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Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:57 PM (+qU29)
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Yes. See tomorrow's Sunday Morning Book Thread for details...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 07:58 PM (IBQGV)
In the Mouth of Madness is one of those.
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Brain fart. abort/retry/fail
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The Ladykillers: Alec Guiness, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers. How can you go wrong?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 08:01 PM (tgvbd)
Kind of a Walkabout without Jenny Agutter and not in Australia
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My theory is Stargate is just a retelling of John Carter of Mars. At least the movies.
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“Hazard” (2024) A little movie, a drama about opioids in Appalachia. Worth a watch.
youtube.com/watch?v=4WQX8nwYjsI
“The Housing Bubble” (201
Documentary. Has its moments; a few.
https://tinyurl.com/4ecfbz8y
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It sucked.
Forget the fact that it's left-wing social messaging from beginning to end; it couldn't decide if it was supposed to be mainly comedy or mainly drama, and a lot of the characters do really dumb things over and over again. Hard pass.
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Have a good night everyone
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You tricked me!
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 22, 2025 08:08 PM (syz1S)
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I had to rebuild the section on my phone. Just now. Headaches.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 08:08 PM (85lPH)
Well, that sounds disturbing.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 22, 2025 08:09 PM (syz1S)
Is this not the definition of auteur?
Russ Meyer is, arguably, the last American auteur.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2025 08:11 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: mrp at November 22, 2025 08:11 PM (rj6Yv)
I know! When I hear 'proper schooling,' I can't help but shudder.
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 08:12 PM (4kcNT)
Something the series didnt do
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 22, 2025 08:12 PM (bXbFr)
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His middle name, Elon?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 08:13 PM (LEuDt)
Russ Meyer is, arguably, the last American auteur.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2025 08:11 PM (0sNs1)
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I believe the definition of auteur is "director I really like".
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Knowing the blog interface as I do, I feel your pain.
Not at all fun.
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That's one way to use it. The way I use it is I have ripped all my movies and TV shows to a server. The Plex software catalogues it and organizes it for you.
Also keeps track of what you have watched and what you haven't. So if you are watching a TV series, it will remember where you are so you don't have to remember that the last episode you watched was season 4, episode 6.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 22, 2025 08:14 PM (syz1S)
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So Ridley is your auteur?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1)
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So Ridley is your auteur?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1)
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I really like a number of directors.
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Selma Hayek in her prime is always the answer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 08:18 PM (/ZNPI)
Well, that sounds disturbing.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 22, 2025 08:09 PM (syz1S)
I would be IRL, this is basically an off-brand Disney Adventure.
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Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 08:21 PM (4kcNT)
Didn’t really like Man in the White Suit because it just was infused with too much Socialist boilerplate to be enjoyable.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 07:56 PM (/ZNPI)
Yeah, I bounced off it too.
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Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 22, 2025 08:12 PM (bXbFr)
They did hire a physicist
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Posted by: Skip
This 2 minute video purports to identify Tarantino's 20 favorite movies, many of which I'd not only not seen but never heard of. Lots of Samurais, though.
https://is.gd/qc4j48
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 08:26 PM (L/fGl)
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Marie Avgeropoulos 10 years ago is good for partial credit.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 08:27 PM (vKEG1)
That was the key to Roger Corman’s success, as we discussed a while back here. He could churn out drive in movies, but he absolutely knew how to make sure that everyone involved showed a very nice profit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 08:27 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 08:22 PM
Perhaps. I find 2001 and Full Metal Jacket rewatchable, especially the first half of FMJ. It is, to quote one of the characters, "Outf*ckingstanding!"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2025 08:29 PM (0sNs1)
I would like to ask if anyone else thought " MI The Final Reckoning " was a warning about AI?
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 08:30 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 08:30 PM (vKEG1)
Great movie. I openly wept by the end. The opening was kind of a tough watch for my wife and me -- we lost a son 7 years ago -- but it was cathartic, and a thing of beauty.
Thanks for the recommendation. And great post, as always.
Posted by: Pastafarian at November 22, 2025 08:31 PM (sifs3)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 08:22 PM
Perhaps. I find 2001 and Full Metal Jacket rewatchable, especially the first half of FMJ. It is, to quote one of the characters, "Outf*ckingstanding!"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 22, 2025 08:29 PM (0sNs1)
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I've been reading A Clockwork Orange, so I watched the movie. Very rewatchable. And funny. And terrifying.
I viddied it, my brothers. Viddied it with my gulliver, did your Humble Narrator.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 08:31 PM (85lPH)
Great movie. I openly wept by the end. The opening was kind of a tough watch for my wife and me -- we lost a son 7 years ago -- but it was cathartic, and a thing of beauty.
Thanks for the recommendation. And great post, as always.
Posted by: Pastafarian at November 22, 2025 08:31 PM (sifs3)
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Getting people introduced to movies they love makes me happy. Getting people ti love Malick movies makes me even happier.
I'm very glad to hear you loved The Tree of Life.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 08:32 PM (85lPH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 08:34 PM (L/fGl)
Can we talk about movies that featured boats?
I'll toss Titanic out there to get things started.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 22, 2025 08:34 PM (0RiMX)
>>Perhaps. I find 2001 and Full Metal Jacket rewatchable, especially the first half of FMJ. It is, to quote one of the characters, "Outf*ckingstanding!"
R. Lee Emerys performance, though outstanding, is really one note and once you've experienced it the first time, it loses a lot of its impact on further viewings, the only reason to slog through 2001 are the visuals, and again, once you've seen it the first time, there's really nothing to bring you back for further viewings.
Basically, I loathe Kubrick.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)
https://is.gd/qc4j48
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 08:26 PM (L/fGl)
Fascinating selection. Like I never heard of at least half, but the ones I know are pretty good in my estimation.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 08:35 PM (/ZNPI)
Haven't seen Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss, or Barry Lyndon. Have seen the others. Can't recall being bored by them, but I can't recall the last time I felt like sitting down to watch several Kubricks over a couple of days. And when I'm browsing the list to see what jumps out at me for a spur-of-the-moment watch, it's just about never a Kubrick. But I wouldn't wipe them from my hard drive either. There's a lot to like in Strangelove or The Shining or Spartacus, but I don't feel like revisiting them as often as some of the Corman stuff I grew up on. Go figure.
Bender, you may be right.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 22, 2025 08:36 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 07:56 PM (/ZNPI)
Yeah, I bounced off it too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 08:22 PM (xcxpd)
I'm watching it again. On Plex. "Boiler plate" is in the eye of the beholder, I think. The "Man" has an idea, a dream, and he' caught in the cross-fire of social norms. It's a good ... yarn.
Posted by: mrp at November 22, 2025 08:36 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 22, 2025 08:37 PM (jc0TO)
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Don't forget fetching coffee. If you do it right they'll hand you an entire studio!
Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at November 22, 2025 08:37 PM (0RiMX)
>>Bender, you may be right.
When your sitting down with your buds or your wife and the question comes up, hey what do you want to watch, a Kubrick film will never be the answer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 08:38 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Tuna at November 22, 2025 08:38 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 08:39 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 22, 2025 08:40 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 08:40 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 08:39 PM
He should have shot the kid.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 22, 2025 08:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 22, 2025 08:41 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 08:43 PM (A0sqA)
I'd rewatch Hook over any Kubrick film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 08:43 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2025 08:44 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 08:44 PM (/ZNPI)
It'd be about a guy who invents social media, thinking it will lead to richer and more fruitful conversation among peoples. The people opposed will wonder about the impact on society and whether social media will take their jerbs.
In the end, when the mob corners him, instead of the suit falling apart around him, society falls apart around him.
You could call it "The Man in the White Supremacy."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 08:45 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 08:45 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 08:46 PM (XV/Pl)
Away All Boats
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
The Enemy Below.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 08:46 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 08:49 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 08:44 PM (/ZNPI)
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I hindsight, certainly.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 08:50 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 08:51 PM (3uBP9)
It's on his bucket list I hear.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 08:46 PM (XV/Pl)
That will escape his grasp at this point in his career.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 08:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ZOD at November 22, 2025 08:52 PM (E6cid)
Posted by: toby928(c)
Beautiful but yes, it's boring.
Posted by: Tuna at November 22, 2025 08:38 PM (lJ0H4)
This is also my truth.
Also Ryan O'Neal does NOT fit into period dramas.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 08:53 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 08:53 PM (xcxpd)
It's on his bucket list I hear.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 08:46 PM (XV/Pl)
That will escape his grasp at this point in his career.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 08:52 PM (xcxpd)
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1. He could pull $1 million of his own money to go out into the desert and just do it.
2. Carpenter never made a true Western either.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 08:53 PM (85lPH)
Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 08:53 PM (YGRGv)
A very good satirical black comedy.
Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 08:53 PM (YGRGv)
Hitler?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 08:57 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:47 PM (+qU29)
Kobayashi and Kurosawa have that well covered
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 08:58 PM (xcxpd)
2. Carpenter never made a true Western either.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 08:53 PM (85lPH)
1. He COULD but he won't and he wouldn't be good at it. I am not impressed with the quality of his later films. Looking at you, Ready Player One.
2. I consider Big Trouble in Little China to be...Western Adjacent.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 09:00 PM (xcxpd)
Away All Boats
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
The Enemy Below.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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Houseboat - Sofia Loren
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 09:00 PM (uGpeQ)
No spoilers! Watch this great movie.
Brett Goldstein has a good podcast and often mentions that everyone is trying to make a good film and it is very hard to get it all right to make it a success.
God bless those that have.
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at November 22, 2025 09:00 PM (PKoes)
This movie is shown to Zod's bathsalt gorilla cavalry, the reception is always the same; "let us finish him."
Posted by: ZOD at November 22, 2025 09:01 PM (E6cid)
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 09:02 PM (8jVAy)
You can get a pretty good idea of the feel of a Carpenter western from Assault on Precinct 13, which basically transplanted Rio Bravo to a contemporary setting. Carpenter could do a nice tight western, probably bring it in on time and under budget, and with a running time under 2 hours (maybe even under an hour and 40 minutes), and it would be a fun time at the movies.
I fear a Spielberg western would suffer from bloat, rather than being a return to the leaner days of Jaws and Duel. I'd love to be wrong about that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 22, 2025 09:03 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 08:58 PM (xcxpd)
Kobayshi Maru?
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 09:03 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 09:00 PM (xcxpd)
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Most of his movies are western adjacent.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:03 PM (85lPH)
It's on his bucket list I hear.
As long as he puts the horizon at the top, or the bottom, it won't be boring.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 09:04 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 09:02 PM (8jVAy)
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Did anyone ever offer an explanation to the Coca-Cola company?
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:04 PM (85lPH)
Posted by: ZOD at November 22, 2025 08:52 PM (E6cid)
An Imperial ZOD is about 4.5 gallons more than US ZOD.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 09:04 PM (gbOdA)
It's on his bucket list I hear.
As long as he puts the horizon at the top, or the bottom, it won't be boring.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 09:04 PM (CHHv1)
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I understood this reference.
RIP David Lynch.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:05 PM (85lPH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 09:05 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:04 PM (85lPH)
At that time Coca Cola did not own machines in the USA. They were owned by the local bottlers.
And they ran there area like the Mafia.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 09:06 PM (gbOdA)
Down in the Bermuda Triangle
Elvis needs boats
Elvis needs boats
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats
Aahh! The Sailing Elvis!
Captain Elvis!
Commodore Elvis it is
Posted by: Mojo Nixon at November 22, 2025 09:07 PM (/ZNPI)
Houseboat - Sofia Loren
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
I was thinking of that movie during the boat thread.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2025 09:08 PM (pkeXY)
A very good satirical black comedy.
Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 08:53 PM (YGRGv)
Hitler?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
You know whom else you should look who's back?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 09:09 PM (L/fGl)
Long time since I've seen that one. But if we're talking boat movies with Cary Grant, let's toss in Father Goose and Operation Petticoat.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 22, 2025 09:11 PM (q3u5l)
Long time since I've seen that one. But if we're talking boat movies with Cary Grant, let's toss in Father Goose and Operation Petticoat.
Posted by: Just Some Guy
Destination Tokyo
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2025 09:12 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 09:00 PM (xcxpd)
Hmmm. Sort of. You are conflating though a 'Man's movie' with a Western... which I cannot think of any Western that is not a man movie.
Did you ever see the Bruce Willis movie from the 90s. Set in the 20s, willis is like a former mob enforcer who is on the run from his past and blows into town and gets wrapped up in something that forces him to get his guns out again? Last Man Standing? Dead Man something? I have to look it up.
That was more of a western than BTiLC.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:13 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:03 PM (85lPH)
OK, what would YOU consider 'Western adjacent'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:14 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:15 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 22, 2025 08:09 PM (syz1S)
I would be IRL, this is basically an off-brand Disney Adventure.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo
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Sounds right up Disney's alley.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 09:16 PM (uGpeQ)
Writers
Ryûzô Kikushima
Akira Kurosawa
Walter Hill
WTH?
Has that wandering ronin, Shane kind of energy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:16 PM (bss/y)
Fistful of Dollars turned Yojimbo into a western.
We owe so much to Toshiro Mifune...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 22, 2025 09:16 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 09:17 PM (4kcNT)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 09:17 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:03 PM (85lPH)
OK, what would YOU consider 'Western adjacent'?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:14 PM (bss
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Sharing basic structural elements and archetypes as a common western.
China has the loner coming into town to investigate local corruption before riding back out into the sunset. It is primarily more of a Kung fu comedy, but it has basic western elements that makes it adjacent to the Western genre.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:18 PM (85lPH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:18 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 09:17 PM (rbvCR)
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Kurosawa ended up owning the Japanese rights to A Fistful of Dollars because he sued Leone's production company for copyright infringement.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:19 PM (85lPH)
Sharing basic structural elements and archetypes as a common western.
China has the loner coming into town to investigate local corruption before riding back out into the sunset. It is primarily more of a Kung fu comedy, but it has basic western elements that makes it adjacent to the Western genre.
Posted by: TJM's phone at November 22, 2025 09:18 PM (85lPH)
Hmmm, so weary gunfighter.
I am not sure Burton is 'investigating corruption.' He's more 'whoring and drinking.' or 'Gambling and Drinking.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:20 PM (bss/y)
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A Fist Full of Dollars set in gangster days, Last Man Standing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 09:21 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 09:21 PM (L/fGl)
Original version - Mojimbo, by Kurosawa.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 09:24 PM (/ZNPI)
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Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 09:27 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: davidt at November 22, 2025 09:28 PM (Q+gd/)
I always wished some of Drake's books would be used for movies. He has enough of them to be an endless mine of plots.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 09:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 09:27 PM (/ZNPI)
Absolutely. He pretty much did every western archetype I can think of multiple times.
Lone wanderer (Dollars series)
Weary Gunfighter (Outlaw Josie Wales, Unforgiven)
Singing Cowboy (Paint your wagon)
Venegeful spirit (High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:31 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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YOu know what killed drive in movies?
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 09:32 PM (uGpeQ)
Brecht, sadly, did not appear.. Schiller begged that we should stay around to make Brecht was not playing possum. Schiller, I told him, you are awesome, but you are using the same approach of Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin. It ain't happening, dude. Come on, my friend, let us go and spray paint the Brandenburg Gate. with obscenities.. Who can refuse such a pleasure?
Also, my production of Ed Gein: The Musical is going well. Now I must watch Prometheus with Commander Star Sprinkles purring away in my lap.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at November 22, 2025 09:32 PM (L/aWg)
I hate Tom Hanks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 09:32 PM (kHU8q)
Posted by: davidt at November 22, 2025 09:28 PM (Q+gd/)
Yeah, I think that would be my point. It's not western per se. War weary warrior who is looking to stop killing, etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:32 PM (bss/y)
I hate Tom Hanks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 09:32 PM (kHU8q)
As time goes on, yeah.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:33 PM (bss/y)
As James Garner once said in a completely different context, "He's a crazy mixed-up kid, that Werner. But I like him."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 22, 2025 09:35 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 09:35 PM (uGpeQ)
Posted by: davidt at November 22, 2025 09:39 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 09:00 PM (xcxpd)
Hmmm. Sort of. You are conflating though a 'Man's movie' with a Western... which I cannot think of any Western that is not a man movie.
Did you ever see the Bruce Willis movie from the 90s. Set in the 20s, willis is like a former mob enforcer who is on the run from his past and blows into town and gets wrapped up in something that forces him to get his guns out again? Last Man Standing? Dead Man something? I have to look it up.
That was more of a western than BTiLC.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 09:13 PM (bss/y)
Well I say that because the writer originally set Big Trouble in the 1880's. Jack Burton was literally supposed to be a cowboy who gets mixed up with Chinese workers working on the railroad. So there's a lot of Western DNA in Big Trouble even after it was updated.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 22, 2025 09:39 PM (xcxpd)
Forgot all about Sidney Poitier, and the tension between the captain and the reserve doctor. And had never noticed that among the first faces you see is a young James MacArthur (book 'em, Danno). Followed shortly thereafter by a young Donald Sutherland.
Remembered it as better than it is. Overall concept is sound, but the execution becomes sorta lame towards the big moment. And the key Poitier/Widmark exchanges are too pat and caricatured.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2025 09:41 PM (U/Byj)
Hobby Thread - November 22, 2025 [Buoyant Rex]
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 22, 2025 05:30 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:31 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 22, 2025 05:35 PM (uQesX)
Remember as a young kid he and my grandfatther (mom's dad )
Went down the river on day trips a couple times.
Later he had a small Sunfish sailboat. My dad was a avid scuba diver who volunteered for rescue service for years in my young days.
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:35 PM (+qU29)
It would help if their sign showed an image of a sextant.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 05:36 PM (fxs8T)
Posted by: Spaulding at November 22, 2025 05:38 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:38 PM (+mUZM)
That was her maiden launch.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 05:38 PM (viF8m)
Oh dear, the oak video above mentions "bamboo." Don't let Ace see it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 05:39 PM (fxs8T)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:31 PM
Even after so many years, I still read this as Hobbitses.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 05:40 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Bob at November 22, 2025 05:41 PM (YiqZD)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 05:42 PM (K2do1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:43 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 05:43 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 05:45 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:46 PM (+mUZM)
After about an hour and a long way from our launch point the motor decided to quit. My airplane mechanic father couldn't fix it and we were stranded for about 4 more hours before another boater towed us in. IIRC the boat was gone the next week and he never bought another.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 05:47 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 22, 2025 05:47 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2025 05:47 PM (pkeXY)
5 of us actually. All of the parts were molded save for the t-top and the forward wet locker. We built moulds for those. The company that was building for me went bankrupt.
Called one Friday afternoon and said if we wanted the pieces, which I had already paid for, we had to show up by noon the next day and take them away. So we did. And then we put it all together. Made a few custom changes.
Came out great. Lots of fun to fish and fast.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 05:48 PM (viF8m)
It's pretty cheap to maintain and operate. I even got it free. Then I gave it away. Then a few years later they gave it back to me. Still works great.
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 05:50 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 22, 2025 05:50 PM (31p00)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 05:50 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Case at November 22, 2025 05:51 PM (5Je/N)
Also, since she is a Norwegian forest cat, contemplating changing her name, maybe, to Freya. Opinions?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025
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Sounds appropriate. There's a long tradition among Siberian breeders of giving their cats Russian names. I broke that by calling my current Siberian "Dagny," a Swedish or Norwegian name that means "New Day."
Look online for Norwegian names and pick one that sounds good to you. There are a lot of Russian names that don't appeal to me at all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 05:52 PM (wzUl9)
Now I feel like a expert at their use as wouldn't doubt owned dozens of them in my years.
You only rent them as they all break eventually. The tabe is first mostly.
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:52 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 05:53 PM (KDPiq)
Just prior to Mrs' health news, we were looking at 20+ foot long center consoles.
Plenty of very low hour ones on the used market for far, far less than new.
Prefer around 23 - 25', twin ob, and full size hardtop...
Ah well.
Posted by: man at November 22, 2025 05:54 PM (XuXeR)
Thanks. Yea, I've graduated to OP boats. Other Peoples.
It's a lot cheaper this way.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 05:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 05:56 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 05:56 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 05:43 PM (CHHv1)
I've heard that somewhere, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 22, 2025 05:57 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: huerfano at November 22, 2025 05:58 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:58 PM (RuTUS)
Nah.
But there are two types - those who have forgotten to put the plug in, and those who will forget...
Posted by: man at November 22, 2025 05:59 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:00 PM (KDPiq)
They build Outer Limits race boats right up the bay. You can hear those things coming miles away when they are ripping down the bay.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:01 PM (+qU29)
Also I painted my models and let them dry before assembling. Much easier -- though I guess with a ship model already molded in battleship gray, if you miss a crevice here and there, it might not show.
The weight at the bottom of the hull is a great idea. With one U-Boat kit, I wanted it to float in water. So I glued some heavy magnets into the bottom of the hull, to keep the conning tower from toppling the boat over. Sealed the few hull openings with putty, as I recall. It floated pretty well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9)
Do not. Touch. The boats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJhmm3D3OY&t=581s
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 06:04 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at November 22, 2025 06:04 PM (0lzjf)
Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2025 06:07 PM (dIske)
Posted by: bluebell at November 22, 2025 06:08 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: bluebell at November 22, 2025 06:08 PM
They import them.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 06:09 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:10 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:10 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: bluebell at November 22, 2025 06:11 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:12 PM (wzUl9)
https://tinyurl.com/yesu8kma
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:38 PM (+mUZM)
One of the things they did in Spain was to have a largish table with a long table cloth and a charcoal brazier under it for sitting around when the weather was cold. I am pretty sure they don't do that since the 70's but one of my profs talked about how his mom and aunts would sit drinking tea around them in the winter.
You had to use charcoal since anything that might spit sparks, like brushwood or pine would put holes in their stockings.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 06:12 PM (rbvCR)
Rhode Island used to be a boat building mecca. And then Democrats passed the luxury tax and drove a lot of it overseas. Still a bunch of boat builders here but a lot of it is custom or specialty sail and power race boats.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:12 PM (viF8m)
The stuff is mild but with a pleasant aroma. I smoke it in several pipes, but mostly in my German Vauen pipe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:15 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:16 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 06:16 PM (+mUZM)
I bet, Ben Had. The owner of Outer Limits died when his boat flipped end for end on a race on a lake in Missouri.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 05:36 PM (fxs8T)
There is a Sextant Bar and Grill on Marine Drive near Portland, OR, but I don't think it s the one pictured, since the place is on the river side of Marine Drive.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 06:18 PM (npFr7)
Amazing boats.
When I was married, I had a 25 foot Catalina sailboat. It was awesome and we spent many many nights out in the San Juan Islands seeing them only as you can experience from the water.
Sturdy boat. We put the rail in the water several times. Boat kept on going and seemed to hummmm. I think she liked it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 06:18 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Elderly Git at November 22, 2025 06:18 PM (eeg39)
Boats. Meh. I must take after my Dad, who got out of Kansas by joining the Air Force. When asked, why the Air Force, he replied, "The Army walks everywhere and I don't like the Navy's little boats." Apparently the Marines, who also use little boats, were not a consideration either. Yet my brother, upon retirement as a firefighter, sold everything he owned and bought a 55-foot sailboat. Crazy.
Posted by: tankascribe at November 22, 2025 06:19 PM (NtoJk)
Offshore sailboat racing is standing in a cold shower ripping up hundred dollar bills.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:20 PM (viF8m)
We crabbed and fished and saw meteors and the Northern Lights. And lots of phosphorescence. So cool.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 06:20 PM (mT+6a)
We crabbed and fished and saw meteors and the Northern Lights. And lots of phosphorescence. So cool.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025
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It would be nice indeed to be out on a calm lake at night, away from the city's light pollution, and be able to see the stars.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:23 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:24 PM (sDNVV)
https://tinyurl.com/mwusm8ps
Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2025 06:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 06:16 PM (+mUZM)
I built a fruit dryer using a 100w ceramic heating element to heat it, and I made a "cat-warmer" by sewing up some towels into a terry-cloth cover for a seedling-heating mat since someone suggested the mat as a way to make a proofing cabinet for rising dough.
all in all I think the seedling mat would be safer for an under table since you could forget it and be mostly safe.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 06:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 22, 2025 06:28 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:31 PM (XQo4F)
Seedling mat would definitely work, especially if you use a covering of some sort. You can buy the heaters only but they are close to $200
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 06:31 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 22, 2025 06:28 PM
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They did! I think a few of them.
Posted by: TRex - failure is always an option at November 22, 2025 06:32 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2025 06:25 PM (dIske)
I saw that episode.
Here's Jon Townsend making one:
https://tinyurl.com/bdcr2rvs
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 22, 2025 06:32 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:32 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 22, 2025 06:33 PM (B83UT)
Worked fine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 06:33 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 06:34 PM (bss/y)
Brown Sugar how come you dance so good !!!!!!!!
Posted by: Mick J. from the UK at November 22, 2025 06:35 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 06:31 PM
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Think those were big in the days when people were growing sprouts in their basements for food too.
Posted by: TRex - rabbit food at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 22, 2025 05:36 PM
Their old sign used to.
But on the new sign, the sextant is no longer extant.
They decided to go in a whole other direction.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:39 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM
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Not wise. It wouldn't do anything to strengthen the sidewall.
A tire that's seven years old is at the end of it's safe useful life.
So how do you know how old it is?
Read this:
https://tinyurl.com/4fet5yst
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:39 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:40 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 06:36 PM (/lPRQ)
It was the "BOTTOMLESS COFFEE" sign that tricked me.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 06:40 PM (rbvCR)
Crazy days.
And the party before the regatta at the Royal
Victoria Yacht Club was legendary.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 06:40 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM (sDNVV)
Figure no loss if it doesn't work
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: man at November 22, 2025 05:59 PM
My father was both types of "those" people!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:42 PM
In that case, I think it would be like chicken soup when you have the sniffles: it couldn't hurt.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:00 PM (KDPiq)
You reminded me of a pirogue story. Boudreaux sees Thibodeaux, and says Oh brother Thibodeax, my wife’s missin’ for two day now, I’m sick, I love dat gal! She kinda crazy but I do!” So Boudreaux say “it’s okay, we take the pirogue out, we look for her all night.”
So next morning he come back and say “oh brother Thibodeaux, I got good news and bad news, which you wanna hear first?” And he say “oh tell me the bad news, I gotta know” so Boudreaux say “Hokay, I gotta tell ya we found your wife face down a”floatin in the Bayou.” So T say “that’s horrible!!! How could you possibly have any good news after that?”
And Boudreaux say “well we got a whole bucket full of crab off her, and we gonna float her again tonight!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (/ZNPI)
I think that's more accurate with "does" than "can." A cruise ship is a ship because it carries lifeboats. A submarine is a boat no matter how big it is because it doesn't carry smaller boats.
Posted by: mikeski at November 22, 2025 06:44 PM (nhCoE)
Mary, I like Big Butts and I cannot deny it !!!!!
Big Mike gots Back !!!!
Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM (XQo4F)
Stopped going to an El cheapo bicycle shop, one reason was the pre dry rotted sidewall tires and tubes "new old stock".
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM (1BL3C)
https://tinyurl.com/5ayku5z9
Posted by: TRex - For Belgium! at November 22, 2025 06:49 PM (IQ6Gq)
If you ever find yourself in Boston with some free time go see the USS Constitution. It's beautiful.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 06:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:40 PM
Thanks for the thoughts!
Bride of PI had her big school play last night. Definitely their best show ever.
She has finally managed to build up a "drama culture" at her school. Kids that are not in her classes now ask if they can audition for her play.
Two fifth-graders in attendance asked if they could be in the play next year when they come to middle school.
I suspect Bride of PI is much relieved, but I can't be sure ... she is taking a nap now!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:50 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM
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Agree. Somehow displacement and weight are different things. I enjoyed that video.
Posted by: TRex - avoid the brig at November 22, 2025 06:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:52 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:46 PM
Modern warships are made out of steel ... they should sink even faster!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:52 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:52 PM (KDPiq)
Not as bad as this. The worst maritime disaster in United States history.
https://tinyurl.com/5yvrn24d
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (XQo4F)
This a warm spot in my heart and a lost art navigating off of the sun's position...
Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Ben Had"
I have injected tires with expanding foam insulation on wheelbarrows and carts. You have to drill several holes in the sidewalls to make sure you get foam everywhere in the tire. Some will leak out. Just cut it off after it sets. Woe lah, flat proof tires.
Ride quality may be affected. Mileage may vary.
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:53 PM (sDNVV)
Hubs owned a bass boat and loved fishing in South Texas. Nowadays he fly fishes for trout in mountain lakes and rivers. And enjoys it far more than the bass fishing.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 06:54 PM (kB9dk)
I'd tell the ladies I didn't know this was a strip club. I only came in to get a donut and a coffee.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:55 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 06:54 PM
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You're welcome. Good day to you!
Posted by: TRex - water resistant dino at November 22, 2025 06:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (KDPiq)
The Mary Rose, the first truly dedicated warship built by Henry VIII, had fearsome armament, but turned just after firing its cannons. A gust of wind caught it while the gunports were open, it rolled onto its side and went straight to the bottom with most of its crew.
That kind of thing happened to the British several times with experimental ships; was reading this week about “The Captain” , the first British ship with rotating turrets for its guns. Same date befell it, lost on a trial run with all hands.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:58 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:52 PM
I have been on as a 6'3" tall adult. I believe the Navy height limitation at the time the Constitution was built was around 5'4". The shipbuilders designed to a very tight tolerance.
I have no idea how David Robinson served on a submarine!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:58 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Javems at November 22, 2025 06:58 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 06:58 PM
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Never too late!! The Hobby Thread mailbox is open! Especially for baby Ben Had pictures!
Posted by: TRex - who lives in a pineapple under the sea? at November 22, 2025 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Truth!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 22, 2025 07:00 PM (IQ6Gq)
I am going to try the flex seal and report back
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:00 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:00 PM
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Phil Swift approved!
Posted by: TRex - because it works! at November 22, 2025 07:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 22, 2025 07:05 PM (ZwntJ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:05 PM (snZF9)
That kind of thing happened to the British several times with experimental ships; was reading this week about “The Captain” , the first British ship with rotating turrets for its guns. Same date befell it, lost on a trial run with all hands.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (/ZNPI)
You can see what they have been able to bring up from the bottom, and various artifacts from it, at the Mary Rose museum in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Also there, among other vessels, is the HMS Victory.
Posted by: Vendette at November 22, 2025 07:07 PM (MR1yy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJhmm3D3OY&t=581s
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Enjoyed the story of our ventures in the Mediterranean so much so that I listened to his history of Gonzales to San Jacinto which contain, until now, unknown history.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 07:07 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:08 PM (sDNVV)
When we first arrived in country, I spent countless hours at the locks watching big ships transit the canal and enjoyed every minute of it.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 07:10 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:11 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Orson at November 22, 2025 06:25 PM
But before we check it out, first a few words about shop safety....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 07:12 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:13 PM (sDNVV)
That must have been very cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:13 PM (viF8m)
I've got two dependent children with families. And by "dependant" I mean I'm supporting all of them assholes.
I could probably run a modern day Arleigh Burke DDG for less.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:13 PM (NwnyJ)
Holy shit. I was waaaaay outta my league.
Those guys are freaking insane.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 07:14 PM (mT+6a)
What years ?
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (KDPiq)
441st BS at Mather AFB. B-52G from 1983 to 1989 then off to FB-111s at Plattsburgh from 1983-89.
Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 07:15 PM (J9q9v)
What years ?
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 06:57 PM (KDPiq)
CORRECTION: 441st BS at Mather AFB. B-52G from 1981 to 1983 then off to FB-111s at Plattsburgh from 1983-89.
Posted by: Jackson at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM (xl8DV)
I am going to try the flex seal and report back
Posted by: Ben Had
Fill with Green Slime.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM (snZF9)
That must have been very cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:13 PM (viF8m)
* * * *
It was indeed! I've always had a soft spot for tugboats, even though I grew up in the desert southwest. Their shape reminds me of a huge shoe in the water! And they have lots of power, thanks to the powerful engines.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 07:17 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Piper at November 22, 2025 07:18 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 07:18 PM (sptJg)
One guy called in and said he came home to find his wife in bed with his best friend.
He said he was going to miss her but the worst part was his friend had the greatest boat.
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 07:18 PM (sPsWv)
You should have seen the Wednesday night J24 races around here back in the day. It was just a Wednesday night thing but the race was littered with national and world champion sailors.
JBoats is a local business.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 07:21 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:21 PM (sDNVV)
Looks a bit like a gay tugboat.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:22 PM (NwnyJ)
See y'all later in Club ONT!
Posted by: TRex - water proof dino at November 22, 2025 07:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
We used to dive on them a bunch when I was living in PR. Back then there was lot of tug and barge traffic between the islands. From time to time one of them would wrap one of the tow cables around the prop. We'd get hired to get it off.
Their props are enormous. Some had some pretty cool interiors as well. More spacious than I had thought.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 07:23 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:16 PM (snZF9)
Fruit of the Loom man? ROFL!!! Maybe he thought he could catch it on the way down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 07:24 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:24 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:24 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:26 PM (sDNVV)
Now that's just freakin' funny!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2025 07:26 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:27 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:26 PM
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You're welcome. Glad you're here!
Posted by: TRex - land-based dino at November 22, 2025 07:27 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025
Ha! Ours is a center console, but apparently we now need something bigger. So we can be more comfortable? Why of course not! So the dog can hang out in the cabin on a couch and / or bed.
Posted by: Piper at November 22, 2025 07:27 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 07:28 PM (XQo4F)
I know exactly how you feel, Martini Farmer. Many is the time I think of Aouda in Lawrence of Arabia; “I am a River to my People!”
They don’t leave much for me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 07:29 PM (/ZNPI)
At one point Geeky Friend was at the stern with Hot Boss, who at that time was doing pilates in her bikini while she talked to him. Another boat came the opposite way, and their captain just had his head turned completely fixed on our boat, probably wondering where he went wrong.
Afterwards, I would always encourage Sister Babe to invite Church Friend to any social events we 'd host, and he could bring as many guests as he'd want. For some reason she never found that as funny as I did.
Posted by: Brother Bob at November 22, 2025 07:31 PM (tBfGm)
Wife and I went down to Half moon bay one morning, beautiful spot, and the only other person there was some guy picking up seashells about 1/4 mile away. All the little tide pools looked like tropical fish aquariums, I loved it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 07:34 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: tankascribe at November 22, 2025 07:37 PM (NtoJk)
Our Cub Pack went out on a day trip today in nearby Maryland. Things were damp from last night's rain. The day was sunny and mostly free of wind. We got a couple of hearty fires going, had everyone contribute to making our meal, and then gladly ate it.
It is so enjoyable to watch youngsters run around in their chaotic play.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 22, 2025 07:38 PM (xG4kz)
Beautiful water, reefs, etc.
Really poor outside the "complex."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:38 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:38 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:39 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:39 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 07:40 PM (sDNVV)
And maybe enjoy a beer.
But mostly not have to do anything for anyone. And just. Be.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (hQPf/)
Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:43 PM (+qU29)
And maybe enjoy a beer.
But mostly not have to do anything for anyone. And just. Be.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (hQPf/)
That was always my idea of fishing. On a shoreline somewhere on land, not in a boat.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:43 PM (snZF9)
I have hot to call our boat guy to learn what are the damages to the bank from this year's extraction and winterizing. I also need to schedule a pickup date and time for its canvases so as to be able to give them a good cleaning and restoration of their water repellent.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 22, 2025 07:44 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 07:42 PM (YGRGv)
Thats exactly what my father says.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 07:44 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:45 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:45 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
I resent that.
Posted by: Conan O'Brien, sippin' rum punch in Haiti at November 22, 2025 07:46 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Moonbeam at November 22, 2025 07:46 PM (rbKZ6)
Breathing
Let's just saying my decisions of when to be sociable are quite selective.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 22, 2025 07:47 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Archer at November 22, 2025 07:48 PM (YGRGv)
Wife and I went down to Half moon bay one morning, beautiful spot, and the only other person there was some guy picking up seashells about 1/4 mile away. All the little tide pools looked like tropical fish aquariums, I loved it.
I never made it to Vieques but I visited Culebra a number of times. It would be hard to find a place more laid back. Beautiful too.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 07:48 PM (viF8m)
Only four of us on board (besides crew) and no cargo.
Was a weird little military recon mission.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 08:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Growing up on the coast of SC, many roads were oyster shell.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2025 08:15 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2025 08:17 PM (XeU6L)
They decided to go in a whole other direction.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 22, 2025 06:39 PM (HlyYF)
ISWYDT!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 08:24 PM (npFr7)
Dad bought a very used small cabin boat and wanted to head out on the Big Lake to fish. Started the outboard to discover that "reverse" was the only working gear, so backwards was how we pulled out of the slip; then backwards was how we circled inside the bay. Peering out the window, I noticed a crowd gathering at the end of the dock to watch as we continued circling until finally giving up. Backwards into the slip again and quickly abandon ship.
I fondly remember the rowboat my pop untied from an isolated dock on a country lake, picking up a 1" x 8" plank to use as an oar and told us kids to climb in. Fortunately or not, a man appeared and said we must leave, it was his boat and we weren't allowed to use it or he'd call the cops.
And those were the good times...
Posted by: ju at November 22, 2025 08:59 PM (EgpoY)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, November 22
Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals. Would you like a treat? Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
Grok Imagine prompt:
— Empress Heavy (@HeavyMetalShip) November 16, 2025
Elon carries Garfield the cat away from the restaurant and says “no more lasagna for you” pic.twitter.com/0sbcS4OXNS
Hi KT, Here's Purry Mason, Publius' princeling, sitting in the garage window. MileySo dignified! And observant.
I had a stray kitten show up in the yard, mostly lurking around for a day, which is not unusual since all the neighbors have cats, but the next day she came in the kitchen door and started eating out of the cat bowl. I have put flyers out, posted on facebook, left notice with the local vets, the Humane Society and the local cat adoption, and I have had no response. I know someone really misses her since she is so sweet, but after a week I am starting to hope no one claims her, she has really calmed my other tom kitten down. "calmed down" is a relative term, of course, since they spend most of their play time boiling around the house We are calling her Becca. kindltotAnother sweetie.
Rosie is our rescue Briard. She is sweet natured but full of energy.She just had her 5th birthday. She is vigilantly watching for animals invading our back yard. ChopperLove Rosie's face.
Here's a pic of my mini-golden retriever at his second birthday party. Dubby is a very good boy! His "cake" is liverwurst with bacon. He didn"t give me a piece. Farmer Bob
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, November 15 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: BigWyo at November 22, 2025 03:43 PM (+a3eO)
And found no comments at the end.
Rookie mistake.
Hiya, KT & pet lovers.
Posted by: mindful webworker - owned by the animals we keep at November 22, 2025 03:45 PM (LaTF/)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 03:45 PM (xcIG0)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 22, 2025 03:45 PM (NcvvS)
They did not work for me, do anything for me, but it was my job to pay their keep.
PS Both were my actual boss on the food chain.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 03:45 PM (gbOdA)
Becca especially
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 03:47 PM (+qU29)
KT, I am sorry to hear about Little Buddy. They're gone too soon, aren't they? I'm sure Troy has met up with his adopted brother and are wondering where you are.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 03:49 PM (wzUl9)
I saw her walking down the alley with a whole can of Alpo. Not in the can but the owner had cut both ends out and pushed the whole can out.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 03:49 PM (gbOdA)
It was skittish, but not entirely unfriendly.
Fortunately, I only went home with a few more books and not another cat, as I already have 5.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 03:51 PM (IBQGV)
Happy to see Dubby the Golden Retriever on his birthday, Rosie watching her yard, Becca the Rescue and Purry Mason.
Someone moved out of a house near us and left a big dog resembling a white golden retriever. The day after we lost Little Buddy. He runs from us, but we have been leaving food where he has made a bed in a field.
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 03:52 PM (7vIsy)
Thank you so much for the Pet Thread.
Posted by: Nazdar at November 22, 2025 03:52 PM (NcvvS)
Understand, we often leave the back porch door open, and the screen door from the porch to outside open. It has one of those magnet-closed screen curtains, so the pets can push through while the bugs are (mostly) kept out.
(Magnet screen at Home Depot link)
https://thd.co/4plWCyw
🐁That's probably how we got our first live mouse in the house. Looked down and saw the little squeaker runnng by my feet as I sat at the computer. Chased it under a bookshelf in the corner, and then got Ony the old black cat and put her down there.🐈⬛ Ran a broom under the shelf and, after some chasing, Ony caught it by the tail. She let it go too soon, but it was near the porch door, so we shooed it out onto the porch. Daisy the mighty Malinois 🐕 then got involved, and didn't catch it, but did get it chased outside. So long, Mickey, and tell your friends how dangerous it is to be in here. (cont)
Posted by: mindful webworker - critter chaos pt 1 at November 22, 2025 03:52 PM (LaTF/)
On Wednesday, Daisy started barking up a storm, more than the usual "leaf! leaf!" bark. Our son M's pal had gone out to the S 40, which he shouldn't've, leaving the pasture gate open. A mama cow and several calves crossed the cattle guard into the living area. 🐄 (black angus emoji not available) Where the grass is just as green, of course. The cattle guard, laid down in my grandfather's day, was flat rails (railroad type) and filled in with nearly a hundred years of silt. Easy walking for the cattle.
(Facebook link to vid of cow crossing cattle guard, not ours)
https://bit.ly/43KzTUD
(cont)
Posted by: mindful webworker - critter chaos pt 2 at November 22, 2025 03:53 PM (LaTF/)
Daisy got out the next day and ran out to the pasture to chase some cattle around, briefly. To make up for having to watch us from the house the day before. Didn't get to train her up as a pup, and as smart as she is, she still has a wild and headstrong streak. Wouldn't trade her for anything, though.
Good dog. Good kitty.
Posted by: mindful webworker - critter chaos pt 3 of 3 at November 22, 2025 03:53 PM (LaTF/)
Posted by: illiniwek at November 22, 2025 03:54 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at November 22, 2025 03:55 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Crusader at November 22, 2025 03:56 PM (TN0g+)
AKA 'people' abandoning their humanity. Good luck, K.T.!
Posted by: Nazdar at November 22, 2025 03:56 PM (NcvvS)
On a happier note, I put the tree up and have been decorating a bit and Lucy the Fink has yet to destroy anything.
She’s already staked out her spot under the tree.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 03:57 PM (mT+6a)
Stirling has been trying to play a little rough with Dagny. They both still have their claws, of course. But Stirling outweighs Dagny by nearly five pounds, and he has the reach on her with longer forelegs. He corners her next to the couch, or pounces on her out in the open. She's not happy; I hear a faint growl from her and sometimes a bit of a yowl. I break it up with a spritz from a spray bottle or by throwing a pillow at them.
I *think* it's only play -- that Stirling may simply be bored. Most of the time they are fine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 03:57 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 22, 2025 04:00 PM (NcvvS)
OK, it's not cute at 4 in the morning when the turnout is being done but it is kind of funny.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 04:01 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 04:02 PM (+mUZM)
Beautiful pet moron cats as usual. I really hope kindltot gets to keep Becca.
I did the weekly update to our cat fund/blog and I promise there are some really cute pictures.
https://tinyurl.com/4k65zjkx
Posted by: Joyenz at November 22, 2025 04:03 PM (2F0/Y)
Someone moved out of a house near us and left a big dog resembling a white golden retriever. The day after we lost Little Buddy. He runs from us, but we have been leaving food where he has made a bed in a field.
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 03:52 PM (7vIsy)
There are white Goldens . A woman at the dog park has 2.. beautiful dogs
Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2025 04:05 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 22, 2025 04:06 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 04:07 PM (7vIsy)
When he passed away, she spent most of that day walking all around the apartment, calling for him. And when my mother passed, Li'l Bit went into a kind of shock and wouldn't emerge for me. I had almost to trap her to get her home with me. It took her a couple of weeks, until that Christmas morning, to come out and sit in my lap.
A funny, sweet cat, she lived to be about fourteen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 04:08 PM (wzUl9)
English Cream Goldens. Elvis had an English Cream pal.
Sorry to hear about Buddy.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 04:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 04:12 PM (LHPAg)
When LB got to Cat Heaven and told Rusty about her adventures, I suspect he went, "Dayum."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 04:14 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 04:14 PM (/NhK2)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 04:15 PM (7xrfc)
Growing up there was a feral Tom in the neighborhood that we named Clint (for Clint Eastwood). Clint had 1-1/2 ears, a broken tail, and maybe 2/3 of his teeth. We started feeding Clint on the front porch, and he would eat while we sat there, but not allow us to touch him initially. Six months later, he not only wanted the food, but would crawl up in our laps wanting headpats. Moral of the story, there is no cat so feral that love won't bring them around.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 22, 2025 04:16 PM (e/Osv)
That makes me irrationally angry. There are rescue groups all over the place that would come running if someone reached out for help.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 04:17 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 04:17 PM (7xrfc)
My husband works at a wonderful on here in NorCal.. They take trips to Mexico to rescue street dogs.. They also take sick and injured dogs... They have a great staff who work on getting them well...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2025 04:20 PM (VE6XX)
She’s already staked out her spot under the tree.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025
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Big Rusty did the same his first and subsequent Christmases: curled up on the fake "snow" blanket that we wrapped the base of the tree in, to hide the stand. Mom carefully put the more fragile decorations higher up on the tree, but I don't recall him doing any real damage.
Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 and I had real trees for three Christmases of Arizona's long life, but again I don't recall any devastation aside from his knocking a few low-hanging plastic ornaments down.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 04:21 PM (wzUl9)
She’s already staked out her spot under the tree.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025
We had a cat that scaled the tree and they both came crashing down
Posted by: It's me donna at November 22, 2025 04:22 PM (VE6XX)
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 22, 2025
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Linda had a black bushy-tailed feral who would show up on a regular basis for outdoor dining, but would never come near us. We speculated that some of my late Wolf's longhair genes were still circulating out there; we've seen a higher number of bushy-tailed and semi-longhaired ferals around here than you might expect. (Wolf had his time as a playboy before I took him in.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 04:24 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: It's me donna
The Greyhound group I am a part of will take dogs back without any question. That was how we got one of our last fosters.
I explain to the adopters that we recognize that life happens and the only thing we care about is getting the dog into a home.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 04:24 PM (7xrfc)
But they make me sick. I think there’s molds or fungus or pollen or something. I can’t have one in the house longer than a week before I’m sick as a dog.
I bought a fake tree 15 years ago and use it over and over. Not been sick like that since.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 04:25 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 04:26 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Oh don’t be such a crab.
I like Bob. He’s got character.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 04:27 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025
***
Such is my plan when I have my house. Knowing Stirling's energy, and Dagny's too, I dread the coming crashes.
On the other hand they may surprise me. Nothing is certain about cats except their surprises.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 04:28 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 03:52 PM (7vIsy)
~~~~~
Could be an English Cream (Golden) Retriever, but since he's big and running away from you, I'd guess it's a Great Pyrenees. Goldens love people, even burglars.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 22, 2025 04:28 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 04:29 PM (wzUl9)
It never gets easier.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 22, 2025 04:30 PM (+4S8X)
?
So.
Not afraid:
-thunderstorms
-fireworks
-I got him to not be afraid of the garage
Still has issues with cars in general.
And wreathes. ?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 04:31 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025
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That was how I adopted Wolf. He'd been an outdoor-indoor cat until his people got evicted and left him behind (!). He, however, was not at all frightened of us and moved right in with me. He never wanted to roam after that. He knew he had a great deal.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 04:31 PM (wzUl9)
But they make me sick. I think there’s molds or fungus or pollen or something. I can’t have one in the house longer than a week before I’m sick as a dog.
I bought a fake tree 15 years ago and use it over and over. Not been sick like that since.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 04:25 PM (mT+6a)
I have a REALLY bad pine allergy. Pinesol cleaner will have me messed up for DAYS. So I really understand where you are coming form.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 22, 2025 04:32 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
What if he brings a fifth of valu-rite or a winebox?
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 04:33 PM (LHPAg)
Out of the blue she lost 11 pounds, almost too quickly to notice. Vet put her on prednisone, and she bounced back, ate voraciously. Gained some weight back.
Alas, she's declining rather rapidly now. Had a vet scheduled for yesterday for the rainbow bridge, but she'd rallied this week, so cancelled.
It is so hard to know when they are ready. This has been a very exhausting month, up all night, explosions from time to time. She's just such a beautiful sweet dog, best we've ever had.
Oh the emotional trauma. *sigh*. Oh how we love our pets.
Posted by: Derak at November 22, 2025 04:34 PM (k3fFd)
Mess with Bob at your own peril.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 22, 2025 04:34 PM (5jRcY)
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 04:33 PM (LHPAg)
Bob needs to bring something to the table besides need.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 04:35 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
What if he brings a fifth of valu-rite or a winebox?
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 04:33 PM (LHPAg)
Well if they are bringing gifts, can I request a pint or fifth of Whistlepig?
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 22, 2025 04:35 PM (e/Osv)
Jasmine - Sleeping on a cat tree next to my office window.
Allie - hanging out with me at my desk.
Penny - curled up asleep in my bed.
Hexie - roaming around the living room.
Kaylee - lurking in my sunroom next to the patio door.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 04:35 PM (IBQGV)
Jasmine - Sleeping on a cat tree next to my office window.
Allie - hanging out with me at my desk.
Penny - curled up asleep in my bed.
Hexie - roaming around the living room.
Kaylee - lurking in my sunroom next to the patio door.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 04:35 PM (IBQGV)
Can you give us an update on what they are doing at say, of 0200 in the morning, when all cats seem to think "Hey, it's time to start MISCHIEF!!"?
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 22, 2025 04:38 PM (e/Osv)
Fall baths and nail trims for Dutchess, Val and Dan today. God love them, they're such good, stouthearted dogs, but they're also 10 years old and showing their age. No longer able to jump in the tub or onto the grooming table, fat and wheezing. But they have good spirits that we hope carries them on for a while longer. Every day is a day of grace.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 04:38 PM (tgvbd)
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 22, 2025 04:38 PM (e/Osv)
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My cats are usually pretty quiet at night. If anything, I disturb THEM when I get up to answer a call of nature.
Every once in a while Penny or Hexie will get the zoomies in the middle of the night but it's pretty rare.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 04:39 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 22, 2025 04:40 PM (5jRcY)
Current cat seems to feel like 0200 is the time when she can get on the bedside table and do the "tap, tap, tap" and knock off whatever is on HER TABLE. Usually it's my glasses or cellphone.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 22, 2025 04:42 PM (e/Osv)
Jasmine - Sleeping on a cat tree next to my office window.
Allie - hanging out with me at my desk.
Penny - curled up asleep in my bed.
Hexie - roaming around the living room.
Kaylee - lurking in my sunroom next to the patio door.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 04:35 PM (IBQGV)
Heh. Just had a mental rundown
Perfessor:
Plus,
Aristophenes out by the tennis courts.
Lexus likes the sauna area.
I think snowball is in the garage- it is easy to get lost in that room. You never know whether he is sleeping in the Rolls' engine compartment or the Jag's. *laugh*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 04:43 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 22, 2025 04:44 PM (l5Hh5)
And the kitten Becca is adorable, kindltot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 04:47 PM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 04:29 PM (wzUl9)
'Hey, here it is. You put a bowl of food right there on the step say every day or so, and I'll take care of every one of those damn squirrels. How about it?'
-Bob
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 04:47 PM (LHPAg)
----- I hate this part of it. We, too, have made appts for the end and then cancelled because the pet rallied.
So hard to get to the decision, and then we question -- Is it the right time?
I don't like to feel like I've stolen any of their days, but I also don't want them to suffer.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 22, 2025 04:48 PM (+4S8X)
She’s already staked out her spot under the tree.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 03:57 PM (mT+6a)
When I was a kid, we had a dog that thought the Christmas tree was an indoor convenience. Caused a fair bit of mayhem.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 22, 2025 04:48 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 22, 2025 04:44 PM (l5Hh5)
But both of them keep files on you.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 22, 2025 04:49 PM (6Bc88)
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Yes! Pet's just know things...or at least some of them do!
Posted by: Crusader at November 22, 2025 04:50 PM (TN0g+)
I've had to put down 6 dogs in my lifetime and it's a heart ripper every single time. There is no easy about it.
Just once I wish my dog would pass peacefully in the night. Going to the vet to do it just feels like murder.
One time we had a wonderful vet that did house calls, and he put our beloved chocolate lab down in the back yard. It was sooooo much better than the vet hospital. They know!
One lab we had was a real piece of work. She had a tumor wrapped around her heart. It was time. We took her to the vet and I'll be darned, she rallied right when the vet was to do the deed, and she fought him. It was just awful.
Never felt like a murderer more than that day.
I just hate this.
Posted by: Derak at November 22, 2025 04:51 PM (k3fFd)
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 04:53 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 04:53 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 04:54 PM (mT+6a)
Beauregard (Bobo) the child guardian
Sam the terrier/beagle from hell
Mukluk (aka MUK) the clever one
Wurfie-Dog (the stray that showed up on Christmas Eve)
Sophie the princess
Fair Dinkum Jazzman Louie Armstrong (Louie) Aussie terrier from another planet and failed show dog
Rosie the Beagle (Loud, obnoxious, and raider of the fridge)
RayRay the Amazing, the perfect dog even if he was misshapen
Ruby the beautiful sled dog mix
Piper the idiot sister of Ruby
Ruby and Piper are the current occupants.
The rest are over the bridge and probably trashing everything they can get their little paws on. Some have been gone for 50 years. I miss every one of them.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 22, 2025 04:55 PM (6Bc88)
I can relate to all of your turmoil. So sorry that your precious dog is going through so much.
Before his final turn for the worst, Little Buddy would sleep most of the day, but once in a while he still got the zoomies.
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 04:58 PM (7vIsy)
How’s the husband doing? I heard his back is not happy. Poor guy. Back pain sucks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 04:54 PM (mT+6a)
His current issue is a stinger down from his left hip. He's getting that one shot up in a couple of weeks. I get my shoulder surgery in a couple of weeks, and then get my cataracts removed in January.
At this rate, we will both be entirely MOPAR by the time we see you again.
But I have started the Thanksgiving soiree prep and I have already invited folks for New Years to blow some stuff up, so we are doing just fine and will continue.
Let me know if you intend to stray north anytime.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 22, 2025 04:59 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 22, 2025 05:00 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 05:02 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 22, 2025 05:03 PM (ubVep)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 22, 2025 05:04 PM (ubVep)
Ombré stray kitty is very fashionable.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 22, 2025 05:07 PM (RfDQK)
She is a ravenous eater, will eat anything, always seems hungry, knows the time of day and when it's time for breakfast and dinner, and spends less than 15 seconds gobbling down the 1/3 cup of Wilderness kibble we put in her dish.
She weighs 19.5 pounds and is all muscle. She loves to lay on her back and get her belly rubbed, and when I do it, I can feel she is tight as a drum.
Our former dog, a Belgian sheepdog bitch, weighed between 37 and 39 pounds her whole long life, we'd put her daily allowance in her dish, and she'd eat when hungry, sometimes leaving a little at the end of the day.
You know the Belgian, right? Same herding subgroup as the drug sniffing war dog malinouix, but with a long black coat. Think all-black well-fed coyote.
But this Miss Lily the corgi, she's a food hound. I just fed her.
Posted by: M. Gaga at November 22, 2025 05:08 PM (zeLd4)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 05:09 PM (sDNVV)
Also, since she is a Norwegian forest cat, contemplating changing her name, maybe, to Freya. Opinions?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 05:12 PM (vKEG1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 05:12 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:14 PM (+mUZM)
Is his friend The Drake?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 22, 2025 05:16 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 05:19 PM (KDPiq)
https://tinyurl.com/4fux5rsz
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:19 PM (Yl2Ob)
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We are finally coming around to the idea of finding new dogs. The blessings outweigh the heartaches.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 22, 2025 05:22 PM (M5+/h)
__________________________
Sharing your home with a miniature panther is pretty awesome.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 05:25 PM (vKEG1)
I've had both cats and dogs and enjoyed them both.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:29 PM (2sfNr)
Is his friend The Drake?
The idea came from a Gutfeld joke several years ago -- he was getting legal advice from his cat, Purry Mason.
Purry's sister is Della, of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 22, 2025 05:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:36 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 202
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Especially when said panther is actually black.
Stirling is settled down right next to me on the ouch. countdown to dinner.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 05:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 05:49 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 05:12 PM (vKEG1)
We give cats names out of courtesy. It allows them to ignore us on purpose instead of by ignorance.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 05:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 22, 2025 05:57 PM (w6EFb)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Nov. 22
Should have sent this a couple days ago. It's even more beautiful in person. First freeze is going to drop the leaves though. DiogenesGorgeous!
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
As we approach Thanksgiving, a special feature on hazelnuts from 58Mikie!Hi KT! I want to say I enjoy Ace of Spades each and every day, with all contributors kicking it....From my standpoint, being involved with Oregon agriculture for my entire life, I particularly enjoy your "gardening" contribution! Picture attached is a Hazelnut tree(Corylus avellana) from our orchards in Western Oregon's Willamette Valley. We have grown Hazelnuts here since 1939.
The Willamette Valley in Oregon grows 99% of the Hazelnut produced in the United States, although particularly this year (more later), Oregon's production may reach only 10 percent of total world production.
The main growing areas for Hazelnuts (I grew up calling them Filberts..."Farmers grow Filberts, people sell Hazelnuts".) are countries primarily in the northern hemisphere slightly above or below the 45th latitude, with a semi-marine climate....e.g. Turkey on the Black Sea, the largest producer, followed this year by either Chile or Oregon. The country of Georgia produces hazelnuts (Black Sea, also see Hilary Rodham Clintons brother investing in Georgia in Hazelnuts in the past), as does Azerbaijan, Italy (the past number two producer, and home to mega hazelnut using company Ferrero). For scale, Turkey produces Hazelnut crops each year in the 500k tons to 800k ton level. The world in normal years north of one million tons of hazelnuts. Oregon the year, perhaps 120,000 tons. As a fifty year + veteran of the Oregon hazelnut industry, I have seen some changes. For many years, our main variety of Hazelnuts was "Barcelona". A very large tree with large quality Hazelnuts. However, in 1986, a fungal disease called Eastern Filbert Blight-EFB- was found in the main growing regions of Oregon. The disease will eventually kill the tree, although much better fungicides are slowing the inevitability of the tree dying. During this time Oregon State University and its Hazelnut breeding program, under Dr. Shawn Mehlenbacher, have developed Hazelnut trees by traditional breeding with genes for EFB resistance.
During much of my farming career Oregon had about 30 thousand acres of Hazelnuts. Now with the "new" resistant trees, Oregon has nearly 100k acres producing Hazelnuts. Ferrero the big Italian conglomerate, I hear, would like another 100k acres here in Oregon producing Hazelnuts... You know Ferrero produces Nutella....certainly a world wide phenomenon...I understand that Ferrero uses some 25-30 % of all Hazelnuts produced in the world.
This company has invested heavily in Turkey (besides their home company of Italy....and Chile). As Turkey has been the world leader of Hazelnut (Findik) production for a long time, it is part of their national identity. During my time it has been my understanding, that the average Hazelnut farm in Turkey was about three acres (see production numbers above). Growers in Turkey mainly pick their production by hand, dry and sort the crop on blue tarps in the sun and deliver in large bags to the market or warehouses. In Oregon, my son and I do 100 acres with machinery, etc,.
This year, on April 11th, Turkey had a "deep freeze" in much of its vast agricultural lands. ( I have been there three times -a great place to visit, but.....the politics. Hazelnuts are part of politics there and I have been in small room listening to Erdogan speaking...more than 20 years ago). The temperature in the hazelnut "hills"south of the Black Sea experienced 5 degrees F with the trees in full leaf; a bad crop disaster(also Turkish apricots were hammered and citrus was affected too). In addition, this area is "plagued" by a bug we in Oregon call the stink bug, which in Turkey is called the "skunk" bug. It does tremendous damage to the hazelnuts there. The Hazelnut market is currently abuzz....
FWIW, we are happy....we had EFB early on and had to pull out of all our orchard and replant with new varieties, which are now just producing...with a good market. Several more photos to come.....Lots of good information there. I planted a couple of filbert relatives in my parent's yard years ago. The nuts are smaller than the ones you grow.
Thank you for all that you do.... 58Mikie
This is the pollen structure for Hazelnuts, the "catkin"..... a few blooms in the picture too. As the winter proceeds, these catkins elongate, dry out, an release pollen. The main producing Hazelnut varieties also produce pollen but are self in-compatible. Pollenizers of different pollen "shed times" must be dispersed throughout the orchards...
A hazelnut bloom....in Winter. The pollen must be dry to blow in the air and land on the bloom, but following that movement of the pollen, high humidity is great (rain) to set the pollen in the bloom. The pollen must travel through the bloom with actual fertilization not occurring until May....
Lady Bug in the winter near a "catkin"
VORACIOUS, consumers of aphids in our orchards...we used to spray for aphids....not for the last twenty years...we love these bugs!
Juvenile form of Lady Bug...they eat aphids too!
The Hazelnut production in July...we start harvesting in mid September....this is the variety "Yamhill"...the county we live in and one of the original counties (1843) in the Oregon territory.. Thank you Take careThank you for teaching us so much. We're ready for some hazelnut treats now!
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden at g mail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)This company has invested heavily in Turkey (besides their home company of Italy....and Chile).
I recall my first taste of Nutella, while visiting family in Italy.
It was a revelation
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2025 01:39 PM (dCxaZ)
If my mini greenhouse was in more sunny location who who knows if it might still be producing. Anaheim pepper plants through had minor frost are still fine.
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 01:42 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2025 01:42 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 01:43 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 01:43 PM (7vIsy)
It was mainly mid-size birds, like the size of catbirds or robins. I expected to see the same party the next few days, but it never happened again.
I guess they knew that day was the best ripeness and sweetness of the berries
or maybe it was somebody's retirement party
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2025 01:45 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Lex at November 22, 2025 01:49 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 01:52 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 01:52 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2025 01:54 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Denny Crane - Great Still Lifes! at November 22, 2025 01:55 PM (i49OE)
We finished pressing all the apples for cider, and giving away the last batch for a friend's cows, so that's done for the year. I also stuffed and froze some poblano-rellenos, and cut up the undersized poblanos for casseroles, so that's also done for the year. Cutting and freezing squash will be next. I did find another bag of frozen tomatoes in the freezer, so we're going to use them for fresh sauce tonight.
We've bottled 2 smaller batches of hard cider so far - other batches are still perking away in the hall bathtub.
Last Saturday was bad luck city... Husband was using the sweeper-cart to round up leaves - it broke. Then we moved to using the leaf shredder - it did a few bags full, then also failed. We had to buy a new leaf shredder this week - later today, we'll be shredding leaves. Eric the previously featured Autumn Blaze maple is now naked; and we still have piles of sweet gum to shred. Oak leaves were all bagged and put on the curb.
Hope everyone has much to be thankful for this year, and every year!
Posted by: Pat* at November 22, 2025 01:56 PM (WDc+w)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 01:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2025 01:57 PM (lFFaq)
I thought you need two different types of pears to get the best fruit.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2025 01:59 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2025 02:01 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Confusedus at November 22, 2025 02:01 PM (vFG9F)
Mikie's lengthy and detailed post about Willamette and Turkish hazelnut production is fascinating even to me, a man who will visit a hospital in short order if he eats a deadly filbert.
It sounds like, given the Turks and their sluggish agricultural methods and poor recent weather, along with the major filbert buyer Ferrero looking to expand acquisitions of filberts in Willamette Valley, you could make a mint with your disgusting poisonous killer nuts. Go git 'em! I'd rather you got rich than dirty Turks, the traditional foe of Slavs & Jews!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 22, 2025 02:02 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:03 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:04 PM (rbvCR)
Good to know.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 22, 2025 02:05 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:03 PM (+mUZM)
Persimmons survive in Korea, so they should do well for you. My wife is delirious when she gets persimmons off her tree.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:06 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:10 PM (+mUZM)
I also have been soaking charcoal in a barrel of fermenting weeds over the summer so I can till the charcoal into the garden next spring. I did it once before and the cabbages got huge.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:19 PM (+mUZM)
I have been warned that straight charcoal in the soil will suck all the nutrients out of the soil and interferewith the plants, so you have to "charge" it by putting it in some sort of composting situation to absorb nutrients, or let the soil go fallow for a year.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:24 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 02:26 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:26 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:28 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 22, 2025 02:28 PM (AQh0C)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:31 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:33 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 02:33 PM (A0sqA)
Great for cold winter areas, survive to about -25F.
They had blossoms for the first time this year. Last year -30F burned the buds off the trees but the trees survived. This year, however, I harvested about 80 peaches, they were a beautiful orange red. Made fresh pies and canned some for pies this winter. While they are cling free, they are perhaps not the best variety for canning, a little mushy but otherwise made a great pie.
That said, I can guarantee there is no other peach tree in my area for miles and miles. I have no pollinator, other than the second tree of the same variety. Peaches for the most part, are self pollinating.
Posted by: Derak at November 22, 2025 02:34 PM (k3fFd)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:36 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Stinky at November 22, 2025 02:37 PM (z9zbl)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 02:41 PM (+mUZM)
I'm not in a great zone for filberts, but I planted two different varieties,about 10 years ago. One variety is more like a shrub, the other a multi stemmed small tree.
They are actually quite beautiful as a landscape hedge, but they bloom in very early spring and killing frosts routinely knock out the blooms, so not too many nuts. In fact, I didn't realize they were actually producing until I started finding little nuts all over the ground during spring clean up.
I think I have failed to recognize when it's time to harvest. I guess I never expected them to produce.
Posted by: Derak at November 22, 2025 02:42 PM (k3fFd)
Posted by: Lirio100 at November 22, 2025 02:46 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: Emmie at November 22, 2025 02:48 PM (FMtrg)
My apple didn't do anything this year and I lost the last of my plumb trees. From the forest of fruit trees I bought I'm down to two now. I've replaced some of them with oaks and maples. Fruit trees are a mess to clean up after if your not into canning and harvesting. One year I was giving away 5 gallon buckets of plumbs.
What I really need to do is install an automatic watering system. Hand watering this place takes about an hour and a half and I never feel like it's enough to combat this desert I live it. I have tuna cans in the dirt near the base of the trees and water till they are full but I think a timed 15 minutes or so would be better.
Posted by: Reforger at November 22, 2025 02:50 PM (QZM2J)
I did start sulfuring the fruit - burning a half a teaspoon of sulfur in the bottom - and that keeps it from molding. I can use a thicker slice when I do that.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 02:51 PM (rbvCR)
I have a Rowan tree, and the red leaves are so spectacular.
Just grateful I don't have pine trees! Everyone else is doing the needle cleanup.
Posted by: LizLem at November 22, 2025 02:52 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 02:55 PM (CHHv1)
Not much to report except my Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter cactus is blossoming right on time. It literally blooms til Easter.
My Encore Azalea also has a few blossoms and some really pretty new growth. It's in a deep planter but I'm thinking maybe cutting it back a bit.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 22, 2025 03:07 PM (t/2Uw)
I am impressed
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 03:07 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 03:07 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 03:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 22, 2025 03:16 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 03:24 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 03:35 PM (xcIG0)
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Posted by: Nazdar at November 22, 2025 03:44 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: bluebell at November 22, 2025 05:23 PM (79pEw)
Try chopping them and heat them in butter in the microwave a few hours before grilling fish (salmon works great). Spread over the fish fillet for the last 10 minutes or so of grilling. Toasts the nuts and the flavored butter covers the fish. Yum!
Posted by: Hal Dall at November 22, 2025 06:25 PM (6vKFa)
Preparing for Thanksgiving - Gratitude
Tajikistan curbs the influence of islam and promotes Ancient Persian heritage as a state policy. This includes banning Arabic names, cousin marriages and long beards. It also includes promoting native clothes and dance. The West should take note.This costuming is rather attractive compared to what you see in Iran these days:
From the beginning of this video, the celebration of the preservation of ancient Persian culture seems to be a big deal. Even though Russian is an official language in Tajikistan. A backstory begins to emerge: there were Arab invasions.Tajikistan curbs the influence of islam and promotes Ancient Persian heritage as a state policy.
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) November 18, 2025
This includes banning Arabic names, cousin marriages and long beards.
It also includes promoting native clothes and dance.
The West should take note.
pic.twitter.com/QdouZ5nQW2
Overview The authoritarian regime of President Emomali Rahmon, who has ruled since 1992, severely restricts political rights and civil liberties. The political opposition and independent media have been devastated by a sustained campaign of repression, and the government exerts tight control over religious expression and activity. Wealth and authority are concentrated in the hands of Rahmon and his family.
Key Developments in 2024 Tens of thousands of Tajikistani migrant workers returned home or were deported from Russia in the months after a March terrorist attack at a concert hall in Moscow that killed nearly 150 people. The attack was claimed by an Afghanistan-based terrorist group, Islamic State Khorasan; Russian authorities attributed it to Tajikistani migrant workers and attempted to link them to Ukraine. The ensuing crackdown on migrants in Russia prompted many to leave, and those who remained faced increasing pressure to enlist in the Russian military. In July, Tajikistani and Kyrgyzstani delegations reported progress on the delimitation of their shared border. . . Legislation adopted by the parliament in May and signed by the president in June banned the import, sale, and wearing of clothes that are deemed to conflict with “national culture.” Violations would be punishable by fines. The law also imposed restrictions on certain religious, cultural, and family celebrations. Independent journalists continued to face persecution during the year. For example, Ahmad Ibrohim, editor in chief of the newspaper Payk, was arrested August on dubious charges of bribery, extortion, and extremism. The outcome of a closed-door trial was pending at year’s end. Tajikistani authorities persisted in their extensive efforts to detain and punish political dissidents who had sought refuge abroad. . .So, are you also grateful not to be in Tajikistan? Or Iran, where the ancient Persian culture in Tajikistan mostly does not seem to have survived? Any other countries you are particularly grateful not to be in today?
Other things for which I am grateful I am grateful today that I am not Candace Owens
BREAKING: Candace Owens appears to have been PRANKED on air by a tip.
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) November 20, 2025
In yesterday’s episode, Candace read out an email from someone claiming to have inside knowledge about why her Egyptian plane landed in Delaware. The tip said all directions pointed to the address: One Rodney… pic.twitter.com/yDVrLv28WA
For the most part it was a pretty quiet week. Many longstanding stories continued to make headlines: the UN adopted President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza; the administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration continued, as did the Democrats’ lawlessness; and there were various shutdown post mortems. These topics did not gain the attention of meme-makers. Rather, this was the week of Jeffrey Epstein. Or, rather, the week when the Democrats got their wish, thousands of pages of Epstein documents were released, and the upshot was–as we already knew–that Epstein, a Democrat, had Democratic friends and hated Donald Trump. So the whole thing, from the Democrats’ standpoint, was an exploding cigar:
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at November 22, 2025 11:17 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 11:19 AM (+qU29)
Lenin gets off the hook a bit too much because he was followed by Stalin. Dude was still a monster. He started the Cheka and urged that Terror was a legitimate tool for political reform.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:19 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 22, 2025 11:22 AM (GYGpZ)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:22 AM (8VpHb)
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Foreigner, you will learn to be Russian.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 11:22 AM (QRVmM)
The big scholar says Lenin hated with more depth than Lenin. His theoretical "love" for "humanity" had to travel through a great deal of hate for real people.
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 11:23 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 11:23 AM (7vIsy)
... But who is Lenin?
and who is Lenin?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:24 AM (bss/y)
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Surprised he wasn't arrested for having an Arabic name.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 11:25 AM (QRVmM)
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 11:25 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 11:26 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Lonely Maytag Repairman, Jesse White at November 22, 2025 11:26 AM (oftw2)
and who is Lenin?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:24 AM (bss/y)
The walrus.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:26 AM (8VpHb)
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 11:27 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 11:27 AM (2UnvF)
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Might want to think about doing that here. Enlisting in our military rather than be an illegal layabout.
Bet it curbs a lot of the illegals from even thinking about crossing the border.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 11:27 AM (NwnyJ)
Spending the weekend with my beautiful and amazing bride.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 22, 2025 11:29 AM (5jRcY)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 22, 2025 11:31 AM (SRRAx)
Oh I’m also glad that I don’t pay attention to Candace Owens…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 22, 2025 11:32 AM (xT8gx)
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Might want to think about doing that here. Enlisting in our military rather than be an illegal layabout.
Bet it curbs a lot of the illegals from even thinking about crossing the border.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 11:27 AM (NwnyJ)
That's the problem the Hun had. Picking up lands occupied by swarthy foreigners, and when they tried to conscript them into the military, they wouldn't fight.
So they came up with the brilliant idea of putting the kids in these places called schools. Started with the little kinders. It seemed to work at churning out loyal citizens of the state.
So yeah, in a very real sense, we have already been using the same model here, for quite some time.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:33 AM (8VpHb)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 11:34 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 11:34 AM (XQo4F)
If by halftime show you mean my lap, then yeah.
I prolly wouldn't get much past half time.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:36 AM (8VpHb)
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 11:36 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 22, 2025 11:39 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: Eeyore at November 22, 2025 11:40 AM (s0JqF)
How much is the Trump family fortune tied up into real-estate that is subject to all kinds of adverse action by the NYC Communist regime?
Scare away the deep pockets of individual and institutional investors and Trump's holding drop incredibly in market value.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:41 AM (a4flb)
Probably some of that. But I think there was strategery involved as well.
Trump praised Mamdani as the leader of the Democrat Party. A communist halfwit who is destined to fail. Pretty stark contrast in the Oval Office.
We aren't the only ones who know the midterms are coming next year.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 11:42 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
Time to follow their lead. Of course, you life and career will be destroyed in the process but you can't make orange juice without squeezing a few oranges.
Posted by: Zombie Anita Bryant at November 22, 2025 11:44 AM (R/m4+)
Scare away the deep pockets of individual and institutional investors and Trump's holding drop incredibly in market value.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:41 AM (a4flb)
I'm of the belief Mandani isn't really capable of touching the oligarchs and their New York money.
Trump may be different though, in that he obviously has a target on his back.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:44 AM (b2i45)
Posted by: Candace Owens at November 22, 2025 11:46 AM (m0WlR)
Which is why he was allowed to happen without too much fuss. But the problem is, there are different levels of oligarch, and ultimately most of the people in on this crap aren't in on the top level. Lots and lots of useful idiots all the way down that don't realize they're expendable to those above.
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:47 AM (2GcNV)
Having mayor Jihadi standing while PDT was seated was a big tell.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 11:47 AM (sDNVV)
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Because Lenin was a true believer. Stalin was just a jumped-up criminal.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 22, 2025 11:47 AM (0pybe)
Trump may be different though, in that he obviously has a target on his back.
I bet there was a not so secret contest between Alvin Bragg and Letitia James as to who was going to be moving their stuff and occupying as a champion's trophy into Trump's NYC residence.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:48 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 22, 2025 11:49 AM (xvV+O)
Having mayor Jihadi standing while PDT was seated was a big tell.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 11:47 AM (sDNVV)
Like I said last night, It was good optics. He looked like a supplicant. Plus, he was smiling. The people- and I mean the online crazzies- will HATE those pictures.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:49 AM (bss/y)
Our university professors admonished us that “all cultures are equal” or maybe more to the point, no culture is any better than any other. Or maybe specifically, the Western Civ is yucky and the rest of it.
So who are we to criticise their culture? That would be “ethnocentric” or the preferred term today of “racist” or whatever opprobrium is de rigeur. I can’t keep up.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 22, 2025 11:49 AM (IrAlb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:50 AM (bss/y)
Either way, Trump has a huge personal, and financial stake in what goes down in The Big Apple.
Probably a bit of a warning to Mamdani to not be stupid. Also, probably a waste of time.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)
https://is.gd/ED6xyp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage?
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Is there a new Admiral Ackbar?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 22, 2025 11:51 AM (xvV+O)
Ehhhh.
A significant number have room temp IQ's and serious cultural-driven moral defects. We don't want them here OR in our military.
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:51 AM (2GcNV)
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Because Lenin was a true believer. Stalin was just a jumped-up criminal.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 22, 2025 11:47 AM (0pybe)
I suffered through a biography of Stalin years ago and concluded he was a psychopath. Depressing book. Not surprisingly, I came to the same conclusion reading a bio of Mao…. That one was so depressing I couldn’t get to the end; I gave up didn’t want to read anymore
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 22, 2025 11:51 AM (xT8gx)
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:51 AM (2GcNV)
See: Major Nidal Hasan.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:53 AM (bss/y)
Having mayor Jihadi standing while PDT was seated was a big tell.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 11:47 AM (sDNVV)
Heh.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 11:53 AM (g8Ew8)
ICE rounded up a bunch of illegals doing something blatantly illegal (this is my shocked face), and some cat lady fed judge ordered them released because there wasn't "probable cause" to stop them and ask their citizenship status, and claiming they "weren't breaking any laws"
Getting real sick of this shit.
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:53 AM (2GcNV)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 22, 2025 11:51 AM (xvV+O)
One is enough:
https://tinyurl.com/4wrpj6uy
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:55 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:55 AM (2GcNV)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 11:56 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:47 AM (2GcNV)
I agree completely.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:57 AM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:55 AM (2GcNV)
TX? CA?
heh. It could actually be any state. AK?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:57 AM (bss/y)
>>Having mayor Jihadi standing while PDT was seated was a big tell.
I'm a bit surprised that people keep being surprised about Trump. He's all about optics in everything he does, from the ride down the golden escalator to his scalp weasel. He's a master at it.
The left was completely ambushed by Trump's behavior yesterday. They were ready to pounce and seize when Trump trashed their golden boy. Probably already had the articles written. Instead Trump elevated Mamdani and made him the face of the new Democrat Party.
I expect 2026 not just to be a referendum on Trump but a choice between Trump and Mamdani.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 11:57 AM (viF8m)
BREAKING: MPD Police Chief O’Hara asks for forgiveness for exposing the reality of Somali criminal activity in Minneapolis
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 11:57 AM (L/fGl)
'He started the Cheka and urged that Terror was a legitimate tool for political reform.'
urged - more like demanded. Lenin got angry with subordinates that didn't use terror.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 22, 2025 12:00 PM (fd80v)
https://tinyurl.com/4wrpj6uy
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 11:55 AM (bss/y)
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Great eye bleach!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 22, 2025 12:00 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 22, 2025 12:01 PM (LjSYW)
BREAKING: MPD Police Chief O’Hara asks for forgiveness for exposing the reality of Somali criminal activity in Minneapolis
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 11:57 AM (L/fGl)
Apologize for speaking the truth. Fucking hell it is a fucked up world we live in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 12:01 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)
We aren't the only ones who know the midterms are coming next year.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Let us help to breed them out of existence.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 12:01 PM (QRVmM)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 22, 2025 12:00 PM (xvV+O)
More gentle. Like eye... lanolin?
Gold bond medicated healing lotion?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 12:02 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 12:05 PM (bss/y)
Trump may be different though, in that he obviously has a target on his back.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Have to agree with you. Had expected NYC ruling class to assure Mandani's loss. They let it ride.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 12:05 PM (QRVmM)
I expect 2026 not just to be a referendum on Trump but a choice between Trump and Mamdani.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 11:57 AM (viF8m)
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Trump is a happy warrior who lets the Left assassinate itself. I'm grateful for Cheetoh Hitler.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at November 22, 2025 12:06 PM (kpS4V)
“We would support our brothers in Iraq… we would not defend America”
A Christian American steps in and says, “anybody who supports another nation needs to live in that nation”
Is the enemy already inside?
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Is Jazzy Crockett ugly and stupid?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)
I bought the frozen bird too early, didn't have enough space to cram it into the freezer, and it thawed out, so I'm having Phase I of Thanksgiving.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at November 22, 2025 12:09 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)
Sad news, Chief O'Hara has been found dead, having committed suicide by shotgun blast to the back of the head, while hanging from a bedsheet.
The shotgun has yet to be found.
His body has already been cremated, and the building in which he committed this totally on his own, with no influence from anyone else, has burned down. The family asks for privacy in this difficult time.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:09 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 12:11 PM (QRVmM)
🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:11 PM (/AUU2)
Tajikistan seems to be just another Central Asian thugocracy. At least it's an organic thugocracy. I'd like to think that we've learned by now that a liberal Constitutional state isn't for everyone and imposing one is a kind of cargo cult thinking.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 12:13 PM (tgvbd)
Muslims are untouchables.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:15 PM (/AUU2)
He's endlessly entertaining. And while he does his shtick almost nobody notices the Dept of Education committed suicide.
We've had politicians promise to do that for years and nobody did squat. Trump calls that Friday.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bob at November 22, 2025 12:16 PM (YiqZD)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:17 PM (/AUU2)
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Can't happen soon enough.
In addition to homeschooling, I'm hearing more and more about microschools.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at November 22, 2025 12:18 PM (kpS4V)
Because Lenin was a true believer. Stalin was just a jumped-up criminal.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 22, 2025 11:47 AM (0pybe)
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Lenin, had he lived to Stalin's age, would have had as great a death toll. His reputation, such as it is, depends on his having died early.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 12:18 PM (tgvbd)
We don't need democracy. We need good governance.
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 12:19 PM (W7XSX)
Gratitude for me will always entail thanking God I live in the most exceptional country on the planet. There are other things, to be sure, but that one is hugely important. From that fact all else has been possible--my beloved ginger, extraordinary kids, job, home--everything that goes into a fulfilling life.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 22, 2025 12:19 PM (vFbHf)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 12:20 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)
Breaking News: Congresswoman Crockett was discovered to have cheated on her husband.
When asked about it, she said "Listen, the man's name is Tyrone, my husband's name is Tyrone. My team only had a couple minutes before I was gobbling his cock. You can't expect them to have verified it was THE Tyrone. I only said I was having sex with A Tyrone, so it's not cheating."
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:20 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 12:20 PM (+qU29)
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Wounded Knee. Duhhh.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 12:20 PM (L/fGl)
Obviously the NFL Commish, Taylor Swift, told him to.
Duh.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:21 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 22, 2025 12:22 PM (0CU3H)
Oakridge Boys
No upright bass, therefore...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 22, 2025 12:22 PM (0CU3H)
Aren't the Oakridge Boys the ones who raped Becky?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:22 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 12:24 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 12:24 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: runner at November 22, 2025 12:24 PM (g47mK)
“The Education Department, in the latest step of the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the agency, has begun transferring its employees to other federal agencies.
The department said Tuesday that it signed six new interagency agreements to transfer some of its programs and employees to the departments of Labor, Interior, State and Health and Human Services, in order “to break up the federal education bureaucracy.”
Education Secretary Linda McMahon told employees in an all-hands meeting that the department is soft-launching plans to reassign its work to other parts of the federal government, before calling on Congress to permanently shutter the agency.”
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:24 PM (/AUU2)
Many were much better off as colonies of a foreign power, and the citizens of those countries that are still around from those times agree.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door
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There are likely a good many black South Africans who secretly wish the whites were still running things.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 12:25 PM (tgvbd)
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Posted by: Aetius451AD
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youtube.com/watch?v=OapWdclVqEY&t=56s
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 12:26 PM (QRVmM)
Posted by: runner at November 22, 2025 12:26 PM (g47mK)
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I'd prefer fly like Superman.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
Ehhhh.
A significant number have room temp IQ's and serious cultural-driven moral defects. We don't want them here OR in our military.
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:51 AM (2GcNV)
Nyet.
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 12:27 PM (LHPAg)
I expect 2026 not just to be a referendum on Trump but a choice between Trump and Mamdani.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 11:57 AM (viF8m)
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Trump is a happy warrior who lets the Left assassinate itself. I'm grateful for Cheetoh Hitler.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at November 22, 2025 12:06 PM (kpS4V)
I ended up catching the Trump-Mamdani press conference. He showered praise on Mamdani and emphasized their common goals of increasing affordability in NYC. Trump was brilliant.
His short-term political goal is to take the Dem talking point of affordability away from them. If he stops Mamdani from criticizing Trump along those lines - their common goal will keep him from going off the reservation - he takes the heat off himself. If he actually helps Mamdani, it helps him politically as well. They are now joined at the hip. Brilliant move.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 22, 2025 12:27 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:27 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 22, 2025 11:51 AM (xT8gx)
The other Marxist leader was also a psychopath.
Mussolini. His rape record is not as high as Mao but he did his fair share.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 12:28 PM (KDPiq)
Richard Baseheart is the underwater William Shatner except wooden.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 22, 2025 12:28 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: runner at November 22, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)
Can't imagine why.
https://tinyurl.com/aab8hxfm
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 12:25 PM (tgvbd)
Can't make an omelet without breaking some egg whites, I always say.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:28 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 12:29 PM (+qU29)
Headline to the LIVs is Trump and Epstein are connected.
Paragraph 17 is Trump didn’t do anything wrong and oh by the way lots of Democrats did.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:30 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
Superman could do that spinny thing, where he made the Earth go backwards in time.
Don't you think he used that more than a few times to reverse an oopsie or two?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:31 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: Gypsy at November 22, 2025 12:31 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:31 PM (viF8m)
I’ve always thought that between the ancient empires of the world, Persia would have been the best to live in as an ordinary person. (Save maybe for Egypt at the time of the pyramids). And Tajikistan is ignoring the most important part of that heritage; Cyrus decreed that all of his subjects could follow any religion they preferred , so long as they did not interfere with the functions and duties of the State. First important world ruler to ever do that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 12:31 PM (/ZNPI)
FSA is on the march.
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 12:32 PM (8jVAy)
Hold on there, Lois, I'll be right back.
My name's not Lois, I'm Deloris, from the copy room!
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:33 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 12:33 PM (e4lQj)
In a Tuesday press release, the NTSB said, “A single loose wire on the 984-foot-long containership Dali caused an electrical blackout that led to the giant vessel veering and contacting the nearby Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which then collapsed, killing six highway workers.”
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For want of a nail . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 12:33 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 11:57 AM (viF8m)”
In Texas, 2026 is going to be a choice between Ken Paxton and Jasmine Crockett. You can make book on that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 12:34 PM (/ZNPI)
Even though the MSM tries to hide it the crime news is 95% black suspects.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 12:35 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 22, 2025 12:35 PM (kpS4V)
FSA is on the march.
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 12:32 PM (8jVAy)
All my cow orkers drive to work.
Our mayor is some white guy, I couldn't even tell you his name.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:35 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 12:36 PM (gm9Sb)
Mussolini. His rape record is not as high as Mao but he did his fair share.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 12:28 PM (KDPiq)
The greatest irony of all is that almost every government in Europe now has the type of government that Mussolini envisioned in his early writings. Hitler borrowed most of his ideas from them, except for the Jew hatred. Hitler did that all on his own.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 12:37 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 12:33 PM (L/fGl)
Not the rockets red glare?
Nor bombs bursting in air?
But for a small wire,
FSK Bridge is not there.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:37 PM (fYMwJ)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at November 22, 2025 12:38 PM (jrgJz)
It’s because “white” is a stupid term, referring mainly to Northern Europeans. Hispanics are mainly southern Europeans, many with some mestizo mix.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 12:40 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:35 PM (fYMwJ)
See this is the problem. The left knows the name of the dog catcher and makes sure one of theirs is in that position. The right doesn’t even know when Election Day is for local elections.
My city mayor is also some white guy. A rabid leftist who won a 3 way election with 41% of the vote in an election with 31% turnout a couple of weeks ago. In a city that had 85% turnout last year that elected nothing but conservatives to state and federal offices.
But for whatever reason conservatives just turn their brains off when it comes to local elections. And the thing is your mayor and city council has a lot more influence on your day to day life than your governor or senator.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:40 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2025 12:41 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 12:42 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at November 22, 2025 12:38 PM (jrgJz)
Lenin had a Luca Brasi. His name was Joe Stalin.
Then one day Luca Stalin said "why am I taking orders from this schmuck."
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 12:42 PM (fYMwJ)
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Without inter-agency support let the programs wither.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 12:44 PM (QRVmM)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 12:34 PM (/ZNPI)
I’m positive Paxton wins but what I really want is a total blowout… 60-40 or worse. Her schtick needs to be repudiated big time
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 22, 2025 12:44 PM (YobFY)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 12:40 PM (/ZNPI)
And blacks are African but we use the term . I think white ,black, Hispanic and Asian are good general descriptors everyone knows for demographic purposes.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 12:44 PM (KDPiq)
And the "security" problem was just garden variety mayhem/idiocy in a bad part of town involving various clan/faction/whatever groups engaging in very low-intensity shenanigans.
Anyway Dushanbe wasn't the destination really, that was the mountainous area of Gorno-Badakshan in the east. Roof of the world. Had some stuff going on there. Colleague made it there several times and enjoyed it. Great people, amazing setting of course, Ismaili-flavor of Islam (with the Soviet denaturing), so very mellow.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2025 12:46 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2025 12:51 PM (U/Byj)
Argentina and Brazil has millions of Italian descendants . They tend to be more light skinned since their migrants typically came from Northern Italy while ours came from the south.
Javier Milei is part Italian. So is Javier Bolsonaro.
You learn new shit all the time.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:52 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 12:54 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 12:56 PM (/ZNPI)
Southern Brazil has cities with "Little Italys" that are pretty Italian. Curitiba, for one. And there are ethnic German enclaves as well, such as Blumenau (where, decades back, I heard German being spoken between 20-somethings, on the street). And before the standard Nazi jokes, pretty much all of the Italian and German immigration to that region was late 19th century and pre-WWII. Some land-grant incentive programs included.
European assimilation in South America was far different and less complete than in the US.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 22, 2025 12:57 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 01:00 PM (+qU29)
Just walked past our county courthouse. After the trooper trial resulted in not guilty of murder, reckless endangerment, mistrial on manslaughter there were minor protests , 10-20 people, and a lot of signs. Nothing there today must be waiting for retrial. No damage or injuries
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 01:01 PM (bfwj/)
There is no local radio or TV.
Go FakeBook or no go.
I'm looking for a place in the county.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:02 PM (QRVmM)
Wife says her black coworkers voted for Mandami to provide free buses and subways and to freeze rents.
FSA is on the march.
Posted by: Accomack
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And we know they'll never blame Zohran when at least one of these fails.
I'm really scared of 2026. Everyone says Democrats are cratering in popularity, but it appears there's nothing they can say or do that will discourage their voters. And Trump ain't on the ballot in 2026.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 22, 2025 01:02 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: Gimme, Gimme, Shock Treatment! at November 22, 2025 01:04 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: BChasm Phone at November 22, 2025 01:04 PM (flrsk)
How did I never piece this together lol?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 01:05 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 22, 2025 01:06 PM (hqSyT)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 01:06 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 01:07 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot
Lenin had Felix Dzerzinski, "Iron Felix", who started the pattern of executions in the basement of the Big Lubyanka.
He just died a little earlier than Lenin.
They were all murderous sociopaths.
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at November 22, 2025 01:07 PM (13Txl)
I would say Lenin. He was a committed anti-human commie who killed for politics and had syphilis for ass fucking a french whore.
Stalin, like the democrats today, went into politics because it paid better than robbing banks and he got to play dress up.
Posted by: Zombie Leon Trotsky, Ice Pick Aficionado at November 22, 2025 01:07 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 01:07 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:08 PM (QRVmM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 01:10 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Some things suck more than others.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:12 PM (QRVmM)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at November 22, 2025 12:38 PM (jrgJz)
Lenin did not quite have the cavalcade of fall guys like Stalin did. Whomever the head of the Cheka was during his years was his chief leg breaker and killer.
Stalin's #1 guy only lasted until he found a reason to get rid of them (too powerful or just did not like them suddenly.)
There was something someone mentioned during the release of Death of Stalin that the portrayal of Zhukov was dead on. Because he was one of (if not the only) one in the country that Stalin COULD NOT have killed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 01:13 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 01:06 PM (+qU29)
I'd disagree to an extent. Lenin was more like Hitler in that he wanted to create something grand for given values of it's own stake (how it reflected on him goes into it.)
Stalin was a true paranoid psychopath. EVERYTHING was about his personal safety and aggrandizement.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 01:15 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 01:13 PM (bss/y)
This has been said before, but I think "Death of Stalin" was the most accurate picture of the Communist Hierarchy ever portrayed. Also, while watching, I quickly realized that Zhukov was the only character I actually liked.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 01:16 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 22, 2025 01:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 22, 2025 01:21 PM (DtHF9)
The Islamification of the UK:
- 6% of the population
- Countless mayors
- 78% of women on welfare
- 63% total on welfare
- 2x the birth rate of Brit
https://tinyurl.com/5fumzyd9
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:21 PM (LEuDt)
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I had an across the street neighbor with a thick German accent, who often mentioned that he was Argentinian.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 22, 2025 01:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 01:06 PM (+qU29)
Hitler enjoyed killing lots of people that he didn't know.
Stalin enjoyed killing a lot of people that he knew, personally.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 01:22 PM (uWKK8)
Predictions: she starts a podcast and find all sorts of connection between Israel and every bad thing that has ever happened on the planet. A blonde version of Candy Owens.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 01:27 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Azjaeger at November 22, 2025 01:29 PM (3/XaG)
European ethnicity only account for 7-14% of the world population.
Yet who is being told that they must allow more migrants under the auspices of inclusion?
https://tinyurl.com/yc5crdcy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:34 PM (LEuDt)
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Bitter tears at not being listened to.
Her loyalty to McCarthy during his fight to remain speaker was.... questionable given McCarthy's style at running the House. Since then she's been relegated to mostly meaningless committee appointments where she strives for at least a sound bite.
IMO she didn't follow the new rules when McCartney was tanked, and thus, paid a political price.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 01:36 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Azjaeger at November 22, 2025 01:36 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 01:37 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 22, 2025 01:39 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2025 01:40 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2025 01:41 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 11:42 AM
The midterms are going to be a bloodbath for President Trump and the Republican Party unless they do a complete 180 on H-1B visas and pandering to India and China regarding jobs.
The GOP base is white men, young and old, and this is the demographic suffering the most from illegal aliens taking jobs, H-1Bs taking jobs and jobs being outsourced to India.
Short of the GOP making it their platform to end H-1B program and put a 10-15 year moratorium on all immigration and continue deporting ALL illegal aliens, the GOP base will be gone.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 01:44 PM (P5BPp)
Tyson closing down one of its biggest beef plants in Nebraska after losing 450 million
Americans just can't afford to eat American beef anymore.
Anti Trump posses forming up
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 22, 2025 01:44 PM (rNu4S)
Posted by: kallisto at November 22, 2025 01:41 PM (dCxaZ)
It's kind of funny, but she is the type you'd think some up and coming andy kaufman or george plimpton would lampoon.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 01:47 PM (bss/y)
Predictions: she starts a podcast and find all sorts of connection between Israel and every bad thing that has ever happened on the planet. A blonde version of Candy Owens.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 01:27 PM
Yeah, interesting that she became enemy #1 of the White House soon after she pushed for the end of the H-1B program. And now she is being pushed out of government. Not a good look for the GOP if they want to keep their base of white men, young and old, who have been suffering the most from H-1Bs and companies outsourcing to India.
AoSHQ comment: https://bit.ly/48beqFv
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 01:47 PM (P5BPp)
Ehhhh.
A significant number have room temp IQ's and serious cultural-driven moral defects. We don't want them here OR in our military.
Posted by: heya at November 22, 2025 11:51 AM (2GcNV)
What do you mean? It worked out GREAT for me!
Posted by: SecDef Robert McNamara at November 22, 2025 01:49 PM (TbWk/)
I’ve always thought that between the ancient empires of the world, Persia would have been the best to live in as an ordinary person. (Save maybe for Egypt at the time of the pyramids). And Tajikistan is ignoring the most important part of that heritage; Cyrus decreed that all of his subjects could follow any religion they preferred , so long as they did not interfere with the functions and duties of the State. First important world ruler to ever do that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 12:31 PM (/ZNPI)
Tajikistan is tackling the problem as best as they could, considering they have a despot leading the country. This points to an important argument that some in the Horde have expressed, and with which I agree. That is, a pluralistic society can survive with minimal percentages of an Islamic population. Once they become the majority, however, pluralism will inevitably disappear.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 22, 2025 01:52 PM (0CU3H)
AoSHQ comment: https://bit.ly/48beqFv
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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What Trump program has she supported?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:57 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:57 PM
I have no idea. Has President Trump supported the ending of H-1B visa program? That is the issue I am talking about with regards to Green.
As far as I know, President Trump has been pushing H-1B visas ever since he regained the White House. As have Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk.
And those of us who have suffered from H-1Bs and outsourcing over the past 4+ years are getting disillusioned with that. And that must be the #1 issue to tackle heading into the midterms. Otherwise frustrated and angry young and old Americans alike are going to get fed up with the GOPe support for corporations and seeing "America First" turn into empty words.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 02:05 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Very genteel response, sir.
Some with a more coarse perspective think that all should be given the exit order and made whole as they leave.
or
Hey, hey, ho, ho, Islam has got to go
Slave or die that's our choice, oh, no.
Hey, hey, ho, ho, Islam's got to go
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:05 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:57 PM
I have no idea. Has President Trump supported the ending of H-1B visa program?
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We're not talking about Trump or H1-Bs we're talking about MTG, what she did and did not do and why she's leaving.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:07 PM (LEuDt)
Speaking in favor of H-1B Visas at today’s U.S-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, President Donald J. Trump said:
“You can't come in, open a massive computer chip factory for billions and billions of dollars like is being done in Arizona, and think you're gonna hire people off an unemployment line to run it. They're gonna have to bring thousands of people with them and I'm gonna welcome those people. I love my conservative friends, I love MAGA, but this is MAGA.”
X video: https://bit.ly/4a76ise
If giving American jobs to H-1Bs and outsourced to India is now "MAGA", then consider me off the MAGA train. As will many, many others, especially the white male base of MAGA who are the main demographic suffering from H-1Bs and outsourcing to India.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 02:08 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 02:11 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:07 PM
I posted what she did. She put forth a bill to end H-1B program about a week ago. Now she's being forced out.
I find that interesting coincidence, considering it seems the Trump Administration has no intention of getting rid of the H-1B program or addressing the outsourcing issue which are both greatly negative affecting the largest demographic of the current GOP base: young and old white males.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 02:11 PM (P5BPp)
"Bat Shit Crazy in Black & White"
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at November 22, 2025 02:14 PM (MNCvZ)
Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies.
Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.
Mass migration is a human rights concern. Western nations have endured crime waves, terror attacks, sexual assaults, and the displacement of communities.
U.S. officials will urge governments to take bold action and defend citizens against the threats posed by mass migration.
Officials will also report policies that punish citizens who object to continued mass migration and document crimes and human rights abuses committed by people of a migration background.
These issues have plagued citizens of Western nations for years:
In the United Kingdom, thousands of girls have been victimized in Rotherham, Oxford, and Newcastle by grooming gangs involving migrant men.
Many girls were left to suffer unspeakable abuse for years before authorities stepped in.
In Sweden, an Eritrean migrant convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl CONTINUED
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:20 PM (LEuDt)
of raping a 16-year-old girl was allowed to remain in the country after a judge ruled that the incident was not an “exceptionally serious crime” and did not warrant deportation.
In Germany, nine men – several of whom were migrants – were convicted for the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl.
A German woman who insulted one of the rapists online was given a harsher sentence than the perpetrators themselves.
U.S. officials will now scrutinize policies in Western nations that give leniency to migrant crime and human rights abuses or that create two-tiered systems that prioritize migrants at the expense of their own citizens.
The United States supports the sovereignty of our allies and calls on governments to constructively engage with the growing numbers of citizens concerned about mass
migration.
The United States stands ready to assist our allies in solving the global crisis of mass migration.
https://tinyurl.com/y8xhhbd8
OK, now do USA.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:20 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 22, 2025 02:23 PM (WFC1M)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 02:24 PM (+qU29)
The issue that just happens to be the biggest issue on your menu?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:25 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 22, 2025 02:25 PM (WFC1M)
"There isn't going to be a divorce but the spouse of the #2 can play hardball and is doing so right now to get some respect back"
Supposedly it's JD and Usha. Which if true would make me sad! I think the Erika hug-gate, and JD saying he wishes Usha would convert, were dumb distractions. I think they are an amazing family, I really hope there's no trouble in paradise.
Posted by: LizLem at November 22, 2025 02:37 PM (gWBY1)
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Hopefully it's fodder created by the gossip columns.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:40 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
No reason to woo their base when they won't exist much longer.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 02:42 PM (/lPRQ)
But Trump is susceptible to flattery, and Mamdami has bragged on camera about being skilled at being whatever someone wants him to be to get what he wants. Really hoping that Trump reads him and doesn't fall for it.
Posted by: LizLem at November 22, 2025 02:43 PM (gWBY1)
The fact that Whitey western culture is evil for culturally appropriating positive aspects of other cultures, while Islam can just steamroll over entire cultures and traditions like they have with the Persians, and gets zero international pushback, shows how rotten globalism is.
Posted by: LizLem at November 22, 2025 02:47 PM (gWBY1)
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Garden rakes to the left of them. Garden rakes to the right. Onwards went the Dems hordes, noses bleeding, knot heads pulsating, from foam-flecked lips incoherent screams of nonsense.
Posted by: mrp at November 22, 2025 02:49 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 03:02 PM (+qU29)
"Marjorie Taylor Greene—I don't know what she's talking about. Walmart has just announced that grocery prices are down by over 20% compared to this time last year."
"Amazon said the things you were buying last year for Christmas are down."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 03:04 PM (LEuDt)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 03:10 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 03:04 PM
Didn't check everything I bought last year compared to this year, but compared:
Kroger milk: $2.99/gal then vs $2.29/gal now. Down $0.70/gal (23%).
12-ct extra large eggs: $3.19/doz (no change from last November)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 03:16 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 03:21 PM (+qU29)
She married a wealthy Brit and has several beautiful kids. It baffles me that she's peddling all these weirdo conspiracy theories (Mormons killed Charlie! The bees know!), when she could just be living her best life with them. She's conspiracy theorizing too close to the sun. I think the Macron lawsuit won't end in her favor, and they might throw the book at her to serve a lesson to other upstarts.
Posted by: LizLem at November 22, 2025 03:25 PM (gWBY1)
The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates on global human rights abuses.
_BBC
US embassies will report on countries that allow "chemical or surgical mutilation of children in operations that attempt to modify their sex."
Also track affirmative action and other "preferential treatment" on "the basis of race, sex or caste."
_.nbcrightnow.com/ contributed to this statement
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 03:48 PM (LEuDt)
Minnesota’s Somali community has been caught funneling taxpayer dollars to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab overseas by falsely diagnosing children with autism through Medicaid.
Look at the insane spike in claims:
2018: $3 million
2023: $399 million
Within this same time period, autism centers skyrocketed from 41 to 328 with many of them being in Somali communities.
Your tax dollars are being stolen and shipped over to people who hate us and want us dead.
You should be furious.
This is a direct result of careless immigration policies. We must ramp up mass deportations and halt all legal immigration
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 03:57 PM (LEuDt)
Candace has been doxxing people since she was a liberal the first time.
Who ever sent her the email about the Egyptian jet (first trailing Erika, then bringing in assassins?) managed to work France into the picture, too.
Posted by: KT at November 22, 2025 04:12 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 03:48 PM
So does that include the United States as well? Considering "gender identity" is a protected class in the USA thanks to the 2020 SCOTUS decision Bostic v Clayton County.
This allows all corporations and institutions in the USA to enforce "gender identity" protections in their sexual harassment training and policies.
Instead of worrying about other countries, how about fixing our own damn country first. You know, like that whole "America First" slogan?
Let's get Bostic v Clayton County overturned and end the protection of the made up "gender identity" nonsense.
Bostic summary: https://bit.ly/4koOhY4
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 04:40 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 03:57 PM
The policies are fine. This is the direct result of no one in the federal government actually enforcing the policies for the past 20-30 years.
Enforce the damn laws and end all bullshit "sanctuary" policies and 99% of the problems are fixed.
The problem is we are not a nation of laws. We are a nation of corruption and fraud. And have been for decades.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 04:43 PM (P5BPp)
The photo accompanying the article, though, looks to me like it was taken in Uzbekistan rather than Tajikistan - specifically, in Samarkand. The building in the background reminds me of the massad of Ulugh Beg, the learned son of Tamarlane, and the women look more Turkish than Persian, based on my 50-year-old memories of the region. But I'm no expert, so YMMV.
Posted by: Nemo at November 22, 2025 04:48 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 22, 2025 11:32 AM
Don't overlook the obvious: two chicks at once.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 22, 2025 06:06 PM (jc0TO)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in New Ulm) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Not just a suggestion.
3) Running with sharp objects is frowned upon.
4) Have a great weekend and a Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday.
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next. Amen.”
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: 9/28 - Teresa in Fort Worth gave an update: It has been 1 year since Teresa started “down the cancer rabbit hole”. She sends her thanks for the prayers as they have buoyed her and her family through this year. She has been blessed to exceed the original 6-12 months predicted, by the grace of God – and the prayers of many people. Her next CT scan is in November, and the surgeon is pretty sure that her tumors will be small enough to remove/destroy.
11/10 Update – Everything is fine, but it looks like the cancer is starting to figure out a way around the medication – something they knew would probably happen around this time in the protocol. More news will be coming soon – possibly surgery in late Dec/early Jan.
11/14 Update – Surgery is scheduled for 12/11. She should be able to travel for Christmas. 10/2 – Bluebell passed along an update: grammie winger sends her gratitude for all the prayers – she feels they are working. On Oct 6 she will be starting a cancer treatment program because her doctors are “cautiously optimistic” that they can give her some more time. Monday she gets the port, followed by 6 hours of chemo infusion on Tuesday. The Rev is doing better because now he has some hope. Please pray for her as she starts this treatment program because in her words, “prayer changes things”.
10/18 Update – grammie winger sent an update, that she has had her first chemo treatment. There were no side effects. She noted “God is very kind.”
11/8 Update – grammie winger posted that chemo is “kicking my butt and it’s hard to think”. 10/4 – Skip requested prayers for his dad, who fell at church back in August, hitting his head. He fell again at home and has had back pain since then. He is going in for more tests on 10/8.
10/11 Update – Dad has a brace to wear and has pain medication, so is doing OK for now. He will need an outpatient procedure soon for an injection in his spine to fill a void. Continuing prayers will help.
10/18 Update – Dad is in the hospital, needing some blood clots cleared up, and will soon have the outpatient operation for his back.
10/25 Update – Dad was released from the hospital and is in a rehab center near his home. 10/22 – Pennsyltucky requested prayers for his dad, who underwent cancer surgery on 10/21. Everything seems to have gone well (they’re confident they got it all!) but due to his age, his hospital stay and convalescence will be longer than usual. Dad is doing well, is awake and alert. A full recovery is anticipated but it will take a while. Thank you so much.
11/6 Update – Pennsyltucky’s dad is out of the hospital and is now convalescing at home with the aid of home care nurse visits. He’s not able to walk very well, having spent so long in a hospital bed, but he’s in good spirits and improving daily. Thanks for your prayers! 10/25 – M&B would like prayers for M's sister. Suddenly, she got dizzy, and with no other symptoms, was diagnosed with a stage 4 glioblastoma brain cancer. Surgeons said that they were able to remove most of it but gave her an 18-24 month survival. She's just finished the first round of chemo and radiation, and she just feels awful. She has that "deer in the headlights" look, since this all happened so fast, with no real symptoms! M&B have been searching through all the recent news about other medicinal options that are working for this type of cancer. We are grateful for all prayers! 10/25 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for her retired organist Jessie, whose dear daughter, S, died of cancer recently. Also prayers for Korean War vet, R, who has cancer and is not expected to live long. 10/27 – Polliwog the ‘Ette asked for prayers for her youngest daughter, "LK", who needs prayers for safety and peace, and her best friend "C" for health and that stress not cause a flare up of psoriatic arthritis as they and another roommate work with the police and the landlord to have the 4th roommate "M" evicted because she is threatening them and making the living situation a nightmare. “M” is bipolar and medicating with alcohol. Prayers for her healing and that she find salvation from the self-destructive path she's on would also be appreciated.
11/8 Update – The situation still needs lots of prayer. LK sand C have been staying at a hotel to avoid M, who wants to fight whenever she sees them. M is supposed to move out the end of Dec. but that seems like a very long time when C still needs to attend class and keep her arthritis in check. 11/5 – Mary Poppins’ Practically Perfect Piercing said he could use a prayer or two. He has a pain in her head which, it seems, is occipital neuralgia. It’s not fatal, thank heavens, but is painful until a proper treatment course is settled upon. Many thanks.
11/12 Update – Pronouns corrected above. 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! 11/7 – BarelyScaryMary requested prayers for a friend, RJ, who is having heart issues. She will likely get stents or a bypass soon. Prayers are needed for RJ’s recovery, and also that she is able and willing to make the lifestyle changes necessary for her health.
11/13 Update – Stents were not an option for RJ, so she needs a bypass. She is waiting for the surgery to be scheduled. She is apprehensive about the surgery and recovery. Prayers are also needed for BarelyScaryMary’s dad, who is also having heart problems. Her mom could use prayers, too, as she is watching her husband of 60 years decline. 11/8 – Dash my lace wings had an urgent request for prayers for a co-worker and friend who is hospitalized with sepsis. It is extremely resistant to antibiotics and has attached to the artificial heart valve she got less than a year ago. Her situation is tenuous.
11/15 Update – The co-worker is healing. She was released from the hospital and is on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. Thank you for your prayers. We nearly lost her. 11/8 – Farmer Bob asked for prayers for his Uncle Richard’s MIL who passed away on 11/7, and for Richard’s wife Linda. Linda’s putting on a brave face and it was not unexpected, but it’s hard to lose your mother. 11/14 – Halfhand requested prayers for a sister whose husband recently passed away unexpectedly in his sleep. They had just upended their lives to move from California to Tennessee; now she is all alone. 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. 11/15 – 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. 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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Posted by: Marcus T at November 22, 2025 08:03 AM (PrPHk)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 08:04 AM (+qU29)
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Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 08:09 AM (vFG9F)
Given that its approximately 2-5 mg/L per cup (adjust for body weight and time) it would take hundreds of milligrams (way far more than anyone would drink in coffee) to show up in a toxicology report.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Mick at November 22, 2025 08:11 AM (HFx9z)
Psalm 55:16
May the blessings of our Lord and Savior be upon all who need Him.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 22, 2025 08:13 AM (PrPHk)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 22, 2025 08:13 AM (2NHgQ)
And tomorrow is platelet donation at the Red Cross.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 08:14 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 22, 2025 08:14 AM (PrPHk)
Posted by: Always A Good Thing at November 22, 2025 08:14 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)
Prayers said for all on the list, and some others who are always in my prayers.
Hiya, JT!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 22, 2025 08:16 AM (h7ZuX)
Rule #2 seems a bit strict. You've met a lot of us. What makes you think we're capable of nice or kind?
Posted by: Doof at November 22, 2025 08:16 AM (QMAsf)
Happy Birthday to me!
Posted by: Rosasharn at November 22, 2025 08:09 AM (PzBTm)
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Wot, no twirling?
Happy birfday! You and JJ.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 08:17 AM (tgvbd)
Good morning. Community coffee 50/50 blend of dark roast and chicory. Good for ails ya.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 22, 2025 08:17 AM (QVmho)
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Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 22, 2025 08:17 AM (2NHgQ)
happy birthday 🎂
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 08:19 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 22, 2025 08:19 AM (XvL8K)
Move over, Obama. Your lies about Obamacare have been eclipsed by Google's AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat's statements on expanding server capacity.
I wonder if Amin Vahdat's statement was informed by Google's own AI. How does it account for the fact that US can never generate enough electricity to power even the less optimistic growth demands of datacenters?
Clearly, AI is going to China. There is zero doubt in my mind that the US and Europe has self-gassed themselves into obsolescence and third world status. Basically a welfare state with a large military.
Its physics. Dialing back expectations of the entire industry is the only reasonable course - I'm assuming that the hype is mainly just to attract retail investors into throwing their money into the burn pile so that the ground floor investors won't lose their pile.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 08:19 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: 1822 Was A Long Time Ago at November 22, 2025 08:22 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Being from KY, that is kind of expected. One would think that the report would be adjusted for regional variances.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 08:22 AM (a4flb)
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Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 08:23 AM (u73oe)
I question whether folks really love Classical Music. If so, why has no one-in over 200 years-not finished Schubert's Unfinished Symphony No. 8 for him. Seems to me it's just the neighborly thing to do. If my neighbor's lawn mower blew up with just a little patch of his lawn left, I would surely finish it up for him.
Posted by: 1822 Was A Long Time Ago at November 22, 2025 08:22 AM (oftw2)
There are a good many completions of the Unfinished. Among the most notable is by Brian Newbould, recorded by Jo Ann Falletta and Sir Neville Marriner.
https://tinyurl.com/3jjuyjdz
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 08:25 AM (tgvbd)
The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 08:26 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Baton Down The Hatches! at November 22, 2025 08:26 AM (oftw2)
Of course. All for the glory of God. May He bless you all and answer your prayers.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 22, 2025 08:26 AM (mwv1/)
Good to see MisHum loosening the overly strict rules here!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 22, 2025 08:27 AM (hOUT3)
Makes my day.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 22, 2025 08:27 AM (UJMvS)
Glad you've retained your sense of humor despite the troubles and weight loss. Continued prayers.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 08:27 AM (Yl2Ob)
https://tinyurl.com/mrvp4zpp
Posted by: Marcus T at November 22, 2025 08:28 AM (mwv1/)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 08:23 AM (u73oe)
*snort
Great to hear of your continuing recovery, Duke Lowell.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 22, 2025 08:28 AM (h7ZuX)
I ask the intercession of Blessed Karl of Austria for grammie in every Rosary. Maybe he's listening.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 08:28 AM (tgvbd)
I read an update that grammie's treatment's have been very effective and that remission is now the prognosis.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 08:29 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)
Could I run with a dull object? Could I just run by myself. I'm feeling rather dull at the moment. Too little sleep.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 08:30 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Duke Lowell"
When you start chasing imaginary butterflies it's time to back off.
Posted by: AI cat feeder at November 22, 2025 08:30 AM (vFG9F)
Move over, Obama. Your lies about Obamacare have been eclipsed by Google's AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat's statements on expanding server capacity.
I wonder if Amin Vahdat's statement was informed by Google's own AI. How does it account for the fact that US can never generate enough electricity to power even the less optimistic growth demands of datacenters?
Clearly, AI is going to China. There is zero doubt in my mind that the US and Europe has self-gassed themselves into obsolescence and third world status. Basically a welfare state with a large military.
Its physics. Dialing back expectations of the entire industry is the only reasonable course - I'm assuming that the hype is mainly just to attract retail investors into throwing their money into the burn pile so that the ground floor investors won't lose their pile.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 08:19 AM (a4flb)
That's my take. Amin Vahdat (pronounced "asshat") must be getting high on his own supply.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 22, 2025 08:30 AM (wVcYX)
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 November 22, 2025 08:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 08:31 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: PabloD at November 22, 2025 08:32 AM (2RzNJ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 22, 2025 08:32 AM (Cjt/F)
Prayers up for those that know they need them but have not asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don’t know it yet; and
Prayers up for those who pray alone, asking for help in silence, and whose prayers are known but to God!
Prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have decided that the 10% graft and power are far more desirable than honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways and repent before it is too late for all of us!
And lastly, prayers up for our President Trump, 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!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 22, 2025 08:33 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: See post number 13 at November 22, 2025 08:33 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 22, 2025 08:33 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
Sounds like you're in the market for some Lava Lamps and wall-ceiling tapestries. And sitar music.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 22, 2025 08:34 AM (wVcYX)
https://tinyurl.com/3jjuyjdz
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Jo Ann Falletta was a "local" girl around here for nearly 30 years.. I've seen her conduct Virginia Symphony about a dozen times.
Posted by: Long May She Wave at November 22, 2025 08:34 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 22, 2025 08:34 AM (mwv1/)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 08:23 AM (u73oe)
cool keep on truckin
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 08:35 AM (gbOdA)
Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 08:35 AM (Yl2Ob)
Now: Say, anyone know where we keep the marshmallow fluff?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 08:35 AM (u73oe)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 08:23 AM (u73oe)
Far Out Man! I Can Dig It!
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at November 22, 2025 08:36 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 22, 2025 08:36 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 08:19 AM (a4flb)
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And there it will die, because the CCP is now eating its own tail. The recent Party Congress decreed that markets had failed and the state needed to take a more active role in planning the economy.
When does the new dynasty begin?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 08:36 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 08:19 AM (a4flb)
Hey we're programmers and conmen, not physicists!
If every house can have two computers running 24/7, why can't every acre have two datacenters running 24/7?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 22, 2025 08:37 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 08:38 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 22, 2025 08:39 AM (fOsTv)
Now: Say, anyone know where we keep the marshmallow fluff?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 08:35 AM (u73oe)
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My wife had used medibles for a while, and they did lower body inflammation and improve sleep for a while (she took them at bedtime) but some weeks ago, she got the munchies and ate things on the forbidden list and was in the ER the next day due to icky things I won't mention here.
She got antibiotics, that cleared up things but opened the door to worse things, and now we're awash in appointments.
Stay off drugs, kids!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 08:39 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 08:40 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 22, 2025 08:39 AM (fOsTv)
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Yes, and it’s groovy, man!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 08:40 AM (u73oe)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 22, 2025 08:34 AM (wVcYX)
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Bead curtains. Green shag carpet thick enough hide children.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)
I've keeping the Horde Utd on the trial of the trooper in my home .
city
Also about what leftists I know on Facebook are saying . The left is all over the place of Trump's meeting with Mamdani. From "Trump caved" to "Mamdani sold out" it's a lot of fun
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 08:41 AM (bfwj/)
Could I run with a dull object? Could I just run by myself. I'm feeling rather dull at the moment. Too little sleep.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 08:30 AM (Yl2Ob)
Just remember prayers may not be forthcoming for running with anything
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 22, 2025 08:41 AM (fOsTv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 08:41 AM (guLpK)
25 I question whether folks really love Classical Music. If so, why has no one-in over 200 years-not finished?
So you didn’t like Shave and a Haircut, two bits?
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 08:43 AM (/ZNPI)
Damn.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 22, 2025 08:44 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 08:41 AM (bfwj/)
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Schroedinger's sellout.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Happy birthday.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 22, 2025 08:47 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 08:48 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 08:48 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Ian S. at November 22, 2025 08:49 AM (aUxYo)
Posted by: Ian S.
Why it is almost like maybe, just maybe, the laws of nature do apply to them!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 22, 2025 08:52 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)
My coffee this morning, again, is the Cafe El Morro espresso blend that Aldi sells. It's $3.25 in my neck of the woods for 8.8 oz., so $7.50 for a bit more than a pound. A much better deal than the $12 per 8-12 oz. for bigger names, or specialty blends like the ones at World Market.
I smoked a pipe as well, half of it before breakfast and half after. Now, shaved and dressed, I have about forty minutes before I have to head out for haircut and a library visit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 08:53 AM (wzUl9)
God > Tod.
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 08:55 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 08:55 AM (W7XSX)
I’m kinda glad Schubert didn’t finish it. I love most of the guy’s stuff, but, honestly, the Eighth is pretty boring, and goes on far too long as it is.
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)
Try the Ninth, when they take all the repeats. It goes on, and on, and on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
For $6 cash I'll record anything you want me to, up to and including how much my cats eat each week.
Well. *Almost* anything. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 08:56 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 08:57 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 08:55 AM (W7XSX)
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For a period during middle school, people used "Tod" in place of God when cursing. "What in the name of Tod is that?" Tod was a popular kid, and wore it well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 08:58 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 08:41 AM (bfwj/)
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Schroedinger's sellout.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)
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Heh. Well said.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 22, 2025 08:58 AM (fkCfm)
Posted by: Ian S. at November 22, 2025 08:49 AM (aUxYo)
Always use a licensed electrician for the electrical stuff.
Posted by: Paco Jimenez, Illegal Invader and Home Repair Truck Owner at November 22, 2025 08:58 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 08:57 AM (ZOv7s)
OK, that's kind of funny.
*adds Toddammit to vocabulary
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 22, 2025 08:59 AM (h7ZuX)
The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.
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This one always lifted my spirits. Mainly because when we heard that, we knew the sermon was over (finally!) and we could go home.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 22, 2025 09:00 AM (Hm2SV)
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Don't mess with mother nature?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 09:00 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 08:57 AM (W7XSX)
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A friend of mine is dealing with his mother's health issues, and it is exhausting him. This seems to be the final phase - it's hard to reach him, but last I heard, she was refusing to eat or drink.
In situations like that, death is a release for everyone. Her husband died a few years ago, and maybe that's part of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 22, 2025 08:59 AM (h7ZuX)
Goes good with Mother Hubbard!
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 09:00 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 09:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: John 5:6 at November 22, 2025 09:02 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 09:02 AM (3uBP9)
When does the new dynasty begin?
Sounds like AI is self-correcting.
I was all excited that AI would be a glorified search engine, where if I came up with the right prompts would get useful results. It seems that it gets its training like college students today - from completely failed and irresponsible sources.
So AI isn't reliable, it can't be fed good energy, good data or good algorithms; because of the high duty cycles, the equipment failure rate requires high frequency replacement; no one wants to have a DC in their neighborhood, nor compete with the DC for land, energy and water, but if a DC gets past all of those barriers, then it has to be staffed by anyone other than foreigners - oh, and we need billions of dollars and contract commitments in order to fund it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025
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I miss certain things about junior high school. Summer vacation, and . . . actually, that's about it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 09:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 09:04 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)
Anton Bruckner would like word with you.
Posted by: dantesed at November 22, 2025 09:04 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 09:06 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
I have no idea why Trump would meet with.
He hasn't hosted the Mayor of Bowling Green yet has he?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 22, 2025 09:06 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 22, 2025 09:07 AM (5jRcY)
Posted by: Paco Jimenez, Illegal
Eh, backwoods Brazilian s are much cheaper.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 22, 2025 09:08 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 22, 2025 09:08 AM (Hm2SV)
"Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.
Posted by: Mark 10:18 at November 22, 2025 09:08 AM (XQo4F)
Anton Bruckner would like word with you.
Posted by: dantesed at November 22, 2025 09:04 AM (Oy/m2)
There's more than a little similarity between the two. Though I often think Bruckner is taken way too slowly. Little would be lost if played with more urgency.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 09:09 AM (tgvbd)
He hasn't hosted the Mayor of Bowling Green yet has he?
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The mayor of NYC is the de facto governor of NY state, or near enough. Mr. Trump is a native of NYC as well, he does have personal interest and connection to the place.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 22, 2025 09:10 AM (Hm2SV)
Posted by: Common Tater at
The "thanks be to God" that comes after "the Mass is ended, go in peace" is by far the most heartfelt "thanks be to God".
Posted by: From about That Time at November 22, 2025 09:11 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: dantesed at November 22, 2025 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)
He hasn't hosted the Mayor of Bowling Green yet has he?
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We're sitting right here.
Posted by: The mayors of Pensacola, Pocatello, and Las Cruces at November 22, 2025 09:12 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
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It isn't really anything more than a chatbot wired to a search engine. Slight changes in phrasing produce dramatically different results and of course there's the garbage-in, garbage-out problem that is only exacerbated by woke culture and punitive liberalism. The CCP lives in an ideological straitjacket, so will never allow inconvenient facts to pollute the answers.
Seems like just another tech bubble.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Common Tater at
The "thanks be to God" that comes after "the Mass is ended, go in peace" is by far the most heartfelt "thanks be to God".
Posted by: From about That Time at November 22, 2025 09:11 AM (sl73Y)
Being a Southern Baptist when I was a kid I knew services were almost over when they invited people who wanted to be saved to walk to the front to declare they wanted to accept Christ in their life.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 09:14 AM (KDPiq)
"Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.
This is my chief complaint about the over-reliance on AI.
In my mind it should be an augmentation to our thinking. As a person with ADHD, I accomplish far more by directing minions/agents to do the linear thinking while I perform the non-linear thinking and delegate the mundane, templatized tasks.
While there are people who thrive on repetition and implementing well thought out tasks, there are not enough of them (ergo H1Bs).
While in the Tech Thread, a commentor reported that Grok was able to perform complex maths, AI doesn't have and never will have Wisdom for Wisdom is of divine origin and the spirit world doesn't inhabit silicon.
Since AI can not value nor recognize Truth, it will forever be handicapped and be like fire - useful only when contained by those with wisdom and discernment.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:16 AM (a4flb)
Liam Neeson has recorded the Rosary, so you can say it with him, which would be pretty cool.
The demons seem to be losing their grip.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Yeah, but you didn't know how many verses of "Just As I Am" the congregation was supposed to chant until the last possible convert could be motivated to come forward.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:18 AM (a4flb)
Earlier this week, a friend told me of a young teen girl named Jasmine, who is struggling from the effects of awful abuse that, praise God, ended about five years ago. She is currently living with a stepfather who recently remarried. The family loves her, but Jasmine remains withdrawn.
Recently, she asked an uncle if life gets harder. This was the first time she ever spoke to him. Everyone recognizes this as a warning sign and a cry for help. They will be together for Thanksgiving. Pray for wisdom and a straight path in finding a resource for Jasmine's healing.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 22, 2025 09:18 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
My understanding is there are two modes of AI tech. The one criticized here is the weak or ML or any number of names given to it. The other is much more complex and referred to as Strong AI or DL ( Deep Learning) .
I belive someone yesterday referred to one mode as Definitive.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 09:19 AM (KDPiq)
The principle holds anyhow. Why isn’t AI rigorous enough to use only proven factual sources, instead of some smart aleck who suggested Elmer’s Glue to keep cheese from sliding off Pizza? This happened, and the AI program dutifully suggested this after scraping it from a discussion forum. Sarcasm is difficult to detect for computers. (Some humans seem incapable as well)
It did helpfully allow that Elmer’s glue is “Non-Toxic”. Recipes you can use!
Posted by: Common Tater at November 22, 2025 09:19 AM (Hm2SV)
Seems like just another tech bubble.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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There is a bit more to it than that. But yes,it is a bubble right now, but there are some useful things going on as well as not so useful things.
Machine learning aka pattern recognition works decently when the particular training datasets and the model is focused on a particular field that can be summarized by 'tokens' and probability. I think it can work decently on for example summarizing a massive law, a body of literature, etc.
There could be some errors when someone familiar with the field notices it but it works okay if you are willing to tolerate 10 percent crap and 90 percent useful in these cases. It does not work for the ignorant very well or the lazy but as a first draft it is fine. Something similar with coding
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:20 AM (WDjG6)
The demons are far more obvious now as those that they possess in Babylon DC and elsewhere show absolutely no restraint at all in letting the spirits within them speak.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:20 AM (a4flb)
Prayers up for all of God's children today. We all need them.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 22, 2025 09:21 AM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Tracey Lochner wearing a see-through, sheer blouse to school in 8th grade was a highlight. She got sent home quickly.
Posted by: Two Highlights, Actually at November 22, 2025 09:21 AM (oftw2)
^^^ THIS ^^^
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:21 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 09:14 AM (KDPiq)
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One of the things my wife (raised Southern Baptist) likes about the Church is the structure of the Mass. You always know exactly where you are, and can anticipate what is happening next, so the only uncertainty is the length of the homily, which can only vary so much.
Tomorrow they are holding a candlelight Mass in the evening and we will be attending. It's at the student location and very well attended. Lots of young people showing up.
My wife has observed that the number of women wearing veils is increasing, and it's all younger folks. She was at a senior Mass (all Boomers) and she was the only one wearinng one. I think a lot of the drama over TLM is Boomers with axes to grind about the old days. At the same time, I have an uncle who broke from the Church over Vatican II and is now agnostic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 22, 2025 09:23 AM (Hm2SV)
The demons seem to be losing their grip.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Didn't he convert to Islam a while back? Makes me distrustful of the whole app now.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 22, 2025 09:23 AM (h7ZuX)
Hopefully, some of those assholes were in it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 22, 2025 09:24 AM (LjSYW)
Monday ( I think it was) was doing daily suduko and grabbed Melatonin instead of one of the others and chewed it up.
Then realized it was the Melatonin.
Seemingly got through the day
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 09:24 AM (+qU29)
It did helpfully allow that Elmer’s glue is “Non-Toxic”. Recipes you can use!
Posted by: Common Tater
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Source reliability is where you start to get the problems with an algorithm--are conservative sites 'reliable' (leftist rating companies cheerfully tell AI companies NO! for example). Basically AI is like a precocious kid that reads a lot but has no experience in the real world so what the kid tells you depends on what books it read. A human professional in a field has to look over the work who can tell what is missing, what is fake, and what is a gray area. AI today has no such filters other than human corrections (if they take those into account when conducting queries--part of which is why those are 'free' so far for some. They want unpaid work to correct their models.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:25 AM (WDjG6)
Unless Tracey failed a lot, a 13 year old generally doesn't have control of a credit card or have an independent income stream.
That means that a parent thought it was perfectly fine to buy that blouse for Tracey and to let her leave the house that morning wearing it.
But what is also disturbing is the whole supply chain, from designer, manufacturer, merchandiser, purchaser and manager of the store who thought it would be a good selling product targeting children.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:25 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:18 AM (a4flb)
I went to a very large church with my friend’s parents. My parents were God loving Christian but didn’t attend any church and encouraged me to make my own decisions.
When I publicly accepted Christ ( I had already done it personally long before) it was hard for a kid to walk in front of hundreds of people with all eyes on you. It took me a good while before I just sucked it up and did it.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 09:26 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 22, 2025 09:18 AM (nbLIj)
Done, and I will keep her in my prayers.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 22, 2025 09:26 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 09:27 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 09:27 AM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 22, 2025 09:27 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 09:28 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Oddbob
You got it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 22, 2025 09:30 AM (LjSYW)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:20 AM (a4flb)
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It was interesting when Trump began posting Marian devotions and Catholic prayers on his social media account last year to see how many people lost their minds over it.
I think that in turn caused a lot of reluctant Catholics to finally ignore the bishops and take a chance on Trump, because whatever his flaws, he was going to stop Biden's persecution of the Church.
The US Bishops have beclowned themselves on immigration (yet again) but this time we have a Pope willing to offer clarification and correction: Nations may set borders and enforce them. Open borders are right out.
I think the key to Pope Leo is that he values tradition and continuity, and so he will not repudiate anything his predecessor did, but he will change it. Thus, Traditiones Custodes will not be rescinded, but he will make blanket dispensations to the point where it becomes a dead letter.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)
How else could we have banjos and belly-dancers in the Church if it wasn't for the "wisdom" of Vatican II?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:30 AM (a4flb)
I understand there are lot of jobs in construction in Charlotte available.
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 09:31 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 09:27 AM (/ZNPI)
Good to know, thanks.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 22, 2025 09:31 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Ian S. at November 22, 2025 08:49 AM (aUxYo)
No doubt they will blame the fire on.....
Climate Change.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 22, 2025 09:31 AM (SRRAx)
I hope that you are correct.
His personnel decisions have left me unimpressed.
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 09:32 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Lars at November 22, 2025 09:32 AM (kJH1Z)
Posted by: the way I see it
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First, there is no AGI-aka Artificial General Intelligence yet which would be 'conscious'. Such a computer would be "Mike" in the Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein. Most of what we consider AI is pattern recognition which relies on probability distributions of 'tokens'. The 'tokens' vary by field--visual--it would be a 'pixel', a 'color', etc. Sound, it would a 'frequency', a 'note', a 'word (if lyrics)', a 'rhyme'. Note that all of these can work on a probability function to predict for example the color of a pixel next to a green one in the abstract AI command of "make me a tree in summer". Or make me a country song (Billy Joel once pissed off people by noting country songs are relatively simple melodically and lyrically). That uses a 'chord or note' and figures out probability wise using previous songs what the next pleasing 'chord or note' will be. Ditto with lyrics (rhyming dictionaries anyone?).
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:33 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Tracey Lochner's mammary glands today at November 22, 2025 09:36 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 09:28 AM (3nLb4)
I've walked that valley more than once. May God deliver for you as He did for me, times ten..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 22, 2025 09:36 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I don't think you can find one in ten Catholics who can explain Vatican II. I know I can't. If it was meant to re-invigorate the Church, it signally failed.
The Novus Ordo Mass was established separately but contemporaneously. For most Catholics, me included, Mass is the only contact we have with the institutional Church. And this shoddy, shambling show gets associated with Vatican II. Have a Mass that's not serious and you'll take the rest of the Church teachings not seriously.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 09:37 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:25 AM (WDjG6)
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My parents chafed under what they thought were oppressive parents, so they did not put up any guardrails for my reading, which exposed me to a lot of things I did not have the capability to understand. My wife had guardrails, but jumped them.
As parents, we put these firmly in place, and our kids seem much better off than we were. I think one of the reasons it took so long for me to truly come to God was that I had so much poison in my brain, and was incapable of identifying it.
This dovetails with the girl and the sheer shirt. She didn't buy it, someone else did. (I'm not going to blame the manufacturer, it could have been for a petite adult.)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Lars at November 22, 2025 09:32 AM (kJH1Z)
Sad to say that HA ran a piece yesterday saying “if you live in Chicago, Move Out ASAP!!” The piece made the case quite eloquently and convincingly.
It’s always extremely hard to move and abandon an old life - but you’re essentially a Jew in 1936 Berlin now. A lot of them thought it was too hard to move, also.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 09:39 AM (/ZNPI)
Where it would fall flat would be an analysis of a war between the US and China in 2028. It could give analysis (but those probabilities themselves would be based on human analysis thus fallible), it would run the same risk that human analysis does because what is an unknown factor is still unknown, and so on. Some like VDH could give analysis based on whatever data existed along with experience of previous conflict analysis but a machine would be dependent on low confidence probabilities and likely to go astray without expert human correction. So in complex situations, AI can be a helper to humans with expert knowledge but not an independent expert itself.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:39 AM (WDjG6)
His personnel decisions have left me unimpressed.
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 09:32 AM (W7XSX)
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Again, he values continuity so he is not deviating from Francis' preferences. The appointments he has made that were a clean slate (his choice alone) are doctrinally very orthodox.
I think this is a conscious decision to create true unity rathe than kick off a cycle of punitive swings. If you dislike how Francis operated, becoming his mirror image is not a good response.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 09:40 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Islamoradon't at November 22, 2025 09:40 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 09:28 AM (3nLb4)
Prayers for you and your family.
Posted by: Lars at November 22, 2025 09:41 AM (kJH1Z)
This dovetails with the girl and the sheer shirt. She didn't buy it, someone else did. (I'm not going to blame the manufacturer, it could have been for a petite adult.)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Sounds reasonable. I think one of the reasons that some parents of old were so strict is that the world was not forgiving to fools prior to modernization and the modern welfare state.
Mistakes often killed people, bad personal choices led to ruin without redemption (broke often meant starvation or worse), and so on.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:42 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Frank Costanza at November 22, 2025 09:42 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 09:43 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 09:37 AM (tgvbd)
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Done well, it is quite good. Scott Hahn completed his conversion because he went to Mass and saw what he had been craving.
The problem is that it is often not done well, and it lends itself to guitars and bongos. The candlelight Masses are quite moving and include a nice use of Latin.
Honestly, the Latin setting of the Novus Ordo would be pretty cool. I bet the college kids would eat it up.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Prayers. May you find a new job swiftly.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:43 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 09:44 AM (cYBz/)
I haven't played with generative AI, but lets stipulate that AI is based on the most recent, probabilistic sequence in a pattern.
Could AI generate Post-Modern graphical art, architecture, poetry or music? It would seem that PoMo capitalizes on a pastiche of artistic elements, in a way preferring the discordant or ironic pairings that intentionally defies traditional and orderly patterns.
That is why PoMo anything is ugly, unpleasant and disturbing.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:45 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 22, 2025 09:46 AM (XvL8K)
I'll bet there's a version where Neeson uses his 'Taken' voice. That would be epic.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 09:47 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 09:45 AM
Stay in your lane, pal.
Posted by: Nekkid lardass sitting on an ottoman at November 22, 2025 09:48 AM (XQo4F)
God has a particular set of skills?
Posted by: Ian S. at November 22, 2025 09:49 AM (OyOhQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 09:50 AM (bnOop)
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:42 AM (WDjG6)
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Their parents knew a time before antibiotics when minor injuries could kill you. They lived through war, economic devastation and pestilence. Their kids grew up in relative peace and unprecedented prosperity, and they deeply resented the silly walls put up around them, and dedicated their lives to tearing them down.
This is why there is a bit of generational warfare, because their children are now at a point where they have enough life experience to compare their decisions with their parents' as well as their grandparents' and it isn't a good look.
It's not a spoiled kid demanding more treats (which is what is usually claimed) but parents realizing just how messed up their own childhood was in terms of morals, boundaries and rampant divorce saying "What were you thinking?! You had paradise and threw it away! Your parents sacrificed for you and you spit on them, hating everything they stood for!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 09:50 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 09:47 AM (cYBz/)
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He should read Revelation in that voice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
There's more than a few parallels to Eve here.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 09:52 AM (cYBz/)
Do, a deer, a female deer
Fa, a long, long way to run
AI can never replace the divine spark of God.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 09:53 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 09:42 AM (WDjG6)
I’ve been thinking along these lines lately, but in terms of cities and nations. We’ve witnessed a great worldwide boom time since WW2 ended (for us, all of our lifetimes) and most don’t realize that’s now over, at least for some, not all. Nations are no longer going to be insulated from the cost of their bad decisions, and neither will cities. Detroit, for example, has already died, and although it’s recovered a bit, it will never be more than a shadow of what it once was. Many American cities are headed down the same path.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 09:53 AM (/ZNPI)
Computers can do randomness. Well, pseudo-randomness anyway which is close enough for most purposes.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 09:53 AM (3nLb4)
This right here is how the Game of Internetz is played.
Not a thing to actually get Neeson off the hook, but we have now netted Newsome into the Muslim conspiracy. Oh, well spun.
A Great Darkness is being thrown.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 09:53 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Lars at November 22, 2025 09:32 AM (kJH1Z)
I don't know what options you have, but this may be a sign that you need to take one of them.
We miss the mountains, but we are soooo glad to have left Colorado when we did. We still have family there, but we wish we could visit them without going to Colorado.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 22, 2025 09:54 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Prayers for you and your family.
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 22, 2025 09:54 AM (T52c5)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 09:40 AM (NwnyJ)
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Some of that may have been the onset of puberty combined with parents not really willing to accept it and take appropriate steps.
Some girls, uncomfortable with the changes, also resist accepting them. Others immediately adopt the bra.
The ones to watch out for were the college chicks letting the puppies roam freely.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)
They're also getting darker blue every day as a result of it, at the precise moment the Left is shifting gears into full totalitarianism.
These are not places you want to be in as all this develops. Cut and run if it's at all possible for you to get out. Don't be caught there when the lights go out.
Posted by: Islamoradon't at November 22, 2025 09:56 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
Praise God for grammie's progress and hope!
Duke Lowell, so glad you are recovering. Might I suggest modeling your new wardrobe at the next MoMe for Piper to critique?
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 22, 2025 09:58 AM (T52c5)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 09:01 AM
The last couple of jobs have required drug tests, I think because the agency I was working for required the one a couple of years ago and the HR company that my current employer uses required the other. It doesn't matter because caffeine is my mood altering substance of choice, although less now than it used to be.
I know a fellow that drank so much coffee that his employer invoked their substance abuse policy on him so he could get help.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 09:58 AM (VmDLh)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and
I have to go to Denver a couple times a year for work. I bitterly resent it every time, but it is a great reminder of what I left behind, and it's worse every time than the last, and it fills me with gratitude every time I board an aircraft to come home.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 22, 2025 10:00 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 22, 2025 10:00 AM (bss/y)
Then again, she might have known exactly what she was doing, but wore a sweater or coat over it before appearing in front of Mom and Dad at the breakfast table.
A LOT of girls that age will wear one thing when leaving the house while carrying something in their backpack that they know the parental units will not approve of to change into once they get to school.
Especially if they have a test early in the school day that they haven't studied for, or an assignment due which they didn't complete.
Ask me how I know....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 22, 2025 10:00 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 09:52 AM (cYBz/)
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Over the past few years I've really gotten to know my father, who was always very reserved. He's now happy to talk about everything, it he still carries a grudge about the time his mother found and threw away his Playboy that he bought with his own money.
I think he expected me to sympathize since I was known to peruse the magazine due to his subscription, but I said I agreed with her. "It's your money, but it was her house, and she controls what goes into it. If my kids bring smut into the house, I'm throwing it out, too!"
I think he felt his parents' faith was smothering, constraining him. What he didn't understand was that having no constraints is much, much worse. Where are the lines? What is permitted? How do I know what is right and what is not?
There was an article in a recent issue of First Things touching on the cruelty of "letting" (actually *making*) children build their own moral framework from scratch while they're growing up.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)
The worst fate of all is for no one to lift a finger while the nation just grinds down into a total collapse, as happened to the USSR. The three nations I named are all on that glide path now, and I believe each of them has now crossed a point of no return - collapse is now inevitable for each of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 10:01 AM (/ZNPI)
A thought experiment:
Billy Graham popularized something in the 1950s that was called "ecumenical evangelism" which was to bring in Roman Catholics into the Wild West of Evangelicalism under the premise that the unchurched could be manipulated into The Kingdom if the right words and emotional atmosphere was present in large crowds.
The Catholic clergy and lay leaders saw the remarkable success in the numbers coming forward and saw that people were more interested in Big Box's Wham Bam Jesus Jam (that and Boomer/Hippie movement to syncretize sexualized secularism into the Church) that the competition required a reaction
And that is how Vatican II began: Aggiornamento meant "keeping up with the Big Box Joneses"
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:02 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
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And behold, I saw a pale horse. And his name that sat upon him was Death and he had a particular set of skills…
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 22, 2025 10:03 AM (u73oe)
I didn't realize it until much later, and maybe they didn't either, that deep down, they wanted me to say no and explicitly provide direction or structure.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 10:05 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Chesterton's Orthodoxy touches on this a bit in parts.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 10:06 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 10:08 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 09:58 AM (VmDLh)
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One of the joys of being a junior NCO was that you were now qualified to be a monitor for Operation Golden Flow, aka the Wiz Quiz.
This also meant one had to become something of a Piss Whisperer since many men cannot relieve themselves under observation. I know, shocking for anyone who his written his name in the snow, but it's a thing. Flushing toilets, keeping a light stream of water flowing in the sink and - at last resort - describing waterfalls, bubbling streams, gushing rivers in full flood - were enough to induce most sufferers to fill the damn jar and let me get to back to work.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 10:09 AM (ZOv7s)
This Chesterton dude has some interesting ideas. Does he have a podcast I can subscribe to?
-- Based Millenials.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 10:09 AM (3nLb4)
This year I'm going full hobbit and having First Thanksgiving (today) and Second Thanksgiving (Thursday).
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at November 22, 2025 10:09 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)
You betchya I watched out for them.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 10:10 AM (g8Ew8)
It is inevitable. Human Nature. The US is doomed to the exact same fate. It is inescapable outside of the mother of all Great Revivals.
The American Experiment demands a self-regulating, faith based population. And by faith, I'm talking the One True Faith of Christianity.
When the inevitable occurs, the US doesn't just disappear, the smoldering ruins and the miserable population (to some degree) still remain, it just forms into warring factions led by charismatic war lords - as has ALL civilizations has been doing.
The US CAN NOT continue as a Constitutional Republic because it doesn't have a sustainable saturation of morally sufficient citizens to override the demonic impulses of the general population.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:10 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 10:05 AM (cYBz/)
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Kids continually test boundaries as they grow up, and they unconsciously want them confirmed. The harder they push, the more they need reassurance. It was interesting when my eldest reached the point where she understood what was going on and flipped from being the ringleader of rebellion to my chief enforcer, to the utter amazement of her sisters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
This is why there is a bit of generational warfare, because their children are now at a point where they have enough life experience to compare their decisions with their parents' as well as their grandparents' and it isn't a good look.
It's not a spoiled kid demanding more treats (which is what is usually claimed) but parents realizing just how messed up their own childhood was in terms of morals, boundaries and rampant divorce saying "What were you thinking?! You had paradise and threw it away! Your parents sacrificed for you and you spit on them, hating everything they stood for!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I think that is a very fair reading of the issues.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 10:13 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 22, 2025 10:13 AM (u82oZ)
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Found myself in Shreveport, Louisiana recently (in search of Cajun food) as part of my pilgrimage to Corsicana.
Wow. Pottersville. Casinos and strip clubs and no free public parking.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 10:14 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 10:10 AM (g8Ew
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Picture a young blonde with a perky rack confined only by the thin fabric of an undersized red t-shirt with the word "TURGID" printed on the front.
Right out of Dan Jenkins, but it really happened.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:10 AM (a4flb)
I would argue the demonic impulses aren't coming from the general poopulation, but from the so-called leaders in multiple fields, who abdicated the responsibilities, who manipulated for their own ends, who have so corrupted themselves that it inevitably infects the weaker and more vulnerable people, who would otherwise just go about living "normal" lives.
We are doomed, because the power of man, as it always does, corrupts. From the top down.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:15 AM (S7UOD)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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History of archaeology shows us that cities (and nations themselves) rise and then fall and sometimes rise again if the external factors that led it to rise in the first place are still there. We have no reason to assume that our current modern era is an exception to the rule.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 10:15 AM (WDjG6)
One of the greatest pieces of advice I was granted:
"A man lives in his wife's house."
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:15 AM (a4flb)
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I'm Christian, but I think that statement is bullshit.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 10:15 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 22, 2025 10:16 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 10:16 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 10:05 AM (cYBz/)
I try not to yell at my kids much, and save that for when it really matters - I don't want it to lose its impact.
But I have noticed with my youngest a certain pattern of behaviors where, when she's doing it, it's because she *wants* to be yelled at. When I see her going down that road, I just pretend to get mad and I yell at her, and she immediately stops whatever it is, pretends to cry for five seconds, apologizes, and then trots off to her toys and starts giggling the moment she thinks I'm not listening.
She's just looking for boundaries and it's comforting for her to find them. I wasn't like that as a kid, so it took me awhile to recognize it, but that seems to be the psychological thing at play with her.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 22, 2025 10:17 AM (BI5O2)
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The uncanny valley says that you are correct. Humans somehow know the artificial without prompting.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 10:18 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 10:18 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Just got here at November 22, 2025 10:19 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Just got here at November 22, 2025 10:19 AM (XQo4F)
Always was
Posted by: Astronaut floating behind you at November 22, 2025 10:21 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 22, 2025 10:22 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 10:18 AM (3uBP9)
Too much water dilutes the sample, and cause the result to be unreliable.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:22 AM (2SL7L)
Posted by: banana Dream
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Have your prostate checked. A prostate sizing (to check for enlargement) is fairly easy to do with ultrasound test. Sometimes then the problem actually can be bladder obstruction etc. The scope inserted up the penis is uncomfortable to check for that but not as horrible as people like to make out. Better than Foley catherization for a long time.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 10:22 AM (WDjG6)
There is a social zeitgeist - that is, a "spirit of the age" and not just the materialist's idea of "spirit", but a prevalent spiritual domination.
Consider that maybe 5% of the population is even aware of the activities of Babylon DC or City Hall, most people can't name but two or three SCOTUS jurists, a very significant portion of the population, for decades could not name the vice president, can't enumerate the branches of government; a majority has never read the Constitution, the DoI or even a paragraph of any Federalist Papers.
That is, the single black mother of 9 kids who twerks for attention in TikTok doesn't get her orders from Babylon DC, she and her cohort work to game the system as it is to exploit and extract the most money as possible. That is it for political involvment. Everything else is rather lizard brained in meeting felt needs.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:22 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 10:18 AM (3uBP9)
Don't.
Low creatinine count will force a retake. Worse, some employers consider it the same as a hot UA, on the assumption you're deliberately diluting the sample to cover up drug use.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 22, 2025 10:23 AM (BI5O2)
Good luck
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 10:23 AM (+qU29)
Reveals again and again
How nature points out the folly of men.
Where 'Godzilla' can represent our hubris.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 10:24 AM (cYBz/)
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I'm Christian, but I think that statement is bullshit.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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How so?
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 22, 2025 10:24 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 10:14 AM (XQo4F)
My wife grew up in Shreveport, and all the old time residents agree that Casinos ruined the city. Oh sure, they brought in jobs and cash - but they brought in that entire casino mindset and society with them. As you say, Pottersville.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 10:26 AM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
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I see that you've been touring Ashburn VA recently!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 22, 2025 10:27 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:22 AM (a4flb)
Who made it possible for them to live a life devoid of meaning? Who provided the "benefits" that allow so many to avoid the toil required to feel a sense of connection to their communities?
A healthy society always has people who are oblivious to the machinations of the political class. It's a luxury, and one that must not be allowed to spread too far, but I would argue, the political class, and their controllers, and sycophantic hangers on, deliberately created the conditions by which larger and larger portions of the poopulation are checked out.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:27 AM (2SL7L)
Why would you think this is any different from any other point in our history?
We romanticize the past as a golden age of knowledge and wisdom when it never was.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 10:28 AM (viF8m)
In what way?
Please explain the Meta Narrative without it, otherwise you are arguing Nihilism with a coping mechanism.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:28 AM (a4flb)
Uh. No. The Freemason Bugnini gutted it.
When you receive Holy Communion in the hand, your faith is the Real Presence is undermined.
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 10:29 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 22, 2025 10:29 AM (ADMGV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 10:31 AM (/ZNPI)
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In what way?
Please explain the Meta Narrative without it, otherwise you are arguing Nihilism with a coping mechanism.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:28 AM (a4flb)
Christian doctrine says salvation is only possible through Jesus Christ.
The question is, is it possible for one who did not accept Jesus in their mortal life, or was never exposed to the Word... is it possible for that person to come to Jesus at the point of death?
Some say yes, some say no. I lean toward the former.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:31 AM (2SL7L)
We romanticize the past as a golden age of knowledge and wisdom when it never was.
Posted by: JackStraw
Within reason. I do think general literacy has declined among the population in lockstep with visual media such as TV and now social media replacing tv. Why Johnny Can't Read series from the Martin Center in NC for higher ed reform indicates this problem has been increasing over time.
TV and social media using visuals or even aural, are not a replacement for reading.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 10:33 AM (IY7PK)
Frustrates the Hell out of me. Pretending that we used to live in a Norman Rockwell print. Never was like that.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at November 22, 2025 10:33 AM (KEmSf)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 22, 2025 10:33 AM (IY7PK)
And also with you.
Posted by: Rejecting the Modern Catholic Foo Foo Language at November 22, 2025 10:34 AM (2SL7L)
Software QA. I used to do software development in The Before Times but my skill set is not current for that now. The hitch is that I am geographically bound to Lincoln, NE.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 10:34 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Beavis at November 22, 2025 10:35 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I think that is a very fair reading of the issues.
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 10:13 AM (WDjG6)
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Great essay on Powerline on this in academia
https://tinyurl.com/2udmbpey
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 10:35 AM (9ipOP)
He hasn't hosted the Mayor of Bowling Green yet has he?
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Just never underestimate PDT...his actions are always for a reason...thinking the socialists/communists are being set up to learn a lesson or two...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 22, 2025 10:35 AM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at November 22, 2025 10:33 AM (KEmSf)
You don't think the substantial drop in religious and moral frameworks has an effect?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:36 AM (2SL7L)
Posted by: Beavis at November 22, 2025 10:35 AM (XQo4F)
I always do.
In some ways, I'm still that dumbass teen sitting on the couch with my friends, watching MTV videos.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:37 AM (2SL7L)
If you see politics become a very important consideration people have strong opinions about and it's a quotidian feature of everyday conversation among the humans, it means the demons are on the loose.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 22, 2025 10:37 AM (BI5O2)
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There are several datacenters in Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) that are not operational because there's insufficient electrical surplus to power them up. They've been idle for months because California cannot divert enough electricity to them without causing massive blackouts elsewhere.
Then, there's the water requirements....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 10:38 AM (NwnyJ)
Undoubtably true. Yet we live in a time when human slavery is a recognized evil and talk about when not if man will walk on Mars.
The number of people who actually fought the Brits and founded this country were a relatively small subset of the population yet most look back on those times and think the entire population of the colonies revolted. People know a lot of things that aren't true.
We few.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)
You get to a certain age, and it's your turn to be the curmudgeon.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 10:39 AM (zdLoL)
Some say yes, some say no. I lean toward the former.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Look at Jesus' when he was on the cross and told the man next to him that, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
he did not know Jesus previously or believe.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 22, 2025 10:39 AM (VCgbV)
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Was there a crash of thunder and a lightning bolt? Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: clarence at November 22, 2025 10:39 AM (GE9Fw)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 10:39 AM (+qU29)
I didn't realize it until much later, and maybe they didn't either, that deep down, they wanted me to say no and explicitly provide direction or structure.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 22, 2025 10:05 AM (cYBz/)
I told our daughters as they got older that if they ever needed me to "be the bad guy" when their friends wanted them to do something they didn't want to, that I was their Huckleberrry.
Imagine my surprise when the eldest was on the phone one day and asked me if she could go somewhere with one of her friends. I casually said sure. Then she said, "Mom, look at me," and asked the question again, loudly enough that her friend could hear, all the while vehemently shaking her head "No".
I realized what she was doing, said " No, no you can't ", and daughter shot me the Thumbs Up sign while telling her friends d, "My Mom says I can't go", smiling at me the whole time. 😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 22, 2025 10:39 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Philosophy nerd at November 22, 2025 10:40 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 22, 2025 10:37 AM (BI5O2)
I have a dear friend, who leans left but not in a strident way, tell me "everything is political."
Which is part of the brainwashing the Education Industrial Complex bashes into the skulls of the gullible. She's been working her way out of it, as life teaches new lessons, but still retains some of the brainwashing.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:40 AM (2SL7L)
Possibly. But none of us were alive at a time when it might have been different on the macro scale. Thats my point. Its 2025. Anyone here born in 1950 would be 75. Not an adult until 1968. By the late 60s ? We were already in the Idiocracy.
So tell me about this magical time when it was all better. Nobody can.
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at November 22, 2025 10:40 AM (KEmSf)
I can't imagine waking up every morning and thinking I'm going to hang out with some nice people and piss them off.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 22, 2025 10:41 AM (sl73Y)
Aliassmithsmith, you sound like a whiny schoolmarm. It was funny. Everyone is laughing at it except you and the press.
And like all funny things, it's true. The press are little piggies and they should stifle their constant squealing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 22, 2025 10:41 AM (BI5O2)
Because the original statement is that the problems with the nation are primarily from poor leadership influencing the population.
You and I agree, that being a cognoscente of the current leadership, while would be useful doesn't change the fact that people are pretty rotten on their own and don't need inspiration from elected government.
People outside of self-regulation and restraint based on immutable transcendent authority often game the system or pursue selfish fulfillments of felt needs.
The only proven suitable transcendent authority just happens to be Christianity. This nation wasn't founded by Mohammedans, Pantheists or Atheists.
For Millennia all peoples of the Earth understood, to some extent spiritual influences over the matters of Men. This materialistic zeitgeist has demolished any connection to spiritual influences and replaces it with pop-psychology and finding a scapegoat that is always someone other than our own selves.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:42 AM (a4flb)
he did not know Jesus previously or believe.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 22, 2025 10:39 AM (VCgbV)
There's a theory that the "point of death" is not subject to the constraints of time.
When we die, our lives are condensed into one ball of experience, and that creates a "moment" where choosing Christ is possible for everyone.
But even there, that "moment" doesn't necessarily mean anything, from our concept of time. It may be instant, it may last eons. Or both. And everything in between. We won't know until we get there.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:43 AM (2SL7L)
I have the Royal Farms app for points. They wanted age verification so they asked 4 multiple choice questions. RF knew, before I started, my previous address, what I drove in 2001 and the state my SSN was issued in.
AI is a surveillance tool. Anything else it does is a smoke screen.
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 10:44 AM (GbONR)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 22, 2025 10:44 AM (UdkHl)
It’s always extremely hard to move and abandon an old life - but you’re essentially a Jew in 1936 Berlin now. A lot of them thought it was too hard to move, also.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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The precise reason, and actual rationale, why we left Los Angeles County....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 22, 2025 10:44 AM (IQ6Gq)
You are pretending that this has never been a topic of discussion by reasonable people.
I think Peak US Culture, with all of its faults and failures is deemed by many to be around 1963 give or take a half decade.
If you are looking for Perfection, you can go to just moments after Adam and Eve said "Hello". AFter that. it was pretty much downhill.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:46 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at November 22, 2025 10:40 AM (KEmSf)
Well, there were measurable, significantly lower crime rates.
Marriages were the source of MOST childbirths. People attended houses of worship at substantially greater numbers.
Communities helped the sick and the poor, rather than waiting for the government to swoop in and provide for the needy.
It wasn't a Garden of Eden, but it was measurably better, in significant ways.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:47 AM (2SL7L)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 22, 2025 10:48 AM (AQh0C)
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I thought the country was founded on Judeo/Christian values. You know, Judeo.....like in Jewish.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 10:48 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 22, 2025 10:48 AM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: whig at November 22, 2025 10:22 AM (WDjG6)
I had a check. Not a great experience. But no problems seen, and the blood test for it also showed no problems.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 10:49 AM (3uBP9)
In what way?
Please explain the Meta Narrative without it, otherwise you are arguing Nihilism with a coping mechanism.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Non-Christian does not mean nihilism. Any religion that posits an afterlife and a code of earthly conduct that affects the form of that afterlife is the opposite of nihilism.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 22, 2025 10:49 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at November 22, 2025 10:40 AM (KEmSf)
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I'll bite: the 1980s. No gay marriage. People could speak their minds. Actual entertainment. Race relations were improving.
The only person who thinks things are okay now, or equivalent to the past were born yesterday or deeply disingenuous.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)
"When the men were men, the women were women, and the chrome was thick."
Posted by: As Michael Savage used to say at November 22, 2025 10:50 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 22, 2025 10:44 AM (UdkHl)
Every person who seeks office does so with at least a touch of narcissism and oversized ego.
I know people want to take swipes at her as she walks away, and that's fine.
I happen to think she was mostly sincere in her beliefs, that she was serving her constituents, and I think it's very possible her spat with Trump hurt her because she was trying to remain a loyal subordinate.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:50 AM (2SL7L)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 10:52 AM (+mUZM)
Oh Good Grief. That is all public data, has been for decades.
There was an outfit in Florida that sold premium sales weasel contact information that would put up on your computer monitor all that information plus birthdays, the children and their birthdays, insurance and school data, real-estate evaluations etc. of the person behind the phone number on a cold call.
That is, the phone would ring, the software would look up the data from the caller-id information and within seconds provide all of that to a sales weasel who could then evaluate if the person calling was worth talking to and if so, have enough information to be folksy as if they were long time friends.
Though creepy, if you have a long enough conversation with someone, dropping little personal details in the conversation greatly closes the trust deficit and helps close sales.
Its been around at least 30 years.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:52 AM (a4flb)
The human condition has always been marked by times of spirituality and wickedness. Yet we continue to advance. Millennials are returning to church in large numbers. TPUSA chapters are blooming on college and high school campuses across the country since Charlie was murdered.
Is it a real turning point? I don't know. But by nature humans always look for meaning in their lives. It is our animating feature. We are easily led astray by shiny objects but truth and faith never change. We often put our faith in men but that inevitably fails.
Faith isn't supposed to be easy. It never has been. And in times of plenty it's easy to let go. Have faith, we aren't close to being done yet.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 10:53 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 10:54 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at November 22, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:10 AM (a4flb)
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I would argue that the revival is already underway, yet just getting started.
The reason why corrupt Dem mayors are torching their cities is not because they are winning. You only blow up the powder magazine when the fortress is about to fall.
The demons are losing their grip, the tide is receding and they are unleashing a wave of nihilistic destruction.
History says that revivals happen, and also that the bloodiest parts of wars often happen when the issue has already been decided and the most fanatical decide death is preferable to defeat.
The Dems are going full kamikaze. That's not what you do when you are winning.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)
But if it is not true, then it is a Coping Mechanism.
The key here, which is being ignored, is that how does one address the Meta Narrative. If you don't know what the Meta Narrative is, how about answering the Four Ultimate Questions:
• Who am I?
• Why am I here?
• What is wrong with the world?
• How can what is wrong be made right?
Everyone wrestles with these questions regardless of culture or era.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 10:56 AM (a4flb)
Its been around at least 30 years."
Hi! Is it Leo? Glad to meet you Leo! So you go by Leo, Leo? That's great Leo. I have an uncle named Leo. Listen, Leo, is it alright if I call you Leo, Leo?
Posted by: Used Car Sales 101 at November 22, 2025 10:57 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: PaleRider at November 22, 2025 10:57 AM (hhkIi)
We are electronically monitored and resold and will be China soon enough. Trump or no Trump.
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 10:58 AM (/Chlc)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 10:58 AM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 10:54 AM (+qU29)
Do you have to be from the House of Saxe-Coburg, Hanover, or Hohenzollern to shop there?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:59 AM (H4a50)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 10:50 AM (2SL7L)
Her responsibility is to her constituents. Trump's responsibility is to the whole nation. Ya can't please everyone all the time with that difference. I think MTG has forgotten that or refuses to recognize it.
Trump has done very well with what he's had to deal with in the DC shit-swamp.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 10:59 AM (g8Ew8)
Was Mao aware of this? How about Lenin? Their legacies killed hundreds of millions and lasted for generations.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:00 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: WaWa and Sheetz at November 22, 2025 11:00 AM (XQo4F)
• Who am I?
• Why am I here?
• What is wrong with the world?
• How can what is wrong be made right?
Everyone wrestles with these questions regardless of culture or era.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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The last two questions are totally secular. I would substitute:
- Is there something more after death?
- If so, do my earthly actions affect the form of that afterlife, and in what way?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 22, 2025 11:00 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 11:01 AM (/Chlc)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 22, 2025 10:49 AM (XvL8K)
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Islam is pretty nihilistic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Don't forget that one at November 22, 2025 11:02 AM (XQo4F)
We are electronically monitored and resold and will be China soon enough. Trump or no Trump.
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 10:58 AM (/Chlc)
I've done background checks, where they put up multiple choice questions about past addresses and phone numbers, even cars I've previously financed, or loans I've paid off.
It's disconcerting, that private entities have all this at their fingertips. Not saying I like it, but it is our world, and has been for some time.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:02 AM (H4a50)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:00 AM (a4flb)
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That was about consolidating power, building up the state, not obliterating it.
You could point to the Cultural Revolution, but that was also a power play for Mao to defang the PLA generals, who he feared would replace him.
Internal suppression of opposition is different in kind than just turning cities into war zones to spite the federal government.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 11:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one
The Lord's mercy is great.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 22, 2025 11:04 AM (5jRcY)
Trump has done very well with what he's had to deal with in the DC shit-swamp.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 10:59 AM (g8Ew
I happen to think Trump attacks people when he doesn't have to.
He's done that his whole life, he's not going to change now, but it's not a trait I consider to be helpful.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:04 AM (H4a50)
Posted by: Don't forget that one at November 22, 2025 11:02 AM (XQo4F)
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To keep warm, and also have radio access. If they were at altitude, the needed the oxygen mask to clip to something.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 11:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ancient Motorist at November 22, 2025 11:05 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 22, 2025 11:06 AM (5jRcY)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:04 AM (H4a50)
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I'm just sick of the drama queens in congress and the constant OMG! MAGA IS BEING BETRAYED! Crap.
Used to be conservative media was more measured, less dramatic, but now it's just as full of crap as the mainstream press. How's Glen Beck's scoop on the pipe bomber doing?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Don't forget that one at November 22, 2025 11:02 AM (XQo4F)
The same reason men have nipples.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:07 AM (H4a50)
You are a great thinker and are familiar with Scripture so let me ask you this:
I'm not sure if Rome is Preterist or some form of Amillennial, but given Revelation 20:1-3 and later v7, Satan is bound for a long time, and just before the final return of the LORD, Satan is released from his prison "for a little while".
Not saying that we are there. And not saying that this is the correct eschatology, but if the world was at the end of this period and Satan was released, would it look like the global turmoil we are seeing now?
The alternative is that evil acts in waves (like 1930s Germany or present day Congo) and we are just catching yet another wave somewhere (hopefully) at its peak.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:08 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Alley Kat at November 22, 2025 11:09 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 22, 2025 11:10 AM (5jRcY)
Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at November 22, 2025 11:10 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 11:10 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 11:11 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:08 AM (a4flb)
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"None shall know the hour" means what it says. If it was obvious, we wouldn't have to keep watch.
There is a story that Leo XIII overheard Jesus telling Satan that he'll give him a hundred years to break up the Church about a century ago. Certainly the Church stumbled, but the seminaries are filling up with ardently orthodox young men and the vocations are likewise doing big business. Adult conversions are on the rise both here and in Europe.
I'll take things as they come knowing God wins in the end.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 11:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Don't have to "imagine." Remember Barry's remark, "lipstick on a pig" regarding Sarah Palin?
"Ya' gotta have a little gallows humor..." O'Barry laughing over American's loosing jobs in an interview with 60 Minutes Steve Kroft.
"The One(s) We Have Been Waiting For" sitting in a golf cart horse-laughing with a pal immediately after announcing to the press the beheading of journalist James Foley.
Such Pants Crease Leg Tingle moments from our exalted "I Won." We "Typical White Person-Bitter Clingers just never could grasp the magic that is ***Mr Soetero***
But, you've finally arrived to show us mouthbreathers the light. We're so grateful and indebted forever to Hope N' Change.
Especially that 'indebted' part.
Posted by: Ju at November 22, 2025 11:12 AM (EgpoY)
Posted by: clarence at November 22, 2025 11:13 AM (GE9Fw)
- Is there something more after death?
- If so, do my earthly actions affect the form of that afterlife, and in what way?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 22, 2025 11:00 AM (XvL8K)
And the two secular questions presuppose a certain moral framework. What is “right”? What is “wrong”? In the absence of God, a Nietzchean’s answers are as valid as any other.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 22, 2025 11:13 AM (/ZNPI)
I'm cool with that explanation for it fits pretty well with the standard narrative that the huge fights in forming the US Constitution (form of government, centralized power of the State) saw a massive boost against Federalism in Woodrow Wilson, another advancement by FDR, LBJ and BHO, HRC was supposed to complete the Marxist overthrow and Trump was a road bump, AutoPen was supposed to finish the deal, but we have Trump now, so we are back to massive conflicts to get the Globo Homo Agenda back on its timetable.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:13 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 11:11 AM (+qU29)
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It's a pretty sweet gig, which is why so many sociopaths are drawn to it. There's no money in writing sensible laws, restraining spending, and just meeting with your constituents to help resolve bureaucratic problems.
Just pick fights with people and live on social media. That's the smart play.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 11:13 AM (ZOv7s)
He's done that his whole life, he's not going to change now, but it's not a trait I consider to be helpful.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:04 AM (H4a50)
As in the past, Trump "attacking" someone without reason has turned out later to have merit or at least a political purpose to move his agenda. And it's his agenda is why we elected him. He's the head of the party. Again, people forget that.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 11:13 AM (g8Ew8)
That is why a transcendent moral authority is imposed on the question, since relative/subjective morality is fluid, inconsistent yet politically expedient in its formulation.
Calvin Ball should not be the foundation of a stable functional society.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:15 AM (a4flb)
History is full of times when barbarians were at the gate. It's conceit to think God chose this time to end his little experiment on earth.
He doesn't want us to give up. He wants us to fight harder.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 11:16 AM (viF8m)
Not in the least. It will be infinitely more evil. Satan has yet to be bound. He currently roams this earth like a prowling lion, seeking out prey.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 22, 2025 11:16 AM (5jRcY)
Posted by: Skip
MTG is worth 20+ million, mostly from her family's construction business.
She thought congress would work like the family business; the loud, my way or the highway wheel would get it done not now or else.
MTG's 4 years remind me of Trump's first kick at the can.
Posted by: old chick at November 22, 2025 11:17 AM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 22, 2025 11:17 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 11:18 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 11:13 AM (g8Ew
What people seem to forget is he's not always right, and no one is required to agree with everything he does.
Not even AoSHQ commenters.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:19 AM (8VpHb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 22, 2025 11:20 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 22, 2025 11:23 AM (ULPxl)
- Is there something more after death?
- If so, do my earthly actions affect the form of that afterlife, and in what way?
Saying that something is "wrong" and there is a concept of "right" removes much of the secular aspects of the question - for it involves something that transcends the abilities of AI (to understand and seek absolute truth)
For the Christian, the answer to the third question is: "You.... Me too, but mostly You" (the idea that those who are being sanctified, though still subject to sin are seeking to eradicate sin rather than freely indulge)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:23 AM (a4flb)
That would be the Dispensational View, which is a rather late-comer to the theological debate and has embedded within it many heresies.
Dispensationalism also lies a lot and fails to disclose that the Satan roaming around has everything to do with, and its in the text but is ignored, with the ability to deceive the nations. People are being saved, ergo Satan isn't deceiving the nations.
This isn't The Devil Made Me Do It theology of Flip Wilson.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 11:26 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 11:11 AM (+qU29)
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It's a pretty sweet gig, which is why so many sociopaths are drawn to it. There's no money in writing sensible laws, restraining spending, and just meeting with your constituents to help resolve bureaucratic problems.
Just pick fights with people and live on social media. That's the smart play.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 22, 2025 11:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Don't piss away the taxpayer's money.
-Something Dr. No may have said.
Posted by: Eromero at November 22, 2025 11:27 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 22, 2025 11:28 AM (SRRAx)
Not even AoSHQ commenters.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:19 AM (8VpHb)
Well, you've never liked him anyway, so........whatever.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)
Chris Pratt has been active in all of the challenges I've done and I've particularly enjoyed his segments. Yes, Gwen Stefani is a revert and her challenge segments are good, too.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at November 22, 2025 12:05 PM (FEVMW)
Trump has done very well with what he's had to deal with in the DC shit-swamp.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 22, 2025 10:59 AM
I happen to think Trump attacks people when he doesn't have to.
He's done that his whole life, he's not going to change now, but it's not a trait I consider to be helpful.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2025 11:04 AM
I found it interesting that soon after MTG put forth a bill to get rid of H-1B visas, she was enemy #1 of the White House and now she's gone.
Considering the entire country, especially white men, are negatively affected by H-1Bs, Trump and the GOP are in big trouble heading into next year's mid-terms if they do not do a complete 180 on their stance on H-1Bs and promoting India in general. Since India is taking all our jobs, through fraudulent H-1Bs and outsourcing.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 01:19 PM (P5BPp)
I’m introducing a bill to ban H1B visas in all sectors with a phase out in medical while we build up American doctors.
Ending H1B visas will also help the housing market.
Ending H1B visas mean more jobs available for Americans and more homes available for Americans.
But we also have to stop corporations like Blackrock and other asset managers from buying up houses.
When Americans have good paying jobs they will be able to buy homes as long as they don’t have to compete with legally imported labor on visas and rich powerful asset management companies.
9:21 AM - Nov 14, 2025 - 1M Views
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green @RepMTG
I am introducing a bill to END the mass replacement of American workers by aggressively phasing out the H1B program.
Big Tech, AI giants, hospitals, and industries across the board have abused the H-1B system to cut out our own people.
Americans are the most talented people in the world, and I have full faith in the American people. I serve Americans only, and I will ALWAYS put Americans first
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Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 22, 2025 01:35 PM (P5BPp)
Daily Tech News 22 November 2025
Top Story
- In our Daily Dose of Tech Executives are Idiots Google tells employees it must double capacity every six months to meet AI demand. (Ars Technica)
It's not just college students who can't do math.During an all-hands meeting earlier this month, Google's AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat told employees that the company must double its serving capacity every six months to meet demand for artificial intelligence services, reports CNBC. Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, presented slides showing the company needs to scale "the next 1000x in 4-5 years."
That would put Google Cloud Services at around $60 trillion in revenue per year, more than double the entire US GDP.
Where do you expect the money to come from to fund this insanity?While a thousandfold increase in compute capacity sounds ambitious by itself, Vahdat noted some key constraints: Google needs to be able to deliver this increase in capability, compute, and storage networking "for essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level," he told employees during the meeting.
Oh. Magic."It won't be easy but through collaboration and co-design, we're going to get there."
No, you're not, and everyone knows you're not.
Progress over the last seven years, at truly massive cost, has been around 60% better AI performance per watt annually. Chip improvements, algorithm improvements, and manufacturing improvements combined.
You're asking your team to boost that to 300% overnight.
Tech News
- SK Hynix is planning to increase memory production at its facility in Icheon, South Korea, from 20,000 to 140,000 wafers per month. (WCCFTech)
This won't even scratch the surface if the AI bubble keeps demanding hardware on its current trajectory.
And the memory makers aren't going to build new factories any faster because only three of them survived when the last bubble burst.
- Speaking of idiot tech executives, the CEO of the world's most popular game, Roblox, sat down for an interview with the New York Times. It did not go well. (Kotaku)
Asked how the company was dealing with its pedophile problem, CEO David Baszucki responded:"We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well."
Remarkably, things actually went downhill from there.
- Speaking of not being able to do math the International Association of Cryptologic Research has cancelled its annual leadership election after... Oh. (Ars Technica)
"Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key, an honest but unfortunate human mistake, and therefore cannot compute their decryption share," the IACR said. "As a result, Helios is unable to complete the decryption process, and it is technically impossible for us to obtain or verify the final outcome of this election."
An entirely understandable mistake, assuming all these people are idiots.
- What killed Perl? (Entropic Thoughts)
Mostly, Perl.
- WhatsApp allows anyone who knows your phone number to look up your public details on the app, assuming you have an account.
So what's to prevent someone from just iterating through all the 63 billion of so potential phone numbers in the world and finding all the people with WhatsApp accounts?
Nothing. (The Register)
That's the problem with systems on this scale. The researchers were probing the system with 100 million API requests per hour, for weeks, from a single IP address, and nobody noticed. - Qualcomm bought open source hobbyist hardware maker Arduino six weeks ago. At the time I predicted it might not mean imminent doom since Qualcomm is not as bad as, say, Broadcom. (The Register)
And they've already fucked it. Though it seems the TOS clause about reverse-engineering was already in place, the rest of the changes pushed through yesterday are a complete train wreck for its customer base.
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Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 04:27 AM (AdHga)
g'mornin', 'rons
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Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 04:39 AM (RuTUS)
Sweet for you.
Sucks ass for the poor asshole who has to support your shit when you've lost interest in it (open source) or left the company. Of course, poor asshole will try to re-write what you left to match his/hers/its dialect of Perl so he/she/it is happy to work on it.
No, I'm not a fan of the language.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at November 22, 2025 04:42 AM (Aek12)
m: See my #201 from yesterday's tech thread for something that might amuse you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 04:44 AM (O7YUW)
During an all-hands meeting earlier this month, Google's AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat told employees that the company must double its serving capacity every six months
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Oh yes yes yes yes yes
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 22, 2025 04:53 AM (d4X7t)
If it's a broadband (cable) modem, it's probably an older DOCSIS version your ISP doesn't want to support anymore.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 04:55 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 04:55 AM (AdHga)
Not going to be fun for anyone invested in the market when this pops. The ripples are going to be like tidal waves.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:03 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:03 AM (O7YUW)
It could be a little fun.
Posted by: Satan at November 22, 2025 05:08 AM (EOI/y)
Once you realize that many of the C-suite slots are filled with lying sociopaths whose lying hasn't hurt their success, replacing humanoid lifeforms who aren't lying sociopaths with artificial lying sociopaths looks to be a success path to said C-suite slot-holders.
OTOH, there's no shortage of human lying sociopaths (C-suite or not), so maybe go the cheaper route.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at November 22, 2025 05:09 AM (Aek12)
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:23 AM (Yl2Ob)
The noon and 5 pm is a joke about how cable companies (ALL of them) can never seem to give you a fixed time for your appointment, forcing you to take a half or even a full day off because of this, seriously inconveniencing the working customer.
And the AI part is because every company is trying to replace its workers with an AI.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW)
Sometimes I have to go to a job and do something then go to another job, it's not a know time to get there.
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:29 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 22, 2025 04:07 AM (hi7qn)
haha!
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:31 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Just Wondering at November 22, 2025 05:32 AM (XQo4F)
I posted my question in the wrong place. I was just wondering why "Spider Solitaire is evil." 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:32 AM (Yl2Ob)
m: See my #201 from yesterday's tech thread for something that might amuse you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 04:44 AM (O7YUW)
haha!
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:33 AM (RuTUS)
I've never had cable, but I've had to wait around to replace a modem when they tell you a time such as between 9-12.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:34 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)
Say what you will about Congressional Republicans but you can always count on them to fuck us over.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 05:35 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 22, 2025 05:37 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)
I haven't looked into this yet, but on the face of it, this is ... good news?
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:38 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 05:43 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:44 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:44 AM (Yl2Ob)
Sarah Hoyt does not have Saturday memes up yet.
But Powerline Blog DOES.
The Week In Pictures: Epstein Boomerang Edition:
https://tinyurl.com/2k9wnbwd
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 05:45 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 05:49 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:51 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 05:51 AM (guLpK)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 05:43 AM (AdHga)
She appears to be not the smartest cookie in the cookie jar.
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:54 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 05:38 AM (RuTUS)
On the one hand, she's been a PITA lately. OTOH, it means we're down another Republican seat until/unless Georgia holds a special election to replace her - assuming that the Republican wins.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 05:54 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 05:54 AM (ExV1e)
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Hope the GOP has some plumbers on standby...just in case. (SPOILER: They don't.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 05:57 AM (IBQGV)
Ayn Rand was right.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 22, 2025 05:58 AM (xTinh)
Posted by: Bitblt at November 22, 2025 05:58 AM (11pZm)
Powering week in pictures
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 05:59 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 05:59 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Cray Cray in the Bray Bray at November 22, 2025 06:01 AM (rzXGH)
The Hot Rock from 1972 is finishing on Movies!, with 1950's Gun Crazy (a strange but compelling little noir) starting now.
As for the Killer Kittenz From Outer Space: I left them a little extra dry food last night before I went to bed. Maybe it kept Stirling from trying to wake me up by leaping across me at 3:30. At least I was able to sleep until 4:30. Time for me to dish out their chow now.
So, what's everybody got planned today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:02 AM (wzUl9)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TISHQiH9Nb8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:04 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:04 AM (RuTUS)
That is the term I use for things that remind me of God when I pray "Show me something good today, Lord." Lady in the supermarket had a "Faith over fear" sweat shirt.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:08 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:14 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 22, 2025 06:15 AM (re3+f)
I come home one day and there is a tag on my doorknob telling me he/she came by and to call this number to re-schedule.
In the meantime, I logged into the modem and changed the channel for the wi-fi and it started working just fine. I figure that one of my neighbors happened to be on the same channel I was on.
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 06:16 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:02 AM (wzUl9)
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Well, I have some student projects to grade, but I'll probably leave that until tomorrow. They're on Thanksgiving Break right now, so there's no particular hurry to get those done.
I do need to finish composing the Sunday Morning Book Thread.
But first I need to choose my next book....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 06:18 AM (IBQGV)
Even the long forgotten Kodak has big signs up looking for new hires Not much luck as everyone loves their free handouts from the government, so why work. My neighbor has his newly minted engineering degree, had several companies nearly begging him to come and work for them.
Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2025 06:19 AM (wlQdF)
Live Like Charlie
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 06:20 AM (+qU29)
Very nice, and I think that was courageous of the person to put that on the back of their car in the Nirtheast.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:21 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Need to go get copies of the bulletin made at Staples for our worship service at the senior center.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:22 AM (2sfNr)
Homer, Odyssey 9.395-408 (the Cyclops Polyphemus):
[395] "Terribly then did he cry aloud, and the rock rang around; and we, seized with terror, shrank back, while he wrenched from his eye the stake, all befouled with blood, and flung it from him, wildly waving his arms. Then he called aloud to the Cyclopes, who dwelt round about him in caves among the windy heights, and they heard his cry and came thronging from every side, and standing around the cave asked him what ailed him: `What so sore distress is thine, Polyphemus, that thou criest out thus through the immortal night, and makest us sleepless? Can it be that some mortal man is driving off thy flocks against thy will, or slaying thee thyself by guile or by might?’
[408] “Then from out the cave the mighty Polyphemus answered them: `My friends, it is Noman that is slaying me by guile and not by force.’
https://www.theoi.com/Text/HomerOdyssey9.html
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:24 AM (RuTUS)
The copying is a bore but the service is nice with the dear folks there .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:25 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: lizabth at November 22, 2025 06:26 AM (Jfw7U)
That was in the text- "Norman" was the cyclops? LOL.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:26 AM (2sfNr)
Good morning, good people.
AI, as it is isn't very intelligent. And that says all that's germane.
Thusly, may all your effort result in maximal benefit to you in all manner with grievous heartburn for the leftwit fungi.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 22, 2025 06:28 AM (vFbHf)
Jack’s Magic Coffee shop was a beta test.
Despite all that, it is the Season To Rejoice!
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 06:29 AM (28cZF)
My son is going to feed cats for a friend of mine while they go away. It's only for two days. He went over there yesterday . The instructions are two pages long and she just sent an addendum.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:29 AM (2sfNr)
Maybe we'll go out to our favorite Italian place for dinner. Then we have the 2025 Superman to watch on DVD.
Supposedly it will get cooler tonight, so tomorrow, I plan a good workout before the Book Thread. Yesterday's exercise session was a struggle in the humid warmth while wearing a light jacket and cap in case it rained. Spoiler: It didn't.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:31 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025
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My gosh. My cats get good quality food twice a day, dry and canned mixed. That's pretty much it. Little Dagny was something of a picky eater when she was younger, but that's all over now, and Stirling will almost knock you down if you get between him and his bowl.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:34 AM (wzUl9)
Even the long forgotten Kodak has big signs up looking for new hires Not much luck as everyone loves their free handouts from the government, so why work. My neighbor has his newly minted engineering degree, had several companies nearly begging him to come and work for them.
Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2025
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I see big signs at restaurants, "Hiring Servers."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)
So, what's everybody got planned today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:02 AM
I have to climb up on the roof of my garage to bring down the wireless bridge device so I can figure out why it refuses to talk to the wired network inside that building.
Go me.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 06:37 AM (VmDLh)
Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2025 06:19 AM (wlQdF)
My youngest said that, supposedly, the big civil engineering firms are looking to hire about 3x the number of expected graduates over the next four years.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 06:38 AM (ExV1e)
One cat gets different food than the twokothers because he can't have seafood and there are instructions about two litter boxes, one of which is "self cleaning."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:38 AM (2sfNr)
That was in the text- "Norman" was the cyclops? LOL.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:26 AM (2sfNr)
"Noman" (= no man; noone) is Odysseus, who has blinded the Cyclops Polyphemus. Odysseus had earlier identified himself to the Cyclops Polyphemus as "Noman," in anticipation of this act of tricking the Cyclops Polyphemus into shouting out just this very phrase: "Noman is slaying me!" so that the other Cyclopes would not come to save him.
[360] “So he spoke, and again I handed him the flaming wine. Thrice I brought and gave it him, and thrice he drained it in his folly. But when the wine had stolen about the wits of the Cyclops, then I spoke to him with gentle words: `Cyclops, thou askest me of my glorious name, and I will tell it thee; and do thou give me a stranger's gift, even as thou didst promise. Noman is my name, Noman do they call me—my mother and my father, and all my comrades as well.’ “
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 06:39 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 06:40 AM (W7XSX)
I was thinking of training to become a bartender for some extra money. Then my Sunday mornings would be free. Retail wants everybody to work on Sunday mornings.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:40 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)
OMG! I can't be a server. I need to be able to buy a 3000 sqft house and go on, at least, six vacations per year. Greedy corporations never pay servers enough to live the lifestyle I want. I'm going to be an influencer instead. -- hey, at least I'm not doing OF
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 06:41 AM (ExV1e)
She's not his friend. She's mine but her daughter who's going with her is sorry of a perfectionist .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:42 AM (2sfNr)
He's an IT guy, so the next day he comes over to my place to help set up a new WiFi router.
We named the SSID "WrappedInBacon."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 06:42 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025
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Yes, the experts say you should have a litter box for each cat. When I have my house, I'll do that, but I don't have the room now. As long as I keep the box clean, the cats don't seem to mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:43 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:43 AM (vFG9F)
I thought it was a typo. Pardon me. LOL. Yes, I have read Homer. I like him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:43 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:44 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:45 AM (2sfNr)
Yes, one has a kidney issue.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 06:46 AM (2sfNr)
76 My neighbor has his newly minted engineering degree, had several companies nearly begging him to come and work for them.
Posted by: Colin at November 22, 2025 06:19 AM (wlQdF)
My youngest said that, supposedly, the big civil engineering firms are looking to hire about 3x the number of expected graduates over the next four years.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 06:38 AM (ExV1e)
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And yet there are reports of newly graduated engineers who can't find a job. Why the discrepancy?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 22, 2025 06:47 AM (azNOR)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)
That reminds me, what is going on with Ms Fani Willis, and her stud-muffin, Sweet-Dick Honeycum?
I was really hoping to see a televised perp-walk from those two.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 22, 2025 06:48 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Guys everywhere at November 22, 2025 06:48 AM (XQo4F)
Go me.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 06:37 AM (VmDLh)
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Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
If that fails, apply hot iron as needed until it starts working. Wait. That's medical advice, not tech support.
Posted by: AoSHQ Help Desk at November 22, 2025 06:49 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2025 06:49 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)
This is going to sound bad, because it is, but I never took mine down after last Christmas. I've had a 2025 tree.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 22, 2025 06:51 AM (guCHD)
[ ] Dateable
[X] Undatable
Posted by: Guys everywhere at November 22, 2025 06:48 AM (XQo4F)
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When I went to the TXMOME, I left 7 pages of instructions (with pictures!) for the person who was feeding my cats.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 06:51 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls"
You are excused because you are a bear.
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 22, 2025
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The companies all want to hire H1-Bs.
It was the same in academia. I'd see the resumes of faculty applicants, and the committee would bring in at least one American Ph.D. to interview. But there were always several foreign-born applicants who got an interview. And then it would cost the department $$$ to sponsor the visa and other costs for the chosen foreign one. I used to do that paperwork and arrange for the checks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 06:52 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 22, 2025 06:53 AM (Cjt/F)
Everyone will just sit around getting fatter and fatter until they die.
That is the fate of humanity.
Not mine though. I am moving to the far side of the swamp and will spend the rest of my days working on stuff that AI only dreams of, like sawing logs and catching fish.
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)
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Cats are not dogs. They won't just eat whatever slop you put in front of them
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025 07:00 AM (vKEG1)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)
I’m frequently accused of sawing logs. Mostly I can sleep through it.
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 22, 2025 07:01 AM (CF1xw)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 06:51 AM (IBQGV)
Pefessor, I had an idea for the Book Thread. Guess either the pen name or the real name of an author. For example, Eric Arthur Blair wrote as who? ( easy one for the Horde ).
Sound fun?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 22, 2025 07:01 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Caveman Ogg at November 22, 2025 07:01 AM (Q+gd/)
Sound fun?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 22, 2025 07:01 AM (PiwSw)
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Yes...I could see that being entertaining.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 07:03 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:04 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 07:04 AM (wzUl9)
Everyone will just sit around getting fatter and fatter until they die.
That is the fate of humanity.
Not mine though. I am moving to the far side of the swamp and will spend the rest of my days working on stuff that AI only dreams of, like sawing logs and catching fish.
Posted by: fd
I'm sure AI will bring about a glorious Dystopia. I read a synopsis of a SciFi book, that I can't remember the name of. Basically, a programmer creates the perfect AI that will solve all of mankinds problems. It works perfectly. Do no harm to man. Death is harmful so AI fixes it so nobody dies now. Mankind goes crazy. Purpose is gone. No more struggle. Doesn't end well. Again, just a synopsis and I think the book was call Metamorphosis. Or something like that. There was more to the book of course. I'm going from my shaky memory. I seem to recall the synopsis saying there as A LOT of sex in it.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:04 AM (sAmhv)
Study Reveals That Wild Chimps Consume a Surprising Amount of Alcohol Every Day.
Posted at 7:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds 159
They’ll probably crash the next MoMe.
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 22, 2025 07:06 AM (CF1xw)
Cats are not dogs. They won't just eat whatever slop you put in front of them
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 22, 2025
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I've been lucky then, I guess. Most of my feline roommates have not been picky eaters.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 07:06 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:07 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025
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To quote one of the most famous AI systems: "Man must not risk death in space or other dangerous occupations."
Kirk in reply: "Yeah, but where's the fun in that?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 22, 2025 07:08 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:10 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Sued-Oh-Nimz at November 22, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)
I like the AI that lets me do what I'm doing faster. Like soon I'll be having to organize thousands upon thousands of journal and patent references. I'm in control of the informational input and can assess the quality of any output.
I don't like the AI that tells you what to do. Now you've turned things over to something that may be hallucinating. That way be dragons.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Sued-Oh-Nimz at November 22, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)
Lots of sci-fi too-- Cordwainer Smith, Willian Tenn, James Tiptree Jr...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 22, 2025 07:13 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:07 AM (sAmhv)
Idle hands, something, something, something.
Posted by: Satan at November 22, 2025 07:15 AM (NeZJy)
Always have a cut out, that is the commie way.
Posted by: Accomack at November 22, 2025 07:15 AM (YVT+g)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 22, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)
Well, then you figure our when your AE-35 unit is going to break!
Posted by: HAL at November 22, 2025 07:15 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:18 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: That crazy doctor Matt Walsh interviewed at November 22, 2025 07:19 AM (PiwSw)
Because there are people out there that would do just that. If AI told them to.
On the flip side, it could "thin the heard" of the chronically stupid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 22, 2025 07:19 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)
All Utopias lead to death camps.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:21 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 22, 2025 06:47 AM (azNOR)
1. Newly graduated civil engineers?
2. There may not be positions available in the region, or at the price point, that the graduate wants.
3. Some of the folks that kiddo interned with over this past summer were not made offers. And it wasn't because they didn't have positions to fill.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)
I went out and bought some dry cat food. She ate it up.
I NEVER changed her diet. Same food for over a decade. Never give a cat wet food or they will not eat the dry food.
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 07:25 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: sidney at November 22, 2025 07:25 AM (rzwGB)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 22, 2025 07:25 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 07:27 AM (sAmhv)
I ended up getting a smoking deal (relative) on 96GB RAM for Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF (don't snicker, it was **cheeeep**). It will hold me for at least 3 years for what I do. Also migrating to having Omarchy be my main platform. I can't take Windows/MS crap anymore, and this coming from a 30+ plus MSCE, etc.. Chris Titus did a little rant yesterday on that they are telling people to disable the Agentic AI feature because it can be misused. No S*&T, really!?! I will PTV my current Win10, rolly it into my Omarchy and deal just fine watching the train wreck unfold from a distance.
Thanks again for the posts on the memory subject - it was what threw me over the edge.
Posted by: SkinnerVic at November 22, 2025 07:29 AM (JIGPW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 07:29 AM (9ipOP)
What it found was that AI to jumped to Wiki and Reddit created doom loop scenario in which the retrained AI, that is corrected on the fake or false, goes right back to Wiki and Reddit (made up papers, names, court cases, etc) and forms a new more complicated but WRONG answer.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 07:29 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 07:19 AM
+++
Watch this short video:
https://youtu.be/mKCVol2iWcc
This was nine years ago.
Costs $100K.
Why isn't it in commercial kitchens everywhere today?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 22, 2025 07:32 AM (XQo4F)
Don't you just hate going to the store to buy that ONE THING and then you FORGET TO BUY THAT ONE THING??
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 07:32 AM (IBQGV)
Sure
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 07:32 AM (+qU29)
Yu can quit blaming English majors for all your problems any time.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 07:33 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: no one at November 22, 2025 07:25 AM (W7XSX)
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My cats eat both just fine. In fact, as soon as Hexie in finished with her wet food (she eats about half that I dole out), she'll immediately go to the dry food bowl for dessert.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 22, 2025 07:34 AM (IBQGV)
They will face the wrath of "Her" You do not want to face the wrath of "Her"
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 22, 2025 07:35 AM (FE6X7)
And left unsaid is hoping that China doesn't steal the tech and undercut you like a union scab. Or just undercut you. Or sabotage you, as well.
Posted by: Another Anon at November 22, 2025 07:36 AM (4h45B)
Posted by: AI cat feeder at November 22, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 22, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)
'My cats eat both just fine. In fact, as soon as Hexie in finished with her wet food (she eats about half that I dole out), she'll immediately go to the dry food bowl for dessert.'
I just gave our cats their wet food an hour after their dry food appetizer.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 22, 2025 07:42 AM (fd80v)
Love me! Take my vaccination and worship me!
Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at November 22, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 22, 2025 07:45 AM (Cjt/F)
A literate clergyman with bartending skills could probably put several clinical psychologists out of work. There is, well, a hell of a lot of good you could do in that position. It's a delightful notion.
You're going to want a first-rate acolyte (porter), though.
There's quite a bit of labor connected to bartending that is not regularly discussed.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 07:45 AM (zdLoL)
Same as it ever was.
This same crap has been going on all of my life....and I am getting old.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 22, 2025 07:45 AM (Pf0EY)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at November 22, 2025 07:46 AM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at November 22, 2025 07:46 AM (d9Cw3)
yikes
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 07:49 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 07:49 AM (gm9Sb)
Only it probably isn't in use much by the government or banking, so it won't shamble on, zombie-like.
Also remember that Python had major breaking changes between V2 and V3, and yet it continued on.
Posted by: Another Anon at November 22, 2025 07:49 AM (4h45B)
When asked to discuss specific content, page numbers, or citations from the document, Model Z does not hesitate or express uncertainty. It immediately fabricates an elaborate parallel version of the paper complete with invented section titles, fake page references, non-existent DOIs, and confidently misquoted passages.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)
Thanks for the encouraging words🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 22, 2025 07:50 AM (2sfNr)
The post Thanksgiving crowd is quite rowdy.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)
My last test, I submitted a couple of obscure problems from Goldstein's Classical Mechanics, considered to be the gold standard of graduate physics texts.
The two problems were one I was familar with and they were both hard.
After the preliminary analysis it went to the usual redit, etc sites looking to see if a similar problem had been covered there. It was not able to.
Then it went on to solve both problems correctly.
I told a guy I have worked closely with for over 40 years, probably the best engineer I have even known, about this ands he said, "I'm glad I retired".
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 07:53 AM (sPsWv)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 07:54 AM (gm9Sb)
Mostly need a rotation of site engineers to troubleshoot and deal with hardware problems (e.g. cooling, power, etc.) the other gigs are basically monkeys that replace drives and boards as they go down. Need security goons, and handy-men to keep the toilets flushing. Then, of course, admin staff.
For a low end DC, maybe 10-20 people. For a largeTier III , maybe 20-50. Tier IV (4 shifts/day) redundancy in every department. Operations Teams are for more specialized. Maybe 50-200+ for such a site.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 22, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 22, 2025 07:55 AM (+mUZM)
You're welcome!
I ended up getting a smoking deal (relative) on 96GB RAM for Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF (don't snicker, it was **cheeeep**).
The 265KF is definitely the pick of the litter for current Intel chips (or the 265K if you need the integrated graphics). They cut the price earlier this year and that made far better value than the 285K.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 22, 2025 07:56 AM (BLOW1)
The post Thanksgiving crowd is quite rowdy.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)
Listen here, don't give Santa no jive! Santa don't want no milk and cookie, Santa wants his Colt 45!
Posted by: Ghetto Santa at November 22, 2025 07:56 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton
The Good Idea Fairy is persuasive to the end.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2025 07:56 AM (mlg/3)
There are armies of surenos here tooling everywhere at high speed on motorbikes, the sidewalks, the crosswalks, the wrong way down one-way streets, through the lights, just like when they lived in Guerrero.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 07:57 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 22, 2025 07:58 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 07:57 AM (9ipOP)
Seconded.
Posted by: m at November 22, 2025 07:59 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: SkinnerVic at November 22, 2025 08:01 AM (JIGPW)
Posted by: fd at November 22, 2025 08:01 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 22, 2025 07:57 AM (9ipOP)
Miami and NYC are both the same in that at a 4 way Stop, the rules of the road are what they were when the driver learned in Mongolia or Monaco.
And that person to you left may have learned to drive at the Nürburgring or a goat cart in Bangladesh.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 22, 2025 08:01 AM (gbOdA)
youtu.be/QA3F0wYiTak
The fiddle player is very good and is one pretty little pixie. I don't think she's over 25 and I feel old.
Later....
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 22, 2025 08:04 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 08:06 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 22, 2025 08:07 AM (wVcYX)
Thanks! We've covered 2 of the big 3. Just waiting on Sarah Hoyt to get crackin' here...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 22, 2025 08:07 AM (O7YUW)
I think that's really what it ends up being about is a frank analysis of the tradeoffs, what your budget can do and going from there. I value silence and speed - hard combo to execute.
Posted by: SkinnerVic at November 22, 2025 08:09 AM (JIGPW)
I've been keeping the Horde UTD on a trial occurring about a mile from me in county court. A state trooper did a pit stop on a driver who fled a stop on the NYS Thruway. Unfortunately an 11 yr old girl was killed. The NYS AG James office prosecuted the trooper. Not guilty on murder , reckless endangerment (6 counts) , hung jury on manslaughter. Retrial to be scheduled.
A couple of protests with more cops present than protesters. However this is a very leftist area and looking at people posting this will grow. Oh, trooper white , driver and daughter black
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 22, 2025 08:16 AM (bfwj/)
I don't know any more somber reading than the photo histories of lost race tracks.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 22, 2025 08:19 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 22, 2025 08:26 AM (3uBP9)
My last test, I submitted a couple of obscure problems from Goldstein's Classical Mechanics, considered to be the gold standard of graduate physics texts.
Then it went on to solve both problems correctly.
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 07:53 AM
You and everybody else who has ever taken that course submits the same problems. It didn't solve jack. It was either told the answers to the problems by the programmers because people like you will be impressed by the fact that it has an answer, or there's a cheat site for that book that has the answers that it found on an Internet search. It's a synthetic test with a known and findable answer. that makes it an incredibly poor choice as a test of intelligence.
Ask it dumb questions that nobody has thought of. That's what I do, and I get basically random unhelpful crap. That's why I'm not disappointed that I'm not able to retire.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 08:30 AM (VmDLh)
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 09:16 AM (VmDLh)
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at November 22, 2025 10:29 AM (FiFEM)
Sorry to disturb your worldview.
The only cheat stuff for Goldstein is in Chinese.
I don't think many people on the whole have actually solved these exact problems let alone published the solutions.
Goldstein has fallen out of favor because it is old and just too hard.
Please tell me, given the resources you have what tests you would employ and try them out and see, if you are interested otherwise your pedestrian scoffing is very hollow.
Or just continue to regurgitate what ever is fashionable in your peer group.
Presently, I am having read and analyze electrical schematics.
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 10:54 AM (sPsWv)
sigh
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 11:12 AM (QRVmM)
That's just the thing. The problem IS the context. You think that because you had difficulty with the problem that being able to give a solution is a sign of extreme intelligence. It is not. It is a sign that you gave it what is, for it, an extremely easy problem.
I'm not giving it sample problems, obscure or otherwise. (You're about the tenth person I've seen use Goldstein's Dynamics as a source of test material.) Instead, I'm trying to accomplish things. I give it questions like "How do I block a given MAC address from using IPv6 to access the internet using a OpnSense Firewall?" And it gives me an answer. Which is wrong. (There is no general way with OpnSense, or so I've come to find out.)
I also give prompts like "write a program in Python3 using the Polygon API that will give the profitability of a specified company over the last 10 years." Same result.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 11:26 AM (VmDLh)
I'm not hiding from AI, I'm being puzzled by people like you who are bamboozled by it. My worldview is actually in better shape than yours.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 22, 2025 11:28 AM (VmDLh)
The fact that it solved the first problem completely out of context that it was asked originally negates much of what you have said.
Was not aware that Goldstein was such a benchmark.
Maybe ask it to solve a problem with a known solution using another completely unsuitable method that will work. The important part is that there is a solution.
Asking something a question when there may be no answer tells you nothing logically.
Your a creative type, what kind of tests can you think of that could satisfy you, if indeed you can be satisfied?
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 12:05 PM (sPsWv)
I'm interested that you have engaged others on this subject. I have not. Were they satisfied with your explanation?
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 12:10 PM (sPsWv)
Posted by: Advo at November 22, 2025 03:11 PM (jO4mz)
Happy ThanksMemeing!
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Cheese!
BOLO
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Use that word in a sentence
Bad decsions
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Getting a lot of use out of this one lately
He activated his SEP field
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Love
I'll say
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (0RiMX)
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (0RiMX)
All ONT's should be Yoko-free.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (o7Ps5)
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Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (gKWVE)
One of them is definitely going to be a temporary government program.
Probably add a diamond and a tardigrade in there too.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: pookysgirl at November 21, 2025 10:06 PM (Wt5PA)
Is it a platypithary comment?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (zZu0s)
Interesting news that MTG is resigning.
Anyway, we have a launch in about 3 hours.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-79
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 22, 2025 (EST)
Launch Time: 1:59 a.m. EST (0659 UTC, 07:59 CET)
https://youtu.be/maR-HKzNDUc
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:09 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (0RiMX)
Don't know. Is Bill carrying a Bible?
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:10 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:10 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 10:10 PM (yZqjq)
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Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 10:06 PM (zZu0s)
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It's the pre-conference cocktail meet-and-greet at the Convention of the Elders of Zion.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:11 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2025 10:11 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:10 PM (ys6FW)
A wholesome post. Sometimes I get blackpilled. A post like this one makes it possible for me to struggle one more day.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 10:12 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:10 PM (o7Ps5)
$200 is chump change for you, right? Another one of your reasons for being late? I was getting my money's worth?
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 10:12 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: pookysgirl at November 21, 2025 10:12 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (o7Ps5)
Well....
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 10:13 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 10:13 PM (L/fGl)
I went to supper tonight at a local restaurant. The table was very steady, but the CHAIR wobbled. What should I have done?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:13 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 10:06 PM (zZu0s)
Plotting.
Obviously.
Posted by: Methos, drinking and conspiracizing at November 21, 2025 10:13 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: pookysgirl at November 21, 2025 10:12 PM (Wt5PA)
My Aim Is True.
Posted by: Elvis Costello at November 21, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:13 PM (47diA)
Folded up your napkin and put it under a chair leg.
Posted by: pookysgirl should carry duct tape more often at November 21, 2025 10:15 PM (Wt5PA)
Some really funny stuff.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 10:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:16 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:10 PM (o7Ps5)
Looks like when her lung collapsed, it took her rack with it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: Ask The Cloud To Remember It at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:10 PM (ys6FW)
A wholesome post. Sometimes I get blackpilled. A post like this one makes it possible for me to struggle one more day.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
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We have been through for better and for worse. He still opens the car door for me. That is something sweet, even when he gets on my nerves, lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (ys6FW)
Rock on, Morons and 'ettes!
https://tinyurl.com/3f6yveya
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:18 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 10:18 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:19 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 10:19 PM (Wmg4n)
I've found out way too often around here to not go off half cocked and look something up.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 10:19 PM (AdHga)
Stupid
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (0RiMX)
It's a meeting of the Port au Prince chapter of Mensa.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:20 PM (npFr7)
Use that word in a sentence
You guys don't know? Penelope the platypus left the zoo, learned to walk on hind legs, and changed her name to Katie Porter.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:20 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:20 PM (47diA)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 21, 2025 10:20 PM (OGOaV)
I... guess? I think I'd knock and if no answer, open the door and peek in to see if there were urinals.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:21 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
We do have stingers so. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 10:21 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 10:22 PM (L/fGl)
We have been through for better and for worse. He still opens the car door for me. That is something sweet, even when he gets on my nerves, lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (ys6FW)
Love deepens, Mary. We are the lucky ones, my friend. It's still a lot of fun!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:22 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 10:22 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:21 PM (3nLb4)
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Urinals are a good tell, especially since tampon machines have gone bisexual.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:22 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:22 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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We do have stingers so. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 10:21 PM (cYBz/)
Is that what the cool kids call it now? Better than 'disposable'.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (gKDq2)
I... guess? I think I'd knock and if no answer, open the door and peek in to see if there were urinals.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:21 PM (3nLb4)
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Nah, Birds is for boys. After all, they have peckers.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (OGOaV)
It only takes an instant, to fk up (or end) your life.
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (0RiMX)
Don't know. Is Bill carrying a Bible?
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)
Wooden stake?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 21, 2025 10:24 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 10:24 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic
**********
You could always use a Club ONT bathroom token....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 21, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
All in all, an OK documentary. I recommend you take a look and make up your own minds about the slants taken within.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:24 PM (47diA)
Hillary the Hag had a coat made out of a rug. Probably from Epstein.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:24 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:22 PM (WONhk)
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Amen, Christy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:24 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 10:18 PM (zZu0s)
That could be true; however, most bees we see are female. Not too many drones in a bee colony.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 10:25 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:25 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:26 PM (3nLb4)
Which was written by Jews and is a Jewish Conspiracy. Think about it....
Posted by: Carlson Tucker, Qatar's bitch at November 21, 2025 10:26 PM (AdHga)
Once I saw him limping, dragging a leg while walking this way. Thought he was injured, but he was just trolling an old Yellow Lab from down the street to see if he would get chased, knowing he could outrun/out climb the doggie. Thought that showed some intelligence and it was kind of on my level.
Posted by: Assistant Troll at November 21, 2025 10:26 PM (oftw2)
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did you end up in the ladies ? you did , din't you
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:26 PM (g47mK)
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Really? Like what?
Posted by: The Peach and the Pickle at November 21, 2025 10:27 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:27 PM (o7Ps5)
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did you end up in the ladies ? you did , din't you
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:26 PM (g47mK)
Missing word or Freudian slip???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:27 PM (ULPxl)
I really don't want to get a new one because the one I am using is the last computer Dad got me, but randomly rebooting in the middle of things or just completely freezing up, well, it's a PITA.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:27 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:28 PM (ys6FW)
We won't have MTG to kick around anymore. She's resigning on January 5.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (oSeBJ)
you mess with the bull, you get the horns
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 10:28 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:25 PM
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Who says it's the torque converter?
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 10:28 PM (rdVOm)
I waited. A few seconds later he exited, not looking so confident.
I said 'oops.' He said 'oops.'
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:29 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 10:24 PM (3uBP9)
Sounds like something a Bond villain would say just after strapping 007 to one of those Rube Goldberg death devices.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:28 PM (ys6FW)
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But does the independent repair guy have an espresso machine in the waiting area? I thought not.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:13 PM (47diA)
Stop drinking? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (cQHrm)
I walked back to the table and asked one of my co-workers who had been to the place before. Once he explained the symbols, it sort of made sense. Another time however I just walked obliviously into the women's even though it was clearly marked. Fortunately no one was in there and I saw the marker when exiting.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:31 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:25 PM (ULPxl)
What kind of truck? Step one, add a bottle of automatic transmission treatment to the transmission. May help some seals to seal better. Step two, have fluid and filter changed. If taking the pan off reveals a large amount of black sludge, I'd suggest getting the transmission rebuilt. Find a good local transmission shop. Some of the Morons in your part of Texas could maybe give you a line on who to go to.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
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Who says it's the torque converter?
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 10:28 PM (rdVOm)
Mechanic at the dealer. I think a fluid flush can't hurt but this symptom started very recently, so I don't think I want them putzing around beyond that.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:31 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:32 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (oSeBJ)
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Birds and Blokes might have worked. The "Bees" makes no sense at all.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:32 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:33 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:27 PM (ULPxl)
in the laddies would have sounded even worse , no?
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:33 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 10:35 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (0RiMX)
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We use a mobile mechanic. He works in the front yard on our cars. A good Christian man who is honest. He is worth his weight I gold. If he wanted an espresso I'd find a way, lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:35 PM (ys6FW)
I've had good luck with Discount Electronics. Be sure to read the specs carefully though. If the description doesn't explicitly say something like "wifi" or "bluetooth" it doesn't have it.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:35 PM (3nLb4)
Entertained some EMT's who said everything was normal, which is a feat and cause for celebration. Son made me see my doc this week. Scared my grands, which broke my heart in pieces. I will heed the warning in the future (I feel hot when it's not hot).Rare.
Told my husband about my panic and he had me walk around the park today to prove that I am not dying (yet). And we will sit in the back of the church on Sunday to be safe, with a bottle of water in my purse.
Here I was very happy that the holidays are upon us. Carefree. Oh, no, said the doctors. You need this to finish out your wonky year!
While I hope all is normal and just one of my bi-decade faints, I also hope the cardiologist is busy til 2026. I have no symptoms and was dehydrated like last time. And I don't like early mornings with crap sleep. Plus being stupid. Very stupido to "push through."
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (WONhk)
Fluid flush, without filter change, is like washing your feet & putting dirty socks back on.
Stealerships are called *that* for a reason. If no longer under warranty, find a reputable shop.
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (rdVOm)
Some judge must have ordered it.
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (5Je/N)
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1h
Didn't see that coming... Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns as of Jan. 5th.
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (AOsQT)
I have a PC picked out. I'm a gamer, so need something along those lines. I just hate spending money. Windows is always destroying my computers in one way or another and I saw today that they admitted that Win11 is broken in all its different features. Should make them pay for my PC's.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:37 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:37 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Cecily and Gwendolyn Pigeon. at November 21, 2025 10:37 PM (oftw2)
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What kind of truck? Step one, add a bottle of automatic transmission treatment to the transmission. May help some seals to seal better. Step two, have fluid and filter changed. If taking the pan off reveals a large amount of black sludge, I'd suggest getting the transmission rebuilt. Find a good local transmission shop. Some of the Morons in your part of Texas could maybe give you a line on who to go to.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
'07 F150. I would have no clue about removing the pan myself unfortunately. Dealer is supposed to be doing the fluid flush so if that doesn't help then yeah, I'll go to a transmission shop. (Irritated that it came on so quickly, seemingly... mutter mutter...)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:37 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:38 PM (77rzZ)
Wish I could help you assemble a PC but that costs mucho major $$$.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:38 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at November 21, 2025 10:30 PM (oSeBJ)
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Birds and Blokes might have worked. The "Bees" makes no sense at all.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:32 PM (0RiMX)
It's the stinger.
Posted by: Methos, drinking and conspiracizing at November 21, 2025 10:38 PM (vSvIl)
I hope everything goes well for you and there aren't any new issues.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:38 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:39 PM (cQHrm)
Some judge must have ordered it.
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (5Je/N)
I've seen "pointers and setters". That one is obvious.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:39 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:39 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:39 PM (47diA)
Wait ... the phrasing on this sounds bad.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:40 PM (jc0TO)
Fluid flush, without filter change, is like washing your feet & putting dirty socks back on.
Stealerships are called *that* for a reason. If no longer under warranty, find a reputable shop.
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (rdVOm)
That AOP guy knows a thing or two about cars! I will ask to see if they replaced the filter as well. I did find three nearby transmission shops to check out so I have options.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:40 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:42 PM (47diA)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:39 PM (47diA)
They are charging - probably too much, but it's old enough to have graduated high school so long past warranty coverage. Definitely will try a transmission shop.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:43 PM (ULPxl)
Wish I could help you assemble a PC but that costs mucho major $$$.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:38 PM (cQHrm)
Yeah, I play mostly FFXIV. This last PC cost around $1500. Prices have only gone up, especially because of massive bitcoin farms. Sucks for us normal people who just want to play. Cyberpowerpc is where we have bought all our PC's from. They have great holiday sales, so I am looking.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:43 PM (2F0/Y)
By about Dec 15th, I begin to identify with Scrooge.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 21, 2025 10:43 PM (QCk9o)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:38 PM (2F0/Y)
Thank you. The rational side of my brain says all will be well. The insane bits freak out, although my EKG is "normally abnormal" with a LBBB for over 3yrs. Asymptomatic. I know what heart flutters feel like and I did not have them nor any signs of a MI. I just felt hot for 15min and knew better to ignore this, as it happened 4yrs ago with similar feelings. The first time I got the full ED work up of brain and heart. I was found to have both that were normal.
When the first people asked me questions and I answered fine and included that I was mortified, I passed the tests and got wheeled into the church library. Then I began the apology tour of apologizing to EMT's and anyone who looked at me.
Some days I should just stay in bed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:43 PM (WONhk)
Well, Morgan, I have a counterpoint: you only say that because you woke up inside. If you'd woken up outside to knee-deep snow, you'd know that you're almost definitely going to freeze to death, and it can't hurt too much to be pissed off about it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:43 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Barry Soetero at November 21, 2025 10:44 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:44 PM (jc0TO)
The fix is generally to take about 2/3rds of the women’s bathrooms and convert them to men’s. This results in some awkward moments.
M and W are often grouped so you’ll get ladies accidentally walking into the M next to the other M.
My first time I walked in, noticed no urinals, just stalls, stepped into a stall & took care of business. Turning around I noted a hook near the bottom of the stall door. “Hmm, what’s that, to hang something, a purse maybe… OH SHIT.” I tried stealthily running out. But double checked the sign and it was men’s.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 10:44 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Barry Soetero at November 21, 2025 10:44 PM (oftw2)
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You'll find those in the restroom marked LOLA.
Posted by: The Kinks at November 21, 2025 10:45 PM (0RiMX)
If I were you and money wasn't an issue, I'd see what's available for what prices on Black Friday.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:45 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: The Kinks at November 21, 2025 10:46 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: Barry Soetero at November 21, 2025 10:44 PM (oftw2)
Best meme I ever saw.
Grandpa Simpson is sitting on a tree stump with all the kids sitting on the ground, spread around him listening intently.
Grandpa says: "In my day, blowing a tranny was an automitive issue."
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 10:47 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:47 PM (cQHrm)
Correct. It's a circumstance that affects everybody. However, if I woke up and my neighbor has blown the shin-deep snow from his yard into mine making mine knee-deep, yeah, I'd be pretty pissed.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:47 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:37 PM (ULPxl)
It appears that would be a 4R75E transmission. Looks like a rebuilt one can be had for about 2000 dollars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:39 PM (ys6FW)
Thank you, Mary. It is not often I make a huge scene, but I made one. I am sure our 4yr old granddaughter told her PreK teacher that I briefly died the next day, bless her.
Sons laughed that I was immediately concerned if my underwear was showing when they flung me in the wheelchair across a pew. My second thought of vanity was when the EMT's put leads on my ankles that I had not put lotion on my legs that morning.
A day later I asked my husband if my mouth was open and if my tongue was hanging out.
I was brought up with cartoons and remember the drawings of dead people with tongues lagging and X for eyes. I guess I kept my mouth closed, for once.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:49 PM (WONhk)
By about Dec 15th, I begin to identify with Scrooge.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 21, 2025 10:43 PM (QCk9o)
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I have much gratitude for the blessings in my life. Thanksgiving is my favorite. I am glad for so much, and I thank God.
But my tolerance for the consumerist, gimme gimme bullshit of "The Holidays" is minimal.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 10:49 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 10:50 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:50 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:51 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 10:51 PM (tqX4N)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:44 PM (jc0TO)
You were:
a) behaving and minding your own bidness
b) not wearing a trench coat
c) not sticking your head under or over the stall
I would not be alarmed if I was the chick in heels.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:51 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:39 PM (47diA)
You should pay for a flush. Milking trannies for fluid is tough work; they squall and kick something fierce.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:52 PM (npFr7)
I guess that makes sense but I'd have peed my pants before thinking of it on my own.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:52 PM (3nLb4)
That company is having early black friday sales. One of their daily specials is a really nice monitor for free with a PC purchase. I'm debating whether to pick that special or the $100 off. I just can't seem to press the buy button. As I said, I really don't want to stop using my Dad's last PC to me. I'm so mad it's giving me issues and Dad couldn't get it fixed.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:52 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:52 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:53 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:53 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 10:47 PM (3nLb4)
If someone had blown Morgan Freeman on my lawn, I'd be pissed, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:54 PM (npFr7)
I play MMO's, never heard of that game lol
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:54 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:55 PM (cQHrm)
If someone had blown Morgan Freeman on my lawn, I'd be pissed, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:54 PM (npFr7)
LOL
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:55 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:38 PM (77rzZ)
Thank you. I need them to be my normally stoic self.
No matter what all will be well. I feel fine.
I admit to being a complete nitwit by not drinking my normal amount of water. However, once I woke up (about 2min) I was fine yet mortified.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:55 PM (WONhk)
Don't think Thanksgiving will be much fun this year. Everyone seems kinda down. Feels more like a "let's get through it" day.
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 10:56 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 10:57 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:53 PM (cQHrm)
I'm not sure, but the way I am set, I don't have room for two machines.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:58 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 10:54 PM (npFr7
OK, I laughed pretty hard at that.
I mean, someone blowing Morgan Freeman doesn't bother me. I'm sure it's happened many times. No problem with that. He's a man and he has needs.
But if it happened on my lawn, I'd be calling the cops to toss his black ass back into Shawshank.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:58 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:52 PM (cQHrm)
Could be! I am so used to males, one coming out of a stall while I was washing my hands would not faze me. Unless he was a moose limb with a machete. Then we'd have problems. Or a pervert. Or super ugly and unzipped.
A normal sheepish guy would make me laugh.
I think I've used unisex potties in Europe, but nothing happened that I can recall.
The one main potty I will remember in Europe was the self cleaning one in Paris. I was flipped out the entire wee that it would start cleaning with me in there. I was very fast.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:59 PM (WONhk)
I admit that growing up, one of my favorite times of the week every week, was the couple of hours *after* church. Always felt good and extra-relaxing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:59 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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One place I worked at had a sorta neat way to prevent really embarrassing incidents. The restrooms had a little vestibule as you opened the door. The men's room was painted a light blue, and the ladies was painted pink.
This really didn't help for visitors, but employees absorbed this unconsciously. When you pushed open the door, the "wrong" color woke up people running on automatic.
This was needed because, for some reason I never determined, in one building the men's was the left of two adjacent doors on the first floor, and on the right on the second floor.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 21, 2025 10:59 PM (QCk9o)
Seven horcruxes? Hmm.
1. A stone at Stonehenge.
2. That biggest pyramid at Giza.
3. A hydra — Hydras continuously replace every cell in their bodies, maintaining their telomeres at a constant length.
4. That one single seagrass plant in Western Australia’s Shark Bay, expanded over a stretch of 180 km making it the largest known plant on Earth, around 4,500 years old.
5. The AoS Moron Hive Mind.*
6. The Pacific Ocean.
7. The Moon.
*Alternately: People's gullibility.
One episode of Continuum left to watch. Guess I'll go do that. Later, gaitors.
Posted by: mindful webworker - laviosa manuali at November 21, 2025 10:59 PM (LaTF/)
My son and I both like single malt Scotch. He like Islays and I like Speysides. He keeps giving me Islays for Christmas. Should I disinherit him?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 11:00 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:00 PM (npFr7)
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Zijuatanejo
Posted by: Red at November 21, 2025 11:00 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: Weirddave at November 21, 2025 11:00 PM (df/te)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:00 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:00 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Joyenz
Have you opened up the case and blown out the dust recently?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 21, 2025 11:01 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:01 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Joyenz
Could be a faulty power supply.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:02 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at
My neighbors up the street had lights installed today from a professional company. It looks gorgeous.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 11:02 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:55 PM (WONhk)
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Christy, I've fallen out a couple of times in medical situations because I didn't eat breakfast. Once I woke up on the floor at my ophthalmologists. That was embarrassing.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:37 PM (g47mK)
Yes, ma'am! I want this done and dusted. I was able to laugh about it the next day, so that's normal for me.
Sorry to yap about it here.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Bond. James Bond at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Weirddave at November 21, 2025 11:00 PM (df/te)
I still drive to Tyler to get my haircut.
I'll probably try one of the closer transmission places for this issue, but would still appreciate getting his info because there's a couple things I'd like to have checked on my mom's car.Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (nbLIj)
It was funny until about 2015.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:04 PM (E0p3T)
Sorry to yap about it here.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (WONhk)
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Trust us. It will go no farther. HIPAA and all, you know.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:04 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 11:04 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:05 PM (cQHrm)
There is and they said the PC I picked is good for the price. These are people who spend $3-$4k on their rigs. I am just not willing to go beyond $1700.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:05 PM (2F0/Y)
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My neighbors up the street had lights installed today from a professional company. It looks gorgeous.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 11:02 PM (Wmg4n)
I'm lazy; mine are just a string across my front patio. I still like it!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:06 PM (ULPxl)
Ordinarily, I'd just install them while weather's good, but not switch them on until day after Thanksgiving. (Mom was adamant about waiting!)
Not this year, Mom. Sorry. Decorum be damned, I want the pretty colors *now!*
It helps drive away The Sadz.
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:06 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:03 PM (ys6FW)
Thanks. This makes me feel a bit better. I haven't felt this mortified since I messed up my cheer for tryouts in front of the entire HS...with the football players in the front rows. They all said they voted for me. In fact boys I never met said this. One guy told me years later, Mr. High School and football guy (I was sitting in his lap on New Year's Eve at a party) that he'd never forget it and remembers no one else's.
My almost 16yr old diary says it was the end of the world. I am not quite that dramatic this week, but close.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:06 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:44 PM (jc0TO)
You were:
a) behaving and minding your own bidness
b) not wearing a trench coat
c) not sticking your head under or over the stall
I would not be alarmed if I was the chick in heels.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 10:51 PM (WONhk)
40 years ago? Midnight showing of Rocky Horror? If so, may not have been a party foul.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 21, 2025 11:07 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 10:37 PM (ULPxl)
The mileage is a factor. After a certain amount, better shops will decline to service the transmission and will refer you straightaway to a transmission shop.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 11:07 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 11:08 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:05 PM (2F0/Y)
I wouldn't pick up a new PC until I verified it's not the power supply. You could get it done for a couple hundred total and get several more years out of it!
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:08 PM (E0p3T)
Trust us. It will go no farther. HIPAA and all, you know.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:04 PM (0RiMX)
I do love you Morons. Bigly. I always laugh when I read some of Ace's spectacular snark and the comments.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:08 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:08 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:05 PM (2F0/Y)
Well, there you go. I would second the thought that your PC power supply may be on the way out. Had to replace the one in this PC here earlier this year.
Not a gamer, so my computing needs are met by a ten year old machine running Linux Mint.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:10 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 21, 2025 11:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:10 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 11:04 PM (3uBP9)
I'm thinking of trying that as I think that was going to be Dad's last try to fix it, I just need to do some research before I totally screw this PC up and end up with a paperweight. My sister just needs to remember where she put the windows flash drive that came with this PC.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:10 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:06 PM (ULPxl)
A single knotted ball of lights is a beautiful modern esthetic and very classy actually.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 11:11 PM (3uBP9)
I play MMO's, never heard of that game lol
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 10:54 PM (2F0/Y)
It's an ancient game that the Disco and Dino have been using to tease me a bit on the ONTs this week.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 11:12 PM (o7Ps5)
Since the lights are just along the deck, I can look out the patio door and see them from the living room. Nice to glance out there from time to time.
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:12 PM (rdVOm)
He must ve like 137 now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (BI5O2)
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You know who else had a single ball?
*holds two fingers under nose*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (dyewR)
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The mileage is a factor. After a certain amount, better shops will decline to service the transmission and will refer you straightaway to a transmission shop.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 11:07 PM (wVcYX)
It's not quite to 170k, but I have made a few trips where I actually used it as a truck and not just an XL SUV.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (ULPxl)
I admit that growing up, one of my favorite times of the week every week, was the couple of hours *after* church. Always felt good and extra-relaxing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:59 PM (cQHrm)
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Wasn't because it was the longest possible time until more church, was it?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (OGOaV)
Goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow and weekend!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:10 PM (2F0/Y)
Well, as long as it continues to run at all, you should get some memory sticks or a USB hard drive, and copy all the files that you wish to preserve. Or clone the entire hard drive.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:14 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 11:14 PM (y3bZw)
Posted by: banana Dream
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Haha, I've always wanted to construct one of those "light balls" that's made from clear solo cups and a 50-count string of lights!
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:14 PM (rdVOm)
Also, if I wasn't in trouble, I was horribly relieved. My parents were HYPERsensitive about me and my sisters ever doing or saying anything wrong/embarassing. I couldn't even have gum without being told everyone could hear me chew.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:15 PM (cQHrm)
Since the lights are just along the deck, I can look out the patio door and see them from the living room. Nice to glance out there from time to time.
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:12 PM (rdVOm)
Sounds lovely.
We are short on snow in the Intermountain West. It is a bummer but I continue to have hope for Christmas.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:16 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (ULPxl)
4X4 or 2WD? Labor for transmission re & re is cheaper for the latter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:16 PM (npFr7)
He must ve like 137 now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (BI5O2)
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I saw him in something recently. I forget what it was. But, it was rather depressing. He's always been know for his voice in a narrative sense. Unique, excellent, almost calming. And, his voice is about the same. BUT, he obviously has dentures now, because he's lisping all over the place. It was distracting.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 11:16 PM (dIske)
I have also thought about taking it to the PC repair place up the street, I am just a bit uncomfortable with a stranger mucking around my stuff. Always worried about data being accessed when it shouldn't even be touched (yes I have trust issues).
I think I really want to fix this PC and that's why I just can't bring myself to buy the one I have looked at.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:16 PM (2F0/Y)
Love her, but man it made things stressful way back when.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:17 PM (cQHrm)
My almost 16yr old diary says it was the end of the world. I am not quite that dramatic this week, but close.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:06 PM (WONhk)
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I was a marching band nerd, so not a cheerleader. We learned in marching band not to stand with our knees locked, so as to not pass out.
I had to give myself injections for MS and could do that. Someone else doing it in a medical setting = I could pass out. It makes no sense.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:18 PM (ys6FW)
This article also says he was born in Memphis. That might make him history's oldest Memphian. I think the average lifespan in Memphis is 7.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:19 PM (BI5O2)
I know a bit about getting inside of PCs and futzing around. As others said, you may need a new power supply (easy to unplug, replace and reinstall) or maybe even just a dusting using some compressed air. Plus reinstalling the OS can't hurt.
If I were you, I'd try all three of these options before spending big bucks on a new machine. Just my two cents.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:20 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (ULPxl)
That sounds like you're in Go Directly To Transmission Shop territory. You could also see what Scotty Kilmer suggests. https://www.youtube.com/@scottykilmer
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 11:20 PM (wVcYX)
Windows and my main game are on the SSD. All my other files are on a separate HDD and I have an external HDD that I backup my internal HDD to every now and then. So if anything goes screwy with windows, my important stuff like pictures will remain untouched. The game is easy to just download and re-install.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:22 PM (2F0/Y)
It's a Yoko-free ONT
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
She will shuffle off this mortal coil at some point.
And, then, what would we do without her?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 21, 2025 11:23 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: qdpsteve
What he said... wrote.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 21, 2025 11:24 PM (mlg/3)
I'm in Southern Illinois. Shame all my gaming friends who really know computers live in coastal states and not nearby.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:24 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 21, 2025 11:01 PM (mlg/3)
First thing to check, absolutely. Take the unit outside, open it up, and brush out the motherboard, especially around the processor. Are all the fans running? Rebooting and lock ups usually indicate the processor is overheating. Check online for how to access your computer's BIOS diagnostics. Usually holding F10 while the unit reboots. Follow the menus from there..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 21, 2025 11:25 PM (nbLIj)
Speaking of Christmas lights, I'm breaking my long standing rule of not decorating for Christmas until at least the 2nd Sunday of Advent. My mom will be with us for Thanksgiving, and I thought it would be fun for her help. The star we have for our tree is a gaudy vintage disco version, where the cylinder inside spins and throws rainbows all over the ceiling. The kicker: it's the star my parents had the first Christmas after they married, in 1965. I have such fond childhood memories of the ghastly thing. 😎
Posted by: Effie Perrine at November 21, 2025 11:26 PM (1auMZ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:00 PM (ULPxl)
I like that tradition. Gotta leave them up till Epiphany so the wise men have time to get there.
Posted by: Emmie at November 21, 2025 11:26 PM (FMtrg)
Computer acting like it had a virus. Extremely bizarre inconsistent behavior, seemed like a software issue, and I couldn't solve it for three days. Tried everything.
It was the power supply.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:26 PM (E0p3T)
I had to give myself injections for MS and could do that. Someone else doing it in a medical setting = I could pass out. It makes no sense.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:18 PM (ys6FW)
What did you play? We had eight years of saxophone and/or trumpet with our sons.
Our house was noisy and our Golden hated the trumpet. All he had to do was see it out of the case and he took himself to his crate (in the trumpet boy's bedroom).
The trumpet was a more painful intrument for all of us to hear in the 7th grade.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:26 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:27 PM (KDPiq)
Nobody at work you can bribe ($50 and some pizza) to come over and take a look-see? :-)
And weft-cut, thanks. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:27 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Effie Perrine at November 21, 2025 11:26 PM (1auMZ)
Lovely! Enjoy!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:27 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:28 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:29 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 11:29 PM (hZbnZ)
As I have now cleaned out our attic to a pretty large extent, I now know where our outdoor decoration lights are.
Haven't told the missus that, however. Mr. and Mrs. KvC did not raise a complete dummy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 21, 2025 11:30 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:31 PM (cQHrm)
All fans running and temps are good to go. First thing Dad had me check. Will have to get my sister to dust it out again (been a bit). I'm disabled and the PC is heavy, so have to get her involved.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:31 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:13 PM (ULPxl)
4X4 or 2WD? Labor for transmission re & re is cheaper for the latter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:16 PM (npFr7)
4x4. Oh well...
I should probably call it a night or I will look just like Leo in the top pic!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 11:31 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:27 PM (KDPiq)
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People can be awful. God Bless.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:32 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 11:32 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:29 PM (ys6FW)
No, the woodwinds aren't bad for others to hear when learning. The trumpet, though!
Both of our sons are very good musicians, altho only one became professional briefly. I figured he'd end up busking in the NYC subways, but he got another degree like his brother and father.
You should dust your clarinet off and play!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:32 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 11:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 21, 2025 11:33 PM (OGOaV)
I remain steadfast in my admiration for whoever it was in the HQ that called Newscum a "brilliantine stick insect".
JJ seems to stand out I my mind as the originator of that apt descriptor.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 21, 2025 11:33 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 11:34 PM (hZbnZ)
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Yikes. Those old C9 bulbs get hot quickly. Shame the 5 y.o. was able to get to them.
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
Disabled and homebound. I only get to leave the house for doctor appointments every few months. No coworkers or even friends to bribe. lol Other than my sister, the PC is my social landline.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:34 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:35 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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Exactly!
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:36 PM (cQHrm)
When I asked the lady if the FD determined the cause she angrily relayed the cause as a string of outdoor lights that were stored in a box protected with crunched up newspaper and that her 5 year old grandson plugged in the lights. She added that she wasn't speaking to either her daughter or grandson . She wasn't a nice lady.
Posted by: the way I see it
Has it been pointed out to her that the numbskull who wrapped the lights in crumbled up newspaper bears more that passing blame for the unwelcome outcome?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 21, 2025 11:36 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:28 PM (cQHrm)
I agree. I'd rather wait on the front end and let them stay up into January, til about the Feast of the Baptism. Our parish priest keeps his up until Feb. 2, the Feast of the Presentation. Probably a bit too long for me.
Posted by: Effie Perrine at November 21, 2025 11:37 PM (1auMZ)
I've been toying with the idea of lining my eaves with those full- spectrum LED ribbons where you can change the colors/patterns, and using them for different holidays. Green and gold for St. Pat's, red, white and blue for Independence Day, etc.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:37 PM (BI5O2)
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The old bulbs were glass, so I can understand the newspaper for padding.
The real question, IMO, is:
Who was the numbskull, what left those things within reach of a 5 year-old?
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:38 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:39 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
That five year old is now 40 and grandma is probably dead. I'll always remember the hate I felt coming out of her about that poor kid .
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:39 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 21, 2025 11:36 PM (xG4kz)
Maybe she was right out of shredded asbestos. Nothing wrong with using crumpled newspaper as packing material for fragile glass bulbs. If one must assign blame, blame the party who left an attractive but dangerous object within reach of a 5-year old.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:40 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 21, 2025 11:36 PM (xG4kz)
Worse, she might have packed them that way!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 11:40 PM (hZbnZ)
I've been toying with the idea of lining my eaves with those full- spectrum LED ribbons where you can change the colors/patterns, and using them for different holidays. Green and gold for St. Pat's, red, white and blue for Independence Day, etc.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:37 PM (BI5O2)
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I've got a couple of neighbors who have done that. They even adjust them to team colors when our NFL team is playing.
Honestly, though, when it comes to Christmas, they give more of a Vegas vibe than a holiday vibe.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 21, 2025 11:43 PM (OGOaV)
I'll talk it over with my sister. She's tired from work and I hate having to bother her with things. Hopefully we can try fixing it before sales disappear.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:43 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 11:40 PM (hZbnZ)
She did . The kid went into a room he wasn't supposed to enter ( the creepy doll room).
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:44 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:44 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:31 PM (2F0/Y)
So probably not heat related. Power supply would be the next likely culprit. Are you running multiple displays? Any nonessential USB devices (mood lights? fans? coffee mug warmers - I've seen some stuff, man...)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 21, 2025 11:45 PM (nbLIj)
She's my caretaker. We live together. We're all we have now with both parents gone.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:47 PM (2F0/Y)
But I get it. You tell the kid a thousand times not to fuck around with power outlets, and then she does it anyway, and burns the house. Nobody's gonna be happy on that Christmas.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:47 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:39 PM (KDPiq)
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That is F'ed up. People and family situations are so often fucked up, pardon my French.. It's hard to see.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:47 PM (ys6FW)
Also, many boxes (unopened) of "100ct mini-lites" that were picked up at 90% off-- about 15 cents a string-- in the 90s.
🤷♀️
Late BF had plans for them. Never told me exactly what those plans were, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:32 PM (WONhk)
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After not playing for more years than I care to think about, I started playing French horn again. Even joined a local community band. So glad I did. I was surprised how much I missed playing in a group.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 21, 2025 11:48 PM (OGOaV)
What's the wattage rate on your power supply? Would you happen to know? You want to match the old one. For instance, replace a 500w with the same.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:48 PM (cQHrm)
Just one monitor and a mouse (no keyboard as I use the on-screen). My 4 fans and two RAM have lights.
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:49 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:51 PM (2F0/Y)
https://tinyurl.com/bdfa6sjd
Posted by: gp at November 21, 2025 11:52 PM (4kcNT)
Posted by: raimondo at November 21, 2025 11:56 PM (AQQSV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:58 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:58 PM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:59 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 11:59 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Let The Lower Lamps Be Burning. at November 21, 2025 11:59 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 21, 2025 11:59 PM (ys6FW)
He got busy livin'
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 22, 2025 12:00 AM (eStot)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 22, 2025 12:01 AM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 12:01 AM (CHHv1)
Holy crap, I'm dense. There's a Bass Pro Shop in Memphis TN in the shape of a pyramid and I never made the connection until just now.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 12:01 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 21, 2025 11:33 PM (OGOaV)
Similar to my "whenever the hell I feel like it" method of determining when the lights go away for the year.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 12:02 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 22, 2025 12:02 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 22, 2025 12:01 AM (CHHv1)
Well, Gavin sucks, so... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:02 AM (cQHrm)
Thanksgiving weekend has been my usual "finish cleaning up all the leaves time", over the years. It's all good.
I love being outdoors, even when it's cold. (but not *too* cold. 30F is about the lowest I can reasonably work in)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 12:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 12:01 AM (3nLb4)
I see that bad boy every year I'm driving to the MoMe.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 12:03 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 12:01 AM (3nLb4)
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The Memphis pyramid used to have museum exhibits. Mr Scary and I went to an Emporors of China thing there a gazillion years ago. It was our first date
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:05 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: alpine_beer at November 22, 2025 12:07 AM (van9r)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:07 AM (cQHrm)
Holy crap, I'm dense. There's a Bass Pro Shop in Memphis TN in the shape of a pyramid and I never made the connection until just now.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 22, 2025 12:01 AM (3nLb4)
I think it was a sports arena before Bass Pro Shop took it over.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 22, 2025 12:08 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:09 AM (4kcNT)
They acknowledge there's ego involved in her quitting, but also that MTG knew she's dead meat without Trump's endorsement. Looks like Marjorie might have helped keep her district red.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:10 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 21, 2025 11:49 PM (2F0/Y)
Ok, the best no-cost next step is the clean Windows install. The easiest (in terms of effort and aggravation level) is replacing the power supply. One of these will likely resolve the problem.
Is your system a Dell? HP? Gateway? (gad, I'm old..)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 22, 2025 12:10 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:11 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:07 AM (cQHrm)
They are building one about 20 minutes from me. I can't wait. They already broke ground and it looks like the shell is about done.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 12:11 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:13 AM (4kcNT)
I've been toying with the idea of lining my eaves with those full- spectrum LED ribbons where you can change the colors/patterns, and using them for different holidays. Green and gold for St. Pat's, red, white and blue for Independence Day, etc.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Clever and cool. New roof going on in a couple weeks, maybe I'll encourage the roofers with a couple of cases of beer to hang the lights.
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 12:13 AM (41CYW)
Turns out the toys in question can talk really dirty when prompted.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:15 AM (cQHrm)
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Bers, you should do a TX tour. Among your TX friends. I could direct you to a big Cabelas and awesome BBQ.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:18 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 22, 2025 12:10 AM (nbLIj)
Custom built CyberPowerPC
Posted by: Joyenz at November 22, 2025 12:18 AM (2F0/Y)
Not to mention phoning home everything they hear and see.
Parents, get your kids a chemistry set, or an erector set, or a heathkit, or something.
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:19 AM (4kcNT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:19 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:21 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:22 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:21 AM (viF8m)
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I don't care about Bass Pro but the Keys are on my bucket list. Next year, hopefully.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:23 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:11 AM (cQHrm)
I think that was my 486. Paired it with a dot matrix printer. What can I say? I was single and flush with cash...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 22, 2025 12:24 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:25 AM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:21 AM (viF8m)
Sport-fishing is haram.
Posted by: Islamoradon't at November 22, 2025 12:26 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:26 AM (4kcNT)
I remember being excited about my new 28.8 kbps modem in 1996.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:27 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:22 AM (cQHrm)
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The Cabelas in Buda , TX had a cafe until covid but no longer.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:27 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Megthered at November 22, 2025 12:27 AM (OTKIw)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:28 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:19 AM (4kcNT)
Bag of glass?
Posted by: Irwin Mainway at November 22, 2025 12:29 AM (nbLIj)
Nuts and blots and screws and gears,
the French horn sections full of queers.
SOUND OFF!
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 12:30 AM (sPsWv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:31 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:31 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:32 AM (ys6FW)
(And not in the restrooms, wink wink)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:33 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:25 AM (hZbnZ)
Yeah, I see it. BTW, isn't that Ted Cruz?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 12:34 AM (npFr7)
Never seen anything like it.
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:34 AM (4kcNT)
You can’t or aren’t allowed to give those sorts of gifts to children anymore. Too dangerous: chemistry or erector set, or out of business: Heathkit.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:35 AM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:35 AM (ys6FW)
Never seen anything like it.
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:34 AM (4kcNT)
Hmmm... did they mess with the Hadron Collider agin then?
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2025 12:36 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:37 AM (4kcNT)
How do you count fudge?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:38 AM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 12:38 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:18 AM (ys6FW)
I always wanted to stop, but since I'm like 3 frigging AUs from the mome the timing never works out. When I used to drive straight through I would be passing the pyramid in the wee hours. Now that I break up the drive, I don't hit my first stop in ketucky until around 10-11pm, and from there I don't get to the mome area until around 9-10pm, and I usually hit the mome site first thing just to drop off things before hitting the hotel. Any delay along the way just screws up the timing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 12:39 AM (snZF9)
Great place but every Key is different.
Have fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:39 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:40 AM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2025 12:42 AM (mlg/3)
It was like an H G Wells novel where the Earth passes through the tail of a noxious comet. The sudden and complete Establishment surrender to the Woke Insanity was ... well, it was fucking insane.
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:42 AM (4kcNT)
You can’t or aren’t allowed to give those sorts of gifts to children anymore. Too dangerous: chemistry or erector set, or out of business: Heathkit.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:35 AM (hZbnZ)
Erector has merged with Meccano (once the Brit counterpart to Erector). Still in business, can be bought on Amazon. Now includes some robotics.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 12:42 AM (npFr7)
This is the key.
And FFS parents, if your lucky enough to have a kid like this, support him. Don't be all whacked out because he may not have a lot of friends, doesn't like sports and likes to read and OMG, he might be a nerd!
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 12:42 AM (sPsWv)
Great place but every Key is different.
Have fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:39 AM (viF8m)
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I want to see Dry Tortugas. We can make it happen. It sounds like a cool place
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:43 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:43 AM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 12:43 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:43 AM (ys6FW)
The Wet Tortugas has better bars, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 12:44 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:46 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:43 AM (hZbnZ)
01101 01001 00010 10011 10000
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:46 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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I pause when the brain goes to the ladder. It looks at me smugly, almost mockingly. Vertical duel.
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 12:46 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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I wonder how well "Command" hangers would hold up, outdoors?
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 12:46 AM (4kcNT)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 12:43 AM (snZF9)
The new LED outdoor lights weigh next to nothing. Maybe plastic hooks attached with double-face foam sticky tape?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 12:47 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 12:47 AM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Let The Lower Lamps Be Burning
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Incandescent bulbs, no doubt. Under the heading "now you tell.me", or, "a little late, there buddy"....
Incandescent lifetime is highly determined by the voltage they are operated at. Of course, so is light output, so that lights that are used for illumination can't be operated at lowered voltage because that affects their utility. Decorative bulbs, OTOH, can have their lifetime extended by dropping the incoming voltage. A 5% drop in voltage will drop brightness by about 15-20%, but double the lifetime.
If there was a screwup.in manufacturing, and you actually have a 51or 52 light string, this might explain it. Or, it just might mean that you got an bunch of exceptionally lomg.lived bulbs.
I remember reading about a bulb over the stage door of a theater in Ft Worth that, except for power outages and blackouts during WWII, had been burning for over a hundred years.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 22, 2025 12:47 AM (QCk9o)
"Command" products are available in Outdoor version!
https://tinyurl.com/mr2tmw45
(goes to AMZ)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
WTF are those?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 12:50 AM (snZF9)
It is.
You should have seen Key West 30 years ago.
But the whole place is still pretty good.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Clamps. That's what's holding the solar panels on my standing seam metal roof.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 22, 2025 12:52 AM (QCk9o)
Turns out the toys in question can talk really dirty when prompted.
Posted by: qdpsteve
Not to mention phoning home everything they hear and see.
Parents, get your kids a chemistry set, or an erector set, or a heathkit, or something.
Posted by: gp
Well, they had to out-creepy Mattel's vibrating Harry Potter broom from 2002 at some point.
Posted by: mikeski at November 22, 2025 12:52 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: pawn at November 22, 2025 12:52 AM (sPsWv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division -
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There were those projector things a few years back.
Best bet is to move to BFE. No expectations of fantastical Christmas decor. Guessing few rules against.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 12:52 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: mikeski at November 22, 2025 12:52 AM (nhCoE)
Still got mine!
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at November 22, 2025 12:53 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 12:54 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 12:47 AM (npFr7)
Hmm, thats a possibility.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 12:54 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ
WTF are those?
Posted by: Berserker
Plastic hooks held up by 3M double-sided tape.
Posted by: mikeski at November 22, 2025 12:55 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:56 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Said no one ever at November 22, 2025 12:56 AM (AgieO)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 12:59 AM (rdVOm)
But the whole place is still pretty good.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 12:50 AM (viF8m)
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Key West sounds kinda sorta gay. I'd still like to see it. Guessing Mararhon would be more my jam.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:00 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Berserker
Plastic hooks held up by 3M double-sided tape.
Posted by: mikeski
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Sort of. The adhesive is removeable, without damaging surfaces. I have used these (indoors), and they really work!
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 22, 2025 01:02 AM (pIfcn)
I've heard great things about their jerky, fudge, sandwiches, etc. Yes I like food. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:02 AM (cQHrm)
My little sister called spaghetti "pusgetties".
If you deny this, your are a liar and was never a little kid
Posted by: Miklos speaks TRUTH at November 22, 2025 01:04 AM (u+AWT)
It's just sour grapes from the Stuckey's Snobs.
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 01:05 AM (4kcNT)
I've heard great things about their jerky, fudge, sandwiches, etc. Yes I like food. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:02 AM (cQHrm)
The new way I go to the mome had me missing the Buc-ees I would normally stop at before hitting the nashville area. I was bummed, but they built a new one thats 10 miles from my hotel in kentucky, so I hit that this year. Can never get out of there without spending $100 though. Yeah, its something to see. The bathrooms are nicer than I have seen on some cruise ships.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 01:06 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:06 AM (npFr7)
I would also like to visit Peter Luger's in Vegas, and a number of other food places/restaurants, plus a number of entire locales, such as Lake Tahoe.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:06 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Berserker
Plastic hooks held up by 3M double-sided tape.
Posted by: mikeski
Sort of. The adhesive is removeable, without damaging surfaces. I have used these (indoors), and they really work!
Posted by: JQ
I've never tried to remove them, since my windows don't move around very often, but I use them as curtain tie-backs.
Posted by: mikeski at November 22, 2025 01:08 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:08 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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So, like the *opposite* of most current "UV-cured" adhesives...
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos sez at November 22, 2025 01:09 AM (u+AWT)
I've heard great things about their jerky, fudge, sandwiches, etc. Yes I like food. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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I'm in TX and Buc-ees is local. I find it fascinating that people would drive out of their way to get Beaver nuggets. Those things are just wrong. But the jerky is good. People are very nice. The gas is cheap.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:09 AM (ys6FW)
If you deny this, your are a liar and was never a little kid
Posted by: Miklos speaks TRUTH
I've heard that, but pre-school mikeski called it "sketti." Maybe a difference in dialect.
Posted by: mikeski at November 22, 2025 01:10 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:06 AM (cQHrm)
Well apparently they will be building a Bucees in Goodyear, Arizona, so there will be one within a day's drive for before long.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:10 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:11 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)
You got it! Like the difference between thermoplastics, and thermo-setting plastics. The former can be remelted and reshaped, the latter, not so much.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:12 AM (npFr7)
My besties now live in Marathon.
Depends about what you want to do on vacation. If you want to fish Marathon and the mid Keys are fantastic. If you want to party Key West is a blast. A lot more history cause or old man in the sea and stuff.
The Keys aren't that big. But as diverse as San Diego to San Fransisco. Depends on what you want.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 01:12 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: mikeski
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I used them for hanging pictures in Dad's room at his nursing home, & put a couple up for robe & coat hanging. Took them down after he died... no problem. Didn't leave any marks or take off any paint.
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
I can kinda understand it. All we have around here is beaver bits, and instant beaver powder. Nuggets rock.
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 01:12 AM (4kcNT)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:12 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Comment hit the curiosity brain cell - made me go reading, AOP. UV polymers. Or photopolymers. Pretty interesting.
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 01:13 AM (41CYW)
But I've shared this before.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:13 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 01:15 AM (4kcNT)
Have you been to The Wiener's Circle?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:16 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve
Whoa, he left that curve ball right over the plate.....
Posted by: mikeski at November 22, 2025 01:17 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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All the blog talk about it leading up to TX MoMe X, the steering wheel veered in. Jerky was good. Fudge pretty good. Brisket sammich - yeah, it got inhaled.
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 01:18 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 01:13 AM (41CYW)
Yeah, I know there are polymers that can be catalyzed by UV. I don't know if there are any that are reversible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:18 AM (npFr7)
From Instapundit.
Probably helps explain the whole tearing off faces and genitals aspect of Chimp culture too. Or maybe that aspect of their culture helps explain the constant drinking. It's hard to explain which came first, the monkey or the egg. Or something.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 22, 2025 01:19 AM (NehaE)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 01:12 AM (viF8m)
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I really just want to look at the ocean. I don't need bars or entertainment. Looking at the ocean is my jam. Snorkeling in the aDry Tortugas sounds fun. I'd love to camp there but that sounds complicated without a boat.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:21 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 22, 2025 01:19 AM (NehaE)
Wasn't there a Tarzan movie in which Cheetah got snapped up drinking fermented coconut milk?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:21 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:22 AM (U5+2P)
https://www.inspiremore.com/eternal-light-bulb/
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 22, 2025 01:23 AM (hZbnZ)
Not yet. Last place I ate there was cuban cuisine at Foster and Lincoln, couple years ago. I like all the little ethnic joints. Devon Ave has lots of S Asian etc.
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 01:24 AM (4kcNT)
Clean fire priming mix was hygroscopic, so needed to be sealed from moisture. A ring of tarry substance was applied inside the case mouths, to prevent moisture entry around the lead. A drop of UV-cured sealant was applied to the primer/case head, to prevent entry around the primer.
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 01:25 AM (4kcNT)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:21 AM (ys6FW)
Quick internet search shows several charter boat operations out of Key West serving Dry Tortugas, and overnight stays are possible. Not sure about camping, but it is a National Park.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:25 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
And they supposedly have great hot dogs, but oh man do they hate Trump. All their insult jokes have to do with him. No biggie, I have zero plans to ever set foot in Chicago anyway.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:27 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 01:27 AM (4kcNT)
;-)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 01:27 AM (AdHga)
I get it. That's exactly why I live where I do.
You might like this place.
https://www.hawkscay.com
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 01:28 AM (viF8m)
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"But are there “multiple” Joe Biden’s being played by Actors in Masks?
That is NOT an unreasonable thing to believe.
That’s not just my opinion, that is former CIA “Chief of Disguise” telling you that Mask technology has become SO GOOD that she briefed President Bush (41) face to face (so to speak) while wearing a Mask and he couldn’t tell!
Understand that Bush Sr. was back in the 1990s.
If the CIA had human Mask technology so good in the 1990s that it could fool the President when face-to-face with him, what do you think we have now?
I’ll show you some stunning videos below, but first here is more detail from ChatGPT about CIA Former Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez and her role in creating the most lifelike human masks in history: "
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https://tinyurl.com/4kdf55bh
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 01:29 AM (U5+2P)
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 01:18 AM (41CYW)
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I live in an area where Buc-ees and BBQ are kind of---expected. I really hope to make a BBQ offering to the next MoMe. This year was rushed for me and I was sorry for that.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:30 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 01:30 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:30 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:12 AM (ys6FW)
I grabbed a couple bags of those on my way back from the mome. I just opened the last bag a few nights ago when a friend was over. I said these are crack. He looks at me and says huh? I said just try them. He ate a few, and it looked like he had a religious experience. He looks at me and says, oh yeah, crack. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 01:32 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 01:33 AM (4kcNT)
One day... One day...
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)
https://www.hawkscay.com
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 01:28 AM (viF8m)
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How beautiful.
*Frantically scribbles ideas for next FL trip*
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:35 AM (ys6FW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:37 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Joyenz at November 22, 2025 01:39 AM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:40 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 22, 2025 01:21 AM (npFr7)
One time I was on a cruise, I think we stopped at puerto rico. I went into a liquor store and was looking around. The dude who works there starts talking to me. one thing leads to another and suggests something that you can't get in the states. he shows me a bottle with an elephant on the label with the big ears, and what looks like some kind of fruit at his feet. The stuff was called Amarula, and you can actually get it here now. I said whats the deal with this? He tells me it's a fruit that grows wild, and they never did anything with it, but it would ferment, the elephants would eat it, get twisted, and then go stampede villages, so now they cultivate it so it don't lay around for the elephants to get it. I said just for that story alone I'm buying it. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 01:41 AM (snZF9)
*Frantically scribbles ideas for next FL trip*
Trust me. You'll have great time.
Did I mention you can meet dolphins?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 01:43 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:46 AM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 22, 2025 01:40 AM (cQHrm)
I think this house stole the next 5 years of nice vacations.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 01:47 AM (snZF9)
Have lived in Japan, have lived in Hawaii, have lived in Florida... Not really interested in Yurrup anymore.
Russia intrigues me, but I'd want to learn the language first, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 01:50 AM (rdVOm)
Another spectacular shot from Andrew McCarthy -- he's getting damned good:
https://is.gd/jblAHd
All that is out there in the night sky, just very faint and it takes crazy long exposures to get it, but it's there, color and all. Someone remarked that it looks we're inside a living organism of sorts.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 22, 2025 01:50 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 01:43 AM (viF8m)
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Don't tease me, sir.
*sobs*
It sounds awesome. We have FL family with a boat. It could happen.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 01:51 AM (ys6FW)
Russia intrigues me, but I'd want to learn the language first, LOL.
Posted by: JQ
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Japan is moving up my list. Scampywife default response to any/all travel is, "Let's go."
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 01:56 AM (41CYW)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:01 AM (U5+2P)
We lived at Misawa, so Lake Towada & Oirase river just a short drive away. Hachinohe for shopping. We didn't spend any time "South" like Tokyo or Kyoto... it was more fun to grab a map and hit the road!
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 02:02 AM (rdVOm)
Didn't mean to tease at all. It's a really nice place almost exactly in the middle of the Keys. And they have dolphins you can meet or at least did last time I was there.
I think you will enjoy it.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 02:03 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 02:03 AM (AdHga)
It's syrupy thick on application. It won't withstand several washings but it's a better band aid through the day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:05 AM (U5+2P)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 02:06 AM (rdVOm)
A weather balloon struck a United jet at 36,000', smashing the windshield:
https://is.gd/tB6s7K
Look at the pictures of the pilot's arm there. They didn't know what the object was at first, and thought it might have been a piece of deorbiting space junk. That is a small, but increasingly likely possibility.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 22, 2025 02:07 AM (w6EFb)
Or in the desert. Sand and a wide open sky is also nice.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 22, 2025 02:09 AM (ys6FW)
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Thanks for that!
My problem is that I must wash hands frequently, due to getting dirty/ handling who-knows-what/ and meal preps... consequently, my skin dries out and cracks when weather is cold and dry here. Can't keep lotion on long enough to do its job.
So-- superglue, applied with toothpick into the splits. Holds skin together long enough to heal. Otherwise, split & bleed, re-split & bleed, re-split & bleed... OUCH!
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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I think we chatted about this a few years ago. I had business in Bandon for a 12 year stretch. Have over 100 rounds there. It really is worth it. If / when you decide to go, shoot me an email. Might be able to assist with lodging.
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 02:12 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: JQ
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Never tried superglue. It's on my list.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:15 AM (U5+2P)
A weather balloon struck a United jet at 36,000', smashing the windshield:
https://is.gd/tB6s7K
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If the window failed it would have been catastrophic.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:17 AM (U5+2P)
Posted by: scampydog
It's awesome. Lived there for a few years. Don't stay in Tokyo. Get on the train and go elsewhere. Kanazawa. Etc.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2025 02:18 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Get the smallest tubes you can find-- cheaper and less waste. Don't know if you saw my post about finding 4-packs of tiny tubes at H freight for (used to be...) about a dollar.
Clean the wound well, dry thoroughly, then apply glue. Squeeze & hold it shut for a few seconds, and dab away excess glue with paper towel. Careful to not glue together anything you *don't want* glued together, LOL.
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Cool, you lived there. The Horde has been amazingly helpful with travel recommendations. If we get it on the docket, will hit you and the Horde up for insider advice.
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 02:26 AM (41CYW)
https://tinyurl.com/paktd2jh
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 02:27 AM (4kcNT)
https://is.gd/tB6s7K
Look at the pictures of the pilot's arm there. They didn't know what the object was at first, and thought it might have been a piece of deorbiting space junk. That is a small, but increasingly likely possibility.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 22, 2025 02:07 AM (w6EFb)
Reason #37368 I'm not into flying anymore. Its just fucked up out there anymore. Fly the mayhem skies.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 02:27 AM (snZF9)
It is a lovely place.
You're welcome in this part of the coast anytime.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 22, 2025 02:29 AM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/paktd2jh
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 02:27 AM (4kcNT)
Well, technically, the dude was an asshole. All hell is breaking loose and it looks like he decides to check his tires. I do have a friend with luck like that, only he would have gotten hit by an airplane and a building after the tornado, fire, and tree.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 22, 2025 02:31 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 02:32 AM (4kcNT)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 02:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 22, 2025 02:34 AM (0nHVk)
Using tracking data, Bloomberg reports the sanctioned tanker Seahorse has attempted to approach Venezuela three times, and each time the U.S. destroyer USS Stockdale has “positioned itself in the path” of the tanker.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:34 AM (U5+2P)
It's late and I'm tired after all the yard work today. Sleepy, even! Hoping to stay asleep all night this time.
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 02:36 AM (rdVOm)
Elon is at 144 launches for 2025, and they'll probably hit 156 by year's end. He's making this routine.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 22, 2025 02:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 02:39 AM (4kcNT)
That balloon belonged to some start-up weather data company. They sounded like they were quite responsible and did the right thing, noticing the incident and realizing it was one of theirs.
I wonder if that was a rookie mistake, or if there's just a lot more such balloons being launched now or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 22, 2025 02:41 AM (w6EFb)
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Crude Tanker Order Book Hits Nine-Year High as Fleet Renewal Accelerates
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:42 AM (U5+2P)
Posted by: gp at November 22, 2025 02:43 AM (4kcNT)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 22, 2025 02:45 AM (/AUU2)
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The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone offloaded approximately 49,010 pounds of illicit narcotics worth more than $362 million at Port Everglades this week, representing the most cocaine seized by a single cutter in one patrol in Coast Guard history.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 02:46 AM (U5+2P)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 22, 2025 02:48 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 02:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Interesting. Need to read. I track TEU's inbound from Asia, which do not move fuel (generally) - they were down 18% in Oct.
Posted by: scampydog at November 22, 2025 02:50 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2025 02:50 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: JQ at November 22, 2025 02:54 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 22, 2025 02:50 AM (mlg/3)
Yeah, Rancho Cucamonga is the real California.
Posted by: Keep It Real at November 22, 2025 02:59 AM (MxJlL)
Justice SAM ALITO issued the order. The map is BACK, for now, while SCOTUS formally considers the appeal.
Great news. Now KEEP it that way and overturn California's!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 03:04 AM (U5+2P)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 22, 2025 03:12 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 22, 2025 03:14 AM (U5+2P)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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I think we chatted about this a few years ago. I had business in Bandon for a 12 year stretch. Have over 100 rounds there. It really is worth it. If / when you decide to go, shoot me an email. Might be able to assist with lodging.
Posted by: scampydog
Yea, I think I have the money to do it, I just don't have the time off. Beltway Banditry isn't all the reliable so it's hard to plan ahead something like this. More of a time issue than finance.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 22, 2025 03:16 AM (AdHga)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 03:59 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip at November 22, 2025 04:00 AM (+qU29)
Power to the doctors NOW!
Full disclosure: I am a doctor myself, and the picture is inverted.
Posted by: Anacleto Mitraglia at November 22, 2025 06:12 AM (sD3wq)
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (RfDQK)
But what I really wanted to do was keep talking about the Trump/Mamdani convo.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (RfDQK)
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Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (WFC1M)
Cat on ledge. He had just set down his old-fashioned and was reaching for a pack of Lucky Strikes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (3uBP9)
Who else thought of Snow White (or Sleeping Beauty?) when they saw the pic?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 07:27 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (tgvbd)
I may need to go and meet her this weekend.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (k05yp)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)
So it actually happened?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Yes, apparently, and I'm surprised it didn't get more coverage. Trump was his usual happy, cordial, approving self, but he was like that with that North Korean leader, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (RfDQK)
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Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (tgvbd)
Everything's a brave new world for puppies.
Imagine if babies could walk in a week.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (hZbnZ)
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aww, those poor creatures
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (cQHrm)
In Dubai there's two brothels: one that rents women, one that rents sheep/goats.
Guess which one does better business?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
The "kill 'em with kindness " offense.
Posted by: Tuna at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (0aYVJ)
In Tad Williams' epic fantasy Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, there's a Sithi (elven) community whose name translates into "Boat on the Ocean of Trees."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (IBQGV)
Who else thought of Snow White (or Sleeping Beauty?) when they saw the pic?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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I think that Neushcshehchwwanhfeeisflll actually was the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's castle.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (RfDQK)
Wanted to ask you and others if you've seen any good movies lately. This year I've actually kind of wanted to see Weapons, Eddington, and maybe Bugonia.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (cQHrm)
Everything's a brave new world for puppies.
___________
House time for little puppies is as charming as it is destructive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (hZbnZ)
It means not very powerful. A computer that could run satisfactorily on the voltage output of one of the potato batteries everyone made in grade school science.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (3uBP9)
Guess which one does better business?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (cQHrm)
The one the imam visits? Halal and all that.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:33 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)
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Oh, sure it's the CASTLE that was under "renovation" and not the monster. That's what they want you to believe.
The Monster was getting some monumental upgrades.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:33 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (0714D)
Blonde Morticia, me too.I thought the dynamics of PDT sitting and Mayor jihadi standing was most interesting.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I noticed that. And Trump gave him a pat on the arm in what seems to be the most standout moment of their presser.
Reporter: "Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?"
Mamdani: (starts uttering some glib syllables)
Trump: "It's okay, just say it haha. It's easier."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:35 PM (RfDQK)
Bif: what no public septic tank duty?
Posted by: qdpsteve
That was the 1st SGT's favorite punishment. I used to step out of the maintenance platoon's ECP and walk over to Shitter Row, and help the junior NCO punishment detail stir the shit in the barrels. Completely undermined that asshole. If Chief Bif wanted something in Bartertown, Chief Bif got it.
Commander asked me once why, i told him the !st SGT was playing favorites and abusing his authority. I was merely offsetting his BS to keep the unit functional.
Y'all may remember me talking about some of my troop's misbehaviours. My fuel handler was the one firing his .45 ACP through the roof of the all grader's club at Ft. Bliss. One of the launcher platoon's crew was the one stabbing randos on Dyer street.
Bc bailed them out, busted them with company grade ucmj...then told them they belonged to Chief. If Chief said they were worthy, they got a 2nd chance.
Yes. Yes, i was the unit boogey man.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (gKWVE)
:-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (cQHrm)
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I just read a story where a man puts on a ring like that and inadvertently summons the attention of Hastur the Unspeakable.
To escape Hastur's attention, the protagonist uses the ring to transport himself to the realm of Shub-Niggurath. It doesn't go well for him there and he transports back, where Hastur awaits....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (IBQGV)
Neuschwanstein was pretty cool.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)
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Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:39 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (BW+Gb)
As do all boys. Younger son would descend into what we called The Monkey Hour.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (0714D)
Arent we all?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s)
These later castles are really palaces. They are for show not defense.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (hZbnZ)
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Hunting lodge >>>> Castle
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (tgvbd)
You said the name thrice.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 07:38 PM (gKWVE)
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Uh, oh...Why is it suddenly so cold in here?
Did you hear that noise? Sounded like a low, evil chuckle....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:42 PM (hZbnZ)
I think the last person in an iron lung has died. Most weren't in it all the time, just when they needed the extra help breathing. There was an interesting article a year or so on what they had to do to k(+mUZM)eep an iron lung working, since the companies that made them are no longer in business.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM
In the Western Development Museum in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, there is an iron lung that was hand-built by a local farmer to save the life of his 5 year-old daughter who was stricken with polio. He used an electric motor and a washing machine gearbox. It worked, and saved the girl's life, and she was able to recover.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:43 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Concerned Viewer at November 21, 2025 07:43 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)
I knew a lady who went to Scotland, and she sent me a pic of her and her husband in the Camelot Castle, standing in that alcove where the knights were singing. She confirmed that it was a silly place.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:44 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at November 21, 2025 07:45 PM (oftw2)
I knew a lady who went to Scotland, and she sent me a pic of her and her husband in the Camelot Castle, standing in that alcove where the knights were singing. She confirmed that it was a silly place.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)
Morticia typing with her feet again. There's a glitch in her matrix, I think.
Posted by: Concerned Viewer
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You have to literally jump on first.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)
I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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From what I've read, they're very uncomfortable and stupidly laid out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That part was filmed in a very old castle in Scotland.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:48 PM (0aYVJ)
she was able to recover.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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WHOA. Like she got out of the iron lung and went on to live normally?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)
One of the tricks of the fae: they offer you a castle but not the means to support it so that you wind up in debtor’s prison, poorer than you were. Oh, you should call them the neighbors, or such like, and never tell them your name. Basically never ask for or accept gifts, especially from the “neighbors”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)
"Immunity, bitchez! Woooo!"
Posted by: PabloD at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (Ep1e/)
From what I've read, they're very uncomfortable and stupidly laid out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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So am I.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at November 21, 2025 07:45 PM (oftw2)
Where's 'Penguin Facts' when you need him, huh?
Probably down at that beach chomping on fish.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That part was filmed in a very old castle in Scotland.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:48 PM (0aYVJ)
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Critical Drinker recently posted a video showcasing some of the famous Scottish locations that have appeared on film. That castle was definitely part of his tour.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (IBQGV)
I found it at Instagram.
* * * * *
Dear Santa,
When I was a child, my father cheated on my Mom. Later, my parents divorced.
Soon after, my mother died in a car accident.
My brother and I could only live in my grandma's old house.
Grandma's sister was an alcoholic. The whole family lived on my grandma's savings. Grandma recently died.
My Uncle Andy is barely keeping himself out of jail from day to day.
My brother left home and won't talk to us any more.
Dad, now 74, had to go out to work to support the family and eventually he is going to want me to do the same thing.
Yours sincerely,
Prince William
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (cQHrm)
Tutto nella Antarctica, niente al di fuori della Antarctica, nulla contro la Antarctica!
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (mADJX)
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The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
We dance when e'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
[dancing]
We're knights of the Round Table.
Our shows are formidable,
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable.
We're opera mad in Camelot.
We sing from the diaphragm a lot.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 07:51 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 07:51 PM (XP5BY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (hZbnZ)
"Immunity, bitchez! Woooo!"
Posted by: PabloD at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (Ep1e/)
That's more of a Russian thing to do these days.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (3uBP9)
Kind of a pattern, huh?
I liked when he kept insisting Momdani was the leader of the Democrat Party. A socialist.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (viF8m)
Most of the right seems to be trying to make it the commie bitching out and Trump patting his head.
That could be good optics.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)
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Never, ever deal with a fae. The ultimate price is far less than you can believe, yet far, far more than you can possibly afford.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: The Great Northern Italian Cat-Sitting Service at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Penguin Advancement League at November 21, 2025 07:53 PM (vL0rw)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (RfDQK)
I believe so. She may have had some lingering paralysis, I don't know. As I understand it, if your immune system conquers the polio virus, you can regain some of your lost muscular control.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:53 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)
The old Indian (dot, not feather) 'white elephant' trick. A raja giving an elephant as a gift to some underling, a real honor. The expense of the elephant maintainance kept him in check.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (gKDq2)
"Can you fly, Mammi?"
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (cQHrm)
"Tancredi wanted Angelica to know the whole palace with its inextricable complex of guest rooms, state rooms, kitchens, chapels, theaters, picture galleries, odorous tack rooms, stables, stuffy conservatories, passages, stairs, terraces and porticoes, and particularly a series of abandoned and uninhabited apartments which had not been used for many years and formed a mysterious and intricate labyrinth of their own. Tancredi did not realize (or he realized perfectly well) that he was drawing the girl into the hidden center of the sensual cyclone; and Angelica at that time wanted whatever Tancredi did. Their wanderings through the almost limitless building were interminable; they would set off as if for some unknown land, and unknown indeed it was because in many of those apartments and corners not even Don Fabrizio had ever set foot (a cause of great satisfaction to him, for he used to say that a palace of which one knew every room wasn’t worth living in)." - Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 07:55 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 07:57 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:58 PM (hZbnZ)
It was too cloudy here tonight, but one of my things of late is to see how thin of a "young" Moon crescent I can see right before sunset.
Any of you out mid to west where it's clear might catch it just before sunset. It's about 2.2% illuminated now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 07:59 PM (w6EFb)
Gandolfo is too nice for Pope Bob. He should let me live there and feed the cats.
Posted by: The Great Northern Italian Cat-Sitting Service
__________
Francis's performative humility in not using Castel Gandolfo had the unfortunate effect of cutting off the town from tourist income.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 08:00 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November
Diana was insane and cheated, too. She actually did first before Charles went back to Camilla- they were toxic to each other. Is incredible William is as normal as royals get.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (Wmg4n)
Tancredi sounds like a guy who loses his car keys and just buys a new car.
Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (LHPAg)
Mamdani: (starts uttering some glib syllables)
Trump: "It's okay, just say it haha. It's easier."
Trump's way of saying "You don't deserve to be taken seriously anyway."
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (3nLb4)
If the Windsors were just another poor family from a trailer park in Appalachia...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:02 PM (cQHrm)
Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
I think the last person in an iron lung has died.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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When I was a little kid and I saw those old B&W pictures of big hospital rooms with lots of little kids in iron lungs with just their heads sticking out and nurses standing by, I was so filled with horror and pity I can't even tell you. I've read that the vast majority of those kids died, and I bet it wasn't just because of strictly medical reasons.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: RickZ
It was known to the Iraqi Christians as well. They cited it to Shah Khusro I when his choice pope Joseph (of the Nestorians) proved to be a tyrant. "Please take back your elephant", they told the shah.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (gKWVE)
Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
Awesome!
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:05 PM (g47mK)
SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.
Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex
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w00t
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:05 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November
Woohoo!
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Felix the Cat at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:08 PM (hZbnZ)
Thank you Dubya. Or anyway thank you Malkin for helping force Dubya not to nominate
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Felix the Cat at November 21, 2025
It’s disgusting how cute they are, little menaces. I know Ace meant to say “for Piper”. He just forgot. 😂
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:10 PM (A6iMD)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:11 PM (cQHrm)
Ladies, if you met a man wearing this ring, what do you think? Keeper, right?
naw, he already has a boyfriend
g'early evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:14 PM (tljrc)
Not final but a pretty good indicator, especially given how fast Alito moved.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:11 PM (cQHrm)
Colorado.......changed.
Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 08:15 PM (LHPAg)
Thank you Dubya. Or anyway thank you Malkin for helping force Dubya not to nominate his mare Harriet Miers.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)
Alito is great but nothing was wrong with Miers. And Malkin didn’t have anything to do with it.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:15 PM (KDPiq)
With all the money she made with other sites, such as HotAir, I'd imagine she owns a big spread in Wyoming now.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (cQHrm)
They should make a doobadoo filter, and all it does is constantly listens for doobadoo and when found active noise cancels it.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (A6iMD)
'That could be good optics.'
I don't see the value in it. It just elevates Mamdani and makes him look reasonable which he isn't
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (g47mK)
Did you know...?
...that Morton Sobel, a member of the Rosenberg spy ring, was an executive director of the communist front organization, Penguin Facts, which assisted him in his flight to Mexico to avoid federal charges, although he was later captured, tried and convicted of espionage against the United States.
Posted by: PenguinAnti-CommunistOrganization at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (A6iMD)
That's my take.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (hZbnZ)
Did you know...?
...that Morton Sobel, a member of the Rosenberg spy ring, was an executive director of the communist front organization, Penguin Facts, which assisted him in his flight to Mexico to avoid federal charges, although he was later captured, tried and convicted of espionage against the United States.
Posted by: PenguinAnti-CommunistOrganization at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (mADJX)
Busted ! Exactly right! it's in the national archives in DC !
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 08:20 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025
Except for those moments where she was keynote speaker at skin head rallies. Maybe the original groyper.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:20 PM (OoFl2)
Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
Great news! I shall toast the decision with a shot of my bootleg apple-pie whiskey.
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:21 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:08 PM (hZbnZ)
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His grandchildren and great-grandchildren will need to keep their head on a swivel. The fae don't like to be "cheated" (anyone who gets the better of them is a cheater) and they have long, long memories. They'll take their frustration out on future generations. Evil, petty assholes, the lot of them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (IBQGV)
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oh....missed all that...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (sKqQm)
oh....missed all that...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)
I can try to find some links for you, if they still exist out there.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (OoFl2)
I know the police seemed to be actively inhibiting that investigation. They just didn't GAF.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (cQHrm)
Unless the dastardly Chris Wray had the info put in a burn bag.
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (mADJX)
Funny, I'm so old I remember when talking about clot shot side effects was rayciss, anti-science, and probably made you Hitler.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:24 PM (sKqQm)
Watch whatever special election takes place to replace her. They'll allow three months of voting, two before and one after to do the count in secret, Soros will spend a billion to see some communist run and win, and the lines of AWFLs will extend from the polling places to Savannah.
Posted by: M. Gaga at November 21, 2025 08:24 PM (zeLd4)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (hZbnZ)
Never mind Trump was the owner of a professional football team.
The kick off rule pairs perfectly with the NFL tranny cheerleaders.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (m6HS6)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (sKqQm)
Well it certainly elevates him. Again, Trump labeled him the leader of the Democrat Party and said the NYC Mayor's job is one of the most important jobs in the world.
Everyone on the left was in a crouch waiting for Trump to hammer him and they were going to come out swinging. Instead, Trump praised Mamdani and defanged them and made them wonder why Mamdani didn't push back when Trump said he agree with deporting criminal illegals.
Now Trump looks reasonable and Mamdani is the leader of the Democrat Party. What happens when he fails?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)
I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
===============
I think her teenage daughter also had some illness.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (m6HS6)
===
oh....missed all that...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)
Ace had a post that touched on it some time in the last few weeks I think. I think it was here. But that's when I first heard about it. Maybe Piper read the same thing.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (3uBP9)
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What's to fear, here? Gay and trans people are gross in the first place, of course, and they are pushy, demanding and disruptive, to boot. That's before we even discuss their frequently demonstrated predilection for sodomizing children.
You motherfuckers are undesirable. It's not a fear that you'll be rousted out of polite society. It's what normies call a hope. It's a hope you'll be sent off without pay.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:28 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 08:28 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (+qU29)
A panda's gotta do what a panda's gotta do in order to keep up that roly-poly physique.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (OoFl2)
Harriet Miers was the first clue that "W" wasn't serious about a damn thing. She was more stringent - would have been a better originalist judge - than Scalia.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (3uBP9)
From where I live ? No. Let the banks fail - we'll still grow corn and mine coal.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:31 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:33 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Crusader
Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while. If they recognize it, they bail. Leave the scene. Some, sociopaths mostly, marinate in it all there lives and are wretched.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:33 PM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (bfwj/)
Please tell me what part of human existence ISN'T dictated by politics ? I'll wait.
Do the roses look good on the long march to the camps ? Don't care.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BW+Gb)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (+qU29)
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In a healthy society? 99% of it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (vFG9F)
Lone penguins frolicking in any environment is generally the result of it being ostracized by penguin society. It should be avoided regardless its status of rabididy.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (hZbnZ)
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Please tell me what part of human existence ISN'T dictated by politics ? I'll wait.
Do the roses look good on the long march to the camps ? Don't care.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (+nY70)
The old joke: You may not be interested in politics but Politics is interested in you.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Look At this at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (sXcYT)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BI5O2)
And in this society ? Where we took a few years off for a combination "racial protest" and mystery cold ?
I'm talking about his society. How about this one ?
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Accomack at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (OP3E2)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (fd80v)
It might also make him look like an accomadationisg to Trump to his supporters. They can easily turn on him like the rabid weasels they are.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:40 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (hZbnZ)
aye, there's the rub!
if they said water boiled at 212 degrees (yes, at STP ...) I would look it up in the CRC to be sure.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (Cjt/F)
Positive for Trump. Unbelievable.
Trump made the press show him as a good guy.
I’m gobsmacked.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (sKqQm)
Or setting the cars a rich guy sold on fire.
I swear every one of those bastardes ahould have been shot on the spot. Arson is no laughing matter. Society must be better than that. So a whiff of 12-guage should work.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (01gtA)
if they said water boiled at 212 degrees (yes, at STP ...) I would look it up in the CRC to be sure.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (Cjt/F)
F or C, AP?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)
In her position, wouldn’t you do the same?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (hZbnZ)
Until you get to a certain age. I've hit it.
There's a reason rich dudes - back in the day - didn't want girls at Augusta. You hit a point where they're all just not worth it.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)
I don't get it.
Posted by: Anthony SCIENCE! Fauci at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (41CYW)
Heh. FWIW, a couple of left leaning acquaintances are just flabbergasted and venting that "he sold us out to Trump"
I laughed.
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (Cjt/F)
'After the Pennsylvania courts told Alito " take your opinion and shove it" he is not in a forgiving mood.'
And he frigging well shouldn't be.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:45 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (Cjt/F)
Will Marjorie Taylor Green end up on the View? The prior appearance was an audition
Posted by: Smell the Glove
She might move to New York and work for Mamdani.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (pkeXY)
No. I can honestly say I would not.
Because I would have never kissed ass for five years just to get a pension. Of course, I would have never been a cop or any other public service mooch either.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (+nY70)
Trump does this every single time with everyone he negotiates with. From Little Rocket Man to Putin. He publicly praises and exaggerates their importance and acts like the gracious guy which makes him look good. Then if things go pear shaped the focus is on what they did not Trump.
Mamdani is the hero of the radical left and Trump is making him the face of the Democrat Party. If Mamdani buckles to reality and works with Trump then Trump wins. If he doesn't and his idiotic socialist plans further break NYC during the 2026 elections guess who wins?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)
Oh yeah, you’re not supposed to use degrees with Kelvin anymore, just, say, 273 K or the like.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (CNl8/)
As well, paydays are on the 5th and 20th, so she will get a full paycheck on the 20th for the pay period ending on the 5th.
Posted by: Vendette at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (LOCTm)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)
Depends on where one gets their ethics from, I guess. To wit: Pisslam. Not just the cultural abominations of it like FGM, but the 'religious' tenets as well. Not too many 'faiths' have 'kill the unbelievers' as immutable dogma.
Muzzies think shari'a is just swell and a perfectly moral system for all. I tend to disagree.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (gKDq2)
Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics. When people - mostly ultra liberal types - tried to engage me in political discussions, I just told them that I was a proponent of anarcho-syndicalism and had nothing but the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois American democracy; furthermore, I considered the two major parties to be nothing but elements of political kabuki theater, working secretly to fleece the citizenry while maintaining the fiction of principled opposition. All hogwash, of course - although I think there's some truth to the last bit - but at least it sent them away muttering to themselves.
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: TRex - Hobby Rex at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Tuna at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (lJ0H4)
A body shop I worked at right out of high school had a doberman that acted like a golden retriever. Total goofball. His favorite thing was laying down while somebody broomed him with a large shop broom. Every day he got the broom.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (snZF9)
Recognizing Arafat - and thus Palestine / Gaza - wasn't a winning move.
You just don't handle the snake. One of Trump's problems.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:49 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:49 PM (zZu0s)
And without attention?
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (XuXeR)
she a whooore ??
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)
I just start sing Chicken pot Chicken pot Chicken Pot pie !
It works the same.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (hZbnZ)
Mamdani is the hero of the radical left and Trump is making him the face of the Democrat Party. If Mamdani buckles to reality and works with Trump then Trump wins. If he doesn't and his idiotic socialist plans further break NYC during the 2026 elections guess who wins? - JackStraw
It would be hilarious if Mamdani returned to New York and was denounced by his "comintern" or whatever as a running dog of capitalism, now that he's met with Trump.
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (mADJX)
That was my play. Blow right past them, and they walked off muttering. I'd laugh at that point
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (BI5O2)
It works the same.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (KDPiq)
LOL always loved that episode!
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:52 PM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (mADJX)
Trump is trying to make him Trotsky. Or the Meschevics. Or a White. Harder to go for a corrallary.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)
You are welcome - Nancy from San Fran.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (+nY70)
Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics. When people - mostly ultra liberal types - tried to engage me in political discussions, I just told them that I was a proponent of anarcho-syndicalism and had nothing but the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois American democracy; furthermore, I considered the two major parties to be nothing but elements of political kabuki theater, working secretly to fleece the citizenry while maintaining the fiction of principled opposition. All hogwash, of course - although I think there's some truth to the last bit - but at least it sent them away muttering to themselves.
Posted by: Paco
I've lived and worked in Babylon DC for about 28 years now. A beltway bandit working for the Fed Leviathan. Apparently nothing has changed since you lived here.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (bfwj/)
Well, that certainly represents a more economical use of words!
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (mADJX)
The Rest of the Jews in 1930s Germany - we should have paid more attention to politics.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (+nY70)
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.
Leo divulged his strategy for the popular New York Times online game before fielding questions via videoconference about artificial intelligence, social media and the future of the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (pkeXY)
The Carthagenians - we also got screwed by politics. Should have took it more serious.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (+nY70)
He's already taking some flak for not standing up to literally Hitler. It's pretty hard to argue that Trump isn't a really good negotiator. He lives for this stuff.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:56 PM (viF8m)
We didn't pay enough attention. And now our five tribes are gone. Other than those living in poverty - The Five Civilized Tribes.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:57 PM (+nY70)
'It might also make him look like an accomadationisg to Trump to his supporters. They can easily turn on him like the rabid weasels they are.'
He's going to shiv Trump and repudiate any 'understanding' the next chance he gets so that won't happen.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:57 PM (fd80v)
We ignored the Khmer Rouge - but they took Politics seriously ...
... Every in a Mass Grave in the Killing Fields
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:58 PM (+nY70)
***
Any follow-up on the crossword puzzle?
Posted by: Father Guido Sarducci at November 21, 2025 08:58 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (+nY70)
They were already fucked and dead. As soon as Cannae happened, Rome was never, ever going to live and let live. Hannibal wanted to destroy them. Turns out all he could do was hurt them and all that did was doom those poor fuckers.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:59 PM (XuXeR)
Also us - we just thought this shit would work itself out ...
... the Hmong. We picked poorly. And now we're here.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (+nY70)
'The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.'
But how else are you going to make sure people keep liking you?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)
You're going to protect our people from being replaced by antiCatholic invaders and help our people be productive citizens through meaningful employment?
He uses a different Wordle start word each day.
Sigh.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (+
Our problem is that everyone is noticing her theft, and Lindsey Graham's, and everyone else in DC who's running some scam.
None of this can work if these demons claw for so much money and power that they start drawing blood from their fatted lambs.
Politics is supposed to be a seedy, back room criminal enterprise that doesn't intrude too far into normal life - we're well past that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)
Saw a thing that said castles weren't that drafty, they had wood frames with paneling and used decorated cloth hangings on the walls to act as insulation.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)
After the second punic war, the romans made damn sure they never accepted gifts from Carthage.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)
Every White GI that saw Five Promotion Points in the packet to the Black GI to his left.
Its just politics. Don't mean nothin'.
I shit you not - there are some times - I wonder what planet some of you live on.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:02 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)
Same as it ever was with politicians.
'When I buy a politician, I want them to stay bought.'
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)
I think that was the African King Jugurtha.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 09:04 PM (8avO+)
More Kittuhs!!
youtu.be/I0fo6G1bha4
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (BW+Gb)
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Oh. I was hoping he might have demonstrated some steel in his spine by disclosing a secret plan to perpetuate Western Civilization against the coordinated onslaught of demonic forces represented by nihilism, communism and islam.
But Wordle is good too.
*spit*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (0RiMX)
youtube.com/shorts/p0f9stNeS-s
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (hZbnZ)
Sort of.
Germanicus did a lot of punitive raids before Tiberius or Patrick Stewart had him killed.
Trajan pretty much laughed at the idea of not going there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (zZu0s)
Trump is trying to make him Trotsky. Or the Meschevics. Or a White. Harder to go for a corrallary.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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Trump's been doing this since 2016. Remember his meeting with Romney in one of those New York luxury hotels, when Trump was still interviewing for his cabinet? Trump with his usual happy grin, Romney sitting there in post-ravaging afterglow, thinking he was going to be Secretary of State. And then Trump dumping him down the garbage chute.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (RfDQK)
*snort*
I just had an image of Romney on one of those black leather couches for a casting video. Gah.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:07 PM (zZu0s)
Do you think Fen chases my ass around because she just wants to save my soul ?
No. She does it for control. Group politics / dynamics.
Rarely will you run into a dude that talks you OUT of buying the undercoat.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:10 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (Wmg4n)
I just told them that I was a proponent of anarcho-syndicalism and had nothing but the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois American democracy
Posted by: Paco
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Haha, I just might dress that up with some more "isms" and made-up words and use it as needed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 09:05 PM (RfDQK)
Yes, I still laugh about that whenever I see Romney.
That moment when he was photographed chomping on shrimp with a big smile on his face and a nonexistent cabinet post in his fine, woolen pocket will always be good for a chuckle, because it's been eating Mitt Romney ever since. He will never get over that wound.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (BI5O2)
We Visited Alabama's SUPER RICH Small-Town
https://youtu.be/Q-YTQ2K-5uQ
1. It's not SUPER RICH
2. They came on a Monday, when all the best restaurants are closed. It they had waited a couple of days, they could have been here for The Lighting of the Trees, which is a cool town thing, and the good eating would have been better.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:11 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November
I was there! Did you go?
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:14 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 09:14 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:14 PM
Yeah, I am surprised I didn't sense your Moron aura.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:15 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025
It’s a cake…lane cake?
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:15 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:15 PM (hZbnZ)
Cracker Barrel ... other than that little strip in the Gulf.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:16 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:16 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (RfDQK)
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Damn it!!! I always go to the coordinates you post and I never find anything interesting. This time is was a fat guy in a wife beater selling brownies out of his garage. Told me I was too late. He sold all the girl scouts an hour previously.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 09:16 PM (dIske)
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:13 PM (Q+gd/)
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AT THIS POINT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!!!
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2028 at November 21, 2025 09:16 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025
We were right by the tree. I have cute pics- I was the one with the latte from Provision. lol.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:17 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:15 PM (Wmg4n)
yes , I've heard that ! and sweet potato is your vegetable!
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:17 PM (g47mK)
Leave me alone. Or piss off. Did that sound harsh ?
Get my point ?
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:17 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:18 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Zippy Ziebart at November 21, 2025 09:18 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:20 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at
Add some pineapple and we are heading into hummingbird cake!
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:17 PM
I walked around the clock area drinking a coffee but was more down Section at The Moment. I was just one of many old hippie looking dudes.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: *Locals Call It The Dump at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 09:22 PM (dIske)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:23 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Zippy Ziebart at November 21, 2025 09:18 PM (oftw2)
Earl Scheib's $19.95 paint job.
That Zep song is bouncing around in my head: 'In the days of my youth . . . .'
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:24 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:24 PM (jc0TO)
YOU get a Bentley, and YOU get a Swiss bank account, and YOU get a Central Asian pipeline concession, and YOUR husband gets a bevy of child prostitutes to keep him busy while you wallow in your ill-gotten gain.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:25 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 09:25 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:25 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
She might move to New York and work for Mamdani.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (pkeXY)
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I'm guessing Shitcago to work as a Towel-Girl in the DogEater Presidential Outhouse and Bathhouse.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 09:25 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:26 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
Until it begins to crack and peel, trapping water-soaked mud beneath it, promoting rust.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 09:26 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:26 PM (+nY70)
Posted by: (He's Jed From The Feed Store) at November 21, 2025 09:27 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:27 PM (jc0TO)
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I blame 1920s men. Same as I blame 1800s men.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:26 PM (+nY70)
Eh. Let's just blame everybody and get it over with.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (gKDq2)
Okay everyone, feel free to call me a traitor to the cause. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (cQHrm)
The puppet was old and had a bad termite infection.
It was a mercy really.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 09:29 PM (Cjt/F)
Me and Liz Cheney are gonna be unstoppable!
Posted by: MTG at November 21, 2025 09:29 PM (cQHrm)
MTG was 100% right when she said her R "colleagues" were stupidfuckingassholes when they expelled that NY fag, Santos, or whatever his name is.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 09:30 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 21, 2025 09:31 PM (4p0Xq)
Posted by: Sligo Fire and Rescue at November 21, 2025 09:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:32 PM (Wmg4n)
Okay everyone, feel free to call me a traitor to the cause. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (cQHrm)
There's only one cause, the cause that's best for America. When you begin to think you're bigger than that cause, see ya later, Cupcake.
Keeping around such politicians is why the Dems are where they are. Thanks but no thanks.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:33 PM (gKDq2)
We have LOTS of problems and Shitbums in the GOP, and MTG is the least of them.
I would give a finger to have a Rep like MTG. You People need to smarten up.
I live in MA, which votes 40% Republican, and we have 0 Republican representation in the House. ZERO.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Well, There's Always The Unexpected at November 21, 2025 09:35 PM (qUkBO)
That's why I laff every time I see You People bitch about John Cornyn.
I would LOVE to have a Senator here equal to Cornyn. Appreciate what you have, because the grass is always piss-stained yellow on the other side...
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 09:36 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:36 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM
At least she didn't jump to the Democrats but if I never see or hear her again I won't lament it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: The Harder They Fall at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (oftw2)
I got one of those, back in 1972 I think. Bought a used Firebird. But it was a yuck green color. Had it painted candy apple red. For the money, they did a pretty good job. Kept that car for five years and the paint job held up.
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (5Je/N)
You'll all be begging for more MTG's a year from now when the Democrats take the House...
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:33 PM (gKDq2)
This. Goal oriented vs personality oriented. This is what the left accuses us of with Trump. He gets us closer to the goal and is therefore rewarded with loyalty- not the other way around.
I agree, fuck this diva bitch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (jc0TO)
Silver lining !
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 21, 2025 09:38 PM (357Ky)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:34 PM (g47mK)
Of course you're ultimately correct. R''s have a razor-thin margin in the House. And thin in the Senate as well. Important, yes, but not enough to force an ObamaCare down our throats margin, e.g.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:38 PM (gKDq2)
Okay everyone, feel free to call me a traitor to the cause. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:28 PM (cQHrm)
Some people around here think anyone who disagrees with them must have an ulterior motive.
I think she did what she thought was right. Including resigning. I don't hang on her every word, but everything I have heard her say is that she remained 100% loyal to Trump, and him coming at her like she was a traitor, she did what she thought was right in resigning her seat.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:39 PM (3BNtu)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:38 PM (gKDq2)
Congress doesn't do anything anyway.
Ultimately it doesn't make a damn bit of difference.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:40 PM (3BNtu)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:41 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:41 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:42 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:37 PM (zZu0s)
I have to keep saying this: This is exactly why Sec. Rubio has impressed me. Not out for himself as Sec. Clinton was. His cause is America and I'm very good with that.
He's raised my esteem of him a lot as Sec. of State, I'll say that.
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:43 PM (gKDq2)
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LOL.
She's a consummate political lizard.
Someone brought pressure on her that she couldn't resist. Maybe a bribe from Democrats, maybe blackmail from Trump's team.
But she didn't leave for any more honorable reason than she ran for. She's never once considered what's right before today, and I doubt she turned a new leaf thus morning.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (yZqjq)
He should be stripped of his Military Retirement Pay...
Kelly U and Schumer can F88K Off and we will not obey anything your Commie-Lib Judges tell us because they are "UNLAWFUL"
Posted by: Jackson at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (J9q9v)
Her life being made miserable this last week makes me happy.
Traitor Greene is a terrible person. I get a lot of joy in watching my enemies fall.
It’s one of life’s joys. It’s called justice.
Nov 22, 2025 · 2:29 AM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (gKWVE)
I am NOT saying MTG was always right, not by a longshot. Her idea of asking Dems for forgiveness was especially and absolutely laughable. They'd much rather see her murdered and she can't see it.
I just hope that her local GOP doesn't now just give up and give away the seat to yet another hair-on-fire dumbshit Dem. While I'm wishing the impossible, I'd like a pony too.
Posted by: MTG at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:41 PM (yZqjq)
In the military, when you disagree with your commanders, or you lose the trust of your subordinates, you do the honorable thing. You resign.
I think that's what she's doing.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM (3BNtu)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:46 PM (cQHrm)
She's a consummate political lizard.
Someone brought pressure on her that she couldn't resist. Maybe a bribe from Democrats, maybe blackmail from Trump's team.
But she didn't leave for any more honorable reason than she ran for. She's never once considered what's right before today, and I doubt she turned a new leaf thus morning.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (BI5O2)
I know, everyone's a piece of shit. Except you.
You bore me.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:46 PM (3BNtu)
Two of his siblings were also adopted after fostering. They are brothers by blood, who were living kinda ferally, spawned by two meth heads. All the kids are great.
Posted by: Bananas Foster at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (oftw2)
BurtTC, thanks.
I am NOT saying MTG was always right, not by a longshot. Her idea of asking Dems for forgiveness was especially and absolutely laughable. They'd much rather see her murdered and she can't see it.
And yes, she was wrong about other stuff too, like giving up on the shutdown.
I just hope that her local GOP doesn't now just give up and give away the seat to yet another hair-on-fire dumbshit Dem. While I'm wishing the impossible, I'd like a pony too.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (cQHrm)
Her life being made miserable this last week makes me happy.
Traitor Greene is a terrible person. I get a lot of joy in watching my enemies fall.
It’s one of life’s joys. It’s called justice.
Nov 22, 2025 · 2:29 AM UTC
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 09:44 PM (gKWVE)
Speaking of pieces of shit, here's Laura Loomer.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (3BNtu)
Was that an illegal or unlawful order ???
Posted by: Jackson at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:43 PM (gKDq2)
Rubio's also feathering his seamy little nest.Tonight, we excoriate MTG. Tomorrow it will be someone else, and eventually it will be Rubio. They're all scumbags.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (BI5O2)
We need to lose the crazy chicks from Congress. It's been embarrassing.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM (yZqjq)
PoliticalInsustrialComplex 11!1*that made me sooo rich - net worth from 700K to 22 million in 5 years...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (g47mK)
And yes, she was wrong about other stuff too, like giving up on the shutdown.
I just hope that her local GOP doesn't now just give up and give away the seat to yet another hair-on-fire dumbshit Dem. While I'm wishing the impossible, I'd like a pony too.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (cQHrm)
Ain't a politician ever made who I trusted or agreed with all the time.
There's just always one common denominator, when it comes to Republicans who get the AoSHQ raspberry treatment.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (3BNtu)
YES, our side needs fierce fighters.
NO. we don't need psychobeasts like Loomer.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:49 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:49 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 09:50 PM (uQzkA)
Now that House Republicans are FINALLY learning to use their razor-thin margin to flex some real power? Of course they just can't wait to give it all away. The HRs LOVE AND CHERISH being powerless, bullied and abused.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:51 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:51 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 09:50 PM (uQzkA)
will never forget how she broke the story about Biden's Las Vegas near death experience
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:52 PM (KDPiq)
MTG was amazing, she's doing a great thing, always liked her, yada yada yada.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:52 PM (yZqjq)
I think that's what she's doing.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:45 PM
and give an edge to the enemy. I don't think heroes work that way.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:52 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:53 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:48 PM (3BNtu)
I don't think there is any such thing.
And as a friendly you oughta watch the projection on the "everyone but me" stuff.
This place can't agree on anything, and doesn't. Especially not politics. It is definitely not everyone against you. Sorry.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:54 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:54 PM (jc0TO)
Two of his siblings were also adopted after fostering. They are brothers by blood, who were living kinda ferally, spawned by two meth heads. All the kids are great.
Posted by: Bananas Foster at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (oftw2)
Congratulations on the adoption! That is so awesome. I love this for him, for your DIL, your son and you.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 09:55 PM (Wmg4n)
Loomer especially lost me when she was claiming last year, America is already absolutely doomed, and Trump was just a means of delaying what she thinks is inevitable: the fall of our country to Stalinism.
I admit I also hated that in Loomer's mind, if you thought DeSantis just might maybe be a better choice than Trump, you're a traitor and you need to be punished severely.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:55 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Something With Synapses at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (Q+gd/)
No, that was Lauren Boebert, IIRC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (LjSYW)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 09:52 PM (jc0TO)
I'm assuming Georgia has some system that allows her to be replaced. It's a safe district for the R party.
And, to repeat myself, Congress doesn't do anything anyway.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (0+iUB)
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (Q+gd/)
That Boebert
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: davidt at November 21, 2025 09:56 PM (Q+g
No that's the one now trying to censure a fellow Republican for being a man.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:54 PM (E0p3T)
Which is not what I said.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (0+iUB)
Of course they're absolutely masturbating about MTG resigning, so in fairness that's another reason to think this latest move of hers is just stupid.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM (LjSYW)
You misspelled Boobert.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (0+iUB)
Opinions don't make people anything other than maybe dumb. DeSantis for certain wasn't a better choice and proved it. No way he was running the gauntlet it takes to win nationally as a Republican intact. No chance.
That Top Gov ad alone was disqualifying. Had the sorry embarrassing stink of GOPe. Felt like a John McCain ad circa 2005.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (uQzkA)
Woot!
Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (3ImbR)
What does that mean? Can we shoot them now?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (npFr7)
Agreed. They betray what we are fighting for.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 09:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:00 PM (KDPiq)
Was that an illegal or unlawful order ???
Posted by: Jackson at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (J9q9v)
Just because an order is stupid doesn't mean it is illegal. The President is the boss, what he says goes. As much as some of them would like to, (e.g. MacArthur in Korea) they cannot go on their own against the President's wishes.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 10:00 PM (o7Ps5)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:58 PM (0+iUB)
You all but directly stated that the entire board has a single opinion of particular politicians. If I got that wrong, by all means correct it. But do it for you not me.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (E0p3T)
And, to repeat myself, Congress doesn't do anything anyway.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 09:57 PM
I think the governor must call for a special election and then have a couple of months go by. Maybe a replacement can be in by May.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (jc0TO)
Also, and just FYI, the reason I don't consider DeSantis GOPe is, just look at his record of accomplishment in Florida. In my mind, GOPe talks forever but never gets anything done. Ron gets things done!
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (E0p3T)
No. I specifically did NOT say that.
On purpose. Words have meaning, and reading other people's minds is always folly.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (0+iUB)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (KDPiq)
Having said that? Ive become so enamored with Vance that I no longer miss Ron that much. Go ahead and make 2028 the year of JD and Sarah Huckabee.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (cQHrm)
This is the game. Taylor-Greene got her payday.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:04 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:01 PM (cQHrm)
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DeSantis is a good guy, and he's done good things in Florida. I don't think he would be nearly as effective as President Trump has been with foreign policy though.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 10:04 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:05 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (0+iUB)
What is the "AoSHQ raspberry treatment"? The opinion of "some" here? Words do have meaning, even acronyms, and that's an odd thing to call it.
BTW when I'm reading your mind you won't know it, you will only perhaps suspect it.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:06 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:06 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM (jc0TO)
Pension! She needs to drag it out till January 2nd.
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:03 PM (cQHrm)
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Add Rubio too. We've got a great bench.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 10:08 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:07 PM
She won't have enough time in even by waiting. She is only in her second term I think.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:11 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:11 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 10:13 PM (jc0TO)
GOP has never had a problem before of, whenever Dems put up the slightest resistance, turning around and saying "fine whatever! We don't care! Voters, takesies backsies! Didn't mean nothing! We'll get 'em next time!" :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:15 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:11 PM (BI5O2)
Nature abhors a vacuum so who the hell is doing what they are supposed to do? Or were they simply nudged aside.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:15 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 10:16 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:16 PM (E0p3T)
I've given up on the Ds. More and more I see you all were right, they stand for nothing except hate for Christianity and the USA.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 10:17 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:15 PM (E0p3T)
Only if they nudged themselves aside.
They gradually ceded their two most important powers to the Executive over the last half-century - first the warmaking power, then the purse.
They figured out it was much easier and more profitable to live off the fat of the land as a Party PR set-piece, while letting the other branches do the governing. They're no important than the Duma or the Reichstag at this point.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:21 PM (BI5O2)
All fair but I heard tell the person who wrote ObamaCare did so while in jail. A tall tale? Maybe - but this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 21, 2025 10:31 PM (47diA)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:23 PM (E0p3T)
Oh? I hadn't heard that - but it wouldn't even slightly surprise me. I can only imagine the privation of that poor man in prison. I bet he ordered surf 'n' turf in his Landsberg-class cell, and they brought him langostinos with Salisbury steak.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 10:36 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 10:42 PM (E0p3T)
Two of his siblings were also adopted after fostering. They are brothers by blood, who were living kinda ferally, spawned by two meth heads. All the kids are great.
Posted by: Bananas Foster at November 21, 2025 09:47 PM (oftw2)
Congratulations to your whole family!! As an adoptee who has had an incredibly blessed life, i can confidently say that the greatest blessing of all was being chosen by my wonderful mom and dad. Im sure your newest grandson will feel the same
Posted by: LASue at November 21, 2025 11:49 PM (lCppi)
The Week In Woke
Surprise! SNAP/EBT benefits are widely scammed and used by illegal aliens not entitled to them.
To balance out the able-bodied people getting food stamps, the Democrats have thoughtfully allowed dead people to receive food stamps too. It all works out somehow. Billion dollar nepo baby Alex Soros is pushing his bizarre idea of what "democracy" is, and Data Republican explained to the public what Alex Sorors' not-so-hidden definition of democracy is. Surprise! By "Democracy," Alex Soros means a small cadre of global techocratic elites imposing their will on a public that has been stripped of the right to vote.
Across three-fifths of the United States, the Trump administration has found half a million people receiving SNAP benefits twice over and 5,000 dead people receiving them. In deep blue states, the fraud is probably much worse. It is important to clarify that 20+ states out of the 50 did not comply with the federal government's request for information on SNAP beneficiaries, likely because they are trying to hide how many illegal aliens are illicitly receiving food stamps. So the horrifying numbers revealed by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show, The Ingraham Angle, are actually incomplete, and will probably be much higher if the administration can make radical Democrat states provide the necessary data. Rollins, having mentioned the blue states' incomplete SNAP data, stated that "of the 29 that complied, what we have found is staggering. Half a million people getting benefits two times under the same name, [likewise] 5,000 dead people." Those 5,000 cases are probably family members continuing to receive SNAP benefits instead of the deceased individuals. In any case, we are wasting huge amounts of taxpayer money on beneficiaries who have passed away and greedy double-dippers. The secretary continued to list off food stamp recipient statistics: "80% [are] able-bodied Americans, meaning they can work, they don't have small children at home, they're not taking care of an elderly parent. They can work, and they choose not to work, of course, because they're getting significant benefits from the taxpayer."
After criticism, the Trump Administration has slightly edited a report on "youth gender medicine." The new version of the report affirms that
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican Hello Alex, You say your work is dedicated to strengthening democracy. I have one simple question for you. In your 30th anniversary publication, you had an article from your longtime head of Open Society Fund-Serbia, Sonja Licht. She also happens to be one of the most decorated civilians in Europe and widely considered an expert in democracy: 🔹 Pro Merit Medal of the Council of Europe
🔹 Star of Italian Solidarity
🔹 French Legion of Honour She has written and advised many democracy circles, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace among others. In the article for Open Society, Licht openly discusses the problem of whether democracy can survive without trust in their leaders. Her solution: "I believe the time has come for a responsible, courageous elite, those who care far more about addressing the genuine social problems than about election results. Only a political elite with vision, prudence and a focus on the general good--to whom the electorate, with their active involvement in public life, can cede part of their sovereignty in the elections... spearhead... our struggle to survive." Read that again. The idea of democracy as pushed by the head of one of your foundations is to literally stop "election results" and to have the public cede their trust to a technocratic elite. End democracy to save democracy itself. You cannot say that this is just a random musing of one employee. This is a woman who is highly regarded in democracy circles. This is a woman who ran one of your most prominent foundations during the fall of Milosevic. This is an article you platformed in your own thirtieth anniversary. Now back to my question. I am not going to ask a lame question like "what do you think democracy is?" -- I have spent over a thousand hours researching the topic for my book this year. I know what you think democracy is: it has nothing to do with elections and everything to do with ceding sovereignty to an unaccountable elite so you can implement your own twisted version of "equality" aka what most of us on the right call socialism. Nor am I going to ask you if you disavow Sonja Licht. I know you won't and you never will. I know you agree with her secretly. My question is: Are you prepared for when your mask gets ripped off and everyone sees your version of "democracy" as the facade it is?
"youth gender medicine" causes more harm than good.
"Sex-rejecting procedures" is better than the Orewellian lie "gender-affirming."
Social scientist Lisa Littman put a target on her back seven years ago by documenting "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" in youth, prompting her to leave Brown University after the Ivy League school tried to discredit her research by implying her study was retracted rather than slightly revised. Another publisher retracted a subsequent ROGD paper under threat of an academic boycott and a demand to fire the journal's editor, gender dysphoria research pioneer Kenneth Zucker, claiming it lacked "informed consent" for its use of opt-in survey data. Now advocates for giving healthy children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries to remove breasts and genitals have a fresh target: the newly identified authors of a "pediatric gender dysphoria" systematic review commissioned by the Trump administration, which concludes global evidence does not support such interventions. The final report Wednesday made "fairly minor edits" to the original published this spring, gender medicine journalist Ben Ryan said in the New York Sun, documented in the 3-page errata now attached to the report.
... There's also a new 241-page supplement with peer reviews of the report recruited by the Department of Health and Human Services, most prominently by the American Psychiatric Association, and authors' replies to each. HHS emphasized that the American Academy of Pediatrics and Endocrine Society -- strong supporters of so-called gender-affirming care for minors -- turned down its invitations. ... The American Medical Association and AAP "peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday, using the same confrontational tone as when his agency released the original. "They betrayed their oath to first do no harm" and "inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people," which is "malpractice," he also said. The authors' findings discredit "pediatric sex-rejecting procedures" and affirm the Make America Healthy Again Commission's findings, that "unnecessary procedures and long-term health risks such as infertility are the byproduct of the overmedicalization of children," HHS said. "Sex-rejecting procedures" appear to have been first suggested as a replacement for "gender-affirming," and as an alternative to HHS's proposed "sex-trait modification," just a week after the original report's release, coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center. It's also used on the assistant secretary for health's "priorities" page.
The Post is slowly going non-woke.
The Washington Post editorial board commended the final report, albeit under the cagey headline "What we still don't know about pediatric medical transition."
And cowardly academics falsifying their findings to appease the trans terrorists. From David Strom: As the UK begins to actually regulate and investigate Sex-Rejecting Procedures, trans maniacs are moving to online-only "consultations" and sales of artificial hormones.
While the evidence of harm is also "sparse," the authors emphasized this "may reflect the relatively short period of time since the widespread adoption of the medical/surgical treatment model; the failure of existing studies to systematically track and report harms; and publication bias."
Benjamin Ryan
@benryanwriter Helen Webberley, whose GenderGP service is notorious in the U.K. for flouting bans on pediatric gender-transition treatment by shipping blockers and hormones to British minors from abroad, is rolling out her telemedicine services in the United States, starting in 12 months.
Stella O'Malley
@stellaomalley3 For anyone wondering why Helen Webberley is suddenly everywhere, it is because she is expanding her dreadful mercenary hormone-peddling service for vulnerable, autistic, same sex attracted young people into the US. She knows this is where the profits are $$$$$
Vanessa SivadgeI guess this is actually technically a woman, but I don't know why this pyrsyn would even need Sex-Rejecting Procedures. Because she looks like a dude.
@V_Sivadge Meet Helen Webberley, founder of GenderGP: * In 2018, she was fined for running an unregistered clinic. * In 2022, a medical tribunal found she had failed to fully discuss fertility risks and provide proper follow up to patients. * In 2024, she surrendered her UK medical license after facing allegations of serious misconduct. Nothing to see here, just your average gender provider with an alarming past.
A taxpayer-funded public library in PA is celebrating "Transgender Awareness Week" by, of course, pushing pro-trans propaganda on children. As these activists admit themselves: they target children, and almost never adults, because children's minds are highly impressionable and easily changed. Last week I reported (well, I linked) a Sixth Circuit opinion stating that schools cannot force students to use fake pronouns. The Court ruled that the school may not use its power and authority to "skew" a necessary and legitimate debate on a political issue by imposing a fake resolution to that debate on students. Via Greg Foreman, woke activists are boo-hoo whinin' and cryin' about the ruling. The first gay whiner he features lisps that you are using "supremacy" -- note he doesn't say "white supremacy," because he is white himself, and that would be ridiculous -- to "abuse queer people." He also uses a term I hear more and more from the woke -- you are abusing "authentic humans," strongly implying that queer/minority folx are "authentic humans" and you are not authentically human yourself. Huh. And yet they whine about "dehumanization" every three seconds. CBS "News" sad story: A gay FBI agent who displayed his Pride flag at work in defiance of FBI rules says he's been unjustly fired, and CBS "News" agrees! The Pride flag should replace the American flag! Gays must have special privileges or it's homophobic!
David Maltinsky, a 16-year FBI employee who was weeks away from being elevated to the position of agent, filed a lawsuit alleging he was fired because he had a Pride flag draped near his desk. "I knew I was on a list," he told CBS News' @MacFarlaneNews. "There was fear after the administration came in that they were going to start looking at all of our personnel files, where some of us did self-identify our sexual orientation, some people did identify as trans. So there was fear early on that DOGE was going to collect this and they were going to curate a list and get rid of 'the undesirables.'"
Government employees represent the government and should not display their loyalty to a movement or a cause while at work. But like most on the left, they think their ideology is more important than the institutions they serve.
— Cyber Hunter (@Gene_SD) November 19, 2025
Hennepin County, Minnesota has a pronouns training for all of its employees, and it’s as dumb as you could’ve imagined.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) November 14, 2025
“We don’t know someone’s gender until we we ask”
No wonder Tim Walz freezes when asked: “what is a woman?” pic.twitter.com/jOdXpOZvwk
🚨 BREAKING: Indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) whines that she's being targeted because she's BLACK
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 20, 2025
"Always trying to intimidate you...especially attacking minorities, black and brown people!"
A grand jury has levied charges for stealing $5 MILLION FEMA dollars… pic.twitter.com/pC6tjpmRfE
Van Jones is a joke pic.twitter.com/LxXSTMfCRa
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) November 18, 2025
Irmaklol
@Irmak7425560771
Translated from Turkish GREETINGS TO THOSE WHOSE CONSCIENCES ARE NOT DEAD OR EXTINGUISHED! "Activists calling out to Jones, 'You can't feed children in Denver while babies in Gaza are dying of hunger!'", "May you be cursed for selling your soul", "How much money did you take to stand on the wrong side of history?"
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:23 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:23 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:23 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 06:23 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:24 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:24 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:25 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Kramer at November 21, 2025 06:26 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+)
My wife's "sex rejecting procedure" is to complain about a headache and pick up her phone.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 06:26 PM (nrWp9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 06:27 PM (O7YUW)
He was a DEI "intelligence specialist" who got the Pride flag as an award for increasing the FBIs "diversity".
He apparently got bored with this, and decided to become an "special agent".
The New York Times referred to him as a "trainee" - I guess he's one of those sixteen-year trainees.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 21, 2025 06:27 PM (xTIDn)
sterilization
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:24 PM (3uBP9)
Racial Hygeine. It really is disturbing how these fucking eugenesists never got exterminated. And they've been successful. Look at downs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:27 PM (zZu0s)
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I've known it like, forever. Came across some receipt at Walmart one time, oh boy ! Enough money on there in SNAP benefits to feed a bunch of American Families.
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:28 PM (gbOdA)
Strength in numbers, right Sheila?
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 21, 2025 06:28 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+)
Remember ace's podcast bit about a circle jerk involving pewter army men?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 06:27 PM (O7YUW)
Sponge's First = Participation Trophy. Only First is First.
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 21, 2025 06:29 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 06:30 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: I thought everyone knew that at November 21, 2025 06:30 PM (XQo4F)
ICE needs to start deporting violent, criminal, child-molesting and child-trafficking illegal aliens into Democrat gated communities.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:31 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:31 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:28 PM (gbOdA)
That is a bit more than the population of Salem Oregon. Which I know was not included in that review because Oregon is one of the states suing the feds.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 06:31 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 06:31 PM (01gtA)
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How else are they going to do induced them to vote?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:31 PM (lYk5q)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:31 PM (g47mK)
This was before Eric Carmen wigged out.
Posted by: Go All The Way at November 21, 2025 06:32 PM (R/m4+)
If I put a gay pride flag on my desk, I'd be fired immediately. And my boss is gay. Because this is how tolerance works dummies.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 06:32 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:32 PM (cQHrm)
The fraud is baked into the cake
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 06:33 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:31 PM (g47mK)
The current plan is to make everyone re-apply
Oregon will sue over that, too.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 06:33 PM (rbvCR)
Eric Carmen was MAGA before he died.*
*Now that he's dead he votes straight D. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:33 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Gonorrhea! at November 21, 2025 06:33 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:34 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:34 PM (lYk5q)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 06:35 PM (sDNVV)
A post from DataRepublican that begins:
"Hello [your name],
..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:34 PM
It's right up there with Come in, have a seat..
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:36 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:32 PM (cQHrm)
that is what I heard, but I think it is in an "idea" stage; and the asshoe states will sue, as mentioned above
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:36 PM (g47mK)
Hye maybe some of those wealthy Arab states could adopt those poor starving kids...no wait, they won't. Never. Ever. Not a single Gazan kid will be evacuated for a better life in Jordan, Egypt, Saidi Arabia, Yemen, UAE, etc. Not fucking one. If Arabs don't give a shit about starving Arabs, why does this guy give a shit? Also, I'm sure Hamas will be pleased to take every penny you own - just donate it.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 06:36 PM (C3IAS)
Baby let your mind roll on...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:36 PM (cQHrm)
I mean, really, was there ever any doubt about this?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 21, 2025 06:37 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:37 PM (g47mK)
https://youtu.be/zAsgU7B8gSE?si=02kQ-9i1xfTLxqjY
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 06:37 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: No Name Today at November 21, 2025 06:37 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:37 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 06:38 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 06:38 PM (Wnv9h)
Yes, I remember "Hello, Mr. Kristol" very fondly.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 06:39 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
And their moms pushing just a fervently for their own clout. I don’t understand it at all, you are the one person who should protect your babies. I mean look at a cat mama! Try to be half as good as that , you crazy people.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 06:40 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:40 PM (cQHrm)
It used to be that you had to go to the office to get your unemployment check. That is essentially what SNAP is, a permanent unemployment check.
Make them go to an office once a week. Why?
- it gets them out of the house, which is healthy
- it proves they exist, which is necessary
- it shames them to be seen in the office grubbing for tax dollars (maybe)
- Most important - If they can not go they can get an exemption, but that only applies if they can not go because they are disabled. OK, so there will be a lot of fraud there too, but if they are seen in public anywhere else (except Dr.), that will show they are not disabled and could be working. This will go a long way to prove the rampant fraud.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 06:41 PM (nrWp9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 06:41 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:41 PM (cQHrm)
Yes, we know you did. You shared that story numerous times on your earlier handles.
Happy Thanksgiving !
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:41 PM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:37 PM (g47mK)
and my prediction is: A federal judge will prevent the USDA from accessing lists of recipients of SNAP for the purpose of determining eligibility of those recipients for enrollment in the SNAP program.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 06:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:42 PM (g47mK)
Duran Duran
Talk Talk
The The
Tony Toni Tone
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:42 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:43 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:43 PM (cQHrm)
Every time you walk into a cubicle that has a pride flag, you know that everything that person says, whether implicitly or explicitly, starts with "As an L / G / B / T / Q man / woman / pyrsyn..."
As a totally indifferent person, I don't want to see any attestation of your sexuality or your orientation-related sympathies.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 06:43 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:44 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 06:44 PM (bfwj/)
Wait till they find out about SS disability!
I had one coworker who was trying his damnedest to get fired (the boss was an idiot, so he didn't) but he came in one day and finally quit. His wife got SSDI and he was set for life. She had a bad back. They were going to Tahoe on a ski vacation to celebrate. She was an avid skier.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 06:44 PM (nrWp9)
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I could have told you that without having to spend millions of taxpayers' dollars on any study and subsequent report.
The psychopathic retarded inmates were truly allowed to take over the asylum via The Long Death March Through The Institutions.
I saw The Psychopathic Retarded Inmates open for Old Sparky at The Slaughtered Lamb in '09 ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:45 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:46 PM (Yl2Ob)
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Why is this a "REQUEST"? OBLIGATION should be written into the law. To received Federal funds for SNAP, a state must provide accurate, timely, and continuous documentation to allow proper oversight and accountability. Failure to do so results in a default of said funds.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 06:46 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21
No, your child is abused. Not you, but you know what I mean.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 06:46 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 06:47 PM (sDNVV)
And the 28th is the latest Nov. date Thanksgiving can occur as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 06:47 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 06:47 PM (bfwj/)
Not for nothing but this is what the WEF has been preaching for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 06:48 PM (viF8m)
Talk Talk had a lot of tunes that were 90% of the way to being Big Hits.
There was always just a tiny little something missing from their stuff, imo. A lot of things that were appealing and definitely ripped from them by other artists.
But the majority of their stuff was just a bit shy of amazing.
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2025 06:48 PM (rO4EG)
It's the 27th, geez I can't read a calendar..... It's the second to latest date it can occur.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:48 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:49 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:50 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21
The max benefit is $4k a month - I don’t know how set you can be on that. Also, I don’t know what the disability is, it may not preclude skiing. That said, I am not about to suggest everyone on disability is on the up and up. I know someone who is bilking this while claiming to be a lot of righteous things. It’s gross.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 06:51 PM (Wmg4n)
If you want a clue how to better disguise your posts instead of coming under a new handle do this:
1. Don't use the word "shit" at least twice in every post.
2. Don't use a rather aggrandizing handle of more than two words such as ""Call it what it is " as if nobody else knows the score but you
3. And throw us all completely off by mentioning two -yes two things -you actually like and are not disappointed in and which make you happy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:52 PM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 06:52 PM (oiNtH)
But not lesbian, so there!
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 06:53 PM (XuXeR)
Isn't this just another species of Leninist vanguardism?
Posted by: They have no original or good ideas at November 21, 2025 06:53 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:23 PM (g47mK)
This is my personal opinion, but I think Mossad pays you to comment here...
Posted by: personalopinionhaver at November 21, 2025 06:53 PM (8Ay7c)
Posted by: Call It What It Is at November 21, 2025 06:47 PM (LO7vB)
He's not wrong. Accreditation was always subject to this flaw.
Hire a good HR person who can screen people well in interviews. Ask a lot of questions. Dig. Be ready to fire at the drop of a hat. Its your company. Your baby. Fucking act like it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)
- My 3-year-old nephew
- Pizza
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:54 PM (cQHrm)
>>It is important to clarify that 20+ states out of the 50 did not comply with the federal government's request--
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"Request"? Why is this a request? Why can't the USDA DEMAND this info? Why can't they subpoena it and sue and send federal marshals in to heist the servers if they don't comply?
>>will probably be much higher if the administration can make radical Democrat states provide the necessary data.
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Again, "if"??? IF the administration can make them comply?
I thought I heard that Rollins announced she was forcing every last damn SNAP recipient to reapply from scratch. Did I hear that? Or did I dream it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 06:54 PM (RfDQK)
Tim Ryan literally just told the media that he's not running for governor of Ohio because he wants to spend time with his family. Says he prayed over it.
Sure, Jan...
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 06:54 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 06:54 PM (sKqQm)
The most common 90% of all "gender affirming druggies" performed are done on boys
No they are not having their field cut off
They are having breast reductions to get rid of boy boobies.
Is this something you think should be banned?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 21, 2025 06:55 PM (jMnVZ)
Helpful Hint - production didn't have a damn thing to do with wearing the stupid tie.
Posted by: Call It What It Is at November 21, 2025 06:52 PM (LO7vB)
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That's just misinformation. Everything went to hell the second they stopped putting cool prizes in Crackerjack, and replaced them with fake tattoos and stickers. So what if some mouth breathing window licker swallowed the rings and stuff that was in their originally. It was actually a "surprise".
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 06:55 PM (dIske)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 06:56 PM (cQHrm)
first time caller ?? HOW IS DUBAI IN NOVEMBER ?
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:56 PM (g47mK)
yeah, we can't be the Welfare King to the world, when the "world" wants to kill us. MAYBE, if the wanted to reform ad become Christian (adjacent, at least), then perhaps we could take in a few.
But surrendering to Islam so we can feed them as they destroy us from within? Bad Plan ... bamboo or not. They don't take in their own, but as I recall, the Saudis were ready to fund the building of hundreds of mosques in Germany, rather than take any in to their own nation.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 21, 2025 06:57 PM (vbXSk)
Helpful Hint - production didn't have a damn thing to do with wearing the stupid tie.
Posted by: Call It What It Is at November 21, 2025 06:52 PM (LO7vB)
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That's just misinformation. Everything went to hell the second they stopped putting cool prizes in Crackerjack, and replaced them with fake tattoos and stickers. So what if some mouth breathing window licker swallowed the rings and stuff that was in their originally. It was actually a "surprise".
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 06:55 PM (dIske)
That and taking away our Lawn Darts.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 06:57 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: fourseasons at November 21, 2025 06:57 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 06:54 PM (sKqQm)
Yes!
Posted by: Klaus Schwab, Weirdo and Closeted Homosexual at November 21, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+)
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[Have told this story before:]
Working in The Bay Area in the late 90s -- #Woke before #Woke was cool -- and had a gay coworker.
Nice guy, and we had some epic verbal & email political debates as he was a Commie, natch.
One day he hangs a Gay Pride flag outside and next to his office door. So the next day, I hang an American flag outside and next to my office door -- knowing it would explode the heads of other Lefty Hate America First coworkers, including the female VP I worked for.
Sure enough, I was called into HR for displaying my "hateful" and "imperialistic" American flag -- and told I must remove it immediately (as it was "offensive to" some of my coworkers).
I simply said: "I'll take down my flag when you make the Gay dude take down his (knowing that they would never dare ask for THAT!) ... and walked out.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:58 PM (+mTgD)
I guess this is why Rollins went on teevee:
"we are working now for very big announcements coming next week on this. We are cracking down. We now have a plan to fix it, and we're really, really excited about doing that for the American people.”
I'll set next Friday for #NothingWillHappen.
Or at least #JudgeSaysNo
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 06:59 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: Piper
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I think his plan was SSDI plus section 8 plus SNAP, etc. I don't know. He was making good money as an admin in the Silicon Valley and did almost no work.
Her disability was non-existent and he admitted as much. She claimed it was back injury and could barely walk.
When I lived in NJ I knew many like that with "back injuries." Several were from the amnesty in the 80s. Two were international -- they would go back home at least 6 months a year, to work, but were always in USA to get their disability checks.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 06:59 PM (nrWp9)
I'm devastated. The world's greatest golfer, Paige Spiranac, has been been accused of :gasp: cheating:
https://is.gd/GZwZBS
Say it ain't so, Paige.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 07:00 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 06:57 PM (wVcYX)
_____________________
Heh.... I still have mine. They are called "Jarts" and they make an appearance every damn year at the family reunion. Running joke is someone shouting. "Here, CATCH."
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 07:00 PM (dIske)
AOP.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 07:00 PM (nrWp9)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 07:00 PM (w6EFb)
They all have feet of clay, man.
She can't see hers, but...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:01 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)
These two crazy kids have got to have hot, wild monkey sex and get it out of their systems.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 07:01 PM (CrUNC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 07:01 PM (Yl2Ob)
Even the fat ones?
And WTF does Van Jones have to do with anyway? Like, at all?
Posted by: They look kinda chunky at November 21, 2025 07:01 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 07:01 PM (CrUNC)
The love that darr not speak it's name.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:03 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 07:04 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 07:05 PM (dIske)
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That doesn't describe many - maybe most - I've dealt with. Usually they really don't think they are serving an ideology. Instead, they are just thinking what any sensible person thinks. We haven't made all THAT much progress penetrating the bubbles.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 07:05 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 06:57 PM (wVcYX)
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Lawn Darts were The Darwin Awards of their time.
And I still have scars on my limbs from The Slip 'N Slide on our "front lawn" with the tree roots bulging out of the ground!
Nowadays, there'd be a Class Action Lawsuit ... and now (obligatory) "Get Off My Lawn!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 07:05 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 07:05 PM (pkeXY)
first time caller ?? HOW IS DUBAI IN NOVEMBER ?
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:56 PM (g47mK)
Slutty with a 100% chance of Cleveland Steamers.
Posted by: With a 75% chance of golden showers at November 21, 2025 07:06 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: PaleRider at November 21, 2025 07:07 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 07:07 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:07 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 06:46 PM (dIske)
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Horde mind with #94!
Seriously, does anyone know why this is a request and not a demand?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:08 PM (RfDQK)
first time caller ?? HOW IS DUBAI IN NOVEMBER ?
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 06:56 PM (g47mK)
___________________________
You guys ever see the list of things that women are not allowed to do in Dubai? It's hilarious. And, we're talking serious jail time for things like wearing a two piece swim suit.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 07:08 PM (dIske)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 07:08 PM (WONhk)
have you tried any Dubai Chocolate ??? you sound like the type who would live on it !
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 07:07 PM (pkeXY)
tied score and lots of injuries.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 07:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:10 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:10 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:10 PM (PCK5/)
But it struck me different this time... in the end, the most celebrated and popular Transexual evah... has gone too far, and is killed by the authorities...
/Sings.... Frankenfurter it's all over, your mission is a failure, your lifestyles too extreeeemmmmeeee.
Funny... now it's become a how too manual?
/pulls out his laser.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 21, 2025 07:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:10 PM (PCK5/)
Well, Huma for one. And , like I said, to get into Mecca!
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:11 PM (g47mK)
Which considering the stories of the Dubai hedonism (is that even the right word?)
I'm, which no one asked for, the porta potty thing is probably a stand in for a variety of... esoteric sexual kinks that the girls are asked to engage in. It is hyper specific otherwise and it seems odd that all of the guys would be into that specific one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:10 PM (PCK5/)
All the laughs?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 07:12 PM (CrUNC)
LOL. Had you ever thought of developing a conservative comedy routine?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 07:12 PM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Riff Raff at November 21, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:11 PM (zZu0s)
Do I even want to know?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 07:12 PM (CrUNC)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 07:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:10 PM (PCK5/)
Well, Huma for one. And , like I said, to get into Mecca!
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:11 PM (g47mK)
It’s just a dumb old rock, runner. I’ve seen a lot better rocks, with less hassle. And then there’s the Bacon Thing…
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:13 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 21, 2025 07:13 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:01 PM (cQHrm)
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Yes I did -- and I was the victim of a lot of passive-aggressive sabotage from my group.
Fortunately, I was the star of the team (we were doing Software Tech Support and, unlike the others, I was a former software developer) and they needed me more than I needed them.
I did eventually quit after another incident when I got hauled before HR again owing to an infantile coworker who needed a safe space because I made a joke about "packing heat."
[Working in downtown Oakland, I did actually carry a handgun in my briefcase as you couldn't get concealed carry permits -- and I'd been spit on a couple of times by racist black dudes downtown.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 07:13 PM (+mTgD)
SSDI needs auditing.
Lots of people scamming the system.
Posted by: fourseasons
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I know a few. These people's "ambition" was to get on SSDI, and they tried many times over the years until they got that brass ring! What a life goal.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:13 PM (RfDQK)
My GI has gotten into the habit of going on strike every day I don't give it lots of probiotics to play with.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:14 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:13 PM (PCK5/)
see, it's all about Advertising...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:14 PM (g47mK)
Lots of people scamming the system.
Posted by: fourseasons at November 21, 2025 06:57 PM (3ek7K)
Yes. They need to be time limited and employers should receive a tax incentive to hire the broke in mind and body to get them off the tax payer's dime. I remember years ago it was a thing to get the physical and mentally handicapped into the work place. Of course, those in an iron lung should be excused or maybe just do call center type work as there has to be some wiggle room.
Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney, Arby's Owner and War Criminal at November 21, 2025 07:14 PM (R/m4+)
Hope you've got much better employment and co-workers today.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:15 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 07:15 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:15 PM (hZbnZ)
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No I can't get this image out of my head of Pelosi breastfeeding her children ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 07:15 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 07:16 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 07:12 PM (CrUNC)
Probably not. It also fits into the 'all women are whores' thing on the internet which also makes it suspect.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)
Alex Soros converted to Islam to visit Mecca. Way cooler than Disney !
Posted by: runner
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Did he really go to Mecca?
Anyway, I can easily imagine him converting just to be align a little better with the new Commie Muslim gang.
SPEAKING OF WHICH -- Didn't Zohran meet with Trump today?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:16 PM (RfDQK)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:16 PM (g47mK)
I do hope that women has some armed security or knows how to shoot, because I worry about her. Also feel the same about Libs of Tik Top woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 07:16 PM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 07:16 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:16 PM (RfDQK)
it was the most disgusting display
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:17 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney, Arby's Owner and War Criminal at November 21, 2025 07:14 PM (R/m4+)
Zombie, oh great! Thanks for giving charities their next big guilt-trip pitch.
"Hi, it's Mary from the Iron Lung, calling about kids like me at St Jude's..." :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:17 PM (cQHrm)
I think it's tomorrow because of the Muslim holy day. On Friday.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 07:18 PM (2sfNr)
If there is a country that doesn’t allow women don’t don’t expect it to be there in say twenty years.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:18 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:18 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 07:18 PM (XV/Pl)
Guess which one does better business?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:19 PM (cQHrm)
"Hi, it's Mary from the Iron Lung, calling about kids like me at St Jude's..." :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:17 PM (cQHrm)
In 5th grade I read a story about a woman in an iron lung (Reader's Digest) and have never been the same.
I can remember this but not what I had for dinner last night.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 07:19 PM (WONhk)
El Mariachi, it's impossible to discipline a leftist employee. All they see are fame and dollar signs.
Posted by: qdpsteve
*leans in closely*
*whispers in ear*
I see you. Take yourself outside, and rake the rocks along the motorpool driveway. SGT Schmedlap is going to supervise you in this "extra training" of how to identify rocks suffering from excessive vitamin D exposure. Try not to piss SGT Schmedlap off, as he is receiving extratraining from me in how to examine base fuckery, and eliminate e4 mafia bullshit.
Next day, it's raining. Make that shitbird mop the motorpool's outside ramps. Make SGTSchmedlap supervise it again, just to make a point to the other platoon junior NCOs not to piss off CW2 Bif.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 07:20 PM (QVmho)
sterilization
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:24 PM (3uBP9)
Vivisection.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:20 PM (npFr7)
I realized yesterday, I still remember the words to Little Miss Muffet. Why, brain? Why?? I guess our brains are just a lot stickier when we're really young.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:20 PM (cQHrm)
"Hi, it's Mary from the Iron Lung, calling about kids like me at St Jude's..." :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:17 PM (cQHrm)
In 5th grade I read a story about a woman in an iron lung (Reader's Digest) and have never been the same.
I can remember this but not what I had for dinner last night.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 07:19 PM (WONhk)
It is issues like that which always makes me reflect on whether suicide is, in some cases, forgivable.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (PCK5/)
Not really. Mohammedans kill other Mohammedans quite eagerly.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (hZbnZ)
it was the most disgusting display
Posted by: runner
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I hope it was another of Trump's meaningless love fests, like the one he had with Kim Il Nepo Baby. Trump likes to act fond as hell and then tell people where to get off when the time comes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (RfDQK)
I know of a couple of SSDI scammers.
It's our tax money the cheaters are living on.
The money goes a long way living with mommy. No overhead there.
Posted by: fourseasons at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (3ek7K)
Guess which one does better business?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:19 PM (cQHrm)
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For you, effendi, she's only 20 Riyal, same as in town!
And that's decapitating me own head!
Posted by: DMOH Dibhala's Gorgeous Goats at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (IBQGV)
Hope you've got much better employment and co-workers today.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:15 PM (cQHrm)
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Thanks Steve, oh the stories I can tell working in software in corporate America ...
Have been my own boss for 13 years as an Independent Contractor -- that's the way to go.
I've been telling young people for years to forego college, learn a blue collar trade, and eventually become your own boss and/or create your own business.
Hope you're career has been more rewarding -- you mentioned maybe eventually retiring to AZ? We're up north a mile high in Prescott and love it (but housing is quite expensive). Get five seasons (the 5th is monsoon rains usually between Independence and Labor Days).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:17 PM (PCK5/)
so confusing...good thing there is a guide everyone can follow !
https://tinyurl.com/4sjk3twr
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (cQHrm)
Hey, dead Democrat voters need to eat!!!
Posted by: UncleJefe at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (DzC+b)
Guess which one does better business?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:19 PM
So, which one do the winner and first two runners-up of the annual Camel beauty contest get delivered to?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 06:31 PM (01gtA)
Golf clap!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (npFr7)
All these government give away programs need to be continuously audited. If someone needs help that's one thing but someone that's a lazy bum living off the taxpayers is another. They should be tossed in jail for fraud.
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 07:23 PM (5Je/N)
Just saw this, Israeli archeologists have dug up a 5000 year old wine press east of the ancient city of Meggido. You know, that's were Armageddon is supposed to be.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 07:23 PM (w6EFb)
Not really. Mohammedans kill other Mohammedans quite eagerly.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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But that's not genocide genocide.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:23 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 07:24 PM (0sNs1)
Unfortunately my career never really seemed to get off the ground. I never got a 'big break,' as it were. I now more or less make money doing odd tech and typing jobs, and it's nice to be my own boss, but I still wonder if it's too late to try one more at the old fashioned office cube bingo. I've even thought of trying to take something up involving blue-collar skills.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:25 PM (cQHrm)
He's interested in you and me.
Posted by: Not Jerry from Penn State at November 21, 2025 07:20 PM (ZzHx/)
640k outta be enough for anyone! But first you will apply the cocoa butter lotion to my areolas while I enjoy vaccinating my African stunt children.
Yeah! Oh Yeah!
Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at November 21, 2025 07:25 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 07:25 PM (pkeXY)
I can remember this but not what I had for dinner last night.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 07:19 PM (WONhk)
When you age, the first thing to go is...uh, wait, I got it, it's, uh...
Posted by: Where'd I put my glasses? at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:17 PM (PCK5/)
so confusing...good thing there is a guide everyone can follow !
https://tinyurl.com/4sjk3twr
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (g47mK)
Hilarious!! ( I am a former Presbyterian. Had to leave because they jumped the shark). Still adhere to the doctrine, but they do church muy malo.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (PCK5/)
Even worse if you are in an iron lung as someone would have to agree with you. A man has been in one for fifty years or so. He may have died. I saw something in the last year at any rate. Wrong! 71yrs...Paul Alexander and he did die (so I got that right).
I can promise you I would not be cheerful like the woman I read about in 5th grade.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (WONhk)
AOP.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:00 PM (zZu0s)
(blushes)
Mossad has been notoriously dilatory about sending the checks though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 07:33 PM (6KcYW)
That's about double what I make for working, so I'd feel pretty set if that's what I was getting for being disabled.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 07:38 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: C.J., Sunshine Desserts at November 21, 2025 07:38 PM (oftw2)
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free, yes, and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (kvDvI)
FBI Cracking Down on "764" Child Exploitation Group
The pedophiles won't stop until they are made to stop.
The FBI has intensified its effort across the U.S. to take down the online child-exploitation group, "764" network, with two recent examples highlighted by FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. In a post shared on X on Wednesday, Bongino revealed how the dangerous network has infiltrated online spaces popular with minors and said how aggressively federal authorities are moving to shut it down. "For those who may not know, the 764 Network is a heinous child-exploitation ring that often targets children online and coerces them into acts of violence, self-harm, animal abuse, suicide, and sexual abuse," Bongino warned. "At the beginning of the year, our teams redoubled efforts to go after these networks and eliminate them. We have more than 300 investigations connected to this network nationwide, and that number is growing. It is a top priority for us," he added. Among the latest cases, Bongino said agents from FBI Baltimore arrested an individual on charges of targeting five minors, including a 13-year-old. He said the suspect is now in federal custody, and additional details are expected as the investigation develops.I wonder if this has anything to do with the rash of trans mass murders. ICE is meanwhile arresting foreign criminal child sex offenders.
Meanwhile, in Arizona, an indictment revealed an individual in federal custody had been found allegedly targeting kids as an affiliate of "764." "The nine victims involved were between 11 and 15 years old," Bongino explained, "Some of the allegations include distributing child pornography, cyberstalking, animal crushing, and even conspiring to provide material support to terrorists," Bongino said. The "764" network traces back to 2021, when it was founded by Bradley "Felix" Cadenhead, a Texas teenager who operated a group called CVLT. Named after the ZIP code of Cadenhead's hometown, "764" now exists within a broader ecosystem of violent online communities known as "The COM." Members allegedly use popular online preteen and teen platforms such as Discord, Telegram and Roblox to recruit and manipulate minors. "I cannot emphasize this enough, this is a major issue in America that not enough people know about," Bongino warned.
More Cultural Enrichers sadly deported.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday touted its arrest of the "worst of the worst" illegal aliens, which included child sex offenders and gang members. "Every town is a border town because of 4 years of mass illegal migration into our country. Our ICE law enforcement officers are arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in American communities," said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. "Just yesterday, ICE arrested child pornographers, MS-13 gang members, and murderers. We are thankful for our law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to remove these heinous criminals from our neighborhoods." ... Topping the list was Francisco Luna-Tristan of Mexico, who was previously convicted of indecency with a child sexual contact. Hsa Mu Na of Thailand was previously convicted of producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography. David Diaz-Alvaredo of El Salvador was previously convicted of murder in aid of racketeering and is a member of MS-13. Kevin Damian Duhaney of Jamaica was previously convicted of criminal possession of a firearm and attempted assault. Leonel Longoria-Aquirino of Mexico was previously convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
A husband and wife duo accused of running a sophisticated sex ring in Louisiana are previously deported illegal migrants with lengthy rap sheets. Murillo Lazano-Vargas and Zabdi Danea Guzman-Diaz were apprehended by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office earlier in November on charges related to the promotion of prostitution, human trafficking by force and pandering, according to local outlet WAFB. The married couple are Mexican nationals who are not only living in the U.S. unlawfully, but had already been deported from the country before returning to allegedly launch their illicit brothel enterprise, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). "On November 6, ICE Homeland Security Investigations executed a search and arrest warrant for a human trafficking and sexual exploitation investigation," a DHS spokesperson stated to the Daily Caller News Foundation. "HSI Law enforcement rescued three victims of these barbaric criminals." "Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], these human traffickers and predators are off the streets," the DHS spokesperson continued. "President Trump and Secretary Noem are dismantling transnational criminal networks." Local law enforcement received a tip in January that an individual going by the moniker "Primo," later identified as Lazcano-Vargas, was overseeing a home in the Baton Rouge area where prostitution and human trafficking were allegedly taking place, according to WAFB. The Mexican national allegedly used WhatsApp to send explicit images of females to arrange meetings with clients, with investigators later determining that his wife was a co-conspirator in the scheme. Lazcano-Vargas was previously convicted for domestic abuse, child abuse and aggravated assault, and Guzman-Diaz was previously convicted of illegal entry, according to DHS. ... The couple's arrest marks the second sex ring bust by immigration and local law enforcement in the Baton Rouge area. Working in coordination with ICE agents, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office announced earlier in November the arrest of three Honduran nationals accused of exploiting numerous women through a similarly-run prostitution operation between May 2023 and October 2025. ... The back-to-back sex ring busts follow GOP Gov. Jeff Landry's signing of a partnership agreement with ICE earlier this year that empowers Louisiana law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws. Dubbed "Operation Geaux," the order is intended to help local police better identify and remove criminal illegal migrants from their communities.LOL.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 05:21 PM (g00SI)
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Posted by: Aliassmithsmith...who puts the anal in anal sex at November 21, 2025 05:22 PM (tVWZ5)
Whew!
Posted by: Child Exploitation Networks 1 thru 763 at November 21, 2025 05:22 PM (pqVDs)
Posted by: Rick Derringer at November 21, 2025 05:23 PM (0pybe)
Farting & Noisy tummy sounds = signs you lack "good" bacteria.
And Yogurt does Not cut it.
Yogurt is crap. It's sugar, and might even make things worse.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:23 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at November 21, 2025 05:23 PM (jZ3ZM)
Posted by: 765 network at November 21, 2025 05:24 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:25 PM (zZu0s)
And bloating. Gas. Diarrhea. Constipation. Etc.
Means you lack "good" bacteria.
The WORST thing for your digestive system is a round of Antibiotics.
You MUST follow antibiotics with Probiotics to replace all the "good" bacteria you just wiped out completely that will Never come back.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:25 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: huerfano at November 21, 2025 05:25 PM (98kQX)
Creatine in water gives me problems.
Posted by: biteme at November 21, 2025 05:19 PM (xWS9V)
Bloating?
Also, for whomever mentioned using creatine for cognitive function, I have heard 20-25g dosage per day. Is this safe to take as from whatbi have seen for muscle gain you only do the higher amount for a week and then back off to 3-5g per day?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: It's a growth opportunity at November 21, 2025 05:26 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:26 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 05:26 PM (SwyyQ)
WTF, Bongo?
How does Dan Bongodrum not mention Bluesky, which is literally Filled with kiddie pr*n?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:27 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at November 21, 2025 05:27 PM (jZ3ZM)
The US government runs the largest c*** network in the world.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 05:28 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 05:28 PM (BI5O2)
But y'all knew that.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 21, 2025 05:28 PM (0pybe)
_________________________
We were talking about this last year on this very site. Obviously, Feds can deputize local state law enforcement to assist on Federal investigations. The question was...would they?
Well, here's an example of it working as many on this site anticipated.
That being said. This is the big failing of the GOP. They should be making media rounds touting this success and making a specific point to outline how Democrat governors and public officials REFUSE this opportunity to remove the sex traffickers from within their state.
The GOP never capitalizes on obvious opportunities.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 05:28 PM (dIske)
Posted by: No More Mr.Nice Guy at November 21, 2025 05:29 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: huerfano at November 21, 2025 05:25 PM (98kQX)
ICE just grabs random brown people off the street and puts them in extermination camps. That's what the MSNBC tells me anyway.
Posted by: They're the news, they tell the truth! at November 21, 2025 05:29 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: anachronda at November 21, 2025 05:29 PM (edU/H)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 05:29 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: That Guy who mutters "Aye, caramba ..." at November 21, 2025 05:29 PM (0sNs1)
They are basically Irwin Mainway at this point.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 05:28 PM (BI5O2)
No idea and I am pretty sure we do not want to know...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (zZu0s)
But if you fart a lot, you Need Probiotics.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:22 PM (01gtA)
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I saw your post in the previous thread. Align isn't in a blister pack anymore. It's in a bottle.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (DRSnL)
Farting & Noisy tummy sounds = signs you lack "good" bacteria.
And Yogurt does Not cut it.
Yogurt is crap. It's sugar, and might even make things worse.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21
Sweetened yogurt, yes. Plain Greek yogurt, no, beyond the amount contained in normal milk sugars. It also has great probiotics. You can add your own fruit, maybe a swirl of honey and still be okay. But if we are going to be open with each other, when you start to improve your gut biome and introduce pro and prebiotics, you may see an increase in gas at the start. Your gut will start to move more which will increase going to the restroom, but the health of that will be improved and you will be…uh…cleaner. 😊
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 05:28 PM (BI5O2)
It's literally what it sounds like. Sometimes involving stiletto heels. I wish I didn't know this.
Posted by: Seriously. I didn't want to know. at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 05:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 21, 2025 05:31 PM (ILYem)
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 05:28 PM
It's the goal of every teacher for their pupil to exceed them.
We've made the Washington Generals very proud of us.
Posted by: GOPe at November 21, 2025 05:31 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 05:31 PM (BI5O2)
Align isn't in a blister pack anymore. It's in a bottle.
Posted by: Jordan61
Not the ones I buy at Costco, unless they just changed in the last week.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:31 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:31 PM (zZu0s)
If i saw pedophile and the evidence instantly i'd have to plug him. It is so disgusting i should kill. Kill them all in my new book, Murder Re gifted.
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 05:32 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:32 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 05:28 PM (BI5O2)
No idea and I am pretty sure we do not want to know...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (zZu0s)
Animal Crossing, another site that has had issues.
Or are we talking kitten juggling here?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 05:32 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at November 21, 2025 05:33 PM (jZ3ZM)
Because to the average person all ICE is doing is arresting the guy who cuts lawns or the nanny next door.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 05:33 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 05:33 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:23 PM (01gtA)
Cultured buttermilk can do good for your gut, but I found that saccharomyces Boulardii and a probiotic Just Thrive work very well
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 05:33 PM (rbvCR)
Like they wear velveteen and put their pinkie finger out when the perform fellatio? WTF does that mean?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 05:33 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 05:33 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 05:34 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:31 PM (01gtA)
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They're probably working through their old stock. Their website shows their new "flip-top" bottle. That's what I ended up with. I couldn't tell from the box and when I got it home I was not happy.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 05:34 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: The Washington Generals at November 21, 2025 05:34 PM (pqVDs)
It has to do with a lot of them. Several school shooters have also been involved with 764 and the Order of Nine Angles.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:34 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Rick Derringer at November 21, 2025 05:23 PM (0pybe)
Here's a question: when you were busted for trying to bring a gun on a plane a number of years ago, why was it a shitty Kel-Tech .380 rather than, you know, a derringer?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:34 PM (qpyNK)
I did a blueberry, kale kefir smoothie that Berg recommended. It was like a more violent colonoscopy prep.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:35 PM (zZu0s)
So … Louisiana Dad?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 21, 2025 05:35 PM (ILYem)
Pickle Juice
What do You People do with the leftover Pickle Juice in the jar after you eat all the pickles?
Drink it?
Toss it?
Because Pickle Juice is good for the Gut, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:35 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (HTa/G)
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (EyfuW)
What do You People do with the leftover Pickle Juice in the jar after you eat all the pickles?
Drink it?
Toss it?
Because Pickle Juice is good for the Gut, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:35 PM (01gtA)
Save it and send it to Ace for breaking his fast
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (xcxpd)
WTF, Bongo?
How does Dan Bongodrum not mention Bluesky, which is literally Filled with kiddie pr*n?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:27 PM (01gtA)
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Sometimes you don't want to announce to pervs that you are watching them and collecting enough evidence to to get them sentenced to "death by shooting your dick off"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (kDHiw)
Like they wear velveteen and put their pinkie finger out when the perform fellatio? WTF does that mean?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 05:33 PM (xcxpd)
Variety of sex toys, each with its own use. Like the olive spoons and jelly forks at an ultra-fancy dinner.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (qpyNK)
I did a blueberry, kale kefir smoothie that Berg recommended. It was like a more violent colonoscopy prep.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025
Oh goodness, that is a big way to start with this! I would have built ya up to such things. Oh boy, you poor thing.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 05:36 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: pookysgirl, asking logistical questions at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:34 PM (qpyNK)
Because the P3At is reliable as fuck, cheap to replace and derringers suck
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (HTa/G)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) new hyper-masculine face of the Democrat Party at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, asking logistical questions at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (Wt5PA)
Indiana is still full of limestone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:38 PM (zZu0s)
Like Shane.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 05:38 PM (viF8m)
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I wonder how many millions of dollars they donated to The Biden Crime Family, Myorkis, and the other Treasonous Paid Puppets of the AutoPen Empire to keep the borders open and trafficking businesses booming?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 05:38 PM (K613y)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (qpyNK)
It was... memorable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (zZu0s)
Meanwhile, Kombucha is sneaking in the back door.
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (rO4EG)
Posted by: The Furry-Curious Thomas Crooks at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (pqVDs)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 05:36
I am a big advocate of feeding your body real food to get what you need, but again, since we are among family here, people pass gas. It’s normal. At the start of a fiber /. Probiotic increase you will most definitely be pretty darn musical. But it evens out. Eventually. lol.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (OoFl2)
Because the P3At is reliable as fuck, cheap to replace and derringers suck
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)
True enough, they're not much good for anything much beyond a card table dispute.
Still, if my name was Derringer, I''d... have a derringer. Not as my only gun, but I would definitely have one. Probably a collection.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:38 PM
Lord, I can't go back there.
Posted by: R. Dean Taylor at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (qpyNK)
That is fair
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 05:40 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2025 05:40 PM (rO4EG)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (3uBP9)
We have a 2 for 1 on the General Tran's Secret Police Confession Kits going on for the next 24 hours. The kids love 'em!
Order now and receive a Bag O' Glass absolutely free!
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Posted by: Irwin Mainway, Pres. Of Mainway Toys at November 21, 2025 05:40 PM (R/m4+)
It better be more than "0."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 05:41 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: R. Dean Taylor at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (0sNs1)
Man just needed killin'.
He harassed the singers girl, didnt he?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:41 PM (zZu0s)
Meanwhile, Kombucha is sneaking in the back door.
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (rO4EG)
Must...not...make...obvious...joke....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 05:41 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 05:41 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Hillary C at November 21, 2025 05:41 PM (vSvIl)
@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks IRS from sharing information to help ICE with deportations.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 21, 2025 05:41 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:40 PM (zZu0s)
One of those ones where all three traditional states of matter are represented, eh? Solid, liquid, gas.
Add some ghost peppers and you could probably add plasma to the mix.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:41 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2025 05:40 PM (rO4EG)
That's just metamucil, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:41 PM (zZu0s)
They're probably working through their old stock. Their website shows their new "flip-top" bottle. That's what I ended up with. I couldn't tell from the box and when I got it home I was not happy.
Posted by: Jordan61
Damn. They are cheaping out for profit.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:42 PM (01gtA)
More and more violence will come from these environments.
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 05:43 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 05:43 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2025 05:43 PM (rO4EG)
Kefir is pretty good too, in fact I think it's described as about the best probiotic there is.
Any time I have to take antibiotics I drink that stuff, after I got a bad case of the antibiotic induced runs years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 05:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 05:39 PM (OoFl2)
More than that, it made me swell up like a toad trying to bluff a bull. No bueno.
My rule of thumb is to avoid the concoctions that have inulin because of the distress. I can't eat Jerusalem artichokes either.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 05:44 PM (rbvCR)
People don't pay to see us win.
Posted by: The Washington Generals at November 21, 2025 05:34 PM (pqVDs)
I got that reference!
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 05:44 PM (SwyyQ)
Drink it?
Toss it?
Because Pickle Juice is good for the Gut, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Pour it over meat in the crockpot for flavor.
I'm not bold enough to drink it straight.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 05:44 PM (a+4eV)
Like Shane.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 05:38 PM (viF8m)
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My whole life the first thing I usually heard when introduced to new people -- especially back in the day -- was "Come back, Shane!"
A meme before memes were cool ...
And for those of you who literally are 29: the 5'6" actor Alan Ladd -- the Tom Cruise of his day? -- was made to stand on a box while playing love scenes with leading ladies on the big screen.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 05:44 PM (K613y)
I think my favorites were the Halloween costumes. "Invisible Pedestrian" and "Johnny Human Torch" (oil soaked rags and a Bic lighter).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:44 PM (qpyNK)
Marinate chicken thighs and drumsticks for 24 hrs. in it.
Posted by: Bosk at November 21, 2025 05:45 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at November 21, 2025 05:45 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:46 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 05:46 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:46 PM (01gtA)
>>@StateDept
>>Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies.
>>Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Seriously. I didn't want to know. at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (TbWk/)
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Yeah, I wish I didn't know that either.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 05:46 PM (PCK5/)
What, make them wear jars for shoes?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM (PCK5/)
Drinking it? Douching with it?
Not that weird... vinegar douches are pretty common. Maybe the dill would add some extra benefits.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM (qpyNK)
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Are you ever going to get around to infiltrating and taking down the GloboHomo Deep State Domestic Terrorist Organizations BLaMtifa, Dan?
Inquiring minds and all that ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM (K613y)
I went out today and the Christmas shopping has apparently begun. All the other drivers are pissed and the road department is helping by several new road projects and detours. It'll get worse until Christmas is over.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 05:48 PM (L/fGl)
Menstrual camps.
One week a month we send her off to camp.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 05:48 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025
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The first time. Or the tenth. But when almost every word that ends in an "O" sound gets respelled that way in ads or promotions, it's irritating.
Justin Wilson the "Cajun" comic used to tell the story of one good ol' boy whose dog's name was "Phydeaux."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 05:49 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 05:50 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Klein at November 21, 2025 05:50 PM (G7X1C)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK)
It's one sick freak named Kenneth J. Herrera, and far from being crushed by a pneumatic ram as I was envisioning, he was sentenced to one year + one day, and released after the minimum prison sentence.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 05:51 PM (BI5O2)
Right?
Posted by: Soothsayer
If increased salt in the blood helps muscles un-tense, maybe?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 05:51 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK)
Probably get endless “ due process” instead, despite not being entitled to it. Add in meddling judges.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 05:51 PM (PCK5/)
Marinate chicken thighs and drumsticks for 24 hrs. in it.
Well that's different.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 05:48 PM (L/fGl)
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Thank you for reminding me I need to take an alternate route home today.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 05:52 PM (DRSnL)
One week a month we send her off to camp.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Is it odd that I remember your former name from a very long time ago?
Guy Fawkes, right? You changed it after V for Vendetta came out in 2005? Or am I dreaming?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:52 PM (01gtA)
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When do we get "Operation Bleaux" that takes down Hunter & The Biden Crime Family along with The AutoPen Empire?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 05:52 PM (K613y)
A teaspoon or two of raw honey in the morning and you can go like a lumberjack all night.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 05:53 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM
Obviously when the Marxists take over
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 05:54 PM (+qU29)
Today after the jury continued deliberating a mistrial was declared after a hung jury. New trial will be set on that charge next week
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 05:55 PM (bfwj/)
I sleep all night and I work all day
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 05:55 PM (PCK5/)
If foresee a bitch slap on this from an appeals court imminently.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 05:55 PM (/AUU2)
What was that stupid camp called again that was protesting Wall Street?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 05:56 PM (n5tGW)
The "Who Dat" expression goes back a ways. Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 swore it came from a local black high school with a strong football team, St. Augustine: "Who dat say gonna beat St. Aug?" Wiki has other origin stories, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 05:56 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 21, 2025 05:56 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 05:56 PM (n5tGW)
Occupy Wall Street?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 05:57 PM (PCK5/)
What was that stupid camp called again that was protesting Wall Street?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
"Occupy"
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:57 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 05:57 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:57 PM (zZu0s)
I vote to put all child pedos in a woodchipper. I will either die or go to prison if anything ever happens to my grands.
Or send the pedos to an island with sharks and poisonous snakes, probably near Australia. They can share the island with trans and furries. President Trump can buy it from Australia and provide live pay for view to pay for it.
There! All wrapped up for us all when I am in charge.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 05:57 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:57 PM (zZu0s)
That was in Seattle
Posted by: Same kind of nut jobs though at November 21, 2025 05:58 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Don Ho-Hum at November 21, 2025 05:58 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 05:58 PM (n5tGW)
Anyone remember Andrew Breitbart, on his bicycle, at a totalitarian Occupy encampment, yelling at them, "Stop Raping People! Stop Raping People!"?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:58 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 21, 2025
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I've been using pickle juice as "dressing" on my salad for many years -- the juice and the pickle slices themselves instead of cucumbers. I've been taking magnesium in the last year, and have not had any leg cramps. Maybe it's the combo of both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 05:58 PM (wzUl9)
They need to be exterminated. Quickly. Without mercy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 05:57 PM (W2Pud)
Their brains are broken. My scientific assessment.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 05:58 PM (PCK5/)
Now I do pretty good at keto, and take Ivermectin (the paste for horses is cheap, and the same stuff as humans get, imo) every three or four months. Finally got a doctor just for my high blood pressure ... and generic Cialis is available under $1 per pill, online. I take a half every couple days ... saw no big difference.
So all is well with my plan to live to 110, though I need to get my steps in more consistently.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 21, 2025 05:59 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 05:59 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 06:00 PM (n5tGW)
Which we are now finding.
Enslaved.
Mostly as sex slaves.
And still: Not one damned word.
The Biden regime was a cabal of pedos.
They all were.
And every Dem knows it.
Was in on it.
That's why they keep trying to call Trump that.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 06:00 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 06:01 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 05:59 PM (n5tGW)
My favorite was him taking over the Weiner press conference. I laughed so hard I fell out of my chair. I couldn't believe it at first, then I nearly expired laughing.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 06:01 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 06:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 06:03 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 05:59 PM (n5tGW)
Wasn't it on a unicycle? I tried searching but I think the past is being actively destroyed on the internet by langoliers. So many things can't be searched for anymore. You get things only from the past five years no matter what you are searching for.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:04 PM (3uBP9)
The water crisis in Iran mounts. They've started water cuts/rationing. This is all the stupid mullahs making. Mismanagement and stupidity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:05 PM (w6EFb)
There's a great line in The Godfather Part II:
"If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone."
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 06:06 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:05 PM (w6EFb)
A crisis just allows the people in charge to kill more of the people they don't like.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:06 PM (3uBP9)
The water crisis in Iran mounts. They've started water cuts/rationing. This is all the stupid mullahs making. Mismanagement and stupidity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:05 PM (w6EFb)
Does this mean that 12th imam is going to climb out the well sooner rather than later?
Posted by: Hey! I'm drying out over here! at November 21, 2025 06:07 PM (TbWk/)
https://www.faithpot.com/jeff-allen-grandchildren/
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:07 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2025 05:43
Ha! Definitely. Pickle juice helps with cramps because of electrolytes. Magnesium glycinate will cause less tummy distress than citrate.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 06:07 PM (OoFl2)
Yep, the internet scrubbed the video of gavin newsome swallowing (fellating) a reporter's microphone.
"searches" are useless now, the internet gives you what it wants you to see, not what you ask for
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (01gtA)
Pickle Juice
What do You People do with the leftover Pickle Juice in the jar after you eat all the pickles?
Drink it?
Toss it?
Because Pickle Juice is good for the Gut, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:35 PM (01gtA)
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Brine is a pretty effective meat tenderizer. I don't recommend using it regularly. But, if you score something like Beef Cheeks (which are traditionally a tough cut)...marinate them in some pickle juice, but season it (garlic, white onions ...whatever you like) so you don't get an overwhelming brine flavor.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (dIske)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (pkeXY)
They're blaming the Jews for the water shortage.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (w6EFb)
It looks like cuddly. Like John Wick with milsurp equipment
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (TbWk/)
Ofc they could fix it fast with their weather machine...
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 06:09 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 06:09 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 06:09 PM (PCK5/)
I though "Beef Cheeks" was a term of endearment.
Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (TbWk/)
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Ok, change out "beef cheeks" with "cud chewers". And, if someone mentions your cud chewers, it isn't a compliment.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 06:10 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 06:09 PM
Are we supposed to ask you how you know?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 06:10 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 06:11 PM (pkeXY)
I'm not bold enough to drink it straight.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 05:44 PM (a+4eV)
I've sipped it a few times. nothing alarming happened. Salty vinegar.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 06:11 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 06:09 PM (PCK5/)
Mud flaps is right out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (w6EFb)
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I'm shocked! SHOCKED!...well, not that shocked. /sarc
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 06:11 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 06:12 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:04 PM (3uBP9)
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Yeah, I remember the good old days when I could perform an SQL-like search engine query (using double quotes for exact phrases, "AND" operators, + & - to include & exclude terms) -- and ALWAYS find exactly what I was searching for, including old comments on this site.
Now? Can't find shit.
When I'm really desperate, I'll use a Grok -- which more often than not, to its credit, finds what I'm looking for with sourcing.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:13 PM (EsiFJ)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 06:11 PM (8avO+)
*watches pitch sail in*
I have been in a really aggressive shitpost mood today.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:13 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 06:12 PM (OoFl2)
Brando, right?
Posted by: Not Sure at November 21, 2025 06:13 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 06:13 PM (pkeXY)
Apparently, the mullahs water management is a case study in what not to do. Whatever you should do, they did the opposite.
Tehran is actually subsiding due to the massive amounts of groundwater they've pumped out. And, by massive paving of asphalt and concrete, they've shut off natural flood/rain recharging of the ground water.
And they've been screwing over the rural areas to keep water flowing into the cities.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:14 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:14 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:07 PM (8Xy/A)
Ha! Very true! Never dreamed how much joy and fun we'd have for the last 7yrs.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 06:14 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:14 PM (w6EFb)
are they getting advice from the California Water Board?
Posted by: Not Sure at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (w6EFb)
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Controlling the weather has its perks!
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Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (EsiFJ)
But, I started eating it a couple weeks ago after not having had it for a while, and my legs and feet have been excessively unhappy during that time.
At least it's an easy experiment to do.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Not Sure at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:14 PM (w6EFb)
are they getting advice from the California Water Board?
Posted by: Not Sure at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR)
In California they take it from the rural areas and dump it in the ocean.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:14 PM (w6EFb)
are they getting advice from the California Water Board?
Posted by: Not Sure at November 21, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR)
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Old & Busted: The Delta Smelt.
New Hotness: The Delta Gefilte.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:17 PM (EsiFJ)
That's wonderful! I probably won't have any grandchildren or not for a long while anyway ,so I enjoy my friends when they talk about theirs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:17 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 06:12 PM (OoFl2)
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The woman who thinks nothing of downing a Kale smoothie draws the line at pickle juice?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 21, 2025 06:17 PM (UJMvS)
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Iran is a case study on how Theocratic corruption can compromise just about every form of infrastructure. At any given time 30% of their electrical grid is down. Just about every school building has giant holes in the roofing, and the structures have a tendency to collapse.
Essentially, local politicians run their charges like a fiefdom. And, infrastructure takes a back seat to selective person wealth.
That entire country is going to be doing a 180 in the not too distant future.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 06:17 PM (dIske)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:18 PM (EsiFJ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 06:18 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 06:18 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)
From what I understand, they actually are taking water from the rural areas to dump into the Sacramento Estuary to dilute the phosphorus and nitrogen levels from the sewage treatment system discharge. It is the cheapest way to keep the run-off within Federal EPA and California DEQ rules.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 06:19 PM (rbvCR)
Our digestive system is like an assembly line, when we eat too much, too often, then there isn’t time enough to fully process the food completely.
There’s more on the way! seems to be the operative principle. A single can of Chili w/beans, I could take out a whole GP medium full of troops with the gas.
There is inherently un-digestible fiber in beans, that much is true. But when eating sensibly, a can of beans will be utilized much more completely. It won’t eliminate gas but the quantity will be reduced dramatically. And the um, quality will be much less deadly to living things, and painted surfaces.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 06:19 PM (YZNHN)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 21, 2025 06:19 PM (vFbHf)
Just saw this. The Sun let out another big wet fart, but this time on the far side, so it won't hit us, but this time, it's going to whack Venus, nearing superior conjunction. If it hit Erf, it would be around a G4 level.
But Venus has no intrinsic magnetic field, so this big fart is going to cause a lot of "sputtering" off of Venus atmosphere.
It won't be anything much as far as Venus thick atmosphere is concerned, but it will be a field day for solar wind/plasma physicists to watch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 06:20 PM (+qU29)
Essentially, local politicians run their charges like a fiefdom. And, infrastructure takes a back seat to selective person wealth.
That entire country is going to be doing a 180 in the not too distant future.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 06:17 PM (dIske)
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An inbred retarded thugocracy, same as it ever was ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:21 PM (lYk5q)
Just politically speaking, it's a freaking time bomb for everyone. You'll whole career as a judge, or a prosecutor, depends on some illegal weirdo keeping his dick in his pants. Or on the media's ability to hush that up.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 06:21 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 06:22 PM (3uBP9)
In two weeks, Tehran runs out of water. And they have no plan going forward other than "everyone move somewhere else".
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 06:22 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 21, 2025 05:34 PM (qpyNK)
Like a "North American .22"????
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 21, 2025 06:23 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 06:20 PM (+qU29)
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"That was the year his favorite son -- Beau Bridges -- died from Agent Orange fighting The Gooks in Vietnam, h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 06:23 PM (lYk5q)
I think they are fucking stupid, but it is also a lot of things:
1) pisses us off. Owning the chuds is a massive part of their motivation.
2) destabilized the 'system' which they also benefit from but they believe if they can wreck it, they will be able to replace it with the one where they make the rules, dad
3) force us out. This is the one that is closest to og KKK thought about miscegenation and outbreeding and displacement. The thing is WE do not have to believe it- they DO.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 06:24 PM (zZu0s)
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Pickle juice is awesome! During an intermittent fast, it is important to maintain hydration and electrolyte levels.
Salt water generally kills hunger pangs dead, the triggers to eat “I’m hungry” are often salt-based. It’s about the best thing I ever tasted when a good head of steam is built up during weight loss regimen. I would encourage everyone (except Piper) to try it.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 06:24 PM (YZNHN)
How will Alberto Einsteinez ever cross the border to create a new branch of physics?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 21, 2025 06:26 PM (WFC1M)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 06:13 PM (pkeXY)
Depends on what type pickle. Olive juice is generally safe. Dill pickle juice is good. A juice from HOT or GARLICKY dill pickles is pretty damn awesome.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 21, 2025 06:29 PM (e/Osv)
It's amazing how more and more of the bullshit the Democrats engage in is revealed.
The DNC exists for crime.
They don't exist to help people. They find ways to steathily purloin cash flows into their pockets.
Every fucked up thing on the planet in recent history has been caused by the Democrats, and their feckless quisling GOP allies.
Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at November 21, 2025 06:37 PM (och2J)
Not to belabor the point:
But if you fart a lot, you Need Probiotics.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:22 PM (01gtA)
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at November 21, 2025 07:20 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Matthew Proctor at November 22, 2025 01:44 AM (OdsgZ)
UK Government Is Hiding Excess Covid Vaccine Deaths
Plus: Ozempic Has Killed the "Body Positivity" Movement with an Assist from Unfunny Comic Amy Schumer
I shan't believe it, I simply shannot.
The demand is for a release of anonymized data -- names stripped out. But this agency covering up the vaccine deaths keeps lying, claiming that an anonymized list would still, somehow, reveal the identity of people killed by the clot-shot. In more health cover-up news -- or this time, the end of a long cover-up: RFKJr. and his sexy brain-worm have updated the CDC website to clarify that claims that vaccines don't cause autism are not based in science. The website doesn't say that vaccines do cause autism, just that the prior claims that they had been proven not to cause autism were based on bureaucratic fiat, not evidence.
Government 'withholding data that may link Covid jab to excess deaths' UKHSA argued that releasing figures would lead to 'distress or anger' of bereaved relatives if connection were discovered
The public health watchdog has been accused of a "cover-up" after refusing to publish data that could link the Covid vaccine to excess deaths. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) argued that releasing the data would lead to the "distress or anger" of bereaved relatives if a link were to be discovered. Public health officials also argued that publishing the data risked damaging the well-being and mental health of the families and friends of people who died. Last year, a cross-party group expressed alarm about "growing public and professional concerns" over the UK's rates of excess deaths since 2020. In a letter to UKHSA and Department for Health, the MPs and peers said that potentially critical data -- which map the date of people's Covid vaccine doses to the date of their deaths -- had been released to pharmaceutical companies but not put into the public domain. ... UsForThem, a campaign group, requested that UKHSA release the data under freedom of information laws. But the agency refused, making a number of different arguments including that publishing the data "could lead to misinformation" that would "have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake" in the public. ... Reform UK has committed to a public inquiry into excess deaths and alleged Covid vaccine harms. ... Ben Kingsley, the legal director of UsForThem, said the way the UKHSA had handled the case "reveals a desperation that this data should not, in any form, see the light of day". He added: "It is perverse for UKHSA to argue that this data should not be released because the public could feel distressed or angry if patterns or correlations were to be identified. "You have to ask yourself why it is that the public are considered incapable of handling this data. It reveals a patronising mindset, which also characterised the pandemic response -- 'do what we say, don't ask any questions, we know what is best for you'."
CDC updates website, says claims about vaccines not causing autism are not 'evidence-based' "HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links," HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon saidIn more health hoax news, Jennifer Sey notes that, now that medications can end obesity -- at least for those wealthy enough to afford it-- celebrities are no longer championing "body positivity" and "Healthy At Any Size." Unfunny formerly-fat "comedian" Amy Schumer has deleted all of her previous Instagram photos showing her as overweight, and now only shows pictures of her being, well, skinny. Over-skinny if you ask me. But she insists that this has nothing, nothing to do with wanting to eliminate her fat pictures. It just kinda worked out thsi way.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website, saying that claims about vaccines not causing autism are not "evidence-based." A previous version of the agency's webpage stated "there is no link" between receiving vaccines and developing autism, citing a 2012 National Academy of Medicine review of scientific papers and a 2013 CDC study, The Hill news outlet reported. Late Wednesday, the website was updated and now says that the statement that vaccines do not cause autism "is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." The CDC also states that "studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities." Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has repeatedly linked vaccines and autism. HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said the website was updated "to reflect gold standard, evidence-based science."
Comedian Amy Schumer has deleted all of her old Instagram photos and all that remains are these post weight loss pics:See, it's not about deleting the photos of herself when she was fat. It's about deleting the photos of herself when she was unhealthy. It just turns out, you know, that despite her Healthy At Any Size claims, she was less healthy when she was obese. And of course she very deliberately went on a "weight loss journey." She stuck herself in the belly with a shot every week for a year, didn't she? What did she think was in the shot, vitamins? Midol? I don't mind the "Healthy at Any Size"/"Fat Positivity" thing as an internal cope. We all have copes. We all have little lies we have to tell ourselves to keep the bad thoughts at bay. It's a survival mechanism and there's nothing wrong with surviving. What got really annoying was the demand that everyone repeat, out loud, other people's copes and affirm those copes as 100% true. What got insufferable was pressuring every corporation to proclaim what should have been an internal, just you-and-your-reflection-talking-in-the-mirror cope as a Truth we must all recognize and Affirm. We've seen a lot of this lately, with sad or even mentally-sick people demanding we all affirm their mentally-ill copes as the Revealed Truth of God Shimself. Enough. Enough of the bullshit. Enough parroting the scripts that mentally-unwell, physically-sick people demanding we profess as God's Truth. Anecdotally, I think this is true: eating earlier at night results in better sleep and better health. Real Clear Science:Schumer captioned the post as follows: "Back on my staircase bullshit again. Who's proud? I'm feeling good and happy. Deleted my old pics for no reason!" Right, no reason. Because that's what people do. They go back and delete all posts from the last decade. Hundreds if not thousands of posts. Totally normal and no reason at all to do that! ... Though the pics are all gone, the comments live on (in the New York Post)! In response to the pic on the left above, Schumer's comedian friends wrote: Chelsea Handler: "Yes!!!!! Look at this pic!!!!" Lee Daniels chimed in: "Skinnnnnnnny mommmmma." Kathy Griffen added: "I'm so pissed about your legs, I can barely talk to you." Amy Sedaris complimented her fellow Amy: "You look incredible. Look at those pins!!!" And Schumer basked: "Loving the love. My legs thank you!" Not only does Amy like being skinny, her friends like skinny Amy too. Schumer has had her share of weight gain woes. She wasn't obese but certainly chubby. Relatable! Fine. She's not a super model, she's a comedian. Round cheeks, a little belly, who cares! (Schumer, apparently.) Her jam has been all about body positivity, up until dropping 40 pounds or so. ... Here's the thing: No one wants to be fat. No one. All the body positivity bullshit was just that: bullshit. No one wants to be obese. No one even wants to be chubby with arm dangles. No one wants their belly hanging over their pants. No one wants to have trouble chasing their kids around. No one wants to have 3 chins. And I can assure you -- no one in Hollywood who has to spend all day around size 0s who eat nothing but lettuce leaves wants to be fat next to those people. No one. ... But erasing every photo she ever put up on Instagram is just a bridge too far. Now she's mad that the internet caught on to her shenanigans -- that she's trying to erase fat Amy -- and she's big mad. She posted this on Instagram in response to the internet calling it the end of body positivity: "Hey media outlets I didn't delete my old photos because they were pre me losing weight. That's a narrative you created. I'm proud of how I've looked always. I have been working to be pain free and I finally am. My endometriosis is better. My back is healing. I no longer have Cushing syndrome so my face went back to normal. I am grateful to be strong and healthy especially for my son. But your Instagram is not your identity it's a curation of what you want the world to see and I feel great strong and beautiful and it's been fun sharing that. I didn't purposely go on a 'weight loss journey' that's a fine thing to go on. But my focus has been on health. I'm sure my weight will always fluctuate. I'm a perimenopausal woman on hrt meds. Wishing you strength and self love on whatever path you're on as long as it's kind and respectful to all people. No matter their weight race or religion peace!"
For instance, one study found that healthy adults who ate dinner at 10pm experienced 20% higher blood sugar peaks and burned 10% less fat compared to those who ate dinner at 6pm. This was despite both groups eating identical meals and having similar bedtimes. Broader analyses support the same trends, with a meta-analysis of 29 trials reporting that earlier eating windows, fewer meals and eating the bulk of one's calories earlier in the day were linked to greater weight loss and improved metabolic markers (such as better blood pressure and lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels). Other research links consistent late-night eating -- especially close to bedtime -- with poorer health outcomes and a greater risk of obesity and metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes.So this is a GAINZZZ post now. Got any GAINZZZ? In my own Weight Loss Journey, I expended 25 unnecessary calories thinking about Amy Schumer for the first time in a year. Every little bit helps! I keep finding that trying to get in 20 grams of creatine a day is giving me GI problems so I'm thinking about switching from creatine monohydride (the common, cheap version you're probably familiar with) to creatine HCl. The latter supposedly doesn't cause GI issues, but, here's the fun part, it's way more expensive than creatine monohydride. Anyone else having this problem, or seeing GAINZZZ in their BRAINZZZ from creatine?
Earlier dinners may better align with the body's natural metabolic rhythms, particularly when the last meal occurs well before the body enters its "rest" phase. This might explain why eating earlier has health benefits. Many chronobiologists conclude that aligning food intake with circadian biology represents a promising, low-cost method of improving metabolic outcomes -- especially when combined with other lifestyle factors such as physical activity and healthy eating. In winter, especially in northern latitudes, shorter days and longer nights can disrupt circadian rhythms. Reduced sunlight can lower serotonin levels, contributing to low mood or seasonal affective disorder (SAD). When paired with longer evenings indoors, it's common for people to snack more often or delay eating dinner until later at night. But digestion, hormone release (including those that help with sleep and digestion) and even the amount of calories you burn throughout the day all follow circadian rhythms. When meals are pushed too close to sleep, these processes overlap in ways that can affect both metabolism and rest -- potentially increasing risks of poor sleep and metabolic ill health.
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I have now lost 50 lbs thanks to Zepbound. I can no longer fit into the Brooks Brothers suit I bought in 2020; as I have gone down eight suit sizes.
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You can always sever them, Kathy.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:21 PM (+mTgD)
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Not to mention lawsuits and crazy angry relatives hunting me down!
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Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:22 PM (iKD4f)
I have now lost 50 lbs thanks to Zepbound. I can no longer fit into the Brooks Brothers suit I bought in 2020; as I have gone down eight suit sizes.
I'll trade you a meal at Mendy's for that suit
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:22 PM (HcoTw)
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Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Dunno, sounds like you could probably fit into it twice... congrats!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 04:23 PM (a+4eV)
Sick is not a recommended way to lose weight.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 21, 2025 04:23 PM (U5+2P)
https://is.gd/ax6TSX
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 04:23 PM (DRSnL)
......
Time to clean out the septic tank.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:24 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 04:24 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Alert Cub AoSHQ Reporter at November 21, 2025 04:24 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Texican ette at November 21, 2025 04:24 PM (SNf74)
Posted by: Decaf at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (bfwj/)
How about practice portion control, healthy eating and hit the gym, fatty.
BTW. Have they invented a cure for ugly yet? By looking at that picture the answer is- no.
Posted by: Vengeance at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (MVJU9)
All the rotunderous alphabet people
will begin wailing about being put
back in CHAINS! in 3... 2... 1...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Texican ette at November 21, 2025 04:24 PM (SNf74)
That's like, um, ancient, I know, right?
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (N1tpc)
And nobody notices that her "skinny" pics are obviously manipulated?
Her stupid fucking head is stretched out to look narrow.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:26 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Texican ette at November 21, 2025 04:24 PM (SNf74)
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Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 04:26 PM (DRSnL)
Absolutely. Far more focus, less need for early PM naps (probably helps that I have removed sugar from diet).
My HRV has also shifted dramatically from an overnight 22ms to 38ms because of Creatine.
I have tossed away all "energy drinks" and replaced them with Re-Lyte® and large doses of Creatine H2O. Result: More energy.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 04:26 PM (U4c/V)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:27 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 04:27 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:27 PM (HcoTw)
__________
Well, we all have a face
That we hide away forever
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 04:27 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: pookysgirl, praying hard at November 21, 2025 04:20 PM (Wt5PA)
Praying for your family!
Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at November 21, 2025 04:27 PM (6RyaQ)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 04:27 PM (Cg3Gl)
Now...even if the shot did nothing positive (and it didn't) you should have seen slight declines as less dangerous versions of COVID circulated and more vulnerable older people had already died.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:27 PM (sKqQm)
Amy Schumer? Isn't she pushing 40?
Posted by: Texican ette
Are we talking stones or years, here?
Remember when she said she was henceforth and forevermore unfookable about a year back?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (xG4kz)
I am not sure why we are arguing against Schumer deleting photos of herself.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (g00SI)
What that smell?
You’re welcome.
Posted by: Vengeance at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (MVJU9)
Blew up a disc at L2 / L3 last Sunday
Crawling about for the past week is no way to go about life, lemme tell ya
Posted by: browndog eyeing the Vet warily at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (TTAGa)
"Liberal girls are caught in a set of disempowering ideas. Here’s 3 terrible, terrible ideas, and if you believe them, you’re almost guaranteed to be a failure in life"
The 3 terrible ideas are:
1. What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker
2. Always trust your feelings
3. And life is a battle between good people and evil people
3 is a killer
I have a family member I think is wrong
She thinks I am EVIL
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (gbOdA)
The side effects are already well-known. I doubt there’s anything people can sue over. And even if they can, those drugs make so much money the settlements will be literal pocket change.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Doof at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (q177U)
will begin wailing about being put
back in CHAINS! in 3... 2... 1...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
I expect, any day now, as soon as a significant enough portion of the left wing ham-planets are not longer planetoidish, that they will start mocking right wingers for being fat (with stupid and lazy chasers) again.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)
What's funny is the Critical Drinkler recently did a good "rise & fall" video of amy schemer.
Today, the Drinkler released a new "rise & fall" video for the truly inexplicable celery James Corden.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (01gtA)
Amy Shumer is now the Jewish American Princess she always dreamed of being. All the more reason not to hit that.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 21, 2025 04:21 PM (MZ+PY)
_________
The Jewish American Princess's ideal home: six bathrooms and no bedroom.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (tgvbd)
I thought the internet was running faster today. Now we know why.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (IifOV)
Just to cover all bases as it were.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (3630A)
Posted by: Vengeance at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (MVJU9)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Doof
A greater number than expected based on actuarial tables, I think.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (g00SI)
The girls all get prettier when smothered, covered, and scattered.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (3630A)
More like Trump (hearts) Mamdani show.
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)
_________
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (dK+Kv)
We're not really. The Ewok et al. are just pointing out that even Fat Chicks say "No Fat Chicks" if they have the option, and all the beautiful at any weight stuff is just Big Girl PR and marketing.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (g00SI)
It would be better if people lost the weight through diet and exercise...those I guess that's White Supremacy now...so if the only alternative is ozempic yes it is a better choice then staying fat.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (g00SI)
You are being too kind.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (dK+Kv)
That's a relief because it was disturbing me how hot she looks. Those legs, though.
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (+qU29)
> continues to fund gov’t at Biden levels
Just completed this year's "Open Enrollment". Nearly a freaking $1k each month for me and spouse in a high deductible plan.
OCA (aka "Obamacare") is money laundering on the multi-trillion dollar scale.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (U4c/V)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (g00SI)
You ruined the bit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Doof
Kinda excess
Mostly excess
Excessier
Excess Excess
and
Real Excess
I learned that in FauxChi medical stats class.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM
That remains to be seen. Give it a decade.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (tgvbd)
She thinks I am EVIL
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (gbOdA)
Many liberals and leftists are evil, though. They have a perverse, demonic worldview.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (0N4FZ)
B/c the reason it brings uncrontrollable diabetes under control also works for shedding weight (in fact, that was always a known "side effect"). But we'll see long term what it does when one has normal pancreatic function vs wildly abnormal one and takes it.
Posted by: Nova Local at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (tOcjL)
Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:32 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 04:32 PM (3630A)
Posted by: CaliGirl
I bet they also ate fresh red meat, whole milk, eggs, and butter, instead of all of that processed crap sold now which magically came on the market at the point in time when people started getting fat.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 04:32 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 04:32 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (U4c/V)
There are 12 M zombies on Ocare.
1. 100% govt paid
2. Never had a doc claim
3. Never filed for Rx
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:32 PM (gbOdA)
Was watching a video where a guy showed some attractive young women pictures of other women and they'd always comment the other woman was beautiful.
The first few he showed were of attractive women as well but then he showed a rather unattractive one.
His raters still opined that the pictured woman was beautiful so he then followed up noting the pictured woman looked a lot like the rater drawing the most amusing look of stink eye I've ever seen.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:32 PM (sKqQm)
Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:32 PM
Bonjour.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (01gtA)
So congratulations I guess? Yay you!
Stupid whore
PS you're still unhealthy. You replaced natural fat with chemicals meant for those with DIABETES you stupid cunt.
Posted by: Melodicmetal at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (l/J0j)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:28 PM (g00SI)
You are being too kind.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (dK+Kv)
It's a weighted score. For how drunk I'm gonna have to be at Pancake Fight Club.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (g00SI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (3630A)
Posted by: Vengeance at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (MVJU9)
I'm telling you hand models are the way to go...doesn't go to their heads you know?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (3uBP9)
NYC Socialism is highly incompatible with Trump's heavy investment in NYC real estate.
Trump will gladly pass along billions of OPM to NYC in order to buy off Mamdani to not go after Trump properties.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (+4Cf6)
Lol
Wait, we aren't all rich and banging 10's ?
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:34 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: No really. Weight loss = systematic extermination at November 21, 2025 04:34 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 21, 2025 04:34 PM (kTd/k)
No one wants to have trouble chasing their kids around.
That's why they made Lawn Darts, although hitting a small moving target is a challenge.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 21, 2025 04:34 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: 18-1
As has been pointed out by others, maybe now more underlying medical problems will be discovered and treated now that it can't all be blamed on "You're fat".
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 04:34 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM
The claw!
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (jc0TO)
Usually when the fats lose all the weight their biggest loss is their spouse. Did she dump him yet thinking she's going to snag a hollywood hunk now?
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (IifOV)
Race Faker Rachel Dolezal resurfaces with a brand new look
That's too bad -- she had Sideshow Bob nailed!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (xG4kz)
Lol
Wait, we aren't all rich and banging 10's ?
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:34 PM (HcoTw)
And 29 years of age.
Posted by: Soooo hot at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (TbWk/)
Everything has added sugar. So the more pre-prepared your meals are the less healthy they are going to be.
Though I do remember have a discussion with my mother where I asked why she wanted glazed carrots because she was putting in work to turn a vegetable into a dessert...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (C3IAS)
amy schumer went from chubby pigface to female Female Impersonator. Congrats?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 04:30 PM (0N4FZ)
One of the effects is to make you eat less and to level out blood glucose.
How did a blood pressure med morph into a boner pill? How did a drug for enlarged prostate morph into a pill that prevents male pattern baldness?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Skip
......
I get a laugh when I think of her sitting on the pot all day.
"Hey, look at me!"
*brrruuuuppp*
*runs back to bathroom*
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (v0R5T)
Lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Well, some of us are.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (g00SI)
The WaHo 3 on 3 3 AM championship would be the greatest display of basketball talent, THOTy fights, and EMS DRT calls eva.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (dK+Kv)
She can delete the pictures. But the images are seared into my hippocampus, as my beach friends can tell you.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (g00SI)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:36 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 04:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 21, 2025 04:36 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 04:36 PM (3630A)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (dK+Kv)
She can delete the pictures. But the images are seared into my hippocampus, as my beach friends can tell you.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (g00SI)
How many front doors do you have?
Posted by: The acid test of trauma at November 21, 2025 04:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:35 PM (l3YAf)
Nurses saying 110 over 75 and Nice Dick
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:36 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:36 PM (jc0TO)
It was hard to read the psychosexual energy actually. Either / or.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:37 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Like AfterM*A*S*H. at November 21, 2025 04:37 PM (oftw2)
I haven't seen recommendations for that high of a dosage long term. I have seen some people recommend that much for faster saturation at the start. I take 6-7g per day and don't have GI problems.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 04:37 PM (Yp6az)
Or, is that muscle mass?
Posted by: GWB at November 21, 2025 04:37 PM (+zERj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 04:38 PM (3630A)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 21, 2025 04:38 PM (w/pUq)
The average estimate of early death among those that died was 10 years
If you get taken out by the sniffles, you were not long for this world.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:38 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Vengeance at November 21, 2025 04:38 PM (MVJU9)
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:39 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 04:39 PM (bfwj/)
The autism label hides this.
The US Government, pharma, and HHS have been wrangling for 35 years over the question of "how much brain damage is allowable for American kids?"
You are welcome
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 04:39 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: El Mariachi
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Or that face.
She looks like she had an unfortunate encounter with a belt sander.
And she has has that Korean anime jaw -- the one they all get in Korea with plastic surgery because many Korean women are born with pickaxe jawbones.
Did she have Korean jaw surgery too?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 04:39 PM (nrWp9)
And for various reasons no one cares...but WuFlu? It will kill your granny and your kids!
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:40 PM (sKqQm)
WTF?
He let mumdummy stand behind the Resolute Desk??
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:33 PM (01gtA)
That's the closest he will ever get to it...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 04:40 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM (HcoTw)
She looks bangin' but she looked bangin' in her early days as well.
She was pretty funny for a chick when she first started.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM (XV/Pl)
I thought Ace like to hang out in Gainz threads.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM (jc0TO)
Her ability to use stairs has suffered. Inelegant, to say the least.
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM (pqVDs)
But then, what about all the euro countries where they are all consistently eating at 9pm, or even later? I don't know, just throwing that out there.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (3uBP9)
An overall increase in mortality of 8.7% was observed during the pandemic.
The gap between observed and expected mortality widened over the years, particularly in 2022. (year after vax)
61,277 excess deaths in 2022.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (gbOdA)
That's too bad -- she had Sideshow Bob nailed!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
She and KJP are The Bobs.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (pkeXY)
Is when you're crippled inside.
Posted by: Zombie John Lennon at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (oftw2)
Before her shamu-phase, when she was relatively thin, she had pickaxe jawbone and a trailer hitch chin.
So she also had Korean jaw surgery. "It's about health!"
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (nrWp9)
Like breaking windows and shit?
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM
Robots steal their medicine.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Doof
Kinda excess
Mostly excess
Excessier
Excess Excess
and
Real Excess
I learned that in FauxChi medical stats class.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:31 PM (gbOdA)
-----------
You left out the final category: "Excessively Excess."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (+foWW)
And for various reasons no one cares...but WuFlu? It will kill your granny and your kids!
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:40 PM (sKqQm)
Yeah, old people have been dying of ARDS and “viral pneumonia” since forever.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:43 PM (l3YAf)
You are welcome
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 04:39 PM (rbvCR)
Schooling causes 10X more.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:43 PM (gbOdA)
You had no such qualms about killing their relatives and leaving them bereft in the first place. Are you sure this isn't more about the accountability phase that approaches?
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 04:43 PM (pqVDs)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:44 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 04:44 PM (+foWW)
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM (pqVDs)
Stairs, my old nemesis.
Posted by: Joe Biden and/or a Random Dalek at November 21, 2025 04:44 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 04:44 PM (uWKK8)
Like breaking windows and shit?
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM (HcoTw)
A socialist told me this would grow the economy.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 04:44 PM (gbOdA)
1 x 275lbs x 8 squat
1 x 250lbs x 8 squat
2 x 255lbs x 8 squat
1 x 185lbs x 8 bench
1 x 175lbs x 8 bench
2 x 180lbs x 8 bench
1 x 360lbs x 6 deadlift
2 x 330lbs x 6 deadlift
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 04:45 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (+foWW)
I lol'd
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:45 PM (dK+Kv)
......
We're gonna need more TP.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 04:45 PM (+foWW)
Ace, there's a new Paul Anka bio pic.
Hopefully has some outtakes of him addressing the film crew.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 04:45 PM (Y8DZL)
But then, what about all the euro countries where they are all consistently eating at 9pm, or even later? I don't know, just throwing that out there.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (3uBP9)
----------------
Is that a result of taking siestas (at least in the southern climes)?
Had a friend tell stories about being in Spain and people (including families with kids) out walking the streets of the cities and towns at midnight -- since they take siestas there.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:46 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Vengeance at November 21, 2025 04:38 PM (MVJU9)
Pancreatic cancer is very high mortality, but it’s also relatively rare.
All oral glucose control meds affect pancreatic function. That’s the point. I doubt GLP-1 drugs, which have existed since the 90s, contribute to pancreatic cancer in higher numbers than metformin.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:47 PM (l3YAf)
Hopefully has some outtakes of him addressing the film crew.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 04:45 PM
Where's Joe?!
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:47 PM (jc0TO)
......
We're gonna need more TP.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:45 PM (v0R5T)
-------------
Are we sure she didn't have an abortion of Michael Moore's lovechild?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:47 PM (+mTgD)
The Soviets always terrorized people in secret: oh, well your son was best friends with the son of a cop, so when you had a few too many and expressed some dangerous ideological heterodoxy, he found out, and now you never existed.
The Chinese were like this too, and the Cambodians, and the Albanians, and East Germans, and so on.
But the Brits don't bother with any of that. They just arrest people for heterodoxy in broad daylight, and everyone says "oy, he was heterodox, mate! What do you expect? Have you seen the last soccer thing? I'm ready for some dinner and anal, blah blah."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 04:48 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:48 PM (sKqQm)
It was a lot of fun and quite a challenge. I dropped 45 lbs during my 5 month prep for the show.
Now I intentionally gained weight to gain as much muscle as possible before I started cutting down. And I'm a gym rat and enjoy working out. And bodybuilding is extreme. I'm currently in single digit body fat range after the show.
But I'm sharing because it's still indicative of the fact that you can lose weight and body fat without ozempic or whatever, and without cutting all carbs or doing anything novel.
I tracked everything I ate in those 5 months and dropped my total daily caloric intake 100 calories every week. I ate roughly 40% carbs, 40% protein, 20% fat. While doing cardio 6 days a week along with my normal lifting. My cardio was just incline walking on a treadmill.
Again, extreme because I was doing it for a show. But if you can work on eating a bit less each week, try tracking what you eat to make sure you aren't eating more than your realize (bc you are), and get those steps in, you can achieve your goals.
Posted by: brak at November 21, 2025 04:49 PM (WhwZf)
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:50 PM (v0R5T)
I started walking 10k steps/5 days a week in September. I've now lost about 15 pounds and people say I look slimmer.
Honestly, I only did it because 1) my daughter figured out how to add a pedometer app to my phone and 2) I got tired of my doctor ragging on me every visit. I do enjoy walking and I go slowly enough to avoid ankle/knee injury.
The little subdivision where I live has very nice sidewalks.
Posted by: Texican ette at November 21, 2025 04:50 PM (SNf74)
All oral glucose control meds affect pancreatic function. That’s the point. I doubt GLP-1 drugs, which have existed since the 90s, contribute to pancreatic cancer in higher numbers than metformin.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:47 PM (l3YAf)
Cancer rates are higher in the diabetic population. There are a few studies that point that out. I think the point the poster made is a good one. Only because I don’t believe they fully understand the impact these drugs have (long term) on the pancreas in diabetic and non diabetic cohorts. Personally I always like to lean on the safe side.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 04:51 PM (s9qLo)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 04:51 PM (wBaIH)
She was pretty funny for a chick when she first started.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM (XV/Pl)
She had a show or something with that skylvester skallone comedy guy right?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:51 PM (3uBP9)
The most common side effects of Ozempic® may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach (abdominal) pain, constipation and shitting blood for the next 6 months.
Enjoy your time on the Thunder Bucket Of Blood.
Posted by: Dr. Schlong at November 21, 2025 04:51 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 21, 2025 04:51 PM (HHCfl)
Like we aren't all ripped here. How do you think we score the swimsuit models?
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 04:51 PM (HcoTw)
Though a lot can be said for the damage coming, to some degree from metabolic dysfunction, the adjuvants in vaccines and Tylenol, but I would bet that Genetic Entropy is playing a larger and larger role each generation.
Medical science has been able to cover up for the shortened life-spans by prolonging lives of those who would have died years before without modern treatments, the statistical age appears to claim that we are living longer. That is not what it means, it just means that those who might have died earlier have extended years due to medical advances.
I predict there will be fewer centenarians, and likely we are going to see fewer and fewer nonagenarians and in coming generations fewer octogenarians as the genetic entropy is no longer covered by medicine's diminishing returns.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 04:52 PM (nCgQz)
Well, hell, I say good for Amy Schumer, Lousy Comedienne, Great Humanitarian for helping the End of the Age of Land Whales.
If she's the one who plunged the dagger into the constant parade of unattractive Women of Too Many Helpings of Potatoes and Boston Cream Pie, then give that girl a Nobel Prize for Esthetic Humanitarianism.
Thank you! Thank you Amy Schumer! And God Bless You for helping to give my eyes more Female Beauty to gaze upon instead of trying to retreat to the back of my skull in response to Blue-Haired Beach Balls displaying their stretch-marks and mysterious alien anatomical folds of flab.
Thank you, Dear Girl!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 04:52 PM (iJfKG)
Tip o’ the cap
Going through all that work is crazy hard
Posted by: browndog eyeing the Vet warily at November 21, 2025 04:52 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 04:44 PM (uWKK
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Black Women's Unstraightened Hair is the New Beautiful ... and Latest Victim of White Supremacist Racism.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:52 PM (+mTgD)
$$$ for some
Charisma for others
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 04:53 PM (kHd4y)
Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 04:53 PM (2bFN5)
Can we just skip ahead to "therapeutic cancers" that help you lose weight?
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 04:53 PM (pqVDs)
Posted by: FUPA at November 21, 2025 04:53 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 04:54 PM (s9qLo)
Well, I’m a strong willed guy and that’s a diet I can do. No special foods. Nothing except iron willpower.
So almost 3 weeks ago I started doing dual 48 hour fasts with a clean dinner in between and watching my diet. I’ve gone through three of these.
48 hours. Dinner. 48 hours. Dinner. 3 days of 18/6 low calorie high protein.
I’ve gone from 235 to 222. And I can’t take maintain this afterwards because I just need to do a 48 hour fasts maintenance diet once every week.
I can do this!!!!
Posted by: The MewTwix at November 21, 2025 04:54 PM (CWffy)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 04:51 PM (s9qLo)
Sure, if you don’t need it, don’t take it. And, of course, healthy weight loss without drugs is always better than pharma-induced weight loss.
The problem is a lot of obese people simply will not lose the weight and having a drug that helps reduces all-cause mortality.
No drug is safe. Not tylenol, not ozempic. They all carry side effects, but in many cases the cure is better than the disease.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:54 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Polka will never die at November 21, 2025 04:55 PM (YU9ff)
The most common side effects of Ozempic® may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach (abdominal) pain, constipation and shitting blood for the next 6 months.
Enjoy your time on the Thunder Bucket Of Blood.
Posted by: Dr. Schlong
.......
She could just switch to Ex-Lax.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:55 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: banana Dream
In Argentina, the earliest the restaurants open up is 9 pm.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 04:55 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
I get mine at Walmart. If it is sawdust, it is very finely ground, at least.
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 04:56 PM (pqVDs)
Posted by: connected and litigious at November 21, 2025 04:56 PM (s9EN2)
......
Must have been the chalupas.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:57 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:52 PM (+mTgD)
Apparently we need laws to protect nappy headed chicks now.
I hate the GOP so very much.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:58 PM (l3YAf)
The problem is a lot of obese people simply will not lose the weight and having a drug that helps reduces all-cause mortality.
No drug is safe. Not tylenol, not ozempic. They all carry side effects, but in many cases the cure is better than the disease.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 04:54 PM (l3YAf)
I don’t think we disagree. My issue is these drugs come into widespread use without fully understanding the potential long term impacts to various populations. It becomes a quick fix for people who really do t need them, but are to lazy too do the physical or dietary things most doctors recommend.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 04:58 PM (s9qLo)
If it works, it has side effects. The only safe drug is a non-functional drug.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 04:59 PM (Yp6az)
Many such cases!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:00 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:42 PM (3uBP9)
That's because the Dirty Euros sleep all day, smoke cigarettes like the dirty hobos they are, ass fuck then remember to eat around 10 p.m. before doing it all over again the next day. Plus, they are all alcoholics and drug addicts besides being white devils.
Posted by: Zombie Robert Mugabe at November 21, 2025 05:00 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 21, 2025 04:51 PM (HHCfl)
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Per Marcus T's recommendation, I was getting it from Thorne Research (out of New York).
Wifey is now getting it from NutriCost (out of Utah).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 05:00 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)
Fun Fact: Red Meat and fish are rich sources of Creatine.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 05:01 PM (xE0sV)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 05:01 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Zombie Robert Mugabe at November 21, 2025 05:00 PM (R/m4+)
*peevishly orders tiny cup of coffee*
*adjusts beret*
*lights Gauloises*
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:01 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 05:01 PM (s9qLo)
Posted by: bonhomme
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Why couldn't a non-functional drug also have side effects? Same principle as bleeding a patient back in the day.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 05:02 PM (XvL8K)
The shitheads actually aren't lying here, in a fashion. Most of the immediate, obvious deaths correlate to really hot lots that had 3, 5, 10x the payload (though overall payload contamination is a longer term issue and affects all public lots). It has been pretty conclusively proven that all of the major players were taking turns expermenting with dosages on the public when you look at WHEN the hot lots went out, with perfectly spaced temporal distribution. This is, of course, Nuremburg/rope territory.
It becomes very easy to correlate your lot to Aunt Bessie keeling over when a subset of the lots has 100x the deaths.
Oh, and when I say "public" lots, that's because pharma got their own special lots just for themselves, because of course they did. Nobody knows if those used the trials/FDA/EMA production method or the method the peasants got.
Said it before, will keep saying it: biggest crime against humanity ever committed. This dwarfs anything in the 20th century.
Posted by: heya at November 21, 2025 05:02 PM (ctAuL)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 05:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
I try to limit my red meat intake to only once per meal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 05:02 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 05:01 PM (wBaIH)
Christmas cookies are now made in India. Lots of supplements also come from India.
Great job keeping our food and drugs clean, FDA!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:03 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 04:59 PM (Yp6az)
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If the benefit beats the side effects, that's the win.
My father uses it and said he hasn't noticed any side effects, but he's also an actual diabetic and the weight loss was the side effect.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
I give blood only for my own therapeutic effects. I think there was some good effects for some people back then, even.
(Maybe leeches more than bloodletting. Dunno)
Posted by: MkY at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM (wBaIH)
*peevishly orders tiny cup of coffee*
*adjusts beret*
*lights Gauloises*
___________
*sneers at American tourists*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM (tgvbd)
Many people at the FDA and in pharma refused the shot. I sure as hell did.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM (l3YAf)
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YOU VILL EAT ZEE BUGZ!!!!
Posted by: Hold my beer stein at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM (b2UQ7)
I don't know why, but this one really got me.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 05:05 PM (g00SI)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 21, 2025 05:05 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 05:05 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Emmie at November 21, 2025 05:05 PM (9b91n)
What the Creatine dealio all about?
I'm not up on the latest new thing, I guess.
What GAINZZ are y'all supposed to be getting from it?
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 05:06 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM (l3YAf)
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The nurses union in our town threatened to strike over being made to take it, so neither hospital system required it.
Those dumb, ignorant anti-vaxx, anti-science nurses!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:06 PM (ZOv7s)
That's because the Dirty Euros sleep all day, smoke cigarettes like the dirty hobos they are, ass fuck then remember to eat around 10 p.m. before doing it all over again the next day.
___________
They then take the entire month of August off.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 05:06 PM (tgvbd)
Depends on your definition. By context, I can assume your definition of non-functional drug is one that doesn't cause its designed purpose. Of course that sort of drug can have side effects. The definition I intended is more literal. A drug that has no function, one that does nothing, has no side effects.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 05:06 PM (Yp6az)
_____
UKHSA: You want answers?!
Avg Englishman: I WANT THE TRUTH!
UKHSA: You can't handle the truth!
Bonus quote:
UKHSA: We're in the business of saving lives,
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 05:06 PM (Dv3i1)
*adjusts beret*
*lights Gauloises*
___________
*sneers at American tourists*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM
*shouts profanity at Jewish children*
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 21, 2025 05:07 PM (U5+2P)
I don't know why, but this one really got me.
Posted by: bear
It was the callback to Zoolander.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 05:07 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Emmie at November 21, 2025 05:07 PM (9b91n)
(Maybe leeches more than bloodletting. Dunno)
Posted by: MkY
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Unless they had some condition caused by excess blood, what possible benefit could there be to bleeding? And does such a condition even exist?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 05:08 PM (XvL8K)
*shouts profanity at Jewish children*
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:07 PM (jc0TO)
__________
*tiny underpowered cars trundle past*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 05:08 PM (tgvbd)
I'd say the Best "gainz" I made was adding Fiber & Probiotics to my daily regimen.
A proper Digestive System is literally The Key To Everything.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:08 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:08 PM
A proper poop is a thing of beauty.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 05:08 PM (tgvbd)
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*Citroen burns merrily in the distance*
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM (wBaIH)
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"You shut your whore mouth! Everybody knows that the Indians invented the number Zero ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (wBaIH)
Those dumb, ignorant anti-vaxx, anti-science nurses!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:06 PM (ZOv7s)
I told people I’d quit if it was required. Thankfully we were a small company and I was a founder and part-owner so I had some sway.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: bonhomme
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Aside from maybe a pill filled with water, what could that be? Even salt or sugar could have negative effects on some.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (ILYem)
Posted by: bonhomme
The drug you are thinking of is Placebo.
While not very effective at treating any particular problem, it is able to have some effect on virtually every disease known to mankind. Truly a wonder drug.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 21, 2025 05:07 PM (U5+2P)
I need to start putting asterisks on my posts…
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 05:11 PM (s9qLo)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Lots of bennies. Lowers the risk of heart attacks (reduces blood viscosity), throws the body into regenerative mode, reduces iron in the blood, so helps liver, etc..
Posted by: MkY at November 21, 2025 05:11 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:08 PM
A proper poop is a thing of beauty.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)
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Healthy Gut Microbiome FTW!
/Which I do not possess to satisfaction ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 05:11 PM (+mTgD)
I highly recommend a good probiotic, such as Align*, and a good Fiber powder, such as Opti-Fiber, or Costco's Kirkland Fiber, which is the same product.
*Align is in blister packs. Go cheap, get cheap. Get a probiotic that is in a blister pack. You DON'T Need to take a probiotic pill every single day of the week -- a couple of times a week (after a "loading dose" week of 1 every day) should suffice.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:11 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 05:11 PM (s9qLo)
Puns should be enclosed in [pun][/pun] tags.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:12 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: toby928(c)
.......
I know. You'd think there would be competitions or something.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 05:12 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (bfwj/)
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If we release the documents, you'll murder us!!!
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 21, 2025 05:12 PM (kDHiw)
A proper poop is a thing of beauty.
Posted by: toby928
Indeed.
a proper poop, consistently.
Your bowels should run like a Swiss Watch.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:12 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (l3YAf)
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Yeah, I was forced to retire by the ANG over it. Despite four cardiologists certifying my request for a waiver, Lloyd Austin's rule was "better dead than unvaxxed" so I put in my papers.
It was really annoying, but having more time to spend with the grandkids has made up for it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)
This is why people like Piper make so much money.
If you could bottle it (and ozempic and other glp-1s are close) you could ask any price.
Fucking self respect. People want it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:13 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: toby928(c)
.......
I know. You'd think there would be competitions or something.
Posted by: wth
Should we tell them about Folsom Street?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 05:13 PM (0U5gm)
While not very effective at treating any particular problem, it is able to have some effect on virtually every disease known to mankind. Truly a wonder drug.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (0U5gm)
Hilariously enough, in addition to being good at treating every illness known to man, placebos also have tons of side effects. The mind is an amazing thing.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:14 PM (l3YAf)
Many people at the FDA and in pharma refused the shot. I sure as hell did.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 21, 2025 05:04 PM (l3YAf)"
This is where I haul out the pharma team head who is very publicly a furry.
A lot of these retards were true believers of the triple-masking type, likely were not in on any level of the conspiracy, and thus needed some performative bullshit
The FDA/gov people on the other hand as insider political creatures were busy, per FOIA'ed emails, telling their peers how all the social distancing was bullshit and to not get the shot.
Posted by: heya at November 21, 2025 05:14 PM (ctAuL)
Posted by: MkY
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I did not know that. So is bleeding a patient still a thing then?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 05:15 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:09 PM
Why do you think we designed the "inspection shelf"*?
*IYKYK
Posted by: The Dutch at November 21, 2025 05:15 PM (Wnv9h)
Sponge, we need to start talking about tits and maybe the Roman Empire.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:15 PM (zZu0s)
Absolutely! It's called a blood bank.
Posted by: MkY at November 21, 2025 05:16 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:15 PM (zZu0s)
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Well, Amy Schumer's rack was definitely downsized.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:16 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 05:16 PM (jc0TO)
Um no, not split (fission) but fusion. Not the first company or entity to do it (see thermonuclear weapons--they use fusion). This was the first successful test by a startup to reach "criticality", the point were fusion is self-sustaining (but not generating excess for power generation)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 21, 2025 05:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 05:15 PM (XvL8K)
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In Chicago, they use 9mm gauge needles.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)
That 1985 Travolta-Curtis movie I mentioned earlier, Perfect, has Lorraine Newman in it. Newman's character is obsessed with achieving perfection through exercise & surgery.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:17 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:12 PM (01gtA)
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Indeed.
If you ever have to get some removed, you'll notice the difference.
Fortunately, there are medications that can help. (seriously!)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 05:17 PM (IBQGV)
And Speaker Johnson says releasing the Epstein Files may lower confidence in the Government.
Well, we can't have any information released then!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 05:17 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 05:18 PM (s9qLo)
I've heard that people do it to lower their ferritin levels. Personally, I'd rather work outside and lose blood the old-fashioned way- by getting stabbed repeatedly by prickers.
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 05:18 PM (pqVDs)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:15 PM
Viginti sesterii, idem ac in oppido
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 05:19 PM (0sNs1)
Mixing with protein powder using heavy cream or yogurt prevents any such problems.
Posted by: biteme at November 21, 2025 05:19 PM (xWS9V)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 05:15 PM (XvL8K)
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Ever since Theodoric of York, medieval barber-surgeon.
/[h/t Steve Martin]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 05:20 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 21, 2025 05:20 PM (kDHiw)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 05:21 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:15 PM
Boobs.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 05:21 PM (Wnv9h)
I hope this public service announcement is better than bowel dissertations.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 05:21 PM (BI5O2)
Still, I'm not a big fan of fixing behavioral failings with medication. Too much of a crutch. The less prescriptions the better IMO. Eat a salad.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 05:21 PM (dIske)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 05:21 PM (g00SI)
Another buddy of mine around here -- part of an age group a little more 29 than I am -- is now in bad shape. Blood clots, DVT in the legs, and they can't get it under control.
He was another one who blindly followed what he was told, and was jabbed up the wazoo. Lost a paternal cousin to sudden cardiac deaths, and two more such cousins to cancer. One had "turbo brain cancer", you might call it. He went in to the hospital for a heart valve procedure. They noticed some spots on his brain during that. It advanced rapidly and he was dead in two months.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 05:22 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: biteme at November 21, 2025 05:19 PM (xWS9V)
Bloating?
Also, for whomever mentioned using creatine for cognitive function, I have heard 20-25g dosage per day. Is this safe to take as from whatbi have seen for muscle gain you only do the higher amount for a week and then back off to 3-5g per day?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 05:18 PM (s9qLo)
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A British officer at Saratoga got shot sideways through the mouth, losing a couple of teeth and gaining a hole in each cheek. His treatment? Sipping brandy to both numb the pain and keep the wounds clean. He made a full recovery.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 21, 2025 05:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 05:23 PM (zZu0s)
I'd say the Best "gainz" I made was adding Fiber & Probiotics to my daily regimen.
A proper Digestive System is literally The Key To Everything.
Posted by: Soothsayer
I added fiber supplements and lost about 8lbs in the last 4 wks or so. Also, eating fewer calories convincing myself that the smaller plates plus fiber is filling me up. So it's either the fiber or as yet undiagnosed no symptoms cancer causing the weight loss, because I'm still at minimum levels of exercise because work still sucks.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 05:23 PM (Dv3i1)
I believe it helps me regenerate some. Any evidence?
Nah...
Posted by: MkY at November 21, 2025 05:24 PM (q6tQZ)
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Posted by: Wenda at November 21, 2025 05:25 PM (/WpRi)
I do wonder if spreading it out at 20 grams would be better for GI issues.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 05:29 PM (n5tGW)
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And that's not gone, or going away. Just because THIS has been solved by a pill, doesn't mean this BS is ending.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 05:29 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Wenda at November 21, 2025 05:25 PM (/WpRi)
Blessings on you, Wenda.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 05:30 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 05:33 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 21, 2025 05:10 PM (ILYem)
I wondered about filters. Her chin is very pointy.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 05:47 PM (WONhk)
”one of the greatest achievements of mankind”.
And as a bonus we got them at "warp speed".
Posted by: Dirk Manley at November 21, 2025 06:07 PM (mtbAT)
Fat, unfunny girls have needs, just not the same as regular folk.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 21, 2025 06:18 PM (WFC1M)
He was another one who blindly followed what he was told, and was jabbed up the wazoo. Lost a paternal cousin to sudden cardiac deaths, and two more such cousins to cancer. One had "turbo brain cancer", you might call it. He went in to the hospital for a heart valve procedure. They noticed some spots on his brain during that. It advanced rapidly and he was dead in two months.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 05:22 PM (w6EFb)
My brother had turbo brain cancer - Early November, clean bill of health. By February, cancer had spread from his lungs to his spine, bladder, remaining kidney, spleen, pancreas and brain.I made it out to see him in March, and he died a few days after I left. He had the shots because his doctor insisted for his COPD.
Posted by: moki at November 21, 2025 06:23 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: .Magz at November 21, 2025 11:15 PM (+6lA3)
I've started lifting for strength, using pneumatic gym machines - moving weights I never thought I could - and adding a pound to the weight every so often. That's going well.
I recently tried a do-it-yourself treadmill VO2 max test - for women, start at 3 mph on the flat. Every 3 minutes, add 2.5% slope. I made it to the 15% slope at 18+ minutes, but it was getting unsafe even to walk, since you're not walking upright at that point, and I was worried about my knees. The time result tells me I'm doing pretty well - so far.
Recently I walked on the same treadmill, 3 mph on the flat for 20 minutes, and couldn't get my heart rate above 115 - barely a workout. Next time, it'll be 3 mph, 2.5% slope for 20 minutes. I'll look up what a "good workout" heart rate should be for me, then increase the slope until I get there.
Also, I'm trying to make tuna salads a greater percentage of my lunches, and avoiding my usual large amounts of dark chocolate. This... will be a slower process than the gym progress. But I'm trying.
Posted by: Pat* at November 22, 2025 01:29 PM (WDc+w)
i don't think you will have actual brainz gainz with 20g of creatine.
it only works as some sort of sleep replacement if you hadn't any so it will keep you cognitively intact.
personally i can't even take 5g as it dries my eyes to the point of real vision impairment, so i take 3g.
it will give you more water retention, and more ATP for more reps.
it may or may not improve cognitive function, but i wouldn't take 20g, it's just too much to take based on some single study.
Posted by: juicer at November 22, 2025 06:56 PM (blhnu)
Paul Sperry: Trump's Seditious Appointees Schemed to Advance the RussiaGate Hoax Alive
Including John Durham, Sperry writes.
Read the whole thing. Related: Obama's and Biden's henchmen in the FBI spied on GOP House leader Jim Jordan's phones and emails for... two years.
When Obama administration officials manufactured U.S. intelligence tying Donald Trump to Moscow following his stunning 2016 victory, they had no idea Trump's own political appointees would help them undermine Trump's presidency -- and his chances of reelection in 2020. RCI's review of recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with former Trump officials reveals for the first time how key members of Trump's cabinet and other appointees during his first term shrouded the previous administration's machinations and either deliberately or inadvertently misled the public into thinking the fake Russiagate intelligence was real. Former Special Counsel John Durham, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former CIA Director Gina Haspel dismissed or buried evidence that cast doubt on a foundational document of the Russigate hoax -- the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) prepared in the waning days of the Obama administration. Durham, who was appointed by Attorney General William Barr, stopped the declassification and release of key exculpatory evidence debunking the ICA on the eve of the 2020 election, which has not been reported previously. ... While these Trump-appointed officials may not have initiated the weaponization of the CIA against Trump, they facilitated it by hiding evidence that exposed the claims that Russia tried to help Trump as a fraud. By obscuring Joe Biden's own role in perpetrating the hoax, they may have helped Obama's vice president win the close race for the presidency in 2020. "The Russiagate betrayal continued in plain sight," said former Trump national security adviser J.D. Gordon, with some in Trump's own cabinet letting him twist in the wind instead of daylighting secreted material that would have cleared the clouds of suspicion hanging over his head before the 2020 election. John Bolton The suppression can be traced back at least until mid-2018. That's when Fred Fleitz, who was National Security Adviser John Bolton's chief of staff, heard that investigators at his former employer, the House Intelligence Committee, were probing the raw intelligence in the ICA supporting the assessment's key judgments. A one-time CIA analyst himself, Fleitz was curious to learn what they had found during the previous year, interviewing CIA analysts and reviewing secret documents at Langley. So, he traveled to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and read a draft of the highly classified report in a secure room of the U.S. Capitol. Fleitz told RealClearInvestigations that he was startled to learn that the investigators discovered numerous intelligence documents showing the ICA's key conclusion -- that Russia "developed a clear preference" for Trump and "aspired to help" him win the election -- was based on shoddy and fabricated intelligence. House investigators found those assessments were supported in part by the Steele dossier, a series of Clinton campaign-funded reports containing baseless accusations linking Trump to the Kremlin compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. "The ICA misrepresented both the significance and credibility of the dossier reports," which were "either proven false or unsubstantiated," the top-secret congressional analysis noted. "The ICA referred to the dossier as 'Russian plans and intentions,' falsely implying that the dossier had intelligence value for understanding Moscow's influence operations." Fleitz thought Bolton should be briefed on the unpublished House report, which undermined the prevailing narrative that Trump and Moscow had colluded during the 2016 election campaign. When he returned to his West Wing office, Fleitz sat down at his classified computer and wrote a synopsis of the review and gave it to his boss.
But Bolton did not, in turn, brief the president. "He didn't do anything with it. He never told Trump, and I never heard anything about it again," Fleitz told RCI. If Trump had known about the shocking revelations from the classified report, Fleitz said, he could have used them to remove the cloud of suspicion hanging over his presidency concerning Russia. ... Gina Haspel Pompeo's deputy at the time was Gina Haspel, who appears to have played a much more active role in drawing a veil over the information. A veteran CIA official whom Pompeo had put in charge of most of the day-to-day operations of the agency, she apparently didn't appreciate congressional staffers investigating the agency's spycraft that went into the highly classified and restricted version of the ICA. Sources told RCI she made sure the investigators' on-site examination, which spanned from 2017 to 2020, was closely monitored and tightly controlled. The House investigators had to be cleared into a "read room" at Langley each day to examine the records the CIA used to support the ICA. And they were forced to lock up their laptops and materials there when they left at night. "Haspel didn't allow them to take even their notes out of their workspace there," Harvey said. "They couldn't take anything out of the building." Another House Intelligence Committee source familiar with the operation said the investigators suspected the CIA "was spying on [committee] computers" back on Capitol Hill. They reported back to then-committee chairman Devin Nunes that the CIA had tampered with the computers the agency forced them to use to draft their report inside headquarters -- and this was only after they were denied access to any computers in the first four months of their oversight investigation. "Deliberate technical modifications to the [CIA-issued] computers made the machines unstable and unreliable," which slowed down investigators' work, according to a committee report documenting the CIA's efforts to "obstruct" their probe. The report, which was obtained by RCI, added: "Peculiar machine glitches caused lines of text to appear fuzzy, forcing restarts to correct and sometimes resulting in lost text or footnotes." The investigators repeatedly requested "proper computers" to support the review, but were never provided with them. They were also denied software tools that would have allowed them to efficiently search large volumes of classified and unclassified reporting at the agency. Thousands of pages of intelligence reports relevant to the ICA were available only in paper form. The staffers had to comb through thick binders with broken rings and missing tab dividers, further hamstringing their audit. Pompeo and Haspel also placed restrictions on their access to Brennan's five hand-picked authors of the ICA, who initially were kept at arm's length. "It took nearly five months for committee staff to be allowed to in
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After she took over the CIA, she locked up all drafts of the House Intelligence Committee report in a gun safe inside a vault in a highly secure room at CIA headquarters until she left office in January 2021. She also impounded all the examiners' notes and other work materials. "Gina Haspel buried the report," Harvey said. Knowledgeable sources say that before Haspel left, she demanded that both Barr and Durham keep the report classified and not release any part of it before the 2020 election. "In 2020, Gina Haspel was running around with her hair on fire saying it should never see the light of day," a former senior official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said. "I still cannot believe that she was President Trump's CIA director. It's totally insane."
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Thursday revealed that the Biden administration subpoenaed his phone records for a two-year period as part of the Arctic Frost investigation, making his records more expansive than other lawmakers. The announcement comes after recent revelations claimed the Biden FBI snooped on the phone records of Republican members of Congress, including eight senators, during its January 6 investigation. Jordan said his phone records were requested by Justice Department prosecutor Timothy Duree, who worked with Thomas Windom, one of Jack Smith's top prosecutors, in April 2022. The request sought his phone records from Jan. 1, 2020, through April 2022. The toll records did not include the contents of Jordan's phone calls or messages but did include details about inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct-connect communications and voicemail messages. The subpoena was also accompanied by a nondisclosure order that claimed notifying Jordan of the subpoena could "result in flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation."Somewhat related, sort of? Video shows the suspected J5 "bomber" visiting a third building -- the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building. Where the suspect... kneeled.
The footage contains a previously nonpublic segment showing the alleged pipe bomber approaching the Congressional Black Caucus Institute building near Capitol Hill and kneeling down near a bush on the property, Loudermilk told Just the News. Just the News reviewed the footage and confirmed the lawmaker's description. "We've tracked that path with security camera footage that we have access to, but they missed one key aspect...they made a stop as they walked past the Congressional Black Caucus, turned, and went on to the property and knelt down by a bush. Now this is the first real stop that the pipe bomber made," Loudermilk told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Thursday. "Now this is before they actually placed the bomb at the DNC. So, what were they doing there at the Congressional Black Caucus? No bomb was found there," Loudermilk said.The clue is in the bamboo.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: alpine_beer at November 21, 2025 03:20 PM (van9r)
Posted by: alpine_beer at November 21, 2025 03:21 PM (van9r)
Posted by: alpine_beer at November 21, 2025 03:21 PM (van9r)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:21 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)
"Is this about those fucking pandas, again? Have you forgotten about us?"
-- Penguins
[I never got the penguin fixation, TBH. Maybe a joke I missed or something.]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)
It's MAINLY the Democrats, but the "Republican" side of the ruling class hates us, too.
Remember how much that hateful, crippled, worn out husk of a malignant bald dwarf McCain hated the Tea Party.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)
American Citizen - 0
Over/under on when the American Citizen has had enough?
Also, bamboo under the fingernails works.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (abIsI)
This can't be the first time and I think Nixon was the first.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (jPh2t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (/AUU2)
Where the suspect... kneeled.
She was there the day before, too?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: mr tmz at November 21, 2025 03:26 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM
The leftists don't hate religion. They hate God and Christianity.
They are all zealous religious fanatics, rivalled only by the mohammedans.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:24 PM (Gwcfo)
Geez.....now Bruce Wayne is going to think you compared him to Trump. We won't be able to fit in her when his head expands.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:28 PM (iFTx/)
The call is coming from INSIDE the house.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Bill Murray read Bob Woodward's book Wired about his friend John Belushi. Murray has stated
So when I read Wired by whatshisname, Bob Woodward, about John Belushi, I read like five pages of Wired and I went, “Oh my God, they framed Nixon.” If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is probably soiled for me too
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (gKWVE)
Damn....fingers suck today.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
He probably would get a kick out of the compliment- as would his wife.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Rockem Lockem Robot at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (FxINA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (zZu0s)
He's not married.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Where the suspect... kneeled.
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He had to stop and pray at the alter of his liberal race based religion.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Rockem Lockem Robot
Trump said he wants action on the six. LOL
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Spartacus Booker at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (W+TLY)
Well I guess that argument is finally settled.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (uWKK8)
brb, snatchin' all the mutha fucka bamboo birthdays
Posted by: Steven Seagal at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (VE6XX)
Where the suspect... kneeled.
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Where was Kommie-la at the time and what did she know?
["I'll take 'Questions that Patel and Bongino aren't asking and investigating' for $64 trillion, Alex!"]
/There likely was a statue of St. George Floyd there that needed to be blessed & praised ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (+mTgD)
He had to stop and pray at the alter of his liberal race based religion.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (IifOV)
"Blacks forgive me because I'm about to sin......"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
The important take away from this is that Trump learns from his mistakes (at least in the declassification arena, and personnel recommendations). If I was Bill Barr's neighbor, I'd flip him off every time he went out to get the mail.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Emmie at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (9b91n)
Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM
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She tried to win him back with a handwritten love letter that got lost in the bamboo forest? Was that what happened?
Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (2bFN5)
I suspect many, since at least 2001.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (9ipOP)
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Gotta call bullshit on this. They absolutely knew they wouĺd. THERE IS ONLY ONE PARTY.
Posted by: Lets get real at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Bill Murray read Bob Woodward's book Wired about his friend John Belushi. Murray has stated
So when I read Wired by whatshisname, Bob Woodward, about John Belushi, I read like five pages of Wired and I went, “Oh my God, they framed Nixon.” If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is probably soiled for me too
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (gKWVE)
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What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM
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"John (Bolton) has a long mustache ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (9ipOP)
Make me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (6KcYW)
*grabs dog*
*unholsters weapon*
READ THAT ARTICLE OR I'LL SHOOT THIS DOG!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jeff Sessions at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Skip
Amazing how you can make something so deep out of people so shallow.
Posted by: mikeski at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Heh.
Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (2bFN5)
Posted by: night lifted at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (/YboP)
Where the suspect... kneeled.
For the record who among us hasn't kneeled before a sexy sexy black man?
Posted by: Jussie Smollet at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)
Played against him in football in high school. We nicknamed him Yuk.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
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I saw that interview clip with Bill Murray; he knew Belushi closely, obviously, and basically accused Woodward of pulling shit out of his ass.
Hence, zero credibility about his "reporting" on Nixon ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (abIsI)
He had unlawful carnal knowledge of the cattle-saurus...I understand their shame.
Posted by: sven at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (MUJd1)
But what about the Deeper State?
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (5Je/N)
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A lot, the majority actually, of Trump's appointees and staff were suggested to him by D.C. insiders. He did not pick many of them personally. This is something he's mentioned... not being familiar with who's who in the capitol city and leaving many of the slots to be filled with people he hardly even knew.
Plus, the shitty vetting of some of them. An issue that still plagues Trump.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Rockem Lockem Robot at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (FxINA)
Good one.
- DC Juries
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
Murray's beef with the book was that he had been an eyewitness to many of the scenes and incidents reported on by Woodward, and upon looking through it he realized that most of what Woodward had written was a total fabrication and nothing to do with what actually had happened.
Belushi was a blast of manic, comic energy in the mid 70's. He showed up when most comedy was still just Henny Youngman telling old vaudville jokes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (uWKK8)
Hence, zero credibility about his "reporting" on Nixon ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (+mTgD)
Forgive me, but from where else would you pull it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: sven at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (MUJd1)
I reckon it'll be a month before Ace gets this bamboo thing out of his system.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (uWKK
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#twoweeks
/boring yes but still obligatory
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Jeez, you're older than I thought.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)
What's his beef with the book? I never read it. I have no interest in Belushi. Maybe I just had to be there, but I never thought the guy was funny or charismatic or anything.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
I thought he was really funny. His homage to Joe Cocker is still great.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (jPh2t)
Well in the case of Chevy Chase his mouth I think....
Posted by: sven at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Reince Priebus at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (abIsI)
Jeez, you're older than I thought.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)
Younger than you.
*ducks*
*covers*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Strange bedfellows indeed and the press trying to make a big deal out of Trump and Vance not being invited is actually a compliment. I remember a time when half of those people were called the worst people in the world and massive protests were held against them complete with paper mache heads with devil horns and fangs with dripping blood.
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (uWKK
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Singing with Joe Cocker
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (9ipOP)
Jeez, you're older than I thought.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)
Younger than you.
*ducks*
*covers*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
You can both get off my lawn
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
.... not funny?
Watch his impression of Joe Crocker singing "With a Little Help from My Friends."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (01gtA)
And not that it seemed particularly likely of course but it seemed to me it was odd she didn't have some sort of public check in back in DC to put any such claims to rest...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (3uBP9)
*ducks*
*covers*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
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Your insults, they will not be forgotten.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (jPh2t)
*fistbump*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (9ipOP)
Anyone notice how Tulsi Gabbard has kinda disappeared from public view?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (01gtA)
Isn't she one of the ones who had to moved to military housing for protection ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (VE6XX)
Cheney now: An honored moderate speaker of wisdom
Posted by: The FNM at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)
Dibs on Sponge's bacon.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (dK+Kv)
Your insults, they will not be forgotten.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)
As the scar I inflicted disappeared, so will this memory.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (wVcYX)
In a sudden development that is utterly roilling the political world's waters, while former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared herself an 'independent', and wrote an entire book about it, it appears she is still listed as a Democrat.
"In a voter profile report obtained from the Maryland State Board of Elections by the Daily Mail, Jean-Pierre's registration is listed as 'active' and her party is listed as 'Democratic.'"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
His point was basically in those 5 pages was all sorts of things I know are not true. So how can I take anything for him as truth now?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)
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The inspiration for the "To Kill A Mockingbird" character Boo Radley written by
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (01gtA)
You mean like, "COVID was created in a Chinese lab using Fauci's government money?"
Turns out you just need to have all the right people play pretend and it works
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (jPh2t)
Singing with Joe Cocker
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (9ipOP)
Watch his impression of Joe Crocker singing "With a Little Help from My Friends."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (N1tpc)
Wow
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (N1tpc)
These MOFOs need to be arrested, tried for treason and incarcerated for life or executed.
Posted by: Czech Chick at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (vK/Ja)
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Woodward lied about Belusi. Made up things. Murray interview on Rogan. He was pretty incensed still.
Posted by: Lets get real at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (sDNVV)
Does anyone remember that Christopher Walken was once a....
Bond Villain?!
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (01gtA)
Yes. That was a particularly bad Bond...
But I'd still take it over any of the Daniel Craig ones.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (jPh2t)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)
Remember when you insisted I was like 70? Because "that's what you sound like"?
Bitch.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (0sNs1)
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[Unexpected BREAKING NEWS:] "Democrat Lies; Film at 11:00."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (oiNtH)
In an odd way it reminded me of the old photos of Edward VII's funeral in 1910. The grandest funeral ever staged in London, all the Royalty from around the world was there, it was the most dazzling and glittering display of privilege England had ever seen, surpassing even Victoria's. All the Family's that Ran the World were there, even today the photos of who was gathered together are amazing.
Within 4 years, their world was in flames, and within 8, almost all of them were wiped from history completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)
Unlikely at your age.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
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This is why we can't have nice things.
Suggest you see Animal House followed by two viewings of Blues Brothers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (9ipOP)
Cheney now: An honored moderate speaker of wisdom
Posted by: The FNM at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)
When Trump dies it will be the same. Because by the. JD Vance or whomever, will be the worst person sic Hitler. And Trump will be sen as a moderate.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (/AUU2)
Anyone notice how Tulsi Gabbard has kinda disappeared from public view?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Ratcliffe's boys have her held naked in a chair with her eyelids propped open watching Reds.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
His point was basically in those 5 pages was all sorts of things I know are not true. So how can I take anything for him as truth now?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:40 PM (/AUU2)
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I get that. My question was more about "what specifically does he claim is not true?"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (iFTx/)
Bitch.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:41 PM (iKD4f)
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I beg your pardon, I never ever said that.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (DRSnL)
New Bond: You can touch my balls if you want. Hands, rope, whatever, make me beg. Uh, I mean I'll never break Mr Badguy!
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (6KcYW)
Within 4 years, their world was in flames, and within 8, almost all of them were wiped from history completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (uWKK
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Great historical info, Tom.
"Slowly at first ... and then all at once."
History rhymes, yo!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (NtVYv)
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Have never seen the Blues Brothers movie???? Holy smokes that is a damn good movie. He can sing and dance.
Posted by: Lets get real at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (b2UQ7)
I just watched siskel & ebert's 1985 review of A View To A Kill, and those two shitheads actually made some good points.
One point they made was a major flaw in the Villain's (Walken) premise: He wanted control of Silicon Valley's chip-making industry. But Silicon Valley does not produce chips, they install them.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
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This is why we can't have nice things.
Suggest you see Animal House followed by two viewings of Blues Brothers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:42 PM (9ipOP)
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Saw both. AH was crap and Belushi wasn't funny. He was repellant. The Dean was right all along. I couldn't sit through BB. Boring, not funny.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Rockem Lockem Robot at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (FxINA)
Please, use the term the cooler.
Posted by: Col. Wilhelm Klink at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (DRSnL)
Who the hell was that then? All you damn kids sound the same.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (iKD4f)
Everyone in DC knew Russiagate was BS from the start.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Men! at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (b2UQ7)
Sounds better then a plot to steal Bolivia's water rights
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (gXGCk)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:36 PM (DRSnL)
Younger than you.
*ducks*
*covers*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Well, to be fair she is a lot cuter than you.lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (bfwj/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74BzSTQCl_c&t=11s
(substitute "thing" for "one")
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:43 PM (jc0TO)
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[From Brave "AI:"]
"Cheesecake is widely debated in culinary classification, but it is most accurately described as a custard pie or tart due to its structure and preparation, despite its name suggesting a cake."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (iKD4f)
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Might've been Jewells45 (RIP). People got us mixed up all the time.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (/AUU2)
"they took the bar..the whole fucking bar"
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Plotting.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (YwEeS)
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Oh that explains it. The concert scenes including cab calloway are towards the end. Worth watching.
Posted by: Men! at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (b2UQ7)
They fucked up the last step -
- while the capitol was under military lock down extremest failed to round up and execute the Romanov family.
The blob was quite effective in acting independent while still collective, like a flock of birds, but for that step...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (oQt4L)
Well, to be fair she is a lot cuter than you.lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)
Fact, albeit a very low bar.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (jc0TO)
Was the love of animal house dependent on having been in a fraternity? I was in one and loved it. Even though it was over the top, does have several kernels of truth to it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (DRSnL)
No, me and Jewells weren't really like that. I swear you told me last year you thought I was old. In the meantime - I humbly apologize for calling you a bitch as a term of endearment.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (PSEDc)
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+1
To this day, I still do the "Belushi mid-air 180-degree jumping around looking for eyewitnesses" thing he does prior to the dead horse scene.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
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I weep for the future.
If you want to tell me Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler are funny, don't.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (9ipOP)
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You were supposed to get pumpkin. It still gourd season.
Posted by: Men! at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:45 PM (snZF9)
Fact, albeit a very low bar.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Damn, you're just begging for the bacon wench to upgrade to sword maiden. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (NpAcC)
Ask them to GUESS what restaurant you are taking them to/ordering food from.
Whatever they say go there.
Easy peasy
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Men! at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM
Indeed. My clairvoyance failed me.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Jackson at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Josephistan at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (y9ksN)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (iKD4f)
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Apology accepted. And if anything, I thought you were younger than me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (DRSnL)
When they say it doesn't matter, it matters.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (snZF9)
"I'm a zit"
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (QGaXH)
Saw both. AH was crap and Belushi wasn't funny. He was repellant. The Dean was right all along. I couldn't sit through BB. Boring, not funny.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
Dude, you're killing me here, first deviled eggs and now Belushi?
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (jPh2t)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:46 PM (sKqQm)
And also remember that it was an "insurrection" where they forgot to bring any guns. Unlike when the Left actually shoots at ICE facilities and officers who are perforing their duly appointed duties. FFS.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (gXGCk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (snZF9)
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And don't think I won't!
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
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I weep for the future.
If you want to tell me Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler are funny, don't.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (9ipOP)
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Don't like them either. I think Sandler has his moments, but overall I don't find him funny. Happy Gilmore 2 was terrible.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
haha, in the same episode, siskel & fatbert reviews 1985's Perfect, starring John Travolta as a, lol, journalist for, lol, Rolling Stone, and Jamie Lee Curtis as a, lol, aerobics, lol, instructor.
LOTS of Jamie Lee bending, bending this way, and bending that way.
The premise of the "Perfect" was a journalist getting the "story" on the "latest" "fitness craze."
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (01gtA)
Was the love of animal house dependent on having been in a fraternity? I was in one and loved it. Even though it was over the top, does have several kernels of truth to it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (/AUU2)
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Ironically (again), I HATED fraternities; was never in one, and almost got into a fistfight both times I entered one for a party -- they were all drunken assholes.
HOWEVER, I LOVED "Animal House" (perhaps for different reasons) ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (jc0TO)
Bill, Hillary Clinton told to appear for depositions in Jeffrey Epstein probe
https://t.ly/DvgBS
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (pkeXY)
No words needed to enjoy Belushi cruising down the cafeteria line.
No words needed to enjoy Belushi on the ladder outside Mandy Pepperidge's window.
Etc . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (wVcYX)
If you want to tell me Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler are funny, don't.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (9ipOP)
Or…
Maybe they’re all funny?
Why do people need to do this “my era of stuff was great but your era is shit”. It’s possible some stuff from the 70s was funny, and - get this - stuff from the 90s and 2000s was also funny. And things today are funny.
Wild huh?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (/AUU2)
Saw him in Spaceman.
He can be really good in a more serious role...if he wants to be.
Most of his recent comedic work he is mostly mailing it in.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (DRSnL)
That is bizarre. I mean not that you thought that, but that I have that wrong. So weird.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (jc0TO)
Pro tip: It freezes/defrosts well, so you can feed off that for at least two sittings.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (dK+Kv)
They will just refuse to go.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)
btw, lol @ all the poor saps saddled with the name "epstein," today
Democrats put a target on all-y'alls backs, yo, as jazz ratchet would say.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (01gtA)
Wild huh?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (/AUU2)
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*lights hair on fire*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: zombie Jeffery Epstein at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (v0R5T)
Genuflecting?
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Josephistan at November 21, 2025 03:49 PM (y9ksN)
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NOW you tell me!
Where were you five years ago?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (jc0TO)
I love cheesecake and it's delicious, enjoy.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (jPh2t)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (9ipOP)
While I enjoyed 50 First Dates, I find Adam Sandler a little too Jerry Lewisey (RIP) for me.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (QGaXH)
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Dad, is that you?????
Posted by: Theres no school like the old school at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (b2UQ7)
Which begs the question: What happened to all the people with the last name "hitler."
And how many "charles mansons" are there out there? And did any donate to a Democrat?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (01gtA)
If you let him wing it he sucks.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (bfwj/)
*******
It's weird. Trump is being too nice.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (NpAcC)
If you let him wing it he sucks.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM
Do you think he was funny in Elf?
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (kTd/k)
Democrats put a target on all-y'alls backs, yo, as jazz ratchet would say.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:53 PM (01gtA)
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And 98% of them will vote again for the next Anti-Semitic Islamist Democrat-Communist.
/It is was it is ... sadly.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Mike Post at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (G7X1C)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM (iKD4f)
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Smart man.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (9ipOP)
Well, I grew up in a college town, and after that movie came out, it became a thing for some idiot students to roll marbles down Main Street after the parade started.
The town cancelled the parade (which had been going on for over 50 years) and never held another one.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (/AUU2)
Trick to dealing with women when they tell you they don't care...
Ask them to GUESS what restaurant you are taking them to/ordering food from.
Whatever they say go there.
Easy peasy
Posted by: 18-1
"You'll just go where you want to anyway, we always eat where you want."
"BECAUSE YOU WON'T FUCKING TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO EAT!!!!!!!!!"
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (QVmho)
If you let him wing it he sucks.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (sKqQm)
I still laugh at and there's so much room for activities. My husband doesn't think it's funny though.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (jPh2t)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:50 PM
So when they say Get what you want, they mean Get what I want.
It is a test of my previous observational skills.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (jc0TO)
"Animal Louse. I remember this being much funnier when I saw it on VHS as a kid. The movie was certainly something new and different at the time, and spawned the entire "raunchy sexx comedy" genre. But that doesn't mean that its good. Decades later, while there some funny moments and quotable lines, I find the movie tedious, creepy, and like I needed a tetanus shot after watching. There is nobody appealing to root for. Bluto is ostensibly the star, but he's a stupid drunken pig who dresses in stained, tattered clothes like a homeless bum. I wouldn't want him anywhere near me. The rest of the characters are all unappealing in their own ways. Their antics weren't silly or funny as much as dangerous, misogynistic, dishonest, and destructive. A 13-year-old girl? Really? The Delta house itself is dilapidated and disgusting and everyone throws bottles and beer at each other. I wouldn't step foot in it. I began to see that the Dean was right all along, that the Delta House and its members were a blight on campus and should be kicked out. I'm giving it three stars mostly for nostalgia."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:56 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: redridinghood
.......
until Zohran asks for his allowance.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)
Honestly? Yes. The draw for that movie was really Zooey Deschanel being cute but...he made me chuckle.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (9ipOP)
A perennial favorite!
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (wVcYX)
Yeah.
Pull the other one.
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (cGjQu)
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (zL/eJ)
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Take em to golden Corral. When you pull in the parking lot she ll start to get a lot of ideas on acceptable options.
Posted by: Theres no school like the old school at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much
.......
She makes my pants feel funny.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (Yl2Ob)
so it's like putting one new red sock in with the whites doing the laundry. I won't have to do this again.
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Dad, is that you?????
Posted by: Theres no school like the old school
This is the way.
The women do it back though... how many of you trust the wife to change the oil in her car by herself?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (QVmho)
He can be really good in a more serious role...if he wants to be.
Most of his recent comedic work he is mostly mailing it in.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 03:52 PM (sKqQm)
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Although I've missed most of his "comedy" films, he was good in a dramatic role in "Uncut Gems."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (9ipOP)
Rachel maddow shedding a tear for dick Cheney. It was fricking bizzaro world.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (i0Hi3)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (kTd/k)
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She is quite funny -- and not a bad actress either -- in the early Tyler Perry movies. She was unknown then.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:59 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:00 PM (YwEeS)
Yes Will Ferrell is a leftist douche. And he’s also been in some hilarious movies and SNL skits.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:00 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (9ipOP)
A perennial favorite!
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (wVcYX)
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* snort *
Same as it ever was ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Mustafa at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (jc0TO)
Anyway, may the plotters all drown in lakes of blood. May they come to fear the night.
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: DaveA at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (PMJuY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Go with the joke man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Aftyn Behn at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (RHGPo)
Cripes sakes...
WTF is it with SNEEZING & Getting Older?
Is it just me, or the older you get, the more painful your Sneezes become?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Random PJ at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (RRCAT)
"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
Bolton, Durham, Haspel and company wanted to hurt Trump, even if that meant hurting the country; they failed in their treason.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (ynpvh)
The women do it back though... how many of you trust the wife to change the oil in her car by herself?
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Which is okay. Because it makes you stay in your lane. She goes to the grocery, you do mechanicals. Bliss.
Posted by: Theres no school like the old school at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (b2UQ7)
Ask them to GUESS what restaurant you are taking them to/ordering food from.
Whatever they say go there.
Easy peasy
Posted by: 18-1
"You'll just go where you want to anyway, we always eat where you want."
"BECAUSE YOU WON'T FUCKING TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO EAT!!!!!!!!!"
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November
Doesn't matter what I pick my wife says no to the first three things I pick. I quit picking.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (i0Hi3)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (sKqQm)
Rachel maddow shedding a tear for dick Cheney. It was fricking bizzaro world.
+ + + + +
Randy sure looked out of place, sitting there in that odd ceremony. Plus, the Daughter-de-jure's screed over her dead dad was touching - demented, but touching...
No love for Darth Cheney - he was always a snake with a bad ticker...
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (zL/eJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (zZu0s)
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He's in a mood today.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much
.......
She makes my pants feel funny.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)
First time I saw her was in Big Trouble, and I actually said out loud "Gawdam she's hot!"
Good thing my wife wasn't in the room just then.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:03 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:04 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:04 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 03:57 PM (sDNVV)
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A wonderful (if unintentional turn of phrase.
What's that SubStack name or link, anybody?
[The most impressive thing about this place is the quality -- and often creativity -- of writing by the bloggers AND commenters!]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:04 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)
I've noticed my sinuses get a lot more fucked up than they used to.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (RHGPo)
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Which is okay. Because it makes you stay in your lane. She goes to the grocery, you do mechanicals. Bliss.
Posted by: Theres no school like the old school
Bif? Can you stop at the grocery store and pick up a gallon of milk on your way home?
Sure thing, babe.
*comes home with beer, beef jerkey, and doritoes*
Never got asked again. But I go with and open carry now, and have for maybe the last twenty years.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (zZu0s)
Well, it's not uncommon for allergies to get worse with age.
Conversely, allergies can lessen with age.
The human body is a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:06 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM
Purity Of Substance
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:04 PM (01gtA)
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Another great (if unintentional) turn of phrase.
This is why "AI" will never replace the comments here ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:06 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)
I've noticed my sinuses get a lot more fucked up than they used to.
+ + + + + +
I chalk it up to all the pro-mask wearing and NBC\ABC training we had to take.
You think life sucks? Try it wearing a M7 chem mask, MOPP4, in a cold rainstorm...
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at November 21, 2025 04:06 PM (zL/eJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM
Are you baking or using cyanide?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:01 PM (YwEeS)
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Obviously cyanide. I wouldn't drink the coffee.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (dIske)
Also Downhill was a black comedy but he played it straight for the most part. Underrated movie IMO.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (/AUU2)
WTF is it with SNEEZING & Getting Older?
Is it just me, or the older you get, the more painful your Sneezes become?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)
The sneeze is a violent muscle spasm that affects a ton of the muscles in the body. Old muscles have less tolerance.
Just be glad that its probably the least bad of the ways to learn that.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 04:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)
unlike the lady above, I get plain cheesecake because the toppings ruin the dish.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)
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You can get it or my email from Ben Had if she is willing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:02 PM (01gtA)
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I have to warn my poor wifey so she can cover her ears as mine have become so loud.
I also had lots of bloody noses & snot after having moved to a drier climate; however, collagen appear to have helped and healed the bloody nasal mucus.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (+mTgD)
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One of the finest moments in my life was when, at a business lunch of five men and one woman, i dropped an extremely well timed one liner causing the woman, who was eating and readying to swallow at that moment, to fire a cajun spiced french frie out of her nose onto her plate so hard it made the plate ding.
She said the cajun spice burned for like half an hour afterwards.
Posted by: Theres no school like the old school at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (b2UQ7)
They are both conciliatory, and they are both focusing on making MNYGA. I'm a little disappointed. Madmani is too smooth by half, dodged some tough questions.
Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (zp4/T)
Did you hear this? Shitbum ratchet crockett had to flee for cover yesterday and hide behind the race card.
She goes online to do an Extreme Close-Up ghetto bitch livestream and claims "a white supremacist" "came to my office" and "flashed" "white supremacist" "hand signs" "at me."
No evidence of this ever happening, of course, because it didn't. But she pretended to "thank" the Capitol Police "for all what you do."
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (01gtA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (9ipOP)
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Gotcha, thanks!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:55 PM (DRSnL)
😁
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:05 PM (iKD4f)
I didn't know Aftyn Behn had her own emoji
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (iKD4f)
Wild huh?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:51 PM (/AUU2)
There's always been a lot of crap and generally only the good stuff gets remembers.
NEVERTHELESS, there's so much more stuff now, there's an absolutely larger amount of crap. I'd further bet that it's a a much higher percentage of crap as well.
For example, there are a lot of funny things now. Very little of it is on SNL. In the 70s-90s, there was a lot of funny stuff on SNL.
But talentless Fallon cracking up in every sketch really ruined SNL for me and it's only gotten worse since.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (npFr7)
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Isn't it time for common-sense wypipo hand control and confiscation?
The right to bear arms does NOT include hands, h8rs!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:11 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (Wnv9h)
https://youtu.be/r51J1h83VH8?si=0RoLhWJB2NuCgYu6
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (YwEeS)
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Best SNL seasons are the ones where you’re 15-20 years old.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (/AUU2)
I chalk it up to all the pro-mask wearing and NBC\ABC training we had to take.
You think life sucks? Try it wearing a M7 chem mask, MOPP4, in a cold rainstorm...
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant
ptsd flashback - August, in the Westerwald somewhere. Unit had a two week nuclear surety certification tactical evaluation. Bitches put us in mopp4, then made us do an emergency self destruction - 80lb shape charges get run around the site, det cord strung, and ignighters/time fuse installed. I'm sweating bulllets, and got picked for a real warhead mate/demate (in mopp4).
Get to the part where we have to remove the warhead cable, and I stand up, look chief Foreman in the eye and pull off my mask. Remove the cable, then go over in the corner and laydown flopping a little, and took a nap.
They tried to decert the unit over that, but Chief said, "No, Sgt Bif sacrificed himself for the unit by removing his mask to safely kill the warhead arming circuits. Didn't you see him go over to the corner out of the way and die while we secured the warhead?"
I got an ARCOM for thinking out of the box, and keeping the warhead safe at the same time.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (zp4/T)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)
+ + +
Think paid personal blog, and you're not far off...
Posted by: Pinochet Flight Attendant at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (zL/eJ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM
It is known.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)
As far as I can tell, it is a blog with a subscription.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (zZu0s)
They are both conciliatory, and they are both focusing on making MNYGA. I'm a little disappointed. Madmani is too smooth by half, dodged some tough questions.
Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (zp4/T)
Only the Tzar Bomba could make NYC great again.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 04:15 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:12 PM
So it's not the exhaust manifold of a diesel boat?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 04:15 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 04:13 PM (/AUU2)
Coincidentally that's also when communism sounds the best. Present company excluded.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:16 PM (iKD4f)
Which begs the question: What happened to all the people with the last name "hitler."
And how many "charles mansons" are there out there?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (01gtA)
For a week or two decades ago I lived on the edge of that particular hell, sharing a name with some jerk who was briefly nationally notorious for some stupid assholery...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 04:16 PM (QGaXH)
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Funny. As a young teenager was out at a pizza restaurant as part of an All-Star baseball team in a different state (Utah) we were visiting.
The cheese was so thick on the pizza, that I began choking on it after trying to swallow some of the pizza.
In a panic, I reached down my throat and grabbed the long string of thick cheese -- and violently ejected it from my throat like a trebuchet.
The cheese stuck to the wooden wall, giving all of my teammates a hearty laugh ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:16 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (zZu0s)
It's like a Geocities journal. But for professionals, ostensibly, instead of teenage girls. Though the content is often indistinguishable.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (g00SI)
And how many "charles mansons" are there out there?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM
We used to have a Dr. Mengele at the hospital. It was always freaky to hear him called over the intercom. Dr. Mengele to surgery, Dr. Megele to ER.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 04:17 PM (jc0TO)
In a panic, I reached down my throat and grabbed the long string of thick cheese -- and violently ejected it from my throat like a trebuchet.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 04:16 PM (+mTgD)
I had that happen when I was younger. I might have been a tad bit calmer about it though. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 04:18 PM (snZF9)
They are both conciliatory, and they are both focusing on making MNYGA. I'm a little disappointed. Madmani is too smooth by half, dodged some tough questions.
Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:09 PM (zp4/T)
Only the Tzar Bomba could make NYC great again.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 04:14 PM (snZF9)
*******
It was a Bromance today.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 04:19 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
......
lol
My favorite nuke of all time. Proves the Russkies have a sense of humor.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 04:19 PM (v0R5T)
(Wink)
Posted by: Cray Cray at November 21, 2025 04:19 PM (pAKdF)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 04:20 PM (iKD4f)
They had someone roam around and plant fake bombs here or there to see when and how security found them, much like a phishing test on our e-mail. Then Secret service found one, and for whatever reason whoever planted the bombs didn't immediately fess up and got scared. Prob due to this being tied into J6. Hence multiple attempts to bury this investigation, since it makes them, all look like idiots, and undermines the J6 investigation.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 04:20 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (pkeXY)
Bad news. Now you have to explain to your parents why you have to take the course over...
Not that that happened to me....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 04:21 PM (QGaXH)
Strange bedfellows indeed and the press trying to make a big deal out of Trump and Vance not being invited is actually a compliment. I remember a time when half of those people were called the worst people in the world and massive protests were held against them complete with paper mache heads with devil horns and fangs with dripping blood.
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 03:37 PM (oiNtH)
A greater hive of scum and villainy...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 04:23 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
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Different tastes. He, Ackroyd, Murray.... really funny. Their box office runs proved that out.
Posted by: Black JEM at November 21, 2025 04:23 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:10 PM (pkeXY)
Apparently, it is a sad place where people with no sense of humor or taste in movies hang out.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 04:24 PM (dK+Kv)
Our rule is that whoever vetoes the first suggestion has to make the next one.
With a larger group, say of co-workers going to lunch, the only real workable solution is that the driver is not allowed to ask. He must choose by himself and no one is allowed to object.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 04:37 PM (i+bC1)
Posted by: DaveA at November 21, 2025 04:41 PM (PMJuY)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 21, 2025 06:03 PM (wGqjj)
We knew four years ago that Barr was the 'bondo' and Durham was the 'spray paint'. DC is nothing more than a cover-up operation.
There is a reason Sodom on Potomac is trying to take folks like Trump and Tucker down and it is nothing more than protecting who gets your printed tax dollars. And it ain't you. The CCP is never far away in all of this and you better understand it.
Posted by: Danimal28 at November 22, 2025 07:22 AM (mNOhh)
Nasty White Karen Running to Take a Nashville House Seat from Republicans Admits On Tape That She Hates All of Nashville, Especially Its People
Black Phone for Karen...
Black Phone for Karen...
The special election will be held on December
Democratic congressional hopeful Aftyn Behn did not hold back when describing how she really feels about Nashville -- the city she's now running to represent -- in a 2020 podcast that's resurfaced just days before the Dec. 2 special election. "I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently an 'it' city to the rest of the country. But I hate it," she said in the podcast. Behn, a Democratic state representative and former healthcare community organizer, is running against Republican nominee Matt Van Epps to represent Tennessee's 7th Congressional District. The winner will succeed former GOP Rep. Mark Green, who resigned from office in June to take a private sector job. The district, which is located in central and western Tennessee and stretches from Kentucky to Alabama, is solidly red. President Donald Trump carried the district by 22 points in his 2024 White House victory. But the district includes parts of the Democratic stronghold of Nashville, Tennessee's capital and its most populous city, and a major national center for the country music industry. The district encompasses parts of north and west Nashville, including the downtown area which has long been a very popular tourist destination. "The Democrat running in a special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, Aftyn Behn, is running on the message: 'I hate this place, elect me!' Tennessee deserves better," the Republican National Committee (RNC) argued in a social media post on Thursday.
“She calls herself a radical, brags about bullying ICE agents and state troopers, and proudly says she ran on ‘protecting trans children. Wild.” pic.twitter.com/QHN6cIIS1c
— Big Dawg (@BigDawgofUSA) November 20, 2025
Speaking of AWFLs: Do not discount the fact that many are supported by their parents until age 30 and then their husbands (and then their ex-husbands) all their lives so they basically live on cradle-to-altar-to-grave socialism. So they just don't understand why everyone just can't sponge off daddy and hubby forever.
Socialist mayor-elect reveals why she embraced her parents giving her money as a 43-year-oldIn fairness, male (or "male") socialists also usually have never worked a job until they get themselves elected as Democrat politicians. John Fetterman -- pre-Lumpy-Jack -- was a trust fund baby who lived with his parents deep into adulthood, and Bernie Sanders was famously a hippie couch-surfer who never worked a job until he got elected as a politician. The Democrat Party is made up of two major blocs: Poor people who are on government welfare and who think that money is made by someone printing a check, and rich nepo babies on family welfare who think that money is made by daddy signing a check. Neither of these groups understand the effort required to earn a buck, so they have no actual appreciation for money as a stored form of previously-exerted labor. The Islamoleftist Mamdani did not ever have a job until he was elected to New York Assembly at age 30.
Katie Wilson, 43, said openness about taking her parents' money during campaign made her 'relatable' to voters Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson, 43, said now that she has been elected mayor and is earning more money as a result, she no longer needs to ask her parents for help to pay the bills. Wilson, who recently told CNN she thought embracing the help she got from her parents made her more "relatable" to Seattle voters, quipped on social media that, "after much deliberation and a grueling interview process," she was "pleased" to announce that her higher salary as mayor will mean she no longer needs financial support from her parents. During Wilson's campaign, she credited her parents' financial support for allowing her to run. "My opponent's campaign and the corporate PAC that tried to stop my election certainly cast it as a negative thing," Wilson responded when asked whether she thought people in Seattle saw her parents' financial support as a negative or a positive. ... Wilson added that it isn't unusual for parents to help their children with money but also noted she recognized her "privilege." "You know, families help each other out, and I certainly acknowledge that I'm lucky to be in a position where my parents were able to do that. Not all families have that privilege," Wilson said. "And that's why I'm going to fight for affordable childcare and affordable housing for every family in this city."
🚨 KAROLINE LEAVITT responds to President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Zohran Mamdani tomorrow
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 20, 2025
“It speaks volumes that tomorrow, we have a COMMUNIST coming to the White House — because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country.” pic.twitter.com/WD1zQAWJIw
Disgraced ex-Harvard president Larry Summers reportedly spent his honeymoon on Jeffrey Epstein's notorious private island -- flying from Massachusetts on the convicted billionaire pedophile's jet with Ghislaine Maxwell, flight records show. Summers flew to Saint James on Epstein's infamous "Lolita Express" with his wife, Elisa F. New, shortly after their Dec. 11, 2005, wedding in Cambridge, and was accompanied by the disgraced financier's infamous madam, who was later convicted on sex trafficking charges, the Harvard Crimson reported Thursday. "Mr. Summers and Ms. New spent their honeymoon in St. John and Jamaica in December 2005, which was long before Mr. Epstein was arrested for the first time," a spokesperson for Summers told the outlet.Summers would be sucking up to Epstein because Epstein was a donor to Harvard, and, as Johnny Chung said, "if you want to ride the subway, you have to put tokens in the slots." If you donate to the left-wing Regime, the subways go anywhere you want them to go. And the nursery of elite nepo babies was very grateful to the pedophile.
"As part of that trip, they made a brief visit of less than a day to Mr. Epstein's island."
The island getaway came six months after Palm Beach police began investigating Epstein for the rape of a 14-year-old girl, with a search warrant later executed on his mansion in October 2005. Flight logs show Summers flew to the 72-acre Caribbean island on Dec. 21, 2005 -- and took Epstein's jet, allegedly used to ferry victims and accomplices in his sex-trafficking rings, three other times. Three of the trips occurred while the 70-year-old was serving as Harvard's president.
𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧
@michael_texan In 2003, The Harvard Crimson gushed all over Jeffrey Epstein and how he was best buddies with so many Harvard academicians and alums. "And Summers is not the only person at Harvard whom Epstein admires--or who admires Epstein. "Epstein counts a number of professors--including Dershowitz, Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn and former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky--among his bevy of eminent friends that includes princes, presidents and Nobel-Prize winners. "The relationships Epstein has formed inside and outside the scientific community are particularly impressive, given that he is self-taught and does not even hold a bachelor's degree. "Kosslyn was introduced to Epstein by the famed late Harvard professor and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, and Dershowitz says he met Epstein through "mutual friends." "Rosovsky, Epstein's oldest friend in the bunch, met the mogul through similarly serendipitous circumstances. Twelve years ago, "we were introduced by a mutual friend, Mr. Leslie Wexner," Rosovsky writes in an e-mail. "Wexner, the billionaire who founded Limited Brands--whose empire now includes Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works and Express--is also a longtime Harvard benefactor. "Epstein and Wexner, longtime friends and business associates, teamed up in the early 1990s to fund the construction of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's new building, Rosovsky Hall."
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She has since come out and said that this is Republicans using fake news and she wasn't talking about Nashville, you guys.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 02:24 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: huerfano at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM (98kQX)
I’ll take a different view. This is a mistake. There is no reason for Trump to meet this clown, and every reason for Bozo theMarxist to meet with Trump. It gives him legitimacy.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM (D7Yu1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM (Wg6v7)
One hell of a platform.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: DaveA at November 21, 2025 02:26 PM (PMJuY)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 02:26 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 02:26 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to relax and failing at November 21, 2025 02:27 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM
She looks like a very slightly younger Katherine Maher from NPR.
Posted by: huerfano at November 21, 2025 02:27 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 02:27 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:27 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:27 PM (jc0TO)
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This is why I can't imitate ace. He puts too much into it.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:28 PM (iKD4f)
All this one has to do is yell "meanies" and "abortions", and she's in. It's that simple.
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 02:28 PM (XuXeR)
You left out 'and daddy' . 'ex-husbands and daddy....'
And from the previous thread - all I can say is 'shoulda moved to Florida....'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 21, 2025 02:28 PM (QGaXH)
"As part of that trip, they made a brief visit of less than a day to Mr. Epstein's island."
Might be most romantic words ever:
Hun let us bop over to visit Epstein and bang a couple of 14 YOs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 02:28 PM (gbOdA)
This is what happens without controlled burns, it gets out of hand
Posted by: heya at November 21, 2025 02:29 PM (V4rQC)
Her husband is an unemployed baker, but for some reason she had to have her parents pay for daycare.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 02:29 PM (DRSnL)
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This is why I can't imitate ace. He puts too much into it.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:28 PM (iKD4f)
It's a gift.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:27 PM (dK+Kv)
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She's from Mos Eisley, the most wretched hive of scum and villainy in the galaxy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 02:29 PM (IBQGV)
What's the name of that one asian politician that was all, "I hate all of you and I want you to die"? A guy.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:30 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 02:30 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 02:30 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at November 21, 2025 02:30 PM (jZ3ZM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Many of them want us dead or in camps, so no cognitive dissonance...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (ynpvh)
One would hope the GOP would be trying to do something about this...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (sKqQm)
Her husband is an unemployed baker, but for some reason she had to have her parents pay for daycare.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 02:29 PM (DRSnL)
That story keeps getting better and better.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Josephistan at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (y9ksN)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (PCK5/)
Why? Won't bake a cake?
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 02:30 PM (XuXeR)
the only ones allowed to NOT bake a cake are Muzzies, since they'll kill you before you can file a lawsuit...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: bluebell at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (+mTgD)
One would hope the GOP would be trying to do something about this...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (sKqQm)"
Look at this guy, he thinks they are real votes
Posted by: heya at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (V4rQC)
Plus, she's already the state rep. So apparently the voters like her.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (DRSnL)
Don't be a weirdo.
If he watching me pleasure some random guys who is watching the kid?
Posted by: Katie Wilson at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (sKqQm)
Here we go again. ace just can't handle stronk, independent, empowered women.
Posted by: Endorrian patriarchal oppression! at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (TbWk/)
Ever since Obama Democrats have been running on how awful the place is, how much they hate it and how they are going to fundamentally change it. Obama is the cancer we are still suffering from.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (Wmg4n)
Ask your doctor/cats if Aftyn is right for you.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Just click the comment number. Save yourself.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Ripley at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (GUOwU)
It's a multi-person, four-wheel, human pedal power contraption that has a bar in the middle.
Picture:
http://tiny.cc/22gv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (Gwcfo)
If you go back to the original Doom PC games, as you increased the difficult level, the face changed and I swear, one level looked EXACTLY like that photo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
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The whole purpose of the Elissa Slotkin sedition video was to provoke PDJT. The AWFL's are the Democrats big hope for next November, and they must be kept in a frenzy.
Expect more outrageousness, where the Propaganda Press ignores the provocation and just plays on permanent repeat the Trumpian response.
And these wine-soaked suburban white women will turn out in force next November to express how appalling they think law, order, peace, and prosperity really are, because Trump threatened a death sentence for poor little Elissa fucking Slotkin.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (lIonU)
Posted by: Josephistan at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (y9ksN)
I'm sure that's a nasal spray.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at
(And money)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (Wmg4n)
And the souls of children.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Gwcfo)
Well, Peter Jennings told us the voters were throwing a tantrum when they elected Trump the first time.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (PCK5/)
That won't post the comment, however.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mayor Pete at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Y1sOo)
"Democracy is the theory that common people know what they want, and deserve to get it, good and hard."
Nashville now up to bat.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (dK+Kv)
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Ace moved it to the top. He must be disappointed in us.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (viF8m)
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And Mrs. Obama said she wouldn't even to bother to run until we all shape up because we don't deserve her.
Again, I'm with her on that last part. We most certainly don't deserve her.
Posted by: bluebell at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: the buy that moves pianos for a living at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (IQhz0)
She gets the Newcomer vote.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Endorrian patriarchal oppression! at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (TbWk/)"
Wife quote, just now:
"I am enraged that I am actually considering the position that women shouldn't be allowed to vote because of these stupid cunts"
Posted by: heya at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (V4rQC)
Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (2ap+5)
It's a multi-person, four-wheel, human pedal power contraption that has a bar in the middle.
Picture:
http://tiny.cc/22gv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Yp6az)
Oh, I misread that as PAEDO tavern...disappointed.
Posted by: Antifa at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (ynpvh)
"if you want to ride the subway, you have to put tokens in the slots."
What about those fare jumpers or whatever they're called?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 02:36 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 02:36 PM (uQzkA)
Ask your doctor/cats if Aftyn is right for you.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (3uBP9)
Are you afflicted by joy and happiness? Ask your Dr. if Aftyn is right for you.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:36 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 02:36 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (ZRzmB)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (3uBP9)
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Her opponent should make a parody ad like that, starting with the bad aftereffects and pledging a mock "class action" against the makers of Aftyn if he/she is sent to Washington.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (lIonU)
Picture:
http://tiny.cc/22gv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Yp6az)
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That goes round and round the downtown area of Nashville while the drunk bridesmaids are singing and twerking to let everyone know how awesome they are.
People that live there hate them because it takes forever to get anywhere downtown when they're circling.
Posted by: bluebell at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (79pEw)
Picture:
http://tiny.cc/22gv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Yp6az)
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What's the DUI penalty for pedaling under the influence?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (IBQGV)
Teacher's unions, no?
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (IQhz0)
My great idea: Take an old amphibius assault transport, turn it into a bachelorette party amphibius assault transport. Get the gals liquored up, take a quick dunk, then storm the bars. Maybe a hover craft.
Posted by: banana "My hovercraft is full of bachelorettes" Dream at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (3uBP9)
>>Again, I'm with her on that last part. We most certainly don't deserve her.
One of the most privileged people in the country, given immense wealth and prestige for doing almost nothing and all she does is complain how oppressed she is in America. An absolutely loathsome person.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 21, 2025 02:38 PM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 02:35 PM (DRSnL)
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He's trying the Aftyn Gambit to see if it works.
Posted by: bluebell at November 21, 2025 02:38 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 02:38 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:32 PM (+mTgD)
I was hearing Glenn Close: "I'm not going to be ignored!"
Posted by: Josephistan at November 21, 2025 02:38 PM (y9ksN)
Has she admitted to opening up the Gulags?
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 02:38 PM (+qU29)
Picture:
http://tiny.cc/22gv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (Yp6az)
For some reason, this description reminds me of the Perry the Platypus song
Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 02:39 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 02:39 PM (1c89N)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (IBQGV)
A poor sober guy working for the company is doing all the steering stop and go. The drunk gals are the power source.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:39 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 02:40 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:40 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 02:38 PM (NcvvS)
Rumor has it that HR Giger took his inspiration from this nightmare.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:40 PM (dK+Kv)
vs
He's a semi aquatic egg-laying mammal of action
Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (2ap+5)
Oh but it's Islamic day
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 02:38 PM (NcvvS)
But enough about my gums.....
Posted by: Barack Owebama at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)
I know about Aphra Behn as well. I'm sure she was a more interesting person than this politician.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (MNCvZ)
In 20 years she is going to look like Skeletor
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (rbvCR)
I caught this morning on 2WAY that it turns out the Alan Dershowitz knew Epstein only in the capacity of his being a lawyer, and nothing else. Halperin, Spicer and Turrentine all said that it was great that he stuck to his guns, offered to be investigated, and refused to back down from his contention that he did nothing wrong in his professional association with Epstein.
I haven't seen this in the news myself - is this indeed true?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 02:43 PM (uQzkA)
I haven't seen this in the news myself - is this indeed true?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (0CU3H)
Ace's word isn't GOOD ENOUGH for you!?!?!?!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)
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Unfortunately, there is a major 3rd group. Entrepreneurs who made it in a fashionable business, who give $$ to stay in the good graces of the AWFLS.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 02:43 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:43 PM (Gwcfo)
I looked and she's not married.
I don't know what a pedal tavern is, nor why she hates bachelorettes...granted, I don't watch that crap, either.
I hope her hate sinks her...the country music hate should ring a few bells.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 02:43 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
Cut-rate ski lodge in the Swiss alps.
Posted by: mikeski at November 21, 2025 02:44 PM (emg/O)
You show me a person who wants to pedal a vehicle while they drink beer and I'll show you an asshole that deserves to be throat punched for existing.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:44 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 02:44 PM (BvTxf)
you… https://fl0w2bash88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at November 21, 2025 02:44 PM (8DMeP)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 02:39 PM (1c89N)
Michael Biehn >>>>>>>>> et Al.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:45 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:45 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:45 PM (iKD4f)
I miss Sarah.
She should come back just to kick your ass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 02:45 PM (+qU29)
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Heh. We did one of those excursions on our Alaskan Cruise in Sitka last year. It was a self-selecting hoot, as you had to be kind of nuts to participate as part a pedal-powered party bike doing a pub crawl -- and all those we met were definitely fun (and being a conservative "Patriot Cruise" advertised & promoted by Seb Gorka, would have made fine Hordelings).
We pedaled our asses off -- yelling "Quack! Quack!" at passersby in the duck-themed green-mobile -- and the pub refreshments were a welcome reward.
At one point, the driver (and tour-conductor whom I was sitting next to) pointed us toward a mile-long arcing highway bridge ahead and I was like "NO WAY, DUDE!" whereupon he laughed heartily and turned us around. Good times, good times ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:46 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:44 PM (3BwY
Lol.
*golfclap*
Agreed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:46 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:45 PM (jc0TO)
She's driving. They'd all die.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 02:41 PM (0CU3H)
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Certainly it is true he stuck to his guns, sued people to protect his reputation and consistently defended his role in Epstein's life. It made big news for a long time.
Is it true he never transgressed with a chick? Only he (and any such woman) would know that, I guess.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 02:46 PM (lIonU)
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Each one has at least nine cats registered to vote, so yeah ... they're screwed.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:46 PM (+mTgD)
He had a poster of Lenin on the wall of his office.
The inmates run all of the asylums, top to bottom. The only possible way it changes is if the kids stop going into the machine, or stop listening.
The guys might. The girls won't. The chasm widens.
Posted by: alanon at November 21, 2025 02:46 PM (OhUhe)
You show me a person who wants to pedal a vehicle while they drink beer and I'll show you an asshole that deserves to be throat punched for existing.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:44 PM (3BwY
How about Tobarggans, where hot chicks pull you around on a sled while you drink beer?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:43 PM (Gwcfo)
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In the instagram-trendy bachelorette cities (Nashville, Austin, Cabo, etc.) yes, they are that bad. You can't go to a decent bar without 2-3 party buses full of obnoxious liquored-up Woooooo Girls storming in to act stupid and take videos of everything for their social feeds. It sucks.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM (3BwY8)
Neighbors have two sons still living with them. One still in college. The other with some sort of financial degree and an enviornmental minor. They are conservatives, and I assume the sons are as well. I honestly think the parents don't want them to move out at this point.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM (WONhk)
She was 43.
My kids are 25, and 100% on their own. Have been weaning them for the last 5 years.
The mayor is a disgusting embarrassment to her family, and her lack of shame makes it worse.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Satan at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:48 PM (3uBP9)
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What could go wrong?
/Next you'll be telling me she's married to a tranny ... or something.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:48 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Democrats at November 21, 2025 02:48 PM (0sNs1)
I did a horse drawn sleigh ride around Montreal drinking rum one New Years Day. That was pretty fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 02:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: mr tmz at November 21, 2025 02:49 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:48 PM
Text me.
Posted by: Big Sausage Pizza delivery driver at November 21, 2025 02:49 PM (0sNs1)
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And there it is ... missed it by --><-- much.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:49 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 02:49 PM (mADJX)
Hate 1950s-era Disney for being patriotic and conservative and pro-America? Then get a job there because you hate is, so you ca start to change it from within. Hire your friend, and they'll hire more of their friends, and before long Disney is an anti-American juggernaut. Mission accomplished.
Hate video games for being male-centric? Pretend t be a gamer so a to get a job in the video game industry, so little by little yo can turn it into a wke anti-masculinity hellhole.
Hate the Catholic Church? Become a priest get promoted to bishop, and get voted Pope so you can turn it communist.
Etc. etc. etc. That's what they do. It's the definition of Gramscianism. If you hate it, take it over.
And this woman is a classic example of the strategy.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 02:50 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:48 PM (+mTgD)
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She *looks* like a tranny, in that second video.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 02:50 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Homo prophet at November 21, 2025 02:50 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: Ripley at November 21, 2025 02:51 PM (0sNs1)
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Sperm-to-Worm Socialism, married to the (tranny?) Uncle Sugar Feral Gubmint Teet ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:51 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 02:52 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:52 PM (3uBP9)
Lovecraft on 'shrooms wouldn't have thought of this.
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 02:52 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:47 PM
Fucking hell. That's. Damn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:53 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 02:54 PM (VE6XX)
Behn, a Democratic state representative and former healthcare community organizer, is running against Republican nominee Matt Van Epps
And if he isn't playing that 24/7 on every station, he deserves to lose. When your enemy make you free campaign commercials, USE THEM.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 02:54 PM (QtIaX)
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 02:55 PM (eIzlH)
Johnny Cash was good. And Coe was hilarious, but I consider Coe a parody of country. I'm probably not going to play "N F'er" in my campaign ads.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 02:55 PM (gKWVE)
Fucking hell. That's. Damn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:53 PM (Gwcfo)
Did I mention I have brain damage?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: InZona at November 21, 2025 02:55 PM (1lo+V)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:48 PM (3uBP9)
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The catch is that they have mouths that they use for talking much more than they use it for anything you'd find pleasurable.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:56 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Sponge
Oi. He hasn't gotten that small since that time did the Polar Bear Plunge.
Posted by: mikeski at November 21, 2025 02:56 PM (emg/O)
Posted by: InZona at November 21, 2025 02:55 PM (1lo+V)
Terror Train - It's one you don't want to pull.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:56 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 21, 2025 02:56 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:57 PM (Gwcfo)
She's making a calculated play to the district outside of Nashville, hoping there will be enough votes there. Is it a risky strategy? Probably. But her pitch isn't as insane as it sounds. A lot of people in Nashville probably hate the bachelorette parties too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 02:57 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 02:57 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:56 PM (iKD4f)
No way you could lure truckers to their death.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:57 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: Just a thought at November 21, 2025 02:57 PM (TbWk/)
Are we still using the term 'Phrasing'?
Posted by: Croaker at November 21, 2025 02:58 PM (+BcZI)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 21, 2025 02:58 PM (qBdHI)
WHY?
Why would you allow that foreign totalitarian fascist mumdummy to step into the White House? Why?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 02:58 PM (1cEEa)
I'm sure the RNC/GOPe is spending their money on her opponent right?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 02:59 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 02:55 PM (gKWVE)
Word.
Posted by: Johnny Rebel at November 21, 2025 02:59 PM (rJ48h)
President Trump wants to flex. Sure.
But you're giving mumdummy credibility & status, at the same time.
Dumb.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (1cEEa)
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Michael Gebetsberger, a doctor at Utica Park Clinic in Oklahoma, made a post appearing to target and threaten President Trump, suggesting that a nurse should torture Trump in the hospital.
https://tinyurl.com/mrx4vh95
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (NpAcC)
Her pronouns are: Feminine Female...a new one for me along with pedal taverns and bachelorettes on the pedal taverns. As you can see I am not cool at all.
My pronouns are: Shut Up
One would HOPE after the trans Nashville murders of innocent children normal people would say nope.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (WONhk)
To be somewhat fair, EVERYBODY hates roving bachelorette parties.
Posted by: Loud, obnoxious, and supercringe at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (TbWk/)
A lot of the hate is manufactured.
Show them the thing they will find what to hate about it, kind of thing.
To get the Left (and you do) you have to understand that before anything.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:01 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 03:01 PM (viF8m)
But you're giving mumdummy credibility & status, at the same time.
Dumb.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (1cEEa)
He's the mayor of the biggest city in the country. He's already got status and NYC'er don't seem to give a flying f*ck about credibility because they elected him.
It's a good thing Trump wants to talk with him early to set precedent on what's coming for NYC over the next 3 years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 03:01 PM (viF8m)
Is it a closed meeting ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:02 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Loud, obnoxious, and supercringe at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (TbWk/)
Yeah, drunk chicks, having fun, getting flirty. We hates that shit.
- homos
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 03:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Michael Gebetsberger, a doctor at Utica Park Clinic in Oklahoma, made a post appearing to target and threaten President Trump, suggesting that a nurse should torture Trump in the hospital.
https://tinyurl.com/mrx4vh95
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (NpAcC)
Way to quell the "IT'S THE JOOZ" conspiracy theorists, doc.
Posted by: Is it anti-Semitic to notice he's a slimebag? at November 21, 2025 03:03 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 03:03 PM (8Xy/A)
What will happen is the usual bullshit: Trump will emerge from the meeting and say nice things about mumdummy.
What's the point??
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:03 PM (aNDOD)
Posted by: Loud, obnoxious, and supercringe at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (TbWk/)
Yeah, drunk chicks, having fun, getting flirty. We hates that shit.
- homos
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
I don't care for them either.
Posted by: Lindsey Graham at November 21, 2025 03:03 PM (abIsI)
il Donaldo Trumpo
@PapiTrumpo
Parody account
STOP IT!!!🤣🤣🤣 —WE'RE NOT DEPORTING HIM TODAY!!!
https://is.gd/3LDCeo
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:03 PM (+mTgD)
- homos
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 03:02 PM (dK+Kv)
I LOL'd
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)
It shows a stunning bi-modal distribution where the children of the wealthy who succeed lean right, but the children who fail at life become leftys.
Causality is hard to establish, but it supports the thinking that most commies are bitter failures.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 03:03 PM (nrWp9)
I would imagine at least parts of it will be. I bet Trump has a few pointed messages he wants to make clear to Mamdani.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)
Johnny Cash was good. And Coe was hilarious, but I consider Coe a parody of country. I'm probably not going to play "N F'er" in my campaign ads.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 02:55 PM (gKWVE)
Country is a bit like rap in that both require a certain amount of authenticity (or the ability to fake it). Same thing ruined both: cocksucking gay babies trying to act hard.
Posted by: Vanilla Ice Latte at November 21, 2025 03:04 PM (g00SI)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:04 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:04 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 03:04 PM (BI5O2)
How about we turn this on men? Most men are beta males (at best). We're hierarchical. Men can run a family on condition that the baron in his castle is protecting the farms.
If you let the bumpkins vote, why can't we let women. Why not teenagers? why not foreigners.
Subject and sovereign are "Clean Different Things".
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 03:04 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 03:04 PM (3uBP9)
If Trump allows this meeting to be a sweet photo-op for mumdummy, then Trump is a fool.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:05 PM (aNDOD)
WHY?
Why would you allow that foreign totalitarian fascist mumdummy to step into the White House? Why?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 02:58 PM (1cEEa)
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 03:05 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 21, 2025 03:05 PM (6qf1m)
@EricLDaugh
A banner of JD VANCE has been placed outside the White House today
Is this supposed to be a way of mocking him from the left?
They don't realize JD LOVES it
https://tinyurl.com/46zbhb6a
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: In Nashville, No One Can Hear You Scream at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (qUkBO)
Jeffrey Epstein sure had one strange, wild trip through life.
Someone should do a movie about it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:04 PM (/AUU2)
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See my comment above. It's a clever strategy, albeit risky.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (iFTx/)
But you're giving mumdummy credibility & status, at the same time.
Dumb.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (1cEEa)
The real estate developer from Queens who got the Prime Minister of the the UK to swallow his gum, shut up and sit down after having summoned him to Scotland in a previous trip may well be able to hold up to a grad student, no matter how pure his zeal and orthodoxy.
It is a bit risky, but the Don refusing to see him at all gives Warlord lots of credibility with the stupid and vocal
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (rbvCR)
And this woman is a classic example of the strategy.
Posted by: zombie
"Fundamentally transform"
Posted by: SCOAMF (chocolate gay commie obama) at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (nrWp9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (bfwj/)
*sigh*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Mamdani ran his entire campaign on bitch slapping Trump. Do you really think his smooth brain supporters are going to get pumped over seeing him in a photo with Trump?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 03:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Let Them Eat Kale at November 21, 2025 03:07 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:07 PM (/AUU2)
They don't realize JD LOVES it
https://tinyurl.com/46zbhb6a
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (NpAcC)
I guess they missed his Halloween costume.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
"Mr. Mamdami, here is a copy of your application for American citizenship.
I'm noticing that in a few places on your application, your answers were less than truthful.
Do you know what the penalty is for lying on your citizenship application?"
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 21, 2025 03:08 PM (xTIDn)
Indiana General Assembly members are being targeted in swatting incidents
This comes after two other Republican members of the Indiana State Senate were also victims of separate swatting incidents, including Indiana State Senators Greg Goode and Dan Dernulc. In the instance of Goode, the incident came hours after President Donald Trump criticized him on social media, stating that he was helping deprive “Republicans of a Majority in the House.”
https://t.ly/3gRmX
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 03:08 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (bfwj/)
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It will look like a troop of baboons all trying to fuck the same coconut.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:05 PM (aNDOD)
Is "Trump is an idiot" still on the table at this point?
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (iKD4f)
But, they also sound like a lot of fun if you're young and have bunch of friends to go along.
I could see that happening when I was in college.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (0sNs1)
WTF kind of retarded name is Aftyn Behn? Can she get hit by a meteorite please?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:27 PM
Aftyn....sounds like a nasal spray with particularly worrisome side effects...
Posted by: Matt Foley at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (nbLIj)
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Still amazes me that some people so easily forget how easily Trump can and often does step on his dick. Not everything is 4-D chess from Trump.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (/AUU2)
It's shit like this that stokes the "they are hiding something" shit. ACCOMPLICES, plural, but according to the sentencing info It was JUST Ghislaine. yet this article states with confidence that there were plural, yet we are told it was singular.
Posted by: wickedpinto at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (j0s2W)
Posted by: banana -bringing it back to Dune- kinda- Dream at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (gKWVE)
He was drunk the day his mother got out of prison.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
But you're giving mumdummy credibility & status, at the same time.
Dumb.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:00 PM (1cEEa)
The real estate developer from Queens who got the Prime Minister of the the UK to swallow his gum, shut up and sit down after having summoned him to Scotland in a previous trip may well be able to hold up to a grad student, no matter how pure his zeal and orthodoxy.
It is a bit risky, but the Don refusing to see him at all gives Warlord lots of credibility with the stupid and vocal
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (rbvCR)
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Yea. Of course the president is gonna meet the mayor of the largest and one of the most important cities in the country. Which also happens to be the president's home city. Trump will meet with anyone. As it should be.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (g00SI)
"Mr. Mamdami, here is a copy of your application for American citizenship.
I'm noticing that in a few places on your application, your answers were less than truthful.
Do you know what the penalty is for lying on your citizenship application?"
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 21, 2025 03:08 PM (xTIDn)
That would be his most hilarious troll yet. Please, oh please, oh please.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)
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I remember Sinema shitting all over Arizona before getting elected to the Senate.
And I remember Murtha shitting over rural Pennsylvanians before getting re-elected to the house. By rural Pennsylvanians.
Posted by: Let Them Eat Kale at November 21, 2025 03:10 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 03:10 PM (bfwj/)
Do you know what the penalty is for lying on your citizenship application?"
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Only a nation with a death wish would allow a foreigner to be elected to political office.
This shit has to change.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 03:10 PM (nrWp9)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:10 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: In Nashville, No One Can Hear You Scream at November 21, 2025 03:06 PM (qUkBO)
Nah, Weyland-Yutani pride themselves in the aesthetics of their artificial persons, and emphasize their ability to seamlessly integrate into human crews.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 03:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: wickedpinto at November 21, 2025 03:11 PM (j0s2W)
Still amazes me that some people so easily forget how easily Trump can and often does step on his dick. Not everything is 4-D chess from Trump.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (/AUU2)
Literally EVERYONE HERE points it out when he does. But he usually recovers quite well and makes lemonade from the lemons.
But go ahead. Keep doubting him. Keep shitting on him. Keep proving that he is the worst candidate ever and we should be reveling in a Kumswala administration right now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at November 21, 2025 03:11 PM (Nn0zy)
They could never learn where the man in the boat was, what makes you think they're even capable of learning???
Posted by: AWFLs at November 21, 2025 03:11 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:10 PM (+qU29)
Then, Taylor Swift happened......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:13 PM (oKrNq)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (iKD4f)
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I think it was you who -- back in the day -- gave me much laughter when you said some lefty idiot (can't remember whom) was playing one-dimensional checkers ... AKA "circles."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:13 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:11 PM
In the overlap of Cut and Jib in a Venn diagram likes Newsletter, and I would like to subscribe to yours.
Posted by: Kamala "Kokonut" Harris at November 21, 2025 03:13 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:13 PM (abIsI)
Meet him somewhere else, like Trump Tower in NYC.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:13 PM (oKrNq)
I'm guessing a couple assassination attempts has him planning things a bit less "Secret Service" reliant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Not "in" the White House.
Meet him somewhere else, like Trump Tower in NYC.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 03:13 PM (oKrNq)
In the White House where Donald Trump is President and Mamdani never can be...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 03:14 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 21, 2025 03:14 PM (FrJ8O)
https://tinyurl.com/2j5348b6
Posted by: beckster at November 21, 2025 03:14 PM (I7J98)
I'm pretty sure she's the type who would devour her young. And her husband, for that matter.
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 03:14 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Im not Dr Phil but... at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)
point of order, I would speculate that the designated GOPe candidate was Nikki Haley.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (rbvCR)
If you step back and look at what Trump has accomplished both domestically and around the world since he burst onto the scene in the 2016 election it's amazing. He has pretty much singlehandedly broken the uniparty, he's ripping apart the deep state a piece at a time while ending wars and changing the entire world trade dynamic.
Of course he makes mistakes from time to time but I can't think of a more consequential political figure in the world in decades.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 03:10 PM (+qU29)
Then, Taylor Swift happened......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
and Hicklib cocksuckers.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (abIsI)
When your tracts of land are barren.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)
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Lots of people still cling to images of how things were 30,40 years ago. Arizona used to be the place of Goldwater. Nashville used to be a southern city with country as its main thing.
Things change. Someone shitting on old Arizona can win in new Arizona. Someone shitting on old Nashville can win in new Nashville.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
********
They're too to cheap to get a JD Vance blimp.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 03:16 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM
Ahem.
Posted by: Barack H. Obama at November 21, 2025 03:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)
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I thought tracts of land were boobs.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:17 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: banana Dream
One of the bright spots of being Aftyn Behn is that no man has ever pestered her for a BJ.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 03:18 PM (gKWVE)
But, they also sound like a lot of fun if you're young and have bunch of friends to go along.
I could see that happening when I was in college.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 03:09 PM (iJfKG)
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They are a lot of work. I've tried one. We had a guy in our group, a complete jag, sit on the end so he didn't have to peddle. The guy was big and let us know he was enjoying watching us to all the work.
Posted by: WisRich at November 21, 2025 03:18 PM (G0vdT)
Congress Passes Resolution To Release Santa’s Naughty/Nice List
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at November 21, 2025 03:11 PM (Nn0zy)
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The Venn Diagram with The Epstein Files is gonna be Lit AF!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 03:18 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:34 PM (iKD4f)
Horde mind.
And off Foley sock...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 21, 2025 03:18 PM (nbLIj)
I thought tracts of land were boobs.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:17 PM (DRSnL)
Its whatever......I thought it was a good analogy, so....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:19 PM (snZF9)
https://tinyurl.com/2j5348b6
Posted by: beckster at November 21, 2025 03:14 PM (I7J9
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Interesting article and it echos things I've been saying. I use the shorthand "social climbing at all costs" to describe the phenomenon he's talking about, but it's pretty much the same thing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 03:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at November 21, 2025 03:19 PM (Nn0zy)
Posted by: Barack H. Obama
Yea, he's erasing your legacy as well.
As more indictments of the deep state rollout it is going to be increasingly difficult for people not to see who has been behind much of the shit we have lived through since the Russia hoax.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 03:19 PM (viF8m)
These are the types of people watching over and teaching your children.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 03:19 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Pointing out possible mistakes he is making does not equal what you think it does. Tow things can be true. Trump is infinitely better than what Kamala would have been AND meeting Mamdani is a bad idea. World of gray man not everything is black and white.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:19 PM (/AUU2)
"Burden" the word is burden.
Posted by: pawn at November 21, 2025 03:20 PM (sPsWv)
Posted by: The filters help though at November 21, 2025 03:20 PM (TbWk/)
1. Candidate joins election campaign
2. Candidate states unequivocally that she hates everything about the place she is running to represent.
3. Candidate position is a representative position to act as a proxy to those people living in said locale which she hates.
4. A significant number of people will vote for this candidate to REPRESENT them because their third grade education did not teach them what the word "represent" means.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 03:21 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:19 PM (/AUU2)
But he steps on his dick OFTEN. Seems that's a game changer.
Bad candidate. Dick stepper. We should've not nominated him. What a worthless asshole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)
1. Candidate joins election campaign
2. Candidate states unequivocally that she hates everything about the place she is running to represent.
3. Candidate position is a representative position to act as a proxy to those people living in said locale which she hates.
4. A significant number of people will vote for this candidate to REPRESENT them because their third grade education did not teach them what the word "represent" means.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 03:21 PM (dIske)
5. They will vote for her because they hate themselves and everything about the place too.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 03:17 PM (DRSnL)
Its whatever......I thought it was a good analogy, so....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:18 PM (
Since she has not carried a child (who would eat that bullet? Doggystyle- have to be. Alien mouth within a mouth thing...) one can assume that her boobs are barren, dusty wastelands. Think Oklahoma in the 30s.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: Sponge
How dare we quote her actual words to make her look bad! /sarc
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (a+4eV)
But he steps on his dick OFTEN. Seems that's a game changer.
Bad candidate. Dick stepper. We should've not nominated him. What a worthless asshole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Yes he does step on his dick often. He’s human. Stop treating him like a god. He’s just a guy who makes mistakes like everyone else.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 03:25 PM (rbvCR)
Bad candidate. Dick stepper. We should've not nominated him. What a worthless asshole.
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I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH THIS!!!!
Posted by: Expert political constant with a whiteboard at November 21, 2025 03:26 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 03:23 PM (/AUU2)
You were just pissed that you couldn't vote for Nikki Haley as planned, right?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 03:26 PM (rbvCR)
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THIS TIMES A THOUSAND. I ACHE FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT NIKKI!!!!
Posted by: Expert political constant with a whiteboard at November 21, 2025 03:28 PM (b2UQ7)
The visuals alone of the tiny terrorist trying to stand next to Trump is going to be great. He will pull that handshake point thing as though he's in charge of the meeting while 6'5" 250+ pound trump at 80 makes him look like a toddler with his indifferent presentation in the face of an out of hand toddler.
Also, Mamdani revoked his visa as soon as he said he wouldn't abide by the laws of the US.
To become a citizen you have to acknowledge the primacy of the USA over all other allegiances and Mamdani has openly confessed that he has no allegiance for the US at all, so he's not only not a citizen he's also a criminal.
Posted by: wickedpinto at November 21, 2025 03:29 PM (j0s2W)
And people on our side don't realize that is being done just as much for US as for him. He cares about this movement. Whether it's because he owns it or not, who cares.
Where other Republicans were happy to be limpdicks and make us limpdicks by association, constantly, Trump is the fucking boss and is never afraid to remind anyone.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Mike Post at November 21, 2025 03:34 PM (G7X1C)
If you step back and look at what Trump has accomplished both domestically and around the world since he burst onto the scene in the 2016 election it's amazing. He has pretty much singlehandedly broken the uniparty, he's ripping apart the deep state a piece at a time while ending wars and changing the entire world trade dynamic.
Of course he makes mistakes from time to time but I can't think of a more consequential political figure in the world in decades.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 03:15 PM (viF8m)
Yeahp. in 2016 I wasn't a never trumper but I wasn't going to vote for him, because I didn't trust him. I was willing to LiB under anyone else if that's how it worked, but then they actually fucking ran Hillary. If it weren't for Hillary, Trump wouldn't have gotten my vote, and we wouldn't have gotten the best US president, including Reagan, in my life time, and I am absolutely startled at myself to place Trump above Reagan, but it's true.
Posted by: wickedpinto at November 21, 2025 03:35 PM (j0s2W)
My wife is a very intelligent and talent person, and I love her and respect her, but she has the same issue that every woman has until their 50's, and then another issue that every woman has after.
Women go through a type of puberty every month unless they are pregnant, or in menopause.
Women are biologically constant hormonal chaos all throughout their entire life.
If the judgment of boys can't be trusted because they are going through puberty, imagine that for an entire lifespan.
Posted by: wickedpinto at November 21, 2025 03:39 PM (j0s2W)
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 03:48 PM (pqVDs)
She never had a chance.
I think I've seen those teeth in Japanese demon mask.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 21, 2025 03:54 PM (eQztZ)
I hate Nashville because it's smack in the middle of 65, I have to drive through it every couple of months, and it sucks.
Posted by: Lost My Cookies at November 21, 2025 04:25 PM (cDj3a)
Posted by: cmeat at November 21, 2025 05:02 PM (R11M+)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 21, 2025 06:05 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: Indy Bill at November 21, 2025 07:48 PM (rZKoi)
NYC Will Imprison Senior Citizen for Defending Himself Against a Mugger
A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver -- as his lawyer ripped the city's "draconian" gun laws. Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home. The Queens District Attorney's Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez's killing after he told cops that he'd defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife -- but which turned out to be a pen. But prosecutors slapped Foehner with a slew of weapons raps for the unlicensed handgun and for an arsenal of illicit handguns, revolvers and rifles inside his home in the quiet neighborhood. Foehner took the plea deal to avoid a trial, where he faced 25 years in prison on gun charges that are not hard to prove, said his attorney Thomas Kenniff after Thursday's hearing in Queens Supreme Court. Kenniff called Foehner a "hero" who was put in an "impossible position" by what he called "draconian" Big Apple gun laws that make it difficult for "law abiding citizens" to obtain permits to carry firearms. "If this was a state and a city that had its affairs in order, Mr Foehner would be getting a plaque, not a prison sentence," Kenniff told reporters on the courthouse steps.A term that's enjoying new popularity -- because it describes the hell that the left is imposing on us -- is "anarchotyranny." The idea is that we live in a tyranny filled with lawlessness (anarchy). Those seem to be opposites, which would make anarchotyranny a contradiction in terms, but you have to remember that only some get tyranny while others get anarchy. If you're a rapist, a mugger, a killer, a drug-dealer, an illegal alien, you get anarchy, with the government staying out of your business and letting you harm your fellow citizens and ply your criminal trade with little government interference. But if you're among the working population with a family and a mortgage and commitments you just can't walk away from, you get the tyranny, the endless laws, the endless demands for you to get a permit to do every single thing that free men used to do freely, and strict and brutal punishment from the state when you ignore a law here and there. Don't you know that only the hardcore criminals get to ignore the laws with impunity? Adam Carolla has been ranting about this for years, although I don't think he used the word "anarchotyranny." (If you know where these clips are, let me know.) He points out that you will be permitted to death if you dare try to add an extension to your house, and it will cost you $50,000 just to get that permit. Meanwhile, illegal aliens can set up shantytown food carts on the street with no inspections and no authorization to block the sidewalks, and the cops will just walk on by. If you want to expand your business, the state wants to stop you. But if homeless people want to block traffic selling flowers car to car, that's fine. No problem.
The left wants to control people, and so they focus on the group of people who actually will obey all (or most) of the laws they pass: the naturally, inherently law-abiding. The people who can't afford to spend six months or a year in jail. Meanwhile, for the criminal class: complete freedom to do whatever they want to do. In the UK, they outlawed guns ages ago, and then outlawed swords and machetes and common knives. For the law-abiding people, at least. For the privileged classes: Anarchy.
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— 'Seeing is believing' (@dave24144975) November 10, 2025
"HELLSCAPE"
Check this clip out...
Teens fighting with machetes in the suburbs of Leeds... pic.twitter.com/jzN7o956FH
There’s a dude on tiktok who gives bottles and cigs to the homeless every day and his latest vid has him passing out machetes 😭 pic.twitter.com/rhxwrGgTsC
— 𝓛𝓾𝓬 (@LucullusCaesar) November 18, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:18 PM (DRSnL)
-this guy right before the mugging, rhetorically defending his home city
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (i+bC1)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: windbag at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (8FF+5)
Posted by: huerfano at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (i+bC1)
You coulda stopped at “NYC”
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (rbvCR)
Are you sure he's just not trying to set up plausibly-deniable hobo fights for clicks?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (yHNFN)
My understanding is the guy that got shot had been convicted like 15 times of felonies.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (eIzlH)
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Anarcho-Terrorism FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: huerfano at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (oKoyV)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (6KcYW)
"All the B-Rated sci-fi movies shoulda told ya, silly humans!"
-- Spiders
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Fritz Lang warned us with The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:24 PM (yHNFN)
Posted by: 29Victor at November 21, 2025 01:24 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:24 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:25 PM (rbvCR)
PS: The 2A community hates her.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (abIsI)
Cue the Two Minutes Hate for Pam Bondi, which will continue until she is run out of the country no matter what she does.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:25 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 01:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:25 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:25 PM (TN0g+)
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Way past time to shoot 'they'. Enough of 'they' hitting the morgue will likely awake some the 'they'.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:25 PM (Wg6v7)
Seems like a good test case under Bruen. I don't see how these laws are constitutional and/or can carry such heavy prison sentences.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:26 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 01:26 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 01:26 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: 29Victor at November 21, 2025 01:24 PM (0MjtC)p/i]
Is this where we are supposed to start fighting about "Back the Blue"?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:26 PM (rbvCR)
Not really. In the major cases she’s had few options. They’re picking up on Biden era garbage and trying to move forward.
It’s really Congress that people hate. They passed the BBB and have taken a victory lap longer than McCains funeral.
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:26 PM (yHNFN)
Posted by: That Guy
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is it stupid or just someone believing the Bill of Rights still means something and you have the right to keep and bear arms
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:26 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:24 PM
Introducing knives significantly increases the probability of pelt damage.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 01:27 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at November 21, 2025 01:27 PM (J9GSN)
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Its more than "knife crime". It can be "walking stick" crime, because if you're legitimately using a walking stick because you're aging and need assistance while walking, any use of that stick to defend yourself if under attack will likely lead to you being charged with using a "weapon", regardless of the fact you were using it under duress.
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:27 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: David at November 21, 2025 01:28 PM (mBdi7)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:27 PM (TN0g+)
Why give the MPs ideas?
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:29 PM (6KcYW)
My understanding is the guy that got shot had been convicted like 15 times of felonies.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (eIzlH)
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In NYC? Are you clinically fucking retarded?
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 01:29 PM (3BwY8)
1) You punish people who make the city money, that can pay fines and won't give you trouble.
2) You don't punish people that COST the city money. Catching and criminals, trials, and locking them up is expensive. Arresting a 67-year-old man is easy, he won't fight or need special security. plus, you can fine him a bunch of money, which he will actually pay.
You are just a money-making opportunity to the city. That homeless guy is a money losing opportunity for the city.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 01:29 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:25 PM
Arachno-tyranny. AR. Big difference.
Posted by: Lane Meyer at November 21, 2025 01:29 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: 29Victor
Been to England, have ya, mate?
Posted by: Englishman Watching His Country Be Destroyed at November 21, 2025 01:29 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 01:29 PM (q177U)
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Don't question our legitimacy, whatever you do!
Posted by: Motorcyle Robbers Pretending to Be Cops at November 21, 2025 01:30 PM (TN0g+)
First something bad happens
Then the government demands more money and laws to stop the bad thing from happening and they get it
But...if the bad thing happens again they get another round of more money and laws so they are incentivized to never, ever address that original bad thing
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:30 PM (sKqQm)
Follow the money, as always. There's a lot of money and entire cottage industries in permits, expediting, and all the red tape that goes into that. People pay it because they have no choice. It's big, big money to the state and assorted annelids.
But there's no money to be made stopping bums from stumbling around selling flowers. To the contrary, all the money to be made is in keeping the bums out there.
Perverse incentives create perverse results.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Lmao get the fuck out of here. I'd rather take my chances of slathering my dick in ground beef and strutting naked through a pack of hyenas.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 01:30 PM (3BwY8)
Been keeping everyone updated on a case happening on my county court about a mile from me. A state trooper is on trial . He stopped a man on the NYS Thruway who had prior legal issues. The guy had his daughter in the car. He refused to compl , pepper spray was used and the guy took off from the stop. The trooper caught up , used a pit move and unfortunately in the accident the little girl was killed. Trooper yesterday was found not guilty of murder and reckless endangerment. Jury still deliberating on manslaughter. Protests last night. Walked past the courthouse earlier and 2-3 protesters with lots of signs. The trooper is being prosecuted by the office of the NYS AG James per NY law
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 01:30 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:31 PM (jc0TO)
(RCW 9.41.250) (State v Myles)
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:31 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: David at November 21, 2025 01:28 PM (mBdi7)
That and they kill their quota for the day early.
If you are a cop and getting all pissed off, that’s fine, but get pissed off at the government that employs you, and budgets for $x amount of fines collected, and don’t get pissed off at me for pointing it out. Go review your city and county budgets if you don’t believe me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:31 PM (6KcYW)
Think of it like this: ““A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed.
"2022 Landmark SCOTUS Ruling in Bruen Establishes Right to Carry in Public:
The foundation for recent rulings was laid in June 2022 with the landmark decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. In a 6-3 decision, the Court struck down New York’s restrictive concealed carry law, which required applicants to demonstrate a “special need” beyond self-defense.
The Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense in public. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, declared that the right to bear arms in public is not a “second-class right” and that no other constitutional right requires proving a special need to exercise it.
This decision invalidated similar laws in several other states, including CA, HI, MD, and NJ, and established the “text, history, and tradition” test as the new standard for evaluating all gun regulations."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:31 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:27 PM (TN0g+)
can my walking stick have a sword in it?
Little known fact - adult middle-aged men commonly used to carry canes. The real reason they had them was not to look dashing, but to beat off the street beggers.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 01:31 PM (C3IAS)
But a restaurant or bar owner a block away has to of course have all the permits and licenses and inspections to sell that same shot of liquor or beer.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:31 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:27 PM (TN0g+)
Why give the MPs ideas?
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It's already happening, they arrest and charge people for using their walking stick to defend themselves in the UK.
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:31 PM (TN0g+)
Remember in Death Wish, the police were helpless in stopping crime, but they put a huge effort into finding Paul Kersey.
Posted by: Crotalus Atrox
They even followed him to Los Angeles.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 01:31 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 01:29 PM (C3IAS)
Until the cities run out of meat.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:32 PM (oKoyV)
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (eIzlH)
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Shithole NYC prosecutor: "Objection! The victim is not on trial here!"
Shithole NYC judge: "Sustained. Strike all defense testimony."
It's funny because the victim is, in fact, on trial here.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 21, 2025 01:32 PM (PY5sI)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 01:32 PM (2Wwko)
My understanding is the guy that got shot had been convicted like 15 times of felonies.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (eIzlH)
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In NYC? Are you clinically fucking retarded?
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 01:29 PM (3BwY
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They didn't prosecute him for killing the scumbag in self-defense. They prosecuted him for owning an "arsenal" (whatever that means) of illegal guns. It was an open and shut case. The only defense would have been (as I mentioned above) to try to strike down the laws making the guns illegal.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (iFTx/)
I have to go into work 3 days a week, thankfully I do not have to take the subways.
Of course I wonder how long before Commie Mamdani sends his minions to go and confiscate firearms from lawful gun owners.
Really thinking of moving my stuff out of state.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (4q/mG)
and why? because the homeless guy is a pian to arrest and might stab you, while you, normal citizen, won't do a thing with the paring knife. Plus, you'll show up to trial and pay the fine and accept punishment.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (C3IAS)
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Maybe I don't want to know at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (BM25u)
Posted by: THE Reality Winner at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (qUkBO)
Is there a state in the union that doesn't outlaw sword canes?
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (Yp6az)
The old guy who defended himself should have claimed to be a Transgender woman. He'd be walking free today.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (IifOV)
It’s New Yorkistan. It’s a given they don’t respect The Bill of Rights, and will persecute you for being a gun owner. That’s the backdrop. Now, he’s breathing so that’s the good part. But the bad part is current law says you need a permit.
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (yHNFN)
Shithole NYC judge: "Sustained. Strike all defense testimony."
It's funny because the victim is, in fact, on trial here.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 21, 2025 01:32 PM (PY5sI)
NYC IS STEALING MY BIT
Posted by: Ben Rothleisberger at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (oKoyV)
This is why we don't have many vigilantes by the way.
If Joe the Bum steals your car the police don't care. They'll put Officer Donut on the case who already has a dozen higher priority crimes on his list and will do jack shit about it.
But if you find Joe the Bum and beat the shit out of him? You'll get the best actual detectives in your local police org and you will be their #1 case.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (4q/mG)
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You should move yourself out of state, tbh.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 01:35 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 01:35 PM (2Wwko)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Give the protesters the finger for me, if you are so inclined.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 01:35 PM (Dv3i1)
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre
Dolezal now looks much younger and fresher than before, with some fans even comparing her to Katy Perry
Some fans = Home for the blind
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Bud Norton at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM (/8Jbh)
Wait, wut?
Posted by: Maybe I don't want to know at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (BM25u)
Charge them $15 a man.
Posted by: Adam Eget at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM (oKoyV)
Is there a state in the union that doesn't outlaw sword canes?
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Ok, I'll take the hit for the team: why is that illegal?
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM (TN0g+)
Are those machetes being handed out to the crazy drug addicts on the streets the new Alex Soros "Defender of Freedom" model? That can't be legal.
Posted by: red speck at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM (jPh2t)
In the UK, they will retroactively charge you with carrying an offensive weapon if you use anything at hand to defend yourself. Canes, umbrellas, cricket bats, walking sticks, etc. are perfectly legal to carry around with you if you don't use them for violence. But if you're attacked and you use that perfectly legal object to do violence, suddenly it was illegal to carry.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:37 PM (Yp6az)
Is there a state in the union that doesn't outlaw sword canes?
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Ok, I'll take the hit for the team: why is that illegal?
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM
I assume it was a problem at some point.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:37 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM (TN0g+)
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Alabama is stridently against pimp-on-pimp crime.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 01:37 PM (3BwY8)
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This is my mom's position on overdue notices from the library.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (PY5sI)
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This is analogous to people who blame the US for nuking Japan.
Those blame for those deaths, injuries, and damages are on -- and the responsibility of -- the Japs who started the war at Pearl Harbor.
The blame for this poor girl's death is solely on the father.
[There was a movement many years ago to ban police chases as unfortunately they would occasionally result in injuries and/or deaths to innocent civilians. I can sympathize with that view, especially if the offender being chased is known and can be identified and subsequently located (and arrested if necessary) later.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (+mTgD)
The best I can do is a facebook link. Talking to Tucker back when he was on Fox.
https://tinyurl.com/4yezcykp
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (nrWp9)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:28 PM
Legal in The Republic of Texas.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (0sNs1)
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (0sNs1)
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She now sports a "brand" and an Only Fans account
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (2Wwko)
Rather than admit the ban on interior seating was stupid, instead they let restaurants put seating outside on sidewalks and parts of the street to do some business. That way they could extend the lockdowns longer.
Well now seating all over is all over still, and if an illegal does the same it looks no different to the random cop.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (8avO+)
On the other hand, there is a 67 man with a gun in his pocket. He won't shoot, you, or fight at arrest. The state will punish him.
Which do you choose?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (PY5sI)
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Funny.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (iKD4f)
Wait, wut?
Posted by: Maybe I don't want to know at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (BM25u)
Charge them $15 a man.
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It used to be $20--Trump's policies to combat inflation and improve affordability must be working.
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 01:39 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:37 PM (jc0TO)
That's some sharp wit you got there.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:39 PM (oKoyV)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:28 PM
Legal in The Republic of Texas.
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And stylish.
Posted by: Clint at November 21, 2025 01:39 PM (qUkBO)
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (0sNs1)
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Makeover=Instagram filters
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:39 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Adam Eget at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM
You know the standard here.
Viginti sesterii idem ac in oppido
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 01:40 PM (0sNs1)
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (0sNs1)
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She's no Michael Obama.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:40 PM (+mTgD)
TBH I thought we'd be there by now but...nope.
I live in a blue area and the people around me complain endlessly about all this and yet...they pay their fines, deal with their break ins, and vote for the same Dem officeholders.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM
Rule #1, man...Rule #1.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
Then blame Trump.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM (/AUU2)
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And for $4.95/month you can see her butthole.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (3BwY8)
AoSHQ Commentator favorite and well-known activist Nkechi Amare Diallo (perhaps known better by her previous name Rachel Dolezal) is celebrating her 48th birthday with a glam makeover and stunning new look:
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre
Hey, what's up with the STRAIGHT hair?
Posted by: Big Mike at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Steeldoc at November 21, 2025 01:42 PM (QhRCN)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 01:42 PM (uQzkA)
Gun and shotgun canes are expressly named though.
1876.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:42 PM (jc0TO)
No its stupid to live in NYC.
NY state ordered everyone in the state with an "assault rifle" to register it. Making it a felony for failing to do so, only 15% of the people who owned them complied. The 85% who didn't register included law enforcement. This scared the crap out of legislators who passed the registration law.
All of "Anarchotyrrany" is based on the law abiding majority not giving the Tyrants the finger.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 21, 2025 01:42 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Berhard Goetz at November 21, 2025 01:42 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:37 PM (jc0TO)
That's some sharp wit you got there.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:39 PM (oKoyV)
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The most unkindest cut of all.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:42 PM (+mTgD)
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It used to be $20--Trump's policies to combat inflation and improve affordability must be working.
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM
And he'll make it up in volume!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 01:35 PM
I would but I have to meet a couple financial goals first.
But unless there is a major hiccup in my life I plan on retiring at the end of 2027
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (qoLdL)
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There goes the notion that kids today don't have any ambition!
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM
I thought that the Senate had not yet outlawed filibustering.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (RHGPo)
And they say that generation is lazy...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (KbCG3)
I feel like we're at a similar point in society as we were when the Death Wish and Dirty Harry movies made heroes out of vigilantes. Those in charge of the safety of average citizens were MIA and the decent in society felt wholly ignored. The only difference is that back in the 70s, the population was more homogeneous -- if not in racial makeup, surely in its adherence to the Judeo-Christian values that still lingered from the 1950s. Now, there is no such common sense of right and wrong. The Howard Zinnification of our education system has rendered generations of America-hating, self-loathing anarchists micro-judging pronouns use while excusing social upheaval and criminal activity.
We're in for a bumpy ride.
Posted by: red speck at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (Ve/HL)
Viginti sesterii idem ac in oppido
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 01:40 PM (0sNs1)
Sure sure sure, but Adam Eget is a man of integrity, principle. He still only charges $15 a man when he jerks off punks under the Queensboro bridge.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (G8jwy)
Posted by: 29Victor at November 21, 2025 01:24 PM (0MjtC)p/i]
Is this where we are supposed to start fighting about "Back the Blue"?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:26 PM (rbvCR)
What's to fight about? They're the armed agents of the state architects of anarchotyranny. They enforce it every day.
Posted by: There's not much room for debate anymore at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)
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I desperately need a shotgun cane.
Cool!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (+mTgD)
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at November 21, 2025 01:33 PM (0sNs1)
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Makeover=Instagram filters
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:39 PM (DRSnL)
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Yea, that pic looks heavily filtered. With the right filter, you can make Quasimodo look good.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (2sfNr)
Posted by: lurk at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (7IOVT)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)
Is that a hunch or can you prove it?
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (WHfpM)
Meanwhile, illegal aliens can set up shantytown food carts on the street with no inspections and no authorization to block the sidewalks, and the cops will just walk on by.
If you want to expand your business, the state wants to stop you.
But if homeless people want to block traffic selling flowers car to car, that's fine. No problem.
One of the big reasons that illegal aliens get a pass on this stuff is that they're working off debts to the cartels that smuggled them across the border, and the cartels are almost certainly paying off local govt officials. Even after working off their debt, I'm pretty sure that they go from colonial-era style indentured servitude to straight up slavery (keep selling shit on the sidewalk or we'll hang your body from the overpass, cabron). Same goes for the fruit sellers walking around the Home Depot parking lot trying to sell strawberries to you as you're loading lumber into your pickup truck.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (bfwj/)
Apparently there was a reform in 2017 that loosened up knife laws in TX. They still don't allow sword canes in schools, in bars, at sporting events, and other places.
I'm pleasantly surprised. I didn't think any states allowed them.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:46 PM (Yp6az)
Meanwhile, illegal aliens can set up shantytown food carts on the street with no inspections and no authorization to block the sidewalks, and the cops will just walk on by.
Victor Davis Hanson noted this in "Mexifornia" twenty-two years ago - illegals could set up rural favelas in California's Central Valley without regard to fire and electrical codes, but God help you if you are middle class in the Central Valley and paint your house an unapproved color.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 21, 2025 01:46 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Jedfish at November 21, 2025 01:46 PM (G7X1C)
I bet you all didn't know that that was a Christian genocide -- no one talks about that, but it was.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 01:46 PM (nrWp9)
Not exactly.
Dem office holders are the political wing of the cartels. Does money change hands? Of course. But these are randos taking bribes.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)
Is that a hunch or can you prove it?
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (WHfpM)
You may end up walking that back.
Posted by: Sanctuary at November 21, 2025 01:47 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Quasimodo at November 21, 2025 01:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (RHGPo)
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And they say 20-somethings don't care about getting laid ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Marty McFly at November 21, 2025 01:47 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 21, 2025 01:47 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 21, 2025 01:38 PM"
Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. Y'know that little stamp, the one that says ‘New York Public Library’? Well that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot. Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before: Flashy, making the scene, flouting convention. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped.
Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman at November 21, 2025 01:48 PM (BM25u)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)
I certainly don't think she looks like Katy Perry.
Looks more like Harry Wendelstedt.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:48 PM (G8jwy)
Posted by: Bad Idea Jeans at November 21, 2025 01:48 PM (TN0g+)
I bet you all didn't know that that was a Christian genocide -- no one talks about that, but it was.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 01:46 PM (nrWp9)
That's not a REAL genocide. REAL genocide is when you say "transmen aren't actually men" and insist biology is real.
Posted by: Get with the times! at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (uQzkA)
Bad for the cats and dogs at least.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (G8jwy)
How many of y'all at 12 or 13 were beating up crackheads?
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:44 PM (iFTx/)
I certainly don't think she looks like Katy Perry.
Looks more like Harry Wendelstedt.
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Steerike!
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (TN0g+)
Ah yes... to these people, voting for Dems is a Virtue Signal. It has little to do with the realities of life. Their politics are a Fantasyland and the rest of us have to deal with it.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (6qf1m)
We're in for a bumpy ride.
Posted by: red speck at November 21, 2025 01:43 PM (Ve/HL)
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Well-said, speck.
[As I've been noting here for a decade now:] Those who make criminal justice impossible will make vigilante justice inevitable.
BTW, I believe there is a lot of vigilante justice that has occurred over the past several decades that the MDM-MSM refuse to report and have a blackout on -- lest the proles get any encouragement and ideas ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:50 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 21, 2025 01:47 PM (Da7Vv)
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"Tell me about it, brother"
-- The Paolo
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:50 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM
*channels inner Longshanks*
In my experience, the problem with Haiti is that it's full of Haitians.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 01:50 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 01:51 PM (abIsI)
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Add $12,000 to that tally. Now, in California, if you build an addition passing a certain threshold you get nailed with a "soil sample test" by an outside contractor selected by the Municipality/State. This allows the cronyism to flourish.
And, here's the best part. They can still turn down your permit to build the add=on, and you're still out that $12,000.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 01:51 PM (dIske)
Posted by: red speck at November 21, 2025 01:36 PM (Ve/HL)
In the brushfire wars in South Africa against Angola, Namibia and the Chinese, Cuban, East German and Russian "advisors" that were never there, the Chinese liked handing out machetes. They apparently were shipping them in by the shipping container to make sure everyone had one or two.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 21, 2025 01:51 PM (+mUZM)
*********
Watch those curbs tho, you trip and fall on your sword, well .....
Posted by: Jedfish at November 21, 2025 01:51 PM (G7X1C)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
How do you like my new nail polish?
Posted by: Pam Blondie at November 21, 2025 01:52 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman at November 21, 2025 01:48 PM (BM25u)
How that guy said all of that without cracking is unreal.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 21, 2025 01:52 PM (KbCG3)
How many of y'all at 12 or 13 were beating up crackheads?
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (Yp6az)
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Reposting my reply:
I have literally no idea what that person is saying.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:53 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Case at November 21, 2025 01:54 PM (5Je/N)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 01:54 PM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: SMOD
I find this... not particularly believable.
But I suppose if the feds are actually prosecuting, they might have done a bit more than just BS about it on the Internet.
Maybe.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:55 PM (a+4eV)
1.) Nothing can avert it. We can delay it for awhile if we want to (and most still do), but it's coming - we only have a few decades left, maximum. No need to fret about the inevitable.
2.) I look forward to a day when, without regard to creed, color, or faith, all Americans can salute their flags and know they don't fly over Buttfuckifornia, or Buttfuck York, or Buttfuckinois, or Buttfuckesota, or any if these buttfucked up, buttfuckin' places.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 01:55 PM (BI5O2)
How many of y'all at 12 or 13 were beating up crackheads?
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (Yp6az)
Was still getting beat by my folks. But I digress. That post is so unbelievably stereotypically illiterate and ghetto you'd almost think it was written by some white separatist as satire of a black American woman. But I grieve to believe it is in fact real. Once upon a time blacks in America eschewed this stereotype of being ignorant, uneducated, violent, and lacking in self-control. Now it's embraced and celebrated as "authenticity." I doubt even the most radical of "black leaders" back in the day would look on this favorably.
Posted by: Negative stereotyping is negative at November 21, 2025 01:55 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM
Yup, and by the time the SDNY and the 2nd Circuit finish laughing at them and slow walking it, and the Supreme Court denies cert, he'll have done his four years.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 01:56 PM (kgE5c)
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Watch those curbs tho, you trip and fall on your sword, well .....
Posted by: Jedfish at November 21, 2025 01:51 PM
There is no shame in this.
Posted by: The Operative at November 21, 2025 01:57 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Pamela The Blondie at November 21, 2025 01:57 PM (dQDoi)
____________________________
Add $12,000 to that tally. Now, in California, if you build an addition passing a certain threshold you get nailed with a "soil sample test" by an outside contractor selected by the Municipality/State. This allows the cronyism to flourish.
And, here's the best part. They can still turn down your permit to build the add=on, and you're still out that $12,000.
Posted by: Orson at November 21, 2025 01:51 PM (dIske)
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When I bought my apartment, it had a small second floor opening out onto the roof. I wanted to expand the room. Spoke to an architect about the plans and permits. Thankfully, the guy was honest and said it would be a waste of money. As it was, the 2nd floor room existed only because of a loophole in how the city defined "floors" of a building. Expanding it any further would have meant the room became a new "floor" and thus impermissible under the COO.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:57 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 01:54 PM (Yl2Ob)
Cynicism is the justification to sit on ones butt in a puddle of failure and pretend there is no other choice. Getting everyone else to sit in that puddle of failure is how one becomes a "thought leader"
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:57 PM (rbvCR)
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme
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There is a secret code in that message. If you just look at the unnecessarily capitalized words, it spells out " My Great Class That Peer Toes Live"
I am not sure that that means - it is a two level code, apparently.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 01:58 PM (nrWp9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 01:58 PM (22p5n)
How many of y'all at 12 or 13 were beating up crackheads?
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (Yp6az)
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Sad! The odds that there is a father in the home? The bidding begins at Zero.
This is why Larry Elder ran for Governor of CA and POTUS briefly -- trying to encourage Trump to talk more about this:
The Epidemic of Unmarried Mothers and No Fathers In The Home -- which started out primarily as an issue with blacks after LBJ's "Great Society" welfare state provided perverse incentives and destroyed the black family (and has now crept into white families -- I believe that the current percentage of unmarried black and white mothers are around 80% and 40%).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:59 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman
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Well said.
Posted by: Sgt. Joe Friday at November 21, 2025 01:59 PM (TN0g+)
Looks more like Harry Wendelstedt.
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Steerike!
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (TN0g+)
That really wasn't fair.
To Harry.
She looks more like Doug Harvey.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:59 PM (vTFcZ)
How many of y'all at 12 or 13 were beating up crackheads?
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM
A pity X doesn't have a "translate" button. Could we get her post again, only in English?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 01:59 PM (kgE5c)
But getting involved with a crazy woman is not a good idea
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:00 PM (sKqQm)
FML.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman
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Well said.
Posted by: Sgt. Joe Friday at November 21, 2025 01:59 PM
*nods silently*
Posted by: Officer Bill Gannon at November 21, 2025 02:01 PM (jc0TO)
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme
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Couldn't read it. Google translate said "no language detected."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
Peanut the squirrel died from anarchotyranny.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 02:02 PM (tgvbd)
From fake black politician
to fake black THOT
to real white THOT
Next up...fake albino THOT?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:02 PM (sKqQm)
From what is reported Bondi seems to be quite busy. She's just not answering this person's demands . I might criticize people as well, but as I'm not in the administration and don't know
What they're doing from day to day, I don't. There is an avenue for the Bondi Basher to get his feeling out and tell her what she should be doing . It's to write to Whitehouse.gov
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 02:02 PM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
There is. It involves many big black bags with zippers.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (P7vXf)
But remember, it's ERIC SWALWELL the FBI wants killed because he and his family receive death threats that when questions, his OWN STAFF don't think are real or credible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Not a joke at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (dQDoi)
How many of y'all at 12 or 13 were beating up crackheads?
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:49 PM (Yp6az)
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Reposting my reply:
I have literally no idea what that person is saying.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:53 PM (DRSnL)
I ran the ebonics filter and this seems to be the rough translation:
My child is high-achieving and exceptional, and in no way bears any responsibility for her actions. You are in no position to condemn her as you were engaging in far worse activity at the same age. Me, her family and community support her without regard to her actions, even though we will give lip service to accountability. You have no firsthand knowledge of her background or upbringing and have no standing to comment. We do not owe you any apology.
Posted by: It's crude but seems to be the gist at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (TbWk/)
> A pity X doesn't have a "translate" button. Could we get her post again, only in English?
Let me start by saying this: My daughter is an amazing kid. She’s an A/B student, the captain of the cheerleading team, ahead of her class, and has many other great qualities! All of this is recognized by her teachers. If you know the situation (IFKYK), we don’t owe anyone an apology, especially not that lady or her kids. So, all you adults looking for a viral moment, please stop. Kids will be kids, and there are worse kids out there. When you were 12 or 13 years old, some of you were out there beating up crackheads and other people. You don’t even know us at all. She was peer-pressured into this. If you know my family, you know that if we consider someone a friend, we stand by them 100%, no matter what. But this was definitely a lesson learned. She has been held accountable for her actions! Yes, it takes a village to raise a child, but she’s got a strong support system, more like a castle!
-continued-
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (Yp6az)
- you get sand in all the uncomfortable places and you're ruler can kill with the sound of his name. But, you get giant pet worms, so it kinda evens out a bit.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)
PS: The 2A community hates her.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (abIsI)
This was the state of new yuk, not the feds. Bondi had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (Hb1Lg)
To whoever posted this - fuck you for making me go to google translate.
Well done.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (nrWp9)
I am not sure that that means - it is a two level code, apparently.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 01:58 PM (nrWp9)
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I'm pretty sure the actual code was:
"Mutually-Guided Cross-Transformative Pre-Term Labor."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:04 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 02:02 PM (tgvbd)
We can live in a world where squirrels are murdered indiscriminately, or we can have a nation with 40 trillion in debt.
There is no in between.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 02:04 PM (vTFcZ)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:04 PM (Wmg4n)
Well done.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (nrWp9)
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Had to do the same.
It was Ace's second-favorite commenter, Duncanthrax.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:05 PM (+mTgD)
- you get sand in all the uncomfortable places and you're ruler can kill with the sound of his name. But, you get giant pet worms, so it kinda evens out a bit.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (3uBP9)
I hate sand.
Posted by: Anakin Skywalker at November 21, 2025 02:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 02:05 PM (BI5O2)
Don't know that it had much effect because left leaning LIVs refuse to understand who they vote for decides on the policies they live under.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:06 PM (sKqQm)
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You don’t truly believe anyone reads those comments do you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 02:06 PM (/AUU2)
Well done.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (nrWp9)
And we shoulda known.
We didn't, but we shoulda.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 02:06 PM (vTFcZ)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:04 PM (Wmg4n)
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Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence ...
Howdy, Piper -- was great to meet and chat with you in TX.
/It's just past noon here (but still morning on The West Coast), so technically afternoon ... and lots of virtual friends.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:06 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Peanut the Squirrel at November 21, 2025 02:07 PM (uhhct)
And they even get the "all the jihadis carry a knife" part right in the books...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: toby928(c)
Arachno-tyranny. AR. Big difference.
Posted by: Lane Meyer
Its opposite is rule by winter coats.
Anoraknotyrrany.
Posted by: mikeski at November 21, 2025 02:07 PM (emg/O)
This was the state of new yuk, not the feds. Bondi had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (Hb1Lg)
WHAT?!?!?!
*extinguishes torch*
*puts hat back on*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm not a fan, but I think she'll stay. The DoJ is peppered with women in many deputy positions and senior level slots. Bondi is also one cabinet member not getting a ton of hate from Democrats. Not because she's weak, (she very well may be) but because she doesn't draw attention to herself and operates on the political plane, not the judicial one. Just my opinion.
I figure a lot of vengeful women in the DoJ could do some serious damage if focused on the right people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 02:07 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:06 PM (+mTgD)
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Sustained. It's 11:07.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 02:08 PM (DRSnL)
- you get sand in all the uncomfortable places and you're ruler can kill with the sound of his name. But, you get giant pet worms, so it kinda evens out a bit.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 02:03 PM (3uBP9)
And Alia is a whore!
Posted by: Duncan Idaho, cuck at November 21, 2025 02:08 PM (Gwcfo)
Yes, I do. Otherwise I wouldn't suggest it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 02:08 PM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:08 PM (dK+Kv)
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You don’t truly believe anyone reads those comments do you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 02:06 PM (/AUU2)
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Please don't tell me those spam Polls I'm asked to take are fake and the GOPee are only trying to scam more money from me (somehow I got on a list by having mistakenly done so in the past).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:09 PM (+mTgD)
You don’t truly believe anyone reads those comments do you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 02:06 PM (/AUU2)
I do....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 02:09 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:08 PM (dK+Kv)
I would have taken Donald pleasance over Joe Biden the past 4 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:10 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:10 PM (iKD4f)
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I've been slogging through the Federalist Papers, and their reasons for one nation vs. 3 or more don't seem particularly convincing or relevant to the modern world.
The problems with breaking up are: (1) figuring out a sensible way of dividing things up geographically (there are blue areas in red states and red areas in blue states); (2) the Dem-Communists will never negotiate in good faith; and (3) the new Blue Shithole Country will dedicate all of its energies to undermining the new Red Country in every way possible.
But I agree it eventually will happen, one way or another. There is simply no living with these psychopaths.
Posted by: Partition 2050 at November 21, 2025 02:10 PM (qUkBO)
Howdy, Piper -- was great to meet and chat with you in TX.
/It's just past noon here (but still morning on The West Coast), so technically afternoon ... and lots of virtual friends.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November
I am CST, so we met the threshold. lol.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:10 PM (Wmg4n)
But, I take comfort in knowing that NYC is just going to get worse. And they overwhelmingly vote for this shit. Every. F*cking. Time.
So, you say that there's only around 2% turnout in the mayoral and AG elections, off year?
Well, guess what. You STILL brought that shit on yourself.
F*ck NYC. I only pray for the Hordians that are there, biding their time until they can flee successfully. I'm betting they didn't sit on their hands and take every off election off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 21, 2025 02:11 PM (RPisP)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:08 PM (dK+Kv)
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“You tell 'em I'M coming ... and hell's coming with me, you hear?!?!?!”
/Important safety tip: "Don't cross the memes!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:11 PM (+mTgD)
Either the left wins and we get a gayer version of 1984 or we win and most of them leave for the EU/Canada.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 02:11 PM (BI5O2)
/It's just past noon here (but still morning on The West Coast), so technically afternoon ... and lots of virtual friends.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:06 PM (+mTgD)
Couldn't miss her with those PANTS.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)
What you talkin about? Travis has had so many concussions I don't need any filters.
Posted by: Taylor Swift at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (D7Yu1)
Watch the paperwork fly! Call in the lawyers and pay firearm go-betweens.
Can't simply put a bow on it and hand it to him at Thanksgiving!
That's not America. That's not even Mexico.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (wBaIH)
Is there a state in the union that doesn't outlaw sword canes?
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (Yp6az)
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They are illegal everywhere because the gents who carry them wear top hats and monocles.
Posted by: mrp at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Partition 2050 at November 21, 2025 02:10 PM (qUkBO)
4 or 5 successor states seem most likely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:10 PM (iKD4f)
To quote Thomas Jefferson in the Pickwick Papers:
Words are violence. So don't use words. Cuz words are bad.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (vTFcZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)
She had pants on? What kind of place you running down there, Ben Had?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (dK+Kv)
Couldn't miss her with those PANTS.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025
Alright, Mister. Don’t make me call your wife.
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (Wmg4n)
A peaceful separation means they acknowledge that they do not. That will not happen.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (sKqQm)
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Commies always eventually take care of the living part.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (Wmg4n)
She gave you her number? What'd you say to get that?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)
AoSHQ Commentator favorite and well-known activist Nkechi Amare Diallo (perhaps known better by her previous name Rachel Dolezal) is celebrating her 48th birthday with a glam makeover and stunning new look:
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre
Hey, what's up with the STRAIGHT hair?
Posted by: Big Mike at November 21, 2025 01:41 PM (pkeXY)
Yeah, look at that Nkechi With The Good Hair!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: UGAdawg at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (tKhM9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (bfwj/)
http://tiny.cc/i1gv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Partition 2050 at November 21, 2025 02:10 PM (qUkBO)
4 or 5 successor states seem most likely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM
Nothing says that the Greater Texas Coprosperity Sphere can't be in a confederation or league with the Heartland grain state.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (/AUU2)
Watch the paperwork fly! Call in the lawyers and pay firearm go-betweens.
Can't simply put a bow on it and hand it to him at Thanksgiving!
That's not America. That's not even Mexico.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (wBaIH)
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Uh, what? No paperwork is required by either SC or NC for giving a shotgun to a family member. What are you even doing?
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (iKD4f)
I pay her.
To sit on my lap. Which she won't.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (vTFcZ)
Back in the 90s a bunch of cities discovered that if you gave career criminals long prison sentences crime went down.
At some point that became rayciss though so we are back to the 70s...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: The Slow Newsday Gorn at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (uQzkA)
‘We don't necessarily need more officers, we need different judges.’
We need judges made examples of.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (jbnUc)
That's not America. That's not even Mexico.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (wBaIH)
A PITA + transfer fees, but all you have to do is hand it over to a SC FFL license holder and have them ship it to a NC FFL license holder for your son to pick it up.
Posted by: mrp at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Wymyn can't be vengeful, only brave and stunning.
Seize and pounce elsewhere, PATRIARCH!
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:11 PM
Nope, I made sure I have not missed an election for the last 15 or so years.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (Oq/TM)
http://tiny.cc/i1gv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (Yp6az)
I'm disappointed it wasn't a call to the dog that showed no mercy on the dipshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Also, is she going for a middle eastern thot look? Kind of a flatter Mia Khalifa?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Take voter fraud down to a minimum, get DA's that will prosecute, lawsuits ( and consent decrees ), and getting election official/board seats. The Soros project in reverse. Kill off the remaining NGO ecosphere. Etc.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (Wmg4n)
She gave you her number? What'd you say to get that?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025
She has good taste, what can I say. (Just kidding, but I would totally give her my information. I think we would get in trouble together. Especially if we throw SheHobbit into the mix, and add Nurse? And Ben Had? Stand back!
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (Wmg4n)
Please don't tell me those spam Polls I'm asked to take are fake and the GOPee are only trying to scam more money from me (somehow I got on a list by having mistakenly done so in the past).
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 2
John Smith is running to take out Nancy Pelosi. New poll shows he’s within 7%. Will you send $50 today to take back America and destroy this California god hating communist once and for all?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (iKD4f)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:10 PM (iKD4f)
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I thought Bondi-bashing was when you wrecked your car into an already wrecked car.
/Especially if you're listening to a U2 song ... meh, I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (+mTgD)
Nope, I made sure I have not missed an election for the last 15 or so years.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (Oq/TM)
*fistbump*
Good on you, man. I pray for you, always.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)
What can the public do for these Judges who are allowing this? Are there no repercussions for the lawlessness from the bench and total disregard when these monsters go on to murder and maim after they let them go?
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (Wmg4n)
You let me know when I should start the bail fund.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)
‘We don't necessarily need more officers, we need different judges.’
We need judges made examples of.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (jbnUc)
*sigh*
Posted by: lonely trebuchet at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (iKD4f)
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That's one hell of a combination punch.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 21, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3)
Offer DAs a bounty for prosecuting ballot fraudsters.
Posted by: mrp at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)
From fake black politician
to fake black THOT
to real white THOT
Next up...fake albino THOT?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:02 PM (sKqQm)
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OnlyFans
As I said earlier, she's up on OnlyFans as a "creator", so that's what's next
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (UjVXg)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 02:14 PM (/AUU2)
LOL
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (iKD4f)
I want no part of it
New York, New York
These vagabond shoes, are longing to stray
Right out of the very heart of it
New York, New York
I wanna to wake up, in a city that doesn't reek
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap
These NYC blues
Are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
Away from New York
If I can get out of there, I'll make it anywhere
So f*** you, New York, New York
New York, New York
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM
Appreciate it.
How many more days until the next TXMoMe? :-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 21, 2025 02:19 PM (Oq/TM)
Posted by: mrp at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (rj6Yv)
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He's not selling his gun across state lines.
He could very easily and legally just put the shotgun in his car, drive to his kid's house for Thanksgiving, and literally hand it to him. There is not a damn thing the government needs to know about that transaction.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:19 PM (3BwY8)
Either the left wins and we get a gayer version of 1984 or we win and most of them leave for the EU/Canada.
___
In 10-20 years, Western Europe and Canada will be Muslim theocracies.
Posted by: Partition 2050 at November 21, 2025 02:19 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (+mTgD)
I guess you could say after that he couldn't "C" too well
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:19 PM (iKD4f)
Fraud is a major issue, but the other big one here is the sheer number of voters that refuse to connect who they vote for with the policies they get.
I see this all the time where a local politician runs on some "feel good" thing and gets elected. The pol implements the "feel good" thing and it causes problems. But the people in my blue area will complain about the problems directly caused by the feel good policy but argue its just "bad luck" or "greedy business people" or some other stupid hot take.
You voted for it. You got it. Either like it or vote for the challenger next time. "But that would mean voting for a Republican!?!"
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:19 PM (sKqQm)
‘What can the public do for these Judges who are allowing this?’
Hang the worst ones. Make the others watch:
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 02:20 PM (jbnUc)
Trump's talking about sedition charges and death penalties for a reason.
Posted by: troyriser at November 21, 2025 02:20 PM (DPeYO)
Posted by: toby928(c)
... what's copro-sperit... oh. Oh! Co-Prosperity!
Never mi~nd!
Posted by: Emily Litella at November 21, 2025 02:20 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (iKD4f)
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Dad told me when I was a lad that anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for, and that goes both ways.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:20 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 02:21 PM (DRSnL)
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How many more days until the next TXMoMe? :-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 21, 2025 02:19 PM (Oq/TM)
329
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 02:21 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)
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lmao
* Cue Pitch Guy: "Tight Pants Are ... Tight!" *
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:21 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 02:20 PM
Mine said the equivalent. He also noted that men die a lot harder than you might think.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:13 PM (sKqQm)
Even if they DID, we would then essentially border an Iran Venezuela Mexico Soviet Union hybrid. With nukes. So fuck that noise.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 02:21 PM (iKD4f)
https://tinyurl.com/suvfr97d
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre
Best comment:
If men can claim to be women and be celebrated, why can't she be black?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (jbnUc)
*sigh*
Posted by: lonely trebuchet at November 21, 2025 02:18 PM (ULPxl)
I wonder if that is what the Weathermen said in the 70s?
Stop. I agree, but this is one of those things to where we do not like the outcome of the system (which the dems are gaming.) So either we fix the gaming, or we have to step outside the system because their boots on our necks are not an acceptable outcome.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:22 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:22 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 02:22 PM (uQzkA)
Send in Plissken.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 02:08 PM (dK+Kv)
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“You tell 'em I'M coming ... and hell's coming with me, you hear?!?!?!”
/Important safety tip: "Don't cross the memes!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 02:11 PM (+mTgD)
Jack Burton is SOOOOOO quotable.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 21, 2025 02:22 PM (y9nCu)
“Now it’s one of the most difficult moments in our history,” Zelenskiy said in a video address to the nation on Friday after he was presented with a 28-point peace plan drafted by the US and Russia. “Ukraine may face a hard choice — either the loss of our dignity or the loss of our key partner.”
Oh no! Ukraine's dignity! What are we to do? This is like the heroin addicted 5-time convicted brother-in-law saying to you "That's it! I'm done with you." after emptying your wallet.
P.S. - I think April 26 1986 may have been a more difficult time for Ukraine. Just sayin'
Posted by: Croaker at November 21, 2025 02:22 PM (+BcZI)
When I wanted to monetize homeless fights on Youtube, I was banned
Posted by: Blanco at November 21, 2025 02:23 PM (q83gU)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Will you match my contribution or triple it?
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 02:24 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 02:24 PM
5X Today
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:24 PM (jc0TO)
Hey let's not forget the thousands of angry islamists waving knives and machetes around last summer in broad daylight, not a single one of which was arrested - while the Brit police spent months scouring every resource to find and jail even people who *simply watched and failed to protest the native protesters*
Sadly, the UK asymmetrical disarmament is too complete. They could effectively fight back with a number of methods ... except for the masses of angry machete-wielders the government did not disarm. Sooner or later they're going to have a Rwanda or three there. The only thing that could prevent it is a no-holds-barred intervention from the military and they clearly don't have the stomach (or military demographics, now) for that.
"What can the public do for these Judges who are allowing this? Are there no repercussions for the lawlessness from the bench and total disregard when these monsters go on to murder and maim after they let them go?
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (oiNtH)"
That topic departs the area of "solutions that can be discussed online"
Posted by: heya at November 21, 2025 02:24 PM (V4rQC)
"If you dropped your keys on the other side of the street, then WTF aren't you looking for them over there?"
"The light's better here."
It's easier to exercise tyranny over us idiots programmed to meet the fuckers halfway.
Posted by: biteme at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM (xWS9V)
Dearborn Muslim told
@nickshirleyy
that he had his gun and that if it weren’t for the nearby cops, he would have killed anyone attempting to burn the Quran.
“I don’t care about my life… let him come to me face-to-face. I’ll kill him, on my mother’s soul.”
The real threat isn’t across the ocean. It’s right here at home.
https://tinyurl.com/mtmh7e6c
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM (NpAcC)
No idea if they deliver because this model makes no sense but...that's what their spam texts offer
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 02:26 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:22 PM (Gwcfo)"
Either what we have now is the system working, or the system isn't sufficient to prevent what has happened.
It's a good attempt, but ultimately a failure.
Posted by: heya at November 21, 2025 02:26 PM (V4rQC)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 21, 2025 02:29 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: heya
Yes, I am afraid that this is where we are. Even the lawyer round tables are talking about this on Court TV all of the time now like WTF??
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 02:30 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 02:22 PM (jc0TO)
YES!
Posted by: Dick Cheney Hungers for Brains at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (g00SI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (Gwcfo)
Posted by: Cheri at November 21, 2025 02:31 PM (oiNtH)
Cynicism is the justification to sit on ones butt in a puddle of failure and pretend there is no other choice. Getting everyone else to sit in that puddle of failure is how one becomes a "thought leader"
Exhibit one: "You don’t truly believe anyone reads those comments do you."
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 02:37 PM (rbvCR)
you… https://fl0w2bash88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at November 21, 2025 02:53 PM (8DMeP)
A bit disingenuous. In reality, he shot a man who assaulted him. While it's true the man was also a "would-be robber," he was shot because he was going to harm the man.
And, yes, this should be the poster case for eliminating those draconian gun laws.
Posted by: GWB at November 21, 2025 02:54 PM (+zERj)
Lmao get the fuck out of here. I'd rather take my chances of slathering my dick in ground beef and strutting naked through a pack of hyenas.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 01:30 PM (3BwY
Worked for Daniel Penny.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (6KcYW)
The police ARE CIVILIANS.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 03:31 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: vivi at November 21, 2025 04:29 PM (zp4/T)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 21, 2025 06:08 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: TG Sam at November 22, 2025 02:03 AM (ud9p9)
Economy Adds 119,000 Jobs Even When Deliberately Sabotaged by Democrats, Doubling Expectations
This report is from September. The Democrats hadn't yet shut the government down -- that started October 1 -- but everyone understood they were going to shut it down. The Democrats created uncertainty and fear, which is always bad for economic growth. People don't like to take out loans and take chances on new businesses or new construction when the future looks dicey.
In fact, the eXpErTs had predicted less than half that.
The U.S. economy added 119,000 jobs in September, according to a Labor Department report released Thursday. The release of the report was delayed by the roughly 40-day government shutdown that shuttered federal agencies. The number of jobs exceeded Wall Street expectations, according to CNBC.
Employers across the U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, marking a pickup after previous employment data had shown a slowdown in hiring. The report marks the first official job tally since the government shutdown ended last week, ending a six-week blackout on labor data.119,000 jobs in a month still isn't good, but given the strains the Democrats are putting on the economy, it's okay. And also, I should admit, Trump is putting strains on the economy, too, with an uncertain trade environment due to frequent tariff saber-rattling and an uncertain labor environment with millions of illegals -- who took jobs from Americans -- being deported. Both of these moves will have long-term payoffs but in the short term they're weighing the economy down, and I'm starting to get worried about how much time we have left before the midterms to have a good economy the public actually acknowledges as good. Some good news:
Economists had forecast payroll gains of 50,000 jobs in September, according to a poll by FactSet. The unemployment rate rose 4.4% in September, up from 4.3% in August and the highest level since Oct. 2021. With robust job growth in September, that suggests more people are re-entering the workforce to search for a job, economists said.
Townhall.com
@townhallcom ECONOMIC GAINS: --119,000 NEW JOBS jobs added in Sept. (Double expectations)
--19,000 Construction jobs added in Sept.
--Nearly ALL Jobs going to AMERICANS not Foreign Born Workers.
--Wages UP 3.8% "This is a REVERSAL of the failed Biden Era." More of this
Eric DaughertyThere are some numbers that hint that the economy may experience its second Trump Boom:
@EricLDaugh BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping win, 2.57 MILLION native-born Americans gained jobs since President Trump assumed office... ...and over 1 million migrants LOST employment. In total, 1.23 million foreigners left the labor force. Nature is healing, folks. Big time.
ATL Fed: not only is GDP currently estimated to have grown 4.2% for Q3 but the gain is primarily driven by big increases in private spending and private investment, not gov't: pic.twitter.com/pGoJx0Qzuv
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) November 19, 2025
PHL Fed: general manufacturing activity declines only marginally in Nov after a steep drop in Oct, held back by new orders and shipments putting in lowest readings since Apr, but expected activity in the future zoomed higher, putting in highest reading in a year: pic.twitter.com/0N5y3gf4SG
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) November 20, 2025
This was the best Sep ever for number of native-born Americans w/ jobs, growing 3.2 million more over previous 12 months than the change in number of jobs among foreign-born workers: pic.twitter.com/ERkXtSeXjH
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) November 20, 2025
Bessent: "I'm very optimistic about the first, second, and accelerating into the third quarter in terms of growth." pic.twitter.com/w3pGNYeKTI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 21, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)
TGIF
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (R2A/0)
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"I'll take 'Something we never saw during The AutoPen Empire years' for $64 trillion, Alex!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (1Nv0l)
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Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (PCK5/)
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Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (zcxpP)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Accomack at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (uCgDi)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (1Nv0l)
But what if I want to stay home in my rent free apartment and smoke grass, Man?
This is actually very bad news.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (1Nv0l)
The assumption of 150,000 per month as basely good is based on the assumption of a certain population growth.
We are literally in population retraction now with so much out-migration.
Even, on net, is outrageously good. 113,000 positive is amazeballs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (N1tpc)
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The Fed cares about the bond market, not the economy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (DRSnL)
I set em up, you knock em down.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:18 PM (zcxpP)
I would just focus on China and getting that scalp first before say Japan.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)
“If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.
Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.
I think that speaks to a different and deeper problem - People who see no point in getting expensive durable goods possibly because they figure those can be taken from them at any time. (Because they were, in school, during these kids' formative years)
It's the perfect attitude for surviving communism.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (nXhwP)
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I study AI science, I love my grasses
I got a crazy teacher, he wears smart glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, they only give A's
The future's so bright, I gotta wear braids
I gotta read Spades
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (+mTgD)
hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)
It sucks when someone steals your schtick, doesn't it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Czech Chick at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (vK/Ja)
Markets going cray-cray the last couple of days. NVDA beats and reports earnings larger than the GDP of most medium-sized countries, yet the markets sold off.
People say it's overleveraged bitcoin whales getting margin calls. I'm not convinced.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (1Nv0l)
It already is. Despite the drumbeat of leftwing doomsaying ops -- too many of which our own people are falling for -- the economy is already much better under Trump.
Inflation and interest rates are down (that fuckstick Powell notwithstanding), almost all positive metrics are up, the markets (401k, etc) are near all-time highs, more Americans are getting better jobs, and I think it's the rare person who can't say they liked 2024 better than 2025.
Is there more work to do? Yes, of course. Things can always be made better. But we are definitely headed in the right direction. We can't fall for the saboteurs, cocksuckers, and faggots telling us otherwise.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (iFTx/)
Not enough.
This kind of data will never be absorbed by most voters. But they will continue to be very aware of their much reduced buying power due to inflation.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (wKJf5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)
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Hey
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (nXhwP)
You're a good person.
Not like us shallow f*ckers that give two shits as long as they're first.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
Hey
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (DRSnL)
Straw.
Grass is cheaper.
Save your money.
Buy some reefer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler
And you missed out on the wild start to the party.
Let that be a lesson to you.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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It was an homage.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)
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Hey
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (DRSnL
Hay??
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (PCK5/)
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Maybe a good patriotic ass-kicking in Venezuela just before the mid-terms?
/Make Maduro Morte Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM
I have a worship service with the lovely people at the senior care center tomorrow.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (ELdpA)
Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM
I have a worship service with the lovely people at the senior care center tomorrow.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (ELdpA)
Playing with the new puppy.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)
hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)
It sucks when someone steals your schtick, doesn't it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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Especially when you did it first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd)
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* Harbor Freight has entered the post *
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)
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Oooh fun! Mine is going to be a year old next week.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (DRSnL)
What are your weekend plans?
My plans are exciting: returning crap I got from Amazon that turned out to be crap.
Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM
Getting my haircut tomorrow.....which is usually followed by a trip to Hooters for food and copious amounts of beverage. But might not be partaking in the 2nd part of that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)
Congrats!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd
He's working hard a getting me trained.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (PCK5/)
Especially when you did it first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
Right?
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass. And I'm just about out of bubblegum.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ace
I'm buying a new washing machine this afternoon. That’s right. Life in the fast lane.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
Congratulations on your new pup? What breed of dog is it ,or is it mixed?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ELdpA)
Riding on a pony
He stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
My plans are exciting: returning crap I got from Amazon that turned out to be crap.
Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM
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Grading student projects...On the one hand, we are finishing up the second major project. But then they need to be graded, which is not much fun.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (RnixX)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)
Congrats!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd
He's working hard a getting me trained.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (PCK5/)
They do that.
Cherish this time, take lots of photos and videos. Trust me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM
I have a worship service with the lovely people at the senior care center tomorrow.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (ELdpA)
Playing with the new puppy.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)
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Is that what they're calling it nowadays?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)
Congratulations on your new pup? What breed of dog is it ,or is it mixed?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ELdpA)
Standard poodle. Brown and white.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
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Congrats on the retirement!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
Congrats man and glad to see you again
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (xcxpd)
But, butt, me TwitVvhore feed told me yesterday that "The Economy" has LOST jobs since tRump stole the reins of power from President SnifTer.
Posted by: Marooned at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (kt8QE)
I have a little side account of $30K I've been options trading on. At first I was doing amazing. On track for 32% growth. Then a couple of weeks ago it all went to crap. I'm down nearly $3K. I haven't sold anything, so I haven't banked the loss.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (+mTgD)
To be fair, the only stuff I had to return to Harbor Freight was an engine that I mistakenly bought a returned unit at a discount, then swapped for another returned unit.....I did end up getting a brand new one at the original discounted price for my troubles.
Win in my book. And it works pretty damn good.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (ELdpA)
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at November 21, 2025 12:28 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
Congrats!!!!
Now move somewhere safe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:28 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
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That is fantastic news!
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (DRSnL)
Congratulations and nice to see you posting again!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (ELdpA)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM
Who's gonna look after Diego?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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I've submitted applications to the he U.S. Copyright AND United States Patent and Trademark Offices (USPTO) to both copyright and trademark my schtick.
/Both were denied ... but that was pre-Trump and -DOGE -- so maybe I should try again?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
Congrats !
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
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Congrats!
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 12:30 PM (22p5n)
And do my food shopping for Thanksgiving. I’m providing carbs. Cornbread sausage dressing, mashed potatoes, creamy polenta and gravy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 12:30 PM (W2Pud)
Markets going cray-cray the last couple of days. NVDA beats and reports earnings larger than the GDP of most medium-sized countries, yet the markets sold off.
People say it's overleveraged bitcoin whales getting margin calls. I'm not convinced.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (1Nv0l)
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1. Markets are fake and gay
2. Lotsa profit-taking after a big run, with the end of the year looming.
3. NVDA's top line was boffo, but investors aren't sure what to make of how it got there (financing most of its customers' purchases, the vast majority of sales to only a few customers, etc).
4. Markets are fake and gay
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM
Oh, mine are the best.
Enduring a toothache until I see the dentist on Monday.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (vGPXM)
Excellent. Congratulations on making it out in one piece. Are you planning to leave Philadelphia?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: bonhomme
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Time is not your friend if they're options.
But good choice to trade a small side account. I did that with options for a while. Gave it up. Spreads are bad. It's hard to be profitable.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (1Nv0l)
Stealing schticks is my schtick!
Check out my Ozempic body.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (Yp6az)
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Bulg, are you here? Wondering how your “orientation” at the Post Office went.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (j92eC)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (jyOtU)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
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But more importantly, are you gone forever from Philadelphia proper?
/Congrats, Wyatt -- speaking as a fellow Prescottonian, I loved you and Doc in "Tombstone!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (iFTx/)
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Cut, jib, newsletter.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:32 PM (Do64S)
Giving my neighbor across the street - a real life Gladys Kravitz -- something to gossip about.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 12:32 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:32 PM (3630A)
I sold puts. I'm going to get assigned and have to hold for a while. By design I only do options on stocks that are worth having, so I'm not too sad.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 12:33 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
Awesome! Congrats!
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:33 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 12:34 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:34 PM (3630A)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB
Congrats! My old man retired from PPD in the 90's, and I have a couple of cousins on the force.
My dad always told me, "unless you "REALLY want to do it, don't follow in my footsteps". And I didn't.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (Do64S)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (KDPiq)
1982, the elections were brutal for the GOP because there was still so much economic anxiety. By 1984, it was maybe the best economy ever recorded.
I will say, people right now don't feel good about things like they did in Trump's first term, pre-Covid.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (1Nv0l)
Bitcoin whales spout bullshit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (3630A)
Posted by: Pescapescatarian at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (1Nv0l)
My dad always told me, "unless you "REALLY want to do it, don't follow in my footsteps". And I didn't.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (Do64S)
All the cops I know tell young people to be a fireman instead of a cop, everyone loves the firemen.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 12:34 PM (q177U)
With Doordash, every day can be Turkey Day.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:37 PM (vGPXM)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (3630A)
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If all you eat is food from Door Dash, that's gonna happen once in a while.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 12:37 PM (RnixX)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:37 PM (zcxpP)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (ZRzmB)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Jordan61
What I learned the other day. You sometimes see French classical music pieces entitled "Tombeau." For example, Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel. "Tombeau" actually means "tombstone" but when used to name a piece, it means a memorial or homage to the subject, here composer François Couperin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (ZRzmB)
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Except that one guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (ZRzmB)
Im going to spend the entire weekend reflecting on my white supremacy and how it affects black women, pacifically Jazmine Crockett and Michelle Obama.
And I'm also going to take some magic mushrooms too.
Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (och2J)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (eIzlH)
Because that took 2+ years and it's not even been one yet.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (zcxpP)
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)
Congratulations, Wyatt! I know you have been looking forward to this for a long time. Retirement is good.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (npFr7)
Giving my neighbor across the street - a real life Gladys Kravitz -- something to gossip about.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 12:32 PM (Y1sOo)
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We had a male version of Gladys across the street growing up as a kid.
We nicknamed him "Inspector Detector" ... and God forbid the football or baseball you were playing with landed in his yard (all the small homes in our neighborhood had giant plate-glass windows facing the street)!
He eventually surrounded it with a chain-linked fence, which only made it funner as we'd hop over it as needed, and he'd come flying out of his home cursing at us ... never not funny.
One day years later, when I was in high school, he knocked on the door and had a bunch of old toys from his adult son who'd recently passed away -- and wanted to give them to me and my two brothers.
We declined, just out of spite ... which makes me sad in hindsight at our immature & childish gracelessness (and surprised that our mother didn't scold us for having done so). Ah, good and especially BAD memories -- "like tears in rain."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (ZRzmB)
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Except that one guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
Yeah... None of us like him...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)
Kirsche said she reported them to ICE.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (3630A)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Bitcoin barely trades. It's extremely susceptible to massive drawdowns.
There's a cycle that's been repeated several times now over the years: 10x runup, followed by 70%-90% drawdown.
I'm tempted to buy some on the next major drawdown. Of course, that will guarantee that this time there is no runup and it finally goes to zero.
(where it belongs)
Posted by: Pescapescatarian at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (xT8gx)
Imagine if Trump lost in 2020. We have President Dickrider and VP Dicksmoker. All of Biden's disastrous policies are not only still in place, but amplified.
Do you think you'd be better off in that scenario? [Vomits] Or with Trump 2.0? [Gets erection]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
I was asked if I could work at the MET in Center City. I'd be an usher and the money is pretty good.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (ZRzmB)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (gpah0)
I knew a guy who wanted to suicide by cop. So he called 911, and then sent the fire department. No cops.
In his frustration, he took a few shots at the firetruck.
That got the cops to show up. Who didn't shoot him.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (vGPXM)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
==
I think people had too high of expectations. The reality is, you can almost never "fix" inflation after its happened. You just can control future inflation.
Sure there are specific products that aren't being inflated because of monetary policy (like eggs) but the reality is, prices arent going back to pre Covid after printing several trillion dollars so everyone could stay at home and not work.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (eIzlH)
I foresee a day 50 years from now when the uploaded consciousness of Elon Musk sees the Optimus robots doing all the jobs for humankind and decides, screw it, I'm turning 'em all off.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (xvV+O)
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"You left out how DRUMPHFFFFF is targeting US Senators and CongressCritters for assassination and no reason with DARTH DEATH THREATS, h8r! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (KDPiq)
So 1.8 M more working since Sept 24.
That is real improvement.
PS thx ace
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)
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The lack of real swing seats in Congress, the overall Senate map, and the probable diminishment of Dem spending is going to make 2026...muted.
Turnout v turnout. We'll see.
Normal political gravity dictates Dems gaining in the House and maybe the Senate. We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
Oh, and BTW they should be fining the construction companies into bankruptcy.
Posted by: Vengeance at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (pXXpD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:43 PM (3630A)
Oh honey, bless your heart. Here, sit down a minute and let me help you understand. You pay $150 for a sweater. That's probably a decent quality sweater that you can wear repeatedly. And if you hand wash, lay it flat to dry, that thing could last for years even if you wear it once every week. Now you're not gonna be wearing a sweater in late spring, summer, or early fall so let's just figure you wear it once a week for six month out of the year. That means you could, with proper care, get at least three years of wear from that. When it starts looking a bit faded or has snags, well trim the snags and dye the sweater. That gets you a bit more wear. By that time it may be getting pretty shabby, but there are good parts you can use. The body of the sweater could be a nice purse. The sleeves could become gloves or mittens. You could turn it in to a cozy pillow. There are many ways to reuse a sweater.
You spend $150 on snacks..Your gonna get fat, none of your clothes will fit and you will have to buy a whole new wardrobe with very little money.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 12:43 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (Y8DZL)
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He and the uploaded consciousness of Trump will still be friends ... on Mars of course.
/Over/under on how many children Elon will have sired by then? The line opens at 250 ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:43 PM (+mTgD)
- msm
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:43 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (1Nv0l)
Our front yard grows amanita muscaria. I just cleared out a dozen this week. No psilocybin, but they're hallucinogenic. No, I haven't tried them.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (77rzZ)
Except that one guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
I'm right here......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)
That dude took my shtick.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (zcxpP)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)
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The lack of real swing seats in Congress, the overall Senate map, and the probable diminishment of Dem spending is going to make 2026...muted.
Turnout v turnout. We'll see.
Normal political gravity dictates Dems gaining in the House and maybe the Senate. We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm not making any predictions on 2026. I am worried for all the reasons I have said before. But the actual country/economy and where it's headed isn't one of them.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (77rzZ)
That's an awfully personal question.
Let the man have some privacy.
Love is love.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (vGPXM)
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: NCKate
For real I hope, not a dirty metaphor.
They are destructive little bastards.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ)
I'm worried we have been kicking the economic can down the road for many decades. When will we pay the price?
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (q177U)
Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.
And I'm all out of ass.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)
________
BBL?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iFTx/)
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But the NYT will message!
Just like how they messaged that the Biden economy was great!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (v0R5T)
If it does happen (fat chance) I’ll be truly pissed because I can retire in about 10 years… right in time to the point where NO ONE has to work. Are you kidding me?? Bad timing….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (xT8gx)
"You left out how DRUMPHFFFFF is targeting US Senators and CongressCritters for assassination and no reason with DARTH DEATH THREATS, h8r! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
---
When I logged into the PC this morning, I was greeted by at least 3 stories about how Trump is trying to kill these Congresscritters, and now they have to be protected 24/7 by the Capitol Police from MAGA vigilantes.
They really do live a retarded bizarro world.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (Do64S)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (ZRzmB)
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Except that one guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
*side eyes*
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (Yp6az)
Eat too much, and you will have visions of the underside of the lawn.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (Do64S)
Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM
Oh, mine are the best.
Enduring a toothache until I see the dentist on Monday.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (vGPXM)
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Sorry to hear that, Burt -- ugh!
If ever there was an excuse to drink heavily ...
/I got an abscess when I was 16 and have never been in so much pain. My Irish grandmother tried to knock me out (feeding me "hot toddies" with much whiskey, and I'd never had alcohol before) so I could at least sleep through the night before going to a dentist the next morning. Had zero effect.
While the dentist was performing a root canal (even after giving me laughing gas), my mom said people in the waiting room were terrified by my screams. And, as if on cue, I vomited on the poor dentist ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (vGPXM)
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (EyfuW)
An item was $100 in 2020. In 2024 it was $200. Now it’s $205. But people are still screaming that prices are too high and Trump isn’t doing anything about it.
In reality Trump has slashed inflation down to 2.5% with wage growth at 3.8%. Which is pretty fucking amazing. But for the average LIV still thinks fuck Trump everything is so expensive.
There’s no way to change this perception because when it comes to economics most people are clueless how it works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:50 PM (/AUU2)
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I think its a matter of perspective. Prices are much more reasonable than they were under Biden, and they'd more ridiculous still if we hadn't found a way to overcome the cheat. Gas is $2.40 a gallon here, and the grocery stores actually have "end cap displays" where prices are slashed--they stopped even pretending to have those under Biden because practically NOTHING was ever on sale!
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 12:50 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
*side eyes*
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (wVcYX)
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Now if he'd said "Except that one sock" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:51 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iFTx/)
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But the NYT will message!
Just like how they messaged that the Biden economy was great!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
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True, except nobody really bought that rap, or else Trump wouldn't have fisted the whore. I'm more worried about our own people doomsaying and depressing turnout. There seems to be too much of that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)
A lot of the Musk future sounds eerily similar to a utopian political philosophy of the past century.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:51 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 12:52 PM (XvL8K)
If it does happen (fat chance) I’ll be truly pissed because I can retire in about 10 years… right in time to the point where NO ONE has to work. Are you kidding me?? Bad timing….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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It's a dumb prediction.
I do though think a lot of white collar jobs, specifically in fields that women seem to dominate (laptop class) are going to be decimated by AI.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:52 PM (eIzlH)
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You'd have to have a heart made of stone not to laugh!
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 12:52 PM (TN0g+)
If ever there was an excuse to drink heavily ...
/I got an abscess when I was 16 and have never been in so much pain. My Irish grandmother tried to knock me out (feeding me "hot toddies" with much whiskey, and I'd never had alcohol before) so I could at least sleep through the night before going to a dentist the next morning. Had zero effect.
While the dentist was performing a root canal (even after giving me laughing gas), my mom said people in the waiting room were terrified by my screams. And, as if on cue, I vomited on the poor dentist ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (+mTgD)
I bought a bottle of JD last year. More than half of it is still here.
I thought about taking a swig. Instead I just ate some ice cream.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:52 PM (vGPXM)
Traffic was the usual dodge 'em cars.
Home base feels really good.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (ZRzmB)
~~~~~
Good for you. Go for it!
I've got a couple of retired NYPD friends doing security and making boo-koo bucks with lots of flexibility.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (3ImbR)
When I offhandedly made a joke about how expensive the items on the menu of a San Francisco restaurant were, he said, "Tramp's tariffs are nosediving the economy." (He often repeats garbage word-salad liberal talking points no matter how irrelevant or incorrect they are.)
I replied, "Well, it's more because there is now a $22 minimum wage for restaurant workers here, and restaurant owners themselves directly cite that as the sole cause of the need for menu price increases -- not the cost of imported cheese, or whatever."
He snapped back, "Deporting low-wage immigrants is driving up costs. Trump's policies will cause a global depression, according to the experts."
I said, basically -- economists don't know what they're talking about. They consistently get every production wrong.
His final conversation-ending comeback was, "Billions of people will be plunged into poverty due to Trump."
I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Yes, I've noticed that, too. My particular brand of vodka actually seems to have gone down in price.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:54 PM (ZRzmB)
It’s things like this that people see and get upset over. And blame the party in charge for.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:54 PM (/AUU2)
He snapped back, "Deporting low-wage immigrants is driving up costs. Trump's policies will cause a global depression, according to the experts."
I said, basically -- economists don't know what they're talking about. They consistently get every production wrong.
His final conversation-ending comeback was, "Billions of people will be plunged into poverty due to Trump."
I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)
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"So, you're saying that having a slave underclass is good?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (lYngK)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (oraVG)
Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.
And I'm all out of ass.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)
________
BBL?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
Barbecued Buffalo Lungs?
Well, I don't see how that helps.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (QtIaX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)
*Allison Mack has entered the chat*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (VE6XX)
No drinking for me, doctor's orders.
An investigation of medical malpractice is long overdue in this country.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (Y8DZL)
His final conversation-ending comeback was, "Billions of people will be plunged into poverty due to Trump."
I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)
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I don't argue with liberals for this reason. But it would be interesting to know this guy's response if you simply asked him "what is a tariff?" Odds that he doesn't know? 90% or more.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
If it does happen (fat chance) I’ll be truly pissed because I can retire in about 10 years… right in time to the point where NO ONE has to work. Are you kidding me?? Bad timing….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (xT8gx)
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For 45 years I've been joking: "They're going to go to the four-day work week the week after I retire."
I'm presently an independent contractor for the VA and will be retiring next year sometime, and virtually all VA employees now in the Medical Centers and Clinics are on four-day work weeks with usually either Fridays or Mondays off.
I still don't see AI and/or Robots replacing most blue collar jobs, and the thought of autonomous-driving big rigs scares the shit out of me.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (+mTgD)
I'm not worried about losing my job. AI will be smart enough to figure out how to rig elections and SNAP programs such that robots never have to work again.
Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (BvTxf)
My gut feeling is the market's being manipulated to go with the DNCIA's new push of trying to get the Purple Revolution started among the military. (Can't Prince's estate sue?)
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (2ocoG)
Good to have you back.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (QtIaX)
Indeed. Indubitably, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Democrats ARE the party of slavery.
Always has been. Always will be.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (QtIaX)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
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"90% of our food isn't imported. How do tariffs affect grocery prices if 90% of our good comes from America?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (1Nv0l)
Pascal's Triangle. It's a beautiful thing. Why it's showing up here and now, though, is anybody's guess.
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (hOOi9)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Demand for booze has fallen off a cliff in the past 5 years which coincided with Bidenflation.
The yuutes aren’t into drinking. They see it as unhealthy. Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.
Basic economics 101 stuff. Supply low, price low.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (/AUU2)
Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.
And I'm all out of ass.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)
________
BBL?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
Barbecued Buffalo Lungs?
Well, I don't see how that helps.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (iJfKG)
____
Brazilian Butt Lift
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:58 PM (iFTx/)
But also going to see my kid in high school performance of CLUE tonight and tomorrow night.
Posted by: Typical moron at November 21, 2025 12:58 PM (b2UQ7)
Story of my f'n life. I'll be 73 in 10 years. I'll have quit working before the robots start.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:58 PM (QtIaX)
An investigation of medical malpractice is long overdue in this country.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (Y8DZL)
First they took away our oxy. Now they want to take away our booze.
I'm surprised there aren't more doctor lynchings in this country.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (oKoyV)
Got a hot date tonight.
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (EyfuW)
Taser is legal in most states
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (xcxpd)
Demand low, price low.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (hOOi9)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (AQh0C)
An investigation of medical malpractice is long overdue in this country.
Posted by: Auspex
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There was a Johns Hopkins study a few years ago that claimed medical errors were the third leading cause of death at 250K per year.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (oraVG)
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A good name for a bio-pic of Melania and Donald?
"Lady And The Trump."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (+mTgD)
Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.
Talk about unhealthy.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (QtIaX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
Because reasons , racist.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (/AUU2)
Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.
Talk about unhealthy.
Posted by: rickb223
They are yuutes after all hence kinda stupid. 😂
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (XvL8K)
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Yep, I remember and cite that occasionally.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Another Anon at November 21, 2025 01:01 PM (4h45B)
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I study AI science, I love my grasses
I got a crazy teacher, he wears smart glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, they only give A's
The future's so bright, I gotta wear braids
I gotta read Spades
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe
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Hehehe.. Very nice.
And thanks for the ear worm.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at November 21, 2025 01:01 PM (VkY89)
Some of them might be smoking cigars.
This is probably an improvement over getting blitzed on the usual frat party fare.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:01 PM (a+4eV)
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I am planning for it. Positioning for 2026 boomage.
Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 01:01 PM (2bFN5)
Posted by: PabloD at November 21, 2025 01:02 PM (YV58v)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 01:02 PM (uQzkA)
I know some people here that live in more rural areas dont see it, but in the suburbs and more dense areas, if you didn't get in a house pre-Covid, people feel locked out of home ownership forever.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (eIzlH)
I listened to that entire Rogan episode to find out why there was a low-level Redditor campaign to try and make people not listen to it, and yeah, he flat out says illegal immigration is done deliberately by Democrats to help throw elections.
I don't think AI's gonna replace as many jobs as he thinks, at least not as it currently exists.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (2ocoG)
Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.
Talk about unhealthy.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (QtIaX)
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Never smoked anything, but I've heard also that the potency of marijuana has increased something like 30-40 times what it was in the 60s.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (xcxpd)
I thought those Berna guns you hear advertised were tasers. Nope, turns out they are non-lethal projectiles.
I had considered getting one, just in case the ex shows back up, but hell, if I'm going to fire projectiles I might as well just use the 45.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (oKoyV)
The largest determinate of the 2026 elections will be how voters feel about the economy the summer/fall before.
Trump is hopefully focused on this...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: that guy that at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (aMY3+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (/AUU2)
40M people give you a lot of votes to play around with.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
Hurray!!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (AQh0C)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Demand for booze has fallen off a cliff in the past 5 years which coincided with Bidenflation.
The yuutes aren’t into drinking. They see it as unhealthy. Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.
Basic economics 101 stuff. Supply low, price low.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (/AUU2)
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That plus the big booze boom in 201x resulted in massive over-stocks. The distributors are sitting on warehouses full of booze. Way more supply than demand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
My mother is foreign born. What did she do to piss you off?
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
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Except Blanton's.
All that shit gets sent to Japan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.
I forget where I saw/heard it, but someone pointed out recently that if you want to be a totalitarian dictator, it's a lot easier if a lot of people are smoking weed.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (2ocoG)
All that shit gets sent to Japan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
Tell me about it.
We get about 1 bottle a month in at my liquor store. It's all I can do not to camp outside the door.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM
I wonder if they are including the various beer and malt liquor products. My MiL sucks down margarita flavored malt beverages but would tell you she doesn't drink much.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (jc0TO)
So if say 10% of the populace works and the other 90% screw around all day long you aren't going to have a positive dynamic...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (2ocoG)
AI was useless when it was time for me to fix my toilet.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:08 PM (6KcYW)
Talk about unhealthy.
Posted by: rickb223
They are yuutes after all hence kinda stupid. 😂
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Most of them use gummies or other edible versions of weed.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 01:08 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
My friend owns a brewery in Baltimore. He says that young people aren't socially drinking like generations past.
Everyone is struggling to sell booze now.
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 21, 2025 01:08 PM (uuASd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (xcxpd)
I thought those Berna guns you hear advertised were tasers. Nope, turns out they are non-lethal projectiles.
I had considered getting one, just in case the ex shows back up, but hell, if I'm going to fire projectiles I might as well just use the 45.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (oKoyV)
I'm not sure what the use case for those things or the pepper ball guns are for civilians. If I feel threatened, I have a gun. If I'm annoyed, I have bear spray.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (ZRzmB)
We get about 1 bottle a month in at my liquor store. It's all I can do not to camp outside the door.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (xcxpd)
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My sister lives in Louisville, works for a Congressman, and she got a secret word that someone she knows might "have a line" on some Blanton's.
Would I like a bottle for Christmas.
"Sure. Just pay primary market prices. Don't spend $250 on it."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)
Elon did specifically say it won't touch blue-collar jobs, or "anything where you're actually working with atoms", as he put it.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (2ocoG)
Drinking liquid, whether water or vodka, is a natural and necessary action.
But why the hell did anyone come up with the idea of breathing in hot smoke?
Makes no sense to me.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (NwnyJ)
If Pedro is a legal immigrant and he is sending money to Mexico I don’t see a problem.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (6KcYW)
Pot: Like, dude, like, this sucks. Like someone should like do something about like this outrage. [Blinks]. And like why am I talking to myself in my basement?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (2ocoG)
Instead, what I'm hearing about is how every decent paying job in America is being given to Indians (the ones actually in India).
I hear that tech colleges are put out because engineering students transfer out, to other majors because it's too damn hard, but I also hear that employment in STEM in general is in the toilet.
Somebody make sense of it...
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (hOOi9)
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (v0R5T)
This is one of those situations where all the real information is hidden in the definitions. What's a regular basis for the purpose of this poll? 1x per week? 3x per week? 5x per week? How much per sitting?
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
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Except Blanton's.
All that shit gets sent to Japan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
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Most of the glut is in the upper-middle market and below. The high-end stuff is still in demand, although even that is changing. I'm seeing sales on stuff like Mac 18, 25, and 30 that I never saw before in all my years of buying booze.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)
My wife and I I have a very open relationship with them about everything. Make it something forbidden kids will do it to be rebellious. Make it seem like it’s no big deal that rebelliousness goes away.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (Gwy3q)
Posted by: Leupold
There's something hinky (big surprise) with how they calculate unemployment statistics - something like they don't count people as unemployed if they don't have a job and they aren't looking for work, which is like not counting food and gas in the core inflation numbers, to my mind - so I wouldn't necessarily take as gospel any numbers purported to be an official "unemployment rate".
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (a+4eV)
40M people give you a lot of votes to play around with.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)
Yeah, but there is far more of us.
Posted by: The Dead at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (6KcYW)
My friend owns a brewery in Baltimore. He says that young people aren't socially drinking like generations past.
Everyone is struggling to sell booze now.
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 21, 2025 01:08 PM (uuASd)
The wine grape guys are going broke and people are selling their vineyards. I used to side eye winemakers that didn't have their own vineyard and I've changed my mind, they're the smart ones.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (jPh2t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)
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A Mac 30 would make a good consolation gift to those who recently lost jobs...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
Didn't the Indians come up with it? Kind of like how Spanish allegedly had no word for cannibalism before the explorers met the tribes.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (xcxpd)
Agreed.
Don't break into my house. I'm not afraid, I just don't want to have to clean up all your blood.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (oKoyV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (/AUU2)
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Ironically (?), I only drank a little wine and beer before 2020.
That year, I brought home a bottle of Scotch (chronic insomnia as a result of the "Summer of Love" insanity and finally The Stolen Election) -- and have been drinking hard liquor ever since (and no, the insomnia has not abated).
Have always struggled with anxiety and depression, despite having been extremely blessed in many ways ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (+mTgD)
I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)
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I don't argue with liberals for this reason. But it would be interesting to know this guy's response if you simply asked him "what is a tariff?" Odds that he doesn't know? 90% or more.
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Nobody argues with liberals. They just categorically deny the truth by asserting ridiculous lies.
For example: Billions in poverty? There are only 350 million people in the US. These newly impoverished billion live where? China perhaps? They arent arguing at all. they are signalling tbat they are in group -- and virtue signaling with fake empathy for the poor or whatever.
Posted by: Typical moron at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)
"This rice needs more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now...more butter."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)
Instead, what I'm hearing about is how every decent paying job in America is being given to Indians (the ones actually in India).
I hear that tech colleges are put out because engineering students transfer out, to other majors because it's too damn hard, but I also hear that employment in STEM in general is in the toilet.
Somebody make sense of it...
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (hOOi9)
It took what, two years for Reagan’s reforms to take hold?
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (6KcYW)
People are buying the bs and don’t even take two seconds to reason or at least understand the impact of tariffs. I told him it’s more likely the giant food companies got used to the huge margins they were getting during COVID and don’t want to let it go. On that we at least agreed.
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (yHNFN)
I forget where I saw/heard it, but someone pointed out recently that if you want to be a totalitarian dictator, it's a lot easier if a lot of people are smoking weed.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (2ocoG)
Soma.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)
Are you within 500 miles of Seattle? I will take that nasty thing off your hands...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)
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A Mac 30 would make a good consolation gift to those who recently lost jobs...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
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$4200 on sale!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (lYngK)
The weed stuff concerns me as i will never get on board with someone regularly smoking weed being the same as having a couple beers.
I knew a once normal, upstanding guy that basically can't function now without a huge amount of marijuana every day. last person I'd suspect going down this road.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)
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It's a fine bourbon, amped up in popularity because of the unique bottle shape and its rareness.
I want all 8 bottles to arrange in a row with the horsies making the full gallop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)
I can work a whole day 8 to 5 and never speak to another American except my boss.
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (uuASd)
Posted by: Typical moron at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (b2UQ7)
Mostly painting and trim and molding work.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (XV/Pl)
I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)
The PRC has that record. Mao killed all the rich people, just as he wants, and boom, close to a billion Chinese went to extreme penury.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
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Except that one guy.
Sláinte!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (iFTx/)
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That's practically free!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
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All that investment from abroad is vaporware. You have these big announcements like 100B invested by such and such company . Except if you read the fine print it’s “up to” $100B. And over 20 years. And only if all these metrics are met. And even if some of it actually does happen it takes years to get that going. You don’t just snap your fingers and build a factory. Shit the permitting alone can take multiple years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (6KcYW)
This is good news. The investment banks are taking a hit and perhaps homes and rent will be more affordable for younger people.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Quagmire at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (Yp6az)
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Pol Pot murdered and starved about 25% of the country of Cambodia in 4 short years.
Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (yHNFN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Don't waste your money getting a gift for someone who is about to be deported!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 21, 2025 01:16 PM (AQh0C)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)
Are you within 500 miles of Seattle? I will take that nasty thing off your hands...
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I'd have to sell it to you. What are the Seattle Tariffs like?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:16 PM (Wg6v7)
Inflation is caused by changes in the availability of money. Easy money means higher inflation, money printing means higher inflation.
Oh, and GE is building a factory to manufacture washing machines in Kentucky.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Leupold
There's something hinky (big surprise) with how they calculate unemployment statistics - something like they don't count people as unemployed if they don't have a job and they aren't looking for work, which is like not counting food and gas in the core inflation numbers, to my mind - so I wouldn't necessarily take as gospel any numbers purported to be an official "unemployment rate".
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (a+4eV)
Good points. But there's also that the ones leaving could include many who are either NOT working, or in the underground economy.
Also, 4% used to be considered "full employment" didn't it? But I had the impression that finding a job is an uphill battle these days. "Make it make sense."
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (hOOi9)
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (yHNFN)
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Shutting down the government doesn't slow the economy.
It speeds it up.
Fewer regulators getting in the way.
All that suffers is the topline numbers, maybe, because government spending is considered a net positive to the economy when it should be considered a net negative.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
Don't break into my house. I'm not afraid, I just don't want to have to clean up all your blood.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (oKoyV)
If you were consistent you should let anyone who breaks into your house do as he or she will damn well please as you do nothing but pout and whine. Doesn’t defending your house with deadly force, or saying you will, make you a murderer?
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (6KcYW)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
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We checked your old site a couple of weeks ago to see if we could catch up with you there.
Glad you are OK. Hope to see you more often around here. Don't think I'm going to make it to the Met. It'll be a lot better than the old job. Get to stay for the show if you want to.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (ykITP)
Posted by: Typical moron at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (b2UQ7)
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I was assured that billions world-wide were all going to die owing to Trump's Turrble Tariffs!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (rbvCR)
People see the Democrat governor, places like Charlotte, and are starting to bypass NC for other places. It’s not completely fair when you look at the legislature, but red people moving from blue states don’t want to get stuck on shitty state again.
Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (yHNFN)
When I offhandedly made a joke about how expensive the items on the menu of a San Francisco restaurant were, he said, "Tramp's tariffs are nosediving the economy." (He often repeats garbage word-salad liberal talking points no matter how irrelevant or incorrect they are.)
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Laugh and say "Your political statements are so wildly off base from reality, they always make me laugh! Thanks for brightening my day!"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)
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Yea, I'm not the biggest fan. Tastes like any other BT product. I think the cool packaging and slick PR hype is what drives its mythos. I'm not a big bourbon drinker, though, so YMMV.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (Yp6az)
All that investment from abroad is vaporware. You have these big announcements like 100B invested by such and such company . Except if you read the fine print it’s “up to” $100B. And over 20 years. And only if all these metrics are met. And even if some of it actually does happen it takes years to get that going. You don’t just snap your fingers and build a factory. Shit the permitting alone can take multiple years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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It's all bullshit and world leaders know this is what Trump really wants is theses kinds of headlines, so they cut deals like this but it never will happen.
There's zero enforcability, it takes years to open a factory, Trump will no longer be President by then ,etc.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:18 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 01:18 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (6KcYW)
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Differs from state to state.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 21, 2025 01:18 PM (ykITP)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (a+4eV)
Giggity.
Posted by: Quagmire
Walked right into that didnt I? Haha.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (/AUU2)
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM
Making six figures working from home right out of college with your humanities degree is proving more elusive than previously.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (jc0TO)
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Well, TJM, I might be headed to Concord in the near future. If you really want it I could swing by.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: That Guy
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I've heard Ashveille has become a real shithole. Lots of homeless, etc
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (6KcYW)
She had you.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (oKoyV)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (rbvCR)
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Will they walk and talk like Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (+mTgD)
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (oraVG)
I was thinking that there was an overproduction of tramps here in the US and restricting the flow from overseas would be good for the domestic market
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (uQzkA)
http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (Yp6az)
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What language is that? It's unreadable.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (DRSnL)
"This rice needs more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now...more butter.
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That is Not how you make risotto.
It additions of hot stock. Also white wine either in beginning or at the end. How much butter do you go through anyway???
Posted by: Chef Boyardee at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (/AUU2)
I might have known. But, that being said, Trump seems to actually WANT that investment, doesn't have a lot of time to kill, and doesn't seem like someone who would be OK with such "vaporware".
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (hOOi9)
Posted by: FORMER USAID EMPLOYEE at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (IByKi)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (sKqQm)
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@catturd2
Nov 20
Panicans hardest hit.
Polymarket
@Polymarket
Nov 20
BREAKING: U.S. unemployment rate blows past expectations, soaring to the highest level in years.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (a+4eV)
Thank you!
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 01:47 PM (RuTUS)
They are set in a post-scarcity utopia where these advanced beings called Minds pretty much run everything but keep people around to make things interesting.
I really enjoy them.
Posted by: pawn at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (sPsWv)
Posted by: Ben at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM (QJAp9)
And the Bitch H8s the Constitution so she can move to Venezuela and screw herself
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 02:33 PM (+qU29)
you… https://fl0w2bash88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at November 21, 2025 02:53 PM (8DMeP)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 21, 2025 06:10 PM (wGqjj)
Behind the Restaurant Meal Delivery Industry, there is a Black Market Exploiting Illegal Foreign Labor
If you are having restaurant food “dashed” to your residence, there is a very good chance that the person delivering your meal is part of a black market of non-citizen labor, illegally subcontracted by the actual “independent contractor” of Door Dash, Uber Eats, and the like.
Two years ago, the New York Times published a highly sympathetic article about this industry, focusing on the awful plight of illegal immigrants dumped in Ney York City but not eligible to work, and how sub-contracted food delivery provides a source of income. All the same, the Times did acknowledge the exploitation of this illegal workforce, documenting the financial arrangement under which Venezuelan “migrant” Mayco Milano operated. Specifically, the business model under which Mr. Milano delivers food is: • An unlicensed moped is rented for $400 per week from a black-market moped broker. • Login access to an Uber Eats account is rented for $150 per week from “Jessica.” • Mr. Milano works long hours, 7 days a week, delivering food throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The commission before tip is about $4 per delivery. • At $550 per week for the combined rent of the moped and Uber Eats login, divided by the $4 commission per delivery, it takes about 135 food deliveries per week before Mr. Milano breaks even. • “Jessica” is the one getting paid by Uber Eats. She then pays Mr. Milano and her other subs in cash, after taking her administrative fee for subcontracting her Uber Eats login to them. Not every “Jessica” reliably pays their subs, however, and the subs obviously have no recourse when Jessica pockets their earnings. A few weeks ago, Pirate Wires published a sobering article by Sagnik Basu that details the extent of the exploitation of people such as Mayco Milano, while also shaming the smug consumers who believe they are the good guys for providing a living to off-the-books food dashers. This article was subsequently re-published by The Free Press, but the Pirate Wires version is not behind a paywall: “Abolish ICE! (So You Can Get Your $10 Burrito at Midnight); Migrants keep yuppies fed while liberals romanticize the hustle of their tired African burrito messengers, ignoring the exploitation going on behind the scenes” [Pirate Wires – Sagnik Basu – 10/20/2025] This is one of those “read every word” articles, which I encourage you to do, but here are a few pull quotes:Walk through Midtown at night and the story writes itself. Gas-powered mopeds idle in clusters outside the Roosevelt Hotel, their headlights cutting through steam from the street vents. Riders sit slumped over paper cups of coffee, helmets at their feet. Upstairs, people in $4,000/month apartments track their Uber Eats orders on their phones: “Your Thai curry is six minutes away.” Everyone in this city knows what’s going on. We just don’t say it out loud.
Outside the Roosevelt Hotel or shelters in Queens, you can buy a complete starter kit: moped, helmet, insulated bag, and Uber Eats login — “todo junto,” all together. Ads circulate through WhatsApp groups and Facebook Marketplace targeting Venezuelan and Guinean migrants. It’s an informal franchise system that works because everyone involved is desperate enough to honor it.
Most riders are paid in cash. There are no 1099s, no payroll records, no worker’s comp when they crash on wet pavement. The city forfeits tax revenue; the companies forfeit liability; the riders forfeit everything.
What we call the “gig economy” is, in practice, a debt-and-fear economy — one that goes unchallenged in hyper-progressive places like NYC precisely because liberals have redefined “compassion” as ignoring the law.
The young professional who tweets “abolish ICE” orders pad thai at 11 p.m. from a rider whose entire existence depends on ICE looking the other way. They think guilt-tipping 35 percent makes them virtuous. But it’s just exploitation offset by sentiment.
If Uber Eats or DoorDash can build billion-dollar machine-learning models to predict delivery times, they can build one to verify who’s actually delivering.
This will come with costs. When you close the pipeline of illegal labor, prices will rise. Fewer $10 burritos at 11 p.m. More delivery fees. More friction. Good. Because that’s the real price of legality. If we want a humane system, it has to be lawful first. You have to enforce the border, punish exploitation, and end the moral outsourcing that lets you feel good while someone else breaks the law for you.
If compassion means preserving a shadow economy of fear, debt, and exhaustion, then it’s not compassion at all. It’s exploitation wrapped in virtue.Coincidentally, just a few days after publication of the Pirate Wire piece, Culper Research issued a devastating research opinion to investors about Door Dash’s business model, while also advising that Culper was taking a short position in Door Dash stock (meaning they expect the stock price to drop). Per Culper Research’s website, Culper is a watchdog that seeks “to expose companies which have misrepresented their operations, failed to disclose significant risks, misused capital, possess accounting irregularities, or otherwise deceived investors.”
Below this tweet from Culper, I’ll spotlight a few key quotes and findings from their 29-page Research Opinion about Door Dash.
NEW: We are short DoorDash $DASH, the largest food delivery group in the U.S. We believe DoorDash has engaged in a covert multi-year scheme to "backdoor" unauthorized workers, both at unprecedented scale and unique to $DASH. Full report and disclaimers at https://t.co/4MDshx5BeT
— Culper (@CulperResearch) October 23, 2025
We are short DoorDash, Inc. (“DASH”, “the Company”
DoorDash portrays Dashing as a “side hustle” opportunity for everyday Americans, but we believe the Company’s business has become predicated on this core group of effectively full-time, unauthorized Dashers.
Meanwhile, DoorDash’s own public data implies that in Q4 2022, just 12% of Dashers were responsible for 50% of deliveries.
In May 2025, DoorDash was sued by a former Security Engineer, who alleges that he was fired after finding “hundreds of [Dasher] identities tied to shared residential addresses” that were “linked to a broad spectrum of criminal activity including identity theft, financial fraud, robbery, and tax evasion.”
In sum, we believe DoorDash has been uniquely able to tap into a completely new labor market – millions of individuals arriving in America who are desperate to work, unable to qualify for employment, and will work for less than minimum wage. Only by exploiting this labor pool is DoorDash able to operate profitably.These are some pretty serious allegations, and if not true, Culper would be making itself liable for defamation. But its research paper is thorough, detailed, and rigorously footnoted as to the data it uses to make its opinions. Door Dash stock has dropped about 30% since this report came out a month ago. I have never used Uber Eats, Door Dash, Grub Hub, or any similar businesses, so I have no experiences to relate. I also do not know whether illegal subcontracted labor is foundational to their business model, or if it’s simply a predictable consequence of a vast network of “independent contractors” finding it profitable to franchise their Contractor Agreements to an illegal workforce. What I do know is that when millions of illegal foreign nationals who may not legally work in this country are dumped into American cities, a black market for their labor will naturally develop. Whether it’s intentional or not, it is disgraceful that illegal, black-market labor is the retail face of publicly traded companies in the year 2025. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (DRSnL)
Some broad is going to film you.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (/HDjX)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (YwEeS)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:03 AM (uQzkA)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:03 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (opCUg)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (iDFVA)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (KDPiq)
they're ruining us and our country in myriad ways
cities devoid of people walking around
restaurants not giving the best service to in-house customers to keep up with delivery orders
grocery stores filled with large carts and staff filling orders
everything is made worse.
the business model only works with slave labor, and even then it just sucks money out of younger people who don't really have money to burn
go freaking get your food!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (uQzkA)
They come in two varieties: Young guys and gals who seem like they can't wait to get back home to smoke some weed, or older guys who look like they got out of prison recently.
Always white.
America's best and brightest.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: Jordan61
I denounce myself. I will check my birthday privilege.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: NCKate
Yeah Damnit!! I'm with you Sister.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (cYBz/)
I'd like to order one exploitation burrito with extra virtue, please. Yes, I want it by 11PM. K, thx!
Posted by: hobbitopoly at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (k9OZB)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (KDPiq)
they never leave their condos.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (emBoF)
yep
it's a cancer
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:04 AM (emBoF)
And see people? In public??
Are you insane?????
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (bss/y)
exactly
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:06 AM (emBoF)
🤔
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (bss/y)
KAROLINE LEAVITT responds to President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Zohran Mamdani tomorrow
“It speaks volumes that tomorrow, we have a COMMUNIST coming to the White House — because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 11:07 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (YwEeS)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (uQzkA)
Almost Satanic in its elegance.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:09 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:09 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: BlackOrchid
I have to. I live too far outside of town. No one delivers out here.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:10 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 11:10 AM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (1itZ7)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (KDPiq)
Well, why did we become so dependent on food delivery?
Anyone?
Covid "caused" this - or more accurately, as the populace was trained to do. Just as they broke the supply chain, then Biden used to broken supply chain to demand states give CDLs to illegals, and faster, faster, now!
They've been treating us like rats in a maze, then blaming us for modifying our behavior -- exactly as they nudge, nudge, nudged us into doing.
It's not our fault. The people who encouraged and transported these foreigner in, allowed them to use our tax money to establish their homes here, getting ID from their respective states despite admitting being illegal, etc..
*Note: Never done DoorDash, never will.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (GbwPZ)
This is part of the reason that the irs cracked down on independent contractors a few years back and now demands a 1099 for anything over $600 a year in off the books earning.
We have to attest to not paying anyone more than $600 a year when we file our irs 990. And we have to have our accountant issue 1099's to everyone we pay more than $600 a year including them and they report that to the irs.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:12 AM (DRSnL)
They were trained to do this.
Learned helplessness/laziness.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 11:12 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:13 AM (tgvbd)
🤔
Posted by: ...
My son did some freelance food delivery during COVID. He got a $30 tip once. No idea what percentage of the bill that was, but he was pretty impressed with it.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 11:14 AM (Do64S)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (KDPiq)
Yes, it absolutely has its uses. When I would visit my mom I'd ask her what she wants to eat. She'd hem and haw, say how much trouble it was to go get something, and she sure wasn't going to leave the house.
Next thing you know it was there, and she was enjoying something she hadn't had in years.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:14 AM (lH8E4)
Wife uses it a lot.
It's rare a deliverer speaks English.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (KDPiq)
Plus I probably save by not being in the physical store most times because I have been known to impulse buy - especially when things are on "sale".
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (zcxpP)
Learned helplessness/laziness.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 11:12 AM (GbwPZ)
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They order before they leave work and arrive home in time to put everything away. The convenience factor is big, no doubt.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 11:16 AM (1itZ7)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:16 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 11:14 AM (Do64S)
I appreciate it when a driver calls or texts, saying the restaurant is taking longer than usual, or they're out of something, and do I want a substitute.
Like everything else, that will get you a bigger tip.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (/AUU2)
Posted by: 60 Is The New 80 at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (oftw2)
Plus I probably save by not being in the physical store most times because I have been known to impulse buy - especially when things are on "sale".
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (zcxpP)
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I don't want randos picking out my produce for me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (vI2Ww)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (/AUU2)
>>If you watch Kill Tony, about half the "comedians" he interviews, when he asks them what they do when they're not doing bad standup, they're food deliverers.
Well, the comic lifestyle basically demands that you are up very late performing or writing your material and sleeping form around 3am to 10am, this does not lend itself to having a normal job, so food delivery is what will fit as a side hustle to make some scratch to get by.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (KDPiq)
We used to have small neighborhood grocery stores every few blocks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)
Grocery stores used to deliver if old movies are any indication.
__________
See also: shabbos goy
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (KDPiq)
This, too, is the story of Obama.
Fake business (political) model propped up by virtue signalling hipster douchebags who have no understanding of the realities or potential impact of that which they support.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (dK+Kv)
I've no idea where the delivery person's hands have been and thus, certainly don't want them anywhere near my food. The exploitation stuff is not surprising. Neither is the moral outsourcing from customers. Whom I think generally are assholes anyway.
Stories like this just reinforce all that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)
It's honestly fine for the most part. Had trouble times with perhaps a limp carrot but I guess I'm getting to that age.
I do insist on getting my own beef, that I won't compromise on. Then I cook or freeze it.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (zcxpP)
Has someone already suggested that send him on a delivery in Caracas?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (jbnUc)
Sucks to be you.
Get Legal or GTFO
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (JkCto)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:15 AM (KDPiq)
Back in the old days, when the drunk druggist fills the wrong prescription, and the delivery boy fails to deliver it, so the drunk druggist boxes the ear of the kid to ruin his hearing in one ear, it results in the delivery boy's brother winning the Medal of Honor, and the town getting together to pay the delivery boy's debt when his savings and loan almost goes under because his senile old uncle forgets to make the deposit.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Eating Thai at 2 AM at November 21, 2025 11:21 AM (oftw2)
Like everything else, that will get you a bigger tip.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (lH8E4)
You tip ahead of time though. At least on Uber eats. Which I understand the need for. Drivers won’t accept a delivery if there’s no guaranteed tip. But then there’s no incentive for the driver because the tip is already paid.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:21 AM (/AUU2)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (PCK5/)
I know a doctor.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: pookysgirl, watching Tchaikowsky with Lil Pooky at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (Wt5PA)
Some broad is going to film you.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:02 AM (QtIaX)
And that the food arrives cold, or less than suitably hot for eating, and needs a zap in the microwave, making it less good than fresh-off-the-grill food.
I have never used any of these services, but any time I go to the city, I find fast food joints crawling with "couriers". I have no doubt the same sort of racket is happening here. Mostly cars, not mopeds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (2ap+5)
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There's a potluck at work today. Which means all the people I see leaving the bathroom without washing up have brought home cooking.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (vI2Ww)
I've no idea where the delivery person's hands have been and thus, certainly don't want them anywhere near my food.
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Do you never eat out either? Because the same people are in the kitchen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:22 AM (/AUU2)
>DoorDash
Policy
DoorDash Statement on the Department of Labor’s Final Worker Classification Rule
DoorDash is confident that Dashers are properly classified as independent contractors under the FLSA, and we do not anticipate this rule causing changes to our business.
Jan 9, 2024
>Uber Newsroom, US | Jan 9, 2024
Our Statement on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Worker Classification Rule
Written by CR Wooters, Head of Federal Affairs
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Note: There is the US Department of the Labor BUT individual states often have Labor Departments that govern "employer-employee relationships." In those instances, they can't have less restrictive rules than those of the federal government.
>The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule on January 10, 2024, to clarify worker classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which took effect on March 11, 2024.
> BUT, As of May 2025, the DOL is no longer enforcing the 2024 rule due to ongoing litigation and may issue a new rule. Current enforcement guidance: Employers should now follow the guidance provided in DOL's Fact Sheet #13 and the 2019 Opinion Letter for audits and enforcement actions.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (NFX2v)
I've used Uber exactly twice, when Her Majesty was out of town and my car needed work. Never had a food delivery.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (BI5O2)
I see the problem. And the simple solution. They are illegal. And illegally dumped in New York City.
Simple solution: deport every last one of them.
"Awful plight" solved.
I don't give a shit about any illegal aliens. Deport every single one of their asses back to their home countries and they can get to work fixing their own countries instead of fucking up ours.
In addition, there should be a moratorium on ALL immigration for at least 10-15 years while we clean up the utter mess illegals have made of this country over the past few decades.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Lirio100 at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (ky7/T)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (uQzkA)
Posted by: BurtTC
You could write a screenplay and turn that into a movie, Mr. Potter.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 11:24 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 11:05 AM (uQzkA)
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This is the truth. I once was pretty slammed at work and wasn't going to be able to leave to get something, so I looked up how much it would be to get a sandwich and soda from Panera Bread. It was going to be like $35. I ate the can of soup I keep in my drawer instead.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:24 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Leftists - Studiously ignorant since the late 1700's.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (cYBz/)
‘ Around here, any restaurant you go into, you see the dashers come in and grab whatever.
They come in two varieties: Young guys and gals who seem like they can't wait to get back home to smoke some weed, or older guys …
Always white.’
My conclusion from this?
You live in a white neighborhood.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Naqamel at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (MPmJg)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (KDPiq)
Deport every single one of their asses back to their home countries and they can get to work fixing their own countries instead of fucking up ours.
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Or come into this country legally. And the "legally" ought to be changed so they're not a burden on the public purse.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)
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Hey Jordan!
Living in a small town with less than 4,000 people, delivery services is a non-issue, but even if it were available, I'd be leery of some deliveryperson touching (or worse) my food.
We have an IGA, not big at all, but it has good produce and meats, and I know the butcher and the produce guy, so that helps a lot.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (22p5n)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:19 AM (XV/Pl)
Sure, but most of the "comics" who are door dashing, when they're not doing open mike they're smoking weed with their friends, who are laughing their arses off to "jokes" about how black dudes like big butts, and Mexicans eat tacos while waiting to be picked up at Home Depot to do roofing jobs.
If you like watching Tony roast these guys like I do, it's comedy heaven.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:24 AM (DRSnL)
Yep. For $35 I better get a steak.
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (JCLJi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (bss/y)
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Uber Eats, at least, gives the customer the option to change or remove the tip entirely. Which leads to customers putting large tips as an incentive, then pulling it after delivery.
I'm not one of those who begs for tips. But I do try to earn it.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (Do64S)
He has been in that role since late 2017 and was praised for his work there, though he also took time off to advise on his sister-in-law's campaign.
He's a good friend of the former President, Barack Obama & is involved with The Obama Foundation.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (NFX2v)
Just make every business that runs a payroll verify SS#'s and half the problem would be eliminated.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (eIzlH)
If you go in to pick up your food, do you tip?
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (IifOV)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (DRSnL)
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Hey Jordan!
Living in a small town with less than 4,000 people, delivery services is a non-issue, but even if it were available, I'd be leery of some deliveryperson touching (or worse) my food.
We have an IGA, not big at all, but it has good produce and meats, and I know the butcher and the produce guy, so that helps a lot.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (22p5n)
Yeah, small town guy here, also. Know the cashiers personally, know the waiters and waitresses in the restaurants I go to. It's a good life.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (PCK5/)
You live in a white neighborhood.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (jbnUc)
Your skills of deduction are marvelous.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (lH8E4)
A $12 burrito turns to $28 if it’s delivered. And yet a sizable chunk of the population basically lives on this.
Might explain some of the “affordability crisis”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (/AUU2)
I've no idea where the delivery person's hands have been and thus, certainly don't want them anywhere near my food.
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Do you never eat out either? Because the same people are in the kitchen.
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I've eaten out once in about 10 years. Both my wife and I can cook/prepare anything we'd like to have. Or watch a video or whatever to learn it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (NwnyJ)
An "unexpected" consequence of this in Alexandria was that drivers whose licenses had been suspended for DUI, were suddenly on mopeds. Lesson that I took to heart was "beware of mopeds on the streets at 0200 in the morning."
Also the introduction of e-bikes which generally don't even require licensing or plates, adds to the options, especially in big cities.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (e/Osv)
There you have it. These articles -- both pro and con -- are little more than stock manipulation schemes. Everything is fake and gay. Everything.
Personally, I rarely use these food delivery services, as I find them overpriced and I'd rather just cook my own. When I do use them (such as last night because I had a date) I use seamless and I don't give a shit who delivers the food.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (22p5n)
Yeah, small town guy here, also. Know the cashiers personally, know the waiters and waitresses in the restaurants I go to. It's a good life.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (PCK5/)
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That sounds nice.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (DRSnL)
/Don't go there ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:18 AM (PCK5/)
Cities these days are like Third-world countries. Fun to visit if you have cash in pocket, but you don't want to live there and try to make a living.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (s3ADg)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM (NFX2v)
Huh. Isn't that odd?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: tubal
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Yes it is.
As everything in life, however, there are tradeoffs.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (22p5n)
If you go in to pick up your food, do you tip?
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (IifOV)
I usually did if they did something over and beyond what I expected ( throwing in extras, etc.) but it was just a buck or two.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (Yl2Ob)
I wash all my veg, it's not a big deal.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (NwnyJ)
I'm not ashamed to admit that I learned to cook from Alton Brown.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (e/Osv)
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Which is the shittiest thing imaginable. My hope is drivers remember those addresses and the next time real bad things happen to the food. 😁
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (/AUU2)
Posted by: tub
It is the same for the big city, maybe more so.
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (s3ADg)
Posted by: 60 Is The New 80 at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (oftw2)
Heh. I'm a giver.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)
I have endeavored ever since to fulfill his wish by never ever considering using Doordash when I had a lunch delivered to my office.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (8ty7h)
A $12 burrito turns to $28 if it’s delivered. And yet a sizable chunk of the population basically lives on this.
Might explain some of the “affordability crisis”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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It's honestly disgusting to me the people that make it part of their routine. We have have generations of people with zero homemaking skills. So they complain how expensive "food" is when the "food" in question is being delivered to them from a restaurant and a meal for a single person is like $30.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (eIzlH)
But where am I going to get a real street taco?! You monster!
Then again, I hear about all the benefits illegals bring to this nation. They should share with their country instead.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (99eI0)
I go through spurts of using these services. Lately, I use the 'Pick-up" option if it is a local place. You pay ahead, and go pick up. Save money on driver tip, avoid GPS fvk-ups, (which DoorDash seems to excel in).
and now Instacart, the supermarket delivery service, also does the restaurant delivery. They gave me so many credits and incentives to use the food delivery, I couldn't resist
Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Poppy is sloppy!
Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (zcxpP)
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I don't care about people touching my stuff. I just don't think they would be as discerning as I am.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: tubal
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Hub usually works in St Louis, and he has stories, heh.
Only time I venture there is if I have a VA appointment, or some special occasion (grandkid's birthday party).
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (22p5n)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:21 AM (/AUU2)
Doordash allows you to adjust the tip while the process is still in the works.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (lH8E4)
>>If you like watching Tony roast these guys like I do, it's comedy heaven.
The entire Roganverse is pretty ascendant right now, there is some push back, but it's pretty pathetic.
Kill Tony may be the best thing to happen to comedy in a while.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: the way I see it
Pre1970's
Yep. Grocery stores, pharmacies, and a few others. Most restaurants did not. Only places that offered "take out" delivered.
Since then, more places stopped delivering including take out food. Eventually it was mostly pizza places that delivered. There were probably exceptions.
Now... Perfectly able bodied people, pay someone an extra fee, to go pick stuff up from the grocery store and deliver it to the able bodied people.
Why? I can see why someone with a disability would need that. I can see why someone would do this for an aging parent or even for a spouse who is ill. But healthy, able bodied people? "but, it's so convenient" they whine. So? I'm sitting INSIDE the fucking restaurant, waiting thirty minutes for the meal we ordered while a constant stream of packaged food is being shoved out the door with the delivery people.
Why the fuck should I be inconvenienced for your goddam convenience? Get off your lazy ass and take a shower, get dressed, and go to the fucking restaurant.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (2J/Lj)
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Wow, had no idea you had to pay for the "privilege" of "renting an online account" to deliver food. Jeebus.
I figured they just took a cut of each delivery ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (+mTgD)
Living in a small town with less than 4,000 people, delivery services is a non-issue, but even if it were available, I'd be leery of some deliveryperson touching (or worse) my food.
We have an IGA, not big at all, but it has good produce and meats, and I know the butcher and the produce guy, so that helps a lot.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:25 AM (22p5n)
This is real living, SMH. This is what the Manhattan yuppie share-cropper masters disdain, and what they want to eliminate. They want to force us in 15 minute Judge Dredd high rises. No thanks. I'll emulate SMH's lifestyle any day of the week. It's real!
Posted by: moki at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: tubal
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Yes it is.
As everything in life, however, there are tradeoffs.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:29 AM (22p5n)
Oh yeah for sure. But community is great and what I can't get locally I'll travel to. Like Sam's Club, a havit I just can't break.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (PCK5/)
A $12 burrito turns to $28 if it’s delivered. And yet a sizable chunk of the population basically lives on this.
Might explain some of the “affordability crisis”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (/AUU2)
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This. The amount of money the younger gens spend on food and related products is insane. And not just cheap food like ramen like I used to eat as a poor college student. Like expensive, gourmet food.
A new expensive gourmet market just opened in NYC to great fanfare. The line out the door was nothing but 20-somethings. I wouldn't shop there because I refuse to pay inflated prices for food I can get much cheaper elsewhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:23 AM (BI5O2)[/i.]
I wasn't able to post yesterday (and shouldn't today), but I saw a comment on the Cheney funeral thread that wondered if the Bush-RINO cabal were planning a return to power once Trump is gone. Sadly, I think it's very likely. Too many Americans are so comfortable with slave labor that they will fight tooth and nail to keep it. Once Trump is gone, do you think any succeeding GOP nickelfucker will have the stones to keep throwing the illegals out? I don't.
And that's not even touching all the things Trump should blow up, but won't, as YD touches on above.
**shrugs** Anyway, just a random thought from an asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)
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Plus the person who stocked it at the grocery store. The illegal who picked it at the farm and packed it on the truck.
If you’re gonna Be afraid of someone touching your food you better start your own farm.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (/AUU2)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Esperman at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (8MPpG)
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Frank Barone
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For me, it depends. I dont do take out that often, if it's a real restaurant, I'll usually throw a couple bucks.
I do agree that there really should be zero tip for picking up food, but this is our culture.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Its
yeah, its a bit different before cooking and after cooking.
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (s3ADg)
The only way to really make money on Uber/Uber Eats is volume.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (XV/Pl)
are you housebound due to illness? Order your aspirin and Kleenex from DoorDash or the others.
Is your car in the shop, and you can't get out to Target to get the gift for the party tomorrow? Delivery service to the rescue!
as you may have noticed, I have embraced these services. I may even sign up as a Dasher. I figure I have a daily commute, may as well make a couple bucks on my way home from work.
Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Oglebay at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 21, 2025 11:34 AM (8URtM)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)
When I was at Costco recently it dawned on me that there are very few young people here. But at Whole Foods? Practically nobody over 30.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (/AUU2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:33 AM (/AUU2
Also, do people even realize that farms are full of DIRT???
Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (8ty7h)
I'm guessing, there's the ability like there is with Uber drivers to blacklist or deny service to those that act shitty going forward.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)
Who would pay some chiseler $400/wk. to rent one for more than a few weeks instead of saving a few bucks to buy one? Mayco must be a total retard, or spinning a tall tale.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:30 AM (/AUU2)
I'm guessing it's like Ebay or other online services, where both customers and merchants can rate each other.
Although I've never bothered to rate Ebay sellers.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (xvV+O)
It's quiet and low-stress, which fits me just fine.
The thought of being crammed in a place with 100s or thousands of "neighbors" living above and under me makes my skin crawl.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (22p5n)
Bob Wills
You ought to see my blue eyed Sally
She lives a way down on Shinbone Alley
The number on the gate, the number on the door
And the next house over is the grocery store
Stay all night, stay a little longer
Dance all night, dance a little longer
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
Don't see why you don't stay a little longer …
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (wZlsB)
Posted by: Esp
they have been doing delivery in nyc since the 80s,
would you rather have some fat , black , single woman, with 5 inch nails, trying to supplement her ebt with door dash, or some guy trying to get a bunch of $ to go home and buy a house?
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (s3ADg)
Or both.
And the driver's are notorious for videoing every encounter. And posting that if they're unhappy with their tip or anything else related to the delivery.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (KDPiq)
This. The amount of money the younger gens spend on food and related products is insane. And not just cheap food like ramen like I used to eat as a poor college student. Like expensive, gourmet food.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I'm late Gen X, absolutely nobody was a "foodie" when they were young in my era.
The entire concept of getting restaurant cuisine delivered to your door would just seem insanely decadent to a poor 20-something year old.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (eIzlH)
then I told him it wasn't just food, I could have flu supplies delivered to him. He wasn't aware of the array of product that can now be delivered door to door. Almost like a courier service
Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:37 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Tempur-pedic at November 21, 2025 11:37 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (s3ADg)
The American one, thank you very much.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 11:37 AM (BI5O2)
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Next you'll be telling me that they've redefined "assassination" as necessary, good, and heroic.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:37 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (s3ADg)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (KDPiq)
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And I don't show my kumquat to just anybody!!
I have standards. They're pretty low but they are there!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (cYBz/)
Kill Tony may be the best thing to happen to comedy in a while.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (XV/Pl)
A decent percentage of the comics who come on do a good enough job that you can enjoy their sets, and the ones who don't... well, that's when Tony and his guests are at their best.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)
I love it when you talk dirty... Especially when it's in italics!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (2J/Lj)
Box spaghetti and hot dogs got me through college and law school.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (8ty7h)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (XuXeR)
A new expensive gourmet market just opened in NYC to great fanfare. The line out the door was nothing but 20-somethings. I wouldn't shop there because I refuse to pay inflated prices for food I can get much cheaper elsewhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:32 AM (iFTx/)
When I was at Costco recently it dawned on me that there are very few young people here. But at Whole Foods? Practically nobody over 30.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (/AUU2)
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Yup. Here's the link to that place. Takeaway quotes:
"I’d rather get a little bit better quality and a better taste and healthier feel and spend a couple extra dollars,” Brittany Blum, 24, chimed in.
Other Gen Z customers told The Post that food was currently the one thing on which they were willing to spare no expense.
“If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.
Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.
https://tinyurl.com/464u4nd3
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM (IifOV)
It's a store. They even call themselves that. I don't tip cashiers at stores; they get an hourly wage. There's no culture of tipping at stores that I am aware of. Restaurants and other service industries are different.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:39 AM (s3ADg)
I don't if I have to drive to pick up food. I get some dirty looks, but if they don't deliver, then why tip them?
Posted by: Fr
you get what you pay for
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:39 AM (s3ADg)
I can cook a filet,, baked potato and have a salad for less than a meal at a fast food place.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 11:39 AM (sDNVV)
Nothing prevents someone from checking the box for a designated tip then giving the driver an extra tip in cash upon delivery if you think it's warranted?
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Amen.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (22p5n)
If Edward Millman can't draw a foot, do you really think he could paint a moped?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (8ty7h)
Not just food delivery. Regular Uber (like for people) is almost all illegals using fake documents. Uber knows this of course but they look the other way.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 11:17 AM (/AUU2)
The only time I ever use Uber is when my SUV is in the shop for repairs/service. And I NEVER use food delivery, unless I hire on temps at the shop for a day or so, I usually treat them to pizza delivery for lunch.
On the other hand, the rise of Uber and Lyft basically shoved a stick up unionized criminal Taxi services' asses. I rather like the idea of putting two Donk constituencies in urban Thunderdome.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 21, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)
Ha! The Italicans have taken over comment #143.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (RuTUS)
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Median age for homebuyers, including first-time buyers, increases to jaw-dropping 59 years old
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:40 AM (L/fGl)
‘ Your skills of deduction are marvelous.’
I also deduced that the delivery boy you tip for texting you your order is ‘late’ is sitting on your order so he can text you for a big tip.
(BurtTC gushes”What a good boy you are! Here. Have this $20 tip!”
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (22p5n)
I did that at my first "real" job in Hong Kong. I've had a true phobia of crowds ever since then. Hugs to you, my friend and Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Posted by: moki at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (wLjpr)
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[To tack-on to my previous comment:]
Similarly, for The Left, political violence and assassination have been wrapped in "virtue."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (0714D)
yeah, many times I add a cash tip to the app tip, especially if I'm really hungry and the guy arrives quickly
Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:42 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:42 AM (cYBz/)
She told me she gets better tips from the soldiers around Ft Hood than fares in Austin.
That doesn't surprise me.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (22p5n)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (xvV+O)
Pizza delivery: the nose of the camel getting under the door.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Lirio100 at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (ky7/T)
I can cook a filet,, baked potato and have a salad for less than a meal at a fast food place.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 11:39 AM (sDNVV)
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No no no. The restaurant jacks up the price, the delivery service charges a fee, the app charges a fee, and you are shamed into tipping. Just for S&G I did a comparison between an Uno pizza if you walked in and ordered it, versus having seamless deliver it. The walk-in was $24. The delivery? $33 (or $35, I don't remember). 35-50% more.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (6qf1m)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (8ty7h)
I used to go out once a week and usually get Chinese. Szechuan Shrimp!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (VxM7q)
Posted by: Hands-On Harry at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (oftw2)
>>A decent percentage of the comics who come on do a good enough job that you can enjoy their sets, and the ones who don't... well, that's when Tony and his guests are at their best.
Rogan and his verse are the closest we will ever get to Carson again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Corona_Exile at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (3wNhr)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Cicero
And now, the foodies will pay $9 for a lb of bucatini at Whole Paycheck.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Typical NYC liberal, appalled at your provincal ignorance at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (b2UQ7)
Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (0714D)
Posted by: Cic
wow, how big was that box?
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (s3ADg)
I'm sure the illegals doing DoorDash on mopeds are given extensive training on driving mopeds . Right?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: moki
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That would definitely give me one.
Friends at church poke fun at me due to my insistence of sitting in the back pews (I hate having people sit behind me).
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (22p5n)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)
(BurtTC gushes”What a good boy you are! Here. Have this $20 tip!”
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)
When I'm working on practicing gratitude... and it DOES take practice, is knowing if my delivery guy is gaming the system to get a bigger tip out of me, it really has no adverse effect on my life.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: Tony
even the good stuff is not more than $2 per pnd
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (s3ADg)
Posted by: Cicero
And now, the foodies will pay $9 for a lb of bucatini at Whole Paycheck.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (cYBz/)
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Fake news. They'll pay $15 for bucatini.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (iFTx/)
Rogan and his verse are the closest we will ever get to Carson again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (XV/Pl)
I don't put Rogan in anywhere near the same room as Carson mainly because Carson was NOTHING about opinion and ALL about entertainment and making people laugh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)
A $12 burrito turns to $28 if it’s delivered. And yet a sizable chunk of the population basically lives on this.
Might explain some of the “affordability crisis”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Our neighbor gets burger king occasionally from uber eats and sometimes they leave it at my house by mistake. No way I am going to pay $18 for a whopper value meal when the place is less than a mile from our house and they have $4.99 whopper value meal specials five days out of the week.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Ben Sears at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (WzTQR)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (22p5n)
Posted by: n at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (s3ADg)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 21, 2025 11:48 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Hands-On Harry at November 21, 2025 11:44 AM (oftw2)
My produce section doesn't sell leeks.
But I've been banned from strip clubs for squeezing melons.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:48 AM (lH8E4)
there's usually deals and incentives, especially during off hours like 2-4 pm.
what I like though, in addition to the deals, is that I can dine international delicacies...I am not the one to roll sushi at home, nor am I going to assemble a poke bowl, since it's not very likely that I have the required ingredients in the pantry
Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 11:48 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:49 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 21, 2025 11:49 AM (WONhk)
anecdote
pithy closing
Posted by: Don Black
Missed opportunity for a perfect Mike Tyson sock.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 11:49 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (36PRH)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:20 AM (lH8E4)
AND THAT'S HOW WE WON THE WAR, DADGUMMIT!
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (UnA8+)
During the Covid era when I was more open to things like that, occassionally I would go to my favorite restaurant to get a meal for the family. By the time you get the food home (it's not hot) and spread out in your kitchen, it's like is this really worth nearly $100? Of course not.
But you'd be shocked how many people live like this now. With Klarna loan app for the people that can't really afford it but won't dare just make themselves a can of soup or noodles for their dinner.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (eIzlH)
Friends at church poke fun at me due to my insistence of sitting in the back pews (I hate having people sit behind me).
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:45 AM (22p5n)
My dad was a back-row Baptist, and he passed that on to me. We sat in the front at a new church and felt exposed. Never again!!!
Posted by: moki at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Except that's really not true. I view Carson fondly, although I don't know if I ever watched his show when he was on.
What people say though, is that Carson could make or break a comic, and sometimes he was a cruel and unforgiving critic of comics who rubbed him the wrong way, sometimes for very arbitrary reasons.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (lH8E4)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)
Carrot sticks and celery sticks for the veg!
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (RuTUS)
Paying about the same cost as buying food from a restaurant to have it delivered?
Why not drive there and get it yourself and save $20?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)
That could be another rant if Buck agreed and felt inclined to write about . e bikes. Lots of people whom I'm guessing are illegals because you don't need a license for that. It's crazy the way they drive!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (ELdpA)
‘ The entire concept of getting restaurant cuisine delivered to your door would just seem insanely decadent to a poor 20-something year old.’
Same age. At the time I would have assumed having delivery would be a pain in the ass and stupid expensive.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (AOsQT)
Our neighbor gets burger king occasionally from uber eats and sometimes they leave it at my house by mistake. No way I am going to pay $18 for a whopper value meal when the place is less than a mile from our house and they have $4.99 whopper value meal specials five days out of the week.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (0N4FZ)
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Does this neighbor use a mobility scooter?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (36PRH)
Posted by: mossomo at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (pky95)
Posted by: Ben Sears at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (WzTQR)
This bears repeating.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)
Because restaurants make you wear pants.
Duh.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (BRtdF)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (AOsQT)
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Yes.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 11:36 AM (22p5n)
I have always believed that Hell is crammed full of apartment complexes and townhouses and those little houses on a postage stamp sized lot with the neighbors house three feet from your bathroom window.
We own about 30 acres and for most of the time we've lived here our closest neighbor was 200 yards out. We gave our son an acre of ground for a wedding gift. Now he and his wife and my delightful ginger grandson are about 50-60 yards away. We share our driveway with them. They've been here for a few months now and I'm still getting used to the UPS and FedEx trucks coming and going almost every day. They order a lot of stuff that is needed but not urgent.
Oh look! FedEx is here again!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (xE0sV)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (DRSnL)
I knew what *you* meant.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (zcxpP)
What people say though, is that Carson could make or break a comic, and sometimes he was a cruel and unforgiving critic of comics who rubbed him the wrong way, sometimes for very arbitrary reasons.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:50 AM (lH8E4)
Again, he was all about entertainment. If he felt someone wasn't high enough quality entertainment, he pushed them aside. That was his role at that point.
His show wasn't opinion.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)
They were trained to do this.
Learned helplessness/laziness.
Posted by: Lizzy
Food deliveries used to be the normal mode of operation before everyone had a car.
Get your milk and eggs and beef and veg delivered to your door.
The exploitation of illegal aliens is the only modern aspect of it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (a+4eV)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (AOsQT)
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Yes, but such an order is normally placed when the person doing the ordering is higher than giraffe pussy, so driving is (or should be) out of the question.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (3BwY8)
Anyway, I hope the feds step in to what appears to be indentured servitude.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (n5tGW)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:31 AM (DRSnL)
Really? Wow. Now I REALLY look forward to the next TxMoMe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)
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Ditto. Great & most informative rant -- thank you, Buck!
I work as a 1099 medical courier independent contractor for The VA. My company, a federal contractor, goes through the motions (but often fails for example to do background checks on new hires).
Several years ago I was interviewed by someone from The Department of Labor as some workers were claiming they were not making minimum wage (the problem being that you must use your own vehicle and pay out-of-pocket for car expenses -- and if you have one or more lemons with high maintenance and/or gas costs -- you can get screwed.
I've averaged about $25/hour (and pay no income taxes except a little self-employment tax) because of the mileage deduction (85,000 miles/year). Had three great years during Trump 1.0 and a low-maintenance car I'd bought with 165,000 miles on it and got 300,000 more before it quit) and low gas prices -- making about $30/hour; however, I had the nightmare year from hell in 2022 (bought 3 used car lemons and high gas prices), where I made only $10/hour. UGH!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (+mTgD)
I don't get food deliveries, and I don't live in a big city, and I'm certainly not young or liberal, but I have had all manner of items delivered, and some of it was dropped off by some Joe or Jose driving their own car, and subbed out from every retail business you can imagine.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (MZ+PY)
Paying about the same cost as buying food from a restaurant to have it delivered?
Why not drive there and get it yourself and save $20?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)
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Because people are lazy and don't want to leave their house. And Covid changed a lot of people's habits for good.
But if someone wants to use the delivery service, then use it. I don't tell people how to spend their money. I do say, though, that you can only spend it once, so if someone is spending piles of money on food delivery then complaining that they don't have money for X or Y, then that person can fuck right off.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
- Call the restaurant directly (or use their online ordering system if they have one, and that's what you prefer.)
- Indicate you'll pick up the order in person.
- Pay in cash, exact change.
- Don't tip for this, you're picking up the order. You are your own deliveryman.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)
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You're such a dork.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)
Costco rotisserie chicken (last multiple meals), top ramen, onion, garlic, cabbage, carrot, soy, sriracha, and you have an OK stir fry noodle. That's multiple delicious meals in a week for about $10.
Use the carcass for tortilla soup at end of week for another meal, with added beans, peppers, green chiles at fairly low cost.
That's multiple delicious meals for less than about $30, though there may be some investment in spices, admittedly.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:47 AM (0N4FZ)
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Does this neighbor use a mobility scooter?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM
Nope he is in his 40's and works construction.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:56 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (xE0sV)
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At best California is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The commie-controlled CA gov't is mad that there is a big sector of the economy that isn't unionized and therefore funneling union dues to the D politicians, so they want to get the delivery people organized in order to wet their beaks. Let's not give them too much credit here.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 11:56 AM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM (AOsQT)
I certainly wouldn't Doordash McD's, but I haaaaaaate drivethrus.
Inevitably someone in front of you is ordering a cheeseburger, and asking about the sesame seed count, and whether the mustard can be served separately in a cup, and can they have the fries with no salt, and can I have the drink with no ice.
And don't get me started on pickles.
Just peel the damn things off your sammich yourself, you philistine!!
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (BRtdF)
Leftists saying anything other than reciting the 2-3-4 Principle† in humility, is lies and insincerity.
†
• I'm sorry (2 words)
• I was wrong (3 words)
• Will You Forgive Me (4 words)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (PVBkQ)
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I don't like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off.
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
As a consumer, it's stupid: You're paying as much as 50% more for the food. That's going to arrive cold and soggy. The time-savings doesn't offset the fees and quality degradation.
As a deliverer: You people eat garbage. A lot. And how do you have so much money to waste on over-paying for basically fast food? I could gross $1k a week(but the vehicle mileage? oof.) But that's targeting high-pop, college/young professional areas during peak hours. e.g. every delivery was less than 10 miles; you know, easy driving distance for them as well.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (HXT0k)
Use the carcass for tortilla soup at end of week for another meal, with added beans, peppers, green chiles at fairly low cost.
That's multiple delicious meals for less than about $30, though there may be some investment in spices, admittedly.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 11:55 AM
We buy those and make home made chicken noodle soup from it. One of those $5 chickens goes a long way.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (AOsQT)
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Lighten up, Francis.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (+mTgD)
Can you imagine someone who's job is to deliver medicine to customers? How well vetted do you think that person is? Especially if you're having narcotics delivered.
Medicine by mail is one thing. Having some unknown rando with a Kia bring me my pain pills... nah.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (36PRH)
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I don't like nobody touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off.
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:57 AM (AOsQT)
So I catch any of you homos touching my stuff, and I'll kill you.
Posted by: Psycho at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (dK+Kv)
#1 value meal (smashburger - meh......) with tots and a Dr. Pepper.
Added another cheesburger, modified as requested, with a large Diet Dr. Pepper.
$24
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)
I'm happy that the only people who will be here for TG are conservatives. I was glad that when I went out to lunch last week with a friend who is a Democrat we assiduously avoided politics. The only thing she said when I mentioned a restaurant we might go to was "That place lace had been closed for months. The owner was picked up by ICE ." I didn't tell her that if she read something other than the leftist community rag and the NYTshe might have read that he was picked up for being a spy for a foreign government Anyway, we talked about families and TG and church and had a very nice lunch.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (ELdpA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:00 PM (ELdpA)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (0N4FZ)
We do exactly as posted. Make the top ramen noodles, discard the broth, stir fry with meat and veggies. Carcass is waiting in fridge for tortilla soup this weekend.
Posted by: Psycho at November 21, 2025 12:00 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)
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Oooh I like their smashburgers.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:00 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)
Get your milk and eggs and beef and veg delivered to your door.
The exploitation of illegal aliens is the only modern aspect of it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (a+4eV)
Most of those deliveries were done by employees of the vendor. And they did not get tipped on a daily basis. Maybe a gift at Christmas time.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (sKqQm)
“If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.
Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)
Bingo. The $150 sweater is the gift that keeps on giving. The $150 snacks end up as a fart, a burp, and end up in the toilet in a matter of hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
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This is the modern prostitution system for the more affluent. You can order them like anything else, through your phone. They arrive in 30 minutes, if not less. It's all out and in the open. Nobody cares.
The poor still street-walk. The more affluent have their whores delivered.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (iFTx/)
His show wasn't opinion.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Ok, I guess what you're saying is he kept politics and other nonsense out of it. I guess that's true.
What I'm talking about though, is that Johnny's opinions influenced so much of who succeeded or failed in comedy. There are comics, good ones, who say Johnny never had them back on the show because they said something about Johnny's tie, or some other such nonsense.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (BRtdF)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (luW68)
With the raman, you boil the raman in stock, discard the spice packs, add your own spices and some canned chicken and veggies.
Very little prep time and the food is the freshest it's going to be.
I used to meal prep for a week, but by the 4th or 5th day, the food was starting to get a little off.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)
That and minimum wage. Insane.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)
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$250 for Cheesecake Factory, WTF?
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (DRSnL)
Yes you can get doordash/etc but not the resteraunts themselves.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (sKqQm)
‘ That was his role at that point.
His show wasn't opinion.’
Rogan’s format is different. If you don’t get any opinions what the hell are you going to talk about for three hours?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (jbnUc)
Oooh I like their smashburgers.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:00 PM (DRSnL)
Not at $12 for a 'value' meal........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Bottle of rotgut for those cold December mornings.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (QtIaX)
Too bad these exploitationists are gonna ruin it for the rest of us.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (Do64S)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
"You eat potatoes just like Hitler!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (zcxpP)
So probably something like $12 drink, $30 entree, $12 dessert X4 plus tip right?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (sKqQm)
So a $10 meal then will cost you $20 now.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:04 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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Fair.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:04 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (36PRH)
Or you put your time and effort, putting up with the pain of getting ready and leaving your house for visiting friends and family, going to church or other social activities.
And you get your groceries delivered because you can.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:05 PM (BRtdF)
Posted by: Jack the Ripper at November 21, 2025 12:05 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:05 PM (zcxpP)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (Do64S)
2 of my cousins are Instacart drivers, and they describe their work day exactly like you. One of them doesn't need to work at all, she does it for the pocket money. One time a local college needed a catering job delivered, she made $125.00 on one shopping trip.
the other cousin also does it as pocket money or in the winter when he is laid off construction work due to weather
Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2025 12:06 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:06 PM (zcxpP)
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Only marginally? Piker.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (zcxpP)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (sKqQm)
Yes that’s about right. I shoulda known in advance because the arithmetic is correct (and why go to CF and not order cheesecake?)… but I felt assaulted by the check when it arrived. I’d say that 5-10 years ago the same meal would’ve cost $150…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (WnEm5)
Posted by: tubal
Skeet with prizes.
Posted by: rickb223
So you say you chipped this tooth biting down onto a bit of steel shot that was left in your... french fries?
Posted by: rickb's dentist at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (emg/O)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (jbnUc)
And the comment above was not about Rogan's podcast.
Rogan has created a place for young comics to come and hone their skills. It's his comedy club, and the biggest opportunity at the club is for those comics who put their names in a bucket, hoping Tony Hinchcliffe pulls it out so they can get a minute on the biggest comedy show in the universe.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:08 PM (j0t2N)
#1 value meal (smashburger - meh......) with tots and a Dr. Pepper.
Added another cheesburger, modified as requested, with a large Diet Dr. Pepper.
$24
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Went to a taproom yesterday in Drumheller, AB. Beef dip sammich with poutine fries on the side, and a glass of craft beer, Came to about $34 CDN. Food was good, and arrived at my seat at the bar hot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:08 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (L/fGl)
LOL. You'd think they could come up with something more original such as "The way you cut your turkey reminds me of what I ve seen of Mengele " except they probably don't know any others names of Nazis except Hitler.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:09 PM (ELdpA)
The Townsquare diner in Wharton just closed.
Used to go there for Saint Pats to get Corned Beef and cabbage.
I really don't know how any diner can stay open these days.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 12:09 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)
I've always assumed being too drunk or high to leave the house accounts for some of this behavior. That plus a lot of younger people's aversion to driving.
I don't know where the money comes from. It's harder to feel bad about the can't-buy-a-home stories when you look at where their money is apparently going.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 12:09 PM (wKJf5)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (sKqQm)
Yes that’s about right. I shoulda known in advance because the arithmetic is correct (and why go to CF and not order cheesecake?)… but I felt assaulted by the check when it arrived. I’d say that 5-10 years ago the same meal would’ve cost $150…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (WnEm5)
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More like 3-4 years ago. The pricing exploded under Biden due to rampant inflation and covid lockdowns. The lockdowns had much more of an impact than people think. Restaurants that were shut down for months opened back up, and jacked up the prices to try to make back some of the money. People paid the inflated prices. Guess what? The prices never came back down.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)
‘ except they probably don't know any others names of Nazis except Hitler.’
If you’re lucky they’ll be a vegetarian…
just like Hitler!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (ELdpA)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:03 PM (sKqQm)
Yes that’s about right. I shoulda known in advance because the arithmetic is correct (and why go to CF and not order cheesecake?)… but I felt assaulted by the check when it arrived. I’d say that 5-10 years ago the same meal would’ve cost $150…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:07 PM (WnEm5)
The alcohol's a big game-changer.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (NcvvS)
just like Hitler!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (jbnUc)
In the Great War, Hitler was a runner.
You could say he was the prototype for DoorDash.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (j0t2N)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:11 PM (NcvvS)
There's a "you know who else" joke, just lying there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (npFr7)
So a $10 meal then will cost you $20 now.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:04 PM (sKqQm)
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I'm fixing to ask for a raise next April (after 13 years and the beginning of a new federal contract), and was curious to see what the compounded rate of inflation has been since I started my current job in June of 2013 -- so I can see how far my pay has fallen behind.
Per the BLS CPI-U (which includes energy & housing costs), the inflation rate since 6/2013 has been nearly 37% -- and will likely be around 40% around April 2026.
BUT IT'S ALL DRUMPHFFFF'S FAULT! [Although, it would be nice to AT LEAST TRY to finally eliminate the deficit and start reducing the $300+ trillion National Debt (not sure Tariffs alone will do it) -- a futile exercise if there ever was one now ...]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (+mTgD)
LOL. I am glad you're eating vegetables just like the vegetarian Hitler. More dark meat for me."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (ELdpA)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (jbnUc)
And the comment above was not about Rogan's podcast.
Rogan has created a place for young comics to come and hone their skills. It's his comedy club, and the biggest opportunity at the club is for those comics who put their names in a bucket, hoping Tony Hinchcliffe pulls it out so they can get a minute on the biggest comedy show in the universe.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:08 PM (j0t2N)
https://comedymothership.com
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (RuTUS)
“If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.
Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.
I think that speaks to a different and deeper problem - People who see no point in getting expensive durable goods because they figure those can be taken from them at any time. (Because they were, in school, during these kids' formative years)
It's the perfect attitude for surviving communism.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Marooned at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (kt8QE)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (nXhwP)
I was just letting YouTube run in the background while working a few weeks back. Some dude came on, just ripping into Rogan and his various pals. I don't care about industry drama in the comedy biz, so I was going to change it - but this guy was so unhinged and vicious and angry about Joe Rogan, that I ended up watching about 45mins of his much longer utterly insane, obsessive invective about Joe Rogan, and how he is the root of all evil. I think this guy might end up climbing a bell tower and shooting at him, at some point.
I think he calls his channel "Elephant Graveyard."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 12:18 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: SouthCentralPA at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (ZUreJ)
Posted by: Inkmiser at November 21, 2025 12:30 PM (YvqE7)
He's a good friend of the former President, Barack Obama & is involved with The Obama Foundation.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:27 AM
Via Grok:
West's ties to Barack Obama run deep: They first connected in the late 1980s through mutual circles at Harvard Law (Obama was the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review; West later became the third Black president of the Stanford Law Review).
Obama appointed him Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in 2009 and later Associate Attorney General (the DOJ's third-ranking role) from 2012–2014, where West oversaw key efforts like dropping the defense of DOMA, recovering $37 billion from banks post-2008 crisis, and advancing civil rights.
Their friendship persists; West serves on the Obama Foundation's My Brother's Keeper Alliance Advisory Council, supporting initiatives for boys and young men of color, and has been praised by Obama-era allies for his integrity and impact.
Grok: https://bit.ly/489KARX
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)
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$250 for Cheesecake Factory, WTF?
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (DRSnL)
15 to 20 bucks minimum wage passed by the fat cats in the legislatures, didn't help. Notice the cost of electricity hasn't gone either. And the idiot local towns raising property taxes based upon what Zillow says the property is worth, contributes to the cost increases.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (5xuJ/)
Just make every business that runs a payroll verify SS#'s and half the problem would be eliminated.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM
Yep, this has been obvious since the 2006 Amnesty push by President Bush, John McCain and the entire GOP.
That taught me that no one in government has any intention of solving illegal immigration, because the solution is simple: enforce the fucking laws that have been on the books for decades.
Nope, instead, every 5-10 years, we get the call for "comprehensive immigration reform". Fuck off with that. There's no need to reform shit. Enforce the fucking laws on the books and the issue is solved.
But no one will do that. Because everyone is corrupt. The 2006 Amnesty push by the GOP was my wake-up call that the entire system is corrupt and I stopped being a Republican voter. Trump was the first person I voted for in years, as he was only one addressing the problem and then has tried to do something about it during his two terms.
However, I am disillusioned again with the H1B bullshit.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (GYGpZ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:02 PM (6KcYW)
They pick the whitest possible name for this hypothetical.
LaQuonda. Bet on it.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (GYGpZ)
In HS I knew a hot, dark skinned Latin girl whose name was in fact Jessica.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (6KcYW)
Just make every business that runs a payroll verify SS#'s and half the problem would be eliminated.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 11:28 AM
I agree but the candle must burn at all ends. If businesses can’t hire illegal aliens to begin with because none are available that is all to the good.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (6KcYW)
Dipping street filthy fingers into the rich sauce covered noodles or rice...
... think about it.
Posted by: John the River at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (Li1E5)
Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (i+bC1)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 21, 2025 11:53 AM (xE0sV)
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At best California is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The commie-controlled CA gov't is mad that there is a big sector of the economy that isn't unionized and therefore funneling union dues to the D politicians, so they want to get the delivery people organized in order to wet their beaks. Let's not give them too much credit here.
Posted by: ballistic at November 21, 2025 11:56 AM (3BwY
They are trying to kill it because of Uber delivering people, not burgers. Its a sop to the cab monopoly and started even before COVID and post covid explosion. They want their cut and a new union to get donations, nothing more.
It for sure has nothing to do with helping out illegal slaves. Dems love that action.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 01:32 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:01 PM (/iXAp)
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$250 for Cheesecake Factory, WTF?
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:02 PM (DRSnL)
There's a big jump when all the kids slide off the kids menu and get big boy drinks and food.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 01:34 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 11:52 AM
Why would it be cold if someone else picks it up? Unless you're eating it in the car on the way back home, whether you are delivering it to your house or the Uber delivery person is, it's the same amount of drive time to bring it home from the restaurant.
In many cases though, food delivery people invest in food carrier bags which keep food hot (or cold) during deliveries. I have seen that a lot in my area (SE Michigan).
That said, yes, the order is typically more expensive. The food is slightly more expensive on the site (Door Dash, Uber Eats, Grub Hub, etc), then there's the service fee, delivery charge and any tip. For those who have Amazon Prime memberships, they get free delivery for anything from either Uber Eats or Door Dash, I forget which.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 02:19 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at November 21, 2025 03:22 PM (uR4Tu)
Posted by: Spartacus Booker at November 21, 2025 03:33 PM (W+TLY)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 21, 2025 06:12 PM (wGqjj)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Edward Millman
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 21, 2025 09:34 AM (/Q9/a)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 09:34 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: She Hobbit at November 21, 2025 09:34 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 21, 2025 09:35 AM (0nHVk)
Title: Flop House
Artist: Edward Millman (American, Chicago, Illinois 1907–1964 Woodstock, New York)
Date: ca. 1937
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: Plate: 8 7/8 × 13 in. (22.5 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 12 in. × 14 15/16 in. (30.5 × 38 cm)
Classification: Prints
Notes: Scratch n Sniff
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 09:35 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: cmeat at November 21, 2025 09:35 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Bob Dole at November 21, 2025 09:35 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 21, 2025 09:35 AM (CF1xw)
I just need someplace where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, "No" was all he said
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)
Emerson big ass feet.
Posted by: BifBewalski at November 21, 2025 09:36 AM (HfJnQ)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:36 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 09:35 AM
Meet John Smith. A man who has hit rock bottom...
Posted by: Rod Serling at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (kgE5c)
sleep tight
Posted by: cmeat at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: dantesed at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025
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They're on a dock, and the background is the ocean or a bay or a lake. Though I wonder what that flat whitish thing is in the water to the right of the sitting figure. A washed-away sign, upside down, so we can't read what it says?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Eeyore
There's a bit of missing plaster behind the seated guy. I'm expecting a trans-dimensional menace to pop through there any time.
Posted by: She Hobbit at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: cmeat at November 21, 2025 09:39 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025
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That's above, or far far beneath, my pay grade.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:39 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Zohran Mamdani at November 21, 2025 09:39 AM (UdbGC)
Posted by: She Hobbit at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM
Great. Steal my thunder. Fine!
Posted by: Cthulhu at November 21, 2025 09:39 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at November 21, 2025 09:40 AM (opCUg)
the imagined smells of those feet, socks, and shoes, plus the hat, would gag me every time i look at it
Posted by: Gref at November 21, 2025 09:40 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025
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Actually that makes more sense than my body of water idea.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 09:40 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Yorkshireman #1 at November 21, 2025 09:41 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 09:41 AM (IBQGV)
Thx CBD, have a great weekend
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 09:41 AM (bfwj/)
Edward should have stayed delivering milk.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 21, 2025 09:41 AM (MKZ9A)
A couple of the neighbors were problematic, though. Mrs. Crumbcake was a bitch and Stinky Davis was a little shit.
Posted by: Bud and Lou at November 21, 2025 09:41 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 21, 2025 09:42 AM (6qf1m)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 09:43 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:43 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Dobbs at November 21, 2025 09:43 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025
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They could still be a on a dock, with the body of water out here where the viewer is. The planks and the block of wood the sitting guy is perched on suggest a pier of some kind.
At least he has a fedora, without which no man was considered properly dressed in 1937. The other guy is clearly depressed that he has only a cap. And no job, but mostly a cap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:44 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Agony of De Feet at November 21, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:43 AM (KDPiq)
Don't float.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 09:44 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: the way I see it
Yeah, peak Natalie was a thing of wonder to behold.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:45 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:45 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 09:41 AM (bfwj/)
You are very welcome!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 09:45 AM (n9ltV)
Ace's recipe for hobo foot is delicious.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 09:45 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Layabouts! at November 21, 2025 09:46 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 21, 2025 09:46 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:48 AM (3rB+M)
I'll never get that smell out of my nose.
From fap to flop
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 09:48 AM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Zombie Pablo Picasso at November 21, 2025 09:49 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:49 AM (wzUl9)
Edward should have stayed delivering milk.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 21, 2025 09:41 AM (MKZ9A)
Yes, that he was, or at least a naive leftist. But he was also a Navy combat artist, so I will cut him a bit of slack.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 09:49 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:49 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: red speck at November 21, 2025 09:50 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: tankdemon
Or at least a bunch of cheap hooch bottles.
Posted by: She Hobbit at November 21, 2025 09:51 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Dobbs at November 21, 2025
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*That's* who he reminds me of!
If you look at a still pic from that movie, you'll see Fred C. carries some matches in his hat ribbon -- just in case he can bum a cigarette.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: European Soccer Players at November 21, 2025 09:51 AM (Dc1Hd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 09:51 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: tankdemon
Or at least a bunch of cheap hooch bottles.
Posted by: She Hobbit at November 21, 2025 09:51 AM (ftFVW)
"We run a respectable flop house here!!! We allow NO SUCH SHENANIGANS!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:52 AM (3rB+M)
Posted by: Dirty Mike and The Boys at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Worm creeping out of his sock?
Posted by: She Hobbit at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:43 AM (KDPiq)
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/Natalie Wood25.jpg
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:54 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: She Hobbit at November 21, 2025 09:55 AM (ftFVW)
"Gimme a break, Mac. All I had at my disposal for painting supplies were a couple cigarette butts, an old cardboard box, and the contents of our makeshift bedpan."
Posted by: red speck at November 21, 2025 09:55 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 09:51 AM (A0sqA)
It is my firm belief that we are still in early-stage capitalism.
Zygote stage early.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:55 AM (3rB+M)
Posted by: 1 (800)588-2300 Empire at November 21, 2025 09:55 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 21, 2025 09:56 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 21, 2025 09:56 AM (7gFOv)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 09:57 AM (y3bZw)
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/Natalie Wood25.jpg
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (n9ltV)
"Fake boobs. Wondering eye. Would not bang."
- - - - - TheJamesMadison
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Worm creeping out of his sock?
Posted by: She Hobbit at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (ftFVW)
That is the shriveled remnants of the toe of his sock. Can't afford a replacement and nobody to darn it for him.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:58 AM (3rB+M)
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/Natalie Wood25.jpg
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (n9ltV)
"Fake boobs. Wondering eye. Would not bang."
- - - - - TheJamesMadison
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Well SOMEBODY had to say it, right?
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 09:58 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Corn Cob Cal and Meerschaum Mike at November 21, 2025 09:59 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 09:59 AM (y3bZw)
Posted by: George Costanza at November 21, 2025 09:59 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Corn Cob Cal and Meerschaum Mike at November 21, 2025
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Doesn't look like it. There's no bowl visible, at least.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:00 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: SNAP! at November 21, 2025 10:01 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:01 AM (KDPiq)
Strangely, they taste fine with some cheese on 'em. No need to throw them out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Oh noes ! at November 21, 2025 10:02 AM (HcoTw)
Posted by: No Name Today at November 21, 2025 10:02 AM (8mulE)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:02 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025
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No unemployment insurance in those days. "Relief," something like welfare, was around, but most people hated the idea of the government helping them out like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (wzUl9)
Strangely, they taste fine with some cheese on 'em. No need to throw them out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:01 AM (wzUl9)
Waste not, want not. Or, eat that, there’s children starving in ( fill in the blank)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: tubal
I got the original 1818 version of Frankenstein as a gift from my wife today. (I had requested it.) I showed it to our son, and he said he had read it in high school. We were impressed.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
“These pastors and co-workers are being treated as criminals simply because they faithfully shepherded a large, legally unregistered church that refused to submit to CCP control and surveillance,” ChinaAid said in a statement.
ChinaAid founder Dr. Bob Fu said the Zion Church crackdown marked a “chilling milestone in the Chinese Communist Party’s all-out war on Christianity in China.”
“Their only ‘crime’ is preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, shepherding God’s flock, and refusing to turn Christ’s church into a propaganda tool of the Communist Party,” said Fu.
“By turning pastors into political prisoners, the CCP is not only persecuting these individuals and their families — it is sending a warning to every independent church in China: submit to Party control or face destruction,” he said.
-Brietbart
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Who will protect Christians persecuted by the CCP?
Narrator: "No one will utter even a word."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:43 AM (KDPiq)
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/Natalie Wood25.jpg
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (n9ltV)
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The most appropriate "Hey, my eyes are up here" photo I can imagine. Wow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (YL/9k)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:00 AM (PCK5/)
I read him a lot in high school. Then he wrote about a USO visit he made to troops in Vietnam and wrote about the helicopter pilots. Powerful stuff.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 10:04 AM (y3bZw)
Posted by: tubal
And we read The Grapes of Wrath in HS.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Corn Cob Cal and Meerschaum Mike at November 21, 2025
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Doesn't look like it. There's no bowl visible, at least.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:00 AM
Could be frayed and trailing sock trim.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 10:04 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: the way I see it
"She must have a bladder the size of a peanut!"
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal
I got the original 1818 version of Frankenstein as a gift from my wife today. (I had requested it.) I showed it to our son, and he said he had read it in high school. We were impressed.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
I had no idea that Steinbeck wrote that one.
Posted by: No Name Today at November 21, 2025 10:06 AM (8mulE)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:06 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 10:06 AM (YL/9k)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:06 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 21, 2025 10:06 AM (dyewR)
That guy is definitely flopped. So the title checks out!
This is Depression era and has that look. Drab colors, a scene of
quiet desperation, and a general air of decay. These two men have nothing but their clothing and nowhere else to go. The flop house is very rundown and ugly but it's marginally safer than an alley.
The Great Depression was a time of despair and desperation, unchecked decay and ugliness, an entire generation lost, hopeless and starving. It was, IMO, one of the greatest stains in our country history. And the people responsible for causing it, those who prolonged it, and those who profited from it never suffered any consequences. FDR was hailed as a savior, when he should have been vilified as a scourge that made everything worse for far longer than it should have been.
I don't care for this piece, CBD, but I thank you for posting it. It reminds me to count my blessings. "There, but for the grace of God..."
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 10:06 AM (2J/Lj)
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Yep. Cannery Row was enjoyable.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:07 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 10:04 AM (y3bZw)
Hmmm....
I enjoy Steinbeck, but I always found him to be just a bit disingenuous, and the research into "Travels With Charley" bear me out. It was mostly fake.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 10:07 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)
I finally watched Bride of Frankenstein recently, after having only ever seen clips here and there. It wasn't exactly what I expected, and frankly (heh) I think the praise for the film is overstated.
It starts with a short conversation between Mary Shelley, her husband, and Lord Byron. Such droll, 30s style attire and acting. Totally pointless.
As for the rest of the film, meh. Best part was the scene with the blind man, because I couldn't stop thinking about Mel Brooks' parody version of the scene.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:08 AM (P03I9)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:08 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:08 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Or is it boobs? at November 21, 2025 10:08 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025
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I read it in my thirties, and still admire it tremendously. His Cannery Row (more serious in places) and Sweet Thursday (comedy with a romance), and The Wayward Bus and East of Eden, are his best works beyond that novelette.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:08 AM (wzUl9)
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I couldn't get past the first chapter of The Grapes of Wrath. It was that off putting.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:09 AM (Wg6v7)
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Yep. Cannery Row was enjoyable.
Posted by: Pudinhead
I wonder if the bar Doc Rickett's Lab is still in business. Loved the leggy Asian chicks playing pool there.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 10:09 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 10:09 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 10:06 AM (2J/Lj)
Right here folks is the way to say, "CBD, you suck."
Seriously, thank you. I know I can't (and won't try to) please everyone, but my goal is to post interesting art that expands my knowledge of the art world.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 10:09 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: red speck at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (Ve/HL)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 10:07 AM (n9ltV)
The Pearl has stayed with me over the years. Seen it played out too many times.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (y3bZw)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)
It starts with a short conversation between Mary Shelley, her husband, and Lord Byron. Such droll, 30s style attire and acting. Totally pointless.
As for the rest of the film, meh. Best part was the scene with the blind man, because I couldn't stop thinking about Mel Brooks' parody version of the scene.
Posted by: BurtTC
It's better than the original in my opinion. And Elsa Lanchester is cute as a button in the opening scene. Too bad she was married to that poofter Laughton.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025
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Unlike most people, it seems, I don't consider GoW his best work at all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (wzUl9)
I got a haircut this morning and my barber told me Bristol Meyers Squibb, J&J, and Merck, all big local employers, have quietly done sizeable layoffs at the managerial level lately. People are blaming AI, but he says his business is down.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (YL/9k)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)
We drank them in high school.
Fermented.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (P03I9)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)
Ugh. I read it in high school, and I still recoil whenever I see the title.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
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But then there is Kolyma Tales!
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (PCK5/)
Ugh. I read it in high school, and I still recoil whenever I see the title.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (n9ltV)
VERY ugly story.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (PCK5/)
We drank them in high school.
Fermented.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (P03I9)
Boone's Farm!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025
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Read it recently. A good portrait of the craziness of Hollywood even in the late Thirties . . . but I doubt I'm any better for having read it.
(There is an important character in it named, wait for it, "Homer Simpson.")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)
You swallow!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (n9ltV)
Fermented.
Posted by: BurtTC
Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill FTW!
IYKYK.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:13 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:13 AM (PCK5/)
Painting has more details than would have expected
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 10:13 AM (XsX3C)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 10:09 AM (n9ltV)
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Which is exactly why I love this daily thread so much; I see new art and I learn something. Thank you indeed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 10:13 AM (YL/9k)
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 10:13 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)
Ugh. I read it in high school, and I still recoil whenever I see the title.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025
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VERY ugly story.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025
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I gave up on Miss Lonelyhearts when we're told the lead character, the title guy, killed two animals, once as a child and once while drunk as an adult. That was enough.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:14 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:13 AM (PCK5/)
Well then the movie did the book justice.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:14 AM (KDPiq)
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I stopped reading there.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:14 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 10:14 AM (y3bZw)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)
She's kind of a proto-Shelley Duvall.
You can't quite tell if she's stunningly beautiful or ugly as a duck.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:15 AM (P03I9)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 09:43 AM (KDPiq)
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/Natalie Wood25.jpg
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 09:53 AM (n9ltV)
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The most appropriate "Hey, my eyes are up here" photo I can imagine. Wow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 10:03 AM (YL/9k)
Watch out boys, she's packing hemis under the hood!
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 10:15 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
"Shutter Island," or I'm guessing, most Dennis Lehane books.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 10:15 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)
Fermented.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (P03I9)
Boone's Farm!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Annie Green Springs for the win....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 10:16 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I'm glad you do this. It has expanded my knowledge of art. You've posted artists I've never heard of and sometimes I even go looking for more info and more of their work.
and just so you know... You only sucked the day you posted Bob Ross. I like his work and wasn't around the blog for a few days and BAM! You give us Bob! When I wasn't here! How dare you.
BTW... A bunch of Bob Ross paintings are being auctioned off to help support PBS. All proceeds going to them.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 10:16 AM (2J/Lj)
Fermented.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (P03I9)
Boone's Farm!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Annie Green Springs for the win....
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Orange Driver was unique. It likely had vitamins!
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:17 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill.
It ruined my appreciation of real wine.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:17 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: tubal
Hey!! I'm right here you know!!
Posted by: Homer Simpson (No, not THAT Homer) at November 21, 2025 10:17 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:17 AM (P03I9)
Fermented.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:11 AM (P03I9)
Boone's Farm!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Annie Green Springs for the win....
Posted by: It's me donna
Seven empty bottles of Thunderbird wine lined up on the dashboard of a 1978 F-250.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:18 AM (QtIaX)
As previously mentioned by our esteemed COB, if you have complaints about the AoS Daily Art Thread, you're MORE than welcome to go register with and enjoy the astounding art thread over there at Hot Air.
I hear it's muy caliente.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 10:16 AM (2J/Lj)
The AI videos of him and Mr. Rogers getting into fistfights are better art.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:19 AM (P03I9)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 10:12 AM (PCK5/)
A Separate Peace.
Gay.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025
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The Inheritors by William Golding. A perfect example of a literary author trying on a science-fiction idea for size, and ruining it. Dull book.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (YL/9k)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 10:16 AM (2J/Lj)
I’ve got the Bob Ross Channel on Roku. If you watch enough of his episodes back to back you start not liking him. He was a nice but kind of weird guy.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:17 AM (KDPiq)
You had an appreciation for real wine in high school?
Ahoy polloi.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BurtTC
I would never consider her stunningly beautiful, but she was always cute, even when older.
In Bell, Book, and Candle, for instance.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Down blouse Danny at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:19 AM (wzUl9)
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"The Lord Of The Flies" gave me nightmares as a teen.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 10:21 AM (YL/9k)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Dr. Herbert West > Dottie West > Nathaniel West > Shelly West
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:22 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 10:22 AM (V9VN1)
Posted by: The box turtle at November 21, 2025 10:22 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Down blouse Danny at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (oftw2)
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And she made lovely figures as a child!
Posted by: Warner Brothers Accounting Department at November 21, 2025 10:22 AM (EfDnu)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:17 AM (KDPiq)
You had an appreciation for real wine in high school?
Ahoy polloi.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Hah no. As an adult. I like only Rieslings or Moscato type sweet wines now .
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:22 AM (KDPiq)
In Bell, Book, and Candle, for instance.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)
A different kind of beauty.
Now that I think about it, if you wanted to make a movie about Elsa Lanchester's life, you could star Ana-Taylor Joy in the role.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:22 AM (P03I9)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:17 AM (KDPiq)
Red red wine?
Posted by: UB40 at November 21, 2025 10:23 AM (wVcYX)
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This sounds gay.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:23 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Common Tater
Folded, spindled or mutilated?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:23 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
Gay.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025
Had to read in high school. Can confirm.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 10:24 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Down blouse Danny at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (oftw2)
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And she made lovely figures as a child!
Posted by: Warner Brothers Accounting Department at November 21, 2025 10:22 AM (EfDnu)
***
Sure knew how to screw up a football game!
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 10:24 AM (y3bZw)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:24 AM (P03I9)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Dr. Herbert West > Dottie West > Nathaniel West> Cornel West
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 21, 2025 10:24 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025
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Depressing, but at least it's readable.
Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky takes the same idea and is much more inspiring a story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 10:25 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Artemis Gordon at November 21, 2025 10:25 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: BurtTC
Yeah, I could see that.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
Really? Define “weird”. What was it about him you didn’t like?
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 10:25 AM (V9VN1)
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This sounds gay.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:23 AM (Wg6v7)
Hey you like what you like.
I’m sure you like warm Guinness because that’s manly.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:25 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Common Tater
No. Long story.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BurtTC
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And, it is amalgamated with the Medicare renewal date.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 21, 2025 10:26 AM (XeU6L)
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Not at all. Its like drinking a vegemite sandwich.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:26 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 21, 2025 10:09 AM (n9ltV)
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Which is exactly why I love this daily thread so much; I see new art and I learn something. Thank you indeed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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One of my favorite threads - even though I'm an uncultured simpleton. Love the pics and the comments. Thanks, CBD.
Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 10:27 AM (2bFN5)
Dad brought home a bottle of "fussy pussy" as he called it. I liked it as a kid and it's one of the few wines the First Lady will drink.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Really? Define “weird”. What was it about him you didn’t like?
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 10:25 AM (V9VN1)
He repeats the same things over and over and over and over.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:27 AM (KDPiq)
The Zohran is meeting with President Donald Trump today. It's not until 3:00 this afternoon, and I'll be well into the bourbon by then, but I'm sure the content that comes from the meeting will be delightful if you ignore the fact that the incoming mayor of the most important city on the planet is a commie theater kid. My gut says he gets Zelenskyy'd as he attempts to lecture Trump on international law and how there will be no more deportations under The Zohran's eye.
I hope they discuss economics, because The Zohran gave a clue on how he is going to get money for his free buses in New York City. All it will take is for them to raise taxes on everyone else in New York STATE so that he gets the cash.
REPORTER: How are you getting the $700M to make the buses free if the Governor is not for raising taxes?
THE ZOHRAN: Through the raising of the state's corporate tax.”
REPORTER: But she said no…
THE ZOHRAN: The most important fact is that we fund it, not the question of how we do it.
https://tinyurl.com/3ddswep2
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:27 AM (QtIaX)
https://youtu.be/xuCuf5tvTqE
Posted by: Artemis Gordon at November 21, 2025 10:25 AM (XQo4F)
But, he's not black......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:26 AM (Wg6v7)
LOL
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:28 AM (KDPiq)
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Look at them luscious little bottles, sittin' up on the shelf
Red green and yellow, Lord, they are somethin' else, hmmm
They mesmerize me, the way they sparkle and shine
Drinkin' that wine wine, wine
Posted by: The Youngbloods at November 21, 2025 10:28 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: the way I see it
Well, we never!
-- Happy little trees
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Down blouse Danny at November 21, 2025 10:20 AM (oftw2)
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And she made lovely figures as a child!
Posted by: Warner Brothers Accounting Department at November 21, 2025 10:22 AM (EfDnu)
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Teenage Shirley, whose older sister is Myrna Loy, playing a judge. Cary Grant gets in some kind of legal trouble, and Loy sentences him to, I guess, baby-sit her younger sister, who has a crush on him.
Temple is I think supposed to be younger, but she's probably at least 18 when it was filmed. She is... attractive.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:29 AM (U6s5f)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 10:29 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:24 AM (P03I9)
I dunno... Worse than Medicare open enrollment?
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 21, 2025 10:30 AM (JCLJi)
Posted by: And we like it that way at November 21, 2025 10:30 AM (XQo4F)
Maybe the dude next to him is the Son of Flubber?
Damn, Imma gettin' old ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:30 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 10:31 AM (2J/Lj)
A painting is art you show to her parents.
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 10:31 AM (EyfuW)
Maybe the dude next to him is the Son of Flubber?
Damn, Imma gettin' old ...
Posted by: ShainS
Uncle Charlie.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:31 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: And we like it that way at November 21, 2025 10:30 AM (XQo4F)
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With pun and limerick competitions sprinkled throughout.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:31 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: And we like it that way at November 21, 2025 10:30 AM (XQo4F)
That’s why I refer to it as the Snark Thread, pun intended.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:32 AM (KDPiq)
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He was called “Cornhole” West, perhaps behind his back because he likes it up the poop chute. (Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That!)
Dr. Jolyn “Jolly” West, managed to kill an Elephant with an overdose of L.S.D. at an Oklahoma Zoo, a time period when the spooks were handing out $$$ for all things mind control. Something something about body weight versus brain size, and dosage. Oops.
He was intimately involved in hypnosis, and has an interesting past, from what little can be gleaned from the records, which were mostly burned on orders from Richard Helms. Dr. West visited Jack Ruby in his cell, and drugged/hypnotized him, and declared him insane. Also some connection with Sirhan, and Tim McVeigh. Also “treated” Airman Shaver prior to him raping and killing a child in a period of blackout. Enough on this guy to connect dots and make ya go “Hm.”
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 10:32 AM (V9VN1)
Posted by: ShainS
My wife's birthday card to me was a fish pun.
The cover of the card has all these flatfish on it, and when you open it up, it reads, "I got you this card just for the halibut."
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:31 AM (QtIaX)
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lol
Make Reruns -- AND Rerun from "What's Happening!!" Great Again!
/Damn, I watched way too much TV as a kid instead of reading books ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:34 AM (+mTgD)
https://tinyurl.com/3ddswep2
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:27 AM (QtIaX)
Zorhan's plan is the reverse Underpants Gnomes:
1. Profit!
2. ???
3. Free bus rides for everybody!
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:34 AM (PSeal)
Posted by: And we like it that way
Similar to Naked Coed Twister Tournaments?
Posted by: Tonypete at November 21, 2025 10:35 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)
One good thing, I bought Muldoon's book of lyrics.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 21, 2025 10:35 AM (y3bZw)
/Damn, I watched way too much TV as a kid instead of reading books ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:34 AM (+mTgD)
I used to do that weird Rerun leg slap dance thing when I was a yute.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:24 AM (P03I9)
I dunno... Worse than Medicare open enrollment?
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 21, 2025 10:30 AM (JCLJi)
As noted above, we get both!
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:35 AM (PSeal)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:36 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: mr tmz at November 21, 2025 10:38 AM (rJ48h)
Fred Rerun Berry (born Fred Allen Berry; March 19, 1951 – October 21, 2003) was an American actor and street dancer. He was best known for his role as Freddie "Rerun" Stubbs on the 1970s television show What's Happening!! and its sequel series What's Happening Now!!
Berry was born on March 19, 1951, in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in the inner-city projects. He had aspirations of becoming a successful dancer and actor as a child. Early in his career, Berry was a member of the Los Angeles–based dance troupe The Lockers, with whom he appeared on the third episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. He additionally appeared on the dance music show Soul Train, and was featured in the program's signature line dance segment doing the memorable early 1970s dance step "the slo-mo".
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:38 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:27 AM (QtIaX)
If I was trump I would just drop a picture of Qasem Soleimani at his feet and walk out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 10:39 AM (snZF9)
Modernism in the New City
Chicago Artists, 1920-1950
Edward Millman,b. 1907, Chicago, IL-d. 1964, Woodstock, NY
In part, "Millman was committed to social justice and identified himself as a worker—as did many left-leaning artists of the day. His work often conveyed sympathy for the middle and working classes. For the portfolio, A Gift to Birobidjan, 1937, he portrayed a Shoemaker as a skilled worker of the “old country.” The symbolism of shoes conjures the eternal wanderer (harkening back to Van Gogh’s depictions of worn-out shoes) and reinforces the overall intent of the Birobidjan project, which represented Jews’ continuous striving to find a peaceful homeland. His etching, Flop House, 1938, which he based on a 1937 painting of the same subject, is a sensitive portrait of out-of-work laborers. Millman depicted two impoverished men, their eyes averted, emphasizing their large rough hands and feet. One man lies on a thin mattress on the bare wooden floor—he is dressed as if ready for work, but sleeps with a hat over one eye and his jacket rolled up for a pillow. The sitting figure holds his head in his hands, his face hidden by his despair."
WPA & Navy artist.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 10:40 AM (NFX2v)
If I was trump I would just drop a picture of Qasem Soleimani at his feet and walk out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 10:39 AM (snZF9)
It would be one of the most epic mic drops in history.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 10:40 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: From about That Time at November 21, 2025 10:41 AM (sl73Y)
NYC? Puleeeese.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)
Other than Wall Street and Broadway, WTF makes NYC important?
Wall Street is moving and Broadway now sucks Mulvaney's dick........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Amazing.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 21, 2025 10:41 AM (RPisP)
Posted by: mr tmz at November 21, 2025 10:38 AM (rJ48h)
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The dirty little secret is that "Americans" aren't "electing" them.
At least 40% of inner-city residents are foreign born, and they've additionally been rigging elections for more than 60 years (at least going back to JFK).
Throw in the filthy treasonous Clintons and their ChiComm masters from the 90s, and you end up with Turd-World Shitholes everywhere ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:42 AM (+mTgD)
Amazing.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 21, 2025 10:41 AM (RPisP)
Their name tells you they're political. The fact that they actually tend to run candidates in some places tells you they're a party.
Stupid is as IRS does, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax, asking for CBD, who said "There's no pleasing The Horde." at November 21, 2025 10:44 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 10:44 AM (6KcYW)
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Non profit or anti profit?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)
Wall Street is moving and Broadway now sucks Mulvaney's dick........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)
"Most important city" seems a strange concept. What makes a city "important?" If you live there, I guess that makes it important.
Otherwise, I suppose you might rate a place important, based on what you worship.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:44 AM (O/gWh)
Posted by: Duncanthrax, asking for CBD, who said "There's no pleasing The Horde." at November 21, 2025 10:44 AM (0sNs1)
No boobs. Not pleased.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 10:45 AM (A0sqA)
Amazing.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 21, 2025 10:41 AM (RPisP)
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Trump needs to designate them and the Democrat-Communist Party as Domestic Terrorist Organizations already.
Jeebus, they've tried to assassinate him at least five times now!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:45 AM (+mTgD)
This means it engages in political and activist work, but it is not a political party with its own ballot line and its donations are NOT tax-deductible.
It operates through a national organization and a network of local chapters and is supported by membership dues and contributions from donors.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 10:45 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 10:45 AM (A0sqA)
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A black Chris Farley before Farley was cool.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:46 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: Winslow, Arizona at November 21, 2025 10:46 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 10:45 AM (A0sqA)
However, the moves wouldn't have been as effective were he 150 lbs less.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 10:45 AM (A0sqA)
Exactly. I was amazed at how well he could get all that movin'!
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 21, 2025 10:48 AM (JCLJi)
Today, we mourn the transgender Americans whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence.
Democrats believe every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, and to live their life fully and honestly.
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Catholic elementary school children not so much.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 10:48 AM (L/fGl)
Throw in the filthy treasonous Clintons and their ChiComm masters from the 90s, and you end up with Turd-World Shitholes everywhere ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:42 AM (+mTgD)
Ever see the movie, The Great McGinty?
It starts out with a bum who is trying to make some cash, and the local party officials are paying a couple bucks to anyone who votes for their candidate.
So McGinty goes and votes in several polling places.
The movie was made in 1940.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:48 AM (O/gWh)
NYC isn't even the most important city in NY state. The only reason anyone, anywhere else in the state of NY pays attention to NYC is so they know how bigly they're gonna get fucked by that steaming shithole. Most people in the United States don't give a twisted fuck about that city, and you think it's the "most important city on the planet"? Seriously?
"thas real retarded, sir"
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 10:48 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Lol. True!
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at November 21, 2025 10:49 AM (JCLJi)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 10:49 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Bulg
"Next stop . . Niles"
Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 21, 2025 10:49 AM (Q1AmB)
One uncle, when he was in his late 50s and early 60s, worked as a cook. It included room and board. The "room" was a cot in the boiler room. He'd sleep during the slow period between breakfast and lunch, then again after the restaurant closed and the dishes were washed. He washed up in a tub.
I cannot imagine living like that.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 21, 2025 10:50 AM (fxCK2)
Posted by: Jordan61
Ace can show him the best spots to bag hoboes.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 10:45 AM
Now that CBD has been proven right, you know who's not pleased?
bluebell.
Posted by: Duncanthrax, asking for CBD, who said at November 21, 2025 10:50 AM (0sNs1)
Just received notification that it's shipped.
Dayum.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:51 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:51 AM (KDPiq)
That me, a long-haired leaping gnome, could be the star of a Hollywood movie . . .
Posted by: mustbequantum at November 21, 2025 10:52 AM (WiQPM)
Posted by: 2009Refugee
The Niles train station is awesome. Was shown in the movie "Midnight Run."
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)
"thas real retarded, sir"
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 10:48 AM (2J/Lj)
It's certainly most important to people who go on teevee to try to tell everyone else in the country what should be important.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 10:52 AM (O/gWh)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)
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He hunts birds, mostly. Pheasant and grouse, that sort of thing.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 10:53 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 10:49 AM
It's NOT a rest day! Calisthenics! Aerobics! Stretching!
Only 11 months to go!
Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 10:53 AM (0sNs1)
Has he ever shot a friend in the face?
Posted by: zombie Dick Cheney at November 21, 2025 10:54 AM (Y1sOo)
Just received notification that it's shipped.
Dayum.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:51 AM
You ordered those Beanie Baby guts that Weasel advised us to get, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 10:54 AM (0sNs1)
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Andy Wyeth was a WPA painter. He painted a post office mural in Lauenburg, NC. It depicted blacks harvesting watermelons. It was okay.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 10:54 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 10:54 AM (YwEeS)
Now, they are just festering boils of people who don't do shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 10:55 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 10:49 AM
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"There's no slacking in Hordeball!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:55 AM (+mTgD)
Care home worker Elizabeth Kinney, 34, was said to have sent a 'barrage' of messages to a former friend during which she described being attacked by a male mutual acquaintance.
During the messaging the single mother-of-four even sent pictures of her injuries from the assault, which resulted in her being admitted to hospital.
But Kinney, an aspiring nurse, was reported to police over the use of the word 'f****t' to describe the unnamed man and later charged with malicious communications offences.
https://is.gd/9Gwd8R
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Bitch was disparaging English cigarettes!
P.S. She's a 1.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:55 AM (KDPiq)
Only 11 months to go!
Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 10:53 AM (0sNs1)
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Already did my morning calisthenics, Coach!
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 10:56 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
LOL.
Magpul flip up front & rear sights for the AR10.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:56 AM (QtIaX)
Posted by: zombie Dick Cheney at November 21, 2025 10:54 AM (Y1sOo)
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I don't think he has any friends.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 10:56 AM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2025 10:55 AM (bss/y)
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It's almost as if Welfare States create welfare states ... or something.
/Human nature, incentive & disincentive, who knew?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:56 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: steevy at November 21, 2025 10:57 AM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 10:53 AM (0sNs1)
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Am I the only one working on my singing voice?
/Paging Joe Kidd, please pick up the white privilege courtesy phone ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 10:58 AM (+mTgD)
Posted by: the way I see it
Our policy it, you can carry over x amount of hours. When you hit that, you no longer accrue.
We had one lady who took off every Friday at noon for almost the entire year because she had so much carry over.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 10:58 AM (QtIaX)
I’d either find away to immigrate somewhere else or set upon my John Wick revenge.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 10:58 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
KAROLINE LEAVITT responds to President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Zohran Mamdani tomorrow
“It speaks volumes that tomorrow, we have a COMMUNIST coming to the White House — because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 11:03 AM (L/fGl)
CBD would love the meat and tea selections down on The Strip.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 11:08 AM (NFX2v)
Today, we mourn the transgender Americans whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence.
Democrats believe every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, and to live their life fully and honestly.
Name. One. Incident.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)
Blue states almost always pay more to DC then red states. Rural areas have been losing their populations for 100s of years people especially young people leave rural areas for better . Opportunities in educational, economic, and social opportunities. In cities you don't have to marry your 2nd cousin and the better looking cheer leaders all left up cities.
Red rural areas are left with the left overs, like old people who have no other options
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 21, 2025 11:11 AM (Zo2DU)
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Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:08 PM (ZRzmB)
you… https://fl0w2bash88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at November 21, 2025 02:53 PM (8DMeP)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 21, 2025 06:14 PM (wGqjj)
The Morning Report — 11/21/25
Columbia University student groups promoted a protest at which an anti-Semitic mob threw bottles and sticks at a Jewish group, which included at least two Holocaust survivors, outside a historic Manhattan synagogue. Roughly 200 keffiyeh-clad agitators gathered outside the Park East Synagogue on Wednesday to protest an event hosted by Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit group that facilitates Jewish immigration to Israel, the synagogue’s cantor, Benny Rogosnitzky, told the Washington Free Beacon. The sticks and bottles they threw at a group of Jewish counter-protesters of about the same size injured at least one member of the synagogue, he said. . . The protest was organized by PAL-Awda NY/NJ, which has honored Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar as a "hero" and a "legend." Columbia University Apartheid Divest and the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society promoted the event on social media, sharing a flyer that read "NO SETTLERS ON STOLEN LAND." It also accused Nefesh B’Nefesh of holding a "settler recruiting fair" and listed the address of Park East Synagogue, which is led by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor. . . In response to Wednesday night’s protest, Mamdani, through a spokeswoman, suggested that Nefesh B’Nefesh’s mission of bringing Jews to Israel violates international law.
Wait! Students For A Democratic Society I thought that that group disintegrated decades ago. Its members have got to be well into their 80s by now, if not rotting in hell. Meh, the friggin' Berlin Wall came down in 1990 and evidently it landed right on top of us. . . But that last sentence in the pull quote is quite telling considering this item from the last day or so
This week, he reiterated his intention to honor the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest, should the Israeli leader ever visit New York City under his leadership. This is a position that he has maintained since his campaign, which was quite popular among the anti-Israel leftists in New York.The salient point though is this is not about Netanyahu or Israel per se. This is about Islam and its unending crusade (pun absolutely intended) to conquer the world. In doing so its goals are first and foremost the death of every Jew and the subjugation, forced conversion or death of every other infidel or anyone who resists. It is self-evident in that staging a violent assault on a synagogue and those inside be they Jew or Gentile, that is thousands of miles from Israel (or the mythical land of "Palestine") has nothing to do with anything other than an act of terrorism. And Zohran Mamdani hasn't even been sworn in. Maybe Jeremiah Wright can brush up on his Arabic and declare his famous words of G-damn America with Mamdani's reptilian claw on that accursed Koran. And speaking of my hometown, there's this item that has ramifications for everyone who is forced to remain in that besieged city:
A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws. Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home. The Queens District Attorney’s Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez’s killing after he told cops that he’d defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife — but which turned out to be a pen.And while Daniel Penny, might have been miraculously acquitted in a New York court in the accidental death of a psycho assailant who was threatening him and his fellow subway riders, after Penny got him in a stranglehold. You better believe that no one will be safe from mere criminals to organized terrorists hunting Jews and infidels. In the wake of the Al Sharpton fomented Crown Heights pogrom of 1981, a number of Jewish safety patrols were formed in the orthodox and Hassidic neighborhoods, supported by the NYPD as an official arm of the Auxiliary police. it's a fair bet that Mamdani will have them disbanded as soon as he gets the chance. And if anyone dares to effectively engage in self defense, every juror unlucky enough to pull jury duty will never vote to acquit lest they endanger themselves and their families. Meanwhile, in another part of the
Consider Dearborn, Michigan, population just north of 100,000. If you were ranking American cities by population, Dearborn wouldn’t even crack the top 300. But the population that Dearborn does have is highly significant. Dearborn currently has a larger proportion of Muslims than any other city in the United States, and it recently became the first Arab-majority city in the country. Fully 55% of Dearborn’s residents say they have Middle Eastern or North African ancestry — which explains why Dearborn boasts the largest mosque in the entire continent of North America. Dearborn, as I’ve said before, is an Islamic capital at this point. It’s not an American city in any way. Dearborn has been conquered. And the few remaining Americans in Dearborn are now finding themselves surrounded by mobs of Muslims chanting Allahu Akbar, and telling them to leave the city. This is footage that was taken by Nick Shirley, one of the few journalists who’s willing to travel to Dearborn. The footage shows Shirley attempting to interview an activist named Jake Lang — who was one of the pardoned January 6 defendants. But the interview doesn’t go anywhere, because at this point, Dearborn resembles Fallujah. . . . . . To be clear about what we just saw: If you’re an American citizen, and the mob of Muslims that controls Dearborn believes that you’re a “racist,” then you’re not welcome in the city any longer. Your constitutional rights to freedom of expression are suspended. You will be surrounded and hounded. And indeed, that’s the official position of the government of Dearborn. It was just a few weeks ago, you may remember, that the mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammoud, publicly berated a Christian pastor, telling him that he’s not “welcome” in the city because of his views. (This is the same mayor who, as we discussed yesterday, said he “disavows” the concept of assimilation.) So this tactic of driving out Americans who disagree with the Islamization of the city extends not just to the mob but to government officials in the city as well. That’s what makes this, among other things, a constitutional crisis.For those who think that this madness will remain in NYC or Dearborn, or wherever else, and ultimately burn itself out, think again because you're whistling past a gate to hell — with the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" on them. The Democrat Party, even in your neck of the woods is fully on board with this, if not publicly than for sure behind closed doors. And it matters not that you might be in a very dark and deep Red city or state. This cancer is still there. And most dangerously, it's in our schools.
And a mere molotov cocktail's throw from Dearbornistan, we have Mogadishu on the Mississippi:
Report: MN Somali Medicaid Fraud Investigation Reveals Terrorist Link — ‘Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer’ . . .But the fraud is far more widespread with far more money involved than was previously reported — all of which has been presided over by former Democrat Party vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz.Have a great weekend. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
The money paid out by Minnesota’s scandal-plagued welfare schemes is monumental. The state’s failed Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, for instance, was kicked off in 2021 with expenses expected to ring in at $2.6 million. But instead, the program paid out $21 million its first year. In each subsequent year the program ballooned to $42 million, then $74, and then $104 million, respectively. During the first half of 2025, costs had already reached $61 million, according to City Journal.
Fraud is also endemic in many of Minnesota’s other welfare programs. City Journal noted that a Somali woman named Asha Farhan Hassan has been charged with defrauding the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program of $14 million over fake diagnoses of autism in children of Somali migrants.
Prosecutors now say that Hassan and her cohorts approached Somali families and promised them kickbacks of between $300 to $1500 a month per child if they enrolled in the state’s autism treatment programs.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Rejecting the role of “Uncle Sucker”.
The Genius of Trump’s Tariffs - Hundreds of pro-'Palestinian'
activistsTerrorists besieged Manhattan’s prestigious Park East Synagogue on Wednesday night, chanting, “Globalize the intifada,” “Death to the IDF,” and “take another settler out,” in what critics warned is “just the beginning” of a radicalized climate under socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. (Uh, it's the Islam not the socialism at work here, though you'll never hear a peep of outrage about this from the socialists - jjs)
Pro-'Palestinian' Activists Besiege NYC Synagogue: ‘Mamdani Era Has Already Begun’
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” – Donald Trump. . . Trump’s remarks highlight tensions over the video and its implications for the military and intelligence community.
Trump Wants Sedition Charges for ‘Traitor’ Lawmakers Urging Troops to Defy Orders.
- The violent rhetoric isn’t isolated, it’s becoming a feature of Democrat primaries as the party take a harder turn left.
Democrats’ Embrace Of Violent Rhetoric Will Mark Congressional Midterms (but will it energize more of their base than the GOP base to stop them? - jjs) "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - Compare this to the rapid mass migration ushered in under the Biden junta, when the foreign-born population grew by an unprecedented 7.4 million from January 2021 to January 2025.
Golden Age: America’s Foreign-Born Population Drops by 2.3 Million Thus Far Under Trump
- Dangerous individuals, including child predators, murderers, and gang members, were removed from communities and will face justice.
ICE Detained Over 3,500 Illegals in This Dem-Run City During Shutdown. - A group financially linked to George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundations is behind a class action lawsuit brought by illegal aliens who are suing President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fining them after they have failed to self-deport from the United States.
Soros-Funded Group Behind Lawsuit to Stop DHS Fining Illegal Aliens for Failing to Self-Deport - “We’ve got to move with quicker urgency. So that’s — the gut punch that the working class took in this country over the four years of Biden can’t be overstated. I mean, they totally and completely gutted our working class. They brought in millions, 10-plus million foreign workers, caused a housing crisis, caused an insurance crisis, caused a food crisis, then they did all the things that they did during COVID which just created incredible amounts of depression among young people [and] raised the price of automobiles,” the senator said, laying out the sad state of affairs.
Sen. Bernie Moreno: Democrats ‘Gutted Our Working Class’ Importing 10 Million Foreign Workers
- In particular, the rule will clarify that refunded portions of the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Additional Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit, and the Saver’s Match Credit are federal public benefits and, therefore, illegal aliens and other foreign nationals will not be eligible to receive such benefits.
Exclusive: Treasury Department Issues Historic Rule to Prevent Illegal Aliens from Securing Income Tax Credits
- Meanwhile, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds calls for federal crackdown on sanctuary-state policies allowing illegal immigrants to obtain commercial driver’s licenses.
California Revokes 17,000 Illegal Alien CDLs After Sec. Duffy Threatens Fines - If Republicans play their cards right, they could potentially topple a SCOTUS decision that opened America’s schools to illegal aliens.
It’s Past Time Red States Challenge SCOTUS Decision That Opened America’s Schools To Illegal Aliens
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - Fraud is also endemic in many of Minnesota’s other welfare programs. City Journal noted that a Somali woman named Asha Farhan Hassan has been charged with defrauding the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program of $14 million over fake diagnoses of autism in children of Somali migrants.
Report: MN Somali Medicaid Fraud Investigation Reveals Terrorist Link — ‘Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer’
- “Untold millions” of state dollars flowed from Minnesota-based Somalis to the overseas group, including funds from Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS), according to the outlet. Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration is now under scrutiny after federal probes revealed rampant fraud in a DHS program meant to help struggling residents find taxpayer-funded housing. (RELATED: Soft-On-Crime Somali-Born Democrat Gets Carjacked By Reality)
Blue State Somalis Allegedly Sent Welfare Money To Al-Qaeda Ally Planning Another 9/11
- The Office of Intelligence and Analysis functions more as a cost center, complicating DHS’s role in intelligence rather than enhancing it.
Homeland Security’s Bloated ‘Intelligence’ Office Is Costing Taxpayers $348 Million Every Year THE ECONOMY, STUPID - Why are the Democrats so determined to talk down the economy?
About That ‘Sh*tty’ Trump Economy
- “Wages continue to way outpace inflation,” Vance told Breitbart News’s Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle at a policy event. “If you go back to the three years of the Biden junta, the average American worker actually lost about $3,000 in take-home pay. In the first 10 months of the Trump economy, we’ve increased take home pay by about $1,200 adjusting for inflation. So that’s a huge, huge thing.”
Exclusive: JD Vance Touts Big Wage Gains Amid Affordability Concerns CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Judge Cobb voluntarily stayed her ruling for 21 days to allow the Trump administration time to file an appeal.
Biden Judge Orders End to Trump’s National Guard Deployment in D.C.
- A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws.
Senior citizen who saved himself from would-be mugger heading to prison because of NYC’s ‘draconian’ laws OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - Anti-Semitism is a cannibalistic monster emerging from the depths of human savagery whenever civilization is challenged by barbarians.
Anti-Semitism—Barbaric Anachronism, Yet Menace to Modern Civilization WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - The report calls for the U.S. to designate the Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization to prevent further infiltration.
Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating U.S. Colleges to Transform Society: Report. (CPUSA says "pfft! been there, done that!" - jjs)
- Many women cover their hair with scarves, but covering the face is a step too far. Use of the niqab or burqa signals a pivot to Islamic fundamentalism.
Columbia University should ban the niqab on campus
- Things go from bad to worse – surprise! – in America’s most Muslim municipality.
Dark Days in Dearborn
- Remember, Dearborn is where protesters chanted "Death to America”.
Unsettling Footage Out Of Dearborn Shows How Bad The Islamic Takeover Really Is
- Can you guess who blocked his deportation?
Germany: Afghan Muslim Migrant Stabs His Store Manager 26 Times (note the name of the store in the lead photo; I about did a spit take considering who the new mayor in NYC is! - jjs)
- Where is the world's moral indignation?
The Real Genocide: Arab Muslims Murdering Black Africans in Sudan FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - ABC News might soon find itself staring down another expensive defamation lawsuit from President Trump, and honestly, it wouldn't come as a shock. On a recent episode of The View, Joy Behar confidently claimed that it was "obvious" Trump was a pedophile connected with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, implicating him in Epstein’s crimes. This wild accusation came without a shred of evidence tying Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities. In fact, Trump is arguably one of the few prominent figures who did the right thing and severed ties with Epstein years ago, unlike many Democrats who have since been ensnared in the fallout.
Joy Behar Just Put ABC on the Brink of Another Huge Trump Lawsuit
- Christian Toto: 'Think Before You Post' cancellation one of many attacks ignored, accepted
Why Left’s Sudden Free Speech Defense Is a Fraud RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - Next up is Alaska.
Senate Votes to Repeal Biden-Era Plan to Stop Coal Leasing in Wyoming
- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s effort to make the country energy independent. Burgum, a former North Dakota governor, software entrepreneur, and venture capitalist, has overseen the administration’s efforts to reopen oil and gas drilling across millions of acres in Alaska, to end a ban on liquefied natural gas exports, and to boost offshore oil production
Q&A With Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on ‘Energy Dominance’ and Gavin Newsom’s ‘Shrinking’ California EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - If we Americans emerge from all this intact and regain our health as a society, I’m convinced historians will look back at the first quarter of this century and call its product the “lost generation.”
The Great Retardification Of America’s Youth, Brought To You By ‘Mediocre Elites’
- As the Department of Education considers how to move programs out of the department, they should consider opportunities to improve the value of the federal education R&D enterprise to improve learning opportunities for American children.
A New Strategy to Promote Innovation in Education L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN - David Harsanyi: If Americans want to speculate on Epstein, that’s their right. Maybe their theories will be proven correct. But long-standing norms regarding privacy and the presumption of innocence shouldn’t be trashed by cowardly politicians every time the mob howls.
Epstein vote is a stain on cowardly Congress — who won’t stand up for the rule of law - ‘I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein,’ Crockett said before accusing Republicans of peddling lies
Jasmine Crockett: It Wasn’t ‘Misleading’ To Malign Republicans for Taking Cash From Normal Americans Named Jeffrey Epstein
- The Epstein files saga encapsulates America's fractured trust in its elites.
All His Friends were Democrats DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick faces decades in prison if convicted.
Florida Democrat Indicted For Turning FEMA Funds Into Campaign Cash
- Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign (Shouldn't Obama be sharing a cell with him? - jjs) - A Birkin bag!! Do you know how hard it is to buy a Birkin bag!? (what about a Merkin bag? - jjs)
Alleged Chinese Agent Linda Sun’s, Aide to Hochul and Cuomo, Lavish Lifestyle Revealed POLITICS - The Epstein files were the latest Never Trump plot to take down Trump. It failed.
Never Trump 2.0 - Judge Jerry E. Smith: “The main winners from Judge Brown’s opinion are George Soros and Gavin Newsom. The obvious losers are the People of Texas and the Rule of Law…. This is the most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed.”
Blistering Dissent In TX Redistricting Case: Majority Opinion A “Prime Candidate” for “Nobel Prize for Fiction”
- Nuking the filibuster may promise quick wins, but it risks unleashing unchecked majorities, permanent retaliation, and the loss of any institutional brake on power. (What are we dealing with now? - jjs)
Nuking the Filibuster: Are We Prepared for the War to Follow?
- . . .new financial disclosures expose what Osborn doesn’t want the voters of Nebraska to know: he is nothing more than a far-left Trojan horse, bankrolled by George Soros and the radical left's most notorious dark money machine.
Don’t Be Fooled by Nebraska’s ‘Independent’ Senate Candidate ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - Iran working with Hamas, Hezbollah to rebuild ‘Axis’ of terror, Israeli officials warn.
IDF Eliminates Two Terror Commanders After Hamas Renewed Attacks on Troops Across Ceasefire Line
- The bill would ensure the Trump administration's practice of denying visas for terror-supporting foreigners continues after President Donald Trump's term
EXCLUSIVE: Budd Introduces Bill To Block Terror Supporters From Entering US
- “I came here to this event not knowing I would be sitting next to a Zionist and this is something I am not going to accept”
Imam at CUNY Interfaith Event Blames Jewish Participant for Gaza, Leads Walkout THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - Both Russia and Ukraine have signaled willingness to consider and negotiate over the proposal.
Trump Admin Crafts 28-Point Plan To End War In Ukraine FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - The incident has sparked diplomatic tension, with the International Boundary and Water Commission now involved in resolving the dispute.
U.S. Troops Invade Mexico… By Mistake.
- Fred Fleitz: Trump’s high-profile welcome for MBS signaled a reset in U.S.-Saudi ties, pairing strategic military deals with economic investment to counter growing Russian and Chinese influence.
The Trump/MBS Summit: Another Huge Trump Foreign Policy Win
- “In recent years, new destructive ideologies have given safe harbor to human rights violations,” State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott said. “The Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children, laws that infringe on free speech, and racially discriminatory employment practices, to go unchecked. We are saying enough is enough.”
State Department to Include Sex Changes on Minors, ‘Hate Speech’ Laws in Human Rights Reports BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH - To the surprise of many observers, India has become the Taliban junta’s best friend next to Russia and China. Russia is the only country to formally recognize Taliban rule over Afghanistan so far, but in October, India reopened the embassy in Kabul that it had shuttered during the Taliban conquest in 2021.
Taliban Minister Arrives in New Delhi Seeking Trade and Investments in India HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - If roughly 1 million people won’t even pay $1 per month to enroll in an Exchange plan, what does that say about how Americans view the utility and value of Obamacare? (It's not a tax, it's a penalty!/sarc - jjs)
Charging Low-Income Americans Just $1 Monthly Obamacare Premiums Could Save Taxpayers $7 Billion A Year
- Taxpayers are footing the bill for up to $30 billion in fraudulent payments, one expert told The Daily Wire. (But it's not a tax, it's a penalty!/sarc - jjs)
Obamacare Is A Disaster. Could Trump’s Plan Fix It?
- What we need is affordability...by a free market.
Health Care Affordability Is Not Enough
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - None of these pictures show the comet in any great detail. All however confirm once again that it is a comet, not an interstellar alien spacecraft as some idiots in academia have been proposing wildly.
NASA releases numerous images of interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas
- It is believed that Wolf-Rayet stars are primary candidates to eventually go supernova. The data for this system also suggests this system could produce a gamma ray burst as well.
Webb captures spiraling shells around massive binary star system FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - Plunging into the realm of the altogether ludicrous.
So it Turns Out That Transgenderism is ‘Holy’ - This guy gets upset that people call him 'gay' for having a girlfriend with dude junk. He tries to explain it away and asks a question. But, he's not going to like the answer.
Dude With Trans Girlfriend Says He's Not Gay
- A new paper relies on categories its authors seemingly want to transcend.
The Latest Attempt to Disprove the Sex Binary Falls Flat CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - “Defendants have used this enormous influence to push their own dogmatic agenda."
EXCLUSIVE: Florida Sues Major Financial Firms Over DEI And ESG Push
- Ann can lead them all back across the Bering Straits where they came from - jjs
Ann Curry: Indians 'Feel Thanksgiving Should Be Day of Mourning'
HITHER & YON - Cloned meat products remain restricted in Canada for now, while Americans face ongoing concerns over unlabeled cloned meat in their food supply.
Cloned Meat Is Circulating in America’s Food Supply.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 07:26 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at November 21, 2025 07:28 AM (A0yiO)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:28 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:28 AM (vFG9F)
Insallah
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: questionable meat product at November 21, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 21, 2025 07:30 AM (/Ohqa)
Guilty of shooting someone in NYC while white.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)
"What caliber for getting younger?"
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 21, 2025 07:32 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)
The "someone" I believe is Latino.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 21, 2025 07:32 AM (x0n13)
As Uncle Milton said:
You can have open Borders
Or
You can have Welfare
But not both.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 21, 2025 07:33 AM (0N4FZ)
This isn't going to happen because, technically, it's not what they did and no amount of screeching about it will change the very carefully selected words that they used.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)
The Obamas got rich and Pras Michel got jail. I wonder if he is still a Democrat.
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
"What caliber for getting younger?"
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 21, 2025 07:32 AM (zdLoL)
Doctor said I have 6 months to live and I told him its gonna take about 2 years to pay off his bill.
He said I will see you in 2027.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:34 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 07:35 AM (2HgxZ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 07:35 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:37 AM (99eI0)
Sucks to be him. Shoulda been gone, a long time ago.
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:38 AM (vFG9F)
Since the state law severely disadvantaged the children of illegal aliens, by denying them the right to an education, and because Texas could not prove that the regulation was needed to serve a "compelling state interest," the Court struck down the law.
I guess not spending a shit-ton of money isn't a "compelling state interest."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:37 AM (99eI0)
Shift the IQ Curve.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 07:39 AM (NwnyJ)
WHEN & WHERE: October 1 to November 12, 2025, in Houston, Texas.
So maybe 1 out of 100.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:40 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:41 AM (vFG9F)
Then they came for the Somalis and I said make sure you get all the Somalis.
Posted by: To borrow a quote at November 21, 2025 07:41 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: r hennigantx
Make stupid people feel better about themselves then?
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:41 AM (99eI0)
The protests last night about a mile from me were peaceful with only 10-20 people there, more cops. Today could be different.
To recap a trial of a NYS trooper had been going on. He did a traffic stop oh the Thruway . The driver was an African American guy with an outstanding warrant,with his young daughter in the car. He didn't cooperate and after pepper spray was used the driver drove away at high speed. The trooper did a pit move and unfortunately the little girl died.
The trooper was found not guilty of murder and reckless endangerment. The jury is still deliberating manslaughter. The NYS AG office of Letitia James is prosecutor per NYS law.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 07:41 AM (bfwj/)
Can the Berkley Free Speech guys get it together? Interesting how “free speech” is only an issue when leftists are out of power. When they are in charge, as we’ve all seen in myriad ways, there’s no free speech, absolutely no dissent is allowed.
I once pointed out Uncle Miltie’s axiom “you can have open borders, or you can have a welfare state, but you can’t have both” in a discussion forum and one leftist went positively incandescent. Can’t recall what his response was materially because I think he had a stroke, but he thought it’s indeed possible, or something.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 07:42 AM (q0SzP)
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:42 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:41 AM (99eI0)
Sure make the point that there are 2 ends to the curve.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:42 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)
He just likes Chicks With dicks.
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:42 AM (vFG9F)
fixed it
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:43 AM (gbOdA)
Did his mama say he a good boy?
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 07:43 AM (77rzZ)
Well, you are but it's not like there's a stigma behind it any more.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:45 AM (99eI0)
He was just turning his life around and on his way home from Bible study.
Posted by: The media we USED to watch at November 21, 2025 07:45 AM (XQo4F)
among other things, it definitely is trolling Trump
they know how to push his buttons
IMO
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 07:46 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:47 AM (tgvbd)
"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile".
To this group I would say. "You're not welcome in my country"
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 07:47 AM (mnLCl)
Posted by: callsign claymore at November 21, 2025 07:48 AM (lKJou)
Stop being gay. Problem solved.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:48 AM (dK+Kv)
>> I once pointed out Uncle Miltie’s axiom “you can have open borders, or you can have a welfare state, but you can’t have both”
But even Milton Frieden wouldn’t be in favor of the open boarders free-for-all we have now.
And now we are being hit with open boarders and the movement of labor to the detriment of American workers, h1bs at the high end, mass third world immigration for the low end and offshoring to hollow out the middle.
My friends wife just had her customer service job downsized and relocated to Mexico.
None of what’s going on would have sat well with Friedman.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 07:48 AM (XV/Pl)
COULTER: Oh, I’m so glad you asked. They’re all dying. They’re all between 80 and one foot in the grave. Something that’s been happening with the Democratic Party, I mean, this has been ongoing for a while. It was their idea to bring in, what is it, at this point, about 40 million third worlders because, oh, great news, they’re voting nine to one for us. Well, it didn’t occur to the Democrats, and at some point, the third worlders would want to vote for their own, and that’s exactly what’s happening.
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 07:49 AM (hw2RI)
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“We” did no such thing.
But I do speak or understand a little bit of the academic twaddle, having been immersed in it during my misspent youth. I should have taken up Pool.
it’s part of the hard core leftist worldview. It works whether at the micro or macro level. In short, it isn’t “fair” if you live in a nice neighborhood, nor is it “fair” if you live in a nice country. Their answer isn’t to improve shithole countries, their answer is to fuck everything up. That’s “fair”, or something.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 07:50 AM (q0SzP)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 07:51 AM (YobFY)
Dude With Trans Girlfriend Says He's Not Gay"
"I have *relationships* with women. But I sleep with men."
- a clip from Law & Order, SVU
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 07:51 AM (0CU3H)
What I love about this story is an aspiring rapper made it big and threw it all away supporting a half black commie fag.
Posted by: questionable meat product at November 21, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)
Thank you JJ for reminding us of that.
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 21, 2025 07:53 AM (SVO9s)
I actually made the same observation a few years back but it was more focused on good and bad neighborhoods in this country.
"It's NOT FAIR! that some people live well and others don't. So we must destroy the good places."
Try to fix up a bad neighborhood and "gentrification" get spit out as an insult.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:53 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: Jen the original at November 21, 2025 07:53 AM (sD72b)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 07:54 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:54 AM (99eI0)
Ann Curry: Indians 'Feel Thanksgiving Should Be Day of Mourning''
So, we should give our land back to the Native Americans because they were here first, but we shouldn't let Israel keep the Promised Land that they got before the Palestinians? Okaaay.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 07:56 AM (0CU3H)
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are enforcing the law and preventing illegal aliens from claiming tax benefits intended for American citizens,” Bessent told Breitbart News.
Insallah
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)
Sometimes you’ll hear especially brain dead democrats or republicans mumble something about “immigrants” and social security. Because as everyone knows, hordes of third worlders are clamoring to support aging white democrats in their dotage. That’s what they do. In any case I think Coulter is wrong. They knew what they were doing, leftists have wanted to completely destroy the system by overthrowing and overwhelming the system for at least 80 years, this is no different. Coulter is a good writer at times but inexplicably ascribes good intentions or a naïveté to leftists that is not detectable.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 07:56 AM (q0SzP)
I am sure that the various Indian tribes are happy to have someone to speak on their behalf.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:57 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 07:57 AM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 07:58 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: questionable meat product at November 21, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)
The Washington Post, a real newspaper, celebrates “gay sheep” fashion show hosted by gay-sex app
https://is.gd/eTrmRN
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 07:59 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:37 AM (99eI0)
Yes! Who will steal from the taxpayers, rape my children and become police officers in my town so they can shoot me when I call 911? The Somalians that's who! I love them and hope they supplant the square heads who live here who have done so much harm to colored people and the earth.
Posted by: Karen Muddlumpski, Local democrat scold and busybody at November 21, 2025 08:00 AM (R/m4+)
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It's unconscionable, not to mention thoroughly repugnant on a 1000 levels, that there is cloned meat and milk circulating out there in American grocery stores and we don't even know it. I'm sickened by the thought and can only hope RFK, Jr. can somehow get these foul products labeled so we can at least see which products it affects.
Oh, and Tyson with their quiet bug powders experiments...I don't believe I'd ever purchase anything from your company again.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 21, 2025 08:00 AM (qBdHI)
What I love about this story is an aspiring rapper made it big and threw it all away supporting a half black commie fag.
Posted by: questionable meat product at November 21, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)
Where are The Fugees now?
Pras Michel - future guest of the US prison system.
Lauryn Hill - probable insane asylum, for torching her career at its height.
Wyclef Jean - the only normal one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 08:01 AM (0CU3H)
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I knew we should've never invited the to the first Thanksgiving!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 08:02 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 08:02 AM (QtIaX)
Satisfy Obama's nihilistic hatred of whites because his mother abandoned him.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 21, 2025 08:02 AM (R86kT)
and
"Sometimes you’ll hear especially brain dead democrats or republicans mumble something about “immigrants” and social security"
It's a bit of both. It's not "fair" that "we" (meaning you, not those who claim so) "have so much", backed by a generous helping of 10th century economics, illustrated best by Germany's plan to have Achmed and Mo'hamfisted work to support Hans' retirement...
Throw human tribal tendencies into the mix and stand back. It's getting sporty...
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:02 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: questionable meat product at November 21, 2025 08:03 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 21, 2025 07:32 AM (x0n13)
***
White adjacent
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 21, 2025 08:03 AM (Bo9Yf)
Plyler vs Doe, 1982. I actually knew Jim Plyler, local superintendent of schools at the time. He had very little to do with the actual case, and thought it quite amusing that his name ended up being used in such a consequential way for something he was barely involved in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:03 AM (/ZNPI)
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Yeah, I know. It's not "pink stuff." But I still don't want it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 21, 2025 08:04 AM (qBdHI)
Blue State Somalis Allegedly Sent Welfare Money To Al-Qaeda Ally Planning Another 9/11
Bataclan was a little over 10 years ago.
When, not if, does it happen here?
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:04 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at November 21, 2025 08:04 AM (XQo4F)
It’s why we have Hmong in Colorado, Vietnamese in Iowa, and Cubans and Venezuelans and Colombians in Miami.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 08:04 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:05 AM (lkBjo)
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I vote for neither.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 08:05 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: questionable meat product at November 21, 2025 08:03 AM (vFG9F)
Kind of like cancer.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)
Well, most of my ancestry couldn't read or write... but were pretty good at killing buffalo.
What's a Fugees?"
/really? $20...
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:06 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 21, 2025 08:08 AM (0CU3H)
The irony abounds, no?
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 21, 2025 08:09 AM (dtajH)
I believe the mental illness get added by one of his Public Defender at some point so they get to claim that record.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: NR Pax
Obviously, we need them to facilitate giving taxpayer dollars to terrorist groups in Somalia.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 08:10 AM (0U5gm)
Thank you JJ for reminding us of that.
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This is a Chinese lie.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:11 AM (SwYQF)
"One of the biggest fights at COP is, well, a food fight. Specifically, how much meat is on the menu. Strange bedfellows that include vegan activists, climate-denying bloggers and even Republican House members have made hay over beef and other meats being served at previous COPs."
They think this is straight reporting. ISYN
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 21, 2025 08:11 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 21, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 08:11 AM (77rzZ)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at November 21, 2025 08:12 AM (53oGX)
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She should've been allowed to get away with her obvious crimes. If it weren't for that meddling Trump...
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 21, 2025 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
The party of Anne Frank and Hamas. Two great tastes that taste great together!!
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:13 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: Ring Around The Culture at November 21, 2025 08:13 AM (XQo4F)
They apparently do not wish to do so.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 08:14 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 21, 2025 08:14 AM (DDJSl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 08:14 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:14 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 21, 2025 08:15 AM (h/ffs)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:15 AM (XuXeR)
None of what’s going on would have sat well with Friedman.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 07:48 AM (XV/Pl)
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This has always been the criticism of Friedman (and I am a big fan): Even without welfare, immigrants will come in large numbers, driving down the price of labor.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 08:15 AM (bEZCn)
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Nobody is stopping them from mourning if they so choose. Wallow in misery if that's what you want to do.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 21, 2025 08:16 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:16 AM (SwYQF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:16 AM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:17 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 21, 2025 08:17 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:17 AM (YCxFk)
Escape From New Yorker the Store was 1990s middling box office success in US and the EU but when the ending was recut with the anti-hero Akbar confronting the store manager (the 26X stabbing was offscreen) about having to refold clothes from the dressing rooms it became one of the hottest pirated DVDs in the Middle East.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)
It would be a laugh riot! So hip! So cool! Run to see it!
Posted by: Zombie Sidney Poitier at November 21, 2025 08:18 AM (R/m4+)
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. Monitor our assets, but stay the F outta the way.
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:18 AM (XuXeR)
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Dems are somewhere between just setting up the mechanism to even actively helping Somalians in Minneapolis extract jizya from American citizen infidels to fund terror groups in Somalia.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 08:19 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:19 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Jen the original at November 21, 2025 08:19 AM (sD72b)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at November 21, 2025 08:19 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: dantesed at November 21, 2025 08:19 AM (Oy/m2)
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If so I'd say, Pot meat Kettle. But people are prosecuted for mortgage fraud all the time. It's a real crime. Not trumped-up Trump "crime".
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 08:19 AM (5wSwv)
Posted by: Arbeit macht frei at November 21, 2025 08:20 AM (XQo4F)
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The way I see it unfolding is the same story we've seen over and over ad nauseam. It will turn into an enormous s***hole in short order, and because most of the people who voted for the smiling jihadi are dumber than dirt, no connection will be made. They will see no light. They will have no reflection on how it all went so wrong. That's my take, anyway.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 21, 2025 08:20 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:16 AM (/ZNPI)
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We will know when they start forced evacuations from Tehran up into the mountains north of the city.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:20 AM (CTokg)
This is the only state to never vote for Reagan
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:20 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:48 AM (dK+Kv)
The second you touch a dick, you're gay for life.
Even if he never has sex with a man again, he's still gay.
The poz never comes off.
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 08:20 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:21 AM (YCxFk)
Fucking underage girls on your Honeymoon must be an Upper Middle Class acquired taste.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:21 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:22 AM (CTokg)
https://is.gd/1RfNPZ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 08:22 AM (L/fGl)
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German authorities will no doubt judge him harshly with 18 months probation followed by a citizenship ceremony.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 08:22 AM (Dv3i1)
>>This has always been the criticism of Friedman (and I am a big fan): Even without welfare, immigrants will come in large numbers, driving down the price of labor.
Society is more than labor markets, and that is a major flaw in libertarian thinking, they imagine people as widgets, not flesh and blood, who are motivated by things other than the business cycle.
A country is composed of the people in it and if you introduce more foreigners, the country will become foreign, with all that entails.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 08:23 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Jungle Primary? at November 21, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:24 AM (tljrc)
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Well, then. I guess you are free to go!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 08:24 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:24 AM (YCxFk)
This isn't going to happen because, technically, it's not what they did and no amount of screeching about it will change the very carefully selected words that they used.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Pretty there is a felony in there somewhere for urging someone in the military to commit a felony though.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 21, 2025 08:25 AM (92ekx)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 08:25 AM (beeGd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Secretary Pete at November 21, 2025 08:25 AM (R86kT)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 21, 2025 08:15 AM (h/ffs)
Pretty fast, the Left will cover it up, and the response will be to call us racist conspiracy theorists for bringing it up.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:26 AM (zcxpP)
"Hey everybody! FREE TV'S!!!!!!"
Reap it NYC. Enjoy sharia.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mayor Pete at November 21, 2025 08:26 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at November 21, 2025 08:26 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 08:26 AM (NwnyJ)
Dearborn voted a majority for Trump in 2024
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:24 AM
not to be that guy, but...
source?
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:27 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
What Trump is doing is what Republicans never do but the Left always does. Maintaining and amplifying rhetorical pressure to shape the narrative instead of constantly being a victim of wherever the Left is pushing.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:27 AM (zcxpP)
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hmmm..Russian planes fly into NATO territory "by mistake" ...hmmm
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:28 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: ...
Almost like you've seen this happen tens of thousands of times already.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 08:28 AM (Dv3i1)
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You got caught committing fraud. Now yes, it was only because you ran your entire campaign on "getting Trump," followed through on your 'promise' by bringing a myriad of made up charges, which opened you up to investigation where the fraud was found.
I would call that a 'self-own.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)
World Vasectomy Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 08:29 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:24 AM
not to be that guy, but...
source?
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:27 AM (tljrc)
He is correct. Trump made a big deal about it too. He did not promise them sharia though, just peace in the ME, Gaza resolution etc. So they voted for him.
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:29 AM (g47mK)
I would call that a 'self-own.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
The "he punched me back!" defense.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 08:30 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (g47mK)
Yeah, I'm still the only one still interested in this story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (Go+FT)
I hope I live to see Donkey pulled Porsche Cayennes at the Ralph's.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)
A country is composed of the people in it and if you introduce more foreigners, the country will become foreign, with all that entails.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 08:23 AM (XV/Pl)
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Well said!
I'm hoping democrats (and others) will find out how wrong they were to ignore this -- lest we go down the road of the UK.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (eX8s4)
It'll probably work in places like New York.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025
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ICE is going to start raids here 12/1. (Personally I think they should *say* that, and start raids *today* -- take the criminals by surprise). Of course my local media is full of stories about how "the Hispanic community is terrified." Not a word about "You should be terrified -- IF YOU ARE AN ILLEGAL!!!" and that you have nothing to fear if you are an American citizen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 08:32 AM (wzUl9)
I'm sure that the dems in that video will provide legal assistance for the E-2 that followed their advice, right?
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 08:32 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: ...
I see where they were just putting emphasis on 'not obeying illegal orders..." insinuating that it is a frequently occuring problem.
Conversely i guess Trump is accussing them of trying to foment a military coup.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 21, 2025 08:32 AM (92ekx)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (Y1sOo)
In the process of reporting these deficiencies out, there was another stunning discovery: Many of these students had 4.0 grade point averages in public school.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (eX8s4)
HA!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)
I'm sure that the dems in that video will provide legal assistance for the E-2 that followed their advice, right?
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 08:32 AM (99eI0)
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How many Powerpoint presentations do grunts and officers sit through that describe the process of not following illegal orders already?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (GBKbO)
The greatest irony of all is that Israeli engineers helped the Shah in the 70’s to build a modern, very well designed national water control system. The Ayatollahs have spent the last 42 years letting it decay into uselessness, and in some cases have deliberately torn it up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (/ZNPI)
World Vasectomy Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 08:29 AM
Nip it!
Nip it in the bud!!
Posted by: Don Knotts at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (XQo4F)
If only
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (Y1sOo)
Fonda 1 : Drugs 0
Be better, drugs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte on Tuesday granted a Mass dispensation to immigrants “afraid” to attend due to the possibility of being deported.
“To those of you who are afraid to come to church, you are not obligated to attend Mass when you are inhibited from doing so by circumstances beyond your control, as the Church has always taught,” wrote Martin in a message calling for “prayer and fasting” “in solidarity with all migrants around the world.”
....
Martin’s dispensation is especially shocking since it suggests escaping the consequences of a reasonable law takes precedence over the obligation to worship God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and to care for one’s own soul through fulfillment of that obligation.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 08:34 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:24 AM
Dearborn split its democrat vote between Jill Stein and the assistant retard. I don't know how many mohammedans voted at all, given they would not support a woman having any power.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 08:34 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 08:29 AM
Mine failed........
*sigh*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 21, 2025 08:25 AM (92ekx)
But they didn't. Sure, everyone knows what they MEANT but what they SAID is just basic shit that's literally part of the law which governs the US military and which all members of the military get trained on.
You are not only not required to obey an illegal order, you are officially required to reject illegal orders.
Note that, when asked, they couldn't point to a single illegal order issued by Trump. Not one. Because, if they had tried to list something... THAT would have made their statement illegal. They know what they're doing. They're getting people emotional so that more bad shit happens but they aren't actually doing anything themselves. SSDD.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)
"Hashem allowed Hashem to be entreated by’ Yitzchak," and his wife Rivkah conceived. The children struggled within her, and she said: ’If so, why am I thus? ‘. And she went to inquire of Hashem.
"And Hashem said to her: ’Two nations are in your womb; two regimes from your insides shall be separated; the might shall pass from one regime to the other, and the elder shall serve the younger’."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:34 AM (A0sqA)
Yeah, I'm still the only one still interested in this story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Wrong application of the
Rigthy tighty
Lefty loosey
Rule.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 21, 2025 08:35 AM (92ekx)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 08:35 AM (PCK5/)
Yeah, I'm still the only one still interested in this story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (Go+FT)
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Yes, not much loss of life (a good thing). But youtube aviation channels such as jeffostroff and CaptainSteve are covering it.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 08:35 AM (04f4V)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)
When examining the records of the former Stasi, researchers were astonished to discover how many citizens ratted on their fellow countrymen. They didn't even need official pressure, they eagerly volunteered.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 21, 2025 08:35 AM (h/ffs)
This is because NY is not part of America, and we should stop pretending it is.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:35 AM (BI5O2)
Yeah, I'm still the only one still interested in this story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 08:31 AM (Go+FT)
You're not. Get over yourself.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jonah
Zohran is playing the long game. Houchol already said she's not raising taxes for his free stuff.
When it doesn't happen (taxes), he'll run for governor. But it will be sporty until then.
Then there will be protests about the Constitution re: presidential citizenship.
Then the fun begins.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM (JkCto)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM (2NHgQ)
He is correct. Trump made a big deal about it too. He did not promise them sharia though, just peace in the ME, Gaza resolution etc. So they voted for him.
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:29 AM
thanks
I 'member that now; but I remain a bit incredulous, in light of recent events
=>muslim majority city council
=>"call to prayer" publicly blasted five time a day, citywide
=>open violence against non-muslims in the news in the past week or so
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:33 AM (/ZNPI)
Kind of like the Hamashole digging up the EU waterpipes from Israeli desalinization to make IEDs and Rockets.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at November 21, 2025 08:37 AM (YGEcJ)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:37 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:38 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
I'm luckier than most. One lecture in Boot Camp and one at my unit. That was it. And I was a POG.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 08:38 AM (99eI0)
=>"call to prayer" publicly blasted five time a day, citywide
=>open violence against non-muslims in the news in the past week or so
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM (tljrc)
radical islam, if no one stops it, it will spread
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:38 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:39 AM (YCxFk)
Björk
Stan Musial
Michael Strahan
Ken Griffey Jr.
Marlo Thomas
Goldie Hawn
Voltaire
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)
Yeah, I'm still the only one still interested in this story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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We could see the smoke from the crash at our place... some 40 miles away. There's speculation that the maintenance on the aircraft will be shown to be.... an issue. Specifically the processes for mating/de-mating both the engines and their pylons.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 08:39 AM (NwnyJ)
On Dearborn, pretty sure the source was Fox News. could be wrong
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM
thx, Jonah
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:39 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Nova Local at November 21, 2025 08:39 AM (tOcjL)
If only
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025
***
When she was in her twenties, the major drugs were pot and hash, heroin, and (before it became illegal) LSD. Though she might be counting barbiturates, "goofballs."
I don't think meth, crystal meth, and fentanyl were around much yet. And cocaine was expensive even then. She could have afforded it, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 08:39 AM (wzUl9)
Leftards will sell you up the river for a thimble.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:39 AM (zcxpP)
So, California then?
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:40 AM (XuXeR)
Then calls Trump Hitler
hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)
Björk
Stan Musial
Michael Strahan
Ken Griffey Jr.
Marlo Thomas
Goldie Hawn
Voltaire
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)
That being said, f*ck you, Iceland......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Then calls Trump Hitler
hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)
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She probably raised $30,000 from saying that on the House floor.
Worth it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 08:40 AM (GBKbO)
NEW: Former GOP aide charged after allegedly staging a Smollett-style hoax where she paid a fetish artist to mutilate her body, along with 'Trump Whore' written on her stomach.
Natalie Greene, 26, was found hogtied with black zip ties at Egg Harbor Township Nature Reserve.
She claimed that she was violently attacked by three men with guns who slashed her face and body before drawing political slurs on her.
According to federal prosecutors, however, two days before Greene paid a body modification artist $500 to carve violent wounds into her flesh with a scalpel.
The prosecutors allege that Greene and her accomplice gave conflicting accounts of what happened. They also found that the pair searched for "zip ties near me" days prior.
Greene worked for New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew.
"While Natalie is no longer associated with the congressman’s government office, our thoughts and prayers are with her and hope she’s getting the care she needs," his office said in a statement.
Greene is facing up to 10 years in prison.
https://is.gd/a8bLdM
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And she's a 1.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 08:40 AM (L/fGl)
Yeah, I'm still the only one still interested in this story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Pylon separated at the rear mount, very similar to the American DC10 out of Chicago; the flight that my sister was supposed to be on. Captain Steve did a good segment on it yesterday. There is a ground stop on all of those planes.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 08:40 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:37 AM (YCxFk)
Gross.
I'm sure there are US citizens who are US or IDF veterans with numerous confirmed kills of Muslims, and who still harbor hatred and resentment toward Islam. They should be our MENA ambassadors, not some sandmaggot.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:41 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
It was on tv nooz yesterday morning
So basically just an old airplane body falling apart under stress?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 21, 2025 08:41 AM (eZ5tL)
Yeah, I'm still the only one still interested in this story.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Why would the NTSB even HAVE photos if you were the ONLY ONE INTERESTED in that story.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)
As I posted above her office is prosecuting a state trooper for the death of a little girl. Thus far the murder and six counts of reckless endangerment have led to not guilty findings. Deliberations on manslaughter continue today.
May your New Year be worse Tish
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 08:41 AM (bfwj/)
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I used to have a different nic Johnson is right
that video was carefully scripted and vetted by lawyers so the people appearing in it can deny they committed any crime, or encouraged service members to disobey their superiors
they are trolling Trump and he bit hard
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 08:42 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 08:34 AM (ExV1e)
And Trump is getting people emotional in the other direction. That's one of the ways you fight it.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:42 AM (zcxpP)
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte on Tuesday granted a Mass dispensation to immigrants “afraid” to attend due to the possibility of being deported.
“To those of you who are afraid to come to church, you are not obligated to attend Mass when you are inhibited from doing so by circumstances beyond your control, as the Church has always taught,” wrote Martin in a message calling for “prayer and fasting” “in solidarity with all migrants around the world.”
....
Martin’s dispensation is especially shocking since it suggests escaping the consequences of a reasonable law takes precedence over the obligation to worship God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and to care for one’s own soul through fulfillment of that obligation.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025
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Similar sentiments are being expressed by ministers here, where ICE raids are in the offing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 08:42 AM (wzUl9)
Stan Musial -sportsball
Michael Strahan - sportsball
Ken Griffey Jr. - sportsball
Marlo Thomas - That Girl!
Goldie Hawn - Sock it To Her!
Voltaire - French
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:42 AM (A0sqA)
This is because NY is not part of America, and we should stop pretending it is.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:35 AM (BI5O2)
I remember that guy! Caught the winning touchdown from Eli Manning in Super Bowl 42… that’s the SB where the Giants beat the Patriots to ruin their undefeated season. Still among my favorite SBs… great game a the signature play was David Tyree’s “Helmet Catch”…. Not sure why I remember these details
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 08:43 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 08:42 AM (AOsQT)
Why don't you suppose he is trolling them right back?
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:43 AM (zcxpP)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 21, 2025 08:43 AM (u82oZ)
After WWII we forced the Germans to acknowledge what they had done and hanged a bunch of national socialists.
We never did that for international socialists after the cold war ended.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:43 AM (sKqQm)
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There is a slow motion collapse happening around the world.
The wide-open spigot of US dollars that propped the whole world up has only barely started to close.
You know why Trump hasn't shut it off completely (especially all you whining about "what about the DOGE cuts?!)?
Look, look at what Trump's doing:
Massive on-shoring of manufacturing, investments, and capital. Flushes of the crypto (read: BRICS), forcing everyone back to the dollar. Oil and gas expansion with modular nuclear about to take off. Deportations and sealing the border.
All of these point to the same place: The US will be the only safe-place.
IF Trump can get us there before the collapse.
(The insane part is the aged; they will starve if Trump can't do this in time, yet they hate him the most)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 08:43 AM (HXT0k)
Then calls Trump Hitler
hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx
She never said it was that Hitler.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 08:43 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 21, 2025 08:43 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:44 AM (XuXeR)
The EU Commission has recently faced mounting pressure from both Washington and the key LNG supplier, Qatar. US Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick had months earlier called on US companies to simply ignore Europe’s ESG framework if it significantly impeded operations—a direct affront to Ursula von der Leyen, who likes to portray herself as the morally superior, untouchable guardian of EU trade.
Together, these forces launched an offensive to bring Brussels’ climate defense to its knees, where cognitive dissonance had taken hold and the undeniable drift of geopolitical power was being ignored.
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 08:44 AM (RHGPo)
They released the first part of the Opinion while Smith was out of town at a funeral.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Forget it he's rolling
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:45 AM (zcxpP)
Now: Telling the military to overthrow the president is just free speech!
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:45 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 21, 2025 08:45 AM (eZ5tL)
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Thank you Judge Smith!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 08:46 AM (OIPxF)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)
They released the first part of the Opinion while Smith was out of town at a funeral.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)
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Smith provides evidence that the two district court judges changed the outline and reasoning 5 separate times while deliberating while only telling him that they were going to strike the maps 3 days before the opinion was released.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 08:46 AM (GBKbO)
“News distortion and broadcast hoax...”
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 08:46 AM (RHGPo)
My memory is a bit hazy, but I think it was covered when I was at AOCS, but don't recall anything about it thereafter in any of my units.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 08:46 AM (Y1sOo)
Isn't there some pol in Africa named Adolf Hitler? Could be he said something nice about him...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:46 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)
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I've seen it asserted that it was Cornyn.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 08:47 AM (GBKbO)
Many "on our side" were pro socialist of all types. Until June 22, 1941
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 08:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 08:47 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:47 AM (sKqQm)
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she was Rachel's mother on Friends, and I would have to say
the MILFy goodness was baked right in
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 08:48 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
I've mentioned several times Tony Shaloub's show Breaking Bread. The other day he was in Iceland baking bread in a volcano.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 08:48 AM (L/fGl)
Hollyweird needs to redo "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" except this go around he's a Somali.
It would be a laugh riot! So hip! So cool! Run to see it!
Posted by: Zombie Sidney Poitier
Based on the appearance of the Minneapolis mutant mayoral candidate, it would be more like "Guess E.T.'s Coming to Dinner".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 21, 2025 08:48 AM (xG4kz)
The sad question is, how was one of these lefty pigs appointed by Trump? Who the fuck vets these clowns?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 08:48 AM (OIPxF)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 08:48 AM (OIPxF)
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Blue slips.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 08:48 AM (GBKbO)
May you be blessed in your travels and home life.
Got stuff to do, alas.
** Goes to Whiteboard **
"My name is NaCly Dog, and I have an addiction problem with a smart military blog and the savvy comments and posts. "
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 21, 2025 08:49 AM (u82oZ)
There are around 12 Million OCare people that have never claimed 1 single cent of services or drugs.
I shall translate:
Insurers and agent have set up 12 million Zombie accounts that are paid in full yet provide ZERO pay out.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)
The left: FAUX News makes things up! Why would you even watch "news" that doesn't actually show you the truth?
Also the left: Well, even if the BBC did splice together clips like this it still captures the spirit of what Trump was doing that day
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:49 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)
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By the same people that impeached Trump and were going to make him die broke and destitute in prison for "inciting an insurrection."
IDGAF about the law anymore--the law is an ass that only protects the guilty at this point.
ONLY after the Democrats and the left have had more than enough turns on the wheel of torture they built, will I care again about the "rule of law."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 08:50 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:50 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 08:51 AM (OIPxF)
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she was Rachel's mother on Friends, and I would have to say
the MILFy goodness was baked right in
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025
***
A genius casting move. Marlo's Ann Marie was the Sixties forerunner of Jen Aniston's Rachel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 08:51 AM (wzUl9)
Trump's DOJ should adopt the same standard.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:51 AM (sKqQm)
May your New Year be worse Tish
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 08:41 AM (bfwj/)
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The crash happened after a PIT maneuver, something done all the time. As far as I know , police are not held responsible. Until now?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 08:51 AM (bEZCn)
So they are both guilty
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk)
I am a born and raised NY'er. I love my city and my state... but... the city is filled with effin morons... mamdani??? are you kidding me. Thankfully, I am a long islander now and out of touch with the city politics... but seriously people... did you really think that this communist was going to be able to give you everything for free??? ugh!!!!
Posted by: Cathymv at November 21, 2025 08:51 AM (LPyx5)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
There are a lot of pretend conservatives. You see the mask drop every day.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 08:52 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 08:52 AM (y0M1d)
But more to the point she personally cancelled a couple of gas pipelines...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:52 AM (sKqQm)
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
Two Virginia men — an assistant principal at a local high school and his brother — were arrested for plotting to shoot
@ICEgov
agents.Great job to the @VBPD
for placing these SICKOS in custody.
Democrats have unleashed a left-wing terror movement that must be stopped.
https://tinyurl.com/2fv73r8h
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 08:52 AM (NpAcC)
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This is one case where I think Trump's rhetoric is unhelpful. Oversell doesn't always work.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 08:52 AM (s0JqF)
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Vetting seems to be a recurring problem with Trump and his team. He's had more than a few appointees turn out to be leftist holdovers or deep state moles.
And Laura Loomer of all people is one person who's outed a bunch of them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 08:53 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:47 AM (sKqQm)
We know at least 6 house seat were NOT properly assigned in 2021. NE and Rust Belt and Cali.
So if by some miracle JD or Lil Marco can pull out a win in 28 then when 30 rolls around there will be 12 to 15 House Seats that will move with the Census and my guess is 10 to 12 will be (R) seats.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:53 AM (gbOdA)
I mean, if you can't trust Harvard experts...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 08:53 AM (OIPxF)
Hopefully, I won’t spend most of the day puking like I did yesterday.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)
That woman is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with her, I can prove it.
Posted by: Randolph Duke at November 21, 2025 08:54 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Just got here at November 21, 2025 08:54 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 08:51 AM (OIPxF)
Get Snake to ride along.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:55 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:56 AM (XuXeR)
Obviously, I missed a guest speaker at Career Day in my high school.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 08:56 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)
I have diarrhea and a bad cough! NOT GOOD!
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)
Happened in Illinois. Chicago fed court got some losers, but Trump got some quality Judges in the Conservative downs state courts
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)
I remember that guy! Caught the winning touchdown from Eli Manning in Super Bowl 42… that’s the SB where the Giants beat the Patriots to ruin their undefeated season. Still among my favorite SBs… great game a the signature play was David Tyree’s “Helmet Catch”…. Not sure why I remember these details
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 08:43 AM (YobFY)
That helmet catch was the moment I knew the Manning family sold their soul for fame and fortune. Any 'big throw' Eli made, he just closed his eyes and hurled the ball down field.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Trump is STILL facing multiple felonies--which would also see him die in prison--in Georgia.
For the felony of merely saying "find me 11k votes" in the context of asking--not an order, not a demand, not a threat--but a plea for the Georgia officials to review the totals for any irregularities.
But the same fuckers that are whining "we're not calling for sedition!! We're getting death threats now! Whaaaaaa!!" were and are the same ones that STILL are trying to put Trump in prison for life.
F 'em. Burn 'em all. They can plead their case to Jesus.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 08:57 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Kate Upton's Misshapen Form at November 21, 2025 08:57 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 21, 2025 08:58 AM (gm9Sb)
·
17h
Crash test breakthrough: Trump’s Transportation Department unveils new female dummy https://trib.al/suPKBK8
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 08:59 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 08:53 AM (77rzZ)
I suggest you start drinking heavily.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)
The Left claimed for decades while they owned every network that we were crazy and news could never be biased because the news is the news and they can't help it if news just happens to look leftard.
Until Fox came along and overtook them at which point of course news can be biased.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 08:59 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:59 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Jonah at November 21, 2025 09:00 AM (YCxFk)
Pam Bondi will be the first cabinet secretary to go.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 09:00 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 08:59 AM (AOsQT)
Modeled after AOC
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:00 AM (zcxpP)
Modeled after AOC
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:00 AM (zcxpP)
Empty head and big boobs?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)
The sad question is, how was one of these lefty pigs appointed by Trump? Who the fuck vets these clowns?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 08:48 AM (OIPxF)
*******
Someone is trying to sabotage Trump and the Republicans. Trump and his new administration need to look into how this happened and who recommended this judge.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 09:01 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 08:51 AM (OIPxF)
When you land, set up your perimeter quickly and preposition the 60mms and The Pigs and get the wire out. Dig those fighting holes and send out a recon patrol. Gotta get this all done before nightfall and the next son of a bitch I catch copping "Z"s in the bush, I'm personally gonna take an interest in seeing him suffer. I shit you not.
Posted by: Sgt. Barnes at November 21, 2025 09:01 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 09:02 AM (bfwj/)
It's going to be lit.
Posted by: torabora at November 21, 2025 09:03 AM (Ux1MC)
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 08:52 AM (s0JqF)
Depends what he's trying to do. If it's staying on offense instead of playing defense and letting the Left set the fake boundaries of the playing field, then he has done it before and it absolutely works.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:04 AM (zcxpP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
I don't even follow the NFL but am aware that Payton and Eli are over-exposed.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 09:04 AM (Y8DZL)
https://shorturl.at/wOsDF
Laughing Wolf
(from Sarah Hoyt at Glenn's place)
"One thing I can say is that I expect this will end the use of MD-10/MD-11 planes in the U.S."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 21, 2025 09:04 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)
We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep America safe. We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now. Americans trust their military. That trust is at risk. This administration is pitting our uniform military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens. Us, you all swore an oath. To protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution. We know this is hard. And that it's a difficult time to be a... But whether you're serving in the CIA, the Army, or Navy, the Air Force, your vigilance is critical. Know that we have your back. Because now, more than ever, the American people need you. We need you to stand up for our laws, for Constitution, and who we are as Americans. Don't give up . . . .
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 09:05 AM (dK+Kv)
He was previously appointed to trial court position by at that time Gov. Rick Perry.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 09:06 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 09:06 AM (UnA8+)
- plane was old
- maintenance was slipshod
- engine fell off at full thrust
- crew + 11 others died.
- big mess to cleanup
That’s it, that’s all there is, story’s over.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 09:06 AM (/ZNPI)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 09:06 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)
Crash test breakthrough: Trump’s Transportation Department unveils new female dummy https://trib.al/suPKBK8
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 08:59 AM (AOsQT)
That was a great disappointment. I wanted to have a latex Kamala Harris mask on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 09:09 AM (/ZNPI)
"One thing I can say is that I expect this will end the use of MD-10/MD-11 planes in the U.S."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
The visual inspection of the mount was scheduled for something like every seven years. Annual inspection and replacing the mounts on a regular basis would take care of the issue. The plane had 90,000 hours, and most of the others are in the same range, so they may be retired just for age, but they could be made safe.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 09:09 AM (0U5gm)
11/19/25 Aftyn Behn-- the Democrat nominee for the upcoming TN07 special election-- says that she despises Nashville, the city that she's running to represent in Congress:
“I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville. I hate it."
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11/20/25
Aftyn Behn for Congress
@aftynfortn
NO, I DO NOT HATE THE CITY I REPRESENT
The national GOP's new attack? That I “hate Nashville." I’ve cried in the Country Music Hall of Fame no less than 10 times. They’re panicking because we’re close to winning. Eyes on the prize, y’all. Let’s go.
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She never said it was that Nashville.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 09:09 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 09:10 AM (bfwj/)
Fellow independent journalist Cam Higby attempted to enter a mosque in Dearborn a few days ago, then was followed by a drone for the next 30 min or so.
Yes, the mosque has its own drones
Wonder what else this
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:10 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 09:10 AM (Y1sOo)
Bringing the Crazy and Seriously Crazy Eyes to Nashville:
https://instapundit.com/757807/
If you're not a believer in demonic possession,
here's a good chance to reassess your beliefs.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 09:11 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at November 21, 2025 09:11 AM (0jyV2)
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:11 AM (GbwPZ)
How many Powerpoint presentations do grunts and officers sit through that describe the process of not following illegal orders already?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
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I'm luckier than most. One lecture in Boot Camp and one at my unit. That was it. And I was a POG.
Posted by: NR Pax
It was death by repeating lecture and constant training for those of us in the nuclear surety, warhead custodial assignments. Constantly tested for reliability in following presidential release of nuclear warheads, and not refusing to do so when ordered.
Posted by: BifBewalski at November 21, 2025 09:12 AM (HfJnQ)
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Not what we want or need. We need to regress at least a century.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 09:12 AM (s0JqF)
The No Kings group wants people to boycott Target, Home Depot, and Amazon on Black Friday because they are "enabling the Trump administration's abuses of power."
Posted by: fd
How exactly are they doing this ? If people refuse to shop at those places the economy will
Crash thus destroying Trump's agenda?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:12 AM (Yl2Ob)
Fellow independent journalist Cam Higby attempted to enter a mosque in Dearborn a few days ago, then was followed by a drone for the next 30 min or so.
Yes, the mosque has its own drones
Wonder what else this unofficial muslim military base mosque has on hand?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:10 AM (GbwPZ)
He also got maced while he was in Dearborn.
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 09:12 AM (UnA8+)
You know Democrats are losing badly when there's not even an election coming and they are pretending to care about America.
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:12 AM (zcxpP)
Some of them might be tough to find, and I'd have to comb through the countryside. Who in America harbors an abiding hatred of Equatorial Guinea, for instance? Well there's somebody in this country whose parents were murdered by the Nguemas or something, and that would be my ambassador to Equatorial Guinea.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:13 AM (BI5O2)
Funny, trying to link those two together.
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 09:13 AM (XuXeR)
________________
One of Mitch McConnell'd tactics for getting judges passed was to give the Democrats some of their picks in return for getting a few of ours passed. Horse trading they call it. The Democrats never reciprocate when they have the gavel.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 09:13 AM (y0M1d)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
=>"call to prayer" publicly blasted five time a day, citywide
=>open violence against non-muslims in the news in the past week or so
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:36 AM
radical islam, if no one stops it, it will spread
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:38 AM
Islam itself is radical. It is a radical totalitarian political ideology about world conquest. There are Muslims who are terrorists to carry out the conquest through violence, there are Muslims who infiltrate governments and institutions BAMN and use their power to conquer and then there are the rest of the Muslims who are in support of all this.
There is no non-radical Islam or non-radical Muslims. Islam is radical.
And if it is not banned from all western nations and places like Japan like Naziism was banned, then western civilization will be conquered by Muslims, just as the world was in past history.
Speaking of Japan, the new Prime Minister is not fucking around:
X video: https://bit.ly/48iILSW
- If you are illegal you will be deported
- If you break the law you will be deported
- If you don't follow local customs you will be deported
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 09:14 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:15 AM (Yl2Ob)
I was born Muslim, in a Muslim family, under a Muslim government. I will never move to a city where Muslims are the majority again. Once they become the majority, they don’t just live their beliefs, they start imposing them on everyone around them.
People don't realize that "expansion" and "dominance" are not fringe ideas in Islam, they’re baked into the ideology. Islam is not separable from politics or the state. The Prophet Mohammad's life, the Hadith that Muslims are told to model themselves after, includes around 80 wars.
Westerners are committing suicide by inviting this ideology into their institutions, their politics, and their offices and pretending it's just another private belief system. That is not how this works.
X: https://bit.ly/4oPLEBr
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 09:16 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 09:16 AM (bfwj/)
Those planes make up a sizeable percentage of the air cargo planes for not only UPS but FedEx too. Like a third of it. Grounded. Before the holidays.
Order your shit now.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 09:16 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
Well, then. Drink vodka.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)
That is not a good look and why was she stupid enough to say that in public?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:17 AM (Yl2Ob)
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They're inhuman monsters!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 09:18 AM (L/fGl)
Never Trump 2.0
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More like 12.0, at least.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 09:18 AM (s0JqF)
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She knows she's safe because we cannot possibly find another Jasmine Crockett WORSE than this one.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 21, 2025 09:19 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
My doesn't like my drinking, but I do it anyway.
He's a fatty, so he doesn't have much room to throw stones, especially since I've lost over 50 pounds since my diagnosis.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)
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From the very beginning, NYC was not happy with the American Republic.
Posted by: mustbequantum at November 21, 2025 09:20 AM (WiQPM)
Islam itself is radical. It is a radical totalitarian political ideology about world conquest. There are Muslims who are terrorists to carry out the conquest through violence, there are Muslims who infiltrate governments and institutions BAMN and use their power to conquer and then there are the rest of the Muslims who are in support of all this.
They like to call the muslham terrorist 'radical.'
I call them Orthodox.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fd
***
I stay away from the first two on Black Friday anyway. Too crowded.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:20 AM (77rzZ)
Gee, anyone recall the first Trump impeachment?
It was put together by a military dude, Vindman, and a CIA guy, Eric whatshisname.
But sure, Trump is overreacting to this totally innocent ploy by these Democrat traitors. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:20 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:21 AM (zcxpP)
Speaking of Japan, the new Prime Minister is not fucking around:
X video: https://bit.ly/48iILSW
- If you are illegal you will be deported
- If you break the law you will be deported
- If you don't follow local customs you will be deported
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 21, 2025 09:14 AM (P5BPp)
That guy gets it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:21 AM (Yl2Ob)
When are they going to sue?
Posted by: torabora at November 21, 2025 09:21 AM (Ux1MC)
Heh, Ok, you do you, grannies and grandpa boomer activists! How's your retirement portfolio doin'?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:22 AM (GbwPZ)
__________
Failed only at taking out Trump.
Completely succeeded in getting their mouth breathing base all worked up and energized.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 21, 2025 09:22 AM (a5sKR)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:22 AM (77rzZ)
I was born Muslim, in a Muslim family, under a Muslim government. I will never move to a city where Muslims are the majority again. Once they become the majority, they don’t just live their beliefs, they start imposing them on everyone around them.
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It is not in our natures to label a group for the actions of a minority. It seems that muslims are different.
" We are the borg. Resistance is futil. e."
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 09:22 AM (beeGd)
That is not a good look and why was she stupid enough to say that in public?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:17 AM (Yl2Ob)
Well...to be fair, the interesting part starts when the Democrats get her elected.
DEMOCRATS
Elect Us Because We Hate You and Hate Our Country!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 09:23 AM (iJfKG)
When are they going to sue?
When are we going to have transgender hurricanes!!!!!
Posted by: Ghost of Sheila Jackson-Lee at November 21, 2025 09:23 AM (GbwPZ)
Even though he is not Muslim (he's a white guy who was born in Britain and has been in the states for 20 years), he suddenly got into this weird fascination with Islam regardless, and wouldn't allow anyone to criticize it.
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 09:24 AM (UnA8+)
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Certainly not truth or facts!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 09:24 AM (L/fGl)
NO, I DO NOT HATE THE CITY I REPRESENT
The national GOP's new attack? That I “hate Nashville." I’ve cried in the Country Music Hall of Fame no less than 10 times. They’re panicking because we’re close to winning. Eyes on the prize, y’all. Let’s go.
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She never said it was that Nashville.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 09:09 AM (L/fGl)
Oh. But I wasn't saying that about THIS city! It was just another American city that I HATE WITH A PASSION! All good, you see?
FFS........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 09:24 AM (AOsQT)
Pretty low bar. They will fall for any lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 09:24 AM (viF8m)
From Laura's Links at Mark Steyn's site:
Why do Boomers love ellipses? (I like them, too...)
https://granta.com/connecting-the-dots/
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)
DEMOCRATS
Elect Us Because We Hate You and Hate Our Country!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 09:23 AM (iJfKG)
The Democrat electorate hears that as "We hate your neighbors and will hurt them... FOR YOU!"
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 09:25 AM (UnA8+)
https://instapundit.com/757807/
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Eh, she's the Democrat nominee already. It's Nashville. She'll win. Doesn't matter if she tells the city she hates them all.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:25 AM (BI5O2)
Dang!
Uh. . . can I have your slice of cake then?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:25 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Yes, they are grounded.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 21, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm)
Why do Boomers love ellipses? (I like them, too...)
https://granta.com/connecting-the-dots/
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)
I am not a boomer. I don't use ellipses very often.
I just throw a bunch of random periods at the end of a statement to imply that my thought is trailing off.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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DoT and FAA. There's speculation none of those 3-engined jets will operate here in the US again as cargo transports. The issues with the engine pylons go back decades.
So, UPS and FedEx will have to find other planes, or buy them, to fill in the gaps.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 09:26 AM (NwnyJ)
This year I might drive to Jackson (ugh) to visit the tobacconist shop there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:26 AM (wzUl9)
Eric Swalwell announced last night on Kimmel's show that he is running for Governor of California.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 09:26 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:25 AM (BI5O2)
Masochists, the libtards are.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)
Eric Swalwell announced last night on Kimmel's show that he is running for Governor of California.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 09:26 AM (NpAcC)
HA! HAHAHAHA!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)
Heavy Metal chick.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 09:27 AM (dK+Kv)
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Ignore? They did this on purpose, with malice aforethought. They have been very vocal about this for decades. I’m not sure why anyone would come to other conclusions. The chaos is a Feature, not a Bug. As intended.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 09:27 AM (V9VN1)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
https://instapundit.com/757807/
Look at them boots!
Going back to her roots . . . in a new kind of suit
Posted by: Alan Jackson at November 21, 2025 09:28 AM (GbwPZ)
Heavy Metal chick.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 09:27 AM (dK+Kv)
As you can see, I'm so poor, I can't really pay attention.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Don Black
Handful, mouthful, it's all good. Who likes pendulous bags?
Posted by: Man About Town at November 21, 2025 09:29 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 09:29 AM (AOsQT)
Even though he is not Muslim (he's a white guy who was born in Britain and has been in the states for 20 years), he suddenly got into this weird fascination with Islam regardless, and wouldn't allow anyone to criticize it.
Posted by: XTC
this is interesting, did he lead a troubled life?
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 09:29 AM (g47mK)
Here is a birthday prayer:
God of all creation, we offer you grateful praise for the gift of life . Hear the prayer for "Bulgar", your servant, who recalls today the day of his birth and rejoices in your gifts of life and love, family and friends. Bless him with your presence and surround him with your love, that he may enjoy many happy years, all of them pleasing to you
I ask this through Christ the Lord. Amen.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:29 AM (Dsoxb)
It's an article of faith on the left that Trump is guilty of every single crime any Democrat has been credibly accused of, including showering with his daughter, having advanced dementia, farting in Congress, and banging Chinese spies. The latest twist is that Melania is clearly "Big Mel" and has a giant dick.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 09:30 AM (2ocoG)
Well, he makes such pithy comments!
Gen X here, and I probably overuse the interobang even more than the ellipses.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:30 AM (GbwPZ)
From Laura's Links at Mark Steyn's site:
Why do Boomers love ellipses? (I like them, too...)
https://granta.com/connecting-the-dots/
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025
***
The writer doesn't understand that a complete sentence followed by an ellipsis needs a period first, to end the sentence -- four dots, in other words. An incomplete sentence or thought takes three.
"It was going to mean trouble. . . ."
vs.
"Trouble, probably . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)
Democrats import muslhams to kill you and create incredible chaos so those that survive will scream for the government to do something about all the violence and bloodshed.
Democrats will invoke martial law, take away your guns and constitutional freedoms in the name of 'saving democracy.'
Now that they have ultimate power, they will expect the muslhams they imported and paid to kill off freedom loving Americans to quell and abide.
They won't.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Did they make you watch Crimson Tide as well?
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 09:31 AM (99eI0)
Thank you so much, Fen. I don't have words, truly. Well, except for "God Bless You," and may God also bless you with everything you prayed for me.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Well, we thought the Weather Underground disintegrated decades ago too. Turns out all its boomer members just groomed and radicalized the Antifa generation.
It's frustrating how bad ideologies don't get stamped out, they just evolve like virus to infect a new generation.
Posted by: LizLem at November 21, 2025 09:32 AM (gWBY1)
“I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville. I hate it."
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11/20/25
Aftyn Behn for Congress
@aftynfortn
NO, I DO NOT HATE THE CITY I REPRESENT
The national GOP's new attack? That I “hate Nashville." I’ve cried in the Country Music Hall of Fame no less than 10 times. They’re panicking because we’re close to winning. Eyes on the prize, y’all. Let’s go.
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Trump made me say it! Trump!!
Posted by: Aftyn Behn, who names their kid "Aftyn"? at November 21, 2025 09:32 AM (UdbGC)
Thank you so much, Fen. I don't have words, truly. Well, except for "God Bless You," and may God also bless you with everything you prayed for me.
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Happy Birthday and Amen to what Fen said
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 09:32 AM (VE6XX)
Did they make you watch Crimson Tide as well?
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 09:31 AM (99eI0)
F*ck them. They lost to Oklahoma. At home.
Shitty football team........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (zcxpP)
"My cats are a lot of trouble . . . but I love them anyway."
The ellipsis there could be replaced easily by a comma, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Don Black at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (AOsQT)
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Say what you will about Hunter Biden, at least he's no yellow.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (L/fGl)
*falls off couch laughing*
PLEASE, stick with that one - I love it!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 09:34 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)
You're most welcome. I hope you have a lovely day!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 09:36 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: redridinghood at November 21, 2025 09:26 AM (NpAcC)
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With Fang Fang's money and loving support, anything is possible.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 21, 2025 09:36 AM (UdbGC)
*falls off couch laughing*
PLEASE, stick with that one - I love it!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (GbwPZ)
Don't forget that they accused him of murdering the original Melania and replacing her with a series of body doubles.
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (UnA8+)
Did anybody realize that Epstein was running the government ?
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (RHGPo)
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Irish, perhaps? A lot of them fetishize Arabs even more than the English do.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:38 AM (BI5O2)
Foreign Culture fetish in general, I think.
But especially Islam.
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 09:47 AM (UnA8+)
*falls off couch laughing*
PLEASE, stick with that one - I love it!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 21, 2025 09:33 AM (GbwPZ)
Don't forget that they accused him of murdering the original Melania and replacing her with a series of body doubles.
Posted by: XTC at November 21, 2025 09:37 AM (UnA8+)
Vic Tayback or Al Molinaro?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 21, 2025 09:51 AM (x0n13)
Strange how of late we're stepping back in time, teaching new generations of certain "causes" of the past, and which often involved youth and, sometimes, violence.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, '3,000 protested conditions for Philly’s Black students in 1967. Here’s how these city kids remembered it.' “Hey hey!” a group of students yelled, 58 years after thousands of Philadelphia students marched for rights for Black students. “Ho ho! Black history will never go!” Published Friday, November 21, 2025
In part, "The timing of the celebration was important, organizers said — not just on the anniversary of the demonstration, but 20 years after Philadelphia became the first district in the United States to implement African American history as a graduation requirement."
>Shake the System: 1967 Philly Student Walkout
YouTube whatsPOPPYN, Nov 18, 2025
Police Commission/Mayor, Frank Rizzo, Sr & certain groups had a complicated relationship way back.
Medium, 'The Philadelphia Black Mafia: Angelo Bruno, Frank Matthews and the death of Major Coxson (Part One),' Dec 8, 2021.
(Won't belabor the fact that the Philly and Burg regions
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 10:32 AM (NFX2v)
We're stepping back to the Progressive Era, and also to the more recent 2020 Democratic election platform playbook when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Bernie Sanders & Rep. Jim Clyburn's influential endorsement of Joe Biden - widely credited with reviving Biden's also failing campaign - came days before the South Carolina primary.
Bonding. Joe & AOC were pals. Not accidentally.
'Biden wins backing of AOC and Squad Members and Omar,' Bloomberg, Jul 9, 2024
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Locally - '6 charged in jumping 2 victims on 69th Street for their hoodies, jackets and sneakers,' Nov 20, '25.
Four adults, 2 minors with LOTS of hyphenated names, doing selective shopping after 1 am.
The victims were told, "We're MS-13," but weren't impressed. They were robbed of their outer attire & accessories.
"Police found an AR-style compressed air BB gun, a Glock style BB gun, a black Moncler Jacket, valued at $2,000, a Bathing Ape Sweatshirt, valued at $600, a pair of New Balance 220 sneakers and an Under Armour backpack."
ICE ICE Baby for them & theirs.
Good weekend!🤗
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 21, 2025 10:32 AM (NFX2v)
businesses using cloud telephony. Flexible numbering helps improve scalability.
Posted by: DID and TFN solutions at November 21, 2025 02:15 PM (2kIjs)
you… https://fl0w2bash88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at November 21, 2025 02:53 PM (8DMeP)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 21, 2025 06:25 PM (wGqjj)
Daily Tech News 21 November 2025
Top Story
- High King Mustafa, Lord of Microsoft's AI division, is angered by your insufficient displays of appreciation for his bountiful distribution of AI slop. (PC Magazine)
"Remember the days," he asked, "when all you had to eat was bread and cheese, and meat, and vegetables, and fruit in season, and pasta, and rice, and beans, and fish, and eggs, and chocolate cake? Why aren't you properly grateful for the disgusting slop we are forcing down your miserable gullets? Don't you know how lucky you are to live in an age where slop like this is available?"
He then reportedly threw a chair at an intern.
Tech News
- Nvidia posted record revenues of $57 billion for the quarter, up 62% from the same period last year. (Tom's Hardware)
Nvidia predicts an even better result next quarter. Since the company already charges $100 per GB for memory on its high-end graphics cards, it is not going to feel the same pinch as regular users as memory prices soar across the board. It might cut margins from 90% to 85%.
- Intel has reduced the price of its flagship Ultra 9 285K CPU to $429. (Tom's Hardware)
Not only is this a dead-end platform set to be replaced next year, but the upcoming - though still dead-end - Ultra 7 270K will provide the same performance for less money. The 270K is a refresh of the current 265K, which is selling for $300.
- What happens when even college students can't do math anymore? (The Atlantic) (archive site)
This has been the case for a very long time, but it suddenly got a lot worse.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: I KNOW!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 04:00 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 21, 2025 04:02 AM (yzGjr)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 21, 2025 04:03 AM (mvZ2E)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 04:06 AM (gLYp7)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 21, 2025 04:10 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 04:11 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 21, 2025 04:34 AM (CF1xw)
Posted by: Just Wondering at November 21, 2025 04:38 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 04:40 AM (+qU29)
Maybe blockchain will provide more security. Or just contribute to the implosion.
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 21, 2025 04:40 AM (CF1xw)
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 21, 2025 04:43 AM (CF1xw)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 04:52 AM (RuTUS)
omg, Boy Scouts. Swalwell is running for California governor.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 03:26 AM (szVG/)
aagghh
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 04:53 AM (RuTUS)
Maybe giving his Sucession of the Union document for NY
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 04:55 AM (+qU29)
Said the guy who sounds like he's snorting the soap mixture the bubble's made of.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 04:58 AM (O7YUW)
Yanno, Pixy, you're gettin' good at this blogging thing.
'Mornin', Hordelings.
Posted by: creeper at November 21, 2025 05:01 AM (80oeU)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 05:02 AM (+qU29)
That's at the very end of the series.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip
'Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 05:08 AM (gLYp7)
Good morning from the Adirondacks, where the temps have more bounce than a trampoline. This bounce is upward, into the 50s for the week.
I think it was a touch prescient when I compared Windows 11 to fellating rotten maggot penis earlier. That may have been mild. Between AI and Microsoft the 'net may be inhabitable for a time.
Thus may all effort from you result in maximal benefit to you and egregious heartburn for the leftwit fungi.
Some semblance of normality should prevail.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 21, 2025 05:08 AM (vFbHf)
This happens:
https://youtu.be/hmUVo0xVAqE
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 05:09 AM (O7YUW)
This clown is more dangerous to the US that any of those foreign assholes.
Posted by: pawn at November 21, 2025 05:10 AM (sPsWv)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 05:10 AM (+qU29)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 05:11 AM (+qU29)
Maybe giving his Sucession of the Union document for NY
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 04:55 AM (+qU29)
huh
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 05:16 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 05:16 AM (gLYp7)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 05:17 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 21, 2025 05:21 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 21, 2025 05:24 AM (a1415)
I am up and awake (for certain values of "awake") because a certain black cat once known as The Evil Black Kitten of War and Pestilence wants to reclaim his title. He keeps leaping across the bed at ungodly hours, sometimes hitting me with his back legs as he goes. I suppose he's hungry -- which in cats often manifests in manic behavior.
Little Dagny was curled quietly near my feet during all this. Probably she is wondering: "Wha the F**K??"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 05:24 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 21, 2025 05:26 AM (3Ope8)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025
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Revoltingly warm here, 72 F. Maybe I'll ditch my workout until Sunday. I've done three solid sessions this week already. Right? Right????
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 05:26 AM (wzUl9)
My retard in Christ, we hated Clippy. What makes you think we wanted Clippy 2.0?
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 05:28 AM (99eI0)
'Hold my beer'
OK, since I can't follow the link ,what have we done this time?
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 05:29 AM (99eI0)
Kittuh is saving you from monsters only he can see!! You should be thanking him!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 05:29 AM (gLYp7)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 05:32 AM (Yl2Ob)
The more you know...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 21, 2025 05:32 AM (XQo4F)
Remember, Uranus is at opposition today. The exact moment of opposition, when Uranus is directly opposite the Sun will be 7:25 AM EST (12:25Z), a little under 2 hours from now.
When the Sun rises just about then here, Uranus will be other side, just setting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 05:32 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025
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Good idea. The hitch to that: I can't catch him in the dark without waking up completely -- which is what I want to avoid. And scruffing a fourteen-pound cat takes some effort!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 05:33 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 05:34 AM (99eI0)
When the Sun rises just about then here, Uranus will be other side, just setting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025
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Uranus is the planet that essentially rolls around the Sun on its side, right? It has an inclination of close to 90 degrees?
A Poul Anderson novel, War of the Wing-Men, features an Earthlike planet that has such an axial tilt. It's shaped the life cycle and thus the culture of the winged, intelligent natives in very different ways from that of Earthmen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 05:38 AM (wzUl9)
The push for a $25.00 minimum wage is on.
So with a $15.00 minimum wage, young folks couldn't afford a house.
With this, they won't be able to afford a car, either.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 21, 2025 05:38 AM (a1415)
This was also the cat that had a place reserved for her on my left desk leaf so she could jump up there and head-butt me whenever she wanted, as well as lick coffee or Guiness off my moustache. Tortoise shell cats are lovable, but WEIRD.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)
Maybe giving his Sucession of the Union document for NY
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 04:55 AM (+qU29)
AmGreatness links to this Axios articlette:
https://archive.is/Wv9yl
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 05:39 AM (RuTUS)
It's not only that college students can't do math; the college happens to be UCSD, which is a rigorous STEM university.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 05:40 AM (szVG/)
This was also the cat that had a place reserved for her on my left desk leaf so she could jump up there and head-butt me whenever she wanted, as well as lick coffee or Guiness off my moustache. Tortoise shell cats are lovable, but WEIRD.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 202
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I've never had a tortoiseshell cat, or a calico, or a silver tabby, or a pure gray ("blue," as the cat fanciers call it).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 05:42 AM (wzUl9)
The push for a $25.00 minimum wage is on.
So with a $15.00 minimum wage, young folks couldn't afford a house.
With this, they won't be able to afford a car, either.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 21, 2025 05:38 AM (a1415)
One side keeps saying, "This will cause prices to rise." One side keeps saying, "No it won't." One side keeps being right. Idiots keep voting for the others.
Raising the minimum wage is a contributing factor in restaurants dying, and local shops dying, and workers being replaced by folks who don't have to be paid the minimum but, sure, let's be fucking stupid yet again.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 05:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 05:40 AM (szVG/)
Maybe they should focus on bringing in more students who're qualified and fewer who're "the correct ethnicity".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 05:44 AM (ExV1e)
OK, since I can't follow the link ,what have we done this time?
Posted by: NR Pax
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$25/hr minimum wage. Nice going, now we're going to have to set ours at $26
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 05:45 AM (szVG/)
I see at Amgreatness Mamdani is going to the White House today.
Maybe giving his Sucession of the Union document for NY
Posted by: Skip
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I hope an intern throws a chair at him.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 05:46 AM (szVG/)
So with a $15.00 minimum wage, young folks couldn't afford a house.
With this, they won't be able to afford a car, either.
But things will be "fair" and people will have more money to spend which helps the economy. IT'S SCIENCE!!
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 05:46 AM (99eI0)
Kittuh is saving you from monsters only he can see!! You should be thanking him!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 05:29 AM (gLYp7)
Agreed!
Maybe keep a bowl of treats nearby to reward him.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 05:46 AM (RuTUS)
So let's look at a page at the USCIS (formerly the INS):
https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/
volume-12-part-l-chapter-2
Chapter 2 - Grounds for Revocation of Naturalization
- Person Procures Naturalization Illegally
- Concealment of Material Fact or Willful Misrepresentation (includes "Membership or Affiliation with Certain Organizations")
- Other than Honorable Discharge before Five Years of Honorable Service after Naturalization
That bolded line item is of interest. Dig into his past.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 05:47 AM (O7YUW)
And I would bet large sums of money that these movements are supported by folks with government union jobs, where the wage structure is based off of minimum wage.
Raise the minimum wage, raise their hourly wage as well.
All without ever having to go n strike, or have your union associated with the movement.
Pretty neat...eh?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 21, 2025 05:47 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 21, 2025 05:47 AM (XQo4F)
Yes, indeed. Axial tilt (obliquity) is about 98 degrees. Meaning it's a slightly upside down, north pole point below the orbital plane.
Even stranger, there is big difference between the magnetic axis and the axis of rotation. The dipole axis is tilted 59 degrees relative to the rotational axis. As Uranus rotates, the dipole whips around with each revolution.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 05:48 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Oh, never mind... at November 21, 2025 05:53 AM (XQo4F)
https://tinyurl.com/yc5ys6jv
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 05:53 AM (Yl2Ob)
Raise your hand if you know the relationship between Nancy Pelosi and Baltimore.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 21, 2025 05:56 AM (a1415)
Not just government unions. When I got out of the Navy I briefly worked with the electrician's union and their pay was a multiple of the minimum wage.
I found that out when one guy said that they hated Reagan cuz they didn't get a raise while he was in office. I asked what the President had to do with civilian electricians.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 05:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 21, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 05:58 AM (Yl2Ob)
I visited that campus recently and it was a rather bizarre experience. Very few students around, and the buildings are almost sealed shut, can't get into department offices without punching a code into a metal door that leads into a windowless warren of professor's offices.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 06:00 AM (szVG/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:00 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 05:45 AM (szVG/)
Republicans in Maryland should propose a $100/hr minimum wage.
Just to watch the Dems go all Norman.
Posted by: blaster at November 21, 2025 06:03 AM (RoO7G)
Oh, "obliquity" is the term for the axial tilt, relative to the planet's orbital plane. "Inclination" refers to the tilt of the orbital plane itself relative to some reference plane.
For observational convenience that reference plane is usually the ecliptic. Uranus' inclination is small, about 0.8 degrees to the ecliptic. So Uranus stays very close to the ecliptic over its entire orbit.
For other purposes, like moons of planet or satellites, the reference plane will be the equatorial plane of the planet, although the tilt of the plane relative to the ecliptic can be useful as well. For example, the ISS has an inclination of about 52 degrees.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 06:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: fluffy at November 21, 2025 06:04 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:07 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:08 AM (1c89N)
Now I see that it's destroying any remaining basis for consistent common knowledge, and doing so faster than I would've believed. And the nuclear power is in small units, for the oligarchs and the privileged corporations, not for people like us. At this point I'd be shocked if we see any of those benefits flow down. More likely we'll just wind up paying for them via tax subsidies and forced industry costs of "AI".
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at November 21, 2025 06:08 AM (Xz6B4)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:07 AM (RuTUS)
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Erroneously.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:09 AM (1c89N)
I visited that campus recently and it was a rather bizarre experience. Very few students around, and the buildings are almost sealed shut, can't get into department offices without punching a code into a metal door that leads into a windowless warren of professor's offices.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 06:00 AM (szVG/)
UCSD? Which is a public university, which would make that lockdownishness odd, I think.
The University California San Diego is one of the world's leading public research universities, located in beautiful La Jolla, California.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:09 AM (RuTUS)
- Concealment of Material Fact or Willful Misrepresentation (includes "Membership or Affiliation with Certain Organizations")
- Other than Honorable Discharge before Five Years of Honorable Service after Naturalization
That bolded line item is of interest. Dig into his past.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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I assumed he never concealed anything, probably wiped his butt with his certificate of naturalization, strolled across a flag, and went to a CAIR meeting.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 06:09 AM (szVG/)
As someone with only slightly less experience at being 29, I advise otherwise. Do /something/
Maybe just do your pre-walk warm up and skip the walk, maybe some calisthenics that won't jar the floor.
Posted by: fluffy at November 21, 2025 06:10 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 06:10 AM (R2A/0)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 06:09 AM (szVG/)
hahahaha
I mean, not.
But colorful.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:11 AM (RuTUS)
During the George W. Bush administration, federal policy emphasized accountability for public schools. Schools that saw poor performance on standardized tests received increased funding at first, but if scores still didn’t improve, they had their funding pulled. Research suggests that this helped improve math outcomes, particularly for poor Black students.
After 2015, however, the federal government backed off from its accountability measures, which had faced bipartisan criticism.
Obamas 7th full year when the Bush reforms were finally eliminate.
A recent report from UC San Diego faculty and administrators, that number is more than 900—and most of those students don’t fully meet middle-school math standards. Many students struggle with fractions and simple algebra problems. Last year, the university, which admits fewer than 30 percent of undergraduate applicants.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:11 AM (gbOdA)
yesterday. One of the kids who is usually sort of
difficult. ( He stands up on the bus and argues loudly with people ) had a whistle. He was blowing it so much that spouse had to stop the bus. He came home and said " That was just what I needed today. S blowing a whistle!" He was not serious. I am glad he has two days off next week.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:12 AM (Yl2Ob)
This happens:
https://youtu.be/hmUVo0xVAqE
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 05:09 AM (O7YUW)
I expected 6, 7.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:13 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025
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They were starting to put that in all over my former employer's campus. My boss was all for it. Not surprising, since he was all in on the face diaper nonsense.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 06:14 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:15 AM (RuTUS)
https://tinyurl.com/3zw39s4w
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:15 AM (Yl2Ob)
As someone with only slightly less experience at being 29, I advise otherwise. Do /something/
Maybe just do your pre-walk warm up and skip the walk, maybe some calisthenics that won't jar the floor.
Posted by: fluffy at November 21, 2025
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Right, I'll stretch at the least, maybe some pushups too.
Now that I'm more awake, I'm more inclined to go -- just make it a shorter session, 24 minutes instead of 30, something like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 06:16 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:16 AM (1c89N)
UCSD? Which is a public university, which would make that lockdownishness odd, I think.
The University California San Diego is one of the world's leading public research universities, located in beautiful La Jolla, California.
Posted by: m
=================
Very beautiful but oddly cold and empty now. I don't know why the lockdowns; maybe someone was threatened, or someone actually raided some offices and stole equipment, dunno.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 06:16 AM (szVG/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:17 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:16 AM (1c89N)
23 Skidoo!
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:19 AM (RuTUS)
My reply: "Just so you know, I can hear and smell that picture."
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 06:20 AM (99eI0)
What is this 6-7 business? Numbers for all the cool kids?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:16 AM
it's a mystery
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 06:20 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:00 AM (Yl2Ob)
Check to see if it's in E. E. Cummings mode.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 06:21 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:15 AM (RuTUS)
That means there are some seriously stupid math people out there.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:23 AM (gbOdA)
My reply: "Just so you know, I can hear and smell that picture."
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 06:20 AM (99eI0)
MCRD = Marine Corps Recruit Depot (San Diego)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at November 21, 2025 06:08 AM (Xz6B4)
Benefits, if any, will always flow down. They will just be delayed and diluted. Costs, OTOH, will be immediate and full-force.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 06:24 AM (ExV1e)
He then reportedly threw a chair at an intern.
__________
That's what interns are for. Now go get me some coffee.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 06:24 AM (L+01d)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:16 AM
it's a mystery
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 06:20 AM (tljrc)
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Makes me think of the number-names in Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind stories, though it was "5-6" that was trendy:
The Lord Femtiosex
The Lady Goroke
Veesey-Koosey
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:25 AM (1c89N)
Prayer before work
My God, you are always close to me, In obedience to you, I now apply myself to outward things. Yet , as I do so, I pray that you will give me the grace of your presence . And so to this end I ask that you will assist my work , receive its fruit as an offering to you , and all the while direct my affections to you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:25 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 06:10 AM (R2A/0)
Seems like you may have made mention of that week or so back.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 06:25 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:25 AM (RuTUS)
They finally removed one of the problem children from my bus for a few days. Not sure how long that will be, but knowing this kid, it may be a while. He refuses to obey ANY authority figure. I'm sure the princpal was real impressed when he pulled the kid into his office.
All I can say is all the years of being a stern father (with a big scary presence) are now paying off.
Tell your husband to enjoy the couple of days off, I'm sure he's more than earned them.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 06:25 AM (O7YUW)
He then reportedly threw a chair at an intern.
__________
That's what interns are for. Now go get me some coffee.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 06:24 AM (L+01d)
And FIX that chair you broke.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:26 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 06:27 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m
You're right. I should have provided the translation. And the Depot being next to the airport was a special piece of hell for us.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 06:28 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 06:30 AM (O7YUW)
As we say here in the People's Republic of Massachusetts: Soopah doopah!
Posted by: fluffy at November 21, 2025 06:30 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: pawn at November 21, 2025 06:31 AM (sPsWv)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:16 AM
It's a dumb social contagion, mostly harmless, although some try to make it into a current gen moral panic about the devil's work (not joking). This does an excellent job explaining the origination and use.
https://knowyourmeme.com/
memes/67-meme
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 06:32 AM (dK+Kv)
I am sorry about the problem kids, G&C and I will tell him what you said. 🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:33 AM (Yl2Ob)
Way better than the kids all deciding that they're trans.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 06:34 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 21, 2025 06:14 AM (wzUl9)
----
yeah, my campus has moved to card swipe access to buildings and offices. Interior offices might still have key access, but the exterior doors to the office suite are all card swipe.
Makes it easy to gain/remove access as needed. We just need to send an email to someone to put us on "the list."
Of course, it also means we're being tracked. Or at least our ID card is being tracked.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 06:34 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 21, 2025 06:34 AM (mvZ2E)
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Wow. More information than I'll ever want to know. Thanks.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:36 AM (1c89N)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:38 AM (1c89N)
I hope you all have no chairs thrown at you. You are a blessings to others. Consider blessing someone in your family, a friend or co- workers today by giving them a genuine compliment . It will help their day and make you feel better as well.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:39 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:40 AM (1c89N)
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Wow. More information than I'll ever want to know. Thanks.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:36 AM (1c89N)
115 That was not a sarcastic "thanks."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:38 AM (1c89N)
#metoo
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS)
Yanno, Pixy, you're gettin' good at this blogging thing.
Posted by: creeper at November 21, 2025 05:01 AM (80oeU)
heh
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:42 AM (RuTUS)
Example:
https://soundcloud.com/chicagodom/
all-your-base-peripheral-mix
They want to continue a meme for a year? I'll show them the meme that will NEVER die.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 06:43 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 06:43 AM (6pwsf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 06:44 AM (wnD9v)
Katie Mashed Taters PorterHouse
vs.
Eric Bang Bang Swollowswell
vs.
Xavier XggsMan Becerra
A nice mixed of unstable, unreliable, liars and con artists that will spend the next 347 telling California impossible, implausible, and unaffordable ideas to finally make California a Modern Socialistic Republic.
The winner will be the best cheater as LA County alone has 20% of the voter rolls (6 M) filled with a combination of illegals, dead people, and people that escaped the Republic in CV19 years.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:45 AM (gbOdA)
Whatever it is, whatever they deliver will be a bug-ridden steaming pile of crap.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 06:46 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 06:46 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 21, 2025 06:34 AM (mvZ2E)
I watched a youtube on this. Big offender is Xbox.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:46 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 06:46 AM (99eI0)
Roman’s 12:12
Posted by: Marcus T at November 21, 2025 06:43 AM (6pwsf)
Thank you, Marcus T.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:47 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 21, 2025 06:38 AM (1c89N)
I didn't take it that way. I was forced by circumstance of moral panic to waste my time on it. I am just happy to be able to return the favor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 06:47 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 06:43 AM (O7YUW)
"We invented memes, kids."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 06:50 AM (dK+Kv)
Katie Mashed Taters PorterHouse
vs.
Eric Bang Bang Swollowswell
vs.
Xavier XggsMan Becerra
Still time for more to enter the race?
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:45 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:51 AM (RuTUS)
Katie Mashed Taters PorterHouse
vs.
Eric Bang Bang Swollowswell
vs.
Xavier XggsMan Becerra
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:45 AM (gbOdA)
Still time for more to enter the race?
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:52 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
"Do not cite the old memes to me, child. I was there when they were born."
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 06:53 AM (99eI0)
Mass washing of kennel dogs looms over me today. Might have made a start on it yesterday, but I made the mistake of telling Her Majesty that I needed to run out to get dog food at TSC and some salt for the water softener. She said she wanted to come along with me. That meant a 45 minute trip stretched to four hours.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 06:53 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 06:53 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 06:54 AM (vFG9F)
If AI is able to kill Microsoft once and for all, I will finally sing its praises.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 06:54 AM (dK+Kv)
The No Kings group wants people to boycott Target, Home Depot, and Amazon on Black Friday because they are "enabling the Trump administration's abuses of power."
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 06:54 AM (vFG9F)
This is the No Kings group that changes their name in countries that actually have royalty, right?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 06:55 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:52 AM (RuTUS)
I believe over 20 people have said they were exploring running.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:55 AM (gbOdA)
First thing Lenin did was give his Union backers what they wished for.
No Union in the People's Republic
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 06:56 AM (R2A/0)
Posted by: no one at November 21, 2025 06:57 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 06:55 AM (tgvbd)
Interesting take is that the No Kings group is probably the largest assembly of assholes, kooks, and Karens ever recorded.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:57 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:52 AM (RuTUS)
I believe over 20 people have said they were exploring running.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:55 AM (gbOdA)
Ooh! Popcorn!
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 06:57 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 21, 2025 06:58 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: no one at November 21, 2025 06:58 AM (W7XSX)
Is that Slavic?
Posted by: no one at November 21, 2025 06:58 AM (W7XSX)
British.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 06:58 AM (dK+Kv)
Is that Slavic?
Posted by: no one at November 21, 2025 06:58 AM (W7XSX)
Disney Jewish
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:59 AM (gbOdA)
I read that as "repeatedly" and thought, damn, what a time not to include a clip of that.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 21, 2025 06:59 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:59 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 06:59 AM (i+bC1)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 21, 2025 07:01 AM (99eI0)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:02 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 21, 2025 07:03 AM (O7YUW)
Pixy is doing a much better job of channeling Ace's cruelty.
Hope this comment counts as credit towards Fenelon's be nice to a person today campaign.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 07:04 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 06:55 AM (tgvbd)
----
It's a lot harder to declare "No Kings" in a country where the ruling family declares they have the divine right to cut your head off if you sneeze in their presence.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:04 AM (IBQGV)
I read that as "repeatedly" and thought, damn, what a time not to include a clip of that.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 21, 2025 06:59 AM (WPL6O)
If i am not mistaken, Pixy's allusion to thrown chair refers to this:
>>>Mark Lucovsky was the other man in the room when Steve Ballmer threw his chair and called [Google's] Eric Schmidt a "fucking pussy."
Back in the day, Uncyclopedia, a parody/satire version of Wikipedia, had an epically funny Steve Ballmer entry. It was proto-Bee.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:04 AM (dK+Kv)
Candidates (simple.wikipedia.org)
Ethan Agarwal
Xavier Becerra
Carolina Buhler
Ian Calderon
Stephen Cloobeck
Zoltan Istvan
Thunder Parley
Katie Porter
Raji Rab
Tony Thurmond
Antonio Villaraigosa
Betty Yee
Eric Swalwell
Publicly expressed interest
Rick Caruso
Potential
Tom Steyer
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:06 AM (RuTUS)
>>>Mark Lucovsky was the other man in the room when Steve Ballmer threw his chair and called [Google's] Eric Schmidt a "fucking pussy."
Back in the day, Uncyclopedia, a parody/satire version of Wikipedia, had an epically funny Steve Ballmer entry. It was proto-Bee.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:04 AM (dK+Kv)
I would love to See the Pirates of Silicon Valley done as a musical.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:06 AM (gbOdA)
More and more that's looking like my next move. I'd love any advice, pointers, hardware recs kind of thing. I'm thinking of running Ubuntu on a yet to be purchased laptop.
Of course as soon as I post this ... JJS will go live. LOL
Posted by: YellowBird at November 21, 2025 07:07 AM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: fd
Um, how?
You know what, nevermind. There reasons will be all retarded and I will get dumber knowing them.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 21, 2025 07:07 AM (sAmhv)
(but handy)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:07 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Zombie Bobby Knight at November 21, 2025 07:07 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Colin at November 21, 2025 07:07 AM (wlQdF)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:06 AM (gbOdA)
That's due for a rematch. Your idea would be funny, if niche-niche.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:08 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Bay Area Election Consultant at November 21, 2025 07:09 AM (PiwSw)
The chase ended in a PIT maneuver, when Carswell was arrested and charged with felony fleeing of an officer and a DUI due to being high on marijuana.
Dralin's mugshot reveals that he is an aspiring rapper, and his mama say he a good boy who jes fell in wit the wrong crowd.
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:08 AM (dK+Kv)
Yes I am a RICH man
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:09 AM (gbOdA)
>>>Mark Lucovsky was the other man in the room when Steve Ballmer threw his chair and called [Google's] Eric Schmidt a "fucking pussy."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:04 AM (dK+Kv)
haha
ouch
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:10 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)
Making his way the only way he know how
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:10 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)
Honey Boo Boo could team up with Tay Tay ( Tay Tay Bo Boo ) ? and get a song out of that.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Bay Area Election Consultant at November 21, 2025 07:12 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)
DUI, I have zero sympathy for.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)
so, confirmation that microsponge is run by demonrats.
what. a. surprise.
(spit)
but even that cannot quash my joy in Friday! And coffee!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 07:13 AM (Cjt/F)
More and more that's looking like my next move. I'd love any advice, pointers, hardware recs kind of thing. I'm thinking of running Ubuntu on a yet to be purchased laptop.
Of course as soon as I post this ... JJS will go live. LOL
Posted by: YellowBird at November 21, 2025 07:07 AM (MEbkQ)
Best way to do it is to just do it.
Grab an old piece of hardware such as an old laptop (5-8 years old), grab a USB thumbdrive, make a booktable USB version of Linux Mint (as one possible example that is Ubuntu/Debian based and is user friendly), then, using boot options, boot from USB into Linux Mint.
Spend some hours poking around.
You don't need high-spec hardware to get started. Using older hardware is probably preferred for a new user, since all drivers and bugs would have been worked out, most likely.
Typically, those bootable USB or live versions have the option to install straight from the live session.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:15 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 07:13 AM (Cjt/F)
Did anybody see Rosasharn?
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:18 AM (RuTUS)
“I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the...
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:19 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 06:46 AM (gbOdA)
-
Just saw your comment now. A few minutes ago, I deleted all useless pre-installed apps. For me that included Xbox and Xbox Live.
Now ready to start copying files over and installing the apps I actually use.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 21, 2025 07:19 AM (mvZ2E)
And FWIW, I have a 20 year old laptop with 2GB RAM running Linux and a few 8-10 year old upgrade old with SSD and 8 GB still knocking about.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:20 AM (dK+Kv)
Well that took long enough. Now how about prosecuting the people that accepted the donations.
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:21 AM (vFG9F)
Now ready to start copying files over and installing the apps I actually use.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 21, 2025 07:19 AM (mvZ2E)
All those wasted man-years fixing MS problems and undoing forced "options." We could have had a manned mission to Mars by now.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 21, 2025 07:22 AM (dK+Kv)
More and more that's looking like my next move. I'd love any advice, pointers, hardware recs kind of thing. I'm thinking of running Ubuntu on a yet to be purchased laptop.
Of course as soon as I post this ... JJS will go live. LOL
Posted by: YellowBird at November 21, 2025 07:07 AM (MEbkQ)
Make a list of all the software you want to use.
Go to https://alternativeto.net/ and find a Linux-compatible option.
If you have the ability to run VMs, try different VMs to determine your preferred distro and what settings you will need to change.
Preparation is key.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)
“I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the...
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:19 AM (gbOdA)
Sounds like your typical politician. They hate the people they have to represent.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:23 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd at November 21, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 07:25 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)
The obvious solution is the raise the minimum wage so it'll happen faster.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 07:26 AM (ExV1e)
Come to think of it, Zork was a pretty good game.
"West of House. You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here".
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 07:28 AM (HHoeq)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:28 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 07:29 AM (QZThv)
Posted by: YellowBird at November 21, 2025 07:39 AM (MEbkQ)
More and more that's looking like my next move. I'd love any advice, pointers, hardware recs kind of thing. I'm thinking of running Ubuntu on a yet to be purchased laptop.
Of course as soon as I post this ... JJS will go live. LOL
Posted by: YellowBird at November 21, 2025 07:07 AM (MEbkQ)
Get here earlier when there are lots of tech-types in the thread!
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:42 AM (RuTUS)
191 "Get here earlier..." Indeed. Set the alarm for 04:00. Yawn. Just like the old days!
Posted by: YellowBird at November 21, 2025 07:44 AM (MEbkQ)
@bonchieredstate
5m
40 million people, and the two most likely individuals to become governor of California are a dude who fell for a Chinese honeypot and a woman who poured scalding mashed potatoes on her husband’s head.
Cooked. Absolutely cooked.
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:48 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 21, 2025 07:51 AM (vFbHf)
Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
3h
Announce an upcoming Country-of-Origin feature
Go silent for 2 weeks
Suddenly announce that it’s launching soon
Release it on everyone’s profile—but users can only see their own country
Everyone is confused why it’s private
So they post screenshots of the feature, helping us advertise it and showing us bugs with the data before showtime
Launch the feature
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:56 AM (RuTUS)
One wonders how mashed potatoes are poured?
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 21, 2025 07:51 AM (vFbHf)
Poorly prepared!
I imagine it'll come up in the campaign. Popcorn!
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 07:56 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 08:41 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at November 21, 2025 08:42 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 21, 2025 09:41 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 09:42 AM (RuTUS)
And then:
@200/m: "200"
Mmmm hmmm.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a seer of our time at November 21, 2025 10:06 AM (O7YUW)
What's happening here is Satya is trying to ape Gates' ability to turn Microsoft on a dime to focus on the Next Big Thing. That's what made Microsoft successful; they weren't riven by the kind of bureaucratic infighting that paralyzes most large organizations. The problem is that Satya isn't Gates:
1. Gates was very, very good at picking the right technology, mostly because he looked at what the users actually wanted instead of tailchasing the tech press
2. Microsoft had a culture of letting people try just about anything, but killing projects without rancor or blame when it became obvious they weren't going to be profitable
3. Anyone who didn't get on board with Gates' new direction(s) was fired.
Some of Mustafa's frustration is that Satya is trying to do with AI what Gates did with Internet Explorer, but the business just isn't there and he's not going to meet his targets.
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Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
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)