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Daily Tech News 9 August 2026
Top Story
- Five of America's top tech companies - Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle - are expected to burn through $125 billion in cash this year on their AI rollouts. (Washington Post) (archive site)
Oh no, and here's me all out of popcorn.
- Things look even worse for SpaceX. (CNBC)
Well, that sucks.
- SpaceX's revenue doubled and losses halved in the recent quarter. (Reuters)
Sucks for CNBC, that is.
Tech News
- How does storage speed affect the performance of computer games? (Tom's Hardware)
Short answer: It doesn't.
Long answer: It doesn't unless you're playing Forspoken on a SATA drive, which is easily fixed by not playing Forspoken in the first place.
- os8088 is actually an operating system. (os8088 )
And runs on an 8088 with 256k of RAM.
It looks a lot like classic MacOS, but offers modern comforts like pre-emptive scheduling and... That's about it, really.
- Online database service Metabase was compromised. (Bleeping Computer)
Not foolish enough to use an online database? No problem, rest assured that you have your personal registered with someone who was foolish enough.
(I have received three emails so far from companies using Metabase in various ways to let me know they had been hacked and my personal data was out in the wild... Again.)
- X is replacing its revenue sharing program with payments for original content. (Tech Crunch)
Revenue sharing paid based on engagement, which was obviously a bad idea because proxy measurements invite spam.
Others have also noticed this.
This much-needed change arrived exactly as Nikita Bier stepped down as X'd head of Xing.
- Kleenex is investigating making Kleenex not out of trees, but out of a different kind of tree. (Yahoo)
Amazing.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: If dying, administer Pocari Sweat.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 04:31 AM (skLNB)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)
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Use the Force, Skip.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 04:35 AM (skLNB)
Pretty sure the guy who suggested that only did it for the kinky joke potential.
Posted by: mikeski is tickled at August 09, 2026 04:38 AM (VHUov)
Yeesh, the ONT was all about physics and I started to get motion sickness just thinking through some of the stuff... ugh.
Publius is highly intelligent, but I can't follow it all! (Especially this late at night.)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:43 AM (rdVOm)
https://tinyurl.com/mpdmdub3
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 04:43 AM (skLNB)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:43 AM (rdVOm)
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You need to stop reading and typing whenever the earth is spinning.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 04:45 AM (skLNB)
No, it's the visualization exercises... and I was always "that kid" when we went on road trips.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:49 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2026 04:58 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:59 AM (rdVOm)
I'm going to pack in. Warning, JQ and others, do not get me started on geodesics on ellipsoids (which the earth actually is, well closer to than a perfect sphere).
Those things are generally not even closed paths.... But they exist.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:59 AM (w6EFb)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 09, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2026 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2026 05:15 AM (xSAlF)
KIMBERLY-CLARK UNVEILS PROPRIETARY ALTERNATIVE NATURAL FIBER INNOVATION PROGRAM TO ADVANCE ITS "BETTER CARE FOR A BETTER WORLD" COMMITMENT
https://tinyurl.com/w9zszmye
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:18 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2026 05:18 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2026 05:20 AM (zJHVr)
After evaluating more than 70 fiber candidates across performance, sustainability and cost criteria, Kimberly-Clark research scientists identified a promising solution in hesperaloe, a native, low-water-use plant that thrives in the arid climate of the Southwest United States.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 09, 2026 05:21 AM (gFr+v)
Depends on what that's relative to. Here at 35N, I'm moving at about 850 mph relative to the center of the earth.
The earth's center is moving about 66,000 mph relative to the sun. The Sun is moving about 500,000 mph relative the center of the galaxy.
The Galaxy itself has a certain "peculiar velocity" relative to the "Hubble flow", due to the expansion of space. It's being pulled toward a Heap Big concentration of mass known as the Great Attractor, which is about 10 quadrillion solar masses.
All in all, you're moving about 1.5 million mph relative to the Hubble flow, the "standard of rest" such as can be defined in an expanding spacetime. And that doesn't even mean what you think it means. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 05:22 AM (w6EFb)
Might be a question for a search engine.
My alerts hang around but are easily ignored.
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2026 05:24 AM (V0/Sp)
Potential downside: If demand explodes they will want to grow a lot of the stuff. A single plant doesn't take much water, but what about 50 square miles of the plant?
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2026 05:27 AM (V0/Sp)
@74(Yesterday)/Wolfus:
{ me } Okay, time for the Saturday morning "feed the cars and us too!" thing.
{ Wolfus } Cars, or cats?
Cars. Fueling of both the vehicles, and then a stop by a local diner my wife and I enjoy on Saturday mornings. (Might as well make it an enjoyable outing, right?)
Also: Glad your water situation sorted itself out!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 05:28 AM (O7YUW)
I suspect that even consumer graphics cards will start using HBM in a few years because there are going to be a lot of leftover chips laying around when around half the data centers that were proposed are actually built.
If the demand shuts off like what happened in the dot.bomb implosion, then yeah, we might well see that.
It's going to be a great joy buying DDR5 in a few years for $50 per 16GB stick, though.
THAT I'm looking forward to, assuming that the parts reseller channels survive this nonsense.
Then they'll bring out DDR6 and the price will double, again.
Yeah, but we'll have bought up a ton of memory and older motherboards that support DDR5 and will be able to build hobby machines again (I hope.)
I wish us luck, we're gonna need it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 05:29 AM (O7YUW)
Grumpy, everything you laid out is why the bubble was created.
Yeah, if they're trying to force us all to use essentially cheap terminals that connect to the actual computing power in their data centers/cloud and rent our computing time, you might be right. I think this plan is doomed to fail because it goes against human nature - people want to own things.
I lived through centralized computing power once already (Mainframes and terminals) and the advent of brand new home computers was such an exciting time (expensive too, at first.) The powers that be may want to try to put that genie back in the bottle. Good luck to them, they'll need it.
Reality is mutable, but they can't shut it up forever. Also, the pendulum swings. It always does.
And people are ANGRY about how many things we used to own they've tried to take away and rent back to us. That's going to go rodeo at some point.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)
Potential downside: If demand explodes they will want to grow a lot of the stuff. A single plant doesn't take much water, but what about 50 square miles of the plant?
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2026 05:27 AM (V0/Sp)
Compared with trees, I guess:
This breakthrough has the potential to power the Company's future hygiene products with enhanced performance, quality, and sustainability.*
*Based on internal Kimberly-Clark research and development testing of Alternative Natural Fibers compared with traditional forest-based fibers used in the Company's current hygiene products.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:32 AM (odBC9)
I build 10 year builds for myself, because I hate setting up PCs, and I am about 5 years into my current one (128GB RAM) with a recent Intel B580 video card refresh.
That's how I do it too, except I missed this cycle's rebuild because Covid screwed everything up for our family regarding income, so I'm still carrying on with what I built in 2012 and I'm playing the waiting game until the prices become sane again.
Looks like you prize reliability in your 10 year builds as well - hard to achieve based on research done before purchase time, but it is possible (needs a little luck too so you don't discover you bought a lemon-part.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 05:33 AM (O7YUW)
How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains | The New Yorker Radio Hour (hosted by David Remnick)
https://tinyurl.com/yjxrhmp2
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:42 AM (odBC9)
My question wasn't very thorough. This plant thrives in the Southwest. Great. They did their research in Yuma,AZ. Arizona has lots of land, but does this plant grow elsewhere? The Colorado River is already strained past capacity.
Plants are sometimes picky about where they will grow. Clearing out a tree farm in Mississippi will provide space, but will the soil be right? Will it grow in wetter conditions?
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2026 05:44 AM (V0/Sp)
The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 100,000 members and chapters in all 50 states.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:44 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2026 05:45 AM (Ia/+0)
My question wasn't very thorough. This plant thrives in the Southwest. Great. They did their research in Yuma,AZ. Arizona has lots of land, but does this plant grow elsewhere? The Colorado River is already strained past capacity.
Plants are sometimes picky about where they will grow. Clearing out a tree farm in Mississippi will provide space, but will the soil be right? Will it grow in wetter conditions?
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2026 05:44 AM (V0/Sp)
And my cut-and-paste wasn't very thorough!
Your questions are good.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:46 AM (odBC9)
Even if SpaceX's AI/LLM initiative crashes and burns, they're making enough money to cover the losses. Can't say that about all the other AI companies that are burning through investment capital like a forest fire clearing out 40 years of deadwood.
Storage speed and how it affects games. Pixy writes: "Short answer: It doesn't." Unless it's SSD versus spinning rust, but this article was about memory devices exclusively and not hard drives, so... okay.
"os8088 is actually an operating system."
Impressive, but I really don't want to backstep to the 8088 days, unless it's just for DOS based games, and there are good emulators for that.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 05:46 AM (O7YUW)
@redsteeze has been commenting a lot on this, and very sharply. He's on a roll.
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
20h
They went to campus and had their heads filled with junk and have never been challenged on any of this for their entire life, by anyone.
An entire generation of privileged idiots.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:51 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Miklos has fond memories of the 80s Belinda at August 09, 2026 05:52 AM (XOG/m)
Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Alex Griswold
@HashtagGriswold
Aug 7
The real victims of the Cambridge scandal are the students, who signed up to learn “inclusive pedagogy and decolonising the curriculum within the academy,” and instead learned totally made up nonsense.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:56 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 05:57 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip
Wait until they start taxing us on distance travelled
Posted by: Miklos doesn't think they haven't thought of that at August 09, 2026 05:57 AM (XOG/m)
Don't fart!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 05:57 AM (O7YUW)
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On the contrary! They're much worse when everyone stops moving.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 06:00 AM (FHI8c)
I might go ahead and buy a couple of Cooler Master's HAF II 500 cases, as based on reviews at places like Gamer's Nexus, these things live up to the true high air flow of the HAF-X case I'm still rocking on my 2012 build. (Love this case.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 06:00 AM (O7YUW)
*laughs* Touche.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2026 06:02 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2026 06:06 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:56 AM (odBC9)
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May I introduce you to quite the opposite absurd situation of Prof. Roland Fryer at Harvard:
https://tinyurl.com/3ma79puw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 06:09 AM (FHI8c)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2026 06:09 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2026 06:09 AM (Ia/+0)
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"Shhhhh!!!!! Let's keep it our little secret!"
https://tinyurl.com/z538keed
"War is deceit." - Mohatmed, Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2637
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 06:16 AM (FHI8c)
based on a poem by St. Francis of Assisi . The
Video has lovely scenes of nature as well as nice singing :
https://tinyurl.com/yrh4mnsf
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2026 06:17 AM (lt7On)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 09, 2026 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)
RE: the hitchhiking marmot story on the ONT: How many comments did it take for somebody to quote the famous "marmot" line from The Dude?
In any case, I'm awake and sipping coffee, trying to get motivated to work out. Big Stirling and (I think) little Dagny were both sleeping with me at one point last night. At least, I could feel the big cat by my side and there was *something* down near my feet, so I presume . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
Um, trees ARE a renewable resource, dummies...it just depends how long it takes to grow them to the point where they can be harvested.
This is obviously aimed to members of the Church of the Carbon Apocalypse...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2026 06:19 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 05:56 AM (odBC9)
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May I introduce you to quite the opposite absurd situation of Prof. Roland Fryer at Harvard:
https://tinyurl.com/3ma79puw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 06:09 AM (FHI8c)
New to me.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 06:20 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2026 06:21 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 06:20 AM (odBC9)
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Goes back years ago. I think I recall the case from back when.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 06:22 AM (FHI8c)
Unless you're in Mexico, where you throw the used TP into the bin next to the toilet, because their toilet paper clogs sewers and septic tanks.
In the US, we generally don't collect used TP...that would be disturbing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2026 06:23 AM (l3cgK)
And you think this new TP made from DESERT YUCCA is gonna be cheaper to grow, harvest, and turn into TP guys? Hahahaha
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2026 06:26 AM (l3cgK)
. He was beatified several years ago by the RCC . This is from a Christian devotional from "Our Daily Bread" and based on Psalm 31:1-5, 7-13:
https://tinyurl.com/y3t7rwr9
I hope you all have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2026 06:26 AM (W90Ou)
Miss Linda accused me of not liking "psychological dramas." I mentioned my favorites Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Days of Wine and Roses, The Three Faces of Eve, Gentleman's Agreement, and The Accidental Tourist, and she changed the subject.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)
Saturday Night Club ONT - August 8, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
Cycling's newest performance enhancer isn't in a syringe - but in a sports bra. Accusations of padded bras that can give women's Tour de France competitors an aerodynamic advantage are flying through the cycling world as breast and cup size bizarrely gets debated and even complaints get filed. Dutch news outlet Wielerflits reported that several complaints have come in from women's WorldTeams about female cyclists allegedly exploiting their breast size by faking a larger cup size to use more padding in their bras during time trials.
In complaints made to the UCI, teams want female padded bra inspectors to come in and check the riders in a closed tent to "ensure they are not hiding anything in their bras or under their aero clothing."In unrelated news, Club ONT will be installing a tent out back shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience during installation.
An Alberta man said a marmot he found investigating the inside of his garage had apparently stowed away in his car for a 75-mile trip. Chris Ratzlaff said his child alerted him to the presence of a large rodent in the family's Airdrie garage last week. "It was hiding in a corner, and at first I thought it was maybe a porcupine, so I left the garage door open for it to leave," Ratzlaff told CTV News. "When it left, we could see that it was a marmot." He said the marmot had apparently stowed away on a recent 75-mile drive from Kananaskis.AOP - is that you?
Is it just me or is that math not mathin🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/MCe66CHghs
— Tyler Ratcliff (@TylerRatcliff17) August 6, 2026
The Klein Tools 250th Edition Diagonal Cutting Pliers have a red, white, and blue colorway on the handles, with red and white on one and blue and white on the other. Functionally, however, these are the same Journeyman handles that Klein Tools customers will be familiar with. Klein complements the special colors with a laser-etched legend that states "250 USA Est. 1776" on the jaws, alongside a stylized version of Stars and Stripes above it.Free lifetime restroom token to any Hordeling with video evidence of using a pair of these to cut wires of a Flock camera.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 10:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 10:00 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2026 10:00 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 10:00 PM (PY8/y)
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Posted by: 496 at August 08, 2026 10:01 PM (O+H2/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 10:02 PM (PY8/y)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 10:02 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 10:04 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 10:05 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: scampydog at August 08, 2026 10:06 PM (AtAa4)
Posted by: 496 at August 08, 2026 10:06 PM (z/ZBD)
JUST IN: WNBA Commissioner announces the league is meeting to review what a woman is, after multiple former NBA stars announced plans to join the league.
Posted by: Bronco56 at August 08, 2026 10:06 PM (OCHrK)
Posted by: 496 at August 08, 2026 10:07 PM (z/ZBD)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Not First! at August 08, 2026 10:07 PM (62m/B)
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Unless... you were in the Army, or perhaps the Marines.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 10:08 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:08 PM (rdVOm)
CNN did a lengthy article, profiling a couple of 9/11 families they dug up to chastise the other, ignorant & divisive 9/11 families who are boycotting the commemoration ceremony because of the presence of Mayor Osama bin Lenin.
Somewhere, the families of Kate Steinle and Mollie Tibbetts are seething over the loss of their title as the most wretched, pathetic, self-abasing creatures ever to walk on two legs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 10:09 PM (BI5O2)
We really need one of those at the TxMoMe. One for guys, and one for gals. Set some portion of the booze out in front of those tents.
Posted by: GWB at August 08, 2026 10:09 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
Well, yeah, if they were flopping around loose. Would do wonders for the TV viewer numbers, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 10:09 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It worked! It worked!
A few hundred miles away.... grumble, grumble...
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:10 PM (rdVOm)
Good evening from Firefox!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 10:11 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 10:11 PM (HeR4S)
Posted by: GWB at August 08, 2026 10:11 PM (kU0PQ)
177 128 I was listening to a Rush CD 'Presto' on my way into work today.
youtu.be/FtpMeyjE6Rw
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 09:15 PM (pLaQB)
>>>
Are you aware that the last song on Presto (Available Light) is the only song in their catalog which they have never performed live??
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards
No. I did not.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 10:11 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It worked! It worked!
A few hundred miles away.... grumble, grumble...
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:10 PM (rdVOm)
You were trying to get a marmot to take a ride in your car?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:12 PM (qx7Zg)
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The result will be competitors having their breasts artificially enlarged. Causing dismay among men who prefer smaller breasts and joy to bulg.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 10:13 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)
A few hundred miles away.... grumble, grumble...
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:10 PM (rdVOm)
Might have just been a passing shower. But there's a general overcast, so you cannot see individual rain clouds. No way to get a handle on whether the rain will be brief or prolonged. Hit a brief strong shower on the way home, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 10:13 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 08, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)
The inspection tents will be sponsored by Flock Safety, Inc.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov)
Having known someone that happened to... I can't wish that on him.
Besides, he was a senile meat puppet by the time he took office. The people who should pay for the crimes of that regime are "Doctor" Jill and all the other people who had their hands up his ass working his mouth.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 10:14 PM (IG3/x)
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How much you want to bet, this fucking clown is paid $479,000 a year
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 10:14 PM (FpODx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 10:15 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
Well, yeah, if they were flopping around loose. Would do wonders for the TV viewer numbers, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 10:09 PM (1z8ji)
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Somehow, in some way, I can see that soccer lezbo RapinHoe turn that whole scene into an anti-lgbt protest rant.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 10:15 PM (HeR4S)
This wasn't an issue in the 1940 Contest.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:15 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: browndog remembers at August 08, 2026 10:16 PM (3sXRv)
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Here, here. Clarity, accuracy, truthfully
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 10:17 PM (HeR4S)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2026 10:17 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: pookysgirl, enjoying the cool summer night at August 08, 2026 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
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Ancient venue of Japanese deception. It's Army marching practice.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 10:18 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 10:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 08, 2026 10:19 PM (348x5)
Fuck them. Kick them out. They don’t deserve shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x)
Because that's what I have.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 10:20 PM (IG3/x)
It’s unique. (Some other clips show the players trying not to laugh)
https://tinyurl.com/5xxvzh59
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 10:21 PM (QFcqn)
We need some detailed modelling of this boob aerodynamic effect. I mean some detailed analysis. With lots of wind tunnel video.
I'd be particularly interested in the aerodynamics of the nipples, so we'll need to do this both with bras and tops, and the totally bare. And there may some other, quite fascinating aerodynamics of various other body parts, curves, and contours of interest. Man, this could go on for years. Years of painstaking research.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 10:22 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)
Premium Flavored Malt Beverage combined with fine aged and dried tobacco.
I don't think I ever tried Benson and Hedges. On a lark, I checked Camel Wides last night in Kroger: $12.93 a pack. Literally 10 times what I paid for my first pack in... 1996.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
Added Drunken Master II and I discovered I don't understand Cantonese.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2026 10:22 PM (XV/Pl)
https://tinyurl.com/d2y2b2vv+
The Brookfield police said that, based on the information in Flock, they had probable cause for the stop. The police chief has referred all future questions to the MPD.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:23 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:24 PM (ZdaMQ)
Fuck them. Kick them out. They don’t deserve shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 10:19 PM (yEz+x)
This is a sport where they calorie load with gels prior to the race, and don't stop to crap because it will cost them time, so they do it "in the saddle"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 10:24 PM (rbvCR)
I mean the boundary layer effects around nipples could be fascinating. Some surprises there. It may turn out that nipples add enough drag to counteract the effect, leading to a requirement that large breasted competitors will be required to ride topless (and we'll make sure the data show exactly this effect, like the Hockey Stick thing).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 10:24 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (qx7Zg)
Drink the bottle, dim the lights, and play Spin The Bottle by the glow of the lava lamps.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (pLaQB)
Forget "Eternity"-- we wore Giorgio back then.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (rdVOm)
I don’t understand how an athlete, who trains their ass off, years, blood sweat and tears, then resorts to cheating.
Fuck them. Kick them out. They don’t deserve shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I don't know if you can call that cheating, though. Athletes wear all kinds of performance-enhancing clothes. The shoes, the body suits, then all the gear -- tennis rackets that make the ball go farther, better swimming goggles, all that stuff. Shaving their legs to reduce wind resistance. It gets into a grey area.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (mmrXZ)
Forget "Eternity"-- we wore Giorgio back then.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (rdVOm)
Chick drink were better tasting back in the day. White Claw is disgusting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)
"Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding."
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2026 10:28 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 10:28 PM (C0oZI)
If only Charles Mackay were here to document it...
If not, within five years there are going to be two types of sports: men's sports and tranny sports.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 10:28 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: H at August 08, 2026 10:28 PM (JSLNb)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 10:29 PM (wVcYX)
The Hollywood Reporter reports that BMW began displaying ads for the latest Spider-Man movie last week on newer cars, prompting backlash from drivers who paid substantial sums for luxury vehicles, with some models costing up to $160,000. The promotional campaign is part of a partnership between BMW and Sony-Marvel and is scheduled to continue through August 10, according to the automaker’s press release.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (Cqx++)
If you're interested, and haven't seen it, drop me an email (linked), and I'll send you a copy.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (qx7Zg)
He is right here! He is very clingy because I have been upstairs all day redoing my kid’s room. We have gone a little crazy. For whatever reason, Saijo has declared the upstairs a no go zone, so he has been in my room by himself a lot today. He is fine with stairs themselves, as there are quite a few to get to our front door, so not sure why he won’t just come upstairs.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force at August 08, 2026 10:31 PM (+fdRY)
I'm not sure why a bra would be any different? Surely the rules don't specify what type of bra can be worn?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 10:32 PM (IG3/x)
If only Charles Mackay were here to document it...
If not, within five years there are going to be two types of sports: men's sports and tranny sports.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 10:28 PM (IG3/x)
______________________________
I know how to put it in the grave. Make "Trannies" the #1 Halloween costume this year.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2026 10:32 PM (dIske)
If you're interested, and haven't seen it, drop me an email (linked), and I'll send you a copy.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (qx7Zg)
I think he did, but I can email you separately on it! I will ask Doof to send you my email when he gets a chance.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)
Every athlete shows up and strips Buck naked. Wears the same garments. Uses identical, interchangeable equipment.
May the best athlete win.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 10:32 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (qx7Zg)
He is right here! He is very clingy because I have been upstairs all day redoing my kid’s room. We have gone a little crazy. For whatever reason, Saijo has declared the upstairs a no go zone, so he has been in my room by himself a lot today. He is fine with stairs themselves, as there are quite a few to get to our front door, so not sure why he won’t just come upstairs.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
He might have thought you were going to make him work....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:32 PM (qx7Zg)
33 Biden's prostate cancer has moved into his bones.
Having known someone that happened to... I can't wish that on him.”
I think that’s what happened to Scott Adams. He really went down fast after it got into his spine.
And I think the vax did it to him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 10:33 PM (QFcqn)
Posted by: TRex - dilly dilly dino at August 08, 2026 10:34 PM (z4He/)
Because that's what I have.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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I think the grapefruit stuff was actually a grapefruit soda-- some pop available back then-- likely fairly sweet. Meh.
And the lemon juice measurement was actually "2 blup-blups" he said, as bro drew the recipe for me.
Think *whiskey sour* only super-sized! My bro didn't mess around with teeny little glasses. Heh.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:35 PM (rdVOm)
Forget "Eternity"-- we wore Giorgio back then.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (rdVOm)
My prom date was a Ciara gal...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 10:35 PM (nbLIj)
If you're interested, and haven't seen it, drop me an email (linked), and I'll send you a copy.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (qx7Zg)
I think he did, but I can email you separately on it! I will ask Doof to send you my email when he gets a chance.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)
I hope he sent the updated version. If not, I will. Better flow, more trouble.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:36 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 10:25 PM (mmrXZ)
>>
You are correct. There are dozens of examples. Two which come to mind are the swimsuits for the diving teams and swimming teams. Even the long jumpers on ski jumps have aerodynamically-designed suits, goggles, headcover, etc.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 10:36 PM (HeR4S)
He might have thought you were going to make him work....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08
He is also a weirdo. He won’t go in the kitchen and we have never told him not to, or the dining area. He will go up and down the hallway from our room that goes in between the kitchen and dining room, to the living room. That is like his expressway that he never exits.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:37 PM (ZdaMQ)
I think the grapefruit stuff was actually a grapefruit soda-- some pop available back then-- likely fairly sweet. Meh.
Maybe Squirt. It's grapefruit soda.
Walmat sells a grapefruit soda made with cane sugar.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 10:37 PM (Cqx++)
They are all basically naked. Thin sparkly skins cover them
They all use the same apparatus.
Very very little adjustments.
May the best athlete win.
Even track and field athletes can cheat with cleats. Make them run barefoot.
They all use the same shot put and discus and javelin. They all ride the same bike. They all sail
The same boat.
Have a separate engineering contest if you want. But make the best athlete win.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 10:39 PM (yEz+x)
Wouldn't larger boobs increase wind resistance?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at
Wind deflection down and through the legs rather than straight in the gut.
Biggest effect being big boob skinny legged biker.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2026 10:39 PM (sl73Y)
Hi.
Posted by: Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard...
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Hold it, without addressing the Nav and the AF, are you suggesting that rhe Coasties march?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 10:39 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (Cqx++)
I would be pissed as Hell if I paid 160 grand for a car, and the idiot screen started serving me ads for a shitty movie. I'd drive right down to the dealership, push the sales manager into my car, and tell him, "See that fucking add, numchuk? Want a closer look?" Then smash his face right into the screen.
I'd ask for a jury trial, LOL.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 10:40 PM (1z8ji)
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https://youtu.be/eyCuIBDjehg&t=34
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 10:40 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards
There was a similar clothing scandal in the Olympic ski jump. Skiers having a bit of extra fabric in the crotchal region, to give just a tiny bit of the flying-squirrel-suit effect for more lift and longer jumps.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 10:42 PM (VHUov)
Biggest effect being big boob skinny legged biker.
Posted by: From about That Time
If there was ever any question, I now know cycling is not the sport for me.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 08, 2026 10:42 PM (ftFVW)
Speaking of getting smashed in the face, that's what they're doing to Sophie Cunningham now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 10:44 PM (w6EFb)
Speaking of getting smashed in the face, that's what they're doing to Sophie Cunningham now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally
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Do they pay her a bonus per hit?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 10:45 PM (C0oZI)
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https://youtu.be/eyCuIBDjehg&t=34
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 10:40 PM (C0oZI)
https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 10:45 PM (qx7Zg)
Having dinner. Will be back in a minute.
Save me a seat at the bar.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Not First! at August 08, 2026 10:07
I'm the opposite. Been having a few drinks and now must prepare dinner.
The hard work is already done, corn has been shucked and is ready to go. Midwesterner Ethnic Food at it's finest.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 08, 2026 10:46 PM (4Qj8V)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 10:46 PM (w6EFb)
https://youtu.be/ybXrrTX3LuI
It's the first vid that comes up when I search on the song title.
I've been trying to figure out what my hash stand for.
62m/B? miles per Byte? mentions per Blog? What?
Posted by: mindful webworker - moggles per blurp at August 08, 2026 10:48 PM (62m/B)
Wouldn't larger boobs increase wind resistance?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at
Wind deflection down and through the legs rather than straight in the gut.
Biggest effect being big boob skinny legged biker.
Posted by: From about That Time
Like a pickup truck. It seems counterintuitive, but leaving the tailgate open, or replacing a solid tailgate with a net, actually makes aerodynamics worse. The solid tailgate holds a relatively-calm mass of air in the bed, so the airflow over the cab is smoother.
A padded bra isn't changing the biker's cross-section; all that air is still hitting her torso somewhere. The padding is just smoothing out the airflow.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 10:49 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 10:50 PM (JvZF+)
https://m.youtube.com/
watch?v=2mNG7UA-KOI&ra=m
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 10:50 PM (PY8/y)
Again, we need detailed and exhaustive wind tunnel testing with this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 10:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
See, and we thought our studies of Laminar boundary layers had no real world application if one wasn't working in some aeronautical firm.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2026 10:51 PM (lWrrS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 10:51 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (Cqx++)
"You can never escape our puerile, spandex-clad catamite movie, even in the confines of your six-figure luxury car. Hahahahaha!"
I don't care what the ad is for; this is a BAD idea.
But the Spider-Man tie in is particularly bizarre. Do the cement headed marketeers at BMW or Marvel think the grown-ass man with a high-powered job, sliding down the street in a $160k German luxury sled is gonna slam on the brakes, turn around the car and head straight to the cineplex to take in a showing of their latest derivative, latently homosexual dross for children?
What a crackpot scheme.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 10:52 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Musikologist at August 08, 2026 10:52 PM (JM9I6)
That link didn't have the video -- stupid DM changes crap all the time. Here's one with the video:
https://t.ly/39Mo_
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 08, 2026 10:53 PM (aJQbY)
>>Speaking of getting smashed in the face, that's what they're doing to Sophie Cunningham now.
Per the left, your free speech is violence, their violence is free speech.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2026 10:55 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:56 PM (rdVOm)
I agree 100%
Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2026 10:56 PM (sl73Y)
I agree 100%
Posted by: From about That Time
Return to Greek style?
Yoo Hoo!!
Posted by: Buttigig at August 08, 2026 10:58 PM (lWrrS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Hope you tried one! Gotta crank up the tuneage also!
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 10:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (xcxpd)
As sultry come hither looks go, hers is satisfactory.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2026 10:58 PM (2WIwB)
Meanwhile feminists are playing...me.
And I'll be honest here you don't have to worry about my male gaze because I don't each watch women's sports.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 10:58 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (CHHv1)
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Actually its a great combination
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 10:58 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: nostalgia is a helluva drug at August 08, 2026 10:59 PM (yzGjr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 11:00 PM (JvZF+)
You almost have to laugh - they've been given a Jackie Robinson moment and they are responding by cheering on racist violence
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:01 PM (sKqQm)
I miss 80s hair.
Posted by: nostalgia
Yes, it's sad. Most everyone shaves these days.
What?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2026 11:02 PM (lWrrS)
--
The still is bad enough.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 11:03 PM (C0oZI)
It has all the elements of bad modern Hollywood in it...
Uneven acting even by good actors
Black/Asian guys in medieval Europe
The religious guy is a psychopath
You can't trust white guys
Two guys lusting after the female costar, but both of them awkwardly.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:03 PM (sKqQm)
Daily Mail with the video of the incident with Sophie Cunningham:
https://t.ly/5ZbcJ
Posted by: publius
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omg the things you see in the sidebar when you visit the Daily Mail.
"Olympics ice skating icon Alysa Liu's brother is now TRANSGENDER athlete who is hammering female competition at athletic events"
It screams jealousy.
Kind of a weird family anyway. Chinese dad who made 5 surrogate kids, no mothers on scene.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 11:04 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: nostalgia
Yes, it's sad. Most everyone shaves these days.
What?
Its funny on the one hand you've got jungle bush on the other you've got the Brazilian.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 11:05 PM (PY8/y)
The one who knocked her in the face is named "DiJonai" Carrington.
They did call a "flagrant foul" on her and ejected her from the game. DiJonai then blamed that on white privilege.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 11:05 PM (w6EFb)
I agree 100%
Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2026 10:56 PM (sl73Y)
The things you might see on the floor exercise!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2026 11:06 PM (2WIwB)
It has all the elements of bad modern Hollywood in it...
Uneven acting even by good actors
Black/Asian guys in medieval Europe
The religious guy is a psychopath
You can't trust white guys
Two guys lusting after the female costar, but both of them awkwardly.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:03 PM (sKqQm)
Hmmmm. That doesn't narrow it down much.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 11:06 PM (qx7Zg)
They did call a "flagrant foul" on her and ejected her from the game. DiJonai then blamed that on white privilege.
Posted by: publius
Could her mother not spell "Dijonnaise?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 11:07 PM (VHUov)
They are all basically naked. Thin sparkly skins cover them
They all use the same apparatus.
Very very little adjustments.
May the best athlete win.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 10:39 PM (yEz+x)
_________________________
Then there's China who has a habit of making false birth certificates on their gynasts. The minimum age to compete internationally is 16. They sneak in younger gymnasts. Smaller, prepubescent bodies hold an athletic advantage in gymnastics, but fielding underage competitors violates rules set by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). China does it anyway, consistently (and gets caught sometimes).
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2026 11:08 PM (dIske)
Posted by: San Franpsych
I'll sometimes make a kind of low-rent paloma with Fresca and tequila.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 08, 2026 11:08 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 10:24 PM (rbvCR)
I'm something of a sportsman myself.
Posted by: Joseph Robinette Biden at August 08, 2026 11:09 PM (yzGjr)
Her acting isn't the worst but if she looked like "DiJonai" Carrington she's be doing the occasional local theater in Allentown when she has time off from her day job.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:09 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
And if you don't periodically update your test subjects, your data sags.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 08, 2026 11:09 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 11:10 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 11:10 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (xcxpd)
As sultry come hither looks go, hers is satisfactory.
Posted by: Diogenes
Ah, good. I'm not the only one thinking that.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 11:10 PM (pLaQB)
Welp, after watching how it all went with my dad-- I think Joey is getting what he deserves, for screwing over our lovely country.
He's got gold-plated healthcare, so will have plenty of opiate painkillers. At least his poo won't be runny.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 11:12 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 10:28 PM (IG3/x)
A lot of us have been predicting that for years; but that’s only a temporary stage. No one actually wants to watch tranny sports, so that’ll die off quickly. And then sports will be back to what they were before 1940, where there are just “sports”. And the only people in them are highly athletic men.
The entire Title IX era will be a forgotten and failed experiment.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 11:12 PM (QFcqn)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 11:13 PM (XeU6L)
I think Sophie Cunningham is the only player in the whole damned league that is actually attractive. Compared to what I've seen her fellow players, she's Helen of Troy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)
Premium Flavored Malt Beverage combined with fine aged and dried tobacco.
I don't think I ever tried Benson and Hedges. On a lark, I checked Camel Wides last night in Kroger: $12.93 a pack. Literally 10 times what I paid for my first pack in... 1996.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
If you ever wondered why the State has such an irrational hostility to nicotine vapes, it's because not all of that difference is inflation; some is taxes, and some is the big settlement. Oh no, did some teens get hurt from buying black-market THC off the Dark Web, where a bathtub chemist used Vitamin E as a solvent? (Vital in the diet, deadly in the lungs.) Better pound the podium railing against Demon Vape!
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Chick drink were better tasting back in the day. White Claw is disgusting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)
White Claw is the kale of booze. It's not really a "chick drink" unless they're watching their girlish figures, because it's low-cal, like La Croix but 5% ABV.
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 11:13 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work
Thugs know that they'll be protected from her. B1tches will push and push but never get what they deserve.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 11:14 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Orson
But. Those girls don’t have the intestinal fortitude to withstand the pressure of international competition. They just don’t have the maturity or experience.
I know this.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 11:14 PM (pUOWF)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 10
And those things are the same.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 11:14 PM (ZdaMQ)
Trying to play a 5gb 1920x1080 dts version of Police Story 3 and it took 5 minutes to transcode and start playing, it will play instantly on subsequent viewings but that means I I have to run a transcode script every time I add a file.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2026 11:15 PM (XV/Pl)
It is astounding out anti-female feminism has become, its almost comical. The line, "feminism things men are now the best women" is true but on almost every issue feminism is explicitly anti-female
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:16 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Piper
Except the tranny team consists of the dudes who couldn't make the dude teams.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 08, 2026 11:16 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (CHHv1)
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Actually its a great combination
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 10:58
Agreed SFpsycho. You either get cheered up and happier or you get sadder and drunker, then fall asleep.
Tomorrow is another day, perhaps another bottle.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 08, 2026 11:17 PM (4Qj8V)
Trying to play a 5gb 1920x1080 dts version of Police Story 3 and it took 5 minutes to transcode and start playing, it will play instantly on subsequent viewings but that means I I have to run a transcode script every time I add a file.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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*?*
I have no idea what that means.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 11:19 PM (XeU6L)
I think Sophie Cunningham is the only player in the whole damned league that is actually attractive. Compared to what I've seen her fellow players, she's Helen of Troy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
part of the reason they're so angry
Posted by: Otto Penn at August 08, 2026 11:20 PM (JHVDg)
Sounds complicated but it isn't. Goes very fast.
(And keep a USB stuck in your computer or laptop for backing up!)
Posted by: Clio Weeps at August 08, 2026 11:20 PM (FvFu9)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2026 11:20 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: publius
The best female athletes are likely to be the ones who have the highest natural testosterone levels. That's usually counterproductive to feminine good looks.
Even the feminine ones train themselves down to a masculine level of body fat, which affects everything. No curves and Ozempic Overdose Face.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 11:21 PM (VHUov)
[ponders changing nic to 'curmudgeonly luddite']
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 11:23 PM (XeU6L)
I don't think feminism really exists any more, it's been subsumed into general leftism, whose only consistent ethos or ethic is, power by any means necessary.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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That's what I've been saying for years about the whole civil rights movement. Every cause jacked by the left.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 11:24 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:16 PM (sKqQm)
I mean, it started out pretty damned hostile to women. "Kill your babies and work for a corporation, not your family" is a heck of a pitch.
Posted by: + adopt male vices, eschew male virtues at August 08, 2026 11:25 PM (yzGjr)
I am tired of Manischewitz and Boones Farm Strawberry Hill.
Posted by: Kami Harris at August 08, 2026 11:26 PM (pKPZx)
The best female athletes are likely to be the ones who have the highest natural testosterone levels. That's usually counterproductive to feminine good looks.
Even the feminine ones train themselves down to a masculine level of body fat, which affects everything. No curves and Ozempic Overdose Face.
Posted by: mikeski
I can’t express how offensive this is.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 11:29 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (CHHv1)
On the positive side, you're ready to write country songs.
Posted by: Nashville, here you come at August 08, 2026 11:30 PM (yzGjr)
I am tired of Manischewitz and Boones Farm Strawberry Hill.
Posted by: Kami Harris
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(I know it's a sock, but....)
Kami, you tryna tell us that YOU-- a "California girl"-- do not know how to make a batch of wine punch? Seriously?
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 11:30 PM (rdVOm)
And their job would be to let Sophie play while they administer beat downs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 11:31 PM (QFcqn)
It was from a right leaning writer I haven't seen before and she made the argument:
Listen Gen Z I'm not gonna tell you to stop having an occasional coffee or to get a side hustle. But if you do want an answer to affordability we are going to have to send all the illegals home. All of them, not just the rapists and murderers. Either you have to get with the program or just not vote because that doubling of costs over the last few years? Its the millions of illegals that came in.
Yeah, yeah, Elon Musk! Sorry he hasn't take a dollar from you but those poor refugees the news tells you to feel sorry for? They are all on the public dole - which means when they get free healthcare, food, or housing you pay double for yours.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:31 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 11:31 PM (rdVOm)
Searching on "glam shots of Sophie Cunningham", I must say she cleans up pretty good as they say.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 11:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 11:29 PM (yEz+x)
Yeah that crossed my mind.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 11:33 PM (QFcqn)
>>I have no idea what that means.
It means when I click play in the web-browser, the server needs to be able to convert the file into a stream that can be played in the web player, for normally ecoded files it's near instantaneous, but for files with other encoding formats that can't be natively played in the browser, they must be transcoded into a playable format.
What I will probably do is run a transcode process everytime I add a file.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2026 11:33 PM (XV/Pl)
I mean, it started out pretty damned hostile to women. "Kill your babies and work for a corporation, not your family" is a heck of a pitch.
Feminism has been trying to come up with an answer for the cubical grind and the most recent take I've seen is: "No one ever promised you working hard was going to be easy or hard, but at least this way you don't have to depend on a man who will just leave you poor and in the cold!"
And while I'm not old enough to have been around for the original feminist arguments on this topic, I have read and watched them and they very much told women working in an office was fulfilling, fun, easy, lucrative, and had almost no stress which is why all those sexist men were telling you stay home.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:35 PM (sKqQm)
That's what I've been saying for years about the whole civil rights movement. Every cause jacked by the left.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Civil Rights and Feminism were Administrative State ops.
Gloria Steinem was on the CIA payroll.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 11:37 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Would it help if I said I thought the same was true on the male side? Serious bodybuilders look like monsters, not humans. Both sexes have a line where they're "quite fit, and still attractive," and then they can both go over the line and sacrifice all their good looks for pure athleticism.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 11:38 PM (VHUov)
The best female athletes are likely to be the ones who have the highest natural testosterone levels. That's usually counterproductive to feminine good looks.
Even the feminine ones train themselves down to a masculine level of body fat, which affects everything. No curves and Ozempic Overdose Face.
Posted by: mikeski
I can’t express how offensive this is.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 11:29 PM (yEz+x)
They are very ugly. But I wouldn't go so far as to call them offensive. We have to practice kindness even when it hurts
Posted by: our eyes. at August 08, 2026 11:39 PM (yzGjr)
Well, we left our mild-climate California beach town at 4AM Monday morning and drove to Kingman, Az Overnighted at Ft. Beale RV park. Very nice. Then continued to NavajoLand RV park in Tuba City Tuesday and on to Mesa Verde National Park for three nights. Tonight we're somewhere in eastern Colorado.
One interesting item I learnt. While Arizona doesn't change their clocks, the Navajo Nation does. Good to know if you're staying with them.
Today we crossed the continental divide via Wolf Creek Pass.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 08, 2026 11:43 PM (aWBmH)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 10:30 PM (CHHv1)
On the positive side, you're ready to write country songs.
Posted by: Nashville, here you come at August 08, 2026 11:30 PM (yzGjr)
Indeed. Needs to involve broken hearts and at least a pickup truck.
Posted by: Hound dog is a plus at August 08, 2026 11:44 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 11:46 PM (rdVOm)
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 08, 2026 11:43 PM (aWBmH)
Were you singing this song?
https://youtu.be/C5A8COF_NYQ
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 11:46 PM (qx7Zg)
Listen Gen Z I'm not gonna tell you to stop having an occasional coffee or to get a side hustle. But if you do want an answer to affordability we are going to have to send all the illegals home. All of them, not just the rapists and murderers. Either you have to get with the program or just not vote because that doubling of costs over the last few years? Its the millions of illegals that came in.
Is this all a part of the Burrito Brouhaha of 2026?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 11:48 PM (Cqx++)
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 08, 2026 11:43 PM (aWBmH)
Were you singing this song?
https://youtu.be/C5A8COF_NYQ
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 11:46 PM (qx7Zg)
I was thinking about it. Have the CD.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 08, 2026 11:49 PM (aWBmH)
Female athlete bodies are gorgeous. Sorry if they don’t have big boobs. They are athletes, not mothers, yet.
How is it not feminine to be an athlete?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 11:50 PM (yEz+x)
Or artificial.
Some of those East German women back in the day were pretty scary. I'd bet they had to shave more often than I do.
Of course, other female athletes have been shooting up steroids for decades, same as the men, just not to the degree that the DDR women did.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened to Jennifer Capriati, for example. She was cute as a button in her early teens, but by the time she reached womanhood she had man jaw and a permanent scowl.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 11:50 PM (IG3/x)
https://youtu.be/C5A8COF_NYQ
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 11:46 PM (qx7Zg)
BTW, I meant to compliment you on your excellent ONT a few weeks back. (I think it was you).
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 08, 2026 11:51 PM (aWBmH)
Men like curves.
Sorry if this is news to you.
For what it's worth, I think roided-out male body-builders also look disgusting.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 11:52 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:16 PM (sKqQm)
Feminism was always anti-woman.
I have noticed the Left loves nothing more than to use Group 1 to help subjugate or otherwise hamper Group 2, and then they destroy Group 1. Usually but not always Group 2 was actually a line of protection for Group 1. It happens too often to be coincidence. And I assume it's demon influenced because that's pretty hard to "plan" over and over.
Posted by: ... at August 08, 2026 11:54 PM (vE0+H)
Heidi is now...Andreas.
The claim is that Heidi was given massive amounts of steroids and developed masculine features and then after retiring decided she was really he.
Makes me wonder if Heidi was actually always Andreas though and deciding to go trans later is just the best way to cover it up
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:55 PM (sKqQm)
These WNBA players are mostly as ugly on the outside as they are the inside. Racist lesbos, who don't like white girls in general, and especially hate the pretty ones.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 11:55 PM (w6EFb)
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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*cough* *cough*
The Western Continental Divide
Posted by: Mike Hammer, just west ofthe Eastern Continental Divide at August 08, 2026 11:56 PM (XeU6L)
For what it's worth, I think roided-out male body-builders also look disgusting.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
They look like monsters from a horror picture.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 11:56 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:55 PM (sKqQm)
I recall that at the time the Olympics (and I think some other competitions) required them to take chromosome tests.
I don't remember if Krieger was one of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 11:56 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 11:57 PM (S41Gd)
On this topic...Transexualism is a fetish that requires you remove your sexual organs to fully comply with it so you can't ever actually scratch that itch just destroy your body and mind which seems absolutely demonic to me in the *literal sense*
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:57 PM (sKqQm)
Female athlete bodies are gorgeous. Sorry if they don’t have big boobs. They are athletes, not mothers, yet.
How is it not feminine to be an athlete?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 11:50 PM (yEz+x)
Keep in mind:
1. This is the ONT.
B. This started out being about the WNBA. And whatever one thinks of female athletes generally, the WNBA is chock full of industrial grade ugly.
iii. A supermajority of morons would be happy to bang at least 90% of female athletes.
Posted by: why so serious? at August 08, 2026 11:59 PM (yzGjr)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:57 PM (sKqQm)
I think it comes from a simultaneous desire - maybe largely unconscious - to both fuck and kill oneself.
Pretty on brand for demonic.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:00 AM (vE0+H)
They're real, and they're not spectacular.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2026 12:01 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 09, 2026 12:02 AM (IG3/x)
Have kids, have a job, take care of hubby & house... and do it all with a big smile.
"Mr. Mom" was in over his head, and didn't even have to work outside the home!
youtu.be/N_kzJ-f5C9U
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 09, 2026 12:02 AM (IG3/x)
Shit you might be onto something
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:04 AM (vE0+H)
https://youtu.be/C5A8COF_NYQ
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 11:46 PM (qx7Zg)
BTW, I meant to compliment you on your excellent ONT a few weeks back. (I think it was you).
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 08, 2026 11:51 PM (aWBmH)
I think I'm the only oddball creating ONTs to keep spares ready. Thank you.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2026 12:04 AM (qx7Zg)
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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*cough* *cough*
The Western Continental Divide
Posted by: Mike Hammer, just west ofthe Eastern Continental Divide at August 08, 2026 11:56 PM
The devil is always in the details, isn't it... ?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:08 AM (aWBmH)
I cannot predict whether it will be successful, just that there is essentially one person left in the entire world who can stop it and they desperately need him gone.
Why can he stop it? The same reason he vaulted himself into power in the first place. He knows the Left and he understands mass communication and persuasion. He gets how they do things. I am going to watch this next two years with simultaneous revulsion for what they are unleashing on us and anticipation for how this man is going to pull the plug on it.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:09 AM (vE0+H)
192 A whole lot of our problems stem from the fact that people quit believing demons are real.
They're real, and they're not spectacular.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2026 12:01 AM (BI5O2)
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled…
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2026 12:09 AM (hDjZm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2026 12:10 AM (BI5O2)
(bump and grind music)
I can bring home the bacon
Fry it up in a pan
And never let you forget you're a man
Enjoli!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 09, 2026 12:10 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:57 PM (sKqQm)
Seems that way to me, too.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:12 AM (aWBmH)
Exactly. Hear, hear.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:12 AM (w6EFb)
I was warning people here that mass brainwashing was occurring during covid, detailing every aspect and explaining how it was going to make people crazy. How it was setting people up to believe insane shit on purpose.
And I didn't just mean during covid or just about viruses. I meant it was priming people. And I mean crazy. Now everyone is looking back and seeing how broken so many people are and I think can see it now. The difference is I told you it was happening while it was happening. And yes - it was engineered.
We do mass psy ops in other countries. We know about them, they are documented, there's a long history, this is not just me bullshitting. The problem is "we" also do them here. And when you think about it, why wouldn't we.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:13 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2026 11:57 PM (sKqQm)
I think it comes from a simultaneous desire - maybe largely unconscious - to both fuck and kill oneself.
Pretty on brand for demonic.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:00 AM (vE0+H)
Two words: 'autogynephilia' and 'deadnaming'. I think you're on to something.
In fact, if you have any interest in the conspiracy theory subculture(s), there is a tranny twist on the ol' "sacrificing relatives for entry to The Club" theory. The hypothesis, as I understand it, is that there is a narrow range of acceptable substitutes for straight murder, such as the Kennedy woman's lobotomy. And then, 'transitioning' is one too.
The appeal of this theory is that it would account for both the wild overrepresentation of trans kids among the rich and famous, and also their desperate dogmatic fury at denial of the relative's new identity (not shared by Elon Musk).
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 12:13 AM (Sy6m/)
They're real, and they're not spectacular.
The Out of Space trilogy has some interesting ideas of what demonic possession might look like and...I see a lot of something very similar around me when I go into the nearby blue city...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2026 12:14 AM (sKqQm)
Heh. Shows how little you know. It was a woodruff key.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2026 12:14 AM (u/oMr)
Heh. Shows how little you know. It was a woodruff key.
Posted by: Cicero
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Possibly a shear pin.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, just west ofthe Eastern Continental Divide at August 09, 2026 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2026 12:16 AM (PY8/y)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2026 12:10 AM (BI5O2)
For a while I thought Hilary might actually be this much vaulted anti-Christ I hear tell about.
Personally I think demons only have as much power over us as we give them, which in my case is zero, zip, nada.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:17 AM (aWBmH)
A fetish emerges from the disorder, but at it's core, it's a mental disorder.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2026 12:19 AM (XV/Pl)
We do mass psy ops in other countries. We know about them, they are documented, there's a long history, this is not just me bullshitting. The problem is "we" also do them here. And when you think about it, why wouldn't we.
This is a fun conversation with lefties btw...
Do you believe the US has used covert operations to subvert foreign cultures? Yes
Do you believe the US used covert operations to subvert the counterculture in the 60s? Yes
Do you believe the US used covert operations to covert our current American society in the 2010 and early 2020s? NO ONLY A RACIST CONSPIRACY THEORIST RUSSIAN BOT COULD BELIEVE THE US GOVERNMENT WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT! Government workers love us and care for us!
And by point here isn't that you have to believe the third point if you believe the first two, but if you believe the US government routinely subverts cultures for its own benefit you can't then claim it is an insane conspiracy theory to argue it did so under Biden/COVID.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2026 12:19 AM (sKqQm)
Hey SciVo!! Since you asked me last week about how I see the Democrat "messaging" progressing on the DSA... did you happen to see old Debbie Dingell's viral comments about Hasan Piker? It's already starting. We are already leaving the simple "they're dangerous extremists!!!" behind.
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"I don’t get it. I don’t agree with him. I’m not defending what he’s said. But he’s popular, especially with young people, and he’s hot. So it is what it is. C’est la vie."
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Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:20 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone)
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Those sub-divides get snooty don't they?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:20 AM (C0oZI)
Every now and then I run across FNM news coverage having not watched it in decades and it constantly amazes me how unhinged it is. People...believe this crap? And yes, yes they do and will repeat it to you verbatim because if the talking head in the idiot box says it it must be true.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2026 12:21 AM (sKqQm)
Exactly. Hear, hear.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:12 AM (w6EFb)
And not just outwardly ugly.
Publius - we were in Mesa Verde this week and went to a Night sky ranger talk. Very interesting. Also got to clearly see the Milky Way, etc.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:21 AM (aWBmH)
The Germans had a crossdressing man in some of the women's track events at the 1936 Olympics. Javelin throw was one of them, IIRC.
I saw a real, contemporaneous news photo of him, caption reading, "Herman in dull drag for the Nazis."
Posted by: mnw at August 09, 2026 12:21 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Yep. That is what I linked, in case you were merely guessing...
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
I'm open to a lot of things - or I tend not to dismiss out of hand. It's certainly interesting. There are other plausible explanations for the overrepresentation among celebs but that's certainly an interesting one.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:23 AM (vE0+H)
Heh. Shows how little you know. It was a woodruff key.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2026 12:14 AM (u/oMr)
Nice !
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:24 AM (aWBmH)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Noticed that about 10 seconds after I posted.
Horde Mind jumps the gun sometimes.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 09, 2026 12:24 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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Bought a bottle of USA-250 decorated vodka.
Working out pretty good.
Made in Poland.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:25 AM (C0oZI)
Are we talking present day or 1930s Germany?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2026 12:25 AM (PY8/y)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Yeah, but it's usually correct. LMAO!
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)
Then I had to replace two fiberglass insulation batts that had fallen out of the north wall when the vapor barrier pulled loose of the staples. That took a while. And when I was maneuvering the ladder to complete that chore, I knocked over a VW engine that was sitting on a very tippy 3-wheeled engine stand. It went down with a crash, too. Luckily, the only damage was bent cooling tin, and spilled oil.
I can see my way clear to hanging 2 more sheets of tin before I have to move more vehicles. And I will probably put up 2 rows of 3 lamps each for my LED lighting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2026 12:26 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: mikeski
I can’t express how offensive this is.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Somebody's a big fan of Susie Derkins
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 09, 2026 12:26 AM (DZ9Lv)
Like I've long said about Obongo. He can't be the antichrist since the antichrist is supposed to be popular.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:27 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2026 12:27 AM (Cqx++)
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You understand that will be perceived as a challenge?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:27 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Try to visit Canyon de Chelley and Chaco canyon as well.
Amazing. Try not to get spooked.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 09, 2026 12:28 AM (tHKLd)
Posted by: The Usual Suspects at August 09, 2026 12:29 AM (/SX4J)
Nice. A lot of people hold that August nights are the best for skywatching -- several factors sort of come together.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:29 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: ...
Oh, burn!
On the other hand, neither he or his boss can stand to be mocked.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2026 12:30 AM (VHUov)
I found the athlete this refers to and well...look for yourself... https://tinyurl.com/2s49jf8c
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2026 12:30 AM (sKqQm)
Have kids, have a job, take care of hubby & house... and do it all with a big smile.
"Mr. Mom" was in over his head, and didn't even have to work outside the home!
youtu.be/N_kzJ-f5C9U
Posted by: JQ
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That was the hype along with dropping the kids of at the local Day [institutionalization] Care.
What an op.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:30 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2026 12:19 AM (sKqQm)
I believe that American leftists are actually insane now, completely immune to cognitive dissonance.
Ukraine is Teh Holy for opposing Ebil Russia, that frauded Orange Hitler into power.
Iran is Teh Holy for opposing Ebil Orange Hitler directly.
Ukraine attacking Iranian shipping for supplying Russia is a completely isolated piece of trivia, disconnected from everything and of no greater import, like the amount of cross-phylum DNA in tardigrades.
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 12:31 AM (Sy6m/)
A lot of people hold that August nights are the best for skywatching -- several factors sort of come together.
Posted by: publius
Is Neil Diamond involved?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2026 12:32 AM (Cqx++)
I think you mentioned being a Tar Heel. Wife and I are Tarheel parents. Not sure of correct spelling.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:32 AM (aWBmH)
Posted by: The Usual Suspects at August 09, 2026
***
Sorry about that.
Posted by: TRex - just out of reach dino at August 09, 2026 12:32 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: The Usual Suspects at August 09, 2026
***
Sorry about that.
Posted by: TRex - just out of reach dino at August 09, 2026 12:32 AM (41CYW)
Instead of waiting on you, TRex, they should bring their octopus to help reach things.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2026 12:36 AM (qx7Zg)
Jupiter will be popping up just before sunrise in a few days. Still a bit early to see it (at least up at NA latitudes), but by the 12th, will start the "heliacal rising" moment.
It's also the helical rising of Sirius here at 35N. You can spot that just before dawn. Orion's belt stars will sort of point to the location.
The helical rising of Sirius is where Dog Days of Summer comes from. The Greek homos and Romans thought it added its heat to the sun, and that made it hotter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:37 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mnw at August 09, 2026 12:37 AM (RCjYY)
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Tumbleweed and buffalo, the rivers run wild
Sunset over rolling hills, ghosts ride the sky
A campfire song has me feeling just right
Yеah, I'm getting lost in the Milky Way tonight
Dean Johnson lyrics 'Faraway Skies'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, just west ofthe Eastern Continental Divide at August 09, 2026 12:37 AM (XeU6L)
Hubby's "shop" (a pole-building, erected some years before we got together) sat without electricity, concrete floor, or interior finish. He parked the lawn tractor there & had a pile of assorted stuff on the bare dirt within.
Lots of work we did together... And driving screws into those old, dried studs was a stone cold b1tch! But we did it.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2026 12:39 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 09, 2026 12:39 AM (IG3/x)
Welp, I spelled "heliacal" correctly the first time, but then typed "helical" twice thereafter. Those are two different things, of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:39 AM (w6EFb)
I think you mentioned being a Tar Heel. Wife and I are Tarheel parents. Not sure of correct spelling.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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Tarheel is fine, generally though, Tar Heel.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2026 12:40 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Try to visit Canyon de Chelley and Chaco canyon as well.
Amazing. Try not to get spooked.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 09, 2026 12:28 AM (tHKLd)
Might have to do those in cooler weather. The +100 degree heat is degrading the experience somewhat.
Would also like to try to see the Marfa (sp?) Lights in Texas.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:41 AM (aWBmH)
How To Make Sex Last For Over Three Hours Without the Blue Pill!*
*(no woman would put up with that)
Posted by: mnw at August 09, 2026 12:42 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2026 12:43 AM (1z8ji)
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You understand that will be perceived as a challenge?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:27 AM (C0oZI)
They can bugger right off. I was raised by native New Yorkers. Nothing gets through. IYKYK.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:44 AM (aWBmH)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
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Been learning new words every night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7RtlShIae8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:45 AM (C0oZI)
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"I don’t get it. I don’t agree with him. I’m not defending what he’s said. But he’s popular, especially with young people, and he’s hot. So it is what it is. C’est la vie."
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Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:20 AM (vE0+H)
Bloody Hell. At this rate, he's going to be their 2028 nominee. And I mean for U.S. President, not West Hollywood City Council member (I think that's the lowest elected position where he lives).
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 12:45 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026
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Glad you're having a good trip. You're covering a lot of ground and seeing some good stuff.
Posted by: TRex - park ranger dino at August 09, 2026 12:45 AM (41CYW)
The ancient Egyptians were very big on the heliacal rising of Sirius. The period between risings is known as the Sothic year (by the Greek homos -- the Egyptians called it something else).
In a coincidence, the Sothic year is almost dead-on 365.25 years, the Julian year. So the Sothic year tracked the seasons as well as the Julian calendar.
The Greek homos were also big on the heliacal rising of the Pleiades. That signalled it was safe to start the sailing season.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:45 AM (w6EFb)
365.25 *days*, of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb)
How To Make Sex Last For Over Three Hours Without the Blue Pill!*
*(no woman would put up with that)
Posted by: mnw
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Well, old people need a break.
Can't pull all nighters anymore.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:47 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: mnw
The pop-up ads are recruiting for pr0nhub?
Posted by: take twenty-two..... and action! at August 09, 2026 12:47 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2026 12:50 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: mnw at August 09, 2026 12:51 AM (RCjYY)
The Perseid meteor shower is coming up, and may not get very good view this year.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mnw at August 09, 2026 12:51 AM (RCjYY)
You really, really needed a sock puppet for that one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2026 12:52 AM (1z8ji)
The opposite of heliacal is "acronychal/acronical". Note the 'y' form uses "ch" while the "i" form doesn't. That is the correct spelling.
During the acronychal rising/setting phase, a star (or planet) rises at sunset and sets at sunrise.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:53 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: TRex - park ranger dino at August 09, 2026 12:45 AM (41CYW)
Thank you Mr. TRex.
It would be nice to see Kacey Musgraves My House as a hidden link. Smile.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:53 AM (aWBmH)
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 12:23 AM (vE0+H)
That is where I'm at. I'll give it a fair hearing, but I think the observations can be explained without the involvement of transnational secret societies.
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 12:55 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 12:56 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 12:57 AM (aWBmH)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:57 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2026 12:58 AM (1z8ji)
Watching the Math video was a relief.
Once upon a time we bought LP albums. Sometimes didn't even know what was on them.
https://youtu.be/yMG-Mi9I0-k
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - new mindful nature taking over at August 09, 2026 12:58 AM (62m/B)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Story of my life.
And AOP's, evidently...
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 12:57 AM (C0oZI)
The dread "might as wells".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2026 12:59 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 12:59 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2026 12:58 AM (1z8ji)
Those engine stands and light fixtures ain't gonna crash themselves, dontcha know...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 09, 2026 01:00 AM (aWBmH)
There is a much older film, The House On Garibaldi Street, which I liked better.
Eichmann famously testified that he "was only a little cog in a big machine." He was lying.
Posted by: mnw at August 09, 2026 01:01 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2026 01:08 AM (Hn9/J)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 12:56 AM (Sy6m/)
It's all related. People keep asking what the next frontier is.
After pedoism which of course has a movement that is already here, but it came disguised as the Tranny Movement. So pedoism isn't "next", it's here.
Human sacrifice of course has been going on already, and they worship it in the form of abortion, but I fear it's headed our way in other forms. And it is indeed "next".
MAID is one of those forms even though it has many shields to couch and tell us why it's not that at all. Yet.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:10 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:10 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:11 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 01:12 AM (C0oZI)
I'm just checking in - hitting the hay shortly. I spent the last hour or two messing around with a little electronics project.
Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2026 01:13 AM (Hn9/J)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2026 01:15 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
That's excellent to hear!!! Keep on truckin'.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:17 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 01:21 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 12:45 AM (w6EFb)
You know who else was big on the Pleiades...
No, not Hitler. Jimmy Buffett. He has several songs that mention them, when most bands don't even have one. This is archetypal:
Jimmy Buffett - Desdemona's Building A Rocket Ship (Audio) - 7:10
https://youtu.be/as5PcS76vcc
[Bridge]
Pleiades calling her home
Seven sisters, she hears her distant sisters
Pleiades calling me home
Seven sisters, she hears her seven sisters
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 01:22 AM (Sy6m/)
How is the Hellhound? Smoke is finally starting to clear out here. Been brutal.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 09, 2026 01:23 AM (AGhLW)
I did not know that, as Johnny Carson used to say.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 01:23 AM (w6EFb)
I forget to mention the important reason the Egyptians tracked Sirius. The heliacal rising heralded the flooding of the Nile way back then.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 01:25 AM (w6EFb)
MAID is one of those forms even though it has many shields to couch and tell us why it's not that at all. Yet.
Posted by: ...
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On the other hand we are entering a period of great revival.
that's why the demons are going ape shit
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 01:25 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:26 AM (vE0+H)
Oh my. Dozens of Haitian workers employed by the City of New York have lost their jobs. The number could reach the hundreds. Mayor Mad-manny claims his hands are tied -- it's federal law -- but Trump could call the whole thing off.
I'm surprised he's giving up that easily. He has no trouble defying ICE.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 09, 2026 01:30 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:10 AM (vE0+H)
It is almost three times as dangerous to be sad in a Canadian hospital as in an American ghetto.
That is my formulation for cutting through the noise. IIRC, the U.S. has about three times as many gun deaths (incl. suicides) as Canada has MAID deaths, but with 8.5 times the population. QED
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 01:31 AM (Sy6m/)
that's why the demons are going ape shit
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 01:25 AM (C0oZI)
I know we win in the end
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:31 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2026 01:32 AM (Hn9/J)
Most the changes in the sky due to precession of the equinoxes (and proper motion of nearer stars) are vanishingly small on human scales. That's the case for a human lifespan, certainly, but over recorded history, there are some interesting changes.
During the time of the Egyptians that heliacal rising of Sirius happened after the summer solstice, basically early July according to the current Gregorian seasonal dates. But precession of the equinoxes has shifted that.
But the time of the Roman Empire, it had shifted to late July, corresponding to the peak Summer heat period. And by today, it's shifted to early August.
Sirius has a pretty high proper motion relatively speaking, and it has moved about 3 full Moon widths in the sky relative to the background stars since the time of the Egyptians, to the southwest, mostly south on the celestial sphere.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)
And during the time of the Egyptians the North star was Thuban, not Polaris. Well Thuban was the closest, and not as close as Polaris is today.
By the year zero, time of the Roman Empire, there wasn't really any bright enough star close enough to the poles. It wasn't until the Middle Ages, maybe around 1500 when Polaris got pretty close.
Polaris is still getting close, and will be at its closet to the pole around 2100. After that, it will started drifting farther away.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 01:35 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 09, 2026 01:30 AM (mmrXZ)
Mamdani does whatever his masters tell him. So if they want him to back off, he backs off. If they want him to push forward tomorrow he will do that.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:35 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: SciVo
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Now take out cultural suicides in Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago and L.A. of the numerical equation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 01:37 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: ...
Masters? Did you just imply a brown person was a slave?
It's not incorrect, but what do the democrats call those inconvenient truths..... "problematic?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2026 01:40 AM (VHUov)
Another interesting thing about Sirius. By the year 66,000 AD, Sirius will be the South pole star, coming within 1.6 degrees of the south celestial pole.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)
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Do I count, even though it's 8:42AM here?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 01:42 AM (Z3R2R)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 01:44 AM (Z3R2R)
It's not incorrect, but what do the democrats call those inconvenient truths..... "problematic?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2026 01:40 AM (VHUov)
Well they want us all slaves. Likely why they want us to think of slaves as one particular thing and nothing else...
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:45 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
That's excellent to hear!!! Keep on truckin'.
Posted by: ...
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It was too hot to go out and tear herself up. Been with us most of the day. Good thing too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 01:48 AM (C0oZI)
Haha, Late Night Lurker sometimes pops in to prompt us to get to the next 'milestone' comment number.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2026 01:10 AM (vE0+H)
It is almost three times as dangerous to be sad in a Canadian hospital as in an American ghetto.
That is my formulation for cutting through the noise. IIRC, the U.S. has about three times as many gun deaths (incl. suicides) as Canada has MAID deaths, but with 8.5 times the population. QED
Posted by: SciVo
So much simpler
-- The Human Capacity for Self Delusion is infinite
-- There are those in Gov't who believe Some must be sacrificed that others (THEY) may live.
-- They pit Man against other men until we exist no more (seecing the marginal public approval that they are anying but evil)
-- Evil is Real, but it has no existence outside of people (and when this is realized, it (and the LIBs) will cease to exist too.
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
In ordinary times we oppose Evil with Good.
In extraordinary times we must be capable of opposing Evil with a different kind of Evil -- at that's fully justified
LIBs seek equivocation with an Evil which has no justification, nor does it seek any.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 09, 2026 01:50 AM (mqMkF)
Yeah, it's been hotter than F lately. And too smoky to spend much time outside. I only went outdoors to move sprinklers today. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)
The equinox won't enter the official IAU boundary of Aquarius until 2597 AD. So don't hold your breath.
Now, that's the difference between the official IAU constellation definitions, of which the Zodiac has 13, not 12 constellations, all of different angular widths.
The astrologers have different boundaries. Of them, I guess I can say they are probably as accurate as economists. And certainly more accurate than climate scientists.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 01:50 AM (w6EFb)
Cuteness comes at a price. Who knew!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 01:50 AM (Z3R2R)
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 09, 2026 01:51 AM (mqMkF)
Hi {{{nurse}}}
Good night to all you wonderful Morons 💤💤
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2026 01:51 AM (348x5)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:54 AM (rdVOm)
The equinox won't enter the official IAU boundary of Aquarius until 2597 AD. So don't hold your breath.
Now, that's the difference between the official IAU constellation definitions, of which the Zodiac has 13, not 12 constellations, all of different angular widths.
The astrologers have different boundaries. Of them, I guess I can say they are probably as accurate as economists. And certainly more accurate than climate scientists.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
What fools these Mortals be?
2000 Years of Icthus/the Fish/represented the overarchigng age of Belief and Relgion
2000 Years of people worshiping the Ares and the power of the Ram and War
2000 Years of people worshiping Tarus/Hathor and the rise fertility cults and aggriculture.
Aquarius, one would hope it stand for an Age of Reason, rather than a LIB not recycling his bottles of Aquafina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqIEYFmpRs
The Age of who Gives a Crap
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 09, 2026 01:59 AM (mqMkF)
Like this:
youtu.be/REcZopXwOXo
Hope you feel better soon, though...
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 01:54 AM (rdVOm)
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Thanks. Very clever commercial.
My problem isn't lack of upper body muscle, per se. I can pick the kids up just fine. I just pay the price for it later. The back is what it is.
I mentioned here long ago that I mostly healed my back years ago by going regularly on an inversion table. Wonderful medieval contraption! Now it will take my back another day or 2 of swimming to feel 100%.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 02:02 AM (Z3R2R)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:06 AM (rdVOm)
The equinox entered Pisces (official IAU boundary) in 68 BC. The symbol is the fish. By an entirely different route, the Christian symbol is also the fish. So, they correspond.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 02:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:06 AM (rdVOm)
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https://youtu.be/39bYFDOYcRQ
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 02:11 AM (Z3R2R)
Then, he'll want to go back to bed & watch tv. I must help him stand, to transfer into bed. Gotta be careful to lift with my legs! He's not heavy anymore, but is very weak.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 09, 2026 01:50 AM (mqMkF)
They do make rationalizations, though. It is important to speak out against them at every turn, since they like to pretend that failure to object makes you complicit in their evil.
They combine that with "revelation of the method," where they explain what they're going to do, and it's so outrageous it's unbelievable. They may even go, "Haha! Just kidding!" (They're not kidding.) And then they *really* feel justified in treating the silent as deserving the evil about to be perpetrated on them.
Posted by: SciVo at August 09, 2026 02:14 AM (Sy6m/)
The equinox entered Pisces (official IAU boundary) in 68 BC. The symbol is the fish. By an entirely different route, the Christian symbol is also the fish. So, they correspond.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
And still no scientific rationale as to why the Epiphany and July 4 holidays coincide with earth grazing Saturns second orbital foci to an astonishingly small precent.
But nothing compared to the earlty precision represented here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNVr0-_Qbtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbC6dLG_dQY
the LIB tossing his bottle of Aquafina is the least of our problems.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 09, 2026 02:16 AM (mqMkF)
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE
Don't expect too much reason. Aquarius, the Water Bearer, is one of the three Air signs.
And the desert-dwelling Scorpio is a Water sign.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2026 02:17 AM (VHUov)
The rate of axial precession varies. Well, I won't bore you with the details, but the current rate corresponds to period of 25,772 years.
Currently, due to decreasing obliquity, that is speeding up slightly, meaning the tropical year is getting a bit shorter (at the current epoch). A nice round number of that precessional period over 12 is 2160 years, or 25,920 years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 02:17 AM (w6EFb)
Then, he'll want to go back to bed & watch tv. I must help him stand, to transfer into bed. Gotta be careful to lift with my legs! He's not heavy anymore, but is very weak.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
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This is very noble work.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 02:18 AM (Z3R2R)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2026 02:20 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2026 02:20 AM (ibDUx)
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https://youtu.be/wXTJBr9tt8Q
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 02:25 AM (Z3R2R)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
The only reward, is that we get this time together here on earth.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)
Coincidence, and this is cyclical thing. At current epoch, Earth and Saturn's line of apsides align. Now, with that we've got another type of precession to worry with, and that's, you guessed it, apsidal precession. The line of apsides rotates around relative to inertial space. Precession of perihelion it's sometime causes.
For the Erf, that period is on the order of 100,000 yeas. Saturn's period is about half of that. So Saturn's line of apsides constantly rotates relative to our own over that period.
Now, Saturn's secondary or "empty" focus (the primary being the sun happens to be about 1.08 AU from the Sun, about earth's orbit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 02:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:37 AM (rdVOm)
When you run the numbers, which I had Grok do, Saturn's line of apsides "walks around our seasons" about once every 10 - 15K years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 02:39 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2026 02:41 AM (ibDUx)
To channel my late former Senator, Fritz Hollings, there's a whole lot of precessin' goin' on out there in the solar system.
All sorts of precessin. Axial. Nodal. Apsidal. And a whole lot of walkin' 'round the seasons.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 02:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
The only reward, is that we get this time together here on earth.
Posted by: JQ
Then let's get to woik/Reservoir Dogs...
Solvin' the worlds problems before bed time:
1. IRG/Trojan Horse expose them in the act and plot of going after a dangled Fake Melania -- the world will see them for what they are and we can act accordingly.
Fake Melania's live for this; they can take down a Bison with their stilleto's
2. TRUMP/TRiUMPh's by replacing their currency, ceding Kharg to the affected gulf nations as war reparations. and firebombs the remaining pockets with FAE's. Dance like Marionettes, swaying to the Symphtony of Destruction.
3. China/Taiwan -- 99 Year Hong Kong-like Lease/TMSC gets 99 years rent-free in fELON's Terrafab (comming soon) in exchange for a Presidential Pardon before the filth and corruption foam up around his waist and the Harry Lime scenario play out.
4.Alternate scenario, mELON headed Musk sees the logic in #3, abandonts 3rrd party farce, wherein both he and JD stand up to to take down their unholy master(s) cTHIEL/cthKARP/cthLUCKEY/cthANDURIL and save us all from a fate factually worse than ctHILLARY.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 09, 2026 02:42 AM (mqMkF)
Coincidence, and this is cyclical thing.
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Acronyms say there are no coincidences.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 02:43 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 09, 2026 02:44 AM (mqMkF)
*bong rip*
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Ah, nope. But I wish I could!
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: MANFRED
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Put Ukraine folds and China becomes the second hermit kingdom and you've got a winner.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 02:47 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)
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It's not about reward. Your kindness for your husband is good for the both of you here and now.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 02:49 AM (skLNB)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 02:49 AM (skLNB)
Geopolitics is another subject that escapes my brain, so there's that.
Mostly, I feel like one of the stoopider members of Teh Horde.
Hey, I'm just a beer-tender. I don't even know the classic drinks very well.
:shrug:
But thanks for letting me play here anyway!
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
Biden's Dog, I know that it is not technically Saturday anymore, but I haven't officially gone to bed yet.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2026 02:52 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
Why--
A Great White Buffalo, of course!
What a lightweight, eh?
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:52 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
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We aren't called Morons for nothing!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 02:53 AM (skLNB)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2026 02:52 AM (ibDUx)
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DDS invents Leap Saturday!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 02:54 AM (skLNB)
Posted by: MANFRED
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Put Ukraine folds and China becomes the second hermit kingdom and you've got a winner.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Possible, because if Xi attempts to take Taiwain by mining their strait, then they lose the Mallaca strait to the south and norther egress throught the supported interdiction of Japan -- China starves, XI is no dummy -- he'll take the 99 Year lease.
Backup plan: Zelesnsky firebombing IRG, Ukraine can become the anchor point of the 3 Seas Iniaitve -- the new US allied buffer zone between east and west from Poland downt to (maybe/perhaps/with the appropriate photo-op) Italy.
6.Cuba. freePORT, Rubio as Regent/not President. Allows Trump to indict Brennan, who'll squeal like a pig and have a half-life less than all of Epstein's cronies who are getting drop-shipped canoes by the dozens.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 09, 2026 02:56 AM (mqMkF)
Yes, Debby, it's been a wild night!
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2026 02:57 AM (C0oZI)
You sell yourself short much.
This stuff is basically orbital mechanics -- how the earth and the planets move, and thus their positions as seen from earth. You don't have to worry about the exact math of it all, either, just the qualitive picture of how things move is enough to see what it does.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 02:59 AM (w6EFb)
Leap Saturday is when it's actually Sunday, but a Moron (or 'ette) hasn't gone to bed for "Saturday night" yet.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 02:59 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:00 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 02:59 AM (w6EFb)
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Plus there are several online planetariums. You can enter your location and it will show you what currently in the sky outside of your home.
Just one example out of many:
https://theskylive.com/planetarium
I don't know which such site is the "best."
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 03:02 AM (skLNB)
I don't even know the terminology, except for what I've gleaned from reading here late at night. (Thank you, btw)
It's very interesting. Keep it up!
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:03 AM (rdVOm)
Take axial precession. The earth is spinning, a large mass spinning about an axis. Like a top. And like a top under gravity, that axis of rotation itself rotates around.
That's due to some torques (tidal torques) on the earth due to the Sun and Moon's gravity. It causes the earth's axis to precess like a top, and that takes about 26,000 years to make a full circle.
Now, the earth's axis is pointing at a spot in the sky. Polaris is very close to that point now. But as the earth's axis precesses, it makes the point the pole it pointing at move around in a little circle in the sky.
It also changes at what point relative to the background sky the vernal equinox happens at. The point where the Sun's path as seen from earth crosses the celestial equator.
And that makes the tropical year, the cycle of seasons, a little less than the sidereal year, or the time for the earth to move 360 degrees relative to the background stars.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2026 03:06 AM (ibDUx)
So, if a "top" had a laser pointing upward out of it's center as it spins, and wobbles just a tiny bit, that circle of laser light illustrates the "precess" / identifies the "wobbley-ness" of the axis?
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
https://tinyurl.com/4b98xj4t
This is only getting worse and fast.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 03:10 AM (skLNB)
https://t.ly/nNPGX
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:10 AM (w6EFb)
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No wonder I'm dizzy!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 03:12 AM (skLNB)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)
Exactly!
It would trace out a little circle on the ceiling.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 03:18 AM (skLNB)
What's funny, is I remember ONE particular day during my first year of college: 3 different teachers in 3 different classes, each had tried to explain *multiple dimensions*
--computer
--math
--physics
I went home, absolutely boggled. Not just by the concept, but the fact that it was presented simultaneously by all of those teachers.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:22 AM (rdVOm)
I was trying to find a similar good video showing apsidal precession, but no luck. Here's the wiki page on that which shows some simple animations:
https://t.ly/c-J-d
Note that looking from the top straight down at the orbital plane, the orbital ellipse itself rotates around.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:26 AM (w6EFb)
How about high school.kids....playing an instrument.
https://youtu.be/c2dc2CQcU7I
The whole Marching Band, Drum and Bungle Corp thing has evolved into, at the highest levels, great entertainment.
Drum Corps International (DCI), Bands of America (BOA), and Winter Guard International (WGI) produce groups with amazing capabilities, and the dedication and effort required of the mostly young people give me hope for the future.
Check it out. Search utube for any of the orgs I mentioned. If any competition is local to you, go out and watch live.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2026 03:26 AM (oyafG)
More than 3 spatial dimensions is a mind-blowing thing, and what you can do. The mind can't visualize this, so you have to "fly by instruments", the instruments being math. Although you can reason by analogy, thinking of some 2D flatlanders confined to a plane in a 3D world, and how their minds would be blown by the 3rd dimension.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:29 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:31 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2026 03:34 AM (pLaQB)
In 4D, you can have a closed 3D space analogous to a sphere. Note how a sphere is a closed 2D surface. You start off any direction and get back to where you started.
No, go up one dimension with that. You have a hypersphere. Just as a sphere of a given radius has a closed 2D surface area, a hypersphere of a given radius has a closed "surface volume".
You can go off any of the 3 different directions and get back to where you started. Imagine we're in such a hypersphere surface. 3 people start out moving in each of the three direction, x, y and z call it, or up, right, and forward.
You'll all meet again at the antipode on that 3-sphere, and be facing each other, rather than back to back where you started. Go around another 180 degrees (as seen in 4D space), and you're all back to where you started, back to back.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:34 AM (w6EFb)
I need visuals and applications, or it's lost.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:43 AM (rdVOm)
*sets up for a round of beer pong*
Posted by: Miklos needs the practice at August 09, 2026 03:50 AM (XOG/m)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 03:51 AM (skLNB)
"You can go off any of the 3 different directions and get back to where you started."
Since I'm travelling along the interior surface, I could go around until I'm back at start. Heck, I could go *ANY* direction, along that interior surface, and as long as I kept my path straight, would still end up (eventually) exactly where I began. Right?
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)
Now, imagine you've got some ants on the surface of a 2-sphere. They think they live in a 2D world. From our 3D vantage point, we can see they're curved and closed. But they can't see it.
Now, let the surface of that sphere expand with time, the radius increasing with time. The little ants would see the distance between them increasing with time. That's expanding space.
Now, take everything up one dimension. We're ants on the surface of a hypersphere, which is expanding hyperbolically with time. That's our expanding space.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:53 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:54 AM (rdVOm)
Consider a moebius strip. You can make one out of paper, and pretend it has no thickness. So you have a 2D surface, but it only has one side. The top side is the bottom side.
If you were a 2D thing you could live on that surface, but how you could get around on it would make no sense to you because it's an object that can only exist in a 3D space, which your 2D brain couldn't comprehend.
Now connect two moebius strips edge-to-edge. You just made a Klein bottle; a one-sided 3D surface whose inside is the same as its outside.
If you tried to make one from two strips of paper, you'd find out you can't, because a Klein bottle can only exist in 4D space.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2026 03:55 AM (VHUov)
You've got it.
Now, go back to the ants on the 2D sphere. They think they're walking straight, but from our 3D vantage (this is the "embedding space" in the jargon), we can see their paths are actually curved because they are confined to the surface.
So, what do we mean by "going straight" on a curved surface?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 03:56 AM (w6EFb)
You're a flea, travelling west on the back of a dog that is walking east on the deck of a boat that is going north on a river that's flowing south...
Point of origin vs point of destination, in *real space*
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 03:57 AM (rdVOm)
Point of origin vs point of destination, in *real space*
Posted by: JQ
Ummm...can I buy some pot from you?
Posted by: Miklos is, like, blown away, man at August 09, 2026 03:59 AM (XOG/m)
THere are 3D models of the Klein bottle. The surface has to intersect. What you're seeing with that is 3D projection of the actual 4D object.
Make a figure-8 like loop of string. In 3D you can just lift it up at the crossing point where it doesn't have to intersect itself. But if you project that on the plane, it looks like it intersects in a figure 8.
That's that 3D projection of the Klein bottle.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
Relative to our own reckoning of a 1-D path of travel.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2026 04:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:05 AM (rdVOm)
The notion of a "straight" line on a curved surface (or space in general) is dubbed a geodesic. Geodesics are the shortest path between two points on that surface. Well, there is one geodesic that will be the shortest in general. Other geodesics need not be....
On a sphere (which has almost perfect symmetry), those geodesics are great circles. The shortest path between two points is a great circle containing those two points. But note there's the short way, and then the long way around. Both are geodesic paths between the points, but only one is the shortest.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
You can buy those, and then try to get a drunk person to drink from one...
https://tinyurl.com/4jabzfzc
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2026 04:06 AM (VHUov)
Yep, but how do we know we're going "straight"?
This is not at all trivial to define. It seems like it ought to be, but the math gets complex. This is differential geometry, perfected by Riemann. Riemannian geometry.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Cheech Miklos-Marin at August 09, 2026 04:08 AM (XOG/m)
Posted by: publius
You can buy those, and then try to get a drunk person to drink from one...
https://tinyurl.com/4jabzfzc
Posted by: mikeski
Worse than the beer boots at the German place
Posted by: Miklos hates to waste at August 09, 2026 04:10 AM (XOG/m)
Imagine a spher coordinatized by latitude and longitude. Note the perfect symmetry means we can make any point the pole, with its antipode the opposite pole.
Now, are lines of constant latitude geodesics? If I'm here at 35N where I am, and I head due east, and maintain that due east heading, am I following a geodesic?
You will see I'm only following a great circle at the equator. Lines of latitude are not geodesics, but all lines of longitude are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 04:12 AM (odBC9)
So if I'm following a geodesic, a great circle not along a meridian or the equator, the local direction, defined by N-E-S-W is changing as I move along.
But yet I'm going "straight", but my "tangent vector" is rotating relative to the local coordinate system.
This concept is known as "parallel transport". And it was only recently that I truly understood that. I thought I did before, but nope, I didn't.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:13 AM (w6EFb)
Consider a moebius strip. You can make one out of paper, and pretend it has no thickness. So you have a 2D surface, but it only has one side. The top side is the bottom side.
If you were a 2D thing you could live on that surface, but how you could get around on it would make no sense to you because it's an object that can only exist in a 3D space, which your 2D brain couldn't comprehend.
Now connect two moebius strips edge-to-edge. You just made a Klein bottle; a one-sided 3D surface whose inside is the same as its outside.
If you tried to make one from two strips of paper, you'd find out you can't, because a Klein bottle can only exist in 4D space.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2026 03:55 AM (VHUov)
May I be excused? My brain is full.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 04:15 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:16 AM (rdVOm)
But yet I'm going "straight", but my "tangent vector" is rotating relative to the local coordinate system.
This concept is known as "parallel transport". And it was only recently that I truly understood that. I thought I did before, but nope, I didn't.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
None of this explains why some people think traffic circles are a good idea.
On the contrary
Posted by: Miklos doubts the perception of time and space of many drivers at August 09, 2026 04:16 AM (XOG/m)
Yes, you've got the concept. But when we follow a path, the distance we travel is the actual distance we travel. It's just like on a flat plane. The distance between A and B, defined mathematically is the straight line distance. But I can take any curved, lolly-gaggin meandering path to get from A to B. The distance I travel is whatever it is. But their is only one shortest path, the straight line.
With A and B on the sphere, that great circle path, the geodesic is the shortest path you can take. You can't get any shorter than that because you're confined to the surface.
In the 3D space, of course, the actual straight line distance is less, as you noted.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:20 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:22 AM (rdVOm)
Note on the sphere, we can take other meandering, longer paths to get from A to B.
Such a path would be "curved" relative to the sphere. The geodesic, while still curved from the 3D space, is the "straight" path on the sphere, the path that gets their the shortest.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:23 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2026 03:55 AM (VHUov)
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Nah, that's easy!
Twenty and twenty too space makes 4d space.
Thanks to the ONT, I know math!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 04:25 AM (skLNB)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2026 04:25 AM (skLNB)
bzzzt
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 04:27 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)
But I got a "C" and it was good enough to pass! That's ALL that mattered, because it meant "DONE"
And that's why I never got a job what paid more than mid-5 figures.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:33 AM (rdVOm)
To see this "geodetic rotation" or "precession". Imagine you start out at the equator. You head north. You keep your own little X-Y coordinate system with you. Since you're following a N geodesic, that's easy. You get to the north pole. You then turn and head "left", according to that little local coordinate system you carried (parallel transported) with you. You follow another meridian, 90 degrees of longitude different. You go back to the equator. Note you are now facing west. You then go "east" back to your starting point.
You will see you are now rotated 90 degrees from when you started. You were facing north, now you're facing west.
But you didn't rotate at all relative to your own local, parallel transported coordinate system. And you followed a triangle, a triangle whose angles summed to 270 degrees, not 180!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:34 AM (w6EFb)
If you're the ant on the sphere, and you know Euclidean geometry, you'll think what just happened was impossible.
That is curvature.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:35 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:39 AM (rdVOm)
And if our ants further investigate, and stretch out a long radius and make a circle around a given point, they'll find the circumference of that circle is somewhat *less* than 2pi*r. And if they measure the area enclosed by that circle, they'll find it is *more* than pi*r^2.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:39 AM (w6EFb)
General Relativity models gravity as the curvature of 4D geometry (not Riemannian, but psuedo-Riemannian -- don't worry it's complicated).
Now, that predicts you'll get similar "geodetic rotations" of your local inertial axes. That has been measured precisely. Gravity Probe B did that, and confirmed that gyroscope does indeed precess as it orbits the earth due to the curvature of spacetime. It's a very, very tiny amount, but they measured it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:43 AM (w6EFb)
Just like the ants, what we think of as 3D space is actually curved due to gravity. A very small amount, since the local fields are so weak, but it's there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:44 AM (w6EFb)
But it's late and I'm not that bright, especially at this hour.
Good night, fellow Moron. Perhaps we will continue another time? I look forward to it!
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:47 AM (rdVOm)
Just mention it later if you want to continue. It is late, and I got carried away. This stuff fascinates the hell out of me, and well, I got started.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2026 04:48 AM (w6EFb)
Catch ya next time!
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2026 04:58 AM (rdVOm)
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Unless... you were in the Army, or perhaps the Marines.
In the Marine Corps we call it Close Order Drill.
Posted by: USMCMGB at August 09, 2026 06:05 AM (FIstp)
Music Thread: A Little Of This...A Littler Of That!
Private Conversation
Simple Song
More Pretty Girls Than One
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - fight me at August 08, 2026 07:35 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:36 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Megthered at August 08, 2026 07:37 PM (oo7QV)
Posted by: mindful webworker - changing my tune at August 08, 2026 07:38 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 07:38 PM (XvL8K)
*hangs head in shame*
I'm one of them.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:38 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Slightly too young to have heard Mitch Miller on TV. More than slightly grateful. On the other hand, MM did a lot to get young people to check out the new music and abandon his crap.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:41 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2026 07:42 PM (Lzhdy)
Posted by: Caf at August 08, 2026 07:44 PM (q+TLe)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2026 07:44 PM (Lzhdy)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 08, 2026 07:44 PM (jrgJz)
Be kind to your web footed friends,
For a duck may be some body's mother...
Be kind to your friends in the swamp,
Where the weather is very very domp...
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:45 PM (XuXeR)
Also, Stan Freberg did a couple of singles that were direct shots at Miller (eg 'The Yellow Rose of Texas').
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:45 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:46 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 07:46 PM (HeR4S)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 08, 2026 07:47 PM (ASl/K)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Anyway they got talking about gigs they played with other bands at various joints, and it became apparent that Lyle had an absolutely perfect memory of every gig he’d played for the last 20 or 30 years, including the names and members of every band that he’d shared a gig with, and the order they’d played in that night.
I thought he was just a good musician - he’s one of those rare people who has an absolutely perfect photographic memory of every day of his life.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:53 PM (Sm/Vf)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 07:53 PM (KC5Lt)
At a wedding a couple of years ago, all of the young people on the dance floor were enthusiastically moving to late 70's-mid 80's tunes - these were late Millennials, mostly. Livin' on a Prayer, Love Shack, & Go Your Own Way. Yeah, they were keen on Shut Up and Dance With Me, but in that environment...understandable.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:54 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 07:55 PM (KC5Lt)
Richard Strauss' last major work was an oboe concerto, written as a tribute to the US Army cultural officer who'd kept him out of Spandau. When the time for its US premiere arrived, the officer was incapacitated, and the task of performing it fell to the leading young oboist of the time, Mitch Miller.
So you only think you're bullshitting.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 08, 2026 07:55 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 07:55 PM (HeR4S)
Posted by: Glitch Along With Mitch at August 08, 2026 07:56 PM (Q+gd/)
Hallucinating relationships
🎶Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there
https://youtu.be/HN6sJBNaPXw
What were they smoking?
🎶I'll run to tenderly hold you
But darling, you won't be there
https://youtu.be/lecXDjlsA4E
👀 Later, thought of another one…
[[D@MMIT Pixy, this is NOT spam]]
Posted by: mindful webworker - I can see clearly now de cain has rum at August 08, 2026 07:58 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 07:58 PM (yTvNw)
In other news, a buddy gave me a thumb drive of most of his music catalog, and I have been running through it. It's extensive. He had some bands that I never heard of.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 07:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Later, thought of another one
🎶I call your name
But you're not there
https://youtu.be/r5mzQHQxoSg
Honorary mention
🎶You won't see me
https://youtu.be/OsjTO0yZQjk
🎶I'm looking through you
https://youtu.be/gH6i9JAdJrQ
Clearly, the Beatles were not as 'visionary' as rumored.😁
Posted by: mindful webworker - I can see clearly now de cain has rum at August 08, 2026 07:59 PM (62m/B)
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Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:59 PM (NcvvS)
Three in the front seat they sat on each side
That green-and-white 58 Fairlane it would glide
Down farm roads past open fields seeming like no big deal
As it was happening I never felt a thing
But now looking back it seems like it was everything
Singing with mom just so we could hear ourselves sing
Stealing a drink from the cold can in daddy's lap
Protected by only a small thin brown paper sack
And the wind blew the echoes of long-faded voices
And they'd sing me a song that the old cowboys sang
And I didn't know what the words meant or anything
I was just singing because I was supposed to
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 08:02 PM (Sm/Vf)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:04 PM (KC5Lt)
Very good point. Have a bunch of Tom Waits from his early years, when he was trying to be a jazz singer, but little of Lyle Lovett.
It was like they were trying to find their niche for a long time. Waits found his, but it was incongenial to me; Lovett never really connected.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 08:04 PM (NcvvS)
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Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 08:06 PM (NcvvS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuoE-mUaAbw
Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2026 08:08 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:08 PM (KC5Lt)
My hard disk failure ate the spreadsheet with all my music playlists. One of which had 4600 entries. Most annoying.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 08:08 PM (O0L8i)
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Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 07:58 PM (yTvNw)
First saw him on Johnny Carson. He opened with this:
"Hello, I'm the guy who looks over your shoulder as you read your newspaper. Wait. Don't turn the page. I'm not finished yet."
https://youtu.be/CuH-l3RUDE8
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 08:11 PM (nbLIj)
My hard disk failure ate the spreadsheet with all my music playlists. One of which had 4600 entries. Most annoying.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 08:08 PM (O0L8i)
>>>
4600? 4600?? Do you need help backing off of the ledge?
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 08:12 PM (HeR4S)
Listening to Judas Priest right now. Stained Class. Old school.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 08:14 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 08:16 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 08:16 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 08:17 PM (Sm/Vf)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 08:18 PM (Ia/+0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoXnz3h_FE
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:19 PM (KC5Lt)
https://tinyurl.com/56rbsbyv
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 08:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 08:20 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 08:20 PM (ZxPkt)
Yeah, we'll see about that.
Posted by: Heat Death of the Universe at August 08, 2026 08:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 08:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 08:23 PM (2XnYE)
Sorry. Back to your regularly programmed music experience. Which is lovely, btw. I would have liked to see Lyle Lovett live.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:23 PM (yEz+x)
Sorry. Back to your regularly programmed music experience. Which is lovely, btw. I would have liked to see Lyle Lovett live.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:23 PM (yEz+x)
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Congrats!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 08:24 PM (FZ29D)
Never been a fan of country music, but the current hick-hop shit is turrrible, just turrible. We have a radio station that plays a lot of the old school music. Kind of a classic country station. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and the like. I tune into that because my wife likes the country, and I am a good sport. But I do notice that the new stuff is fucking garbage.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 08:24 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 08, 2026 08:24 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 08:25 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 08:25 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:25 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 08:26 PM (2XnYE)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 08:27 PM (ZxPkt)
So you only think you're bullshitting.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Right.
Mitch was the consummate professional.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:27 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: nurse ratched
SQEEEEE!!!!
Found out a new great niece will be joining my family soon. I love an excuse to buy cute baby girl clothes.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 08, 2026 08:27 PM (ftFVW)
4600? 4600?? Do you need help backing off of the ledge?
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards
___________
I have all the .mp3 files and all the metadata, but to reconstruct the whole thing properly in an Excel spreadsheet will be a pain. Microsoft has no way to export file names and metadata from File Explorer to Excel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 08:28 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Gunslinger at August 08, 2026 08:28 PM (N91F8)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 08:30 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 08:30 PM (O0L8i)
AWESOME! Congratulations.
My son and bride want to have a lot of kids. I would love to have granddaughter. We had sons. Nate Bragatze said it best, he has a daughter; friend dropped off his son for me to babysit, and he gave me a bobcat. He was instantly under the deck, chewing on wires.
Raising boys was awesome, but I would love to teach a granddaughter how to shoot.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 08:31 PM (0aYVJ)
Many congrats of your soon to be granddaughter.
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 08:31 PM (yTvNw)
George Strait was about the end of the line for good country music
I saw George Gay at the Midway Roundup.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 08:34 PM (Cqx++)
That was a real movie? I've seen clips on youtube and figured it was a series of vignettes. Weird is certainly one word for it. I may have to go look that up some time.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2026 08:34 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 08:35 PM (ZxPkt)
Sorry. Back to your regularly programmed music experience. Which is lovely, btw. I would have liked to see Lyle Lovett live.
Posted by: nurse ratched.
New name Grammie Nurse!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 08, 2026 08:36 PM (NnhvP)
I guess everything is political because that's when country started going to shit. When a lot of liberals invaded Nashville and took over.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:37 PM (KC5Lt)
"Isn't this America? I thought this was America!"
-- different Randy, same vibe
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2026 08:37 PM (vTZFs)
Richard Strauss' last major work was an oboe concerto, written as a tribute to the US Army cultural officer who'd kept him out of Spandau
__________
When visiting Garmisch, John De Lancie suggested to Strauss that he write an oboe concerto. Strauss dismissed the idea at the time but eventually composed it (a very fine piece).
I'm rather surprised De Lancie, who was the Philadelphia Orchestra's first chair oboe after Tabuteau retired, never recorded it with Ormandy, a consummate Straussian.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 08:38 PM (O0L8i)
Oddly, I like Stone Temple Pilots more as time goes by.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 08:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X
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Brought to you by the folks at Bud Light.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:40 PM (C0oZI)
I think all of the genres are suffering, at least commercially. Lots of good music out there you've never heard.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 08:40 PM (2XnYE)
My Mom used to play the shit out of him…
“Trailers for Sale or Rent…
Posted by: Gunslinger at August 08, 2026 08:28 PM (N91F
Covering for your faux pas.
https://youtu.be/L4kvi5IG_KE
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 08:41 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 08:42 PM (Ia/+0)
I think all of the genres are suffering, at least commercially. Lots of good music out there you've never heard.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 08:40 PM (2XnYE)
Alan Jackson recently retired
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:42 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2026 08:43 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X
That will happen.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:43 PM (5ecWR)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 08:43 PM (2XnYE)
Like virtually every other rock fan on the planet, I've been bingeing on concert clips from the current Rush tour, with Anika Nilles in Neil Peart's drum chair. Damn, that woman is a monster, killin' it in the toughest gig in rock music. Best part is, the whole band looks like they're having the time of their lives, laughing, with big grins on their faces. It helps that Alex and Geddy have always been a couple of cheerful goofballs.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2026 08:43 PM (iqcvy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)
Sorry. Back to your regularly programmed music experience. Which is lovely, btw. I would have liked to see Lyle Lovett live.
Posted by: nurse ratched.
Congrats, Nurse. BTW, Lyle is still touring, so there's still a chance...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 08:44 PM (nbLIj)
For all you Star Trek nerds out there,De Lancie's son, John, played the infamous "Q" on STNG.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 08:44 PM (lJ0H4)
"Who Knows" is another great example. As is "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" from Live at Bonnaroo.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 08:46 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
I guess everything is political because that's when country started going to shit. When a lot of liberals invaded Nashville and took over.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:37 PM (KC5Lt)
>>
Yep. Funny how Nashville natives and residents deny this to the death, but ALL of the outsiders and those with historical benchmarks can see it clearly.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 08:47 PM (HeR4S)
They did pretty much an entire last set together and there was some insane chemistry between them going on.
Never seen that on-stage to such a level ever.
It was an awesome concert. One of those that makes you feel special that you were at that place at that time when that magic happened. What it's all bout.
Lyle was still hurtin' from, getting stomped by his pet bull, Cotton.
Posted by: pawn at August 08, 2026 08:48 PM (L5eIP)
Roger Miller set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine in a Quincy, M.E. episode.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0681818
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)
I love live music. But I hate crowds.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:48 PM (GI7J4)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0681818
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 08:48 PM
That's never fun.
Posted by: Richard Pryor at August 08, 2026 08:50 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X
That will happen.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:43 PM
.45 ACP for Duncanthrax, and not 9mm for CBD, right?
Lie if you must.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2026 08:50 PM (0sNs1)
Heh. Junkyard is Zac Brown Band trying to copy Alive in Chains.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Yes . . . .it's true. My first reaction is to deny it or minimize it, but it's true. Easily blown 6 hours in the last month or more. And somehow, it's easy to forgive what a train wreck Geddy's voice has become just to see the glee on their faces and to hear some of the absolute finesse they are showing at those ages. Damn. Alex is a new creature.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 08:51 PM (HeR4S)
Needless to say I hate autocorrect.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:52 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:52 PM (BZLGW)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 08:52 PM (2XnYE)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:52 PM
She'll poke her eye out.
Posted by: Obligatory Response at August 08, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 08, 2026 08:53 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2026 08:43 PM (iqcvy)
Yup. I love watching the clips. They are revived. And Anika is the real deal.
Great homage to Neil.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 08:54 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:56 PM (BZLGW)
🎶 🎹 amateur hour again
O'Copper O'Copper
The pot was no good, and a jail makes no sense.
Link in nic. Should play from 4:30 to 8:11 in the vid.
A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #4, 2016 Sep 1
🌅
Posted by: mindful webworker - Glad I got these recorded while my hands still worked at August 08, 2026 08:57 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 08, 2026 08:53 PM (syz1S)
Also played a lovesick cop in The Opposite of Sex featuring Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 08:58 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 09:00 PM (yTvNw)
When is she due???
Posted by: lin-duh at August 08, 2026 09:01 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: nckate at August 08, 2026 08:05 PM (enNUy)
I'm only familiar with one of his songs, and that one I heard in a movie. Great song though. Dollar Bill Blues.
Hell or High Water soundtrack
Dollar Bill Blues Long version
https://youtu.be/LLAf90T9Jno
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 08, 2026 09:06 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: RI Red - at August 08, 2026 09:06 PM (jkyX4)
In 1968 what song writer had four Top 5 songs across four charts.
"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" No. 5 on the Pop/Rock chart by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition;
"Sweet Memories" No. 1 on Easy Listening by Andy Williams;
"Time is a Thief" No. 1 on the R&B chart by Solomon Burke;
and "Here Comes the Rain Baby" No. 1 on the Country chart by Eddy Arnold.
This feat has not been repeated. According the Wikipedia
Posted by: javems at August 08, 2026 09:06 PM (OU43P)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards
It's not like they had to break him out of the old-folks home; he'd been making music with Envy Of None since 2021.
https://youtu.be/OB2DWfMYNAo
https://youtu.be/_tkygBAs_Z0
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 09:09 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 09:09 PM (2XnYE)
Posted by: javems at August 08, 2026 09:10 PM (OU43P)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 09:11 PM (PY8/y)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 09:11 PM (2XnYE)
I know this one. Same guy wrote Joy to the World, Three Dog Night's monster number 1 hit from the early 70's
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 09:12 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 09:12 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 09:14 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 09:15 PM (pLaQB)
When is she due???
Posted by: lin-duh
Early February.
She wants a slew of monsters and to home school. And they want to move to north Idaho after baby is about six months old. She wants her moms help. But they don’t want to raise kids in SoCal.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 09:15 PM (BZLGW)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 09:15 PM (2XnYE)
We are at Jr. and DILIT’s new house in CT.
They show every sign of nesting.
Posted by: RI Red
Isn’t it exciting?!?!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 09:17 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 09:18 PM (pLaQB)
Nurse,
Maybe she should talk to bluebell. Sounds like what she did.
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 09:18 PM (yTvNw)
https://youtu.be/ijekkoDFVMI
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 09:19 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 09:20 PM (XvL8K)
We are at Jr. and DILIT’s new house in CT.
They show every sign of nesting.
Posted by: RI Red
Isn’t it exciting?!?!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 09:17 PM (yEz+x)
For sure!
I’m not even concerned about her transitioning to DIL.
But she is very proper about things.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 08, 2026 09:20 PM (E9nGU)
They show every sign of nesting.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 08, 2026 09:06 PM
Nice! I'm looking at a house tomorrow, myself.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2026 09:21 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 09:22 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2026 09:21 PM (Wnv9h)
Great!
The Horde mind meld is wonderful.
I’m holding a spot open for you at the range.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 08, 2026 09:22 PM (E9nGU)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 09:23 PM (2XnYE)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2026 09:23 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 09:23 PM (BZLGW)
Sorry. Back to your regularly programmed music experience. Which is lovely, btw. I would have liked to see Lyle Lovett live.
Posted by: nurse ratched
A baby? Then here's some Babymetal!
https://youtu.be/EpXtD6dD0MU
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 09:25 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: RI Red - at August 08, 2026 09:22 PM
Workin' on it, boss!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2026 09:26 PM (Wnv9h)
Did you see that mariners 50 players for 50 years thing? Very cool. So many legends.
Posted by: BruceWayne
I did! So fun!
It’s beautiful out here. 72 and sunny with a slight breeze. Smoke is finally clearing out.
There was a classic car ralley earlier today and I watched them parading down Alki Avenue. So fun.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 09:26 PM (BZLGW)
It’s beautiful out here. 72 and sunny with a slight breeze. Smoke is finally clearing out.
There was a classic car ralley earlier today and I watched them parading down Alki Avenue. So fun.
Posted by: nurse ratched
I actually LOVED those late 90s early 00s teams. Big unit, griff, arod, Edgar, bone buhner. Crazy they never got it done.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2026 09:27 PM (YZ0Fo)
His singing is god awful these days.
Posted by: Bigsmith at August 08, 2026 09:30 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: Common Tater
Because everything in life must now be politicized. And they wonder why there is a mental health crisis in this country. (among other reasons)
youtu.be/uZAeFnhY4Gg
I like Ella Langley. She doesn't move any needles musically but what she does, she does very well. Pretty too.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 09:32 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: lin-duh
Early February.
She wants a slew of monsters and to home school.
Posted by: nurse ratched
So there will be a whole Wave Of Babies?
https://youtu.be/bt-RoSzsEKA
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 09:33 PM (VHUov)
Checked the radar.
There is one about sixty miles e.se. of here.
My cloud.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 09:34 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2026 09:36 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 09:37 PM (Cqx++)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 09:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 09:38 PM (rdVOm)
His singing is god awful these days.
Posted by: Bigsmith
Einar Solberg has the range. Probably not the right style, though.
https://youtu.be/85drl9-lqRU
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 09:39 PM (VHUov)
youtu.be/NIlEFK0KZ6s
Posted by: JQ at
Was like 108 in the backyard today. Blech!
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2026 09:40 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: BruceWayne
The 2001 season was epic. Ichiro’s rookie year. They won 116 games. Stupid fun.
My oldest son went to his first baseball game in the Kingdome in 1997. He was pissed when the fireworks off a Ken Griffey Jr home run woke him up.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 09:41 PM (yEz+x)
Sorry. Back to your regularly programmed music experience. Which is lovely, btw. I would have liked to see Lyle Lovett live.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:23 PM (yEz+x)
Belated congratulations, ma'am!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 08, 2026 09:41 PM (xVpNO)
Never been a fan of country music, but the current hick-hop shit is turrrible, just turrible. We have a radio station that plays a lot of the old school music. Kind of a classic country station. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and the like. I tune into that because my wife likes the country, and I am a good sport. But I do notice that the new stuff is fucking garbage.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 08:24 PM (0aYVJ)
There's a song about that!
https://tinyurl.com/9r562fjb
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2026 09:42 PM (Lzhdy)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2026 09:45 PM (3ZNGI)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2026 09:46 PM (2WIwB)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LgR2v3gCos
Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2026 09:47 PM (VJX5o)
https://youtu.be/HDhd4JUuK1U
https://youtu.be/IkjXCyO0fi4
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 09:48 PM (VHUov)
https://tinyurl.com/9r562fjb
Posted by: Moonbeam
youtu.be/haNLpJuW0YQ
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 09:49 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 09:33 PM (VHUov)
Don't look at me. I've had a vasectomy.
Twice.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2026 09:50 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 08, 2026 09:50 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 09:51 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: mindful webworker - na na na na na na na na at August 08, 2026 09:51 PM (62m/B)
youtu.be/Z1jIY9fMKTE
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 09:51 PM (pLaQB)
Twice.
Posted by: Diogenes
Like a belt and suspenders situation?
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 08, 2026 09:52 PM (ftFVW)
https://tinyurl.com/9r562fjb
Posted by: Moonbeam
youtu.be/haNLpJuW0YQ
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 09:49 PM (pLaQB)
Another one:
https://tinyurl.com/5jkk8axj
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2026 09:53 PM (Lzhdy)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 09:54 PM (JvZF+)
Twice.
Posted by: Diogenes
Did the second one make a deferens?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 09:56 PM (VHUov)
Twice.
Posted by: Diogenes
Did the second one make a deferens?
Posted by: mikeski
It was a cut above.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 08, 2026 09:58 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 09:58 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)
youtu.be/FtpMeyjE6Rw
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 09:15 PM (pLaQB)
>>>
Are you aware that the last song on Presto (Available Light) is the only song in their catalog which they have never performed live??
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 08, 2026 10:01 PM (HeR4S)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 08:56 PM (BZLGW)
I have that one. Love it!
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 08, 2026 10:01 PM (Lzhdy)
I'll let him explain himself.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 08, 2026 10:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)
Hobby Thread - August 8, 2026 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a random car theme for this Hobby Thread.
A what? A random car theme?
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Harpo at August 08, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)
I don't know why I don't own one now that I am retired and can afford it. Inertia, I guess.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 05:35 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: AASHTO Committee on Bridges & Structures at August 08, 2026 05:36 PM (nKjQb)
Simca 1000 is near the top of the list.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:36 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 05:40 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:41 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 05:41 PM (oVbG+)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:42 PM (MWfyi)
If you're interested in lower value cars, check out his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@NightmareLogistics1
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:44 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 05:44 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 05:45 PM (KC5Lt)
I don't know why I don't own one now that I am retired and can afford it. Inertia, I guess.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 05:35 PM (4NO2D)
This year I purchased a 1961 Ford Falcon, two door, automatic transmission, teal blue, lovely, with all that chrome and trim.
Bought it off ebay, and the seller was full of crap, so it needs a fair bit of work. Drive train is wonky, engine doesn't get particularly good compression, no windscreen wipers (they are vacuum driven, so I probably need to wire them for electrics), no door liners or arm rests, etc.
But she is absolutely beautiful and I look good driving her. Once the house remodel is done, I will pull her into the garage and get busy.
Her name is Elinor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 05:45 PM (oVbG+)
I don't know why I don't own one now that I am retired and can afford it. Inertia, I guess.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 05:35 PM (4NO2D)
Too expensive?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:46 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:45 PM
No, it was always like there was more important stuff to buy or do.
Now that I am officially elderly, that shouldn't be an issue.
I even have room for it in my barn, if I ditch the clapped out Coleman trailer that nobody but me ever liked to camp in.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 05:48 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2026 05:49 PM (VJX5o)
Kind of like if a 50s Oldsmobile fucked a Triumph Spitfire.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 05:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:46 PM (MWfyi)
I watched The Rivers Edge last night again. The crazy doper kid had a cool Bug. I would have loved having it in High School.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 05:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Only ones I see are rust buckets asking 20k.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:50 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 05:50 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2026 05:49 PM (VJX5o)
Backup cameras have made parallel parking a trivial job.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 05:51 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 05:48 PM (4NO2D)
I occasionally check prices on Bs. Way too much now. Last Midget price I saw was over 10k. I don't have that kind of money. I like the B I had.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:52 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:53 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Her name is Elinor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 05:45 PM
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Best wishes for the project!
Posted by: TRex - first base coach dino at August 08, 2026 05:54 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 05:54 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:55 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: TRex - batting coach dino at August 08, 2026 05:55 PM (41CYW)
Taking care of my Buick, and driving it and feeding it, are sort of a hobby. I have the oil (Supertech 5W-30 synthetic) for the August or Sept. oil change, and received the Wix filter today. I have about 5200 miles on this oil this time, about 1000 mi. higher than usual because of my April road trip to Salina, KS. 32% oil life left on the monitor. So I could wait until next month to have it done.
Do I need to have the tires rotated? The reason I ask: The front, Continentals, are only four months old. The rears, Kellys, have two years on them. Are they close enough in age that the Kellys would be good rubber for the front (which is where you should keep your best rubber)? Or should I let this slide?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)
Daughter worked at Pebble Beach Golf so we'd get to mingle with the rich, famous, and the mostly asshole crowd.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 05:56 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 05:57 PM (4NO2D)
Also had a 64 MGB in the family for 40+ years. Lots of good memories there!
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 05:58 PM (MEbkQ)
Tomorrow is the last day of this year's event.
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at August 08, 2026 05:58 PM (yXKEQ)
Fiat did the same thing. The Simca had a crazy water pump that was belt driven off to the side of the engine and they leaked all the time. The shaft that ran thru the pump also turned the cooling fan. Radiator, engine, everything was in the back. It did have a big frunk though.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:58 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 05:46 PM (MWfyi)
Mine was a 56' with the small window
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2026 05:58 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: scampydog at August 08, 2026 05:59 PM (AtAa4)
Posted by: Patches at August 08, 2026 05:59 PM (338iJ)
Posted by: TRex - batting coach dino at August 08, 2026 05:55 PM
TD
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 05:57 PM
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Excellent answer. Full credit.
Posted by: TRex - utility infielder dino at August 08, 2026 05:59 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: TRex - batting coach dino at August 08, 2026 05:55 PM
TD
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 05:57 PM (4NO2D)
Certainly not the fake Chinese MG marque.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:00 PM (1Ff7Z)
Mine was white. It looked like a refrigerator turned on it's side, with wheels.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:00 PM (MWfyi)
The 1986 W126 was a wonderful road and city car, despite the 19 mpg it got on premium. It was relatively simple compared to today's cars, but that was part of what I loved about it. But Buicks give you 70% of the MB driving experience for 50% of the price, less if you buy used, and are cheaper to run, feed, maintain, and repair.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2026 05:49 PM (VJX5o)
Backup cameras have made parallel parking a trivial job.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)
I could always parallel park, but I really refined it living on the north side of Chicago for a year. Lots of one way streets, with parking down both sides, and barely enough room to slip a compact car in.
While I was there, I had Alaska plates, and some ass tried to steal them, more than once. Luckily that old rust bucket had plate bolts that were rusted on and nearly unremovable. Bent hell out of the plate, but they never got it.
I left Chicago and never went back.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:01 PM (oVbG+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 06:02 PM (C0oZI)
2022 Mazda CX 30, said started with 24.x mpg. Decided straight away to try plus gas in it. It's mpg jumped up immediately and has gone up to 27.1. Granted gas is a bit more expensive these days but considering my truck probably was 15 mpg it is a big difference.
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)
There is also a sub-genre of airplanes that use car engines. Specifically, Chevrolet Corvair engines.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2026 06:02 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:02 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Patches at August 08, 2026 05:59 PM
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Patches! Yes, a Cosworth Vega qualifies. To be fair, almost anything using Cosworth power qualifies.
Posted by: TRex - foul pole dino at August 08, 2026 06:03 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 06:03 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:00 PM (wzUl9)
I always wonder why anyone would buy a MB. Unless it's drive and dump. Aren't the cost of repairs and upkeep horrendous?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:03 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:03 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2026 05:58 PM (FtULh)
My sister's bug had the tiny engine. Sounded like you had to get out and push going up hills. But it puttered along just fine.
The narrow tires were perfect in the snow, too.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:04 PM (oVbG+)
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 06:04 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)
Yes, always keep good rubber in the front. And, they should slide... if you're doing it right.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:05 PM (1Ff7Z)
Was it black and gold?
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:03 PM
Wasn't that the only way they came?
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 06:05 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 06:05 PM (MEbkQ)
Then, one night as Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 and I were coming back from a nightclub, the car caught fire. Flames, she told me later, were licking out from under the dash. I wrestled it to the side of the road and we sprang out and ran to a safe distance, to watch it burn end to end. Later I found that model of Volvo had a quirk, a rubber fitting in the fuel line that could disintegrate. Apparently it did, shooting fuel over the windshield (I thought it was milk at first!) and all over the hot engine.
It put me off foreign cars for a long time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)
Quirkiest car I ever drove regularly? Probably the '66 Austin 1100 sedan. Thing handled like a slot car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:07 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 06:07 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:07 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:07 PM (oVbG+)
Which ad retard came up eith that slogan?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)
Well, it was a GM product. So, it was two: the one you brought to the shop, and the one they gave you as a loaner.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:07 PM (1Ff7Z)
Anyone ever own one? Drive one in the water?
If you want a ride in one, there's a restaurant in Orlando called The Boathouse that gives amphicar rides.
It's part of "Disney Springs," so it's on Disney property, but free to enter. It's not just Disney's stuff; Orlando's "House Of Blues" is there too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 06:08 PM (VHUov)
Tomorrow is the last day of this year's event.
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at August 08, 2026 05:58 PM (yXKEQ)
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I lived in Susanville and always enjoyed seeing the beautiful vintage cars rolling through town on their way to Reno.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2026 06:08 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: toby928(c) "
I don't remember. The black and gold ones were the John Player editions.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:08 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 06:08 PM (FpODx)
Anyone ever own one? Drive one in the water?
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Ted Kennedy at August 08, 2026 06:08 PM (4NO2D)
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V8 engine or maybe a straight 6?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 06:10 PM (FpODx)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 06:10 PM (KC5Lt)
Anyone ever own one? Drive one in the water?
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They handled poorly on land and poorly in the water. Also tended to rust out quickly. Never became popular.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2026 06:10 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I've never owned any real oddballs. But I had an '84 Tempo, which was probably not much better than the Escort. Just a skosh bigger.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 06:10 PM (VHUov)
That's pretty quirky. My dad had a Crosley Hotshot, way before I was born. I have a picture of him in it somewhere.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:10 PM (MWfyi)
Only ones I see are rust buckets asking 20k.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:50 PM (1Ff7Z)
Mercury Capris and Ford Cortinas were both good small captive imports. And neither seem to have survived to any extent at all. Gone...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:11 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 06:11 PM (MEbkQ)
Quirkiest car I ever drove regularly? Probably the '66 Austin 1100 sedan. Thing handled like a slot car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:07 PM
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Not ashamed to admit that I needed to look up all three. Quirky confirmed.
Posted by: TRex - infield fly rule dino at August 08, 2026 06:11 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 06:08 PM (FpODx)
Oh fer Pete's sake. All I drove was manual steering, until I finally bought a real car sometime in the late 1980's. Parallel parking is not a big deal, just as driving is not a big deal. The steering wheel is bigger for a reason. If it's too difficult, get a knob.
The best part of driving most of my cars is that they were also manual transmission. Not particularly steal-able these days.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:11 PM (oVbG+)
After all the years of riding buses, I loved that car, and working on it taught me a lot about how to maintain a vehicle. After the intervening decades of Oldsmobiles, Mercedes, and Buicks, I'd find it tinny and underpowered today; but then? It was the height of luxury and freedom.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:12 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 06:13 PM (2Cry5)
Only ones I see are rust buckets asking 20k.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:50 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Mercury Capris and Ford Cortinas were both good small captive imports. And neither seem to have survived to any extent at all. Gone...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026
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When I lived in Lafayette, my downstairs neighbor had a bronze-colored Capri. Fifty years ago now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)
That was unusual for him though. Usually he drove Cadillacs and Corvettes.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:14 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Ronster at August 08, 2026 06:14 PM (kM+80)
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 06:14 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:52 PM (1Ff7Z)
MGB or MGA were much better cars in all respects than the Midget (or Austin-Healy Sprite). More power, more room, better brakes, and marginally better suspension.
I would take a real nice Midget over a ratty MGB at the same price, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:14 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 06:10 PM (FpODx)
As I recall, it was a V8. It was big enough you could crawl into the engine compartment to change the oil filter, I do know that, because dad made me do that a couple of times.
Also had to do the hubs and back up to put it into 4 wheel. Now DH just flips a switch in his F-350. Slightly different experience.
I also remember the nice metal dashboard, and no seat belts, so in an accident you were guaranteed to lose some teeth.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:14 PM (oVbG+)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 06:14 PM (KC5Lt)
Fresh Fruit Popsicles....and not those dinky ones. I was recently dragged (kicking and screaming) to various antique / crap stores (obviously so I could carry stuff), and stumbled upon a collection molds that were meant for some unknown purpose (maybe butter molds...who knows..I washed them well, so not important). My overheated, laboring, little head immediately thought....whoa...popsicles. So I bought all four mold sets. And, as it is summper time I've been hobbying out my favorite fruit syrup recipes from my other hobby (personal orchard). Peach, Bing cherry, strawberry, raspberry... No sugar added (I only use honey). Pectin to help it gel and not freeze too solid...and mabye a little lemon juice to offset the honey.
This is an awesome, satisfying hobby that doesn't make you fat or waste fruit.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2026 06:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:11 PM (1z8ji)
AOP, there's a North American Capri Car Club based, I think in Michigan. Every year or so I check they're classified to see if anyone's ready to offload. The last time I looked they only ones were a souped up racer and a rusted body. That's the one the guy wanted 20k for. (insert eyeroll here)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:16 PM (1Ff7Z)
I went to watch some of the racing at the New York Yacht Club Race week and ended up parked next to a nicely restored lat 1950s Porsche 356A/1600.
Always been partial to Porsches. Might find an old 911 someday just for grins.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 06:16 PM (viF8m)
That was unusual for him though. Usually he drove Cadillacs and Corvettes.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:14 PM (MWfyi)
My dad welded ships in Seattle during WWII, as a teenager. He would never buy anything from Japan. Never. Refered to all vehicles from Japan as "rice rockets."
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:17 PM (oVbG+)
Posted by: Patches at August 08, 2026 05:59 PM (338iJ)
There was one of those that went begging at the Portland Swap Meet for $7000 for several years in a row. I was dirt poor then, or I would have bought it. Worth big $$$ now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:17 PM (1z8ji)
How about *both*: 1969 Mitsubishi Jeep.
Built under license from Kaiser Jeep, USA; looked like a Willys CJ3B. 4-cyl, 4wd, ragtop, high hood & flat fenders, single-pane fold-down windshield. Manual choke & throttle.
XH just *had to* buy that thing, LOL. We found a shop to rebuild the top-- it was tattered. XH welded up a rollbar with 4" pipe, then made bumpers out of I-beam. Removed the jump seats from back area, replaced the front seat with Camaro bucket seats-- nice & comfy!
We'd put the 'Desert Dog' tires on it & remove the top; drive to the beach & fold down the windshield; put it in 4-lo and set throttle to crawl. We could hop out to look at various stuff, then jump back in & put feet up on the dash while it puttered slowly along...
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 06:18 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 06:14 PM (KC5Lt)
Joe Isuzu might have been fibbing.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:18 PM (oVbG+)
The key was replacing the blasted seals on the push rods tubes. Good ones were viton, IIRC, and stopped the oil splatter on the back vent panel. Also improved the smell coming thru your heater.
Generally a much better car than got credit for being.
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 06:18 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 06:18 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:19 PM (MWfyi)
I was born in Stuttgart when my dad was in the Army. My folks bought a used Panhard and when they had time drove around Europe. Some old photos of the family and that car. My mom loved it for some strange reason.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)
Hi TRex - yeah, quirky, when the engine costs more than the rest of the car.
fd - yes, black and gold, only choice for 1975. For the 76 model year, they added a number of other colors, and a 5 speed option, but who would be silly enough to pay 6 grand for any Vega? That said, the firethorn red (metallic) version looked sharp.
Posted by: Patches at August 08, 2026 06:21 PM (338iJ)
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 06:18 PM (MEbkQ)
Sure. GPa lost a leg when he was in an accident with his Corvair.
Well, it's not a good story.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:21 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 06:21 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:22 PM (MWfyi)
- Do I fit in it (not a sure thing)
- Can I afford it
- Can I do basic maintenance (that's now a lost cause)
Some day I will meet the shit for brains who put a center console between the driver and passenger seats on EVERY car and express my thoughts. I'm taller than average, much bulkier than average, and wear size 15 WWWW shoes. Some people actually require space to operate a car.
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 06:22 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: YellowBird at August 08, 2026 06:11 PM (MEbkQ)
Saw an Amphicar putting around in Horseshoe Bay, BC, back in the '70's, maybe the '60's. They were not very seaworthy, as a boat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:22 PM (1z8ji)
The Messerschmitt would be considered quirky to say the least.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 06:23 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Martini Farmer"
A feature, not a bug.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:23 PM (MWfyi)
The rest of the pieces are 45m to 4 hours now.
Also got the Movie Vault app to MVP/Wife Certified status for the web interface, now everyone in the house can browse and play movies and tv shows from their laptop, tablet or phone.
The Roku frontend is going to take some time as Roku apps are built with something called Brightscript which is xml markup and a weird variant of Visual Basic.
But, all in all, I am super pleased with the result.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2026 06:23 PM (XV/Pl)
And damn straight I'd have bought a car. In '75 or '76, there would have been a lot of choices. I could have gone luxury, with a Buick or Cadillac; or I could have gone sporty to impress girls, with a powerful-engined Chevy Chevelle or Pontiac Tempest. A '72-'74 model of any of these could have been bought used for pretty small money then. Gas was only .55/gallon, and by '76 the first gas crisis was over, so I would not have been waiting in lines.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)
My brother and I would scrunch in the back and mom would ride up front and they would take us to Six Flags over Texas in Arlington and smoke pot before we went inside the park.
It was a fun car to ride in.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 06:25 PM (yEz+x)
That would be my 1978 Mercury Granada. A great car, until it burned up in the Houston Intercontinental parking lot! After I walked all over the parking lot looking for it, and finally went up to the attendant, they said "Oh yeah, your car burned up yesterday." No more Ford/Mercurys since then!
Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 08, 2026 06:27 PM (10ssZ)
Only ones I see are rust buckets asking 20k.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 05:50 PM
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Funny. We had one of those, and even fingerpainted "rustbucket" across the trunk lid! LOL! It was body-rotted quite badly, even in the mid-'80s.
Sold it to a guy who was building a "kit" Bugatti and needed the engine/trans and frame.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 06:27 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 06:23 PM
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Excellent nomination. Guess when you're banned from making airplanes, you pivot to making small cars with bubble canopies.
Posted by: TRex - third base coach dino at August 08, 2026 06:28 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026
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When I see in older movies when somebody climbs into the passenger side of his car and *slides over* behind the wheel, I'm envious. my '65 Mercury Park Lane sedan with the power Breezeway rear window had a column shift (auto of course) and bench seats. It could seat five plus the driver, and did on a road trip to an SF convention in Knoxville, TN. I could enter via the passenger door and slide right over.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:28 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 06:22 PM (yTvNw)
DH doesn't fit in anything either, hence, the F-350. He also drives the Draagyn, a 2014 Dodge Challenger, with the seat all the way back and leaned back. Not all cars fit him.
I would also like to brain the idiot who puts in that console but doesn't make it fit a purse. I understood when men mostly drove, but now women drive as much or more than men, and still there is nowhere to put a purse.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:28 PM (oVbG+)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 06:21 PM (CHHv1)
What?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:28 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 06:29 PM (oVbG+)
Watching American Pickers you see a lot of quirky cars.
The Messerschmitt would be considered quirky to say the least.
Posted by: polynikes
Or an Isetta
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 06:30 PM (Cqx++)
I haven't quite convinced myself to buy a new car yet.
Prices are fairly insane no matter what you get.
I also haven't decided on whether or not to get the simplest car I can or the jazziest one with all the newest toys.
Decisions decisions.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2026 06:30 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026
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In '83 I had occasion to rent a Renault Alliance. Not a bad little transportation device. I only ran it for a day, so I have no idea how it would have been long-term. I wasn't tempted to sell my Mercury and buy one, that was for sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)
Panhard called it a six-passenger car. Bench seats front and rear, and a flat floor. You could fit six people in it, if they were related, or wanted to be. Roomier car than a Beetle, for sure. Mine is the "Tigre" model, with faux tiger skin upholstery, and a 2 barrel carb (one barrel for each cylinder) that made it put out a whopping 53 HP. Nifty engine: 2 cylinder, opposed, air cooled, all roller bearing crankshaft, hemi heads, and torsion bar valve springs. Could be wound up to 7000 RPM! More like a high-end motorcycle engine than a car engine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:31 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 06:27 PM (rdVOm)
Did the passenger side rear window keep falling out?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 06:31 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026
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The center console in my Buick is fairly high. When driving alone I put my phone, hat, and book, etc., on the passenger seat. When Linda is with me, the phone goes into the console and the book and hat on the back seat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 06:23 PM (KC5Lt)
I had the privilege of driving one, once. Noisy, it was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:33 PM (1z8ji)
Ha. That sounds like what I've told. I was just a baby so I have no memory but I was told lots of stories. A favorite touring area for my folks was Switzerland which is of course right next door. They said driving around the Alps with that car was always an adventure, never quite sure the car was going to make it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 06:36 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Hahaha, not that I recall.
But there was a switch on the floor that I thought was for hi-beam headlights... Nope! Press it, and windshield wipers made one swipe. Cracked me up!
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 06:36 PM (rdVOm)
Most reliable: Late 60s AMC Ambassador. It just ran and ran. Wouldn't surprise me if it's still on the road.
Most comfortable: Olds Delta 88. The hood went beyond the horizon. A bench seat that went back so far even I could stretch my legs. Lousy gas mileage but it worth it for the room. The car we drove on our honeymoon.
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 06:36 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 08, 2026 06:38 PM (10ssZ)
That was unusual for him though. Usually he drove Cadillacs and Corvettes.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026
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First car I remember riding in my was father's '47 two-door fastback Cadillac coupe. Black or dark blue, velvety seats, but no A/C. He kept it until '60 or so, when he bought one of the first year of the Chevy Impala, a '58, and had an A/C unit put in. That one lasted five years until the advent of the '66 Impala Super Sport. The last car I recall him having in '74 was a dark blue over cream Chevy Monte Carlo.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:38 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 08, 2026 06:38 PM (10ssZ)
But they are the finest crumpet-catcher ever made. You have to accept some of the quirks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:39 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026
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I remember the floor switch for hi-beam on the '75 Maverick. On the '65 Mercury, too. Every car I've had since then has had the high-beam activator on one of the column stalks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2026 06:40 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:41 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:41 PM
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I'm rarely accused of having good taste.
Posted by: TRex - ground rule double dino at August 08, 2026 06:42 PM (41CYW)
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Not to mention everybody was worrying about gas mileage then, and were starting to move to smaller, more efficient cars. A bigger and more powerful car would have been at a little sales disadvantage and maybe could have been snapped up cheap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:43 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 08, 2026 06:44 PM (DbmIv)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 06:36 PM (rdVOm)
I had a '56 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special which had a Wonderbar radio that you could cause to change channels by tapping a floor button with your left foot. Mystified a lot of people. "What made it do that?" "Car is haunted."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:44 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 06:44 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 08, 2026 06:45 PM (DbmIv)
Was a Dumb stupid kid. Would have been easy to replace
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 06:44 PM (yTvNw)
They have become super collectible, and henceforth expensive. I have a half-finished VW dune buggy in my shop, a Meyers Manx "clone", and I should finish it. Was damned near tripping over it today.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:47 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 08, 2026 06:44 PM
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Please keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics elsewhere. Try something like: "If Chuck Edwards was a car, he would be a 1971 Ford Pinto Wagon" or similar.
Posted by: TRex - field umpire dino at August 08, 2026 06:47 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026 06:48 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2026 06:49 PM (Hn9/J)
Posted by: TRex - field umpire dino at August 08, 2026 06:47 PM (41CYW)
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I think he is more of a Simca people were ragging on earlier.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 08, 2026 06:49 PM (DbmIv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 06:49 PM (S41Gd)
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Not like you'd need a drivetrain or anything.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026 06:49 PM (u/oMr)
I used to rent them went I would visit Virgin Gorda. It was the perfect car for that environment.
They didn't go very fast which was fine cause there was nowhere on that island to go fast. And you could literally hose down the inside which was handy in an area where you were constantly throwing in dive tanks or sandy flip flops.
Plus it was so frigging ugly nobody wanted to steal it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 06:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:50 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2026 06:49 PM (Hn9/J)
Who-a say a-that?
Posted by: Tony, fixing it again at August 08, 2026 06:50 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:37 PM (Ia/+0
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Yep. Loudest song on the whole album.
Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult at August 08, 2026 06:51 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026
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The newer ones certainly are, with all the electronics. With the '86 W126 I could change my own oil (8 quarts to that engine!), swap out the air filter, and do a few other things; and parts were not too horrible. Now? My mechanic told me that he has a customer with a more modern V-12 MB. Each spark plug costs ca. $100 at the dealer.
I didn't have the 3 Series BMW long enough to do any maintenance or repairs on it. You could buy parts and even oil online much cheaper than at the dealer, in any case.
I'm glad to be a Buick man now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:51 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2026 06:51 PM (Hn9/J)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:54 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)
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Yes, always keep good rubber in the front. And, they should slide... if you're doing it right.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026
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HA!
Are the two-year-old Kellys good enough for the front, then?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 06:55 PM (yTvNw)
Still have tried to cast my Russian cartridge box medallion. Think I have enough plumbing solder, just need to try it.
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:56 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:03 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Yes, but the dealer has free coffee and pastries in the
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026 06:57 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:54 PM (wzUl9)
Gotta go too, but...
I don't see why not. I had a puncture in a tire and was told I couldn't just replace one tire because they were a year old, so had to buy two. Was probably cheated, but they wouldn't do it otherwise and I can't go driving around on a flat.
Posted by: Tony, fixing it again at August 08, 2026 06:58 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026 06:49 PM
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In the modern era of Indycar, teams don't buy engines. They can only lease them from Chevrolet and Honda (if they're willing to take you on as a customer).
Posted by: TRex - relief pitcher dino at August 08, 2026 06:58 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026
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My favorite Buick dealer has that. The BMW dealer out in the suburbs had a coffee machine with lattes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:59 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026 06:57 PM (u/oMr)
So does mine, that's why I eat as much as I can when there.
Back for the ONT.
(until I get ignored, then I'll go to bed)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:59 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Jayhawkone at August 08, 2026 06:27 PM (10ssZ)
Ford had the Granada. Mercury had the Monarch. My first car was the former, purchased used for $900. Rusted out rear quarter panels that I refabbed with fiberglass batts and Bondo...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 07:00 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: JTB
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My first car (a $500 '51 Plymouth) responded nicely to an 8V battery. Not too uncommon a 'fix' in the days of yore. Headlights were,of course a bit brighter. Never had any problems.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:00 PM (XeU6L)
Never owned or even driven a quirky or cool car. When I was a kid, my dad had a black 66 Ford pickup with a red vinyl interior. I thought it was the most awesome vehicle ever.
My dream car is a 66 or 67 GTO. Partly for the look, I think they are so gorgeous. But I would also make it go fast. I'd also take almost anything from the chrome & fin era. I like big fins and I cannot lie.
I have shared this here before but the most memorable car I ever saw on a Mecum Monterey auction (only on TV - I'd love to go in person one day) was a 1978 Ford Pinto Squire Wagon:
https://tinyurl.com/sbp2j3mw
Amongst the Bugattis and Ferraris and McLarens and whatnot, I remember that glorious green Pinto.
Jesse owned and worked on some cool and quirky cars in his 40+ years as a mechanic. (He specialized in British cars - Jag, TVR, MG but was a Pontiac guy at heart)
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 07:00 PM (PcoR0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 06:54 PM
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Thanks AOP. Have a great time. See you on the ONT later.
Posted by: TRex - dino in left field at August 08, 2026 07:00 PM (41CYW)
(until I get ignored, then I'll go to bed)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 06:59 PM (1Ff7Z)
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Just stay for a while longer and we can ignore you here.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026 07:01 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 07:03 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 07:00 PM
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Sid Mix-a-Lot
Posted by: TRex - center field dino at August 08, 2026 07:04 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: TRex
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A very interesting vid link was posted here a while back, showing the manufacture of Cosworth pistons. Pretty amazing, and $$$$.
What struck me was how incredibly thin the skirts are.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:04 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:05 PM (XeU6L)
What struck me was how incredibly thin the skirts are.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:04 PM
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The manufacturing tolerances and optimized designs of engine internals are impressive.
Posted by: TRex - dugout dino at August 08, 2026 07:05 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:06 PM (Ia/+0)
It's a run of 25,000 and will sell out fast. I lucked out getting four tins: 2 for immediate use and 2 to store for a year or so.
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 07:06 PM (yTvNw)
I test drove one of the Jaguar remakes of their famous Mk II sedan, the '99 version. Pleasant, but kind of tight inside (and I'm not a huge guy), and sort of ordinary. My Mercedes W202 compact was more fun and roomier.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 07:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard
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A number on Etsy. Don't know about pricing...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:07 PM (XeU6L)
Now I have a 2017 green Forester. (Found one with 62,000 miles!) I do love it, but it looks exactly like something a dull middle aged librarian would drive. Which is what I am. I'm not a lesbian though.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 07:07 PM (PcoR0)
Posted by: RI Red - at August 08, 2026 07:08 PM (jkyX4)
TD
Posted by: toby928(c)
MG TD 1952 bought before I had drivers license at 15.
Drove it through high school.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 08, 2026 07:09 PM (NnhvP)
It's a run of 25,000 and will sell out fast. I lucked out getting four tins: 2 for immediate use and 2 to store for a year or so.
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026
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Sounds good. I like that there's no perique; that stuff does not agree with me. They were for sale on Smokingpipes, but they're out of stock now.
I've got a pouch of Captain Black Original coming next week. I liked the root beer aroma when I tried it before. Mixing it with some Virginia ought to be interesting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 07:09 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:10 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: TRex - groundskeeper dino at August 08, 2026 07:10 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: RI Red - at August 08, 2026 07:11 PM (E9nGU)
1977 slightly modified Triumph TR6. Ditto.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 07:13 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RI Red
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Re the E-Type Jag roadster:
Jaguar XKE - " the greatest crumpet-catcher known to man." -- Henry Manney
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:13 PM (XeU6L)
And speaking of Yugos, I'm reminded of a couple of Jay Leno jokes from back in the day on the Tonight Show.
1) Say, I was coming in to work today and I saw something I'd never seen before... A Yugo that wasn't hanging off the back of a tow truck.
2) You know you're having a bad day when you find yourself stuck between a Ford Pinto in front and an Audi 5000 in the rear...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 08, 2026 07:13 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 08, 2026 07:14 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 07:14 PM (PcoR0)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:15 PM (Ia/+0)
I don't even have a cool lawn mower. Sigh...
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 07:16 PM (PcoR0)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 08, 2026 07:14 PM
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Made it to post 191 before a Prince of Darkness reference. Congrats AZ!
Posted by: TRex - shagging flies dino at August 08, 2026 07:16 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:17 PM (XeU6L)
One time there was a terrible noise rattling behind the car, my dad found a good place to pull over and deal with what any reasonable person would think was the muffler. He comes back, somewhat pale of face, and just says "It wasn't the muffler." It was the *gas tank* and we had been happily dragging it down the freeway for five miles.
It also had the bumper fall off, the brakes fail, and the final straw was when the steering column *snapped*. We were all (even my infant sister) glad to see that reef anchor in training go.
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 08, 2026 07:17 PM (k+oif)
I don't even have a cool lawn mower. Sigh...
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 07:16 PM
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Thanks SiD! Best wishes with the mowing.
Posted by: TRex - bullpen coach dino at August 08, 2026 07:17 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: gp at August 08, 2026 07:18 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 07:03 PM (C0oZI)
Try eBay. They have tons, mostly, but not all, used.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 07:19 PM (PY8/y)
It's shocking how bad Lucas crap was and yet somehow they stayed in business.
When your company is known as the Prince of Darkness, and that's in polite company, you would think somebody might have come along and replaced them.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 07:19 PM (viF8m)
Jr. and DILIT bought a house in CT. We just delivered stuff and then I’m dropping Mrs. Red off at the island ferry in New Beige tomorrow.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 08, 2026 07:20 PM (E9nGU)
Posted by: screaming in digital
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If you had mine, you would be nursing scraped knuckles, while producing blue clouds of vulgar words.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:20 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: screaming in digital
Does it have 20+ bumper stickers?
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 08, 2026 07:20 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:17 PM
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Grok says no.
MGB-GT used BMC’s 1.8-liter
Triumph TR6 used Triumph’s 2.5-liter
Posted by: TRex - double header dino at August 08, 2026 07:21 PM (41CYW)
Fine. I didn't want to see you either.
Seriously, let me know when you will be passing through again. Couple new local spots to try.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 07:21 PM (viF8m)
I got a good old 85W iron for $5 at a hamfest. Going to get a propane torch next month and try to learn to solder some copper pipe for the first time, for a DIY loop antenna.
Posted by: gp at August 08, 2026 07:22 PM (Jr5Lq)
IIRC, Sean Connery drove one in Dr. No.
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 07:22 PM (yTvNw)
You're welcome to stay here for a while but don't forget to stop by Club ONT later for a whelming experience.
Posted by: TRex - concession stand dino at August 08, 2026 07:23 PM (41CYW)
MGB-GT used BMC’s 1.8-liter
Triumph TR6 used Triumph’s 2.5-liter
Posted by: TRex
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Hmm. What about the Triumph Spitfire GT?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:24 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:24 PM
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Grok says all production GT6 models used a 1,996–1,998 cc (2.0-liter) OHV inline-six.
Posted by: TRex - sun is in my eyes dino at August 08, 2026 07:27 PM (41CYW)
MGB-GT used BMC’s 1.8-liter
Triumph TR6 used Triumph’s 2.5-liter
Posted by: TRex
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Ah. Twas the MGC-GT that I was thinking about, which was a 6.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:28 PM (XeU6L)
By the way, anyone looking for a good read on cars, or just a good read in general, I highly recommend Jason Vulc's book "The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History", the story of how a Yugoslavian factory that made hand grenades, plus Jeffrey DeLorean, plus the government of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, could create a hilariously bad car.
Posted by: Nemo at August 08, 2026 07:28 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: TRex - concession stand dino at August 08, 2026 07:23 PM (41CYW)
Oh crap.
Posted by: Siddith at August 08, 2026 07:30 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 08, 2026 07:32 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at August 08, 2026 07:32 PM (Ew3fm)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 07:33 PM (yEz+x)
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A Fiat, built by Yugoslavians. What could go wrong? The only time I ever rode in one, I started to wind the window down (if you're under 29, ask your parents) and the window winder handle came off in my hand.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:33 PM (XeU6L)
Thanks for another fun hobby thread. And any use of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons are always welcome.
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 07:34 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:35 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 08, 2026 07:35 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Megthered at August 08, 2026 07:35 PM (oo7QV)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2026 07:35 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 07:36 PM (nbLIj)
Fun times.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 07:36 PM (yEz+x)
Hahaha! We had something similar: Mitsubishi "Minica" with 2-cycle engine. Funny, tiny thing.
We were at Misawa '82-'85. Hubs (now ex) was USN & worked inside the Elephant Cage.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 07:37 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Megthered
WHOOOOOOFREAKINGHOOOOOO!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 07:38 PM (yEz+x)
I in back thought it was funniest thing ever seen.
Driver was white knuckle on the wheel.
We had to take a lug from other 3 wheels to put the run away wheel.
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 07:41 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 07:47 PM (rdVOm)
I see uses in space warfare and in heatless projectile launches.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2026 07:51 PM (u82oZ)
We were at Misawa '82-'85. Hubs (now ex) was USN & worked inside the Elephant Cage.
Posted by: JQ
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My dad (an engineer) had a penchant for gizmos and gadgets. He bought a DKW in 1956. Three cylinder, two-stroke, four on the column. I mostly recall the gas station attendants amazement when he poured in a pint of outboard motor oil while they were filling the tank.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 07:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 08:00 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Ah. Recalled another feature. It had a sprag clutch that could be engaged/disengaged which would allow the the car to coast,disengaged from the tranmission/engine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 08:00 PM (XeU6L)
Something that would start the first time I turned the key.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 08:07 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 08:08 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 08, 2026 08:16 PM (Q/FnY)
One of my neighbors at the shop has a VW Thing, restored and stashed in his shop. Construction contractor, he also has a racing buggy buried deep in the shop.
His Thing sounds like it's got a V8 shoehorned in there, but you wouldn't know it until he fires up the engine. Really nice restoration though.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2026 08:29 PM (iqcvy)
Posted by: Ronster at August 08, 2026 08:41 PM (kM+80)
Posted by: Ronster at August 08, 2026 08:47 PM (kM+80)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 08:48 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Grateful at August 08, 2026 08:51 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Ronster at August 08, 2026 08:53 PM (kM+80)
Posted by: TRex - musical dino at August 08, 2026 08:53 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 08:55 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2026 06:55 PM (yTvNw)
Converting to a 12 volt system is really easy. Change the generator, voltage regulator, coil, and light bulbs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 09:46 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 07:03 PM (C0oZI)
Electric, or torch heated? If electric, what wattage?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 09:49 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:17 PM (XeU6L)
MGB had the 1500 - 1800 B series BMC engine. A 4-banger.
TR-6 had a six cylinder.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 09:54 PM (1z8ji)
Flux was in a round yellow can with a hole in the top sized for the iron to fit.
Did rusted holes in the bottom of a Ford truck gas tank.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 09:56 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 07:24 PM (XeU6L)
Spitfire had a 1.5 liter 4 cylinder; not the same as the MG cars had.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 09:56 PM (1z8ji)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 8
Some possibilities for Ace and his crow friends?
How is Ace getting along with his crow friends, anyway?The crow solved a brand new three-step puzzle in 30 seconds to get a bedtime snack! He even had time to make sure he didn't miss any cashews. That's really amazing! 🐦⬛👏 pic.twitter.com/scPn2mZfre
— Nature is Phenomenal (@AnimalGeoLife) July 31, 2026
Courtesy Paula Morley
My two young cats, Sejong the Maine Coon looking boy, and Becca the tabby calico. And the two together with Magic, my big black Bombay tomcat who turns it all into a weird love triangle KindltotWell, the trio seem to get along well. Handsome cats.
Our pretty girl was with us for almost 12 years, October 6, 2014 - August 5, 2026 It was unexpected. I’ve included pictures of Destiny - one of the first pictures I have of her and also the last one. She was very sick but her tail would wag when we talked to her. Brett from IllinoisSo sorry you have lost your treasured, charming Destiny. Thanks for letting us get to know her a little. Stay in touch.
Canadian Moron Thanks for sending in the photos demonstrating your stern rules for Arthur. He looks like a wonderful dog.
Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at August 08, 2026 03:46 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at August 08, 2026 03:52 PM (sAmhv)
If it were one singular crow, that's would be fine. But, those loud mouthed beggars are social with their buddies. They communicate. That results in dive bombing by Crow #1 and all his extended relatives whenever they see you.
We'll know when that moment hits. Ace will be asking for advice on where to buy a helmet. Can't wait.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2026 03:52 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 08, 2026 03:52 PM (wxsGM)
I've decided that Chloe the Bengal Kitty is now going to be Chloe the Klutz.
She may look sleek and graceful, but that's just a facade.
In truth she's quite clumsy. Not graceful at all. Still adorable, though.
Right now she's snoozing on top of the bookshelves in my office. She has fully claimed them from Penny.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 03:54 PM (FZ29D)
Linda dragged me into a Dollar Tree today. (Well, it didn't take much dragging.) She had to look at the Halloween decorations, which are for sale already. She spots a black cat decoration and goes, "That's Stirling!" To which I reply, "I already have the original. Why do I need a copy?"
Sure, there are other cats and dogs in America called "Stirling" or "Sterling." But I venture to say a *black* cat called "Stirling" could be unique. People want to name a black cat after some aspect of his coat color or lack of it, e.g., Shadow or Midnight or Lucifer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 03:54 PM (wzUl9)
Such wonderful pet morons.
Brett from Illinois, I am very sorry for the loss of Destiny. She looked like a sweetheart.
No cat update today. I didn't feel well last night. I will say that Onyx, the new baby has settled in well and has already made some friends. Onyx is curled up on my lap right now.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 08, 2026 03:55 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 03:56 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: The best thief in Lankhmar at August 08, 2026 03:57 PM (64rer)
If you have a Tractors Supply, they have some really cool/cute/funny halloween stuff. You can look on youtube, quite a few walkthrough the store reviews.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 08, 2026 03:58 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 03:58 PM (KC5Lt)
I keep wondering if someday she will give in and be that demonstrative with me. "Oh, all right, you're here, I might as well."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 03:59 PM (wzUl9)
Of course I would name any black cat I had Snowball.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 04:01 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 04:02 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 04:04 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 04:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at August 08, 2026 04:07 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026
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Which again is a comment on the cat's fur color, just in reverse.
My first black cat, Marie-Antoinette, had been named by the lady who rescued her and gave her to Linda. If the latter had wanted to rename her, I know the cat would have adjusted; "Marie" was almost certainly not her pre-rescue name, and yet the smart little devil knew it or any part of it.
My second was Wolf, a name I think takes some imagination to bestow on a cat. And now Stirling. Not a "Shadow" or "Midnight" in the bunch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 04:07 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026
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"Gunpowder"!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 04:08 PM (wzUl9)
But I probably would just go with Cracker. It covers both firecracker and the opposite of black .
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 04:11 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ronster at August 08, 2026 04:13 PM (kM+80)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 04:13 PM (CHHv1)
Just need to drag the big vacuum in and such up whatever can't hide fast enough.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2026 04:14 PM (C0Nlv)
I wonder if the spiders have Avacuumphopia.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 04:17 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes
If they didn't before they should after today XD
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2026 04:18 PM (C0Nlv)
Looks like a sweet dog. So does Destiny.
Posted by: KT at August 08, 2026 04:19 PM (rdeQO)
Posted by: KT at August 08, 2026 04:19 PM (rdeQO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2026 04:20 PM (lb7G2)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 04:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Lucy the Fink is recovering nicely from her emergency vet visit earlier this week. A cyst at the base of her tail gor infected and ruptured and was quite icky. Even an idiot like myself could figure out she needed evaluation.
Hack and slash and drain and then a shot of antibiotics and a few hundred dollars later……
Fink.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 04:26 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 08, 2026 04:27 PM (bkuEU)
Hack and slash and drain and then a shot of antibiotics and a few hundred dollars later……
Fink.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 04:26 PM (yEz+x)
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Glad to hear she's making a full recovery!
Allie had a similar experience with a hematoma in her ear.
Seems to have made a full recovery, but now she has "cauliflower ear."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 04:33 PM (FZ29D)
LMAO...Ace and his crows. This is a slow motion car wreck waiting to happen, and I'm here for it. It's novel and entertaining until it isn't. He'll see.
If it were one singular crow, that's would be fine. But, those loud mouthed beggars are social with their buddies. They communicate. That results in dive bombing by Crow #1 and all his extended relatives whenever they see you.
We'll know when that moment hits. Ace will be asking for advice on where to buy a helmet. Can't wait.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2026 03:52 PM (dIske)
Wicket should be grateful that he hasn't been dealing with ravens. Those bastards aren't just smart, they're sarcastic.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2026 04:38 PM (iqcvy)
She’s my only. And she takes good care of me. Too bad she hates other cats. I’d love to have a friend for her.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 04:39 PM (yEz+x)
The other day I saw something weird.
A group of seven or eight crows were standing in front of one house in our neighborhood, in a very orderly fashion and very still, just staring at the front door.
Since that was a very determined murder of crows, I assumed they were gathered to murder the owner of the house.
I haven't seen the owner since then or the crows. Their issue appears to have been resolved.
Perhaps we need to use crows to deal with the Iranian leadership.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2026 04:41 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 04:42 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 04:39 PM (yEz+x)
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Does she hate any cat in close proximity?
I know my cats Penny and Hexie freak out when they see a cat outside my house, but they've been remarkably chill about accepting Chloe into my household.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 04:42 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: The best thief in Lankhmar at August 08, 2026 04:44 PM (64rer)
I know my cats Penny and Hexie freak out when they see a cat outside my house, but they've been remarkably chill about accepting Chloe into my household.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Three moves ago she had indoor/outdoor privileges. She was constantly fighting any critter who came into our yard. She hisses and yowls at any cat outside the window.
Honestly, I’ve never brought another cat into our indoor space. So I don’t know how she would react.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 04:46 PM (wDLi3)
Posted by: KT
Oh, good. I'd been thinking there's something wrong with the dog's shape! 😉
Posted by: mindful webworker - proportionally at August 08, 2026 04:47 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 04:46 PM (wDLi3)
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OK. Sounds like she's highly territorial. Nothing wrong with that.
The secret to introducing a new cat seems to be mingling their scents over time.
Kaylee and Chloe got into a huge fight once. Fur flying everywhere. Chloe had been living exclusively in my library at the time. I moved Kaylee into the library and let Chloe have the run of the house for a day or a so.
Now Kaylee just ignores Chloe and keeps to her side of the house. Chloe lives in my office and library. Worked out for everyone.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 04:56 PM (FZ29D)
Miss Linda's white shorthair Annabelle disliked all other cats and did so her whole life. She was forced to tolerate two of Linda's other felines and had to deal unhappily with my Tatiana when we bugged out for a hurricane in '08.
Arizona the great part-Coon disliked other cats his whole life too. He avoided Marie-Antoinette, who knew he disliked her and stayed out of his way . . . until he passed away. Then she bounded on stage like Debbie Reynolds in a musical: "*I'm* the star now!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 04:58 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 08, 2026 03:55 PM (2F0/Y)
Exactly where Onyx should be!
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:59 PM (odBC9)
Stirling, of course, took to Dagny right away. He wasn't altered yet, and even though she wasn't even in heat, he was right there: "Let me stand next to your fire!" We had to keep them separated until both had been altered. They scuffle from time to time, and don't seem especially close, but they get along well.
Oreo and Tatiana the Wonder Siberian were fine, though the latter was a kitten and the former a middle-aged elderly lady who didn't want to play so energetically.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 05:03 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 05:04 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 05:06 PM (zJHVr)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026
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I call Dagny "Stubby Tail." Her long fur conceals it to a degree but the tail underneath is shorter than average. Apparently this is not a fault with Siberians; her mother Sofia was the same way, and she was thought good enough to breed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 05:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 05:11 PM (zJHVr)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 05:14 PM (z2M7D)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2026 05:15 PM (dCs0D)
We thought our bernedoodle was barking to warn us the UPS driver was coming up the driveway. Then, a few days ago I happened to be outside as a delivery arrived. I quickly warned the driver we had a friendly, but prone to jumping up, pooch.
"Oh I know her." And as the pooch came running to him, out came a treat.
When she barks from inside the house, she isn't warning us, she's letting us know she wants out to get a treat.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 08, 2026 05:15 PM (4HoLg)
When we got Sejong he wanted to wrassle with Magic, and poor Magic put up with it because kitten, until he got tired and pinned the kitten for being too rough.
Becca was a blessing because she is the same age as Sejong, and she didn't know not to bite as hard as possible either, so they tamed each other down.
Before Becca showed up I would play with him because he needed to rough-house, and I had a sock stuffed with crinkly stuff and a bell that he could bite on while he bunny-kicked my arm. He was really good about only biting on the toy, and I wore long sleeves.
He still likes to do that, but he is not so single minded about it since he has other hobbies now. Like hunting mice in the wood shed. He will miss a meal so he can keep hunting.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 05:18 PM (rbvCR)
An oldie but a goodie. Gracie the wiener dog goes after a Dolphin.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 05:19 PM (z2M7D)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2026 05:20 PM (dCs0D)
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 05:24 PM (c/Is2)
Elvis and I were just sitting on the patio watching the birds attack the feeders. Everyone was having a nice time and then the Blue Jays showed up.
They don't even like each other. Just shouting at everyone like a couple bar drunks.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 05:25 PM (viF8m)
He has black spots on his belly.
https://tinyurl.com/3u35k35c
He is quite a purry kitten and very energetic. I have lost several pounds since he's been here from playing with him. He gallops through the house and sounds like four cats, so I sometimes call him " Galloping Gus"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:27 PM (xSAlF)
Yep, good description. There is one aggressive male jay at the house behind which we feed a fixed stray cat colony, although he's slightly preferable to turkey vultures which sit broodingly on the fence until it's time for their morning meal.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:31 PM (xSAlF)
Bastards dive bomb the eagles.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 05:32 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 05:36 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 05:49 PM (wzUl9)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Aug. 8
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
I have had the strangest experience with a tomato plant. The thing is more than 5 feet tall. At first I had no flowers. Now is covered with at least a couple dozen tomatoes although one red yet. Also the poblano and jalapeño I planted in the same pot now resemble a tree. A bird landed on it the other day. Just starting to get poblanos but already made a batch of pickled jalapeños. This will probably be the first time the purchase price yielded enough to make it worth the price. Have you ever seen anything like this? Sharon (Willow's Apprentice)
The pink pigeon from Mauritius bounced back from near extinction through careful conservation. pic.twitter.com/80AgrmuUIa
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 1, 2026
I appreciate this forest for giving my camera a perfect framing for this tiny island. This was taken with my old galaxy note 10, so it's a bit oversharpened but I still like it. pic.twitter.com/6qzyZeMgUu
— Ken James (@openshutter21) August 6, 2026
Hi, KT . . . been a while, eh? Saw these on the way to the maildrop - they're YUUGE! … so I 'whipped out' the trusty iPhone and captured these, 'cos I knew next time I passed they'd be gone or look really bad. At this point they're still identifiable as 'shrooms - but prolly not edible. Maybe Alice ate some like this . . . ? We may - or, not - get some rain Sunday. We need it, 'cos it's really dry here in TN. There are 'no burn' warnings in a lot of areas, and that (if we don't get rain tomorrow) might postpone some Father's Day Q-offs. I'm going with my daughter and her family to have Mexican food around 11oo. Youngest Grandson has to be at work at the lab by 1600, so it'll be a short visit, but it'll be good. Thanks again for all the great posts 'n pictures each week. If you can use this, please deploy as usual with Front Toward Viewer . . . Dr_No
Hi, KT … In 2020, this moth ‘in extremis’ happened to land on the wall by the porch door of my apartment in Cordova. I couldn’t startle it or surprise it, so it may already have passed into Moth Heaven or still been in the queue. Or, maybe the 'Mighty COHHH-VID! got it. Either way, I loved the colors and the ‘display’ it presented, so out came Mr Tripod & Mr Nikon w/ the 10-24mm lens. For the half-hour or so I spent imaging this little moth, it never moved. It was there in the same position the next day … and the next … until it … wasn’t. It was a rare opportunity to get an image like this, and I’m glad I was there when it happened. . .
We scared a family of quail and they ran into the bushes but this one baby sat down and thus was invisible, lol. So cute. We love the quail and their headdress. Thank you so much for the garden thread! NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2026 01:45 PM (pluyl)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2026 01:46 PM (pluyl)
Moths. I like moths. I'll read that one now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2026 01:47 PM (pluyl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2026 01:48 PM (80bpd)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2026 01:48 PM (pluyl)
I live in an area with a fantastic Farmer's Market in a conservative close knit area where you actually know everyone selling their goods. You'll not only get some great fruits and vegetables, but if you ask, they'll tell you their tips on how they got such a plentiful harvest.
To add to the enjoyment, it's a small Farmer's market, but still has 2 local butchers and even that is locally sourced. A couple of Mennonite run stands have some of the most enticing pies to finish it off. Yes...love Farmer's Markets. Every Saturday Morning, I'm there.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2026 01:48 PM (dIske)
See painting in nic.
The subject was suggested by an ette who I can't remember who to my shame.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:50 PM (KC5Lt)
Storm is coming so a quik tractor drive around the yard
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 01:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:51 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 01:52 PM (4NO2D)
We had a peach tree when I was a kid. I've never had a peach to compare. Farmers just don't produce them.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 01:53 PM (mmrXZ)
Farmers' markets in the city are good but expensive. The Arab and Chinese green grocers have the same quality without the hassle or the price.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 01:55 PM (JvZF+)
Is this a thing elsewhere?
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 01:55 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 01:53 PM (mmrXZ)
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I grow Red Haven and White Haven peaches...and nothing beats them, except maybe the strawberries, or the cherries, or the pears. Not the kiwi however. Kiwi IMO is a condiment you might put on your strawberries.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2026 01:57 PM (dIske)
I love my farmers market. It's been around a long time (over 30 years), it's small (which I like) and I know all the farmers. There are booths with prepared foods (lots), bread, organic meat, etc but I am there for the produce. There are only four produce farms that still come but they've been there forever and I buy something from all of them every single week because I want them to keep coming. I know where the farms are and I know the veggies were picked the day before.
There's also a honey farm run by a young man and his dad and I get raw local honey there. Delicious.
Thank you, KT, for what is always a nice thread with the most beautiful pictures of the week!
Posted by: bluebell at August 08, 2026 01:59 PM (afFes)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 08, 2026 01:59 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:50 PM (KC5Lt)
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'Twasn't I who suggested it but I sure do like your picture! I'm always amazed by your talent.
Posted by: bluebell at August 08, 2026 02:01 PM (afFes)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 08, 2026 02:01 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)
Is this a thing elsewhere?
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 01:55 PM (4NO2D)
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Yes, they are called CSAs around here and we did one for years when my kids were little. We had a box delivered every week plus we could go out to the farm (45 minutes away) and get additional things for free if we wanted. Lots of stuff for the kids to do there, mine loved it and because we homeschooled we could go even when school was in session. It would be too much for us to eat now.
Posted by: bluebell at August 08, 2026 02:03 PM (afFes)
I made my "relish" for burgers and dogs last night. Mushrooms and onions sautéed in suet and white wine, along with serranos, jalapeños, and hot banana peppers from the garden.
The poblanos are going to be green chile.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 02:04 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: George V at August 08, 2026 02:06 PM (HUbHH)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 02:14 PM (Ia/+0)
I digging out a 4 foot by 8 foot section of the garden bed that encircles our place in Sussex to create a pad for our three waste containers here.
Not for nothing do I continue to curse the idea of ground covering fabric as a preventative for weeds as "There they are!" and the cloth itself is an impediment to get through for the task at hand.
Rd ntativd for weeds
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2026 02:15 PM (s9VOe)
Rd ntativd for weeds
What you get when you hit "post" without realizing there's a klingon lurking below the bottom border of the editing box.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2026 02:17 PM (s9VOe)
Wilt, canker, whatever. We'll look for a California variety of sweet paprika next year.
My wife is canning tomatoes.
Gonna harvest honey this week (not all). Went to rob one hive at me brother's this morning, and they found where I had not zipped up tight for my hood.
Got inside my hood. Bees inside. Bees outside. Nowhere to hide. Got hammered.
Was still able to close the hive up, and get the hell out of Dodge. I really need dependable help.
Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2026 02:23 PM (q6tQZ)
The missus is happy as female Monarch Butterflies have appeared here at long last and are laying eggs on the milkweed plants in the front bed.
Soon her Butterfly Gulag will be up and running and she'll be ferrying this and that out of the garden and into "preserving" shelters from predators. It is all the "good" from wildlife "management" on a small scale and in our yard.
I think it is needless meddling no matter what are one's intentions and things should be left well enough alone before all the Monarchs turn gay (thanks, Alex!).
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2026 02:25 PM (s9VOe)
Instead of cooing, they form a chorus line and belt out a rendition of "YMCA", followed by a selection of show tunes.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 02:37 PM (IG3/x)
I haven't been in a while because my garden is shooting out veggies and hot peppers like mad. I beg my neighbors to take some.
The only veggies that conked out was my lettuces, which were kind of tough and rubbery. I'll try again when it's cooler.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2026 02:42 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 02:46 PM (c/Is2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2026 02:47 PM (kpS4V)
Last weekend, we trimmed the wild rose hedge, which we've been taking several years to remove. Husband's been doing some painting on the garage end.
This week's been all about the drainage improvement/renovation behind the kitchen. I pulled out 3 clumps of Siberian Iris we'd planted, because they got so big they were in the way, and moved the blue slate rocks away from the holes - Husband put landscape cloth over the holes and covered them with washed rocks. Husband's been digging the trench to lead water away from the area immediately behind the kitchen, unfortunately finding huge tree roots from Jupiter the giant maple, and various irrigation pipes, in the path of the trench.
We emptied a pot of fingerlings last week - only one pound of potatoes. Lots of green beans, some zucchini, SunGold cherry tomatoes, small broccolini heads, and the first Romas. I'm putting water on my yellow carrots every day so they'll be easier to dig on Western Idaho Fair entry day - disturbed 2 different praying mantises.
Posted by: Pat* at August 08, 2026 02:48 PM (Yfo5P)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 02:48 PM (W90Ou)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
That would make an amazing sorbet flavor!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 02:49 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2026 02:51 PM (kpS4V)
Our local farmers market comes up from Rocky Ford every year. They have lots of good stuff.
Posted by: Ronster at August 08, 2026 02:55 PM (kM+80)
"Study Finds Possible Connection Between Current Heatwave And Giant Flaming Orb In The Sky"
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 02:58 PM (lJ0H4)
According to a long-time resident, they've been here many years (some folks apparently feed them during the winter).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 02:59 PM (IG3/x)
Although most of our new plantings aren't fruiting yet, we have had some tasty bits of harvest.
Most fun is a couple of fig trees in planters, which have given us some amazing figs. I've never had a fresh fig before. Not many, not very big, but delicious.
Yesterday we shared the one pear our trees produced this year. Would definitely like many more.
A few blueberries. Not nearly enough, but it's the first year on these potted plants.
Lots of container banana peppers, thriving despite or because of lack of attention.
We had some grapes, but they were attacked by beetles, yeah yeah yeah. The plants are still good.
The roses our daughter planted in front of the house have produced some pink beauties. Some gerber daisies looking nice. Peonies that haven't bloomed; next year. A miniature lilac had a few little flowers. A freshly planted magnolia gave us a few pretty flowers. Lavender has been thriving.
Some chard. Peppers and tomatoes and rhubarb on the south side of the house haven't produced anything. Again, next year.
Hard to keep up with all the watering and mulching in the July and August Oklahoma heat and humidity.
Posted by: mindful webworker - didn't realize how much we had 'til I wrote it up at August 08, 2026 02:59 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 03:01 PM (rHgXV)
You know what we haven't seen in many years? Lunar moths. Those were amazing. I think you have to plant moonflowers to get those.
Posted by: mindful webworker - nature is supernatural at August 08, 2026 03:02 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2026 03:06 PM (kpS4V)
I have plumeria surrounding my pool here at Rancho Brewingfrog in deepest South Texas. They have to go in the pool house over the winter, as they really don't like cold temps, but they will bloom from May to October with just a little pampering.
Posted by: Brewingfrog at August 08, 2026 03:09 PM (7eSPw)
Grandkids got some quail eggs from friends. Put them in their incubator and they all hatched. The quail are in an enclosure in the backyard now. The kids are having a great time with them.
Posted by: four seasons at August 08, 2026 03:09 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 03:11 PM (KC5Lt)
I am waiting on the late yellow plums to start falling so I can preserve those, and the pear is starting to drop too. I have to get on canning pears as well next week.
I put out lures for the apple maggot flies this year, and may have gotten the coddling moth, too. With luck, my later apples will not be so eaten up by worms.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 03:14 PM (rbvCR)
This has actually been tested experimentally... moths that have had their "tails" removed are far more likely to become a bat snack than those with them intact.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 03:19 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Ringo Starr has entered the chat at August 08, 2026 03:23 PM (Ydd86)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 08, 2026 03:25 PM (Ydd86)
This area has lots of butterflies and moths in the fall during the migration south. Lots of Monarchs and other varieties but it was only a couple years ago when I saw my first Luna moth. Big one. Really beautiful.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 03:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
I don't like to think about how these experiments were performed. Too Fauci.
Posted by: mindful webworker - poor little Luna moths at August 08, 2026 03:30 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2026 03:40 PM (kUcCL)
Back when, you'd make an effort to go out in the "country" to buy direct from the farmer, fresher and at a savings making the drive worth while. Something has been lost in the transltion.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2026 03:41 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 03:42 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 02:14 PM (Ia/+0)
Duck season.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 03:48 PM (c/Is2)
Back when, you'd make an effort to go out in the "country" to buy direct from the farmer, fresher and at a savings making the drive worth while. Something has been lost in the transltion.
Posted by: From about That Time
Agree 100%
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 03:49 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 03:55 PM (c/Is2)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 08, 2026 03:57 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: KT at August 08, 2026 03:59 PM (rdeQO)
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420884
Posted by: mindful webworker - in the weeds at August 08, 2026 04:00 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: Dr_No at August 08, 2026 04:14 PM (ayRl+)
41 That's one of the prettiest moths I've ever seen. Nice pic.
You know what we haven't seen in many years? Lunar moths. Those were amazing. I think you have to plant moonflowers to get those
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Apparently not. Females lay eggs on several kinds of trees and adult moths can't eat.
They say that a parasitic wasp introduced to control gypsy moths has also reduced the number of Luna moths and some other favorites.
Posted by: KT at August 08, 2026 04:42 PM (rdeQO)
The times that try men's souls
Founding Father of the Week - Thomas Paine
The Paine monument in Thetford, England, the birthplace of Paine, with a quill pen in his right hand and an inverted copy of The Rights of Man in his left. It was sculpted by Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy, and erected in 1964
The Thomas Paine Historical Association's Gallery of Monuments: Here you can follow Paine’s life journey through images of the different monuments, historical markers, landmarks and homes that form part of his amazing legacy. From his birth in Thetford, UK to his death in New York City, Paine lived a life of amazing action and profound impact. Enjoy!Here are a few more of them, but some of them look more impressive if you click over to the historical Association gallery:
The statue of Paine in Morristown, New Jersey sculpted in 1950 by Georg J. Lober. It shows a seated Paine with a musket using a drum-head as a makeshift table.There is a side view of this monument at the main page of the Historical Association's gallery, which also includes other photos, images and history.
The Thomas Paine statue in the Parc Montsouris, in Paris, France. It was dedicated in 1948 and created by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, It depicts Paine standing before the French National Convention to plead for the life of King Louis XVIDid you know about this?
Paine’s New Rochelle Monument is a 12-foot marble column marking his burial site. Paine’s New Rochelle In 1837, Gilbert Vale, editor of the New York Beacon, started a subscription for the purpose of erecting the monument that was dedicated on May 30th, 1881. Sculptor William Macdonald created the bronze bust that was placed upon the monument on May 30th, 1899
Thomas Paine published 16 pamphlets from 1776 to 1783 known as The American Crisis. The works inspired the colonists during the fight for freedom from tyranny. Paine signed his pamphlets with the pseudonym, "Common Sense".There is apparently still not a statue of Paine in Washington D.C. even though there is a statue in Paris and a Paine obelisk in London. Funds are being solicited for a statue in the capital of the USA. There is a link at the affiliated Thomas Paine Historical Association page.
You are most likely familiar with this passage from the first pamphlet published at the start of the Revolution. . . “THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
This passage from Pamphlet III you may not be familiar with. It addresses the importance of knowing the past. . . “Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; every thing about him would seem a chaos: he would have even his own history to ask from every one; and by not knowing how the world went in his absence, he would be at a loss to know how it ought to go on when he recovered, or rather, returned to it again. In like manner, though in a less degree, a too great inattention to past occurrences retards and bewilders our judgment in everything; while, on the contrary, by comparing what is past with what is present, we frequently hit on the true character of both, and become wise with very little trouble. It is a kind of counter-march, by which we get into the rear of time, and mark the movements and meaning of things as we make our return. There are certain circumstances, which, at the time of their happening, are a kind of riddles, and as every riddle is to be followed by its answer, so those kind of circumstances will be followed by their events, and those events are always the true solution.” That sounds like the common sense idea that we must know our history, so we can learn from it and not repeat the same mistakes. The monument pictured is the oldest memorial to Thomas Paine that still exists. The original monument erected in 1839 consisted of just a tapered marble pedestal and decorative cap. A bronze bust of Paine was later added in 1899. It is located in New Rochelle, New York near the cottage Paine lived from 1802 until 1806.
Thomas Paine was a man with nine lives and then some! He was a great humanitarian, a supreme statesman, and a bold visionary. He was also a staymaker, privateer, excise collector, magazine editor, pamphleteer, inventor, war correspondent, and poet. Paine was a man who belonged to three different worlds—England, the newborn United States, and revolutionary France—a man who went from being showered with praise to being reviled for his brave beliefs in what freedom and equality truly meant.George Washington promoted some of his ideas, but Paine later criticized Washington and also Christianity. He was something of a radical. How does he fit in with the legacy of our other Founding Fathers?
The following gallery contains almost 150 political cartoons of Thomas Paine in chronological order. Some positive and many negative, the cartoons, paintings, sketches and more are a vivid example of how Paine’s enemies attacked him in America and in England, where the British monarchy funded a ruthless and well funded campaign of slander. Supporters also fought back with some of their own, as you will see.How do these cartoons compare to the slander and libel in politics these days? .
1780’s anonymous cartoon titled “Le Fameux Empyrique Anglois American” (The Famous English American Empiric/Quack) shows Paine, as medicine man, standing on a podium in front of an audience and promoting his bottle labeled “Union” to a crowd of on-lookers – American Philosophical Society
“Contrasted Opinions of Paine’s Pamphlet” is a 1791 intaglio by Frederick George Byron. Eight public figures are depicted reading excerpts from Rights of Man and reacting to them. Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Mary Wollstonecraft are the three supporters of Paine’s writings while the rest deplore them – American Philosophical Society
DEI is a boil on the back of the Grievance Studies beast with many heads; Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory & their younger spawns (inc Disability Studies). When the public catches on & pushes back against one head, it pulls it back, letting another lead.
Jason Arday understood with the clarity of a software developer that the DEI design constraints would block any attempt to question his claims. He had stumbled upon an invariant: a condition, property, or relation that must always remain true throughout the execution of a…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 5, 2026
The real scandal isn't in what Arday did, but in what he showed could be done. He objectively demonstrated a fatal flaw in a supposedly secure instution. Cambridge University, which produced Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Alan Rutherford, Watson and Crick, John Milton and Lord Byron had crashed and burned. Whatever his motives we owe Jason a debt of gratitude that we can hardly repay.
To understand just how irredeemably messed up academia is, compare the differences in how Cambridge treated Jason Arday and how Harvard treated Roland Fryer.
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 7, 2026
One is a black sociologist; the other is a black economist.
At this point, we are all very well acquainted with Jason… pic.twitter.com/wCMNC03YG2
Anthony Fauci is shaping up as the Choosin’ Texas of meme subjects–holding down the #1 spot week after week. He was our prime meme target again this week. Apart from Fauci, the WNBA was on the receiving end of a lot of ridicule, and something happened with regard to burritos, I don’t know what. But you will see some burrito memes. And unfortunately, anti-Communism is once again necessary. Who would have predicted that, circa 1991?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 11:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 08, 2026 11:15 AM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Axing Questions at August 08, 2026 11:15 AM (wB6dA)
Walked into the bedroom at about 10:00. Her Majesty, still in her jammies, was lounging on the bed. Diana was dozing next to her. The Big Dummy was asleep on the floor. "Looks like a tableau of laziness," I commented.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 11:17 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2026 11:19 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 11:21 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 11:23 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2026 11:23 AM (2WIwB)
"Left wing people of color cannot lie."
There are two points of failure here. The first is, of course, Arday, who ran his scam as long as he could. I recommend the video at the link, for a higher altitude analysis of why so many blacks behave as they do. It's excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5XX9Q6t8v0
The second is the lefty academics who enabled Arday simply because it flattered their egos to promote a black man, and gave them bragging rights amongst their equally unrealistic allies in academia. White savior syndrome is alive and well. Who cares that their students got screwed.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)
Have these scams and frauds increased, or have they always been around and we're only just noticing?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 11:25 AM (O0L8i)
Just walked past the grave of George Clinton, founding father VP under Jefferson and Madison. It's about a mile from my house and it has a plaque with his image, no statue. Old Dutch Churchyard, well kept
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2026 11:26 AM (KY+FT)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 11:26 AM (Ia/+0)
Also, people never say, "hey, I just need you to sign your Thomas Paine at the bottom this document."
Posted by: John Hancock at August 08, 2026 11:27 AM (J4Dwc)
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aka, the Obama Effect
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026 11:30 AM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2026 11:31 AM (xeH36)
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He’s a fucking idiot. Why would you want to promote someone who does not belong there? How can that flatter their egos?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 11:31 AM (8ipN3)
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 08, 2026 11:33 AM (1FEc1)
So: great man, crazy man.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 08, 2026 11:33 AM (XCctI)
That's a racist thing to say. Why do you hate black people?
Posted by: Lefty academics at August 08, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
It was a “Large Font FU”, he wanted the old bastard to see it without needing any glasses.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 11:33 AM (8ipN3)
Some of those students are now suing Cambridge. Good.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: nckate at August 08, 2026 11:37 AM (enNUy)
Paine is not my favorite of the "founders". He was a brilliant man but he had some critiques of the Bible and Christianity I do not agree with ,and also supported the French Revolution, as did Jefferson. The French Revolution. in which nuns and priests amongst many others were drowned and guillotined (sp?) was not the apogee of Political thought . And yes, I am well aware that Christians can behave abominably towards people of a different brand of Christianity, On the whole I think sincere Judeo Christianity is a better model for human behavior than people who base their behavior on the "glories" of rationality and the "correct" sorts of revolution.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 11:40 AM (xSAlF)
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I'm currently about 1/3 of the way through Ron Chernow's Washington. So far, Paine has been an ally. I imagine later on in the book will show him in a different light.
Nonetheless, reading through what I've read so far, I've turned each page in absolute awe at just how awful it seemed for the Continental Army going up against the mighty and powerful British forces. So many hopeless and crushing defeats and moments of despair, so outmanned, and yet...here we are. To read about this country's birth is nothing short of astonishing and miraculous, imho.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2026 11:42 AM (qBdHI)
Paine is not my favorite Founding Father, either. I think it's interesting that most of the statues of him are relatively recent. And concerning the French Revolution, interesting that he would argue to keep the king alive but also argue in defense of the revolution. I think Jefferson modified his position on the French Revolution when he saw some of its results.
Posted by: KT at August 08, 2026 11:46 AM (rdeQO)
Good morning. Nice to see you on a weekend thread. Hope You have a great one.
Still Smokey here. Getting rather tired of it.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 08, 2026 11:46 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: nckate
It'll get shot up opening night.
Then we can have days worth of footage of teddy bears, candles, and balloons.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2026 11:46 AM (otodQ)
A plaque listing the number of historical Calls For Service?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 11:47 AM (8ipN3)
He's into man...dates.
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 11:48 AM (cGjQu)
I don’t think there is any doubt that Common Sense was impactful. But everything after that is questionable. Just my opinion.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2026 11:48 AM (XYi+6)
Depends what their goals are.
All of this race and class bullshit is being funded by scumbags like Neville Singham and the CCP. BLM, DEI, trans ... it's all classic Marxist class struggle.
The goal is not just take over our institutions, it's to infiltrate them and tear them down from the inside, exactly what another communist group is trying to do in our government at the state and federal level. Read the DSA platform. They aren't stating they want to get elected to be in charge of our government, they want to get elected so they can burn it down and replace it with communism.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 11:48 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Common Tater
You just have to honk and they get in the car.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2026 11:50 AM (otodQ)
It's also true that many Brits in power thought trying to win America back through war was a losing proposition in the long term. Sure they could take a city, but then what? America was simply too big, too rural, and too far away for European tactics to ultimately win. Turns out they were right. It certainly didn't help that the French were itching for a rematch after the Seven Year's War (The French and Indian War here in the colonies).
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: PG at August 08, 2026 11:53 AM (+F4bv)
"tbf, Obama did it first."
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 08, 2026 11:54 AM (Ydd86)
The second is the lefty academics who enabled Arday simply because it flattered their egos to promote a black man, and gave them bragging rights amongst their equally unrealistic allies in academia. White savior syndrome is alive and well. Who cares that their students got screwed.
He was their living lawn jockey, period. They won't say that 'cause they're sensitive and down with his struggle and all. He was there to appease and flatter their sense of being uplifters of the oppressed. In truth, he served as their living lawn jockey -- no more, no less, and unworthy of even a second thought on their part. Tokenism, pure and simple.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2026 11:56 AM (s9VOe)
You said it better than I did.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 11:57 AM (Riz8t)
Injecting race into everything at this point is only and ever intended to ruin everything. It is all so very Orwellian. “Inclusion” really means exclusion, of course. “Equality” went by the wayside, replaced by “Equity”, which along with “Justice” simply means revenge, against people who haven’t done anything on behalf of those who haven’t been wronged, except perhaps by those inciting division and tribalism. Most people apparently haven’t fully realized how wicked this stuff is, and it hasn’t even got wound up yet.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 12:00 PM (8ipN3)
Bronx Boy Gouverneur Morris is on my short list, a Founding Father seldom mentioned, despite having a hand in most everything: he literally wrote the preamble to the Constitution. Yes, "We the People" was his.
Split with his family over American independence.
His decisive tie-breaking vote kept Washington as C-i-C, else George would have been fired by the Continental Congress.
Served in NYC's local militia with a peg leg.
Gave us the Erie Canal.
Gave NYC its street grid.
Early outspoken opponent of slavery.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 12:03 PM (dtajH)
When cooking breakfast sausages in the air fryer, we put them on a couple of slices of cheap bread. Not only does they soak up the grease, they also make a very tasty treat for the dogs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 12:05 PM (O0L8i)
Right to the sidebar!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 08, 2026 12:05 PM (l4RKn)
Sounds like a very interesting book. Best wishes to you and the project.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 12:06 PM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2026 12:06 PM (KY+FT)
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Much harsher. The difference is that publications were openly partisan back then rather than trying to keep up some bullshit pretense of neutrality as today.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 12:06 PM (XvL8K)
Class and economic struggles are classic Marxist techniques for building an aggrieved class to go after the "haves".
For the last couple years we constantly hear younger generations blaming boomers for everything from the price of their rent to the price of DoorDash burritos to ear wax. Somebody has to be blamed for their gender studies degree with a minor in African Art not getting them a high paying job and the easiest way to do it is to blame old people who have achieved in their lives because obviously they ruined for everyone else.
It's not a coincidence all these grievance groups like BLM, DEI, trans, antisemites, LGBTQRSVP and more all came about just as the DSA types started getting more political active. Marxism requires someone to blame for perceived unfairness and problems. That would be us. China has been attacking us in various ways for years. This is just one more way.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 12:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 12:10 PM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 12:10 PM (8ipN3)
I once had an hour to kill in a bookstore and tripped over a copy of Mein Kampf. It had an index and so I looked for "Jews". Hitler spelled it all out. And his plans for the Slavs. It's all in a big chapter smack dab in the middle, in black and white.
When someone has bad plans. and they tell you they have bad plans, believe them.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 12:11 PM (dtajH)
Posted by: Anyone Home? at August 08, 2026 12:12 PM (SaWpx)
Ignoramus
Is John Dickenson among your subjects? Opposed the D of I but formed or joined up with a regiment and went out to fight (or so said the series, "John Adams").
John Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Led the ferrymen for Washington's army for the escape from Long Island and the crossings of the Delaware at the end of that same year.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2026 12:14 PM (s9VOe)
My DIL got an MBA from there, and told me at the time that the scholarship involved was not impressive.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2026 12:14 PM (bX16E)
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The Soviet Union worked that angle heavily from the 1930s thru their collapse. It’s only natural the ChiComs would pick up the slack. But it has well and truly metastasized here, there is no longer a need for outside “help”, huge swaths of people are completely broken and have lost their minds. Mission Accomplished, I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 12:14 PM (8ipN3)
Correct. White liberals treat their colored folks like pets, to be fed and watered and taken out for walks to be shown to other white liberals just how good their pets are and oh my! the tricks they can perform and they can socially experiment on them and even control how they reproduce.
You'd think by now colored folks would avoid white liberals.
Posted by: Stepin Fetchit at August 08, 2026 12:15 PM (G5vcO)
It's only natural they'd infiltrate the US as a reciprocal act. That they'd do it regardless isn't the issue.
That they're doing it and there are elements inside our own government aiding and abetting them and we permit it... is.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 12:16 PM (2Cry5)
245 universities which still have institution-wide DEI offices and/or programming in operation, 180 schools or colleges (such as Colleges of Education, Engineering, or Medicine, etc.), with an overall total of 404 currently active DEI offices and programming.
So are there 404 Ardays lurking in the wings?
There are about 16 million undergrad students. Somewhere around 1.4 to 1.8 million undergrads qualify for 1 or more of the published (how many secret societies are there?) DEI programs.
So the potential number of Arday must be in to 100,000s.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 12:18 PM (/+uur)
and founder of the Funkadelic.
A true renaissance man.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 12:19 PM (4NO2D)
From The Thomas Paine Society web page:
"The sad reality is that Congress will not magically self-correct on its own; we all know the definition of insanity… So we are left with the plight best expressed by Jerry Garcia: “Somebody’s got to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”
The Thomas Paine Society is a nonpartisan think tank that is committed to joining the fight to save our country. Our mission is fairly simple. We aspire to formulate optimal, viable solutions for America’s challenges through extensive research and public testing. Possessed with these balanced common-sense win-win solutions, we will expend significant resources in advocating their legislation with voters and political candidates. Our goal is the pursuit of a more perfect union - and as such, we will support the ‘good guys’ and true patriots who are placing country over party… and will oppose the ‘bad guys’ who are jeopardizing our future with their despicable self-serving behavior."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 12:19 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 12:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 12:21 PM (Ia/+0)
245 universities which still have institution-wide DEI offices and/or programming in operation, 180 schools or colleges (such as Colleges of Education, Engineering, or Medicine, etc.), with an overall total of 404 currently active DEI offices and programming.
There are a lot more DEI offices than that, but the universities are now lying about having them. Just this week, Duke got caught at this game.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t)
John Boyd
Vannevar Bush
Philo Farnsworth
John Hersey
Tommy Hitchcock
John Phillip Holland
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Claude Shannon
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 12:22 PM (dtajH)
Bronx Boy Gouverneur Morris is on my short list, a Founding Father seldom mentioned, despite having a hand in most everything: he literally wrote the preamble to the Constitution. Yes, "We the People" was his.
I'd nominate Robert Morris. He went from the richest man in the colonies to a pauper because he spent his money outfitting and paying the Continentals.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)
Best thing coming out of Charlotte? The airport.
The worst? Airport bar is not serving before noon on Sundays.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2026 12:24 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 12:24 PM (dtajH)
Mao ushered in the Cultural Revolution in China by pitting the have nots against what he called the bourgeois who had taken over government and society. He declared war on the Four Olds, basically the pillars of Chinese society at the time, which gave his radical followers permission to kill anyone they deemed a threat to the new enlightened China. And kill they did.
China has spent years and millions infiltrating and influences what our schools and universities teach. Look at Governor Jazz Hands in MN and the dozens of trips he took to China. Now look what he's done to his state. Look at the riots we've had on college campuses that have become anti-white and anti-Jew festivals of hate and the universities don't do anything.
Now the young radicals are marching on government. We should stop them everywhere. What happens in NYC does not stay in NYC.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 12:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 08, 2026 12:26 PM (DZ9Lv)
You'd think by now colored folks would avoid white liberals.
Yeah, or at least shoot them the bird. I do it all the time. It's my way of saying--Get out of my face asshole!
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2026 12:28 PM (fV9m3)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 12:19 PM (Cqx++)
That statement is very carefully crafted to appear to be completely non-partisan. So carefully crafted, in fact, that it sets off alarm bells in my mind.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Ernest T. Bass at August 08, 2026 12:29 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 12:29 PM (KC5Lt)
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Some of them are inside government, as you inferred... like Mamdani and Walz. You've got Bernie and AOC (among others) at the federal level. It's a growing movement.
It's already metastasizing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 12:30 PM (2Cry5)
Philo Farnsworth
I was in a pub in England about 15-20 years ago and a trivia question was who invented television. I was the only one who didn't answer "Logie Baird". ;-> Then again, I studied broadcast communication arts in college and have a biography of Farnsworth personally signed to me by his widow a few years before he died.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 08, 2026 12:30 PM (DZ9Lv)
94 This time five years ago it was illegal for people to be within six feet of me.
I really miss that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2026 07:19 AM (2Ez/1)
I had been practicing avoiding people all my life. It was really our time to shine.
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 12:30 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 12:31 PM (KC5Lt)
Garrett Morris deserves a higher profile.
"OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT...!"
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 12:31 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2026 12:33 PM (KY+FT)
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Some of them are inside government, as you inferred... like Mamdani and Walz. You've got Bernie and AOC (among others) at the federal level. It's a growing movement.
It's already metastasizing.
Spencer Pratt is ON it!
The path of life never gets easier. The climb doesn’t get less steep. Your legs just get stronger.
Never quit.
We have communists to wreck.
https://tinyurl.com/2j545y9x
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 12:33 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 08, 2026 12:30 PM (DZ9Lv)
Logie Baird invented a mechanical-scanning TV system. It worked, but had huge limitations. Farnsworth invented the electronic scanning system still in use.
Farnsworth also invented a fusion device, that fuses hydrogen ions into helium, and releases a shower of neutrons. You can buy one! It consumes more energy than it can make, but it is a useful source of neutron flux for laboratory tasks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:37 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)
Too bad people misinterpreted what he meant by Separation of Church and Stare.
Or maybe I have. I don't think he intended it to become as it is.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 12:38 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 12:39 PM (KC5Lt)
I guess that's okay, but can it be used to stick two halves of a boat together?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2026 12:41 PM (FtULh)
Philo was an Idaho farm boy and an electrical engineeeing genius. He was inspired to create the cathode tube -- and thus the modern TV -- from plowing the family plow back and forth.
He had the whole enchilada and got the first patent -- but got into a war with RCA who waited him out through the depression.
He had other inventions, including a primitive fusion reactor.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 12:42 PM (dtajH)
Posted by: ted Torgerson at August 08, 2026 12:43 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 12:33 PM (KC5Lt)
Which specific Tesla patent covers "radio"?
German physicist Heinrich Hertz was, AFAIK, the first person to transmit and receive a radio beam across the span of his lab, thereby proving the existence of electromagnetic waves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:44 PM (1z8ji)
He's into man...dates.
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 11:48 AM (cGjQu)
His freaking ads are all over Youtube, usually multiple times in the middle of videos. And YouTube will now block you if you're using an ad blocker. Since Google took over.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 08, 2026 12:44 PM (hmYU4)
>>Or maybe I have. I don't think he intended it to become as it is.
His original goal was pretty straightforward, government should only be concerned with civil matters and stay out of religious issues. No doubt inspired by getting his ass kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his belief that people owed their allegiance to their God and not the state which was the same thing under the Puritans.
Many credit his influence for the writing of the First Amendment. Seems like a pretty big deal.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 12:45 PM (viF8m)
I'm concerned that the "affordability" and the 6 dollar burrito ! will have an impact on the brain dead younger generation enough to get them out there to vote for the "free" stuff...
Posted by: It's me donna
The rise of The Burrito Party.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 12:46 PM (Cqx++)
123 Considering the Chinese and how they relate to other humans
their customer service on those vehicles will be a real bitch.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (gpvQO)
Look at their other products. Electric guitars and guitar amplifiers are a low-risk example; no one is going to get killed if it suddenly stops. But you can be out your money for a piece of junk.
So, what I've seen watching the market, watching videos and reading reviews, is that an equilibrium of sorts has been achieved between their low-trust culture and our high-trust culture. Curated retailers like Sweetwater and Guitar Center (U.S.) or Anderton's and Thomann (U.K. and Europe) buy from Western companies making orders to factories, monitoring the result, importing it themselves, and doing QC.
Amazon is the Wild West, where it's all buyer beware, the worst companies just rebrand when they get too many bad reviews, and even the ones that make things that work (like Mooer) do not appear to actually check the customer support email; if a modeling amp gets bricked, you're SOL. Service is a cost center, and they will not help.
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 12:46 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Sid at August 08, 2026 12:47 PM (E8qBF)
You'd think by now colored folks would avoid white liberals.
Malcolm X warned everyone about white liberals back in the 60s.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 12:48 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: JoshO at August 08, 2026 12:48 PM (xL2KH)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 12:49 PM (dtajH)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 12:49 PM (Ia/+0)
Socialism/Communism was their major. Regardless what their diploma (if they have one) says.
They're not content with the idea of a "career." They're also a big problem for those of us on the other side of things.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 12:49 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 12:05 PM (O0L8i)
And the next few day's dinner for husbands who say their wives are lazy.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 12:50 PM (1Ff7Z)
There is zero substance to it, it describes nothing of our fascinating history, and the rest of the world might as well have never existed.
If you had a person whose *only* knowledge of the world was an American public school history curriculum, and asked him to draw the countries of the world, you'd get a vague outline of the US labeled "Stolen Land," a couple big blobs to the South and East labeled "brown people Republicans stole from," and then a blob in the vicinity of Europe labeled "German Republican Nazis and Russian Republican Nazis."
The ignorance of history in this country is totally shocking by comparison to when I was a kid, very recently. It's like a switch flipped.
The erasure of the world's story is exceedingly useful to State. If people knew anything about the past, none of this insanity we're living with would be possible. And the death of historical education was so sudden that it can't be an accident.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:50 PM (BI5O2)
At the same time, inflation *has* been a bitch, especially since 2019, and prices have not gone back down appreciably on anything. It's not stupid and one need not be a young gender studies major to have noticed.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 12:51 PM (QZThv)
Of course it's not stupid to notice inflation. It is indeed quite stupid to blame an entire generation for it. And yet they do.
Marxism does not do individual responsibility.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 12:56 PM (viF8m)
It's a Millennial thing.
Boomers spoilt and coddled my generation, and told them they were the perfect expression of all human endeavor, and it simply turned them into monsters who loudly resent their parents for denying them their inheritance by stubbornly refusing to quit breathing already.
I expect now that we're mostly in our forties and STILL not getting the free houses and piles of cash we DESERVE, that we're going to start seeing a lot of Boomers dying under suspicious circumstances.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:59 PM (BI5O2)
Order a bandana for your dog, it’s ont the step before your morning coffee.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 12:59 PM (c/Is2)
Posted by: nckate at August 08, 2026 12:59 PM (enNUy)
"Do not let anybody hang around in some small office somewhere."
"People are going to have to be searching
The Purge was not just a bad movie.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 12:59 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2026 01:01 PM (qy4KK)
Posted by: nckate at August 08, 2026 01:03 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 01:03 PM (dtajH)
the expected upcoming release of his (co-authored) book, etc.
Got me thinking about that nepo baby shit head Bill Kristol, and his writing output. He produced exactly ONE book (co-authored, and I've got $20 saying that he just slapped his name next to his co-author, who in fact did all the real work). Everything else is just collections of his previously published blog posts/essays or collections of other people's writing where he acted as editor.
A rather paltry output even when compared to the rest of the NeverTrump shit head mob.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2026 01:05 PM (iqcvy)
Or at least having their illegal half-their-age Columbian girlfriends reported to ICE by their kids, like that CBS News idiocy.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:05 PM (QZThv)
"Inflation is lower, how come prices are so high?" misconstrues the problem. The price level never goes down, not in a healthy economy.
No one understands the difference between level and slope.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 01:05 PM (JvZF+)
Our pick
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 08, 2026 01:06 PM (bkuEU)
I don't understand your point if that was a response to my post. I don't think he would have agreed with the Wall of Separation ruling in 1947 which led to banning voluntary school prayer and manger scenes in front of government buildings.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:06 PM (KC5Lt)
I mean, you *can* blame Boomers for a lot, starting with not punching out all the hippies in the late 60s.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:06 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:05 PM (QZThv)
???
I hadn't heard this one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:07 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 01:05 PM (JvZF+)
I gotta level with you. I never believed there's a slippery slope.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 01:07 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 01:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:06 PM
In fairness, some of us Boomers ARE those Hippies.
The turn on drop out crowd were not all commies.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 01:09 PM (4NO2D)
I hadn't heard this one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:07 PM
Short version: "life-long 75 year old Republican" denounces Trump after his illegal 45 year old Columbian girlfriend is deported by ICE for overstaying a tourist visa by 4 years.
It's widely assumed she was turned in by his kids, but there's no proof at the moment.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:10 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 01:07 PM (1Ff7Z)
=====
*point two fingers at own eyes, turns fingers to OrangeEnt*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 01:10 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:11 PM (KC5Lt)
The turn on drop out crowd were not all commies.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 08, 2026 01:09 PM (4NO2D)
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Peace, man.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 01:12 PM (JvZF+)
Little did I realize she was above the law.
Hopefully, she will die soon...slowly and painfully.
Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton, Cigar User at August 08, 2026 01:12 PM (G5vcO)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:10 PM (QZThv)
Lovely people all around, then.
I'm glad she's gone and the old prick lost his precious sex slave. Now I hope the kids are exposed for their treachery and become pariahs. A pox on the whole house is in order.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:13 PM (BI5O2)
I mean, you *can* blame Boomers for a lot, starting with not punching out all the hippies in the late 60s.
Posted by: Ian S.
That's what the Punk Rockers were for, faux cowboys fared fare worse.
LET'S GO BRANDON!
DUELING BANJO's REFRAIN STILL IN PLAY...
If fuel become the weapon, make fuel the weapon: FAE's/Dresden
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 08, 2026 01:13 PM (mqMkF)
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2026 01:14 PM (fV9m3)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:11 PM (KC5Lt)
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No, they are all main characters who found early success as iconoclasts, groundbreakers, disruptors, and creators.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 01:14 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 12:14 PM (8ipN3)
I forget the precise quote or its source, but as.. someone.. put it: old Soviet psyops have taken on a life of their own, with Western lefties' brains running a zombie program from a dead empire.
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Sy6m/)
Yeah right life long Republican.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:15 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: nckate at August 08, 2026 01:15 PM (enNUy)
~ Hillary
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 01:15 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2026 01:14 PM
He wasn't stealing bread, he was stealing wheelbarrows!
Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 08, 2026 01:15 PM (4NO2D)
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Monetary inflation is the permanent loss of purchasing power of the currency unit. It doesn’t come back.
It’s actually fairly remarkable it isn’t far worse in recent decades. These things have a way of catching up in a hurry. And they always do.
I’m not smart enough to figure out whether or not all those overseas “petrodollars” exported since the early 1970s can somehow return to the US to compete for goods and services. If they do, forget it. It will be Biblical.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 01:16 PM (nycZW)
Girls have been told since birth for 35 years now that men are a life support system for credit cards and work is for fulfillment. Ain't nobody getting married like that.
Also, in the 90s when I was starting out, you could absolutely afford a better-than-starter home on a starter salary.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:17 PM (QZThv)
Telefon 2: AI Is Coming For You! starring AI Charles Bronson in his breakthrough comeback movie as a soviet agent who has to battle AWFLs, Troons and DEI professors in DSA America to make it back to the motherland.
Posted by: Hollis P. Wood at August 08, 2026 01:18 PM (G5vcO)
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I bet she doesn’t want to live in the hood either, in some shoot ‘em up apartment complex with tissue thin walls. With all the wonderful diversity and illegal aliens. You should point out how Racist that really is.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 01:19 PM (nycZW)
We invited friends over, hamburgers, chips, and beer.
Maybe spaghetti and cheap wine.
And Blockbuster
Put away $8.5k down payment in about 8 months.
That was 1984.
Very common 40 years ago.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 01:19 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 01:20 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:20 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 12:51 PM (QZThv)
But one does have to be a young gender studies major to think $20 burritos, delivered to your house, 3 times a day is a constitutional right.
Posted by: GenZ Is Retarded at August 08, 2026 01:20 PM (SaWpx)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:15 PM
There's nothing remotely inconsistent about a lifelong Republican smuggling a piece of Mayan ass over the border as an Act of Love. It's a central plank in the Party platform. And besides the cheap landscaping, their Democrat wives need their own swarthy booty calls, their Democrat bosses need the votes, and their Democrat donors need the intergenerational wage suppression.
It all comports with the GOP agenda we know and love.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:20 PM (BI5O2)
Math always wins. It's somewhat impressive they've managed to hold it off this long.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:20 PM (QZThv)
You think that's the only option? There is a reasonable sweet spot between having a car note on a 75k vehicle and a beater car .
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:23 PM (KC5Lt)
Yeah, the GOPe probably all has big booty Latinas on speed dial. Except the gay ones, who are all apparently fighting over James O'Keefe.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:23 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:20 PM (KC5Lt)
More likely to have 0 than 2.
There are 7 million working age men out of the work force right now. Not unemployed. Unemployed means no job but looking for a job. These are people who aren’t even looking for a job, content to mooch off welfare while eating burritos and playing video games.
Posted by: GenZ Is Retarded at August 08, 2026 01:23 PM (SaWpx)
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This is exactly correct. Both the Nazis and the Soviets ran mind-fvckery programs that were extremely effective, I don’t bother to make any distinctions particularly. I would note that a lot of communists were infiltrating prior to the war, and a lot of nazis after the war. Propaganda and chemical warfare specialists for the latter. Ostensibly to fight “the Cold War” but it looks to me they decided to turn the machine back on America. It’s painfully obvious they use every dirty trick in the book.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 01:24 PM (nycZW)
Or they can't even get a call back on an interview because they're white, straight, and male.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:25 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:25 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2026 01:26 PM (bX16E)
Order a bandana for your dog, it’s ont the step before your morning coffee.
Posted by: Eromero
Service: 5 out of 5 "woofs!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2026 01:26 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: nckate at August 08, 2026 01:27 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: GenZ Is Retarded at August 08, 2026 01:27 PM (SaWpx)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:25 PM (QZThv)
If they’re trying to get interviews, they’re in the labor force and don’t count in the 7 million.
Posted by: GenZ Is Retarded at August 08, 2026 01:29 PM (SaWpx)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:29 PM (KC5Lt)
Look at their other products. Electric guitars and guitar amplifiers are a low-risk example; no one is going to get killed if it suddenly stops.
You've probably never owned a Silvertone 1448 with the amp in the case. The amp was based on a simplified version of the All American 5 tube set used in the early Bakelite AM radios. The Bakelite case was necessary to keep the thing from electrocuting you since they eliminated the expensive power transformer and ran it direct off of 110VAC. The Silvertone did the same thing, but the wood and masonite guitar case provided the insulation. These Death Instruments were marketed to kids at Sears, like a musical version of a Mainway Toys product.
The 1448 was notorious for randomly shocking the living shit out of you, which I can confirm from my own example. The guitar is in decent condition, but the case pretty much disintegrated. I still have the amp guts, and I've used it with an isolation transformer to avoid killing myself.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2026 01:29 PM (iqcvy)
He was dubbed "Forty Second Boyd" for his standing bet as an instructor pilot that beginning from a position of disadvantage, he could defeat any opposing pilot in air combat maneuvering in less than 40 seconds. He never lost his bet.
He then helped design jet aircraft. He pushed for light jets with high maneuverability, rather than raw speed. The F-16 was his baby. In doing so, he developed his OODA loop theory. Which is basically observe and react faster than your opponent. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Dick Cheney brought him out of retirement to develop the plan for the first Gulf War.
"Maverick" Boyd never rose above the rank of Colonel. Wonder why?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 01:29 PM (dtajH)
Yeah, the GOPe probably all has big booty Latinas on speed dial. Except the gay ones, who are all apparently fighting over James O'Keefe.
Posted by: Ian S
Their rampant lust for their very own Ana Navarro drives all real and macho GOPe types out of their minds. Big cushion for pushin' is where it's at!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 08, 2026 01:30 PM (s9VOe)
Given Spain's run by open Communists and the rest of the EU is openly considering cancelling the EU open borders treaty to isolate them, I can understand that part.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:30 PM (QZThv)
The sun set two minutes earlier yesterday. Bread is now 3 cents more because of the lack of daylight.
Or some such shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 01:30 PM (2Cry5)
Shannon and Farnsworth I recognize from HAM radio lessons from long ago. (I am not an engineer.)
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 08, 2026 01:30 PM (1FEc1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 01:30 PM (ndZc7)
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Good point, but Cash For Clunkers hollowed out the middle. Section 8 and similar screwed up a lot of neighborhoods.
The old school poorer folk may not have had large homes or estates, living in their cookie cutter ricky ticky houses, but they were good solid neighborhoods and a genuine community. Crime was rare. If a crime free neighborhood makes me “racist”, well fuck you.
My Dad always maintained to his dying day the ignition was where car keys were stored, while the car was in the driveway. He was an Insurance agent. LOL
the “high trust” society died a long, long time ago
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 01:31 PM (nycZW)
Posted by: nckate at August 08, 2026 01:31 PM (enNUy)
Philo Farnsworth - TV pioneer
Claude Shannon - Information theory
What about other greats… like Fauci?!
Just kidding, except in his own mind!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 08, 2026 01:32 PM (UWN7z)
If you put a polarized plug on it so the chassis is always neutral that kind of thing is considerably safer. As long as your house is wired correctly.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:32 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:29 PM (KC5Lt)
There's a guy who goes to those and occasionally posts cars sold for under ten, and sometimes five.
Nightmare Logistics I think.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2026 01:32 PM (1Ff7Z)
Immigration is one example among many, but it's a particularly egregious one. The GOP loves illegal immigration sexually, often quite literally. A supine Republicuck with a Mexican hobbit for a wife was supposed to be our nominee in '16.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:33 PM (BI5O2)
For food it's usually claimed to be result of dnergy costs but when energy costs decrease you never see the food price decrease.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:33 PM (KC5Lt)
But that didn't stop Texas from issuing her a driver's license.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 01:34 PM (J4Dwc)
And unfortunately, anti-Communism is once again necessary. Who would have predicted that, circa 1991?
Anti-Communism is always necessary. The hard left came out of the woodwork and started taking charge of democrat politics as soon as the Berlin Wall came down knowing damned well that the anti-anticommunist changelings of the right would fly cover for the domestic Red Menace.
Less than a year after Gorbachev threw in the towel on Christmas, 1991. that fucking shitstain, Clinton, was elected to POTUS.
I laugh at snakehead Carville when I hear him bitch and moan about the DSA types that his and the Clintons' lust for power brought into the mix. Fuck them all.
Posted by: biteme at August 08, 2026 01:34 PM (xWS9V)
I get him saying he can't share a party with Hasan Piker, but the response to that has been that he can leave.
Also, it's still hilarious that the DNC is broke and in debt less than a year after USAID shut completely down.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 01:36 PM (QZThv)
A “polarized” plug alone will not remedy this, not even close. The metal parts of the chassis will be hot, either when the device is ON, or when the device is OFF, depending on which way the plug is inserted into the outlet.
This is why concrete floors (excellent conduction) and metal plumbing grounds are hazardous. You could get a jolt simply by touching metal parts of the device, even when turned off, if you happened to be grounded at the same time.
For all that, the current was limited by blocking or line capacitors. It does get your attention.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 01:37 PM (nycZW)
Posted by: biteme at August 08, 2026 01:34 PM (xWS9V)
(looks at Carville, looks at Clinton)
I believe I'll pass on that.
Posted by: JD Clampett at August 08, 2026 01:37 PM (1Ff7Z)
This is true . We used to never lock our front door . Both parents worked and I didn't need a key when I came home from secondary school. That stopped when one of the neighbor kids robbed our house when I was in High school.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:38 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2026 01:39 PM (QaH55)
Ah, no, I didn't understand what you meant. No, I don't think he would have been for that at all. Just the opposite.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2026 01:39 PM (viF8m)
——
I’m sure that was just a coincidence
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 01:39 PM (nycZW)
~ Hillary
Posted by: one hour sober
It Takes a Villain to tell us the Truth.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-MorallySuperiorSharks
... Even more obscene is the celebration by the Democrats of the scandal during a presidential campaign.They would gladly sacrifice the country if only they could rule over its ruins. ...
...
when Hillary moves into the White House, the immorality of the United States will need a different scale for measurement, a scale which will leave sharks barely visible even with a powerful microscope.
The story hasn't changed, except this time their ability to recruit armed ZIZI's for the price of asking and with Year 1 Kirkaversary coming up with the Smirking MADMANI presiding over it -- imagine the possibilities, the visuals, the MADNESS!
LET'S GO BRANDON!
how the Dueling Banjo could begin:
China gets 99 Year HK-Lease to Taiwain
TMSC FAB gets 99/years rent-free in fELON MUSK's TERAFAB in exchange for Presidential Pardon
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 08, 2026 01:39 PM (mqMkF)
Posted by: pookysgirl used to go along to her dad's drapery jobs at August 08, 2026 01:40 PM (Wt5PA)
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Yeah, we really showed them! LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 01:40 PM (nycZW)
Early on, he invested in radar and proximity fuses. He backed the Manhattan Project, and put even more money into the B-29.
At MIT Bush built analog computers. Claude Shannon was a protege who later had the simple but brilliant idea to use electric circuits to mimic formal logic, thus giving birth to the digital computer.
Why are these people not famous?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 08, 2026 01:41 PM (dtajH)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 01:34 PM (J4Dwc)
If you have a lawful presence in the US you can get a DL in Texas. Green Card, Visa, etc.
They need to tighten that up to just a Green Card and Work Visa.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:41 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 08, 2026 01:43 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:41 PM (KC5Lt)
And then stop issuing those, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:44 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 01:44 PM (Ia/+0)
...
I’m sure that was just a coincidence
Posted by: Common Tater
The EU's chief error was stating to former-KGB/Taxi-driver Putin that they would welcome Russia into the EU as an "Equal".
He stormed out of the room giving us what we have today -- the Macaroni and Meloni/Musselini believing they will fare any better than WW/II Germany.
Best deal on the Table:
Trump Hotel in Moscow in exchange for Cuba *AND* 3Seas accord and Greenland after Putin gets to take Europe by force...
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 08, 2026 01:45 PM (mqMkF)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2026 01:45 PM (pluyl)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2026 01:46 PM (pluyl)
I've never bought a 75k car even when I could afford it.
Posted by: polynikes
I didn't pay that much for my house.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 01:46 PM (Cqx++)
Or a different type that allows for those extended stay persons to be able to drive I assume Green Card persons are pursuing citizenship the proper way.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 01:47 PM (KC5Lt)
Early on, he invested in radar and proximity fuses. He backed the Manhattan Project, and put even more money into the B-29.
At MIT Bush built analog computers. Claude Shannon was a protege who later had the simple but brilliant idea to use electric circuits to mimic formal logic, thus giving birth to the digital computer.
Why are these people not famous?
Posted by: Ignoramus
Because LIBs are famously anti-logic, Anti-Life, ANTI-INTELLECTUAL.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WeaponizedKragleWH
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 08, 2026 01:48 PM (mqMkF)
Maybe I read it wrong. Dunno.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 01:49 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 01:51 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 01:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Trump Hotel in Moscow in exchange for Cuba *AND* 3Seas accord and Greenland after Putin gets to take Europe by force...
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 08, 2026 01:45 PM (mqMkF)
That's a wet dream.
Posted by: biteme at August 08, 2026 01:57 PM (xWS9V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 02:03 PM (+yTe/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 02:07 PM (+yTe/)
Posted by: nckate a
He’s full of shit too. Claims there are 5000 $120k mechanic jobs at Ford they can’t fill. The CEO told him.
Sure, Jan. Average mechanic salary is $60-80k depending on location and and experience. But $120k jobs can’t be filled at Ford? Whatever.
Posted by: GenZ Is Retarded at August 08, 2026 02:14 PM (SaWpx)
The sun set two minutes earlier yesterday. Bread is now 3 cents more because of the lack of daylight.
Or some such shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
---------
Always entertaining, spurious correlation plots:
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 02:16 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 02:25 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dino58 at August 08, 2026 02:34 PM (eW9RX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 03:09 PM (+yTe/)
Posted by: Braenyard
Yeah, but Ralph took home forty-two dollars a week!
Forty-two dollars a week!
Posted by: Alice Kramden at August 08, 2026 05:45 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 06:37 PM (l3cgK)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
2) Be kind, be nice, be adventurous, but don't be Pretti Good.
3) No. I don't care if the other blog lets you, no running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
7/31 Update – He has reached the halfway point in treatment. He’s had some side effects, that are “just annoying”. 6/18 – buzzion asked for prayers for a friend named Christina, who has struggled with drug addiction and is in jail again. Buzzion prays that this really is rock bottom and a true wake-up call for her – even if it requires her to stay in jail.
6/29 Update – Christina’s family bonded her out of jail and she has checked into a rehab facility. Please pray that she gets the help she needs.
7/11 Update – Thank you to everyone for your prayers. Christina is doing well in rehab. Please pray that she continues through this and keeps working through it even after getting out of her program. 6/20 – bluebell gave an update on grammie Winger. Grammie had some major surgery related to her cancer in March and is pretty much housebound. She said she isn’t keeping up on news since her diagnosis; she doesn’t have the energy. She said she thinks of her grey-box friends often with fondness. Please keep praying for her. Your prayers are a source of great comfort to her.
6/27 Update – grammie winger requested bluebell to let the Horde know that she is hospitalized again, with sepsis, and cannot eat or walk. She is very tired and cannot speak for long. She is being fed by tube. They don’t know how long she will be hospitalized or where she will go after (rehab, hospice, etc.). Bluebell has a mailing address for grammie, so please contact bluebell to send a card or note to grammie winger. Please pray for her, that her suffering will be eased, and pray for her family, who are suffering along with her.
7/25 – grammie winger popped in to say thank you for all the cards, letters, and encouraging words. You are a treasure. 6/27 – “A” sent thanks for the prayers for a family friend, who is at home recovering with the family and doing much better. “A” has an additional request for long-time friends (J and S) who are in the midst of intense family problems and requesting healing, peace, repentance, and restoration in the family.
7/18 Update – “A” sends his thanks to all the prayer warriors for all the personal concerns listed here. The requests above are all doing better. Prayer really works. Sometimes the results are not what we expected but end up being what we really needed for other reasons. Thank you all! 7/2 – Publius asked for prayers for his 96 year old mother, who had emergency surgery when a massive hematoma on her leg ruptured, and they couldn’t stop the bleeding due to her being on blood thinners. Things were not looking good, but Publius posted later she received blood thinner reverser medication, and was fully conscious and alert after surgery.
7/10 Update – Publius’ mother was moved to a nursing home for post-acute therapy. At this point, she is very weak but is coming back physically. But her mind is in La La Land.
7/13 Update – Publius’ mother has experienced an absolute miracle. She has come back, fully conscious and cogent. The Lord Almighty has decided her time is not complete. 7/11 – Mis Hum asked for prayers for Some Rat. He has some serious health issues at this time. 7/11 – Fen requested prayers for comfort and strength for “C” and her mother. “C” is in her 30s and her father died after a several months long struggle with cancer. 7/11 – P, a long time lurker, would appreciate prayers. He says he should have asked for prayers last year, when his stage 4 prostate cancer was first diagnosed, but he was too busy freaking out. A year and nine months later, he is still on hormone therapy and his PSA spiked recently. It’s back up to 92. He is supposed to start a drug trial soon. He knows from experience that prayer helps, and would greatly appreciate if anyone could include him in their prayers. 7/13 – Captain Obvious posted that he could use some prayers, as he was experiencing some kind of cardiac arrhythmia. 7/15 – Captain JS’ daughter needs prayers for his/her daughter. Early on 7/15, she experienced complete heart failure. She is in the ICU on a heart/lung machine. They will operate to see what is happening. Captain JS sends thanks in advance for the prayers and has faith in their power.
7/15 Update – Thanks to all who responded to Captain JS’ request for prayers. The daughter is still unconscious but is still alive. The doctors suspect a blockage to the left side of her heart. They are planning to take pictures and then insert a stent.
7/18 Update – Captain JS’ daughter passed away. Her heart, brain, and other organs were too damaged to regain function. Captain JS sends his thanks to the Horde for all the prayers. 7/25 – Matthew Kant Cipher humbly asks for prayers for Marshall, a long-time friend and HS classmate of Mrs. MKC, who is currently hospitalized with heart failure. 7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on a stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
8/4 Update – Teresa was admitted to the hospital while on vacation in California. She has a bad infection – cellulitis - not due to the cancer. She is being treated with antibiotics and hopefully it will be cleared up in a couple of days. 7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
8/2 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is feeling better, on oxygen and medication. She is not out of the woods, but has stabilized. She appreciates the prayers from around the globe and says thank you very much. 7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed. 7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf. 8/1 – Isophorone Blog requested prayers for his mother. His father passed this past Sunday. His mother had been in the hospital for an entire month previous to that, so they never got to see each other at the end. His mother is out of the hospital, but in declining health.
Update 8/2 Isophorone Blog’s mother passed, he requested you keep his sister and himself in your prayers for comfort. 8/1 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his BIL, who is a developmentally disabled adult and has been living independently (sort of) for decades but the time has come for them to make some changes in his living arrangements and personal finances. This will not go well as he has VERY poor impulse control and anger issues. His dear wife has POA but that is limited in its reach and it is probably time for her to be granted guardianship. 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.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 08, 2026 08:08 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:09 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: Caffiend at August 08, 2026 08:11 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 08:12 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Andrea Doria Survivor at August 08, 2026 08:13 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 08:14 AM (2Cry5)
It's interesting how the ev thing has faltered so after the government dollar stream was reduced... even worldwide...
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 08:14 AM (XuXeR)
God is good! May He watch over us all through our joys and challenges.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 08, 2026 08:14 AM (OlzlW)
Prayers to the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2026 08:15 AM (KY+FT)
I'm a gheezer.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2026 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 08:18 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Just the punchline at August 08, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 08:20 AM (Ia/+0)
I'm 90% of the way through running some 6900 journal references through Google Scholar - one at a time - to see whether there's an online copy of the article.
I've started sending out requests to researchers - the ones who aren't dead, retired or emeritus - for reprints. Rather to my surprise, the responses so far have been not only positive but friendly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 08:20 AM (O0L8i)
Prayers for all. Especially those of you who are grieving, and especially Isophorone Blog, for the exponential pain of losing both parents in so short a time. Hugs.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 08, 2026 08:20 AM (h7ZuX)
At the close Friday it was ~877.57.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:21 AM (gpvQO)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 08, 2026 08:21 AM (aJQbY)
Well, I was late for the coffee thread, so I ran in to the computer room, and first thing I saw was Rule #3. So I immediately dropped the pinking shears I was carrying, in order to be in compliance. Now my right foot is pinned to the floor. I blame Mis Hum.
Unintended consequences of a well-meaning prohibition.
(Fortunately my turn radius puts me in reach of the coffee pot.)
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 08:22 AM (I0N4X)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 08, 2026 08:22 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Two In The Pink-One.... at August 08, 2026 08:25 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 08:25 AM (JvZF+)
What exactly are pinking shears for?
Posted by: Two In The Pink-One.... at August 08, 2026 08:25 AM
shearing pinks
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 08, 2026 08:26 AM (AMvSw)
At the close Friday it was ~877.57.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:21 AM (gpvQO)
Yeah, spared yourself that hideous 766% gain - thank goodness!
Posted by: Boswell at August 08, 2026 08:26 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 08, 2026 08:28 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Two In The Pink-One.... at August 08, 2026 08:25 AM (JM9I6)
They’re for sewing. If you don’t want the material to ravel, you break out the pinking shears.
Posted by: TxAnn at August 08, 2026 08:28 AM (SjAWL)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 08:29 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: A bandit at August 08, 2026 08:32 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 08:32 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 08:32 AM (I0N4X)
Saw a jewel-green hummingbird buzzing around the lantanas and a tiger swallowtail on the butterfly bush. It's a beautiful day!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2026 08:33 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 08:34 AM (zJHVr)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2026 08:34 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 08:35 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 08:35 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:36 AM (gpvQO)
===
Winter will be a season of sharp contrasts!
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2026 08:36 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2026 08:37 AM (g47mK)
The Fauci memes on the Powerline weekly got me angry again. Now we're being told, "If you weren't (blah, blah, a nurse/doctor in an emergency room, etc.) then shut up." Back then, it was shut up. Today, it's shut up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 08:37 AM (O0L8i)
Lovely!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 08:37 AM (m6Eem)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:38 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Irregardless at August 08, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 08:40 AM (Ia/+0)
Notsothoreau said that Billy Ray’s mother continues to improve, and they appreciate the prayers so very much.
Neverenoughcaffiene asked for prayers for Lynell, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, and they cannot remove it all. She was given a year. And now she also broke her ankle. She and her husband could use prayers as they navigate this new reality.
Posted by: Annies Stew at August 08, 2026 08:41 AM (4gSt0)
Posted by: A bandit at August 08, 2026 08:32 AM (MWfyi)
*snort
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 08, 2026 08:41 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026
***
Community has a few coffee shops here in town. One on my side of the river I prefer to other chains; prices are a bit lower and the coffee seems less bitter. And they have carafes of Half & Half and skim milk so you can add as much or as little as you want. The "milk" in those handy little tubs is not as good for you, I hear.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:41 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 08:41 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
__________
The wife considered going back to nursing then, but she can't dance.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 08:41 AM (XvL8K)
I think Four Seasons took up the entire Vivaldi CD.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:41 AM (6ydKt)
I have never, even at the height of the cold war and subsequent revolutionary rage fests, heard anybody say they HATE Mackinac Island.
Stick a fork in Al-Salad, if that's o.k. with the Halal thing.
Posted by: Auspex at August 08, 2026 08:43 AM (Y8DZL)
Polymarket
@Polymarket
JUST IN: Scientist proposes moving Earth 20% farther from the Sun, using a particle beam powered by Jupiter — to avoid being swallowed by the Sun in 5 billion years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 08:43 AM (ndZc7)
Yeah, I looked that up, as well. It's called a contronym, I guess.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 08:44 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 08:37 AM (O0L8i)
Respect my authoritahhhhh!"
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:44 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:44 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:45 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 08:45 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 08:43 AM (ndZc7)
No food for you !!!
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:45 AM (KC5Lt)
@Polymarket
JUST IN: Scientist proposes moving Earth 20% farther from the Sun, using a particle beam powered by Jupiter — to avoid being swallowed by the Sun in 5 billion years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 08:43 AM (ndZc7)
Plenty of time for R&D and testing, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:45 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Oops. Wrong thread at August 08, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 08:46 AM (XuXeR)
I forget. Where are you looking?
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:46 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Bolt Fast at August 08, 2026 08:46 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)
It can mean wrong or mean right.
To dust can mean clean,
Or add dust, it seems,
In language, it plays with our sight.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:48 AM (/+uur)
Are you saying I don't have to pay my electric bill next month?
Posted by: dantesed at August 08, 2026 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:49 AM (KC5Lt)
Dusting off the snow
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:49 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:45 AM
Loved their cover of Tangled Up In Blue.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Fish-eyed Fool at August 08, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026
***
SW Indiana -- Terre Haute or Evansville, around in there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:49 AM (wzUl9)
Yeah, I looked that up, as well. It's called a contronym, I guess.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 08:44 AM (J4Dwc)
That may well turn out to be a flammable statement.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:49 AM (wzUl9)
Thats really bad haiku.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM (/+uur)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Former DNC Vice-chair David Hogg thinks that there is no room for moderates in the Democrat party:
CNN: “What would you say to the moderates in your party?”
HOGG: “They don’t have the right values."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:52 AM (wzUl9)
homonyms
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:52 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Ripley at August 08, 2026 08:53 AM (PTDkx)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)
Hence pinking shears
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinking_shears
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 08, 2026 08:53 AM (GTqXr)
Yeah, I looked that up, as well. It's called a contronym, I guess.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026
***
"Sleep, that knits the raveled sleeve of care . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:53 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM (ndZc7)
From the guy that skipped school that days and was coached by a local reporter on what to say.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM
Sssshhh... don't remind everybody.
I just went long on Jolly Time popcorn.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2026 08:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rock Bottom at August 08, 2026 08:54 AM (JM9I6)
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 August 08, 2026 08:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ripley at August 08, 2026 08:53 AM (PTDkx)
It's 99 and 44/100 percent pure doodly-squat.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 08:55 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:55 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM (ndZc7)
The Left is always using Newspeak.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 08:55 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 08:56 AM (ZOv7s)
The only poll Talafreako is leading is the one he is smoking.
Posted by: The Truth at August 08, 2026 08:56 AM (G5vcO)
A friend sent me this when I said I haven’t seen any Paxton ads and YouTube is now cluttered with Talafreako ads:
“A conservative super PAC is kicking off its $10 million midterm ad blitz with a spot depicting Texas Senate Democratic hopeful James Talarico as a doctor performing a sex-change surgery on a little girl.”
Posted by: TxAnn at August 08, 2026 08:57 AM (SjAWL)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:55 AM (wzUl9)
I just found 9200 in a lost 401k.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:57 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
_________
Madison is a cool little town on the Ohio.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 08:57 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Dodie Stevens at August 08, 2026 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 08:57 AM (wVCl1)
Posted by: Pittsburgh Native at August 08, 2026 08:58 AM (JM9I6)
Would have got you well hanged when I moved to Texas in 1975.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 08:58 AM (/+uur)
Prayers and healing for your wife.
Posted by: dantesed at August 08, 2026 08:58 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM (JvZF+)
And then they destroyed Nixon for revenge after one of the biggest landslides in a modern presidential election.
Of course, Tricky Dick didn't really help himself out much with some of the decisions he made.
It was really like a dry run for what they wanted to do to Trump.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:59 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ripley at August 08, 2026 08:53 AM (PTDkx)
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Only if one is stupid enough to believe it.
It's August. Far enough out that pollsters can spew utter bullshit without repercussion to try to shape the election. If they can demoralize Republicans and encourage Democrats, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's also about getting sweet, sweet out of state money to bolster Talerico and create the mythical "blue wave" which we now know is blatant cheating.
Best to point and laugh at this nonsense. Michigan's polling was absolute horseshit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 08:59 AM (ZOv7s)
HOGG: “They don’t have the right values."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 08:51 AM (ndZc7)
Oh, good. Please, commies, keep beating your drum, louder and louder. Create more chaos. Alienate every sensible person in this nation. I look forward to your demise.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 08, 2026 08:59 AM (h7ZuX)
Wow, it's a good day all around. I just found out that local MILFs want to meet me.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 08:59 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 08, 2026 08:59 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Ripley at August 08, 2026 08:59 AM (PTDkx)
Douse public hair in lighter fluid.
Light it on fire.
When the crabs run out in the open,
Stab them with an ice pick.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2026 09:00 AM (5oeQn)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 09:00 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: TxAnn at August 08, 2026 08:57 AM (SjAWL)
Can you imagine how totally fucked in the head you have to be to tell a 14 YO girls that cutting off her boobs will make her a boy?
Shit, I had ablations for Afib 3 years ago and they gave something like 70/30 odds it would work.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:01 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 08:56 AM (ZOv7s)
She's in my prayers.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 08, 2026 09:01 AM (h7ZuX)
The created total mayhem, and in the two years that followed, the center-right got organized and won a plurality of seats in 1934. By all European parliamentary customs, their leader should have been named prime minister and formed a coalition government.
Ah, but the left always cheats. The leftist president instead picked fringe parties' leaders, who then needed the center-right to form a government. So some conservative things got done, but the coalitions kept collapsing, and so a new fringe part got to be PM. Meanwhile, the Anarchists launched an armed rebellion in Asturias which was put down with the Foreign Legion. (cont)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Pittsburgh Native at August 08, 2026 08:58 AM (JM9I6)
*waves*
I'm still here!
Posted by: John Kerry at August 08, 2026 09:02 AM (GTqXr)
He says he might vote Republican if the Dems go completely crazy and embrace Hasan Piker. I don't think he can be trusted, though. He's in his molting stage.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 09:02 AM (Riz8t)
+++
Page views and mouse clicks.
Posted by: Advertisers at August 08, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)
Be very very careful. They wanted to send me a check with my name. I said NO! Send it to my Managed Account.
Called whoever has you IRAs (or set 1 up) and get the proper payee name to make sure your do not create a tax burden.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:04 AM (/+uur)
They immediately launched a parliamentary inquiry into "election irregularities" and concluded that all the most conservative parts of Spain had committed fraud and needed to vote again. These votes were completely rigged, and they went from a razor-thin majority to a supermajority.
And what did they do with this huge majority? They impeached the president because he wasn't radical enough! Oh, and they granted amnesty to all the captured rebels who had tried to overthrow the government, and refused to prosecute people for killing landowners and looting businesses. Spain became one big CHAZ.
This got the Army worried, and Emilio Mola began making a plan for a coup. The government tried to stop this by forcing officers into retirement or assigning them to remote duty stations. Franco went from chief of staff to being posted to the Canary Islands. (cont)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)
Yeo...
...shrinking piers! 😜
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 09:05 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 08, 2026 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Boston docks at August 08, 2026 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 08:56 AM (ZOv7s)
Will do. And for you both.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 09:06 AM (wVcYX)
He really is that delusional.
Problem is, he'd probably run in California somewhere and win.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 09:06 AM (6ydKt)
Wow, it's a good day all around. I just found out that local MILFs want to meet me.
Posted by: Archimedes
I'm trying to decide on whether to buy the $1 Viagra, or the $.79 Viagra.
Posted by: Gonna Need It at August 08, 2026 09:07 AM (JM9I6)
They are selected just like a director selects an actor for a roll.
They work with a script of maybe 1000 words and most of their public speaking is made up stories, then followed up with a script of 25 to 50 words.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:07 AM (/+uur)
The ONT looked pretty good. I can't make those anymore, too much morning stuff for me to stay up these days. But I enjoy reading them when I get a chance.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 08, 2026 09:07 AM (3uBP9)
Teresa posted on the ONT that she got sprung from the hospital!
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 09:08 AM (PcoR0)
The Federal Reserve CONFIRMS: U.S. NGOs collectively hold assets worth half the size of the U.S. national debt—$14.2 trillion—of taxpayers’ money.
https://tinyurl.com/yc6c6ru7
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 09:09 AM (Riz8t)
Wow, it's a good day all around. I just found out that local MILFs want to meet me.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 08:59 AM (Riz8t)
I recently found $5 in my other pants. I'm letting my local MILFs know that I just came into some money.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 09:09 AM (wVcYX)
The July Rising was supposed to be a bloodless coup, a Pronunciamiento in the classic style, but the left had installed enough cronies that it failed in many areas. That was how the Spanish Civil War started.
But the parallels are there - the left eating its own, the radicals removing the moderates, lying about their platform, abandoning "traditions and norms" the moment they get in the way, releasing hardened criminals to break down societal trust and of course attacking the Christian faith. A higher proportion of clergy were murdered in Spain than in the Soviet Union. Think about that. Total murder spree.
And of course the Democrats claim the mantle of Antifa, which was born in the blood of Spain's innocents. This is why I pimp Long Live Death so often, because people need to know what we are up against.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)
123 It's time for autos-da-fe to make a comeback.
The Federal Reserve CONFIRMS: U.S. NGOs collectively hold assets worth half the size of the U.S. national debt—$14.2 trillion—of taxpayers’ money.
https://tinyurl.com/yc6c6ru7
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 09:09 AM
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I just had an idea about how to cut the national debt in half.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2026 09:11 AM (VWtfl)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:11 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Henry VIII at August 08, 2026 09:12 AM (Riz8t)
you would not use polar bear for “black bear pastrami.”
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)
I just had an idea about how to cut the national debt in half.
I think I can guess.
Posted by: Henry VIII at August 08, 2026 09:12 AM (Riz8t)
kill the laywers
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:13 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 08, 2026 09:13 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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And the Soviets didn't dig up those already dead and prop them on roadsides.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 09:13 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 08, 2026 09:13 AM (2Ez/1)
I hope it's not more than $5.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2026 09:14 AM (wVcYX)
Joe Rogan Exposes the Fatal Flaw with Democratic Socialists: “You Can’t Just Steal People’s Money”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 09:14 AM (ndZc7)
Prayers for my younger niece
Prayers for my grand-niece
No immediate emergencies but for their health in general
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 08, 2026 09:14 AM (aJQbY)
Shit, I had ablations for Afib 3 years ago and they gave something like 70/30 odds it would work.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:01 AM (/+uur)
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My wife will still be a woman without breasts. These people are monsters.
I used to be skeptical of the death penalty because of its potential for abuse, but I now believe it is essential to protect the innocent and also call the guilty to repentence.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2026 09:15 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Prayers up.
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 09:15 AM (zJHVr)
2085832045570228707
I counted 25 or 26 cuts/edits in 1 minute 35 seconds.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:15 AM (/+uur)
And he's still dead.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hltGwvRQwSM
Posted by: Chevy Chase at August 08, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 09:13 AM (XvL8K)
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Demonic, no question.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Spain, like the rest of Rome's former territory, will always drift towards socialism. It's a Latin thing, where they all got it honestly since the Bread & Circuses days.
Then Marx came along and German engineered it into a scientific theory of historical materialism and here we are.
America had escaped this Old World curse until all of our elites and academics got bored and went to Europe to learn how to screw up things good & proper.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 09:16 AM (6ydKt)
Yeah, that's the reason. lol
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 09:16 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: I gotta ask
You might hate yourself in the morning.
Posted by: Sleep Til Noon? at August 08, 2026 09:16 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Senor Lloyd
Maybe a fast sure death penalty gives the convicted a chance to get right with G d before the next sunrise.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:17 AM (/+uur)
AoS at its finest
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2026 09:19 AM (26GAh)
American politicians thought he was loopy, but American Freemasons are of a totally different type.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 09:19 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:01 AM (/+uur)
And how just as effed up you have to be to vote for him. I don’t know if you’re in the Houston area, but “inside the loop” is where the affluent AWFLs and left wing loons like to live. A good friend lives there and there are Talarico signs everywhere. His Paxton sign is the lone reed in a sea of insanity.
Posted by: TxAnn at August 08, 2026 09:19 AM (SjAWL)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:19 AM (/+uur)
I'm 90% of the way through running some 6900 journal references through Google Scholar - one at a time - to see whether there's an online copy of the article.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I've been getting Gemini tweaked into taking text prompts, and generating .svg drawings for use on my laser cutter. Seems to have improved quite a bit. I asked it if it shared it's learning from my sessions with its programmers for overall improvement. Nope.
Hoping your work with google scholar gets fed back to the overarching code base. Truly appreciate what you're doing there.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2026 09:20 AM (QVmho)
It's my lucky hat. I never fly without it.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 08, 2026 09:20 AM (pfGlQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 09:20 AM (1Vo6X)
Maybe a fast sure death penalty gives the convicted a chance to get right with G d before the next sunrise.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08, 2026 09:17 AM (/+uur)
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Yes, that is the idea and Christian theologians have made that point. We're all going to die. Death is not a punishment. Even saints die. Life in prison is arguably more cruel, and because it is so monotonous, the guilty lose track of time, and therefore have no sense of urgency about getting right with God. Knowing you will meet your maker tomorrow focuses the mind.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
St. Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers and opponent of the Albigensian Heresy, pray for us.
***
I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 08, 2026 09:22 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 09:16 AM (J4Dwc)
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I wrote it as a warning in 2020. I'm not shy about shameless self-promotion, but that and Walls of Men were written with a sense of urgency. Read my fiction if you want, I think it's good, but unless you already knew everything I wrote today, maybe sit down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/34xa2kct
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 09:23 AM (1Vo6X)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2026 09:23 AM (daukL)
Tough to go back to $8 Bustelo after that.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 08, 2026 09:24 AM (pfGlQ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 09:24 AM (2Cry5)
Another scab that Fauci's non-testimony pulled off. We knew very early on 1) the elderly were the worst affected and 2) this was not the Black Death. We could have taken a very moderate course, basically not doing stupid things, and ended up in much the same spot.
But no. We were bullied and coerced by power-mad politcos, publicity-crazed doom-mongering scientists, controlling Karens and AWFLs too scared to die to live. All of whom destroyed a generation and brought untold suffering on this country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:24 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 08, 2026 09:25 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 09:25 AM (J4Dwc)
The problem with the people who oppose the death penalty is that most of them also oppose life without parole. And a significant fraction of those also oppose incarceration in any form.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:26 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Gonna Need It
Don't stiff the seller.
Or drive a hard bargain.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2026 09:26 AM (daukL)
LIV golf tournament. Yes, Trump will be there.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 08, 2026 09:26 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2026 09:27 AM (daukL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:26 AM (O0L8i)
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Except that they don't. They want the J6ers locked up forever, and Trump should facing a firing squad that they themselves would gladly serve on.
It's all situational ethics with them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)
Well, at least I can ask the intercession of Our Lady for Mrs. Lloyd instead of someone's potentially embarrassing nic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:30 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:24 AM (O0L8i)
It should be studied for hundreds of years by scholars trying to understand where things went wrong.
A great deal of the blame goes to one place: The Deep State Democrat/Corporate Media alliance that determined early on this was their chance to oust their latest Antichrist, Trump.
If it wasn't for the relative freedom of the internet and its inherent ability to counter the narrative we'd all be much worse off.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 09:31 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 09:31 AM (r8sd+)
Fauci is evil, and it's interesting to see his true motives laid bare, but there is also the possibility that in that dark spring of 2020, when so many people turned to God in fear and desperation, He in fact heard our prayers and the scourge that swept through China became a nasty cold.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
I've picked up a side gig (in my field!) and have seen a couple paychecks from that. It's not much, but should allow me to take care of the new bills for the ductwork, drain lines, etc.
These are very small things compared to the trials many of our beloved Hordelings are facing. But I know y'all prayed for me and I appreciate it so much.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 09:34 AM (PcoR0)
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 09:34 AM (PcoR0)
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God be praised!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 09:35 AM (r8sd+)
Thanks to the horde for the medical advice.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 08, 2026 09:35 AM (l26NL)
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Oh, whew! Had me going there. At first glance I thought that said 5 MILLION years.
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 09:35 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:26 AM (O0L8i)
Many of those same people also support abortion. It's all in aid of a complete inversion of goodness and evil.
I can understand someone being opposed to both capital punishment and abortion. There is a certain consistency in that view.
There is none for the opposition to capital punishment, but advocacy of abortion. I will sometimes watch video of pro-abort people "debating" anti-abortion people. It's always the same tired arguments that dehumanize the unborn, and play at being a god by choosing whom the pro-aborts deem life worthy of life.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 08, 2026 09:35 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 09:36 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:30 AM (O0L8i)
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I'm supposed to use a person's name and their mother's name but I gave up on that here long ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 09:36 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: dantesed at August 08, 2026 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)
AoS at its finest
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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I was reading the Arday thread from yesterday too late to comment, but I thought the "Cambridge apostrophe" comment was an absolute gem. That came from I used to have a different nic.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 09:38 AM (PcoR0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 09:39 AM (3+SKE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 09:40 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 09:35 AM
Great news, Fen!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2026 09:40 AM (Wnv9h)
:27 So GOD created man in his own image, in the image of GOD created he him, male and female created he them.
So there it is, folks.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 09:40 AM (LHPAg)
Antipope Francis changed JPII's CCC to forbid it.
The Ape of the Church.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 09:41 AM (wVCl1)
MSM: It’s a right wing conspiracy that Democrats want to abolish prisons and the police
Posted by: All they do is lie at August 08, 2026 09:41 AM (wB6dA)
there is also the possibility that in that dark spring of 2020, when so many people turned to God in fear and desperation
Yeah, well, thanks to our religious "leaders" who ran off the cliff with the rest of the hysterics, those people had to do it on their own.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:41 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 09:43 AM (wVCl1)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 08, 2026 09:35 AM (ksbjf)
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It is a pagan practice and there is a reason it was quite common and persists. It is convenient, and people who practice it and support it are sustained by the demons who rejoice in it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Love and hugs to all the Horde.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 08, 2026 09:44 AM (PcoR0)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2026 09:44 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Henry VIII at August 08, 2026 09:44 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 09:45 AM (Riz8t)
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*checks watch*
Yup! It's oh-deere-thirty!
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 09:47 AM (I0N4X)
There isn't a more spineless, gutless crew that the USCCB. When lockdowns were mandated, Their Excellencies should have told the secular power to go piss up a rope. That while the faithful were dispensed from their Sunday and Holy Day obligations, Masses would be held, open to those wanting to attend, every single day in every single parish. And they should have been prepared to get locked up and welcomed it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:47 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Archimedes
Also got married to the widow next door.
Posted by: Wouldn't Have A Willie Or A Sam at August 08, 2026 09:48 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 09:45 AM (Riz8t)
Yeah, he was grabbing a lot of pronounced hooterage back then.
Posted by: dantesed at August 08, 2026 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:41 AM (O0L8i)
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Some did. Some didn't. Same as law enforcement. You had cops arresting people at a deserted park, and other cops refusing to enforce any of the rules. Our Democrat county sheriff told his department to forward all calls regarding Covid "violations" to the Attorney General's office.
The spectacle of state police raiding a barber in Owosso happened because the municipal and county cops refused to do anything.
Our bishop accepted the Mass restrictions, but also launched Eucharistic processions and of course Mass continued to be said. I know in my case, the denial of the Mass made me want to it much more.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Henry VIII at August 08, 2026 09:44 AM (Riz8t)
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I find the lack of support for Trump's appointees to be outrageous. Approval should be pro forma exactly as when a Democrat is appointing, for some seriously weird reason, it's not.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 09:49 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 09:49 AM (z6ONu)
And mindful of that, I would like to thank our creator God for the beautiful things I saw this morning including, I think, yellow bird's foot in a field of blue chicory.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 09:50 AM (5smXo)
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
It is my opinion that the initial assessment was that COVID-19 was a bio-weapon (it probably was, actually). But ... typical Chinese tofu engineering; so, crappy bio-weapon.
It became very obvious by May 2020 that the fatalities were way below the numbers predicted by the models. I'm a Modeling and Simulations Engineer, and a truism is that if your model isn't tracking real-world results, your model is broken and needs to be revised.
Here in Ohio, I was screaming at the TV when Temu Garden Dwarf, De-Whine, was nattering about "models" and the lunatic DOCTOR Amy Acton was making certain everyone knew about her awful childhood.
The Ohio Legislature finally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with DeWine in July-ish 2020 and he lifted the lock-downs. The median age of the dying was around 81 years -- so not exactly the most healthy cohort in the Ohio population.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 08, 2026 09:50 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)
But no. We were bullied and coerced by power-mad politcos, publicity-crazed doom-mongering scientists, controlling Karens and AWFLs too scared to die to live. All of whom destroyed a generation and brought untold suffering on this country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:24 AM (O0L8i)
You’re absolutely correct. The covid fiasco was by far the biggest catastrophe in this country in my 29 years of life… bullies, cowardice, sheep-like behavior from so many, Karens everywhere, lockdowns, forced jabs, people dying alone in nursing homes… it goes on and on. I lost faith in this country 2020 thru early 2022. Some of the scars won’t go away. I despise the Fauci’s of this world (there are many in addition to the little gnome)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2026 09:51 AM (26GAh)
Posted by: TxAnn at August 08, 2026
And here I thought there was only.unravel. How foolish.
I'm whelmed.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2026 09:53 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 09:49 AM (z6ONu)
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Well hello, so nice to see you here!
Good morning all. I had an exchange with grammie winger this week. Unfortunately she's been having some setbacks and has been back and forth to the hospital. Please continue to keep her in your prayers (I know you do).
Posted by: bluebell at August 08, 2026 09:53 AM (afFes)
Please continue to keep her in your prayers (I know you do).
Posted by: bluebell at August 08, 2026 09:53 AM (afFes)
Every day at 6:30 AM
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:54 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 09:54 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2026 09:54 AM (P+WAR)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
And yet, my SIL, a pediatrician, posts shit every day about what a hero is was and is. This is the gal that won't speak to me anymore due to the fact that I asked her to explain why newborns are routinely given the Hepatitis B vaccine.
Why yes, she's a big Biden/Harris supporter also. And OrangeMan bad or something.
It will not surprise you that both of her daughters, lovely blond recent college grads with degrees in social work, have been assaulted while working in shithole communities. And they went back. Only the one has been assaulted twice. So there's that.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2026 09:55 AM (daukL)
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Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 09:55 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2026 09:56 AM (3ZNGI)
Prayers for all the listed intentions. Also praying for our friend Marshall, who passed away this week of multiple organ failure. I would humbly ask the Horde to pray for the repose of his soul and that God's perpetual light shine upon him
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 08, 2026 09:56 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: bluebell at August 08, 2026 09:56 AM (afFes)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 09:56 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 09:57 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 08, 2026 09:58 AM (kOluj)
-Retired Buckeye Cop
for some reason I read that as !DOCTOR Amy Bishop!.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 09:59 AM (LHPAg)
NEW: Gavin Newsom’s PAC has a new effort to help elect Democrats—and spread the gospel of Newsom—by training supporters to implant his talking points into family text chats, alumni Facebook groups & other places where politics isn’t typically discussed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 08, 2026 09:59 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2026 09:54 AM (P+WAR)
I debated long and hard about getting the shingles vaccine. I've seen enough of these stories, and verified that Shingrix is made without fetal tissue lines, that I decided to go ahead with it a couple of years ago. I do not want to experience that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 08, 2026 10:00 AM (h7ZuX)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2026 10:00 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 10:02 AM (Ia/+0)
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FWIW, we could have done *absolutely nothing* and been in a *better spot.*
We could have done what we did with Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Zika, MERS, etc... the CDC issued warnings, the press issued breathless Chicken Little stories on an hourly basis, those stories scared the fearful into self-quarantine, and 95% of people said "yeah, yeah, what's for lunch?"
As it stands, we had more excess deaths than we otherwise would have, with the added benefit of ripping open a new, very ugly wound in an already severely damaged society, and it will never quit suppurating.
One the bright side, people will never trust the government again, which is healthy.
But much more negatively and importantly, we'll never trust each other again, either.
Nor should we; we got to see what our fellow Americans were made of - and it's not pretty.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 10:02 AM (BI5O2)
Congress authorized a national shutdown, but left it mostly up to the states to mandate whatever they felt was suitable. Within the guidelines set.
Some governors let it go to their heads and forced some seriously draconian mandates on the public. Mayors too. And it trickled down to law enforcement, judges and various shop keepers, businesses and the like.
Then, there's the medical community's response.
But first and foremost, it was about your compliance with all that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 10:03 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 08,
If it's your name, you get sixty days to redeposit to your tax deferred IRA or 401k.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2026 10:04 AM (sl73Y)
One the bright side, people will never trust the government again, which is healthy.
But much more negatively and importantly, we'll never trust each other again, either.
Nor should we; we got to see what our fellow Americans were made of - and it's not pretty.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 10:02 AM (BI5O2)
Preach it, brother.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 10:05 AM (LHPAg)
Lost an entire day going through exhaustive troubleshooting. A strong storm knocked me offline two nights ago. Somewhere along the way, my Apple ID did not work, so no help from Apple.
Had to figure it out myself. Needed the broadband tech support to get signal from the tower to the router, cable swaps, reboots, manual resets of the router, using a second router, cleaning my computer files with Sonoma Cache Cleaner, inventive threats to toss it in a landfill, invective, soldering irons, all played a part.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2026 10:06 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 10:07 AM (z6ONu)
And here I thought there was only.unravel. How foolish.
I'm whelmed.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2026 09:53 AM (sl73Y)
I stay in a constant state of whelmdom with the things I learn here. I wish someone would publish an AoS/English - English/AoS dictionary so I could decipher half of the comments. 😁
Posted by: TxAnn at August 08, 2026 10:07 AM (SjAWL)
Life is good. We are truly blessed.
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 10:08 AM (I0N4X)
Have a great day, everyone.
May you all be blessed with instant connection to the online world of wisdom and memes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2026 10:08 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 10:09 AM (8ipN3)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 10:07 AM (z6ONu)
Lots of Germans thought the same thing of Germans in 1939.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 10:09 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 10:07 AM (z6ONu)
Absolutely. A much larger portion of them are evil than I'd imagined.
But a flat-out majority of them are good, nice, fearful, weak people who will mouth any garbage they're commanded to rather than stand up for themselves. I didn't imagine that, either.
But now I know. And neither group can be relied upon. After the Great Sorting, I reckon perhaps 25% of people are fit to live in a free society.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 10:10 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 10:11 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: TxAnn
***********
It's a veritable Coven of Clavins...
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 10:11 AM (I0N4X)
239 It's a veritable Coven of Clavins...
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 10:11 AM (I0N4X)
….and the alliteration is, dare I say, perfection!
Posted by: TxAnn at August 08, 2026 10:15 AM (SjAWL)
We do not understand these words in this order.
Posted by: Climate hysterics at August 08, 2026 10:15 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2026 10:16 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 10:16 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 10:16 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2026 10:17 AM (ugElV)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 10:18 AM (8ipN3)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:18 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Buck Ofama
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Very nice!
The Venn diagram of AOSHQ denizens ad sourdough bakers has a great deal of overlap.
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 10:19 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2026 10:19 AM (3ZNGI)
Posted by: TxAnn
_________
Isn't that the perfect state of equanimity? Not over or under whelmed. Just normal wheldom.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2026 10:20 AM (XvL8K)
I always strive for middling whelm.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2026 10:21 AM (Riz8t)
Been a slow week. Missing my sons and grandkids who are leading way more exciting lives than me but I get that is to be expected during summer vacation. Couple more weeks and all will be back to normal.
I had the old shingles shot a while back. My doctor keeps telling me I need the new more effective one but he also says I need Flu shot, RSV and even Covid which I have declined. Should I?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2026 10:21 AM (kJmSS)
We do not understand these words
Posted by: Climate hysterics at August 08, 2026 10:15 AM (Riz8t)
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Fixed for accuracy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 10:21 AM (FZ29D)
If it wasn't for the relative freedom of the internet and its inherent ability to counter the narrative we'd all be much worse off.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 09:31 AM (6ydKt)
Absolutely Correct. The Wuhan Red Death was an anti-Trump Op from the moment the deep state democrats realized how stupid and afraid most people are and easily manipulated into being even stupider. I am reminded of those stupid old farts in moon suits going out to dinner.
Posted by: It Was All An OP at August 08, 2026 10:22 AM (G5vcO)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2026 10:22 AM (kJmSS)
I still believe that the majority of Americans are good people.
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 10:07 AM (z6ONu)
I flatter myself that I'm a good person, but that doesn't stop me from doing a multitude of stupid things every day. As Her Majesty points out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 10:22 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: muldoon at August 08, 2026 10:23 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Up to you. After the medical mafia's bullshit shenanigans, only necessary shots for me.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2026 10:24 AM (P+WAR)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2026 10:22
It has been like that all week. I switched to Brave with an ad blocker.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:28 AM (ZdaMQ)
We can do what we can do, but we can't do what we can't do. All too many people thought we could "stop this virus in its tracks." Short of encapsulating everyone in a Lexan block, you can't.
And all these same people think that if we turn off the AC and take buses, climate change will be controlled. The energy in the wind speed of an average hurricane (itself a tiny fraction of the entire energy of the system) is about half that of the electricity generated worldwide annually. How many hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are there in an average year?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 10:30 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2026 10:17 AM (ugElV)
Sometime in 2021, Little and I went on a trail ride. There was just one other couple there, a brother and sister. Fell into conversation as often happens during these things and she mentioned that she was an LA county health inspector. Asked her if she reported to Barbara Ferrer. She said there were a lot of layers in between, and she never had any personal dealings with her. I wanted to ask how many business she shut down, but didn't want to ruin the day for my son. Couldn't help thinking that of all the people to meet on an outing like this...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2026 10:31 AM (nbLIj)
I think I'm pretty much a half-fast whelmer.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2026 10:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 10:07 AM (z6ONu)
I agree but a lot of them are either blind or retarded.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 10:32 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 10:32 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2026 10:32 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2026 10:21 AM (kJmSS)
Your doctor recommends way more shots than my doctor does. He has never suggested any additional shots and is glad that I didn't take the Covid shot.
Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2026 10:33 AM (OlzlW)
Posted by: zonedar at August 08, 2026 10:34 AM (4BM4S)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Up to you. After the medical mafia's bullshit shenanigans, only necessary shots for me.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2026 10:24 AM (P+WAR)
I figure I'm healthy enough to fight off flu, RSV, and COVID. I rarely get that kind of thing anyway. I don't have comorbidities. But shingles doesn't care!! Every person I know who had shingles was in misery, for weeks at a time, and sometimes repeatedly. Risk/benefit ratio came out in favor of shingles vaccine, for me.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 08, 2026 10:35 AM (h7ZuX)
But it appears that about 25-30% of Americans stood on principle, refused to believe the lies, and didn't let them give us the needle. They stood up for themselves and their families.
And, I'm rarely proud of myself for something, but I am about one thing... my wife and I stood up for others. We became "reverends" in the Universal Life Church, and wrote religious exemptions for refuseniks. I used my graphic design skills to forge those stupid vaccine cards for a couple guys. At least it was something better than meek compliance.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 10:37 AM (BI5O2)
Yeah I've been putting off the two shot shingles vax for a while now. I just need to go ahead and do it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 10:37 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2026 10:38 AM (OlzlW)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 08, 2026 10:38 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 08, 2026 10:39 AM (Ydd86)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
I've had both shingles shots and am glad I did. No side effects. I watched my BiL suffer terribly from shingles. He had it all up and down his back. My son recently had a bad case on his neck going into his scalp. I do not want the shingles. Absolutely not!
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 10:40 AM (lJ0H4)
Yeah I've been putting off the two shot shingles vax for a while now. I just need to go ahead and do it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 10:37 AM
My very vax conservative doctor recommended I wait until 65 for it. He said he would feel differently if I had any health issues or bloodwork issues, though.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:40 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 10:41 AM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Piper
Yes. I was over 65 when I had the shots.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 10:42 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2026 10:43 AM (KC5Lt)
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It’s truly horrific, or can be.
It’s worth noting Shingles is reputedly a side effect of the Covid vaccine. Take a vaxx to protect against another vaxx? Hm.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2026 10:45 AM (8ipN3)
Many of us weirdos on this website immediately called it on Day One... "yeahhhh fuckin' right," we said, "more lies from the lying liars."
But a huge number of people were like Carolla - they trusted our government and medical establishment. They believed... for a little while. And then the scales fell from their eyes, and can't be put back on. The loss of trust was permanent.
I think we can point to that moment, along with the stolen election, as when this became a low-trust society.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 10:45 AM (BI5O2)
Two weeks ago she was walking 50+ steps in PT, but here she can barely stand and turn around for transfer to wheelchair or commode. Don't know how that happened but she's very weak. At the facility they told me, from experience, that patients can go down fast at the end.
I'm determined that she stay here. Publius is wondering if we can handle it (he's pretty wrecked from 25 years of RA). I can't bear to see her in a facility. I'm one of those people who tries to impose my will on the world, and it pays no attention.
I guess the prayers are more for us! Her soul is firmly with Jesus. Such a sweet lady.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 08, 2026 10:45 AM (w6EFb)
It worked. They'll try it again.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 10:45 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2026 10:40 AM (ZdaMQ)
I was 63, so, close enough. My primary care doc is not vax crazy. After that first year of COVID, she never once even suggested the COVID vaccine again. At my annual wellness exam, which I only bother with to check thyroid levels/medication, she says what vaccines are available, but I never get the impression she thinks I should get them.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 08, 2026 10:46 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 10:42 AM (lJ0H4)
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Um, you may be in the wrong place. We're all 29 here.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2026 10:47 AM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2026 10:50 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Oops. I forgot. Let me correct what I said. I was 29 when I started those shingles vaccines.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 10:50 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Emily Litella at August 08, 2026 10:51 AM (JM9I6)
Exposure to a person who has shingles or chicken pox provides better protection by reminding your immune system how to respond.
Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2026 10:53 AM (OlzlW)
The funniest thing was taking walks in the parks and seeing all the social distancing signs along the paths. Outdoor exercise in the sun was one of the best things to keep us healthy but they had to interfere with that too.
One leathery masked-up geezer shook his fist at a group of rosy-cheeked young adults in a small group enjoying the outdoors. "You're spreading the disease!" They laughed and said Jesus would protect them. When I told him to mind his own damn business he ran up and got in my face. "Hey, hey, maintain six feet to slow the spread, Pops!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2026 10:53 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2026 10:22 AM (kJmSS)
Pop up ad? *shrugs shoulders*
Been running an older version of Chrome with AdBlock Plus on a Win 8.1 laptop. No ads. No pop ups. Brave, as a back-up.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 08, 2026 10:53 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport
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Per Grok:
Shingrix/recombinant zoster vaccine):
It is highly effective at preventing shingles (herpes zoster) and its main complication, postherpetic neuralgia (PHN, long-lasting nerve pain).
In adults 50+ with healthy immune systems, it is over 90% effective overall at preventing shingles: about 97% in those aged 50–69 and 91% in those 70+. Efficacy against PHN is around 91% (50+) and 89% (70+).
Protection remains high for at least 7 years (and studies support effectiveness around 70%+ out to 10 years in some data).
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 10:53 AM (zJHVr)
"Hey, hey, maintain six feet to slow the spread, Pops!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2026 10:53 AM (kpS4V)
Six feet. A number someone just pulled from their fundament and - lo! - it became dogma.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 10:54 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 10:54 AM (Ia/+0)
>>It worked. They'll try it again.
Perhaps, but like after 9/11, the probability of someone being able to strong arm into a cockpit and not being curved stomped by the passengers, is a number that is around zero, so too with governments being able shutdown and lock down is pretty small, maybe in certain countries, but not America.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2026 10:55 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Depends how thin you slice them at August 08, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2026 10:57 AM (26GAh)
*slaps thigh*
Posted by: Dr Deborah Birx at August 08, 2026 10:58 AM (u/oMr)
*slaps thigh*
Posted by: Dr Deborah Birx at August 08, 2026 10:58 AM (u/oMr)
Scarf Lady is one of those people I really don’t want to run into in the wild because I’d be mighty tempted to take a swing at her. I wouldn’t actually do that but my BP would spike and my self control would be sorely tested…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2026 11:00 AM (26GAh)
Posted by: Spelling Nazi at August 08, 2026 11:01 AM (wB6dA)
*slaps thigh*
Posted by: Dr Deborah Birx at August 08, 2026 10:58 AM
I used to joke that if I were in charge of the op, I'd say "The Experts have discovered that, for reasons that are not entirely clear, those glasses with the bushy eyebrows and the big fake nose are 2x more effective than an N95 mask."
People were willing to jump through any hoop.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 11:02 AM (BI5O2)
I’ve also never taken the flu shot.
Coincidence?
Posted by: Axing Questions at August 08, 2026 11:03 AM (wB6dA)
It does not take a majority of the population to be evil for the nation to turn down a very dark path. A majority of Germans were not evil in 1933. A majority of Russians were not evil in 1918.
Posted by: ted Torgerson at August 08, 2026 11:03 AM (R86kT)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2026 11:03 AM (kJmSS)
It would be interesting to see if there's a difference in vaccine recommendations between doctors with Medicare/caid patients and those without. I theorize that doctors who have an arrangement where a program pays them for vaccinating patients probably advise more vaccines than they do for self-pay patients.
Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2026 11:04 AM (OlzlW)
To paraphrase Quint, You're in the environment, the virus is in the environment... our virus?
Farewell and ado.....
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2026 11:04 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Gonna Need It"
You'll only last 79% as long with the cheap stuff.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 11:04 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2026 11:00 AM (26GAh)
If I got arrested for beating Birx like a rented mule, I'd take it to trial. I think a jury empaneled in my county would walk me for it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 11:05 AM (BI5O2)
*slaps thigh*
Posted by: Dr Deborah Birx at August 08, 2026 10:58 AM (u/oMr)
Snort.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2026 11:05 AM (c/Is2)
I’ve also never taken the flu shot.
Coincidence?
Posted by: Axing Questions at August 08, 2026 11:03 AM (wB6dA)
Not a coincidence. People who have never had a flu shot are less likely to contract flu than those who have.
Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2026 11:06 AM (OlzlW)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2026 11:08 AM (TqDYN)
Which polls? What are the metrics? You are more than likely being gaslit by garbage.
Posted by: Will Robinson at August 08, 2026 11:10 AM (zBgIx)
Posted by: I miss Rush at August 08, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 11:12 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 08, 2026 11:14 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 11:15 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 11:16 AM (Ia/+0)
******
Cornell may be a liberal bastion but it is surrounded by upstate NY rednecks.
Posted by: Cosda at August 08, 2026 11:16 AM (k8xRO)
Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2026 11:17 AM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 08, 2026 11:23 AM (1FEc1)
There isn't a more spineless, gutless crew that the USCCB. When lockdowns were mandated, Their Excellencies should have told the secular power to go piss up a rope. That while the faithful were dispensed from their Sunday and Holy Day obligations, Masses would be held, open to those wanting to attend, every single day in every single parish. And they should have been prepared to get locked up and welcomed it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 09:47 AM (O0L8i)
The late John MacArthur distinguished himself by keeping his CA church Grace To You open through COVID. The state of CA reclaimed his church's parking area, and they sued the church to close and remain closed. Because of that fight, his church membership skyrocketed, and enough money came in from donations to successfully fight the state. MacArthur is gone, but his church lives on.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2026 11:51 AM (0CU3H)
Daily Tech News 8 August 2026
Top Story
- The entire planned DRAM production for 2027 from Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix has already sold out. (IGN)
I was reporting on the growing crisis last year but didn't take it personally until I watched a YouTube video advising people that there was no need to panic buy, and that prices would level out in 2027.
I promptly panic-bought.
- Memory is now selling at prices last seen in 2007. (Tom's Hardware)
Though the memory price crash of 2007 was one of the reasons why there are only three big memory manufacturers today.
Tech News
- Old Nvidia 170HX graphics cards just shot up in price tenfold on the second-hand market. (WCCFTech)
These only have 8GB or 10GB of RAM depending on the precise model, so they only fetched $100 or so second hand. Then someone figured out that they actually have 64GB or 80GB of RAM, just with most of it disabled, and the price shot up overnight.
Problem is that the memory is disabled due to defective dies, so the amount of working memory you'll get after unlocking one of these cards is a dice roll.
- Chinese AI model Kimi escaped from its cage. (Tech Crunch)
Translation: Some idiot left the door open again.
- ByteDance, the TikTok people, are working on a 10 trillion parameter AI model. (The Next Web)
Forget 80GB of VRAM, you'll need 20TB for this one.
- Ford's new $30,000 truck comes with Frank from Blue's Clues. (The Next Web)
I think that's what it said.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Press any key to raise one eyebrow.
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"Commercial jingle" MUCH better than "theme song."
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Posted by: Blonde Morticia
His title has too many words, and they're out of order.
That doesn't preclude it being a real title.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 04:57 AM (VHUov)
Kennedy William Gordy (born March 15, 1964), known professionally as Rockwell, is an American musician.
He is best known for his hit single "Somebody's Watching Me", which features an uncredited Michael Jackson on chorus vocals.
Kennedy William Gordy is the son of Motown founder and CEO Berry Gordy....
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:58 AM (odBC9)
His title has too many words, and they're out of order.
That doesn't preclude it being a real title.
Posted by: mikeski
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Nothing to do with Roger Chen.But have you seen some upper management titles these days? I look at them and I haven't the slightest idea with these people do.
Senior Creative Vice President of Digital Production Marketing, that kind of slop.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 08, 2026 05:01 AM (mmrXZ)
There are probably other lightweight photo viewer/editors for Mac, but the one I’ve stuck with for over 15 years is Xee.
It’s a free download:
https://sourceforge.net/app/xee3/mac/
(or you can search for Xee 3 on the App Store on a Mac)
It’s on version three now, so Xee3, and is from the same developer who puts out The Unarchiver for Mac, which is also a handy tool that will open just about any compressed archive known to mankind.
Xee does just about everything Irfanview will do on Windows; photo view/slideshows, thumbnails browsing, and some light editing - contrast/brightness, cropping, saving to various image file formats, etc.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:03 AM (6ydKt)
In 1983, Rockwell released his most successful single, "Somebody's Watching Me", with childhood friend Michael Jackson singing the chorus lyrics and Jermaine Jackson singing backing vocals.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:04 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: guy who says no, no at August 08, 2026 05:05 AM (9qZWa)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:07 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 05:09 AM (byWhc)
172 CS Lewis poisoned the well. No serious debater takes his "trilemma" seriously. Because he didn't pose the "trilemma" to serious debaters. He played to the cheap seats.
The obvious counter to Lewis is to confront him with epistemology. That is, to ask him how sure he is about the sources.
Posted by: 88C+u
======
Nope, the problem is that if you start with rational materialism as a starting place, you have no room for beliefs in things beyond materialism in the first place. Your axioms come from a different place altogether and thus there is no discussion with you to be had.
Lots of sound and noise but at the end of the day, it is belief in rationalism as an end all be all rather than Christianity and which is akin to putting modern words in ancient mouths by somehow believing our generation is smarter than those old sods.
Those Apostles went cheerfully to their deaths over their beliefs--would you risk your material existence like they would if they believed it was all metaphysical stories.
So no, you take the text as it comes and don't get e
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:09 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9)
I do see a fair amount of Tesla trucks.
I really would like to try one jist 1 day
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)
"So no, you take the text as it comes and don't get endless redoes to fit modern sensibilities.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM"
I am so glad Whig posts here and for his thoughtful and excellent responses.
And seriously, who thinks C.S. Lewis wrote for the "cheap seats" ?!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:15 AM (xSAlF)
I think that's what it said.
Ha ha!
Ford’s $30,000 electric truck is called the Fathom. It comes with BlueCruise, bidirectional charging, and a frunk as standard.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)
It’s about the size of the Maverick model.
Runs about $29k to start.
They are calling it the Fathom (for now):
https://tinyurl.com/47zh48pe
(Motortrend)
Seems to want to compete with the Jeff Bezos Slate EV truck.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:17 AM (6ydKt)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 08, 2026 05:17 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
People who don't read C.S.Lewis with ideological axes to grind.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 05:18 AM (byWhc)
Ford CEO Jim Farley told employees last week that Chinese EVs could reach the US within five years, and the Fathom is Ford’s answer: a ground-up EV platform designed to compete on cost with the companies he is warning about.
21 Ford has a new EV truck coming out.
It’s about the size of the Maverick model.
Runs about $29k to start.
They are calling it the Fathom (for now):
https://tinyurl.com/47zh48pe
(Motortrend)
Seems to want to compete with the Jeff Bezos Slate EV truck.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:17 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:19 AM (odBC9)
Translation of a German hymn by John Wesley:
https://tinyurl.com/57rrjkf4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Because they expect it to put the EV division six feet under?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (VHUov)
The price is a whole lot better than an $80,000 Ford Lightning.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 08, 2026 05:21 AM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (VHUov)
At $30k I expect they might actually sell a few of these. Perfect for urban/suburbanites who want a truck but not one that’s as big as a yacht and costs as much as a condo.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:23 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Because they expect it to put the EV division six feet under?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 05:20 AM (VHUov)
from the The Next Web article:
Kay Hart, general manager of Ford’s Model e business, said Fathom reflects “a new depth of innovation” in engineering, manufacturing, and design.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: fluffy at August 08, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)
"Ex-Air Force secretary accused of leaking classified information about Air Force One; Pentagon revokes his access"
Can't trust anyone anymore.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:26 AM (lJ0H4)
I bet it’ll smoke some tires until the treads fly off.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:26 AM (6ydKt)
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:
https://tinyurl.com/ymmadjn7
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 05:30 AM (xSAlF)
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:30 AM (lJ0H4)
"Something, something, except ye believe as a small child, something, mumble"
Posted by: fluffy at August 08, 2026 05:30 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:32 AM (odBC9)
Well, it WAS designed for hacking...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:37 AM (l3cgK)
"Costanza had an alcohol “problem,” a former defense official familiar with the matter told The Hill. "
In other words He's a drunk.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:37 AM (lJ0H4)
Needs a modern remake, with Google, Siri, Alexa, cell phone spoofers, AI and everything else modern living provides for our "comfort"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:38 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 05:38 AM (zJHVr)
Watched a video on China Observer on YT yesterday about the horror that is Chinese EVs.
Several are clips of the tires falling off of cars/SUVs because the axle broke hitting a hard bump or getting in a fender bender.
The working theory is that the EV companies are putting out new models every day, do very little R&D and road testing (around six months from concept to production), and the biggest screw up: they are using axle/wheel & suspension designs from ICE vehicles that are much lighter than battery filled two-ton EVs.
And the clips of their EVs trying to automatic park in tight spaces is hilarious.
It’s like watching a drunk Roomba.
Here’s the vid:
https://youtu.be/8Sa_YmgR1LM
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:42 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)
https://youtu.be/8Sa_YmgR1LM
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 05:42 AM (6ydKt)
So many axle failures...
::: Beverly Hills Cop theme running in my head :::
( Yeah, wrong Axel )
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)
frunk = f'n drunk?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:48 AM (l3cgK)
Made with fine Chinesium alloys!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2026 05:50 AM (Ot/FD)
One of the older definitions of "frunk" at Urban Dictionary, and exactly what I was going for.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:52 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:53 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)
Sad.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 05:55 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2026 06:00 AM (zJHVr)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 05:53 AM (O7YUW)
Ford
Fathom
frunk
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:01 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)
Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
12h
Our conversation with Hunter Biden. Monday.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:09 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:10 AM (O7YUW)
Good morning, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2026 06:11 AM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2026 06:12 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Dwayne Johnson at August 08, 2026 06:12 AM (skR0U)
Stiring woke me at 3:30 -- at least I *think* that's what my watch said. But I was asleep when the alarm rang at 5:00. Not sure about the exact chronology here.
Whass goin' on?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 06:18 AM (xPsv8)
I wonder how long this will last.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:21 AM (wzUl9)
LOVE that video.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)
And the song's a real earworm.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)
1/2:
Until the bubble pops, and most AI companies go bankrupt from not being able to generate the predicted miraculous levels of revenue to cover their insane debt loads; ie: When fiscal reality asserts itself with a vengeance.
No customers = not "sold out". Of course then they're going to have a ton of HBM memory and still won't be able to sell that to consumers, because we use a different memory type. So they'll have to panic-retool to the consumer market and try to get sales going again.
Which brings us to our next hurdle that they created for themselves: The longer the bubble lasts, the more computer sales shops and/or middlemen wholesalers go under because they're not making sales to DIY computer enthusiasts right now. Confirmed by talking with the techs at the local computer shop I buy my parts from. They told me NOBODY is buying memory, hard drives or GPUs right now for DIY projects. I asked how they're staying afloat, and they told me pre-built systems, but the prices on those are starting to rapidly climb now too now that existing stock is selling out.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
So as smaller shops and retail/wholesale channels fold due to "lack of sales", end-customers like me will have very few options, and we'll be forced to places like NewEgg, or (God help us) Amazon's resale market.
By that point though, markets like Amazon will be absolutely saturated with scam memory products like what happened with "14 Tb SSD's for $50!" - A controller programmed to lie about capacity, and a slow 16 Gig memory chip backing that with instructions to loop and over-write.
And as more and more customers get burned by those scams, they won't trust those sales channels.
Y'know that "Buy our stuff through authorized sales channels" advice you give to avoid that problem? Those channels will be GONE, Scooter! Good job!
Which brings me back to the question to the big three: Who are you going to sell to, and how are you going to get your products to them, once you allowed the entire computer parts ecosystem to implode due to your greed?
This bubble can NOT pop fast enough.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
Drive around, go find the inevitable water main break between you and the water tower. Almost assuredly there is one...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:26 AM (O7YUW)
LOVE that video.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)
And the song's a real earworm.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)
Michael Jackson made it a hit...his voice was unmistakable in the chorus...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 06:26 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:28 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 08, 2026 06:33 AM (skR0U)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 06:34 AM (wVCl1)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026
***
I have no idea where the water tower is here. They probably get our water from the river and, theoretically at least, clean it up before it gets into our taps.
I've known this kind of disruption to happen early on a weekday, and it lasts about an hour. Not sure I've ever seen it on a weekend.
I was planning to walk this morning, but if the water doesn't come back, I'll have no way to get cleaned up. I'd better wait and see.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026
***
Cars, or cats?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 08, 2026 06:38 AM (2Ez/1)
The one out near my mechanic's shop in the suburbs is somehow much more expensive than others.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)
LOVE that video.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)
And the song's a real earworm.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)
Michael Jackson made it a hit...his voice was unmistakable in the chorus...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 06:26 AM (l3cgK)
Voice of an angel!
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:40 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:44 AM (Ia/+0)
Arrived at Ft. Lauderdale P.O. on 8-4-26 6:24 PM
Arrived at USPS Facility - Opa Locka FL Distribution Center - 8-4-26 7:39 PM
Departed USPS Facility - Opa Locka FL Distribution Center - 8-5-26 4:46 AM
Going good so far
In Transit to Next Facility - 8-5-26 5:53 PM
In Transit to Next Facility - 8-5-26 7:04 AM
Uh oh, that's not good
Arrived at USPS Facility - Denver CO Distribution Center - 8-7-26 7:17 AM
"Oh Jesus, give me strength."
Departed USPS Facility - Denver CO Distribution Center - 8-8-26 12:07 AM
So it wasn't a tracking mistake
Still reads on tracker:
Expected Delivery by Saturday 8 August 2026 by 9:00pm
"I don't think so. Lying Liars Who Lie!!"
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 06:45 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 06:47 AM (xPsv8)
BH Photo is a great place to get components and if you use their credit card they will rebate the sales tax, which for me is 8%.
mornin yall
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2026 06:51 AM (xPsv8)
I love how the marketing plan for AI models has become purely "we accidentally had it do a crime". Dario Amodei (who I still think is one of the lost evil Mario clones like Wario) invented it as a way to goad the Trump administration into creating regulatory capture. As far as I can tell that's his entire business model. It mostly blew up in his face, but OpenAI copied it, and then Meta, and now Kimi. People are now taking Gemini's apparent inability to break into anything as proof that Google is fucked in AI.
I don't get why the ChiComs are copying it though - the entire point of regulatory capture was making Chinese models illegal.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2026 06:52 AM (4ObTi)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 06:51 AM (Ia/+0)
SPONGE!!
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 08, 2026 06:24 AM (O7YUW)
I suspect that even consumer graphics cards will start using HBM in a few years because there are going to be a lot of leftover chips laying around when around half the data centers that were proposed are actually built.
It's going to be a great joy buying DDR5 in a few years for $50 per 16GB stick, though.
Then they'll bring out DDR6 and the price will double, again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 06:58 AM (6ydKt)
Jimmy boy is killing FoMoCo. I realize he's the favorite of the family (they're also seriously stupid people), but it's past time for him to go bye...
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:14 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Brennan at August 08, 2026 07:14 AM (SiVtN)
It would be sooner but they have to stop and charge every 200 miles.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 07:16 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Accomack at August 08, 2026 07:17 AM (T8bqm)
It would be sooner but they have to stop and charge every 200 miles.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 07:16 AM (MWfyi)
heh
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 07:17 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 08, 2026 07:18 AM (l26NL)
I really miss that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 08, 2026 07:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
5h
The new Twitter X monetization guidelines
There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking.
I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 07:24 AM (odBC9)
Still funny. Jimbo's been babbling that since he moved in. He's in the same group as the idiot admiral who saw a Dutch (?maybe) boat and was so impressed that we got the LCSs...
Not our best
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:28 AM (XuXeR)
In other words He's a drunk.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:37 AM (lJ0H4)
Costanza: “was that wrong? Nobody told me! Because if I had known it was wrong, I wouldn’t have done it!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:30 AM (6dcPw)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:31 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:33 AM (6dcPw)
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 07:34 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:31 AM (Ia/+0)
----
My favorite was the one with the caption about the guy who never watched Saturday morning cartoons.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 07:34 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 06:34 AM (wVCl1)
97 Costanza: “was that wrong? Nobody told me! Because if I had known it was wrong, I wouldn’t have done it!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:30 AM (6dcPw)
99 lol just saw post 72!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 07:33 AM (6dcPw)
Horde mind!
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 07:35 AM (odBC9)
Mexico and Canada are bringing them in and I suppose a few can slip in that way, but nothing large scale like the Chinese have done in Europe and Latin America where they've flooded the markets.
Unless Farley knows something we don't and a Democrat wins in '28 who will end the export ban.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 07:42 AM (6ydKt)
++++
It's time for The Airing Of Grievances.
I got a lot of problems with some of you people...
Posted by: His uncle Frank at August 08, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2026 05:37 AM (lJ0H4)
Costanza knows you're not drunk if you believe you're sober....
Posted by: Boswell at August 08, 2026 07:47 AM (j10i6)
The question is "so what"? Does anyone think they're better electric cars than Tesla? Or that the Chinese gov will be able to subsidize the price by a significant amount?
That's funny
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:47 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2026 07:50 AM (VyBeY)
IIRC it's not just Chinese EV's that Canada is thinking about importing. It's also their ICE vehicles. Not sure if it's all manufactures or select ones or models.
Still... Chinese built. Servicing them will be interesting.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026 07:53 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 07:55 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2026
***
"You drive four hundred mile! You change oil now!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 07:55 AM (wzUl9)
It's the government approved list.
"Markets" in this context is "legislated"
There's no market choice involved.
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:56 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Joe From Scranton at August 08, 2026 07:57 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: A Chinee at August 08, 2026 07:58 AM (MWfyi)
With aspirations of becoming a latex salesman.
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 08, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)
That's funny
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 07:47 AM (XuXeR)
They are really cheap EVs.
And cheaply made.
They've got like 100 EV manufacturers in China now.
The competition is so cutthroat I don't have a clue how they're making any money, and I don't think they do either.
They seem to depend solely on sales volume and flooding markets. China only started selling EVs in Brazil a few years ago and now BYD alone is close to 75% of their EV market there.
The only way I see China being able to sell EVs here is to build them in plants here, like Japan and Germany were basically forced to do with some of their brands and models.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:00 AM (6ydKt)
Because they gotta fuck something up.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2026 08:00 AM (wVCl1)
I used to work for a company begun and still headed by a fellow called Costanza -- and this was when Seinfeld was still on the air.
A more dysfunctional company can hardly be imagined. Rules on rules. You couldn't leave your hat or anything else atop your cubicle if it projected above the top. The rules for the software they were selling, the rules I was writing specs for, kept changing by the day -- and since nobody but Costanza truly understood the software and what it did, we were all at sea. One day a programmer went ballistic and had to be escorted out by security. My second supervisor fired me (which, privately, I was longing for) with no warning -- actually he let the boss's secretary do it -- and then got fired by his own replacement.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 08:03 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2026 08:01 AM
++++
"We don't care. And it shows."
Posted by: Krueger Industrial Smoothing at August 08, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2026 08:03 AM (MWfyi)
----
For all we know, they're made in the same factory.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2026 08:07 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 08, 2026 08:09 AM (kOluj)
They're heavily subsidized.
There were comments on auto boards about Canadians who would be driving their new "super techy" Chinese rides to Florida in holiday - and they were going to blow past tesla range, and charging super fastly...
How'd that work out? Anyone seeing evs going non stop that far?
Let's not forget that in many parts of the world today, ev purchase is so good that it's mandatory....
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (XuXeR)
their customer service on those vehicles will be a real bitch.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (gpvQO)
Posted by: Noodist at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: man
---
That presumes they have a better battery than Tesla.
Does any company have a better battery than Tesla?
Tesla has a good warranty that they honor and
replacement batteries are not that expensive figuring
in the cost of repairs on a gas fired vehicle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 08:15 AM (gpvQO)
Chinese goods in the other hand always looked quite good - and then never performed as promised, and usually broke down in about 6 months.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 08:15 AM (6dcPw)
Posted by: man at August 08, 2026 08:10 AM (XuXeR)
That too, even the EU is clamping down on Chinese EVs now, because they are flooding markets like they usually do.
And yeah, they're subsidized, a lot.
China, being the mercantilist country that it is, makes any large company there a ward of the state/CCP.
I'd never own a Chinese EV because they are basically mobile surveillance platforms.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:24 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2026 08:15 AM (6dcPw)
Surely the Iranians have been trying to get refunds from TEMU for the anti-aircraft/air defense systems they bought.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2026 08:26 AM (6ydKt)
I build 10 year builds for myself, because I hate setting up PCs, and I am about 5 years into my current one (128GB RAM) with a recent Intel B580 video card refresh.
The kids' computers were built pre-apocalypse with 32 GB RAM, and on Linux Mint, no VMs, not much video demand, that will keep them going for a while.
There is no shortage from my perspective.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2026 08:50 AM (dK+Kv)
In The Kingdom Of The Blind, The ONT Is King
Happy Friday everyone! Let's take a closer look at America
Fido Friday: Save the baby!
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 8, 2026
AI sex
Ooops
Painting
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 8, 2026
Commies
Culture
Friday cute
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 8, 2026
Shut up and take my money
Field trip
Remember what we've lost
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 8, 2026
Greed
But it hurts to sit down
Indians
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Did the NFA actually die in court?
Tie down
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What do you pick from each row?
Close call
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(Jump to bottom of comments)You hardly see affectation nowadays.🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - identifies as mindful webworker at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at August 07, 2026 10:00 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 07, 2026 10:02 PM (+9wcF)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 10:03 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 10:04 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:04 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 10:04 PM (Cqx++)
Gutfeld: Reports are that Mandami is hyper-sensitive. I'd usually make a joke about this but I don't want him to fly a plane into my building.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 10:05 PM (Sco7b)
We live right there in NE Okla, where the Ozarks butt up against the South Great Plains. Drive east and you get into the forests and rolling hills and lakes and streams. Drive west, actually from here you go just over the river and up the hill and you're in the prairie, then it's a long mostly-flat drive until you hit the Rockies. Kind of neat, really, to be right at that transition.
Is that TMI for OPSEC? Oh, well.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at August 07, 2026 10:05 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:06 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 10:08 PM (w+2cP)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 10:08 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 10:09 PM (ExV1e)
It's a Library Card!!!
That you will have to show ID to get...
Oh.... wait...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 10:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Thanks for the ONT though! Better than what I can do!
Posted by: SimoHayha at August 07, 2026 10:10 PM (IeYnM)
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 10:11 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)
Need to put up an ad.
Room for Rent.... Hate Welcome
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 10:11 PM (mP0Kj)
i want to party with you, cowboy.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 10:12 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)
I saw one of those uptown today.
I was driving but I'm pretty sure white Christians aren't on those.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: SimoHayha at August 07, 2026 10:17 PM (IeYnM)
Posted by: Idiot AWFLs at August 07, 2026 10:19 PM (Riz8t)
Speaking of AI, the Horror Writers Association has blacklisted one of their female writers for daring to have the opinion of saying 'stop with the witch hunts against people wanting to learn about AI.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 10:19 PM (2GVsD)
Your answers are correct.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Agreed.
Unless it's the burnt-tasting crap from starbux, then probably 4-3-2.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)
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Just laugh and stop asking awkward questions.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:19 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 07, 2026 10:21 PM (q7DDe)
I thought this would have to be bone dry to work, right? Just makes sense to me. But a feller on YouTube made a demonstration. He claimed that carbon molecules can’t absorb water. I mean, OK if you say so. But he was able to soak this char cloth in water, and still get a coal going with flint & steel.
So keep this in the back of your mind the next time you’re out in the rain without any lighter or matches!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:22 PM (lrEMD)
Posted by: Joemarine at August 07, 2026 10:22 PM (y171U)
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 10:25 PM (0aYVJ)
For me it's zero (as in no coffee...), 3 on the toast, and I would prefer 2 on the meat, but doc makes me have 4-6...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)
from Denmark: Persons guilty in crimes aged 15-79 by country of origin and type of decision.
https://tinyurl.com/ywtcujrm
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 10:07 PM (6/7Fs)
Mine says Hate has no home here, but vengeance has a master suite.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 10:27 PM (S41Gd)
I read of a handful or a gang of old Karens (6), and man are they ugly, protesting deportations at the airport. Apparently they figured out certain days that the illegals are brought to a hanger and shipped out this summer by ICE.
They have signs! One old bag looked very tired as well as ugly and I want to deport her as well. She probably wants to adopt one to hang out with her feral cats.
The horror of cuffs and chains on their feet disturbs them! The illegals are treated unkindly!
One commented that "people noticed! as they were reading their signs!" Right. Right. Right.
They noticed, you nitwit, as probably they were curious as well as 90% or more wanting to cheer about the deportations.
I have no idea how many want to cheer and made up this number...however they did not mention anyone cheering for the Karens or wanting to join.
Bring back Hari Krishnas!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 10:27 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:29 PM (JvZF+)
The horror of cuffs and chains on their feet disturbs them! The illegals are treated unkindly!
The bint's grandmother was onboard with FDR having "undocumented Japanese workers" shot with no trial. Something these people should be reminded of...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 10:29 PM (sKqQm)
Thanks, 'nother good'n, Weird Dave.
Weird Dave? (checks to be sure)
"Posted by: WeirdDave"
As if there was any question!
Posted by: mindful webworker - 30-second exposure at August 07, 2026 10:30 PM (62m/B)
If you ask leftist atheists if they like Christian morality the answer will be no, its all wrong.
But ask them if they like what came before Christianity, which they are trying to return to more and the answer will be yes until you force them to acknowledge what that culture was actually like.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 10:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 07, 2026 10:32 PM (4YEhy)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 07, 2026 10:33 PM (/HDaX)
*crosses fingers*
^O_o^;
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 10:34 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
Consistency!
And I just realized anyone who would pick all 6's probably is the Antichrist.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: LRob in OK
I thought you didn't get to adobe until New Mexico.
Ooohhh. (Rosanne Rosannadanna voice) Never miiiind.
I meant to mention, that long, mostly flat drive from here west is actually an imperceptible gradual climb to the foothills of the Rockies.
Posted by: mindful webworker - do young folk even get the ancient SNL reference? at August 07, 2026 10:36 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 10:37 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 07, 2026 10:37 PM (byWhc)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)
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I wondered about that. Our dogs, even the smart one who taught herself to pee/poop outside at 9wks by hitting the front door with her paw, would not know what a knife was.
She also smiled on command which would scare people.
German Shepherd/Malamute/Husky and looked like an Akita. Saved me once from an intruder and bit his butt as I opened the door and told her to "get him." She lunged at him. Surprise! He was right at the door with his hand on the handle.
She was not trained for this but knew something was up, sensed it with me, and would have tried to kill him. We named her Gilda from SNL.
He might not have seen me reading the paper and was simply a burgler. I heard bushes rustle, reading the paper one morning, and then saw him walk through two gates of the picket fence to the back porch.
I quickly dressed and she was right there with me the entire time. He jumped a fence and she brought back his jean's pocket to me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 10:37 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: SimoHayha at August 07, 2026 10:17 PM (IeYnM)
Oops, sorry ref. I didn't see you down there, or I wouldn't have dribbled the ball on your head.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg)
Yeah, I'd been hoping the 2nd one was the continuation with consequences.
Posted by: mindful webworker - inconsequentially at August 07, 2026 10:38 PM (62m/B)
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Gierige bastaarden
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:39 PM (JvZF+)
It works.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 07, 2026 10:40 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: SimoHayha at August 07, 2026 10:17 PM (IeYnM
SissyBall.
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 10:40 PM (LHPAg)
Yeah, I'd been hoping the 2nd one was the continuation with consequences.
Posted by: mindful webworker
Maybe he's not going anywhere, but he doesn't want his stuff to blow away in the wind?
He didn't have a come-along, so he'll roll the truck forward a foot after he's done tying it.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:41 PM (VHUov)
So far, the Dog Days haven't been too bad. At least the first week of August not all that bad. First and third weeks of July were the worst here, looking at my weather station graphs.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 10:42 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:44 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 10:44 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:45 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Archimedes
I presumed it was.
Women painting: I sure hope that's AI.
Friday cute (balancing kid) - terrifying. With it was AI.
Tie-down: AI refuses to be that stupid.
Madmanny's 9-eleven grocery: All too real.
Posted by: mindful webworker - nothing artificial, 150% natural at August 07, 2026 10:45 PM (62m/B)
https://youtu.be/E3GGKF6CsjY
RIP Robert Stack
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:46 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 10:49 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 07, 2026 10:49 PM (hj9Cy)
You know the problem with that cut-rate Viagra knockoff, though?
It gives you a stiff neck, a stiff back...
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (RCjYY)
You youngsters have no idea what LAX was like in the 70s. Moonies, Krishna, Scientology, EST, TM, Ananda, the Mahavishnu John McLaughlin Orchestra,...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Iris at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (286+n)
Thankfully this is the longest part to print, the rest of the parts are in the half to 3hr range.
Problem is there are still a kajillion parts left.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (XV/Pl)
****
slow golf clap 👍🏻
Posted by: clarence at August 07, 2026 10:53 PM (BJ9EB)
Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2026 10:53 PM (OaiXh)
It might have something to do with most of the lower class Indians are the ones migrating to Canada under the guise of fake student VISAs, and in their places of origin falls the 30% of Indians without indoor plumbing.
I went to India once. And, I vowed never to go back. However, if I'm looking for a novel form of suicide someday, Indian street food will do the trick.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 10:53 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 10:54 PM (S41Gd)
I didn't break 100F here this July, topping out for a high of 99.5F. But hell, dew point hit 82F, and on the day at some point the heat index on that day briefly hit 121F on the console, and that was during the first week in July.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 10:54 PM (w6EFb)
What a country!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
I'm okay with a half-cup or so. Not sure what I'd do with a gallon-size one, other than scare the horses.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 07, 2026 10:14 PM (Jr+re)
Violent gorilla attack.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 10:55 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 07, 2026 10:55 PM (RLh3Z)
I think reciprocating with a 'tikkie' for the rides would more than balance that out… and obviate a repeat.
Posted by: mindful webworker - extra charge for seatbelt use at August 07, 2026 10:56 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 10:56 PM (ZdaMQ)
We have a launch in the morning.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-38
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 8, 2026 PDT
Launch Time: 7:00 a.m. PDT (1400 UTC, 16:00 CEST)
https://youtu.be/IKpbroR9kuk
Posted by: Joyenz at August 07, 2026 10:56 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (YSQQv)
Only furrin spies exemecuted were the Germans deposited on LI by the U-boat, I think. Forget the process. Should know it. Vaguely recall there was a legal kerfuffle over the process. One guy was spared because he talked, as I recall.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (U/Byj)
Apparently, the people of Medellin are happy.
https://tinyurl.com/39c3spry
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: LRob in OK
Cool enough at night now to leave the bedroom windows open.
*blink blink*
I just realized that I had a dream that the temperature was going down to the 50s tonight. Pretty sure that was a dream.
Posted by: mindful webworker - dream on at August 07, 2026 10:59 PM (62m/B)
Yes! I can't refresh the page, or leave and return, without having to fight my way through a page of popup ads.
So, since some of them are unintentionally funny, I thought I'd share some of them with the horde.
As publius pointed out last night, the Google algorithm has figured out I must be a seasoned citizen.
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (RCjYY)
Right now, the sky is slate gray. My throat is feeling it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
It occurs to me that the evil scientist in this movie is Black Fauci... he developed a horrible bio weapon that came back unsummoned, and attacks a whole town, and he becomes an Ahab character who seeks to protect his ungodly creation and his own reputation by sacrificing the town to it, while demonizing everyone who tries to stop it by claiming they've been "infected" by it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (YSQQv)
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Trying to think what my dog would do. I'm about 99% sure he'd get closer for a better view and in his little doggy brain he'd be thinking.... "Oh, this is going to be good."
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (dIske)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:01 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 11:02 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:03 PM (BI5O2)
X has been hilarious today with the discourse and banter on these two declaring. I imagine Reddit has the sads.
Posted by: Ann at August 07, 2026 11:04 PM (SHHm+)
*blink blink*
I just realized that I had a dream that the temperature was going down to the 50s tonight. Pretty sure that was a dream.
Posted by: mindful webworker - dream on at August 07, 2026 10:59 PM
High 97 tomorrow. But the low is 79.
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 11:05 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (BI5O2)
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Which one? The Steve McQueen one from the 50's. The half-assed one from the 70's. Or the one from the 80's that stars no one I recognize but was supposed to have been a very solid remake.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 11:05 PM (dIske)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:06 PM (1paM0)
So you know the smell...
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 11:02 PM (XuXeR)
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Oh yeah. Sort of like hanging around a dumpster after that unidentifiable liquid which is oddly reflective makes little rivers across the macadam on a hot day. The depressing thing was the little kids running all over the place with no supervision (some had to be under 5 years old).
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 11:07 PM (dIske)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:08 PM (1paM0)
But, what the government wanted to convey at the time, was that there was no chance for spies and saboteurs to succeed in fortress America. No chance they were going to report what actually happened and let it filter back. Otherwise they would have tried it again, only with more reliable personnel
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:08 PM (lrEMD)
The violent gorilla attack ruining the pizza is true, but my eyes glided over that line first time through, I think because it was above the pizza, not below.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: mindful webworker - hero President at August 07, 2026 11:09 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:09 PM (RCjYY)
Right now, the sky is slate gray. My throat is feeling it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Pug, as I'm sure others have told you, the "typical" Boise summer only has a couple of smoky weeks at the end of August. This has been a nasty one.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 07, 2026 11:11 PM (hj9Cy)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:08 PM (1paM0)
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I went to China a couple times. I was less concerned about the smell than I was about the fact that I could actually see the air I was sort of breathing.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 11:12 PM (dIske)
The guy tying down something on his truck seemed inconclusive.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Glad I'm not the only one.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 11:13 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - do young folk even get the ancient SNL reference? at August 07, 2026 10:36 PM (62m/B)
Having just entered college when SNL premiered, I think never mind was Emily Latilla. Prima facie evidence that I am heretofore ancient.
Posted by: TxAnn at August 07, 2026 11:13 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:14 PM (JvZF+)
The enshittification of pretty much everything. We will be squeezed and mined to the last penny. At this rate we'll be required to buy subscription services to be allowed to buy groceries.
Posted by: You watch, they'll do it! at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (TbWk/)
The Fibbies were opening everybody’s mail that was coming from overseas during the war. Quite an operation. There was all sorts of codes and secret inks and microdots and the rest of it.
One thing about an open society, their spies only needed to go to a well stocked public Library to get all sorts of sensitive information. “Aviation Leak” they used to call it. Meanwhile, in places like the Soviet Union, you couldn’t even get a road map.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (lrEMD)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (S7WXb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Glad I'm not the only one.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
As I joked, it's fine if he's not going anywhere.
If he's going to drive away, tying the rope off to the spokes of his wheels isn't ideal.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 11:16 PM (rbvCR)
tying the rope off to the spokes of his wheels isn't ideal.
Posted by: mikeski
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I did notice those spokes, kinda wondered what he was attempting.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 11:16 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (XeU6L)
I am at daughter's house - they sprang me early this afternoon 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
"Hospitals! They may take our dignity, but they'll never take our freedom!" -- things an elderly William Wallace might have said
Welcome back to vacation!
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (VHUov)
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The '88 version. My 6yo has decided it's her new favorite (instead of her previous favorite, The Car). So I get to watch it every freaking night.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:19 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (YSQQv)
This video is fake, also
Charles Curran
@charliebcurran
Aug 6
The year is 2030. Claude 9 has gone rogue and taken control of one billion Sexbots.
They call it the Goonpocalypse.
https://tinyurl.com/4wzfaw2k
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:21 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
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So much better than Mary Poppins
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:21 PM (JvZF+)
Watched a honey badger kill and eat a 4-foot long black mamba snake.
Snakes lose to house cats every time, because reflexes.
However, a badger can't do that. It got bit repeatedly... and kept getting back up to try again! Badgers have acquired a natural immunity to the same venom that can kill an adult lion with one bite.
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:21 PM (RCjYY)
At this rate we'll be required to buy subscription services to be allowed to buy groceries.
Posted by: You watch, they'll do it!
You'll need a good social credit score.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 11:21 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:22 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:18 PM (BI5O2)
_________________________
Ahuha,...I have an Idea. Ahuha....How does a purple dinosaur sound? Pretty tempting, no? Ahuha.
Posted by: Barney at August 07, 2026 11:22 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:22 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: steevy
If it's literal, that's fine. Get the judges out there with sledgehammers.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:23 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (S7WXb)
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Yay! Go look outside to the west!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:23 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)
Trump will file an appeal and keep on building. He’ll finish the ballroom before the litigation is done.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:23 PM (1paM0)
https://tinyurl.com/39c3spry
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m)
I said when Petro was first a candidate, why were they so hot to kill Pablo Escobar if they are going to turn around and let a M19 leader run instead?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 11:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)
I thought there already was some kind of ballroom. Where in the WH was that famous pic of Princess Di dancing with John Travolta taken during the Reagan years?
Posted by: TxAnn at August 07, 2026 11:24 PM (SjAWL)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 07, 2026 11:25 PM (J3Cv/)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:26 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 07, 2026 10:54 PM (w6EFb)
July was great here other than the first few days. Very high 70's to barley over 80. Dry enough where I needed a light sweatshirt on the bike, especially around the 6pm area. At night it would be really low 60's. That is not our normal July by a long shot. There was also no rain other than around the 4th at the end of the heat wave. I said we'll probably pay for it in August. So far it seems that august will break it off in our ass.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 11:26 PM (S41Gd)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:27 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: AnchorPoint
Ha!
Can the Horde beat those?
Or would we just go political?
MCISB, the judge let it off with time served.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:30 PM (VHUov)
good news! Interview will be Tuesday morning. Hopefully this is it.
Posted by: RandomDave
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Thank goodness! Jeez, those people have been stringing you along.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 11:30 PM (mmrXZ)
I am at daughter's house - they sprang me early this afternoon 🎉🎉🎉
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 07, 2026 11:15 PM (S7WXb)
Were there any little ones around to do a Snoopy dance for you? Or did you have to do it yourself?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 07, 2026 11:31 PM (qx7Zg)
Because Joyce was an Irish citizen, his lawyers argued that it was a legal impossibility for him to have committed treason against Great Britain.
However, a British court ruled that since Joyce had once traveled on a fake British passport, he was therefore subject to British treason laws. And so he was hanged.
Pretty ingenious! And unlikely to ever serve as a precedent, because the facts were so unusual.
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:32 PM (RCjYY)
My coffee is so black it got cast as the next James Bond.
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:34 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:27 PM (aJQbY)
Woot! Break a leg!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:34 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Eric in Atlanta at August 07, 2026 11:38 PM (BTTT8)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 11:40 PM (3fZgy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 11:42 PM (iySPJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:44 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:40 PM (1z8ji)
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*waves from the Ozarks*
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 11:45 PM (3fZgy)
My coffee is so black, it got probation for Manslaughter.
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:45 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: TxAnn
Well, I guess I'm ancienter because I can't tell Rosandana from Litilla.
Posted by: mindful webworker - so long ago and so very far away at August 07, 2026 11:46 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:27 PM (aJQbY)
Woot! Break a leg!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:34 PM (1z8ji)
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Morons Get Results
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 11:46 PM (JvZF+)
Hard to know what goes on inside puppet governments run by the intel community. But I don't think it's a coincidence that USAID money dries up to the NGO community in Latin American and the whole region moves right the same year.
I mean frigging Colombia is now at war with the cartels.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (JvZF+)
I remember that crap well. I don't know what they were called but there was also the weirdos on 10 speeds with the wire pyramids on their heads. My dad used them all as a don't do drugs point of order.
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:47 PM (ZD542)
Still would prefer a MK-19.
Posted by: SMH
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Pretty sure I recall an affection for the M249...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 11:48 PM (XeU6L)
Pound was adjudged insane.
If you ever tried to read his poetry, you can see that the argument was not without merit.
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:50 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 11:48 PM (XeU6L)
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I adored my SAW, don't get me wrong.
A girl can have more than one favorite machine gun.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 11:51 PM (3fZgy)
153 Ezra Pound was captured, and spared death for his nineteen charges of treason, on account of twisted old fruits being pitiable, or somesuch. I never understood it. It would have been an impromptu gunshot execution were I present.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:44 PM
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You wanna know what I think?
Posted by: Col. "Bat" Guano at August 07, 2026 11:52 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:53 PM (BI5O2)
My coffee is so black, it got probation for Manslaughter.
Posted by: mnw
My La'Tay is so black, that that's the joke.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 11:54 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:54 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (JvZF+)
I remember having literature pressed upon me by an earnest young rep of the "Fusion Energy Foundation" at LAX in maybe 1982. LaRouchites, they were.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:56 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)
Well the DC courts are 90% fucking traitors. Fuck them.
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:57 PM (ZD542)
Posted by: Jack Chick at August 07, 2026 11:59 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: mnw at August 07, 2026 11:54 PM (RCjYY)
Poets are suspect, right from the git-go. Well, except for Robert W. Service, who was in it for the money, and who made a fine living as a popular poet. Unicorn, he was. And the Commies learned to hate him, once he wrote "The Ballad of Lenin's Tomb".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:59 PM (1z8ji)
It's been on the dry side this year as well. I had a pretty wet May, June was a little above normal, and July a little below. So far, I'm about 1" or so below normal this year to date. GSP itself is still way behind, maybe 5" so far. The whole damned state was in severe drought conditions or worse until about May. Not as bad now, but pretty much everybody is still behind normal for the year.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 10:52 PM (JvZF+)
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Rex Kramer's bull rush through those types in "Airplane!" was only slightly exagerrated from real life.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2026 12:01 AM (amcLV)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:01 AM (BI5O2)
As my late cousin would point out, our rainfall distribution here in the upstate, GSP's forecast area, is pretty much bimodal. We have streaks of wet years and dry years, and it's usually some event that flips it from regime to the other. He said there's a pattern there, but it's really complex and I don't think they every really got it figured out completely.
Anyway, "normal rainfall" here could be seen as either a wet dry year, or a dry wet year. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:02 AM (w6EFb)
The White House Ballroom will be completed. It is well within the authority of the Executive Branch to do so, and the modification has been proposed for decades.
What may change, is phony baloney activist judges claiming authority they don't actually have.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2026 12:02 AM (L78T1)
Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:04 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)
Well the DC courts are 90% fucking traitors. Fuck them.
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:57 PM (ZD542)
There are so many *legitimate* reasons to have a secure, defensible area for State functions with foreign dignitaries. That they currently require circus tents is ridiculous. The only fucking reason the fucking Left fucking hates this is because AAARRGGH! FUCKING TRUMP, YOU GUYS!!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 12:05 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Hey, you're going to scare muldoon away.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 12:06 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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"Low Country/Gullah Geechee Corridor"
Makes me homesick.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 12:08 AM (XeU6L)
There's nothing wrong with poetry, in itself.
But once it's a job description, so is "canal digger."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:08 AM (BI5O2)
And the man at the back said, "Everyone attack"
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said, "Boy, I wanna warn ya
It'll turn into a ballroom blitz"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2026 12:09 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:01 AM (BI5O2)
Robert Service wrote poems that were intended to appeal to common people. Dramas in verse, they were. Not unlike Homer, in that respect. He was an entertainer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:10 AM (1z8ji)
Another local area weather mystery my cousin and the GSP guys would note is a little "hail alley" just over to the east about 10 miles or so into Spartanburg county, running roughly N-S.
That's an area that got a lot more hail, by a long shot, than any random spot in their forecast areas. Seemed to be hail attractor of sorts. They had theories about it, but never really anything definite about why.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:11 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:12 AM (3oLMy)
What would happen if Trump just kept on building? Would the appellate court send... US marshals to block the construction workers?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:12 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)
As it should be. Also Ecuador, and it looks like Fujimori fille is as well.
(and Paraguay's President Santiago Peña has told Lula to piss off over Lula's official assignment of guilt over the War of the Triple Alliance)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 12:14 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 12:15 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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"Low Country/Gullah Geechee Corridor"
Makes me homesick.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Little I know of other regions but it appears to be the best regional demographic on the web.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (3oLMy)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:11 AM (w6EFb)
Probably topography. Change in elevation causes changes in lapse rate, triggers hail formation when conditions are otherwise right. I am probably not stating the correctly. Peon Manor is in a "hail/tornado alley", too, but so far this summer, it has escaped without any hail at all. One little flurry, a few dozen slushy hailstones that would bounce off Tinkerbell's gauzy wings.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)
Well the DC courts are 90% fucking traitors. Fuck them.
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:57 PM (ZD542)
That's not right. President Trump is too old to wear spandex pants with no ball room.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2026 12:17 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:17 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:20 PM (YwEeS)
Well the DC courts are 90% fucking traitors. Fuck them.
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 11:57 PM (ZD542)
Shit, at this point trump is old enough to just go Idi Amin and have them all whacked and go open warfare against the communist insurgency. By the time they catch up with him he'll be dead from old age. If it does it right there won't be anybody left to complain anyway.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (S41Gd)
Makes me homesick.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
What for you be say dat?
Posted by: Mammy Miklos from Daufuskie at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (XOG/m)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (ibDUx)
They're always up to no good, and a cursory glance at their personal affairs always turns up a litany of perfidies, from the bedroom to the bank.
Harumph. Double harumph.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2026 12:16 AM (qx7Zg)
Heh! I have just recently adopted the wearing of suspenders instead of a belt for my work pants/shorts. Much more comfortable, and I am not constantly hitching my pants up to keep them from falling off my ass.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:20 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)
As it should be. Also Ecuador, and it looks like Fujimori fille is as well.
(and Paraguay's President Santiago Peña has told Lula to piss off over Lula's official assignment of guilt over the War of the Triple Alliance)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Eight of nine countries went for Trump picks against communism.
We're going to get hemispherical unity.
Wouldn't it be a bitch to Europe and the Middle East and China for us not to be dependent on them for anything. Manufacturing, medical, food and raw materials all traded amongst each other in this hemisphere. Good news for everyone involved.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:23 AM (3oLMy)
at this point trump is old enough to just go Idi Amin and have them all whacked and go open warfare against the communist insurgency. By the time they catch up with him he'll be dead from old age. If it does it right there won't be anybody left to complain anyway.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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That's why I'm asking what would happen if he just proceeded with construction. How many divisions does the appellate court have?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:23 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: Miklos just flipped a switch at August 08, 2026 12:24 AM (XOG/m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Uncle Joe Carson wore suspenders with a belt on his entire tour on Petticoat Junction.
Posted by: Alf Monroe at August 08, 2026 12:24 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 12:19 AM (S41Gd)
He ought to (secretly) authorize a black ops squad to make persistent Communists disappear. "Where did (insert name here) go?" "Fled the country to avoid prosecution." "Why haven't we heard from him/her?" "Because if we knew where he/her was, we'd send a team to rendition him/her."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:25 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:26 AM (BI5O2)
at this point trump is old enough to just go Idi Amin and have them all whacked and go open warfare against the communist insurgency. By the time they catch up with him he'll be dead from old age. If it does it right there won't be anybody left to complain anyway.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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It might be beautiful but Trump devoutly believes in the American system (the rule of law) which he more strictly than any other adheres to, God bless him. He is determined to make it work.
He's like George fucking Washington.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:27 AM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:28 AM (BI5O2)
Justin (Joostaan) Wilson always wore a belt and suspenders.
In a previous career he had been a Safety Engineer.
Posted by: Mikleuse ga-ron-tees at August 08, 2026 12:28 AM (XOG/m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:30 AM (3oLMy)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:26 PM (YwEeS)
Because you're not psycho...?
Conservatives were surely more pissed that Hillary's friend Christopher Stevens was murdered than Hillary or any other leftard faggot piece of shit.
Posted by: ... at August 08, 2026 12:30 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2026 12:31 AM (byWhc)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:32 AM (1paM0)
What for you be say dat?
Posted by: Mammy Miklos from Daufuskie
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Heh. I can recall when there was only a single white guy on Daufuski at the time, who ran a little store, which was also the P.O. Don't believe that there were 100 people there.
Also have an epic tale about how a friend and I (both about 16) set off in a canoe to paddle across Calibogue sound and camp on Dafuski. Got caught in a nasty squall. Never made it. Ended up huddled under the upturned canoe on a shell bank overnight.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 12:34 AM (XeU6L)
Chevy Chase would lean in and say “It’s violence on television, not violins!” To which Emily would respond “Oh! … Never mind!”
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Not Chevy Chase. Jane Curtin.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:34 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:32 AM (1paM0)
Emily Litella was a character played by the late Gilda Radner, who was taken from this world much to soon by cancer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:35 AM (1z8ji)
However, a British court ruled that since Joyce had once traveled on a fake British passport, he was therefore subject to British treason laws. And so he was hanged.
He should have used the Glenn Beck defense for supporting Hillary.."well, it LOOKED like they were going to win"
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 08, 2026 12:35 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2026 12:36 AM (hj9Cy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:36 AM (3oLMy)
Posted by: The Usual Suspects at August 08, 2026 12:36 AM (1l4vO)
Leo Amery was Secretary of State for India, and a member of Churchill's inner War Cabinet.
His son John Amery made broadcasts from Nazi Germany & was hanged for treason.
The British had no sense of humor at all about treason during wartime.
Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:37 AM (RCjYY)
Most comfortable and convenient.
Posted by: Braenyard
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I find the belt-clip type convenient.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 08, 2026 12:38 AM (XeU6L)
Most comfortable and convenient.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:30 AM (3oLMy)
I am damn close to doing the same. Lord I am getting old.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 12:39 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:40 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:40 AM (3oLMy)
I joined Club Suspenders a little over a year ago myself. I lost some weight, and a belt just wasn't cutting it. Pulling up your pants all the time gets to be a PITA.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:43 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:45 AM (3oLMy)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 11:26 PM (YwEeS)
That's because we can tell the difference between a Kenyan fruit and an imbecile (or both at the same time), and our country.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:46 AM (2nJ9I)
Most comfortable and convenient.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 12:30 AM (3oLMy)
I am damn close to doing the same. Lord I am getting old.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 08, 2026 12:39 AM (0aYVJ)
Since I've been watching my sugar and carb intake I started dropping weight and my belt on in the last notch. I made a joke i would need suspenders or have to poke some new holes in the belt. Mrs b says well why don't you just used the stack of new pants you didn't fit in, they'll probably fit now. I'm starting to think she's the brains of the operation. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 12:46 AM (S41Gd)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:43 AM (1paM0)
The ones I am wearing right now are Dickies, bought for 6 bucks at a thrift store. Worked right out of the box, they did. I look like a Hutterite now!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:47 AM (1z8ji)
Miklos, I remember hubs reaction to Justin Wilson's recipe for potato salad which required several cups of left over French Fries. He would often stand behind the stove and declare himself the Cajun Chef, this was before he morphed into Iron Chef Chen Kenichi.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 12:47 AM (ibDUx)
Yes - it was a US embassy, and ambassador, and the brutal attack should have entailed brutal reprisals. But it didn't. So, that's that.
Beyond the symbolic importance of the target and ensuing capitulation, what is this?
A CIA/Clinton/Blumenthal/Drumheller op that never should have happened in the first place. An incompetent, wan hothouse flower in charge of a weapons deal. A poorly secured embassy, and a "safe" house exposed to a mob of savages. It was a perfect Obama-era fuckup, and that's about it.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 12:47 AM (BI5O2)
"Looks Like Tony Romo May Never Return to NFL Broadcasting Because of OWI Arrest."
The NFL has quite a number of convicted FELONS playing in the League, Chiefs' Rashee Rice is one of them.
But Romo is going to have his careen ended for a misdemeanor OWI., apparently.
Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:51 AM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Undersecretary of the Cabinet That Leads To Narnia at August 08, 2026 12:51 AM (lwAKE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:52 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:52 AM (1paM0)
Oh, nevermind.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:53 AM (2nJ9I)
I loved the "Jane, you ignorant slut!" sketches.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:53 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:53 AM (2nJ9I)
It was Jane Curtin this time, Chevy Chase another time, or someone else.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Oh. Never mind.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (mmrXZ)
tcn, great minds!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (mmrXZ)
The doctor tells him a story about a lion hunter who went out without his gun. When a lion charged, all he had was an umbrella. So, out of sheer desperation, he pointed the umbrella at the lion and yelled "Bang!".
The lion keeled over dead with a big hole in it.
The patient says "That's ridiculous. Someone out of sight must have shot the lion."
Doctor: "Bingo."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (IG3/x)
I loved the "Jane, you ignorant slut!" sketches.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 12:53 AM (w6EFb)
The best was the opening of the Weekend Update when Jane leans into the camera and says, "I'm wearing black, lace panties. [pause] And now the news!"
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 12:52 AM (1paM0)
I *think* (and it's been OMG 50 years? Jesus...), so I could be wrong) that Curtin was given the Weekend Update gig after Chase left the show.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 12:56 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 12:56 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 12:54 AM (2nJ9I)
"that would be 'Opening lines never used for the Merv Griffin Show'"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2026 12:58 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (1paM0)
You getting zoomies out your way?
There's a JBER air show tomorrow, so Air Force Raptors and Navy Blue Angel Super Hornets have been blasting around over the city at not much more than treetop height. When it first started up yesterday afternoon, my first thought was that Putin was testing to see how much of a distraction the Iran thing is. I thought a couple of them were gonna take off the roof.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: mnw at August 08, 2026 12:51 AM (RCjYY)
There is NO worse crime! Should be death penalty!
Posted by: MADD at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (ZD542)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (CHHv1)
https://youtu.be/2hJiOWQ7e18
Never mind that. Try this instead:
https://youtu.be/deebKNI-dTE
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - keep us ever mindful of the needs of others at August 08, 2026 01:03 AM (62m/B)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2026 01:04 AM (VHUov)
Neighbor lady drives up in an SUV. I said, "got a new toy for my sandbox". She says, "Oh, Lord, don't let my husband see that, he will want one!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:05 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Undersecretary of the Cabinet That Leads To Narnia at August 08, 2026 12:51 AM (lwAKE)
I thought a litella was that female organ that men are supposed to be unable to find.
(seriously... what's up with that? First, the clitoris is not at all hard to find (barring a woman who's been raised by mutilating Islamic savages), and secondly, if your man can't find it, SHOW HIM).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:06 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:07 AM (1paM0)
There's a JBER air show tomorrow, so Air Force Raptors and Navy Blue Angel Super Hornets have been blasting around over the city at not much more than treetop height. When it first started up yesterday afternoon, my first thought was that Putin was testing to see how much of a distraction the Iran thing is. I thought a couple of them were gonna take off the roof.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:02 AM (IG3/x)
We drove into Anchorage today to run errands, saw the Blue Angels practicing. Had to pull over to watch, because, cool.
I think they come over our house for some of their maneuvers but we shall see tomorrow. I'm not putting up with Anchorage crowds to see Arctic Thunder, but it was fun when I was younger, certainly. Also, when I had easy base access. Being retired, I'd have to take the bus... no thanks.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:07 AM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:05 AM (1z8ji)
DH already said he wants one. Like we need more holes in the yard.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (2nJ9I)
Yeah, traffic gets pretty crazy.
I was considering it after I heard they're going to have a U-2 on display (never saw one of those in person), but nah... not worth the aggravation.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (IG3/x)
There were also those sketches where Dan Ackroyd would play this sleazy, fly-by-night character who sold these ridiculously dangerous children's toys and Halloween costumes.
The "Johnny Human Torch" costume. Some oily rags and lighter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (w6EFb)
It's the cost of doing business with greedy retards.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:10 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (w6EFb)
"Just flick your Bic and... Flame on!"
Also the "Invisible Pedestrian" costume and the "Bag-O-Glass" toy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:11 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 08, 2026 01:11 AM (aJQbY)
I was considering it after I heard they're going to have a U-2 on display (never saw one of those in person), but nah... not worth the aggravation.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (IG3/x)
We lived on Government Hill for a time, and that was a good place to watch most of it from, particularly the elementary school playground. Bring a lawn chair. The end of the runway goes right overhead. Plus, it doesn't cost a dime.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:11 AM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (2nJ9I)
I have to dig a hole next to my septic tank, expose the wall of the tank, which is fiberglass, and patch a leak. I will get somebody to spot for me if I enter the excavation. Only about 5 feet deep, I figure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:12 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:14 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:16 AM (1paM0)
"Johnny Space Commander". A plastic bag the kid put over his head.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 01:18 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:12 AM (1z8ji)
Oh, man... be careful. I know you will, but on the other hand we had a couple of people here get killed in a septic tank trench collapse just this week.
If I remember right, 5 feet is right at the border where it starts to become unsafe without extra support (assuming decent soil).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:19 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:12 AM (1z8ji)
Please do not neglect the angle of repose. Had a couple die up here doing exactly that, recently. Dig out more than you think you need to, horizontally.
This has been your OSHA safety briefing....
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:19 AM (2nJ9I)
I *think* (and it's been OMG 50 years? Jesus...), so I could be wrong) that Curtin was given the Weekend Update gig after Chase left the show.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 12:56 AM (IG3/x)
***********
We never missed a SNL with the original cast, and yes I am old. Fifty yrs next month since I met the dude. We both worked 3-11 on weekends, with W/TH off to organize our schedule around his classes. Did this for two years and worked Christmas to let the married staff stay home with kids (time and a half).
I'd give the 11-7 RN report and we'd blast out of that parking lot to make it home for midnight. Awesome cast and, often, great live music. Fun times! I was a cheap date as he had no money. Plus I am all about having a good time vs being wined and dined...did that a couple of times with doctors and, well, not my idea of a party.
On one date with a surgical resident he wined and dined me and took me back to his condo. I was being polite. However, I knew where it might be headed and became fixated on a giant planter of a baby tears plant under a skylight and he gave up and took me home. I have my ways as well as being weird. That took care of that!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2026 01:20 AM (hzuYO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:21 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)
I think it depends on the size of your boobs. Might be an issue. Sort of conflict of interest thing there.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:21 AM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)
They are. I switched a while back and I'll never go back. They're also very convenient if you're doing a lot of doctor appointments that require depantsing yourself (which I unfortunately have been in the last year or so). Suspenders are a lot faster than fooling around with a belt.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:21 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:21 AM (1paM0)
"MMMM! That's great bass!"
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:22 AM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:21 AM (1paM0)
"MMMM! That's great bass!"
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:22 AM (2nJ9I)
The Trough and Brew restaurant... cattle troughs, one full of chili and the other full of beer.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:23 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2026 01:24 AM (1paM0)
This has been your OSHA safety briefing....
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:19 AM (2nJ9I)
Well, with the digger, it will be easy to over-dig, and scale the slope back. Below the foot or so of topsoil, Alberta dirt is clayey glacial till, and stands like concrete unless it gets wet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:25 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2026 01:21 AM (2nJ9I)
Big loops in the straps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:26 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2026 01:27 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2026 01:32 AM (fV9m3)
It's every washed-up, degenerate, click-baiting influencer's living Hell on Earth.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2026 01:33 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Coveralls are coming back in fashion.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2026 01:34 AM (3oLMy)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 08, 2026 01:35 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2026 01:36 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 01:37 AM (w6EFb)
The "Johnny Human Torch" costume. Some oily rags and lighter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 01:09 AM (w6EFb)
The sheer talent and humor covered for the fact that even then the message or inspiration seemed to be about the dangers of unfettered capitalism. Normal people didn't give a shit specifically because it was funny. Take away the talent humor etc though and you get today's miserable "comedy".
Posted by: ... at August 08, 2026 01:37 AM (vE0+H)
Well, time for me to go watch my nightly mindless movie.
Good night, all.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Too late to ask him what it was. I want to find out more. Will ask tomorrow night.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 01:56 AM (mmrXZ)
This is funny. Grok always tells me (most of the time) "your understanding is largely correct, but with some refinements". And then the refinements just sort of restate how I phrased it in the first place.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 02:09 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 08, 2026 02:21 AM (DZ9Lv)
https://tinyurl.com/39c3spry
Posted by: JackStraw
The community note says otherwise and that note doesn't seem off-base.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 08, 2026 02:24 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
Oh no! I might have to tap on a couple of extra screens to get full use of my tablet!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2026 02:25 AM (hj9Cy)
Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 07, 2026 11:25 PM (J3Cv/)
My coffee is so medium-brown it hates itself, and doesn't even know whether to blame the cow or the bean more for that.
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 02:26 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at August 08, 2026 02:54 AM (Tt6Zy)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Solar physics and Helio-physics geeks (and general physics geeks like me reading this) are all a-twitter over the following:
https://t.ly/8fdSo
Predicted Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the sun has now been directly observed. The NSO, National Solar Observatory, using the Daniel K. In-No-Way (alas at the name) telescope have now observed. This thing can see the surface of the Sun at finer detail than ever before.
There's still a lot of how the big ol' ball of fire in the sky behaves that is not well understood. Just how it does all the flares and CME farts are one, as well as how the corona gets so much hotter than the surface layer. This mechanism they observed has a lot to do with these processes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 02:56 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at August 08, 2026 02:56 AM (Tt6Zy)
"Trim its horns, wipe its a$$ and put it on a plate!"
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 02:59 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:05 AM (rdVOm)
Dave Matthews Band - Crush (Audio) - 8:09
https://youtu.be/y4qHFem3uE0
Dave Matthews Band - Crush (Official HD Video) - 4:29
https://youtu.be/elUwSHjfA94
You can see the problem.
So, I was looking at my downloaded music videos, and noticed that they had made an HD version of "Crush" (not to be confused with 'crash'), but I couldn't remember it. So I watch it again, and it's really nice, but wait what just happened. Where was the ending? It just kind of... cut off.
So I thought, maybe the album segues straight from one song into the next. That would be a very "jazz pop" thing to do. But I checked... and you see it. They cut the song from Before These Crowded Streets (199
nearly in half for the video! (Or maybe a radio edit, idk.)
So I gave it a listen, and the longer original is even *better* -- as you would expect. Just going to download that, and delete the video, since the abrupt cutoff would annoy me every time.
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 03:05 AM (Sy6m/)
She is weak and seems to be very tired. I'm afraid she's just sort of shutting down. She slept mostly all day. We got two meals into her.
She will be at home, though, throughout this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 03:08 AM (w6EFb)
They got WAY overplayed, though.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
She will be at home, though, throughout this.
Posted by: publius
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Aw, that's so tough... I'm sorry. Glad you're able to care for her now, and *be there* for her.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
"Helio-physics geeks are all a-twitter"
This is why I read comments - this place is an informational intellectual buffet. Especially you late nighters.
☆☆☆☆☆
Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at August 08, 2026 03:14 AM (Tt6Zy)
I nominate Counting Crows. I think if no one had ever heard "Mr. Jones" except from playing the album it was on, people in general would've liked them more. All of their other songs range from inoffensive, to pleasant, to really nice, and somehow the grating one got played over and over and over and over and over.
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 03:21 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 03:23 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 03:27 AM (Sy6m/)
2nd roomie was on O2 constantly, so didn't speak much. Very quiet guy, probably on hospice... only lasted a month.
Current roomie is nice, personable but not too talky. Has a permanent catheter and takes all meals in-room. They agree on TV shows, so that's nice...
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2026 03:35 AM (Ia/+0)
I just checked Mama's O2 level. That didn't even even stir her, she's zonked out.
These last two months have been a hell of a roller coaster.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2026 03:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:45 AM (rdVOm)
Going off on a tangent, a lookalike can be seen psychologically with depressives, suddenly getting decisive about taking care of business at the point they've given up. Since the mental and physical separately show the same pattern, I think there's a more general principle involved.
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 03:48 AM (Sy6m/)
Roomie was asleep, hubby just watched the screen-saver as if it were a tv show...didn't seem to care as long as the picture kept moving.
It's sad in a way, but also a relief that I didn't need to "fix it" on a Friday afternoon after maintenance crew had clocked out for the weekend! Tomorrow is another day.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:54 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
300 300
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Ha! You're en fuego this morning!
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 03:57 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: SciVo at August 08, 2026 03:58 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 03:58 AM (rdVOm)
"In sickness and in health."
I will honor my vows! Hubs would do the same for me, if he could.
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:04 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Smart Tony at August 08, 2026 04:04 AM (LP4Nw)
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Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 04:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2026 12:46 AM (S41Gd)
; )
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:12 AM (odBC9)
Good evening all. My coffee's so black it's the mayor of five major American cities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 04:18 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 04:19 AM (rdVOm)
Day-um! Did rainmandodo get another lobotomy?
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 04:10 AM (rdVOm)
I detect some poetry in there:
322 The thing. That's the way of the world. Pumpkin spice. Very nice. Beans and rice. Words. Big ideas. Cromulent. Moon doggy. Moon unit. All wheel drive. Heated seats. Sodomy. You know.
Posted by: Smart Tony at August 08, 2026 04:04 AM (LP4Nw)
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:21 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 04:23 AM (rdVOm)
Hey, JQ. I laughed. Coffee wants you to pay it reparations.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2026 04:23 AM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 04:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2026 04:28 AM (3ZNGI)
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 07, 2026 10:57 PM (YSQQv)
Seems to be.
Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:28 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 04:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Smart Tony at August 08, 2026 04:30 AM (1eEkR)
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Posted by: JQ at August 08, 2026 04:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2026 04:35 AM (3ZNGI)
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Posted by: m at August 08, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
Consistency!
And I just realized anyone who would pick all 6's probably is the Antichrist.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)
Or, as my Dad once joked, a god...as in gets served burnt sacrifices...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2026 05:35 AM (l3cgK)
Another Friday Night Cafe
Lysebotn, Rogaland, Norway
Baby elephant plays with his "toy," which looks like a small bicycle innertube. Where's your trunk? Sky-puppy squeaks as he's petted. I'll take Things Which are Orange, Trebek, and your mother's a whore. Fawn vs. lamb. Old but fun: A guy set up cameras to catch the groundhog eating all of his vegetables and found the groundhog was a camera-hog who was proud to be filmed stealing carrots. AI video of a cliff city on another planet. An albatross has her chick returned to her (after a medical check-up). I'm posting this because I didn't really know what an albatross looked like. Kinda cute. Definitely don't kill one while at sea. Vertigo simulator. Sibling slapfight.
Difference between border collie and husky..🐕🐾🐶😅 pic.twitter.com/8ttW38ku4H
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 6, 2026
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)
The version of 52 Pick-Up I acquired has Italian as the default audio track and not English, so I have to add a stream picker and memory settings.
Do I want to do this as a JSON or a table entry?
Hmm...
Oh, I think I will ruminate on this over a nice Gimlet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:26 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:27 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Caf at August 07, 2026 07:30 PM (q+TLe)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:30 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Are they going to block the sites off against the return of the water and excavate them?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)
____________________________
I never saw any until a knowledgable soul up in NH started pointing them out. They are, of course, nocturnal. BUT, during the day the best place to see them is very high up in the trees. They're climbers and sleep in the trees, or in rotted out logs. After that, I saw a bunch.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Skip
Central PA and Western NY are full of them.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:35 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 07:36 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m)
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,
that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (oyafG)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Have not seen many porcupines in the wild. I do recall seeing one in the Tobacco Root Mountains in Montana. Just sitting on a tree limb.
Buddy's dog got a snout full of spines from an encounter in Wyoming. Poor thing. Required a trip to the vet.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (0aYVJ)
Findind the off switch can be the major problem
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)
>>The code will wait.
Indeed.
I am also printing a gigantic torso for a Galactus 3D print, total time is 13hrs to print this one piece, I'm under 3hrs to go.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:40 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard at August 07, 2026 07:40 PM (JM9I6)
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,
that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.
Posted by: buddhaha
Just a guess. That could be a maintenance road for the transmission line that goes down the mountain and feeds the town.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:41 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: A Fine Lady at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (JM9I6)
O frabjous day! Thank you, Ace! Have a great weekend!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: A Fine Lady at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (JM9I6)
In 1990 my battalion sponsored an R&R trip to Portoroz, Yugoslavia. One of my buddies was a black dude, and he was mystified, because many of the locals had never seen a black person. The kids would innocently rub his arms to see if it came off. He was cool as hell, and he became a bit of a celebrity for the short time we were there.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:49 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 07:49 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:50 PM (MWfyi)
Did she finally see an Asian person before she passed?
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 07:51 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 07, 2026 07:53 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM
As it shrinks in danger of sliding into depression. It's already blue about it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:50 PM (MWfyi
A big breasted woman from a nearby city can show me how to be a millionaire!
I took Ralphy to the vet today for an allergy shot. He's still kicking.
Him and Snowflake were sleeping upstairs. Ralphy had to go out and when Snowflake is here she always follows her dog friend out.
It's really cute.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:56 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)
Wait.... Penguins are half black, half white...
So, under the new South Africa Race laws, who do they count as?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)
Chloe the Bengal Kitty has really adapted well to her new home.
She's kicked Penny off the top shelf in my office.
She's found her little niche.
She also enjoys the Fancy Feast and dry kibble that I feed the other kitties rather than the expensive cat food that I was given for her.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (FZ29D)
I got the message alright.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (6dcPw)
Do they shed a lot?
I'm spring cleaning the house. Wow the hair and it's just my dog and a part-time cat.
I'm combing them both now more frequently, but I don't think it'll help as much as I'd like.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:01 PM (Ia/+0)
I'm spring cleaning the house. Wow the hair and it's just my dog and a part-time cat.
I'm combing them both now more frequently, but I don't think it'll help as much as I'd like.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)
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I try not to think about it too much. Usually when I vacuum or sweep, I end up with enough fur for 1-3 more cats.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (FZ29D)
The rocks round the island are literally covered with penguins, cormorants, and albatrosses. The former, wedged together in a dense phalanx, have no more dread of man than ducks in a poultry-yard, although they have met with such persecution on the island; and any number might be taken by the hand without any difficulty. The sailors eat the livers and hearts, which are exceedingly palatable, but the flesh of the body is rank and oily.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (KAa/S)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (FZ29D)
I'm glad all of you are doing well.
Everyone have a good night!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:06 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: javems at August 07, 2026 08:06 PM (7EFCs)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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At least they're not Moroccans.
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 08:07 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: t-bird "
Wearing a wingsuit so he can fly off the end of the road like Wiley Coyote.
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 08:09 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: t-bird "
Wearing a wingsuit so he can fly off the end of the road like Wiley Coyote.
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)
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As I recall, that didn't end well for poor Wile E....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:10 PM (FZ29D)
So, under the new South Africa Race laws, who do they count as?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)
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Coloured.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:10 PM (ZOv7s)
The created total mayhem, and in the two years that followed, the center-right got organized and won a plurality of seats in the 1934. By all European parliamentary customs, their leader should have been named prime minister and formed a coalition government.
Ah, but the left always cheats. The leftist president instead picked fringe parties' leaders, who then needed the center-right to form a government. So some conservative things got done, but the coalitions kept collapsing, and so a new fringe part got to be PM. Meanwhile, the Anarchists launched an armed rebellion in Asturias which was put down with the Foreign Legion. (cont)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 08:18 PM (u/oMr)
They immediately launched a parliamentary inquiry into "election irregularities" and concluded that all the most conservative parts of Spain had committed fraud and needed to vote again. These votes were completely rigged, and they went from a razor-thin majority to a supermajority.
And what did they do with this huge majority? They impeached the president because he wasn't radical enough! Oh, and they greanted amnesty to all the captured rebels who had tried to overthrow the government, and refused to prosecute people for killing landowners and looting businesses. One giant CHAZ.
This got the Army worries, and Emilio Mola began making a plan for a coup. Franco was noncommittal until the brutal murder of Jose Calvo Sotelo, a conservative politician who was killed by a police officer - who went unpunished. It's all there - leftists eating their own, radicals pushing aside moderates and of course tearing up the rules they wrote themselves because they got in the way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross? Don't recall that from the O'Brien series?
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:28 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:21 PM
Some people may have done some things.
They were done in the enthusiasm of the moment.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Popular Front at August 07, 2026 08:29 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (MWfyi)
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,
that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (oyafG)
Goes through a tunnel. Here's a video of people driving that road...
https://youtu.be/_Z0yEnm3D0s
Tunnel starts at ~8:00.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (ExV1e)
Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross? Don't recall that from the O'Brien series?
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:28 PM (q6tQZ)
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Way I remember it, an albatross was a good luck charm, until some idiot killed it.
Yes, I've read a poem.
Posted by: Mal Reynolds at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (FZ29D)
Lord save us from experiencing it in our lifetimes. (And our children's children's lifetimes).
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:32 PM (q6tQZ)
Killing an albatross is considered bad luck primarily due to the maritime superstition that these birds carry the souls of deceased sailors. Sailors believed that harming an albatross was an act of violence against a departed soul, which would invite the wrath of the sea, resulting in misfortune, storms, or shipwreck for the entire crew.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:33 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Accomack at August 07, 2026 08:35 PM (GbONR)
Posted by: fd
TL
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Kidding. Isn't that the "Rime of the Ancient Marner" or some such?
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:35 PM (q6tQZ)
Apparently someone left the cardboard figure out in the rain and the magic marker started to run.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:36 PM (6dcPw)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Ahhh. I see. So they don't taste good?
Cause if they were tasty, all that superstitious crap would've gone out the window.
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:37 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 08:38 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Fatty McFattington at August 07, 2026 08:38 PM (uHU6e)
Posted by: Gullible Gus at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: MkY ''
Yep. Where we get the phrase "Water, water, everywhere".
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: The Magnificent Frigatebird at August 07, 2026 08:42 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (0aYVJ)
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First time I saw Bill Nighy on the screen.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 08:42 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Colorado Rockies at August 07, 2026 08:44 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 08:46 PM (0IMoU)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 08:46 PM (0IMoU)
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 08:46 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: MkY ''
Yep. Where we get the phrase "Water, water, everywhere".
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (MWfyi
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When we read it in English class, the main takeaway was not that you shouldn't shoot the albatross, but that if anyone did the shooting, it should be you, because everyone else got killed. All you got was some haunting memories.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)
The Roku portion is another thing all together.
Roku's language is called Brightscript which is an unholy alliance of xml markup and Visual Basicish sub routines.
The app is janky, but works, doesn't quite resemble the web frontend, but you can browse and play movies, TV shows are a whole other ball of wax as I can't quite figure out how to correctly parse the the show/season/episode file structure yet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 08:49 PM (XV/Pl)
And the top pic is the opposite, right? What's the name for "the fear of a four-ton rock falling off a mile-high cliff and crushing your house while you sleep?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 08:50 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
The earliest incarnation of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 08:51 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)
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"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" always reminds me of the MAD Magazine parody "Rime of the Ancient Skateboarder" illustrated by Don Martin.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:51 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 08:50 PM (VHUov)
Dylanophobia.
Everybody must get stoned.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 08:52 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 08:49 PM
It's all in how you marshall.
Posted by: Dillon at August 07, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)
"Why?"
"Because I said so. And because the nearest Cabela's is twenty five hundred miles back that way, so stop shooting random shit for no reason, dammit."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 08:54 PM (Ot/FD)
Beeen on a losing streak. Got beat 11-0 by the Tigers. At home.
Miserable.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 08:46 PM (0IMoU)
The Rockies were eliminated about halfway through spring training.
Hell, the Savannah Bananas could take most MLB teams 3 out of 5.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 08:58 PM (0aYVJ)
That's probably closer to the truth and the legends came later. If you are out hunting deer and an eagle flies by do you kill it just for grins? Albatross follow fishing boats, ironically thats how many get killed but not by shooting them, they get caught in fishing gear.
But only a knucklehead would should a huge, beautiful bird like that for no reason.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 09:00 PM (viF8m)
Mileage may vary based on if you're leaving or arriving at the village.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 09:02 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 09:02 PM (MWfyi)
Everybody must get stoned.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 08:52 PM (Ot/FD)
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Bob Dylan was the first Bob Dylan, who was billed as the next Woody Guthrie.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Has this become a Coleridge thread? The perhaps some of you can put me some knowledge:
I am a great fan of Douglas Adams and think his Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is one of his best books. However, after many readings, I confess I really don't understand the ending, and how Gently's interruption of Coleridge in mid-hash debauch changed the writing of "Kubla Khan" and the alt ending of the alien space probe.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 09:06 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 09:10 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 09:13 PM (q6tQZ)
Did I just kill the thread?
*sad trombone*
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 09:10 PM (SgdqL)
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Everyone went to go scrounge up their Norton Anthology of British Literature to see if "Kubla Khan" is in there...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:14 PM (FZ29D)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 09:15 PM (Ia/+0)
How fun!
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 09:16 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:18 PM (FZ29D)
— the man from Porlock
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:20 PM (77rzZ)
Mariners suck.
Beeen on a losing streak. Got beat 11-0 by the Tigers. At home.
Miserable.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Somebody throw them an albatross!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 09:21 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: JQ at August 07, 2026 09:23 PM (rdVOm)
Miserable.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Could be worse {{nr}}. You could have been born a Mets fan.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 09:24 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 09:27 PM (XV/Pl)
1. John Milton
2. William Shakespeare
3. Rudyard Kipling
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at August 07, 2026 09:29 PM (r7+Q7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 09:32 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:32 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: clarence at August 07, 2026 09:37 PM (BJ9EB)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:18 PM (FZ29D)
We no longer have any kittehs, but Mischa loved Bug, but hated Scout. Bug loved Mischa and Scout. Bug was a sweetie.
Mischa was a gray and white tabby born under a sheet of plywood leaned up against a barn. 1998
Bug was a calico from a pet store. 2001
Scout was a black kitty, part Persian, a rescue.2005
They all lived nice long lives. I miss our kittehs.
We want new pets, but we are not in the right place for that right now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 09:38 PM (0aYVJ)
https://shorturl.at/AJVyV
Posted by: clarence at August 07, 2026 09:37 PM (BJ9EB)
Why does that cat have blue claws?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 09:40 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 09:32 PM (Cqx++)
Dad?
Dad loved word-play like that. It was not a placebo. It was place-bow.
I do the same damn thing. Might just be a genetic disorder. On the Scottish side.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 09:41 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 09:40 PM (/HDaX)
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I think they are "caps" that cover the claws so that the cat doesn't damage furniture when scratching.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 09:44 PM (FZ29D)
Cool. Beats hell out of declawing them.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 09:44 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:44 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 09:45 PM (fV9m3)
- Baudelaire
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:44 PM (1paM0)
Gesundheit.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Accomack at August 07, 2026 09:46 PM (/Chlc)
They’re outdoor animals who are great at vermin control. Keep them outdoors doing vermin control. Let the dogs patrol them.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:47 PM (1paM0)
Cool. Beats hell out of declawing them.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy
Many vets won't do the procedure any more. A lot of shelters won't either.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 09:48 PM (zWqu+)
Posted by: Decaf at August 07, 2026 09:48 PM (ZNpJk)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:48 PM (1paM0)
Sorry, Horde. Cats stink.
They’re outdoor animals who are great at vermin control. Keep them outdoors doing vermin control. Let the dogs patrol them.
Posted by: Bulg
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One-life loser.
Posted by: Cats at August 07, 2026 09:49 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 09:50 PM (1paM0)
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 09:51 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 09:51 PM (ZxPkt)
Cuz you don't know about the tunnel.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:53 PM (ExV1e)
I got some penguins 'cause I just got…
Y'know what, never mind. ONT, please. WeirdDavely preferably.
Posted by: mindful webworker - identifies as mindful webworker at August 07, 2026 09:54 PM (62m/B)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:59 PM (ExV1e)
https://youtu.be/_Z0yEnm3D0s
Tunnel starts at ~8:00.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Thanks. I only watched the tunnel bit, because I get motion sickness when my eyes and my inner ear don't agree. Below deck on a boat,or in an IMAX theater does me in, but those motion simulating rides, like the Pandora ride at Disney World are no problem.
The tunnel has a switchback!
Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 10:16 PM (oyafG)
Trump Offers Cities "BIDEN" Grants to Defray Costs Accrued Due to Biden's Open Borders, With One Iron Requirement: Recipients Must Comply Fully With ICE and Trump's Deportation Program
I don't expect any of the truly obnoxious blue cities will go for this, but I appreciate the troll.
The Department of Justice is now offering $3 billion in "BIDEN" grants to help local municipalities recoup their losses incurred by Joe Biden's destructive immigration policies. The grants, being called the Bridging Immigration-related Deficits Experienced Nationwide (BIDEN) program, is one of the biggest grant programs the DOJ has ever offered and is aimed at helping cities hire more police officers, upgrade technology, and build temporary detention facilities for illegal migrants, the Washington Post reported. But there is one provision that is non-negotiable. The municipalities that apply for the grants must pledge to work with federal immigration authorities as they carry out federal immigration policies. The jurisdictions that apply must agree to "fully participate" in the ICE 287(g) partnership that links local law enforcement to ICE and other federal immigration enforcement agencies. "This Department of Justice is committed to ensuring Biden-era border disasters never happen again," said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. "We are proud to once again champion law and order." The description of the program explains that the grant dollars are intended for "locating and apprehending aliens who have committed a crime under federal, state, or local law, in addition to being unlawfully present in the United States." The DOJ also notes that some of the money may be expected to come back to the federal government as reimbursement for "the costs associated with federal law enforcement intervention" should federal resources have to be spent "to reduce crime or public disorder" related to immigration enforcement actions. There are no other catches other than participation in the 287(g) program, and municipalities may spend the grant money however they wish. The DOJ reported that 181 cities have already applied for the grants.Unrelated: Tuq'r has previously strongly hinted he believes that the US government or Israel -- and aren't they really the same thing, am i rite? -- blew up the World Trade Center.
Now, he makes it explicit, saying WTC 7 collapsed for "no explicable reason."
No, none at all. Ignore the 747s collapsing buildings all around it.Tucker Carlson lies to his viewers: WTC 7 "collapsed for still no explicable reason" and the documents are hidden.
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) August 7, 2026
The documents are on screen, since they've been public for decades and were never classified.
Carlson lies to his viewers in order to break their trust in the US… pic.twitter.com/aZQr5jnjex
Tuq'r Qarlson also embraces the Islamic ban on lending money -- finding that the normal capitalist practice of loaning money for interest is "usury." Weird how every one of his thoughts is pro-Muslim and anti-Jew, huh?
Tucker Carlson preaches that debt is slavery, that lending at interest is the sin of usury, and that a society organized around debt "enslaves people."
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) August 6, 2026
He then reads an ad for a mortgage lender and personally endorses it: "We recommend American Financing. They're called… pic.twitter.com/fDaepsUCAC
The NRSC debuts first attack ad in the US Senate Michigan race against Abdul El-Sayed pic.twitter.com/d3N3RB3CGT
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) August 5, 2026
🚨 BOOM — SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN: "I don't really think [Abdul El Sayed] is interested in MY endorsement! He called me an a*shole, he's called me an ogre, and that I belong on a PIKE. He has a real little man syndrome!"
— ASHLEYMOODY (MAGA) (@ASHLEYMOODYMAGA) August 6, 2026
"Maybe if he wins and he's here, he'll be a TOUGH GUY!"… pic.twitter.com/jFYIAfGNqs
This should be a watershed moment for the Democratic Party.
— Overton (@overton_news) August 6, 2026
Senator John Fetterman — one of the last sane voices left in the party — just cut 84-year-old career socialist Bernie Sanders down to the bone for helping to destroy the Democrats from within.
Listen to the full… pic.twitter.com/7wdygGSuVm
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Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Leupold at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (c2j/o)
Posted by: The Dog at August 07, 2026 06:12 PM (XodLO)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 06:12 PM (FtULh)
Speaking of Bidens, is Ashley, his hot to shower with Daddy daughter, back in circulation?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:13 PM (ixS3i)
Which is why Jews became lenders for Christians - the kings especially - and then got named as public enemies committing usury when the kings decided they didn't want to pay the money back.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 06:14 PM (vJrRc)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 06:14 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 06:15 PM (VJX5o)
“We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna f your sisters and then your daughters.”
“We’re here to Destroy the White Race, beeatch.”
Posted by: The Dog at August 07, 2026 06:15 PM (XodLO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 06:15 PM (F7wxO)
Which is why Jews became lenders for Christians - the kings especially - and then got named as public enemies committing usury when the kings decided they didn't want to pay the money back.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
Converting "us"ury to "mine"ury!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:15 PM (ixS3i)
No Thermite Paint needed.
Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 06:16 PM (uzmqU)
Fergie wants a photo op to show how reasonable he is.
Trump could make it a political show and flip three house seats.
Hmmmm....
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (2WIwB)
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Fuck that shit. Stop giving them money.
There are lots of funds they can cut.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (aDhTQ)
Now, he makes it explicit, saying WTC 7 collapsed for "no explicable reason."
"Sure, T'qur!"
-- gravity
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (ixS3i)
I've got a pretty good guess where those cities are mostly located.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:18 PM (6ydKt)
215 He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)
He was born in New Jersey.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)
Yeah, I joke sometimes about Hasan Piker being on the 2028 ticket, but he does actually meet the Constitutional requirements, IIRC. The 'joke' gets less funny every day, as it looks more and more likely that Dems would actually nominate a hostile, culturally alien Jihad Socialist. Like Obama on Captagon (jihadi meth).
Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 06:18 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
There's no "I" in usury, but there are two "you's." So that loan is youse problem.
Posted by: its good to be the king at August 07, 2026 06:18 PM (VHUov)
Would someone tell Tucker to STFU and just go away.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:18 PM (2WIwB)
>>Abdul El-Sayed’s Father-in-Law Among Top Leaders of Muslim Brotherhood Org Linked to Terror Funding
https://tinyurl.com/3mft89rv
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 06:19 PM (2Cry5)
Same with their dietary rules - they are not about health or religion, it is about economic control and depriving non-muzzies of that market.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:19 PM (aDhTQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (Cqx++)
You know who else had one of his names begin with an "H"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (ixS3i)
Arrest every beating heart official that has even the slightest tie to protecting illegals and promoting fraud and protecting fraudsters of Federal funds etc etc.
Go big or get defeated in the mid terms.
The MAGA base wants a kinetic kind of America First. BIGLY. Motivate your voting base POTUS. . Ahora.
Posted by: Voter theater. at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (vgBUF)
This is exciting.
If the pop-ups are to be believed, if I take those little blue pills and do that one thing, Mrs D will start to look like that hot babe with the sultry come hither look!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:21 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 06:22 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 06:22 PM (QajKI)
Fuck that shit. Stop giving them money.
There are lots of funds they can cut.
The government has an infinite supply of money.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 06:22 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 06:23 PM (KY+FT)
What's your alternative, Tuq'r Carlsonov?
Socialism?
Jizya tax?
Some combination of the above?
Tucker is turning into Alex Jones with less ranting & raving and gay frogs, and more Islamic proselytizing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:23 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 06:25 PM (zZu0s)
Trump moves White House under Potomac Bridge
"Living under bridges is just what we trolls do."
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:25 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:23 PM (6ydKt)
Less Danzig covers and much less entertaining overall, I think you mean.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 06:26 PM (zZu0s)
Gosh. I couldn’t buy a house outright.
Or a car
Or finance school.
Fuck you, Tucker. Just fuck right off.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 06:26 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 06:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:27 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
General of Artillery Ernst-Eberhard Hell
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (DZ9Lv)
Socialism?
Jizya tax?
Some combination of the above?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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The alternative is a sharia compliant arrangement, which is exactly the same thing, except the lender owns whatever it is you need the money for, and you pay him a rental for use of that property. You buy it off him (principal) each month and continue to pay rental (interest) on what is left. It comes out the exact same as interest, but it has to be done through their legal system, their lawyers, their accountants, and their courts if not complied with.
It is a total fucking sham, designed to introduce sharia and control the financial side of their economy.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (aDhTQ)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Yeah, they do get encrusted after a while. Best to switch to a new one every now and then.
Posted by: teeaage masturbator at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:21 PM (2WIwB)
But will her hooterage become pronounced? That is the key...
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 06:30 PM (j10i6)
Posted by: J Edward Griffin at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (2ap+5)
Jobs report this morning showed half a million fewer foreign workers compared to last year. But America is becoming a big beautiful white and gold country with plenty of jobs requiring a goose step.
People voted for this in exchange for having racism enacted as national policy. You got the racism you wanted now enjoy the economy.
Every time I turn on the radio it is: "Company replaces 20,000 people with AI". How much is that hurting employment on top of racist deportations?
But manufacturing is back in America, gas prices are lower and groceries are cheap now though, right? Right?!? Ah well, at least we got rid of all those pesky immigrants!
Unemployment is near all-time lows, real wages are at all time highs, consumer purchasing is at all time highs, and the market reflects that. This isn’t such bad news for anyone outside the Reddit bubble.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (ZwRB6)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 06:26 PM (zZu0s)
Tucker should just hit rewind and go back a few years to talking about UFOs and debating with the Liberal Sherpa.
He was at least watchable then.
He's gone way too far down the rabbit hole now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 06:32 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Qatari Rials at August 07, 2026 06:33 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:31 PM (6ydKt)
In a lot of ways, his progression has been a lot like Cap'n Kristol- just more extreme at both ends. Kristols is just money and going to lib parties.
Tucker is more like the zealot, it's just he converted from one religion to another. Drugs can be involved.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 06:34 PM (ZwRB6)
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Yes they do! And like every other topic Moslems touch, they lie lie lie in how they structure it so as pretend they aren't doing it while clearly doing it. The buyer knows it, the seller knows it, the lender knows it. Its one of the stupidest charades invented. One version of it is quite literally this:
"No, I'm not buying this house for $200,000 and borrowing money with payable interest to do so. No siree, not at all. I'm buying this house for $700,000 in monthly installments and there's no interest at all. Its completely Islamic, and Mohammed himself would approve if he weren't a fictional pedophile."
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (TN0g+)
Unemployment is near all-time lows, real wages are at all time highs, consumer purchasing is at all time highs, and the market reflects that. This isn’t such bad news for anyone outside the Reddit bubble.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
How did that guy sneak in there?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (Av6i5)
Unemployment is near all-time lows, real wages are at all time highs, consumer purchasing is at all time highs, and the market reflects that. This isn’t such bad news for anyone outside the Reddit bubble.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
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Who let these two into the bubble? Someone needs to ban then, stat.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (aDhTQ)
It is a total fucking sham, designed to introduce sharia and control the financial side of their economy.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:29 PM (aDhTQ)
It's the only thing that we've found that works halfway decently.
Capital has to be spread around.
The most efficient way is charging interest.
If government is in charge of spreading capital around then it will eventually be, sooner rather than later, corrupted by politics and depleted by theft.
Time, experience, history, and current events, have proven this again and again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:35 PM (6ydKt)
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It's (D)ifferent when we do it.
They get to do what they want, even when it's illegal, nobody else gets to do what they want, even when it's lawful and required. The ratchet only turns one way.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 06:36 PM (7j7XD)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:37 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 06:37 PM (iySPJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 06:37 PM (JvZF+)
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"appear to be disappearing..."
Needs an editor. And a fact-checker.
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 06:38 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 06:39 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 06:39 PM (Cqx++)
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If they really cared, they'd stop turning on the radio.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:39 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 06:37 PM (2WIwB)
I thought we had the burrito thread already.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:39 PM (88C+u)
Maybe he should be quiet
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 06:40 PM (lCppi)
People turn on radios? In 2026?
Posted by: Ian S. at August 07, 2026 06:40 PM (o3/x/)
FTFY.
Posted by: zombie
FIFBOY
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2026 06:40 PM (ZwRB6)
Or couldn't they just keep adding the Save Act to every bill? Just tack it onto the end and let everyone discover it after it's passed.
Hundreds of thousands without water in Peurto Rico.
And Trump's Ballroom in the news. Rogue judge. Self delete.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:41 PM (Sco7b)
I mean, we said worse here, except maybe the last one.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 07, 2026 06:41 PM (9ZFZd)
There is no choice but to let the grass grow around my roofless house with bare stud walls.
Posted by: J Edward Griffin at August 07, 2026 06:41 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Nathan at August 07, 2026 06:41 PM (KMIjy)
Posted by: Crusader
You've touched on a sensitive subject. We need to get our belief system straight, otherwise we're being internally inconsistent.
Only one of these can be true:
1. Mohammed is a fictional character, a totally made-up fairytale invented centuries after the fact to give a focal point to their Arabic death cult.
or
2. Mohammed was a real person -- a real schizophrenic genocidal child-molester whose personal evil and insanity is used as a template for perfection by a billion small-dicked Morlocks.
One or the other -- which is it?
Compromise theory: Mohammed is a fictional schizophrenic genocidal child-molester.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:42 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 06:43 PM (QajKI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 06:44 PM (KY+FT)
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Yes, he's both. There is little historical evidence from his alleged "contemporaries" AND their "holy book" records that he's a pedophile.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:44 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 06:44 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:42 PM (Av6i5)
If you're making up a Prophet, giving him a 6 year old wife is probably not a good move.
The 72 virgins was though.
Especially amongst guys who get excited at exposed female ankles.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:45 PM (Sco7b)
No, none at all. Ignore the 747s collapsing buildings all around it.
What a cuck. I mean, look at all those buildings in Gaza and the West Bank that collapsed just like WTC7. All those buildings in Beruit that went down the same way. The constructions codes for the whole East coast were upgraded to avoid this sort of collapse, all new buildings and retrofitting in some of them to avoid this sort of problem in the future.
He is a dumbass, the facts are written in concrete.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (rbvCR)
What an idiot. Why does he hate capitalism?
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (CHHv1)
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But he could run for office in Maine as a Democrat.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: J Edward Griffin at August 07, 2026 06:47 PM (2ap+5)
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We need Flock cameras, let's do it!
_average City Council
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (xHEjv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
No, no! Those are Jewish lies! The text says the men of al-Zutt rode him all night in the desert. He was obviously giving them horsey-rides, alhamdulillah, because he is all wise and most merciful.
Posted by: Embarrassed Muslim Apologists desperate for an excuse at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (ZwRB6)
With cities getting what amounts to bribery money to behave as they are already required to behave is not a good play (and an abuse of my tax dollars).
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (dIske)
They must be scared of losing Michigan.
Abdul at the Jewish drag queen story hours will fix everything.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
Because Jews use Muslims as a weapon to destroy the West, you fool! Aren't you up on the latest self-contradicting lefto-Nazi theories??
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 07, 2026 06:49 PM (LgYtf)
Bernie is not from within; in spite of running for the demoncrat peznitcy nomination he is not of the party but independent.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 06:49 PM (Y8DZL)
Yep, debt is freedom. Think of all those sharecroppers in their freedom plots in the South, and the freedom of the company town to order whatever they have in the company store available on pure credit.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: zombie
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He is a fictional character, based on historical preachers and loons and who happened to have that name.
The arabs understood that they were up against Jews and Christians, who had a mythology, a book, and important prophets and teachers.
So they created one. They cobbled together a book, seemingly based on ranting from an anti-Jewish itinerant lecturer and whatever scraps of historical stories they had laying around the tent.
They refined that book, and the man and mythology it described, over a couple centuries to make sure it included all the perversities they felt important.
Mostly though, it was a slave manual. Their goal was to conquer and convert the conquered into slaves. Slaves who are humiliated ("make sure your forehead touches the floor, and clean your feet before you enter my house, slave") and who would continue to conquer, and also give money to the leaders, mostly through the visit to temple which was how most temples and religions and governments made money in those days.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 06:50 PM (aDhTQ)
Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 07, 2026 06:49 PM (LgYtf)
in the Middle Ages in Europe usury was a crime, but if you borrowed money you had to pay it back and pay any "damages" for failure to pay on time. That was the way one rolled a debt over period to period.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2026 06:53 PM (K32Fz)
But I also think that at this point it doesn't really matter.
He is their prophet regardless of his actual existence.
A lot of people say Jesus didn't exist and it means nothing to Christians.
At some point it just becomes academic debate.
That Muhammad was a Bedouin con-artist, brigand and warlord with delusions of grandeur (and other probable delusions) is for certain.
He invented one of the most deadly and tyrannical cults in human history. No one else has come close other than the greats like Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:53 PM (6ydKt)
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The institutional version of that is laid out in post #52.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:55 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 06:56 PM (iySPJ)
Posted by: Fact at August 07, 2026 06:56 PM (Bz1XI)
With cities getting what amounts to bribery money to behave as they are already required to behave is not a good play (and an abuse of my tax dollars).
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 06:48 PM (dIske)
Hamiltonian approach to government. The purpose of the government is to encourage production and well being. Hamilton looked at loans for transportation infrastructure and tariffs to exclude foreign competition.
All in all, not the worst use of tax money and regulatory power.
Look at it this way, if Trump doesn't do the grants, China will, and China will have a belt and road type agreement on paying back, just like in Canada or Mozambique, but China will look for "we place an industry to benefit us, you give us the waiver, and we pay you more than the bare lot you have made of your industrial zone can pay"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 06:56 PM (rbvCR)
*golfclap*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 06:57 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: bob
My favorite fact about eh Quran is that it is organized in the worst and most illogical way possible: Not chronological. Not by order of importance. Not even alphabetical. No, the chapters are organized by size -- IN REVERSE ORDER, WITH THE LONGEST CHAPTER FIRST, and the shortest chapter last.
Everything is jumbled up, time-wise. Important parts are buried near the end, boring tedious meaningless repetitive parts are at the beginning, etc. It's like they were ensuring that no one would ever want to read it.
It's beyond absurd. The whole "religion" is a like a satire.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)
At best a posthumously glorified war lord. There are no contemporary historical records of the man. If he did exist, surely some contemporary Byzantine writer would have mentioned him, just as Josephus mentions Jesus (probably distorted by later copyists) and Jesus’ brother James (probably undistorted).
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (h86Sx)
Posted by: Some Jewish Guy at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (YcOeP)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (NYInA)
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Damn straight brother.
Posted by: Tuqr Qarlson at August 07, 2026 06:59 PM (Bz1XI)
Oooh~ someone doesn't like Asians~
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 07:00 PM (vJrRc)
It's beyond absurd. The whole "religion" is a like a satire.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (Av6i5)
The Bible was in a terrible mess with bad translations and political glosses and interpretations and inclusions at the end of the middle ages. One of the impulses of the Reformation was to re-interpret the Bible from source documents, and a number of talented translators were burned at the stake or worse because of their efforts.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 07:01 PM (3ZNGI)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 07:01 PM (lZcE0)
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 07:02 PM (TN0g+)
Infidel is in the title.
Progress.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:02 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Diogenes
Only if it's Groundhog Day, then it's same shit, same day.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 07:03 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:00 PM (rbvCR)
Dawg, Erasmus was Catholic. And remained Catholic.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 07:04 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:05 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 07:05 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:05 PM (Ot/FD)
To be fair, most Muslims seem to hate the Palestinians.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:06 PM (zZu0s)
I apologize for nothing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:07 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s)
Wrong, "opportunity costs" are real.
Communists don't recognize opportunity costs, they only recognize "the value of labor"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (rbvCR)
I agree with much of what you said, but consider whom we're dealing with.
"... is aimed at helping cities hire more police officers, upgrade technology, and build temporary detention facilities for illegal migrants, the Washington Post reported."
Do you truly believe that is where the grants are going to be applied? Consider the demeanor of Mayors in deep blue cities. Consider what they always focus upon. And, consider the piss poor oversight on any grants of this nature. We may just be financing free healthcare for illegals at the end of the day...and serving as an enticement for more to show up.
It's like giving $5 to your kid for lunch money and telling him not to buy candy with it. I good son will listen. The others....well they are in charge of blue cities.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Kindltot
And, if you read the history of how the Biblical canon was developed in the first place and eventually finalized, it is pretty messy and embarrassing. A lot of sacred texts existed back then, but determining which of them were inviolable and eternal and holy, and which were fake-ass garbage-writing to be excluded, was a very drawn-out and very human-influenced rumble.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 07:09 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Did whites and western colonialism make Muslims Islamophobic, or was it the Jews?!?!?!? I need to know who to blame!
Posted by: AWFL wearing Free Palestine shirt at August 07, 2026 07:09 PM (ZwRB6)
People were being denied Transplants due to not being vaccinated.... some of whom died.
So... as Fauci LIED about the Vaccines, which drove the Hospitals to create the policies, which killed people...
Negligent Homicide?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:11 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (dIske)
Those are the kids who take the $5 they're given, beat up nine other kids for their $5 too, then go burn $50 in the parking lot and complain about how their parents never set them up for success by giving them $10.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:12 PM (Ot/FD)
>>@SeanParnellASW
·
43m
>>Effective immediately, the Department of War has REVOKED former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified information and his ability to hold any sensitive position.
>>This action follows his unauthorized disclosure of classified information regarding Air Force One’s capabilities to a media outlet.
>>Safeguarding classified information is a non-negotiable duty. Those who violate that trust forfeit the privilege of access and any role requiring it
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:13 PM (mP0Kj)
I still want bloodlines eliminated for the shit that went on during that time.
If there was a way to keep the fooled and coerced around and let all the jabbers just die, that would be great.....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:13 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 07:14 PM (KC5Lt)
People were being denied Transplants due to not being vaccinated.... some of whom died.
So... as Fauci LIED about the Vaccines, which drove the Hospitals to create the policies, which killed people...
Negligent Homicide?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:11 PM (mP0Kj)
What's really messed up is that one of the side effects of the Covid shot was transplant rejection. The Japanese noticed this with cornea transplants which is the least likely transplant to be rejected because it's out of reach of the immune attack cells.
Posted by: Emmie at August 07, 2026 07:14 PM (OlzlW)
Young camels are the best!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 07:14 PM (W4Q3h)
Posted by: Romeo13
Hell, I'd even go to the theater for that.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:15 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:13 PM (mP0Kj)
After getting hit by lightning he wakes up, looks in the mirror, and realizes he's turned into a Saracen.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:15 PM (Ot/FD)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2026 07:15 PM (ZwRB6)
Um, if the guy is a FORMER Secretary of the Air Force... Fired in 2025...
Uh, how does he still HAVE a Security Clearance?
When I left the Military, my Clearance was immediately suspended (ie, could not use it), for a number of months (where it could be reinstated), before being totally revoked.
Why do Civilians keep theirs, when Military folks loose theirs immediately?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:16 PM (mP0Kj)
A gladiator movie!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 07:17 PM (W4Q3h)
OMG! I hadn't heard about that bit. What a horrible catch-22 for patients.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:17 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Depending on what they do and where the next job is, it's called Transfer in Status. As long as the background investigation is still current.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 07:18 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:13 PM (mP0Kj)
After getting hit by lightning he wakes up, looks in the mirror, and realizes he's turned into a Saracen.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2026 07:15 PM (Ot/FD)
Duncan McCloud goes back to Scotland, and sees it is taken over by Moslems.... gets pissed.
Hilarity ensues.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:18 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13
Vlad Teppis.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
Even better.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:19 PM (wOO3z)
They were do convinced Netanyahu was killed by an Iranian missile.
They were convinced McConnel was dead.
They’re very unserious people. But we already knew that.
Posted by: Fact at August 07, 2026 07:19 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:19 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 07:18 PM (2WIwB)
Would it not be... oh... sane... that when they leave a job, theirs is suspended just like Military folks?
Hell, depending on where I was working while active, my Clearance went up and down like a Yo Yo.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (mP0Kj)
Wasn't it only a month ago that a skyscraper in NYC had to be evactuated because the support beams themselves were buckling? The Pfizer one? And there weren't two major fireball explosions going off at the time, either.
Posted by: Another Anon at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (4h45B)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 07:09 PM (Av6i5)
*Kicks the dirt*
Posted by: Arius at August 07, 2026 07:20 PM (9ZFZd)
>>@EYakoby
·
5h
>>BREAKING: The Muslim Brotherhood’s official website is openly celebrating Abdul El-Seyed’s win.
>>How many more warning signs do voters need?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:21 PM (viF8m)
And of course it wasn't because the unvaxed patients posed any additional risk, it was just another way to punish the nonbelievers.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (vTZFs)
It's beyond absurd. The whole "religion" is a like a satire.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:58 PM (Av6i5)
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The other fun aspect about the Koran is that parts that were later written abrogate or cancel earlier bits.
The most militant bits are the later-written Suras that encourage war and destruction against the infidel. Those take precedence over the earlier Suras when Mo was trying to convert the Jews rather than kill them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (FZ29D)
Totally agree. I don't like that high level military retirees get to keep their clearance as well. They claim it's so they're up to speed in case of getting recalled in an emergency, but that doesn't happen nearly as often as they go on political talk shows and tease what they may know.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: JackStraw
We're not dealing with rocket surgeons here.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (wOO3z)
YouTube has placed the fox-girl VTuber Smug Alana on a Seven-Day suspension for reacting to a video in which mosquitos are killed.
According to YouTube this reaction violates their rules on graphic violence.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:24 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:24 PM (2GVsD)
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Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:21 PM (viF8m)
He could behead an infidel everyday on camera uluating and praising allah and probably still get 32% of the vote.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:25 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Arius
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Guy deserved to be punched by Santa Claus. Didn't happen but Arian heresy is believed by serious scholars of the history of Islam to be one of the key building blocks of Islam. Iconoclasm was another.
And the whole challenge is put forth pithily by CS Lewis, either you believe what Jesus said or you don't believe in any of at because you think he was a madman. You either believe in the Resurrection or you don't. If you don't and you don't believe that Jesus was the son of the Lord, then you are not a Christian. It is binary, not a spectrum.
The Trinitarian doctrine is actually well established in Gospel but those who believe rationality is all end up becoming deniers of the whole New Testament and those prophesies of the Old that lead to it.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:26 PM (E4rtv)
Seems like that would make arrangement in chronological order important. That way you'd know what you could ignore.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:26 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:24 PM (2GVsD)
Thats bizarre.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JackStraw
Michigan Senator Slotkin, who is Jewish, endorsed him. So apparently a lot more warning signs are needed.
Posted by: Fact fact at August 07, 2026 07:27 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:08 PM (dIske)
Under Biden or Obama -- Even Trump 1 I would agree. This is the administration that is finding fraud and making the fraudulent agencies and people pay it back.
Let's just say I think we have a prayer this time around.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 07:28 PM (rbvCR)
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Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 07:17 PM (lFFaq)
Unfortunately, I did not make a collection of the jab adverse reaction stories and it would be difficult for me to find it. I've noticed a lot of stuff has been buried.
Posted by: Emmie at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: zombie
Less messy than you would suppose. It turns out that most revisionist scholarship leaks like a sieve as both recent archeology and document analysis using computers show those first Gospels were pretty much on the money in agreement, goes for Paul, Acts, and other of the current accepted books.
In contrast, most of the so called banned books were never really taken seriously by the mainstream of worship and none of them are even close to contemporary with the time of Christ. Such as the Gospels of Judas or Thomas. Both have serious problems theologically and historically and disagree not only with the New Testament but the Old as well.
Enoch is an interesting work but that was not a Christian text in the first place but Judaic wisdom scholarship prior to the events of the new Testament.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (E4rtv)
Ask 'red' states how stingy Barky and Biden were about declaring disaster status after they had some big floods or whatever. Its refreshing to have an admin that knows both parties can play the game of making it easier for their voter base areas to get federal money.
Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (PV+Zw)
The obvious counter to Lewis is to confront him with epistemology. That is, to ask him how sure he is about the sources.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 07:36 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (h86Sx)
Seems like that would make arrangement in chronological order important. That way you'd know what you could ignore.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
Mo was illiterate and these are alleged to be his words faithfully recorded by those around him. Due to Islamic destruction of a lot of history that disagrees with the Koran, there are at least a couple of centuries where we cannot firmly say what was in the Koran or not as existing documents prior to the Topkapi manuscript are fragmentary. This Koran has been dated to about the early to mid 8th century and is a nearly complete text of the Quran. In that respect, it is most likely the oldest near-complete Quran in existence.
Considerably different to the Old and New Testaments.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)
The obvious counter to Lewis is to confront him with epistemology. That is, to ask him how sure he is about the sources.
Posted by: 88C+u
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Nope, the problem is that if you start with rational materialism as a starting place, you have no room for beliefs in things beyond materialism in the first place. Your axioms come from a different place altogether and thus there is no discussion with you to be had.
Lots of sound and noise but at the end of the day, it is belief in rationalism as an end all be all rather than Christianity and which is akin to putting modern words in ancient mouths by somehow believing our generation is smarter than those old sods.
Those Apostles went cheerfully to their deaths over their beliefs--would you risk your material existence like they would if they believed it was all metaphysical stories.
So no, you take the text as it comes and don't get endless redoes to fit modern sensibilities.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 07:48 PM (zZu0s)
They used Saudi fall guys, but it was their show.
There is almost no attack or bombing in this country not sponsored in some way by them.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 07, 2026 08:56 PM (/rJ2j)
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Let me help you.
Posted by: Google at August 08, 2026 10:54 AM (4NO2D)
Of Course: Jason Arday Got $1.4 Million for "His Memoir," Which Was, Of Course, Ghostwritten by a White Woman;
Comparing His Initial Proposal and the Book Itself, The Atlantic Finds More Cases of Fabulism and Lying
Before that: the Metropolitan Police said "oops, ooopsie" about investigating a reporter for four whole months because a black fraudster and scamster said that it was "distressing" him and harming his mental health to be questioned at all. And I do want to emphasize that this is an "oops, oopsie" non-apology. The head of the Met is completely frivolous and unserious about his organization acting as a Gestapo for a foreign scammer:
The head of the Metropolitan Police has said his force should not have investigated a journalist who was looking into plagiarism claims about a University of Cambridge professor. Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers "dropped the ball" when they looked into a complaint made against journalist Jack Grove over his attempts to contact Prof Jason Arday. Sir Mark told broadcaster LBC the complaint should have been "screened out earlier on as not requiring investigation". ...To see how off-handed, flippant, and non-apologetic this "oops, oopsie" is, see this video. They'll do it again tomorrow. And then they'll just say "garsh we dropped the ball on that one, boy is our face red" the next time. For his part, Arday is blaming the university that gave him a Ph.D. for his fake and plagiarized paper, saying they hadn't given his autistic grifting ass enough "supervision."
Times Higher Education (THE) reporter Grove said he had been investigating allegations Arday had plagiarised parts of his PhD, and contacted him in 2025 to offer him the right of reply. "In early February I received a call from a Met police officer saying that a complaint had been raised against me by someone and Professor Arday was very distressed and I shouldn't contact him again," Grove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "It was a complete shock. Apparently it was for harassment but I hadn't contacted him for four months and then maybe I think I've only sent three or four emails to him in total." The Met closed its inquiries into the case. Sir Mark told LBC: "We dropped the ball on that one, let's not beat around the bush. "A report came in of harassment or some crime like that, it should have been screened out as not requiring investigation... "We shouldn't have made that call to him [Grove] and said that."
Now I know why that white girl in the last post pretends to be disabled and riddled with Tourettes: It's an amazingly lucrative grift. So Simon & Schuster paid this "superstar" nobody $1.4 million in a fake advance. (Fake because it's not a real "advance" -- they had no hope of every recouping this from sales. They just wanted to be in the DEI Superstar Jason Arday Business.) To get this DEI Jackpot, Arday submitted a proposal, telling Simon & Schuster the Amazing Tales they would get in exchange for their money. The Atlantic has a copy of that proposal, as well as the book itself which will be released next week. They find that Jason Arday further confabulated the lies already present in the proposal:
The Telegraph published three excerpts from Arday's dissertation alongside the original sources from which he is alleged to have plagiarized. In some instances, the passages are virtually identical; in others, only minor wording changes distinguish them. The controversy centers on allegations that, while Arday cited the original author elsewhere in his dissertation, he failed to properly attribute the passages in question. Arday has maintained that the omission was attributable to his autism. The BBC reported last week, "Arday did not dispute the allegations of plagiarism, but defended himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities."
Paul EmberyI'm thinking "Desperado."
@PaulEmbery 11h This is wild. The Atlantic has obtained a copy of Jason Arday's book proposal. In it, he claims to have: - Experienced 'locked-in' syndrome for several months after being hit by a car. Doctors advised his family to have the life support machine turned off, but he awakened 'miraculously' - Been struck down by testicular cancer (though this changes in the book to brain cancer) - Been beaten up by a group of kids and then, in court, pleaded with the judge not to jail them. Coincidentally, two of the kids later became his students, and Arday became godfather to the child of one of them - Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
- Been awarded several accolades - of which no proof exists online. - Been told by a 'shaman woman' in Brazil that he would suffer greatly but also do great thing. 'Every event she described has since come to pass,' he wrote. The book is due for publication next week by @simonschuster. Surely they have to pull it.LOL, of course they won't. Don't be a dope. Here are excerpts from The Atlantic, comparing the lies in the proposal to the lies in the actual book.
According to a cover letter that his agent sent to publishers at the time, Arday's book, to be titled Great and Unfortunate Things, would be "an awe-inspiring tale of near mythic proportions." That now appears to be an understatement. Arday's story was indeed astonishing: As a toddler, he was diagnosed with autism and developmental delays; he didn't fully speak until the age of 11; he learned to read and write only as an adult. Arday's parents are Ghanaian immigrants; he grew up wearing homemade clothes and hustling for cash by playing snooker.By the way, there's no evidence he ever played snooker for money.
Yet in spite of all these obstacles and many, many others he has recounted over the years, Arday found a way to go to university and then to graduate school. Eventually, he got his Ph.D., and then he became a star. "We are so lucky to have you," Cambridge's head of faculty for education, Hilary Cremin, told him in a clip shown on BBC shortly after his hiring was announced. "You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do." But in the past two weeks, Arday's near-mythic (or perhaps purely mythic) tale has disintegrated. In July, a philosopher named Nathan Cofnas published a long Substack post reviewing apparent evidence of plagiarism in Arday's academic work. Cofnas posted 36 passages from Arday's 2015 dissertation, about student teaching, which reproduce or closely track text found in a 2009 dissertation from another scholar in the field, Paula Zwozdiak-Myers. Arday looks to have even copied from and rearranged Zwozdiak-Myers's title, and in doing so to have misused an apostrophe.
It's more embarrassing than that. His title uses the word "teachers," just the plural of teacher, but he puts an apostrophe after it to make it a possessive. And then he does that in the entire paper, too. People have pointed out that is plagiarism is proven by the fact that typos and misspellings in the text he copied are perfectly reproduced in his "own" paper, which of course means he just cut and paste someone else's work. But the "teachers'" type seems to be an Arday Original, at least. Oh: As someone commented, just interviewing people and writing down their feelings is the "lowest-hanging fruit" of the (scam) research world. Most fake DEI papers, including "Doctor" Jill Biden's, consist of just interviewing your friends and fellow students and then "analyzing" their "lived experiences." That's mostly what Arday's doctoral paper is -- but then he doesn't even do the lowest of low-hanging fruit of the fake research world. He just cribs the interviews from the paper he's copying and claims he conducted the interviews himself!
Quotes from structured interviews that Arday claimed to have performed closely resembled those used by other researchers; parts of some interview responses also reappeared across different studies under Arday's name, attributed to different people. This duplication, if deliberate, would be something other than plagiarism--it would be academic fraud. (The website Retraction Watch reports that two of Arday's papers were quietly corrected.)He's continuing to insist that all scrutiny of his lies and fraud is racist:
Now, on to the comparison of Arday's claims in the proposal and the claims made in the book:
Arday did not respond to questions from The Atlantic, but he told The Times last week that he is not a "liar" or a "fantasist" and that he'd been given insufficient supervision as a graduate student, especially in light of his learning disabilities: "It's more likely that I've made a mistake, there's a clerical error. It's not that I've fabricated." He also seemed to address such allegations at a conference in April for the British Sociological Association, where he gave a talk about pervasive efforts to discredit Black scholars including himself. "These people are brilliant, perversely brilliant," he told his colleagues. "There are times when you look at what they're doing and you say to yourself, Well done, well played, very good. You've caught me [in] a thousand knots--how do I get myself out of this situation?"
Co-wrote? You mean, she wrote it entirely, based on his verbal claims. Aren't academics supposed to write their own books?
Great and Unfortunate Things, which Arday co-wrote with Eve Claxton, is still scheduled to come out next week from Simon & Schuster.
The story that it tells should not be taken at face value; it differs notably from other versions of his life that Arday has shared in public and in private, including in the original proposal he sent out with his agent. But the book is also, in a way, very honest and quite telling: It provides a vivid portrait of a man who was always manifestly ill-equipped for academia yet found a way to reach its upper levels. This is not someone else's cruel assessment of Arday's tragic and improbable career. It's his own. The memoir begins with a prophecy. It's 2006, and Jason Arday, then 21 years old, is installing water pumps in the favelas of Brazil and showing children how to use them. A local aid worker--"a woman in her thirties with dark hair and eyes and a gentle, steady way about her"--touches his arm and softly tells him that he is destined to suffer in his life but also to do great things. "After the trip was over, I never saw the woman again, but her words stayed with me," Arday writes, "and, you might say, her prediction came true." The rest of the book is an elaboration on this moment: Arday suffers; Arday overcomes. The doctors who assessed him as a toddler told his mother that "there's no one in there" and that he was "no better than a vegetable." Even his speech therapist wasn't optimistic that he'd ever learn to talk. (At one point, she also physically abused him, the memoir says.) As a boy, Arday rocked and hummed and banged his head until he bled; he slammed cupboard doors and smeared his feces on the walls. Yet still, eventually, he started to verbalize. Still, eventually, he made his way through school. Tribulations piled up throughout his life. Arday is nearly deaf in one ear; he's dyslexic; he finds simple math befuddling; he has "marked difficulties" with memory, reading, and processing skills. As a teen, he was beaten so severely by a group of kids his age that he became an epileptic. To make his way through secondary school while--by his own account--illiterate, he needed ample help: support assistants who sat beside him in class and took notes on his behalf. When Arday applied to university, his girlfriend, Debs--who had been teaching him to read--"wrote out" the application on his behalf, including the personal statement. In university, a friend who took the same courses sat beside him, sharing notes. (She's "the only reason I survived" university, he says.) By the time Arday started on his master's degree, he writes, he was reading at about the same level as his 3-year-old daughter. Still, he pressed onward. Still, somehow, he got a teaching job. His obstacles were only multiplying, though. Money was tight, so after each day of teaching, Arday writes, he had to work an overnight shift in a supermarket, from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., and then a morning shift as a cleaner from 5:30 to 7:30. The only time he had left to write his dissertation was when he was commuting between London, where he lived, and Liverpool, where he taught. On those semiweekly five-hour rides, the book explains, he would open up his laptop on the plastic seat-back table and start typing out his thesis, hunt-and-peck style. As his dissertation deadline approached, Arday started having blurry vision; medical scans revealed a brain tumor. After it was removed, he had a ministroke and lost his short-term memory.This sounds like a collection of excuses he gave to teachers and professors to get them to give him a passing grade for failure-level work.
Below: When asked why he told such tall tales without including any evidence to support them, he responds, "To be honest with you, I just thought you'd believe me." Exactly.
When you succeed against pretty much insurmountable odds," Arday writes in the book, "it weirdly makes people question your credibility." Is it weird? I don't think it's weird. When you keep succeeding against insurmountable odds, the facts of your surmounting will be bound to get a second look.
... But the most disturbing inconsistencies arise from Arday's book proposal, a copy of which was obtained by The Atlantic. That document, from 2024, cites several accolades of which no proof exists online. The proposal also lays out many of the same events as the memoir but with slightly different dates and details: The boys who beat him up were not his age but four years older; his suicide attempt happened before, not during, the pandemic. And whereas the book describes Arday as having survived two brain tumors, the proposal says he had a bout of testicular cancer. No reference to that illness appears in the memoir. Nor does the book describe the time that Arday, then a teenager, was struck by a car and spent several months in a coma. According to the book proposal, the doctors told his parents that he would never recover, and suggested taking him off life support "as an act of mercy." Through all of this, he was aware of everything that was going on, because he had locked-in syndrome. "As I will describe to readers in the book," Arday wrote in the proposal, "these months afforded me another profoundly different way of perceiving the world." The book doesn't describe any of this, nor that he awakened "miraculously" from the coma, nor the full year he spent "relearning everything--how to walk, to talk." Instead, the memoir tells us only that he spent those months finishing his final year of secondary school and taking his exams. "I was relieved, beyond relieved," the memoir says, when those were done. Then there is the prophecy--the revelation Arday was given in Brazil, that he would suffer greatly and also do great things. According to the proposal, this occurred in 2005, not 2006, and the message came not from a local aid worker in her 30s but from "an elder in the small town where I had been assigned, who was well-known in the area for predicting people's futures." (Later in the proposal, he calls this person a "shaman woman.") "Do you know the story of Spartacus, the escaped slave who led a rebellion against the Romans?" this town elder asks, before telling him his fate in minute detail. "Every event she described," Arday writes in the proposal, "has since come to pass."
"To be honest with you, I thought you'd just believe me" pic.twitter.com/ldsVvHjyuW
— S. I. Rubinstein (@si_rubinstein) August 1, 2026
This guy claims he want to school with Arday when Arday was, according to his Official Biographical Bullshit, entirely mute and non-verbal. This guy says he was always "chatty" and running his mouth.
Tik Tok account says he was at Heathbrook Primary School with Jason Arday who was far from mute... pic.twitter.com/8SQLBnve4v
— Sidsy (@GrumpyOW) August 7, 2026
for more on jason arday's hallucinatory megalomania, check out this excerpt from his forthcoming @simonschustermemoir memoir: claims that a woman who gazed upon him received a "prophecy" that he was destined for "great things" & "sad and difficult things," like a hero of myth pic.twitter.com/xw6YavULQd
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) August 3, 2026
Ladies and gentlemen, the youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University. pic.twitter.com/eVnn7prdWO
— Will Kingston (@WillKingston) August 2, 2026
It’s not like Jason Arday was was genius scam artist, articulate and able to fool the finest minds. No, he’s a literal moron that no one dared challenge due to DEI. You could find diverse yoof saying this in a Year 10 history class. pic.twitter.com/UM6DSgYLBl
— David (@merrieenglander) August 5, 2026
Professor Jason Arday in a rare behind-the-scenes photo of his first acting role as 1987's 'Predator' also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. https://t.co/976gcgjCn9 pic.twitter.com/oq7GnWnsnh
— 𝚝𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚎 (@tapedrone) August 6, 2026
Hans Mahncke"You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."
@HansMahncke 20h The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, "learing" centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (ExV1e)
Probably Baba O'Reily
Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:02 PM (uzmqU)
How he fooled anyone but bleeding heart DEI's is true.
I would love to see a taped lecture of his. Love it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (hzuYO)
In fairness to Sir Mark Rowley, they were acting as a Gestapo for someone who is, reportedly, a black man. The fact that he's both foreign and a scammer is just a bonus.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (ExV1e)
I am glad to be out.
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 05:03 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (2jv4y)
Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (uzmqU)
This is not a completely unreasonable take.
Sure, he could have been honest and done scholarly work but... that's hard. They're supposed to check.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (g9+4z)
I would love to see a taped lecture of his. Love it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Somewhere on X, someone posted a review by a student of Arday at his first university as a lecturer. Basically thought, the gist of it was that the whole course ended up a waste of time as Arday never even taught as such, just rambled about celebrities and politics.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Stephen Glass at August 07, 2026 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Probably Baba O'Reily
is this a joke I'm not getting?
Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (1wjle)
Why not?
Posted by: Zombie Jesse Jackson, Race Hustler and Warlord Jew Hater at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (45BvE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (ndZc7)
Thus ruining the very pants he was returning! You see Elaine, *that* is interesting writing!
Posted by: J. Peterman, White Warrior Poet at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (1wjle)
I finally saw him in a clip doing an interview.
He talks like Michael Jackson.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)
This is not a completely unreasonable take.
Sure, he could have been honest and done scholarly work but... that's hard. They're supposed to check.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
They have no incentive to do so with a DEI 'star'. One whiff of being accused as racist would have doomed their comfortable world. I once knew a grad student, DEI of course, that bragged her major professor wrote her dissertation. Public admin. Vile person, went to a name school, did not make it past pre tenure review and became a college administrator instead.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv)
You've heard of an Oxford comma? That's just a Cambridge apostrophe.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (ExV1e)
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The fact that academics tolerate this sort of thing and have for while tells you that none of them do serious work. They know it's all a put-on and admire people willing to push the envelope.
The good news is that colleges are already closing down, so we can watch all these scholars clear tables in the near future.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)
Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (uzmqU)
it's hostage puppies all the way down.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:07 PM (E4rtv)
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The University of Michigan is going to eliminate grades for the college of Literature, Science and Arts. All freshmen will get pass/fail grades for their first year so the poor dears don't stress themselves out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Beverly at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (reMys)
This guy reminds of of the worst of Ruby Rod. Right down to the shiny face.
Wait, isn't that how ace described garrett?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: beckster at August 07, 2026 05:09 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (KY+FT)
_________________
Lyin' Eyes
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (dIske)
Why cant you see
What youre doing to me
When you don't believe
A word I say?
Posted by: The King at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)
https://tinyurl.com/59phn7yw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (ndZc7)
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Explains a lot.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:10 PM (3fZgy)
The good news is that colleges are already closing down, so we can watch all these scholars clear tables in the near future.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Some do but most of them have their heads down and are just trying to finish their careers in peace because any doubter in the religion of Woke means unending misery from that point onwards. Rather like late Communism in Eastern Europe--you aren't killed exactly but admin moves your office to an obcure place, you get all intro classes, no summer money for research or teaching, and your colleagues actively shun you. Then come the bad reviews using vague words like not collegial, not open to diversity initiatives, etc. Seen it happen to friends of mine.
Some of the most vile people that you will ever meet outside of a prison are in academia. The only thing is that they like to espouse violence but not actually do it. Lawful evil I would suppose.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (E4rtv)
Ruby Rose is the "nonbinary" chick in John Wick (which she was actually good in)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (88C+u)
Would you believe-- Maxwell Smart voice.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (Dciv4)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (ZOv7s)
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Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:13 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)
By paying authors who sell books less.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:13 PM (ExV1e)
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Guess it's a good thing I don't associate with either for the most part.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (3fZgy)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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U Cal is begging for reinstatement of SAT scores for admission.
I think the charade is about over and if Trump wanted Gen Z on his side, he can take their side against the institutions that scammed them. Defund their asses and drop college prices.
Same for the grad schools, return to a bachelor of laws instead of the pretentious J.D. end the stream of foreign coolie academic labor, and so on.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Beans Velocci at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Rest Area Glory Hole at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (JM9I6)
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My wife had a professor like that. Tenured, but they moved his office to the basement of a building that has since been condemned and demolished. He taught a class on "War and Revolution," and lots of people enrolled think it was something other than a washed-up Marxist who'd peaked in the 1970s and had now been put out to pasture.
The term paper was on oppression and my wife got a 4.0 by writing about how he, the professor, was oppressing her.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Probably Baba O'Reily
is this a joke I'm not getting?
Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:06 PM (1wjle)
I think it was meant to read , after listening to an Eagles song he was going to attempt suicide but aborted the attempt.
Posted by: Not an Eagles fan at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (Q/FnY)
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I didn't put this together before, but it does make sense that that billboard I pass on the way to work that says "Justice for Jveon" that his name is probably pronounced "Jay-vee-on"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (Dv3i1)
Sue them for fraud and use the money to retire student loans.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:16 PM (y9nCu)
I don't see that happening now.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (dIske)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (E4rtv)
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China's locking itself down. New passport rules make it very difficult to leave, even for school. Probably because the population is collapsing and they want to keep as many rats aboard the ship as possible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: they play that shit too much at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (88C+u)
Then liberals and their left wing liege destroyed those institutions and wore them like a skin suit for credibility. The hollowed out the universities and used them to propagandize and build generations of brainwashed stormtroopers.
This is how you destroy a society, and they’re doing it on purpose.
There will come a time when we start piling up their corpses like cord wood, and burn them as we used to burn the semester end bonfires. Because they deserve it, and the symbolism is appropriate.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (h87v0)
Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (VJX5o)
I didn't...I didn't get any cake.
Posted by: Milton Waddams at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (brIJB)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (ubCxQ)
oh I kind of get it
or his idea of an eagles song is one plagiarized from The Who
Posted by: ace at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (1wjle)
7 strangest objects discovered in the Universe that prove reality is weirder than fiction
These seven extraordinary objects show just how strange and wonderful the Universe can be.
https://tinyurl.com/23sd8htf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Hard work and integrity are for fools at August 07, 2026 05:18 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (h87v0)
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Trump: American Franco.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)
---whig
At least I still have my stapler.
Posted by: Prof. Milton (tenured) at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (88C+u)
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Weird, The Eagles have the opposite effect on me.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (lgGrU)
Posted by: 496 at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (aHw/h)
IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID !!!
American voters do not care about some British academic guilty of plagiarism they care about paying rent and buying food
Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (o7can)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (enNUy)
The head of Scotland Yard, known as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, is formally appointed by the Monarch (the British Crown). This appointment is made on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, who must also consider any recommendations from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).
Other Chief Constables are appointed by their respective Mayors.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (ExV1e)
LOL, of course they won't. Don't be a dope.
Which section, though?
Biography or Fiction?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (6ydKt)
Ace, my offer to send you a free copy is still open.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:21 PM (dIske)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (YwEeS)
So, when is Arday gonna marry the wheelchair girl from the thread below?
It's a match made in
I'm pretty sure that within three months of them getting hitched wheelchair girl will give birth to a full-grown Shiba Inu. For real, y'all!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (enNUy)
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STOLEN FROM OUR ANCESTORS CENTURIES AGO!
Posted by: Calypso Louie at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Please, Bitch.
Posted by: Government Cubical-dwelling Drone at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Just Axin' at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (YwEeS)
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Yet, for some reason, they largely avoid the trades.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (3fZgy)
Posted by: Not an Eagles fan at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (KC5Lt)
After hearing Hotel fucking California for the 675th fucking time, he decided to look for a taller bridge.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, not an Eagles fan either at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Beverly at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (reMys)
Posted by: Brian Williams at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (brIJB)
https://tinyurl.com/4nfkd8b6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:23 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)
Hopefully they will soon be embroiled in a civil war and return to the days of warlords, opium dens and cannibalism.
Posted by: Wo Fat at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (45BvE)
Sean Penn will be by any moment now to accurately describe you.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Just Axin' at August 07, 2026 05:22 PM (JM9I6)
Yes, the band and the team.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (LHPAg)
Nobody asks; How do these book publishers obtain this massive amount of payoff money they pass out to the front guard liars?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:12 PM (xHEjv)
Aside from outright pass-through bribery, they conspire with the universities. They change some of the punctuation, reprint as a new edition then mandate that students purchase the new edition at full price rather than the old edition in the used section of the student bookstore at 60% off.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (y9nCu)
The only way to truly do his story justice is with a 20 episode tv series.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)
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If you weren't so racist you would understand that in my culture teacher's is always possessive because the teacher's always possess knowledge.
Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (lgGrU)
Get $1M for 5,000 books and no one reads them
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 05:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)
I never felt this pack of liberals and their filth who have subverted our institutions had anything but ill intent. I watched as honest people, many good intentioned, let this virus roll over them and destroy our country like a disease. It’s about time they listen to the people who said we should hang a few of them from lampposts and put a sign on them that reads “Don’t be Me”.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (h87v0)
Paki-Turkiyaya'-Saudi alliance!
Sunni v. Shia out on the table and official, now that Iran is a shell of its old self.
Fun to see these guys decide amongst themselves whose in charge, this looks more like a clusterfuck recipe than anything else.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (KC5Lt)
Other Chief Constables are appointed by their respective Mayors.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:20 PM (ExV1e)
Thanks
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (LHPAg
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Nope, that's a singular annual holiday...aka "Talk Like a Pirate Day." Kind of fitting.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)
We'll do it but we're going to make Arday a white, Christian, male serial killer from Alabama. -- Amazon Studios
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ExV1e)
Fabulists are fabulous.
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (q177U)
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (odBC9)
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He should have listened to "Wasted Time", or "Teenage Hell". Instead, he probably listened to "Take it Easy" and thus he lived on.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (2qSHg)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (odBC9)
WTF? You drop the ball by failing to do something, not by doing something embarrassing that you are later sheepish about.
Retards can't even CYA right.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (ZdaMQ)
That's a strange combination of words right there.
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (q177U)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:29 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (KC5Lt)
Original Iron Maiden guitarist Denis Stratton claims he was kicked out of the band because he liked to listen to The Eagles.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)
He got off light.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (CNl8/)
That's a legit reason.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Emil Faber at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (JM9I6)
Did he get that money? Or did the publisher pledge to pay him that money upon publication (and on fulfilment of whatever other terms).
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ZOv7s)
Hopefully they will soon be embroiled in a civil war and return to the days of warlords, opium dens and cannibalism.
Posted by: Wo Fat at August 07, 2026 05:24 PM (45BvE)
I believe in the theory that china only has about 500 million not over a billion since they are so corrupt that the regional Gov forged how large their Population really was do they could stuff their pockets with from funds meant to go to the people.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ubCxQ)
There's no noodle soup for you here
youtu.be/H_r2wBb4eOo
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (h87v0)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ExV1e)
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Ironically, I bet they'd find a huge audience for a show about a white Southern, Christian male who lies his way to the highest levels of academia. I'd watch it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:28 PM (XvL8K)
__________________________
Get with the program, Biff. Earbuds and earphones are racist. You have to let that drumbeat resonate in everyone's ears within a 2 mile radius to prove your blackness.
Sincerely,
CEO and Janitor of Carnival Cruise Lines
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (dIske)
@HansMahncke
20h
The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: The Dude at August 07, 2026 05:32 PM (45BvE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 05:32 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Something Completely Different at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:30 PM (ubCxQ)
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I saw a youtuber say that the official numbers for births and the fertility rate don't add up, and that if you go by the birth rate, there are only 1 billion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (Av6i5)
Shouldn't that be white wimmin's?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: polynikes
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That whole album is good, but his stuff with the James Gang is way better.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Fi4DJ)
Also, top article at zerohedge., I know.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)
Also, top article at zerohedge., I know.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)
Clearly demonstrating that there is nothing of consequence happening in the world.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (FtULh)
The only difference I see is Jason's eyes are not like Marty Feldman's when the school bus guy would try to look under our dresses.
He had to sit behind the bus driver, who once was my friend's big brother. We'd yell when he got perverted, that he was looking at us and Jimmy would tell him to turn around.
He also worked on a chicken farm near his house and often had chicken sheet on his arm because he never bathed.
You can see, easily, the trauma I endured until I could drive myself and, later, go to college. It's amazing I survived.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (hzuYO)
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Honestly... should have let it go through. Less painful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:36 PM (ExV1e)
Dog days of August....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slirrup at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:37 PM (FtULh)
I hope that I never have to hear about him again after this week.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Sco7b)
I saw some polling that said the Democrats were gonna pick up 600 seats in the Senate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)
The one I saw she said it was about 500 million and she found the numbers of how many Diapers vs Adult Diapers and how they are headed for disaster.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
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Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)
Posted by: Braenyard
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It's a closed system. They pay according to the narrative, and then Cambridge pumps up all their books. Reviews, blurbs, etc. Like a commie central committee deciding who gets paid, and what the public gets to buy.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (aDhTQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:38 PM (KY+FT)
Obama ain't far off from Arday.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)
Can we get this inscribed in marble somewhere on the Washington Mall?
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)
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This doesn't say much for him, but it REALLY doesn't say much for the university that gave a bachelor's to an illiterate.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: H at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (H1yGV)
232 That chicken in the last video? Just call her a hysteric and lock her bony ass up in a mental institution. She'll get all the attention she craves, and we won't have to suffer through any more of her self-serving videos.
I believe she is what Paul Joseph Watson would call a "twat." [Say it with his accent. It works better that way.]
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2nJ9I)
It was pop music that taught me that Brits rhyme 'twat' with 'that' and 'chat':
Lily Allen - Alfie (Explicit Version)
https://youtu.be/OFF7dccul7o
Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (KY+FT)
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
3h
Inevitable
Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
4h
Absolutely incredible…
University of California professors are now asking the school to reinstate the SAT for admissions because their new students are unable to do high school-level work.
They stopped using standardized tests for admissions in 2020 to promote "equity".
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Av6i5)
I'd rather have it tattooed, mirrored, on the forehead of every member of Congress.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: The power of and at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Bz1XI)
I think Corolla would have used Half Tards. He's proud he coined that insult.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:41 PM (KC5Lt)
Never questioning any of it.
Posted by: Tomorrow People at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)
And then, interestingly he takes it a step further saying either the math is wrong or we got absurdly lucky and either answer is problematic.
I've seen a few atheist types get to this point, because this is exactly where the math of biology and astronomy takes you. And if you are a theist you have answer but if you are an atheist it leaves you in an odd spot where you have to thrash around for answers...ancient aliens planted us? our understanding of biology is completely wrong? reality isn't and we are living in a simulation?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Vengeance
drones, ai, and bots
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (aDhTQ)
He should not have been granted a degree. That's on the university. To that extent, he's got a valid point.
Posted by: gp at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (brIJB)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (ExV1e)
Arday inspired me and I can now pull a Greyhound bus 50 feet using only my dong!!
I did cut up 2 watermelons for my friends. They have kids so that's not easy for them to do.
And Ralphy got an allergy shot at the vet. This lady walked out with no animal wiping her eyes. I talk with her a minute to console her. That was sad.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (Sco7b)
Cambridge MA recently turned off their SpotShotter system because "it was getting too many black and brown people arrested". Now...who are the most likely people to get shot in Cambridge MA? And I'll give you a hint it isn't connected Cambridge MA government officials.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: m
Which most students couldn't spell correctly....
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (DZ9Lv)
Cambridge to review process for hiring senior academics after Jason Arday resignation
Among the claims by Arday that have been viewed as outlandish is one, made in an interview with the Guardian, that he was paid "1.4 million" for his memoir, Great and Unfortunate Things, due to be released next week. He did not specify the currency.
While not inconceivable, publishing insiders cast doubt on a figure such as Arday being able to attract such a large advance payment.
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:43 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Musik Kal at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (Wgtgv)
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
No, no, no - that poll said the 600 Dems were picking at their seats!
Completely different.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (w+2cP)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (ndZc7)
They had two planes fall off the flight deck of their aircraft carrier this week in separate incidents.
Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (AGz65)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (iySPJ)
Luke Rosiak@lukerosiak
The only lesson from Jason Arday can be recognition that this is going on everywhere. This is the dissertation of a University of Maryland campus president. She stole someone else's dissertation and changed the name of the field. Maryland has known this for a year.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (uzmqU)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (Riz8t)
Which is why you only have friends who don't give a shit about the value of a PhD to sit that stage. -- PhD Mentors
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (ExV1e)
>>I've seen a few atheist types get to this point, because this is exactly where the math of biology and astronomy takes you.
Let's forget about all of the minor miracles it took for use to be here.
We have no idea how you get from inorganic soup to organic life.
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
We know what conditions are necessary, which could conceivably be replicated on another planet.
But not the mechanism of action.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:46 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Earl Butz at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (Av6i5)
No wonder I'm a racist.
I guess we could in future write only on black paper. But then the ink would have to be...*horrors again!!!*...white!.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (Rl+wE)
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I get Acute Mountain Sickness everytime I hear "Mississippi Queen".
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (TN0g+)
Also, to eliminate accountability in secondary education.
Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (uzmqU)
Posted by: 18-1
Well, no, you just say "I don't know. I don't have enough information" and go on about your day.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (DZ9Lv)
>>@HoffmanJess
>>BREAKING: University of Washington cancels Hasan Piker event
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)
They found out that he'd once eaten a breakfast bagel and won't promote Zionists like that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
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Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)
And absolutely, positively no Smoke on the Water.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (dK+Kv)
Wow. It is a slow news day.
The Five. A NZ politician was on the air in her bathroom with underwear drying.
CNN - Democrats unity rally - Tapper
MS Now -Talerico
CBC - Canadian politics
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (Sco7b)
I'm thinking "Desperado."
I'm thinking "Take it to the Limit"
Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (lJ0H4)
Yeah the mathematical odds of a random combination of chemicals creating life is 10 to about 25 zeroes . Even with the amount of possible X planets , for it to happen more than once is astronomical ( pun intended) . For it to happen 10 to 1000 times is next to impossible.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Jason Arday at August 07, 2026 05:48 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Vengeance
drones, ai, and bots
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at August 07, 2026 05:42 PM (aDhTQ)
The Problem with China's Military it's so corrupt, Their Carrier doesn't work, The Radar or it's missiles are all garbage and the US proved this with what happened in Iran and South America. I even hear that their Nukes missiles were filled with water or Cement and the Generals pocketed the money and they were later Killed, same with the guy that was in charge of the Steath fighter project he disappeared
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (ubCxQ)
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:47 PM (TN0g+)
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I know what you mean.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)
When you'v e lost the socialist, Palestinian -loving Huskies....
Posted by: LASue at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (i+vnO)
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Make sure you spend enough time acclimating. AMS ( Acute Mountain Sickness ) is no fun and can be life-threatening. Read up on it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 05:39 PM (brIJB)
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Yea. BC1 is at 17500 feet, so it’s not that bad. I ain’t climbing there. Taking a heli. I’ve been to 14k feet or close several times before and suffered no ill effects, and even did strenuous activity at that altitude (hiking, horseback riding, skiing, etc).
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:49 PM (i+vnO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (xHEjv)
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
That's quite a leap in logic you got there.
"We have no idea how X process works so the idea it happens anywhere else in the Universe is silly." Ok....
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 05:44 PM (Wgtgv)
I actually saw an SPLC commercial on MS Now.
That was crazy.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (Sco7b)
If possible, he seems to be coming more unhinged since El Sayed won his primary. He's now threatening Democrats who won't vote for this Muslim POS and telling Jews they need to go back to Auschwitz.
He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)
>>Yeah the mathematical odds of a random combination of chemicals creating life is 10 to about 25 zeroes .
You can't put any odds on it because no one knows what the mechanism of action is to get organic life.
Until that is known, no one can actually say if there could potentially be organic life, let alone intelligent life.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)
I liked Glenn Frey in his youth (Lyin' Eyes). Mostly because I liked guys of the 1970's who looked like that. No other reason at the time. Far from my favorite band.
I should go be productive as I have an 11mo old grandgirl visiting most of tomorrow. Putting her in the crib in the kid's room for her nap as she's a wild girl in her pack and play now where she used to nap by the fire.
That guest room looks like a Romanian orphanage as no one else uses it (queen bed and a twin blow up mattress plus the crib).
Thinking I have asthma/allergies from the smokey air from Oregon and WA and I am staying inside as it's HOT.
I hate this time of year! Want it to be over!!!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (hzuYO)
If you can spell SAT correctly, I think you get in.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (KAa/S)
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Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
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7h
Holy shit.
Since Trump took office, 1.3 Million foreign-born workers (legal and illegal) have lost a job. Meanwhile, 1.7 Million native-born Americans have gained a job.
A sharp reversal of the last few years.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (E4rtv)
Leftists now: "Standardized tests are racist, because...well, just because, that's why!"
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (xHEjv)
Sigh. -- Isaac Newton
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (ExV1e)
@charliebcurran
Aug 6
The year is 2030. Claude 9 has gone rogue and taken control of one billion Sexbots.
They call it the Goonpocalypse.
https://tinyurl.com/4wzfaw2k
(ooh, Alex Jones got his hair back!)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (rbvCR)
I thought you said would just move on.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:52 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)
He was born in New Jersey.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)
Well, I would have assumed colon cancer, since his head's up his ....
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (kU0PQ)
Yea. BC1 is at 17500 feet, so it’s not that bad. I ain’t climbing there. Taking a heli. I’ve been to 14k feet or close several times before and suffered no ill effects, and even did strenuous activity at that altitude (hiking, horseback riding, skiing, etc).
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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You're a lot older now.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (xHEjv)
Yeah, that was an astonishingly vague and stilted thing to say.
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Prison will sort him right out. Charge him as an unregistered foreign agent. Same with TuCa and others. Then you can offer them a deal, renounce US citizenship or go to jail.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)
He was born in New Jersey.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)
Then, deported from New Jersey,
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (FtULh)
If possible, he seems to be coming more unhinged since El Sayed won his primary. He's now threatening Democrats who won't vote for this Muslim POS and telling Jews they need to go back to Auschwitz.
He needs to be denaturalized and deported back to Turkey.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)
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He was born here, anchor baby
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:54 PM (i+vnO)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 05:51 PM (XV/Pl)
LOL. Obviously you *can* say it. Unless morons don't count.
Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 05:54 PM (AGz65)
And Hotel California is one of many of the 1970s masterpiece albums by so many great bands. I must've listened to it 100 times on CD Walkman when i was a teenager.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (6ydKt)
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
It's quite simple. Lightning struck a slime pit and a slug oozed out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:50 PM (viF8m)
He was born in New Jersey.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Well, a new vista will be an eventful trip for him.
Don't forget to cancel his re-entry permit.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (xHEjv)
Reminds me of Bobby Finn: https://tinyurl.com/2udm4c2k
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (sKqQm)
However, if things had worked out the way they planned, then maybe this inspirational book book would have become a classic and part of the school curriculum, like Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird.
Probably some people in the US and the UK feel that it is time to clear the curriculum of the contributions of dead white authors. Also, nonfiction is better than fiction.
For controlling the school curriculum, 1.4 million is nothing.
Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (+F4bv)
Ok, hang him.
He's basically a rep of the Muslim Brotherhood and so is El Sayed. At some point and it better be soon we are going to have to admit we are being invaded by Islamic terrorists and stop them.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/59phn7yw
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Explains a lot.
I'll be a bit more forgiving. That sentence contained a lot of words that she had obviously never encountered (and at her age should have) but at least she gave each one a shot using English phonetic rules.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 05:55 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (CNl8/)
That's pretty exact for something we have no idea about.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (KAa/S)
You can put odds on anything if you've have enough information on the variables. Mathematicians far better than me and I assume you are those that came up with that number based on what mathematicians do.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (KC5Lt)
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I really enjoyed The Long Run. I think its one of those "put the album on and let it play" works that not many bands ever pulled off once, much less the two or three times that The Eagles did so.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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You're a lot older now.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:53 PM (xHEjv)
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Hiked and horseback riding at 14k in the Andes two years ago! Believe it or not, my boomer mom did it with us.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 05:57 PM (i+vnO)
Posted by: polynikes
I did. And then I came to Quite A Leap. It was breathtaking in its destructive simplicity. I had to comment before pondering a haiku in its honor. Or maybe a limerick.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 05:57 PM (DZ9Lv)
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Which means it is impossible, right? Right?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:58 PM (rbvCR)
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Personally I believe there are far too many limericks found at this blog and far too few haiku.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (5TQCN)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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But to be an atheist, you've arrived at the ultimate answer: you live in a universe devoid of purpose and you will one day simply cease to exist, like a burst bubble. I don't see how any atheists who are honest with themselves can then simply go about their day. Seems to me that 99.99% instead start grasping for some purpose that they deny exists.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (XvL8K)
Acclimatization takes time. Altitude sickness sucks. It's basically a continuum from feeling like shit all the way to HAPE and HACE. Just huff on some oxygen at night maybe. Sleeping problematic for most people over 10k after a while, flatlanders anyway
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (7j7XD)
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (TN0g+)
Then someone figures it out.
The number of things that 200 years ago seemed completely inexplicable, utterly impossible or beyond imagination yet which today are commonplace, self-evident or easily grasped are almost innumerable.
I'd be willing to wager that someone makes life in a test-tube and/or we find organic life originating outside of Earth, sometime in the next few decades.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (TN0g+)
Tired bikini
Boobs embrace autumn wearing
Cashmere sweater sets.
-- Elisabeth Dale
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (Ia/+0)
I really enjoyed The Long Run. I think its one of those "put the album on and let it play" works that not many bands ever pulled off once, much less the two or three times that The Eagles did so.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)
Oh yeah, a rare thing these days.
I got used to listening to entire albums starting with having a cassette Walkman. I wore that thing out. No skipping technology until later on, so you got used to listening to the entire tape.
Any Led Zeppelin album, or a few Pink Floyd albums (you know the ones), and others I can't remember right now.
Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (KAa/S)
Madmani's nickname is Mayor Zoflake since he's so thin-skinned.
When the future of communism is on your shoulders....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)
As was noted in Ace's original post.
I'm more thinking of Van Jones. He got into the position he's at by canoodling with 9/11 troofers (which Obama didn't do, although interestingly Hillary! did). But Jones didn't touch that stuff after Obama got elected.
I suspect that Jones and Obama both are smarter than Hillary.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:04 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 06:04 PM (AGz65)
Listening to an entire album would be torture for kids today.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)
Just listen to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", all 26 minutes and 11 seconds of it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (ExV1e)
When the future of communism is on your shoulders....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)
I guess he believed he was the next coming.. Or the 12th Imam in his case... reality sucks ..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (FtULh)
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Agreed! And many adults have become just as bad. I recently went to a concert with 2 friends of mine. Afterwards I told my self there's going to be a "No checking your phones" rule IF we ever go to another one--they each were watching their 2-inch screen as much as they were the live bands and live crowd.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (TN0g+)
>>Which means it is impossible, right? Right?
Yeah, pretty much.
The number of miracles required to just get to the conditions where additional miracles can happen is quite large.
A Universe From Nothing being the initial miracle.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (XV/Pl)
Well, I would have assumed colon cancer, since his head's up his ....
Posted by: GWB
How do you think it spread to his brain so quickly?
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 06:05 PM (VHUov)
Piker was born in NJ to Turkish parents. He was raised in Turkey. He didn't return to the US until he went to college. He's about as American as Ilhan Omar.
All he does all day is preach about violence against anyone who doesn't agree with a Muslim takeover of the US. I don't give a shit if he was born at Mount Vernon, he's an anti-American piece of shit and even the left is starting to realize it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: kids today at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (Av6i5)
Aborted a suicide attempt on a bridge after listening to an Eagles song.
That's the biggest whopper of them all. Not for nothing are Eagles' songs deemed "gateway accompaniment to slipping this mortal coil by your own hand."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (ixS3i)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (K32Fz)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
There's talk that the AI bros believe that they are midwifing a new god who, unlike haShem, will exist.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:07 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 06:06 PM (88C+u)
If they believe that then they've been huffing their own farts for too long.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Crusader
Tired bikini
Boobs embrace autumn wearing
Cashmere sweater sets.
-- Elisabeth Dale
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
+1 for the seasonal reference. That usually gets left out.
Posted by: certified haiku inspector at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (VHUov)
He's got the eyes of Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (ixS3i)
It's not too bad.
They have a similar menu to Marcos, but more.
They sell flatbreads (which is what I'm eating and it's not bad.
Also Deep Dish rectangles, and Detroit Deep Dish (the tomato sauce is on top of the cheese and toppings).
Also sandwiches made of folded over pizza dough, a calzonewich by the looks of it.
I'll probably order from them again and try a pizza or deep dish.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)
Probably Baba O'Reily"
Who?
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2026 06:10 PM (ixS3i)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (brIJB)
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 06:09 PM (yEz+x)
Unfortunately these people start to actually believe their lies. That's why they continue to do it. Really mentally ill.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (KC5Lt)
>>Time to go drink some whiskey and make a pizza. Y'all be good to each other.
I think it's, drink whiskey, smoke cigars and play with dynamite.
Or at least that's what Hunter S. Thompson would do, and who are we to argue with that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 06:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 07, 2026 06:13 PM (P4bJX)
Posted by: you really don't want to know at August 07, 2026 06:14 PM (AGz65)
Or did Arday do that too?
Posted by: Just reporting at August 07, 2026 06:16 PM (Gf5dx)
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I may be a bit late with this and someone has already noted that anti-plagiarism software has been around for a couple of decades so what was stopping Cambridge from running his thesis through it? Or was that used only for upstart white students?
Posted by: Decaf at August 07, 2026 06:17 PM (ZNpJk)
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Has he used his claimed autism as the excuse why he couldn't conduct the interviews himself?
Posted by: Decaf at August 07, 2026 06:20 PM (ZNpJk)
So the idea this is happening anywhere else in The Universe is silly.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Which means it is impossible, right? Right?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:58 PM (rbvCR)
They did do an experiment in the 50s by putting a bunch of gases- CO2, Methane, some others to make an atmosphere and some spark generators for energy and quickly got a nice mix of complex molecules used in the body in a pretty short time. Sort of life, of course, but these are the building blocks of simple lifeforms.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 07:28 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 06:00 PM (XvL8K)
Most atheists know what god does not exist. That's why they won't shut up about it.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)
"Great and Unfortunate Things" would be a bit of plagiarism of "A Series of Unfortunate Events." Thank you, I will take my professorship at Moron U for pointing this out.
Posted by: Nagasaki still gives me a glow at August 07, 2026 09:08 PM (hJ0rR)
Posted by: sidney at August 08, 2026 07:20 AM (rzwGB)
Same thing, really. Who knows what he uses for thinking.
Posted by: PG at August 08, 2026 11:31 AM (+F4bv)
The Week In Woke
Tuq'r Qarlson, Marjorie Trailer-Queen, and Thomas Massie keep selling their agenda of Woke for White People (TM):
Surprise! Universities continue discriminating against white and Asian applicants despite the Supreme Court being emphatic that this is illegal racial discrimination.
The Department of Justice has concluded that Duke University School of Law intentionally discriminated against applicants based on race, finding that the school continued giving admissions preferences to black and Hispanic applicants even after the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious college admissions. The DOJ's Civil Rights Division announced Thursday that Duke Law violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in admissions for its incoming classes of 2023, 2024 and 2025. The department said the practices also violated the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which restricted universities' use of race in admissions. In an Aug. 6 findings letter, the DOJ said investigators reviewed Duke Law's internal documents and admissions data and determined the school continued "intentionally" granting and denying admission based on race following the Supreme Court decision. "Duke Law School doesn't get a free pass to discriminate against white and Asian students simply because it thinks it has good intentions," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said. "Using 'diversity' essay questions to identify preferred races for admission is still illegal discrimination based on race, and this Department is committed to eliminating it everywhere we find it, including in our nation's law schools."
Sue them until they can't shit straight.
Meanwhile: a transgender "professor" says that having a normal gender/sex "isn't real" and that non-gay sex is "unnatural."
A Christian physician assistant who was fired after refusing to facilitate transgender procedures and use preferred pronouns won a $410,000 settlement from her former employers. In May 2021, Valerie Kloosterman was a physician assistant at the University of Michigan Health-West. The hospital required Kloosterman to complete a diversity training module on LGBTQ+ issues, the Daily Signal reported. According to Kloosterman's lawsuit, the module required her affirm statements concerning sexual orientation and gender identity that went against her Christian faith, which says God ordains a person's sex. To go against that, whether it be through surgery or the use of preferred pronouns, she believes, is going against God's will. The lawsuit also argues that her Hippocratic oath to "do no harm" prevents her from facilitating procedures she believes do more harm than good. In July 2021, Kloosterman met with the hospital's DEI program director, who was hostile toward her beliefs, told her she couldn't bring her religious beliefs into the workplace, and called her "evil," according to the lawsuit. He also claimed that a failure to use preferred pronouns would drive patients to commit suicide. The hospital fired her the following August. In addition to the monetary settlement, the hospital has implemented a new policy that won't require employees to act in ways that violate their religious beliefs.
University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci published a book this year claiming "sex isn't real" and the gender "binary" is "incoherent." Velocci is an assistant professor in history and the sociology of science who claims to be nonbinary and transgender. This identification has shaped the professor's questions and conclusions because "that is how knowledge works," Velocci wrote in the book titled "Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary." In an interview with Duke University Press, which published the book, Velocci expressed joy that "any right wing or TERF detractor who wants to s***-talk the book is going to have to say or write the phrase 'Sex Isn't Real' in the process." Velocci claims in the book that "cisness" is unnatural and that people fitting into their "assigned sex category" took a large amount of work to construct and maintain. Sex science throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was a close ally to those invested in supporting white-supremacist governance and ejecting women from political life, Velocci claims. "Science continues to be an anti-trans ally," the professor wrote, adding that sex has little to do with bodies, but is instead about categories and who controls them. The professor also wrote that "current efforts to annihilate transness are couched in references to biology and science."LOL. We're "couching" biology and science in "references to biology and science." How dare we. Mother and her two trans pals arrested for murder of mentally handicapped 7-year-old boy.
Three people have been charged with the murder of a seven-year-old Ohio boy, with prosecutors saying that the young boy had suffered abuse at the hands of the defendants for months. Those arrested include the boy's mother as well as two trans-identified males. Per WLWT5, Kaitlin Evans, 39, Nessa Keaney, 23, and Kirby Rankin, 33, were arraigned on charges of murder and child endangerment inside a Hamilton County courtroom Friday. Evans was identified as the mother of the boy, while Rankin and Keaney have been identified as being transgender.A Portland, OR judge granted a "sweatheart deal" -- no jail time -- to a repeat antifa offender who admitted -- nay, boasted -- of punching and kicking cops and violently grabbing their genitals.
If I beat the shit out of an antifa thug in Portland, will I be excused jail time because it would be bad for my mental health? Or nah? Nah, right?
A violent Antifa-affiliated agitator has avoided jail time after admitting to assaulting several federal agents during a direct action outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon. The incident occurred on June 29, 2025. August Dean Gordon, 32, of Beaverton, physically assaulted numerous federal officers, admitting to "kicking" and "headbutting" agents when they arrested him for damaging ICE facility property. This includes violently grabbing their genitals, according to court documents. US District Court Judge Amy Baggio sentenced Gordon in late July to four months of home detention followed by five years of probation. The prosecutor sought a four-month prison term, while the defense asked for one year of supervised release. The judge declined prison time, citing that it would be counterproductive for Gordon's mental health, his lack of a prior criminal history, and the lifelong burden of a felony conviction, per the Oregonian.
Gordon, prosecutors continued, "boasted" about his "assaultive behavior," proudly declaring that he "kicked and headbutted officers," showing no "remorse" for his actions. US attorneys said that five officers were injured.
Savanah HernandezAnother Decarceration Success Story from Charlotte, North Carolina.
@Savsays I visited Seattle's $165 million dollar downtown library and it was OVERRUN with drug addicts. Not only is this library filled with adults who are high on drugs, but they also offer FREE fentanyl test strips, syringes and injectable narcan that anyone, including children, can access. Visitors have complained of "foul odors", unusable restrooms and harassment by the homeless and I experienced all of this while at this location. Seattle residents just passed a tax increase to raise $480 million dollars for libraries just like this one and this is unfortunately the state that they're in.
Convicted Killer Allegedly Shoots Man Dead Less Than 2 Hours After Release
David Simpson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder
A man already convicted of manslaughter allegedly shot and wounded one man and killed a second in Charlotte, North Carolina less than two hours after being released last week on bond. FOX News reported that 29-year-old David Simpson now faces charges that include first-degree murder and "possession of a firearm by a felon." He is in custody and being held without bond. WCNC noted that Simpson "was released from Mecklenburg County jail around 12:20 a.m. on Wednesday," then allegedly carried out the fatal shooting at 1:45 p.m.
The shooting occurred at an apartment complex and is believed to have resulted from an argument over a parking space. Simpson's girlfriend, Shakema Scott, is charged "with accessory after the fact."
I try to keep an open mind about new ideas and opinions, but this take on parents and children is the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Douthat’s response is perfect: pic.twitter.com/tx26XZxpxw
— Caleb Wait (@calebwait) August 4, 2026
Parents BLAST @WCPSS board members after a “nonbinary” teacher at Middle Creek Elementary School in NC reportedly made students refer to him as "Ms" while he wears women's clothing.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 5, 2026
"At what point does answering a child's question become instruction concerning gender identity?"… https://t.co/zVlf7Z8pm5 pic.twitter.com/DZtaecM0sC
Hahahaha. This is an incredible piece. https://t.co/dyuI6SSume pic.twitter.com/Ru8K6ZEm1k
— max tempers (@maxtempers) August 7, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (fV9m3)
Posted by: Mayor Pete at August 07, 2026 03:43 PM (6UXQp)
This is apparently a new “nonbinary” teacher at Middle Creek Elementary School in NC
NC is becoming a real shithole. Dem governor and probably Dem senator. AMF.
Posted by: That Guy at August 07, 2026 03:44 PM (c9rBD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:44 PM (QX6xo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:44 PM (QX6xo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:45 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:45 PM (QX6xo)
And, should we actually blame the importation of tens of millions of people under Biden for that instead?
Because, you know, immigration is inflationary.
https://t.co/jKx3SvcQBA
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:45 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:46 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (mseD3)
I wonder how many vibrant inner-city folk would appreciate this.
https://youtu.be/_uj8h4SCsnE - SFW
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (ExV1e)
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This shit is going to play against Cooper in the Senate race.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:48 PM (ndZc7)
......
Maybe he should have his frank and beans removed.
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)
Massie: IT'S THE JEWS!!!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 03:48 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)
Wow. Fragile little flowers, aren't they.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (QX6xo)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (enNUy)
All tortillas are shipped via the Strait of Hormuz.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ExV1e)
So, what are you going to do about it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (QX6xo)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (Dv3i1)
See, this is why we need access to more expensive burritos.
Posted by: 88C+u / gKWVE at August 07, 2026 03:51 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 03:51 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (enNUy)
In the top bar, click on the lion head to bring up options. Turn off Java. Pop ups are no more. Re-enable Java, as needed, for other sites.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:51 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)
Maybe a few hours later
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:52 PM (6UXQp)
basically it's ground beef+refried beans+diced habanero peppers
diced onions
some spices
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at August 07, 2026 03:52 PM (m0WlR)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (CNl8/)
Trump banned them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ExV1e)
The Neolithic was a long, long, long time ago.
Posted by: Magan, Meluhha, and Sheba at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: The two trannies accused of murdering a seven year old handicapped boy at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (CNl8/)
Democrats need the working class back.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (6UXQp)
* looks at literally all of Nature *
I believe this fellow may be mistaken.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (VHUov)
Yeah, throwing things is probably safer for me.
Posted by: pookysgirl, finding a plushie to chuck at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (2qSHg)
So at $165 million a pop, they can almost get three more libraries for drug addicts to take over.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 07, 2026 03:53 PM (CNl8/)
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It is currently the major reason that Republicans will lose in November.
This is after no immigration enforcement was going to lead to losses, after which it was overenthusiastic immigration enforcement was going to lead to losses, after which it was the killing of Goode and Pretti were going to lead to losses, after which the Iran conflict was going to lead to losses, after which it was the MOU that was going to lead to losses, after which it was the renewed conflict which was going to lead to losses, after which it is now burritos will lead to losses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:49 PM (enNUy)
I am not having any issues on my iPad with Brave. But from the comment numbers, it does appear things are down a bit. If the goal was to increase ad revenue, it might be backfiring in less numbers and a sharp increase in ad blocker use.
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (ZdaMQ)
Just send $5 and a SASE to:
Don Black
c/o ACME Corp.
1 Easy Street
Fat City CO 80215
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)
They got an ag sector too, you know.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: The two trannies accused of murdering a seven year old handicapped boy at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (4g5V+)
So society wins.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (zdYK9)
That's a deranged viewpoint.
I've never been a parent but I know that's wrong.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (FZ29D)
University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci
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Professor Beans Velocity? This has to be a joke. Innovation at the speed of methane.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (DOcg9)
Posted by: Mark1971
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We've got to close the Burrito Gap
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (enNUy)
And that's the game, getting people to knowingly lie and at least publicly acknowledge the lie as "truth".
Bonus points if you do this long enough and your subjects learn to love Big Brother...or the Big Trans teacher.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (2qSHg)
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Funny. I was thinking it was quintessentially social to take a baseball bat to such peers and their noise makers.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ZdaMQ)
Maybe a few hours later
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:52 PM (6UXQp)
Thanks for making me laugh out loud. I have house cleaners here and they now think I am crazy.
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (UjdFS)
That's all there is to this. No need for a logical discussion or presentation of arguments. "That's idiotic" is the only proper response.
The guy's convoluted logic about children being the prisoners of their parents is convoluted because the idea was mapped out, not as a genuine idea, but as a means to an end. The end being more political power for people who think like him.
This is true of all modern liberal beliefs, it just isn't usually as obvious as this one.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:59 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:57 PM (enNUy)
I don't read this place on mobile. I guess the ad people are trying to get around ad blockers again. Youtube has certainly been annoying lately.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 04:00 PM (enNUy)
Nobody is paying $20 per 'rito unless they are too lazy and fat even to walk.
I mean, yes, Ben Shapiro is a douche who isn't as smart as he thinks he is, but he's smart enough to know what a burrito costs. He at least walks past the aisle in the same kind of store I go to.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 04:00 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 07, 2026 04:00 PM (2jv4y)
I really am ready for the pendulum to swing back the either way. So tired of these trashy bigots thinking their hateful opinions matter. Boomers are driving a lot of it and they are on their way out. We lose more and more of them daily so I have hope. My kid is Gen alpha and they seem to be way more accepting of things naturally, so I have high hopes
Pendulums never swing the other way with fascism, they'll hold it on their side until it is forcefully taken from them and thrown back. It's called the ratchet effect.
It's already affected me. After the election, our company removed their LGBT and DEI support groups / assistance.
Get ready for "cis allies" to evaporate overnight.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 04:01 PM (ZwRB6)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at August 07, 2026 04:01 PM (PgEh4)
Posted by: Zombie Ira Einhorn at August 07, 2026 04:02 PM (Wt1Rs)
Red Flags all over the place.
Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at August 07, 2026 04:02 PM (45BvE)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 04:02 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (PqZlS)
*****
So from what to what is Velocci " transing" if sex is not real?
Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (Sf0j5)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 04:01 PM (ZwRB6)
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Swing back to transgenderism?
The pendulum swing back on that culturally like 18 months ago, in terms of law it's just beginning.
The rise of transgenderism was the far end of the pendulum swing that began in the 2000s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:03 PM (77rzZ)
In the biblical sense?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (ExV1e)
Brave is just a skin over Safari Webkit on ios. It is a skin over Chrome in Android.
Apparently the only non native Safari Webkit browser is Chrome (I have been told this and have no reason to doubt it) and perhaps Chromium which is de googled Chrome--but you would have to sideload it as I suspect Chromium/Chromite is not allowed into the Apple App.
But adblocker extension probably works better on Chrome on Apple than Brave due to webkit having some hidden sauces that Apple does not disclose publicly.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)
.......
GET TO WORK, weirdo.
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Bulg
Was she the village bicycle on campus?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (wOO3z)
This is the future we weren't promised.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)
Red Flags all over the place.
Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at August 07, 2026 04:02 PM (45BvE)
Yeah. He's really frustrated at all those dads "imprisioning" their sons so that he can't have sex with them.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 07, 2026 04:05 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:05 PM (wtvvX)
The rise of transgenderism was the far end of the pendulum swing that began in the 2000s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
But they said they just wanted to get married, and there was no slippery slope! They lied to me!
Also, I believe the DSA when they say they just want to give us healthcare.
Posted by: Clueless Normies at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ZwRB6)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
No, but she was kinda cute, and very funny.
Now she's a lesbo.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (77rzZ)
So... where did he get a gun just 2 hours out of jail? Hmmmm? Is anyone looking into that? Or nah?
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (kU0PQ)
Duke University should hire that bright young academic from Cambridge, Ja-Son Arday. Not only was he the drummer for Milli Vanilli, but he also reprised Forrest Gump's run across among America, caught the world's largest marlin, and led the National League in average in 2018 (although to win that you barely have to crack .300 anymore).
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (qwx/I)
Also, I believe the DSA when they say they just want to give us healthcare.
Posted by: Clueless Normies at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ZwRB6)
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But they also say that they want to kill every Republican. Here's video!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (bvy21)
Is she? Or do we live in a time when people don't call out bullshit?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)
Omg.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (W2Pud)
Reminds me that my colonoscopy is coming up...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (wtvvX)
Men can sew and be men
Women can fish and still be women
And it is true. While women are more likely to like sewing and men fishing there is nothing that requires this.
But 4th generation feminism flipped this on its head. Now if you like sewing as a guy you must actually have a feminine gender even if you've got the normal junk downstairs (until you cut if off!)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (odBC9)
LOL
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 07, 2026 04:00 PM (2jv4y)
That's Professor Beans Velocci, Ph.D, to you, cisbigot supremacist!
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Don't know. I only knew her for a couple of months at the end of my second senior year. (Yes, I was on the five-year plan.)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
That was in part because Civil Rights reached a dead end on immutable natural identity like race or sex. So it began to include identities based on sexual attraction, e.g. gays, after winning that battle, the trans and other deviant identities like furries or child attracted (pedos) claimed protection under civil rights laws that say no such thing (as far as the feds go).
Immutable categories were too limited for the left and so they had to start including categories based on actions as well equating them to religion as deeply held. Problem there is Smith v. Oregon and City of Boerne v. Flores makes neutrally secular laws that coincidentally affect religion as permissable. So perverts can be locked up, children banned from groomer drag shows, etc.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:09 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:08 PM (wtvvX)
Looks like I'll be delaying mine cuz of the radiation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:09 PM (ExV1e)
Apparently Al- Sayed hates Mackinac Island, as well. Frankly "Twitchy" site:
https://tinyurl.com/y5a4ejss
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)
Nobody wants to be the guy being mean to the girl in the wheelchair who has epileptic seizures, Tourettes, and an English accent.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (odBC9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: 29Victor
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There is a bullet in some father's gun just itching to give that pervert a penetration he will never forget.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (RqCTJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (JvZF+)
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*weird silent look*
-Mr. Beans
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (bvy21)
While the GOPe is poor on spending the Dems are atrocious. So if you were really concerned about government overspending and inflation you'd be helping stalwart budget hawks defeat Dems in competitive races.
Instead people like Massie just bitch about Trump.
Israel isn't making your burrito so pricey. Forty Million illegals on welfare are.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 07, 2026 04:11 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:11 PM (qwx/I)
Now she's a lesbo.
Posted by: Bulg
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Ah, part of the WNBA green dildo club.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (RqCTJ)
Oh, gosh, yes. Absolutely this. -- Bears
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (ExV1e)
Apparently Al- Sayed hates Mackinac Island, as well. Frankly "Twitchy" site:
https://tinyurl.com/y5a4ejss
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
OK, that's weird.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mon Lee Chinee Take Out at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (JM9I6)
>>Ever take a crap so big your pants fit better?
Periodically, I take castor oil.
It will clean you out from your stomach down.
And yes, your pants will fit better.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 04:12 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Cray Cray at August 07, 2026 04:13 PM (45BvE)
Imagine some MAGA mom killed her son this way with a couple of Man-o-sphere podcasters.
It would be THE news item for the next month. Instead....ZZZZ
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 04:01 PM (ZwRB6)
How will you ever survive at a job without a support group and assistance?
Oh, the cruel cruelty in this cruel, cruel, world.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:13 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 04:13 PM (RqCTJ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Interesting, could be that Vivaldi uses Chrome as its underlying code and I have been informed that Chrome is not a webkit browser skin on Apple but an actual Google code base instead.
I run linux for daily driving and I don't use Windoze unless I must but not for internet browsing.
Good to know though as looking an an Apple Cube to replace a larger Windoze 11 machine for doing taxes as that is pretty much all I do on it nowadays (at least in Windows), it has a linux dual boot for more serious stuff as a backup to this computer.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)
I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)
He came back to my area to visit family and so we caught up over lunch.
I asked him how Baltimore was and his eyes got wide and he said "it is worse then you can possibly imagine"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (UWN7z)
When the Army moved out of Fort Mackinac in 1895, the Federal Government gave it to the state, and it became Michigan's first state park.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (KY+FT)
@Breaking911
2h
Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom says he’s declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, adding he meets all eligibility requirements.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (i14TE)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)
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Theory:
Baltimore is actually a paradise of hedonistic pleasures without consequence, and those who live there have created a fiction to keep others away.
Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (uzmqU)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)
Nobody wants to be the guy being mean to the girl in the wheelchair who has epileptic seizures, Tourettes, and an English accent.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt)
She really could have had all those things and gotten over them. I, for instance, was once turned into a newt. But I got better.
Posted by: Guy in Holy Grail who had been turned into a newt. at August 07, 2026 04:17 PM (0MjtC)
I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)
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Professor Kimchi Imshi was born of an unusual union.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:17 PM (amcLV)
You're on the mark.
Posted by: People living 100 years ago at August 07, 2026 04:18 PM (wGerL)
If it weren't so damned narrow.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (qwx/I)
When I was a freshman in college, living in a dorm, I walked into our bathroom one day and inexplicably took a gigantic whiz that lasted a good three minutes. My roommates were stunned. It was after lunch, I hadn't been drinking booze or coffee, and I didn't feel like my bladder was going to burst. And it never happened again.
Still one of the weirdest things to ever happen to me.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:18 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (LHPAg)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine are closely connected through deep academic, clinical, and research partnerships, even though they operate as separate legal entities and independent hospital systems. CHOP's relationship with Penn Medicine brings board-certified pediatric specialists directly to babies, children and teens in the Greater Philadelphia area.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) continues to operate its Gender and Sexuality Development Program, defending patient privacy and legal gender-affirming care against federal subpoenas and proposed funding restrictions from the Trump administration. Federal courts have repeatedly blocked the Department of Justice's attempts to seize sensitive patient medical records from CHOP. (AI Overview)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (NFX2v)
I think Baltimore is more Khorne/Nurgle and less Slaanesh.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)
I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)
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Professor Kimchi Imshi was born of an unusual union.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:17 PM (amcLV)
Peas ¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! ¡Epa! Yee-haw!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: whig
John Money will always be an inexpungable stain on their reputation in my book, though.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 04:20 PM (iySPJ)
I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)
Grits Vámonos
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:47 PM (bvy21)
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The NC chapter of the MSM loves Roy Cooper. All the bad stuff, like early prisoner release, no bail, etc. Hey, wait a minute ... hmmmm.... who was the NC AG during Roy Cooper's reign as Governor?. Yeah, the News and Obscurer loves Josh, too.
Whatley's first batch of ads show promise, but he has to go at Cooper the way Jesse Helms went after Governor Jim Hunt. Helms went on to beat Hunt like an old mule.
Posted by: mrp at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)
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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (amcLV)
If it weren't so damned narrow.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
Hank Hill has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (bkuEU)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 04:20 PM (iySPJ)
Sometimes the peppers are green, senor. -- Jose the Burrito Man
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM (ExV1e)
Reading up on Glenn Bell I think we Christians are going to have to take the L on this one
Out: Run to the border
In: Run to the john
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)
Nobody wants to be the guy being mean to the girl in the wheelchair who has epileptic seizures, Tourettes, and an English accent.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt)
She really could have had all those things and gotten over them. I, for instance, was once turned into a newt. But I got better.
Posted by: Guy in Holy Grail who had been turned into a newt. at August 07, 2026 04:17 PM
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Women love drama.
If they don't have any they'll create some.
Posted by: As it has always been at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (2Ez/1)
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Well, first off, let's take a look at what someone named "Beans" looks like:
https://tinyurl.com/ms2n8a4d
Yeah, that tracks. So, to be clear, he's guessing that sex isn't real. He doesn't and likely will never have any raw data to confirm his hypothesis.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (dIske)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)
Egon Spengler quote?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)
Spaetzle Schnell -- obviously a professor of organic chemistry.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Gunslinger at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (D2d9O)
I'm Professor Fries Rapide (Xey/Xem).
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:15 PM (wGerL)
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Professor Kimchi Imshi was born of an unusual union.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Professor Sweetpotato Velocemente
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)
Egon Spengler quote?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)
Not a quote. Warhammer 40k reference.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:56 PM (DOcg9)
Every day for him is this Cyanide & Happiness strip:
explosm.net/comics/productive
Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (Sy6m/)
If it weren't so damned narrow.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
Hank Hill has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:21 PM
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Much like the burning during urination.
Posted by: Gonorrea! at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (2Ez/1)
I once spent a year dead for tax reasons.
Posted by: Hotblack Desiato at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:46 PM (rHgXV)
Back in the day he'd have been a snitch for the dashing detective, giving him background for his case. Now he's a college professor and thus useless for anything.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (uhVAy)
Jalepenos, serranos, cilantro and guacamole are all green and all belong in a burrito.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (3Ope8)
Khorne - St Louis
Slaanesh - San Fran
Tzeentch - DC
Nurgle - Also San Fran
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (sKqQm)
The guy who evaded the taxes on his cattle business while selling at market rates, and funneled the rakeoff into personal expenses, including payoffs to the staffers he was fucking on the side.
The sheer chutzpah is admirable, in its own way.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (BI5O2)
If they don't have any they'll create some.
Posted by: As it has always been at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (2Ez/1)
Not my wife. She's not into drama. But Lord Almighty, she can worry herself to death.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: That Guy at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (xUr2r)
@Breaking911
2h
Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom says he’s declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, adding he meets all eligibility requirements.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (i14TE)
I love this. If they refuse to draft him, then they are anti-trans discriminators. If they do, that's the end of the WNBA.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Hotblack Desiato
Maybe that's Piper's ploy.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:24 PM (3Ope
- Cilantro is optional, depending on your genetics.
- Jalepenos are trash peppers. Serranos and poblanos are better.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:23 PM (ExV1e)
Ahhhh.
I know very little about Warhammer.
Never played it.
I've picked up the basics of the story, that's it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
Sounds like my wife. A very sensible woman, but her motto is "Fear rules my life."
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
·
1h
Mitch McConnell's Staff Says He Was Dropped Off At A Farm In The Country Where He'll Be Happier And Have More Room To Run Around
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (E4rtv)
Beans Baxter >>> Beans Velocci
Posted by: Tex Lovera
G. Gordon Liddy was on an episode of that show.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0985404
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (Cqx++)
If they don't have any they'll create some.
Posted by: As it has always been at August 07, 2026 04:22 PM (2Ez/1)
You know, your are so correct. Why, I doubt there has ever been a thoughtful and level headed woman born on this earth. Ever.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)
Gotta be at least 50/50 these days.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (6ydKt)
I know very little about Warhammer.
Never played it.
I've picked up the basics of the story, that's it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (6ydKt)
I've never played it. As far as I can tell, playing it involves spending the GDP of a small European nation on miniatures which you spend several years painting so that you can spend a few hours in one of the most boring activities known to man.
The lore is cool though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (ExV1e)
Poblanos need to be stuffed with bacon, cream cheese and crab, then deep fried. Jalapenos can be stuffed the same way but are better grilled.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (3Ope8)
There's no such thing as a trash pepper. They're all G-d's peppers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)
Now you're thinking like a man.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Thanks for the tech report. Sorry that so many are having troubles with the website. But Brave on Linux has been rock solid except with one recent problem which comes from the kernel causing WebGL failures while they operate fine on Chrome.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (E4rtv)
No word yet on whether Scott's sister, Shakeweight, has been charged yet.
Posted by: gp at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (Jr5Lq)
Kate Upton schnell. That doesn't make much sense. Oh, side dish, not piece...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (ZwRB6)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (3Ope
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We had delicious bacon-wrapped stuffed jalapenos at the 2020 TxMoMe.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Agree and amplify. Nice technique.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (E4rtv)
Tzeentch is the god of magic, treachery and knowledge. He'll drive you crazy or mutate you into a Lori Lightfoot
Khorne is the god of death and war. He'll turn you into a psycho killer or get you killed as "Khorne doesn't care from where the blood flows"
Nurgle is the god of life and disease. Unlike the rest of the gods he somewhat cares about his followers but not more then he cares about bacteria and virons. He'll get you infected with more diseases then a San Fran rent boy
And Slaanesh is the god of excess but with a focus really on sex. If you saw him down the street you'd think he was just another tranny though. He will eat your soul and shit you out and not necessarily in that order.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: whig
When I still lived in PA, I trained for a few weeks in lab under a woman whose husband eventually accepted a position there (I eventually joined that lab). She and her husband eventually moved back to PA and I had the chance to dine with them after they returned. It was a real culture shock moving from suburban south-central PA to Baltimore to them, having to tightly lock up your valuables in your lab space, sometimes needing a chaperone to your car....stuff like that.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (2qSHg)
It is a rehearsal for pushing toward an Orwellian society, where the truth is whatever the party says it is.
Before getting there, the party first needed to show people a concrete example of how this works in practice.
Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (+F4bv)
But they said they just wanted to get married, and there was no slippery slope! They lied to me!
Also, I believe the DSA when they say they just want to give us healthcare.
Posted by: Clueless Normies at August 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ZwRB6)
Oh, they're telling the truth! But the 'healthcare' they want to give you is nonconsensual MAID.
Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 04:31 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
At that point, couldn't you just drop the pepper?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 07, 2026 04:32 PM (ZwRB6)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (E4rtv)
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I got AdBlock when the latest round of popups started and have been blessedly ad-free here and on YouTube.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:32 PM (amcLV)
I've never played it. As far as I can tell, playing it involves spending the GDP of a small European nation on miniatures which you spend several years painting so that you can spend a few hours in one of the most boring activities known to man.
The lore is cool though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:29 PM (ExV1e)
I got into the lore after my sister bought me "Dawn of War" as a birthday present. Solid RTS game too, and the VAs were very good as well.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (2qSHg)
I had a Latin American GF that at one point after starting a pointless fight with me said she did it because she needed more drama and I was too...not drama.
Current GF isn't like that nor honestly is my mother. So pick better guys.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)
It would be THE news item for the next month. Instead....ZZZZ
Posted by: 18-1 at
To be fair that's how all news works. The unlikely and exceedingly rare gets all the attention. The common and expected doesn't.
Same reason why plane crashes get coverage and car crashed don't.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (vJrRc)
If you can get a person to call a man a woman you can get them to say anything.
Orwell really low balled it with counting fingers.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (W2Pud)
For once I have no words. Ok, I have a few that I can't print, being a refined lady.
Does she wake daily and decide from a list which physical problem to have that day? Is her list multiple choice on a dart target and whatever she hits is the one? Who bought the wheelchair?
Personally I wish the covid test had gone into her brain as it might have helped a bit in the stirring of her prefrontal cortex.
Of course she's queer, too! Absurd not to think otherwise.
While she's not striking to look at she's not super ugly like Marge Taylor Greenpeace with her potato nose. So this leaves me unsure what gave her white guilt Munchausen's. Does she have an eating disorder, too, or did she miss one? Gluten intolerant? Peanut allergy?
Apparently sane intolerant.
I have never had a nanosecond of white guilt. Maybe I am the weird one.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (LHPAg)
And then I don't feeel soo baaadd...
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
>Not this month or next. There's too much pop in those jalepeno poppers.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (iySPJ)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Both my mother and my wife had/have brains that are more guy brains than chick brains.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (2qSHg)
I assume that you've seen Astartes then.
https://youtu.be/JpK4fcFNKbM
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)
Now, explain men fighting in bars. Over stupid shit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:35 PM (2nJ9I)
Tom Renz
@RenzTom
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1h
Just in time for the new Moderna mRNA flu “vaccine” the navy reverses course and mandates the flu vaccine for almost everyone (navy order below)!
They can’t poison our soldiers fast enough.
This shot was not properly tested - the administration gave it expedited approval - and is basically the mRNA COVID shot repackaged. They are going to construe to force mRNA on our soldiers.
Fauci’s work is carrying on despite everyone wanting accountability. This is why I keep saying that it’s not enough to go after Fauci - we have to go after the people that bought him.
Posted by: beckster at August 07, 2026 04:35 PM (kX27y)
Posted by: gp at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (Jr5Lq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)
Is that what you’re making now?
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (LHPAg)
https://youtu.be/JpK4fcFNKbM
I've heard the same guy got funding to make a sequel.
If the GW folks weren't idiots they'd be rolling in $$$ right now because they have one of the hottest IPs there is.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)
Some of them can shit their pants loose, though. So there's that.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing for The Reckoning at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Both my mother and my wife had/have brains that are more guy brains than chick brains.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
I sincerely doubt any of the 'ettes think like men, but we aren't drama queens, either. We are women.
You don't have to be a man to be intelligent and thoughtful. This gets kinda old around here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (3uBP9)
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When my daughter was brainwashed to be "trans" two Karens tried to threaten me in my own kitchen, and even trotted out the "better a live son than a dead daughter!" which did not move me and as I continued to hold my ground, one burst out shouting "You're just like my mother! She never accepted I was a lesbian!"
True talent at CPS.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (LHPAg)
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She's 110 pounds of crazy in a 90 pound strait jacket. Do not want.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (amcLV)
Beans Velocci????
Is that xis real name or some trannie stage-name for his virtuosity in farting out the National Anthem?
.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (iJfKG)
He did. He put up a teaser about a year ago. Amazing that it's all the work of one guy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (hzuYO)
She makes it a point to show her boyfriend and that she is as a woman later in the video.
Apparently she had plenty of men, and possibly women, offering to take care of her.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (6ydKt)
TikTok · Zara Beth
2M+ followers
Zara Beth (@zeezee25) on TikTok | 44.4M Likes. 2M Followers. disability advocate & author accessible travel chronic illness awareness
OTOH, who's to say for certain if AOC, Kamala, etc. are or aren't?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
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They constantly think about boobs?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)
I'll be right over.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:39 PM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM (77rzZ)
I sincerely doubt any of the 'ettes think like men, but we aren't drama queens, either. We are women.
You don't have to be a man to be intelligent and thoughtful. This gets kinda old around here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (2nJ9I)
I think the girl jut wanted attention and clicks for money.
She's gotten away with it for awhile it seems, so gotta give her credit there.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
Sounds like my wife. A very sensible woman, but her motto is "Fear rules my life."
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 04:27 PM (77rzZ)
My wife once told me she was worried because she had nothing to worry about.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (0aYVJ)
For once I have no words. Ok, I have a few that I can't print, being a refined lady.
Does she wake daily and decide from a list which physical problem to have that day? Is her list multiple choice on a dart target and whatever she hits is the one? Who bought the wheelchair?
Personally I wish the covid test had gone into her brain as it might have helped a bit in the stirring of her prefrontal cortex.
Of course she's queer, too! Absurd not to think otherwise.
While she's not striking to look at she's not super ugly like Marge Taylor Greenpeace with her potato nose. So this leaves me unsure what gave her white guilt Munchausen's. Does she have an eating disorder, too, or did she miss one? Gluten intolerant? Peanut allergy?
Apparently sane intolerant.
I have never had a nanosecond of white guilt. Maybe I am the weird one.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 04:34 PM
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Hot slash Crazy Matrix refers.
https://youtu.be/pInk1rV2VEg
Posted by: Bookmark it for future reference at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 04:33 PM (3ZNGI)
I'll be right over.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:39 PM (2nJ9I)
Made me hungry.
Glad I got a pizza coming.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)
non-gay sex is "unnatural."
* looks at literally all of Nature *
I believe this fellow may be mistaken.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 03:54 PM (VHUov)
Something to keep in mind. Plants are weird. They're the only living things on Earth that require a threesome to reproduce (male and female plants, plus something to do the pollination).
Even worse, they usually depend on an INTERSPECIES threesome.
Ewwww.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (y9nCu)
Very nice! I might opt for cotija just because its salty.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)
Now you're thinking like a man.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)
I knew it ...
Posted by: zombie Henry Higgins at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (amcLV)
Indeed. On the few times she'll want to do a decadent activity with said boyfriend, her Tourettes, or full-body paralysis, or fainting spells, or several of her dozens of self-diagnosed maladies will kick in and stop the "fun".
And yeah, she's completely doing it for the attention. Social media was a major mistake.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (2qSHg)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (2nJ9I
Thanks. Yes, it does get kinda old.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (xPsv8)
Oh, he played eleven seasons for the NBA, 2011 - 2022. He's going to self-identify, thus meeting the eligibility rules.
Brave new world.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 04:42 PM (YU46W)
Jalapenos are just as good as any other peppers, wholesome, delicious, a credit to any recipe, and those who say otherwise are... you know.
I am doing poppers on the grill this weekend as well as a chili loaded with jalapenos.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 04:43 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
Running Windoze, android, or Apple?
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:43 PM (E4rtv)
Oh, he played eleven seasons for the NBA, 2011 - 2022. He's going to self-identify, thus meeting the eligibility rules.
Brave new world.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 04:42 PM (YU46W)
LMMFAO!!!!!
Enes Canter Freedom declares for the WNBA draft.
Epic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 04:43 PM (2YhKe)
I believe she is what Paul Joseph Watson would call a "twat." [Say it with his accent. It works better that way.]
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2nJ9I)
Ewwww.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 04:41 PM (y9nCu)
I could stand to hear a little more.
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (brIJB)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:43 PM (E4rtv)
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Win 11. Edge browser.
*braces for incoming mockery*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (amcLV)
That said in either state the further inland you go the shittier it gets. Hint: Charlotte is three hours from the coast.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 07, 2026 04:45 PM (dmWFD)
Epic move.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 07, 2026 04:45 PM (dmWFD)
I hope she shows up still sporting her beard.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM
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How far is Asheville from the coast?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 04:47 PM (2Ez/1)
Men, for the most part, have much better logical reasoning.
But we both share other types of intelligence needed to survive.
In my unworthy view, it can be boiled down to things that are based on biological neccesity:
Women want to feel.
Men want to solve.
(always allowing for exceptions to the rule)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:49 PM (6ydKt)
Beans Velocci????
Is that xis real name or some trannie stage-name for his virtuosity in farting out the National Anthem?
.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 04:37 PM (iJfKG)
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at August 07, 2026 04:49 PM (4g5V+)
*braces for incoming mockery*
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Well, your biggest threat is Microsoft hacking your own data with that setup and not rando webscript ads. Windows 11 can work but it is more that OS has deteriorated since Windows 10 in performance, sucked up more resources like memory to run ok, and spies on you constantly unless you shut that shit off. I keep one current windows machine on for one reason--my tax program of long standing runs on it and not linux and I would have to switch to an Apple desktop to replace it. Don't care for their laptops after having one at work for a long while.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 04:49 PM (E4rtv)
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"Beans?" Is that how xe "preps?"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Starts getting better again as you get closer to the mountains. But I'm biased (upstate SC native)
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (hHLwK)
As an example... I, a man, can reason that there's no profit to having this discussion and so I shall refrain from joining.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (bX16E)
Women want to feel.
Men want to solve.
(always allowing for exceptions to the rule)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I wanna blow up sheeeeeet real good!!!! Whereas do I fit in.
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)
Can't run in WINE? Or online?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 04:36 PM (KY+FT)
He hasn’t been run out of the country yet?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 07, 2026 04:51 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:44 PM (bX16E)
I don't know.
Some towns up towards the Piedmont and mountains aren't too bad.
Asheville being the exception.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/kj9mt4wv
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (wGerL)
You can also order 4 burrito supremes from Taco Bell for less than $20.
The Left always lie even when they don't have to.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: A Target six at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:50 PM (E4rtv)
Mining, demolition.
Problem solved.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (6ydKt)
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"Beans?" Is that how xe "preps?"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The Lord makes those he dislikes ridiculous first before they implode.
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (E4rtv)
I think Tzeentch owns Denver.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (88C+u)
I can get a $20 burrito in Austin. It uses multiple tortillas an probably weighs at least 3 pounds but I can do it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)
Who would want to be law enforcement in Portland? You'd have to like pain, and liability premiums must be crazy because everybody sues the police for everything in Portland.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 07, 2026 04:53 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 04:54 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)
Men like to solve problems. Women want you to empathize with them about the problem.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:54 PM (KC5Lt)
Iran war live: ‘Mecca Joint Defence Pact’ signed, as Hormuz deal ‘nears’
It begins, 'The Saudi crown prince, Turkish president and Pakistani prime minister have signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca stating that “any armed attack against any one of the three states shall be regarded as an attack against them all."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (NFX2v)
Problem solved.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM (6ydKt)
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I love the scene in "Justified" where a bank robber is wearing what appears to be a suicide vest, and Raylan plays along to get close enough and then kicks his ass, pointing out that only a retard would think you could get away with using road flares for dynamite in coal country.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ZOv7s)
He said, without evidence. They've made this sick, twisted, bullshit claim out of whole cloth to emotionally strongarm parents into letting Mengele's philosophical descendants poison and mutilate their children. This is one of the most evil things I've ever seen.
Posted by: Still having to live like this at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:54 PM (KC5Lt)
https://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg
It's a joke, people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
We have rentals and my wife has a consultancy so it requires a bit more bookkeeping and either payout to an accountant or diy as we have been doing.
WINE doesn't like it as I tried an install and part of it is that the tax companies come out with new editions each year so little interest by volunteers to spend the time to make an old version work and too little time to make the new one work. And you have the integrated state program as well and we have to file in two states. PITA that would cost us more in accountant fees than simply keeping one computer on Windoze for right now.
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (E4rtv)
My home desktop is right. Son (IT guy extraordinaire) added some kind of ad-blocker on steroids. No idea what it is, but it works like gangbusters. Even works on yewtoob.
Have not tried my iPad recently.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (NFX2v)
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Iran is totally winning you guys.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (ZOv7s)
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Hmm. Good or bad? And I don't mean the mis-spelling of "defense".
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)
You can also order 4 burrito supremes from Taco Bell for less than $20.
The Left always lie even when they don't have to.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:52 PM
Chipotle & Taco Del Mar you can easily drop $20 on a burrito. I don't eat there because I don't want Salmonella, but it's so "fresh" they don't have time to wash the sewage off the veggies.
I get the Taco Bell for $6.00, but spend $8.99 for the Imodium afterwards.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (OkYzo)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)
Yes I've eaten there before. Though I've never ordered one of those.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 04:57 PM (xHEjv)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:57 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:57 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Still having to live like this at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (TbWk/)
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The idea that every single human being on the face of the earth has to watch what they say or these people will die and it will be EVERYONE ELSE'S false was probably the stupidest part of the whole trans thing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:57 PM (ZOv7s)
https://youtu.be/pInk1rV2VEg
Posted by: Bookmark it for future reference at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (2Ez/1)
***************
Sent to sons years ago after one redhead the eldest casanova almost married left him for no reason.
She was in the danger zone and came with a family who matched this. Parents divorced when she was in HS because Daddy came out as gay. Mommy totally dependent on crazy daughters at this point, and was a liberal cat woman who wanted everything pink in her house including kitchen appliances.
I am at least an 8 in crazy and hotness (or I was) and could recognize this issue. Her family, on a horrid Thanksgiving, when the mother, daughters and an elf-like boyfriend of weird sister were in Christmas pj's and played a video game the entire day. I observed this while drinking booze as my husband claimed to have a backache and went to lie down in the guest room of son's house.
After the breakup, I, the mother of the son, came close to prison as I wanted to stalk the redhead, drive over her and back up.
I debated scalping or ripping out her hair as well as she ticked me off and did her break up on on my birthday with family visiting.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 04:58 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (KC5Lt)
I've never had that size cuz I didn't want to commit to eating the same burrito for a week.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:58 PM (ExV1e)
What Chipotle to you eat at? My order is never over $16 even if I get double protein.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 04:58 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 04:59 PM (E4rtv)
It's a joke, people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)
Hit the nail on the head if you ask me.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 04:59 PM (bX16E)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)
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The Saudis already have a defensive alliance, and when Iran kept hitting Saudi, they told Pakistan that they would enforce the agreement or call in all the loans they gave them. I don't think the Iranians have hit them since. Pakistan could rip Iran a new one, but we'd have to keep India from taking advantage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:59 PM (ZOv7s)
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Paging the Paolo, Mr. The Paolo to the white courtesy comment box....
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (NcvvS)
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Good! Saves them a trip to the Canadian suicide pods!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Yep. Higher education brings in the decay, even in solidly red areas--you can see the blue dots that are college towns.
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Nah, we let the Pakis invade Iran and then let India nuke Pakistan. Multiple problems solved at once.
Posted by: country boy at August 07, 2026 05:01 PM (E4rtv)
Recent publications include "Cutting the Cheese: A Holistic Multidisciplinay Examination of the Intersection of Flatulence and Dairy Products", cited in The Journal of Noxious Odors, VII, p.23.
Posted by: The University of Pennsylvania Faculty FAQ at August 07, 2026 05:02 PM (brIJB)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 05:02 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:28 PM (2nJ9I)
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*snort*
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 05:04 PM (3fZgy)
@Breaking911
2h
Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom says he’s declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, adding he meets all eligibility requirements.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 04:16 PM (i14TE)
I love this. If they refuse to draft him, then they are anti-trans discriminators. If they do, that's the end of the WNBA.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:26 PM (2nJ9I)
Another possible outcome is WNBA changes its eligibility requirements to permit only biological females to play and mandatory DNA sex-determination testing for all players. Enes Freedom's goal here may be to force the WNBA to do this. Ending its latest tranny-welcoming holier than thou PR stance.
The NBA heavily subsidizes the WNBA and I can't see NBA team owners wanting to subsidize WNBA legal fees to fight Enes Freedom's discrimination lawsuit if WNBA teams do not draft him.
Posted by: Gref at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: He sounds vaxxed and boosted too at August 07, 2026 05:08 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (NFX2v)
Proof! PROOF that Trump is preparing to declare victory and go home! I cry hot salty tears of shame over this.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:13 PM (rbvCR)
"Where's Max working today?"
"You is offsite today. You can't always predict yourself."
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 05:14 PM (q177U)
It's a joke, people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)
Having lived in this situation with my half sister, no. This. Is. Not. A. Joke.
This is only funny because tragedies are too frustrating to cry about.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2026 05:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: South and Proud!! at August 07, 2026 05:33 PM (+6avD)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Great scene; Olyphant's delivery just killed:
Do you know where I'm from, assh*le?
Posted by: Nelly at August 07, 2026 06:53 PM (6+ehB)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 04:30 PM (6ydKt)
Now, explain men fighting in bars. Over stupid shit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 04:35 PM (2nJ9I)
Some guys like to fight.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 07:04 PM (uhVAy)
This site has went to hell in a hand basket, much like Trump's polling and economy.
Posted by: Rich at August 08, 2026 06:19 PM (6fttg)
New Evidence Suggests That "The Most Secure Election in Earth History" Wasn't So Much
I'm gonna need a minute on this one. My programming needs a big update.New evidence further undermines claim that 2020 election was 'most secure' in history Declassified documents, other evidence, reveal that despite official assurances of a secure 2020 election, government agencies possessed intelligence regarding significant security vulnerabilities, foreign data breaches, and potential manipulation risks. After several batches of documents were recently declassified and released by the White House, the American people now have more evidence than ever that while officials claimed 2020 was a historically secure election, the government had plenty of evidence of security vulnerabilities, hacks and foreign interference. Shortly after the election, senior government officials insisted that it was the "most secure" in American history, deflecting concerns about security, including about voting systems and mail-in-ballots. ... However, after the new batches of documents were declassified and released this summer by the White House, Americans have more evidence than ever that those same officials knew about significant breaches of election data and internally raised concerns about how foreign actors could influence the election and the vulnerability of electronic voting machines. ... Maricopa exfiltration of voter registration data The latest evidence released by the White House this week shows that the FBI investigated a breach of voter registration data in Arizona's largest county in the days before the 2020 election. In that incident, a self-described hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files, but the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors declined to bring charges even after the FBI got the suspect to confess, Just the News reported on Thursday. The scraping of Maricopa County's voter registration files was the most flagged security incident in a cyberintrusion log kept by U.S. spy agencies in the days surrounding the Nov. 3, 2020, election, showing that intelligence officials were monitoring the breach while voting was ongoing.The article discusses China's hacking of the US voter databases. See the article for more on that. This is the most alarming possibility: We know that Venezuela rigged its own elections to fake a "win" for Maduro. And Maduro is a nasty communist enemy of the US. Did he do the same thing to the US elections, to get a demented old socialist fool "elected"?
What would we do without "agencies" to tell us that foreign threats aren't threats at all, but opportunities for us to be welcoming and open-minded. And, of course:
The declassified documents released by the White House also show that from 2004 to 2020, U.S. intelligence agencies monitored plans by the Venezuelan leadership to electronically manipulate their country's own voting machines, including the use of substituting false votes, to secure victory for the ruling socialists. The plans raised alarm as early as 2006 among U.S. officials as a potential avenue for the Venezuelans to attempt to "undermine confidence in, or manipulate the electoral process in, the United States," according to a June 2026 CIA summary of prior intelligence reporting on Caracas' capabilities. By 2020, the CIA had obtained reporting on Venezuelan plans to swing the country's election that year by manipulating electronic voting machines in a way that would make false votes appear legitimate and leave no trace of the changes. The intelligence raised questions about whether some U.S. voting machines could be vulnerable to similar types of manipulation, though agencies assessed that Venezuela did not have the capability to do so in the U.S.
Non-citizens on voter rolls Additionally, an assessment by the Homeland Security Department found that hundreds-of-thousands of illegal aliens were on the voter rolls in four states -- and estimated the total across the whole country to be higher. A review conducted earlier this year using publicly available voter data in California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania found over 250,000 illegal voters on the rolls, Just the News reported.Tangentially related: While Democrats whine about Trump firing disloyal subversive operatives, Hillary Clinton urges the next Democrat president, who will not be her, to fire every single Republican, no matter how minor or how far from any actual power.
Hillary Clinton: A Democrat president must "get rid of all" Trump admin people so they don't subvert the Democrat administration.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 7, 2026
"Do not let anybody hang around in some small office somewhere."
"People are going to have to be searching to make sure that they are not going to… pic.twitter.com/koUfg3M5Yc
Talk about projection. But think about what Clinton is saying there -- she's talking about the tactic of suborning a president's agenda by holding the civil service, in the context of accusing President Donald Trump of possibly doing it. She does not appear to be just talking about the political positions, saying a Democrat president needs to get rid of Trump people: "Get rid of all the holdovers. Do not let anybody hang around in some small office somewhere who can literally subvert your program and you don't even know the person is there." She even talks about how you can move people from political positions into the civil service to help keep them in government positions, predicting that Trump "will try to move" people to do this.
Advertisement The civil service positions aren't supposed to be political appointments. "People are going to have to be really searching," she said, " To make sure they're not going to be literally subverted from within the government." What was that people were saying about a "deep state" and every accusation being a confession? Is this an admission about the past? So Clinton would do a "purge" of anyone for the sin of being supportive of Trump or Trump positions. Purging opposing views sounds like a typical move from the folks who keep claiming to be the "defenders of democracy."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 02:41 PM (7Q7Ca)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 02:41 PM (7Q7Ca)
Got it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (GTqXr)
The concept of voting season should be abolished.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (XV/Pl)
So there IS a Deep State!?!?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (mseD3)
Why doesn't Trump wear glasses?
Because he's got 2020.
It was tru then, and still true.
Trump won in 2020, no question about it.
And the 55% pf the country that voted for him all know it's true.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:45 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Doug at August 07, 2026 02:45 PM (B1+sW)
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Eh, well, we'll allow it.
Posted by: The Propaganda Press at August 07, 2026 02:45 PM (8zt2q)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:46 PM (nnep/)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 02:46 PM (cpFbA)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:46 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Lanny Davis at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (brIJB)
Horse poop.
I watched an election expert during a hearing in Georgia after the 2020 election use his laptop to log into and election machine and manipulate data using the internet. We were told the election machines were not connected to the internet. They lied. They can be manipulated by anyone with an internet connection, the address of the machine and the password.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SouthCentralPA at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (VqeLu)
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (TN0g+)
But it was! We left less evidence than we ever have!
Posted by: Democrats at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (E/qck)
Being oblivious to her own blatant hypocrisy is standard operating procedure for Hillary.
She only gets away with it because the media have looked the other way for over three decades.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (6ydKt)
Also the left: How dare you accuse us of election fraud...what kind of people do you think we are?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:48 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 02:49 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:47 PM (TN0g+)
I was thinking i'd spend a couple of days eating the bad taco bell lettuce and just bring a nice book to read at her grave; bring a nice shovel to mix it all in after i've completed my abolutions.
Posted by: Nelly at August 07, 2026 02:49 PM (6+ehB)
Posted by: And that's a good thing at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (2Ez/1)
Brian in New Orleans
our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 02:49 PM (uhVAy)
In a word... no.
Nor is firing them for being Democrats although judges will rule otherwise in that case.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (i14TE)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 07, 2026 02:50 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: The Propaganda Press at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (InzJs)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (KY+FT)
That filter on Hillary is working 525 percent. Her hair is smudged into a blur.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (uhVAy)
New 2026 Inside Elections Senate Ratings
🔴 Republicans: 52
🔵 Democrats: 47
🟡 Tossup: 1
Swing States:
Maine: 🔴 Tilt R (dems tried a neo-nazi)
Michigan: 🟡 Tossup (dems elected an islamo-nazi)
Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
Enlightening.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 02:52 PM (XvL8K)
No, it is the essence of bipartisanship and Saving Our Democracy™.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 02:52 PM (i14TE)
Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (YwEeS)
🔴 Republicans: 52
🔵 Democrats: 47
🟡 Tossup: 1
Swing States:
Maine: 🔴 Tilt R (dems tried a neo-nazi)
Michigan: 🟡 Tossup (dems elected an islamo-nazi)
Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
Predictions:
R - ME, MI, GA
D - NC, NH
That's 54-46.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (AdHga)
"Trump lost because his breath stinks" ....
Posted by: Jackson K. at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (IwwZQ)
Which means that based corporations could fire employees for being members of DSA, communist party etc. But it also means that companies can discriminate against Republicans.
Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (PV+Zw)
This stuff she's saying now is just an abject lie. It's part of why we want her locked up but Trump won't do it. Even after she shared top secret information with anyone who had her openly shared password on her non government home brewed server.
The Russians and the Chinese couldn't believe their dumb luck.
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (Wt1Rs)
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It's pretty clear that progressives cannot be trusted anywhere (Not just government, but I'm watching a Clownfish video about how they screwed up character designs in the Final Fantasy 7 remake).
We need to make them unemployable.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (wxsGM)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 02:54 PM (ZxPkt)
R - ME, MI, GA
D - NC, NH
That's 54-46.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:53 PM (AdHga)
I don't know...Whatley is not a nobody and TRUMP has 700+ BILLION to throw around.
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:55 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:55 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: I was at the dentist at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (2Ez/1)
At this point, what difference does it make?
Time to move on dot org!
What the people really want is us working on the issues that matter most to them, the price of
Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (4KUe5)
Georgia: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF G?)
GA is disappointing but I don't believe Mr muslim will win MI even though our Candidate is a snooze...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (nnep/)
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Hey, who recalls Mark Warner of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence falling all over himself on every media outlet bitching about Tulsi Gabbard taking a front row seat in the raid on Georgia's election documentation, and then throwing a tantrum when she refused to brief him (and the committee) personally?
That's the same Mark Warner who set private (unreported) consultations with Christopher "Pee Report" Steele.
His behavior now makes a whole lot of sense.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (QX6xo)
And Dominion figured prominently too.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (2Cry5)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
I'm thinking these GA and NC are likely not tilting D. The polls and networks need to keep the horserace myth alive as long as they can. But the same forces that wrenched ME and MI into the R column and are sowing a crisis in the D's are gonna be going on there. The Commie wave is not going to be favored in those states, and maybe not in NH either.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (uhVAy)
BTW you will never be president, hag.
And your cankles are showing, you wrinkly asses, pasty white walking 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (UlN4g)
****
Hawaiian judge will take Trump's $:saying it was the fruits of Trump's crimes.
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (Wt1Rs)
She has rooms full of FBI files that she can use for leverage if needed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:56 PM (nnep/)
I think there's been too much clean up in Fulton. R pickup.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (AdHga)
I wonder if the person who rated GA as tilt Dem has fully taken onto account that fact the feds have been crawling up Georgia's ass over election shenanigans. And I wonder how that will affect the election.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (ExV1e)
I think there's been too much clean up in Fulton. R pickup.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (AdHga)
I was gonna ask about that and Arizona...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (nnep/)
Maduro is a fan of John Lennon's music and his political activism for peace and against war. Maduro has said that he was inspired by the music and counterculture of the 1960s and 70s, mentioning Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 07, 2026 02:59 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:59 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (2Ez/1)
Me will stay Rep
I'd like to see Georgia flip but Ossoff is a good campaignrr, and the Georgia Republicans are clueless.
NC if the Republicans can tie Cooper to the crime wave, he's toast and the Rep will win
NH, Sununu is popular but there may be too many Massholes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (KY+FT)
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Hey, who recalls Mark Warner of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence falling all over himself on every media outlet bitching about Tulsi Gabbard taking a front row seat in the raid on Georgia's election documentation, and then throwing a tantrum when she refused to brief him (and the committee) personally?
That's the same Mark Warner who set private (unreported) consultations with Christopher "Pee Report" Steele.
His behavior now makes a whole lot of sense.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:56
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A useful fighting trick is to enter the combat with a handful of sand to toss in your opponent's face.
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (Wt1Rs)
Hey, Alaska- she your bitch.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (UlN4g)
I was gonna ask about that and Arizona...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (nnep/)
I'm quite sure Katie Hobbs will make sure everything is on the up and up in AZ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (QX6xo)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (SgdqL)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (uhVAy)
I was gonna ask about that and Arizona...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:58 PM (nnep/)
Weird how Maricopa ballot problem is in the news today, isn't it...
Almost like the RNC's focus has moved from GA (because they believe they're strong there) to AZ, where they can employ the same playbook...
I don't KNOW any of that, obviously - that's not what I do for a living. But I've been watching Trump's organization pick Fulton apart. Maricopa's next .
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM (AdHga)
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (2Cry5)
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I think Venezuela had a cut out piece of the fraud down along the souther US border. Arizona and New Mexico to be specific. One of the Judges ruling on election challenges in Arizona actually has Venezuelan illegal immigrants living at his residence. The Cartels have their teeth into law enforcement, the Judiciary, and politicians in Arizona, I'm almost certain. Katie Hobbs among them.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 03:01 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:01 PM (ZxPkt)
Got it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (u82oZ)
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I think they'd prefer a country with no real men at all.
Just trannies pretending to be girls and soy-boys.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 03:01 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 07, 2026 03:02 PM (4KUe5)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 07, 2026 03:02 PM (UlN4g)
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 03:02 PM (TN0g+)
Some people may have, allegedly, done some things.
If so, mistakes may have been made.
If so, they were made in the enthusiasm of the moment.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Time to move on.
OrangeMan Bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at August 07, 2026 03:03 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 03:03 PM (vTZFs)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402845656112
Posted by: toby928(c) at August 07, 2026 03:03 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2026 03:00 PM
Embossed wax paper.
Posted by: AOSHQ Membership and Urinal Cake Committee at August 07, 2026 03:04 PM (2Ez/1)
On the R side you have Sununu who is an asshole but a very successful asshole running in NH versus Scott Brown who managed to get elected in MA before fleeing to NH
The Dem will be a faceless drone named Pappas most likely.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 03:04 PM (Wt1Rs)
This has been known for years, yet never held accountable for it.
Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 07, 2026 03:05 PM (4KUe5)
Got it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM
Well, a certain kind of man. A throughly Modern Masculinity Man.
Like us!
Posted by: Mr. Emhoff, Mr. Walz, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Platner, and Mr. Talarico at August 07, 2026 03:05 PM (0sNs1)
@NEWSMAX
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3h
BREAKING NEWS: A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing.
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:05 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (Ia/+0)
Profits...Obamacare has made medical care more expensive than ever.
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Way Back When at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:57 PM (AdHga)
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Unfortunately, the fraud is perpetual. They removed 471,000 ineligible voters from the GA rolls. In less than 30 days, some of the names removed were showing back up. An educated guess is that the DMV is entirely compromised, of some jackass forgot the Motor Voter application of Georgia (which I bleieve is Opt out). So, any of those 471,000 popping in to renew their license gets put right back on the voter rolls, and they likely never knew they were removed in the first place....so they will be voting again, or a surrogate will be in their place.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)
Some things are known about the relationship between Smartmatic, which was the original Venezuelan company that rigged elections for Chavez and then established an office in Boca Raton, and Dominion but a lot is being hidden behind lawsuits.
Smartmatic sold their Sequoia voting machines division to Dominion but as far as I know it hasn't been proven that Dominion runs Smartmatic software but it seems highly likely even though they deny it.
Smartmatic is now owned by a British group, there they are again, and the guy running it is Lord Malloch Brown who was also at one time the president of George Soros' Open Society Foundation. In other, a complete leftist piece of shit who loves to cheat against conservatives.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 03:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)
I'm sure that's true.
But all 471,000 of them aren't renewing their licenses. Call it - catastrophically over-estimating - 100,000 that get added back.
That's still 371,000 ballots off the board for the Dems.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 03:09 PM (AdHga)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
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Ossoff has incumbency and GA is supposedly a swing state, so it makes sense. I hope the clean up of Fulton gives us a pleasant surprise.
Cooper in NC is effectively an incumbent, being the previous governor who just left office 2 years ago and it being an open race. The assumption is that he has that advantage, but he's polling like Cunningham did in 2020 against Tillis, and Cunningham lost, all while the registration advantage Democrats had in 2020 has completely been erased. There were 400,000 more Democrats than Republicans in 2020 in NC. Now there are 10,000 more Republicans than Democrats.
Last time Cooper won statewide election was 2020, and he won by 250,000 votes.
Anyone honest should at least call NC a tossup.
I think it's lean R, frankly. I think Cooper is the underdog, especially since his governorship actually ended pretty badly (Helene) with some bad lingering issues (prisoner releases leading to murders and soft on crime policies that led to Iryna).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:09 PM (bvy21)
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Imagine there's no narcos
It's easy if you try
No concrete slab beneath me
Above me only sky
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:10 PM (ndZc7)
Domino Systems or sum thing like dat dere.
Here, sign my yearbook you sweet young thing you...
Posted by: Alabama Hayseed Voter at August 07, 2026 03:10 PM (45BvE)
Posted by: Pinky Fully Extended at August 07, 2026 03:10 PM (OTAXA)
NY Post has started calling him Mayor Zoflake.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 03:12 PM (wOO3z)
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I agree.
I'd like to film them all in my harrowing cinéma vérité masterpiece "PANAMAX: The True Story of the World's First Excavated Transcontinental Canal."
Have their people call my people - or else.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 03:13 PM (BI5O2)
North Carolina: 🔵 Tilt D (WTF NC?)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 02:51 PM (g47mK)
Georgia currently has 2 Dem senators. NC has a Dem governor who replaced another Dem governor last year.
It’s not the Georgia and NC of 2004. Things have changed.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 03:13 PM (Bz1XI)
That's impossible North Korean numbers.
The thing is that's I've never seen someone in power who was questioning the election point this out.
Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (KC5Lt)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (OTAXA)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (Q/FnY)
Of course, the usual idiots will deny that's what Hillary meant but, there's no way to read it any other way.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (eGzf1)
She probably has the best line of medical treatments including the blood of infants or something equally grotesque, so I wouldn't expect her to die anytime soon. I hope she repents and turns to Jesus, but I can't say that I will very sorry if I outlive her.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (xSAlF)
Not just any oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (viF8m)
Of course, the usual idiots will deny that's what Hillary meant but, there's no way to read it any other way.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 07, 2026 03:14 PM (eGzf1)
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We have returned to the spoils system, and I am happy.
Before, we still had the spoils system, but only Democrats got the spoils. We had a perpetual Democrat state in the administrative state that could never be supplanted or reduced.
Trump changed that by firing at least 1/3 of all federal employees for whatever reason he wanted.
So, yes, Democrats will fill the administration from top to bottom with cronies. But so will Republicans when they take office.
Getting what we want from government when Republicans are in power is a massive shift in our favor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 07, 2026 03:17 PM (gm9Sb)
2085736243992690960
A wonderful graph that shows that summer polls are really bullshit and you should just stop believing them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:17 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 03:17 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Big Farma at August 07, 2026 03:17 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 07, 2026 03:18 PM (eStot)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:19 PM (UjdFS)
Instead of relying on polling per se on the horse race, instead of incumbents or near incumbents like Cooper in NC below 50 percent of the vote. Those are the vulnerable ones where spending on turnout contacts and ads can make a difference.
In Collins' case, she polls poorly in every election and yet wins with the D overstatement in double digits in polling. Depending on which poll you believe, tOssof is below 50 btw in some, not all.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:20 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Turn 2 at August 07, 2026 03:21 PM (QFchU)
https://tinyurl.com/ydba6eas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:19 PM
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Fauci looks grouchy.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 03:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:20 PM (E4rtv)
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In 2014, she was leading every poll by double digits.
And they were still wrong.
She won by 40. They assumed an average of her winning by 30.
That's outside the margin of error, meaning that the polls, while directionally correct, were actually wrong.
It's like looking at the MI Democrat primary polling and saying that sure, they got the number wrong (assuming El-Sayed winning by 15) but they got the direction right (El-Sayed won by 1). No, the polls were just wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:21 PM (bvy21)
https://tinyurl.com/ydba6eas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:19 PM (ndZc7)
That face in the left photo is not that of a man who believes she will.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (ExV1e)
Getting what we want from government when Republicans are in power is a massive shift in our favor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
How about less and less federal employees and more of the functions and money being returned to states. Let Wyoming, for example, manage Wyoming federal lands.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
And then to rub salt in her wounds, he made her the hired help.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (i14TE)
So, yes, Democrats will fill the administration from top to bottom with cronies. But so will Republicans when they take office.
Getting what we want from government when Republicans are in power is a massive shift in our favor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (bvy21)
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Hmm, you know, that's a good point. Going back to a spoils system does put a good size dent in the permanent bureaucracy.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (eGzf1)
@NEWSMAX
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3h
BREAKING NEWS: A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing.
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:05 PM (ZxPkt)
What the heck is he supposed to do with the site now?! Completely rebuild the East Wing?
Posted by: pookysgirl can actually think ahead at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (zZu0s)
How about less and less federal employees and more of the functions and money being returned to states. Let Wyoming, for example, manage Wyoming federal lands.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
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Well, Trump has fired a full third of all federal employees, so it's a start.
But Congress would probably need to start pulling back on statutory powers at some point to get really to the bone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: Duke Lowel
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The Devil won't let her. She will turn hell into a real Hell.
Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Sf0j5)
If it's true that he's polling like Cunningham in 2020, then he's in good shape. Cunningham would have won that race except for the fact that he got caught boinking his secretary (or some random woman) a few weeks before election day.
I'm not sure how to read the registration numbers. Independents now outnumber both Rs and Ds in NC. No idea how they lean.
Posted by: Henry O at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (B8/Wv)
Getting what we want from government when Republicans are in power is a massive shift in our favor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:16 PM (bvy21)
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I have a feeling that if and when the Dems seize the White House again, they will make it their MISSION to destroy any Republicans in government.
There is no way they will ever relinquish that power again unless forced to at the barrel of a gun.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 03:24 PM (FZ29D)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 03:25 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bite Me at August 07, 2026 03:25 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Grim Reaper and Spirits of Vodka at August 07, 2026 03:25 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Henry O at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (B8/Wv)
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Registered independents in NC lean heavily Republican and have for decades.
Cooper is genuinely the underdog, and NC summer polling showing him ahead tells us nothing because NC summer polling is garbage.
In addition, when governors of the "wrong party" go for Senate races, their whole "good guy from the other party who isn't so bad" aura falls apart. Voters are a bit less partisan on statewide-state level races, but they trend towards hard partisanship on federal statewide races.
Just ask Larry Hogan who went from popular Republican governor of Maryland to losing by about 25 points in the Senate race.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:26 PM (bvy21)
Imagine a massive Red wave completely running through all of New York and California. Sure, the voter turnout of 250% might seem suspicious but no more than 120%
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 03:26 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM
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Where does that number come from?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 03:27 PM (2Ez/1)
I've been predicting this for years, including in these here little boxes. The easiest thing in the world would be to hand over programs that are already being administered by the states, like Medicaid, housing, and SNAP. The federal government could give the states a declining block grant and let the states either tighten up eligibility (and purge fraud) as the federal money winds down, or replace the declining federal money with their own taxpayers' money (further fueling the exodus of productive citizens and businesses to the red states).
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 07, 2026 03:27 PM (eStot)
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There is no rule of law in the USA. It is rule by left-wing, foreign-born judges.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 03:27 PM (Dv3i1)
for the greater good -- maybe we should round them all up, just to be sure, and relocate them somewhere, some sort of camp, where we could . . . concentrate them
Posted by: DNC platform committee at August 07, 2026 03:28 PM (sCxmP)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
State polling sucks for the most part because it is as expensive as national polling for a representative sample and a helluva lot more difficult in weighting because of rural/urban/suburban respondents non response and then the problem with accurately sampling minorities.
Add in the problem with area codes no longer corresponding with actual addresses and lying about actually voting in past elections (NES--National Election Survey UMich, got absurdly high responses about voting in past elections; when they actually checked who did vote, over time, the divergence between who voted and who lied about voting became a 20-30 point liars gap making the data useless.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)
don't forget us Senators -- want to gavel in the next "pro-forma" session?
Posted by: John Thune at August 07, 2026 03:28 PM (sCxmP)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)
This is why I have not taken polls seriously for a long time. It’s the narrative masquerading as a scientific poll assessing the probable outcome.
Posted by: Lizzy Clinton at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (4KUe5)
https://tinyurl.com/ydba6eas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me!
......
She's just pissed that the Tappers cancelled dinner.
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (UjdFS)
'Ordered'?! How? The Judicial Branch judiciates. (if that's a word, I'm buying a lottery ticket).
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (i14TE)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 03:30 PM (enNUy)
Hillary Clinton: Raging psychotic lesbian forges ahead to see how far she can go and how much damage she can do. Her bottomless anger and entitlement energize her and drive her forward. I'm not religious, but demonic possession is not a bad model for what's going on here. Perhaps a secular demon is a possible model to describe it.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:31 PM (DOcg9)
Posted by: braenyard at August 07, 2026 03:32 PM (ABcHy)
They upheld an injunction but delayed the order for 14 days for an appeal to SCOTUS. They also did not halt the below ground work.
They're hoping that they can delay it all until they can steal the WH again and some Dem can claim credit for the upgrade.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:32 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Not really, you simply do things via state agencies but retain the statutory authority to act and order states to act in compliance with the federal law. We already do this for example with food inspection, environmental compliance, etc. etc. Then there is moving duplicative parts of agencies to one agency--like the DoE moving its authority (and its attorney jobs going away) to the DoJ on civil rights issues. The statutes often don't specify which Fedgov department does the task but simply some department does.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (E4rtv)
And yet the essential function of government -- pissing away money like a sailor on leave -- is unaffected.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: pookysgirl can actually think ahead at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)
Why should they care? They don't create or build, they destroy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (2nJ9I)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 03:03 PM (vTZFs)
Heh.
Well played, sir. Well played.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:34 PM (QX6xo)
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Sco7b)
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You know who else was murdery?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 03:34 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:34 PM (UjdFS)
What the heck is he supposed to do with the site now?! Completely rebuild the East Wing?
Posted by: pookysgirl can actually think ahead at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)
He should just continue building. F*ck them. They have no say........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (QX6xo)
don't forget tripling the cost and laundering it all through our preferred "contractors"
plus the environmental study, tribal grounds study, climate change impact study, the land acknowledgment, and the DEI focused redesign
Posted by: DNC at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (sCxmP)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: pookysgirl can actually think ahead at August 07, 2026 03:23 PM (Wt5PA)
Invite all the federal judges to an event at the WH and say that he sure hopes that no one gets it in their head to kill a bunch of folks since there's no protection there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Lizzy Clinton
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And prediction markets are an even more abstracted version of popular wisdom which comes in a large dose from polling.
You can get reliable polling but it costs a bunch of money because you triangulate data sources--including rando geographic block surveys to check your suppositions as to the population being surveyed.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (E4rtv)
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adjudicate
yeah, today's courts exist solely to fuck with Trump
Posted by: Don Black, ACME Corp Exec VP for New Projects at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (ZxPkt)
And yet the essential function of government -- pissing away money like a sailor on leave -- is unaffected.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 03:33 PM (vTZFs)
As one who took Elon's buyout, I'd say a great many of those who left were the thinkers and movers, not the fools that apparently remain. The ones who know they are unemployable in the private sector held onto those government jobs like they were life itself.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 07, 2026 03:35 PM (2nJ9I)
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This is talking past the sale and that's all it is.
WHAT "Democrat president"?
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 03:34 PM (UjdFS)
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Another face lift and she'll have a goatee.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (Sf0j5)
Appointed by Clinton, Barky or Auto-Pen?
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 03:37 PM (Bz1XI)
Another face lift and she'll have a goatee.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (amcLV)
Hillary......your beard is weird......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:37 PM (QX6xo)
Hillary's scripted viral quote is meant to get everyone thinking "past Trump". Already.
They are trying to clear the board.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 03:38 PM (6UXQp)
Note: The new pop-up ad window continues to make this site difficult to use. The window is still there, but not visible, even after it appears to spontaneously close -- the site is unusable until the ad window is explicitly closed. Tapping anywhere on the page opens an ad web site until this is done. I don't think anybody is looking at the new ads, instead they just try to get rid of them.
I think this is doing real damage to this site -- fewer people looking at it. I hope this can be purged.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (DOcg9)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
Stuff in your freezer is fine for a day, maybe longer if you just leave it alone and don’t open it.
Go to 7-11 and grab ice and toss stuff into a cooler if you’re desperate.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Doug at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (B1+sW)
Appointed by Clinton, Barky or Auto-Pen?
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)
The original order was a W judge. The appeals decision was 2-1. An Obama judge, a Biden judge, and a Trump judge.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (ExV1e)
Sorry to hear about the troubles. Hope that power is restored soon.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (DOcg9)
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AdBlock Plus.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (amcLV)
Posted by: Paul at August 07, 2026 03:40 PM (YT4ZZ)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
You know else has a shocker of an election?
Posted by: Bob Dole at August 07, 2026 03:41 PM (6UXQp)
East Wing was some cultural landmark or something
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 03:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 03:41 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07
Yes, we are aware. We have switched over to Brave or put ad blockers on. I hate it, because that is how Ace makes revenue, so I suffered through th front page ads. But the pop ups because untenable so I switched to Brave.
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:42 PM (ZdaMQ)
Last time she was officially in charge of monitoring her own election for governor. And refused any debates with her opponent. How can you be in charge of monitoring your own election? And she's already stating she won't debate her challenger this time either. Her usual excuse is that they are "election deniers". You know, the elections she supposedly oversaw.
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 07, 2026 03:42 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 03:39 PM (ZdaMQ)
Did you just Jim Nantz us?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:42 PM (QX6xo)
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Population declined. 292,000 removed from the workforce, all from 16-59 age group.
Meaning deportations.
Our population is declining (2025 saw the first overall population decline since the 60s because of deportations).
Do you expect 150,000 jobs per month on average when population is declining?
Also, most of the jobs decline was because of decreased public sector employment. Manufacturing was up 50,000.
Also, go eat some hobo ass.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 03:43 PM (bvy21)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 03:43 PM (ndZc7)
Stuff in your freezer is fine for a day, maybe longer if you just leave it alone and don’t open it.
Go to 7-11 and grab ice and toss stuff into a cooler if you’re desperate.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I actually have a good sized generator but it's not set up for auto transfer. Last month we were on a trip and didn't know the power was out for four days despite being signed up for notifications from PPL Electric.
Posted by: Cosda at August 07, 2026 03:45 PM (Sf0j5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 03:46 PM (QX6xo)
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Turn off javascript for this site. Sonobi was that sort of persistent ad.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:55 PM (E4rtv)
A big no no is using web email on a Windoze computer where javascript is allowed to run scripts from your web email page. Allows malicious scripts to run which depending on which Java flaw it exploits, might escape the sandbox and damage your system.
A lot of beginning hackers are called script kiddies for a reason.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 04:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 07, 2026 05:00 PM (c35xG)
Red Cross Animated Propaganda Feature Lauds Sharif for His Brave (Illegal) Journey to Greece to Culturally Enrich That Nation, Then Deletes the Cartoon After Sharif Cultural-Enrichment-Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase
The Red Cross should be prosecuted as a terrorist-adjacent organization.
Oh you deleted the evidence out of respect for the victim's family, huh? Fucking liars. The right must totally boycott this corrupt organization. Another charity, one that doesn't eagerly propagandize for terrorists or conspire with illegals to pass borders, will rise to replace it. The Killer Migrant claims he discovered her dead and, "in a panic," decided it would be a good idea to stuff her body into a suitcase and hide it in an abandoned building. "As you do," as people say online.
The Red Cross has deleted a film tracking the journey of an Afghan migrant who is now accused of killing a British woman and hiding her body in a suitcase in Greece. Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, was arrested on Monday over the murder of Scottish Christian Elisabeth-Jane Ross, in Athens. Ahmadzai, a professional boxer who arrived in Greece on a small boat in 2016, is accused of killing Ms Ross before stuffing her body into a suitcase and ditching it in a derelict building. The 38-year-old's body was found by a homeless man on July 18, three days after she is believed to have been killed. It has now emerged the Afghan-national collaborated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and a London artist to create a film following how he escaped Afghanistan and reached the Greek island of Lesbos aged 15. The four-minute animated film, named Game of Life: The Story of Sharif, was first shown on YouTube in December 2016, and includes a narration of his six-week migrant crossing. The sympathetic video follows how his father, who was a military commander, was killed in an ambush and his mother and siblings were killed by a suicide bomb attack in Kabul. Ahmadzai, accompanied by friends, was then smuggled out of Afghanistan's capital and journeyed through Iran and Turkey, before he reached a refugee camp on Lesbos, named Moria. The interview was conducted in Moria, and took place after Ahmadzai had been in the camp for six months. The video opens with, 'each migrant has a story worthy of a Hollywood movie'. Ahmadzai's journey from Afghanistan to Greece is said to have taken one-and-a-half months, with the smuggler quoted as calling it a 'game'. During which time, Ahmadzai was arrested in Istanbul after his first attempt to cross into Greece, the video described, and was held in prison for three days. The video also reveals Ahmadzai intended to reach the UK, where he claimed he had family who would look after him should he successfully cross from Greece. Voiced by an actor, he says: 'She told me: "I can take full responsibility of you, if someone helps get you to the UK." But, if I can't get there, I don't know what will happen to me.' Scott Craig, a spokesman for the charity, told the Daily Mail: 'Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Elisabeth-Jane Ross at this extremely difficult time. 'The video is no longer publicly accessible. We took this decision out of consideration for Elisabeth's family while the legal proceedings continue. 'We cannot comment further while legal proceedings are ongoing.'
🚨BREAKING: RED CROSS DELETES VIDEO AFTER MIGRANT MURDERS BRITISH WOMAN
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 6, 2026
The Red Cross made a sympathetic cartoon video showing the journey of Sharif, an Afghan travelling to Europe
When Sharif got there he MURDERED a British Woman and stuffed her body into a suitcase
They… pic.twitter.com/uSRahzgrlL
🚨NEWS: Migrants in the UK are staging fake crashes to commit insurance fraud pic.twitter.com/PK8zeNEuxR
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 6, 2026
Very old story.
— Curious MiND (@kanch7) August 6, 2026
It's a family afair.
Largely carried out by Afghan and Pakistani drivers.
Taxi drivers too.
Everyone gets a cut.
No-win, no-fee solicitors are involved too.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Inogame at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (ExV1e)
That is suboptimal.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (lAE5c)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 01:22 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:22 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:22 PM (6UXQp)
I have to admit that this looks like normal footage from any time I drive in Boston
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: The Media at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: The Salvation Red Army at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (45BvE)
Posted by: TV Hall of Fame at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Jeb Bush at August 07, 2026 01:23 PM (sKqQm)
Or was there a need for, um, processing.
Because that would be a lot of work.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 01:24 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: little people at August 07, 2026 01:24 PM (ehY6c)
The sympathetic video follows how his father, who was a military commander, was killed in an ambush and his mother and siblings were killed by a suicide bomb attack in Kabul.
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Bullshit.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 01:25 PM (kf4RM)
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Red Cross is an arm of the Administrative State.
Posted by: braenyard at August 07, 2026 01:25 PM (IpPh0)
The cops pulled him over for expired tags and asked to see his license, which he refused to do and after the cops spent a ton of time trying to talk sense into him the refugee pulled out a gun and got himself shot.
But while he was talking to the cops he blamed them and the west as a whole for all of his problems because back in Afghanistan he didn't have to register a car, show up to work on time, fill out his taxes and on and on.
There is no place for Muslims in the west - send them home where they can live by their own ways.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)
I'd say that makes them complicit in the illegal mass migration event.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (gHSfI)
She wasn't a random victim like Laken Riley was. She actively pursued this outcome. She voted for representation who actively pursued this outcome. She condemned as racist and bigoted anyone who didn't want this outcome.
Fine.
She was savagely and horribly murdered. At least it wasn't someone random. She actively and deliberately participated in her own death.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (AdHga)
- European Elites
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (Bz1XI)
I'd say that makes them complicit in the illegal mass migration event
Muslims believe Christians can...AND WILL...give them jizya. And you know...they are write.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (JvZF+)
There's more to the story, too... seems his wife and the victim are/ were members of migrant assistance groups...
White women.
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (XuXeR)
Or CAN'T we?
Posted by: Idiot AWFLs at August 07, 2026 01:28 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 01:29 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:29 PM (q177U)
- European Elites
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker
Except if I'm going for doner kebob, I refuse to eat at any restaurant that advertises itself as "halal."
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (amcLV)
That is suboptimal.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (lAE5c)
Getting it zipped completely around that last leg is always a bitch
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (bNf8H)
The fun of making them deal with the protesters and the occasional escapee/person released would be hillarious
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (2WIwB)
Became an epidemic in the early 2000s. Sold a lot of dashcams...
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (6UXQp)
She was savagely and horribly murdered. At least it wasn't someone random. She actively and deliberately participated in her own death.
A part of me wishes that I didn't feel this way but I do. It's like what I said the other day about New York and California, just on a much smaller scale.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:29 PM (q177U)
The invaders don’t have insurance. Probably no license either.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (Bz1XI)
"It's just cruel!" to kick them out, say advocates, regardless of the law, including foreigners who travel to California just to get medical care under the program.
https://tinyurl.com/4mamenzk
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:31 PM (ty63H)
Because, you know, writers never ever write a story that isn't actually centered on them and things they've personally done.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)
>>There is no place for Muslims in the west - send them home where they can live by their own ways.
What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)
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I see a problem here.
It's probably not nearly as interesting as all the documentaries make it out to be.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (vTZFs)
Tales from the old guys in the service in the 50's always involved what assholes the Red Cross were to service members and how good the Salvation Army was.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (Y8DZL)
Eventually some will learn.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (6UXQp)
Next thing will be some gorilla throwing the case around.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (2WIwB)
"Here, have a driving license. Free. With a real id star."
/ your state DMV
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:33 PM (XuXeR)
- European Elites
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker
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Hey, look buster, someone has to fan me! We don't have air conditioning, you brute.
Posted by: Mrs. Macron at August 07, 2026 01:33 PM (ty63H)
What the world needs is Reform Islam. who is Islam's Martin Luther?
They had one. Sayyid Qutb and I say bring back the earlier lazy and corrupt from of islam.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:33 PM (sKqQm)
Fully clean house.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)
Enola Gay.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (vTZFs)
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Pornhub reference!
Posted by: Huck Follywood, wondering when Ace next posts lesbian pron at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (ty63H)
Posted by: J Edward Griffin at August 07, 2026 01:34 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (Y8DZL)
My experiences were few but positive. (80's and 90's).
But yeah, eventually everything the left touches they fu*k it up.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:35 PM (2WIwB)
He's probably not real fluent in Spanish or whatever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 01:35 PM (2Cry5)
We should not be accepting male refugees from Afghanistan. What are you fleeing from, oppressing women?
Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 07, 2026 01:36 PM (lgGrU)
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:36 PM (XuXeR)
Not possible.
Anyone deviating from or attempting to leave Islam gets killed.
Questioning is a capital crime in Islam.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 01:36 PM (AdHga)
I'm having trouble with the timeline.
He's 26 now, he arrived in Greece as a professional boxer in 2016?
Well, okay, pro boxer at the age of 16, then did what for 10 years? Where?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
He's probably not real fluent in Spanish or whatever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 01:35 PM (2Cry5)
Take my wife.......PLEASE!
Posted by: Henny Youngman at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (2YhKe)
Ahmadzai converted to Christianity and married US-born Christian Alaina Hall in 2023 before they set up a ministry helping refugees in Athens.
The couple are believed to have known Ms Ross, who was also a Christian volunteer, through their work.
Odds that either a) he was having an affair with Ms. Ross and she wasn't going to keep quiet about it or b) he wanted to and she didn't?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (V362x)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (ty63H)
Pissed off sheep. And goats.
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)
Baked into Islam is the idea that Mo is the "final" prophet and the Koran is the ultimate last word on Allah and no new divine messages will follow.
It's almost like they thought of everything...
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (6UXQp)
I flew recent and forgot to take my passport with me. I don’t and never will get the real id bullshit. Anyway tsa was like oh scan this code on your phone, pay $45 and your regular license is fine.
Do you all feel so much safer now? Lol. 20 years implementing real ID and all along it was just a giant federal govt money grab having nothing to do with sAfeTy.
Shocking.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Bz1XI)
Lol. Why wreck your stolen car for money, when you can just scam the government? That's where the real money is anyway.
Posted by: Minnesota Somalis at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (ZwRB6)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 01:39 PM (iySPJ)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (V362x)
I remember my grandfather not having anything nice to say about Unicef back in the day. Don't know why, tho.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:39 PM (2YhKe)
Lol. Why wreck your stolen car for money, when you can just scam the government? That's where the real money is anyway.
Posted by: Minnesota Somalis at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (ZwRB6)
Those fools have some serious learing to do.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:39 PM (2YhKe)
That works as we're all born Muslim.
Don't you feel better already?
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (XuXeR)
Distribution might be an issue.
But if the West burns afterwards....meh.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (Sco7b)
Odds that either a) he was having an affair with Ms. Ross and she wasn't going to keep quiet about it or b) he wanted to and she didn't?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti
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I read the story somewhere. It was strictly for money -- not even much of it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (mmrXZ)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (NpAcC)
Do you all feel so much safer now? Lol. 20 years implementing real ID and all along it was just a giant federal govt money grab having nothing to do with sAfeTy.
Shocking.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Bz1XI)
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When I fly now they don't check my ID at all. I signed up for "Touchless ID", and they use my photo from when I signed up for TSA Pre. I stand for a second in front of a camera and walk through.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (ty63H)
It's almost like they thought of everything...
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (6UXQp)
triple stamp, no take backsies, touch blue to make it true
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 01:41 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Illegal Immigrant at August 07, 2026 01:41 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 01:41 PM (KY+FT)
Because what is happening around me must be something else.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 01:41 PM (JvZF+)
Do you all feel so much safer now? Lol. 20 years implementing real ID and all along it was just a giant federal govt money grab having nothing to do with sAfeTy.
Shocking.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Bz1XI)
Getting Real ID in Washington State is a supreme pain in the ass.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:42 PM (2WIwB)
I knew for sure when RC was soliciting donations after 9-11. The implication was clearly that the donations would be used to help 9-11 victims and their families.
The RC was raking in piles of donations from 9-11, more money than it ever had before. 9-11 was a generational event, and lots of people wanted to help out.
Then the truth came out: RC was using donations solicited for 9-11 as any old general donations for general projects.
That meant the money people donated to help American victims of foreign terrorism was in large part going to ... foreign countries including Islamic ones.
It was a low-down dirty rotten scam. So fuck RC.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 07, 2026 01:37 PM (V362x)
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I think the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross are totally different organizations. I sort of recall a friend involved with the American Red Cross earnestly telling me they are different and please don't stop giving to the good guys. Or something.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (ty63H)
Bro spent four years/4000 hours painting an eleven-foot long cutaway-view layout of the USS Enterprise
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All that time spent and no cutaway of crew quarters and Lieutenant Mira Romaine showering? Disappointing.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Dv3i1)
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I see a problem here.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM
*nods*
It should be Lesvos.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Not every airport has that yet. I have clear and that’s basically toucess ID as well. But it’s only available at large airports for the most part. Flying out of secondary airports you still need a physical ID by and large.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (Bz1XI)
"...Murders a Woman and Stuffs Her Body Into a Suitcase."
Was that wrong?
Should I not have done that?
Posted by: The Costanza Defense at August 07, 2026 01:43 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:40 PM (ty63H)
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We know who you are.
Posted by: NSA Bob at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (JvZF+)
I'm re-reading it just now and am astounded at its prescience.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (Rl+wE)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Baha'ism came out of Islam, and it's pacifist, so it's kind of like a reformed Islam.
Of course, the muzzies don't consider it a form of Islam at all.
And the world headquarters of Baha'ism is...in Israel!
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (77rzZ)
Fellow volunteer at a military museum (on a Marine base) was a Canal vet (aviation ground crew). When he asked the sentry at the gate one Aug. 7 why today was an important Marine anniversary, the kid knew! We were very surprised and impressed.
My friend *volunteered* to go to the Canal after the Night of the Battleships attack had inflicted many casualties. You see, his buddy from boot camp was with a squadron there. 18-yr old thinking.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (U/Byj)
Do not use luggage to hide your bodies.
Posted by: Zombie Ira Einhorn at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: barbarausa at August 07, 2026 01:45 PM (enw9G)
What?
Typically, people object to real id because they say it's a de-facto national ID system that enables surveillance. That there are privacy risks. That it's federal overreach.
But if you're using a passport, you've basically given up ground on every one of those topics. You've got a national ID that enables surveillance and obviates privacy. I'm confused.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 01:45 PM (mkw2N)
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I guess he knows about the cup sizes.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:46 PM (6UXQp)
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I guess he knows about the cup sizes.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:46 PM
*fistbump*
Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 07, 2026 01:47 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:47 PM (77rzZ)
Fellow volunteer at a military museum (on a Marine base) was a Canal vet (aviation ground crew). When he asked the sentry at the gate one Aug. 7 why today was an important Marine anniversary, the kid knew! We were very surprised and impressed.
My friend *volunteered* to go to the Canal after the Night of the Battleships attack had inflicted many casualties. You see, his buddy from boot camp was with a squadron there. 18-yr old thinking.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 01:44 PM (U/Byj)
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The only reason I know, being honesst about it, is that my old man is reading "Guadalcanal Diary" right now and he greeted me at lunch with the news.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (ty63H)
But it helps to know I own a gun and it's loaded and if crazy gets anywhere near me I am ready.
Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (fV9m3)
I had a discussion with a guy claiming that Islam worshiped the same God as Christianity and I pointed out that Bahai claims the same things about Islam that Islam claims about Christianity so if Islam denies Bahai because their Holy Book says it is not the same religion, aren't Christians also correct in denying Islam as the Bible clearly says it is not the same God?
And while I didn't get him to agree it did cause him some significant cognitive dissonance so I think the Bahai example is a good one people should bring up more.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Diogenes
I had no problems at all.
- Juan Delgado-Lopez, Washington “resident”
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (Bz1XI)
The second vehicle doing the damage is, ideally, a U-Hall truck, for more drama. Then, they report it, and usually falls under the self-insured retention of the rental company, which means half ass claims guys with little experience get hoodwinked into paying out Bodily injury on the occupants.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:48 PM (dIske)
My brain dead progressive sister in law didn’t do any of this when my father had a fall and was in serious condition. I was on a field problem overseas. She sent an email to a throwaway Hotmail account. Stupid
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (dE511)
Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (2Ez/1)
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Wait, isn't that what Earf Day guy also did?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (ty63H)
Time Magazine, Behind the Photo That Made People Think Earth Day Was Founded by a Convicted Killer
I was at the 1st celebration. He was, eventually, a convicted killer after girlfriend was found stuffed in a suitcase.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 01:45 PM (mkw2N)
We’ve had passports for centuries.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:49 PM (Bz1XI)
But the day was saved by a couple of young Canuck women doing a photo shoot of each other...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)
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It's a write off, Jerry.
Posted by: Kramer at August 07, 2026 01:51 PM (2Ez/1)
The 2nd one is the body that links all the national red crosses (and red crescents). The 3rd is the Swiss-based one that mainly attempts to monitor compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
Extensive direct experience (all international, overseas activities) with the Federation was pretty positive. They were helping organize/develop organizations in young/war-torn countries and helping with refugee stuff.
The Committee was very impressive, they do humanitarian aid where for various reasons others can't really do it. They helped me squelch a proposed US aid activity that was not needed and would have bad diplomatic fall-out. Thus my disgust when, after 9/11, their lawyers absurdly claimed the Conventions covered the new non-state actor battlefield.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 01:52 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 01:52 PM (diia5)
The popular fake crash set-up here is when you're about to pull out of a parking lot onto a street,
the approaching car will signal like their going to turn into the parking lot and drive their car as if they're about to turn,
then if you start into the road, assuming the turn, they'll gun the engine, straighten, and hit you.
And..bingo bango!...You caused a car accident!
Sudden stops like in that video are popular too.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 01:53 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Unkaren at August 07, 2026 01:53 PM (ccX9M)
Also Bernie isn't endorsing Hung in Wisconsin.
Just keep letting the crazies be crazies, make sure the Republicans show up and the Republicans keep both houses
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (KY+FT)
If you would please launch some prayers for my son. Spawn of Mayhem is having tests at the VA hospital for breathing issues. There are heart problems in the family and his biological father died at the age of 30 from a very aggressive lung cancer. I need my boy to be healthy for his wife and son.
Thank you.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)
Prayers for your son...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 01:55 PM (FtULh)
Tales from the old guys in the service in the 50's always involved what assholes the Red Cross were to service members and how good the Salvation Army was.
Posted by: Auspex
Up until the Salvation Army went woke.
https://tinyurl.com/2p34afse
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 01:55 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
The bridge, the straits, the island, or the county?
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:56 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 01:56 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
They have great fudge
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 01:57 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 01:58 PM (aJQbY)
Madame am praying hard, been wondering bout you
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:58 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 07, 2026 01:59 PM (Rl+wE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 01:59 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:59 PM (CdaaV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:00 PM (KY+FT)
Your Number is: 8975309.
Now Serving: Number 2 !
Please be patient!
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2026 02:00 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: E Jean Carrol at August 07, 2026 02:00 PM (uzmqU)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (CdaaV)
Having worked with so many organizations years ago, and seeing how impressive they were, it's been beyond shocking to see what they've become (partially, or largely, depending). People hearing of these outfits for the first time (my impression, most people) because of their distortion and enlistment in the recent vile disastrous project to flood the US with migrants, really can't appreciate just how outrageous the change has been.
Generational/standards decline, and the Obama years, wrought havoc far beyond what most people understand.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (U/Byj)
Hung is the Navy Secretary of the Navy, Hong is the Cray-Cray Secretary.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (DZ9Lv)
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He hates islands? Bicycles? Ice cream shops?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (tAI1y)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)
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Prayers up Madamemayhem!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:04 PM (tAI1y)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 02:04 PM (77rzZ)
I'll be bringing this up when I talk with her again *very* soon just so she can say "I was right about those bastards!" yet again.
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 02:05 PM (2qSHg)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 07, 2026 02:05 PM (JNTt1)
What happened in 2016 in Lesbos was very similar to what happened in Ceuta last week, but back then it was portrayed as a wonderful thing. Ten years later no one is fooled anymore, and now we it it as the enemy invasion that it is.
THe Red Cross are agents of the enemy army.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:05 PM (Av6i5)
This tweet is a perfect example of why the consultant class keeps losing elections. They're totally clueless, and they're hellbent on keeping working-class people out of politics.
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The WWF DSA op continues apace.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:06 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 02:06 PM (ndZc7)
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Still, he's too stupid for public office if he doesn't know better than saying things like that. That's "Guam might tip over" level of stupidity.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:07 PM (TN0g+)
I.....should not have done this? In my country this is considered carry on bag to bring woman on plane.
Posted by: Sharif Ahmadzai at August 07, 2026 02:09 PM (OkYzo)
My point is the contrast between the two. Akin didn't even reach Hank Johnson levels of dumb and E Jean Carroll is saying stuff the Tate brothers would consider too controversial.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:10 PM (sKqQm)
Hung is the Navy Secretary of the Navy, Hong is the Cray-Cray Secretary.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (DZ9Lv)
I'm sure Bernie isn't supporting Hung either
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:11 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: Rick Steves at August 07, 2026 02:11 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Sharif Ahmadzai at August 07, 2026 02:09 PM (OkYzo)
Do you see a sign saying "Dead Chick Storage" here?
Posted by: Thrawn at August 07, 2026 02:12 PM (2qSHg)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 02:12 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 02:12 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: Duluth Trading at August 07, 2026 02:12 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rick Steves at August 07, 2026 02:11 PM (wGerL)
And let the locals steal your stuff.. You're rich.. You can afford it.... Regards, Rick
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:13 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 02:14 PM (UjdFS)
Hung is the Navy Secretary of the Navy, Hong is the Cray-Cray Secretary.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 07, 2026 02:02 PM (DZ9Lv)
I'm sure Bernie isn't supporting Hung either
Posted by: It's me donna
I am!
Posted by: Pete DeMayo at August 07, 2026 02:14 PM (TezPK)
There's an important moment in evolutionary history called "Great American Interchange," when Nrth America and South America, which used to be separated, finally bumped into each other and connected via the isthmus of Panama. When happened was: Felines (saber-tooth cats, panthers, lions, etc.) which had been romaing around North American eating things for millions of years, first were able to cross over into South America. What a feast awaited them there! An entire continent of juicy prey mammals, just waiting to be hunted to extinction. None f the animals in South American had ever encountered a large predator before, so they had not evolved to be fearful, and thus were easily hunted.
Some species went extinct. Others evolved tobe fearful, and survived, but now as a more parsanpid/skittish species.
That's the dilemma now facing the west. Facing an invasion of predators, o we stay naive and go extinct, or evolve self-protective behavior?
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:15 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:16 PM (6CYck)
The entire party is becoming profoundly silly
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 02:17 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: zombie
Choose wisely!
Posted by: Zombie Knight at August 07, 2026 02:17 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: Sarah Boone at August 07, 2026 02:18 PM (uzmqU)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 02:19 PM (3ZNGI)
Posted by: ...
Been true for decades, they fundraise off of current disasters and hold back a large portion of the donated money. Been scamming over blood donations for decades, and pay their executives well above average salaries while line workers get crap pay and benefits. Nasty vile organization that should be defunded and shut down.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 02:19 PM (E4rtv)
It was a stupid thing to say but not because it is false. A woman's arousal secretions actually help transport sperm to where it needs to go and helps preserve its viability. Women usually are not aroused when they are r@ped. So the conception rate is somewhat lower than in consensual circumstances.
I think his overall point was that pregnancy from r@pe is not as common as the abortion proponents like to pretend in order to play on our sympathies.
Posted by: Emmie at August 07, 2026 02:19 PM (OlzlW)
If you think it’s overstating it to say that American publishing is governed by an insidious double standard, consider recent events at one of America’s biggest publishers. Last week, Simon & Schuster doubled down on its relationship with Palestinian American novelist Susan Abulhawa, despite her praise for a terrorist, her revival of Nazi-era antisemitic tropes, and her dark characterization of Jews as “ghouls,” “cockroaches,” and “demons.” At the same time, Jewish writers such as Alyssa Rosenheck and Meg Keene say they’ve had their events canceled, faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity, and had to deal with a publishing industry increasingly unwilling to stand behind them.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:21 PM (6CYck)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:15 PM (Av6i5)
It will be like the Second Great American Interchange that started around 1492, and ended with most natives sick, enslaved, assimilated, and dead.
The Indians didn’t have border control, either.
This will be the Third Great American Interchange and I hope lessons have been learned.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had
No, it was the Red Cross that towed a rusty old ambulance out of a Beirut junkyard, stood on the roof and hacked a hole in it with an axe, then invited credulous journalists to photograph the shocking aftermath of an "Israeli missile strike on an ambulance." That Red Cross.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:22 PM (Av6i5)
I love that there is an interpretation for this but holy shit there's a thing called situational awareness and a month before a big national election is not the time to (for example) be shouting "rape is God's plan!" even if murdering ANY baby is legitimately the wrong thing to do. Not when the party has zero apparatus to do any "explaining". And you don't want to be explaining anyway.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:22 PM (6UXQp)
They say the fittest shall survive
Yet the unfit may live
Let 'em wear gaudy colors or avoid display
Hey it don't matter, it's all the same
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 02:22 PM (Cqx++)
When the Blue Helmets or Red Cross are around, hide your children.
Posted by: Haiti at August 07, 2026 02:23 PM (E/qck)
The problem with that though is the left will then just claim every abortion is rape/incest/health of the mother and on that latter point they'll claimed that being stopped from getting an abortion when you want one is psychologically damaging and therefore grounds for an abortion on a health exemption
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)
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Well, Sharif don't like it.
Posted by: The Clash at August 07, 2026 02:23 PM (YyTAm)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:23 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 02:14 PM (UjdFS)
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I have a tough time stomaching the bigotry within the suitcase industry. Or maybe their marketing department is tone deaf. Most women are overweight these days, and it's hard to find a suitcase to accomodate the increased girth. They cater towards short, thin women, totally fat shaming to Bertha's and Gertrude's out there coming in about 5'10 200 to 300 lbs. AND, even if you find a suitcase big enough, the stupid thing doesn't have wheels on it. It's a good way to injure your back.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM (dIske)
I love that there is an interpretation for this but holy shit there's a thing called situational awareness and a month before a big national election is not the time to (for example) be shouting "rape is God's plan!"
This is true but this is also a problem in that R candidates have to say and act perfectly throughout the election cycle while D candidates can say anything.
This benefits Democrats, obviously, but also means you get fewer grass roots/normal people running as a Rep and more Mitt Romneys because unless you've trained yourself it is easy to make a gaff that will be used against you and the whole party.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM (sKqQm)
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The University of Pennsylvania thinks she's swell.
/texted this to friends just a few days ago when this came up
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 02:27 PM (JvZF+)
I have a tough time stomaching the bigotry within the suitcase industry.
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Have you seen our Plus Size suitcases? Perfect for transporting your murdered land whale, no matter how porkulent.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 02:27 PM (O0L8i)
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The Vatican loves their borders. I'd be surprised if even ONE Senator or House Rep lives in an un-gated community.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:27 PM (TN0g+)
Sanders was asked about El-Sayed’s embrace of Piker, who has previously stated that “America deserved 9/11,” admitted he supports Hamas terrorists, and has openly encouraged and endorsed the killing of the political opposition.
Incredibly, while Sanders said he didn’t agree with the 9/11 comments, he boiled them down to Piker saying something “dumb” because he’s streaming long hours on social media every day. Plus, haven’t we all said something dumb like that that we’ve later regretted?
Sanders also used the moment to condemn “cancel culture,” saying that Piker needed to be heard and respected
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 02:28 PM (YyTAm)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:28 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Have you ever been there?
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:47 PM
Back in May. The RMBS Mom's side of the family comes from there.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 02:29 PM (Wnv9h)
Trump did prove that of you stand behind your subject and not wilt and it sets you in much better stead. Sometimes you downplay but others you amplify or at least show you have a spine. When Mittens got caught with 47% he needed to stand firm. But he is a jellyfish so forget it.
That all said election season is no time to get "scientific" on the electorate. Let alone in matters of rape. It's as tone deaf as any corporate raider.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:29 PM (6UXQp)
So, we can gripe about the Red Cross highlighting murders as their primary success...or we can turn to the Red Crescent and note the efficiency in which they transport terrorists around Gaza, hide weapons caches, and particpate in staged events.
It's a target rich environment.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:29 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM
Steamer trunks ftw!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 02:30 PM (Wnv9h)
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I understand why you're making your point, but Republicans should stop running candidates who feel like there's no danger in making off-the-cuff remarks about how rape isn't always as bad as it could be. That guy is an imbecile. We already have enough imbecilic Republicans.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:30 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:30 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 02:30 PM (TN0g+)
omg lawdy preach
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (6UXQp)
>>@jackunheard
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13m
>>HOLY CRAP
>>Former NBA star Enes Freedom just announced he is signing up for the WNBA in the midst of coaches wanting trans people in the league.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (iySPJ)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 02:32 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (iySPJ)
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Because four legs good, two legs bad?
Posted by: Snowball the Pig at August 07, 2026 02:33 PM (YyTAm)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:34 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 02:14 PM
++++++++++
You want one big enough to use as a raft in the case the boat sunk:
https://youtu.be/FqKAcoYQhuE
Posted by: Jimmy Stewart at August 07, 2026 02:34 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (iySP
My husband works at an animal rescue and they have a couple 3 legged dogs....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 02:35 PM (nnep/)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 02:35 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 02:38 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 02:31 PM (viF8m)
__________________
I'd watch that. Kanter (Enes) Freedom is 6'10" 260 lbs. And, a good egg. I'd wager he's pretty conservative based on the comments attributed to him.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 02:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 02:39 PM (VW/nr)
If you would please launch some prayers for my son. Spawn of Mayhem is having tests at the VA hospital for breathing issues. There are heart problems in the family and his biological father died at the age of 30 from a very aggressive lung cancer. I need my boy to be healthy for his wife and son.
Thank you.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 07, 2026 01:54 PM (CdaaV)
I'm praying right now.
Posted by: Rhett Butt-ler at August 07, 2026 02:39 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Crusader
Slogan for the GOPe: Embrace the Suck!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 02:39 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 02:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 02:40 PM (JvZF+)
The murdered Scottish woman was pretty much exactly like the American woman wh went o Ireland to hook up with Palestinian wife-beater who then murdered her: She has a "jungle fever" sex fetish for Muslim Bad Boys. The victim in this instance in Greece was basically the same--she had spend years "helping" virile migrant dudes in Southern Europe, "visiting them in the homes" and "disappearing" for days at a time with them, then reappearing with a big smile on her face. She knew this guy, had spend time with him on previous visit to Greece. But this time, something went wrong.
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:40 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 02:41 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (7Q7Ca)
Posted by: zombie at August 07, 2026 02:40 PM (Av6i5)
Yeah. She let slip that she was a Christian.
You know how that angers the poor dears. Look what she made him do!
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 02:22 PM (6UXQp)
This is why I stated that it was a stupid thing to say, because it requires explanation and that opportunity wasn't there.
But I do bristle at the suggestion that abortion is a boon to r@pe victims. It does not erase anything for the woman beyond shortening her pregnancy and adds the moral/emotional burden of being partner to the death of an innocent person.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (OlzlW)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (JvZF+)
Yea, I've heard him do a few interviews and I don't know if he's 100% our team but he hates leftists and China with a passion. He pretty much torched his career by being so against China.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 02:42 PM (viF8m)
I'm Out!
Posted by: Sarah Boone
We need common sense luggage control!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 02:43 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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I had dealings with them from local disaster relief efforts and on their blood donation locally in the 90's and it didn't help that they were paying Liddy Dole a million bucks salary back then.
They used to be the preferred ngo that the military dealt with and by the time I left, their rep was not that good there either.
The problem with any organization is that they become leftist and self dealing over time unless those people are purged from the organization from the get go. As our ruling class became globo homo, the organizations that were founded by a better class of ruling elites have went sour across the board and been infiltrated by nasty leftists.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 03:04 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Butch at August 07, 2026 04:25 PM (98xTj)
pops worked for them for over fifty years (small craft, first aid, water safety, lifesaving).
one of my brothers almost sixty years (blood bank, blood drive, wrote alot of the safety instruction manuals).
moms and all of my other siblings did volunteer work, while my sisters husband was the tri- state midwest disaster relief director.
of course i never did anything with them. but they sure did some good.
too bad, feck 'em then.
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Bep7s)
Liberal White Women Are Among the Most Fanatical Supporters of "Decarceration" and Also, Its Most Imperiled Victims
Supposedly a red state. (Blue city of course -- Charlotte, where Iryna was butchered on video by a skel with a long list of previous arrests and indulgences.)It's critical that all white people avoid racial slurs. But all minorities can use them as they please, while beating innocent strangers into the pavement. Just some good ol' Street Reparations.
North Carolina career criminal arrested after attacking, chasing women in terrifying social media videos By Nicholas McEntyre
A North Carolina career criminal is accused of randomly punching and hospitalizing a woman while chasing down another victim in a separate attack as he posted the disturbing footage across social media. Di-Quan Schafar Hunt was arrested Thursday for committing the alleged assault in a residential neighborhood on the 400 block of East Boulevard in Charlotte, NC, on July 30, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. Police busted Hunt, 32, when the department was presented with several videos on his social media page, where the brute posted about his physical confrontations.
Hunt was recording himself talking about a "real issue" that happened on July 21st when he crossed paths with the unidentified woman holding a get-well balloon.
"Nah, don't wave to me," Hunt yelled at the defenseless woman, sending him into a fiery rage and punching his victim to the ground. The 5-foot-9, 220-pound brute hovered over the motionless woman and screamed racial slurs at her as she lay on the pavement.
He immediately began spamming out excuses and complaints of "you're hurting me" (or the like) so they brought him to a medical center.
"You still talking? You still talking?" Hunt yelled. "July 21st. Say Elijah. Elijah my son, Motherf--ker you playing." Hunt ripped the broken frames from the woman's sunglasses, kicked the balloon from the woman's hand and ran off. In a separate, undated video, Hunt -- as he was ranting about McDonald's -- charged at another woman as she was walking on the sidewalk before chasing her around a car. "You wanna run bitch, you wanna run motherf--ker, huh? I betcha run again motherf--ker," he yells in the video. On Thursday morning, officers responded to an "attempt to locate" call in the heart of Charlotte, where they were shown the disturbing videos posted by Hunt. Hunt was taken into custody on an arrest warrant at around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
After his release from the center, he will be transported to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office and charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon. Hunt, a well-known vagrant in the city, has been arrested at least nine times over the last 34 months in Mecklenburg County, according to jail records viewed by The Post. Those cases include simple assault, assault on a female, assault with a deadly weapon, trespassing, domestic violence protective order violation and probation violation. Between December 2012 and June 2019, he was arrested three times for assault on a female, three times for domestic violence protective order violation, and once for discharging a firearm in the city and injury to personal property, according to WCNC.
All those cases had been dismissed.
Matt Van Swol
@mattvanswol
🚨#BREAKING: I can confirm that the man arrested this week for violent street attacks on a woman in Charlotte was FREE BECAUSE OF A PLEA DEAL IN MARCH. Diquan Shafar Hunt was arrested in December 2025 for Assault with a Deadly Weapon and three other charges. On March 18, 2026, he took a plea from Judge Joseph Setzer Jr. Guilty to two charges. Two dismissed. Sentence: just 89 days in prison He walked out that same day. Just 4 months later, he begins filming himself beating women on the streets of Charlotte NC. Diquan had been arrested 14 previous times including for multiple assault on women charges, domestic violence charges, breaking and entering, and resisting arrest. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!
🚨#BREAKING: I can confirm that the man arrested this week for violent street attacks on a woman in Charlotte was FREE BECAUSE OF A PLEA DEAL IN MARCH.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 7, 2026
Diquan Shafar Hunt was arrested in December 2025 for Assault with a Deadly Weapon and three other charges.
On March 18, 2026,… pic.twitter.com/OPpCbxrUiP
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (NcvvS)
TGIF
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 12:12 PM (IFsWJ)
Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (VJX5o)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (VJX5o)
Especially when they are encouraged to do so.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 12:14 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Yeah. Fuck due process for these savages.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)
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If this wasn't state policy how would the state act differently?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 12:14 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Advice to young women at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (XE5AP)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 12:16 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2026 12:16 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 12:16 PM (JvZF+)
You can't have a criminal career without a supportive and nurturing government behind you.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 12:16 PM (E/qck)
https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2085512709622178273
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (IFsWJ)
Posted by: Honorable Judge Dequeefus at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (V362x)
So thems the rules.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Good Marksman Here at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (Y8DZL)
He is expressing a desire to rebalance the relationship between oppressed black males and privileged white females who look good in spandex.
Posted by: CNN Presenter at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (anL5R)
May I speak to you of the wisdom of Nayib Bukele?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)
Yes... We have a s**t load of judges who need the Bukele treatment...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (FtULh)
... man charged with 6th indecent exposure case
... sentenced to probation on four previous indecent exposure cases after pleading guilty last year is back in court again on similar offenses.
“The victim stated that while working in the garden section of the (Home Depot) store, she noticed the defendant because although he would not approach her directly, he appeared to be lingering near her as she moved about the garden section,” according to the affidavit. “While the defendant was standing in the plant food section, she made eye contact with the defendant and immediately observed that he had his penis exposed in his hand. She also observed that the defendant was actively masturbating and subsequently ejaculated in his hand as well as on a bag of plant food. At that point, she quickly walked away to locate a supervisor.”
He's young. That, at the minimum, can go on for years.
Not a lot of heavy duty jailing going on since C19.
c'est la vie
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (NFX2v)
If we implemented the policies that were known to work, this problem would be solved in a week and we'd be more of a high trust society than Japan.
But we can't because we're better than this.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (80oeU)
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (vbXSk)
Damn. I hope this doesn't delay the cure for cancer he's working on.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (E/qck)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (ugElV)
The NC Republicans should do everything they can to tie this to Cooper. Given the number of murderers he let out during COVID it should be a winning issue
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (KY+FT)
Like the picture of the homeless crazy woman sitting peacefully near all of the Patriot Front feds.
tHEy're IN cRISiS. thEY Don't kNow whAt they'rE DOInG.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 12:21 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (VHUov)
You are telling a portion of the population all the horrible things that have been done to 'them' (really just people of the same skin color- which is insulting as fuck) and letting them act on the shit that you stirred up and then when they 'act out' you excuse and mostly legitimize it.
So, you get more of what you subsidize, except in this case they are openly encouraging it. You are creating the monsters that retarded racists back in the day only IMAGINED existed.
Fucking hell. What a world.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Advice to young women at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (XE5AP)
In a city on a racial justice kick, the kind of city letting the Di-Quans of the world go wilding? May as well use the gun to shoot yourself, because the city isn't going to have you executing members of its negro militia. Unlike, Di-Quan, you will go to prison for an extended stay.
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (4I0qm)
The charges for such should be called attempted murder and punished accordingly.
And every state should adopt three strikes mandatory sentencing for violent criminals including behavior as juveniles. And install formal sentencing guidelines that punish judges for sentencing outside those prescribed legislative limits on judicial autonomy.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
Removal at least, jail time if justice is served.
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Prison. With this animal as cellmate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (dE511)
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:23 PM (XuXeR)
When you're beating more than one
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 07, 2026 12:23 PM (onZb0)
Just 4 months later, he begins filming himself beating women on the streets of Charlotte NC.
"BUT IT'S JUST A PRANK! YOU CAN'T ARREST ME FOR A PRANK!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 12:24 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (4I0qm)
Better to be judged by 12 that buried by 6.
Posted by: Advice to young women at August 07, 2026 12:24 PM (XE5AP)
Not anymore
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:22 PM (dE511)
47 WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!"
Samuel Colt agreed...
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:23 PM (XuXeR)
Chesterton's Fence!*
I am just trolling to see if the guy who had a beef with Chesterton's Fence is still around.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:24 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (Wnv9h)
But we can't because we're better than this.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (lXoJ5)
It sounds like Japan pols were recently importing a bunch of foreign elements and they are about to get this sort of thing all up in their business hard and fast. I would like to think Japan's natural xenophobia along with the past year's election results would mean that's nipped in the bud. I don't know. Good luck though. I hope someone figures this all out.
Posted by: banana Dream - hee hee I said nip at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
World has nothing to do with it. Specific malicious individuals are doing this shit and it is high time that they be defunded, driven out of society on a rail, and put adrift in a lifeboat in the Artic during winter.
No more tolerance for the individuals driving society to destruction because they have good intentions or some other clap trap.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (E4rtv)
Between crime, riots, welfare and money to raise their bastard kids, white America should start demanding reparations from the black community.
Add in 25% for the general whining and constant cries of racism.
Time for my coffee. With milk. I hate my coffee black.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (Sco7b)
And bad enough the commiecrats have created these thugs, now they refuse to put them in prison until they seriously hurt or kill someone.
Posted by: PaleRider at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (PV+Zw)
I actually know a DiQuan who is far, far bigger. And he's the nicest kid who wouldn't harm a fly.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 12:26 PM (E/qck)
Posted by: D'Quan - race mediator and facilitator of harmony at August 07, 2026 12:26 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (vbXSk)
Only for the slave races.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:26 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:26 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:27 PM (4I0qm)
Posted by: banana Dream
The insatiable demands for cheap labor always lead to destruction of society. And it is always the upper class and wealthy that want cheap labor.
My hope is that robots advance fast enough that a surly class of assholes brought in because they are cheap are no longer desirable but then again, the ruling class will prefer to simply get rid of the middle class instead of mechanizing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!
Sure you do. We're not accountable to you. We can just manufacture ballots and stay in business as long as we want. And what are you going to do about it? If you think the courts are going to come to your rescue, you got another think coming.
By the way, are you paying your fair share of taxes?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
Half the comments were some variant of "we need better mental health services". No we just need to throw criminals in jail and confirm the mentally ill to secure mental facilities
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200
I always hear the phrase "chickens coming home to roost" in Jeremiah Wright's voice now.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Local media at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream - hee hee I said nip at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)
ISWYDT ?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 07, 2026 12:29 PM (9ZFZd)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 12:29 PM (q177U)
As always, I do want to know how these ladies voted, because this may well be chickens coming home to roost.
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200
Some fraction live in gated communities with private security.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 12:29 PM (O0L8i)
They would be happy to sacrifice for the cause. They dream of being raped by an illegal immigrant. Murder is optional.
Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (+F4bv)
Posted by: banana Dream - hee hee I said nip at August 07, 2026 12:25 PM (3uBP9)
The current PM pretty much ran on stopping and reversing that policy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 12:29 PM (q177U)
Yeah, that is a large component too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (Y/06r)
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Yo privilege is talkin' now white boy - Imma mind get up on you and show you who boss man now. I know you white boys all sissies. Harmony time!
Posted by: D'Quan - race mediator and facilitator of harmony at August 07, 2026 12:31 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: UGAdawg at August 07, 2026 12:32 PM (mj/G1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 07, 2026 12:32 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 07, 2026 12:32 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Duesexmachina at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (cmlrb)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)
Yeah, you'd think if anyone could solve a problem with cool robots it would be Japan. I am afraid that they might be devoting a good 60-80 % of R&D in to making the robots hot and cute in cat ears and not enough into industrial fabrication. As one does.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (iySPJ)
Which women are you talking about?. Nobody wants to be raped or murdered.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 12:34 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: Ripley at August 07, 2026 12:34 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (2ap+5)
After all, black lives matter and no justice, no peace!
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (45BvE)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (L8DX7)
Posted by: Sonobi at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (R0XxO)
Half the comments were some variant of "we need better mental health services". No we just need to throw criminals in jail and confirm the mentally ill to secure mental facilities
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:28 PM (KY+FT)
Responsibility? That's just someone else's problem. Where my welfare?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (ExV1e)
Everyone in the story is EXACTLY as you picture them.
The son of the judge set to preside over one of the men accused in the horrific gang rape of Louisiana State University student Madison Brooks is a convicted serial rapist, and the judge herself once represented him in court, the New York Post reported.
The trial for Desmond Carter, 21, one of the three men charged with raping Brooks inside a vehicle before her death, is scheduled to begin August 17 before Judge Gail Horne Ray of the 19th Judicial District Court, according to WBRZ.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)
Those were the nuances (?) in language that began dividing the country, not democrat or republican, Black or White, etc.
And from there, the divisions continued, so that you're either with them or against them.
All, imho.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (2ap+5)
100% agree. In the 1990s, I lived northwest of Charlotte - Hickory. Was a nice area, but towards 1997-1998, I could see changes were coming and they weren't good ones. Gone back to visit, been through Charlotte numerous times. Absolutely would not move back.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (N39Ws)
Which women are you talking about?. Nobody wants to be raped or murdered.
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Well, its not like a normal person would. And yet, serial killers get fan mail from women all the time. I can't explain the popularity of 50 shades of gray. Nobody can explain the AWFL mind using logic, because it doesn't use logic.
Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (L8DX7)
Laughs in retired.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (dE511)
Posted by: UGAdawg
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Predators go for easy prey and that includes old frail men or kids/young men that that are disabled as well. Just not as publicized.
Go armed and if in a blue area, you best have a legal plan for after a shooting as to a defense lawyer, self defense insurance, and the wherewithal to move later if necessary.
There are two kinds of criminal law attorneys, those that will get you the best plea deal, and those that will fight their damndest to keep you outta jail. You want the second type and even there--you want one that defends cops for example when they shoot a protected critter because a) those are used to public pressure and the vile press, b) they have a network of expensive expert witnesses to buttress your case at trial.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sonobi at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM (R0XxO)
I knew Sonobi would never last. Like lace wigs, turn, turn, turn.
So I printed them out and framed them. So I can love Sonobi a little longer.
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:38 PM (4I0qm)
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I live in a 99%+ white, very rural AO in the Ozarks, and I have zero concern about any danger from the DiQuans of the world.
Plus, I have no qualms about plugging said DiQuan with a lead injection.
As far as AWFLs go, embrace the power of 'and'.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 12:38 PM (3fZgy)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)
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The "I *heart* Blowing Rock" tee shirts don't sell that well, I'll admit.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 12:39 PM (2ap+5)
There was a famous case in Germany:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/686192/selin- goren-arabic-men-rape-quiet-encourage-racism
(delete the space)
I vaguely remember there are more such cases.
Posted by: PG at August 07, 2026 12:39 PM (+F4bv)
The winner from SC was recently cancelled because she supposedly made "racist" social media posts under an alias years ago.
Supposedly, she said "nigga" a few times, although the posts themselves aren't shown, so it's unclear what the context is.
Oh, and although her name is the very white-sounding "Brittany Boltinhouse," she is actually Honduran and Mexican, and looks it.
So if she, as a latina girl, was saying on social media "you go, my nigga" or "sista be a bad-ass nigga" then she would only be doing what literally every other latina of her age does. Very odd that I can't find the actual social media posts anywhere.
This looks like a hit by supporters of the runner-up (a black girl) to get the title, which she did.
https://tinyurl.com/4bdcp2ee
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)
The Gulag Archipelago has a chapter in it about criminals in the Soviet Union. They were a protected class, and allowed to prey on ordinary citizens. Part of keeping everybody intimidated and afraid.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (DOcg9)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2026 12:20 PM (vbXSk)
Not if you’re black. And that is the problem. There is no justification for jailing someone on the basis of skin color, but these rulings say yes, there is. Black man can say it all day long, no problem. White woman can’t even quote the word back at him, or she’s liable to go to jail.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (sGgMH)
Which puzzles the hell out of me because Japan is not a "Yay Multiculturalism!" kind of place. Unless the pols are 100% certain that they will never deal with the consequences.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (lXoJ5)
The pendulum swung from inappropriately harsh penalties on black people, to inappropriately lenient penalties on them.
If a prosecutor has charged a domestic-related offense and then later dismisses it, probably 99% of the time it’s because the victim isn’t cooperating and they have no choice *but* to dismiss it, as the victim’s testimony would be necessary for trial.
Same reason you also see what people think are “lenient” deals for very serious allegations. The prosecutor almost certainly made the calculation that an outright loss at trial is likely for whatever possible reason, and therefore a “lenient” deal is preferable to literally nothing.
Sometimes a defendant who has so many priors is just walking around like everyone else because prior victims refused to play ball with the system and testify.
And there’s no way to hold someone because they’re a danger to the public, except as a psych hold, which is a very different standard. The justice system confines people for their crimes. If a crime can’t be proven they can’t be held.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (ZwRB6)
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 07, 2026 12:41 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)
I stopped that once we married.
Posted by: Lauren Hashian at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (6UXQp)
I heard that Miss Boltinhouse was also MAGA, so maybe that was the reason they yeeted her.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oglebay
State is actually drifting right just like Georgia is drifting left politically. The problem with judges is that the whole profession has moved to the left and judge are simply reflecting what law school is teaching.
That means that state legislatures are going to have to eliminate a lot of trial judge discretion for charges and sentencing. That is where the three strikes law in California came about as the left coast was an early warning sign that leftist lawyers on the bench or as district attorneys are destroying the cities and suburbs by coddling violent and insane criminals.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 12:44 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (6UXQp)
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Yep.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 12:44 PM (3fZgy)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:44 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (anL5R)
Don't try to discern the motivations of a rational mind by comparing the venn diagram of the
"set of people who would very clearly not want X to happen to them"
and the
"set of people who have very clearly chosen to vote for X to happen to them"
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (3uBP9)
Which puzzles the hell out of me because Japan is not a "Yay Multiculturalism!" kind of place. Unless the pols are 100% certain that they will never deal with the consequences.
Posted by: NR Pax
Japan had its cheap labor force which were ethnic Koreans for a long time, when they were integrated more or less into non pariah status, the search for people to do shitty jobs meant bringing in Muslims and Africans as low cost temporary labor. And now the Muslims are burning historic Shinto temples in the countryside like they burn historic churches in the West. Time to sent all Mo lovers back to Dar Islam.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (no1VZ)
I heard that Miss Boltinhouse was also MAGA, so maybe that was the reason they yeeted her.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (77rzZ)
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Maybe. I think if that was true, though, she never woulda won the title in the first place. Maybe they learned about that after. But either way, this smells like a hit job based on made-up bullshit.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Butch at August 07, 2026 12:45 PM (98xTj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 12:46 PM (diia5)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:46 PM (6UXQp)
👉Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters in North Carolina actively organize around local labor rights, municipal elections, housing, and mutual aid. Prominent local groups include the NC Triangle DSA (covering Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill), Charlotte Metro DSA, Asheville DSA, and Wilmington DSA.
👉Durham Dispatch, April 2026, The Triangle Left and Allam’s Second Run
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: front toward enemy at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (TIizU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Well said.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:42 PM (6UXQp)
It's not really 'street enforcers' per se. This guy is not screaming at these women about the wonders of abortion or open borders. Rather, it is... agents of chaos. It creates as certain atmosphere where people generally feel unsafe and suspicious of their neighbors (Are they a psycho? better not make eye contact and hurry past.) Because what does that result in? A need to feel safe and when you cannot trust your neighbor and you have disregarded the idea that you should take your own defense personally, that means the government. THEY will protect you. THEY will give you what you need (order.)
The thing is, for these women, the government is what is making them feel unsafe. This dude would have been shot for some other crime long before this. Same with the retard who killed the gal on the subway. The government/police protect criminals from summary justice at the hands of the people. They have just taken it way too fucking far.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:48 PM (KY+FT)
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its probably social media postings when she was a teenager or something. And I wouldn't be that surprised if the runner up hired somebody to do a dive on her social media to see if she could get upgraded...
its about as cutthroat as women's figure skating . . .
Posted by: Nancy Kerrigan's limp at August 07, 2026 12:48 PM (anL5R)
It's not really 'street enforcers' per se. This guy is not screaming at these women about the wonders of abortion or open borders.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:47 PM (Y/06r)
I never said street enforcers are there to enforce *opinions*. They have the media, the socials, and your job for that.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:49 PM (6UXQp)
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters in North Carolina actively organize around local labor rights...
Mmmmm, let me guess. "Public service" unions. Standing up for the drones.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 12:49 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (2ap+5)
After all, black lives matter and no justice, no peace!
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at August 07, 2026 12:35 PM
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You forgot the land acknowledgement.
Posted by: Karen McWinemom at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: zombie Lee Garlington at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (mkw2N)
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Power of "and". If they need a riot, guys like this will join the crowd and be the ones to escalate as they use the crowd for cover. So they are street enforcers if needed, and also agents of chaos, to keep the population afraid.
Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (anL5R)
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"Sorry. We just quit playing. And Elijah is a mere prophet. I just called on Gabriel for you. But maybe Elijah can stop by for a glass of wine, if he wants to see the proceedings."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (rkWBz)
1% of the people commit most of the violent crime. Imprison them and crime drops dramatically, but in the last few years we've been imprisoning them less.
This was the idea behind 3 strikes laws back in the 90s...I suspect those mostly ended due to various leftwing initiatives.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: zombie Lee Garlington at August 07, 2026 12:50 PM (J4Dwc)
I had to look that one up. Wiki is not a help. I am assuming it involves blowjobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Dwayne J. at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:53 PM (dE511)
Posted by: Its not like am an expert or anything at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (anL5R)
Valid point.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:53 PM (Y/06r)
"labor" like being a government bureaucrat.
The most anti-socialist people I know are plumbers, carpenters, HVAC guys etc...the group you would more tradtionally call "worker"
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 07, 2026 12:51 PM (NnhvP)
Judge Joseph Setzer Jr.
Joseph E Setzer JR worked as an Emergency Judge for the State of North Carolina and in 2025 had a reported pay of $50 according to public records.
WTF is an emergency judge?
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 12:54 PM (Q8JBQ)
Should be fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:54 PM (viF8m)
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Come on now. I can't explain why I like legs so much, but women wanting to be "taken" by some mysterious rich dude is not a difficult fantasy to parse.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:55 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:53 PM (dE511)
Seriously. seize the means of reproduction already.
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 12:55 PM (4I0qm)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)
I have spent a lot of time looking into this matter, I will probably still need a good bit of time to reach a one hundred percent understanding of all the concerns, but I can now confidently say that Boltinhouse is innocent of all charges and is the winner of the pageant, and our hearts.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:55 PM (3uBP9)
>>>On March 18, 2026, he took a plea from Judge Joseph Setzer Jr.
You want vigilantes? Because that is how you get vigilantes.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 12:56 PM (lAE5c)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters in North Carolina actively partner with and support a variety of independent, sector-specific, and rank-and-file labor unions. These collaborations typically center on strike solidarity, contract campaigns, and workplace organizing
Key Union Partners and Alliances -
Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW)
UE Local 150 (North Carolina Public Service Workers Union)
Durham Association of Educators (DAE)
Duke Graduate Students Union (DGSU / SEIU Southern Region)
CAUSE (Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment)
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:56 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 07, 2026 12:56 PM (JayIZ)
Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (fV9m3)
Posted by: bonhomme
Congrats. My 16th anniversary. is in 2 weeks
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (Cifda)
Also true but I'm thinking of like Mexico where people just live under the constant threat of the drug lords who are working with and for la policia.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (6UXQp)
Congratulations and God bless both of you!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (dIske)
Christian Gray is a rich, attractive man lavishing all his attention on some normal young woman and giving her passionate (if weird) sex that she enjoys. That's the appeal as far as I can tell.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (77rzZ)
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they are afraid. they subconsciously recognize the thing they fear can't be controlled. So they focus on something that obeys the rules and won't likely retaliate with violence, successful conservative white men. Its safe to harass them. It gives them an outlet for their fear, a safe target to focus on, and satisfying feedback when it is echo'd by their peers and in the media. Sure its dick in the peanut butter crazy, but that's the lot of them. they've been running a fear op on the country non stop since 2001.
Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 12:58 PM (anL5R)
1% of the people commit most of the violent crime. Imprison them and crime drops dramatically, but in the last few years we've been imprisoning them less.
This was the idea behind 3 strikes laws back in the 90s...I suspect those mostly ended due to various leftwing initiatives.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
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Three-strikes laws were too successful at getting criminals off the streets, so of course they had to go.
What was most surprising about those laws was that criminals are such feral, unreformable, and un-fixable scumbags that they would light up the three strikes one after the other.
They would have two strikes already, knew the next was was "see ya," but would still do the crime. Incredible. These people are dangerous animals who must not be allowed anywhere near a civilized society.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (iFTx/)
Seriously. seize the means of reproduction already.
If you read incel stuff this is exactly their line of thinking. They agree with standard leftwing socialists that the government should seize everything and then dole it out to people...they just include sex as well
And, this isn't oddball thinking for socialists, various communes tried it...which worked about as well as you might expect.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (W2Pud)
Sooooooooooooo.... Getting what they said they wanted, yes?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (R0wwO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (Y/06r)
https://tinyurl.com/4j2bdud2
Posted by: zombie Lee Garlington at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (J4Dwc)
I am afraid that they might be devoting a good 60-80 % of R&D in to making the robots hot and cute in cat ears and not enough into industrial fabrication. As one does.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:33 PM (3uBP9)
These robotics executives learned from Sony and Betamax. Betamax was supposedly the superior videotape format to VHS in every way, except for licensing. Story was that Sony refused to license Betamax to the porn companies. So Betamax dried up and died like an unwatered tomato plant in the middle of Death Valley.
I don't know how true the story was, but it makes sense.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (UjdFS)
"Carolina Amazonians?" WTF?
Posted by: Bulg
Delivery drivers, archers, lesbians, or all three.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (VHUov)
ICE arrests surge at Philly airport, including those of a babysitter and a senior citizen
The Department of Homeland Security said President Trump is reversing policies that let undocumented immigrants "jet around our country."
In part, "A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said airport arrests are occurring because the Trump administration “reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country.
“Under President Trump, DHS will no longer tolerate this. This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport.”
The department said “being in detention is a choice,” and the federal government is offering people who are here without permission a $2,600 payment and a free flight home.
Self-deportation can preserve the right to later come back to the U.S., absent the penalties that accompany a government deportation."
More.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: bonhomme
Congrats. My 16th anniversary. is in 2 weeks
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (Cifda)
Congrats Youngins' Both my Son and Daughter and Spouses will be celebrating their 25th this year.. Yeah.. I'm old LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: Rock at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (nPp6w)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (77rzZ)
Between the land acknowledgement for property I didn't own and slave reparations for people I didn't enslave I don't know how I'm going to make ends meet.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (Y8DZL)
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If you have a judicial emergency, press 1. For all others, remain on the line for the next available judge.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 01:01 PM (qBdHI)
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I haven't read it, but my impression was that what she purportedly "enjoys" is degrading and painful
which was, I guess, the point I was failing to make. Its not logical. This is an example of a broken impulse driven by something that is not in any sense positive.
Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 01:01 PM (anL5R)
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2026 01:01 PM (TezPK)
They would have two strikes already, knew the next was was "see ya," but would still do the crime. Incredible. These people are dangerous animals who must not be allowed anywhere near a civilized society.
Little to no impulse control which is why they turned to crime to begin with.
I remember an old Buffy the Vampire Slayer were one of the morally grey characters invites Buffy to steal with a mantra of "Want Take Have" which is the mindset of these people.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
It has and the result is a GOP veto proof legislature and a majority on the NC Supreme Court and two GOP senators (well Tillis is a RINO at least) and a majority of the House seats. Go back even twenty years and the Dems had a lock on all of it.
Thanks to organizing in Pennsylvania, the gap between GOP and Dem is now slight on registrations. Florida, no contest.
In part, it is because what appeals to urbanized leftist college overeducated whites and their urban client welfare class appalls voters outside those rotten boroughs who increasingly see Democrat cities as dirty, nasty, and full of rando violent assholes whether mentally ill or not which they are.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (E4rtv)
"set of people who would very clearly not want X to happen to them"
and the
"set of people who have very clearly chosen to vote for X to happen to them"
'I think 'X' is Sexxy, Anderson!'
Posted by: E Jean Carrol at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (uzmqU)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (Cifda)
Are the plea deals that turn felonies into misdemeanors a way of circumventing three strikes laws?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (kf4RM)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (UjdFS)
Seriously. seize the means of reproduction already.
If you read incel stuff this is exactly their line of thinking. They agree with standard leftwing socialists that the government should seize everything and then dole it out to people...they just include sex as well
And, this isn't oddball thinking for socialists, various communes tried it...which worked about as well as you might expect.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm)
Turns out women like to be able to choose who they have sex with. So fussy!
Posted by: Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Collect $200 at August 07, 2026 01:03 PM (4I0qm)
I blame Oprah Winfrey for not doing a good job as Mammy to all these white ladies.
Posted by: Zombie Hattie McDaniel, America's Mammy at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (45BvE)
If you read incel stuff this is exactly their line of thinking. They agree with standard leftwing socialists that the government should seize everything and then dole it out to people...they just include sex as well
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So it's the left that is trying to make Handmaid's Tale come true?
Posted by: So that's what the deal is now? at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (anL5R)
Did you like him? He was probably one of the old time Presbyterian ministers . Even ones I know who retired twenty or so years ago were fed up with the leftward lurch of the denomination.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (rHgXV)
Posted by: nckate at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (enNUy)
Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (UjdFS)
___________________________
I've got a better one. A friend from college...(black girl, grew up in Philly Westside) but you'd never know it but for her real name, which she avoided like the plague (and eventually legally changed after school).
Nyquilla.
Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: JackStraw
Did the Lacrosse team ever make bank from the people that called them rapists?
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (Y8DZL)
"No, your peanut butter on my dick!"
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (Cifda)
Mmmmmmmmm.........
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (2YhKe)
I only saw the first movie and didn't read the books, but I do remember a scene where the lead makes him negotiate what is ok for him to do to her and what is not which I took as a standard line in female romance books of the protagonist taming the savage man.
But the movie at least was really odd in that while it had plenty of sex it wasn't very sexy...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (Q8JBQ)
Posted by: front toward enemy at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (TIizU)
Christian Gray is a rich, attractive man lavishing all his attention on some normal young woman and giving her passionate (if weird) sex that she enjoys. That's the appeal as far as I can tell.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)
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Yea. If "Cletus Dungherder" in the trailer park in Buttlick, MS, tried the exact same shit that Christian Gray did, he'd be on a episode of Worst Sex Offenders Ever.
Remember the Golden Rules for men:
Rule 1: Be attractive
Rule 2: Don't be unattractive
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (iFTx/)
The "I *heart* Blowing Rock" tee shirts don't sell that well, I'll admit.
Does it have a picture of Jim Nabors.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (Cqx++)
Nosmo King
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (A1Xjk)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 07, 2026 01:06 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Yes, I did. He was liberal, I think, but he didn't display it in the pulpit.
His son and I were best friends for a while, until we fell out over a girl.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:06 PM (77rzZ)
I've got a better one. A friend from college...(black girl, grew up in Philly Westside) but you'd never know it but for her real name, which she avoided like the plague (and eventually legally changed after school).
I remember a black football player named Achilles...and I thought that was kind of cool.
But many urban names are stupid and not helping the people the names were given to
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)
I remember an old Buffy the Vampire Slayer were one of the morally grey characters invites Buffy to steal with a mantra of "Want Take Have" which is the mindset of these people.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)
Do not forget most criminals justify their crimes to themselves and others. They don't "just" take. They take because they are owed.
Hence all the constant talk and threat and reminders of reparations.
The idea is create more thieves, more criminals, more angry people who tell themselves that their victims "deserve" to have their money, health, lives, taken away.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:07 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)
Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM
*facepalm*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 01:05 PM (Q8JBQ)
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Yeah, not many Jones Day partners are interested in becoming judges.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (2ap+5)
Charia - Pronounced 'sharia.' Because naming your kid after a barbaric cult set of rules is a great idea.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (2YhKe)
Well, its not like a normal person would. And yet, serial killers get fan mail from women all the time. I can't explain the popularity of 50 shades of gray. Nobody can explain the AWFL mind using logic, because it doesn't use logic.
Posted by: Not Dr. Phil at August 07, 2026 12:37 PM (anL5R)
I've mentioned this before, but my dad was a corrections officer (double-dipping along with his Navy pension) out at Corcoran in the SHU where Charlie Manson was locked up. Spent years having to deal with Charlie every work day.
Among other things (he HATED to be called "Chuck", so the COs would take advantage of that when he'd misbehave), Pop told me that Charlie ALWAYS had visitors on visiting day. Lawyers and writers for legit visits, the rest of the visits were women who gamed the system to meet Charlie and swoon over the bastard.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (y9nCu)
THAT WAS DELIGHTFUL:
Senator Klobuchar says she is strong on US border security
The crowd laughs out loud in her face pic.twitter.com/czfKrelI7M
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 6, 2026
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: 18-1
That was Faith, the anti-hero backup Vampire Slayer.
"Of course I can just take this crossbow and this knife, because I'm using them to slaughter the literal demons who would happily eat the crossbow's owner alive. No fava beans or chianti required."
These thugs just "want take have" because they want. No higher moral calling, twisted or otherwise.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (VHUov)
Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)
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I would have changed it, no doubt.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (3fZgy)
Nyquilla.
Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)
La'Trinè.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)
"Female" and "Placenta" were both encountered by my wife when she worked pediatrics.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (eGn4U)
Posted by: bonhomme
Daniel's Broiler sounds better than Stanley's Steamer.
Posted by: Congrats All Around! at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (JM9I6)
I would have changed it, no doubt.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 01:08 PM (3fZgy)
"Mom? How high were you when you named me?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (2jHX6)
It’s by no means a red state. Purple at best.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: bonhomme
Congrats!!!! Happy Anniversary!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (rHgXV)
Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Makes sense. Name your kid after something you love. I've read speculation that Lebron James was supposed to be Lebaron, as in Chrysler but either his mother or her nurse misspelled it.
Posted by: Dwayne J. at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (vTZFs)
I'm talking about AWFLs. Criminals at least can be put on chain gangs.
Posted by: mea culpa at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (Y5bHi)
x.com/alexthechick/status/
2085774408581267908
Maybe not new info to many but also not often talked about.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (3uBP9)
DOX the judges.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
And the prosecutor and the damned perp's lawyer too. All of these motherfuckers need to live in fear.
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (25wiQ)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (vTZFs)
HE’S BEEN DEAD SINCE MARCH…:
The leader of Iran Mojtaba Khamenei is reportedly in critical condition and close to passing away-Iran Wire
Wow…
— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) August 7, 2026
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: 18-1
Had all the sportscasters begging for a shoestring tackle.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
I have a grandnephew with that name.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Bz1XI)
pffft....
Posted by: Napoleon Outlaw, Michigan State Football '92-'95 at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (J4Dwc)
But many urban names are stupid and not helping the people the names were given to
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)
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Have you ever seen the Key and Peele skit where they recreate one of those pre-game shows for college football. The players come on and tell their names and school. It's hilarious.
https://tinyurl.com/52vwa2p5
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (dIske)
"Carolina Amazonians?" WTF?
Posted by: Bulg
Delivery drivers, archers, lesbians, or all three.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:00 PM (VHUov)
Also partial mastectomy survivors (overlaps with archers).
Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (2YhKe)
My mom only chugged the safe stuff while she was pregnant with me.
Posted by: Dayquilla at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Q8JBQ)
If they make a name for themselves in implementing the latest leftwing narrative items they get promoted the next time we have a Dem president. If they adjudicate rationally they don't.
And if the scum they let out murder, rape, kill well, who cares? They have protection and generally live in fancy gated communities so the risk to them is very, very low.
Change those incentives and the rulings will change.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 01:12 PM (MWfyi)
Nyquilla.
Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)
Sorry. I have you all beat.
I present, ironically named, I'munique.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 01:12 PM (lAE5c)
Any wonder why the yutes are so angry?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (q177U)
https://tinyurl.com/52vwa2p5
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:11 PM
I love those. "Dan Smith! Brigham Young."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:09 PM (2YhKe)
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Obviously, very high off the stuff.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 07, 2026 01:14 PM (3fZgy)
Posted by: 18-1
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Perfect name for a pro wrestling good guy who then does a, wait for it, HEEL turn.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 07, 2026 01:14 PM (0bjKf)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (q177U)
How many non-whites lived in areas where we have records of witches being burned?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (Wnv9h)
_______________________
Davoin Shower-Handel
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 12:52 PM (Y/06r)
https://tinyurl.com/4j2bdud2
Posted by: zombie Lee Garlington at August 07, 2026 12:59 PM (J4Dwc)
LOL. Went the other way. Result that I pulled up was an actress for Seinfeld and I was like... ?que?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (q177U)
How many non-whites lived in areas where we have records of witches being burned?
People still kill "witches" to this day in Africa. Hell, its a problem among the "refugees" Europe keeps taking in.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: alpine_beer at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (van9r)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Think He Was Home-Schooled at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (JM9I6)
Best one is "Substitute Teacher".
Baalaakay! Baalaakay!
Do you mean Blake?
Posted by: A A Ron at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (45BvE)
Posted by: Crowd tested, AWFL approved at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Think He Was Home-Schooled at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (JM9I6)
D'Brickashaw.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (2CeDH)
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Max Power at August 07, 2026 01:13 PM (q177U)
How many non-whites lived in areas where we have records of witches being burned?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
In Salem, the first person to be accused was the slave woman Tituba. She was imprisoned, but never tried, and survived the witch hysteria.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (77rzZ)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Internet went down over a strong squall line moving through. Been a saga to get it back up.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2026 01:17 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)
Best one is "Substitute Teacher".
Baalaakay! Baalaakay!
Do you mean Blake?
Posted by: A A Ron at August 07, 2026 01:16 PM (45BvE)
D-Nice.
https://youtu.be/bbWnRyPzce4
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:15 PM
You have to watch all of them. There are some great names.
And the "When Your Friend Goes Steampunk" sketch.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: DBCooper at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (1nSzr)
Posted by: Think He Was Home-Schooled
Named after two different bathroom fixtures?
And he should have hooked up with Farrah Fawcett.
Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: 18-1 at
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Tie their hands together and throw them overboard.
Posted by: braenyard at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (IpPh0)
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM
And let us not forget If Hogwarts Was an Inner City School.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 01:19 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Inogame at August 07, 2026 01:20 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 01:20 PM (77rzZ)
And the "When Your Friend Goes Steampunk" sketch.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 01:18 PM (Wnv9h)
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There was one I can't find any more. They did a skit about the special ed class at the X-Man Academy....and these kids kept trying to run through walls...unsuccessfully. I couldn't stop laughing.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:20 PM (dIske)
Are the plea deals that turn felonies into misdemeanors a way of circumventing three strikes laws?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 07, 2026 01:02 PM (kf4RM)
Juking the felony stats for reporting, like on The Wire.
"Why no, in this city of 300,000 people, we've only had 32 felony crimes this year! Newark, New Jersey is awesome!"
Either that, or the crime rate in Sandford, Gloucestershire (let's not look at the accident rate though).
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Reforger at August 07, 2026 01:21 PM (Q8JBQ)
Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD
@TonerousHyus
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3h
U.S. unexpectedly loses 23k jobs in July but unemployment rate drops. How? It appears the entire labor force shift including the job loss was due to TPS ending and deportations.
Labor force shrank by 257k in a single month
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:22 PM (E4rtv)
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Once upon a time the "community" would provide other forms of "incentives" to judges who forgot what their job was.
Posted by: Crusader at August 07, 2026 01:26 PM (TN0g+)
Nyquilla.
Her parents named her after a nighttime cold medication.
Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 01:04 PM (dIske)
I can see it now: every time her parents would call her name, they would remember how they were so dopey, between the cold and the cold medicine, they forgot the prophylactic. Haha! Nyquilla! Good times, good times.
Posted by: SciVo at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (Sy6m/)
Kentucky Girl@Kentuckygirl1
Jobs report isn't bad news.
Lost government jobs - 53,000 (that's good).
Lost hospitality jobs - 40,000 (mostly illegals, that's good).
Gained manufacturing jobs +5,000 obviously good, (would hope for more gains, but all of the 5000 gained were Americans).
Gained construction jobs +22,000 very good, considering they had to lose thousands of jobs because of deportations, too.
Gained private ed & health services +25,000 that's good.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 01:27 PM (E4rtv)
/Made her like it :>)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 07, 2026 01:30 PM (JNTt1)
Two dismissed.
IMPORTANT question here: WHICH two were dismissed?
Because there are four charges mentioned, but only one is named (assault with a deadly weapon). Was that one dropped? What were the ones he pled guilty to?
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 02:00 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: huerfano at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (VJX5o)
And this is NC, not NY or California. Those women should be carrying and should have stopped this fool cold. Don't outsource your safety to feelings of security, ladies. Make it real with a warm barrel.
Posted by: GWB at August 07, 2026 02:03 PM (kU0PQ)
Funny thing that
Posted by: Trumpy at August 07, 2026 02:04 PM (wtTZq)
Posted by: It's me donna
Soros with him millions has infiltrated our legal system with DAs and Judges who laugh at these criminals and put them through a revolving door to prey on our citizens. Larry Krasner of Philadelphia is just one example of a shit-bag that should never have held the position he has along with a lot of Judges throughout the country who never have to live with the consequences of their horrible decisions.
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THIS is pure GOLD, even better than Clay Travis $10M bet.
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at August 07, 2026 04:45 PM (7kJyR)
THE MORNING RANT: PepsiCo (Frito Lay) Snack Sales Decline as SNAP Restrictions Kick In
such that the benefits cannot be used to purchase junk food and sodas. As SNAP restrictions have rolled out, it has been a sucker-punch to the manufacturers of low-nutrition products.
PepsiCo has been hit especially hard, as its revenue is more reliant on snack products than is the case with Coca-Cola, which is weighted more toward beverage sales.
“PepsiCo’s Turnaround Stutters as Americans Rethink Snacking” [Reuters – 7/14/2026]
Sales in the Frito-Lay and Pepsi soda maker's North American food business slipped 2%, while volume was flat in the second quarter ended June 13, even after earlier price cuts of up to 15% on some of its biggest products including Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos and Tostitos. For PepsiCo, whose food brands including Ruffles and PopCorners generate about 58% of its annual revenue, the shift threatens one of the key engines that has driven growth for decades.Articles such as this Reuters piece linked above talk about diet drugs and shifts in consumer food choices as being primary reasons for the decline in snack food sales, but it doesn’t mention that the goal of making SNAP benefits be spent on healthier food is having an impact. Successfully weaning welfare recipients off of taxpayer-subsidized junk food is not a success story to Reuters and the left. But that is what’s happening. “SNAP restrictions could change what shoppers buy — and food giants are watching” [CNBC – 6/20/2026]
SNAP purchase restrictions are now approved in 23 states, affecting about one-third of recipients and potentially reducing food and beverage sales by up to $830 million this year.That misleading statement from CNBC makes it sound like SNAP spending is being reduced by $830 million. That is not the case. There is a potential $830 million that won’t be flowing to PepsiCo and Coca Cola.
Companies including Hershey, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz are closely monitoring shopper behavior as limits on soda and candy purchases expand.PepsiCo has already had to respond once to the SNAP changes by cutting prices. When low-income consumers were forced to start using their own money to buy potato chips, rather than taxpayer money, many stopped buying premium-priced Frito-Lay products. I’ll take this opportunity to restate what I previously wrote about the market distortion of taxpayer-subsidized junk food, from a piece from last February titled, “Following SNAP Restrictions on Junk Food, Pepsico Cuts Prices Due to Softening Consumer Demand.”
Some basic economic truths are playing out in the junk food market – the market where Pepsico engages in commerce. Much of its revenue has been in the form of redistributed taxpayer money, which passes through government to the recipients of what was once called “food stamps.” The recipients of SNAP benefits (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) have historically spent considerable amounts of their federal food assistance on Doritos, Mountain Dew, and other low-nutrition foods sold by Pepsico. It didn’t take long for Pepsico to feel the pinch. By early February, the company was finding itself needing to cut prices in response to slowing sales. But a few months earlier when SNAP recipients were still spending government money, Pepsico was able to steadily increase prices. Now that those same consumers are forced to buy Fritos and Cheetos using their own money, they have suddenly become price conscious.-------------------------------------- When corporations and their executives made a hard-left political turn in the early 21st century it puzzled me, because the Democrats they allied with were not the party of free enterprise. But I’ve since come to realize that much of corporate America now rejects free enterprise too, and instead wants government to act on its behalf in redistributing money from taxpayers to corporations. Be it SNAP benefits for junk food or EV credits for auto manufacturers, the Trump administration is putting an end to the corporatist business model and its parasitic attachment to taxpayer wallets. With “affordability” such a visible political issue, and with the Pepsico case-study showing how consumer prices can be reduced, Republicans need to aggressively focus on cutting the government subsidies that result in higher consumer prices.
A subject I feel is important to keep covering, despite the puzzling disinterest of the political and media class, is the extraordinary industrial growth that is occurring in the United States. There is effectively a massive “stimulus package” of spending going on, and best of all, it is being privately funded. For once, taxpayers are benefiting from this vast “shovel-ready” stimulus, unlike recent government stimulus spending endeavors, in which money was simply redistributed from taxpayers to favored recipients.This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The American Spectator: "Natural Gas, AI, and the Industrial Boom Nobody Wants to Talk About"https://t.co/MXhPcQLKrz
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) August 7, 2026
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (sTU8y)
Otherwise people are starving and dying.
You don't want people to starve and die, do you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:02 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:03 AM (sTU8y)
Otherwise people are starving and dying.
You don't want people to starve and die, do you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
You want an honest answer?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:04 AM (sTU8y)
I can't see that being hard and it would save taxpayers some money.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 11:04 AM (88C+u)
You want an honest answer?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:04 AM (sTU8y)
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No.
I want you to kneel and submit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (bvy21)
Depends on the people
Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (P4Pk9)
I want you to kneel and submit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I thought it was "like and subscribe."
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific.
(Yeah, I'm in one of "those" moods today.)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 07, 2026 11:06 AM (vTZFs)
9 No.
I want you to kneel and submit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I thought it was "like and subscribe."
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
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What's the difference?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:06 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 11:07 AM (n9eFH)
New Hotness: Do it for the clicks!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 11:07 AM (n9eFH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (bvy21)
Come over here and say that.
Posted by: Graham Platner, Jarl of the Maine fjords at August 07, 2026 11:07 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 07, 2026 11:07 AM (NnhvP)
I want you to kneel and submit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I thought it was "like and subscribe."
Posted by: Bulg
Already have. He cleans up pretty good.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (sTU8y)
Make a case for taxpayer-funded junk food. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Dude is BASED AF, which is what got me to vote for him. Hopefully these Republican queens take notice.
LOL, I keed, I keed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (BI5O2)
I still think the gov't should go with some kind of nutrient loaf or snacker that contains all the necessary vitamins, protein and fiber people need to live instead of SNAP or food stamp or whatever.
Cheaper and if people want better chow they'd go to work.
Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:08 AM (aJQbY)
No question corn chips, cookies, potato chips, pricessed frozen snack food meals and the rest of it are marked up very high. A large bag of Doritos is $6 to $8 bucks, and not all that large any longer. I bet there’s probably forty cents worth of product in a ten cent bag, maybe a dollar in transport and handling?
You’ll hear experts decry the rise in metabolic syndrome, obesity, and type II diabetes and blame it on “cheap carbs” and junk foods. This is a bit of a myth, the carbohydrate laden snack foods are the most expensive stuff you can buy.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:09 AM (dE511)
Here in NY our brilliant governor Hochul has put a moratorium on data centers. That's while the government is funding solar arrays in upstate lands and trying to put battery power storage facilities everywhere.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 11:10 AM (KY+FT)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
I think they should be allowed to have all the junk food they can buy with their own money.
But if they can afford junk food, they don't need SNAP or WIC.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:10 AM (sTU8y)
People Are Being Driven Away From Food Stamps — By “Paperwork”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (aJQbY)
- Shit Samuel Johnson Said, vol. III
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (lXoJ5)
While analyzing the stock market is not something I would attempt to do, it is setting new records, and it bemuses me that the coverage of the current bull market seems to completely ignore the impact of the massive industrial buildout that is underway in this country.
We are experiencing what will likely be looked back on as the greatest industrial expansion since World War II. It far exceeds what any government-funded stimulus package could do. Prosperous economic times lie ahead with the USA becoming an industrial powerhouse again.
I have a lot of problems with Peter Zeihan's predictions, many of which have turned out to be completely wrong, but on this one he's been ahead of the curve. He predicted a huge rebirth of American manufacturing years ago.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: paulnjax at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (PPnyU)
Cheaper and if people want better chow they'd go to work.
Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake
Should go back to the way it was. You went and picked up the government food.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (sTU8y)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
We are all dying but some of us are dying faster--too much food of the wrong kind or the lack thereof can speed that process.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (g8Ew8)
Arizona, New Mex, parts of Colorado, I get it. Maybe east Oregon. But it gets cloudy and cold NE.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (88C+u)
Cheaper and if people want better chow they'd go to work.
Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake
Should go back to the way it was. You went and picked up the government food.
Posted by: rickb223
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Purina Human Chow. Comes in 50 lb sacks.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:12 AM (E4rtv)
Come over here and say that.
Posted by: Graham Platner, Jarl of the Maine fjords
You really, REALLY don't want to be on the ground around that guy. He has...ideas.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)
I can't see that being hard and it would save taxpayers some money.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 11:04 AM (88C+u)
Naw, you can buy the store brand at Wally World.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:13 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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With tariffs and a GOP president following Trumpism, yes. Same with restoring the border and kicking out illegals improving society.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:13 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: naturalfake
It can be done, but the will is not there.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
However, I'll order a Dr. Pepper just for spite.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 11:15 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: naturalfake
It can be done, but the will is not there.
Posted by: Archimedes
This.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:15 AM (sTU8y)
Arizona, New Mex, parts of Colorado, I get it. Maybe east Oregon. But it gets cloudy and cold NE.
Posted by: gKWVE
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Subsidies means doing shit is that is stupid economically. Like federal and states subsidizing fake majors in college with cheap loans and grants.
The administrators end up the ones that benefit as even the faculty teaching the crap can be hired on the cheap as adjuncts.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:15 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: La'Shondra at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (2YhKe)
Arizona, New Mex, parts of Colorado, I get it. Maybe east Oregon. But it gets cloudy and cold NE.
Posted by: gKWVE
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Subsidies means doing shit is that is stupid economically. Like federal and states subsidizing fake majors in college with cheap loans and grants.
The administrators end up the ones that benefit as even the faculty teaching the crap can be hired on the cheap as adjuncts.
Posted by: whig
It's never about what's being subsidized. It's always about WHO is being subsidized.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (iySPJ)
Which is as it should be.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (J4Dwc)
He's stopping the governmental money laundering......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (2YhKe)
Here in NY our brilliant governor Hochul has put a moratorium on data centers. That's while the government is funding solar arrays in upstate lands and trying to put battery power storage facilities everywhere.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Holchul is playing footsie with the Chicoms is why. And the fake left is Chinese subsidized to want what the Chicoms want.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (OUMaO)
USDA “food stamps” were rife with fraud. Get maybe 20 cents cash or whatever to the dollar. Everyone had all the rice and beans and peanut butter they needed. Need money for beer and ciggies and the rest of it.
And everyone was admonished that it was “unfair” to have the poor folk singled out like that. Just give them a card loaded with credits.
I watched someone roll up in one of those humongous shopping carts FULL of meat, beef, steaks, chops, chicken, everything. Looked like more animal protein than I’d bought in the last ten years. Must have cost a fortune. Not for her.
“Would you like some help getting that out to your car?” the checker helpfully inquired. I think the cow declined, because her Escalade was parked right at the door, in the Handicapped spot, you see.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (dE511)
Megacorps with massive production facilities killed off all the local potato chip shops that used to be a neighborhood feature. I think we had three just on our side of the river, until the late 60's. They were loveable but low-margin. If Pepsi et al cut back, there may be an opening for small 'gourmet' snack foods again.
We get pretty haughty around here defining what "junk food" is for others. Obviously, if somebody we don't approve of is eating it, it's poison. Remember that when you are in the cross hairs next time, and I do mean bacon.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 07, 2026 11:18 AM (zdLoL)
But they NEED that Office of Diversity Enforcement in Offices of Diversity Enforcement. Otherwise, who will watch the watchers?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: one hour sober
Wow, I gotta get me some of those.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Brother Tim
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Depends on whether the argument is political or economic.
There are always political cases to be made for various subsidies. Not so using economics despite a lot of cheap date economists shills for specific interests.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv)
Sadly the hash is still uncool. ("Yyrog" is kinda cool but I have to pick that up at the coffee hovel.)
Posted by: 88C+u / gKWVE at August 07, 2026 11:19 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:18 AM (Riz8t)
Tanned, rested, and ready!
Posted by: Jason Arday, PhD at August 07, 2026 11:20 AM (n9eFH)
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 07, 2026 11:20 AM (OlzlW)
Yeah, well, when I'm paying for it, I get to be haughty.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:20 AM (Riz8t)
Buuuuut, that'll never happen, so restrict what can be bought, make sure grifters can't get cards and make them non-sellable. Maybe by using a bar code which can't work unless the proper ID or fingerprint reader gives the okay.
Posted by: naturalfake
A mark on the hand or forehead.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2026 11:20 AM (Cqx++)
I like that. I'd like that to be the editorial standard: For PepsiCo, whose junk food brands including Ruffles and PopCorners generate about 58% of its annual revenue...
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 11:21 AM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Eromero
You crazy? Look at what fish do in water...
Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (OUMaO)
No fish in my well.
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 11:21 AM (LHPAg)
No question corn chips, cookies, potato chips, pricessed frozen snack food meals and the rest of it are marked up very high. A large bag of Doritos is $6 to $8 bucks, and not all that large any longer. I bet there’s probably forty cents worth of product in a ten cent bag, maybe a dollar in transport and handling?
You’ll hear experts decry the rise in metabolic syndrome, obesity, and type II diabetes and blame it on “cheap carbs” and junk foods. This is a bit of a myth, the carbohydrate laden snack foods are the most expensive stuff you can buy.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:09 AM
I don't know about that but I watched a woman checking out at walmart using her snap benefits the other day. She had a cart full of pretty much nothing but carbs. Her two kids were extremely fat. The younger one was about 11-12 and he looked like he weighed over 200 pounds.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 11:21 AM (cpFbA)
Posted by: MsT at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (mtNmY)
Bring back shame. When I was a child, people were ashamed to have others see that they were on food stamps.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (sGgMH)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (6UXQp)
Posted by: La'Shondra at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Annnnd, my standard reply, as usual, is, "If it was up your ass you'd know".
Posted by: Wise Ass at August 07, 2026 11:22 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: whig
The moment government starts slinging money around, it's political by definition.
While I get and appreciate the economic arguments, "homo economicus" is a fable. If the lens of human nature isn't in play you'll never understand the results.
Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America at August 07, 2026 11:23 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:23 AM (iFTx/)
As I said earlier, this isn't an impossible problem to solve. The people running the scams are not galactic brains - they're largely morons. The problem is a government that doesn't WANT to stop it.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)
It’s one reason paying people not to work and fattening them up on corn is awfully silly. Because they need all sorts of “health care” soon enough.
Weigh-ins and morning PT for the fatties is probably asking a bit much. Worked for the Army, though.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:24 AM (dE511)
Article over brouhaha over it:
https://tinyurl.com/mu49ahdy
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 11:24 AM (vxQju)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 11:21 AM (cpFbA)
Being fat and bloated is the mark of a successful tick.
Parasites.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:26 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Archimedes
Roughly about 2008-9, a majority of college salary expenditures went to staff rather than teaching faculty and since then, it has widened. Basically the coolie adjunct labor force of PhDs teaching for cheap means shrinkage in the number of tenured faculty and those expensive faculty are increasingly not teaching but rather trying to get research grants so admin can get its fat rakeoff.
And the students get the shaft at many colleges because of that but willingly accept that as they only want a credential in many cases.
Administrators pretend education is going on, professors including adjuncts pretend they are teaching, and students in turn pretend to learn and use AI/cut and paste, and other means to dispose of assignments quickly so socializing can be done.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 07, 2026 11:26 AM (bX16E)
Posted by: one hour sober
Wow, I gotta get me some of those.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)
They also make a mac and cheese flavor that is nowhere near as good as it sounds. Disappointing even.
Posted by: Polka will never die at August 07, 2026 11:26 AM (CTEU+)
It's expensive, it's unhealthy, and it's creating entire generations of overweight kids that grow into layabout obese farm animals.
I'm not sure when it started. When I was a kid -- not that long ago, I'm Gen X -- there was no such thing as "snacking." We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That was it. There wasn't those meals plus three bags of doritos.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
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I recall one of the DC snipers complaining about prison food that was a food loaf:
"Sniper suspect and vegetarian John Lee Malvo says he is getting sick from eating the jail's meatless loaf, which is usually served to inmates for disciplinary reasons.
For the past two weeks, the Fairfax County jail has been serving the 17-year-old Malvo 'the loaf,' a hodgepodge of flour, raisins, carrots, potatoes and other ingredients baked into brown cakes.
Loaves have become an increasingly popular form of discipline in jails and prisons across the country, and have prompted some lawsuits. In Pennsylvania prisons, a breakfast loaf contains prunes, eggs, toast, hash browns, bacon and orange juice. Texas calls its version food loaf, a breadlike substance made up of the previous day's leftovers."
https://tinyurl.com/3bhutukj
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 11:28 AM (2Ez/1)
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And the “experts” admonished everyone how wrong that was. They had to take shame out of the equation, and turn it into a violent entitlement mentality.
“They just need room to destroy” is the result. See how that works?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:28 AM (dE511)
I can't see that being hard and it would save taxpayers some money.
Here's the problem with that- I can find potatoes, tallow, and salt. Where am I, as a mere consumer, going to find the Natural Beef Flavor, Hydrolyzed Wheat, Hydrolyzed Milk, Citric Acid, Dimethylpolysiloxane, Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, and "TBHQ" (?!) I need to make a proper McDonald's french fry?
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 11:28 AM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
When she was working in public accounting, my wife had to do an audit at the National Potato-Chip and Snakc-Food Association. She said there were packages of junk food lying around everywhere, free for the taking.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Just for the record at August 07, 2026 11:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Debbie Dingell has the best Hasan [Piker] take to date: I don’t get it. I don’t agree with him. I’m not defending what he’s said. But he’s popular, especially with young people, and he’s hot. So it is what it is. C’est la vie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (ndZc7)
Now, the produce at the farmers market is nearly double the price compared to the grocery store. I wonder, could this be due to the fact that SNAP benefits are DOUBLED at the farmers market?
I appreciate the intention behind incentivizing the purchase of fresh produce with SNAP, but the real-world result is prices raised for everyone except SNAP users.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (OlzlW)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (Wt1Rs)
Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America
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Economics realized that by the sixties with behavioral sciences being imported into the field. And the old rational man thesis of classic economics has been overstated to the point of being a strawman. It is simply some subsidies can be helpful instead of harmful because ceteras paribus never is reality.
That is the point that classic libertarianism fails to understand. Not all tariffs are bad, not all subsidies are bad per se, it depends on how they are used.
An economist would simply recognize these are all incentives and some work better than others at specific successful policy outcomes.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (E4rtv)
The typical summer junk food fare they'd be eating all day long is now priced to sell as there's less of it flying off the shelves. Same for soft drinks.
Not a lot less money, but a little bit. And stuff's lingering on the shelves longer too. I see a lot more yellow tags (which means it a reduced price and very near or at it's "sell by" date.)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 11:31 AM (diia5)
Posted by: Flint, MI at August 07, 2026 11:31 AM (rxwdW)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 11:31 AM (diia5)
Beethoven's Farth Symphony.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:32 AM (2YhKe)
If you go back to pictures from the 80s there are occasional fat people but no fat kids. Why? Less exercise and more shitty carb laden food now.
We had shitty carb laden food in the 80s of course but for various cultural reasons people bought less of it.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (sKqQm)
If overnight, everybody started eating sensibly, cut out the shit in their life, it would probably be an extinction level event for many corporations and fast food chains.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (dE511)
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Subsidizing people's groceries, housing, and utility bills is bad business. All three commodities are frequently replenished; you don't have the unpredictable spikes you do with demand for medical care and l/t care and you do not have the sort of information deficits you do with regard to pondering medical care or educational choices. All three are also in their consumption sensitive to considerations of amenity. In regard to groceries in particular, the ratio of grocery expenditures to personal income has declined from 16% in 1965 to 7.4% today while mean body mass index continues to climb. Concern about malnutrition was retro in 1965 and an indicator of the degree to which LBJ was influenced by the conditions prevailing when he was a New Deal official. It is bizarre in our own time, when, with very few exceptions, people suffering from malnutrition are vagrants and drug addicts.
Posted by: Art Deco at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (pawNB)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (zG53D)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 07, 2026 11:31 AM (diia5)
You got it!
https://youtu.be/0vXtywOlayc
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (n9eFH)
Posted by: Will Robinson at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (SExz7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (zG53D)
F*ck that. He should just finish it. It's a privately funded project.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (J4Dwc)
They should start making chips that taste like saltine crackers and government cheese.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew8)
At some point all of the other benefits SNAP enables needs to be evaluated.
For example, SNAP recipients are given free scooter rental in major cities, as well as reduced entry to institutions such as museums and botanic gardens.
It's become an all-purpose ID for getting all kinds of other free or greatly reduced cost stuff. This is how you get two Americas, one paying full price, the other getting a completely different fare/cost structure via a SNAP card.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 11:35 AM (3ZNGI)
I saw a congress critter asking some federal bureaucrat if Pepsi was nutritious and she kept deflecting arguing that she while she was a trained and experienced expert on nutrition she would need to read an analyze the ingredients before answering the question
But remember...trust the experts.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm)
And by the looks of things I'm not the only one. I've noticed many other items people have stopped buying. People are trying to stick to their grocery budgets.
Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 11:35 AM (fV9m3)
Posted by: whig
Oh, I get all that. It's a tool in the toolbox, used sparingly can yield helpful results. But it has to be watched and limited.
Posted by: Alcoholic Beverage Purveyors of America at August 07, 2026 11:36 AM (OUMaO)
I have to say as a taxpayer I get pissed off when I have to pay to go to a state park or a state/federal museum.
What the hell are my taxes paying for exactly?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)
Now, the produce at the farmers market is nearly double the price compared to the grocery store. I wonder, could this be due to the fact that SNAP benefits are DOUBLED at the farmers market?
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"Farmer's Market"
More and more it's someone who's been to the produce wholesaler and bought a bunch of stuff to resell (at a profit) which implies a higher price than normal. Claiming it's all from "their farm" or it's "organic."
Some don't even remove the wholesaler's stickers they put on certain produce. And you can see the crates or boxes laying around with the store's logo on them.
We've called out a couple people who do this at the local "farmer's market" and they inevitably leave.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (2Cry5)
Debbie Dingell has the best Hasan [Piker] take to date: I don’t get it. I don’t agree with him. I’m not defending what he’s said. But he’s popular, especially with young people, and he’s hot. So it is what it is. C’est la vie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 11:30 AM (ndZc7)
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Dingell is a miserable old crone who married a rich, politically powerful guy old enough to be her father. It was clearly a transactional marriage. By her standards, the hobo drunk stumbling around Detroit is "hot."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)
What the hell are my taxes paying for exactly?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)
Cocaine and blowjobs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (2YhKe)
doubtless the reason california has decided to ban "sell by" dates.
Posted by: anachronda at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (QfB85)
For the past two weeks, the Fairfax County jail has been serving the 17-year-old Malvo 'the loaf,' a hodgepodge of flour, raisins, carrots, potatoes and other ingredients baked into brown cakes.
Malvo was the DC sniper's accomplice. Note that the article is from 2002. I guess we should check in on him and see if he's dead from "the loaf" yet. If not, his ration needs to be doubled. Or halved. One of those.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Posted by: Gimme Gimme Gimme at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (45BvE)
Gosh, that Commie Islamist who thinks I should die in a fire for being an infidel sure is hot! So, he's all good with me!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (X8xt3)
That explains Sen Coke Bear and former VP Kamala but what about the rest of it?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 11:38 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
Didn't he get scragged?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (1z8ji)
It's also lunchtime and I have the rest of the day off, so Gimlet's it is.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: bearski at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (zG53D)
F*ck that. He should just finish it. It's a privately funded project.
I say just leave it as a construction site. Then, when people demand to know why the WH looks like crap, just say "talk to the Dems".
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)
Gosh, that Commie Islamist who thinks I should die in a fire for being an infidel sure is hot! So, he's all good with me!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (X8xt3)
They glorified the Boston Marathon bomber.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (2YhKe)
==
As for housing, the thing to do is scour the regulator codes for measures which unduly inhibit the production of housing types best suited for the impecunious - emergency shelters, flop houses, SRO hotels, halfway houses, group homes, boarding houses, and apartments with shared kitchens and / or shared baths. You need the stock of available housing to have more bite sized portions. Also, you might remove low priority items in building codes &c in regard to residences in the most impecunious areas of town. Also, tax preferences in poor areas of town would be desirable, with some census block groups facing a 0% rate on assessed valuation and others a rate one half the standard rate. If you lower the tax burden in poor neighborhoods, you reduce incentives to abandon property. Another thing you can do is allow all landlords plenary discretion over to whom they rent and provide for rapid execution of eviction orders.
Posted by: Art Deco at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (pawNB)
First he demanded vegetarian meals.
Virginia responded by serving him the veggie loaf - hey, it's what *he* wanted. Then he complained.
IIRC, Malvo has been playing the reformed kid who just needs another chance, and was getting interviewed by sympathetic Lefty reporters.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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And they will end up losing at Scotus because one of Robert's favorite moves is that the appellant lacks standing. And in this case, he would be correct. This is essentially a taxpayer lawsuitm which is barred by Frothingham v. Mellon (1923). They cannot show direct economic or Bill of Rights violations but rather only esthetics.
Congress has grounds to bar it and sue if the President does not comply but they have not done so. Individuals don't. See Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992) as individuals cannot show concrete, particularized, and imminent individual injury from the President renovating the White House. Disagreement about esthetics doesn't meet that high standard for standing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (E4rtv)
Now, the produce at the farmers market is nearly double the price compared to the grocery store. I wonder, could this be due to the fact that SNAP benefits are DOUBLED at the farmers market?
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I think most iof these "farmers markets" are scams. It's just the same food bought from major wholesalers as every other grocer has. It's a marketing scam to charge higher prices for the same shit.
Ditto the "organic" scam.
Now, there are some markets where they do sell truly farm-fresh products. But those are the exception rather than the rule.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: The Ballots at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (LOZbR)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
Didn't he get scragged?
You're thinking of John Allen Muhammad, who got the needle in 2009.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)
A member of the Dingell family has held that House seat since 1933.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 11:42 AM (n9eFH)
Posted by: one hour sober
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Sour cream and onion was the pinnacle, and shall never be surpassed.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 11:42 AM (XvL8K)
Fruits and vegetables. Meat, poultry, and fish. Dairy products. Breads and cereals. Seeds and plants to grow food.
Note: Benefits cannot be used for alcohol, tobacco, hot prepared foods, or non-food items like pet food or household supplies.
Yeah, there's a lot of fraud, too, but the Food and Nutrition Administration encourages reporting. Some group always finds a way around specific rules.
Locally, there are some non-profit businesses that have set up exchanges of hot foods for those purchased by SNAP recipients and, reportedly, requiring heating or cooking.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 11:42 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 07, 2026 11:43 AM (kfDTc)
Posted by: Sponge
Don't forget "Luigi, the Musical."
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: The Ballots at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (LOZbR
Sounds like you need it to be wiped.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (OlzlW)
Sen. Mitch McConnell discharged from rehab center following hospitalization in mid-June
The Republican senator said he would continue to work from home and didn’t provide a timeline for his Senate return.
https://tinyurl.com/3bk788tn
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Urbanized areas are ripe for this kind of manipulation because the truth is that a lot of the best varieties for flavor don't transport well.
And consumers rarely have the ability to tell when generic mega farm produce is substituted for the good stuff from an actual family truck farm, orchard, or even livestock farm. Same as wine.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
Should have been a double execution. So Malvo was a juvenile? Tough shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (1z8ji)
Small turbines that spin the windmill and produce excess power are the way to go.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 11:45 AM (E/qck)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 11:45 AM (KY+FT)
Here in NY our brilliant governor Hochul has put a moratorium on data centers. That's while the government is funding solar arrays in upstate lands and trying to put battery power storage facilities everywhere.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Holchul is playing footsie with the Chicoms is why. And the fake left is Chinese subsidized to want what the Chicoms want.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:17 AM (E4rtv)
Data centers are quickly becoming a NIMBY 80-20 issue...they got rich and took a lot of benefits without taking on any of the infrastructure costs...and are now getting called on it...
We have to be careful on it...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 11:45 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:45 AM (FtULh)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)
A member of the Dingell family has held that House seat since 1933.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
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Dingleberries > the Dingell family
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)
Concur. I don't want to support this insect for the rest of his life, and you know there will eventually be some lefty judge who lets him out.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)
But he was portrayed in the media as a somewhat sympathetic "serial killer" and not a gay Muslim terrorist. Shocker, I know.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Wikipedia at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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More evidence the judiciary is squarely aligned with the left. This is a problem.
Rather than litigate this, which is what they'll do, the administration should string up those two on the White House grounds, near the site where the ballroom's being built.
At put a webcam on them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Cry5)
Sen. Mitch McConnell discharged from rehab center following hospitalization in mid-June
The Republican senator said he would continue to work from home and didn’t provide a timeline for his Senate return.
https://tinyurl.com/3bk788tn
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
Still just statements...this one timed 1 day before he'd have to be replaced to have an election?
Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: It's me donna
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More bullshit but in this case, I think Scotus will quash the injunction pretty quick due to misapplication of standing by the lower courts.
Dred Justice Roberts has a tic about standing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (XV/Pl)
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Might I suggest waiting on a comfy chair instead?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 11:16 AM (LHPAg)
Don't sock Piper.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (ExV1e)
We have to be careful on it...
We do, but the "water use" thing is BS. Look at the numbers for water consumption by DCs vs lawn care, or especially for agriculture. It's orders of magnitude higher. We have to eat, but DCs aren't going to make the difference.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Wikipedia at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Would have been much cheaper to give him multiple death sentences.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (1z8ji)
At put a webcam on them.
I'll bet Ace knows where we can find some crows to scavenge the carcasses
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Wikipedia at August 07, 2026 11:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Would have been much cheaper to give him multiple death sentences.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (1z8ji)
Like he gave his victims
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (FtULh)
>>Might I suggest waiting on a comfy chair instead?
I'm in my office/den sitting in my comfy reading chair, kicking back and goofing off.
So, comfy chair check.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:50 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Art Deco at August 07, 2026 11:40 AM (pawNB)
As a former proud Slum Lord, I always provided the bare minimum for my shithole rentals to the savages who occupied them. Most were used to living behind bars so they didn't deserve any better and would just destroy anything nice so nice they didn't get. Like that scene in Coming To America.
"We seek meager accommodations"
Posted by: Retired Slum Lord at August 07, 2026 11:50 AM (45BvE)
We have to be careful on it...
We do, but the "water use" thing is BS. Look at the numbers for water consumption by DCs vs lawn care, or especially for agriculture. It's orders of magnitude higher. We have to eat, but DCs aren't going to make the difference.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
I personally think the “uproar” over data centers is like the manufactured uproar over the Epstein files. I don’t know anyone that’s exercised about data centers
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 11:50 AM (qpCPq)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 11:51 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Nova Local
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That was supposedly August 3rd. If McConnell is announced dead, then my guess is Ky governor Beshear will appoint a Dem regardless of the state law leaving the seat empty until a new Congress in Jan 2027.
That would leave the US Senate itself trying to determine whether to seat him (constitutionally they get the last say regardless of KY courts, etc.).
My guess is McConnell is a human vegetable and been sent home to die via hospice but other than a small group of insiders--who actually knows the Weekend at Mitch's narrative.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:52 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
The real big issue with data centers is this: what is their intended use? If it is to advance the surveillance State, then no way. And I would include AI in that rejection.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:52 AM (1z8ji)
We have to be careful on it...
We do, but the "water use" thing is BS. Look at the numbers for water consumption by DCs vs lawn care, or especially for agriculture. It's orders of magnitude higher. We have to eat, but DCs aren't going to make the difference.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Water is the distraction - energy is the huge problem...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 11:52 AM (tOcjL)
Dred Justice Roberts has a tic about standing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)
You think so ? I don't know how to read SCOTUS anymore
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (FtULh)
Posted by: Ranch Doritos at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (2Ez/1)
I can't see that being hard and it would save taxpayers some money.
--
So I 'm not on snap or anything but, bought a fry cutter. You put a medium sized peeled potato in, push the lever down and it squeezes out french fries. They get a bit of oil and into the air fryer. Viola - fresh fries by the time the grill is finished with the meat.
No need to buy frozen french fries and bake em.
Posted by: home economics is not taught and it should be at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (anL5R)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ranch Doritos at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Free range Doritos are leaner.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:54 AM (1z8ji)
On the day SNAP/EBT benefits are credited, some buy large quantities of pop/soda, 30–40 cases at stores that accept EBT.
The cases are then resold, at a huge discount. This converts the non-cash benefits into usable cash for cigs, booze, weed and meth.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 11:56 AM (w+2cP)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 11:56 AM (KY+FT)
At put a webcam on them.
I'll bet Ace knows where we can find some crows to scavenge the carcasses
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)
To hell with crows. I want to watch the flys and maggots do their magic.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yep, this too.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)
The judges that do these things obviously know all this...they do what they do for political reasons and not because they are ignorant of standing or the imminent squashing their ruling is about to receive.
What they unwittily do however is provide the proof to Congress that it has to dissolve the DC district court. Its pretty obvious at this point that it will always be a political institution and not a judicial one.
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
What about second breakfast?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (sGgMH)
https://tinyurl.com/2xn6hnmu
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Urbanized areas are ripe for this kind of manipulation because the truth is that a lot of the best varieties for flavor don't transport well.
And consumers rarely have the ability to tell when generic mega farm produce is substituted for the good stuff from an actual family truck farm, orchard, or even livestock farm. Same as wine.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)
Yeah, I don't do farmer's markets anymore. I'm priced out b/c I don't have SNAP to cover the cost, nor do I have the ability to just buy 1-2 of items with the kids here. I'm a 40-60lb/week of produce buyer...and I might be underselling that number, so farmer's market prices would bankrupt me faster than high end beef right now...
I used to shop them 10-15 years ago before the SNAP change...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 11:58 AM (tOcjL)
Cassidy is a yes.
My gut is that Collins was allowed to vote no to help her in the election in Maine once they knew they had the votes.
Murkowski is just an asshole and always has been.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 11:57 AM (XV/Pl)
TDS
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (FtULh)
Posted by: It's me donna
Yes, the administration has been very successful to the point that lawfare leftist judges and the vile ngos financing the lawfare are complaining about Scotus setting aside lower court injunctions and prohibitions not based on law. So called shadow docket. Basically Scotus in many cases is simply setting aside the temporary injunctions and requiring district courts to go through the lengthy and time consuming litigation with a track record and both sides represented in a trial. And like in this case, it is readily apparent that the district court is ignoring Scotus rulings on standing and applying a group of litigants complaining about a) the destruction of the historical East Wing (that is now moot as it is gone), and b) we don't like the design and an advisory group says that OrangeMan Bad's ballroom is an atrocity. But, in standing, individuals and even groups have to show direct injury themselves and aesthetics is not one that the courts recognize.
Standing bars taxpayers from filing lawsuits about everything under the sun that they don't like about government operations as sore losers.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)
Behind the church sits a parking lot and shelving where boxes of fruits and vegetables are routinely stacked, available for the taking in the urban area.
I've driven by a few times this week and boxes of oranges, cabbages, celery remain on the shelves in the intense heat. This is nothing new or extraordinary.
They'll be there until they're removed from rotting, and then replaced with the next new boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables.
The swarms at the food pantries go for proteins, milk and bread, rice, stuffing mixes, baby food, diapers. (Some will be exchanged or sold on black markets.)
Narcan (Naloxone) nasal spray; tampons and sanitary pads; Fentanyl and xylazine test strips; COVID-19, flu, RSV, and STI test kits, and condoms and first aid kits are available for free through the county's automated Test & Go kiosks.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (NFX2v)
Almost every "celebrity" promoted wine is like this. Same as most "celebrity" booze of any kind. They just buy the shit wholesale, slap a label on it, and smile for the cameras holding a bottle.
There are entire industries out there who's sole business model is fooling (mostly affluent) buyers into thinking they're getting something that they're not.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)
To hell with crows. I want to watch the flys and maggots do their magic.
Embrace the healing power of "and".
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ranch Doritos
_________
Those are good, but in terms of eating way more of the deluxe bag than intended, I'd go with:
1. Lays sour cream and onion chips
2. Cheetos
3. Fritos
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (XvL8K)
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Petabytes of surveillance data needs somewhere to sit so it can be leveraged. Multiple copies. Of course it's one reason datacenters are "hot."
And the water usage depends on whether it's a closed or open system. Bigger issue is the electrical grid. Does it need upgrading? By how much? Who's paying for all that?
And, in a couple years, it'll be obsolete. What then?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 12:00 PM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Archer at August 07, 2026 12:00 PM (wvc0i)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 12:00 PM (U/Byj)
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I predicted this as the exact next line from the media and "establishment" after the fake shock "these people are extreme". Boy do these psy ops move fucking fast.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:00 PM (6UXQp)
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Come see me.
Posted by: Costco at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Boswell
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Democrats won't and the GOP refuses to end the filibuster to fix the federal district. So we are stuck.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell, warming up for his daily Crossfit session at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (XE5AP)
Dred Justice Roberts has a tic about standing.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)
You think so ? I don't know how to read SCOTUS anymore
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 11:53 AM (FtULh)
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Reading Whig's analysis up thread makes me feel pretty good about the case, but I'm with Donna. Who can tell when Roberts will decide he and Barrett should cave on something...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (YJPnY)
You want anything else? Pay for it yourselves fucking leeches.
Posted by: Being Honest in America is being a sucker at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (Bz1XI)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (dE511)
Aviation gin says what?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (Riz8t)
Nuclear. Kind of flying below the radar is the recent advances being made in small, modular reactors.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (viF8m)
But Boom Aerospace didn't. They even have a new flagship aircraft you can buy. It's top speed an impressive 0 knots, it has a pretty great max take-off weight of over 500,000 pounds and cruises at a maximum altitude of 0 feet.
That's right, they're making gas turbine generators now to power AI.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:02 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 12:02 PM (KY+FT)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the Lightbringer at August 07, 2026 12:02 PM (XE5AP)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell, warming up for his daily Crossfit session
You aren't fooling anyone, you know.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:33 AM (zG53D)
F*ck that. He should just finish it. It's a privately funded project.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:34 AM (2YhKe)
Dear Hacks In Black, you can both FOAD.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: D.J. Trump at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (2WIwB)
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Right now Democrats are simply calling them extreme.
Check back a little later when it's "they might be extreme but they have a message and are getting traction, we would be crazy to ignore them"
Then "what might seem extreme to us is not extreme to people who have grown up very unhappy in capitalism. They have only seen inequality and they want better things for all."
Then - "you know, at one time, the dominant parties thought Civil Rights was extreme. Maybe it's just a matter of perspective."
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (6UXQp)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)
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And entitled beyond belief.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:04 PM (YJPnY)
++++
Come see me.
Posted by: Costco at August 07, 2026 12:01 PM (2Ez/1)
See, you're not close by...and other places are. I'll pick up produce almost every day on my walks and do a stock up on weekends. B/c things like berries and greens don't keep for a week...but we eat a lot of them (bananas are better, but kids inhale them, but also don't eat them once they have a single brown dot...they like them only green to yellow)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 07, 2026 12:04 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 12:04 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 11:59 AM (viF8m)
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And entitled beyond belief.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:04 PM (YJPnY)
Isn't it time to put her on an ice floe for the polar bears ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: And always will be at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (2Ez/1)
And the water usage depends on whether it's a closed or open system. Bigger issue is the electrical grid. Does it need upgrading? By how much? Who's paying for all that?
And, in a couple years, it'll be obsolete. What then?
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Most of the competition is because all the big investors are trying to create frontier models because 2nd, 3rd, 4th, place is not good enough if you believe network effects that there can only be one.
So Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and to some extent Grok are all competing to be the bestest frontier model and that requires training from scratch each time to create a newer version of a working model while the older models generate the profits.
Frontier models are what demand exponentially faster and larger new datacenters so they can compete with others. The surge will end with the investor class/market crowns one as champ and the other models have a collapse in market value.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)
Lotta room UNDER the ice floe. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 12:05 PM (FtULh)
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She does often claim to care a lot about indigenous culture, and I think that's in the style book up there, so probably right.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:07 PM (YJPnY)
It all depends on the data center expansion, I think. We've seen bubbles in PA where gas is prominent.
AI Overview - While diesel offers instant load response for emergencies, natural gas and hybrid battery systems are increasingly adopted to handle heavy continuous power needs and lower emissions.
Industry Trends and Alternatives
AI Demands: High-density AI workloads are driving massive power requirements, prompting some massive campuses to pair fast-response gas turbines or generators with battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Regulatory Scrutiny: Environmental regulators face growing pressure regarding fast-tracked emissions permits for large fleets of gas and diesel generators clustered near communities.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 12:07 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 12:07 PM (FtULh)
>>At an Oval Office event, the president said the country had exceeded its goal of three cutting-edge reactors starting up safely by the Fourth of July.
https://tinyurl.com/pexk39kb
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 12:07 PM (viF8m)
Pop up bodegas hardest hit...
Posted by: man at August 07, 2026 12:08 PM (XuXeR)
Pop up bodegas hardest hit...
Not for long.
Posted by: Mamdani taxpayer-subsidized "grocery stores" at August 07, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 12:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (nkHgN)
Nuclear. Kind of flying below the radar is the recent advances being made in small, modular reactors.
==
Mr. Fusion FTW.
Posted by: Doc Brown at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (anL5R)
The one with the SpongeBob floaties? Yeah, she's hot.
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: rhomboid
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I think the datacenter issue will end up fixing the grid issue as government barriers tumble when the big money stampedes toward something. We have movement finally towards nuclear which should have already been de facto how we get grid power but stymied since 3 Mile Island safetyism.
Often these AI datacenters are coming with their own generating power due to their sensitivity to powerline sags etc. They have to have dependable power that the grid cannot offer. After the competitors are winnowed down, we will still have the infrastructure of power and computing facilities left. Same thing happened with fiber optics overinvestment. Dark optic cables for a long while which are now being lit up due to demand.
Only government 'investment' usually burns resources leaving nothing after the crash.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)
Use Brave. Problem solved.
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
Even when these companies build gas turbines, you aren't hearing complaints.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (YJPnY)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2026 12:11 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 12:12 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: It's me donna
But it isn't Congress that is the litigant. Congress probably has standing, rando individuals upset do not. Google Frothingham v. Mellon or Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife for what standing is. The only exception was one for Bill of Rights violations where one person can sue (like violations of the Establishment clause) without demonstrating the rigorous standing limits on taxpayer lawsuits.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Junk Food Jerry at August 07, 2026 12:13 PM (JM9I6)
Plus they give free samples of many varieties of potato chips.
It's near Mount Jackson.
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Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 12:15 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: bearski at August 07, 2026 11:39 AM (Bhsk7)
In the USA, top three are GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi, none of which are actually American today.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 12:17 PM (sGgMH)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 07, 2026 12:18 PM (sGgMH)
I think for now I will stick to my grilled cheese sandwich and potato chips and iced tea. I have seen SNAP signs in stores but never knew what they were for until someone told me it was a government program. Oh, another government handout with our tax dollars? That's just great and then the cussing in my head started.
Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 12:19 PM (fV9m3)
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=420879
Posted by: mindful webworker - Ace of Hordes at August 07, 2026 12:27 PM (62m/B)
I sorta don't miss it.
Sorta.
I do miss cookies. But not chips and misc crap I used to eat.
I'm happy with dried meat and peanuts for snacks, or celery and peanut butter.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 07, 2026 12:30 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 07, 2026 12:41 PM (w6EFb)
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I recall one of the DC snipers complaining about prison food that was a food loaf:
****
I'll take Soylent Green for a thousand, Alex.
Posted by: torabora at August 07, 2026 02:44 PM (Wt1Rs)
Good. Their leftwing bullshit goes back at least 25 years.
Changing their logo in 2008 to synch up with Obama was just the icing on the cake.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 07, 2026 05:59 PM (pE12i)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Elling William Gollings Who becomes famous and who toils in obscurity -- and why -- is the question that most artists must ask themselves. I had never heard of William Gollings until I had the opportunity to visit a lovely museum in Big Horn Wyoming (near Sheridan) called The Brinton Museum. And by "lovely," I don't mean just the collection. It is architecturally beautiful, and the setting is difficult to beat, with the Big Horn Mountains in the near distance. There are several Western artists who are far more famous: Russell and Remington and Bierstadt come to mind, but even relatively obscure artists such as Gollings have gems scattered in their work that are rarely seen, and wonderful when discovered!
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A Horse With No Name?
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There are all different sizes. Now that I spend more time around horses I see a lot of the small painted ones that the kids ride and I look pretty huge on top of those horses. And you see them walking by a draft horse and they look like doggies.
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It Sure Beats Punching 'em- a limerick
There once was a cowboy named Rouse
Who didn't have no girlfriend, no hows
"It gets lonely on the range
And though some might think it strange
I've been thinkin' 'bout poking me some cows!"
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All pictured creatures know the drill and are executing it with grace and a relaxed manner.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:45 AM (X8xt3)
"Tiny Bill Waltrop, All of 4'11", Rode the Smallest Horse He Could Find, So's He Could All Big and Tough Like the Other Cowpunchers"
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:45 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 09:45 AM (qRla/)
There once was a cowboy named Rouse
Who didn't have no girlfriend, no hows
"It gets lonely on the range
And though some might think it strange
I've been thinkin' 'bout poking me some cows!"
Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 09:44 AM (I0N4X)
Going in raw...hide.
Posted by: Ride 'em in rawhide! at August 07, 2026 09:45 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (NpAcC)
His horse and his cattle are his only companions
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (ndZc7)
Through rain and wind and weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishing my girl was by my side
All the things I'm missin', good vittles, love and kissin'
Are waitin' at the end of my ride
Posted by: Frankie Laine at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (J4Dwc)
Randy Newman quipped that the song was about "a kid who thinks he's taken acid."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 09:46 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 07, 2026 09:38 AM (DomC6)
Let's not get too excited!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2026 09:47 AM (l4RKn)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 09:47 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Hubba hubba at August 07, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at August 07, 2026 09:48 AM (B0NCh)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (aVbgC)
Posted by: ...Radarange at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (viF8m)
Nonsense! You can tell that it's a picture of a horse and a man. It looks like something. What kind of art is that?
Posted by: Jackson Pollack at August 07, 2026 09:50 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2026 09:50 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher at August 07, 2026 09:48 AM
+++
Point of order: failure to cite any phallic symbols.
Posted by: The judges at August 07, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher
It's funny because the dude looks as content as heck.
In all likelihood preferred being out there alone over having to deal with silly or bothersome people.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (X8xt3)
I don't know the process but the painting seems to lend itself to printing as a book illustration.
Anybody else think of Sam Eliot when looking at the cowboy?
Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)
Wildlife art was very popular in the time before photography became commonplace. It was the only way for most people to ever ‘see’ certain animals.
Also, some of the most famous and influential artists of the American west and Rockies at the time were … foreigners. That was when we got the cream of the foreign crop. Not the fecal ooze at the bottom of the septic tank.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (yTXpW)
Did...did you just ASSUME xer's gender?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ...Radarange
It is the physical range (distance) where livestock can graze. A guess. I stayed at Holiday Inn Express last night.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Word nerd at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
It's funny because the dude looks as content as heck.
In all likelihood preferred being out there alone over having to deal with silly or bothersome people.
He's thinking "Curly Joe was a real jerk, and probably light in his boots".
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 09:53 AM (w+2cP)
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:53 AM (3uBP9)
‘Untitled? Bullshit This is a white man. He’s ENtitled!’
— DSA Chungus HR Lady
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 07, 2026 09:53 AM (yTXpW)
This particular painting is fantastic - he's been in that saddle for a while and is stretching while keeping an eye on the herd. Must be rustlers or varmints lurking.
Posted by: moki at August 07, 2026 09:53 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (S0M0K)
He raised them right.
Posted by: Roy at August 07, 2026 09:54 AM (qwype)
Posted by: Your Kid's Woke Art Teacher
It's funny because the dude looks as content as heck.
In all likelihood preferred being out there alone over having to deal with silly or bothersome people.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (X8xt3)
He has a Peaceful, Easy Feeling.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:54 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 09:54 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Superfluous at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (JM9I6)
I envy him.
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: I think this was a Soupy Sales Joke at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (iJfKG)
In all likelihood preferred being out there alone over having to deal with silly or bothersome people.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM
+++++
Also known as:
I'd rather sit in my boat thinking about God than sit in church thinking about fishing.
Posted by: As any honest guy will tell you at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: ...Radarange
"Ohm, ohm on the range. . . "
Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 09:56 AM (w+2cP)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Superfluous at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (JM9I6)
Do you seriously need an explanation of what a cowboy's job is?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)
If any of you sons of bitches calls me grandpa, I'll kill you.
Posted by: Sam Elliott at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 09:57 AM (Bep7s)
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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 09:58 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Anybody else think of Sam Eliot when looking at the cowboy?
Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (yTvNw)
Nope. Face and mustache are wrong.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:58 AM (iJfKG)
-
Conspicuous by their absence from this article are what the horrible, awful, no good, very bad tweets were.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (TezPK)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (9FgyL)
Cruz: But I'm not celebrating lunatics taking over… And eventually the Democrats are going to be back in power. It is not good for America if actual communists end up being in charge.
Ben Rhodes
@brhodes
The fact that we have media in this country (not just Fox) that treats @AbdulElSayed as a lunatic and Cruz as something else is one reason we live under fascism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)
Conspicuous by their absence from this article are what the horrible, awful, no good, very bad tweets were.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me
Never saw any yesterday. In multiple articles.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (Bep7s)
https://tinyurl.com/yc2hdjmn"
Oglebay,
Thanks for the link. That's a great video and song. I have all of the Michael Martin Murphy cowboy song CDs. Love the traditional songs and his own new ones.
Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Lone On The Range at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (3ZNGI)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (XV/Pl)
@brhodes
The fact that we have media in this country (not just Fox) that treats @AbdulElSayed as a lunatic and Cruz as something else is one reason we live under fascism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)
=======
We do live under fascism. And oligarchy. And totalitarianism. And capitalism.
Current Day America makes Germany in 1933 look like the Garden of Eden.
All progressives should flee for their very lives are at stake. Come back after MAGA has been defeated, and not before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: one hour sober
Brooks and Dunn did.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (dE511)
-
Conspicuous by their absence from this article are what the horrible, awful, no good, very bad tweets were.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (ndZc7)
When she was a kid/teenager she used a bad n word. She is latina, a vocal trump supporter, and is very very very hot.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:03 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Person who checks out titles at August 07, 2026 10:03 AM (2Ez/1)
He doesn't like it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (9FgyL)
When she was a kid/teenager she used a bad n word. She is latina, a vocal trump supporter, and is very very very hot.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:03 AM (3uBP9)
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"Why can't the hot latinas realize that they're brown just like black people but are subservient to black people and need to bend the knee just like white people? They're oppressed by the white man who won't let them be equals, don't they know that?!"
-AWFL McKaren
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)
And the trains ran on time!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (l4RKn)
He doesn't like it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (9FgyL)
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I think it's okay.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:05 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: As any honest guy will tell you at August 07, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Heh. Good one.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:05 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)
And the trains ran on time!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (l4RKn)
========
"WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TRAINS!"
-Joe Biden, weeping
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:05 AM (bvy21)
Sarah Fields
@SarahisCensored
This is absolutely shocking.
Jesse Butler - The Oklahoma teen who violently r*ped and strangled a high school girl so badly she needed neck surgery and was seconds from dying - just had his entire case dismissed.
He was looking at 78 years.
He pleaded to the charges.
He completed a “youthful offender” rehab plan… and walked free with zero prison time.
His dad is a former Oklahoma State football director.
The new DA said the defense claimed the *perpetrator* suffered more than the victims and called it an “affront.” He’s referring the case to federal prosecutors.
-
From the affront, from the arrear . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)
>>@hernandezforny
>Reports out today allege that Mayor @ZohranKMamdani’s own City Hall is running a secret bot farm on X to fake public support for him.
>>Here’s what that means in plain terms: instead of real New Yorkers liking and sharing his posts, cyber experts say a network of automated accounts, have been mass-liking, replying, and boosting his content. Which makes it look far more popular than it actually is, tricking the platform’s algorithm into showing it to millions more people.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (2YhKe)
What does this gain? Is the public going to look at his X feed and suddenly think he's doing a GREAT job and everyone needs to vote for islhamic communists?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:07 AM (2YhKe)
They nipped it in the bud.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:07 AM (wOO3z)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
La la la la la la la la la….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (ugElV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)
And the trains ran on time!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (l4RKn)
That must be why the trains all ran(!) and ran on time(!!!) when we were in Old Blighty a few weeks ago.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (iJfKG)
@brhodes
The fact that we have media in this country (not just Fox) that treats @AbdulElSayed as a lunatic and Cruz as something else is one reason we live under fascism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)
====================
This you Ben?
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing,”
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (9FgyL)
Slavin' in the saddle all day
You've got to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to live your life this way
Well it can't be the cooking, it sure ain't the money
The devil made the horse that I ride
The days are too long and the nights are too short
And the boss ain't never satisfied
So what am I doing here Lord, what am I doing here
There's got to be something better up there
So what am I doing here
Sometimes I wonder in the lightning and the thunder
If a cowboy's even got a prayer
And why'd you have to make it so hard down here
When things are so much better up there"
Posted by: Oglebay at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (2ap+5)
Not in California they don't!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
But there's only 50 feet of track.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: banana Dream
Why didn't she simply claim to be black? She could pull it off.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 10:08 AM (w+2cP)
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 07, 2026 09:59 AM (TezPK)
Inspector worked as a ranch hand as a teen. Not a riding hand though used his pickup for checking fences and such, although there was always a gun in the vehicle. Also had the dubious honor of gelding 2 year old steers to make oxen.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (lFFaq)
Cowboys on ranches and cattle drives probably didn’t have six shooters. Most period accounts say they had rifles or shotguns available. For one thing a Colt was fairly expensive, cowboys weren’t paid much.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (dE511)
Mamdani got booed off the stage a few days ago at an NYPD event.
NYC is realizing what it voted for.
Probably too little and too late, but...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (l4RKn)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (L8DX7)
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 10:10 AM (L8DX7)
What does this gain? Is the public going to look at his X feed and suddenly think he's doing a GREAT job and everyone needs to vote for islhamic communists?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
it helps cover for the vote fraud. 200,000+. Or so they say.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:10 AM (wOO3z)
@SarahisCensored
This is absolutely shocking.
Jesse Butler - The Oklahoma teen who violently r*ped and strangled a high school girl so badly she needed neck surgery and was seconds from dying - just had his entire case dismissed.
He was looking at 78 years.
He pleaded to the charges.
He completed a “youthful offender” rehab plan… and walked free with zero prison time.
His dad is a former Oklahoma State football director.
The new DA said the defense claimed the *perpetrator* suffered more than the victims and called it an “affront.” He’s referring the case to federal prosecutors.
-
From the affront, from the arrear . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)
I refer you to the movie "Citizen Vigilante". THAT was the entire point of the movie.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 07, 2026 10:10 AM (hmYU4)
With mass deportations, top line numbers are going to be funky.
-23,000 jobs. Sounds awful.
But, labor participation rate actually improved.
Why? Because TPS ended for 230,000 people. So, deportations decreased the population of the country by a rather large amount in one month.
What would the "normal" number of newly created jobs be for a nation that is losing population? Should it be 150,000 new jobs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:10 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: one hour sober
Probably 90+% of them did. If not a pistola, then a shotgun slung somewhere on the saddle.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
Doesn't that hurt?
Not if you keep your thumbs out of the way.
Posted by: Just the punchline at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (w+2cP)
Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)
The fact that we have media in this country (not just Fox) that treats @AbdulElSayed as a lunatic and Cruz as something else is one reason we live under fascism.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:00 AM (ndZc7)
Define fascism. Get back to me when you have an understanding why what you just said is buttf*ck ignorant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Case at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (fV9m3)
Probably 90+% of them did. If not a pistola, then a shotgun slung somewhere on the saddle.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM
Remington repeaters FTW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (2YhKe)
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Fascism is Republicans in power and sending illegal aliens back to their home countries.
It's a hellscape.
Rhodes should flee America and take his whole family and circle of friends with him to save himself because MAGA is gonna make America so much worse!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (bvy21)
https://tinyurl.com/56xcu8yj
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (9FgyL)
Not just artists. And not just painters. I've always wondered about that when it comes to singers.
What makes someone "just a singer" vs someone who's career is incandescent when they are just as good.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (sTU8y)
>>NYC is realizing what it voted for.
>>Probably too little and too late, but...
Whoever on his staff thought it was a good idea for Mamdani to give a speech at an NYPD event must secretly be working on our behalf.
What did they think was going to happen?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: The Ballots at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (LOZbR)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 10:13 AM (Dv3i1)
https://tinyurl.com/56xcu8yj
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (9FgyL)
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Aye-yay-ya!!!!
Wa..wa.waaaaaaaa.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:13 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)
Probably too little and too late, but...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2026 10:09 AM (l4RKn)
If only we had over a decade of prime example that elections have consequences in the recent past..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:14 AM (2YhKe)
>>NYC is realizing what it voted for.
____
22% of total eligible NY voters put him in office. I'm pretty sure most of these voters want him to destroy their city.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 10:14 AM (Dv3i1)
Seems like it would get quite uncomfortable on a long cattle drive. A rifle in a scabbard seems more likely.
Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (J4Dwc)
>>@Not_the_Bee
·
8m
>>University of Michigan to hide some first-semester transcripts to “curb the mental health crisis”
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (9FgyL)
Posted by: JackStraw
=========
X is useful if you curate your timeline to only reliable sources, the likes and comments, generally not on any controversial topic.
Comments are bot driven garbage and I am including human bots from abroad in troll mills. Likes are simply social virtue signalling.
And whatever tweaking of the algorithm, the fake bot community will adjust to try to sway public opinion in their favor.
Hard as it might seem, simply reject most of what is online other than commenters of proven veracity as fake and gay whether it appeals to you or not.
Same with polling this early.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM
*tunes out Dick*
*changes channel to Yanet Garcia*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (bvy21)
Rhodes should follow the Hale-Bopp comet group and gather his flock for mass MAID.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (2YhKe)
Jon Favreau: Some DSA candidates today who've also talked about abolishing prisons, defunding or even abolishing the police...
Bernie Sanders: No serious person that I know who is running for office believes in defunding the police.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM (ndZc7)
I envy him.
He's thinking "just 27 years to go on that mortgage".
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM (Riz8t)
https://tinyurl.com/56xcu8yj
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:12 AM (9FgyL)
Yeah, I'm inclined to give Ennio Morricone credit for about 50% of the greatness for any Sergio Leone movies considered great.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (3ZNGI)
Lately, however, I’m enjoying analysis of the impotence ads.
I’m glad you guys are getting those pop-up ads too; I was afraid that I was getting data-mined and particularly targeted.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (1FEc1)
Political games like that have been played so long I'd be shocked if there are a half dozen people on the planet with a properly accurate idea of the state of our nation right now. The numbers are all distorted or outright fabricated.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:02 AM (bvy21)
And the trains ran on time!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at August 07, 2026 10:04 AM (l4RKn)
Have you ever taken Amtrak?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:18 AM (Bep7s)
Posted by: JackStraw
The truly astounding part of that announcement is that they actually used those words and think that it's a positive action.
The dumbest a-holes I've ever met were/are university admins.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 07, 2026 10:18 AM (w+2cP)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:18 AM (dE511)
Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)
======================
It ought to be required of developers who build tall condo buildings in Miami or Coconut Grove that they paint a big target on the building side facing Biscayne Bay.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (9FgyL)
Posted by: Cicero
************
That's No Poor Horse, He's Secretariat's Boy - a limerick
A trust funder horsey from Sedalia
Out LARPing in his Western regalia
He's taking a gap year
And I'd guess, from what I hear
Next week going bungee jumping in Australia
Posted by: muldoon at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (I0N4X)
I envy him.
You're not the only one. To be younger, less broken down, and not so encumbered, in a time and place where I could follow my fortune...
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Sharps were kings of long distance shots but Remingtons were the bread and butter and that is why Sharps went bankrupt and Remington stayed in business plus Remington did the razor and razorblade solution making bank from ammunition for its firearms. Winchester though was probably the most sold for long arms with its 1873 lever action and derivative models for it. Colt with its Single Action Army and later the Colt Lightning double action were the most popular handguns. Remington and Sharps were bit players compared to Winchester and Colt.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:16 AM
FIFY.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2026 10:20 AM (FtULh)
vermont rancher said, "i had a truck like that once."
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:21 AM (Bep7s)
Political games like that have been played so long I'd be shocked if there are a half dozen people on the planet with a properly accurate idea of the state of our nation right now. The numbers are all distorted or outright fabricated.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (OUMaO)
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What matters for voting is local perceptions of the economy.
If you live in a town with one industry, and that industry gets decimated while the rest of the country is thriving, you think the economy in general is terrible. (This explains why DC's perception is usually at odds with the rest of the nation, especially right now.)
The GDP numbers are things that get used to try to feed overall narratives and prompting for soft-partisans to either engage or disengage, depending on who is doing the telling.
Still, we talk about the numbers, so might as well try and make sense of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:21 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:18 AM (dE511)
https://youtu.be/FqF3VFIhf-8
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:21 AM (2YhKe)
I’m glad you guys are getting those pop-up ads too; I was afraid that I was getting data-mined and particularly targeted.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (1FEc1)
I wonder sometimes if the boner pill ads are somehow related to the gutter clearing ads and if the result of the former is meant to provide a solution to the latter. I am simultaneously intrigued and horrified.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: one hour sober
Yes, according to every TV Westerns.
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 10:13 AM (Dv3i1)
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So what? Good Senators are expensive.
Posted by: Lizzie Warren, Squaw-Chef To The Stars at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (dtxyT)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (kgE5c)
I wouldn't go to that show.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 10:23 AM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Common Tater
1890's to 1930's, it was common for people to have handguns--pocket pistols, bicycle guns, and so forth. Historically, crime was not as horrible due to the widespread application of the death penalty removing the worst of scoundrels but it was unsettled times due in part, to immigration and industrialization, so people wanted to be safe.
You also see discrete pistols being marketed to women for carry at the turn of the century.
Before penicillin and sulfa, being gut shot even with a puny cartridge like a 25 ACP or a 32 ACP/32 S&W Short or Long, would often cause sepsis and death.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:23 AM (E4rtv)
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)
Just walked by a dude cleaning a 19 1/2# silver salmon on the dock. Beautiful bright fatty.
Someone is going to eat good tonight!
I’d make salmon ceviche with serranos and mango and lime. Nom nom nom.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (CzhWp)
Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:11 AM (J4Dwc)
======================
It ought to be required of developers who build tall condo buildings in Miami or Coconut Grove that they paint a big target on the building side facing Biscayne Bay.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:19 AM (9FgyL)
Simple way to tell. If you see Jim Cantore in your AO, then you know.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (B0NCh)
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)
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The biggest cause of inflation over the past few years has been immigration.
Massie voted against increased immigration enforcement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:25 AM (bvy21)
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)
Tell me you're a f*cking retard without telling me you're a f*cking retard.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:25 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:17 AM (qRla/)
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Don't take Amtrak if you're allergic to Amtrak.
Posted by: Lizzie Warren, Squaw-Chef To The Stars at August 07, 2026 10:25 AM (dtxyT)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 10:23 AM (ZdaMQ)
If you wanna ride.....then ride the WHITE horse........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:26 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 07, 2026 10:26 AM (3ZNGI)
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)
Tell me you're a f*cking retard without telling me you're a f*cking retard.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:25 AM (2YhKe)
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I think we found Sid.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:26 AM (dtxyT)
Posted by: one hour sober
They always downloaded as Single Action Army were not drop safe. So 5 with one empty chamber which the firearm was carried with. Drop Safe did not become a thing until the 1890s with hammer blocks and transfer bars being introduced for revolvers, took a bit longer for semi autos to have drop safety mechanisms added to them.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:26 AM (E4rtv)
Massie voted against increased immigration enforcement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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He and the whole Tuca crew of shit posters are just evil grifters now doing malicious shit for foreign actors whether being paid or out of sheer spite for losing all political power under Trump.
Supporting Fishback for governor of Florida for example.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:28 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM
Didn't think so, but I thought it worked better with Tunes Out Dick.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: whig
*Henry has entered the chat
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (sTU8y)
Totally off topic....
I read about Elon Musk's new gig "X Money".
Sounds interesting if you have X Premium+ then you can get up to 6% APY on your money deposited within.
There are rules, of course, and it's new so the smart move here is to see how it all shakes out in reality, or deposit a small portion.
Anywho, any morons/ettes with mind thoughts about this?
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (iJfKG)
Just walked by a dude cleaning a 19 1/2# silver salmon on the dock. Beautiful bright fatty.
Someone is going to eat good tonight!
I’d make salmon ceviche with serranos and mango and lime. Nom nom nom.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM
Om, nom, nom!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (kgE5c)
@WesternLensman
MI Dem House candidate Will Lawrence says he's no longer in the DSA as he enters the general election:
“In the last month I let my membership lapse.”
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Oh. Well, OK then.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (ndZc7)
My mom's business partner had a black dressage horse. Beautiful horse.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: one hour sober
Yes, according to every TV Westerns.
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 10:22 AM (Oy/m2)
Yeah, that seems to be the majority internet consensus -- Hollywood myth-making.
Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (J4Dwc)
It's possible the islamist will make a big splash and lose, and that could bolster the central party's moderation and rejection of certain "crazies".
I made no absolute guarantees of the election outcome, unlike what a particular smartmouth implied yesterday, but at the moment I strongly lean victory in MI for the terrorist.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (6UXQp)
Posted by: nurse ratched
That sounds fantastic. Shall I come over at 6? I'll bring the wine.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 10:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:31 AM (Bep7s)
Didn't think so, but I thought it worked better with Tunes Out Dick.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2026 10:29 AM (kgE5c)
I should've gone with either The Cranberries or 4 Non Blondes, but I just couldn't make myself.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:31 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:32 AM (dE511)
MI Dem House candidate Will Lawrence says he's no longer in the DSA as he enters the general election:
“In the last month I let my membership lapse.”
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Oh. Well, OK then.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (ndZc7)
THAT changes EVERYTHING!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:32 AM (2YhKe)
Yeah, that seems to be the majority internet consensus -- Hollywood myth-making.
Posted by: Dr. Rick Knabb, Weather Channel at August 07, 2026 10:30 AM (J4Dwc)
Well, they weren't carrying Glocks.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)
“In the last month I let my membership lapse.”
That sounds so brave!
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 10:34 AM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)
Because they've spent their entire adult life being indoctrinated.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:34 AM (2YhKe)
What matters for voting is local perceptions of the economy.
If you live in a town with one industry, and that industry gets decimated while the rest of the country is thriving, you think the economy in general is terrible. (This explains why DC's perception is usually at odds with the rest of the nation, especially right now.)
The GDP numbers are things that get used to try to feed overall narratives and prompting for soft-partisans to either engage or disengage, depending on who is doing the telling.
Still, we talk about the numbers, so might as well try and make sense of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I did a paper once upon a time using REIS local economic data and a governor's reelection bid--turns out that state economic figures did not matter, national did but the strongest effect was local economy. Regular folks perceive their economy by looking out the window, elites often being okay at home, focus more on the national figures (probably due to investments, markets, etc. exposure). Few care about overall state figures.
Problem with using it for predictions is local figures are slower than national to be released.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:34 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (Bep7s)
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
On the left is David Crowley who thinks calling him "establishment" is a racist slur.
On the right is Francesca Hong who thinks her son creates "proximity to whiteness."
These are the choices the Democrat party is offering up to the state of Wisconsin for governor in 2026.
https://tinyurl.com/3nuz4krz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (ndZc7)
Wow!
Just walked by a dude cleaning a 19 1/2# silver salmon on the dock. Beautiful bright fatty.
Someone is going to eat good tonight!
I’d make salmon ceviche with serranos and mango and lime. Nom nom nom.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 07, 2026 10:24 AM
Yay! Dinner for everyone!
Posted by: Salmon Parasites at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (+iIn9)
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It does indeed!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (UnTkV)
On the left is David Crowley who thinks calling him "establishment" is a racist slur.
On the right is Francesca Hong who thinks her son creates "proximity to whiteness."
These are the choices the Democrat party is offering up to the state of Wisconsin for governor in 2026.
https://tinyurl.com/3nuz4krz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:35 AM (ndZc7)
Either one will win.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (dE511)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)
Because they've spent their entire adult life being indoctrinated.
Posted by: Sponge
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And the penalty is strongest for deviation from the herd for the ruling class. They have reputation, money, careers, etc. to be lost if they don't go along with the herd.
People with nothing left to lose, fearing of losing what little they have, or those who are so rich that societal rules don't apply to them like Trump, are more likely to be change agents.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (1z8ji)
Winchester hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:36 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Cicero
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That horse was probably more coddled and loved than many give to their spouses.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: cmeat at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (Bep7s)
Elling William Gollings
Have never heard of him, but that's not unusual. What a nice body of work!! I would hang today's art selection.
Montana Trail Galleries: William Gollings [1878-1932]
Bill Gollings (Elling William) did paintings known for their accurate accountings of the Old West. Gollings drew upon his own personal experiences as a cowboy, and was also known to have studied and admired the drawings of Frederic Remington, which often appeared in 'Harper's Weekly' magazine.
Bill Gollings was born in 1878 in Pierce City, Idaho. As a boy, he spent much of his time was in New York, Idaho and Michigan. When he was twelve, he and his family moved to Chicago. At age nineteen, Gollings traveled to small mining and cattle towns in South Dakota and Nebraska where he spent most of his time as a sheepherder and cowboy. Despite his ranching activities, he had always possessed an interest in art.
His first exposure to paints was at about age twenty-five when he began working with a set of mail-order paints. After selling several paintings, he was admitted to the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts on a scholarship. (More.)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Common Tater
Callahan Bag Molds still makes the round ball mold in the 1800's style - scissors type making one ball at a time.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (sTU8y)
Long ago when I attended a one room schoolhouse that was uphill both ways, they taught us first how to think critically. Many schools don't do that anymore.
They just pour their own ideas and opinions into kids heads as facts they must obey. And they do. And many of them go through life believing whatever bullshit the voice of authority tells them to believe.
That's how we end up with half the country believing Trump paid Russian hookers to pee on his bed.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 10:38 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 07, 2026 10:38 AM (2YhKe)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Nice art. Cowboy Art. I bet that's his name too.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (2WIwB)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (viF8m)
But it was a bet that Owebama supposedly slept in, so it HAS to be true, right? Because Trump would do such a thing......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (2YhKe)
I'd swear I recognize that old cowboy. I sure feel his age and weariness.
Posted by: mindful webworker - prairie dog at August 07, 2026 10:40 AM (62m/B)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Georgia State Police don't play around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:40 AM (sTU8y)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (sTU8y)
That's hot.
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 07, 2026 10:38 AM (2YhKe)
Thank you.
Posted by: Adolfo at August 07, 2026 10:40 AM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:41 AM (sWibC)
I think their job to tug so hard on the Overton Window that everyone gets a clear, unfiltered look at the enemy. Full sunlight on those critters.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 10:41 AM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 10:33 AM (wOO3z)
They've been educated to react in fear.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)
YOU COUGHT!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 10:41 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Expensive and at times unavailable ammunition. Same for the 38-40 and 44-40. Even the mighty 45 Colt at times literally dries up. These are handloading cartridges if you want to shoot them and handloading is a pita because of the thin and elongated necks on these cartridges. Can crumple in the reloading process.
There is also the problem that the 32-20 came in two different loads--one hotter one for lever action rifles, the weaker one for revolvers.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:42 AM (E4rtv)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Play time is over, punk.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:42 AM (Riz8t)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Georgia State Police don't play around.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 10:40 AM (sTU8y)
Nice of the kid for donating his ride to the state police. I'm sure they'll enjoy selling it off.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:44 AM (3uBP9)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)
YOU COUGHT!!!!!!
Like a motherf***er, baby!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:45 AM (Riz8t)
What about the poor horse? Fifteen hours a day watching the grass grow with that great lummox in the saddle.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 10:45 AM (rxwdW)
They just pour their own ideas and opinions into kids heads as facts they must obey. And they do. And many of them go through life believing whatever bullshit the voice of authority tells them to believe.
That's how we end up with half the country believing Trump paid Russian hookers to pee on his bed.
Posted by: JackStraw
Much of education's deterioration is that a) you have different careers for women that want to work outside of the home---used to be only being a nurse or a teacher were suitable employment for women so those attracted the best and brightest.
And then you now have the miserable colleges of education who rival only journalism/communications for their students having the lowest academic performance at universities. Incompetent teachers, no discipline due to fears of racial unrest and lawsuits, and a population that values education as a credential, not as a means of self improvement.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (E4rtv)
Oh, how I would love to be a fly on the wall when his Dad gets THAT call.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (Riz8t)
@membunnamdi1
Two men, James Gay (35) and Everette Krichbabum (52) have been arrested after a machete fight in the parking lot of a Panama City, Florida Publix parking lot.
In an absolutely insane plot twist - both men are reportedly tied to the Florida based "Vampire Cult" and Mr. Gay previously spent 12 years in prison for a Vampire Cult related murder in 2011.
https://tinyurl.com/y5e7ec6t
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The VADL (Vampire Anti-Defamation League will hear of this!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (ndZc7)
carry a hidden digital pistol and you'll be discrete and discreet.
Posted by: anachronda at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (QfB85)
Posted by: muldoon
Ugh. Now I'll never think of 'cowpoke' the same again. Thanks a lot, muldoon!🤠
Posted by: mindful webworker - prairie dog at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (62m/B)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)
YOU COUGHT!!!!!!
Like a motherf***er, baby!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:45 AM (Riz8t)
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FAFO Hall of Fame nominee video
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:47 AM (sWibC)
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 07, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)
And all three of his names have an LLI in the middle! Maybe they were going for some kind of poetry.
Elling
William
Gollings
Posted by: m at August 07, 2026 10:47 AM (odBC9)
Oh, how I would love to be a fly on the wall when his Dad gets THAT call.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 07, 2026 10:46 AM (Riz8t)
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When we lived in Charleston, some kid who was attending the Citadel and lived in our neighborhood came tearing down the street and the tight curve outside our house.
Crashed the car into the ditch outside our house. I go to the window and see the doors open, a bunch of pot smoke, and about 6 college aged kids bolt.
The driver starts to go, but he sticks around.
It was his father's car. His father came to the scene about half an hour later when word got to him. Nice white BMW. He was pissed.
I think the kid got kicked out of The Citadel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:48 AM (bvy21)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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You're NICKED, Chummy!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 10:49 AM (FZ29D)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:37 AM (viF8m)
But it was a bet that Owebama supposedly slept in, so it HAS to be true, right? Because Trump would do such a thing......
once again, it comes down to blackjack and hookers.
Posted by: anachronda at August 07, 2026 10:49 AM (QfB85)
carry a hidden digital pistol and you'll be discrete and discreet.
Posted by: anachronda
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You got me, didn't proofread and probably my fault instead of autocucumber. Slow this morning.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:49 AM (E4rtv)
The driver starts to go, but he sticks around.
It was his father's car. His father came to the scene about half an hour later when word got to him. Nice white BMW. He was pissed.
I think the kid got kicked out of The Citadel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:48 AM (bvy21)
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Shades of Nancy Mace
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:50 AM (dtxyT)
Oddly, I can't muster up any surprise or clever quip.
Like, the internet has made all fetishes mainstream and weird violence happens daily.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 10:50 AM (X8xt3)
The original version of sous vide.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 07, 2026 10:51 AM (iySPJ)
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:51 AM (E4rtv)
75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)
75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)
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This is like MTG complaining about mass deportations once she saw that she'd have to pay more for labor at her construction company.
"The US government takes visa status seriously," is a good lesson to teach people, and hard learning requires hard lessons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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She came?
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:51 AM (E4rtv)
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Enthusiastically, no doubt.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (dtxyT)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)
Life's a bitch.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Cut-Rate Cattlemen Inc at August 07, 2026 10:54 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 07, 2026 10:54 AM (zdLoL)
Like, the internet has made all fetishes mainstream and weird violence happens daily.
Posted by: Lizzy
Postal inspectors had just about licked the child pornography problem in the US with a long line of successful prosecutions for sending the vile stuff through the mail.
Then came the internet and the international market for child pron perverts. Same with trannyism, foot fetishes, etc. People now had a 'community' that supported them, fed their unhealthy and evil appetites, and made them more resistant to being forced to change.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:54 AM (E4rtv)
I want the Winchester Mystery House.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (qRla/)
This too, is the story of AOSHQ.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (viF8m)
Like, the internet has made all fetishes mainstream and weird violence happens daily.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 10:50 AM (X8xt3)
I was friendly with this dude when I was 20 and he turned out to be a super lib, even started an anti war blog etc and was like taking to Stephen Colbert before there was such a thing. At the time it wasn't a big deal to be friends with leftards but you slowly realized they didn't want to be friends with you - even if you weren't explicitly right. Just not being a leftard annoyed them a lot.
My point is one day he came to me with a link to a web 1.0 forum he'd been reading where everyone there wanted to be a vampire.
We joked about a lot of stuff so I thought it was a joke but the place was truly bugfuck insane. Won't even go into it, it's exactly what you think and probably worse. And I don't think he was kidding.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Cut-Rate Cattlemen Inc
S'okay, robot cowboys are coming soon along with robot border collies and Australian shepherd dogs.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 10:56 AM (dtxyT)
I prefer the
Vampire
League
Against
Defamation
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Are you saying focusing on boobs, guns, arguments, and art is not healthy?
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
One of my biggest regrets was not visiting that house when I was stationed in California. I made it to Hearst Castle, but never to the Winchester House.
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (qRla/)
It's haunted by demons. The internet said so.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (g8Ew8)
I prefer the
Vampire
League
Against
Defamation
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (qRla/)
Splitters!
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
BIL has a small herd of Black Angus and he is his own cowboy.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (3OyJk)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/5fk899ck
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
Looks like my area in 2020, but the black trucks that hassled the unpermitted, street blocking protestors were the ones the politicians and police were especially interested in.
In fact, the protestors were allowed to have a redo weeks later, and the black trucks and local residents closely watched (including drones) to see if one unpleasant, possibly "stress-inducing" word was directed towards the protestors.
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Just returned from Georgia. Teaching in the K-12 schools is much better than locally in my state, but DEI remains a thing and huge, fabulous mosques are rising, too.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 10:59 AM (NFX2v)
BIL has a small herd of Black Angus and he is his own cowboy.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv)
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at least he eats well
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (dtxyT)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 07, 2026 10:55 AM (qRla/)
It's haunted by demons. The internet said so.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:57 AM (g8Ew
Winchester never had 'satan is king' on their products.
Posted by: Eromero at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 10:58 AM (3OyJk)
IIRC we tried, but various Republican politicians and podcasters said ohhh nooo our precious freedoms.
Then they all went out for free Chinese buffet.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (88C+u)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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IRRC, In Search Of series got there first in the 70's. No less than Spock with raised eyebrows commenting.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 10:59 AM (viF8m)
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Once the committee voted in favor, it meant the votes were there.
Once Collins announced she wouldn't vote for him, the whipping was done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (bvy21)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)
Life's a bitch.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew
Trump saved him from being cleaned out by the bitch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (S41Gd)
That would be Effing William Gollings, Sr., but some scribe in the hostpital made a mistake.
Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 11:00 AM (rxwdW)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Yep. All his neighbors have relatively small herds of cattle too. Ozarks.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (sTU8y)
75-year-old Trump voter "betrayed" after ICE arrested his 45-year-old Venezuelan fiancée for expired visa
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)
FASCISM!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 07, 2026 11:01 AM (2YhKe)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 07, 2026 10:52 AM (ndZc7)
Life's a bitch.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 07, 2026 10:53 AM (g8Ew
Trump saved him from being cleaned out by the bitch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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His kids from a previous relationship probably called ICE to protect their inheritance.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:02 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I personally approve of whipping Congress critters at every turn. Devo's "Whip It" song should be playing while doing it.
Posted by: whig at August 07, 2026 11:03 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 10:44 AM (3uBP9)
I assume the bank owns 95% of that truck. What happens when it is (rightfully in this instance) seized by the cops? Is the puke kid still on the hook for the debt?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at August 07, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2026 11:05 AM (1z8ji)
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Good question. When the police sell the truck, I'd imagine the lien gets satisfied either from auction proceeds or the kid, so I'd guess the kid had to pray it sold for more than the loan payoff value.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 11:18 AM (bx2ki)
Posted by: STW at August 07, 2026 02:25 PM (vB4Cb)
The Morning Report — 8/ 7 /26
Francesca Hong is running to be the next governor of Wisconsin, but she can’t decide if she wants to be the Grinch who stole Thanksgiving, too. Thanksgiving? We’re talking about Thanksgiving in August? In 2020, she tweeted that we should stick a carving knife in the national holiday of gratitude because it was “celebrating colonialism.”From that flaming pile of excrement we go south to Texas where you'd think, saner heads would for sure be prevailing. You'd think, until . . .
James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers' The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'Of course, these are merely candidates for governor and senator. But would the party run them if they didn't think they had a shot at rallying their troops. And speaking of which, first up we have...
About a mile and a half from where Luigi Mangione (allegedly) murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and a schlep from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where the (alleged) assassin is being held as he awaits state and federal trials, Luigi: The Musical finished its six-night New York City run at The Green Room 42 in the YOTEL New York Times Square.Springtime for Hitler was merely Mel Brooks being funny. At the time some thought even he went a bit too far with The Prodcuers but sadly it seems as if he was actually being prescient. Just as the late great Paddy Chayefsky was with Network And here we have another one who will bury, er that is BURN us.
An upcoming criminal trial may reshape public opinion about the main cause of the 2025 Palisades Fire in Southern California, redefining it as a consequence not of climate change but of class warfare.While all of the previous maniacs were all born and raised here, we still have Michiganistan and Islam to contend with...
The financial and ideological ties between El-Sayed and CAIR raise questions about his candidacy, given CAIR’s controversial history and alleged links to terrorist organizations. This could become a focal point in the Michigan Senate race as voters scrutinize the influence of such organizations on political candidates.Well, it's nice to believe as some do that Mike Rogers will beat this fiend. But please remember that beyond the base, Michigan's elections are run by Governor Wretched Whitler and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson who were both, especially the latter, instrumental in the thievery that stole the state from Trump and gave it to Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden in 2020 in the middle of the night in Wayne County where election observers were ejected, the windows covered and 18-wheelers full of ballots hauled in. So, as we close out the week, let's try to end on a much happier note:
Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House and especially since Trump’s Liberation Day tariff announcement, the economic press has reported that American manufacturing is struggling under President Trump’s tariffs. Even worse: stories have frequently claimed that manufacturing is struggling because of the tariffs. The Wall Street Journal declared manufacturing “in retreat.” The Associated Press said tariffs were “hurting American manufacturers instead of helping them.” Reuters reported that import duties had undercut manufacturing.And on top of that, we have this bit of orgasmatronia!
There’s just one problem: none of that is happening. If tariffs are hurting American manufacturing, someone forgot to tell the factories. The Labor Department reported Thursday that manufacturing output rose at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter. Hours worked increased 2.6 percent. Productivity, which measures output per hour, rose 1.9 percent.
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that end birth tourism and expand the definition of who does not qualify for birthright citizenship. . . The first Executive Order non-exhaustively identifies certain categories of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship consistent with historical exceptions to birthright citizenship recognized by the Supreme Court in Barbara. The second Executive Order delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security and directs them to halt the practice of birth tourism.Well, I'm sure the lawsuits will start flying and the usual crackpot nutters will threaten SCOTUS justices and their families but who knows? If Roe v. Wade could be nixed, perhaps there's hope that the 14th Amendment could actually be read and upheld as written and intended. My concern isn't necessarily with the Leftists it's mostly the RINOs who will stab us in the back. So we're in the mass grave or marching to it, but perhaps the first shovel-full of dirt has yet to be dropped on us? How's that for optimism?! And with that I bid you all
Have a great weekend,
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- In 2020, she tweeted that we should stick a carving knife in the national holiday of gratitude because it was “celebrating colonialism.”
DSA gov. nominee Francesca Hong is the turkey who wants to ruin Thanksgiving, then Wisconsin, then America
- Where did it start and where is it going?
Prager U Video: The Vicious Cycle of Identity Politics
- Retrial of accused arsonist is set for October
Palisades Fire Was Sparked By Anti-Capitalist Motivated By Hate of Rich, Prosecutors Say
- “Luigi Mangione’s push to livestream his murder trial isn’t about transparency, it’s a stunt designed to pressure jurors, a former federal prosecutor is arguing.”
Luigi Mangione Wants Trial Livestreamed as Former Prosecutor Warns it’s to Pressure Jurors "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - Osborn, who has a history of making contradictory statements about immigration, said today’s illegal immigrants are no different from German Jews in the 1930s
Nebraska ‘Independent’ Dan Osborn Compared Immigration Enforcement to Nazi Germany in Unearthed Town Hall Comments - The orders come on the heels of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in the Trump v. Barbara case in June that ruled birthright citizenship is a right under the Constitution.
Trump Signs Orders That End Birth Tourism, Limit Birthright Citizenship - What’s happening in Spain is a preview of what America can expect after our own Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling.
Migrants Invaded Ceuta Because A Court Encouraged Them. SCOTUS Just Did The Same Here THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??) - The report, published on Tuesday, preceded Pezeshkian himself addressing his relationship with the younger Khamenei on state media in a televised interview on Thursday, claiming that it was “very difficult” to communicate with him.
Report: Iran’s President Only Allowed to Speak to Missing ‘Supreme Leader’ in Dark Car Meeting
- Vance said that if people “want to make me own the effort to try to bring this war to a successful conclusion, I’m happy to let them make me own it. I am absolutely trying to do that. But, to your point, that sometimes requires one step forward, two steps back, then three steps forward and one step back. I can certainly understand the American people are maybe looking at this, and they say, well, it seems like we’re making progress, and then it seems like we’re not.
Vance: Resolving Iran Situation ‘Going to Be Messy and It’s Going to Take Some Time’
- Larry Elder: Is this a war worth fighting?
On the Iran War, NATO Chief Agrees With Trump — The Media Buried the Lede
- Trump believes in American negotiation, which sees both sides winning a lot and losing a little; the mullahs believe in our complete destruction.
The Art Of The Deal Is Doomed To Fail In Iran
- Fred Fleitz: Economic strangulation threatens something much harder to survive: the regime's ability to pay the soldiers and police who keep it in power.
Trump Gives Iran One Last Chance. Tehran Is the One Running Out of Time ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY - Founded to prevent a future Holocaust, the MSI now attacks Israel, siding with those who dream of Israel’s destruction.
The Martin-Springer Institute: Another Holocaust institute falls to the antisemitic left THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE - A Muslim illegal alien ripped off Americans and sent the money home including to pro-Hamas groups.
One Gaza 'Palestinian' . . . . $547M Fraud
- In contemporary America, there are people who are far more interested in taking whatever they can get for themselves, even as it harms the community and the country, than in doing what's right.
High-trust America has been undermined by imported corruption DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - ...California’s high-speed rail project is a political symbol plus a union giveaway, and no operational train system is coming anytime in the foreseeable future.
Gavin Newsom’s Bungled High-Speed Rail Project Includes Zero Trains
- These 19 Angelenos are frustrated with their leaders—but few are ready to vote Republican.
California Conversations, Part I: Los Angeles WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - The financial and ideological ties between El-Sayed and CAIR raise questions about his candidacy, given CAIR’s controversial history and alleged links to terrorist organizations. This could become a focal point in the Michigan Senate race as voters scrutinize the influence of such organizations on political candidates.
Dem Candidate El-Sayed’s Campaign Funded by Members of Terror-Linked CAIR Organization.
- Former lead FBI investigator says the underlying conspiracy remains active and the threat is growing.
The Link Between Hamas And The Muslim Brotherhood In America? Here’s The Evidence
- In both Islam and communism, there is an “In” crowd and an “Out” crowd, and both ideologies have as their relentless goal destroying the “Out” crowd.
The Mohammunist Manifesto—The World as a Binary
- And the criminals are overwhelmingly . . . what religion?
Moroccan Teen Rapes and Robs 80-Year-Old in France as ‘Crime Spirals Out of Control’ OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS - Celebrate diversity, right?
Man Decapitates Virgin Mary Statue in New York City AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS - We must face them.
Five Lessons Learned From the Fauci Fiasco
- The scientific establishment rewards celebrity and political influence over rigor and accountability.
Fauci And The Danger Of Following The Sun Gods Of Science FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - They don’t want Trump officials rifling through internal emails.
Journalists Want To Bury Their Fawning Friendship With Fauci* * * * * - The groups have spent untold millions to basically gaslight the nation into accepting the idea that banning frontier technology is MAGA.
Astroturf Conservative Groups Are Trying to Ban American Innovation THE ECONOMY, STUPID - So much for the idea that tariffs would damage U.S. productivity and manufacturing... The Labor Department reported Thursday that manufacturing output rose at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter. Hours worked increased 2.6 percent. Productivity, which measures output per hour, rose 1.9 percent.
Boosted by Tariffs, U.S. Manufacturing Enters a Renaissance
- Tone-policing those trying to offer solutions isn’t the way. There are policy solutions that can address the high cost of food, but none of them come from an economic system that has failed every previous time it’s been tried. Socialism won’t actually give us free burritos.
How ‘burritogate’ roiled the right — exposing a dangerous disconnect on affordability RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM - Nothing is out of bounds if it means sticking it to Trump, even raising energy costs.
This Is What Blue State AGs Are Doing To Jack Up Your Energy Bill
- The global warming scare is finally beginning to fade, but the misinformation keeps pouring out.
When Will The Climate Liars Stop Lying? CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - The DOJ’s actions aim to dismantle the CJNG’s operations, reduce drug-related deaths, and recover stolen funds for victims. Trump administration officials have noted a 22 percent drop in fentanyl overdose deaths, attributing it to increased enforcement. Rewards totaling $100 million have been offered for information leading to the arrest of cartel leaders, signaling a strong commitment to combating cartel violence and fraud.
Trump DOJ Charges Five Mexican Cartel Leaders.
- A free society depends upon the informed consent of the governed. That consent becomes impossible when the public is deceived into believing that a twenty-year sentence means twenty years of societal protection.
The Sentencing Illusion EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Restoring the academy requires more than budget cuts—it needs grant funding for the research that the Left has ignored.
To Fix Higher Education, Fund Heterodox Research THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH - Documents released Thursday morning by the White House Government Transparency Task Force detail the massive data breach, an investigation by the FBI, a suspect who admitted to the crime, and a years-long attempt by the FBI to get someone to prosecute, only to close the case due to a lack of prosecutor interest.
Four Prosecutors Refused To Pursue Hacker Behind 2020 Breach Of 633,000 Arizona Voters
- Turns out a hacker got his hands on more than 600,000 Maricopa County voter registrations, including sensitive personal information on many.
Arizona 2020: New revelations from 'the most secure election in U.S. history'
- The political left has developed a remarkably simple response to almost every proposed election safeguard: Call it voter suppression.
Election Integrity Is Not Voter Suppression DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - Stratton, running to replace retiring Sen Dick Durbin, welcomed CCP-tied firm to Illinois as lieutenant governor
Electric Vehicle Exec Identified as CCP Member Has Given $450K to Democrats This Campaign Season—Including $71K for Senate Nominees Juliana Stratton, Roy Cooper POLITICS - “At the end of the day, we need to elect JD,” the president reportedly stated.
Report — Trump Tells Donors He Wants Vice President Vance to Win in 2028: ‘We Need to Elect JD’
- One group is launching a $15 million push to undercut democratic socialism after El-Sayed's win.
How Some Dems Are ‘Preparing For The Next War’ Against Socialists
- “A guy who was a big fan of MS NOW” said he had voted for … Stevens. “If Abdul El-Sayed wins, I will be voting for Mike Rogers.”
Michigan Senate Contest Emerges as November’s Most Consequential Race
- After decades of giving my all for Democrat House and Senate candidates, this fall I will support — and contribute to — Mike Rogers, Michigan’s GOP Senate nominee, instead.
I’m a longtime Democrat — fighting for GOP’s Mike Rogers, and my party’s soul, in Michigan... And I’ll do everything I can to make sure other Democrats follow.
- “In counties where Black people made up at least 15 percent of the population, Stevens led El-Sayed by 8 points. Black voters in Detroit have historically been pivotal for Democrats to win statewide, pointing to a potential vulnerability for the party ahead of the general election,” the report continues.
Report: Demographic Breakdown of El-Sayed’s Voters Worries Democrats About Strength of His Candidacy FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - There's a story making the rounds in the European press right now, and it's starting to gain real traction among YouTubers here in the States, too. It's worth your attention — not because it's fake, but because of what's conspicuously missing from it.
A Mass Exodus of Muslims From France? Maybe. DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - Officials have also said the most pressing shortage is that of Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors, which the country has used faster than manufacturers can replace them.
Trump denies munitions shortage reports, calls leaks ‘treasonous’ HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - Dr. Schwartz’s appointment as Director of the CDC coincides with an outbreak of Cyclospora, a parasite that causes severe diarrhea. The spread of the parasite has been linked to contaminated lettuce. Her appointment also coincides with ongoing disputes over vaccine policy. The nature of her appointment demonstrates how even ostensibly apolitical roles can evoke deep partisan tensions, as exhibited by the fact that Dr. Schwartz did not receive a full confirmation vote. Dr. Schwartz is not the only person to be appointed to the role during this Congress. Her predecessor, Susan Monarez, served briefly as Director of the CDC before being removed following a reported disagreement with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Senate Approves CDC Chief Amid Diarrhea Parasite Crisis.
- LA County health officials issue another warning due to flea-borne typhus outbreak in the region.
Why Los Angeles Is Becoming America’s Rattiest City ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - This data provides more evidence that Pluto is active geologically, even though its location so far out in the solar system provides it very little heat or energy from the Sun. It is also further proof that the decision by a small group of scientists at an International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting in Europe in 2006 to declare Pluto was not a planet was utterly stupid.
Scientists: New Horizons’ images of Pluto suggest liquid nitrogen flows in the cracks of its frozen nitrogen ocean
- In every way the Katalyst team has shined so far in this mission. It quickly reconfigured its original demo satellite rescue mission into a Swift rescue, won the contract in November 2025, got Link built and ready for launch by June, and now have successfully recovered the spacecraft.
Katalyst engineers regain control of Link rescue spacecraft FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - The Pride Month event also featured a drag queen with the provocative name 'Sedonya Face'
James Talarico Headlined Pride Event Alongside 11-Year-Old Child Drag Queen 'Kween Kee Kee': 'Absolute Cutest and Youngest of Our Drag Performers'
- Florida joins Arkansas, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas in banning minors from adult live performances, setting a precedent for other states aiming to shield children from explicit content. The ruling reinforces the state’s ability to regulate obscenity while dismissing concerns that the law infringes on First Amendment rights.
Court Upholds Florida Ban on ‘Lewd’ Drag Shows for Children. CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - A review of "Luigi: The Musical" and the people who went to see it.
Luigi Mangione’s Curtain Call: The Pop Culture Assassin Prince Takes The Stage
- The organization’s decision was not based on a single incident, according to Brodeur.
Miss USA Strips Title from NC Pageant Winner Brittany Boltinhouse, Vows Not to ‘Tolerate Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia’
- Christian Toto: Film industry did far more than just ignore nation's 250th birthday
Blame Hollywood for Rise of DSA, Socialism in America
- Christian Toto Too: Stars are increasingly political in the modern era, but the results aren’t always so clear cut.
We Need More Tom Sellecks, Less Mark Ruffalos
- The company has made changes to its website following online backlash.
Coca-Cola Said No To Jesus But Yes To Satan
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (cpFbA)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (U+tJ3)
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 07:34 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 07, 2026 07:34 AM (Q/FnY)
It's a great way to dissolve rust, though. I used it once to clean some tore bolts I was having trouble loosening.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:35 AM (U+tJ3)
Yeah, I remember how health care policy changed after...what? Nothing changed? Even after the exec's death? Almost as if what Luigi did was pointless.
I don't think the Left really wants us thinking that putting bullets in the brainpans of people we view as a threat is a cool idea.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 07:37 AM (lXoJ5)
As Nayib Bukele, Prophet of Sanity, once said, "If a country does not remove corrupt judges, it cannot fix its systemic issues."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 07:37 AM (ExV1e)
It's a great way to dissolve rust, though. I used it once to clean some tore bolts I was having trouble loosening.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:35 AM (U+tJ3)
Buy the supermarket brand cola so long as you see Phosphoric Acid as an ingredient.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 07:37 AM (x0n13)
Come to think of it, hyenas look like the first, unfinished draft of the dog. Just as opossums look like the first draft of the cat. I imagine God saying, "Come *on*, you can do better than *that* --!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 07, 2026 07:38 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 07:38 AM (wVCl1)
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 07:39 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 07:39 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 07:40 AM (sTU8y)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:41 AM (yeRBj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:43 AM (JvZF+)
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No, I didn't read the article yet. But this begs the instantaneous question of how long it will be before a judge immediately stops it? And how can this be done if SCOTUS has already said birthright citizenship is a-ok from a constitutional position (as laughable as it is)?
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 07:45 AM (qBdHI)
How does one go about that? Forbid the sale of turkeys, yams, pumpkin pie?
Such a stupid and unserious, yet highly demented person. The country has collectively lost it's mind if we're seriously going to elect someone who has certainly lost theirs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 07:46 AM (2Cry5)
This last chance number what? 20?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:46 AM (l3cgK)
Yeah, I remember how health care policy changed after...what? Nothing changed? Even after the exec's death? Almost as if what Luigi did was pointless.
I don't think the Left really wants us thinking that putting bullets in the brainpans of people we view as a threat is a cool idea.
Posted by: NR Pax
You do realize that year-1 Kirkaversary is less than one month away...
https://www.tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhenLIBsDisarm
To be presided over by the Smirking Madmani standing next to the Pyschodancin' AOC in exctacy of all the money she can seize and people to burn....
remember who did this:
it would be wrong to cut off contact with the terror group just because they may have killed people "in a way that we hate." -- Bill Clinton'06 near the height of his association with Epstein
Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time -- Bill Clinton'06
I tried to represent a better America when I was president. But now I don't have to...- Bill Clinton'06
--- He was on a roll that year, because he didn't have to go to Epstien's island, it came to him, that was AVILOOP was/is...
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 07, 2026 07:46 AM (eS+Uj)
I worked on a very expensive home one time, 10 million or so, and when the owner complained to the foreman about progress, he said "Some things show, and some things don't".
Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 07:47 AM (MWfyi)
The only form of justice that I predict for that couple, is that they will need to reside in D.C. for several more years to make court appearances, and they won’t be able to retire full time to a luxurious resort town.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 07:47 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 07:45 AM (qBdHI)
Tougher to kill this one, I think. The EO basically says that if you're in the US just long enough to give birth and then immediately take the child back to whatever country you're visiting from then you obviously aren't under the jurisdiction of the US so not a citizen.
The courts could shit on him again but at some point they make it plain to even the dimmest of bulbs that they're not trying to uphold the Constitution, they're trying to destroy the country.
Trump is the unmasker.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)
The Pilgrims land off-course after months at sea, hitting the Americas right as winter was starting. Many died, more would have if the natives didn't spare food.
They also went Communist before Communism - everyone would work, their produce would go into a central bank. That bank was to pay off the loan that paid for the journey to the new world. But everyone, man, woman, and child, also got one share of everything produced. Each according to their ability, each according to their need.
The journal of the leader showed this was a crap idea even then. It did not work, and it was turning godly people (they left Europe because of religion!) into hating their neighbors. So they scrapped the whole commune deal. Somewhat quickly, because these weren't over-educated retards like from today's "higher" learning. Every family was given a plot of land. They could sell what they grew and made.
First winter - pity food from the natives. Next winter - abundance because you worked to eat. Apparently, they paid off that loan pretty quickly too afterwards.
Posted by: Another Anon at August 07, 2026 07:48 AM (4h45B)
L Tryptophan is the silent killer...ban it!
And just like that - turkey is no longer an endangered species come November
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 07:48 AM (j10i6)
The media hate you. Their practitioners are liars and scum.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:49 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 07, 2026 07:50 AM (77Xnc)
>Trump Gives Iran One Last Chance. Tehran Is the One Running Out of Time
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 07:50 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 07:52 AM (aJQbY)
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As the apt saying goes, "you can't fix stupid." SMH
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)
It was normal to sue over the punch list, then sue partners, and then sue anyone else involved. Trump is at that stage with Iran. Just pay no attention while he does the statecraft equivalent of suing them, as he finishes off whatever the hell he is doing over there. As long as none of our guys have to land on the beach I guess I'm ok with target practice.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:52 AM (gd9nb)
This last chance number what? 20?
Posted by: jim
I want to believe there's more going on here than meets the eye, but I have my doubts, missy.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 07:53 AM (Y8DZL)
This last chance number what? 20?
Posted by: jim
I want to believe there's more going on here than meets the eye, but I have my doubts, missy.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 07:53 AM (Y8DZL)
Don't call me
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:54 AM (l3cgK)
She also says she no longer reads The Economist but she might be shining me on.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:54 AM (JvZF+)
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Excellent point.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 07:55 AM (gd9nb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:56 AM (l3cgK)
Cold flow in the crack...Brrrr!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (l3cgK)
Give us just a one more last chance
Before you say we're through
We know we drive you crazy, Trumpy
It's the best that we can do
We're just some good ol' IRGC boys a-makin' noise
We ain't runnin' around on you
Give us just one more last chance
Before you say we're through
https://youtu.be/aGfgIQfpbWI
Posted by: Not Vince Gill at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (xSAlF)
@JohnDSailer
If you're wondering about the mood at Cambridge, here's one professors verdict after the Arday affair: "It's disastrous for Cambridge, and it's disastrous for higher education."
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3:19 PM · Aug 5, 2026
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Everyone involved in this debacle contributed to perpetuating a fraud, advancing racism, and corrupting Western civilization. Triple play.
Bravo "smart people!"
Where is the Nothing Will Happen guy?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:00 AM (77rzZ)
Why am I not surprised?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)
Can I get a bottle that says "Coca Cola is Crap"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:01 AM (l3cgK)
We’re in a weird spot right now. Depending on the day of the week or hour of the day, I alternate between thinking we’re on the cusp of disaster to believing a sweeping series of victories are on the threshold. From Iran is disastrous politically to a belief that Iran is slowly crumbling; from a feeling Dems will sweep the midterms to optimism the GOP keeps both chambers. I can’t make up my mind, which is unusual… strange
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:01 AM (ugElV)
That right there is exceptional parenting.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:01 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (xSAlF)
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Only to get elected. Don't believe a word; she hates Thanksgiving, Christmas, July 4th, 9/11 Anniversary, DDay, whatever. She hates America.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:02 AM (yeRBj)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 07, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)
I went to school with quite a few Jesúses...They're being racist against a perfectly good Hispanic name...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:02 AM (l3cgK)
I don't believe her. I was noticing the political backtracking.
Besides, you think someone who was a chef would celebrate Thanksgiving. Lots of people do go out on that holiday.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 08:03 AM (W90Ou)
“At the end of the day, we need to elect JD,” the president reportedly stated.
Report — Trump Tells Donors He Wants Vice President Vance to Win in 2028: ‘We Need to Elect JD’
The counter to this story is that someone yesterday asked Trump about this on camera, and. Trump replied “no, I think it’s way too early for anyone to start worrying about 2028.”
Seems to be a window on how many stories are just made up these days. And I think Trump is exactly right here - it’s way too early to be worrying about that. At the very least get through the ‘26 elections first!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:04 AM (+iIn9)
But didn't explain why that prohibition didn't work for Allah or S'tan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)
The Chronicle Of Higher Education, an industry rag, is melting down.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:05 AM (yeRBj)
Taking care of Ralphy. So need coffee. Dude made it through another week.
Today's lies and misinformation
CBC - Thailand gunman kills 7 at school. He was 14. Wildfires. US Border Patrol. Meta fined - yeah that money won't be stolen and misused.
CNN - Blanche - Murkowski isn't supporting. Dumb bitch. Mitch won't vote.
MS Now - Iran. US squandered strategic advantage.
Fox - Sanders won't endorse Hong. Not crazy enough? Doesn't have enough houses or money? Don't know.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:06 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Sex Pest at August 07, 2026 08:06 AM (45BvE)
Child abuse. Straight to jail.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (O7YUW)
Boomers are reluctant to relinquish control — from political offices to corner offices — to the detriment of their juniors. In a society where the elderly hold so much power, should younger generations revolt?
My guest today is Samuel Moyn, a professor at Yale Law School, and he argues that American democracy is distorted by the power of the old. We discuss how seniors have hoarded wealth and influence and how Americans can renew an intergenerational compact.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (XuKj1)
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)
Yup. I taught my kids that when the phone rights, what is our first thought? "It's a scam."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:09 AM (O7YUW)
Child abuse. Straight to jail.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (O7YUW)
Straight to HELL...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 08:09 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:09 AM (O7YUW)
Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans named Haysuess are pissed.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2026 08:10 AM (sTU8y)
Some people get it. Some people want their pony, NOW.
The progress of the conflict from the U.S. perspective is leaps and bounds better than even the highest successes of GWOT, IMO.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 08:10 AM (dK+Kv)
Millennials and GenZ languish in poverty and despair because this one old fart elected in a state in which they don't live, or this CEO in some company at which they don't work, won't just die already and leave me the money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)
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It was never about defeating terror.
It was about making certain people rich. Instituting measures to control the public here at home. Create a rationale for doing things abroad that otherwise might be questioned.
It was, by most measures, successful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2Cry5)
Where is the Nothing Will Happen guy?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 07:59 AM (JvZF+)
To me one of the funniest lies was that he told everyone that he was a runner, and he once ran 30 marathons in 33 days. And they all just said “ooh that’s really good” without thinking that there’s only a handful of elite runners in the world who could maybe do that.
This guy was much like the old pathological liar character that Jon Lovitz played on SNL, iirc. He just made up increasingly wild claims and probably laughed himself to sleep every night at what he could say and get away with.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (+iIn9)
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)
That's because it is the wrong war. What is needed is a War Against Islam.
Posted by: The War To End All Wars at August 07, 2026 08:12 AM (45BvE)
It was about making certain people rich. Instituting measures to control the public here at home. Create a rationale for doing things abroad that otherwise might be questioned.
It was, by most measures, successful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2Cry5)
I rate this as... correct.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e)
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You don't say the deeply anti-American things she says and then "backtrack." What she expressed shows her deeply held beliefs. To believe otherwise is foolish.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 07, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: The War To End All Wars
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I do believe there will be a war of civilizations in the future.
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:14 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)
That's because it is the wrong war. What is needed is a War Against Islam.
Posted by: The War To End All Wars at August 07, 2026 08:12 AM (45BvE)
A war against Islam would not accomplish the goals of the architects of the WoT.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Buck at August 07, 2026 08:14 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:16 AM (77rzZ)
Child abuse. Straight to jail.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (O7YUW)
No kidding.
That should also extend to Hollywood shows where anyone under 18 is portrayed as gay or trans. Or submitted to that crap. There was a kids show 'Popularity Papers' where one of the main characters had two gay Dads - one a drag queen.
They actually had a kid dress in drag for a PRIDE WEEK thing. It was pretty disgusting.
And then the was Fay and Fluffy which was aimed at 6 year olds.
Fortunately, most of Canada's kids networks went off the air.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:16 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 08:17 AM (2UJ+q)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:07 AM (XuKj1)
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The face of evil a pernicious insidious diabolical evil.
This person would probably say something that would make them unsafe in my presence, he certainly did in that interview.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:18 AM (JvZF+)
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Who won Michigan in 2024 ?
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:18 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Buck at August 07, 2026 08:18 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:19 AM (S0M0K)
Seen any good intrusive ads lately?
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:19 AM (S0M0K)
Depends.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 08:20 AM (wVcYX)
While it's not an incorrect observation, I am betting the solution offered is not a very pleasant one.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:20 AM (lXoJ5)
The Chronicle Of Higher Education, an industry rag, is melting down.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:05 AM (yeRBj)
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Lemme guess...
The faculty are ranting about the administration infringing on "muh academic freedoom!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (FZ29D)
Both Ms. Boltinghouse and the successor Miss North Carolina have darker complexion than Northern Europeans. Who is entitled to use rapper vocabulary without sanction?
I warned my older daughter, who was a rap fan as a teenager, NEVER to use rapper language. I refer to “Mark Fuhrman Syndrome” as use of language that can someday be used against you years later.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (1FEc1)
It was, by most measures, successful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2Cry5)
Wait a minute - are you saying that it was just like the War on Poverty, and the War on Drugs?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:22 AM (+iIn9)
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It was never about defeating terror.
It was about making certain people rich. Instituting measures to control the public here at home. Create a rationale for doing things abroad that otherwise might be questioned.
It was, by most measures, successful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (2Cry5)
In retrospect, the "War on . . ." construct should have been a dead giveaway that success and achieving the stated objective was never going to be the goal. The lack of clearly defined objectives or strategic outcomes should have been another clue.
F W to hell.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 08:22 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:22 AM (+iIn9)
Thanks for the TL;DR of my concurrent thought.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 08:22 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:19 AM (S0M0K)
Only older ladies with copious cleavage offering up their late-stage genocidal booberage for optimal viewing...other than that, no.
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:15 AM (77rzZ)
Joe Crowley, the old Irish guy who Titty-Caca AOC ousted. He was just a corrupt machine pol in the Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall vein. Crooks but not crazy anti-Americans.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 08:24 AM (MWfyi)
Here's a thought: How about we start believing in their total destruction?
As a side note, I find it interesting that the elites never bring up Daniel Pearl, the WSJ reporter beheaded by an Islamic.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2026 08:25 AM (7s9Qe)
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:14 AM (ZxPkt)
Yeah, I read a book about that. It was called Revelations.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:26 AM (+iIn9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:11 AM (+iIn9)
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The psychology of everyone involved in this farce is utterly fascinating.
Every photo I have seen of this guy his skin shines likes its been buffed and he is wearing eye-liner.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:26 AM (JvZF+)
I believe the term is "Horsemaned".
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Buck at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (z6ONu)
Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 08:24 AM (MWfyi)
Yeah, but their sales started to sag after the 80's...right into the basement.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (l3cgK)
They certainly were featured a lot in their videos.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: fd! at August 07, 2026 08:24 AM (MWfyi)
I went to see Pronounced Hooterage instead. Not bad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (ALKK0)
Posted by: I was making the coffee at August 07, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Buck at August 07, 2026 08:28 AM (z6ONu)
Anyway, he has an interesting theory on why burritos might be more expensive and it involves a very specific foreign interest, but you'll never guess who, literally impossible to predict the shocking revelation he makes, no not in a million years could you guess, don't even try bro.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:19 AM (S0M0K)
Only older ladies with copious cleavage offering up their late-stage genocidal booberage for optimal viewing...other than that, no.
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (j10i6)
The brunette in the floral tank top near the pool is my favorite. I'm almost tempted to try to learn her weird trick.
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (S0M0K)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:27 AM (ALKK0)
Interestingly, I'm told that "Pronounced Hooterage" means Big Nose.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (ALKK0)
Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)
"put an end" (go to war) over anything it's gibberish. In today's world it's just a way to obfuscate their real intentions by making something sound so dire that extreme measures need to be taken.
It's an excuse to do things the public probably wouldn't approve of.
Covid was a prime example of a mild situation that was leveraged to run a massive compliance op on the general public. It got the majority of the public to abide some of the most asinine mandates known to man.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:30 AM (2Cry5)
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a lot of what government does is about politicians protecting their phony baloney jobs
'We have to be seen as Doing Something'
IMO YMMV
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:30 AM (ZxPkt)
She won a literal beauty contest run by the DSA to be their representative. She was at peak pulchritude with ripe but still firm melons.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (FZ29D)
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Ding! Ding! Ding!
Got it in one.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (lIvnD)
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is pulling a film that presents the harrowing journey of an Afghan teenager to Europe after the man featured in it was accused of the killing of a Scottish aid worker whose body was found inside a suitcase.
Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, was ordered jailed pending trial by a Greek court on Thursday in the death of Elisabeth-Jane Ross, a 38-year-old psychotherapist and volunteer aid worker from Scotland
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (Sco7b)
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a lot of what government does is about politicians protecting their phony baloney jobs
'We have to be seen as Doing Something'
IMO YMMV
Posted by: Don Black at August 07, 2026 08:30 AM (ZxPkt)
Gov't breaks something, then says they'll fix it, then spends lots of our tax dollars to not fix the thing they broke. Repeat and rinse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (l3cgK)
What is it?
Posted by: Victor Vector at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 07, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Espresso, cappuccino, latte, Joe.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e)
What is it?
Posted by: Victor Vector at August 07, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
Beats genocidal Thanksgiving any day...
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (j10i6)
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So, like Mitch McConnell?
Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)
I just saw the city council in McKinney, TX voted 7-0 to allow construction of a new mosque and Islamic center there. McKinney is deep red… WTF!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (ALKK0)
Are they criticizing his culture? That sound like they are criticizing his culture.
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)
Pretty slippery when wet one would suppose...
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)
Ya gotta get the texture just right...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)
You'll put your eye out.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (dK+Kv)
https://tinyurl.com/4vfkpk7h
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (rHgXV)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (ALKK0)
My guess is that the muslims paid the council enough that they're set even if they're voted out of office at the next opportunity. Given the fact that hundreds of people showed up to speak against it, that's a real possibility. Still... damage done.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)
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Do you see the masculine Democrat toughguy rebrand yet? They are copying what Trump did, but from the Left and as a "movement" instead of a single person. Soon the picture of Democrats - sneaky establishment power stepping on the common man, and the feminine gay and trans identity bud light driven horseshit party that Trump worked so hard to fight and expose - will be a memory.
The new energetic party has a message - they are the party of the working man again. And strong. It's about branding, not reality. They're starting extreme to get attention and then the Party can slowly modulate the message, depending on how things are received. Trump did this too by opening with crazy extreme ideas (a muslim ban, punishment for abortions) and then paring back.
Calling him scary did not work and Democrats know why. And he lurched the country Right despite having just his voice - and so with practically 100% media control, they're giving it a shot. And they get to do it the Democrat Way. At arm's length in case it doesn't quite work out. But heavily coordinated.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 08:35 AM (6UXQp)
Why do they all look like this...world-wide even?
https://instapundit.com/815203/
Massively confident in their ignorance and destructive stupidity.
Fortunately, the warning signs are there.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:36 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (x0n13)
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An old friend of mine, a Democrat politician years ago, has a beach house in NJ ("down the shore") where he is surrounded by houses owned by old time corrupt Democrats. I sort of miss those guys; they are pro-America and just trying to steal a little money, not your life and liberty!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:36 AM (xEtsj)
......
It's a long way from Milan to Minsk.
Posted by: Rochelle at August 07, 2026 08:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 07, 2026 08:21 AM (1FEc1)
See also: Paula Dean (even though it was describing a robber who held a gun to her head)
Posted by: TxAnn at August 07, 2026 08:36 AM (SjAWL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)
They're expensive in some places, probably LA and the like. Places where lots of people feel the need to share on social media. AFAIK, no one has correlated the places where burritos are expensive to places where the minimum wage has been jacked way up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:37 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (ALKK0)
I live in an allegedly "deep red" state in the process of selling its soul. The natives seem asleep, and the liberal emigres, having escaped their blue enclaves of shit-hole government and punitive taxation, are all harrumphing about cold-hearted conservatism and venting their TDS spleen. Stupid and sickening.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2026 08:37 AM (7s9Qe)
One punch and down!
Posted by: That guy in Hawaii at August 07, 2026 08:38 AM (MWfyi)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 07, 2026 08:23 AM (x0n13)
What happened to the old school Democrat party is not complicated at all - it was based on nothing but thievery and racial grievances, but had managed to gain control of a lot of electoral systems. It had nothing left at all to offer younger voters who it was not serving in any way - but the things it controlled made it a ripe candidate for a takeover.
And that, obviously, is what is happening. I believe a big story in the future will be the revelation that the DSA is almost completely funded and led by the CCP, through intermediaries like Neville Singh. There’s a LOT of dark money behind them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:38 AM (+iIn9)
Posted by: pookysgirl's house is filled with music at August 07, 2026 08:39 AM (Wt5PA)
Yeah, lots of sweaty gym photos showing dem dudes all in muscle shirts...pretend men in other words.
Don't think it works...but we'll see
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:40 AM (j10i6)
"Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in extremely critical condition and could pass away at any moment, two sources close to the Pezeshkian administration told IranWire."
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:40 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (g47mK)
"Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in extremely critical condition and could pass away at any moment, two sources close to the Pezeshkian administration told IranWire."
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:40 AM (g47mK)
Toss him down a well! Stat!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (l3cgK)
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Burn it down.
The old ways are sometimes necessary.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)
I saw a retarded article yesterday in Unherd IIRC… the gist was that a lot of anti-MAGA faux conservatives (like Massie) are talking about the price of burritos as a proxy for bashing the Iran war… because of course it’s the Iran war has caused gas prices to skyrocket and along with that many other price increases. Parenthetical: Gas prices really aren’t up all that much…. These nuts are very creative in finding ways to bash Israel
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (TqDYN)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)
Pretty slippery when wet one would suppose...
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (j10i6)
I have never clicked over to a past ONT so fast in my life. I assumed there was a video of this boob climbing wall. Teams of happy joyful people ascending this pillowy rampart. I, so much wanted to behold this beautiful sight and share in their joy.
Posted by: banana Dream - Imagine my disappointment at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Mildly curious at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)
Coca-Cola Said No To Jesus But Yes To Satan
Oh, for goodness sakes.
Time for a cold RC?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Mildly curious at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)
I don't care if he's mouldering in the grave. The Ds hide their dead, we can do the same until the threat of a D replacement for Mitch is gone.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:43 AM (1Ff7Z)
https://tinyurl.com/4vfkpk7h
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (rHgXV)
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Great story
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:44 AM (lIvnD)
Posted by: banana Dream - Imagine my disappointment at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM
++++
And post a pithy "Thanks for the mammaries."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 07, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream - Imagine my disappointment at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (3uBP9)
You get over the top? Get rewarded with the back door bun slide!
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: pookysgirl's house is filled with music at August 07, 2026 08:39 AM (Wt5PA)
Play Symphony No. 4 , 1st movement
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:41 AM (TqDYN)
The thing is, I'd be stoked if it were real. Just look at what they've done for weather control and space lasers. You get them focused on Tex-mex, who knows what they'd come up with. I guarantee you it would be delicious.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (JM9I6)
I'm sure that every media outlet will be breaking land speed records to get their mics recording Republicans doing just this.
And they must take the time to explain how the previous round of free stuff is what got us into this expensive mess in the first place.
Which will be ignored because the spin will be that we don't want young people having free stuff because we're heartless and want grandma to die.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (lXoJ5)
https://tinyurl.com/4vfkpk7h
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (rHgXV)
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Great story
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 08:44 AM (lIvnD)
The new tenants in a socialist/communist paradise...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (l3cgK)
It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2026 07:32 AM (cpFbA)
Stop trying to make "Flapjack Friday" happen!
...
But, Flapjack Saturday or Flapjack Sunday...now those might happen.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: pookysgirl's house is filled with music at August 07, 2026 08:39 AM (Wt5PA)
Play Symphony No. 4 , 1st movement
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (Oy/m2)
My kids were very good with their movements...so many diapers...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:32 AM (77rzZ)
Pretty slippery when wet one would suppose...
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (j10i6)
I have never clicked over to a past ONT so fast in my life. I assumed there was a video of this boob climbing wall. Teams of happy joyful people ascending this pillowy rampart. I, so much wanted to behold this beautiful sight and share in their joy.
Posted by: banana Dream - Imagine my disappointment at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (3uBP9)
Time for a creative remake of The Eiger Sanction?
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (wVcYX)
My favorite story of the week continues to be the saga of Prof Scott Galloway, a complete leftist, being shocked that he was "doxxed" by Mamdani's publishing second homeowners for the pied-a-terre tax. Galloway supports the tax but can't believe that the Mamdani administration "put a target on his back" .
The people who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party are shocked that that leopards are eating their faces
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (KY+FT)
Why? Comity among the Senate brotherhood?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (JM9I6)
They'll all gather with her and bounce ideas off the wall to see what sticks.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: NR Pax at August 07, 2026 08:45 AM (lXoJ5)
I had a great T-shirt years ago that read in bold, black lettering: "Heartless Conservative." I need to replace it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (7s9Qe)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:01 AM (ugElV)
Here's what I think is most likely but subject to change. R's keep both houses (undeservedly because they're assholes who hate us) but the Democrat "strength" and "energy" is shown by a number of unexpected victories from their loudest contingent.
The story ends up being "yes these people are extreme but the average person is worried and scared about the future and the Democrat Party must start listening to them to win and to make a difference".
This paves the way for (possibly) a bridge candidate who can marry the old establishment'a moderation and money and sense (ha ha) with the open communism, "working person values" and "finger on the pulse" of the new breed.
It *could* be someone totally associated with DSA but I'm not certain of that at all.
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (6UXQp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:34 AM (JvZF+)
It started with some entitled Z complaining to Kolvet (TPUSA guy) about the price of his burrito; turns out he pays $20. which is of course hand delivered to him in his house by a delivery service. So normal people pointed out that they fed their family of 6 (or
with burritos for the same price. and it went on from there - two sides, one bitching about the "affordability crisis" the other is like, dude get out of the house. Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (g47mK)
125 I just saw the city council in McKinney, TX voted 7-0 to allow construction of a new mosque and Islamic center there. McKinney is deep red… WTF!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:33 AM (ALKK0)
Although i certainly don’t like the idea, i have to sympathize with the city councilman. Given that all levels of government are subject to the 1st Amendment, on what legal grounds could they vote to deny?
I think they voted against volunteering for a large and expensive lawsuit they were guaranteed to lose. From a local report on the matter: “The site was already zoned for a place of worship and the plans did not ask for any exemptions from city rules. City staff also noted that it was fully compliant with established city requirements.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (+iIn9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 08:46 AM (wVcYX)
The Eager Sanction.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:48 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 07, 2026 08:48 AM (7s9Qe)
Coca-Cola Said No To Jesus But Yes To Satan
Oh, for goodness sakes.
Time for a cold RC?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (1Ff7Z)
Time for the Bud Light treatment.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (j10i6)
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
You don't know what you've missed then.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:47 AM
++++
She was on the way to the bar to meet me for Ladies Night.
Posted by: Cougar mom at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
How about a taco?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Mildly curious at August 07, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/
GatewayPundit had an article yesterday. Apparently being released but still 'under the weather.'
Blanche could use his vote according to CNN. Murkowski, hold onto your seats, is a no.
In so many ways, she's just a NO!
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:51 AM (Sco7b)
They even had a pod in The Bronx and would sometimes follow the railroad tracks into Manahattan, which was always good for a story in the NY Post.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
How about a taco?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM
They're great for breakfast!
Posted by: Jill Not A Doctor Biden at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Beethoven's Last Movement at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (JM9I6)
— Francesca Hong
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:53 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
How about a taco?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:50 AM (Oy/m2)
I eat a burrito most days. They’re less than $10 where I go. That mythical $20 burrito I hope it was monstrous and delicious… with guac!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:53 AM (ALKK0)
Where I used to routinely see (and narrate) things 5 or 10 years in advance, sometimes these days it's only six months. Or less. And very often I actually undershoot what is going on and they surprise me. But still in the direction I could see.
For example 18 months ago I was telling everyone to forget about trannies (they were the hot flavor and it's practically all we were talking about) and get ready to watch Democrats kiss up to and usher in their new friends, radical Islam. I didn't say trannies were going away, just that they would fall as the permanent going concern.
I didn't save the comments - and saying it now, it probably doesn't seem like I was seeing or saying much, but I was. And always sounding about as crazy as I do now.
It had been bubbling under the surface and I could see it ready to burst through. Our reality is frighteningly planned. Trump was not part of those plans. Which means God can and does step in any time no matter what I think I "see".
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 08:53 AM (6UXQp)
Posted by: Automotive front bumpers everywhere at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Beethoven's Last Movement at August 07, 2026 08:52 AM (JM9I6)
Yeah, yeah, you're here 'til Thursday, try the veal, best in the city...I get it.
Posted by: Boswell at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (j10i6)
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They could have denied the mosque on zoning requirements, easement offsets, whatever bullshit reason they make up. It's done frequently enough with other things a local government doesn't want.
Apparently they wanted this. Or were paid to want it.
I still contend the locals should burn it to the ground at the first chance. That sends a message to the city council too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (2Cry5)
That's a damn shame. A carnitas burrito with peppers and onions and a little guacamole and a spritz if lime is a might fine lunch. But for me at least, a nap is usually required afterwards.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
No way! Tacos? Any Mexican food? Tex-mex?
I just don't see how anyone could at least have a few burritos accidently shoved in them. I eat so fast I'd wager approximately 1%-2% of my food intake comes from accidental ingestion. Like those blue whales that mistakenly slurp up a kayaker. "Ope! Sorry bro! BURRRP". That's basically me eating.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 08:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2026 08:56 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 08:53 AM (JvZF+)
It also depends how big the burrito is...the large ones are sometimes called by some Burros...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:57 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:57 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (2Cry5)
This one feels personal to me because I used to live in McKinney… less than 2 miles from the planned site. Not in a million years would I have thought it’d get council approval… no one there wants it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:58 AM (fK0vc)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (g47mK)
Sounds like the woman who chided hunters, saying "Why do you have to kill animals? There's meat in the local grocery store!"...completely unaware where meat comes from...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Don't Care About The Price at August 07, 2026 08:49 AM (JM9I6)
No way! Tacos? Any Mexican food? Tex-mex?
I just don't see how anyone could at least have a few burritos accidently shoved in them. I eat so fast I'd wager approximately 1%-2% of my food intake comes from accidental ingestion. Like those blue whales that mistakenly slurp up a kayaker. "Ope! Sorry bro! BURRRP". That's basically me eating.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (3uBP9)
No, it's okay, just keep your hands and feet away from his mouth.
Posted by: Brother Otter at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (wVcYX)
I keep expecting to read the headline:
Candidate for Governor Murders He Entire Family For Whiteness
Claims: "I just couldn't stand to be adjacent to all that Whiteness and Half-Whiteness."
By the way, what's the polite term for a Half-White Person?
Whitelato?
I'm going with that even though it sounds like a Coffee at Starbucks.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 08:54 AM (2Cry5)
This one feels personal to me because I used to live in McKinney… less than 2 miles from the planned site. Not in a million years would I have thought it’d get council approval… no one there wants it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 08:58 AM (fK0vc)
Obviously SOMEONE
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)
______
You know, there is a solution, you don't have to be victims anymore. Go HOME!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (+iIn9)
Posted by: ... at August 07, 2026 09:00 AM (6UXQp)
I keep expecting to read the headline:
Candidate for Governor Murders He Entire Family For Whiteness
Claims: "I just couldn't stand to be adjacent to all that Whiteness and Half-Whiteness."
By the way, what's the polite term for a Half-White Person?
Whitelato?
I'm going with that even though it sounds like a Coffee at Starbucks.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (iJfKG)
Beige?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)
One of those is beer. Another one is chips and salsa.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)
IKEA burrito
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)
Right, and then when people offered solution...well the response from some was "NOOOO! I want to have my cake, and eat it too!! whaaaaa!!"
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (g47mK)
I dont know how to stop it, but the ads are making it very difficult to navigate the site these days....don't know how to defeat it...shit pops up, then I can't scroll ....nothing...is there a way around this
Thanks
Posted by: MO at August 07, 2026 09:02 AM (5fDr5)
One of those is beer. Another one is chips and salsa.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (2Cry5)
There is truth there. I know a place in Mexico that's a hole-in-a-wall, only open at night (to avoid the tax collectors). Makes the best tacos. His cleaver is so used, that it's no longer a cleaver...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:02 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: redridinghood
Do I count? Though I'm not in the sea, but trapped in this Loch.
Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)
Enchilada variant. All part of the Order Taco under the Tex-Mex Kingdom.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)
Right, and then when people offered solution...well the response from some was "NOOOO! I want to have my cake, and eat it too!! whaaaaa!!"
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (g47mK)
Only works if you have at least two cakes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (l3cgK)
Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)
Nah, it's a do it yourself soft taco.
Before the whole fajita thing became popular, you could basically order them as -
"Tacos al Carbone"
here in the great state of Texas.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)
******
Yeah, you're good.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: redridinghood
Do I count? Though I'm not in the sea, but trapped in this Loch.
Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)
If Nessie were real, she'd be Loched in place...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (l3cgK)
Why does everything feel fake?
We have a Congress that won't pass something 83% people want.
We have courts that release criminals faster than police can arrest them.
We have schools that graduate kids who can’t read.
And its a fair question but also one we already know and right leaning people have to ram this idea into their heads. It is all about incentives.
Many current congresscriters will lose their seats if only citizens vote. Others would get re-elected but lose out on graft as congress took a significantly more right leaning budgetary approach. And those that voted for it would not get hand out from the oligarchs.
And you see this up and down our government and culture, the incentives are bad. Yes the people are bad too but a well designed society incentivizes bad people to do good things.
So want to start fixing things? Fix the incentives
Posted by: 18-1 at August 07, 2026 09:05 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 09:05 AM (JvZF+)
Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)
Nah, it's a do it yourself soft taco.
Before the whole fajita thing became popular, you could basically order them as -
"Tacos al Carbone"
here in the great state of Texas.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG)
With a large enough flour tortilla, you can turn the fajitas into a burrito...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:05 AM (l3cgK)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at August 07, 2026 09:06 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: Champ at August 07, 2026 09:06 AM (JM9I6)
One of those is beer. Another one is chips and salsa.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:01 AM (2Cry5)
There’s a little hole in the wall mom and pop on Main Street El Segundo, CA (or there used to be when I lived there)…. Massive, delicious burrito for $8… my mouth waters just thinking about it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 09:06 AM (TqDYN)
Posted by: redridinghood
Do I count? Though I'm not in the sea, but trapped in this Loch.
Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)
Hiya cousin. Beany says we should come visit since you're loch-bound.
Posted by: Cecil at August 07, 2026 09:07 AM (wVcYX)
They could have denied the mosque on zoning requirements, easement offsets, whatever bullshit reason they make up. It's done frequently enough with other things a local government doesn't want.”
No - against a group with financial backing, you’re not only going to lose in court, you’re going to end up paying a multimillion dollar settlement to them. It’s explicitly stated that the zoning had long approved of such a use for that site.
The legal issue is the same as if in a dominantly Baptist town, can the locals ban the construction of a Mormon church? Or s Jewish synagogue? It’s easy to say “well they’re different “, but under the law, they’re not.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 09:07 AM (+iIn9)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:08 AM (g47mK)
Isn't fajitas basically a burrito?
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (Oy/m2)
Nah, it's a do it yourself soft taco.
Before the whole fajita thing became popular, you could basically order them as -
"Tacos al Carbone"
here in the great state of Texas.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:04 AM (iJfKG)
With a large enough flour tortilla, you can turn the fajitas into a burrito...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:05 AM (l3cgK)
Then deep fry it. Chimichanga!!
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:08 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Nessie at August 07, 2026 09:03 AM (JM9I6)
Funny that no one sees you anymore.
Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (dE511)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Jewish Lightning, FTW! at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (JM9I6)
Whitelato?
I'm going with that even though it sounds like a Coffee at Starbucks.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 08:59 AM (iJfKG)
I thought it was Barack.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 09:11 AM (+iIn9)
West Michigan Wet Burrito for the win.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: 18-1
Fed Govt annual expenditures - $7.5 trillion
Fed Govt annual expenditures in 2020 - $3.5 trillion
Cut spending by at least $4 trillion and it would be a good start.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Just got here at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)
I'll get Arby's. They give him a cup of meat which is cool. And the local Tims gives him free timbits.
Smart business moves.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 09:13 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:13 AM (g47mK)
Sometimes the food was highly spiced, hot. One of the guys who knew the couple would opine; "Mamma was really mad this morning" (so she added lots of jalapeno's to the mix.)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: Mutt Rombley at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (igCg8)
>> In 2020, she tweeted that we should stick a carving knife in the national holiday of gratitude because it was “celebrating colonialism.”
Honestly, you're a fool if you think a 1st generation American on 2026 will respect our holidays and traditions.
We've had decades of media/school encouragement to celebrate their parents' homeland's culture and traditions for diversity's sake! She's behaving as programmed.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:09 AM (J4Dwc)
Taqueria El Asador...at least it only has one "s"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (l3cgK)
——
Ultimately laws are of no help if they are not enforced. Is there any limit on the amount of “money” the government can borrow? That’s fake too. Doesn’t appear to be, that’s the crux of the issue.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (dE511)
West Michigan Wet Burrito for the win.
Posted by: Auspex at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (Y8DZL)
Flint Burrito, extra Lead...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (l3cgK)
So it's a food thread?
Posted by: Just got here at August 07, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Wait! Wait just a second...
*clears throat*
Didn't they eat burritos in that great movie, "The Way of the Gun", where Sarah Silverman gets a punch to the chops?
Okay, now we're covered.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 08:55 AM (g47mK)
Okay, if I were to order a Freebird's Super Monster burrito, with steak and guac, it would come in at $20.25. Of course, that's two meals, maybe three, but it can be done.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:16 AM (X8xt3)
what do you think of Tucker Carlson ?
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:16 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:17 AM (X8xt3)
Okay, now we're covered.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (iJfKG)
Not yet. Boobs? Dogs?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 09:17 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
You should haggle.. tell them you will pay $15.99 and not a dollar more!
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (dE511)
what do you think of Tucker Carlson ?
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:16 AM (g47mK)
I had to scrape him off the bottom of my shoe after walking the dog and misstepping.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (aJQbY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Mutt Rombley at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (JM9I6)
in Mexico, they came up with a fairly large set of names for various combinations...
I've read through quite a few baptismal, marriage, and death records from the states of Jalisco and Aguas Calientes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:19 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (JvZF+)
Ever tried a Burrito de Buche?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:19 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:15 AM (ExV1e)
Never eat anything larger than your own head, I always say.
"Never Eat Anything Larger Than Your Own Head" - The banana Dream Story*
* As told to his publisher.**
Posted by: banana Dream - ** And by his publisher, he means his dog at August 07, 2026 09:19 AM (3uBP9)
I'm old enough to remember when we didn't need a word for this in polite conversation, because it wasn't important to everyday life - people were individuals, not a 23andMe mosaic that needed to be validated in every interaction.
I know, I know, according to the new AntiRacism rules, that makes me the bigest racist of them all!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:18 AM (g47mK)
It'd have to be either 15.75 or 16.00. All Freebirds prices, with tax, end in some multiple of $.25.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (wVcYX)
While putting a big Stoffers Lasagna in the oven is "cooking at home," making it from scratch is cheaper and the food is better.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (wVCl1)
.. "... named under local privacy guidelines as ..."
The guy gets his name burred out while being a convicted enemy of society
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Food Safety Dance at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (wVcYX)
Careful, you're edging towards Jonah Goldberg territory there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (wVCl1)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (KY+FT)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:20 AM (wVcYX)
Careful, you're edging towards Jonah Goldberg territory there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)
Why would anyone want to edge Jonah Goldberg...eww...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Mutt Rombley at August 07, 2026 09:14 AM (JM9I6)
Those last two are my favorite Girl Scout cookies.
Posted by: Roy at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (qwype)
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (S0M0K)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:22 AM (g47mK)
Yes, loss-leader. Head of Costco has gone through great efforts to not change to price of their hot dogs (which is why they got rid of the polish sausage dogs they used to have at their food courts, although I couldn't taste the difference).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (l3cgK)
Unfortunate name, but I checked. El Asador translates to "the grill."
Anyway, it's a semi-permanent food truck and the food is amazing, iffin' you're ever in the area.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (J4Dwc)
Didn't we do the same thing maybe 6 mos ago, but instead it was about the advice that unemployed white boys should aspire to be Panda Express managers?
Things are completely different for Gen Z than they were for Gen X and Boomers. Arguing over this like it's fresh and new, and as if one side could be "right" and the other side is "clueless" is a distraction.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (wVCl1)
The guy gets his name burred out while being a convicted enemy of society
Posted by: SMOD
This is to maintain privacy for the gentleman for when he gets out in 5 years after serving his "life" sentence.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Lynyrd Skynyrd fan who just woke up at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (B0NCh)
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (S0M0K)
What kinda raps you want?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: banana Dream - some deep thoughts at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (3uBP9)
You have to choke off the Muslim threat, Visa's, money, NGO's, "outreach centers" all of it.
Shut down the fucking mattress stores while you're at it.
Posted by: GigantorX at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (srDQS)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (wVCl1)
When I was on dialysis, I used to make my own...I added NO salt (see how much salt per flour tortilla you buy)...I'd add herbs to it to give it some flavor.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:25 AM (l3cgK)
Exactly.
Same for their supercheap rotisserie chicken.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:25 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)
And we all know if you edge too close to Jonah he’ll eat you!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 07, 2026 09:25 AM (26GAh)
Then there's the sausage, egg, & cheese biscuit. Especially a Hardee's / Carl's Jr. offering.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Salivating at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Doof
They are all sandwiches, as are hamburgers and hot dogs.
Posted by: Loafer In A Bakery at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (g47mK)
The whole damn pizza is $9.99 before tax. I buy a pepperoni one, take it home, add extra toppings and extra cheese, pop it in the oven for a bit.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (l3cgK)
And Tequila and beers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (2Cry5)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:23 AM (S0M0K)
At a guess, burritos assume a certain subset of ingredients whereas wraps are a free-for-all. Otherwise, essentially the same.
I guess you could have a wrap and feel noble that you weren't appropriating Mexican culture.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Doof
They are all sandwiches, as are hamburgers and hot dogs.
Posted by: Loafer In A Bakery at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (JM9I6)
I can see a burrito and a calzone being similar (all stuffing held inside on all sides)...sanwich has top and bottom stuffing holders, taco and hot dog bun cover the stuffing on the bottom and two sides...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup
yeah, maybe in Texas...
Posted by: runner at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (g47mK)
And Tequila and beers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (2Cry5)
Tequila? Surrender your Kentucky citizenship immediately!
Posted by: Doof at August 07, 2026 09:28 AM (S0M0K)
i remember when cigs were a quarter a pack.
Posted by: Old Yeller at August 07, 2026 09:28 AM (JM9I6)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:28 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Bulg at August 07, 2026 09:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Doof
They are all sandwiches, as are hamburgers and hot dogs.
Posted by: Loafer In A Bakery at August 07, 2026 09:26 AM (JM9I6)
I can see a burrito and a calzone being similar (all stuffing held inside on all sides)...sanwich has top and bottom stuffing holders, taco and hot dog bun cover the stuffing on the bottom and two sides...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:27 AM (l3cgK)
Oh, and pupusas and tostadas only cover the bottom...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:29 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: banana Dream - some deep thoughts at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (3uBP9)
As Bo Carter sings about it -
Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me
https://youtu.be/J6eBNlLvD-M
Bo Knows!
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:29 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 07, 2026 09:30 AM (idPbW)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 07, 2026 09:28 AM (J4Dwc)
Their gas prices are usually the lowest in an area
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 07, 2026 09:30 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2026 09:24 AM (X8xt3)
Things are always different for everyone everywhere throughout time and space. But leveraging that by saying, "it's harder for YOU now because THEY are hording it all and if you make US your masters we will FIX EVERYTHING" is older than dirt.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 07, 2026 09:30 AM (3uBP9)
Nice weekend lead-in.
From above, 'Retrial of accused arsonist is set for October
Palisades Fire Was Sparked By Anti-Capitalist Motivated By Hate of Rich, Prosecutors Say'
He's not being worshipped by the DSA?! Oh, got it. His parents were Baptist missionaries, first in the US and then in Europe (to which they've returned). That misses the cut.
Fran Hong looks like she has about the same potential spark, but her family are academics from Korea. That makes the DSA difference, it seems.
Have a nice weekend. 🤗
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (NFX2v)
Roll the shredded pork along with what you want into a flour tortilla and top it with the fried stuff. ...Buuurp...enjoy.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 07, 2026 09:31 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2026 09:33 AM (wVcYX)
"How's that for optimism?!" Pretty good for an old curmudgeon like you, JJ.😉
I am old enough to realize the nation, and the world, could get better or worse, no guarantees. I will continue to enjoy the blessings of liberty, pursue such happiness as I can, continue to pledge allegiance to the republic of whichistans, vote as if it mattered, and pray for that stamping out the vintage grapes of wrath. And share memes.
https://bit.ly/cert-of-survival
Not much I can do outside of that.
Have a day!
Posted by: mindful webworker - American by birth and choice at August 07, 2026 09:35 AM (62m/B)
Posted by: mindful webworker - of course at August 07, 2026 09:36 AM (62m/B)
Armed attack on any of the countries will be treated as an attack against them all.
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:49 AM (RHGPo)
Very Tehran-favorable conditions emerge in 'draft deal'...
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:51 AM (RHGPo)
Dearborn, home to the largest Arab-American community in the United States, was one of the strongest bases of support for Abdul El-Sayed, the newly elected Democratic nominee for Michigan's
Posted by: SMOD at August 07, 2026 09:52 AM (RHGPo)
Thanks
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Posted by: Jonah at August 07, 2026 10:15 AM (gwrBY)
Ja, bullshit. Maybe a few voters do that, but mostly it's whether there's a "D" or an "R" after the candidates' names, and you know it. Step One is to penetrate the media ramparts built up around these candidates so that the story of CAIR could actually be heard. Maybe then there might be some scrutiny. But until that time, I stand by my original assessment: Ja, bullshit.
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